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The Exeter Advocate, 1893-9-14, Page 2THE WORLD'S FAIL Attondal o o Satisfactoryand � is � � Steadily Ill reasi11, NIBS FOR CATTLE MND HORSES American Prejudice, A allst Il ght Colored Cattle. ONTARIO AT A DISADVANTAGE. (Ontario Press Bureau Special.) WORLD"S Kut, VER a million peo pie pard for admia- eton to the W erid'a Fair grounds lent week, and from present indications the weekly quota will net fail below that hereafter, with every peeped ef exceudiig it considerably as the seamen advances. In spite of the swinish policy of the rail- way companies in regard to rates, the people teem to have at last awakened to the fact that the Fair is come - thing they can't afford to miss, and by every train, from every point of the compass, they are pouring in at all hours of the day and night. Canada is contributing ie quota, the number registered at the Canadian Pavilion from Ontario alone sunning about 200 daily, and there by no means represent all from the Province. Those who do not visit the Canadian head- quarters make a mistake. The building, as as generally acknowledged, is not all that could be desired, but it occupies the very oheiceab location wlthin the walls of the White City, and its spacious verandahs offer the best vantage ground for seeing the fireworkswhich are a leading feature on several nights of the week. Most of the Canadian papers are on file, there le a poet - office to which letters may be addressed, THE LATCII STRING IS ALWAYS OUT 3n Commissioner Awrey's door, and one is always sure to meet acquaintances or hear of their whereabouts. Commissioner Coohburn keeps up the social end, and no man has done more than he, by generous hospitality and pleasant speeches en public occasions, to make the name of Canada known among the nations of the earth. The increased attendance has raised the spirits ef the managers of the Exposition; already provision has been made fer paying 40 per cent. en the bonds ; 10 per cent. per week will be paid till they are wiped out, and there will no doubt be something worth while for the ordinary etookholdere. More attention is being paid to the amusement features, and some ef the brightest minds in the country are all the while busy devising new sohemee to relieve the monobony of constant sight-eeeing. These divertisemente take all kinds of shapes, including parades of the Midway freaks, naval parades, swim. ening oonteete and comic tournaments in the lagoons, musical performances by artiste of all nations, open air theatrical represonta. tions, etc., and all seem to bo sppreciatod. Yesterday there was A SPECIAL PARADE OF HORSES through the grounds, when about two- thirds of the horse exhibitors had their animals out. There were over 600 horses in lire, including the celebrated Russians and Germans, and in the opinion of experts no such collection of pedigreed equines was ever before seen in a eiogle day. The pro- cession was headed by Shetland ponies, driven four-in-hand, tandem, four abreast and every ether way, and a draft of'Ken- tucky mules brought up the rear. The stock pavilion is one of the moat at- tractive places in the whole Fair, new- adays, and it is seldem that moat el the seats are not occupied. Besides the horses and cattle that are in the competitions, the highbred Kentuckians, Runtime, Arabe, etc., are continually being exsroiesd in the ring, and their beautiful performances are cheered to the echo. Thej edging of the beef breeds, excepting the sweepstakes, Dame to an end on Tuesday, and en the whole the result has been fairly tratiafaobery, though, for reasons that aro now well understood, nob so many prises have come our way as it was at first ex- pected. The breeding of thoroughbred stock Is a hobby with American miilienairee, who begrudge no meney to get the beat salamis attainable. .Aa soon as the World's Fair oompetitionewere aunonnced these men ran- sacked the he:de of the world, and depleted the herds of Ontario breeders, who aro for the meat part prect.iaal immerse, making their living out of the boeinesa, and std nob besibate to dispose of their heat animals at ftatiefactery prices. Besides this there was the fear hanging overtheheade of Canadians that they woule have to undergo a three months' guarantee after the Fair before they could get get their cattle home again, ;and, all the circumstances beieg taken into consideration, the wonder is that our breed- ers had the nerve to enter the lista at all, and that they acquitted themselvea se creditably. Another matter that must be taken into account is the PREJUDICE AMONG AMERICAN BREEDERS. against white or Iight roan cattle, while Ontario men take no account of color. So high does this feeling ran that Chief Buchanan, of the