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Her Friend.
Wastho Boston fast exprees &little Maiden
bc sat;
,ocoureed the 4404 alone; beside her lay
her hat. .
.4030 elaitehea her (lolly to her breast in ohildisti
roother play,
Ars ehe ioarecl some dreadful giant would
suateh it right away.
"a4re yeti all alone, my little girl!" X asked nfit
stooped down.
My manuna told, mo Dod was here," 'she said
with half a frown.
'She tissed inc ah' my dolly, an' I dem X don't
keow vela,
"But, dear'," X unswayed, smiling, tell me
_ where you are going to."
iehe twisted in her seat, and then she tossed her
tangled hair.
I'm dem'on to Boston, an' my pool' meet no
there.'
" But, dour," I questioned gently, "if the elsoo
°hoe oars sheuld stop,
And you should walk and walk, and avalle and
then not find your nop,
Virhat would you do?" The little maiden shook
her head and frowned,
" My mamma Says when pop is gone that Ded
is somewhere round:
The train rolled into Boston town. I waited
there awhile
And watched iny little blue eyes, with her half
expectant smile.
Dess waitin' for my pop," she said, "with
doily fast asleep."
And then a man came rushing in. I know him
by his loap. lite snatched his little daughter up with frantic,
feverish glee ;
.And then, with father's instinct, quick his eye
was turned on me.
" Wellaleees," he asked, "who is your friend!"
with quaint, expressive nod
'The maid replied: I don't know. I fink it
mus' be
—Tom Mason in Brooklyn. Life.
FLOWERS IN n0LD IMOD&
Dow one Twee over the Cord waves.
Of interest to thousands of women is the
following article in Garden IVeuss :
se, "I love flowers dearly, but my rooms are
430 cold at night that 1 cannot grow them."
How often one hears that remark made in
nall sincerity! I always feel like oombating
the statement, for my own experience has
taught me that one can have flowers in cold
rooms if pains is taken to proteet them at
night
My first home after my marriage was a
frame house built in true Southern style, to
keep the heat out, rather than to keep it in.
The consequence was, the temperature of
my plant windows during a " cold snap"
would be several degrees before frost at
night, and a crust of ice half an inch thick
would form on water left standing by the
windows. Yet I grew geraniums, primroses
and tuchsias, and even suoh tender plants
as heliotropes and begonias, and I never had
finer ones than those grown in the cold
house. Nothing was left to "luck," but
systematic protection was given every night
throughout the winter that no sudden
change through the night might take me
unawares and ruin my plants.
At night all the plants on the window
shelves and brackets were ta,ken. down and
snugly nested with the other plans on the
wire plant stand. With a little practice, it
is surprising how compactly a large number
of plants may be stowed away in a small
space. The next step was to pin large,
thick newspapers around each pot and plant
of the tenderer begonias, etc., and the next
was to spread a loose layer, two or three
papers deep, over the rest of the plants on
the stand, and over these a couple of sheets,
one over the stand itself and one over the
back of the stand, to cut off any
possible draught from the windows.
Large, stiff newspapers keep out a great
Zeal of cold, and at the same time
,
,crush or bend growing plants less
'than anything else that can be used, espe-
lacially if pinned over the arch of the stand
inetach a manner as to enclose the plants
with Jut resting heavily against them. By
their stiffness the papers prevent the sheets
from sagging down on theplanta and break-
dng them. .
In extremely cold weather quilts were
,placed over the sheets and pinned together
to keep out all cold, and the tray -like
.shelves of the plant -stand were lined with
thick layers ot newspapers to cut off the
,ascending cold fram beneath. In addition,
.all cracks around the windows, sashes or
casings, were pasted over with strips of
•cloth to keep out draughts, and the shutters
were closed each night. '
A ENDOWS SEA FIGHT
hesareen a Frown. Frigate and an English
ItlauseralVirtin,
[From "A Master Mariner." Being the Life
and Adventures of Captain Hobert 14rgliarn
gastwick.]
