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DANGLING IN MID-AIR,
Tinner Hung by a Life Line Brom a
to
� tiple,
BAS BROM INSTANT DEATH,
A New York despatch says : Townsfolk
iofPleiudeld, N. J., have terrificdthemselves
during the last four days looking at Harry
'Watson, a tinner, while he was at work ab
the top of the steeple of the Crescent Avenue
I3huroh. Watson is a daring fellow who
'makes a living doing jobs where he has to
climb to dangerous heights without protest.
t ton. He has climbed factory chimneys and
scaled edificee of all aorta until he has be -
Dome so familiarized with the work that he
mounts a stack of brickwork with the same
ease that he would drink a glass off beer.
Wanton was busy at work yesterday after-
noon, while a crowd of curious peraone
stood in the street below, waiting for him to
drop. He hung suspended from a rig"com-
hosed of a chair attached to a couple of
ropes. Around his waist he had taken the
precaution to secure another rope. In re.
moving the paint and other material from
the tin roof Wateon had used acids that had
'somehow got eprinhlod on the ropes.
The acid burned through the ropes and
without the el'ghteet warning one of, them
gave way. The crowd yelled, and scarcely
had their uhoute died away when the other
rope, on which such a eudden strain had
been imposed, also gave way. The chair
tumbled to the street below. Watson data
glad from the rope that had been palmed
around his wallet.
Ho swung to and fro in the air ae he cried
to the excited crowd below to help him. He
had fallen a few feet until the slack of the
rope had been paid one, but he proeervedhia
vomposure. He shouted instruction to the
crowd, but it was only when some men
climbed up inside the steeple that hievgioe
could reach them.
As he swayed back and forth, 190 feet
from the ground, the crowd in the street
looked on in expectation of seeing him drop
every instant.
Finally a ladder was taken to the top
window of the steeple and pushed out and
up toward him. He managed to reach it
with his feet, and while several pairs of
hands steadied it below he loosened the
rope about him and descended amidst the
sheers of the crowd.
LETTER FROM GLAIeSTO3E
In Reply to Irish Presbyterian Homo
Rulers.
A London cable says : Mr. Gladstone has
replied to the declaratien signed by 3,535
Liberal members of the Presbyterian Church
in Ireland in connection with the General
Assembly, expressive ef gratitude to and
confidence in him as the trusted leader of
the Liberal party. The reply is as follows,
fated Whitehall, August 12th
" DEAR SIRS,—I have received with pleas.
are the address from 3,500 Presbyterians
favorable to Home Rule for Irish purposes
in Ireland, which you have been good
enough to send me. I attach to it a great
swiue, and I consider it as indicating a
largo section of faverable opinion,• being
veli aware of the impediments whioh
.eight deter many who entertain similar
opinions from a gratuitous manifestation at
the present time. I also observe what you
lave been good enough to state as to the
ppontaneous character of the address. I
look forward with confidence to a very
large and early return of Presbyterians in
particular to the nen"timenta in favor of
union with their fellow -countrymen which
governed them as a body one century ago,
but this will in all likelihood be delayed
until the Parliamentary centroveray has
been closed. It is constantly assumed by
our opponents that what they term the
loyal minority is homegeneens on all im-
portant matters. The sentiments now
placed before me ae to the land laws remind
me hew likely it is that en this subject in
particular they will ere long be undeceived.
have the honor to be, yours faithfully,
W. E. Gladstone."
HIGH PRESS®RE GOSPEL.
.i new Horner Who Has Struck an Idea
For Filling His Pews.
The following advertisement appears in
New York papers :
SERMONS WORTH HEARING.
CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS,
SUNDAY, 10.30 and 7.45.
What special features of Dr. Hodson's
sermons cause them to be so attractive and
Ten dollars cash will be paid for the clearest,
beat (written) answer to the above question, to
any person (not a member of this church) who
attends one or more times before September
5th. Answers must be honest opinions and not
etcceed 100 words. This advertisement must be
cut out and inclosed ; also the preacher's text
given. This is an opportunity for any one,
Lrom a schoolgirl to a bishop, to hear one of the
most interesting preachers in New York city
and get $10 for yourself, mission or charity -
cash will be sent September 8th by registered
mail. Address answers Advertising Secretary
Church of the Strangers, Mercer, near Eighth
street and Broadway, New York city.
A Frog's Cunning.
A naturaliet paper relates an interesting
incident ef a frog's cunning. A brood of
chickens was fed with moistened meal in
sincere, and when the dough eonred a little
It attracted large numbers of flies. An
observant toad had evidently noticed this,
and every day toward evening he would
make his appearance in the yard, hep to a
saucer, climb in and roll over and over until
he was covered with meal, having done
which he awaited developments. The files,
enticed by the smell, soon swarmed around
the scheming batrachian, and whenever one
passed within two inches er so of hie nose
his tongue darted out and tb.efly dieappeared.
The plan worked so well that the toad made
a regular buslneas of it.
An Apparent Impossibility.