Department of Agrioul- pure, was appealed to by the judges, as to whether they should award the d et prem- ium to the magnificent young white ball, Lord Stanley, owned by J. Sc W. Remelt, of Richmond Hill, whioh is decidedly the finest Shorthorn on the grounds. Mr. J Buchanan at once said that color should net 1 enter into the calculation. The triumph over the Ontario Hien over the color pre- .i judice must result in a reaction in favor of the light cattle. Col. Brownof Minneap®Iia, ere sf th leading American shorthorn ren, informed ucle that he had fitted up 110 head from whioh to choose those for the exhibition, and would have brought more from Ontario at the Nat moment, but for the quarantine. In Hereford cattle, Ontario wan for the moat part outclassed, though several of our i that competitors adm tied ee mo t at We were hardly used in the judging, Mm maa Clark,of Beecher Iii nein who is Tho , i , the largest American Hereford breeder, remarked that it would be well if our people would smooth the heads of the Herefords a little more ; they wore not quite so good as they might be..- One of our Hereford cows was the only one he wan afraid of. The Russell shorthorn heifer, Centennial', Tsabelia, to whioh mooed prize only was awarded, was the finest epee/inlet he had ever seen, but HER CO.tOR WAS AGAINST TOM. In Galloway), Mr. hough, of 0 wen Senn sit War the only Ontario exhibitor and did wonderfully well. There weep very large showing of thie breed, whioh is really one of the oldeat ,known, and in conversation with several breeders, notably Mr. F. Platt, of Nauman City,1 gleaned many inter- esting faota concerniug .them. Mr. Platt breeds Galteways by the thousand, and finds that for range work in the high latitudes they fill the bill better thou any other breed heknows. Their iron coil atNations and sheggy coats enable thein to withstand intense cold, and blizzards have no terrors for them. They live on the .coarsest feed, and take on flesh under the most adverse condi. done. Tile hides are very valuable, being handsomer than -those of the buffalo, and $40 te $50 le not an unusual price for fine epooimens.The competition in the Gallo - ways was exceedingly keen, and Mr. Mc- Rae, of Guelph, who was the sole judge, showed us no favors. In the section—four animals form one—he acknowledged that the three lots (one owned by Mr. Rough). were 80 nearly alike that he could nob make a decision. Mr. Imbsden, of Illinois, was called in, and the first prize went to Mr. Paul, of Minuesaba, Mr. -Enough taking second, SUMMING UP RESULTS, es far es the judging has gone, Ontario shorthorns have taken 54 prizes, aggregat- ing $'.1,400 and over in money. Of tide eum the Messrs. Russell take over $1,000. In Herefords, 12 prizes, but no money. In :'allowaya, 11 prizes and $820 in nianey. In the hcr3e °latsea Ontario men fared more hardly than in cattle. In Clydee we took 26 prime ; Shirae, 2 Cleveland Boys, 2; Suffolk 1, and in Americo -Arabs, 5—up to present writing. Individual Clydee came from all section of the Province, and the largest exhibitor was R. Davies, of the Dominion Brewing Co , Toronto, whose splendid animals, to put it mildly, received a good deal less consideration than they were entitled to at the hands of the judges. The phenomenal anocess was that of Dr. J. P. Hall, of Toronto, who with three eplondid Americo -Arabs swept the list, taking 5 prizes, including the sweepstakee. Within the past few days the Ontario section of the live stock barns have been profusely and elegantly decorated under the supervision of Mr. Adam Armstrong, Deputy Commissioner, whose taste in nuoh mattera has done ao much to add to the at. tractivenesa ef our exbibite in many of the departments. C. W. YOUNG. HER PROI'HHBL TO VICTOR DEGO. Negro Woman Has Three Musses Stead for the Great Poet. A few weeks ago an old negress came from Bridgetown, on the Island of Barba - deco, to a missionary, says the Nashville American, and asked him to read three manes for Victor Huge. The missionary was astonished, and at first believed that he had misunderstood the visitor. But the negrees replied to his quoetions that years ago the had given aid to Huge's daughter, wbo had married an English officer against the will of her father, and had fled with him to Barbadoos. The officer deserted hie wife, who cense! quently became aimed intone, and was cared for in that condition by the negregs. The.negress wrote to the poet ef the sad condition of his child. HugoParis with sen 2,000 francs and had her go daughter. After remaining a time in the house of the author, the negrese decided to return to Barbadoen. One reason for this was the fad that the poor daughter had become in- curably insane and been consigned to an asylum. The poet, who