HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-7-5, Page 3DOMINION PARLIAMENT.
FIFTH SFSSION...stvgm EARL.
LAMENT.
.A.TLANTIO R.A.ILWAY 130NDS.
Sir Mallard, Cartwright, on motion to
go into supply, referred again to the mat-
ter 'of the MI/A Of the, Aelantio anal Lake
Sitaerior annuitiee, Ile thought the com-
pany Would endeavour to make British
financiers believe that the Governmeat
hey° examined into and endorsed the
whole sobeme on the strength' of the guar.
antee of the sem of 2500,000. The .Gov-
ernraent weeitt clangee of being placed in
a very awkward and Invidious position if,
after this loan was ssued, it should go
into delimit,
Mr. Foster repliedthatthe Government
dicl not guarantee the scheme pronaoted
by this; company or the bent, fides of those
•interested in it in any way. "It is simply
this," proceeded Mr. Fester. '1 If they de-
posit with the Government 1300,000, the
Goverument will allow them 8 per cent.
on this sum, and will pay the accumulat-
ed interest and principal to the holders of
the bon.ds, the calculation being of course
made as to the amount to be deposited, so
that the principal deposited and the inter-
est which accumulated would be suffloient
to pay the interest on bonds at the rate of
4 per cent during the currency of the
bonds. So far as Canada is concerned, 1
see nothing at all objectionable in that
rnatter."
Mr. Laurier said the Minister of Finance
had stated that the transaction stood by
itself, but he had not given the reasons
why the Government, should have eon -
:serried itself with this perticider matter.
Mr. Mills disapproved of the transac-
tion, because it might be thought in
• England that the Government was •lend-
ing its aid to the enterprise.
M. Casey spoke against the Govern-
ment's action as being likely to lower the
reputation. of Canada amongst English in-
vestors. ••
Mr. Edgar thought the Government
shou d withdraw from what he considered
a rash and imprudent undertaking.
Mr Kenny pointed out that the credit
of Canada stood high in the English mar-
ket. The power in the hands of the Gov-
ernment should be exercised with very
groat care, so that nothing might be done
that would injure Canadian credit and
mislend the investing public in England.
Mr. Davies was of opinion that the Gov-
ernment should. not be associated even in-
directly with schemes of a wild -eat char-
acter.
Mr. Melo& said the scheme might ul-
timately result in unloading an immense
sum on the British public. It was true
the Governinent would be under no jogai
liability, but what did they see in thb ease
of the °hived° railway? The Govern-
ment endorsed the scheme, but withdrew
their liability on the expiration of a oar-
. tain term. The result had. been most disas-
trous to British investors, who had gone
into the enterprise on the strength of the
Canadian Government's endorsation, and
now they had journals in Canada clam-
ouring for • the Government .to renew its
Liability in the scheme.
Mr. hi'Mullen said the Government
should sever all connection with a scheme
which might soon develop Into a huge THE T. H. AND B. RAILWAY.
hy reason of 4 rednotiOnlathe persnanea-
force.
$ir Alehard Cartwright wished to
knew the Minister's option of the per.
=anent corps and of tbe volunteer force,
but would, be setiefiea to have it hereafter
en a SP001a1 Ifcn thab might be allowed to
• Otand for the purpose,
Mr. Dickey preferred this arrangement,
end eaid the ITC1,114;StiOa made would be
ruede in thy portneneet asorise."
M.A.J 011- G]N]rnAE HERBERT.
Mr. Casey asked if the Minister could,
say whether Major-General Herbeet was
likely to retur a to Canada.
I. Dickey said it was very uncertain
whether the General would: return. In
reply.to further questions by the hon. gen-
tlennin, he said .ientjoteGeueral Herbert
left Cttnada on March 8th, one lor1Ve till
July 1st. His absenee from calups of ine
etruetion would be ineonvenient He had
had a good many communioations with
the General, the last beim, a telegram, in
which he said. he expeetel to leave for
Canada. He had just been informed that
the General was on his way out as ti matter
of fact, but had no official. intimation of
the fact. He did not know whether Major -
G enoral Herbert intended to continue in
his present position. His term of office
would be up in Novern bur tho'zght.
Mr. Casey thought the condition of
affairs very uneertain and unsatisfactory.
The item was carried.
WARLIKE STORES.
