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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-1-21, Page 31 1' 4i# • A Manes elan. ,t Ile site with his well balanced head thrown back Conversing with mademoiselle ; And be knows swill a lot about everything That ho talks quite uncommonly well. Ho gives bo r his views on a ball game or two, ) cusses a new book or play, Thon makes au assertion he doesn't believe, Just to hear what the poor thing can say. Butt her 'big brother strolls into the room,— How now 1 What a change do we see ! Miss Rosebud is out of it—thane very plein, No further attraction has she. They junop on their hobbies and off they career, Talking science, athletics, or art, Till tho clock interrupts with a warning so clear, That he hastens at once to depart, Woman's Woman. At the ItIbbons. The girl w n s of character forceful, And she often declared she'd contrive To get, when she married, a husband Submissive—a man she could drive. She got him, and after the marriage At once put in motion her And for years with a run that was gentle She drove him with consummate skill At length she resorted to spurring, And drove him to misery s brink ; Then over the precipice plunged him, • For she finally drove him to drink. A later " Beautiful Snow." " Oh 1 the snow, the beautiful snow," That we looked for and longed for a full month ago, is coming at last, so fleecy and light, To hide all defecte"neath its manle of white. Gay prancing steeds speed about to and fro, .And the bells ringing -welcome the beautiful snow ; There aro gay hearts and sad, as the snowfalls • Some brimful a joy, some too sad to pray. "Would God this pure mantle could hide from our sight, That crime in our city, that crime black as night.. There are mothers to -day tbat wish long, long ago, They had laid their doar boys 'neath the beauti- ful snow. ,God pity those boys, they know nothing but woe, Forgive them and shield them with thy mantle of snow. Buffalo, Jan. 6th, 1892, • W.11. BOW TO KM RATS. Give Thant limburger Cheese and Brim stone. Detroit News; In a recent issue of the News 1 saw an article headed " Postoffice Bats," wherein the long-tailed beauties are clamoring for positions under the adminis- tration. Four years ago I moved into a house in Milwaukee which was infested with rats of all sizes and as numerous as the sands of the sea. I, as did the post- master, tried every known means to exter- minate the intruders, without the desired results. We were just on the eve of mov- ing into other quarters when an idea struck me. I purchased two bricks of limburger cheese and two pounds of brimstone. I cut the cheese into small bits and, mixed with the satanic powder, put the compound into an iron vessel and placed the same in -the centre of the cellar. I then removed all eatables (which we were compelled to keep in the tin -lined boxes), then closing windows and doors, set fire to the " sinner's doom." Twenty-four hours thereafter I took a 20 -foot pole, with a hook fastened to one end, and jerked the window out. After 24 hours more I ventured into the cellar, and to my great joy and surprise I gathered up seven bushels and a half of dead rats, which had been enticed into the cellar by the cheese and suffocated by the fumes of the sulphur before they could get back to their holes. I give the above recipe before the new year, as I intend turning over a new leaf on that day. BANES THAT HAVE FAILED. This Should lie Put in the Pocketbook for IFeference. It may be interesting to readers to know what Canadian banks have failed and whose notes are therefore worthless. Here is the list: Colonial Bank of Canada, Toronto; Commercial Bank of New Brunswick, St. John, N. B. ; Consolidated Bank of Can- ada, Montreal; Exchange Bank of Canada, Toronto; Farmers' Joint Stock Banking Company, Toronto ; International Bank of Canada, Toronto; Mechanics' Bank, Mont- real; Mechanics' Bank, St. John, N. B. ; Metropolitan Bank, Montreal; Pro - /repels' Bank of Canada, Stanstead, Q. ; Royal Canadian Bank, Montreal; Stealicona Bank, Montreal ; Westmoreland Bank of N. B., of Moncton N. B. ; Union Bank of Montreal, Montreal; Zimmerman's Bank ; Ba_k of Upper Canada,Toronto, redeemable at 75 cents on the dollar; Cen- tral Bank of Toronto ,• Exchange Bank of Canada, Montreal; Agricultural Bank of Upper Canada, Toronto ; British Canadian Bank, Toronto; Bank of the People, Tor- * onto ; Bank of Clifton, Clifton ; Bank of • Brantford, Brantford ; Bank of Western Canada, Clifton ; Bank of Canada, Mont- real ; Bank of Acadia, Liverpool, N. S. ; Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool, N. S. ; Bank of Prince Edward Island ; Central Bank of N. B., Fredericton N. B. ; Charlotte County Bank, St. Andrews, N. B. ; City