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ME EXETER ADYOCATE.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (3, 1E394.
Week's ComMenial Summary.
A unique trolley car fender is proposed
by a Boston inventor. He has takeu the
large revolving brushes from a street
sweeper and. placed therut in. such a posi-
tion under the car that a person who hap-
pens to fell in front of the car will be
swept from the track.
The salmon fishing on the Pacific coast
has beeu rather unsatisfactory this year,
the runs beineg irregular and generally
smaller than the average. Consequently
the price of fish went up ia the first part
of the month about 20 per cent., and the
cannery men are feeling very depressed.
Latest accounts, however, are a little
more hopeful, and the price of fish has
come down.
The new canal on the Canadian side of
the Sault Ste. Marie is about to be opened
for traffic. The canal is 18,100 feet long;
depth of water on the miter sills 20 feet -8
inches at low water. The prism of the
canal is 152 feet broad at the water line
and. 145 feet at the bottom; and. its cost
has been about $8,000,000.
There is no diminutioa in the visible
supply of wheat in the United States and
Canada, according to the estimate of the
secretary of the Chicago Board. of Trade,
the total. being at the close of last week
64,771,000 bushels, as compared with 57,-
240,000 a year ago, and. 84,950,000 bushels
two years ago. There is, however, a
large -falling off in corn, of which there
was 5,809,000 bushels a year ago, and
only 3,038,000 bushels now. The supply
of oats is about double that of the same
week in 1893, and ROW is 13,097,000
bushels.
There seems to be, says the Troy Press,
no qu.estion as to the great preponderance
of the trade of Great Britain when com-
pared with other European. countries.
According to recently published statistics
prepared. -by the English Chamber of
Commerce, England sends 37 per cent. of
all that Egypt imports. as compared with
10 per cent. sent by France, and 2 per
cent. sent by Germany. To the Argen-
tine, Uruguay and Chili, she sends from
29 to 43 per cent. of all they import, as
compared with about 18 per cent. sent by
Germany. To China she sends 21 per
cent. of the imports of that country,
while France and Germany send com-
paratively nothing. To Japan Great
Britain sends 31 per cent. of its total im-
ports, against 8 er cent. sent by Ger-
many, and 5 per cent. sent by France.
The trade with British colonial or other
possessions is simply overwhelming, but
this is what might be expected.. To
British India she contributes no less than
70 per cent. of its total imports, to Aus-
tralasia 48 per cent., and to other British
possessions in about the same proportion.
Although German trade in the same
directions has increased, it remains com-
paratively unimportant. There seems to
be no lessening of the hold of Great Bri-
tain upon the commerce of the world.
There has been a significant increase
in the amount of gold. held by most of
the chief banks of the world in the last
year or two. The Bank of England. for
example, had in July last $189.313,4:50. as
against 8109,842,806 in January, 1892,
being 73.4 per cent. Its reserves increas-
ed between the dates named from 863,-
502,930 to 8142,590,917, or 125.3 per cent.
In. the period. from January, 1892, to
july, 1891, the Bank of France increased
its holding of gold from 82'30:688,299 to
'6852,7r32,852 or 85.1 per cent.; the Bank
of Austria-Hungary from $26.631,400 to
651,268,578, or 92.5 per cent.; the Na-
tional Bank of Belgium from 819,82(3,000
to $21,809,250, or 10.4 per cent.; the
Netherlands Bank from 815,718.000 to
$22,006,313, or 40 per cent.; the Bank of
Spain from 832,732,100 to 628,532,947, or
17.7 per cent.; the National Bank of Italy
from 636,917,300 to 857,781.2)0. or 5ii.5
per cent. In the same period the Bank
of Russia reduced its holding of gold
from 6321,828,300 to 8294,421,500, being
9.2 per cent; the Bank of Germany from
8222,511,000 to $218,622,646, being 1.7
per cent.; the associated banks of
York from $95,972 280 to $91,223,000, be-
ing 5 per cent. The total amount of gold.
held by the above banks in January,
1892, was therefore 81,208,873,385, where-
as now they have no less than $1,483,-
425.653, being an increase, after allowing
for decrease in Russia, Germany and the
'United States, of 8271,552,318 or 22.46
per cent.
ly adapted to the cultivation of the sugar
beet ; that the suer beete grown in Can-
ada are quite as rieh as Stieeharine matter
as those grown anywhere else in the
world; that the whole eountry abounds
in locations and natural and artifieial
advantages unexcelled for the purposes
of manniacture, and that all the capital
neeeesars to place the industry on a good
footing is ready for investment; and will
th
be forcominj
g ust as soon as the Gov-
ernment offers the necessary encourage-
ment, to be extended through a proper
period of titre."