The historic encounter between the
French frigate La Forte, 50 guns, and La
Sybille 44 guns, flying the white ensign,
took place in the Bay a Bengal, the Britiah
vessel being commanded by Captain Cooke,
son of the famous navigator and one of the
best officers in His Majesty's service. Cap-
tain Eastsviok and Captain Cooke, with the
01111Vii of their respective vessels'watched
the encounter from the decks of the Frenc1i.
man, by whom they had just previouely
been captured :
It was a brilliant moonlight night, with
light winds and calm sea. Captain Cooke
and I, having retired to a corner of the
quarter-deck, were sitting talking, when
our attention was suddenly drawn to a
strange sail making toward us, and dis-
tinctly visible in the moonlight. She was a
large vessel, and there was a curious fact
about her, that he did not display a single
light, but ;paled serenely on with all her
canvas spread, and yet without any signs of
life on board. The French officers actually
mistook her for a merchantman "with the
watch asleep," and about to be delivered
into their hands. They had enjoyed such a
career of good fortune during the last month
that they were ready to aocept the new ship
as only a further instalment of the luck that
seemed to be theirs.
Nearer and nearer came the strange sail,
as calm and stately as if she had the entire
ocean to herself, and no other vessel in sight.
Such confidence amounted to audacity, for
the display of lights from the French frigate
marked her as a man-of-war. As the ap-
proaching ship continued her course and
mane within range, the captain of the La
Forte began to exhibit some doubts about
her, and ordered a few shots to be fired at
her. But these eliciting no response, he
commanded the firing to cease, observing
in my hearing, "She will prove another Bon
Prix!" Still, as a matter of precaution,
every man was kept at his quarters, though
in a careless way, and the guns were all
loaded and pointed at the stranger.
We prisoners were now ordered to retire
below, and were shown into the officers'
berth -place, the door of which was locked
upon us. This did not, however, altogether
prevent us from obtaining a view of what
was going on, for there was a small port-
hole, through which We peered in turn, and
tried to conjecture who or what this veseel
might be that came on in such a masterly
manner and appeared to anticipate uo dais -
ger, although she Was sailing illt0 the very
teeth of one of the strongest`frigatos afloat
and one which had proved herself to be a
terror in those waters.
Suddenly, having got into a proper posi-
tion, and as the moment of action arrived,
all the tarpaulins which had covered the
lanterns and hidden the lights on board of
the La Sybille were removed as if by magic,
and an illuminated large English ship ex-
posed. to view. She was now within two
cables' length, and lulled to the wind on the
starboard tack, and the next instant the
whole broadside of a well -directed fire was
poured into La Forte. Then edging down,
after the discharge, before the wind, the La
Sybille came fairly alongside.
And now occurred smell a scene on board
the French frigate as I can find no words to
describe. Her decks had been raked with
the small grape -shot that came like hail
from the 24 -pounders of her opponent, and
in a moment all was shouting and noise and
confusion. Whistles were piped, orders
were cried out, and the cre,w were hurried
up to serve the guns, urged on by their
officers. The admiral was killed early in the
action, and the captain fell next, as gallant
a man as could be desired. He was cut in
half by a chain -shot whilst trying to rally
his crew, who, having been fairly caught
a -napping, were all in alarm and confusion.
The execution wrought amongst their ranks
by the sudden broadside was dreadful,
and. the whole ship resounded with
the ' shrieks and groans of the
wounded, making a noise that was
sickening to hear. Still a gallant fight was
kept up, despite the dentoralizing effects of
that deadly fire. The musketry rattled,
and between the thunder of the guns, as
broadside after broadside was returned,
there came the lesser but constant discharges
of the brass swivels mounted on the quarter-
deck. There was,
however, one great dis-
advantage that the La Forte suffered;
owing to her enormous height she could not
depress her guns sufficiently to fire with
proper effect at her. opponent, because of
the close quarters at which the action was
fought, whilst the La Sybille's shot told
with disastrous results at each discharge.
After 55 minutes' hot fighting, the
Frenchman, finding she was beaten, desired
to escape, and attempted to rnakelail. But
this the La Sybille was determined to pre-
vent, and, t altering the aim of her guns, the
La Porte's shrouds were presently shot
away, and soon afterwards her meets wgnt
by the board, one after another, with an
awful crash, carrying all the top hamper
with them, until the deck became an inex-
tricable mass of tangled rigging, and the
frigate lay a helpless cripple upon the
water.
rnblieassecounts.
'The public accounts of Canada for the
last fiscal year were issued front the Govern-
ment printing bureau yesterday. The
revenue on account of consolidated fund
was $38,579,310; the expenditure $36,343,-
567, showing a surplus of $2,235,743. The
expenditure on capital account totalled
$3,112,958. ,
The subsidies pead to railroads amounted
to $1,265,705, of which the St. Catharines
& Niegare, Central Railway Company got
$11,760 and the St. Clair Frontier Tunnel
Company $143,400.
