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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-4-20, Page 7A POET AT THE EYI11J€E, Si Edsvin Arnold's. Story'. of . a .Night •at Liek .01)sovatory„... THE 'GREAT EYE` oF SCIENCE. Something About the observatory, the eareat Tens and ite Dostor—The Wades of Orlon—Worlds on Vihre—Sheil We Itiarie or Ercezo ?-14hotography and Spectroscopy — Tim Terminations or Astronomy. T was my privilege, the poet, Sir Edwin Amok', when crossing the inintin. ent of America last year, ley wey of New Orleans and the Texas route, to pats a happy and memorable night in the femoue Lick observatory, neer Sen Francisco. There, as everybody knows, is established that gigan. tit: telescope, which, for the preeent et least, is the largest and Most powerful in all the world • and I had full command and enjoyment of tho magnificent hustrument duriog misty hours of darkness, under circumstances of Et Very favorable kind, and with the estietawie of the (lour- teoua and acconapliehed astronomers who keepwatoh iu that lofty and lonely temple of menace• WHERE THE GREAT GLASS STANDS. The great glass stands in a massive domed observatory on the summit of Mount Ham- ilton, at a neight above the sea of 4,030 feet. This naountain is one of the chief eminences �n that inner sierra called Mount Diablo, lying between the bays of San Francisco and Monterey, and its cresb rises about thirteen miles due east to the town of San Jose, as the crow thee. San Jose, a pretty Spanish -looking place, lies about fifty miles by train south of the Golden Gate city, and from •this to the observatory 'summit is a drive along a winding road of • about twenty-six miles. A pair of stout0ali- • fornitt horses easily accomplish the die - twice, steep as the asoent sometimes • becomes, in four and a half hours. The road leaves the town by avenues of tall agaves and forest trees, and passes for some while in a straight line tower& the • foothills through farmsteads, vineyards and • orchards which tessify to the rioh fertility • of California. Then it begins to wind by zig-zag course up the aides of the green range, on the far top of which the metal •dome on the observatory is dimly seen like Rome rounded boulder. This long approach was made by the State at a cost of $20,000, and, once amidst the hilts, its course is full of wild beauty and °biotite of natural in. • WINE CHEAPER TERN WATER. We dined well but temperately, as philosophers should, economizing the more costly water by drinking pleasaab Cranes Blanca froxn the California vineyards and excellent Zinfandel claret—after which the silent and beautiful night fell upon the rth and covered our mountain top with a vault of purple a glorious night for astronomy, with no moon, not one cloud afloat in the sky, and nature so still that she seemed listening on the peak to what the "Katy-dids' were whispering down in the valleys. A TRIUMPH OF OPTICAL SNILL. Then I catered the wonderful temple of faience where the great telescope reclines an its solid pedestal of steel, panting • through the opening in the dome towards the spangled heaven. Masiive as an ironclall's biggest gun, its monstrous length of nearly Bixby feet sits so easily upon the delicate balance of its pivot that yon iney wield it like an opera glass. Weighing indeed, nevey tons, with a focal tube of fifty-six feet), two inches, and an object glees three feeb in diameter, I -could yet, atter a minute's praotice, bring the immense instrument to boar upon a ester, as I sat in the observing chair, by one Bageatouch on • this or that little wheel. If it were desired to shift the entire dome round to a new quarter of the heavens, an extremely ingenious ar- rangement of wheels •working upon oil permitted me to turn the whole floor, to.• witlithe telescope, the dome, and the astronomers, towards the wished -for point. Arrived there, and still seated in • the oleserver's chair, which moves up or down almost at a touch, handy wheels for latitude and longitude enable you to bring •the ponderous piece, WITH THE PRECISION OF A RIFLE, upon the necessary spot. Never was serene° more nobly equipped for her g'ori- MIS duty. And all this splendid astro- emmieal endownment to be the gift of a rude Califoralan miner 1 Under my °heir, as I sate there with the giganbio " optick " In hand, I saw the tomb ot the plain, Alliterate man who had enriched his age with so splendid and serviceable a benefec- tion—a sarcophagus of white marble below the centre of the revolvitig pletform, and • upon its side the inscription, HERE Tans —Tun BODY OF JAMES LIOK." THE ECCENTRICJ DONOR. From what I gathered, James Lick ;amassed his fortune chiefly by lucky • mining speculations, and was led to dedi- cate a large portion of it, $700,000 to this noble purpose, rather by vague, dreamy, trenecendent ideas than upon etrictly scientific grounds. Ile had come RUM • some " spiritualietio " books, • full of theories about life upon tho moon and the • .planets, and the possibility of •some day