respected the negreaa be- came of the love she had borne Ms daughter, said to her before her departure from Paris : " When you hear of my death in your native country, have three manes read for me." The old woman, who firet heard ef the death of Victor Ingo a few months ago, has now fulfilled the wishes of thepoeb. DID THE FLOOD IN „,WO WORDS. Cbaldeaus Were Modest In Their Ideas of Historical Records. If the Chaldean flood tablet which Jehne Hopkins University Bait to the .American Bible Society yesterday is a fair sample of the books of 4,000 years ago a Chaldean library as extensive as the Aster library would cover Manhattan Island. The tablet is a complete book in itself. It le a plaster cast from a modern reproducbion in clay of the eleventh book of the so-called Izdnbor, or Gilgatesh legends. In contains the Chaldean account of the flood, written in cuneiform next more than 2,000 yearsbeforo Cbriet. The tablet is about 10 fnohee long by 7 wide and three-quarters of an inch thick. It ie written on both sides in three columns, and contains 531 lines, or about 2,000wordr. The restoration is the work of Professor Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins, one (Athe first soholare of his day in the study of an- tiquities. The original tablet was found during the British excavations in the valley of the Euphrates and Tigris, and was broken in 13 pieces, which are new in the British Museum. A Varnish ler Inflamed Hiurfaees, Dr. Berlier, professor of the School of Medicine at Grenoble, communicated ab the lad meeting of the Academie de Medicine particulate of a now remedy for tea in affections of the mucous membrane of the skin. It consists of aerate tantlsepliovarnish eteresol, able to adhere closely to the mucuos membrane and skin. "y varied ex- perimenba Dr. Berlier proves the powerfully bactericide action of :tenon, and Bhews that the phenol, wbioh Is the aotive con- stituent in ib, only evaporates completely from the ooab of varnioh at the end of 24 hours. Applied to the throat, storm! .re. mains in place several hears, And veleta the movements ofdeglubition, Its application le net painful, and is followed by no nn - pleasant effects. Employed in cases of diphtheria in the 'Trousseau Hospital during three months, the proportion of cures was 81 per oenb. Sbereeol modifies injured sur- faces and preeerveaadjoinlisgportions of the akin from contagion. The Bite of OM. In some parte of England u a ear custom g is still in vogue; whioh is repeated whenever a,death aconro. It is called the "bite• of sin," and whenever someone in a hong® dies a piece of bread is laid en the breast of the corpse, which some stroller -by is persuaded to eat for a good arm of money. in this way it le believed that the ales of the dead aro transferred to the living, who in turn can shove them off together with his own by a aimilor ceremony when his life comes an d w to an end. On the S dwioh Islands the widows have the names of their departed husbands tattooed on their tongue', but it le not known how often they torn over the eweob morsel of wifely devotion when they marry again. The total gold production of Central Queensland for the last year wits 160,000 ounces, with ore averaginglounce 13penny- weight to the ton. According to the tracks found in a Atone quarry in Conneotlanb, a bird with a food 11 inches in length once inbabited those CLEVELAND HAD CANCEL The Operation Was Not Important, But Caused Some. Trouble. NOW THOROUGHLY EXTIRPATED. R. BRYANT, the \ principal of throe medical men who performed the oper- ation on 1 reridenb Cleveland on July let on board Mr. Benediot'syacht, the Oneida, yesterday met a delegation ef reporters in the library of hie home, No. 54 West Thirty- 'sixth- street. From the doctor ib was learned that Presi- dent Cleveland went aboard the Oneida on Friday evening. Mrs. Cleveland did nob know an operation was to bo performed. She was told that the President would pass several days en the Oneida to get the benefit of the sea air, agd also to try his luck among the blue fish in the Sound. The operation was performed on Satur- day. Tee firab and aeoond molars were ex- tracted by Dr. Hasbrouck. Then Dr. Bryant cut away small portions of the swollen gum and scraped the top of the jaw- bone to prevent the possibility of a spread of the ulceration. A small plate of the bone was cut away. The gum was washed with an antiseptic solution. During the opera- tion President Cleveland was ander the in. fluence of nitrous oxide gas, or what Is commonly called " laughing gas." Secre- tary Lament was on board the Oneida at the time. Afberwarde President Cleveland suffered considerably from the effects of the opera- tion, but no more than Dr. Bryant expected er would expect in any similar