Bank of Montreal. They Won't Tell. The occasion was the funeral of a prom- inent citizen who had been a Free Mason. A delegation of. brother Masons had at- tended, and they had just come out of the house and were waiting to enter the car- riages assigned to them. They wore part of their regalia, which attracted the atten- tion of the over -present small boys, to whom funerals are all one with weddings, considered as food for curiosity. " Say, Jimmy, who are they ?" asked one of an another, in an audible whisper. Jimmyglanced e.t the embroidered sa hes. gt Why, don't you know what those are, Johnny ?" he said, with the contempt of superior knowledge for ignoranee. No ; what are they ?" " Well, you are stupid! Why, them's the fellers that know something they won't teli!" " Oh 1" said Johnny, meekly. • A Poor Rule, etc. Judge: Agitator—I tell you this eight - 'hour work day is going to do a lot of good to the mass of employed people. By the way, Sarah, is supper ready ? Agitator's wife—No; my eight hours was up at 5.30 to -day. Hard to Match. New York Herald: Mrs. De Gueh-1 never expect to find a husband like poor Willie. Mrs. De Kash—Why not? Mrs. De aush—It would be hard to match that shade. A French scientist has invented a practi- cal machine for adding columns of figures. It is expected to be a great boon to book- keepera, for, according to all accounts, it is simply constructed and can be easily used. Pneumatic tube transit companies are becoming more numerous, and the latest in Chicago contemplates a system from the Illinois Central Railroad depot to the World's Fair. A thousand carriers may be loaded into the main tube as rapidly as corn can be dropped into a hopper, and in sa -few moments be transported seven miles. The world's prase is stated to include 37,000 ;swapper& ' ' • TUE CAO* WIRE movglan, And December Vaned Slather 'a Doubts:II • Thomas MaxwitilaellYb5inofAuirtrelin, Texas, and MISS Belle Taylor, of Green Bay, Wiscostsin, will not exchange Christmas presents this year, but they cisme very near doieg,it Some time ago Mr. Maxwell, who Owns a largo cattle ranch in Texas, came across a copy of a Chicago paper which contained an advertisement to the effect that "a young, handsome brunette, 20 years of age, cilively disposition, wished to correspond with a wealthy gentleman, with a view to matri- mony." He wrote a few tender thoughts to the young, handsome brunette," who proved to be Miss Belle Taylor, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and they ex- changed photographs. They wore to meet here and be married to -morrow, a Chicago special to the World says. Miss Taylor lauded in Chicago this • morning, Where they met is not known, but at noon the big policeman who guards the ladies' waiting room at, the Milwaukee & St. Paul depot observed a wonlis of uncertain age sitting all by herself in a corner. She was weeping hysterically. She confided to the officer that she had been the victim of a gross deception. " Look at that tintype," she sobbed. " How old would you take that man to be ?" " That man's about 30 years old, I should say," replied the attendant. Thirty ! He's a good deal more than 60. He's nothing but a wretched old fraud. I'm out my fare from Green Bay to Chicago. Can't I have him arrested for obtaining money under false pretences?' Over the gentlemen's waiting room of the Chicago & Alton, in the same depot, a -weather beaten man of 50 was saying to another policeman : " To thick that an old woman like that should fool me ! Sent me the photograph of her youngest sister an' had the audacity to lie me out until I called her bluff. The cards were stacked on me this time, but -a-hat'll,they say down in Texas ?" • At 7.30 o'clock Miss Taylor and her trous- seau were on the way back to Green Bay. At 9.30 o'clock Mr. Maxwell, with a photo- graph in his hand on which he cast a stony glare, was on his way back to Texas. WHAT A COLD WANE IS. It is Not a Wave Brit an Avalanche of Cold Air. The term "cold wave" applied to a sudden and great fall of temperature is a figure of speech. It is rather an avalanche of cold air that Nunes down upon the country, explains Professor Russell in the Engineering Magazine. The essential idea in a wave is repetition. In the eastern part of the country there is a regular change in the temperature of the air of about fifteen degrees from day to night. In the high and dry regions beyond the Mississippi River the daily range is 45 degrees in some places. The great irregular changes called cold waves have no definite period. The weather bureau definition of a cold wave is a fall in temperature of twenty degrees or more in 24 hours, free of diurnal range, and extending over an area of. at least 50,000 square