The possibilities of developing the beet
sugar industry in Canada is receiving
considerable attention among manufac-
turers and business men. It is estimated
that 83,000,000 pounds of beet sugar had
been produced in California last year;
and ib is admittedly true that the advert-
tawes possessed by: Canada for cultivating
this important industry are equal to
those of any wintry or territory, and
even superior to those of many European
countries where the beet sugar factories
are in a most flourishing condition. In
confirmation of this patent fact the Can-
adian Manufacturer says: "Canadian
farmers have shown that our soil and
climate are well adapted to the cultiva-
tion of the best; Canadian analysts have
shown that Canadian grown beets contain
quite as high, or higher, saccharine
qtalitles as those of Germany, the great-
est sugar beet producing country of the
world, and we know that the pulp left
after the saccharine matter has been ex-
tracted is most excellent and nutritious
food for fattening cattle." This indttstry
has grown in the United States from 600,-
000 pounds in 1886 to 48,453,2(34 pound's
in 1893, necessitating the manufacture of
oyer 200,000 tons of beets, on whieh farm-
ers alone couldrealize nearly $1,000,000.
It is argued that only "the opposition. of
the Canadian sugar refineries stands in
the way" of establishing this important
industry in. Canada, It is a matter of
surprise that the Canadian Government,
which professes to consider as a primary
object and duty the fostering and encour-
aging of baby industries with good
healthy frames of great promise, should
so long appear indifferent by tacitly
denying any special encouragement to an
industry which is so full of promise.
There are over 200,000,000 pounds of raw
sugar imported into Canada each year;
and anent this the same authority says,
"that minions of dollars are sent out of
the country every year for sugar; that a
few monopolists, because of an improper-
ly arranged tariff, have become million -
=es thropgh the abnormal profits of
their refining industry ; that the refining
industry in Canads gtves employment tb
Tess than a, thousanct persons ; that the
soil and climate of Canada are excellent -
HERE AND THERE.
The niost noticeable increase in im-
ports from Canada to Buffalo since the
new tariff went into foree is in eggs,
x x x
Depression in the United States has
had the effect of contracting the receipts
of Canadian railways. For the sake of
its neighbors the republic ought to do its
best to revive.
x x x
Lansing, Mich., is about to follow the
example of Detroit in the arrest of some of
her dishonest'municipal representatives.
A. peculiarity of the United States is that
they arrest boodlers over there.
x x x
Edmonton, N.W.T., Bulletin: "A fam-
ily of ten from Minnesota, two settlers
from Kansas, one from Washington Ter
ritory and one from Colorado were the
new arrivals by Monday's train."
w The saying that high water in the
spring means a great run of salmon in
the fall has been versified in British Co-
lumbia. Not in years have the fish been
so plentiful. •
x x x
"Now a prairie fire is sweeping western
Kansas. Those who weren't blown out
by the cyclones or scorched out by the
sun, will be burnt out. Kansas as an
emigration state isn't in it any more.
x x x
.A. man was arrested in New York on
Wednesday night, and when questioned
he stated that he had been selected by lot
to assassinate Mgr. Satolli. 'When ex-
amined in the morning it was faand that
he was suffering froni alcoholic mania.
x x x
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is of opinion that
American workingmen could live cheaper
than they do. A.s Mr. Carnagle's lec-
tures to the working classes are always
followed by a cut in wages at his works,
we may expect to see him put his opin-
ions into practice, and make his work-
men live cheaper.
x x x
An American congressman is being
sued upon his promise that if Cleveland
were elected wheat would be $1.15 a
bushel. .A. farmer who heard him sowed
great quantities of wheat, and now he
wants the difference between. 81.15 and
about 60 cents a bushel on the whole
roi.
x x x
A. leading Buffalo clergyman has fol-
lowed Mr. Stead's courageous example,
and has preached on the subject, 'If
Christ Came to Buffalo." The Founder
of Christianity would find human nature
much the same in any American city as
He found it in Jerusalem. The money-
changers would still be in the temple.
x x x
The woman who was born on the 29th
of February will have only one birthday
in the next ten years. Ordinarily Feb-
ruary has twenty-nine days every leap
year, but it will have only twenty-eight
in. the year 1900, and, in consequence,.