The phrase "squaring the circle" is an.
other way of saying " attempting an impose
sibility." The allusion is to the mathematical
auestien whether a oirole can be made which
mtains exactly the same area as a square,
ed the difficulty is to find the precise ratio
between the diameter and the circumference
of a oirole. Popularly it is 3.1459, etc., but
the numbers world go en to infinity. (Chis
problem has given rise to an amount of labor
one equalled by that bestowed upon the
equally imponeible one of discovering per-
petual motion.
Prepared For an Emergency.
The man whe was seen driving through
Camden 'last week with a row beat and a
coffin box on the same team was highly com-
plimented for his thoughtfulness, There is
nothing like beiug ready for any efnergenoy
which may crime, and this traveler seemed
to understand it. -Bangor Commercial.
Several local dentists are organizing a
ssoiety to pull together, probably.
Stay --We had a high time last night.
Gly --Yes ; I heard, you were en the roof
prden.
Dr. Mary Walker le not even yet
thoroughly emancipated. She cannot pass
et< mirror ',dittoed) looking to see it her bat is
tato straight.
SOUTH CgIGAGO FIRE.
Two 8undred and Fifty Houses
Consumed Yesterday,
SEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE H01d81ESS.
.A. Young Lady, Nota Cow, Upset the
Lamp This Time,
FIRE which, in
the extent of terra
tory it covered, al
, •s.l/I� most rivals Chi -
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one's historic oon-
fiagratlen, began
in that part of the
oily known as
South Chicago
about 5 o'clock: thin
eeftemnoon. FPoma
three-story brick
building atihe cor-
e r ,ner of 91st street
•- and Superior
�. �•: avonue names,
Y./ea": �y� which rapidly grew
-- into volume under
a gale of wind from the west, ate their way
over bleak after block of small frame resi-
dences until they raaohod the lake. Within
two hours the fire had consumed at leash
thirty buildings and five blocks of the
greatest industrial auharb of Chicago.
The fifty thousand reeidents of the
town were precipitated into a papio.
As the pine structures, in which lived the
workingmen employes' in the large stool
milia of the Illinois Steel Co., and in which
the smaller merchants of the place made
their homes; were levelled by the roaring
flames, these whose homer) had not yet
fallen fled wibh their goods and household
Marmite to the other portions of the city.
Streets were blockaded with waggons con-
taining the effects of the trightenod and
fleeing residents, and men and women,
appalled by the calamity, fled in every
direction. From the brick building in
which the fire had its origin, and before
the few fire engines of the district could
make the alighteat impressien upon it, the
flames bounded oaseward between 91st
street and 90th street in the diroobien of
the lake. House after hoose rapidly fell
before the sweep ef fire, which hurled blaz-
ing brands far in advance. From Superior
avenue the flames crossed to Ontario avenue,
Buffalo avenue, Mackinaw avenue and
Greenbay avenue.
CHURCHES DESTROYED.
Among the first buildings to fall was the
First Methodiat Church on 91st street and
Superior avenue, and before its spire had
toppled to the ground the new and com-
modious German Lutheran Church on the
apposite corner was blazing in a dozen
places. Hardly had these more pretentious
buildings bean levelled to the ground than
the fire was detected blazing in a dozen
places farther east. The local department,
a branch ef Chief Swonie's city service, had
been called upon, also all the help in the
immediate district), but by the time the
Filet Methodist Church wan well on fire it
was seen that every effort must be made
teprevent the destruction of the greater
part of the town. The central fire alarm
office sent to the fire every engine that
could be spared in the south side of the
city. The Yosemite, the giant fire boat
lying at the foot ef Le Salle street, was
hurried from its dock, and was soon plough-
ing its way threugh the waters of the lake,
in its 13 mile race to the far southern sea -
Mon, where the fire was raging.
A COAT, FIRE.
Before it had reached the harbor at South
Chicago the terrific force of the fire had
eaten away the five blookabetween Superior
avenue and the lake, and the Yosemite
turned its attention to the immense lumber
yards en the river -front. Before the scores
of engines had made the least appreciable
effect upon the programa of the flames the
immense dooke of the Sunday Creek Coal
Company were in flames. Over 100,000 tons
of coal are stored in the immenae bine.
When the fire began in the coal yards all
the engines that could be tapered, and the
powerful steamer Yosemite, as soon Oe it
reached the harbor, were brought) to fight
the conflagration. At the name moment
the A. R. Beck lumber yards, with dock
frontages almost are great as .those of
the Sunday Creek Company, were
found to he burning, end here the
first great battle of the firemen with the
flames was began. The fire department had
only by this time 'succeeded in getting
together a sufficient number of engines to
give it any chance an all against the rearing
mass of flames.
There were bub seven engines en the
ground at this juncture, and the fire -boat
arrived just in time to lend its powerful aid
at the oritioal momor•t. Several small
buildings had been t ern do 'n by the firemen
and citizens, and this gave thein a breathing
spell, which ultimately p- mad d..reisive for
the firemen. Though ..t arae n,'b able to do
more than hold the flare. a ,n chi -,'k, they
beat them dawn when ad,ittiox"ai ergines
arrived. By 8 o'clock the o•'al in the pada
of the Sunday Creek Co, and Beek'a, lumber
yard were the enly places where the fire was
still uppermeet, and in a resort time it was
praotically under control, i.nd all danger off
its spreading farther wee 'ver.
