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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-3-22, Page 2,I71711r „r - It is Absurd For people to expect a cure for Indigos. Ron, nuless they refrain from eating what 1$ unwholesome ; but if anything will sharpen the appetite and give tone to the digestive organs, it is Ayer's, Sar- tiamarilla. Tliousitude all over the land tostify to the merits of this medicine. Mrs, Sieralt Burroughs, of 248 Eighth street, South Boston, writes ; "My hus. band has taken Ayer's Sarsaparilla, for Dyspepsia and torpid, liver, and has been. greatly benefited." A Cenfirmed D yspeptic. 0. Canterbury, of 141 Franklin st., Boston, Mass., writes, that, suffering for ;Tears frora Indigestion, he was ti,t last induced to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla and, by its use, was entirely cured. 3Irs. Joseph Aubiu, of High street, Holyoke, lass., suffered for over a year front Dyspepsia, so that she conld not at substantial food, became very weak, and was unable to care for her family. Neither the medicines prescribed by physicians, nor any Of the 'remedies advertised for the cure of Dyspepsia, helped her, until she commenced the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. "Three bottles of this medicine," she writes, cured me." lAyer's Sarsapanl a PREVARRD BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Fries $1.; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. THE EXETE TIMES. publisned evory Thursday moenIng,at the TIMES STEAM PRINTING HOUSE Main -street ,nearly oj posite Fitton's Jewelery Store,Exeter,Ontabs J ohn White dr Son, Pro- nrietors. RITES OF ADVEaTteING : Firstinsertion, per lino ceuts, Bach subseque.atinsertion,per line Scents. To insure insertion, advertisements should be sentiu not later than sVedneeday morning curJ0 B PRIXTING- CP,PkETMENT is one f the largest and best oquippeo in the County f Huron, .L11 work entrustou to us wiii eceiv ur prompt attention. , ,D °cis OD e itearding News- papers. Any person who takes d_paperregularly from kie post -office, wb.ether directed in his name or another's, or Whether he has subscribed or not is responsible for payment. 2 If a person orders his paper ,liscout limed Lie mu st p ay all arrears or the publisher may continue to send ituntil the paps] entis ni ado, ' and then colleet the whole amount, whether 1,ho paper is taken from the office or not. 3 In suitsforsubscriptions, the suit may be instituthdin the place where the paper is pub • tasked, although the subscriber may reside hundreds of miles away. 4 The courts haye decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the post- . office, or femoying and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud Exeter Butcher Shop, R. DAVIS, Butcher & General Dealer t..LL 'KINDS OF— MEATS Gmatomers supplied TUESDAYS, THURS- DAYS AND SATUBDAYS at their residence ORDERS LEFT AT THE SHOP WILL RE CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. PENNYROYAL WAFERS. Prescription of a phyMcian who has had a life long experience In treatinefernale diseases. Is used monthly with perfect success by over 10,0001adies. Pleasant, safe, - effectual. Ladies ask your drug- gist for Pennyroyal Wafers and o take no substitute, or inclose Fest,. f rIOUSEHOLD. Children, of the Tiousehoia. The responsibility of parents in treining children to noake euccessful Men and women N not realizsd by many parents as it elmuld be; but not upou them alcue dams this ac- countability devolve it is ehared by all who are brought in cot:tact with these little gatherers of knowledge. There are circum- stances sometimes beyond the control of parents that modify. and counterect the teaching of their children end make or mar their successful manhood or womanhood, .A. child's brain limy be aptly compared to the sensitive plate of the photographer. It aeeds but a moment's exposure to good or bad fleencee, either of deportment or epeech, to imprint upon its surface the lines • that make a good or bad impr'ession We are not as parents eutliciently alive to the fact, that thie highly seneitive organ is be- ing continually exposed and is continually recording both the good and bad alike, as it N subjected to these influences • and, too, like the sensitive plate, it gives the clearest impression of those things to which it is ex• posed the longest, and parents are being daily shamed or edified, often the former, by the impressions imprinted on these little brains coming to light. Among the circumstances spoken of is an atmosphere laden withillehe sayings, doings and wearings of others ; need I say, matter not calculated either to enrich or ennoble speaker or hearer ; the more frequently dealing with the faults and follies of others, not to be mentioned outside the circle in which they are committed and then with bated breath. Of the authors