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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-9-22, Page 7.....kgrop4rAP05,0.,.."Y.dery 4,000.1aO illeserebed by Waverly. 'trikosPeaOefol Yale le etretelied behind, The numetains rise hefore .Anstsparkling cataraets ahead Dash dovi with deafening roar, aTothinks I see theamountain path, Those ruegeststeeps sublime, Those weeping w1110w2 by the broolt Where ivy branelice twine, think I see the blossomed heath, The little mountain rose, • And the lily of the 'tansy • Down her the water ROWS - 41 see the (muggy marshee, The birelies and the pines,. And towering rocks of gout° rod O'orhung with native vines. 41 see the eagles elle the hewks Which sail along the sky, I hear the serecehing of the owl, His wild Phitonian cry, see the lake which stretches there AU glittering la the moon, -Its waters feed the Bider duck, The swan, the crane and loon. , I see the fishes jumping high To wadi unwary ilies, hoar the boetman's pleasant song Which floats away and cies. And yonder where the granite vooks Are towering to the sky, In lonely doll like wisener'e cell A beacon blazing high. ' Was ever seen sueli gloriens sight, When the moon in -beauty rose, . And. sparkling waters stretched along In fair and calm repose. 'No artful hand could sketch it, Nor poot'e pen describe The Veauties which the hand of God Had strewn on every !Ade. IVY/masa M. Yoteee. The lind of tam 'Whole Matter. When Earth sleet pietere is wanted ; when the tubes are twisted aud dried; 'When the oldest colors have vanished, and the youngest critic has dled ; We shall rest (and faith we shall need it), lie down or an mon or two, Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. _And those that are good shall be happy. They shall sit in a golden chair, .And splash at a tea -league carnets with brushes of comet's hair; They shall have real saints to draw from—Silas and Peter and Paul, 'They shall work for a year at a sitting, and never get tired at all. And only Rembrandt shall teach us and. only Van Dyke shall blame, And no one shall work for money, and no one shall for fame. . But all for the sake of working, and each in his separate star -.Shall draw the Thiug as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are ! —Iludyard arnold's New nay. Here is the prologue to "Adzuma, or the -*Japanese wile": Lest aught ofrend you in our Eastern Play Let me, for him that writ it, briefly say ' 'Tie a true story of the old Japan. Where they who will the ceaseless strife may Scan OE fateful mortal passions; and, beside, -See, in our Adrama, high typified, ' The gentle, patient, faithful rippon wife, . Done, to the fashion of the faultless life Which those did learn to lead by ancient rules . And manners, shutaway from Western schools. . Here shall be seen, too, how the doctrine grow, 'That past forgotten years constrain the new; ataxlsouls are born with life -tales incomplete Which run afresh, when seeming strangers meet. But most, and best of all, here shall you see Hovv "dear to Heaven is Saintly Chastity,', And Death. himself, but Friend and Minister, To Adzuma, and noble hearts like her. The Tuneful Lyre. An owl once lived in a hollow troe. And. he was as wise as wise could be. The branch of learning he didn't know COuld scarce on the tree of knowledge grow. He knew the tree from branch to root, And an owl like that can afford to hoot. And he hooted—until, alas! one day He chanced to hear in a easualway, An insignificant little bird Make use of a term he had never heard. He was flying to bed in the dawniug light • When he heard her singing with all her might *" Efurrey ! hurray for the early worm 1" '" Dear me 1" said the owl, " what a singular term 1 I would look it up if it weren't so late; I must rise at dusk to investigate. .Early to bed and early to rise Makesan owl healthy and stealthy and wise 1" :So he slept like an honest owl all day, •And rose in the early twilight gray, And went to work in the duskyleght To look for the early worm all night. He searched the country for miles around, But the early worm was not to be found; So he went to bed in the dawning light And looked for the "worm" again next night. And again and again, and again and again, He sought and he sought, but all in vain, Till he must have looked for a year and a day For the early worm bathe taelightgra,y. At last in despair he gave up the search, And was heard to remark, as he sat on his perch By the side of his nest in the hollow tree; 0 The thing le as plain as night to me— Nothing can shake my conviction Arm, 'There's no such thing as the early worm." At Old Orchard. She was forty, and fair and fat; He was fifty, and under his hat Was a roundbare spot, and every year Time slowly enlarged the sainy sphere. Together they strolled by the ocean's rim ; He looked at her and she lookect at him ; They saw not tea white yuches lilting by, They saw uos the sea galls soaring high, ,They saw not the glow la the sunset skies. They simply gezed into each other's eyes. "Who are they," WO asked, as we watched them stand. Arm