1896 will he the only leap year from 1892
to 1904.
X x
There are not enough young women of
marriageable age to go around. in West-
ern Australia, and the British Govern-
ment has undertaken to remedy the de-
ficiency. It began last week by sending;
out a shipload. of fifty comely girls, all or
them less than twenty years old, sound
and healthy, and carefully selected. It
is expected that each will beoome the
wife of a colonist.
x x x
That the coinma and semi -colon occupy
an important place even in legislation is
admitted everywhere. The Montreal
Gazette says: "After all the worrying
over the United States tariff bill, now it
is passed, it is found. to be full of errors.
There are semi -colons and apostrophes
out of place, which will cost the country
thousands of dollars in loss of revenue."
x x x
The case of Miss Mary Brown, of Prin-
cess Anne, Md., is a warning to girls not
to swallow their chewing gum. Miss
Mary allowed deglutition to follow masti-
gation a short time ago, and all Miss
Mary's friends and acquaintances will
attend the funeral. The brand of gurn
which she favored has not been made
public, and. in the absence.of information
it would be well to regard all gum as del-
eterious when taken internally.
X X X
.A. London society journal has declared
that the violet -colored penny stamp sup-
plied. by the British postoffice does not
agree in color with the tint of the note
paper in fashion, and in consequence it
has become the fad to use the three half-
penny stamp, worth three cents, as post-
age on fashionable correspondence, the
color of that stamp being green and in
harmony with the accepted colors in
stationery. The Britisb treasury gains
a cent on every ordinary letter thus
stamped.
X x x
NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS.
111111 'wows lurnisoos.
Interesting items:and Incidents, Import-
ant and instructive, Gathered from
the Various PIVV111000.
Collingwood's tax rate is 26 mills.
The tax rate of Norwich is 20 mills.
Willa now has a new telephone serv-
ice.
New Manitoba wheat is being market-
ed,
The London county jail has forty pris-
oners.
Lord Aberdeen will visit Winnipeg
next month.
Vanse's woollen mill at Glencoe is be-
ing rebuilt,
The Kingsville Preserving Works are
now in operation,
The Listowel Gas Company is putting
in larger mains.
The foundation of the new Berlin hos-
pital is being laid.
Rev, Dr. Middlemiss has moved from
Guelph to Elora.
The Central Simcoe Exhibition will he
opened Sept. 18th,
Craig's hat factory at Truro, N.S., was
burned Monday.
Am addition is being built to the Oril-
ha Baptist church.
Forest fires continue to rage in the
Puget Sound country.
The total real estate assessment of St.
Catharines is 33,684,025.
Count Meroier has had a bad. turn, and
is again dangerously ill.
Last month the C.P.R. sold 8,000 acres
of land. in the Northwest.
Hon. A. S. Hardy has, just inspected the
provincial park at Rondeau.
Enniskillen and Petrolea fall fair is to
be held Sept. 27t1i and 28th.
David Ross, a pioneer settler of Bruce
County, is dead, aged eighty.
The Preston Horticultural Society's ex-
hibition will begin Sept. 18th.
The Dominion Trades and. Labor Con-
gress met at Ottawa Tuesday.
A fine flow of gas has been struck on
Malott's farm near Leamington.
The new Free Methodist Church of
Orillia has been formally opened.
Rev. Mr. Livingston is the new pastor
of the Osborne Preslsyterian Church.
An Olinda farmer grows peaches so
large that twenty-one make a peck.
A rkana already has seven fraternal so-
cieties and proposes to have another.
