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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-12, Page 6Subeeribers who do not receive their paper promptly eeill please notify us at once, Adverttsine rates on application. THE EXETER ADVOCATE THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895. LATEST CANADIAN NEWS. Week's Commercial Sunuuary. The offerings of oats at Ontario points have greatly increased the past week, and prices are 1 to IS cents lower. The gross earningsof the Canadian Pacific for the week ended March 21 were $269,000, a decrease of $46,000 as com- pared with the corresponding week of last year. The seeurity market is less active, with a decline in the prides of a number of issues. The advance had been too rapid, and holders took their profits in. many cases. There were 42 failures in the Dominion last week as against 88 the week before, and 80 the corresponding week of a year ago. Ontario had 18, of which 18 had the lowest credit or blank rating. Of the 17 in Quebec none of them were of any commercial importance, and only one had a rating as high as $5,000. Nova Scotia had 3. New Brunswick and Brit- ish Columbia two each. None were re- corded in Prince Edward Island or Manitoba. There is no decided change in the com- mercial situation at Toronto. The im- provement lately noted has been main- tained, and business cannot be called. active. Travelers are out on sorting up trips in dry goods, and in some instances orders for fall goods are being taken. Merchants still adhere to the cautious policy previously noted, and are not stocking up with goods. The good re- sults of economy as practiced by the £arming crmmunity are apparent. They are not going into debt, and are meeting their current obligations. The number of failures show a decrease, and the 'out- look generally for business is encoorag• % Prices of the leading staples are DOIN(,1S OF THE WEEK. Arranged and Condensed For Our Busy Readers,Each Province Furnishing Its Quota of Interesting Items. Stratford has a Huniane Society. Elora has a new Board of Trade, Aurora has a successful lady dentist. Midland has recognized its Y,M,C.A. Brantford's city assessment is 17 mills. Carleton Place has a ladies' hockey club. Hillside will soon have a cheese fac- tory. Paris is talking of organizing a Y. M. C. A. The Galt Y.M.C,A. has a'membership of fifty. Gait is to have a loeal Christian Aid Society. A new foundry at Orangeville is in full blast, men come to grief as .tbe, result of punc- tured tires. , John O'Shea, a profe'sional swimmer, died at Kingston, aged sixty-five years, During his hfe he saved about one hund- red peref ns from drowning, besides ro- ot/vexing many bodies. The oldest citizen of Penetangdied lately, a Frenchman named. Hyacinthe Lala nde, aged ninety-nine years and szv. months. The old gentleman was never sick tall three dao s before he did, The sufferers by an aeeident on the In- tercolonial near Levis, Que.. four years ago, have been granted $12,000 by an or- der in couneil, Thirty-seven claimants will divide the grant. Complete returns from all available sources in r gard to the suffering in St, John, ;fid., show 50 per cent. of the en- tire population of the city to be either re- ceiving or in need of assistance. At the Winnipeg Trades and .Labor convention prohibition was rejected as a plank in the platform „f the labor party, and a memorial ad'pted opposing Gen- eral Booth's colonization scheme. .A. man in Barrie was sent to jail for two months for seeding his wife with a pot of hot tea while a woman in Hamilton got two years and a half in the peniten- tiary for passing a bogus. 25 cent piece. George Donald, town line, Watford, has struck an oil well from which he pumps every three hours one barrel, or eight barrels a clay. He has been offered $10,000for the 100 acres with the well on, but declined. The land offices of tbe. O,P.1i. company at, Winnipeg are crowded daily with in- tending settlers in Manitoba and the Northwest. The pressure is so great that the company will open a branch office at Calgary. Th. latest way of paying of a church debt is reported from Stratford, where the congregation pays the annual insurance premium on an old man, and at his death the amount of his insurance will be used in paying off the church debt. A carpet factory is to be established at Glenco-. Electric caro will be running in Berlin by May 80. The revised list for Nipissing contains 7,060 names. Parry Sound complains of its ineffi- cient mail service. A new and large planing mill is in operation at Sudbury. The Thompson memorial fund now amounts to $81,000. Collingwood has many men working in the boat building business. The C.P.R. shops at Carlton Place are again running on