withia arm, hand clasped in hand; • " Are they friends long parted, met ouee more, alenewing old ties by Old Oceau's shore? , .Brother and sister, perhaps are they, Who fail to.find in the locks of gray And. the faded and wrinkled cheeks, forsooth, `The trace of their long-since-anished youth." • ` Oh, whew 1" erica "you're a sot of kions— 'They're just a pair of souvenir spoons." etop the Paper. "I send you here an article that's boutonde make a bit.' "Inclosed please find st joke or two to spic your page with wit.' "1 send a ladle poem which will please beyond a doubt ; Please mail me twenty copies of the paper when it's out." "I liked your editorial on "Times are Growing Better,' And so I lave endorsed it in a fifteen -column letter.' •" Inclosed please find subscription in two (Con- federate bills)." What made you print my poem under Sohn - son's Liver Pills?" ." My wife's been dead a month, and though my paper's going on, 'You've never said it word, tuid folks can't tell which way slide gone.' •" I've been in businees half a year (your due- • bills I return you). And yet you've never wrote me up—so stop my paper, clure you!" Tito Nest calm Village Druggist—Mr. Topher, we have decided not to sell you any more liquor. Uncle Si Toplier—Ain't them any other place in town where I can gib it? Druggist—I guess not. Uncle Si—Then give inc some Rough out Rats. A CORRUPT CONFESSIONAL Terrible Charges 13rought Against Catholic Clergymen, •BUT W110 UAW BELIEVE TREK ? A Montreal despatch says The Canada .Revue, the leading Frenoh-Canedian weekly, in to-day'issue, contains a series of re. rnarkabl eartieles in regard to the relations of clergy and laity. The language used is very outepoken, and in tonne instances reflects most severely on the persona re- ferred to. Oste of the articlea asks if after giving to the olergy riche's, consideration, respect and the highest positione, it is too mueh to ask that they should leave to the people their wives? Replying to the charge of looking after sensations may, the same article saps that it was the duty of the journal to refer to these and scandals but a writer and. a thinker certainly finds more 'mope in such questions as the Maskinonge echisra, where the stub. bornness of a Bishop and the brutality of a priest threw a whole population of believers into heresy; the L'ihe.mbly case, when a child was exposed to die without baptism becauae its father did nob pey the tax; the Lake IYIegantic affair when a woman was opened on the order of a priest, without a doctor, without anyone to eatablish the death, for the solo object of baptizing tho child, which was afterwards returned to its plaoe in the dead mother and buried with. her. "What a contrast," it goes on to say, "between these two mem- bers of the same Church, of the same teaching, and of the same doctrine, one of whom will not sacrifice two &Mars to baptize a child, while the other risks the sacrifice of a life to baptize a being which he does not know to be living; and the question of the Sister's of Providenoe, who have established a banquet -catering system, and who tender like regular cookshop- keepers for banquets given outside of Mont- real, and that without paying any potent, license or tax." Referring again to the scandal the article says: "The time has passed when you could crush down the man who wanted to know what scenes were enacted behind those barred wickets (confessionals) in the face of those ignorniries that have been revealed. The father of a family mud abso establish hie right to confession and apply it to know what has taken place between his own family and the priest who is to -day am knowledged for the defence of the case to be subject to human failings." A third article declares that the clergy heve used and abused everything, and says : "They command everywhere ; they dispose of everything they please both in town and country, in our large as well as in our small schools, among the Rouges and among the Bleus. We are at their meroy. • They make and repeal our laws. We can neither be born, live or die without their permission, and if anyone recriminates he is at once pointed out as a slenderer, a brazen -faced liar, an infidel and an atheist. It appears that this state of things has lasted too long in oar Province. We are descendants of the French, and were it not for the Englieh who live in the land and help to cool down the violence of our nature a 1792 or '93 might some good morning waken up those petty tyrants who peacefully Bleep by the side of our wives and daughters, whom they steal from us by the aid of religion, and more especially of the confessional.