Wallaceburg constables are accused of
acting as seconds at fights in that town.
The C. P. It. has made considerable re-
duction in elevator charges in Manitoba.
Gold is said to have been discovered in
Clarendon township, Frontenac county.
Ten -dollar Bank of Montreal bill
raised to fifties are floating about Mont -5
real.
Col. S. P. 1V.Taybee, of Port Dover, for-
merly of the Thirty-ninth Battalion, is
dead.
The Maritime provinces have had
more tourists this summer than ever be-
fore.
A recent excursion from Stratford to
Niagara Falls was composed of 2,500 per-
sons.
Some Malden farmers are putting in
small water works systems on their
farms. •
The Stratferd Methodist Church dis-
trict wants the price of The Guardian re-
duced.
The Port Edward Council provides
free quarters for the Mechanics' Institute
library.
The Ridgetown gas well is down 750
feet, but must go that distance further to
reach gas.
Charles Haines, an old resident of Choi-
tenhamrlately died there at the age of
eighty-six.
A. 5i pound black bass was recently
caught in the St, Clair River, where this
fish is rare.
T. Purdy, of Aldborough, threshed
1,000 bushels of wheat from thirty-five
acres last week.
Rev. A. T. Sowerby, of the Aylmer
Baptist Church, has accepted a call to
Boston, Mass.
The Matchedash and Coldwater Agri
cultural Society will hold. its first exhibi-
tion Sept. 27th.
The large se-ven tenement terrace at
Balfountam, Ont., has been destroyed by
an incendiary fire.
At a ball in Southampton recently the
crowd was made up of seventeen gentle-
men and 100 ladies.
The Northern Transit Co. has decided
to build a new steamer at Collingswood
the coming winter.
A joint stock company is being organiz-
ed in Windsor for manufacturing signals
for electric railways.
The Government surveyors of Ottawa
have made their last survey of the propos-
ed St. Clair and Erie Canal.
Chathamites object to drinking water
from the Thames. and propose obtaining
their supply from:Lake Erre.
A. St, John River lumberman thinks
the year's cut is thirty to forty million
feet less than in, ordinary years.
Black River'which flows through the
centre of Port Huron, has become a pub-
lic nuisance and will be closed.
It is not expected that the Macdonald
memorial statute at Kingston, Ont., will
be finished before next summer.
It is reported that a strong syndicate is
about to resume chilling operations in the
oil field in Ettphemia Township.
Capt. Richard Impett, one of the oldest
residents of OXford county, died in Wood-
stock Friday, aged eighty-one years,
At Point an Pic, near Marray Bay;
Que., Monday, fire destroyed tWo hotels
and a large number of suin.iner cottages:
A. minister' in a small country village
who was noted for his absent mindedness
was once observed to stop excitedly in
the midst of his sermon and heard to mut-
ter: "I knew she would!" After service
was oVer sortie one asked him the 'season.
"Dear ine," said. he, "did I? Well, you
see, from the pulpit I Call just see old
Mrs. Adams' warden, and this morning
she was out piffling up a cabbage, and. 1
thought to myself, 'Now, if that eabbage
comes up suddenly she'll go o'er," and
just then it came tip and over she went."
X x
The little two spotted lady -beg beetle
in this country is soon to have a visit front
his Australian cousin, the lady -bird bee-
tle, which is to be brought here by the
Department of A griciliture for the plus -
pose of feeding on the scale insects that,
are malting- trouble for the farmers in the
west. The little red lady -bug likes these
insects, too, but it is slow about making
a meal of them, whereas the Australian
beetle's appetite for them is strong
enough to rid the crops of the pest, The
1ady-1)1rd grows hi great ortiantities, in
Australia, but has not 'been known n
this country.
breaking and lettings the building dewn
on him.
The sealer 'Wanderer has been taken
.into Victoria, B.C., by H.M.S. Pheasant,
havingbeen forind with secret guns on
board., •
Harow, which, had a 330,000 fire a few
weeks ago, is not an incorporated village,
but in order to secure fire protection it
will become such.
Burglars entered the 0.P.R. station at
Ayr Thursday night and stole $87, the
greater part of which 'belonged to Station
Agent Cassie.