full time. Large shipments of wood are being made from Phelpston this winter. The Guelph waterworks is the best paying investment that city has. While there is no great change in the business situation at Montreal, indica- tions are not lacking in some lines of a probable improvement though such im- provement may not be very marked. Groceries show a slightly increased dis- tribusion, and further gain in activity will likely follow, as the opening of navi- gation approaches. Sugars have moved out quite freely. and refiners seem less disposed to make concessions on prices. Sunny, spring-like weather has helped dry goods retailers, and sorbing orders from city and country are coming in rather be'ter. Heavy hardware and metals show no improvement whatever, the demand does not pick up at all, and there does not seem to be any stop to the downward tendency in values. Cut nails are now freely offered at $1.90, and Cana- dian bars at $1.55 in ordinary. Here and There. Australia is about the size of the Un- ited States. xxx The best brand. of snuff for weak lungs is fresh air. xxx The coinage of twenty cent pieces began in 1875, and was discontinued in 1878. xxx Nobody can help noticing the short- comings of the man who is always behind time. xxx When the good man dies the tears are shed which he in life prevented from flowing. xxx A little California boy said Adam and Eve "were stampeded off the ranch" for eating the apple. xxx In India the native will shave you while asleep without awakeni g yon, so light is Ms touch. Mifiland Town Council will build a new firehall and Council chamber. T1.e North Simcoe Teachers' Associa- tion will meet in Barrie April 10th. An Ancester spinster made her will by writing it on two sides of a slate. E. H. Wilmot has given the city of Fre=dericton, N.B., 15 acres for a park. The Sarnia Turf Club will hold a two days' race meet about the 24th of May. The streets and business places in Beaton will shortly be lighted by elec- tricity. The last Assizes at Windsor occupied just 15 minutes ; there were no criminal cases. More ranch beef will be exported this year from Manitoba to England than be- fore. There were only 97 liquor licenses granted in. Bruce county last year, as against 1S.) in 1894. There are 185 municipalities in the Province of Ontario in which no liquor licenses are issued. Trade reports unite in. saying prospects are improving, and prices are higher for many lines of goods. Mr. C. A. Mallory, grand president of the Patrons of Industry, has been left a legacy of $40,000. An immigrant lad, George Hart. liv- ing near Chatham, has fallen heir to $15,000 in England. A stock company has been formed. in Goderich to erect a first-class curling and skating rink. A Brantford man has just received $1,200 for a carload of old rubbers which he shipped to a manufacturer. It is expected Midland will soon have a dry dock large enough to accommodate the largest vessel on the lakes. A by-law is before the Muskoka town- ship council to exempt creameries and cheese factories from taxation for ten years. WHAT UNCLE SAM IS AT. AOIN61', ACROSS THE LINE. The fruited States Furnishes a Number of Items that will be Found Inter- esting Reading. xxx Horses and cattle in Australia are branded by electricity. An electrical brand is safe and artistic. xxx There's a man who keeps a list of all the banks in the country, so as to be able to say that he' keeps a bank account. xxx Why are women the biggest thieves in existence ? Because they steel their pet- ticoats, bone their stays, crib their babies and hook their eyes. xxx The peasants of Russia are said to be in a more pitiable state of destitution than at any time since their emancipa- tion. xxx Nothing is made in vain. Scientists console us with the information that cold waves, sterilizing the air, kill grip germs. xxx Mr. Greely says that the solution of the question whether woman is equal to man depends up, n who the woman is and who the man is xxx Colds are frequently caused by putting on cold clothing or wraps. Never do this when it can be avoided, but let them hang before the fire for some time before want- ed, _._._ Thos. Sabin, of Eglington, says : "I have removed ten corns from my feet with Holloway's Corn Cure." Reader, go thou and do likewise. London's assessment, on which will be struck the rate for the year, is 515,182,- 340, after allowing $504,950 for exemp- tions. It was expected that the new Sault Ste. Marie canal will be opened in about a week after the commencement of navi- gation. A horse from Eramosa is the model used in New York for the equestrian statue of General. Sherman, now being built there. At a meeting 'of the Ruri-Decanal Chapter last week, the Rev. J. A. Hanns, of Midland, was