Mr. Dickey, on the itemof $55,000 for
warlike and other stores, said he proposed,
to reduce the item to $81,000. The reduc-
tion would be a percentage reduction ex-
cept on artillery aminuntion, on which
saving of $6,000 or $7,000 would be eile,et-
ed. He proposed to restrict the amount
for the annual artillery competition.
The item was carried.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Mr. Montague introduced a bill to
amend the Civil Service Act. • Its main
provision, he explained, is to do away
with the class of cavil servants known as
third-class clerks, and the bill 'gives power
to employ In their plea° writers whose
salary sv,11 begin et $400 a year.
THE PENITENTIA.RIES ACT.
Sir Charles 11. Tnpper introduced a bill
further to amend tho Penitentiaries Act.
It changes the schedule of salaries of offi-
'ears, and effects a saving a 44, 000 a year:
THE REV, FATHER PARADIS.
Mr. Daly, in reply to Mr. Monet said
the sum of $200 bad. been pain to the Rev.
Father Paradis as a grant tweeds his per-
sonal expenses incurred in the colonization
and repatriation of Canadians from the
State of Michigan at or near Verner, itt
the district of Nipissing, Ontario.
BOILER INSPECTION.
A MAN'S TIM DOLLAR WIFE.
1E4 m Paid the Money to the noshaad,
Who was tiodgiag the Conetalele,
The disappearance of George Ferdhain
,inter selling his wile for $10 to Oscar
tine°, Continues to be tins talk of this
eaatty little town, says a Sag Harbor,
alein I OSPAtell • ifordinon's siegular
clouded is thoroughly in la:cepa-1g with the
oeiss of people of winch the Lueee, Ganns
and Fordhams are fair samples, Tbey
live in the modest, deserted and wildest
4e0tion of the islesich without society aud
oure schools are rare. A.bout seven miles
front Sag Halsor and twenty utiles from
Orounport is a section geaerally indiettted
as the Northwest. It was here that George
Leeedham took his bride, Mrs. Ann Fords -
Mon was satisfied with her sphere in life.
Silo had lived all her life in and About
Sag Harbor until the astereighed the corn -
Inanity by, marrying Charles Faulkner!,
"the soap peddler," but Charley tired ef
• his bride and fled. Thee George Fordhitin
appeared: He had cut loose from his old
assoeiatiens at Patehogme end came, like
a gay Lech -Inver, into the east Some in-
herent qualities appeared to attract the
grass witless' and. George Fordhannthe fish,
trapper, "Let's got splieed," said George.
• "Let's," eassvered Ann, The fact that
•Ann had a living 1111,band seemed to, be
no bar totiW inmate arrangement. Creel:go
and A.na wanted ell et the *ay to Annegarisett, a distance of ten miles, and Were
weculed. The tW0,111 trampea back te Sag
Herber. Matters went along in the dull
routine whieli marks life in that section
of Long Island until .it was announced
that OStAIT Lime had Sormed a partnership
with ifordham to , do their trapping to-
gether; °Seer moved into the Fordhain
hut, andhe and tt.p portly bride became
quite friemily. A. few weeks ago it watt
discoveied tlait Fordhato had. disappeared
andthat his wife WaS living With Oscar at
the Lace homestead. When the wifeevaa
asked Whore George was she answered
nonchalautly: "Ohl he's gone whore he
won't be seen for some time, I reckon."
Then a man told that este eignt he heard
a voles: like George's say: "D ,n't ehoot,
for God's sake, don't shoot! That settled
it. People Itnew that Forclham was mur-•
tiered. When Lace was questioned he said.
that George had gouts away to dodge the
constable. Oscar had 'given George $10,
who ia turn had pro-entecl him with his
fixtures and his wile The neigliboes ma-
culated the "fikings"to ae worth $7.50e so
that Luce only gave 32,50 'for his wife.
Constable Morris of Sag Havbcrs investi-
gated the matter and thinks it is one of
the funniest &Vents in his experience. Al.
Perry received a letter recently from
George saying he is in Conneottcut and
doing well. MeanhileLtice comes to town.
with clam's, leaves his $10 wife ana fix-
tures at home and evrybody, is satisfied.
Mr. Casey, in moving that it is expedient
to provide for the inspection of locomotive
boilers by teovernment officials in the
same naanner as is now provided in regard
to marine and other boilers. thought the
lives of engineers employed. on locomotive
boilers wore as valuable as those employed
on marine' boilers.
