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HOW WATER, BAGS.
They are reat tionveniences About
Moue -For an Emergency in Siclances.
The offloacY of het Water in infleirimatory
conditions eau hardly be overrated. To a
limited extent its value has long been
tknown. Our mothers and grandmothers
made use of woolen cloths dipped in hot
water in some forme of inflammation. At
,present the worth of this remedy in almost
all forms of pain is generally r ecognized by
the medical profession, Hot cloths, how.,
ever, are not convenient" of application in
many eases. They are apt to wet the cloth-
ing, and they soon cool and recmire re-
peated dipping. The rubber bag is in every
respect superior. Once brought to the
proper temperature, the heat o long re-
tained ; it is neat, and in every way easy of
• application.
Every family in the country, as well as
in the city, should have at least one reayd
for any emergency. Says the Medica
' Mirror :
a As a profesaion, we do not sufficiently
appreciate water bags. The amount of
',comfort in one of them cannot be known ex-
cept from actual experience. There ohould
be, if possible, half a dozen bags of varioue
aizes in the sick room, easy of accese and
ready for use."
Rubber bags are also of great value in
amid weather for persons of weak circula-
tion. They are much superior as foot
warmers to heated soap -stones. To many
an aged person such a bag plaoed against
the batik in bed is exceedingly agreeable and
wattling.
The same bags may also be of great ser-
vice in cases of high fever, if partly filled
with pounded ice or ice-cold water. Placed
along the spine and at the base of the brain,
or around the head, they rapidly reduce the
temperature and soothe the patient. Gene-
rally however, ice bags are made of thinner
and more delicate rubber. A writer in the
magazine above mentioned says:
• Once when I had gone ten miles into
the country, and had happened to carry
with me one of these little bags, I brought
it into immediate requisition on a patient
with a temperature ,of 106 degrees, whose
head was rioting in pain.
" Before I left the house he declared that
he would not take $10,000 for tbe relief
produced by the simple rubber bag half
.filled with ice."— Youth's Companion.
110W SHE WAS WON.
'Promises About His Habits Didn't Count,
Etat Diamonds Did.
Both sat on a garden seat and the ex-
presston on his face plainly said : " I am
done for 1" He first broke silence by
saying:
* Will you be mine ?" and tried to draw
her a little closer.
She stiffened end refused to budge.
"1 mean to reform and give up all my
bad habits !" he urged.
The object of his adoration was ,inex-
orable.
" And abandon smoking."
No response.
"And leave off cardpleming."
Frigid silence as before.
"I'll never go out of doors without
' She only shook her head.
"And present you with a diamond ring
during bo -morrow."
Then the sweet innocent lifted her down-
cast eyes upward to meet his gaze and,
resting her little bead on his shoulder, she
falteringly whispered in his ear :
"Oh, how kind you are."
And there they sat dreaming, pondering,
thinking—she about the diamond ring and
he wondering where on earth he should
stump up the money to buy one.
mow to Give medicines.
Falsehoods should never be resorted to in
order to induce children to take medicine ;
child inernory is very retentive as such,
which, as they grow older, may have a very
pereicious influence. Telling a child that
the medicine is nice, when quite the con-
trary, is realty shocking ; yet this is done
•every day. Bribery, coaxing and threats,
too, ought never to be used. The better
way is to try mild persuasion, and if he
will not obey, or be toe, young for reason,
ing, then to use no time in parleying, but
to lay him across the lap, hold his hands
and nose, pour the mixture or powder well
back upon the tongue, and not relax held or
withdraw the spoon until the dose be swal-
lowed. Firmness is kindness, in such cases;
fuss and prolonged excitement being likely
to do more harmahan the medicine would
do good. More important still, such dis-
cipline may have a salutary influence on a
child's fortitude in after life. Inconsider-
ately saying all manner of nonsense about'
"the doctor," as though he were some one to
be dreaded instead of welcomed, is another
mistake. When illness occurs, little ones
are likely to become timid and feverish
through fear thus excited. Truth cannot
he too strongly insisted on in all trans-
actions with and among children. —Hamm
Magazine.
The New Adnalral or the Fleet.