° After declaring that the recent scandal reveals the fact that the corruption into which certain members of the clergy plunge themselves is worse than that of Zola's heroes, the article says: "Ib is time that we should protects ourselves. If ecclesiastical authority will r.ot or cannot act and repress we must strike ourselves." Further on the writer adds, "An immediate, firm, and vigorous reform is needed. Our wives and daughters must be left alone. You choose to leave the world, remain then outside of the world, we have no need of you in our parlors, especially when we are not there to watch. You do not need to be intimate with your female penitents to give them absolution. Is is better that you should not know with whom you are dealing when confessing. You travel too much and play too much the part of young men. You are seen everywhere, even at sea bathing resorts." The article con- cludes : "In one word, let the clergy keep away from the women and religion and the Catholics will only be better off. This must be, and at once." Spider Thread for Telescopes. The ingenious astronomer captures a com- • mon gardenspider and places him on the end of it twig. Then he startles the spider,who immediately drops toward th 'round, throwing out a thread as he goes. The astronomer, when the spider has got it little way down, produces a double wire, on which he begins to twist the thread. The spider continues spinning, and the astrono- mer goes on twisting the thread, and, when he requires it, unwinds it from the wire as he would cotton twist. British astronomers, it raay be added, envy their confreres in Australia, for there is a spider whioh spins a thread of three cords; the British spieer's thread contains five cords and is appreciably thicker. Gest left ahasaid. " Mercy l'' cried Chola°. Horeb a man died of brain fever brought on by lawn' tennis! I play tennis all the time !" "Yes, but you kriew—" began Miee Hig gins, and then she decided she wouldn't say it, Therein only ,no Sudden cheat among women to every eight among Men. A Louisville man committed 'striae be. COMBO his fierstheby Was a glri instead of a nboy. Perliepe all th girlm hiS block Wein —eking nitiski lessenue To clean mirrors. Take it piece of clean, eoft spoege equeezed dry, dip it into some alcohol, rub it over the glass, and go over this again immediately after with some powdered blue or whitening sifted through muslin ; wipe off the powder lightily aml briskly with a soft cloth, then finally polish with an old silk handkerchief. Do not go over more than a small space at it time, so that the spirits of wine may be wiped off before it has dried, which it does quickly. The whole secret of the process is in its speed. Force of Debit. IIIRECOS AND MVSTEUIES, Misseellaneorte Morel and Scientine Note Collated by it Correspondent. Matter is the gigentus servant of mind, There are 200,0004000 of ova in if tingle fernale fide The laws of neturo ere the theeghts of Goci,--a'rated, The aun is nob Axed ; ie moves round a larger luminetry. There are difficulties with the Bible, but there are tenfold MOr0 without it. The universe is a splendid musical instru- ment --the Almighty's grand organ. At the marriage fest in Cana, modest water blushed when ehe SIAW her God. The. difficulties of belief are great ; the dime:tildes of unbelief are greater.—Bishop Lonsdale. There is nothing more wonderful than the creation of this huge frame of heaven and earth. That a miracle is possible at any moment is the position those take who believe in the living God. That Christ died, as atitted in the got - pole, is affirmed by the historians Lucian, Suetonius Load Tacitus. There are three revelations of the Almighty : A material universe, an inspired book, an incarnate Godonan. Whose image and superecription heath man? We may answer, Goer's, for we are partakers of the Divine nature. No men was over truly great without an inspiration from on high; and every poet, worthy of the name, was inflamed by Divine truth. Evil, however brought in, is being made to display the attributes of God moro. gloriously, and bring greater bliss to the world. The waiter was a little nervous, and dropped the guest's steak on the floor. Then he grabbed it, and gave it a wipe with his apron, and placed it on the plate. "Do you expect me to eat WM 1" asked the victim, "Oh Excuse me. I forgot. You see," continued the servitor, "1 used to bet a cook." Thirtyof the most eminent men in history, ecienee and art began their careers as shoe- makers:. But they made good shoes and pegged away until they struck—something better. She—Last night I dreamt we were sa Saratoga, and stopping at one of tho finest hotels. He—Don't talk that way. Money is so scarce nowadays that we can't afford even to dream of going to Saratoga. Daughter—Mr. Sillerly asked me Jut night to marry him, mamma,. Would you advise me to aceept him ? Maanina—Cer- tainly, ray (Mild ; the season is too nearly over to be Squeamish "Papa, do Germane become Frenchmen when they die 1" asked Jacky. "Of course not, my don. Why?" " Well, yen geld, When a man died be Was translated, slid I didn't kiiew but what Germans might be tranelated into Trench." Science tells us that star -formation is yet in progress ; and Scripture states that the Lord is even now preparing mansions (Johd. xiv., 2). Wisdom sees that there is something in the distance unto which all things are tending, and wisdom matures men for this wonderful ripening of time. By the gospel, persons even in the lowest depths of poverty