Mr. Haggart, said all locomotive boilers
were now inspected and tested periodicially
in a most thorough manner.
swindle. The House went into committee on the
TWINE INDUSTRY. bill resposteeig the Toronto, Hamiltcoe
. and Briffelo Railway Company.
• Mr. Grieve, on item a $215,-510 for Mr. Maclean (East York) pointed out
Kingston penitentiary. said Rodgers, of that under the bill the Canada Southern
Manitou, who was owing the Government might acquire control of this railway.
The Canada Southern was in turn con-
trolled by the Michigan Central railway,
which was a Vanderbilt road. The New
$600 for binder twine, manufaetured at
the penitentiary, was a political wirepuller
and that there should be some security
furnished by agents of twine at the differ- York Central was likewise a Vanderbilt
ent points in the Dominionroad, and by statute was limited to a 2 -
Mr. Fraser said the Government might cent passenger rate in New York State.
as well engage in any industry as in the That being the ease he did not see why the
teviee industry. Vanderbilts should not give a 2 -cent rate
Mr. Taylor said that if he was given a in Ontario as well.
commission, he could prove to the satis- Mr. Fraser contended that the coinpany
faction, of the House that a combine ex- should pay all outstanding claims for
ided at Pres' nt between the Patrons et labour performed and nutterials supplied
Industry and the Canada Cordage Com- before being granted any privileges.
pany. The farmers would be paying Bracey Bros., the contractors, had now left
more to -day if it were not for the feet that the country, and shoold have made the
prisoners were employed at the industry sub-conteactors put up enough to gum:ne-
in, Kingston penitentiary. The prices of tee wages to he workmen. Many of these
the combine to farmers were 6 1-2 and 7 men had not been paid since February,
14 corts per pound, while he knew the and whether tho railway lost or won, they
prices of other twine suld and deliveredsbe eopelled to pay their era:
were much less. If it were not that a p-1114111esdm
.
quantity of twine vvas being turned out by Mr. Somerville said that the 'difficulty
theprisoners the price would not be so was owing to an assigniuent of the wil-
low, and complaint would be made that it tractors early in the year, by which not
combine also existed in penitentiary only the sub -contractors suffered, but the
twine. labourers all the way from Hamilton to
Mr. Henderson approved of the Gnvern- Brantford, the farmers who boarded them,
ment's palicy in manufacturing binder and the persons who sold them supplies.
twine, and declared the statement of the The whole thing from beginning to end
Government's desire not to unduly inter- was one gigantic Yankee swindle. It
• fere with the trade, but to prevent exhor- had succeeded admirably.
bitaut prices was very satisfactory. Mr, Coatsa-orth thought it unfair tha
• Mr. MuloCk pressed for answers to a the amendment should be sprung upon
number of questions, particularly in re- the committee. Ile questioned very much
gard to the amount of money due to the whether the Hauge shouldsupportthe in
-
Government from Mr. Rodgers. ' terests of those who had been speculating
Sir Charles H. Tupper replied that he in pay orders.
• had already replied several times to the ...
same question. .
• Mr. Melo& retorte(l that the Minister
of justice was there to answer questions,
and unless he did so he could not hope to
• make much progress.
• Sir Charles H. Tupper—I ans.
Sir Richard Cartwright said the Gov-
• ernment ought not to give credit, and
should declare in futile° all business
•' Should be on a cash -basis.
Sir Charles IL Tappet: enumerated the
difficulties in the way of such a course.
" We blew) now, I am informed, he said,
"tho very strong opposition of the Cordage
Company and this corp.pany of tho Patrons.
I have learned since six o'clock these two
companies aru acting together, whether in
• combination or not would be unfair to
say. They are very snitch incensed, to my
knowledge, with the competition received.
at our hands, small though it be, and en-
tering the field if we tie our hands and
feet and decline to do business with cus-
• tomers so greatly sought after as they aro
now we might find oursieves in a very
bad posieion. I think it is almost too soon
in the history of this business to make:stile
pledge to Parliament" Sir Chatlee added
that he appreciates the importance of
keeping the business above the suspicion
Of favouritism. Receipts to the amount
of $15,000 and a debt now in suit wee not a
had showing for two months' busiiiess.
MILITIA ESTIMA RES.