Sir John Edmund Commerell, V. C.,
G. C. B., F. R. G. S. whom the Queen has
appointed Admiral 4:lithe Fleet in the place
of the late Sir Provo Parry Wallis, is an
officer of high distinction, who has seen ser-
vice in China, South America, the Baltic,
the Crimea and Ashantee (where he was
dangerously wounded). From 1874-79 he
was a Groom -in -Waiting to the Queen,
after that for three years a Naval
Lord of the Admiralty, and then
Commander -in -Chief on the North -
American and West Indian station. During
Sir Edmund Commerell's tenure of the Com-
mand -in -Chief at Portsmouth—from 1888
to 1891--seveeal important naval functions
took place, notably, the review of the fleet
at Spithead by the German Emperor, and
the double launch by the Queen Of the
"Royal Sovereign" and this "Royal
Arthur." From 1885-88 he was Conserva-
tive member for Southampton. Sir Edmund
is well-known in Canada, having, made fre-
quent visits to Quebec.
enema Fortune:a FrCaltS.
"Well, old man, you'll be in luck from
now on." •
• "1 will ? How's UMW
" Why, thee awfully picem girl of yours,
she won't want to go anywhere but to
• church until Lent is over. Great saving I
tell you. •My wife was that way,"
" Well, your away off. You don't know
my hick. a'he just turned Unitarian and
has laid out a programtne for the next
month that would make your heacl swim—
wants to show that she has broken , away
arcen old prejudices and all that sort of
thing. Don't over think Pm lucky, it, don't
go."
A Metter Joke.
8113—Oh it's fun, I tell you, to flirt with
man till yeti get him to propoep, atad then
4 1
Pay No.'
Pre --Yes ; hue I think ib would be a
greater joke on him to eity "Yes.'
The average mortality of unniarried men,
'between the ages of 20 and 25, is 1,174 in
every 100,0000 while that of married men ie
,only 597,
IVA IwIRDDING '1144-1k` WASIi%
•Ile Was a IMMO Alan Nut NObotly LaVeal
'
A year or twe aao there lived in Con-
neetieue Inman so superior that in his pree-
once all eature wee ill et ease, Birds Were
ashamed of their frivolity and hid theie
heads when they saw him 'sowing. Dogs
blushed for their aimless lives. It ire -
ported that a pair of horses •once tendered
hitn an apology for not joiniog the church.
He never touched alcohol cm tobacco, or
eeld foolish thine, or rested his elbows on
the table, or played carde, or Toed filang
prestions. He never encouraged anybody
in anything for fear they might sin in clobeg,
it. When he moiled it was with one
side of the mouth at a time. Having no
faults he was detested by all who knew hint,
but:as no one dared confess this, each sap -
posed the others loved him. Of course he
was wealthy. The gentle maiden he was
to marry also detested him, but without
fully realizieg it, for she had been repeat-
ecilyconegratule.ted by her parents on her
good fortune in securing the love of such a
Perfect Man, and she was too well brought
up to doubt their statements.
When the wedding day arrived every pew
in the village churoh was full.
Now it happened all by chance that Pin-
feather Presto, a fairy of American parent-
age, was floating lazily along beneath the
village elms that morning disguised as a
blue-bdttle fly. When he neezect the church
he saw at once some wedding was afoot,
and he wad to himself : "Here's for a look
at her. I always did love a bride 1" and he
sailed boldly through the open door. Fly-
ing straight over the heads of the people
until he was well in front, he looked
about and then at himself on the
chancel rail. The great organ was
pouring fourth a wedding march, and
all eyes were turned eagerly toward
the entering bride. She was pretty,
but very pate, and it seemed to Mr. Pin-
feather Presto that, were it not for •her
father's arm, she would have sunk to the
floor. A glance at the groom, and he recog.
nized at once the Perfect Man. "That ex-
plains it!" he n uttered angrily. " He'll
nag her to death with his beastly goodness,
and she knows it 1" As his eyes fell again
upon her unhappy face, his soul revolted at
the sacrifice. it's a shame !" he mut-
tered; " and what's more, stop it !"
Then, acting upon a quick resolve, he
buzzed away to a distant corner of tho
church, and disappeared behind a col-
umn. In less than twenty seconds he
emerged, this time as •ft beautiful golden -
haired boy, just big enough to run about.
The clergyman had begun the ceremony,
and there was a solemn hush upon the con-
gregation. Suddenly all ears were startled
by a child's voice, and all eyes were turned
upon the beautiful boy as he ran swiftly up
the aisle. Then the Perfect Man felt a pair
of chubby arms clasped tightly about his
kneee, and heard in a clear voice that pene-
trated every come? of the church :
"Papa, mamma says '00 mustn't have
anuzzer wife."