and somehow communicating with planetary r people, or at least • of demonstrating the exhitence of "other races in other world." The bigger the ghee the better • the chance of this, he thought. • Come- r, qtzently that vast instrument was ordered of Alvan Clarke and the Lick Trust Was 'formed. Be would be disappointed, prob- ably, if he could gaze through his own .wonderful tube and note how little it can •do with stars Dad Suns and far-off depth of "'pace, beyond the ordinery powers of any ,six-inch reflector. tents ancaims OF ORION. We had boon talking muck of In Plaoe's famous nebular theory (now widely au- eepted, though largely modified and ex. winded elude hie day), and Professor • Campbell deftly swung the vast telescope • Upon tho noble% in orion and 'bride am °Hint again into the observing &air. Theb mars nellouo °bleat of the Ireeveus eetne full in eight defined with exquisite precidoe, as ib could be in no other platie and with no other inetrument I eaw, i the -welloknown ro. glee of 4‘Beta, Oriente," the vast sepersite system of an outlying univeree cleerly mapped, a ileeey, irregular, rnyetotiotne windy shape to the eye ite calgee whirled • atta curled. lilt° those tilt atom cloud, with • stare and star clutters et eliding ferth ageittet the milky -white haelsgtousid of the uobulii, dianionde Were lying upon silver ("loth, erThe central ober, which, to the leaked eye OF to 4 telesoope of low petrel', loohli eingle and et no great brilliancy, re. solved Waif, under the potent oomnaand of the Lick glass, into a eplendid tra. pozium of wenn olarenlitien SUNS, errenged very much like those of • the southern erose. At the lower right hand herder of the beautiful cosmie titbit, there opens a hlaok allele of darkness, width has usually the appearance of an inky cloud about to mallow up the silvery filagree of the nebula, yet, the great glase filled this up with unsuspected worlds. When the Photographing 4ppantUS is fitted to it these ail become clearly pictured. It was necea. eary front time to time to raise the eliding Beat on the ladder in order to keep this glorious prospect of Orion's nebula in the field, lint the lateral motion was eaailn governed by the vvlaeel moving the dome. understood Professor Holden's view to be that we were beholding, in that almost im- measurably remote silvery haze, an entirely special system of worlds and clusters, apart from all others, as our own system is, but) inconceivably grander, larger and more populous, with suns and planets and their starry allies. SIRIUS A MERE mow. Next, we lightly turned the far-sighted giant of Mr. James Lick to Sirius, and held that superb star fast in ita field—a white jewel of the darknees, incredibly deer, burning and brillianb. Yet those almost blinding rays by whit& ib thus flashed its glory to our eyes had left the stern' surface many years ago, and what we saw MB but the light of sirius emitted somewhere about 1874, so that, for all our feeble senses could tell, the orb might be extinguished long after we shall still continue to Bann to be- hold it. Of course, even to the clear Cyclopean eye of James Lick's telescope,the fixed stars still remained what they always remain—inere points of light. No more could be made of them, even .with such a prodigious power, than if they had been pm -holes pricked in the mantle of the night. It has been computed that our sun, whioh looms so large lor us'would be for an ob- server on the nearest fixed star no plainer to behold than to our own eyes an eagle soaring at an altitude three times as great as the distance of Japan from New York 1 How little we are—and how great! A WORLD ABLAZE. We turned the massive telesoope fame region to region of that "bine pacific of infinity." At eaoh new star -scope I heard, with an advantage and delight never to be forgotten, the elucidatione and conclusions of the learned and courteous seventh who took so much kindly interest in my "intel- ligent ignorance." Quite a long and lively discussion arose when the huge refleotor was levelled at the new and astonishing star lately appearing in Auriga which has blazed up so quickly and flickered into dimness again. They were watching and carefully measuring its variations ot lustre at Lick, comparing it night after night with Polare, by exposures ranging from two seconds to one hundred seconds. 