The lumber shipped. to the United States
from the Ottawa district during the
quarter ending June 80 anionnted In
value to 84(30,584 57.
The number of free letters posted in
Canada last year was 4,723,000, or about
4 per cent. of the total number of letters
carried in the mails.
Jos. Henderson, of Birimm, has a grade
Holstein cow which gave 550 Pounds of
milk in one week. One .day she tipped
the scales at 60 pounds.
Orillia Connell will offer the Ontario
Government the sum of 319,000 for the
Asylum Park, provided the people will
sanction the expenditure.
It is expected that the Ottawa, Arnprier
& Parry Sound Railway, now 111 course of
construction, will be completed by the 1st
of November of next year.
Windsor ministers are reaping a har-
vest from marriages of American young
people who are visiting Detroit on tho
fall excursions from the west.
The electric railway between Galt and
Preston is a great success. The expenses
of running the line are $20 a day, and
the gross receipts now average $75 a day•
Edward. Ryan, formerly of Toronto,
and Thomas 'Weaver, whose home is near
Glencoe, were arrested at Windsor Fri-
day on a charge of manufacturing spuri-
ous coins.
Arrangements have been made to con-
nect gas pipes from the main line'extend-
ing from the Gosfield gas fields to
Walkerville, and extend the pipes to the
town of Essex.
In 1850 there were only seventy-one
miles of railway in operation in all Can-
ada, and in 1867 there were 2,258 miles,
now there are nearly 16,000 miles of rail-
way in the Dominion.
Recently a carrier pigeon dropped into
a Wallaceburg yard. On one leg was a
silver band an which was engraved F. R.
4393. Under one wing was a dog's head
stained. into the feathers and under the
other was written Detroit.
THE TERRIBLE BUSES PIRES.
Bush fires are raging about three miles
west of Omemee. Farmers have to re-
main up all night to fight the flames and
protect, their buildings. The smoke is
so dense in Omemee that people are near-
ly saffocated, and can scarcely see across
the street.
The Rathbun Lurnber Company, of
Deseronto, has 60,000 railroad 'ties so haul
out at }Tewkesbury for 'Cape Vincent,
N. SC,
The ashes fisdin a lighted cigar nearly
resulted in the destruoticin of the Restor-
ick Honse barn at Watford the other
day.
John Toarney, a nineteen-yearsold
young man from Hyde Park, died in the
London Hospital on Wednesday of a,p-
pendicitis, s
.A.t Holler, Ont,,on Saturday,'Steele
Ittighes, while adjusting some ropes
tinder a barn which was &lblg raised,
;was crushed to death, one of t re ropes
A. LAMP EXPLODED.
The extensive stables, sheds, barns,
etc., 011 the farm of John Coote, the well-
known horse fancier, second concession
London Township, were destroyed by fire
Saturday night. All the horses, twelve
in number, were saved, as were also the
carriages. The residence was not destroy-
ed, but the contents were badly injured
through hasty removal. The origin of
the -fire was owing to the explosion of a
lamp in the stable. Loss about $6,000;
insured.
INSTANTLY KILLED.
Eighteen -year-old Emery E. Soncrant,
an acrobat who came from Chicago with
his brother last Thursday under engage-
ment to perform during the exhibition,
was instantly killed in the electrical
storm at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon at
Toronto. He had been at the exhibition
grounds making some arrangements for
Monday, and, getting drenched, he de-
cided to go to his lodging house at 1226
King street west for changes of clothing
for himself and brother. The brother,
John Soncrant., opposed his g,oing, advis-
ing him to wart until the ram had ceas-
ed. Young Soncrant, however, started
off in Company with John Gluck, pro-
perty man for the La Van Brothers, going
out of the west entrance to thegrounds
and up Dufferin street. Near Springhurst
avenue there are a number of large wil-
low trees overhanging th.e sidewalk, and
it wcte under one of these that the catas-
trophe occurred. It was apparent that
Soncrant was instantly killed, but,
strange to say, Gluck, who was walking
under the same umbrella with the ill-
fated lad, was only stunned. When he
recovered consciousness he ran back to
the exhibition grounds and notified Su-
perintendent Chambers of the terrible ac-
cident. Mr. Chambers lost no time in
getting; to the spot where the dead man
was lying, and at once sent a man for Dr.