A thrill of horror swept over the con-
gregation. The bride swooned dead away
and huug limp on her father's arm. The
Perfect Man pushed rudely away the beau-
tiful boy, and his own surprise and horror
were taken for the embarrassment he would
naturally display at the discovery of his
guilt. All was tumult and confusion
among the assembled friends, who quickly
left the church to talk it over in each
other's houses. A more enjoyable horror
was never experienced in that particular
village.
Th‘maiden afterward married the faulty
young man she really loved, and they are
still living happily together.
The beautiful boy was never seen again,
and to this day is believed to have been
murdered by his father, who finally droweed
himself to escape the contempt of his neigh-
bors
'A Story With a 311oral.
He knocked at the back door of a subur-
ban house and the cook opened it, says the
Detroit live Press. Ho was a sinister -look-
ing fellow and she held on to the door.
Lady of the house int?" he inquired
gruffly.
" No," trembled the cook.
"Man of the house here ?"
Nme
"None of the people in ?"
"None but me," and she tried to shut
the door.
" Aw, come off," he growled, setting his
foot against it. " I guess PI/ come in and
have a good eat. Step lively now, er I'll
grab you:"
She let go of the door and the tramp
forged in and fell into the arms of a big
policeman who was courting the cook con-
trary to orders.
A Hasty Prescription.
Little Custoiner to druggist --Doctor, ma
says please give me a dose of whatyoueallit;
that cures colic. It doesn't taste very, -very
bad, does it?
Druggist—Not so very bad. But suppose
you take a glass of nice soda before you go.
Little Customer—Oh, yes, eir I Thanks.
[Doctor mixes : Little Customer drinks
and starts for the door. Then returns.] I
declare, I was going away without the
whatyoucallit.
Druggist (laughing)—Why, my dear, you
drank it with the soda.
Little Customer—Oh, dear ! Why,
doctor, it wasn't for me ; it was for my
little brother!
Have You Learned
To look ahead?
That laws make no man honest?
What per cent. 11 pays to keep warm?
To avoid personalities in conversation?
How small around the world has grown?
That it pays to study variety in cookery?
That the proud,man knows little of him-
self?
That it pays 100 per cent. to be polite to
every one, from the garbage gathereho the
governor?
That ib isn't wise to ask your husband to
step out of bed and reach the quilt on a
chair near, when the weather has changed
suddenly in the night. ---Good Housekeeping.
She Knew He Was All tight.
"This is the first time I ever kissed, a
girl," he said, as he sealed the compact they
had just made; "the first time I ever kissed
'iter heart fell and her head swam at the
thought that she had just plighted her troth
to a liar, says the Pittsburg Press,
"The first time I ever kissed a girl," he
repeated, drawing h long breath and meek-
ing hie lips, "who understood how to re-
spond to the caresa."
Then her heart bounded and her eyes
danced at the thought that ehe was to wed
a true num after all.
Maiden Innocence.
Mise Primrose --Do pm knew my brother
Ned told me the other day that Tom Alli -
soh mid I was N. G.
Miss Violet—Why, whatever aid Tom
Allison mean by sayitag such a thing as
that /
Misa Priintoee—I'm buil) 1 don't knoW.
I've been trying to melte out ever ?since
what Nt G." etands for, and all 1 can
think of is "nice girO."
HL SVILD *EitfiStatrf
Uowa netrOit litialdeu*s Leap ifear Proposal
. Wn Antielpated•
Leap year iaad 'been on for a month, mid
Ethelind had her utst spied for Athelwold.
She had loved, him long because ohe could
net well avoid it, inasmuch OS he Wigt FAX
feet six in his seek feet,
She would have loved lm short, however,
just the same.
11 was thus With Women always,
And Ethelind wa,s a womanand had been
one Mace the spring of 1870.
Nor was Athelwold a pullet.
" Indeed the tongue of envy had eeid he
was a regular old rooster.
Be that as it may, Ethelbed was dead set
not to let another leap year escape into the
irreclaimable past.
".Athelwold," she said to him on the
evening in which this story opens as they
sat before the great open fireplaee in the oak
wainseeated drawing -room of her ancestral
moths, " don't you think it is about thnO
you were married 1"
He eterted nervously, but there was no
escape. ,
" &bellied," he said seriously, "
thought so this evening when I found four
buttons missing from my clothes, and dis-
covered thet my shirt front was oo frizaled
with wear that it could be combed out and
parted in the middle with a brush,"
Ethelind's face was lees tender. Athel-
wold went on gravely.