WHILE BANGING HER HAIR,
There appears to be no doubt that the
conflagration originated in the home of
Master Mechanic Willh•m Gillen, an em-
ployee of the Rolling Mtns. Mica Gilles,
his daughter, was engutted about 4.30
o'clock in preparing her (meaning toilet. She
was using a lamp for the purpose of beating
her curling -hon, and while arranging her
bangs the lamp was overturned, and an
explosion followed, which in tee end
wreaked the homes of several thousand
people. When all danger of a further
spread of the fire was over, the
panic-strkken people, who had fled wildly
for their lives, began to return to
where their homes had formerly
stood. In very few instances were they
able to find any vestige of their
homes. Moat of the buildioge destroyed
were light frame affairs, and were occupied
almost exclusively by workmen of the
Illinois Steel Company. In none of these
instances was the damage largo, but cooler-
vabive estimates pub the aggregate loss in
the reaidentlal district at $400,000 The
Sunday Creek Coal Company has lost fully
5250,000, and the Beck Lumbar Company
$200,000. The latter concern recently made
an assignment, and had just resumed bnsi-
nosa after making an arrangement with its
creditors. Its large shook of. lumber is
completely destroyed, and its bnsineas once
more at a atm:dstiil. Two hur(dred houses
were destroyed.
Despite the rapidity ' with which the
d and roti and panic
flames 'Tread, the o P
which ab one tinge choked tap the atreete, no
lives so far as knewn ware to;t. The fol•
lowing Were herb, none of there fatally •
Fred. Donants, severely horned about face
and arias; Ro1aert and Atldle'i'aUnio, mat,
come by heat and smoke. Martin Burke
fell from a mooted etory window and was
injured internally,
EXTENT OF THE DA15IA,GE.
A oondeeeed report says The fire at
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South Chicago has burned 2e0housos. Seven
thousand people are homeloas, and the dam
age is about $1,000,000.
BRIBERY AT THE FAIR,
The Austrian Commissioner Accused of
Betraying His Country.
OW the Imperial Aus-
trian Commissioner,
Anton von Palltsohek-
Palmforet, is under a
cloud of disgrace.
Many of the Austrian
exhibitors' aro cursing
him roundly, and the
Director General
threatens to send a
rquad of Columbian
guards to hang a veil
ever the Austrian emo-
tion in the Manufac-
tures Building.
Herr Palmforab is accused of having
turned it into a mere salmi -bazaar. Cheap
crockery -store articles were given promi-
nent places from the final) and were quickly
plastered with " sold " labels. The
artistic exhibits have been relegated
to the obscure nooks. Apd now show -
oases have been put in and works of
art removed to make room. One show
case is filled with Imes, without any con-
cession having been obtained from the Ex-
position or any money being paid, except
$2,800 to Rudelph Kube. He is moused of
being the middle man in the space lolling
scheme, and Kuhe, who lives with the
Austrian Commissioner General, divides the
profits with his chief. Dr. Palitaohek-
Palmforat admits that Knhe has acted dis-
honestly, bub denies that be hen been a
beneficiary of the man's imposition on legiti-
mate eshibitore. But a firm of brewers de-
clare that the Austrian Commissioner was
paid a large sum of money to have only
their beer amid in "Old Vienna." Almoab
any kind of beer oan be bought there, and
brewers have not received their meneyback.
Karl Schmidt, the juvenile violinist, who is
not allowed to play on Austrian day, be-
cause bis father is a Bohemian, after spend-
ing fully $2C0 in preparation, has entered
suit against Dr. Palitsohek-Palmforab for
$25,000.
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The Women and the Newspapers.
Within the paab few years there has been
increasing attention paid by the newspapers
to the publication of reading matter in-
tended to attract the, special notice of
women. There le, no doubt, a sound busi-
ness reason for this course. It is the habit
of the people of the United States to have
female children taught to read and under-
stand the English language. Women are
proverbially carious and anxioue to have
some knowledge of what is going on in the
world Half the population of the country
le made up of women. It fellows that if
women can be induced to read the news-
papers there will result greater profit for
the vendors, as well as entertainment and
instruction for the mothers and maidens of
the land. Bat the new vocation en the part
of the makers of newspapers who under-
take to sate female curiosity, humor
female whims and minister to the female
appetite for miscellaneous information has
developed a curiously varied estimate of the
mental pabulum that finds thoreadiest
at the hands of the fair. Take the
newspapers together, the matter prepared
for the especial consideration of women
forms a wenderful conglomeration. There
is a mixture of the useful and the useless, cf
fashion and frivolity, of jumbles and jooe-
silty, that is really startling. The illustra-
tions which go with the reading matter aro
of an equally heterogeneeus character. They
run strongly to bonnete and legs, with occa-
sional deviations toward more ambitions or
important educational attempts to give the
eye what mtght otherwise remain dark to
the understanding.