Is. Diskey, On the itc:m of $361,050 for
the payment of staff, etc said he atithed
to tecluee the item by $20,500. This will
bring eini Hein to 360,000 lose than last
year. He proposed to drill the city oorps
ctud artillery, for which rio provision ap-
peared in the estimates, and as lie Was
not able to pa:Wallah the Vinanoe Ministet
to give him the amount he doeired, be
had to adopt heroic measures, and propos-
ed 10 rednee the total militia estimates 'by
$70,000 or $80,000, This $20,500 Wali it
part of that sum, Be Wag abIe to do WAS
SOUTH SHORE RAILWAY.
• Mr. Flint moved for the papers relating
to the Coast Line Railway Oompa22y, and
attacked the financial standing of the
South Shore railvvity, which is a parallel
road under construction to run itt the
same direetion, viz., from Yarmouth, N.
S., towards Halifax.
Mr. White (Shelburne) made an effect
ive reply on behalf of tho South Shore
railway, in evhich he showed that the pro-
moters of the Coast Line railway had
offered to sellout to those interested Lei the
other undertaking on terms that would
provide a small amount for the president,
Mr. Thos Robc.r.eon,
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SALARY.
FOR TIIEBOYS A.ND GIRLS.
INTEURSTING HEARING
rel. the Young, Consisting of Stories or
Aaimato and Adveature, and Short
Bitetelx.es,
A Queer Adventure.
Grunt I grunt! grunt!
That was nothing te alonrn a boy of
elve, although the balf-wiltt pigs that
swarined the woods were claegerous OM-
lait3S if one of their eumber happened to
giye out a signal of disarm. They were
i41 in, a good humor now, for the acorns
•were thiolt upon the ground.
A plenteous crop of chests -rats caused
equal rejoicing in the boy's heart. Be
had COMO it long way into the woods so
that he might be beyond the reach of gen-
eral competition, and gather his nuts un-
molested. He was atm for the profit and
consequently he struck for the best grounds
he know of. What del it matter that be
heel so much farther to carry his load
home? Chestnuts were $1.75 a bushel and exceedingly mire aud sweet.
FAMOUS YOGIS'S,
Forrest had a deep has voice that seem-
ed to come from the bottom of his Chest,
Idunyan had what was called a Persaa.
sive voice, Re never scolded in his ser -
mous, •
•,Teremy Taylor was always very much itt
earnest, and showed the fact ia his valee,
Lord Beaeon had voice described by
one of his contemporaries as "very smooth
and oily,"
Ilenry VII, bad a voice so gruff that it
earned for him the sobriquet of "Bluff
King Hall."
Garrick had an exceedingly flexible
voice and could minaick anyone he ever
heard speak.
The Duke of Marlborough had a voice
that, it was said, he eould he heard above
the roar of artillery.
Jonathan Edwards had sharp striden
• tones thee grated tuipleasantly on the ea,
of all, W110 heard him.
Olci Kaiser Wilhelm had a soft voice
and spoke in a soothing tone that gay
pleasure to every hearer.
Brignoli was known as the "Silver -vole
ed." His tones though not strong ever
Saturctay came only oboe a eek.• Jahn Ad.iiiihtta a cool, deliberate NVA
Bat when the sun vvas leaving the tree-
tops abore him and getting tangled up
among those to the west, the boy began to
ealize that he had rather a large job on
hand to take that Iwo bushel hag nearly
full of nuts home before dark. ln fact it
seemed to be an aotual impossibility, for
110 &Mid uot even 1121 110 load.
Loth to leave his hard dae 's work be-
hindhe resorted in an absent-minded sort
of way to the boy's remedy for all. diffi-
calties, his pockets. He found there noth-
ing, 3310r0 promising than a lot of , stout
linen cord, and, rather as a pastime than
from any salmis pur.pose, he began to
knot this iuto it rade harness, one end of
'Mitch he at, tithed to the bag of eats. It
was no use. Tug as he would at the other
end, he could not draw the .bag any dis-
Waco,
Grunt! grunt! grunt!
It occurred to hiiii that the pigs were
disappearing, pretty rapidly, as though
araid of something. Not one was near
hint and the last ot the herd as it disap-
peared from sight in the woods was
scampering in unmistakable panic. What
did it moan?
• Gruntl grunt! just behind Min; but
this was one of quite another tone; it was
not. it pig. Tmming hastily he saw a
yeang bear, about tm.o-thircls grown,
'meant; curiously at him through the
bushes, ••
Some boys would. have been terribly
frightened; but this s lardy little fellow
had it feom the lips of old hunters that
black bears are seldom dangerous unless
threateued or very hungry; while a cub is
about as good-natured and playful as a
puppy. Perhaps the bear had had similiar
instructions in regard to boys.