Orr and the police. The bodywas remov-
ed to the undertaking establishment of
Bates & Dodds, corner of Queen street and
Stracean avenue, by No. 3 patrol wag-
gon. Dr. Orr made an examination and
found the body entirely uninjured. except
for a small spot on the abdomen which
had the appearance of a. barn, arid from
which the blood was oozing slightly. He
decided that an inquest was unneces-
sary.
Vinegar From Fruit Juice.
Dining the canning season many a cup
of fruit juice is wested that mightbe con-
verted into the best of vinegar, says a
correspondent, I know people who make
all their vinegar for family use by simply
keeping a jug in a warm place and pour-
ing into it all fruit juice, rinsings from
honey or syrup cups, or anything of the
nature; fruit parings from sound fruit
are boiled in water enough to nicely
cover them and the water is then drained
into the jug. Keep a cloth t,ied over the
top of the nig instead of corking it.
When the jug is full of vinegar pour it
off, leaving a little with the "mother" in
the bottom to hurry the fermenting pro-
cess. Dining the time -when canning is
in order more than one jug may be need-
ed; but nearly eVery day during; the year
there will be a little juice left from can -
tied o1 preserved fruits left on the table,
-weo bit of this or that, which had bet-
ter go into the vinegar jug than the swill
pail. Last year wo meant to have a few
gallons of grape wino, but something
went wrong -with it ; not liking to waste
the grapes, sugar, time and Tabor that
had -been expended, I simply added a
little mother and kept it in the sun for
awhile, arid if I did not have wine I had
the nicest of vinegar.
After this if /.112076 tee many grapes
for other purposes l will know just what
to do iyith them. "A, word to the wise is
sufficient."
The dingey of the Prince of Wales'
cutter Britannia, capsiaed Sunday in Port-
land. Itoad and two of the crew were
drowned,
A COSTLY DEM.
^
An only daughter comprises the family
of Mr. Peter Prineetown, a retired mer-
chant and a widower.
He is a very important man; :ancinow,
as -We behold. him, in his dining -room,
awaitiirg the arrival of hie daughter,
Charlotte to begin dinner, his import-
anee and hunger have so overmastered
him that he is holding his evening paper
upside dawn, and probably thinks he is
reading it.
"Here, Gertrude," he snaps ont at last,
addressing his servant, "take away the
soup and keep it warm. I eannot under-
stand what has detained Charlotte at her
music lesson. Bring Me my boots at
once. I am going to meet her."
Gertrude still trembling, removes the
souptureen, and is returning with the
boots, when the doer tell peals out joy-
ously.
• •That is Charlotte, at last," exclaints
the father, who has just taken off his
slippers.
"It 19 the young lady," repeats Ger-
trude,Who in. her haste to open the door,
drops the boots on her master's plate.
Charlotte enters like a miniature -whirl-
wind. She is small and graceful, with
laughing oyes and fluffy hair ; is eighteen
years old has little feet, with arched in-
steps andpretty hands, perfectly gloved,
besides a thousand other charming ds -
tails; there are dimples in her cheeks,
and she has a clean-cut little chin and a
softly -rounded form. 111 a word, she is
an adorable little creature, a butterfly,
all ribbons and lace, flowers and furbe-
lows,
"You have come at last," announces
the father, ironically, as he seats himself
at the table and unfolds his napkin.
"0, papa, I was just going to tell
you
"53± down, sit down first; you can ex-
plain While eating, and I will understand
you better then. Great heavens ! I have
waited long enough already. Gertrude—
the soup."
"But, papa, you can't think! I've had
a real adventure."
"An adventure ?" cries Mr.
toivn, starting up in alarm.
"Yes, papa, an adventure, in the omni-
bus, with a young man."
"In the omnibus with a young man ?
Great heavens!"
At this juncture Gertrude discreetly re-
tires, in obedience to an imperious ges-
ture from her master.
"011 papa, an adventure with a young
man who was altogether too nice, I assure
you."
would have you lon.ow, my dear, that
a young man who is nice never has an
adventure with a young lady—above all,
in an omnibus. Explain yourself."