The only amount invested during the year
satan$50,600 advanced to the Quebec Harbor
Commissioners.
The receipts from Dominion lands
.amounted during the year to $264,592; the
amount invested for sinking funds was
$1,938,078; the total amount held on 30th
.June last for sinking fund purposes was
, 425,555,614.50.
di The debt redeemed, exclusive of savings
f bank withdrawals, amounted to $1,905,964.
On the 30th June last the total amount at
sthe credit of the depositors in the savings
banks was $39,400,026, or a reduction of
41,612,438 as compared with the balance
held at the end of the previous year. The
interest allowed to depositors for the year
amounted to 81,348,525, and if this amount
is deducted from the balance at the credit of
the depositors it will be found that the
.excess of withdrawals of cash over cash de-
posits was $2,960,964: Owing to the with-
drawals from the savings banks, and to
.zneet redemption of debt a further temporary
'loan of £1,200,000 was effected in England.
The Dominion notes in circulation in -
.creased $818,424, and on the 30th June the
'total outstanding was $16,176,317.
The net debt of the Dominion on. the 30th
-Jane last was $237,808,030, an increase of
4275,818' in the year. The gross debt is
4289,899,229.
A. wiehed Husband.
New York Herald : Bond—Why do you
-call your wife an old heft?
Gallon—Because she always cackles when
,ehe lays fox me.
"He must have beenacowboy." " Why?'
"He's got two hip pockets," "That set-
tles it. The fellow was a prohibitionist"
Little Dot—I know something teacher
doesn't know. Mamma—Indeed! What
is+ that "1 know when the world is conam'
to an end, and. she doesn't. I asked her,
end she said she Aida% know." " Oh I
Well, who told you?" "Uncle John. He
mid tit' World would come to an end when
ohildren stopped askin' questions what tie -
body could answer."—Good News.
Willie (seared)—Now we've „milked the
4011r, what'll we do? Popll be awful mad.
Jimmy (equal to the occaSion)—We'll drive
leer down to the pond and fill her up with
'Water. '
IP The fiat quarrel, She -. ,"A11. me 1
NittrriNise surely a 1ottery.0 "
Yea, you
.only hear of the prizes that are drawn.
-The people one knows of always draw
nhlanks, "
At last the action began to qraw to a
dose. The discharges of cannon were less
frequent, and the Le Forte's meri being all
engaged in trying to set sail, the rattle of
musketry on the quarter-deck above our
heads almost ceased. Very nearly the last
shot fired was one which, in penetrating the
berth -place, was so checked, that it came
rolling slowly toward us, upon which Mr.
Mackerel jumped up and made a clean
bound over it with an agility that would
have done credit to a goat. As I scuttled
out of its way, its size showed me it came
from a twenty-four pounder, and I knew
it must have been fired by a man-of-war.
But before I had time to acquaint my com-
panion of this joyful discovery, and bid him
take heart, a great number of men (the La
Forte having now struck) came running
down below to secure the valuables plund-
ered from the various prizes, and tie them
around their persons, and one of these un-
locked the door of the berth -place, with tho
object, I conceive, of approaching some of
the dead officers' property, and thus en-
abled Mr. Mackerel and myself to get out
I immediately went on deck, where the
second captain, who was quite a lad,
caught sight of me. The tears were in his
eyes, and he was greatly agitated as he
asked me to hail the British frigate and
say we had struck. Young though he was,
the eomMeaul had devolved upon him
through the death of all the senior officers.
Still if he heal been a veteran of a hundred
fight& it would not have been in his
power to continue the aetion atiy longer,
nor could he have shown more proper feel-
ing at the unfortunate position in 'Willa he
was placed.
TOD Weiglia OF 14/1.1101t.
Feints of Interest About Induetrial
Afilonn.
Krupp employs 16,000 men.
London has 15,270 policemen,
Saginaw barbers close aP 8 p.m.
Auetria has women hod -carriers.
Buffalo unions will boycott politics.
A California well has turned to oil,
There are papier-mache flowerpots.
The Bank of England employs 1,100,
"Tenement house reform " is a Beeton
cry.