12 was Prof. Holden'a opinion that we were gazing there, amid the jewelled labyrinths of the Chariotter, upon a world in fiery ruin, flaring to its utter destrucbion ; all its elemente melting with heat unspeakable; all its live things, if it posseseed any; soorched to a white anni- hiliationMy most erudite end kindly friend was inclined to be pesaimiabio at the spectacle. THE FATE OF PLANETS. "See 1" he add, "ib is to this that all stars and systems—let alone planetii and asteroids --must come at last. Can you find muoh ground for your optimism in such a sight ?" a however, was obstinate in my faitia—that destruction is reconstructed and that all endings are only new beginnings. " Let the great mother,"I answered, "cast her condemned or discharged materials into the crucible of change, and work them up again to fresh miracles of beauty and evolu- tion. • Flame, fury of liquefaction, and ele- ments bubbling in the furnace of stellar col- lision are only terrible to us because we think of them from the point of view of a burned finger'or the boiling range of Fahrenheit. To angelic intelligence the process may be gentle and pleasant to wit- ness as the weaving of white satin. We talk of angels as ascending and descending in inberplanetary epsce, where, neverthe- less, the temperature musb be 500 degrees below zero ! Who thinks of them as wear- ing overcoats and blankets? I am not dis- concerted by your world on fire ?" Whereupon astronomy smiled indulgently upon poetry. PIEOTOGRAPHY AND SPECTROSCOPY. It was drawing near the dawn when we retired from the astronomical banquet. I still desired, before getting a odd sleep, to witness the making of SOMe star photographs, but at the door of the special building devoted to this stood a lighted lantern. It was a sign, not to be disregarded, that one of the profession's1 daft wee busy within taking stellar pic- tures. Like an African chief who loaves his slippers and his spear outside the hut where he has sought the society of his mistress, one of the Magi" of Liok sat closeted there with Urania, and even Mr. Holden did not dare to enter. Deep is the debt, truly, of America first, and next of all the civilized world, to these accom- plished and devoted men, who, on the MM. reit of that lonely mountain toil patiently through every clear suitable night, noting and recording all that is moving in the heavens. THE FASCINATION OF ASTRONOMY. The director told me that when any of his professors took leave of absence they almost always returned long before the ex- piration of their term, unable to keep away from their peaceful and exalted temple of science. He himself had not left his learned eyrie for two months before accompanyingme in my downward ride to San Jose. Sleeping that night amid the deep tranquil of the mountain crest, 4,000 feet above railways and politics, I, Aldo felt thab "It is good to be here," and half Wished that 1, too, might have a little tabernacle buildod to dwell therein with the wise men of lick. Days of Reckoning. Wife—When we go anywhere now We have to walk. Before marriage you always called n carriage. Hushaud—That's why we have to walk what sae neat !antes. Borel—What's your idea of hell—per- petual fire? Soaque—No ; water 1 Mr. Goldrocke—You haven't done a licit of work since you married my daughter. Mn Softenitp-1 know it, sir; bat I worked hard for two yeara befene 1 got her. • "What do you think of nay 'llitteter hat, John 2 " Well, it weal) I'd call huge • and elegant. But when teeter meets a , nor'eastee I shell be very sorry for it. Margaret—You intadn't point that gun at me, Carrie. You know mamma told you never to point an empty gun at any one. Carrie—Bat this one isn'b empty; it?e , Does thee lazy boy of Jimeoe's rio Any. then; for hinineif now ?" " Ob, yen Be dote ell his Own breathing." A QUEBEC MIRACLE. A Oalle that haB ,A8toniehed the Ancient Oapital. Thomas Crottea Remarkable Recovery — Helpless, Tortured •and Deformed by aanammatory Itheumatismearaken te Els HOMO KPOUI e llospitat to Die When Reiter Comes — The Particulate Of the Case as investigated by a Welegvapb Iteborter. • (The Tolograpb, Quebec.) It is admitted on all sides that this is an age of wonders, and there is no reason why wonders should not be accomplished in medleal as well as in other branches of scientific reeearch. Of late scarcely a week passes but what we read ia Canadian and American newspapers of remarkable cures accomplished through the use Of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. We eon - fess that we have not paid much atten tion to their worth until lately, when more than one marvellous cure in our midst has been brought to our attention, convincing us, as• well as others, of the priceless value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Among the cases thus brought to our notice is one which we consider it our bounden duty to chronicle. The case is that of Mr. Thomas Crotty, a young man well known in the City of Quebec, who has been brought back from the very brink of the grave ito re- atored health. The subject of this sketch is the son of Mr, Thomas Crotty, who re- sides at No. 63 at Patrick street. Thos. Crotty, jun., is 29 years of age and for the past eight years has been a martyr to in- flammatory rheumatism, in fact SO much to thab for the past year he bas been a de- formed oripple. Last winter he was re- moved to the Hotel Dieu Hospital for treatment. Every day he gradually grew worse, and his sufferings, according to the good sisters in charge, were excruciating. The very flesh left his body; and from his chest downward became paralyzed. His arms and legs were twisted into it mis- shapen condition, and the poor fellow was an object of