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THE EXETER ADVOCATE.
THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1896,
The Week's Commercial Summary.
The world's visible supply of wheat de-
ereased only 82,000 bushels last week.
Canadian securities are firmer in Loa
don. Dominion 3" per cents are selling at
100,
Tho hog market at Toronto is very
•firm, packers paying 84.90 for selected
hots.
Wheat is higher on the Toronto.
markets at 80c. for white. The deliveries
continue small.
The deposits for December in the 3$
Government savings banks were 8272,000,
and the withdrawals were $286,608, mak-
lug an excess of 81.4,599 in withdrawals.
over deposits. This reduced the total
deposits on 81stDecember last to $17,-
195,925,
17,195,925, as against $17,210.525 on 80th
November last. On the 81st December,
1894, the total deposits were 816,588,900.
The visible supply of wheat in the
1Tnited States and Canada decreased 460,-
000
60;000 bushels the past week, and the total
:now is 67, 528,000 bushels, against 84,665,-
000 a year ago, and 80,265,0J0 two years
ago. Wheat . on passage to Europe
Amounted to 25,780.000 bushels, as com-
pared. with 84,400,000 bushels a year
ago.
After many weeks of lassitude, the
market for wheat experienced a start up-
ward, which culminated in a boom on.
'Wednesday that drove the few remain-
ing short traders to cover contracts with
heavy losses, Speculation was light on
Saturday when the gain in price cam-
;eleneed, but by the middle of the week
sales had mounted to the highest single
day's record since November 21st, just
-two months previous. The strength was
due to unanimity of bullish reports,
especially from Argentina, Australia and
India, all pointing to decreased yield and
smaller stocks remaining for export.
Argentine shipments last week were only
56,000 bushels, while India exported but
136,000 bushels, and even Russian outgo
was light at 1.2e0.0a0 bushels, Statements
of visible supply- showed a decrease of
nearly a million bushels in the Ameri-
can and English stocks were even more
reduced.
The proprietors of Parmelee's Pills are
constantly receiving letters similar to the
following, which explains itself. 'air.
John A. Beam. Waterloo, Ont„ writes
"I never used any m, lieine that can
equal Parmelee's tills fc,r dyspepsia or
liver complaints. The relief experienced
after using them was wonderful." As a
safe faulnily medicine Parmelee's Veget-
able HUs can be given in all. cases requir-
ing a cathartic.
,Dere and There.
The suicide of two Indian wives out
West shows that the red lu,,.theris rapid-
ly taking on the pernicious habits of
oivilizatit,n. ---
Women
--
Women are now employed as steve-
dores at the East India docks in London.
Thus does the -new woman" continue to
push tothe front,
Rebecca Isaacs, who supplied fruit to
the Duke of Wellington and the British
troops at Torres Vedras, died recently at
the age of 99 in Lisbon.
Chief Justice Beasley, of New Jersey,
has sworn in ten governors, beginning
with Theodore F. Randolph and continu-
ing down the line to John W. Griggs.
The wife of an Omaha musician has
regained her speech after twenty-four
years of silence. A man can't expect
to have an interrupted run of luck al-
ways.
The race of. President Kruger, of the
Transvaal, is not to die with him. Ho
has eleven children. His wife is deserib-
ed as a typical Boer woman—fat, awk-
ward and good-natured.
John .Alden, the ninth of that name, is
living in John Alder's house atDuxbury,
Mass., which was built in 1650, and in:
which the original John Alden lived dur-
ing the latter part of his life.
It is quite in keeping that Mark Twain
should, return from his trip around the
world a rich man. He who can make the
whole world laugh ought to make a trip
around the world very profitable.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that "cigarette smoking has materially
affected the Sultan's constitution." Per-
haps that accounts for it, then. From
where we sit it looks as if both his con-
stitution and his by-laws are worthless.
The .attention of poets and versemakers
—including in the latter class Alfred
Austin—is called to a statement of a
South African traveler that in Johannes-
burg they pronounce the name of the
raider as if it were spelled "jemmy -
son."