New York waiters will
MAU.
Mexico street cars
funerals.
The Typographical
$7,Q00.
Sacramento stonecutters
hours.
New York varnishers want 8 hours on
,April lat.
New York machinists may demand 9
hours.
New York electric linemen demand $3 for
nine hours.
Crested Butte, Col., employers will not
hire Italian miners.
New York compositors have returned to
the six-day week.
New York cloakmakers held a mass meet-
ing to roast "sweaters,"
A German countess is the cook in a New
York resta,nramt kitchen.
The Journeymen Brewers' National Union
has fifty unions and 4,700 members.
The Cigarmakers' International Union
has expended $25,000 to advertise its blue
Two labor candidates have been elected
recently in the School Board at Derby,
England.
The London tailors have asked County
Council to fix the same rate for women's
work as for men's.
New York silk ribbon weavers, at a mass
meeting, attributed reduced wages to the
McKinley Bill.
i
The New York Federation s boycotting
a brewer who puts on men -apprentices at $9
and $10 a week.
It was declared at the meeting of the
Custom Cuttera' Circle, at Cleveland, that
the tariff is a curse.
New York painters kick aeainst men
who say they are receiving the union scale
of $3.50, while working for $2 a day.
A company in Schanhausen, Switzerland,
produces nearly two pounds of pure alum-
inum for $L25. A year': ago it was $4.
The Paris Municipal Council has voted
10,000 franca for the cabmea who are on
strike against paying 75 cents a day for
their cabs.
A Swiss sevant is able to reduce milk to
a dry powder, se that by the addition of
water it at mice assumes all its natural
properties.
run a labor bit -
aro used for
Union is worth
struck for 8
The members of Bakers' Union, No. 95,
of New York, will be fined $2 each for every
time they are caught drinkieg a glass of
boycotted beer.
One hundred and forty persons have
emigrated from Germany in eleveu months
of the past ,ear by the port of Bremen;
11,000 ot these went to Brazil.
Several large Vienna bankers and manu-
facturers innitmuce that they prohibit all
their employees from going to the races
during the coming spring season.
Th are now 21 J.:: a firms in the United
States composed of husbands and wives,
and there are about 200 American women
who practice layer control legal pub licutione
The official organ of the mill owners in
Germany, Der Mueller, insists that the
eight-hour workday is a necessity— for
horses, as no horse can work more than
eight within 24 hours without injury to
its health.
A New York contractor settled it strike
by signing a contract for six months by
which he agreed to employ only union men
at union wages, and he gave a certified
check for $100 to be forfeited if he breaks
the agreement.
The Trades' Council of Glasgow has peti-
tioned the Town Council of that city to
establish municipal workshops for the pur-
pose of making all clothing needed for the
inmates of public institutions, and uniforms
for the police and other officials.
Not content with planning an under-
ground railway, one of Berlin's civil engi-
neers plans underground streets. They are
to be covered with a close grating of steel,
which admits air, light and rain, and over
which the usual street traffic is carried on.
In the door -yard of Mr. lZf. W. Wheeler's
house, at the feet of Mount Shasta, is a red.
- ,
WOOd tree 14 feet in diameter which towers
up 130 feet Without a limb,
—.The neweetyle of surprise partY is an
impeovement ozi the Old. The people to be
surOrised are apprised ofIthe date a week Or
BO ahead. the stirprisete alwaye being
abundarice Of geed *rigs alongavith therin
and the surprised (1) people Live fat for a
Week or Be on the surplus vietualti.
WON TUE DUE AND CEOs
Hew a rialladellphie, Coquette Waal a Novo
Airek Decided,
$outhl Broad street, from Jackson street
to the navy -yard gates, was the scene of a
foot -race the other clay,. the prize Whig the
pretty daughter of a sailor's washerwoman,
says the Philadelphia Record. For some
time Barney Burns, a marine, and. George
Lindsay, a sailor on board the receiving delta
St. Louis, which is stationed at Lev. ue
Island, have been enamored of the bright-
eyed daughter ot the womaa who dooms their
washing. The men were friends and the
girl's affections seemed to be about evenly
divided on the two ardent lovers.