At least neither undertook to retreat,
theugh neither ventured any closer. The
bear was between the boy and his borne;
eery likely the boy was between the bear
and his.
teat meetings of this sort become em
barrassing and, to vary the situation, the
boy finally did retreat a little way, al-
though it took him farther back into the
woods.
The bear at once advanced, and the boy
retreated farther. This brought the bear
to where the bag of chestnuts stood, and
being of an inquiring disposition, he
sniffed over it a few minutes, and then
°need it with'his paw to see 12 11 were
alive. It fell upon its side, and the bear
retired, somewhat startled at this unex-
pected movement; but he finally returned
and began it rough and -tumble light with
his dumb adversary, as a kitten would at-
tack a ball of yarn. Then he bounded
away again.
Now, it so happened that in his antios
ho had got tangled in the stringharness,
so that when he sprung away the bag
sprang after him. Here was a pretty
kettle of fish. The boy was becoming
anxious for his bag of nuts and the bear
for his bacon.
Bruin gave anotlaer leap forward, then
fairly turned tail and ran as only &fright-
ened bear can run, the bag in hot pursuit,
and the boy in the rear of both.
Neither the boy nor the hear noticed in
which direction they were going until they
dashed out of the woods into the meadow
back of the boy's home. Just as they
reached. the edge the bag caught against a
log, held back an instant, and then went
with a bound that lande4 it upon the
bear.
Bruin resented this; or, more likely,
Clinking that Ms time had come, he re-
so.yed to die fighting. For just one min-
ute the air was full of bear, bag, growls
and chestnuts; and then a black streak
into the woods showed where the boas, at
last freed from the strings was snaking
a basly homeward trip.
After he was gone,the boy came up and
began to gather up the chestnuts that were
spilled in the short conflict. By dark he
had. them all carried to the house, while
the bear was probably at home recounting
his curious adventure to his friends.
•
Shoemaking in England.
The labor disturbance which has been
going on for some time past in the shoe
manufacturing centers of England is due
to causes which, fortunately, have not
COME up in is serious form in this line of
industry in the United States, says an ob-
server of trade conditions. Anemic=
shoe manufactauers and. the operators in
their employ have taken much more kind-
ly to the introduction of labor-saving de
vices in the way of machinery than those
similarly engaged on the other side of the
Atlantic. Almost all of the modern rna
°binary used in the boot and shoe factories
of this and other countries is machinery
of American invennon. We haveborrosv-
ed from the Engliel , French and Germans
in machinery for th, manufacture of wool-
en, cotton and silk goods, but in the
• manufacture of bons and shoes the ease
has been entirely did, rent, mid the origin-
ating faculty has, exi ted almost entirely.
on this side of the eSe 'antic. Up to a few
years ago the WO- of manufacturing
boots and shoes le England was carried on
to a large.exteet, not in great factories as
it is with Us, but, in little shops where
three or four men were employed under
the supervision of one of their number; that
is what would not 1 c known as the "sweat-
ing" system was 110 rule a workman lak--
ing a contract to do it certain amount of
-work and then hirit g associates to help
him in putting it tlitt ugh. At the request
ot the operatives, wh believed that the
method worked to thi r disadvantage, the
mounfaetimers °uteri% upon the American
system of building la) go' factories and
equipped. them with inuaern boot and shoe
machinery. The diflicalty that has now
arisen is the disinclination shown by the
operativeto permit this machinery to be
uteized to its fullest extent. Apparently
. u is a great discrepancy between the
p:sed isle output a tosne operatives employ-
ing these machines coinpared witb the re-
sults of the work if others. When paid
by piece work, son e operatives are able
to earn more than twice as much as their
associates, in conseguence of their greater
skill and the intelaigeut utilization of
their time. The labor organi ations, it is
alleged, hive decided that a maximum
output should be established. They as-
sert that if the work that any one man is
permitted to perform is limited to only
what a moderate svorkor could compass,
then more men would be employed and
the scale of price for piece work would
tend to advance. The manufacturers point
out that they aro already more than
threatened by coxnpetition coining from
he.Arnerican factories.'that the scale of
pay givtsn for pieeesvork is lower in the
United States than in England, but that
the operatives here earn much More than
the shoemakers in the United Kingdom,
l'or the reason that they aro n ble each day
to get through it snuch larger amount of
work, and that thee effort at limitation
which is now proposed would, if carried
out, imply In it short time, the surrender
of the English boot and • shoe market to
the American boot and shoemakers.