When a woman wears a man's clothes
she takes man's chances in the world,
A young married woman in New Jersey
donned her husband's clothes and 'went
out for a lark. A young man met her,
quarreled with her and blacked her eye..
Had he known she was a woman,' he
would ]cave been too gallant, to discolor
iter optic.
Robert ^ Burns' great grandson and
namesake, the last descendant in the di-
rect male,line, has just died at Blackhall,
near Edinburgh, aged 52 years. He had
served as a soldier and a gardener in the
Edinburgh public gardens, but for four-
teen years past had been keeper ofthe
powder magazine at Blaekha$.He left
no children.
'When a friend once met Sydneoy Sm
ith
at Brighton, where he had gone treduce
himself by the use of certain baths, he
was, struck with the decrease of Smith's
size, and said : "You are certainly thin-
ner than when I saw you last." "Yes,"
replied the witty divine, `I have been
here only ten days, but they have scrap-
ed enotigh off me already to make a cur -
Severe: colds are only 'cured by the use.
of sickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup, a
medicine of extraordinary penetrating
and healing properties. lb rs aeknowl-
edged by those who have used it as being
the best medicine ' sold for couaha, cods,
inflanimi,tion of the lungs,, and all affeca
tions of the throat and chest. Its agree-
ableness to the taste makes it a favorite
With leaks and children.
TOPICS OF A .WEEK.
rbc Important Events in a Few' Words For
Susv It aders.
CAriADIA1�-
Mr.Alex.Lang,aged 85 years, a Drenthe.
Ant citizen of Barrie, is dead.
The Kent County Council has adopted
the Torrens system of land transfer.
Mr. C. E. Chadwick, ex -Police Magis-
trate of Ingersoll, died on. Sunday morn -
The Winnipeg Exhibition Association
are asking the City Council for a loan of
$30,000 to erect new buildings.
Messrs. McCabe, Robertson & Co,.
wholesale fancy goods dealers, Toronto,
have assigned,
A Hamilton policeman let the wrong
man go by mistake In discharging a
prisoner from the station,
Premier Greenway says the coming
session of the Manitoba. Legislature will
be short and unimportant.
The surplus of the earnings of the In-
tercolonial railway over expenditure for
last year amounted to $3,815.
Mr. C. F. Brown, one of the wealthiest
and best known business men of Berlin,
Ont., died Sunday night, aged fifty.
Mr. Bickerdike, the newly elected pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, Montreal,
is the first Liberal to occupy the position
in twenty years
Halifax refiners are taking great
quantities of sugar out of bond, and there
is a rumor there that the duties are to be
largely increased.
Mr. James Eddy, an old and respected
citizen of Newcastle, Ont., and a strong
temperance worker, dropped dead on the
street on Saturday.
F. W. Freeman was hurled through the
wall of a barn by the explosion of a
threshing boiler at Emerson, Man.,
Thursday. He will live.
The officers and men who formed the
famous "Battlaterd column" in the Riel
rebellion in 1885 propose holding their
annual "camp fire" on March 28.
The report of the Minister of Militia
shows that the total expenditures for the
year were 51,574,013 and 20,877 officers
and men performed twelve days drill.
A. D. Caron, son of Sir Adolphe
Caron, left Thursday for England as
private secretary to Sir Charles Rivers -
Wilson, president of the Grand Trunk
railway.
Chief Engineer Hobson of the G. T, R.
at Hamilton, now removed to Montreal,
will he accompanied by his son. Robert
Hobson, chief clerk, and Arthur Tisdale,
stenographer.
Nelson Cornell was convicted in the
Hamilton Police Court of stealing dress
goods from his employer, and was sen-
tenced to two months in jail.. His wife
was acquitted
Dr. Peterson, principal of McGill Uni-
versity, has been appointed on the Protes-
tant Committee of Poblic Instruction in
Quebec province, in plane of Sir William
Damson, resigned.
It is said here that the only three vet-
erans of the war of 1812living are E.
Chatelaine, of Curran Ont.; .1. La
Londe, of Si, Polyearpo, and A. Lavoie,
of Si. Bartholeini.