operation. President Cleveland remained on the Oneida five days after the operation. DR, SIASBROUCK SAYS IT IS CANCER Dr. Hasbrouck was seen at his home, No. 147 West 126th street. Said the lector : " I don't see as there is any nae of denying the fact that an opera. tion was performed upon the President, bub as to the details of it, I must refrain from dfaouesing them. I was on the yacht only in the capacity of an assietant. Dr. Bryant, who had the whole matter in charge, will no doubt now aeaumo the responsibility of giving out the facts of the case." " What was your duty in connection with the operation ? " asked the reporter. " I administered the gas to the President as an anesthetic and removed the teeth, whioh it was found necearsary to take out during the progress of the work. The sur- gical operation, which was performed by Dr. Bryant, consisted in cutting away a part of the upper jawbone and tissue as far as the orbital plate. The affection was local." " The disease, the progress) of whioh it was hoped to arrest, was earooma, or, in other words, canner, was it not ?" Dr. Has- brouok was asked. " Yes, but the disease was in its earlier stage. The affection was entirely local. The tissues of the threat had nob been attacked," SIMILAR TO GEN. GRANTS AFFLICTION. " Then the President's affliction le much of the same character as that from wbioh Gen. Grant Buffered and which finally ended hie life 1" " It le perhaps of the same character," said Dr. Hasbrouck, " but ef a much lees alarming nature. Gen. Grant's trouble originated, as I understand it, from a jagged tooth in the back part of his lower jaw, which, by rubbing continually against the root of his tongue and by being constantly irritated by hie cigar smoking, eventually produced an nleeroue sore, which developed Into sarcoma. Various operations were performed to remove the diseased tisane, until nearly his whole tongue had been re- moved. DIFFERENT WITH Mn. CLEVELAND. ' " With President Cleveland it is differ- ent. The disease is of recent origin and had, therefore, obtained but a small garb when the instruments of the surgeon them ongbly removed all traces of it from bone and tissue." " Did not the President impress you as a man with a very strong ooustinution ?" " Without a doubt he has an iron con- stitution, and this will do mach toward warding off any farther attacks of his malady. A WALKING STORE. The Things a Japanese Nan CarrleslAbont HV Person. In Japan almost every one parries a lan- tern. By day and night it is dangling at his belt. It resembles a thin, flat box. Each end of the box la fastened to a sort of paper, which, lying in folds, forms, when drawn out, a lantern. The Japanese usually oar - ries also a tiny wooden box, shaped like a cylinder, to hold his candle. A email medicine sheet, with half a dozen little boxes, each containing a small portion of medicine, a fan, a pipe and a short sword, all form part of the outfit. The bolt of a Japanese ie, thereforenye the 61 Waverley Magazine," a very important part of his areas. His slippers oonsiet of a solo with a worsted thread at the upper end, through which the great toe le threat to keep the slipper on. Hie pillow le a framework ef whalebone or some such substance, into whioh the back of theneck near the head fits. This is to keep his knob of hair In order, for he does not have hie hair dressed every day, and therefore is obliged to take care of the piece, which la greased and bound into a one, the rest of the head being close shaven. The rich Japanese send their children to school in inferior garments, in order that the children of the poor maynet be ashamed to wear their shabby garments. The Cost of an Ex•Preaident'e Manuscript. As an illustration of the money paid to writers as soon as they aoquire a y q reputation, the September "Coemepeliban" contains lees than eight thousand words, for whioh the num of $1,666 was paid. Ex -President Harrleon, Mark Twain and Wm. Dean How- ell° are the three Whose work commands such a price. The September number has �ianore than one hundred illustrations giving chief oint° of interests'C l b e t in the Colum- Exposition, P 'and h klithe fair is treated t by More than a dozen authors. including the Eamon English novelist, Waiter Besanb 1 the Midway Plalsance, by Julian Haw- thorne ; Electricity, by Murat Halstead ; the Liberal Arte Building, by Kunz, the fs,meue gem expert of Tiffany & Company ; the Department of Mines, by the chief of that department, etc. A feature of this number is a etory by Mark Twain, entitled "Is He Living or Ie He Dead ?" Renders—How is it that yetis rheumatism affeote yon only on your right aide? Ben- ders --Weil, you lee, 1 ooutraotiedit while courting a Boston gini, ,Courting a Benton girl is lute