of such Addis son says : " A third kind of female orator may be comprehended under the word gos- sip. Al re. Fiddle Faddle is perfectly accom- plished in this sort of eloquence ; sho launches out into dissertations upon the edg- ing of a petticoat ; runs divNions upon a head dress ; knows every dish of meat thet is served in her neighborhood ; and enter- tains her ocmpany a whole afternoon with the wit of her little Inset before he is able to speak." It is very hard in a mixed household to keep the watchful eye and ear from seeing and hearing much that is harmful and espe- cially where there is a Mrs. Fiddle Fadele. That the continuous hearing of this sort of " eloquence " is pernicious to the yourvti is to put it mildly. It soon bears fruit, th little one, if she be a girl -and girls are more iinpressed by this kind of talk -begins to say of a visitor, "Mrs. M. had on a blue overskirt ;" "Mrs. T. had her hairbanged ;" " Florence has the measles ;" and tellingslis they are remembered, conversations ad nauseum, fit only to be heard by grown people, and they rhe Fiddle Fadciles. The little mind thus continually exposed, the faculty grows these things become second nature, and radical measures are not taken to counteract these tendenciott, in coming years another is added to the Fiddle Faddle family, Another error made by parents, and leading to the same result, is laughing and tacitly encouraging the children when such smart (?) observations -in the very nature of the above -are made, instead of admonish- ing or passing them over in silence. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon tha,t as the twig is bent so will the tree be inclined, and if a child breathes an atmo- sphere laden with dissertations on the edg- ing of petticoats, what Mre. Smith or Mrs. Jones said, what they had for dinner, and perhaps tinctured with malice -or at least uncharitableness -in coming years is will develop a fondness for this sortof edification and this sort of people, to the ,exclusion of those nobler thoughts and feelings that go to make the perfect man or woman. Useful Items. Poeisu bright iron work with rotten stone and oil, if it is running machinery. Ier some forms of headache, a towel or a napkin wrung outmf hot water, as hot as can be borne, and wound around the head, af- ford relief. FOR the dyspeptic fried oysters are for- bidden. When roasted in the shell oysters are delicious, and can be digested with ease, •ven by a weak stomach. EGG SAUM-Melt one-fourth cup butter, cld two tablespoonfuls flour, and pour on lowly one pint hot, water. Season with ne-half teaspoonful pepper. Then add one- ourth cup more of butter and two hard - oiled eggs, chopped or sliced. A SOLUTION composed of alum two pounds; water, 60 pounds; blue vitriol, 2 pounds; gelatine, one pound; acetate of lead, halt -pound, thoroughly mixed, will prevent mildew from affecting wood, cloth - g, fabrics, &c. CASTOR -OIL. -The French method of ed- it:listening castor-oil to children is to pour he oil into a pan dyer a moderate fire, break n egg into it, and stir up. When it is done amour with a little salt, or sugar, or cur - ant jelly. COCOANUT PUDDING.- Grate the meat of a large cocoanut. Roll five fine biscuits and mix with the cocoanut, add milk enough to beat, and a teaspoonful of butter. Beat five eggs, add a cup of sugar, mix and bake like a custard. CHLORIDE OF LIME is an infallible preven- tive for rats, as they flee from its odour as from a pestilence. It should be thrown down their holes and spread about where - ever they would be:likely to come, and should be renewed once a fortnight. BEEF JELLY. -Take about one pound of lean, juicy beef, out it into entail pieces, put into cold water and let soak for one hour. Then put on the fire with one pint of water, seasoning with salt, pepper, and a little celery seed, and let it stew until reduced two-thirds ; strain on a few blades of mace. Serve hot. SUGAR COOKIES. -Two eggs, one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, three table- spoonfuls of sour cream, one-half teaspoonful of soda, and four cupfuls of ` flour. These and any other cookies should be thoroughly mixed m the bowl so as not to require kneading. Roll out, sprinkle with sugar and roll lightly, cut in shape and bake. An excellent substitute for guirearabic is made as follows : Tweety parts of powdered sugar boiled with seven parts of fresh milk, and Hells then mixed with 50 parts of a 30 per cent, solution of silicate° of sodium, the mixture being then cooled to 122 Fehr., and poured into tin boxes, where granular inasties will gradually separate which look very much like pieces of gum-arabie. CHOCOLATE MARBLE Cerce.