Mr, L. J. Searfeant sails from New
York on the Campania Friday to assume
his duties in London as advisory member
of the Board of Directors of the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada,
'i'he property clause of the Independ-
ent Foresters' bill was struck out by the
House Orders Committee at Ottawa on
account of some irregularity in the
notice. The remainder of the bill was
approved.
Judge Elliott at London discharged
John Seaton, of Strathroy, charged with
setting fire to his own premises. The
judge declared the evidence to be most
unsatisfactry and one witness more dis-
honest than Judas Iscariot.
The Ontario Fish and Game Commis -
ion was in session In Toronto Friday. A
resolution to abolish the use of hounds in
the pursuit of deer was,after considerable
discussion, defeated. Some changes re-
lative to duck shooting were made.
A large deputation of Ottawa citizens.
waited on Premier Bowel' and Mr. }Tag-
gart to ask for a subsidy of $250,000 to
the proposed inter -provincial bridge over
the Ottawa River. Mr. Haggart said
$150,000 was as much as should be asked.
The Dominion Gold Mining and Reduc-
tion Company waited upon the Ontario
Government,in Toronto and asked for a
bonus of two thousand doliars per annum
for five years, to enable them to run their
reduction works at Rat Portage for a cus-
tom mill.
Mr. Mulock's bill to abolish the prac-
tice of members of parliament traveling
on passes and drawing mileage was dis-
cussed in the House. A bill by Mr. Casey
to secure the safety of railway employes
and passengers, and Dr. Sproule's bill to
prohibit the manufacture of imitations of
honey, were each read a second time.
A post-mortem examination will be
made on the body of a girl named Sarah
McLennan, 18 years of age, who died at
Drayton, Ont., under peculiar circum-
stances last Wednesday. Her parents
would not allow a post-mortem to he
made, but the authorities have interfered,
and an inquest will be held.
The Hyams brothes were released on
fifteen hundred dollars gashbail on, Sat-
urday night to appear at the police court
Tuesday. They left Sunday at noon
with Mr. Wellman, their New York coun-
sel, in a special train for New York.
They are not expected to return to Can-
ada.
Skepticism.—This is unhappily an age
of skepticism, but there is one point upon
which persons acquainted with the sub-
ject agree, namely, that Dr. Thomas'
Ecleotric Oil is a medicine which can be
relied upon to eure a cough, remove
pain, heal sores of various kinds, and
benefit any inflamed portion of the body
to which it is applied. ,
UNITED STATES.
The United States treasury gold re-
serve is below the 850,000,0.00 rnark.
The Anaconda mines of Butte, Mon-
tana, . which are mainly copper, made a
net profit of $1,931,307 duringthe first
half of last year.
Five persons were killed and nearly a
score injured, some of them fatally, by 'a
boiler explosion at Hallidaysburg, ,Pe.,
Friday morning.
The swordandhandcuffs worn by John
Brown were bought last weer by James
Eldridge, of Hartford, Conn., from
Daniel Lizer, of Wabash. Ind., for $ 51.
The ore shipments from, the Lake Su-
perior iron mines reached the enormous
aggregates of nearly 11,000,600 tons this
season, mostly from the Minnesota mines.
The output of the sanie•region" last year
was 7,748,932 tons.
A Buffalo commission house sent a barye
of evaporated apples to Jerusalem on
Tb nrsday.
The United States 'Senate on Saturday
passed the free coinage substitute to ttio.
House bill by the decisive vote of forty-
two to thirty-five.
Aletter received in Boston from Mar -
ash, Central Turkey, stated that 'during
the massacre of November 18, near that
oity, from nine to ten thousand Christians
were killed.:
Adolph Niese and his wife at Colville„
Wash., were sentenced to 20 years in the
penitentiary for beating their 10 -year-old
son, to death. Both suiaided after reach-
ing their cells.
Albert H. Verril,ia Yale student, son of
\
Prof. Addison erril is charged at Now
Haven,Conn„with stealing $10,000 worth
of rare speoimens of taxidermy from the
Peabody Institute at Yale.