sitting alongsie a oako of ice. NOVA SCOTIA GHOST STORY. Bost lthcntio te� Known to Pb cho- logical Science, HOW IS IT EXPLAINED ? An Experience si Captain 8laerbroke and. Lieut. Wynyard ire Nape Breton•, -AD• ort. pommiesauae of an ApparitionF . ®i dirt g the heath 01 the Brother of the Last Named. VERY sectlsu hes its ghost eteries. John Cope Sher• broke and George Wynyard appear in the army list of 1785, the one as a captain and the other a Iieutenant in the 33rd regiment—a corps which tome yoare atter had the honor to be commanded by the Hon.. �� Arthur Wellesley, sub. sequenbly Duke of Wel- lington. Tho regiment was, during 1795.6, on service in British North America, and Sherbroke and "Sigma - yard in. October, 1785, were stationed ab Sydney, Cape Breton. Being of con- genial tastes they had become friends. It was their custom to spend in study much of the time which their brother officers devoted to idle plcaeures. Accord- ing to a narration resting en the best authority attainable they were one after- noon (October 15th, 1785) sitting in Wyn- yard'a apartment. Ib was PERFECTLY LIGHT, the hour was about four o'clock; they had dined, but neither of them had drank wine, and they had retired from the mess to con- tinue together the occupations of the morn- ing. The apartment, in whioh they were, had two doors to ib, the ene opening into a passage and the other leading into Wyn- yard's bedroom. There was no other means of entering the sitting room but from the paseag° and no other ogress from the bedroom but through the sitting -room ; so that any person pasaing into the bedroom must have remained there, unless he re- turned by the way he entered. This point is of consequence to the story. As these two young officers were pursuing their studies, Sherbroke, whole eye hap- pened aooident.elly to glance from the vol- ume before him towards the doer that opened to the paaeage, observed a tall youth of about 20 years of age, whoee ap. pearance was that of EXTREME EMACIATION, standing beside it. Struck with the pres- ence of a perfect stranger, he immediately turned to his friend, who was sitting near him, and directed his attention to the guest who had thus strangely broken in upon their studise. As soon as Wynyard's oyes were turned toward the mysterious visitor his countenance• became suddenly agitated. " I have heard," eays Sir John Sherbroke, " of a man being as pale as death, but I never saw a living face aesnme the appear. ance of a corpse except Wynyard's at that moment." As they looked silently at the form before them—for Wynyard, who seemed to apprehend the import of the appearance, was deprived of . speech, and Sherbroke, perceiving the agitation of hie friend, felt no inclination to address it, as they looked intently upon the figure, it proceeded slowly into the adjoining apart- ment, and, in the act of panning them, cast ite eyes with an expression of somewhat MELANCHOLY AFFECTION on young Wynvard. The oppression of this extraordinary presence was no sooner re- moved than Wynyard, seizing his friend by the arm and drawing a deep breath, as if recovering from the suffocation of intense astonishment and emotion, mattered in a low and almost inaudible tone of voice, " Great God I my brother 1"—" Your brother I" repeated Sherbroke, " What can you mean, Wynyard 1 there must be some deception—follow me " ; and imme- diately taking his friend by the arm, he preoeded him into the bedroom, whioh, as before stated, connected with the raittissg room, and into whioh the strange visitor had evidently entered. It has already been said, that from this chamber there was no possibility of withdrawing but by the • way of the apartment through which the figure had certainly passed, and as certainly never had returned. Imagine, then, the astonish. ment of the young cfiicere, when, on finding themaolves in the centre of the chamber, they perceived that the room WAS PERFECTLY UNTENANTED. Wynward'e mind had received an impres- sion at the first moment of obearving him that the figura he had seen was the spirit of hie brother. Sherbroke still persevered in etrenuouely belinvirrg that some delusion had been practised. They took note of the day and hour in whioh the event had happened ; bub they resolved not to mentien the occurrence in the regi- ment, and gradually they persuaded each other that they had been imposed upon by same artifice of their fellow-offioers, though they could neither account for the reason nor seeped the author, nor conceive the means ef ire execution. They wore. content to imagine anything possible rattier than admit the possibility of a supernatural appearance. But, though they had attempted thee° stratagems of calf-delusien,'Wynyard could nob help expressing his solicitude with