pity to look upon. During the month of May last he became blind and deaf, and was unable to move even his head without muskeg intense pain. Hie digestive organs refusal to aot, andthe only nourish- ment he could partake was milk and that had to be given him with a spoon, and at one time hie mouth had to be forced open while the poor fellow was being spoon-fed. Finally hie life was despaired of by the attending physicians, Drs. Vallee, Catania and Turcotte who admitted that they oould do nothing for him, and said that his death was only a matter of time. When Crotty's mother heard this she deter- mined on bringing her son home to die. Consequently on the 24th of May last the patient was wrapped up in flannels and taken to his parents' home by means of the city ambulance. After an elapse of two weeks his sight returned, but otherwise his condition was appar- ently growing worse. It WAS at this junc- ture that the members of the family had their attention arrested by one of the re- markable cures published in the Telegraph., resulting from the use of Dr. Williams'Pink Pine. Crotty Baked his mother to procure some. The good woman never for a moment thought they would be of any use, but determined to gratify him. By. the time the second box was used it was seen that there was a very slight ehenge for the better, and this gave hope to peraust in the use oethe Pink kills, and Crotty continued taking them until he was brought so often to the attention of the Telegraph that we determined to investigate the matter for °amines, and one of our reporters was despatched to see Crotty, who we Anew very well for years, as he was one of the •first boys, when the Telegraph was started twenty years ago, to sell the paper, and we have known him ever since and watched his euterprisina career, end the majority of the citizens of Quebec will recegnize in him Thomas Crotty, the book agent. MR. CROTTY'S STATEMENT. When it was found that Crotty was get- ting better it was decided to remove hirn again to the Hotel Dieu Hospital, and there our reporter found him reading a newspaper and looking quite cheerful, and apparently very far from the grave. In the course of a long interview Mr. Crotty corroborated what the reporter had already heard adding that he never expected to be alive at pre- sent, and his friends who saw him alive last May entertained the same opinion. Seed Crotty. "1 owe my life to Dr. Williams' wonderful Pink Pills. • It is well-known in this city that I have suffered with inflam- matory rheumatiem for the least eight years, but no one hub myself can know the agony I suffered, because it is indescribable. I often prayed to be relieved by death. On • tho 24th of May last when the doctors gave me up I was taken home and I was • resigned to meet death as a• pleasure'but kind Providence had willed it otherwise. It was then that I oame across one of there wonderful cures through Dr. William& Pink Pills and deter- mined to try them. At my solicitation my mother got some, and strange to say before I had been taking them very long I felt a difference ia my condition. This encour- aged me, and continuing their use I could feel that the blood which had left off coursing through my veins was once more circulating. As time went on the tortible pains began to ease and my appetite began to return, and I found that ,L was being brought back from the grave to a new life. My legs and arms, which had been para- lyzed, began to show life and I now beoenee sensitive to the least draught ofair. I then thought) that I would be better in the hos- pital and was again brought back, and am improving in health andstrength every day. The doctors have not interfered with my taking Pink l'illFi, though they first exam- ined them very curiously." Crotty showed the reporter how his once deformed limbs were regaining their proper shape. There is a stiffness still in the joints of hie lames And wrists, which is only to be expeeted after his yaws of suffering, but xii other respecte he is a heelther team eating well and sleeping well. The good sisters in charge of the hospital agree that he is cured through the agency of Die Williams' vvonderful Pink Pills, and every day they bring visitors to see the patient and the wonderful euro which has been accomplished by this remarkeble remedy, whioh is bo -day acknowledged to he one of the greatest achievements of modern a alexia). ' The reporter called at the residence of Mr. Crotty'e parents, and his dory was fully corroborates' by Mrs. Crotty, an in, tolligent women, who- expreesed in warm terms the gratitude she felt at her son's restoration from a life of agony, from, in feet, a living death. • Dr. Willienv& Pink Pille are a perfect, blood builder and uerve restorer, ouring rata &settees Eke rheumatism, neuralgia, partial patalysid, loonnotor ataxia, Vitus' dance, nervous headache, neevone preetratien and the tired feeling therefrom, the after elute Of In grippe, influenza and severe Wei% diseaeal depending on hereon•in the blood, etioh as isoroftda, elitonic