miles of country, the temperature somewhere in the area going at least as low as 36 degrees. Marking on a map where a cold wave has occurred by lines through the places of equal fall of temperature the areas are seen to be inclosed and spmetimes very great in extent. In one of the greatest cold waves in recent years, that of February 17, 1883, the temperature at 7 a. m. was 20 degrees lower than at the same hour on the day preceeding throughout an area of 1,065,000 square miles, extending from lake Superior and Georgian bay on the north to the Rio Grande on the south, and from Kansas City to CinCinuati. Inside the area of 20 degree fall there was an area of 30 degree fall to 640,000 square miles ; inside the area of 30 degree fall there was an area of 40 degree fall 187,000 square miles ; in- side the 40 degree fall there was 31,000 square mile p of 50 degree fall, a fall of 60 degrees at Keokuk, Iowa, the centre of the cold wave; the temperature,which was 60 degrees on the morning of February 16th, bemg zero next day. Ile Got Even. A young couple in Brooklyn, who had .been keeping company two years, became engaged with the consent of all concerned and looked forward with the customary supreme bliss to the consummation of their betrothal. Suddenly the betrothed maiden changed her mind and told her lover she would not marry him. When he recovered his breath he begged for an explanation, but could get no other than that she had decided to marry somebody else. Sorrowfully he left her and in the solitude of his chamber put on his thinking. cape The result was that the jilt received a formal note from him telling her that he would call on a cer- tain evening for a final answer. He called and met with a frigid reception. His affi- anced told him that her decision was irre- vocable, and handed him a package contain. ing all his gifts to her. "By Jove 1" he cried, "you're the best girl in the universe! I feel as though a ton might have been lifted from my breast." He grabbed the package and his hat and made for the door. The girl was petrified with amazement. "What is the meaning of all this ?" she stammered. " Why, it means' • he answered, "that I am free. I tried my best to muster up courage enough to ask you to release me, but couldn't do it. I'll send you your letters and everything but the ring. That, I am afraid, Cora will not give up." " And pray, who may Cora be ?" was snapped out rather vicihusly. . Oh, she's the girl I'm going to now ask to marry mo. She's a beauty. I'll send you her picture and I'll give her the dia- mond earrings you have returned to me." His hand' was on the knob when these words arrested him, " If you attempt to go Pll scream. I want you to underiennd that our engage ment holds good. Don't you go near that. Cora again. I am going to marry you my- self," Tho nuptials will be celebrated at the time originally set. lot the Ideal Politician. Chicago Press: " I don't think he will make a very successful politician." " Why not ?" "I've been looking into his record and I find that he neither struck his grand- mother when she was lying on her dying bed, turned his sick grandfather out of doors on a bitterly cold winter night, robbed the church poor box nor desecrated a grave- yard." Always "Turn the Rascals Ont." Chester (Pa.) News: Fifteen years ago the Government of Jamaica introduced the Egyptian ichneumon to rid the island of the cant rat. Now a prize has been issued for the successful extermination of the ichneu- mon. George—Whew? What can be the mat- ter? Telegram says, "Come home, imme- diately." Rushing into his suburban home, one hour later :. "Tell me quick, my dear. What isit ?" Young Wife—The baby said "Mama." To every 1,000 males in Logsdon there are 1,123 fensaleat NAMPO'S CetrinnOli. low eke Famous Italian Exile Met Ins Enemies. The famous Italian exile was forewarned that his assassination had been planned, and that men had been despatched to London for the purpose, but he made no attempt to exclude them from his house, says an ex- change. One day the conspirators entered his room and found him listlessly smoking. " Take cigars, gentlemen," Was his instant invitation. Waiting and hesitation on their part fol- lowed. " But you do not proceedto business, gentlemen," said Mazzini. "'believe your intention is to kill me." The astonished miscreants fell on their knees, and at length departed with the generous pardon accorded them, while a longer puff of smoke than usual was the only malediction sent after them. Mazzini once, when he was staying with his friends in an Italian city, where his head was forfeited, saw guards approaching the house to arrest him On their way up to the door—the chateau stood on an eminence—they met a person sauntering down