"Oh, it's a trifling matter, papa, and,
really, it isn't of the least use to make
such big eyes at me. and talk to me in
such a voice. I had forgotton my pock-
etbook—a thing that is likely to happen
auy clay—"
"Oh, yes, yes—especially to those who
haven't one. Go on."
"1 didn't discover it until the conduc-
tor demanded the fare. What was I to
do? I turned red as a peony, then I felt
my face pale. Happily as the conductor
held out his hand a young man at my
side placed a quarter in it, and said, 'For
two.' This gentleman had understood.
the cause of my embarrassment, and paid
for me."
"So, young lady, you accept a dime
from Im unknown man? Better a thous-
and times to have explained the circum.-
stancet to the conductor—the driver—to
anybody. One does not forget une's
pocket' -book when going in an omnibus;
or, better still, one does not go in an
omnibus after having forgotten one's
porket-book. How do yon propose to re-
turn this dime to this young man? For
I hope you do not intend keeping it ?"
"But papa I have his card. See here:
'Mr. Wm. 14ason, No. I Willow street,
Melrose,'"
The father, without waiting to hear
more, snatches the bit of pasteboard from
the gni, and cries:
"What, not content with lending you
money in violation of all the proprieties,
this gentleman gives you his card be-
siaes ! He is the prettiest intriguer, the
lowest of the low—your young man who
is altogether too nice."
"Now, papa, be reasonable. To return
the money it was, of course, necessary to
know his address."
The ex -merchant finds no suitable reply
to this ingenious reasoning; but with a
gesture indicative of decided ill -humor
throws his napkin upon the table.
"1 am fated not to dine to -day. Gert-
rude, go engage me a cab by the hour. I
wish to return this young adventurer his
money at once, and tell him a few plain
truths besides."
"Oh, papa, papa, you won't do that?
It would be base ingratitude. Only think
of it. This young man has extricated
me from a very unpleasant situation."
" Unpleasant situation ! Let me alone!
Shut upl I don't care to be lectured, es-
pecially by a rattle-brainwho loses her
pocket -book."
The irate parent 'puts on his boots,and
takes his eane and hat, all the while
growing more and more morose. Gert-
rude enters.
"The cabman is below, but he only
promises to take you there, not to wait
for you.."
"Very well, I can get another cab to
bring me back." .
Mr :Peter departs, after Slamming the
door. while Charlotte, blushing and
trembling, recounts to her old friend
Gertrudeliow she is much better acquaint-
ed. with Mr. Mason than she dares to con-
fess to her father. That for a month at
least she and he have taken the omnibus
at the same time each evening, and that,
without seeming to do so, she, Charlotte,
has noticed his evident admiration for
her • etc.
"'A fine affair, indeed,
77 exclaims the
astonished servant, all in a tremor of ex-
citement.
William Mason in his bachelor apart-
ments, and, in a sentimental mood is
gazing at the hand that his charming
neighbor in the omnibus has touched
while taking the card he gave her.
Suddenly there comes a knock at the
door, which opens abruptly. .A. large
man, out of breath, his hat over his ears,
his cane in his fist, enters unceremon-
iously,
"Sir," he exclaims, "to say the least of
it your eonduct is unworthy- of a gentle-
man. A gentleman does not take aclvant-
age of the innocence, the inexperience,
the artlessnesey the embarrassment of a
young, girl. To profit, by the absenee of
a father, and a pocket book, to brutally
offer to a young person who is alone, not
only a dime, but a visiting card, may be
a good inveetment, but it is very bed
manners. But, hors is your „dime, sir.
My clanghter and. I wish nothing further
to do With you." -
And the large man, after perorating
with mueli voltibility, begins to search in
Prince -
his pockets ; but before Mason, who is•
literally diunfounded, can utter a word,
a new actor appears on the scene. Ibis
the cabman'svho comes in furiously,
brandishing his whip.