erstaieelee, etre Pink Pills give a • hteathy glen" to little arid sallow oomplen- iene, and are a specifics for tile trOubliti peoallar to the fern* ayetem, ana bitOm case of men they effeet a radical cure 1,u al cases isidaing from mental worry„ overwork or eimeasea of any attture. These Pille are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Brookaille, Ont., and Selieneetady, N. .v„ and are sold only in boxes bearing the flrm'a trade mark and wrapper, at 50 'route a box, Or Piz berme for $2.5O. Bear ie mina theft Dr. Williams' Pink Palle are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen er bundsed, and any dealer who offere substitutes in this' form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. The public are Alas cautionea against all other so-called blood buildere and nerve tonics, no metter what name may be given them. They are all imitations, whose mediate hope to reap a pecuniary advantage from the wonderful reputation achieved by Da William& Pink Pine. Axik your denier for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peonle, and refuse all iinitations and subetitatee. Dr. Williams' Pink Pith may he had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company from either address. The price et which theism pills are sokl makes a course of treatment com. paratively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. A WORD AllOVIC- ROTS, "Boys Will lie Boys "—Dried Itontlas Halos • a Happy World. The manly, energetic boy is the one who atteerte hie rights to be in the world, and who promises to be of still greater service when maturity has ripened his faculties to their fulness, and strengthened his mental and physical powers. •&oh a boy is the hope of the future, and he justifies that hope. He may not be an immature Intel. leotual marvel, and it is far better that he is not, for these youthful phenomena are usually a diseppointmenb as they grow older, failing to realize the high anticipa- tions they have &raised, and often, like too early ripening fruit, as quickly and un- aeitaonably going to decay, says Donoshoe's Monthly. There is a place in the world for the good, healthy, industrious boy, who is fond of recreation in its season, and who ie healthful, courteous and obedient at all times. Suck a boy enters with as cheery a inane into the performance of the home chores as he does into the boyish games and pastimes, and his bright, cheerful dispoen Von ie like a gleam of sunshine to all who know him. • There is a jocund ring in be voice and an honest sincerity in face aud word. He is a natural, healthy boy, brim- ful of youthful spirit • and enthu- siasm, and ot the buoyant, san- guine temperament that becomes hie year& He is not a self-sufficient miniature old man who knows more than bis parents. The latter is not a boy ab all, however leis years may classify him,aor he leas developed into a sort of nondescript, neither boy nor man, and a nuisance generally. AU honor to the bright, helpful, spirited boy, the joy of the present and the hope of the fatare 1 He is the one who is properly fitting him- self to take up the serious businese of life when comes Wee time that we have to retire and resign it into his younger and more vig- orous hands. A Secret. While a woman does not need as much muscular energy as a man, she deep need a great deal of endurance, good digestion, good lungs, a good heart and a nervous, sys- tem equal to every demand upon ib. Why so many women have not this endurance, and why stomach, lungs, hearb and nerves are not always in the best condition, is answered by the Herald of Health, in the following practical manner. They do not go out of doors into the fresh air enough and drink it in in large quantities as they ought to do. There are other reasons, no douba but I wish to dwell on this one just now. We laugh sometimes at small eaters, and say they seem to "live on air." We use this expression as s. term of reproach, but the truth is we live on air quite as much as on food. Pettenkoffer, in some lecture he gave • to women a few years ago, told them that an adult person on an average required that every twenty-four hours 360 oubio feet of air should be taken into the lungs. This would equal about 2,000 •gelloest Now, both the solid and the liquid food of the same person for each day would not bo more than threaquarters of a gallon, so when we laugh about one's livingon air, we simply show that we do not know how muoh more we live on air than on food and drink. We do not always live in propor- tion to the amount of food we eat, bat we do live in proportion to the air we breathe. I believe if every woman who reads this would make up her mind the coming year •to consume more pure air, she would lea to much maps headaohes, depression of spirit, hysterical troubles, physical weakness and a hundred other evils, and be a great deal happier and spread happiness in her path, when often she carries gloom and winery. Dora. Da nob wear a hat or bonnet out of pro- portion to the heal, no matter