--One and one- half cupfuls of zugar, one-half cupful of but ter, one egg, one cupful of milk, One tea- spoonful of cream tarter, one-half teaspoon- ful soda. Flavour with vanilla. NA hen well mixed, take hell of it in another dish; and stir into it one square of melted olipco- late. Have your tin ready, and put in a spoonful of light and dark alternately. GOLD CAlts.-,ODe cup of butter, ewe of sugar, four of tilted flour, one of tweet tnilk, e yolke of eight egge, two teaspoonfuls of am tartar, and one of soda, Stit the but - and sugar to a cream beat the yolks, d add to the butter and'sugar ; sift the am tartar into the flour, dissolve the soda le for sealedparticulars. So d bY THE EUREKA CHEM CAL CO.. Dareorr, bluzi AFX Sold in Exeter by J. W. Browning, Lutz, and all druggists. a druggists, 31 per box. Address) b AGI Sendl.0 cents postage in and we will send. you free a royal, valuable samplebox of goods in that will put you in the way of making mare t money at once, than anything else in America. a Bothsexes of all ages can live at home and a work in aparetime, or all the time, Capital " notrequirud. We will start you, Immense I pay Bur e 1 or those who start at onoe. STINSON & Co .Portlano Maine "BELL" ORGANS Unapproachecl for ---es" Tone and Quality CATALOGUES. FREE., BELL SL Guelph Ont, CO., I C. & S G-IDLEY, UNDERTAKERS! --AND-- Furniture Manufacurers -A FULL STOCK OF - Furniture, Coffins, Caskets, Adid everything in the above line, to meet immediate wants. We have one of the very best Hearses in the County, And Funerals f erniehed and oonduoted th extreittely 16'w prieeci, cre ter an AraLtzto os ALL THE DIVPfinnNT Soorxrzgg ore in the milk, Put in the/tour, and When Well mixed add the mat of the flour, Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Toin ehelleo varnish that luxe been allowed to settle tor a few days, and thethin upper layer then taken off, mike e a oleo lacquer for brass work. Th 'e great trouble with arnateure is that they try to use 'feigner that N too thick, It should be 40 thin as to be partially transparent, and as clear ae good Wiee. Heat the articles a little hotter than boiling water, and lacquer quickly. If the week leolp foggy or Amity, the lacquer is too thick or there was not enough heat. Sometimea it can be made clear by placing the work in a hot stove oven for else or two minutes. For steel colour on brass, dip in a solution of ohleride of platinum. PLUM PUDDING. - One pound of raisins, one pound of met, chopped fine,three. fourths pound of stale bread-cruas, one- fourth pound of brown sugar, one-fourth pound of flour, one pound of currants, one- half of a nutmeg, greted, five eggs one-half pint of treacle, one-half pound of minced candied orange peel, grated rind of one lemon. Clean, wash, and dry the currants; stone the raisins; mix all the dry ingredi- ents thoroughly together. Beat the eggs, add to them the treacle, pour over them the dry ingre3ients, and thoroughly mix, Pack into greased small `kettles or moulds (this will make about six pounds), and boil for six hours at the time of making, and six hours when wanted for use. AGAINST THE TREATY. A Resolution by the New York Beard ol Trade and Transportation. NEW YORK, March 19. -The Board of Trades and Transportation held its monthly meeting the other day and adopted a variety of resolutions bearing on the commerce of the city and country. One of these resolutions denounces the proposed Fisheries Treaty with Canada as a surrender of most of the rights of American fishermen which were fully reeognized by the Depart- ment of State prior to the negotiations with the British Commissioners. It declares that as long as there is any protection in this country the duty on Canadian fish should be continued, and thaeif theranadian Government persists in its unjust treatment of American fishermen it will delay the de- sired closer commercial relations between Canada and the United States. The resolu- ution concludes by protesting against the ratification of the proposed treaty, and pro- vides that copies of the resolution be fem. werded to President Clevelind and the United States senators. That Awful Microbe. The miscrohe theory seems destined to be held responsible for all the ills that flesh is heir to. M, Verneuil, a French scientist, is now engaged in collecting statistics which prove to his own satisfaction that lockjaw has its miscrobe, and that this disease is both virulent and infectious. Mr. Verneuil further asserts that the hitherto respected horse is responsible for the lockjaw microbe, and that it is from this docile and useful ani- mal that men "catches" the' disease. The bite of a horse, be says, may often result in lockjaw, but a bite is not necessary to com- municate the disease, and owners of horses suffering from tetanus are implored by the scientist to quarantine them so that neither man'nor beast shall be endangered. M. Ver- neuil refers for partial confirmation of his theory to the fact that lockjaw most com- monly attacks persons who have to do with horses, the great proportion of cases being those of stablemen, coachmen and grooms, and he is confident that he will yet succeed in wresting the lockjaw microbe from his hiding place on or in the body of a diseased horse.