elected rural dean of East Simooe. Half a million dollars is to be expend- ed on the construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway this coming summer. The Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk, and Intercolonial railways have reduced freights on • all classes of merchandise. The reduction began April 1. Mrs. Elizabeth Green, the white wife of Isaac Green, Indian, of Shannonville, has been found guilty of attempting to burn her husband in his bed. J. M. Dykes, of Wardsville, Canada's champion checker player, purposes mak- ing aprofessional tour through the Southern States this summer. A verdict of $1,200 was recently given against the township of Yarmouth for damages sustained by3. Ferguson, owing to the road being out of repair. There has been a heavy fall in British imports from Canada during the month of February, as compared with the cor- responding monthof last year. Three or four men and a dozen girls were compelled to jump out of a second - storey window in a burning tailor shop at Orillia to escape suffocation by smoke. The Manitoba Legislature has adjourn- ed till May 9, in order to give the Gov- ernment time to consider its policy on the question of the Ottawa order-in-Coun- oil, At Stratford, .James Sheen, of Logan township, was found guilty of stealing some fifty sheep from Whyte & Sons, and sentenced to five years in penien- The Nashua (N.H,)'Savings Bank has closed its doors. It has deposits of $2,- 700,000. The Commercial Bank of Cincinnati, has suspended payment—temporarily, it is said. Tho Boston fund for the relief of the destitute in Newfoundland now amountsto about $12,000. harmony with the New York Central A company has b^ en formed to absorb the people's line of steamers on the Hud- son River and l•uild two fine passenger steamers costing $1,500,000, to run in Railroad. Thomas Kent, the young Buffalonian who went as an independent missionary to Kano, m the House State, Africa, is dr ad of jungle fever. His associate, Thomas Gowans, of Toronto, also died recently. At Aiken, S.C., negro laborers have been driven away by a white mob. It is a goodly sight to see the Southern white man so eager to work, but aho knows that he would bo eager if there were not a chance to spite a negro ? Apropos of some of the twaddle daily cabled across the Atlantic, the New York World says : "The Queen Regent of Spain need have no hesitation in accept- ing the assurance that this country is de- lighted to learn that she has fully recov- ered from the measles. Furthermore, we are a nation deep'y pained at the swelling in Senor Murdaga'a cheek." At the last meeting of the Ontario Fish and Game Commission it was decided to make the deer season the same as it was in 1892—from the let to the 15th of No- vember. It was also decided to offer a bounty of 50 cents a head for foxes, be- cause of the damage they inflict on farm- ers' poultry. A despatch from Regina, N.W.T., says that the Courthouse buiidir'g, containing all the records of the Northwest Terri- tories, was totally 'estroyed by fire there on Sunday night. The valuable Govern- ment and judges' libraries are a complete loss, and cannot be replaced. The loss on the building is $80,000. The hasty trial at Stratford of Chattelle the murderer of Jessie Keith, who was undefended, and into whose sanity no enquiry was made, is creating a great deal of indignation in Montreal, and a petition will shortly be circulated for signatures praying for Executive clem- ency. The Canada Southern Railway Com- pany intends to apply to Parliament at the coming session for an act to enable it to acquire, lease, amalgamate or enter in- to other arrangements with the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Co. and to confirm any agreements which may be entered into in that behalf. This will make the T. H. & B. an integral part of the Vanderbilt system. For Nine Years.—Mr. Samuel Bryan, Thedford, writes : "For nine years I suffered with ulcerated sores on my leg ; I expended over $100 to physicians, and tried every preparation I heard of or saw recommended for such diseases, but could get no relief. I at last was recommended to give Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil a trial, which has resulted, after using eight bottles (using it internally and external- ly), in a complete cure. I believe it is the best medicine in the world, and I write this to let others know what it has done for me." A small village in the Indian Territory is named Chiekie-Chockie, it is said, after =tie twin children of a Chickasaw hus- e Zt,nd and a Choctaw wife. ' If your children moan and are restless during sleep, coupled when awake with a loss of appetite, pale countenance, pick- ing of the nose, etc., you may depend upon it that the primary cause of the trouble is worms. Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator effectually removes these posts, at once relieving the little suf- ferers. • Theemrdre of Austro-Hungary has 240,- 000 square miles. It is about the combin- ed size of Californiaand Colorado, When you notice unpleasant sensations after eating, at once commence the use of Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable' Dis- covery and your dyspepsia will disappear, Me. James Stanley, merchant, at Con- stance, writes . "My wife has taken two bottles of Northrop & Lyrdan's Vegetable Discovery for dyspepsia, and it has done her more goad than anything she has ever used," tiary, Immense fields of petroleum have been discovered seventy miles north of Fort Saskatchewan, and the Dominion Govern- ment has promised to assist in their de- velopment, The 'United States have permitted Can, ada to export cattle from Portland , Maine without undergoing an. - quarantine. All tdean. ill of health at that is needed sa Montreal. EIGHTY LEGISLATURE. FIRST SESSION. Wednesday. Mr. Willonghby's bill introduced to- day proposes to amend the Ontario Game Protection Act, 1898, by repealing the subsection limiting the number of duck that may be killed in any one season by one person to four hundred, and by pro- viding that no person shall be hable fox shooting game upon the lands of other persons unless he knows, or has good rea- son to believe, that sueh game is pre- served. Mr. Harcourt's act to make further pro- vision for the public health relates to the constitution of local Boards of Health, the establishment of water works systems or sewerage systems, to be subject to the approval of the Provincial Board of Health, and to prevent the feeding of bloodor meat of dead animals which have not been previouslyboiled or steam- ed when fresh to hogs. Sir Oliver Mowat's bill respecting the relations of landlord and tenant allows the removal of tenants' fixtures at the end of the term, and amends the Short Form of Leases Act, and several other particulars. It restricts the lien of the landlord for rent after an assignment has been made to arrears of one year previous to and for three months following the as- signment. Mr. Dryden's bill to make further pro- vision respecting f ietories makes anum- ber of amendments to the Factories Act, providing for additional fire protection, the reporting of accidents to the Minister of Agriculture, protecting machinery while in motion, and for the appointment of a female inspector. A partial report of the experts appoint- ed by the court to examine into the aft fairs of the Whisky Trust was made pub- lic in Chicago. It "shows a discrepancy of $1,924.120 and an effort to hide it by erasures on the books of the company " John McNulta has been continued by Judge Grosscup as sole receiver. Five masked men held up a Florence & Cripple Cr eek train near Victor,' Col , and robbed several passengers of watches and money, Sheriff Bowers had a bloodhound put on the robbers' trail, and it led to a cabin oceupied by a former deputy sher- iff and deputy Unit=d States marshal, who was identified by traineuen as one of the robbers. Henry L. Haupt, president of the Mon- tana Mining Iron and Investment Com- pany, is on trial in the United States Court at Butte. Mon.. on the charge of sending non -mailable matter through the postoffice. The company is alleged to be a swindling scheme, whi"h claims to have a paid-up capital, of $12,000,000, but as- sets valued at but 42,000. The annual report to the stockholders of the American Bell Telephone Com- pany, at their annual meeting in Boston, on Tuesday, stated that there are now 582.506 instruments under rental anal 867 exchanges. Of 896,674 miles of wire in operation, 148,225 miles are underground. The investment in telephone property in the United States amounts to 577,50 x,000. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided that the street railway act gave no rightof eminent dpmain, and that, as the trolley lines in Philadelphia are incorporated under that act, tbey have no power to construct their roads where the taking of property is incident or necessary to it without the consent of the property owners. Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House, Chi- cago, will probably be appointed to take charge of the street -cleaning of the 19th Ward, in which Hull House is situated. The appointment of women to this kind of municipal work is a noticeable ten- deney. It will be very interesting to observe the success which they meet. The odds are that they will give business administration. Good to Remember. Brown paper should be used in putting away ribbons and silks for preservation ; the chloride of lime in white paper dis- colors them. A white satin dress should be pinned up in blue paper, with brown paper outside, sewn together at the edges. Out of Sorts.