Probably newspaper publishers know, or
think they knew, what sells to best advan-
tage. But have they netovershob the mark
in the attempt to nater to the female fancy 1
Do not women read the newspapers for
news 7 Would not all the legibimate news,
of science, faehion, art, invention andlitera-
ture prove as attractive as gossip skirting
the edge of nastiness or mere chatter and
farrago? Are the publishers quite sure that
when women have read the news of the day,
including marriages, deaths and the fresh
advertisements of the shops, they do not
throw the paper down without consulting
the "woman's page?"
Why nob treat women in the newspapers
as sentient beings ?„; Why attempt to
fence them off in a place by themselves ?
Why edit women's news from the whipper-
snapper paint of view of young oollegians
or women's tailors ?—Philadelphia .Record.
ODDEST OF SIGNAL CLOCKS.
An Ingenious Timepiece to Indicate the
Three Between Trains.
A novel railway signal olook, which in -
diorites the time ,intervening between the
passage of trains, is the invention of an
ingenious Pennsylvanian. The engineer
can readily tell by glancing at the dial the
length of time which has elapsed since the
preceding train passed thab point. The
clack runs regularly, end indicates the
hears anti minutes just as an ordinary
timepiece does, but s n apparatus threwe
the minute band hack to 12 at the time of
the passfmg of each train. Then the hand
moves forward in the regular way until the
next train.paeses, when it is thrown back
to 12. If the period between trains eheuld
be an hoar 'or a longer period, then the
minute hand will stop at 55 minutes and
remain there until a passing trains throws
it Hack to 12. It will then once more begin
it* 55'minnte jam ney.
The Gentlewoman.
A gentlewoman smiles, bub never langhe,
Sbo Mike, but never quentions.
She is interested and sympalbotlo, but
never presuming.
She is he soft of voice that but one in
audience may hear ber ;peach.
She is oleic, kind and quiet—quiet in her
dress, her mention, her atop and her speech.
She is math'.
She is good.
She is womanly.
an
Oee of the paying professions of Paris 'le
said to be that of a truck packer. He will
fold expeneivo gowns in, tissue paper and
stow away delicate brio-a•bric In the safest
way.
The actresses are varying the monotony
caused by the frequent uent loss of diamond
Rhea has ne husband and Mania h
no hydrophobia ; but both have had their
advertisement. Ale, those sly warden--
actresses
omen—actresses
.Ludy Tennyson ie said to he tmkieg great
interest in the modeling of her late husband's
tenet, which the English sculptor, W. 1
Willianison, has been oemmisaioned to exe-
cute. .Ho lie staying at dldw.orth.
MORE PRIZES FOR CANADA.
•
The Canadian Winners in Peroherons and
Shorthorns,
The Live Stook Pavilion, "wherein will
bake place the International Battle 'of the
Breeds, is an oval building, 250x450 feet,
with an area of 60,000 agnaro ieeb, and a
seating capacity of 12,000. It 113 admirably
adapted for the purpose for which it is
Intended, and judging from the orowdn that
throng the building already when anything
is to be seen, the seating capacity will be all
needed.
Peroberon sballione, 5 years or over—llth
premium, Paul Wattios, Montreal, Bonnie
Chance 12oh premium, R. R. & P. P.
Crappites, Oka, Canada, Bertrand ; 14th
premium, Horse National, Montreal, Bos-
ton leo
bon ;: 15th premium, 0.• Benoit, M sr vi ,
Canada, Delicate ; 16th premium, Charles
Doblie, Laobute, Canada, Clodus ; '18th
premium, National Stud, Montreal, Bril-
liant Bleu.
Stallions, 4 and tender 5 -4th premium,
T. Beeubien, Montreal, Voltaire,
Peroherou mare, 5 years old or over- 911t
premium, T. Beaubien, Montreal, Agathe ;
lObh premium, same Owner, Fancbebte ;
11th premium, Deaf and Dumb Institute,
Montreal, Terbiez ; 14th premium, came
owner, Fiirbatioo.
Percher on mare, 1 and under 2 -4th pre-
mium, E. F. Kiofnmeyer, Wilton Junotien,
Prfncees of Wilton.
CATTLE.
Shorthorn heifers, 2 years and ender 3-
2nd premium, J. & W. Russell, Richmond
Bill, Ont., Centennial; 91h premium, W.
B. Cookbnra, Aberfoyle, Ont., ;Nonpariel ;
1211 premium, W. C. Edwards, Rockland,
Out., Rosewater.
Shorthornbeifers, I and under 2 -5th
premium, R. & S. Nicholaen, Sylvan, Oat.,
21st Maii of Sylvan ; 7th premium, J. &
W. Russell, Richmond Hill, Ont., Centen-
nial Isabella, 27th ; 8th premium, W. B.
Cockburn, Aberfeylo, Ont., Weple Bardle ;
10bh premium, John Morganti & Son, Ken-
wood, Sussex Maid ; llth premium, N. &S.
Nicholson, Sylvan, Ont., Lenore of Sylvan ;
15th premium, J. & W. Russell, Richmond
Hill, Onb., Rose of Auburn, llth ; 16th
premium, W. 0. Edwards, Rookland, Ont.,
Moss Rose of Strathleven.