whab the prevailiag mode maybe. Do not wear a wide or heavy trinandMg 11 yen possess a small face. Do not wear a severely plain hounst if you have no bangs. Do not wear ties if the throat is full and large. Stout ladies ehould evoid the how at the throat. Heavy ribbons and lace ilea should be tabooed with large collars. Do not, wear a navy bine veil on a cold day. Do not wear it red veil on it hot after- noon. • Do not wear a veil Mont the nose if the face Di long. • • Do nob wear a hat of leeway materials. Use only it few—the day for Joseph's coat is paste Rob a hat of everything possible, hut do not give it a poverty.stricken • Do not wear large hats at the theatre, as they are only a burden to remade end a nuisance to many. Do not wear a mournieg veil with as toque. A small bonnet is the only proper thing and may be made to rest upon the top of the head, but the back should be cut out Do not purchase a het ;amply be. cause ib is pretby, but itecortein if it is becoming and appropriate, and then aeoure It for its " eternal fitrielle."—lir. Y. Herald. Employment Agent—Whet was the mat- ter with your last) place ?" Dotnesble—The couple had only been married a month, au' I otidn'b stand the lovernakin." • Agent— Well, here's a chance in it house where the quiet."an tric oeuptile—Inivheabb'ese nt eine alerrnige.fl ten 1371 keeasr r32pe'a ce The cosmopolitan nature of the tiopula don of Chicago is shown by the published statemeat that at the lent election 131,335 votes were polled by nativeiborn citizens and 128,212 by foreigners. The Germane aro credited with 45,000, the Irish with 23,578, end the Sein,ndinaviane, English, Pelee, Bohemiebs, Scotch, &Israelis, Cana - dime and Vreneh folloWin the order named, the last detibribeting but 643. Colored and bejeweled table gleee us push ing to the ftoot rank of fever/tiein. SRO FROM THE TIMONE. Third Sion of the Seventh Mario Legislature WINED IN TIIE NEW BUILDINGS. 4. Erma nastorleall Event—The Travelling Dairy—Aarlealturel Colicao Classes— /orison, Commissio18 lloport--Friendly ifSeleUeS' Act—The Loather ‘'rade—A. National Tork—Draltlegei Rehothlhir, Ine. TEE efreurnms Trimmer. The following P'e- among °there were present: 1VIessre. Mowat, Bferder, , Harcourt, Fraser, Harty, Dryden, Gihson, Ross, Waters, Mack, Doak, Tooley, Me - Mahon, Campbell (Algoma), Ryerson, Smith (Peet), Guthrie. Fell, Marian, E R. Fraser, Ballantyne, Conine°, Meredith, Davis, Kerns, Magwood, Clarke, Gilmour, Bishop, Mackay, Stratton, Garrow, Caldwoll, Mis- campbell, Cleary, RaysidelBaxter, Smith (Pork), Field, Biggar, MeLenaghare Wood, Bp'ifh°euri Tudiciary were represented by Judges Osier, Hagerty, Galt, Barton, Maclennan, Rose, Ferguson, Robertson and lila Thos. Hodgins, Q. C., Master -in -Ordinary. The House Opened. Promptly at 3 o'clock the mace was placed on the table by the Sergeant -at Arma, and the Speaker, having ascended the throne, read the prayers. Then the Clerk of the 'rouse and the Deputy-Cierk stepped for- ward and read the writs teemed to fill the vacancies orea.ted in the constituencies of Peel, and Toronto, also the certificate of the election of Mr. John Smith for Peel and Dr. George Sterling Ryerson for To- ronto. • The Howse was then adjourned during pleasure. At. 3,07 o'clock His Honor Liana -Gover- nor Kirkpatrick entered the chamber and read the usual address. • It gives nee great pleseure to meet you as &Legislative Assembly for the first tirae since ney appointnaeat as Lieutenant -Governor; and it Is peoutharly gratifying that I am privileged to do so in these beautiful build- ing now so nearly completed and so well adapted for your accommodation and the convenience of the public service. 1 regret that the condition of the work did not admit ef my caning you together at an •earlier day. It is a source of historicist 'interest to remember that I am addressing the 'Legis- lative Assembly of this Province in the first year of the second century of the existence of representative govereussent in Canada. The progress ofevents from the first Parlia- ment opened by His Excellency Governor Simcce at Niagara in. 1732 to the opening of this Parliament to -day shows what great atrides luxe been made towards the devel- opment of the country and the enlargement of the privileges of eitizenehip under the constitution given be us by the Imperial Parliament.As a native of Ontario and for many years connected with the public life of Carada, 1 rejoice to believe that under our pree,ent relations with the Empire we can enjoy every right and 'privilege necessary to the fullest exercise of self- government. It afford.s me *were to state that the harvest of the past year, while not to abundant as tb.at of 1891, was still a coatis - factory one. The general awakening of agriculturiste lit the Province to the im- portance of the dairy industry and of its more extended development is apparent from the increasing number of creameries and cheese factories eetehliehed during the east yaw. The instruction given by means of the travelling