- [N. Y. Times. The Farmer's Case. "I've always hollered for high tariff in order to hyst the public debt, but now that we've got the national debt eoopered, I wish they'd take a little hack at mine. I've put in fifty years' farmin. I never drank licker in any form. I've worked from ten to eight- een hours a day; been eccnomical in cloz, and never went to a show more'n a dozen times in my life; raised a; family and learn- ed upwards of 200 calves to drink out of a tin pail without blowing their vittles up their sleeves. My wife worked alongside o' me sewin' new seats on the boys* pants, skimmin' milk, and even helpin' me load hay. For forty years we toiled along toge- ther, and hardly, got time to look into each others faces or dared to stop and get ac- quainted with each other. Then her health I failed. Ketched cold in the spring -house, probably skimmin milk, and ws.shin' pans, and scaldin' pails, and spankin! butter. Anyhow, she took in a long breath one day while the doctor and me was watching her, and she says to me, Henry,' says she, 'I've got a chance to rest,' and she put one tired, worn out hand, on top of the other tired, worn-out hand, and I knew she'd gone where they don't work all day and do chores all night." -[Bill Nye. Siberia. Siberia is one of the finest undeveloped countries itt the world, and it is really diffi- cult to exaggerate the enormous wealth of this gigantic region. The soil is of almost inexhaustible wealth, and the crops are magnificent. There is hardly any limit to the production of the land. The Russians themselves have but an imperfect idea of She immensity of their natural wealth, and other people outside Russia cannot realize it at all. Siberia, as far from being a region of desolation and of death, is a northern Australia, with larger rivers, more extensive forests and mineral wealth not inferior to that of the island continent. Coming Civilisation, The Chinete minister lately accredited to a leading European court was taking leave of very eminent Englishman, and, pitying him because his wife had gone to England for the education of their children, said, "You must be very lonely. But of course you have a number two ? "41 tried to explain to him," said the Englishman, "that that was quite out of question. My wife would be in &rage if I took a Second wife, and my Government would punish me severely. The Chinese diplomatist was astonished; but, after a pause, he Said, "You Europeans have so much moro intercourse with China now that we may hope you wilt soon become sufficiently civilised to act as we do." NO 01111.•111Mil........... Petition Against Combines.. OTTAWA, March 19. -Sir Donald Smith has presented a petition of seventeen leading 'wholesale mad retail grocers of Mont- real wholesale sugar combines. The petition states that the headquarters of the Dominion Wholeeale Grocer ta Guild is in Toronto, that the association is a seoret one, paid that its members have cohspired together to indece refiners to: refuse) to sell to: certain grocers Whoni the oettociation nettles at cur resit market tatest. The petitioners claim that their rights have been invaded and cell foe logislati�n to Isreak up the coshbinatibuste ELEPHANTfii AT WORK. 110'W These sagacious Animals Perform Work QM's at the Umber Dills. Camera, Feb. 3.-14.13,rly the next d while yet cool, WO visited one of the deoi "lions" of the city -the working elepnan Formerly these Were very numerous, be the heavy workers in the timber yards a mat sawmills, Machinery has now si planted. them esteblishments run by eigners. In ersch of the native mills, wh small orcl.ers are aika, tR9 the no beasts yet perforin the heavy lab3r wh human hands unassisted could scare manage. We visited some of these t second time on our return from up miner and were greatly interested. They dr ' the logs many ot them three feet in diem ter andthirty to forti feet long, from t river, pile them up in syslematio order, a m when they are needed roll theto the wa and assist in adjusting them for the ea Lumber is not here sewed into boards, b She slab is taken off and the good stuff 1 in square timber to be ripped up into boar where consumed. This is done both f home consumption and for exportation. After the log is thus cut the elephant go among the machinery, takes the slabs asva and then carries the good timber and pi it up or lays it gently upon the ox carts be hauled off. A carpenter we saw want lumber from a certain log which was und several others. One of. the monsters roll the upper loge off and pushed the chos stick to the mill. The way was not clear the log butted against others. He