The United States House Committee
on Foreign Affairs on Saturday adopted
by a party vote a. resolution censuring
Ambassador Bayard for his two speeches
at Edinburgh and Boston, England.
The Executive Committee of the W.C.
T.1J,, at their meeting in Lexington,liy,
Thursday, adopted a protest against the
use of whiskey or any intoxicant in the
christening of the new warship Kentucky.
Reports from over fifty points in differ -
wet parts of the States show the heaviest
rain known in Texas at this season for
years. Streams are out of their banks and
are still rising. Much damage willresult.
Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Parkhurst, of New
York, celebrated the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of their marriage In Northamp-
ton, Mass., on Saturday night. The cele-
bration was at the old Bodman home. It
was a quiet affair.
Eugene Field's estate has been brought
Into oourt by his widow, who asks her
letters of administration. It is estimated
at $25,00 in personal property. The
home, valued at 310, 000, was conveyed to
her not long before his death.
The commission on the Venezuelan
boundary appointed by President Cleve-
land held its first regular meeting
day. Secretary Prevost will be sent to
the Hague and Madrid to examine docu-
ments there bearing upon the naso,
Wheat was firmer in Chicago on Satur-
day on cables from Liverpool reporting a
decrease in the stocks there of 1,000,000
bushels for the month, and wheat in that
market was quoted ld dearer. May
wheat closed Sia cents higher, at 67X
cents.
The Governing Committee of the New
York Stock Exchange has ordered Edward
L. Norton; a member of the exchange to
dissolve his co -partnership with Asa A.
Potter within thirty days. The latter
was president of the wrecked Maverick
National Bank of Boston.
Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambas-
sador, has been more conspicuous socially
S11300 the Venezuelan dispute arose than
ever before. He entertains lavishly, his
manners are delightful, and he is one of
the most, if not actually the most, pop-
ular diplomats at the capital.
Tho Mayor of Coffeyville, Ry., issued a
proclamation a few days ago urging the
merchants in that town to close their
stores before 7 o'olool: in the evening, so
that they and their oml'loyes might at-
tend revival services being held in the
town. A, woman is conducting the ser-
vices.
It is said that Denmark wants to sell.
to the United States the three islands in
the West Indies .which she owns—$t.
Croix, St. Thomas and St. John. These
islands have an area of 118 square miles,
and a population of 32,000, mostly
negroes. Their trade is very small,
No family living in a bilious country
should be without Parmelee's Vegetable
Pills. A few doses taken now and then
will keep the liver active, cleanse the
stomach and bowels from all bilious
matter and prevent ague. Mr. J. L.
Price, Shoals, Martin. County, Ind.,
writes: "I have tried a box of Parmelee's
Pills and find them the best medicine for
fever and ague Ihave ever used.”
FVitI:IGe
Four British warships are anchored at
Port Royal, Jamaica.
Women singers are to be excluded from
Roman Catholic church choirs iu Paris.
The Japanese Government has opened
several ports in Formosa to the trade of
the world.
Ten of the officers of the Makelle gar-
rison are held prisoners by King Menelik,
of Abyssinia.
Sir John Pender, the sub -marine cable
magnate, is in a critical condition, suffer-
ing from paralysis of the brain.
A Paris paper announces that the Braz-
ilians have occupied the contested terri-
tory on the border of French Guiana.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
are travelling up the Nile in a dahabeyah
whiob they have hired for six weeks.
Lord Salisbury spoke on the Armenian
question and made a reply to Mr. Mol-
rey's speech on Venezaela at London Fri-
day night.
The reply of the Sultan to the letter of
the Queen on the subject of Armenia bas
been despatched to the Turkish Ambas-
sadorin London.
Itisasserted in Slavophile circles in
St. Petersburg that the Bulgarian ques-
tion is approaching a solution, and that
Prince Ferdinand's resignation is only a
matter of time,
Viscuount Milton, grandson and heir
of Earl Fitzwilliam, was killed Friday
on the railroad near Doncaster while out
hunting. The Viscount was only twenty-
eight years of age.