—Symptoms, headache, loss of appetite, furred tongue and gen- eral indisposition. These symptoms, if neglected, develop into acute disease. It is a trite saying that an "ounce of pre- vention is worth a pound of cure," and a little attention at this point may save months of sickness and large doctor's bills. For this complaint take from two to three of Parmelee's Vegetable Pills on going to bed, and one or two for three nights in succession, and a cure will be effected. Some mischievous boys in a London ritiburb have been arrested, soundly lee - tared and fined for throwing short tacks on a highway frequented by bieyole riders, their object being to see the wheel - Marital Amenities. "You are a peach," said' Mr. barley to his wife. "You are a peach crop," replied she. "What do you mean by that ?" i'A perennial failure." The great demand for a pleasant, safe and reliable antidote for all affections of the throat and lungs is fully met with in Sickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup. It is a purely vegetable 'compound, and acts promptly and magically in subduing all coughs, colds, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, etc. It is so palatable that a child will not refuse it, and it is pat at a price that will not exclude the poor from its benefits. Old, But Good. For nervous headache, which is apt to come in the back of the neck and at the base of the brain, try rubbing the nook with camphor. It is not necessary that the camphor,. should get on the hair at all, and it should givegreat relief to the pain, It's All Nonsense For people to say there is no cure for con - gumption. Sufferers from that dread disease and kindred ailments are being saved every day by Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. Do not die without giv- ing it a fair trial. If it will cure others it will cure you. The secret of its success lies in the fact that it creates new blood in the system, thus enabling sufferers from lung troubles to overcome the de- strrietive forces at work to waste the tis- sues of the body. Miller's Emulsion is the groat strengthener and blood maker, and euros coughs, colds, bronchitis, scrofula and all lung affections. In big bottles, 50e and $1, at all drug stores. The Bey of Algiers formerly issued pat", ents of nobility, but these were rill. de- clared void when this territory was taken by the French:. that a system of Government inspecti of these companies was desirable. Mr. McKay (Oxford) suggested the ap- pointment of a committee to consider the, question and take evidenee. Mr. Clelland said the Government;. should investigate the condition of these companies in a searching manner, in or-.- der to protect the public from fraud. Upon the motion of Mr. McKay, the - bill was referred to a committee. Maerela lf7S A!W SALES. Mr. Wood moved the second reading° of a bill to amend the act respecting mortgages and sales of personal property,. THE ASSESSMENT ACT. Mr« Marten, in the absence of Mr,. Ryerson, movedthe second reading of a. bill to amend the Assessnlertt Aot. MUNICIPAL Ait131'CRA'rxo1 . Mr. Matter moved. the second reading of a bill respecting municipal arbitrators. He explained that the bill provided for the appointment of an c ffi, ill ail itrator. by the Lieutenant Govornur iai•Council, whose duty it should be to act in cases of arbitration to which municipal cc *ora- tions were a party. INSPECTiO5 OP WEARS. Mr. Crawford move 1 the second read- ing of a bill to provide for the in"rection. of boilers and the qualification of lemons. in charge of the same. Mr. Whitney said if the 1.411 were passed it would simply parelyze thou- sands of industries in the country, There was not a saw mill or cheese faceory that would be allowed to run. unless ib possess -- ed a certified engineer. The bill was read a second time. Thursday. The House went into committee on Mr. Hardy's bill atlecting jurors and juries. Mr. Hardy proposed to add an amend- ment for the payment of mileage to a juror, in the event of a County Council passing a by-law authorizing it, on going to and returning 'from h•s place of resi- dence, where au adjournment over Sun- day takes place. The amendments were agreed to, and the bill was reported as amended. PROTECTION OF ctilLnlu]N. The House went into committee on Mr: Gibson's bill for the further protection of children. Mr. Gibson proposed to add an amend- ment to meet a case brought forward in a private bill introduced by the member for Toronto. This would render punishable by fine of $20 and costs any attempt to induce children to leave institutions re- ceiving Government aid, or to break the articles of apprenticeship into which they may have entered, or the harboring of any child after a demand had been made for its delivery. Another amendment he proposed was one preventing parents or guardians from obtaining the custody of, or interfering with, children after the former had surrendered the latter to be placed in homes, under the provisions of tee act. The amendments were agreed to, and the bill was reported. THE ELECTION LAWS. Mr. Hardy's bill respecting the election laws was next considered in committee. Mr. 