EIOVF to deeide with which of the
two she should cast her lob
was a difficult problem, lsut the haPPY
thought of a foot race presented itself. The
arrangements were perfected, and at 9
()Wools the contestants appeared upon the
course, whieh was two miles long, accom-
panied by a large crowd who had been
advised of the contest. Burns stands 6
feet 6 inches in height and weighs about 200
pounds, while his opponent, Lind:say, is
lithe and willowy; and the epode in the
crowd were not long in determining upan
the latter as the favorite. A the crack of
the pistol the lovers were of at a rapid
gait, and until the tracks of the Greenwich
Point extension of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road were reached kept well together. The
pace told upon Burns' wind, however, and
he dropped behind, and when Lindsay
reached the end of the goal his conipetiMr
was not in sight. The washer -woman's
daughter will now become Mrs. Lindsay,
The Chinese New Tear.
The Chinese yesx began yesterday, and
the few Chinamen living here were rather
busily employed all day in entertaining
visitors, paying calls and drinking tea.
Strangers and friends alike received a
hearty welcome, and all who called had the
privilege of partaking of 'the eatables which
lay exposed upon the tables during the day
or of drinking some of the excellent tea
which was kept prepared. On the previous
evening many observed the Chinese custom
of keeping a light burning in every room
until after 12 o'clock. In China the bow
year does not begin on the same day of each
year as it does here. Sometimes it begins
itt the last week of January, and sometimes
not until the first week in February. It is
customary to celebrate its advent by re-
fraining for a space of ten days from all
work, except what business makes neces-
sary, but in this country, the Celestials
would find such a prolonged observance in-
expedient.
A Modified Doxology Suggested.
In a western town recently a vote was
taken on a question of temperance, and the
anti -temperance party being. victorious
sympathizers in a neighboring village Wired
Praise God from whom all blessings
flow." A correspondent resident there
objects to the UM of the good old doxology
in such a connection, but suggests the fol-
lowing :
Praise him from whom our liquors flow;
That sable imp who reigns helm ;
Praise him yo iawless tippling lob;
Praise him each worthless, drunken sot,
And to conclude the service of praise to
BACC11218 the following ageription : " GlOry
be to the imp, to the license law and to the
grog itself ; as it was in darker ages, is
tiow, and, so far as we are concerned, ever
shall be, time without end, Amen."
Professor—Mr, Sznartrnan, you may
Stamp twine of the mote prerninerit 'elegies.
Mr, Sauirtmen—Biology, sociology, geology,
'astrology and doxology. :
Sanctified By Its Use.
New York Press : "Your limbos:id
bought you a sealskin sacque with his
winuings at poker. I wonder how you can
wear it ?" "Oh, that's all right. I'm going
to wear it to church, you knovv,and thatwill
be fighting the devil with hie own
weapons."
The Japanese believe in mere mythical
createres theta any other people On the
globe, civilized or savage. Ainong them
are mythical animals without any remarkee
ble peculiatties of contorrnations but, giftdd
with supernatural attributes'such
& as a
tiger avidsaid to live to be 1,000 years
old and to turn as white as a polar bear.
—Red hair will not bleach,
' When to Answer Xette.rs.
asSne
aanaisSara7..s relaseaarstesaa.., aSa,„1.sta,n
TUIETYYEARS.
jolanston, N. B., March us 1E889.
"1 was troubled for thirty years with
pains in my side, Which increased and
' became very bad. I used
SITa laTACCOEIS OIL
and it completely altrEd. 1 give it all praise."
MRS. WM. RYDER.
RIOH77 sT. JACOBS OIL DID IT" 411)
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TEA TABLE GOSSIP.
PV --=-Olive oil baths are beneficial to delicate,
children.
7„—A waffle plate is a new addition to the
tableware.
teaspoonful of borax adds stiffness to
cold starch.
—The word "shoe" occurs thirty-one
times in the Bible.
—A solution of peroxide of hydrogen is
th.e preferred hair bleach.
—Mr. Cunningham has been appointed
Toronto's City Engineer.
--Queen Marguerite of Itally claims to
• have the sandals worn by Nero, the tyrant.
—The epicure demands that the dinner
table should be decorated only with ferns,
palms and odorless flowers.
—At a well dinner a man and wife
should never be seated together, This is
often very agreeable to them both.
She made a lovely little quilt,
A trifle, for the fair.
But when her husband saw the hill
He climbed the golden stair.
—The grip is proving especially deadly in
the case of the oldest Mason," who is
dying sporadically in great numbers nowa-
days.