push these aside and guided his piece throug them with a sagacity almost human. be erick became wedged. He pushed and tu ged ; it would not budge. But at a whiepe ed word from the mahout and a promise a bit of nice food he bent to it. Still stuck. With a whistle audible for a quart of a mile he got on his knees, t straighten out his hind legs, and put his whole force it. He was successful. We could aemo read his satisfaction in the gentle flaps his hugeears and the graceful curve or h proboscis as he put it up to the mounte mahout asking his reward. Sticks over two feet chick and ten to fi teen feet long are lifted up bodily upon th great ivories, and are then carried off an laid upon the gangways se gently as not make.a jar. One stick twenty-two iuche thick and twenty-two feet long we easy ea ried in this way. In carrying this the bees had a path not three feet wide among masse of loose logs. He had to plant his fore fee upon these and thus walk a considerabl distance. He looked as if he were wer walking upon his hind legs. The corner o a bamboo hut stood in his way. He lifte the log over its roof, and bent his body s that has sides gently scraped the corner o the house and did not shake it. A hun dredth part of his weight would have caus ed it to topple from its pile foundation. He was ordered to carry off a pile of 4x pieces 10 or le feet long. He ran his tusk under a few, Themahaut told hina that was not enough. He tried again, and probN ably doubled his load. Hdriver gave him a fierce prod with hig iron hook over the forehead. With a shriek of rage he sent his ivories under the pile and threw his snout over the top. He had to get on his knees to get the load up. It was a decent dray load! As he passed us, perched on a pile of logs, I moved away, for I thought there was blood in his eye and that he might dump the load on the foreigners. But when he came baoe. he stopped before us, got on his knees, bowed three times', and held out his snout to us for a gratuity. I pitched a coin to the mahout. He whis- pered to the beast that his elephantship would get a part of it. This seemed satie- factory, for he snuffed up a pint of dust, blew it over his rump, and marched off for a bath in a mud hole not far away. Each mill has a pair. They work only in short spells, and take their rest when feeding in grass grown mud. ponds. the chid ts, ing nd ip• Of - ere ble ich ely y, atv e - he nd ye w. ut eft ds or es y, les to ed er ed en ed I8 g• of it er ed to et of is f • r- 6 In Mandalay we saw quite a number be- longing to the English Commissary Depart- ment. They were formerly King Thebaw's. One of them had a little baby only thirty-, four inches tall. The mother was chained to a tree. The baby toddled to us and held out his snout. I tried to catch it. He gave a whistle. I feared the cow would break loose -she seemed so uneasy and strained so at her chain. But I got my hand on the little fellow's back and scratched it. How he wriggled with pleasure. The mother un- derstood the thing and eased up. When we started off the calf wanted more rubbing and followed us. The cow blew a whistle that made us hurry. The little fellow then toddled back and took a pull at his mornieg bottle. On the steamer going to Mandalay a Mr. Lacey, superintendent of the great Bom- bay Timber Company, was a fellow passen- ger. He employs 600 elephants drawing teak logs to the creeks several hundred miles up one of the branches of the Ira waddy. He has been here many years, and gave me several curious anecdotes showing the won- derful sagacity of the great monsters. At the cost of being prolix I will give my little daughter two of them. A mahout (elephant keeper) was addicted to the use of opium. Orders were given that when the elephants came into town for supplies this man should remain at an out station some miles away. The wily fellow had a long talk with his elephant -they seem to understand Burmese -and told him to go to town and get him some opium. Off he went, and, reaching the village, tore around like mad. The villagers went to the trees. The elephant nosed around, smelt where opium was stored, took a ball, and trotted to hi keeper. This was done a second time when the master gave orders that a small piece of the drug should be given the beast whenever he came to town. In this way the mahout was kept on very short allowance, for the elephant did not seem to comprehend the necessity of getting a ball, but was satisfied with a small bit. • At another time an elephant °amp got out of sugar. It was near a trail which a pony train from China passed, The mahouts knew a train was near at hand -one of them explained to his brute what was wanted, and sent him to intercept the train. He did so; and seared the men to the trees and scattered the loads of the ponies. The elephant found some sugar baskets, ate his own fill -they are very fond of sweets -and carried off a basket to his keeper. Each elephant has hie individual keeper, but when they go into camp at close of day they are sent off alone to the jungles for dry wood, and never fail to bring the proper kind. From many things told me I am almost persuaded they have decided reason- ing qualities, and are not simply taught tricks by rote. We watehed the perform. once of several at Rangoon for two or three hour, and saw evidences of sagacity far surpliesing the little tricks done In the men- ageries. The mahout sits on a houclah on the bade of the huge animal. He rarely speaks loud enough for one to hear him a few feet ofe. /VII'. Lacey .believes they understand Burmese. One day he praised one of the elephants in this language. The anitnal shouted evident pleasure. He then spoke disparagingly of hon. The vain moo- r gave such unmistakable signs' of being angry that the mahout asked Lacey desist to prevent danger. The Query of Life. 158051555 10 MSS rt. J. W. Is Lffe but a dream of sorrows, Flitting o'er the sands of Time'? Is it but a hops that borrows Proin the unseen no aublirne ? Is its pathway dark and dreary, Tipick with cataterieg cares o'orsersad ? Is there naught to soothe the weary tho botinds beyond the dead 1' Is It but a time.told story? Is it but an earthly theme? Beams it with but mortal glory? Are things only ts they seem ? Fades it as the summer flower? Is the graye Its final -goal Is there here no unseen power Holding seance with the soul? Shall the spirits time doth sever Part to meet no more again ? Shall they part and parting ever Know no pleasure and no pain? Sha'1,no judgment trump awake them Shall no resurrection morn In their silent sleep o'ertake them Unto life eternal born? Shall not Christ to glory risen Re -awake the dust that dies; And the spirit from ite prison Bid to higher realms rise 0 ' Life is here but hnperfeotion ; We at best but dimly see ; God must guide the heart's direction, Christ the spirit's pilot be. To that life of love transcending All we dream of or behold, With its boundless blies extending e In a tide of joy untold. 011, the brightness of that glory 1 Oh, the grandeur of that life 1 Far too fair for mortal story With celestial raptures rife 1 For no eye bath seen that Aiden ; And no ear hath heard the sound Of the heav'nly harps, o'erladeu With their ss znphonies profound. And no heart conceived the treasure Of that happiness sublime, Which the angel spirits measure In that fair celestial clime. There shall We behold in glory Spirits here thnt sorrows trod ; There the lights of Sacred Story ; There the martyred men of God. There ten thousand voices singing Loud [hall sound the Saviour's name ; And the Courts of Heaven iingiug Love and joy and peace prcclairn There shall flow the Crystal River By the Throne of that Fair Land, On whose shining shores forever Shall the Tree ef Life expand, Whose fair fruits shall heal the nations From all sorrow and all pain ; From all tears and lamentations • In that Life of endless reign. Christ has opened that bright portal ; Set our captive spirits free ; Won for us that life immortal On the Cross of Calverv. BrjJ. si. P0110011, B.A. Queenstown, Jan. 5th, 1888. FLASHES FROM THE TELEGRAPH. Col. Macdonald, of Halifax, will command this year's Wimbledon team, with Capt. Wright, of Ottawa, second in dommand. The Winnipeg Board of Trades appealing to the Dominion Government to put the new grain standard in force on September 1st. Premier Fielding, of Nova Scotia, has in- troduced a resolution for abolition of the Legislative Council at the close of the pre- sent Parliament. It is reported that Tippoo Tip has sent a number of men to Stanley's camp at Aru- wiini to take reserve [stores and munitions to Wadelai. A fire in Milwaukee early the other morn- ing destroyed property to the value of $975,- 000. Two firemen were killed and three persons seriously injured by falling walls. It is reported that Gabriel Dumont, in his letters to the Batoche half breeds, says that if he does not succeed in his political efforts in their behalf he will again force the Gov- ernment to spend a few millions. Mr. Jennings, for the Canadian Pacific, and Mr. Wragge, for the Grand Trunk, says there will be a conference on the subject of a central station for Toronto, and it was iffily probable an agreement will ba arrived at. The deputation regarding the extension of the Windmill line along the front of To- ronto bay has had an interview with Sir Hector Liingevin. All the interests affected were represented, and an agreement was ar- rived at that satisfied all concerned. The annual meeting of the Dominion Ar- tillery Association was held yesterday in Ottawa, The council in its report proposed sending a team to Shoeburyness this year and the holding of garrison and field artil- lery