A renewal of the massacres at Aintab,
Amnesia and Var isfeared, and the Am-
bassadors of the powers' have called the
attention of the Porte to the alarming
rumors in circulation.
A party of "Legitimists," to honor the
memory ; of. Charles I. gathered Friday
morning in Trafalear square and laid'
wreaths at the foot of the King's statue.:
They were dispersed by the . police.
The. Westmineter Gazette says it is al-
most certain that Mr. Justin McCarthy
will not resume the leadership of the
Irish' Parliamentary party in parliament
after the re -assembling of that body.
The German Minister of War bas glom-
plated a series of experiments with Prof.
Rontgen's newmethod of applying photog-
raphs to surgery and medicine, with a
view of making use of it in war surgery.
While King Charles of Portugal was re-
turning to his palace in Lisbon Friday,
an anarohise workman threw a stone at
his Majesty.. The missile hit the King's
aide de-carnp, who leaped from the car-
riage and seized and held the anarchist
until he was arrested by the pulice -_
It is stated that during : the approach-
ing session of the Imperial parliament
the lxoverninent will deal with the in.
crease ofthe navy, measures for the relief
of husbandry, Irish land legislation,' and
the question of tne'Support of voluntary
school:;,
SETTLED THE BILL.
A Untelkeeper That Preferred • to Pay an
Intended. Suicide's Fare.
Suicides are nevor wanted by hotel pro-
prietors. Each, one costs a hotel a oon
sidorable amount of money, and for
months the room in which it oeourred is
shunned, .Atone -of the leading hotels of
Washington lately a guest anted strangely,
and the proprietor made up his mind that
the man was going to do something des-
perate, So one night he went to the,
guest's room. There was no answer to
his, knooks, and the door was locked. A
look over the transom showed the guest
writing a letter, a pistol at one side and a
bottle of poison at the. other,
"Let me in or 1'11 break open the
door,"called the 'iandiord,
The door was opened after a little hur-
ried work disposing of the things' on the
table,
"I don't want any suiciding here,"
said the landlord, entering. "What's the
matter with you, anyway?
"Out of money, out of work and oan't
get out of town." sullenly said the guest.
" Well, how much cash will you take
and agree to get out of town?" asked the
hotel man.
"I oould ger home for. 820," was the
reply.
"Here's the money; now pack your
grip and take the first train."
7.be man went. it was a good busi-
ness transaction for the landlord.-
Wash-ington Star.
•
A Stingy Husband.
The man who begrudges his bard.
working, long-suffering wife every dollar
that she spends for her own pleasure or
comfort, deserves to be made a reproach.
Secretary Morton, of the Department of
Agriculture, is reported by the St. Louis
Republic as having lately expressed him-
self somewhat freely about husbands of
this class. Their meanness is indeed sur-
prising; and so, in a different way, Is the
meekness with which their wives submit
to this unworthy behavior. Says Seore-
tary Morton:
I happened to be in a store in my town
one day during the war when an old fel-
low whom I will e..11 Jones Dame in with
his wife to buy some goods. Jones had
settled in Nebraska when it was still a
territory, and by economy and thrift he
had now got a farm of something like
one thousand acres. Ho was considered
wealthy. Shortly after he ontereci the
store, Mrs. Jones took up a piece o1' calico
and admired it very much. As she look-
ed at it she said to her husband:
"Pa, I ought to have a new dress, and
I like this very much. Don't yuu tbink
we could afford to buy."
"Oh,I suppose so," replied the old man
and he thereupon asked the clerk the
price. He was told it was fifty cents a
yard. 01d Mr, Tones raised his eyes at
this, and asked his wife how much it
would take. She replied she didn't
think she could get along on less than
twelve yards, and he answered:
"Wily, ma, twelve yards of that goods
,at fifty cents a yard would cost six dol-
lars. Now,don't you think that is pretty
high?"
"Yes," she replied, "I do, but I need
the dress."
"Well," said the old man, "times are
hard, and I do wish you could get along
without it just now. Couldn't you?"
"Yes, I suppose I could," replied the
old lady with a sigh, and the calico was
dropped.