Mr. Mulock, in meeting the second
reading of a bill to reduce the salary of the
Governor.General, said he meant no reflec-
tion on any inttembent of the office. The
Governor-General received 348,666, or a
total of 3110,666 oia statutory allowances
only. • In the United States the Peosident
received $50.000, the Vioe-Presidertt $8,000,
and the Governors of all the States tied
Territories 3201,600, or a total $259,000 al-
together, LI "other weeds, at this rate, if
the population of Canada was equal to
that of the 'United States, vvo would pay
$1, 486,000 annually for tho salaeies of Gov-
ernors. Cauada was paying 80 por cent
• more than the United &Mee foe thew sal -
Mr, Daly thought the hot. genitemata
Wag looking for a little cheap popularity
• among the Patrons in introducing his
bill. It Was an exhibitioti of spasmodic
.30°110111y, and ho thought the hongentle
-
Mari had no expectation wItatever that his
bill Would be carried in the 1•Ionse. The
country had materially increased since a
former resolution on the same Subjeet Was
passed in 1868.
The committee arose aed imported pr0.
flames.
The Brilliant Diamond.
"I have often wondeeell," said a jewel-
er, "at the fascination a prilliant big dia-
mond possesses foe some people. I don't
know hove to account for it, but the com-
mandment that refers to covetousness is
broken every second of the day in froat of
any window. And the ereieg ones are not
tuestly woinen, either, ite is generally sup-
posed, but nurnsonte in the itrei and yel-
low epoch of agd—stand before that win-
dow Mel gtsze upon my poor display of
gems with straining, belging gees. Last
,veek 1 sold a dianiond that weighed it
Little ever five carats. Previous to the sale
I had it in the window for it few weeks,
A certain old couple used to corneeegular-
ly e-ery day and gaze for an hoes, at it
time at the gem. It was strawecoloeed
die:aimed, but very flashy, The old couple
would invariably tern and keep their eyes
an the .stoao as long as they were in sight
old :Mensal relectient to loa,ve. The next
lay after 1 hacl sold the gam the old weak)
Loomed i stutl, and, the look of (limp-
loantinent on their fame was keeii and
Lingering. They 8c:evalu1ted every coimer
31! the WilltioVv in it vain swath, and when
they failed to disoover their favorile nerves
ed sioWly and sadly away."
of speaking that carriedcolas:s•etae to 10minds of his heaters.
•Wendell Phillips always spoke in an or
dinary tone with very distinot artioulatio
and careful pronunciation.
Cowper always spoke in a diffident hesit
ating Way aS though afraid of the effect o
• Ins words on ids auditors.
Prince Bismark has it very loud, nave
voice and generally speaks in a dograati
dictatorial way that admits of no contra
diction. • -
Goldsmith had a singing voice of grea
purity, and it was a treat to hear him re
der an old Irish air, which he did in inirr
itable style.
FACTS IN FEW WORDS.
London has thirty persons *whose I
comes are aver $500,000 a year.
A Minnesota num has Sued a barb
for 3500 damages for ruining h
'beard.
Silk is so cheap in Madegascar th
the poorest people wear clothing made
it.
The newest thing out in. London's everi
of swelldoni is a hand painted shi
front.
The number of police in England is as
to every 730 inhabitants, 1 to 923 in Sco
land, and 1 to 341. in Ireland. •
It is esti-mated that two years are r
gulled for the gulf water to travel fro
Florida to the coast of Norway.
Almost without exception the Amerie
leaders iu the revolutionary war we
thin, while the British generals were sto
Paper tirei are soon to be manufeetur
for eycles. Tbey are supposed to la
longer than rubber and to puncture le
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A. man in London is =eking a lot
money by lending out a 1,000 pound Ba
of England note to swell weddings to
exhibited as the gift of the bride's fathe
To open an account in the Bank
England, a person must deposie not 1
than 500 pounds, aud the authorities
quire the depositor to be introducedby
customer. • ••
A balloon recently sent up in Pa
equipped with self -registering therm=
ers and barometers reached an altitude
ten miles and the thermometer record
110 degrees below zero.