Be very careful of your health—it's worth your
while to try,
And eat and drink with caution and to keep
your stookings dry.
For, although this is a healthy town, diseases
lurk about,
And the awful grip'll get you if you don'twatch
out.
"Man must bow to theinevitable." That
is why we raise our hats to women.
If possible, answer a letter directly. This
to the busy housewife may be out of the
question, but at any rate preserve the letter,
and before answering it read it over care-
fully, noting the questions asked, if any,
and attending to them before you go into
other details which may be to you more
interesting, but can wait. You would con-
sider it very rude of any one if you asked. a
question in coaversation and no attention
was paid to it. The same thing applies in
your correspondence, for are you not talking
by mail ? Do not delay answering a hitter
longer than is absolutely necessary, for
delay only makes it harder to render your-
self interesting, and is the cause of the oft -
repeated "011, I never know what to say."
To remedy this, if you intend to keep up
a correspondence, jot down each day any'
little piece of news or anything that par-
ticularly interests you. — Philacletphia
Times.
It is it Very Sad Thhur
To see young and beautiful people die when
they might just as well live and enjoy health
and. strength. Many who suffer with coughs,
colds and lung • troubles, leading to con-
sumption imagine there is 210 hope for
them, when in reality there is every hope if
Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is taken
regularly. Spread the news everywhere
that this great emulsiou will make flesh and
blood, cure coughs, colds, bronchitis, sore
throats and lung troubles tending to coo-
sumption. In big bottles, 50es and $1. At
all druggists.
lecderation. of Labor.
The handbook by the Federation of
Labor shows the strength of the seventy-
four national trade untone of the United
States to be 675,117. The Carpenters'
Brotherhood leads, with 65,000 members ;
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers,
60,000; Iron Moulders' Union of North
America, 41,000; International Bricklayers'
and Stone Masons' Union, 3'5,000 ; Brother-
hood of Locomotive Engineers, 30,000;
hi I
International Typographical U mon„ 28000 ;
Cigarmakers' Lsternational Union'27,000;
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
23,000; United Mine Workers, 20,000 ;
Granite Cutters' National Union 20000;
Journeymen Bakers' Noticed Union,
17,500; journeymen Tailors' 'Qualm 17,000,
and the Brotherhood of Railroad '..E;sainmen
and. Brotherhoodof Painters andlDecorators,
each with 16,000.
Other sufferers from cold in the head and
catarrh have been promptly cured, why not
yon? Capt. D. H. Lyon, manager and
proprietor of the C. P. R. and R., W. & O.
car ferry, Prescott, Ont., says: "1 used
Nasal ,.Wm for a prolonged case of cold
in the head. Two applications effected
complete cure in less than 24 bonne I
Would not take $100 for my bottle of Nasal
Balm if I could not replace it."
A Georgian of Macon goes about wearing
a necktie made of a rattlesnake's; skin, the
rattles serving as a pin.
Adjutant -General Mobley, who has fast
returned fromj the Rio Grande, seys he
believes Garza is in trouble on account of
the demoralization and disaffection, and
even desertions of some of his meta. The
General thinks that Garza will either sur-
render or be captured within the next ten
days by the rangers.
"Augu
Fi
99
"1 inherit some tendency, to Dys-
pepsia from my mother. I suffered
two years in this way ; eonsulted a'
number of doctors. They did me
no good. I then used.
Flelleveci in your August Plower
and it was just two
days when I felt great relief. I soon
got so that I could 81eep and eat, and
I felt that I was well. That was
three years ago, and I am otill first-
class., 1,, am never
Tvvo Days. without a bottle, and
if I feel constipated
the least particle a dose or two of
AuE,,ust Vlower does the work. The
beauty of the medicine is, that you
can stop the use of it without any bad.
effects on the system.
COnstipation While I was sick I
f e 1 t everything it
seemecl to me a man could feel.
was of all tneft Most iniSerable. I ca.n
say, itt conclusion, that I believe
August Vthwer Will cure anyone of
indigestion, it taken
Life ofMiserywith judgment. e A.
11. Weed, 229 Belle -
tantalite at.. Indiannolis,
—Don't eat with your knife.
--Pearl-handled cutlery is correct.
—" Ripe wheat " is a new color in silk.
—A high polish on the linen is bad form.
—The spring hat will be buried in rib-
bons.
—Short, bunchy women don't look well
in capes.