"Again, Ethelihd, I thought so, when I
discoveredthat my lendla.dy did not know a
b3rrapin from a mock turtle, and frapped
my champagne in a soup plate ; and again
when the chambermaid forgot to set my
slippers out and I went to bed with my
boots on."
The yearn which had erstwhile pervaded
Ethelincl's sweet face began to hedge.
13ut Athelwold went 011 as gravely as be-
fore''
"Yes, Ethelind, I think it is time I was
getting a wife. On three occasions last
week I was in danger of contracting
pneumonia by waiting at the front door for
some one to let me in, and it was only 3 a.
m. ; and night before last, when the boys
were playing poker in my room and we be-
came drier than a line full of clothes in a
March wind, the landlady raised a row be-
cause we made a little noise foraging
around the pantry for something that was
wet."
He moved over nearer to her side and
offered to take her hand.
" Ethelieid," he said with a deep earnest-
ness, " I think it is time I was getting a
wife to keep things in a more convenient
shape about me. Well—"
Eehelind arose to her fall height and
looked down upon him.
"Hold off, Athelwold Bumhurst," she
whispered hoarsely. " Hold off. I asked
you if you didti't think it was time that you
were married. You have answered me. I
believe you. But, Mr. Burnhurst," and her
voice grew harder still, "I don't think it is
near time that I was getting married. •You
will find the front door in its accustomed
place. Good evening, sir."
And Ethelincl went hurriedly to her
maiden chamber over the portcullis win-
dow.
Athelwold found the front door as shehad
said.
As be stood upon the other side of the
moat he looked toward the moes-grown
walls of the grim, gray castle, and saw
the flickeeing light in the portcullis win-
dow.
"Truth crushed to earth may rise again,"
he said, as he turned away," beta bachelor,
never."
And the light over theportcullis sputtered
and went out. —Detroit Free' Press.
..111111111( ON ANTS. ..
A Composition That Took a Prize in OM
liceguna school.
There is many kinds of Ants. My ant
Mary Jane is one of these kind. She is
genlly good-natured and when she comes
to see My Mother she brings ,me five cents
worth of peanuts and tells me Why James
how you've growed but when I go and see
her and dont only just wawlkmn the Carpit
without Cleening my boots she is orfly
mad.
Ants like to give you Advice and scold at
you like everything but their Hart is in the
Wright Plaice and once 1 found a Ants nest
in the woods I pocked it with a stick and a
Million Ants run out after me and
Crawled up Inside my pants and Bit me
like Sixty.
Ants nests are good Things not to Poke
with a stick Ants are very Industryous in
Steeling Shugar.
I forgot to say that my Ant Martha lives
in Maiu she has a boy of Just my Aige and
He can stand on his Hed Five minits and
how Do you suppose he can do it.
I Do not think of anything more about
Ants at present.--Vick's Magazine.
The Devil Himself.
The devil has no better friend on earth
than the hypocrite.
We like the devil because he makes u
believe we are somebody.
The devil is not able to discourage the
man who believes that Gocl is with him.
The devil never gets very far away from
people who never go to prayer meeting.
If nobody ever looked toward the devil
nobody would over walk toward the devil.
if anything can make the devil rub his
hands with delight, it is to get us to look at
men instead of Christ.
The devil runs his claws through a great
many people by first making them believe
that respectable meanness is religion.
When the devil sees a man who is kinder
to his mules than he is to his wife, he
doesn't care how much he talks in class -
meeting. —The liam's Horn.
Whaling in the Antarctic.
Capt. Grey, of Peterhead, a Scotch whaler
of Lome experience, has formed a small
syndicate 'with the object of testing the
value of the Antarctic region as whaling
groancls. The famous explorer, Sir John
Roes, always believed that plenty of whales
may be found in southern seas'and Captain
Grey is disposed to agree withhim.
Grey hopes to be able to take two ships
this season. They will cost £24,000 to fit
out, and Grey thinks big profib may be
made if there are any whales at all in the
Arctic Ocean. Dr. Nordenskjold, son of
the eminent Norwegian Arctic explorer,
will probably accompany the expedition as
medical officer and scientific searcher.
A Sad Experience.