toward them smoking a cigar. He gave them the salutation of the morn- ing, which the captain returned. ,On arriving at the chateau Mazzini was de- manded. •" We well know he is here," said the chief officer. " Certainly," said the host, who knew it was in vain to profess ignorance; "he was, but is not now. It is he whom you met; I saw him salute you." They had been completely thrown off their guard by the coolness of the smoking stranger. Once out of their eight they knew it was vain to expect to lay hands on that ubiquitous smoker, whom no man ever betrayed. We are told at Pisa, where Mazzini died, his long, solitary days *ere passed in read- ing, writing and incessant smoking. During the fits of delirium in his last illness the incessant smoker fancied he was enjoying his favorite—perchance for a an so abstemious, his only luxury—and he moved his wan fingers to and fro as though he was putting a cigar in his lips and taking it away.—New York World. • The Children's logic. One of our school commissioners inspected a down -town public school the other day and examined several girls. Commissioner—Now I will ask you to tell me the parts of speech of some words you bave just read. What part of speech is "Mary Ann?' Little girl—Noun, sir. Commissioner—What kind of a noun ? Little girl—Common noun. Commissioner—Pray, why do you call "Mary Ann" a common noun ? Little girl—Because there are so many Mary Anna, sir. The commissioner smiled, and observed to the teacher that the answer ought to pass. On another occasion the commissioner in- quired: "You say that all the rivers flow into the sea. Why, then, does not the sea become too full and overflow with all the waters from all the rivers?" The youth addressed eagerly replied. " Because the fishes drink, the water, ir." Dow It Was Pronounced. " I bought a new hat to -day," he was saying, "from Geoghegan—" From whom ?" "Geoghegan." " You pronounce it wrong. It's Gay- gan.' " " No," corrected another. " It's called Jee-hay-gun.' " " Goo-gan," suggested a fourth speaker. " Hig-gog-gan, ' says number five. " Gay-hee-gan," thinks the sixth. " Hogan," the seventh asserts. " Nay," says number eight ; "its Kee- jay-gan.' " " Gig-heg-gan," is number nine's version. " Ge-og-hay-gan," ventures the tenth. " Jag -on," says number eleven. " Jig-hee-gan, ' thinks thr twelfth. " Hag -gay -gun," says thirteen. " No," says a new -comer ; "it's "Jee- hee-gan.' " " Wrong again," said the president ; "pronounce it `Jag -again.' " What's the matter with ' Gee-off- egan' ?" said another; but the puzzle is still unsolved.—LouisvilleCommercial. Beautiful and Good. Detroit News : Good snow is always a good thing to have in winter. Some snows, such as the coffee -colored, slushy snow of Cincinnati and the flinty, cinder -like, icy snow of the plain*, may not be truthfully called good ; but the feathery, flaky, fleecy snow that robes all out -doors in downy garments is a good thing and entirely wel- come. It is good for man, woman and child, is winter's most delicious caress, is a tonic in business circles and an invigorant to our social diversions. It improves the popular digestion and stimulates the relish of life. Good snow is a good thing, and the News gives public thanks to our good friend Jack Frost, who is not a half -bad fellow, although a little forgetful this year of the midwinter holidays. Stale News. Judge: Mr. Halfcenturi—The newspapers must be hard up for news. Mrs. Halfcentury—Why so? Mr. Halfcentury—Here's an item that the oldest man in New York State died last week, and the oldest man in New York State died when I wasn't more than 16. Stale. Judge : Jaysmith—Pm going to sue the Howler for libel. It called me a thief. McWatty—But papers are allowed to print the news, you know. Jaysmith—But that isn't news. Mc Watty—True enough. Everybody knows it now: • What De Despises. Albion Herald : If there is one thing that a newspaper man despises more than an- other it is to publish a long obituary notice free of cost and then have the widow or representative of the deceased step in and stop the paper. That is Christianity with a hypocritical flavor. Sho Didn't. Buffalo News: Who wrote Ccesar's Com- mentaries?" asked the teacher in a Lewiston school the other day. , There was a blank look on the faces of all those present until Or little girl raised her hand and said "Please, ma'am, I know I didn't." —The average marrying age of a Freneh- man is thirty yeara. Alia Jane Cobden, the young woman who is to marry T. Fisher Unwin, the English publisher of the Century Al'agazine, is a daughter of Richard Cobden, the free trade prophet. Three years ago Miss Cobden was elected a member of the London County Council. Sho is about thirty-five years old. ORANGES VERSOS kinaidne, The luscious Fruit is Coed ter Orefithards as Well as ior licauties. The value of oranges AS an article of focal is well known, says the New York Timm "I buy them by the box," says a, mother, " and let my children eat them constantly in lieu of candy or other prized children's dainties. 