--Silken vests are popular for the mascu-
line full dress.
— " Oil on the hair is only a dust trap,"
says a candid up -town barber.
— The dressing -table of a, fashionable maid
is fitted out in out glass exclusively.
—Russia has been visiaed by eight na-
tional famines during the present century—
in 1801, 1808, 1811, 1812, 1833, 1810, 1860
and 1891.
--Tiger bones are some of the queer
things in the commerce of China. They
are used as a medicine, being accounted a
kind of tonic.
— A wag at an uptown party, seeing a
dish of quivering jelly before him, asked a
lady beside him, "Have some of the nervous
prostration ?"
— Queen Victoria pays at the rate of $1.92
a wile when she travels by rail, in addition
to first-class fares for all the party, servants
included. She has a saloon carriage that
cost $30,000.
"I do not like that gown," he said,
"Those sleeves! Why. you'll get lost."
"But, dear," his little wife replied,
"Just think howmuch it cost."
—Jamison—" What's the matter, old
man? You look as though you had struck
luck. Jenkins—I should sa,y I have. My
landlady has just warned me that I must
pay up before I can leave.
— The "new library hero is the way
they speak of novelist Barrie," who in
" Thrums " has immortalized his native
village of Kirriemuir, Scotland. After see-
ing life and work in Londonand serving a
hard apprenticeship in journalism, Barrie
went back to the little village of his birth
to find materials by which to make him
famous.
--" There is one curious thing about To-
ronto," said Mr. Lem B. Felcher, in the
imam° of a general conversation, "and that
is that only 150 liquor licenses are issued
there, and 50 of those are to wholesalers.
just think of it—only about one-tenth the
number of licenses that are issued here! The
difference is not in the amount of liquor that
is consumed. They drink just as much in
Toronto, only a few dealers get all the
profits."—Detroit Tribune.
euick-W Med.
When it certain actor, now famous, made
his first appearance some critical person
threw a cabbage head at him. As it fell
on the stage the actor picked it up and
stepped forward to the footlights. He
raised his hand to connnand silence, and
when his tormentors paused to hear what he
had to say, exclaimed, pointing to the cab-
bage head:
Ladies and gentlemen, I expected to
please you with my acting, but I confess I
did not expect that any one in the audience
world lose his headover it."
He was allowed to proceed without fur -
her in.terruption.---Harper's Magazine.
• NEW STEAM STREET MOTOR.
It Receives"a Severe but Successful Test
and Will be Used,
The new traction motor imported from
Belgium by Mr. Charles T. Yerkes for.
use cm the street ear lines that are not
cabled, was given a test yesterday that
proved it to be an enaphatio success. The
trial trip occupied more than three hours
and was over the wont portheas of the
north side horse car routes, 'where them
were many switches and curves to be
taken. The start was made from the Shef-
field avenue barn, and after three hours
and aZhalf of every sort of test Superin-
tendent Roa,oh and. Engineer Gleason ex-
pressed themselves as more than pleased.
The motor was found to be ateliely and
reliable at every speed from four miles to
twenty miles an hour, and it reversed its
metion so eesily that there was no jar.
The motor itself is a novel piece of
machinery. It consists of a compound con-
densing engine capable of developing 100
horse power and gauged for a: maximum
steam pressure of 250 pounds. The boiler
is of tubular build and has 53 tubes, each of
2 inches diameter. The engine has a 12 -
inch horizontal stroke from two 8 by 12
cylinders, and the traction power is com-
municated by a locomotive eccentric to
two driving wheels and thence to the
other two by a locomotive crank bar.
The entire motive apparatus, boiler an&
all, is contained in a steel cab, 12 feet
long, 11 feet high and 7 feet 6 inches
wide.
The motor was built by Carel' Bros. in
Ghent, Belgium. It is No. 392 of similar
construction, the others being in use in
European cities. President Yerkes saw one
of them in Paris last summer, examined it,
tested it, ordered its duplicate, and the
report of its performance yesterday will be
sent to him in New York, where he is now.
The motor, delivered in Chicago, cost
about $5,000, but it is believed that by
building them here, as President Yerkes has
bought the right to do, the cost can be
reduced to something like $3,000.--Ghicago
Press.
A PleasinuSense
Of health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature to
effectually cleanse the system when costive
or bilious. For sale in 15e bottles by all
leading drugghits.