"This °lel world is just as tough as ever,"
groaned °holly Van Wycks. "When I
wee a kid I wanted the moon and got only
a jack -&-lantern ; now I want the star and
must put ep With a thirdrate chorus girl."
His Intl° JOice.
"That was (Nibs a little joke of mine,"
he said with enthusiasm, just after he hied
exerted himself with a bon mot. Did you
see it. ?"
Oh, yes.," elm anewered Wearily, "Taw
lb Taste Week in a hemrapapOr,"
Mitchell, the pegillet, refers to the pride
of Boston as " ail 61d Nvoina1l.0
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NEWS OF Trr, WUX.
It is said a felt beet factory is to he estab
fished in Berlin, Ont.
A large party of Ontario colonists aerlved
at Winnipeg yesterday.
FM persons were killed in a mine acci-
dent in Haina0,1301eilinh
There is trouble in the German Cabinet
and Chancellor Caprivi has resigned.
Hoe, Mr. Chapleau returned to Montreal
from Florida yesterday inuoh improved in
health.
No particular change has occurred in the
strike siteation on, the Western Division of
the C. P. R.
Of the 200 sealers who were carried outto
sea from Newfoundland all have been ao.
counted for but 20.
The bankruptcy of Portugal is almost an
official fact. Foreign experts maintain that
the treasury is empty.
The Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce
was assassinated • in Paris yesterday by
Jacques Fravel, sculptor.
No reply has yet been received in Wash-
ington from Lord Salisbury to President
Harrison's leter of the 6th inst.
During the past seven days there were 32
failures in Canada as compared with 40 for
the corresponding period last year.
Patrick Cloney, a 15 -year-old Stratford
boy, fell into a cellar yesterday and re-
ceived injuries which will probably prove
fatal.
A remount in the South Perth election
has been applied for end will likely take
place in Stratfoid on Tuesday* before Judge
Woods.
Mr. J. C. Bowers, one of the best known
farmers in Waterloo county, died suddenly
at hie own tea table on Wednesday night,
aged 46.
Geoe 'William Pettis, the famous author-
ity on American whist, died yesterday of
heart disease at his home in Brookline, Mass.,
aged 70.
Mr. Plante, M. P. P. for Beanharnois,
• thanked his friends on March 8th for elect-
ing him, then took to his bed and never left
it. He was 62 years old.
Alex. Anderson, ex -bookkeeper for the
McDonald Manufacturing Company, Strat-
ford, has been arrested at Niagara Falls on a
charge of embezzlement and is now in Strat-
ford jail.
Mr. Peter McIntosh has just died in
Ridgeville, Pelham township, Ont, at the
great age of 93. He was born in Perthshire,
Scotland, and came to the Niagara district
61 years ago.
11 is rumored in Quebec that serious dif-
ficulty has arisen between Lieut. -Governor
Angers arid the new Ministry over the re-
fusal of the former to sign the commission
to Mx. Owen Murphy, appointed to a seat
in the Legislative Council by Mr. DeBouch-
erville.
A Socialist procession yesterday, return-
ing to Berlin from Friedrichrain, whither
ttey went to decorate the graves ot the vic-
tims of 1848, came into collision with the
police and after a sharp conflict, in which
the police used their swords freely, twelve
of the Socialists were arrested.
Mrs. Deacon whose husband recently
murdered Abeille, whom he surprised in his
wife's bedroom, is again in Paris. A cable
says that almost the last request of M.
Abeille before he died was for paper and
pencil, that he might leave a sum of money
to Mrs. Deacon, but this was refused by his
relatives.
Another explosion of dynamite took place
yesterday on the Boulevard Saint Germain,
at Paris, in the residence of a judge. The
police yesterday continued their searches in
the Quartier Halles. Sixty persons living
in one house were taken to the police sta-
tionaand all those who could not give a
satisfactory explanation as to their means
of livelihood were detained. The police
believe they have captured one of the per-
sons who is responsible for, or at any rate
who was privy to, the explosion at the
Lobau barracks.
Out of the thirty-two ducal and princely
amilies, established by Napoleon I., 14 are
,xtinet.
The Ontario Drainage Commission met at
Stratford yesterday.
Ten thousand men took part in the pro-
cession of Irish societies at New York .yes-
terday.
The English Miners' Federation have de-
cided that the men shall go back to work on
Monday.