1 consider that I save money by it." At some of the inebriate asylums oranges have proved an efficient aubstitute for alcohol, patients Sucking the juice of them abundantly every time the thirst for liquor comes upon them. This fact is so well recognized that often at temperance coffee stands piles of luscious oranges are also kept. And now another benefit is alleged for them. Some famous French beauties of former days, it is asserted, secured and preserved their marvellous complexions by a free diet of oranges. One in particular lived almost entirely upon the fruit. A dozen each at breakfast and luncheon made up these repasts ; at dinner a dozen more, with a crust of bread and ono glass of Burgundy. Doubtless an orange fad is threatening—for the pursuit of a complexion is a very absorbing one to women. Municipalities and Street Railways. Out of the dissatisfaction felt by the citizens of Chicago with the inadequacies of the existing systems of street railway transportation has come a proposal for mu- nicipal ownership. A resolution has been introduced into the City Council instruct- ing the corporation counsel to prepare an ordinance to enable the city to lay and own the street railway tracks under certain con- ditions, and to lease them for specified periods to individuals or corporations. This resolution, while apparently contem- plating no more radical • changes in the existing arrangement than have been accomplished at Liverpool and else- where, has been opposed, upon the ground that the city cannot lawfully go into the business of building and leasing such lines. The discussion of a rapid transit system for the city of New York, and the tendency which is to be noted in many of the larger cities of this country, of great corporations to buy up small street railway lines and to consolidate them into one system, unite to class the determination of the scope of niunicipal undertakings and the relations of the civic authorities and corporations con- ducting a quasi -public service among the most interesting questions of the day. Our readers are aware that the action proposed in Chicago is no new thing. We have ever urged that street tramway rails should be laid and owned by the city, and utilized for the best interests of the public, This practice is in successful operation in Liverpool, and the contention of the oppo- sition in the city, of Chicago that a munici- pality cannot legally take this step, is not well founded, and it is time that a more enlightened view of municipal relations and powers prevailed. Reforms of this nature make haste slowly, and perhaps it is wise that they should, but we look for a general recognition of municipal control of urban transportation in the line pointed out. Especial attention may also be directed to the recent action of the city government of Glasgow, Scotland, where the municipality now proposes to take over the existing street railway tracks, with the entire equipment of the present companies and to operate the roads. This, it may be pointed out, is a much more radical"mea- sure than is proposed for Chicago, and in the operation of the road is going beyond what we believe is a desirable policy for American cities. In Glasgow the main argument for municipal ownership and operation of street railways was that the en- tire profits, beyond interest on their cost, would he put into extensions of • the service to outlying districts, thuii' building them up and increasing the number of cheap and accessible homes for the people. It was maintained, and with much reason, that a corporation's first business is to earn dividends, and it naturally resists furnishing increased facili- ties in advance to the prospect of an imme- diate paying return. Glasgow has success- fully conducted its gas and water supply works, in which there was no opposition, but in taking over the tamways, it will meet with such competition upon a com- mercial basis • from underground railways and cable lines as to make this experiment n municipalization worthy of atten- tion, Municipal control, as a principle. is yearly becoming better understood in this country, as experience is oained in the operation of gas and electric lighting plants, and Chicago has already committed itself to the extent of owning and operating its electric street lighting plant. That city is in urgent need of the development of an adequate system of urban transportation before the opening of the World's Fair. We believe that the only logical conclusion to be drawn from the study of this problem is the establish- ment of the principle that the city, owning the street, should own,lay and maintain the lines of rails therein, with authority to determine what corporations shall be al- lowed to run cars over the rails and how they shall run them.