" Why do you Boston girls keep a fellow
at such a distance ?" sighed Payer. "It's
the way of the Hub," Miss McBean re-
sponded, and then blushed at her pun.
An inquiring Boston soul is anxious to
know what. Darwin means by the "mission-
ary link."
—Children born in the spring are said to
•be more healthy than those born at may
other season of the year.
As every table has tvvo ends, the question
often arises, which is the head? The rule
followed by caterers is that the end opposite
the main entrance to the room end the one
nearest the window side is the head.
Mr. J. D. MaIlivain, late superintendent
of the Grand Trunk car shops in London,
while making it flying visit there on Satur-
day, was presented by friends and Grand
Trunk employees with a valuable gold watch
and chain as A token of their esteem and
good wishes, Mr. McIlwain made a timely
res11:111Z
PHenry of Henan, the son of the
late Elector of Flossie by a morganatic mar-
riage with a lady whom he bought from her
drht hUaband, is to marry a Wealthy Polish
prineess.
It iis the mah Who has plehty of "aphid '
who displays the meat grit.
FIrS.—All Fits stopped free by Dr. Mlines
Great Nerve Restorer. No Plts after first
day's use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 00
trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. lino
931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa
Not the Right Sort.
New York lireekty : Visitor—How do you
like your new minister?
Mrs. Muggs--He won't last very long.
His wife is too worldly -minded.
"Really ?"
"Yea. It's perfectly scandalous. All
her dresses fit her."
A Mean Steal.
New York Weekk : Neighbor—My!
my! So the story is true, and your huslaand
has really eloped with the servant girl.
Deserted Wife (weeping)—Yes; and she
was the best girl I ever had, too—a per-
fectly lovely cook, and so quiet and respect-
ful. Dear knows where I'll be able to get
another.
A Georgian editor has a grievance against
one of the railroads. He says that he is
perfectly willing, in return for an annual
pass, to throw on wood at stations, help
grease the engine and assist in handling
baggage ; but when he breaks his leg while
chasing a delinquent subscriber through the
train, he should be allowed reasonable
damages.
A dealer in watches of 30 years' exper-
ience says that he has known many men
who have tried to wind their watches every
morning instead of at night, but he has
never known one to succeed.
With buffalo steak only 35 cents it pound
in New York, it does not look as though
the long -talked -of extinction of the buffalo
was anything like an accomplished fact.
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TICK AND VERMIN DESTROYER.
MHE PROPRIETORSYHAVB PUR '
1 chased the formula at great ex
• pense, and are now prepared to sup
ea the trade withthe genuineareic1eanL
at greatly reduced prices.
It effectually destroys Ticks, Lice, Worms or
Grub, to which sheep, horses and cattle are
subject, and enables the animal to thrive.
The proprietors will guarantee perfect success
when used according to directions, as will be
found on each box.
It prevents scurf and scab, and renders the
wool bright and clear.
Put up in tin boxes; price 30 cents each. One
box is Sufficient for twenty ordinary sized sheep.
It only requires to be tried to prove itself.
Solct by all druggistp. G. C. BRIGGS St SONS,,
Wholesale Agents, Hamilton, Ont.
PENNYROYAL WAFERS.
A specific monthly medicino for ladies
to restore and regulate the menses;
?producing free, healthy and painless
discharge. No aches or pa1139 on up.
enlace. Now used by over iD,000IadIeS
Once used, will use again. Inv1gOrat05
these organs. Buy of your druggist
only those with our rilgnattro across
face of label. Avoid substitutes. Sealed
particulars mailed Oa Stamp. MAO pen
box. Addreile, EUREICA GMEMIOAI.
COMPANY. , DSE200. MOM
THE PEOPLE'S KNITTING MACHINE.
Retail Price only $6.09. 1,
Will knit Stockings, Mitte
Scarfs, Leggings, Fancy:work:
and everythnig required in the
household from homeepun or fag,.
tory yarn. Simple and easy to
operate. Just the machine mem
faintly has long wished for. On
receipt of $2.00 1 will ship Ma-
chine threaded um with fol
struotions, by express 0. p D Yon
can pay the balanee, 414, when machine is reedited«
Large commission to agents. Cirmilar and terms free,
Safe delivery and Satisfaction guaranteed. Address
CARDON & GEARHART, Dundas, Ont.
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