are rendered independent of a peter earthly fate, and that independ- ence is better than prosperity. Scientists say the whole system of worlds, viewed by the most powerful telescope, pos- sibly does not bear so great a relation to the entire universe as a single leaf to all the leaves of a forest. Our every act of good or ill has its own work and place in God Almighty's plan; and, day by day, we resume our labor con- scious of it dignity—sure of it destiny— supremely glorious. Indestructibility is not the attribute of matter only; our faculties of thought, of love, of virtue, of progressive holiness' are better things ; and the better do notdie, while the worse live on. Taking the highest view of things, we regard the uuiverse as created for the reve- lation of God'a invisible being, and for the operations of His eternal love in and among Hie creatures.--Reynolcis. When hydrogen and. oxygen are mixed in it certain proportion'andean electric spark is passed through them, they disappear, and a quantity of water, equal to the sum of their weights, appears in their place. The Italians said of Dante: " His words were molten in the fire of his heart, elaborated in his divine intellect, and they came forth in intense earnestness, every one answering to the other in its own place. Strychnia, a deadly poison, is formed by the combination of those harmless articles— carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. Sul- phuric acid, a corrosive poison, is made by the combination of sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen. He who believes in God believes in the greenest miracle ; and if one does not believe in God, he must believe in the miracle of the world, which world—whetherGiod-made or self-made—is, in its preservation and de- velopment, fall of miracles. Sydney Smith was at a dinner party with a guest who argued against the evidence of design itt creation. Presently the gentle- man praised it pudding very much. Sydney Smith said: " You find the pudding good, sir; pray, do you believe in the cook ?" Iron is strong ; water is weak. Encircle the water tightly on every side with an inflexible iron shell. The water, in crys- tallizing, will shiver the iron rim to pieces. It was enclosed as m a tomb, but it comes forth in lively liberty to run it new race. • In old time, angels came, took men by the hand and led them from the City of Destruction. Faith, like an unseen angel, now lea& men away from fear of evil and of death, puts a hand into theirs, leads them out gently to it good and bright land, and they look no more backward. Some time ago there was an apparently useless plant, no one knows where or when. As it grew on and on it began to secrete, in course of ages, starch and gluten, which in after mons ina.de that little wheat -plant to be the staff of material life to innumerable minds. Wheat is first mentioned in Genesis, xxx., 14th, B. C., 1747. If we take a glass bulb, extract the air to such an extent that ordinary tests find it empty, science then discovers within the apparent vacuum innumerable smooth, elas- tic spheres, molecules of the residual gas, dashing about with sixty times the velocity of an express train, and striking each other millions of times in a second.-- Wm. Crookes, When the perturbations of the planet Uranus were first observed, they were not denied on the pretended ground that they were contrary to known laws, although they appeared to beso. Aclamsand.Levernerknew this, and therefore theycollected these ap i 'parent contradictions, n order to ascertain exactly their ohareoter, and, by doing SO, discovered that they had a regularity of their own,and were caused by the gravita- tion of another plauet, Nepeune, whose existence was previously unknown. Sir Lem Newtoa thus defined matter : "Iti 'seems probeble to me that God in the beginning formed matter' in solid, /limey, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of /etch sizes and figures, and with auch other properties, and in such proportion's to space, SS most cOnduced to the end for which He formed them; and that them primitive particles being solids, aro incomparably harder dian any porous bodies compoundel1 of then: ; even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide What God Ifiroself mode oao in the first creation." . Spece is not finite. Wherever men erect a boundary line, they begin again to think of Wee beyond that boonclery. Thue, by continual distsolving,bf limit's, they endeavor to icons it lees inadequate idea of infinitude, though every idea is inadequate. Space 11 occupied, in every part to which eelentifie •olbservatien extencle, by an all.pervading mitt° meclitun eallecl tether, throtigh which, or by ineene of which, acts the energy Of gravity, welding the universe together, So men May enlarge their thought to 'Otani a conception, not comprehension, dg ompipre Pence. Sharply outlined against the deep back- ground of the past, ening iri serene, un approached grandeur above itelieroic figure and colossal phantoms, +=dimmed by the mists of intervening ages, one form with- draws