Helfer under 1 year -1st premium, J. &
W. Burwell, Richmond Hill, Ont., Centen-
nial Isabella, 30th ; and premium, W. C.
Edwards, Rooliland, Ont., Lady Faille a 6th
premium, J. & W. Rueaell, Richmond Hill,
Ont., Ruby Princess ; 17th premium, R.
& S. Nicholson, Sylvan, Ont., Lenore of
Sylvan.
Heroensieting of one bull 2 years er
over, one Dew 3 years old or over, one heifer
2 years old and under 3, one heifer 1 year
and under 2, one heifer under 1 year -7th
premium, J. & W. Russell, Richmond Hill,
Ontario, herd headed by Prince Royal ; 9th
premium, W. C. Edwarda, Rockland, Ont.,
herd headed by Knight Sb. John ; 10th
premium, W. B. Oookburn, Aberfoyle, Ont.,
herd headed by British Chief.
Young herd, consisting of one bull and
four heifere, all under 2 years, bred by
exhibitor—lot premium, J. & W. Russell,
Richmond Hill, Ont., herd headed by
Lord Stanley ; 5th premium, R. & S.
Nicholson, Sylvan, Ont., herd beaded by
Valasoe 21st•.
Clydesdale stallion. 5 years old or over -
6th premium, D. & 0. Sorby, Guelph,
Grandeur ; 7th premium, Robert Nese,
Howiok, Lawrence Again ; lith premium,
Adams Bros., Drayton, St. Gauen ; 9th
premium, National Hares, Montreal, Bar-
celona ; 10th premium, M. Gerrigle, Howick,
MacTurreo ; llth premium, Joseph Moffat,
Teeawater, Crosby Chief ; 12th premium,
G. B. Stewart, Howick, Lord Roll.
Clydesdale stallion, 4 years and under 3
—6th premium, Robert and John Turner,
Calgary, Balbriggan Hero ; 8th premium,
Robert Nos®, Howiok, Lifeguard.
Stallion, 3 and under 4 -4th premium,
Wm. Innes, Rockford, Ont., Symmetry ;
5th premium, S. C. Johnaon, Manilla, One,
Balgowan ; 6th premium, J. Davidson, Ash-
burn, Ont., Westfield Stamp ; 10th pre-
mium, A. fall, Trout River, Ont., Sir
Walter Scott.
Stallions, 2 and ander 3-8bh premium,
Wm. Philp, Yelverton, Ont., Sir Burren
Dale.
Stallion, 1 and under 2 --7th premium,
J'.mes Snell, Clinton, Onb., Bullet Pride ;
llth premium, Wm. Philp, Yelverton,
Ont., Ontario Lad.
Stallion, under 1 -7th premium, A. Bell,
Trout River, Gay Lad.
Mare, 5 years old or over -8th premium,
A. B. Sootb & Son, Vanwick, Ont., Kate
2nd of Congress ; 9th premium, Robert
Davis, Toronto, Lady Dunmore ; 10th pre-
mium, James Snell, Clinton, Gypsy Queen ;
llth premium, James Davidson & Sen, Bal-
sam, Ont., Boyd Stone Lase.
Herefords, bull, 3 years or over -6th
premium, F. A. Fleming, Weston, Ont.,
Commodore,
Bull, 2 and under 3 -6th premium, same
owner, Baron Bovady.
Bull, under 1 year -5th premium, name
owner, Barnum.
Caw, 3 years or ever -4th premium. H.
D. Smith, Compton, Lady Tnshingbam 3rd ;
14th premium, F. A. Fleming, Weston,
Barbara ; 15th premium, same owner, Lily
Welton ; 18th premium, W. D. Smith,
Compton, Amy, 3rd.
Heifer, 2 and under 3 -11th premium, H.
D. Smith, Compton, Spot, 3rd ; 12th
premium, F. A. Fleming, Westen, ?leyful,
Mid ; i3rb premium, same owner, Lady
Fenn, 5th.
Heifer1 and under 2-14! h premium, F.
A. Fleming, Weston, Lotus Beauty ; 15th
premium, H. D. Smith, Compton, Josephine,
and ; 20th premium, same owner, Cherry,
25th.
Heifer, under 1 year -4th premium, F.
A. Fleming. Weston; Lady Fenn, 2ad.
The horses and cattle are all now on the
grounds ; the obeep, pigs and poultry will
follow later. The dog show,, which was to
have been a prominent feature, had to be
abandoned, after a large amount of money
had been spent in preliminary arrangomenta,
owing to the impoeibility of fixing a date
which would not clash with theme of import-
ant eastern shows. In horses,
EVERY BREED OF ANY MERIT
Is represented, 1,017 head being on oxbibi•
tion,"Including 21 head rent by the Czar of
Biotite, some of their pedigrees running back
125 years', and martyr which no amount of
money would buy. They are under the
charge of an afr>er of the Imperial Cavalry,
and include heavy and light trotbern, saddle
borses end drafb,ertimals. All of them are
beauties. Several have been bought by
American breedera and will remain in the
country.
Tim Imperial German Stables abio send
representatives nl the leading breeds, under
the charge of German officers, and all the
moth prominent American and Canadian
breeders aro more or lese largely represented.