'Whitney jocularly remarked that he did not observe any provision for a secret ballet. Mr. Hardy—Nothing more secret than already exists. A number of- verbal changes were made, after which the committee report- ed progress, and asked leave to sit again. maze in COMMIRTEE. These bills passed through committee : To make better provision for the widows of intestates in certain cases.—The At- torney -General. Relating to the Department of Agricul- ture.—Mr. Dryden. The most popular man in a western town once got into a difficulty with a disreputable tough, who was the terror of the place, and whipped him in a manner eminently satisfactory to the entire com- munity. It was necessary to vindicate the majesty of the law, however, and the offender was brought up for trial on a eharge of assault with intent to kill. The jury took the case, and were out about two minutes when they returned. " We 1," said the judge, in a familiar, off -hand way, "what does the jury have to say ?" "May it please the court," replied the foreman,: "we, the jury find that the prisoner is not guilty of hitt•n' with in- tent to kill, but simply to paralyze, and he done it." There is said to be a law in Massachu- setts making it an offense to give away an object or thing as an inducement to purchase other things ; for example, to give away a picture with every certain amount of other things purchased. There was once a law which made it an offense for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday, but was strangely silent about kissing some other man's wife. Many a man still liv- ing can remember when it was not per- missible to open the theaters in Boston on Saturday evenings, and there was a law to punish any tissinated individual found smoking rn the street, Some of these fantastic old freaks have been done away with, but there are some communi- ties which, like some individuals, require quite an unconscionable time to get wide awake, Dr. Carson's stomach Bitters. Mr. J. Martin, notary public, King street east, Toronto, writes and says : "I was suffering from dyspepsia, sour stomach and torpid liver for years. I wag advised to try Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters, which I did, and a few bottles have completely cured me." 50 cents per bottle. For sale by druggists—there is none as good; the only Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters. Allah & Co., 58 Front street east, Toronto, proprietors. Orts and Bnds. "Orts" are the stub ends of straw left by cattle in feeding from the manger. Mart. Fisher:, a telegraph operator in Philadelphia, has no right hand andonly half a left one, but is very expert. A runaway horse in Canton, N.Y., re- cently, after two miles of good sleighing, turned down a railroad track and crossed a high and long bridge, carefully picking its way over thcties without accident. A. French statistiean guesses that in 2100 English will be spoken by more than 500000 000pople, German by 120,000,- p 000, French by 120,000,000, Spanish and Portuguese by 235,000,000, The Church Warden. There are 10,480 churches in the Do- minion of Canada. Dr. Talmage received $600 for a two, hours' lecture at the Atlanta Chautauqua. In Colorado there was not a single. Baptist church forty years ago. Now• there are sixty churches and 5,000 mem- hers. Rev. M. M. Vancleve, a Baptist of - Crawfordsville, Ind,, has been preaching for more than eighty years. During that,, time he has married 760 couples. The Southampton, Mass., Congrega- tional church celebrated its ane hundred and fiftieth anniversary recently. It was. founded in 1848 by Jonathan Edwards. and Samuel Hopkins, Dr. John Hall church, Fifth avenue, New York City, has 2,488 e• mmunicant. members. Its contribution. last year amounted to $147,052, of which $96,749• went to benevolence. There are forty-seven Chinese temples in. the United . States, valued at $62,000, claiming 100,000 worshippers. Forty of these temples are in California, four in. New York, two in Idaho and one in, Oregon. The Jeweler. Diamond ornaments to twist around the knot are a variation of the tiara. A new adjustable diamond orn• ment is. a long vine of