dairy bas been attended with gratifying results, and is still eagerly sought for. The appreciation of practical information and advanced -methods in all branchea of b.uabandry continual to be very marked. Ab 180 previonsperiod has the de- mand for publications in connection with agrieulture been ito great as at present. Much activity prevails among farmers' in- stitutes and other kindred associations, all of which are enlarging their spheres of ueefulneste and becoming more than ever the mama of diseeininating valuable infer- ationt with respect to agriculture. Yon will he pleased to learn that the Agricalturel College ia now taxed to ite tttmosb capacity, so greet has the desire of farmers' sons become to qualify themselves thoroughly for the profession of agricul- turists. The special dairy course in con- net:time with the college has proved so satisfactory that, notwithstanding ' the liberal provision made for this department, more that, half the applicants for admission to the coarse are unable to find accommoda- tion. Yon will learn with pleasure that by a course of lectures ot the college during the summer holidays an opportunity is to be attarded teachers to qualify in presenting the rudiments of agriculture in our public soltoole. I have no doubt thab the effect of Shia will he to render the pursuits of rural life more eittraotive to the young, and that this and the other measures adopted tend to make the position of the agriculturieW as much to be desired for its pleasures and rewards ea that of any other calliog or profession. The report of the Commissioners on the prison and reformatory system of the Province boa for mare than a year been be- fore the public. Ib affords a 'valuable con. • tribution bo the stock of information regardieg the various methods of dealing • with the criminal classee in this and other. • oreentrice end recommends, as the most • effective mode of reducing crime, the with- drawal of abet:idol:ma end neglected chil- dren from criminal and dangerous nese- 'legions. With thio view a measure will be introduced for the better protection of children, the provisions of whioh I com- mend to your meat careful consideration. The salutary effsicts of the Ineurance C irporations Aot of the het session have alreeely !leen distinetly seen. A firm ad. ministrereon of the Act has excluded from Oaterio aturiereas fraudulent or speculative scoietiee which profeseed to iseoure to penman of small mania large eurns in the • fornt of endowment or life insurance. The Province) has thus been belied from the lose end (heiress which, during ehe past few months, the aellepee of swat societies has occasioned in the neighboring States of the t• InPamm. glint to he able to congre.tulateyou upon the marleed impeovement in the stens of the lumber trade, the prospetity of which is of so much mporteeme to the reventie and other publie intoteete of the Province., This Moreeted ectivity during the laeb year afforded a favorable opportunity to sell ors pablic auction tho right to out the pine thriber upon a limited area in the southern pare of the district) of Nipiesitig, and on novae exposed berthe on the north shore of Georgian Bay, and of some eeattered berth's he the Western districts held. over from the sale of 1890, containing in all ahaut 633 equate Mike. I ant pleaeed to state that the prides obtained Were high beyond pres <Fedora, aveteateg $3,657 per utbc, said title although the dues to be paid on the timber When dub wove ioexeatted b onesfeurth, As compared with the dues payable on haat formerly sold in the Nipleelug and Algona* dietricts. in addition to the annual ;natal and timber due e which will be pad lath the Provineial treasury upon the timber When cut, a tura of over p,250,000 'RA realleed by way of beaus. The commiseionere appointed to consider the &noes of certain territory in the dia trait of Nipiesing, south of the River Mattewa, for the purpose of it forest aware, vation and national perk, have completed. the (Intim' assigned to them. They have collected much useful heformation, touching the objects of the oommiesion, and have Made their report, which will be laid be fore yea. A Bill to establieh a national park will be submitted for your ooneiderae tion. The extensive system of drainage whick many municipalitiee had undertaken fa order to render their ewanap leas fit for tillage, led to difficulties in adjuating private and municipal right. Thee° clathera- ties could not be aatiefeattorily settled withe out the fullest posaible information on all the issues hivolved; and to procure ouch infor- mation my predeeessoe caused a commission to be issued on the whole question of draha • age. The report) of the commissioners will. be laid before you, and a bill (aiding with the subject will be submitted for your con- sideration. The reports of the oommiosionere on tbre clehorning of cattle and on assessment lama will be laid before you and will, I trust, ha found useful. A bill consolidating and amending the various acts respecting the