Everybody loves a horse, and it is no won-
der the stables are thronged all day long,
ladles being among the moat Interested
visitors, The judglsg of the borne began
yeeberday, 22nd inst., the Suffolk Pure'hea
coming first, endfollewing them tho other
heavy breeds, a day to each, until the 8th
September. The Light horses will not be
shown until towards the end of ()etcher,
when tine weather willbe mere biddable for
speed competitions..
OYS'i3. HORSES .AT THE FAIR.
Ontario la represented in the bores olessee
by 67 animals,; the individual exhibitors
being as helloes :
Cleveland Boy—Potor Arkell, Teeewater
A. 0. McMilen, Erin ; Thee. Irving, Win-
chester, Clydradale—Adams Broil., Dray-
ton; Conroy Bros. & Stewart, Liman ; John
Duff, Rockwood ; James Cherry, Nobieton;
Robert Davies, Toronto ; James Moffatt',
Teeawat•er ; Wm. Molaay, Woodstook ; D.
and 0. Sooty; Guelph ; S. C. Jobnston,
Mamilla ; John Davideee, Ashburn; R. D.
Dondss, Springville ; Wm. Inner, Brad-
ford ; Wm. Philp, Yelverton ; A. 11. Hes•
kin, Cebourg ; Alex. Cameron, Ashburn ;
James Snell, Clinton Jae. J. Davidson &
Son, Balsam ; A. B. Soott & Son, Vanneok ;'
R. Q. Ratoliffe, Anderson.
Suffolk Punoh—Joseph Bock, Thorndale;
Boyd, Moosom & Ce,, Bobcaygeon.
Hackney—S. 0, Johnston. Manilla; , R.
Beith & Co., Bowmanvillo; H. N. Crossley,
Roaseau; G. H. Hastings, Doer Park,
Toront o.
Americo-Arab—J. B. Hall, Toronto.
THE JUDGING OE THE CATTLE
is going on simultaneously with that of the
horses, and in the same pavilion, which is
large enough for beth and to spare. The
cattle barns are thronged with visitors
and divide the honors pretty equally with
the equine stook. Some really magnificent
herds are on exhibition, including the very
best eteck on the continent. In all 1,252
animals are in the barns, Canada contribut-
ing 233,whlch is a larger number than any of
tbo States shows. The bulk of the exhibitors
are from Ontario, and are as follows:
Shorthorns -F. Birdsall & Son, Birdsall ;
W. B. Cockburn, Aberfoyle ; W. C. Ed-
wards & Co., Rockiand ; W. G. Sanders,
St. Thomas ; J. & W. Russell, Riohmend
Hill ; R. & S. Nicholson, Sylvan ; John
Morgan & Sine, Kerrwood ; W. J. Biggins,
Clinton ; H. & W. D Smith, Vaoiby.
Herefords—F. A. Fleming, Weston.
Galloways—W. M. Tough, Owen Sound.
Devons—W. J. Rudd, Eden Mills.
Jerteye—J. L. Clark, Brampton ; James
A, Blain, Gifford; J. C. Snell, Edmonton.
Hoisteine—J. C. McNiven & Son,
Winona.
Ayrehiree—W. Stewart. jun,, Marne ;
Joseph Yuill & Sons, Carleton Place ;
Thomas Guy, Oshawa ; W. M. Smith, Bur,
ford.
THE CANADIAN JUDGES
of horses and cattle are as fellows : French
draft, Dr. D. MoEaohreo, Montreal ;
Ciydeedales, E. W. Charlton, Dunorief,
Ont. (oonaniting judge) ; Ayrshire cattle,
Geo. 0. Bnohanan, Quebec ; Galloways, D.
McRae, Guelph ; shorthorns, J T. Gibeen,
Deerfield, Oat. (consulting judge).
In the judging of the shorthorns it could
be seen at once that the prejudice was in
favor of the red skins. A white or light
roan had to be of extraordinary merit to be
even looked at, and a medium red would
score over a first-class whiteor light roan.
No prizee were awarded to Canadians in
the Suffolk Punch class. The Ontario prize
winners for short horns were as follows :
Aged bull -8 and 9. W. B. Cockburn, Aber-
foyle, British Chief and Greenhouse Chief ;
10, W. C. Edwards, Rockland, Dr. Lentor; 12,
F. Birdsall & Son, Birdsall, Waverley.
Bull, 2 years -3. W. C. Edwards, Knight of
St. John ; 6. W. G. Sandell St. Thomas, Elgin
Chief ; 11, J. & W. Russell, Richmond Hill,
Prince Royal.
Yearling bull -1 J. & W. Russell, Lord
Stanley ; 3 and 4, R. & S. Nicholson, Sylvan,
Valasco and Norsman.
Bull calf -2, W. B. Cockburn, Indian War-
rior - 6, J. & W. Russell, Prince Knmellar ;
8, W. C. Edwards, Lyndhurst II. ; 9, John
Morgan & Son, Korwood, Goldfindor; 12, W.
G. Saunde s, Daisy Prince ; 13, W. 'B. Cock-
burn, Lord Saunders.