Sir Alexander Galt, who was reported to
be dying on Wednesday, was slightly im-
proved last night.
A. Guatemala despatch says that General
Reyna. Barrios has taken possession of e the
Presidency of the Republic.
The moulders employed in Chown & Cun-
ningham's stove foundry, Kingston, refused
to return to work yesterday under certain
new regulations.
An avalanche took place yesterday at
Belluna, a city of North Italy, 51 miles
north of Venice. Eight persons were killed
by the immense mass of snow, and a con-
siderable quantity of property was destroyed.
The Pope on Wednesday was given a
present of Irish shamrocks in a • crystal
coffer, and he promised to wear a sprig yes-
terday next his heart.
The Paris police yesterday continued
their search of the lodgings of Anarchists in
the city. In one place they found a large
quantity of chemicals used in making ex-
plosives.
The latesb news from. Berlin gays the
crisis over the Primary Education Bill still
continues, but that Chancellor Caprivi has
not yet resigned, though his resignation
may be handed in on the return of the
Emperor from Huberstostock, where he
went to think over the situation in solitude
and evolve, if possible, a solution to this
difficulty.
Daniel Lathrop, a well-known Boston
publisher, is deed:
Mr. Duncan Campbell, of Simcoe, died on
Saturday, aged 90 years.
The custom house ab St. John, N. B., was
destroyed by fire on Saturday night.
The leaders of the striking English
miners privately admit that the strike was
a failure.
It is reported that the recent mine explo-
siert at Anderluie, Belgium, was the work of
a spiteful miner. .
Patrick Cloney, the Steatford boy who
was badly injured by falling into a cellar,
has died from hie injuries.
Les Chamois, by Rosa Bonheur, which
was recently smuggled into New York, was
sold for $1,050 on Saturday.
A 10 -year oia son of John Gilman, of
Pickering, had his arm torn off at the elbow
by a plahing machine on Saturday,
The official declaration of the insult of
the recent bye-eleetion in Men& took place
at Dunnville yesterday. The total vote cast
was 1,962 for Mn Boyle and 1,635 ter 11"fr.
Brown, whieh gives Mr. Boyle a Majority of
327. There Were 59 spoiled ballots. 'The
total vote Was 100 larger than that of a year
ago.
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' .":14 Mid tiututte
affeirs of the suspeucled St. Petersburg
banker Guensburg places the liabilities as
between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 roubles.
The assets are said to amount to about
15,000,000 roubles, of which securities and
property to the amount of 10,000,000 rou-
bles can be easily converted into cash. The
remainder will be difficult to realize on.
A large bank in Paris has suspended.
One of its directors committed suicide, two
absconded, and one has been arrested.
At Liege to -day patrols discovered an in-
fernal machine on the threshold of the resi-
dence of the First Commissary of Police. '
There is trouble in, Venezuela. The op-
position to President Palacio has resulted
in a resort to arms, and a revolution is
feared.
The fourteenth annual Tramps Conven-
vention is now in session ut Hebronville,
Mass., and the hen roosts in the vicinity
are suffering severely.
The steamer Indiana, laden with pro-
visions from the United States for the
famine sufferers, was given an enthusiastic
reception at Liban, Russia.
A steam pipe burst yesterday on the
coast defence turret ship Siegfried, while
the vessel was lying in VVilhelshaven har-
bor, seriously injuring six of the crew.
Mr. McCarthy has given notice that on an
early day he will move for the appointment,
with the approval of the Imperial author-
ities, of it Canadian representative at Wash-
ington.
TBrussels police have made further
seizures of Anarchist documents. Fearing
disturbances on May day, the Government
will call out three classes of milibia to assist
the troops.
The Swedish ship Marguerite, from Lon
don, March llth, for Mobile, collided with
and sunk the French schooner Lespoir off
Land's End on the 18th. Only one of the
Lespoir's crew was saved.
It is reported that, the Jamaica Legisla-
tive Council has discontinued its grant of
g800 paid annually to a Canadian line of
steamers since 18S6 for communication be-
tween Halifax and Jamaica.
The Chicago aldermen are accused of
having demanded $75,000 for the passage of
a certain franchise, and it is alleged that in
other cases large sums had to be paid to
induce the aldermen to do their duty.
—The Empress of Austria is 54.
to
A Well Known Lady Tolls
Of Creat Benefit
Derived OTZIDEll
Hoes Sarsaparilla
For Debility, Neuralgia. and
Catarrh
"TORONTO, Dec. 28, 1890.