A moment later Mr. Jones asked the
same clerk if he had any tobaoon, and
whether he had any of the good old Vir-
ginia leaf which they used to keep in
stock.
The clerk said: "Yes, we have, but it's
awful high. It's two dollars a pound,
and I think It will go higher before) it
gets less, We have just one paddy left."
"You think it will go higher?"
"Yes," said the clerk, "it's sure to go
up."
"Well, you might put me up flve
pounds," said the old man, and a mo-
ment later I saw him carrying ib out of
the store. He had not six dollars to spend
for his wife's oalioa dress, but he
thought nothing of putting ton dollars
into plug tobacco. I don't suppose old
Mr. Jones realized his selfishness. Prob-
ably he loved his wife, but he bad been
brought up the wrong way.
The Fastnot Light.
The first glimpse of Great Britain that
the American tourist gets on bis Euro-
pean tour is that of the Fastnet light-
house.
It stands on a rugged and solitary rock,
situated nine miles son'h of Crookhaven,
at the extreme southwest corner of Ire-
land and is, perhaps, more storm -beaten
than any other around our coast. The
rock is eighty feat in height, and the
lighthouse towers another severity feet
above, yet,in winter gales, the Atlantic
billows literally bombard the massive
structure and have even smashed in a
portion of the lantern at the summit of
the erection, the seas frequently sweep-
ing over the rock with tremendous force.
Some two or three years ago the stormy
weather then prevailing prevented all
communication with the rook for many
weeks, so that the store of food was con-
sumed, with the exceptien of some flour.
At lust a schooner managedto approach
sufficiently near to enable a small quan-
tity of food to be dragged through the
sea by the hungry men, and, fortunately
the next day the sea moderated, and the
stores were once more fully replenished.
.Except in very calm weather the Fast-
net is surrounded by a fringe of foam,
and the only means of landing is by the
aid of .a "jib" 68 feet in length, so.
placed on the -rock that in moderate
weather, its end reaches outside the siirf.
When a visitor wishes to land (an unus-
ual occurrence), .he is rowed in a small
boat as near as the waves will permit
and the lightkeepers throw out a small
buoy, attached to a rope, which is secur-
ed by. the man in the boat. • The jib is
then swung out and the visitor, placing
one foot in the loop and catching tight
hold of the rope, is hoisted about forty
feet vertically, and then the jib, being
pivoted at its foot, swings him horizon-
tally about one hundred feet on a safe
landing.—London Sketch.
A Woman's Bright Idea.
It bas remained for a woman to, in-
vent and patent glass doors fur ovens.
The wonder is that the idea has not long
ago been thought of by some woman
who cooks. All cooking instructors lay
the greatest stress on the care to be
observed in opening an oven < door to
watch the progress of cakes or muffins.
Maria Parloa, : making sponge cake:
touches the knob with the most deli-
cate care and, lightness, dreading even
to jar the cake within, and peeks
through the smallest crack that will.
afford the necessary glance. What a :re-
lief to walk boldly up to the oven and
through these transparent doors, whir
the genius of a `'Michigan womanbas
discovered, study at leisure the progress
of rising cake dough or crisping fowl.
DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS.
SLEEPLESSNESS IS ANOTHER OF
THE VANQUISIHED AILMENTS.
A Wakeful Poison in the Blood—A Few
Doses Relieves—A Fow Boxes Cure.
Kidney disease has no surer sign than
the condition of sleeplessness.
Without pain of any kind, or even un-
easiness the sufferer awakes, or remains
awake, hour after hour every night.
There is a peculiar` irritating and wake-
ful poison in the blood that causes it.
Sluggish kidneys have allowed this to
pass into the circulation.
.4. few doses of Dodd's Kidney Pills
will make such a change for the better
as to satisfy you that you are taking the
h
g
ri t medicine.
But sleeplessness •cannot be overcome
in a day.
If in the habit of waking at a pertain
hour of the night—take one pill on going
to bed.
If you bave suffered from this form of
unrest for any groat length of time itbwill.
require a box or two to put the kidneys'
in good shape.
But Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure
this condition.