competitions, and pointed out the ne- cessity of increased drill instruction. Colonel Macdonald was elected president and the other officers were re-elected. Babies for Crocodile Bait. "Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be returned alive." If newspapers abounded ie Ceylon as much as crocodiles do, advetrisements word - de likethe foregoing would be common hitheir want columns. As it is, the English croco- dile hunter has to secure his baby by per- sonal solicitation. He is often successful, for Ceylon parents as a rule, have unbound- ed confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for a small consideration. Ceylon crocodiles suffer greatly from ennui. They prefer to lie quite still, sooth- ed by the sun's glittering rays, and wile away their lazy lives in meditation. But when a dark brown infant with curling toes sits on a bank and blinks its eyes at them they throw off their cloak of lazinees and make their preparatione for a delicate mor- sel of Ceylonese baby humanity. When the crocodile gets about half way up the bank the hunter, concealed behind some reeds, opens up fire, and the hungry crocodile has his appetite and life taken away at thesesame time. The sportsinan secures the skin and head of the crocodile and the rest of the carcass the natives make use of. This way of securing crocodiles might be objected to by Canadian mothers. The Canadian infant imagination might be shat- tered by the devouring gaze of a healthy saurian who hasn't had his dinner; but we are creditably informed by certain Fnglish crocodile hunters that the average Ceylon infant displays a passive indifference to his advances, and that the only thing which frightens him ie the report of the Min. The question agitating the British Gov- errinaent is whether to make Parliamentary proYision for the Prince of Wales's daughters who are marriageable, oe to wail, until they are engaged to be married. Sleep is death's younger brother; and so like him that I never dare trust him with - oat tay.prayera.-[Sir. Theniati Brown, to Don't Wait Until your hair becomes dry, thin, and, gray before giving the attention needed to preserve its beauty and vitality. Keep on your toilet -table a bottle of Ayer's flair Vigor -the only dressing you require for the hair -and use a little, daily, to preserve the natural color andl prevent baldness. 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The moon bas just come up from over a low island to the east. The air is balmy and has the sweet odor of the land. Light donde move lazily across the ruddy face of the queen of night. A well-born daughter of that far-off island which rules nearly a third of the world by her brain and through her well filled coffers, is playing with gentle touch the sweet variations of the "Mocking Bird." ,Refined gentlemen and gentlewomen loll or walk sottly about the deck, listening to the music. It is hard to realizs that a few miles up this broad river is it beach outwardly as mild as a meadow lakelet, but whose bottom is it shifting quicksand, to touch which is almost certain destruction to the bravest steamer.- Within a few months two fine ship'S of this company have been sucked in by the sands. She is almost erect. I am told its masts stand it few feet out of the water. The sands Kick in ships as leeches take in blood, and are ever ready for more. Vessels are piled one upon the other, swallowed never to be di- gested. Careful pilotage and daylight are necessary to avoid the hungry monster. It is hard to realize that on yon low island, just uader the low lying moon, tigers are more abundant than in any other part of the world. The keepers of the signal station live within 1 igh brick walls, and dare not go a hundred yards beyond them. Refuge houses are built along the coast on high piles close to the water. Cannedikood, 400 gallons of water, a chart with full detections how to find a port and a boat are&teach, .And great placards are stuck ifp warning the shipwreeked man to beware of the tigers and not to attenipt to get off except by day, and at no time to venture into'. the jungle. The island and surroundirig mainland are swampy, and the low jungles are said ab, selutely to swarm with tigers and croco- diles. Nothieg less than a tidal wave seems able to drive them away. The new Ministry of Sweden is decidedly protectionist. The oldest known bearded' woman has died in the Pyrenees. She had exhibited herself in the village kW for sixty years. Fogg bays he loves to go into society, for he alwaye sees there 50 mahy fools that he returns home with quite a good opinion of himself. One Sabbath afternoon a worthy minister, observing by the time he had reached the third "head " of his discourse the drowsy disposition of several df his hearers, quietly remarked "In the first place, those of 3tgu who are awake will notiee," etc. s. A