—.New York Engineer. ing .Record. Ont of the Way Cable Stations. A glance throug she code of instructions issued by one of the big cable companies shows that there are a number of places which rarely appear on the map that may be reached by wire from this country. For $2.25 per woi d one may communicate from New York with the hectic town of Pram Pram, upon the west coast of Africa, while connections can be established with the lively hamlet of Grand Bassam, in the same region, at $1.04 for every ten letters. For $1.17 per word you may address your long - lost relatives or businesspartners in Djedda, Mecca. and .A1 Hedjas, while the rate to Builder Abbas, Bassidore and Lingah is 64 cents in addition to the boat hire from Jask, Persia, where the message is delivered. Every word sent to New Zealand, via Northern Siberia, costs the sender just $3.74, which is the highest rate on the list. It costs 60 cents a word to reach Reman- ga,naguas and Armada de Pasageros down in Cuba,and $1.88 to let the old folksin Sungie Ujong,on the Malay Peninsula, know you're living. , • :some Hot language. Binghamton Leader: Bartender—I speak seven different languages. What'll you have as a starter? Rounder—Well, you might give us &little hot Scotch. • An Adrpt. Hilow—Miss Flypp learns every catching phrase as soon as it is out. Glim—Yes ; she's a master of the English slanguage. Preferred an Axe. Detroit Free Press Can you eplit wood with dexterity ? alto asked of the tramp who was looking for a job. Notm, 1 anus uses an axe," was the un- expected answer. A race was won at Liverpool recently by a horse that bad undergone the operation of tracheotomy to cure roaring ,• Tho fact that he had a silver tube in his threat did not seem to impede his speed. '• ' '')A.W,*>,\ \:AINV,0,,g:\ S','*\'s, , '‘v%s."`s%%‘'''VO,s'\•.:',`''*'s's'' "Xi' . '\''' ''''° '''''''r:';' s .„,s se. nes sa , A , ro !, • nsa • for infantS and Children.. “Centoria is so well adapted to children that Castoris cures Collo, Constipation, ki areocvmomtomeruned)tt as saupoisri,olutocazanay,pueesc. ption Sour Stomach, D,iarrhosaEructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di. • gestton. LI/ Oztord Epooklyn, N. Y. Without injurious inedicatIon. Tee CENTAUR COXVINV, 7 Murray Street, Mt ealleeesteleasienneenetsee'neatneitlellnainteeStieli7-' ieen'ine sate elinnetetneleseaselSenissealsr les t_ LONDON'S POLICE. Wide Territory Covered and Extensive Jurisdiction of the Force. The Metropolitan police .district em- braces an area of nearly seven hundred square miles, extending from Colney Heath, in Hertfordshire, on the north, to Mogadore, Todworth Heeth, on the south, and from Lark Hall, Essex, in the east, to Staines Moor, Middlesex, in the west. The following constitute only a portion of the labors of the metropolitan police during the past year. They apprehended 33,414 per- sons, received 19,421 reports of criminal offences, recovered £21,660 worth out of ;£99,841 worth of property stolen, made 6,046 inquiries for Government departments and provincial and continental police, found and. restored to their friends 11,540 per- sons out of 23,042 persons reported missing, attended 1,311 fires, summoned for various offences 226 refreshment -house- keepers, 9,091 drivers of hackney carriages, carts, etc., 14 common lodging -house- keepers, 53 offenders under the smoke nuisances acts, and 5,623 persons for Vile- cellarieous offences, and they served 88,446 summonses applied for by private persons. The authorized strength of the force at the beginning of the present year was 15,624, of whom some are employed on duties for various Government departments, including special protection posts at public offices and buildiugs, dockyards and military stations, etc., leaving -13,600 available for service in the metropolis. The pay of the force dur- ing the year 1890 was £1,206,287, which appears very moderate when it is considered that the ratable value of the area for the year was over £35,000,000, the actual value of the property under the charge of the police beinebat least forty or fifty times that amount —Saturday Review. Olive Branch and Sword. The following is the sweet and simple lullaby a 3.year-old girl of Boston was over' heard singing to her sleeping brother : Go to sleep, my little brother, Go to sleep, Charley dear; Go to sleep, my little brother, • Go to sleep, or I will spank you. Taking It Calmly. Buffalo News : Prisoner (in jail, looking at the sky through the bars of his cell)— What'frightful weather ! I think I won't go out to -day ! CAM -EA TLE VER PILLS. Sick Headache and rel eve all the troubles had - dent to a bilious state of the system, such as Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Dist -fess after eating, Pain in the Side, &c. 