Dodd's Kidney Pilin ears so many dis-
eases that have nevor been considered in
any way related to the kidneys.
By this means—because Dodd's Kidney
Pills pure—we often learn, that a certain
form of suffering never before suspected
is a form of kidney trouble, .
And sleeplessness is one of the troubles
that is settled by Dodd's Kidney Pills
every time.
It is no experiment to use a boa of
Dodd's Kidney Pills for sleeplessness.
In one hundred thousand houses in
Canada Dodd's Kidney Pills have a sure
place.
One sufferer cured has told a dozen and
so the good news bas spread from house
to house and from Province to Province.
As a Safeguard.
Horace—What's that tattooed on your
chest?
Hazy—My name, address, photo and
pedigree.
Horace—Good heavens! Going to the
North Pole or into Darkest Africa ?
Hazy --Neither. I'm going to ask old
De Million for the hand of his daughter,
and I don't like the idea of being buried
in the Potter's Field as an "unknown."
Artificial Coal,
The Department of Trade and Com-
merce has received from Mr. C. E. Son -
tum, Government agent at Christiania,
Norway, samples of the product of a new
industry recently started there. It is
that of making artificial coal from peat.
The process is a secret one, but is under-
stood to be a system of pressing peat be-
tween hot iron plates, which practically
compresses it into a sort of soft coal. It
it quite light, and looks like coke, and it
is claimed that it can he produced at half
the cost of ordinary coal.
"Ibsen at Mine."
Few contemporary writers have been
more widely read in America or ex-
cited more controversy than Ibsen. To
all who are interested in the famous
dramatist the article by Mr. Edgar 0.
Achorn in the February number of the
New England Magazine upon "Ibsen at
Home" will have peculiar interest It its
a charming picture of Ins n's environ-
ment at Christiania, illustrated by a fine
series of pietures never before published,
and a very pleasant impression is cer-
tainly made by it all of the poet's life and
home. Warren F. Kellogg, 5 Park
Square, Boston, Mass.
In the Suburbs.
Mangles—Is this a church -going town ?
Citizen—Yes, sireo. Every man in town
is a staunch Christian except for an hour
every Tuesday and Friday morning.
Mangles—What happens then?
Citizen—That's the time they meet to
trade horses.
There (Aube a difference of opinion on
most subjects, but there is only one opin-
ion as to the reliability of Mother Graves'
Worm Exterminator. It is safe, sure
and .effectual.
Worse Than Bash.
Rural Ragges—How'd yer graze yer
shin ? On the bark of a tree?
Tramping Tatters -Nope. Bite of a
dog.
Eugene Field's Last Story.
In 1884 Eugene Field wrote a story
which he called "Tho 'Werewolf." When
it was finished he laid it .aside and a year
afterward entirely rewrote it. In 1886
he again took it up and revised it, and
during the nine years between that time
and his death in November last, he re-
wrote it eight times. Il:is last revision
pleased him and he decided to print it. But
death came too suddenly, and the story
was found, unpublished, among his ef-
fects Mrs. Field, concluding to have the
story appear, gave it to the editor of Tho
Ladies' Home .rournal, in which magaz-
ine all of Mr. Field's work, outside of: his
newspaper articles, was presented to the.
public. The story will be printed in the
next issue of the Journal strikingly illus-
trated by Mr. Howard Pyle.
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Yours truly, DY G. 0 -WEN.
Photon, Ont., Deo. 19, 1895.
Can Never Grow Old.
"We have a gospel which oan never
grow old. Its adaptation to the deepest,
needs of men's souls remains consta'nt.
with these needs. People tell us the
gospel has done. its work, that the world,
has outgrown it. We are confident, witia
a oonfidence born of our knowledge,.
that as long as men live by bread,se.
long will this word, which proceedetlt
out of trio mouth of God, be the food of
our souls. "—A. Maclaron
Closely .acquainted.
She --Ars yen acquainted with Mr.
Housenlot?
IIo---•Oh, yes; we go down in the same
trolley car every day, and in that way
we're thrown a groat dual together.—
Boston Globe
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