our gaze from all others. One voice, clear in our ears as in the ears of the an ef Galilee 1800 years ago, still Speaks as ho other voice ever spoke to the Imre of uni- venial humanity, One name, in ite regal Power ever laell'e Minds and heart, con- tinues and promises to continue, so during sixty generations, above every nameeen Rev. E. 4. Gender, X. 4. Electricity and liot Mater ye tie the cooper. A company, says the Traciesancm, is about to be formed in this country for the manu- facture of stomeleas barrel's under a system petented by Mr. Oncken, from one piece of wood. The proem is describedas follows: The tree, whiela can be used as soon as felled, is 'sawn up into logs corresponding in length to that of the barrel required, which are then boiled for two or three hours in a closed vessel, it ourrent of electricity paining through the water. From the boiler the log of wood is taken, hot and soft, to a lathe, where it is held at each end horizon- tally, and rotated against it cutting blade, and as the log is thus revolved a continuous sheet of wood, without loss from SaWdliSt, is predueed of any desired thicknese, and smooth on both sides; which sheet streams out from the rear of the machine onto to a table, until the log is almost entirely out up, or, as it were, unrolled. The long sheet of wood thus obtained is cut transversely by shears into the required lengths for barrels. The sheets are then passed through it grooving and a V -cutting machine, that out the grooves in which the head is eventu- ally fitted, and nicks narrw V-shaped pieces at regular intervals out of each end of the sheets, which are then dried. It is found that when dried the wood is thoroughly seatoned by the process. When the sheens are required to be made into barrels, they are steamed for a couple of minutes so as to soften them, bent round until the edges are in contact and the ends pressed in, so as to make the usual barrel shape, when the hoops and tops and bottoms are put on in the ordinary way. The economy of manu- facture is manifest. No sawdust is made. There is no planing. Less steam power is required than is necessary with sews, and far more work can be done in a given tine; while in putting barrels together, skilled labor can be dispensed with. It ie claimed that the barrels are stronger than ordinary stave barrels, inasmuch as they are in ono complete piece, a fact which retakes them free from the many chinks through whioh the contents cast escape and loss ensue. Some of Groveres sayings. The legitimate motive of our Government is to do equal and exeot justice to all our people, and grant especial privileges to none. It is by those who have 'medal interests to serve and not by those whose interests are in common with the masses that the ballot is corrupted. If the people are capable of self-govern- ment and are to remain so, there cannot be too many safeguards about the expression of their will. The discontent of the employed is due, in it large degree, to the grasping and heedless exactrons of employers' and the alleged dia. oriznination in favor ofcapital as an olejsot of governmental attention. The nation that cannot resist aggressiou is constantly exposed to it. Its foreign policy is, of necessity, weak, and its nego- tiations are conducted with disadvantage, because it is not in condition to enforce the terms dictated by its sense of right and justice. It will not do to say that this is an old and determined contention. The Ten Commandments are thousands of years old, but they and the doctrine of Tariff Reform will be taught and preached until mankind and the Republican party shall heed the injunction,"Thou shalt not Meal." The laboring man, bearing itt his hand all indispensable contribution to our growth and progress, roaywell insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same rec- ognition from those who melee our laws as is accorded to any other citizen having it valuable interest in charge. It is evident that tariff regulation by treaty diminishes that independent con- trol over its own revenues which is essen- tial for the safety and welfare of any gov- ernment. Emergency calling for an in- crease of taxation may at any time arise, and no engagement with a foreign power should exist to hamper the action of the Government. They've Made it Start. A good denting point is a good thing; it's a forerunner of a satisfactory business. We've made a good start already on the "New Styles" for fall. There's been con- siderable demand for our light weight over- coat's. These cool evenings are a gentle reminder that the summer days are on the wane. One can dress fashionably with comparatively small cost. All the new colorings in light -weight overcoats, in Venetians, Melton's and Worsteds, Lora $7.50 up. We are more than satisfied with our "Men's Suit" Department; its all that could be desired. We tart thein at $4.50 up to $17. We offer the the latese novelties. A perfect fit combined with ease and com- fort go together with goods purchased from •us. Open nights until 9. Frelick & Co., tailors and clothiere, No. 