.Aged cow -9, W. B. Cockburn, Village Lily ;
13, W:C. Edwards, Bessie of Rockland; 17, J.
& W. Russell. Queen Mary - 19, W. C.
Edwards. Belinda ; 22, W. Z. Cockburn,
Wemple of Halton.
Heifer, 2 years -2, J. & W. Russell, Isabella ;
9. W. B. Cockburn, Nonpareil Prize ; 12, W. C.
Edwards, Rosewater.
Heifer calf -5, R. & S. Nicholson, 21st Maid
of Sylvan ; 7, J. & W. Russell Centennial Isa-
bella 27th ; 3, W. B. Cockburn, Wemple
Birdie : 10, John Morgan & Sons, Sussex Maid ;
11, R. & S. Nicholson, Lenox of Sylvan ; 15, J.
& W. Russell, Rose of Antrim, llth ; 16, W. C.
Edwards, Mose Rose of Strathleven.
Herd -7 J. & W. Russell ; 9, W. C. Edwards;
10 W. B. Cockburn.
`Young herd -1, J. & W. Russell ; 5, R. & S.
Nicholson.
Good authe above showing is, there is
still more to the credit of the shorthorn
breeders. .Among the aged bulls, the first
four were Ontario bred, theugh only one
was owned there at the time of showing, and
in a very large number of the prize -takers in
the other sections there is a strong infusion
of Ontario bleod. C. W. YOUNG.
The Folly of Suicide.
The sin of suicide is not more evident
than is its folly. In the vast majority of
oases the ills which provoke this desperate
act derive their force not from the actual
misery they 'inflict, but from nervous ap-
preheneiveness. They aro bbe shadows of
clouds which threaten, but may and often
do pass away.
It war one off the cruel ironies of fate that
the suicide of M. Prevoat-Paradol, who had
stultified his most brilliant writings by
accepting a post—tbat of Minister from
France to Washingban—under the Second
Empire, took place met as theLiberal cause,
with which his name had always been ease -
elated, was on the eve of triumph.
When Mary Wolletoneorafb, deserted by
her American lover, paced up and down
Putney bridge, saturating her garments
with the rain so that they might not pre-
vent her from sine ing in the water, her life
seemed indescribably dreary—without a ray
of hope. Yet this very hour of despair
proved to be the turning point in her
history, and from ib dated the truest) bliss
she bad ever known—a period of wedded
happiness and joyous work. And so with
" the marvellous boy, the aleop'esa scut tbab
porlehed in hie pride," Chatterton. He
peieoned himself in his wretched garret at
the very time when the feet of one who
would have relieved his poverty were turned
toward the street in which he died.
Price Paid for Slaves.
It is vary carious to read in an old
Roman hietory of the prices paid for sloven
in the palmy days of tete empire. As a,
general thing a laborer could be bought for
about $80 of our money, but after a pro-
vince bad been conquered or a great vic-
tory won hundreds would sometimes be
bought for $5 to $10 eaob. After the niego
of Jerusalem by Titus the pride of claves
fell to $4. Skilled laborers and artisans
brought more. A gardener was worth
About $300, a blaoksmibh $700 ; a good cook
often brought $2,500, an actor er admen
r;000, and a phyeiolan 810,000.
A Doll's Stove.
A doll's stove can be made from a small
oblong box, Cover the box with black
paper. Cut out covers on the top of the
box. Fasten on a strip of black paper
rolled together like a funnel ; and if you
wish, make a hearth to the•sttive by pasting
a strip of black paper to a piece of paste.
board, and turning down ono edge by which
to fasten it to the ntbve.
The Continent of Europe cot/deism 4,095,-
000 more women than men. t1ho female
sexpreponderatoe most strongly in Portugal
andNorway.
y
If beauty's face le long she coyly adjusts
her veil in perpendicular folds.
WORKING WOMEN IN CHICAGO.
Seine Facts .9ber4t the Sweating System fa•
Chicago,
The Illinois State bureau of Labor Statis
tics has issued its seventh biennial report,
which is a volume of over 600 pogo and
deals with three general subjects --working
women in Chicago, the sweating eyattm in
Chicago and coal mining in Il)inoir,
Under the firat head statistioe are given
of the work, wages and condition of 5,099
women employed is 95 eatablishmente in 93;
industries and 474 different occupations in
the city of Chimp. Of these, 4,681 were
operatives, 418 office employees, fore.
women, eto. Twenty-one out of 4,526
worked for less than $2 a week, and 17
received $20 or more per week; 675 received
from $4 to $5 ; 860 from $6 to $7 ; 680
earned less than $4 a week, and 1,429 were
paid from $7„o over 825
a week, The
average
earnings of the whole num-
ber la $6.22 a week. Forty-two and
nine -tenth per cent. of the whole
number received more than this, averaging
$8.18 a week, and those who earn less than
this are 57.1 per cent., and they, receive an
average of $4 91 a week. The average of
administrative and official employees was -
$9.54 a week and of operatives proper $5 93
In regard to the sweat -,hope a large mase -
of statistics is compiled bearing on every
branch of the subject. There seems to be -
about three times as many women as men
connected with these eatablishmente, and
666 shops visited employ 10,933 persona,
of whom about one-fourth are mon and
hoye. There are 500 to 600 cbildren 10 to
14 years old employed in tho sweat-ahope
of Chicago who should be at home, at
school or at play. Thera are as many
thousands of young girla in the shops and,
reveral thousand other women who over.•
work in crowded tenements and rooms a
part of the year and go hungry and seedy.°
the remainder.