"This is fine! 1 teil you I will bring
yon here, and not wait for you, and you
ccept the toms. You even order me to
make haste, and when we arrive you.
shoot off like a zebra, as slippery as ars
eel, without paying me, and calling out
to me to wait, That won't go down, I
tell you! I mean what I say. One trip,
moans one trip and nothing else, Conte,,
hurry up, it you please. I want my dal:,
lar, and. be quick about it !"
ifason does not understand the
large gentleman, who NIS precipitately
dived into each pocket; then successively
turned them all wrong side out, without,
appreciable result, grows pink and white,
then crin.son, then violet and now shadtsi
oft' into green—a rainbow in a silk hats
and overcoat.
"1 have forgotten—my—pcchet-book !"
"That's an old trick' ' roars the cab-
man ; "but you can'ttell that to the.
police. It won't answer -with me," and
he prepares to seize the arm of the un-
fortunate man, who; in despair, on tha
verge of 'apoplexy, meekly submits. But -
Mason, a veritable providence to the
family, gives the cabman the necessary
amount and orders him away.
"Permit me," the young man Says,
with politeness, to the ex -merchant, who
barely has strength to articulate.
"Certainly, my- dear sir, with pleasure,
but give him only one dollar—not a cent.
More."
The father of Miss Charlotte, who but
recently could not understand that a
person has not always in his pocket as
munh as a dime to pay in an omnibus,.
LIOW admits that he is -very happy to have
some one to advance the sum of a dollar
to stop the mouth of a pitiless eabina,n.
Thus, notwithstanding the diverse and
unusual emotions he has just experienced
it is with an almost gracious smile that
he says to Mason:
' "Sir, that makes a dollar and ten cents.
that I owe you, I believe. If you will do
me the pleasure of dining with me this.
evening we -will settle tills little affair,
A. merchant does not like old debts—
besides, short reckonings make good
friends."
A quarter of an hour later Gertrude
places an extra plate at the table. It is
still placed there every day for the next
month, the engagement of Miss Charlotte
Princetown and Mr. 'William Mason is.
announced, and the ex -merchant still
says to anyone who cares to listen:
'Novo: borrow, oh, ye fathers of
it costs tco clear. I once owed a
debt. of a dollar and ten cents, and in
order to pay it, I had not only to give
away my daughter, but 625,000 as -her-
dowry.
Scientific Notes.
Paper pneumatic tires are in process of
experiment.
Photographs have been taken 500 feet
under water.
In tests last year in the German town.
of Dessau it was shown that cooking by
wood and coal costs a little more than,
twice that done with gas.
A German officer has invented a motor
in which a fine stream of coal dust is util-
ized to drive a piston by explosion in the,
same manner as the gas in the gas en-
gine.
The longest continued cataleptic sleep•
known to science was reported from Ger-
many in 1892, the patient having remain-
ed absolutely- unconscious for four and a
half months. A
The largest mammoth found. in Siberia.
measured seventeen feet long and ten
feet in height. The tusks weighed. 560,
pounds. The head without the tusks
weighed 414 pounds.
Science tells us that the body of every
human being weighing 150 pounds con-
tains one pound of salt. Also that every
one of us needs in a year about fifteen
pounds of salt.
The director of the Sydney (A.uStralia),
observatory has collected facts regarding
eighty-four icebergs, showing that they
do not appreciably affect the temperature
in their neighborhood.
The aerial space within the limit of our
vision is calculated to have a diameter of
420,000,000 miles and a circumference of
1,339,742,000,000 miles. And this only a
fragment of the immensity of space.
The new Sheffield laboratory for the
scientific department of Yale will be four
stories high and seventv-two feet front,
by 130 deep. It i to be the largest and
best college laboratory in the country,
and will cost $130,000.
The greyhound runs'•.by 'esight
The carrier pigeon fileslthis hundisede of
miles homeward by eyesight, rioting from
point to point objects that he has marked..
This is only conjecture. The dragon. fly,
-svith 12,000 lenses in his eye, darts front
angle to angle with the rapidity of a flash-
ing sword., and as rapidly darts back, not in
turning the air, but reversing the
action of his four wings and instantane-
ously calculating the distance of the ob-
.
jects, or he would dash himself to pieces.
An aurora seen from Toronto, Canada,
last year has been calculated to be sixty-
six miles high and 2,300 miles from end
to end.
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said to the Monday washing.
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