16 James street north. Tears in Training. She—That couple in front of us—do you think that they are married He—Yes, I etm sure theyare. They have been married it long time too. She—Why, how do you know? He—Haven't you witted that when a pretty girl comes on the stage sho always hands the opera glasses over right away. GRAND TRUNK OFFICERS: The Use ins On140 the Destinies of the Great Dailwar, SIR HENRY TYLER, PRESIDENT. Sir Henry'e life has beexi devoted to rail- road work. Tor many years he was GeV' ernment inspector of realways i England, and was knighted for ills distinguished segvices in tine commotion. He is the eldest on of the late Sohn Obatfield Tyler, born 1827; he married Margaret, daugh- ter of Gerieral Sir Charles Paskiy, IC. O. R. E. He waa educated at the Military Academy, Woolvvieh, and entered the Royal Engineers aft lieutenant in December, l844; became captain in 1853; retired 1$67 ; ap- pointed inapeotor of railway e (Board of Trade) 1853, chief inspector, 1870; retired 1877, on which occasion he was knighted by patent; Was M. P., for Harwich, April, 1889, to November, 1885; and for Great Yarmouth from that time until 1892. L. J. Seargeant, General Manager, Montreal. W. Wainwright., Assistant General Manager, Montreal, C. Percy, General Manager's .Assistant, Montreal. N, J. Powers, General Passenger Agent, Montreal. J. Burton, General Freight Agent, Mont- real. J. J. Cunningham, Assistan,t General Freight Agent, Montreal. • J. Broughton, Freight Claim. Agent, Mont- real. 11. Wiffin Mechanical Superintendent, Mont- real. J. Stephenson, Superintendent jell lines ex- cept Southern and Western Divisions), Mont- real. Charles Stiff, Superintendent Southern and Welland Division, Hamilton. E. P.11annaford. Chief Engineer, Montreal. Joseph Hobson, Chief Enpaneer, Hamilton. J. G. Macklin, Engineer, Peterboroa Wragge, Local Manager, Toronto. H. W. Walker, Accountant., Montreal. Robert Wright, Treasurer, Montreal. J. Fred. Walker. Traffic Auditor, MontreaL W. H. Rosevear, Car Accountant. Montreal. H. IC. Ritchie, Stationery Agent, Montreal. John Taylor, General Storekeeper, Montreal. A. White, District General Freight: Agent, Montreal and Toronto. john Earls, District: General Freight Ageat, • Toronto. A. Burns, District General Freight Agent, Montreal. A. H. Ilarris,Distriet General Freight Agent, Hamilton. Chas. j. Haigh, Through Tra.fac (Freight) Agent, Detroit. Robert Quinn, European Traffic Agent, No. 25 Water street, Liverpool, Eng. F. P. Dwyer, Eastern Passenger Agent C. ,fe G. T. R. No. 271 Broadway, New York, N. Y. N. J. Grace, New England Passenger .Agent, No. 200 Washington street, Boston, Mass. G. B. Oswell, Central Passenger Agent, No. 62e Ford street, Ogdensburgh, N. Y. T. D. Sheridan, Northern Passenger Agent, No. 277 Washington street, Buffalo, N. Y. D. S. Wagstaff, Michigan 8c Southwestern Passenger Agent, cor. Jefferson. and 'Wood- ward avenues, Detroit, Mich. R. F. Arrnstrong, General Agent for Meal- time Provinces, No. 134 Hollis street, Halifax, N. S. M. C. Dickson, Dista-ict Passenger Agent, Toronto, Ont, D. 0. Pease, Dialect Passeuger, Agent, Mont- real. Why Ile Stuck. Wiggsy--I noticed you stick in the middle of your sermon this morning. Dr. Longwind—Yes ; when I wrote that part I wise just after dipping my pen in the mucilage bottle by mistake. Jellyfish are delightfully interesting little creatures until you go in bathing withthem. The world is full of people who are equally charming until they Fettle down next, door to you. Wooden—:Will you marry me? (No re- ply.) Wooden—Mildred, 1 offer you my heare, my hand, my love, any devotion, any whole life. (No reply.) Wooden—I lay my proudest ambitions, my brightest hopes at your feet ; will you not speak, Mildred? Mildred—Who owns the groeery at the cor- nee—you or your brother? 41 do." "Well, why didn't you say tlae.tfirst ?" Mr. Ronny Sance—Now, where would you prefer the drawing-roem ? Mr. Struk- ile—Look here young man I I've it you pile up a einokin' room, 'When 1 don't smoke • a Music room, when I couldn't rday mouth organ ;ti =may, When I ain't got no ntrrso, and it pantry, when I don't pant ; but I'm going to draW the line at a drawing room, Whet I couldn't event chew a straight line.' Beasts Morose Before a Stem. A lion tamer named Iforange, who was giving an exhibition of his skill in a wild beast show at Leveldois-Perret recently had a very narrow escape. The air at the time was heavily laden with electricity, and the animals were in consequence sullen and morose. Lorange entered the cage, never- theless'but when he endeavored to put a lionessthrough her trickts the beast flew at his throat. He amended in beating her off, but she took a second spring and fastened on his arm, burying her teeth in his flesh. Smelling blood the other lions became irritated, but Laramie succeeded in keeping them at bay for a fevr moments during which he seized. the lioness' throat with iris free hand arid releaaed the other arm. He then beae a, hasty retreat.