diamonds with buds of pink coral. The dragon fly in jewels seems to be having a brief hour, likewise that August. songster, the grasshopper. White ostrich feathers for the hair- have airhave light loops of diamonds up the• stems and sparkling among the fila ments. A slender jug of beaten silver with a. gun, gamebag and game around its neck is a recent trophy that is more artistic: than trophies usually are. An interesting star was recently seen.. It had a half dozen long rays of emeralds. Between them on two different places were single diamonds in five point, star. settings.. Drapery pins of long, irregular loops of • gold, set at intervals with diamonds, have been introduced, These were first. seen in solid diamonds. It is an especial- ly graceful shape. Some fine specimens of Indian jewelry are shown, especially in b a e'ets. A. peculiar detail is ten heavy tuhill ar forms, like execreseences with colored opaque- stones sunk in the ends. LAW REFORM. Sir Oliver Mowat moved the second reading of the bill for diminishing ap- peals, and otherwise improving the pro- cedure of the courts. He briefly sketched the changes in the law that had been ef- fected since Confede ration. Mr. Whitney took issue to a slight ex- tant with his hon. friend as to the time during which the agitation for these re- forms had been carried on. He concluded by an earnest appeal to the hon. Attor- ney General to consider carefully the clauses of the bill, with relation especial- ly to the arguments he had advanced regarding the County Courts, in which he had urged that their jurisdiction be enlarged so that they should have some- thing to do, instead of being to a large extent idle. Mr. Stratton expressed his opinion on the bill in a brir.f speech, dealing sum- marily with its various provisions. Mr. Hardy spoke at some length in. favor of the bill, and said, with regard to the suggestions that had been made, that caution was desirable in the matter of law reform. Mr. Howland argued in favor of not dealing hastily with so large and import- ant a subject as that of law reform, and advocated a postponement of the bill un- til next session, in order that its provis- ions might receive the serious considera- tion they deserved. Mr. Garrow considered the bill an ad- vance in the right direction. It should go further and give the country bar the control of all interlocutory applications with an appeal to the Divisional Court at Toronto. THE SALE OF FRUIT. Mr. Dryden moved the second reading of the bill for preventing fraud in the sale of fruit. Mr: Kerns believed that legislation of some kind was advisable, but thought the provisions of the bill respecting grad- ing impracticable and unjust to the ship- pers and fruit growers. Mr. Hiscott also opposed the bill, say- ing that it was not in the interests of the growers. It would be fairer to confiscate bad fruit. Mr. Awrey spoke in defence of the bill. Friday. Steelyards dug up in Herculaneum are liko those of to -day, with a pan and a bar,with graduated Scale and a weight ,moded into the head of Mercury, i3UI SING SOCIETIES. Mr. McKay (Oxford) moved the second reading of bill No. 112, respecting the in- speetion of building societies He ex- pressed, in doing so,his appreciation of the work these socieies were doing, and the confidence that was placed in them. Mr. Stratton expressed his sympathy with the prineiple of Government inspec- tion of building societies, but, apart from this, he could not see a redeoining feature in the provisions of the bill. Mr, Howland was also in accord with the main prineiple of the bill, but he feared that so far as the present bill was concerned the means of making a sat- isfactory inspection had not yet been found. Sir Oliver Mowat said that it did seem The Modern Pulpit, Farmer Oatcake, who, with. Ms good wife, Mandy, is on a brief visit to a. daughter-in-law in Buffalo, looked over the newspapers on Saturday in an en- deavor to find a ch;reh service on the. following day which he might attend with hope of seeuring spiritual satisfac- tion. He soon gleaned that the follow- ing Scriptural subjects would be discussed. from various city pulpits : "Is the Trilby Craze Dying Out?" "Fitzsimmons v. Corbett." "How the Pastor Spends His Vaca -- tion." "Should Our Daughters Marry Foreign. Noblemen ?" "High Sleeves and Theater Hats." "The Gold Brick Qaloon " "Canal Street on Saturday Night." "Wordsworth and the Lake School of:: Poetry." "The LIIId. Congress." "Rights of Motormen" Farmer Oatcake gave it up after a. while, and laid down the paper, saying, with a sigh ; "Laws sakes, Mandy ! I do believe that the Gosp •,l sad the Scheme of Salvation have gone clear ou•i of ,fash- ion." 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