"C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
"GENTLEMEN: For many years I have
been suffering from catarrh, neuralgia
and general debility. I failed to obtain
any permanent relief from medical ad-
vice, and my friends feared I would
never find anything to cure me. A
short time ago I was induced tm try
Hood's Sarsaparilla. At that time I
was unable to walk even a short dis-
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eath-Like Weakness
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But I am glad to say that soon after I
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I am gaining in strength rapidly, and
can take a two-mile walk without feel-
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I am indeed a changed woman, and
shall always feel grateful to Hood's Sar-
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lis y Wish
that this my testimonial shall be pub-
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was may learn how to be benefited.
"Yours over gratefully,
*" MRS. M. E. MERRICK,
"36 Wilton Avenue, ,
"Toronto, Canada."
This Os 'nig, One
Of many thousands of people who
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but fordoes
ttinately their goodness not end
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But after all sick head
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BRIGANDS' CRUELTSES.
An Arizona Henchman Tortured to Death
By Huntan Fiends.
A Tombstone, Arizona, despatch says
The Indians have always been celebrated
for their devilish ways of torture, but it
has remained for a band of Mexican bandits
to cap the climax. " Dutch" Henry's band
of horse thieees raided Henry Wither's
ranch on the Garrita River recently, driving
away all his stock. Withers started after
the band single-handed. and succeeded in
shooting down three of them from ambush,
when they discovered that only one man
was pursuing them. They succeeded in
capturing Withers, and took him out on the
hot sand beds and left bine to lie naked for
• six hours fully exposed to the sun's rays.
' He was then thrown, still nude, into a bed
' of cactus bushes. Afterwards he was
" bound tightly to a stake, and then a large
ant hill near by was torn open with sticks
and he was left to his fate. The insectn
swarmed out and over Wither's body, and
within two hours he was dead from their
bites. The ants did not leave him alone,
however, until every particle of flesh
1 was eaten from his bones. A prisoner of
the band was taken where he could witness
the whole affair, and was afterwards turned
loose and told to tell the people that that
would be the future punishment for all whoa,
tried to kill a member of the band.
Bich But Stingy.
I suppose in a general way that the state-
ment implying that the Duke of Devon-
shire is now a rich man for the first time in
his life is practically true. The parsimony
of the late Duke was well known. A
meaner man in his relations to his children
never lived. For many years he allowed
Lord Frederick Cavendish only £200 a year
—a sum absolutely beggarly to a man in such
a position. Of course, Lord Frederick, like
Lord Hartington, received handsome allow-
ance from his uncle, and this fact used to
irritate the Duke, their father, enormously.
He often deplored that "the man was
wasting his patrimony," and he took good
care that his should not be wasted in like
manner. —Dwarf.
A Reason tor It.
He caught her to his manly bosom with a
wild, impetuous, tumultuous, tempestuous
hug, and held her there for as tnuch as a
minute.
"What a slugger you are," she said,
admiringly, as he released her.
"Why shouldn't I be," he replied,
proudly, taking a velvet ce.se from his
pocket, "haven't I brought the prize ring
with me ?"
She opened the case joyfully and her
eyes rested upon a solitaire which was really
a corker.
Besolutiong for Lent.
will not begin by being a hypocrite.
I will not mistake indolence for piety.
I will not confess other people's sins.
I will not lecture people witlgout their
permission. .
What I do for charity, I will have the
charity to keep to myself.
I will never publish the result of my
efforts to keep the above
Animals in ills.
Shykes—Are you a member of this , new
vegetarian society?
I
ciety ?
Gam hardly eligible.
use the hydrant water.
Second Thought.
She (after he has stolen a kies)—I ani our -
prised, eir. I never theught that of you.
I meter thought you woald dare. (Silence.)
I didn't think you had that muele speak.
" Watah is a good thing," remarked
Colonel Bludcl, of Kentucky. "Wal, may
be sot" replied coiniervatite 1VIajok Bowie.
"It is truly, soli," continued the colonel.
"Ramn makes the ceven, eah, an' cawn
makte whiskey."
Mr. Spurgeoa kept a parrot given him by,
a sailor a year. Of oeurse 11Was a wicked,
bird, Litt I4r. Spergeon liked it beettnee iti
sympathized 'with him when he dipped hie
Mucilage brut/ in the ink.