— London Truth. [Choose Your Color. A woman with blue -gray. eyessued a thin, neutral -tinted complexion is never more be- comingly dressed than in the bine ehades itt which gray ia mixed, for in these complex- ions there is a cabana delicate Macanese. A brunette is never so exquisite as in cream color, for she has reproducedthe tinting of her skin in her dress. Women who have rather florid complexions look well in vari- ous shades of plum and heliotrope, also in certain shades of dove -gray, for to &trained eye this color has a tinge of pink which har- monizes with the flesh of the face. Blondes look fairer and younger in. dead black, like that of wool gooda or velvet, while the brunettes require the sheen of satin or glom of silk in order to wear black to advantage. WUEUE J�4r OE NAN NEVEU mon. *fluorescing utter Emma an Edfldereh NOM of the Sixtieth Degree of nongtitude the Canadian, Northwest. Mr. lloseple Tyrrell, of the Dominion Geological Survey, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Toronto and it brother of Mr. 3. W. Tyrrell, land 'surveyor, of this city, has been spending the past summer in working up the geology and paleontology of an un- known section of North America. A letter WrItten by him on July 28th from Fond du imc and sent via Edmonton was received by his father at Weston the day before yester- day, and contains some interesting informa- tion, Mr. Tyrrell has been very succeseful in oollecting specimens and in visiting terri- tory never before visited by white man, save the employees of the audson's Baer Company. He As away north of the 60th degree of longitude, and between the 106 end 112 parallel. M. Tyrrell's adventures, in the great unknown country of the North- west Territories have Already made him well known as an explorer of Canadole Northwest territories. 111 his letter he says : Again I am sitting in a house after hav- ing been traveling eteadily northward for the past month. Even yet the days are long enough here, Es that I could read last night a few minutes before 10 o'clock., From this time, however, they will gee shorter at railroad speed, for not only will they be getting ehorter here but I shall be traveling steadily southward, not ect straight as I came north, it is true but still always a little farbher south each day. Since I sent you the ward from near the' mouth of Deer River I have had e. long and difficult journey through entirely nnknown country. We amended the Rapid River to its source, a journey occupying about 10 days in all, then carried all caur goods and canoes over the height of land and descended a small stream into Cree Lake. Vans large lake, 45 miles in length, we sur- veyed and. explored, being the first' white men not in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company to look over its waters, which rush down the Cree River, it roaring, boiling torrent, to its mouth in Black Lake. Black Lake is surveyed in pest, and leaving two men with most of in stuff on the shore of this lake I descended Black River to Lake Athabasca and tra- veled. westward for forty miles over its deep watere. It was after 10 o'clock last night when 1 reached this distant port of the Hudson's Bay Company, where a French half-breed named Joe Mitchell hap for the hot 47 years lived on deer meat and traded for the Hudson's Bay Company. He doer not speak any English, and I have to talk to him in all the bad French that I can think of. At ..present I am sitting on a comfortable chair fet a nice little room in his house. The open window looke westward over the beautiful broad expanse of Lake Athabasca, for though this lake looks small on the map, Id is about as large as Lake Ontario, and a lovely cool breeze is now blowing over it. Perhaps the most direct and tangible benefit derived from this breeze is that it keeps down the black fits, who are at present the principal occupants of this country. Yon will be pleaeed to learn that up to the present my health has been excellent, and. that my men have shown themselves so far all good trusty fellows. I have made many new geological discoveries and altogether the espedition has been it great success. From here I intend to turn eastward toward Wollaston Lake and shall thence work Deathward towards Isle a la Crosse, where I expect to arrive some these in September, the earlier the better, for there m some work awaiting me in that vicinity. Hint To lamands. "Yon are looking very bad." remarked Mr. Murray Hill to his friend, Peek Slip. "What's the matter!" "The doctor says that my linage are affected and that I must net take more than three drinks a day." "I would try some other doctor." "I did, and he send the same thing." "Wall, then, if each GE them said you could take three drinks it day, tizat makes six drinks." "1 never thought of that before. I'll see the rest of the doctors in Nev York, and if they all say I can have threAi drinks a day, that will make about as many drinks it day as an invalid ought to take." Too runny for Profit. "1 remember," continued Robson, "pro- ducing a, play called 'Champagne and Oysters,' the funniest piece I ever played in. It was a laugh froni begirming to end. The first night I produced no immediately atter the performance, ..foe Jefferson came baok to see me. Well,' I asked, what do you think of it, Joe2' It's too funny to be a money-maker,' answered Jefferson. 