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There are about 2400 disorders incident to the human frame, the large majority arising from the impure or poisonous condition of the blood. Very few in- dividuals enjoy perfect health, and fewer still have perfectly pure blood. Scrofula, a disease as old as antiquity, has been inherited by generation after generation, and manifests itself today virulent and virtually unchanged from its ancient forms. If we are so fortu- nate as to eacape hereditary impurities in the blood, we may contract disease from germs in the air we breathe, the food we eat, or the water we drink. 3d. The Remedy In Hood's Sarsaparilla is found Me medicine for all blood diseases. Its remarkable cures are its loudest praise. No remedy has ever had so great suc- cess, no medicine was ever accorded so great public patronage. Scrofula in its severest forms has yielded to its potent powers, blood poisoning and salt rheum and many other diseases have been permanently cured by it. If you want statements of cures, write to us. If you need a good blood purifier, take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Sold by drUggists. $ ; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD as DO., Lowell, Mass. WO Doses One Dollar SACRED TO THE GULLS. A Leap Tcar Plea for the Spinsters Who Want to Harry. The year now, commencing is sacred to maidenhood, sayis the Chicago Times. If Belinda, who has been ranging like the vir- gin queen • In maiden meditation fancy free, concludes that such condition is distastefa to her it is her privilege, this being leap year, to propose to any male biped, bache- lor or widower, whom she deems an eligible match. The custom is immemorial, though it is not recorded that Belinda herself ban chosen to take advantage thereof. Why not? Year by year we believe more and more in the coeducation and in the equal political rights of the sexes. Year by year we regard marriage as less a sacrament and more a mere matter of contract, to be treated like any other mutual agreement. Why, then should rigid social laws, with leap year as a mitigation more honored in the breach than in the observance, confine propositions for a contract of marriage to only one of the possible high contracting parties? If Jeems feels that he cannot be happy without Belinda he is privileged to broach the matter to her ladyship with a view to a contract upon the supposition un- derlying all such engagements that it will be mutually advantageous. But if Belindo feels that her future happiness is wrapped up in Jeems, custom requires her to Let concealment, like a worm th' bud, Pray upon her damask check. There is no even-handed justice in such a custom. It gives tremendous advantage to the sterner, the less sentimental, the more brutal sex. If Jeems thinks kindly of Be- linda, very good ; he may mention the mat - ten But if Belinda is enamored of Jeerne her lips are sealed. Out upon any such un- reasoning and unreasonable sex discrimina- tion as this. Why should beauty not have the privilege of initiating the choice of her own mate, a man and not a money -box ? We must reform our social customs. marriage is a matter of business, a centred, which a chancellor may set aside in cham- bers, then, business being business, Belinda has equal rights with Jeems and every year is a leap year. What was it Patrick Henry said more than a century ago? Give us liberty or give us death Social as well as civic liberty. The right of marriage proposal from either. party. We handsome fellows may be im some considerable danger in any new revis- ion of the social code looking to the plan suggested, but what of it? Only a few years ago nearly all the matches used in Russia were imported, but there are now upwards,of three hundredl match factories in that country. The imports have fallen from 1,535,000 pounds of matches in 1884 to 13,392 pounds in 18814 and in the latter year 31,000 pounds of matches were exported from Russia. krince George of Greece, who saved the atemr—,- • Czarowitz from a Japanese assassin several months age, has recently performed another • heroic deed. While on board a vessel in the Bay of Piraeus during a heavy storm he sa,sa a boat capsize, in which was a sailor bound for his ship. Instantly the Prince sprang overboard, wised the drowning man ana swam with him to a point 'Mitre help wag' possible.