University of Toronto, a bill consolidating and amending the Registry Acts' a bill reepeeting labor liens and a bill withregard to voters' lids in cities will, with other bills, be submitted for your consideration. • The estimates for the current year will, at an early date, be submitted for your approval. They will be found to have been. prepared with all the economy cowl:dent with the efficiency of the public service. I am glad to feel assured that your legia- lative labors during the present session will be characterized by the same earnest care and thoughtful attention which have here- tofore marked the work of the Legialative Assembly of my native province. The Lieubenant-Governor then left the chamber, accompanied by the offioers of the city corps who had received him, and the Speaker reascended the throne. After the introduction of the new mem- hers, Mr. Mowat introduced a Bill to provide for the administration of oattim of offiee, and for pereone appointed as justices of the peace. The Bill was read a first time. Mr. Mowat moved that the epee& of Ma Honor, the Lieutenant -Governor, be taken into consideration to -morrow. • If the de- bate closed to -morrow, as it had done for several sessions, the public accounts would. be laid on the table immediately after, anct the estimates also. The Treasurer would make his statement on the following day. The motion was carried. Mr. Mowat moved that select standing' committees of the House for the present session be appointed on the following business: Privileges and elections, railways, private bills, standing orders, pablicr accounts, printing and municipal law. The motion was carried. • Tbe House adjourned ab 3,35 p. in. • Mr: Mertes gave notice of motion that he will on Thursday move for leave to intro- duce a bill entitled, "Au Act to amend the Liquor License Acts by prohibiting the sale by retail of intoxicating liquore." THE GUBERNATORIAL RECEPTION. • A few minutes after the formal closing of „ the House, His Honor the Lieut. -Governor and Mrs. Kirkpatrick returned to the chamber and took up their station on the dais in front of the throne. They were supported by Sir Oliver Mowat, and forming a cordon in froet were the officers of the • local corps, resplendent in their varietal. uniforms. The cards were read by Com - mender Law, R. N., and Capt. Greville Harston. • The following is a hob of these from Hamilton who had the honor of being presented: Mr. and Mrs. Nicholaa Awrey, Mr. and Mrs. John Crerar, Mr. and larta 13. E. Charlton Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Clrerar, Miss Dunlop, kra H. F. Gardiner, Mrs: John A. Orr, Hon. Mr. Gibson and Mrs. • Gibson, Mies Hendrie, Mr. Hendrie, Mr. • and Mrs. Wm. Hendrie, Mr. and Mrs. Amines Jarvis, Miss Lovell, Mrs. and Miss Leggat, Mr. F. MacKelean, Miss Macdon- ald, Dr. McMahon (Dundee), Mr. and Afre. Stuart, Mr. Bidwell Way, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Wood and Mrs. John B. Young, • At the olose of the reception Sir Oliver was presented with his portrait. This mate ter is referred to in another column. GOVERNMENT HOUSE DINNER. The gubernatorial proceedings of the day were wound up by an official dinner at Government House. The affair was very. successful. The following were among the guests: Sir Oliver Mowat, Hon. A. R. • Hardy, Hon. C. F. Fraser, Hon. J. M. Gibson'Hon. R. Harcourt, Hon. G. W. Ross, Hon. John Dryden, Hon. E, H. Bronson'Chief Justice Hagerty, Chief justice Armour, Chancellor Boyd, Chief justice Galt, Ion. Thomas Ballantyne, LieutoCol, Clark, Mr. Meredith, M. I'. P. Alr TIM BAR OF JUSTICE. The Prisoner Was Ashamed but for a Wt. •Scrota BORSOBe The prisoner et the bae Wee charged witk assaulb and battery by his wife. She was ei little woman, but wiry and energetic, sEga • the Detroit Free Pre88. He was a strapping big fellow and on hirn the Judge frowned, fiercely. "So," said the court, "you have been assaulting your wife ?'' " Yes, Ver Honor," admitted the pr./ir- oner doggedly. • "Well, you ought to be ashamed of yourself." " I am, Ver Honor." "The very idea, sir, of a great big fellow - like you are whipping a little woman like that' The littie woman flushed up, but kept still, with her eyes fixed on her huslxsnd expo° tautly. "1 didn't whip her, Yet. Honor." " Didn't whip her ?" exclaimed tlie judge, " Meat lie to me inn You did whip her." • Again the libtbo woman turned. her eyes on her hueband. "Beg yer pardon, Ver Honor, but I didn't whip her. She liked me in aboub three minutee, and thathi why I'm ashamed of myself, Yer Honor," The Judge fairly gaped. "That's right, Yer Honor," put in the little woman ; Horny get' ugly somew tieries, hut he won't lie when 1 am watching him." The Judge took a good long look at both a them and dientiesed the case. • A Bicrepeitee. Manager (to popular loading inan)—Whate salary do you expect? Leading man—X must have a DeStrgftet trOF $700 itweek. Mem:ger—That's understood, but how nmeh at:m.4 cash do you want for Vase senate:a ' Leading roan—Thirty dollars it Week.