'Too funny, I repeated, dumfounded. Yes, too funny,' echoed Jefferson. Yon don't give the audience time to rest „between the laughs, so you tire them out laughing. You'll never make it penny on the play.' "And I didn't."—Music and Drams. Musical and Grassaatte. In the course of the London opera Fseason the largest audiences were alio-acted by Jean do Reszkes Next in point of drawbag power wore the Wagner operate James Owen O'Connor, the tragedian, has become hopelessly insane. He recently escaped from the care oft Ma relatives and was found in a street of Jersey aty ex- hausted. The announcement is undo to an imps. - tient public that the first Auttirieeni appear- ance of Lottio Collin's, the world-ferns:els singer of " Tama -re -Boom -de -ay," will be made in New York oa Monday night, Sept. 5th. She—" Why do yoa toy so nervously with that fan—aro you afraid of 12 2" Ho (gallantly)—" 1 am Afraid of anything that doultl. produce a cot/Inert between oz." When the hualmend of se big, egiy, row boiled, epode jawed, ware* voiced catch= gets up in the workl hie wife becomes known as "ti leder of pronounced Mrs, Treetop.' --The Littletowri Rocco Pays the grand ie growing in tho streets at,Toneri- ville. Unele Trectop-ol don't doubt itt they was rtinning a spichifilingcetet• the last, time I woe there. A Good Word for the-Sals. The question of the finaecial soundness and honesty of administration of thcoSalva- tionArmy has been much discussed recently. The conaltusions of an able and impartial investigator, liSfr. Arnold White, are so clear and favorable to the army that we give a summary of them. They are taken from his article in the fortnightly Roue' w That General Booth and his family are honest to the core. -2. That they take a bare living in return for their labors. 3. That they one and all, for the good of others, are working themselves to death. 4. That General Boothhimself is of independent means, and has given thousands of pounds to the Army; and that two of his sons have abandoned good positions to work in the Army.. 5. That the funds laid out on the Hadlegh colony have been well and wisely spent. 6. That the capital laid out on the colony is intact, if it has .not itt- ereased in value. 7. Thatmoney is urgently needed to carry out the original programme, and if supplied will be well spent. A Care for Nay -Fever. At last, after searching for years, I have discovered the cnly genuine ard effective cure for hay fever. AU the quinine pills in the world will not give a tenth of the relief to the sufferer that will a single trial of zny great and only remedy, and I give the idea away. It is nothing .more nor less than it wash made of witch -hazel and. cocaine to be applied to the nasal passages when the dreadful asthma comes on. le will stop the wheezing in no time, and then the hay fever will have lost allits terrors.— Globe-Democrat. Ethel—George, won't you take me to the matinee to -day. George—My oath to the anion would not permit it ; we only pate swim playhouses which close at 1 p. in. on Saturdays. (Priscilla—Do you think Edwin and Angelina really love 'ph other? Prunelle, —I know they do. They eat together for two hours yesterday and said nothing but "01, Edwin 1" and "Oh, Angelina !' The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Chicago has placed a slots drinking machine" in the post -office build- ing of that city. A penny put in the slot causes it to hand out a drink of cool water. " jnearsAinve, change cars for the east," vrouid !round rather strange in Canadian ears, yet such a ory will be heard in the Holy Land in a very short time if ib has • not already been heard. The British Consul at Jerusalem in his last report refers to the program of the Palestine Railway, which bas now been in oourse of construction for the past two years. The concession was granted by the Porte in 1888 to it company styled "Societe Anonyms Oetemane," having its headquarters at Paris, and the workn whioh Were calculated to cost about £240,000, but which will probably exceed that Surn, are being carried out by a firm of French engineers. A little over one - hag of the line has now been constructed, and there is a prospeob that the remainder Will be completed it September or Ootober. The line from Jaffa to the foo6 of the mourn tains 10 in it fairly good condition but le has not yet been opened to trade The part to be finished iss that which lies be- tween. the Jaffe plain arid Jerusalem, and which will follow one of the valleys leading up to jerusalem from the southwest The work will be difficult, but it offera no insurmountobie obstacles. The length of the whole line will be fifty-four miles, or seventeen milts 'rouge' that the present • ortereamts road. When the lineis completed breneh will he made from thamich to Gaza, • /feasibly With the object ef ionising a jinni - eaten with the liiie,frein Egypt.