Of the shops mentioned 287 are in frame'
houses and 475 in brick. Eighty-two per
e. nt. of the homes are one and twe.story
b. Jaings, 32 per cent. are one-story and 50?
y• omit. twe-story. Three hundred and
Mel eight shops are en the first floor, 94 on,
the ..ecoud, 29 en the third, 8 en the fourth,
2 e.• the fifth, and 175 in basements, gems
of them being from four to air feet below
the street grade. These basement shops
contain 2,049 employees. The phyefoal
condition of these plaeee, as described, ie.
wretched indeed.
the report oonoiudee by calling attention:
of the city to the direct and official efforb
for the imprevemenb of the condition of
these people.
A NEW WAY TO LACE STATS.
it Originated in Russia and is row in Favor
in France.
A new way to lace stays, if stays must be,
worn, simplifies, or rather demeans, thee
area of pressure. It is a faehion affected by.
Russian women, and their quick-witted
Prete)) sisters' have seen its good peinbii and-
adeped it es well.
Three laces are required, with which one,
proceeds ss follows : Tahe one and begin
at the top of the cornet lacing down in the
usual way to within two eyelet holes of the•
waist lino ; a second lace starts at the bot -
tem of the stay and laces upward, stopping
in its turn two holes short of the same line ;r
the third laces through the four holes left,
and this is the only string that neede pulling
in, the upper and lower laces being left with
very alight pressure.
The Cin Sandwich.
” Did yon ever drink a gin sandwich ?"
inquired the genial eoncoctor of cooling
drinks, as he proceeded to fill the orders ef
half a dozen thirsty ones at the same time.
" Well," continued the drought diepelier,
as he agitated the silver lemonade shaker,
" it is not very eften oalied for in fashion
able resorte, but among these who prize
drinks according to the proportion at in-
toxication to the price it is very popular.
Take a colored gentleman, who is nerving
himself up for a oaks walk or excursion, and
wants a razor edge on in short notice. He
walks into a barroom and orders a 'stove-
pipe' of beer. This le a big glass, holding
nearly a pint, half of which he drinks down.
Then he buye a five -cent glace of gin and
drinks that, after which be pours bbe rent
ef the beer on top. This is a gin sandwich,
and for the small pride of 10 cents he lays
an excellent foundation for a free fight at,
the first opportunity.— Washington Post.
A Round Robin.
It has happened before, and mil happen
again, that people sometimes suffer great.
injustice, but do not care to complain ef it.
directly for fear of dismissal from their -
situation or of other unpleasant come quem cele
of their action. They therefore adopt what.
is called a "round robin "—that is, they
sign their names to their petitien er letter -
in a circle, in which form it is impossible
for anyone to detect the name that was first
written down, which of course would bo
the name of the leader of the agitation, or,
as we say in this conneotion, the ringleader.
The phrase is merely a translation of the
French rond (round) and ruban (ribbon or-
robin.)
r-•robin.)
The Slack Knot ofPlum Trees.
It is now an established fact that here- -
sane oil will destroy the black knob of the -
plum and cherry. Paint the affected parte
thoroughly, eo as to saturate it with the oil.
The growth of the fungus will be stopped, ,.
and in time the diseased parb will fall off.
All plum trees should be examined in July
and Augnett, and the oil applied wherever
there ie a sign of the disease.
Letting Into Shape.
"That man over there has eaten seven
(Babes of cucumbcre," raid the astenisbed
waiter. "I wonder if ho is trying to com-
mit suicide."
"Naw," said the heed waiter. , "He
rides in a bicycle race this afternoon and he
wante to be in good shape for speed."
The Salvation Army has invaded 35 ••
countries.
emr,m•tiMigaigniNONSSZUAMMMA
ABOVE EVERYTHING 1'LSTc,
Dr. Pierce's Golde,ti,ledn'ab
Discovery purifies the blood.
By this means, it roaches,
builds up, and invigorates
every part of the .system.
For every blood -taint and
disorder, and for every dis.
ease that comes from an inac-
tive liver or impure blood, it
is the only remedy so sure
and effective that it coo be
guaranteed.
If it fails to benefit or cure,
you have your money back.
These diseases aro many.
They're different in form, but
they're like in treatment.
Rousoupthe torpid liver into -
healthful action, thoroughly
purify and enrioh the,blood,
-talo_ and there's a positive cure.
The "Discovery" does this, -
as nothing else can. Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Biliousness; all Bronchial, Throat, and Lung •-
Affections ;" every form of Semple, even
Consumption (or Lung-scrofule) in its ear-
tier stages'; and the moot sftibborttlenrin :.
and Scalp Diseases, are completely cured ' .,.
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