• World's Greatest Forest• ,
It appears that Siberia, from tho plain
of the Obi river on the west to the valley
of the Inctighirke on the east, ,or river
valleys of the Yenisei, Olinek, Lena and
Yana rivers, is one great timber heltaver-
aging more than a thousand miles in
breadth from north to sonth—being fully
1,700 miles wide in the Yenesei district—
and haviug it length from east to west of
not • less than 4,600 versts (about 8,000
miles). Unlike equatorial 'forests, the
trees of the Siberian taigas are mainly
cerhifers, comprising pines of several varie-
ties, firs and larch. In the Yenisei,
Lena and. Olonek regions there are thou-
sands of square miles where no human
being has ever been. The long-stemmed
conifers rise to the height of 150 feet or
More, and stand so close together that
walking among them is difficult. The
dense, lofty tops extelude the pale arctic
sunshine, and the straight, pale trunks,all
looking exactly alike, so bewilder the eye
in the obscurity that all senate of direction
is soon lost. Evexi the most experienced
trappers of sable dare not venture into the
dense vegions evithent taking the preettu-
tier of "blazing" the trees constantly
Wi; 11 hatchets as they Walk forward, If
In t is Ott, tho hnnter many finds his way
out, but eserishes miserably from starva-
tion or cold.
Truths.
hlevex despite the driftwood.; floods carry
dove the very finest fabrics end rntz
than With very ordimtrs• things. It Is
only evium the eye of intelligence SCAMS
the debr s that its coneltutent parts are
recogeized end properly estimated. * *
If you wen to tey your aeighbor by the
Salmi rules of evidence that you apply to
yourself there world nova he it verdict of
BREEZY BITS.
He --Well, what do you think of
ocean? She—It is not nearly as large a
thought it would be. Why, it merely
tends to the horizon.—Truth.
We wish we could feel as contented a
girl in a shirt waist looks,—Atchis
Globe.
When some people go to church they
ways think the preacher is shooti
straight at the people in the next pew
Ram's Ilorit.
He—You are very exclusive, Miss Pri
ley, are you not? She—Yes, I enjoy g
society, you know. It is my sole enj
raent. Good-bye.—New York Sun.
Mrs. One—How is your husband to -d
Mrs. Totber? Mrs. Tother—Better, tha
you. He is always better when he is s
than at any ' other time. -Detroit F
Press.
Not Selfish.—Why do you and Bo
quarrel so ranch? I hope my Willie is
a selfish little boy. "No .rnamma, Pm 1
selfish, but Bobby is. He always want
play the gitmes I don't want to."—Harp
Bazar. •
Brown—But why do you stop so oft
Can't you keep up with me? Typewri
(who is rather shaky iu her orthograp
—Oh, yes; but your atnguage is so elogu
that I frequently find myself spellbou
—Boston Transcript.
ROYALTY OF EUROPE.
King Humbert of Italy is an ex
cook. He' can manipulate a grill
manage a "nein; as well as any of
chefs.
The prince regent of Bavaria and
Wittelsbach family have decided to e
a chapel on the Steenberg lake in mem
of King Louis II. Ie will cost one h
dred and twenty-fiv,e thousand dollars.
Prince Edward of York haa Made
first public appearance in London.
was driven through St. James' park
an open carriage, propped up by his
nurses, and was cheered as he went by.
Old Jules Simon is quoted as saying
the young German emperor speaks Fre
like a Parisian, whereas the first hTapol
snoke it all his days with au Italian
cent, and the third Napoleon with it str
Getman aecent.
Lord Wolseley, whose tenure of the c
mand-in-chief in Ireland will shortly
has only some five years of active ser
before him now, since he was born
June 4, 1833, and generals have to go
sixty-seven. He vvill thus hardly be a
able for any further post, short of a e
mend in the field. •
QUAINT PROVERBS.
People in love haVe bells dangling f
their eyes --Danish.,
A. girl that spies thinks of het evedd
dress.—Russian.
"But, sister, he is blind." "So
the betterl"—Venetiam
Man is never too old to love or co
nonsense.—Einniell.
The favor of WOMall makes a knigh
a cosvherd. —G ascot) ese.
A, man in love doesn't teed eye glaSseg,
for he is blied—Terkish. •
I Getting married nutkee golden plates of
earthee diehes.—Basque.
I Leve is dieeoverecl earlier than a hole in
is etocking.—Venotian,
Man is like flee and woMan like stem',
The devil blows in beteeettri them,—Tus.,
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