re- spect to the eafeey ef the brother whose apparition he had either seen or imagined himself to have seen; and the anxiety which he exhibited for lettere from England, and his frequent mention of his fears for hie brother's health, at length awakened the curiosity of hie comrades, and EVENTUALLY BETRAYED. HIM into a deolaration of the oiroumetanoss which he had in vain determined to.oenceel. The story of the silent and unbidden vieltor was no sooner bruited abroad than the destiny of Wynyard'a brother became an object of universal and painful interest to the officere of the rogimont. There were few who did not inquire for Wynyard's letters before the. made an demand for their own; andthe packets that arrived from England were welcomed wibh more than usual eagernese for the brought not only roinembralnoos from their frieude ab home, but promised to afford the clue to the mystery which had happened among themselves. By the first shipt no intelli- gence relating to the story could have been received for theyhad all departed from England tsvioun° to the appear- ance ance of the spirit. At length the long - ,wished -for vowel arrived; all the offioern had lettere except Wynyard, They ex- amined the several newspapers, but they, contained no mention of any death, or of any ether oironmetanoo about hie family that could exeunt for the preternatural event, There was A SOLITARY LETTER for Sherbroke still unopened. The officers menimen had received their lettere in the mess -room at the hour of supper. After Sherbroke had bruien the real of his last packet, and oast a glance on its contents, he beckoned hie friend away from the company, and de parted from the room. All were silent. The euepeneo of the interval was now at its olmax; the impatience for the return of Sherbroke was inexpressible. They doubted nob bub that the letter contained the long- expected Intelligence. After the interval of au hour, Sherbroke joined them, No one dared be guilty of so great a rudeness as to inquire the nature ef his corres- pondence ; but they waited in mute attention, expecting that he would hire - self tenth upon the subject. His ,,find was manifestly full oftboughts that pained, bewildered and oppreassd him. He drew neer to the firapiece, and leaning his head en the mantel -piece, after a petite of some moments, eafd in a low voice, to the person who was nearest him : "WYNYARD'S BROTHER It NO MORE I" The firet line of Sherbroke'a letter `era--- " Dear John, break to your irked Wyn- yard the death of his favorite brother." Ho had died on the day •:and at the very hour on which the Mende had seen his spirit pees so, mystsrloueiy through the apart. monk. It might have been Imagined that these events would have been sufficient to have impreared the mind of Sherbroke with the conviction of their truth ; but so strong was his prepoaseeeion against the ez;iatence, or even the poseibility of any preternatural interoouree with the souls of the deed, that he still entertained a doubt of the report of hie seines, supported as their testimony was by the coincidence of vision and event. Some years after, en hie return to Eng- land, he was walking with two gentlemen in Peoaadilty, when, on the oppesite aide of the way, he saw a peraen bearing the most striking RESEMBLANCE TO THE FIGURE whioh had been disclosed to Wynyard and himself. Hie companion's were acquainted with the story, and he instantly directed their attention to the gentleman oppooite, as the individual who had contrived to enter and depart from Wyuyarti'a apart- ment at Sydney without their being con- selous of the meane. Full of this iropres- sion, he immediately went over, and at once addressed the gentleman. He now fully expected to elucidate the mystery. Re apologized for the interruption, bub ex- cused it by relating the occurrence, which had induced him to the commission of this solecism in manners. The gentleman re- esived him as a friend. He had never been out of the country ; bub he was the twin - brother of the youth whoae *Nit had been 6800. There is other desirable authentication for the story, and anffioienb evidence to prove that the twe gentlemen believed and often told nearly what is here reported. Dr. Mayo makes the following statement on the subject : " I have had opporbunitiee of inquiring of two near relationn of this General Wynyard, upon what evidence the above story reste. They told me that they had each heard it from hie own meuth. More reeon.uly a gentleman, when accuracy of recoflectien exceeds that of moat people, has told me that he bad heard the late Sir John Cope Sherbroke, THE' OTHER PARTY in the etory,`tetl it much in the name way at a dinner table. A writer, Filpning him- self " Cegnatue," states in " Notes and Queries " (July 3rd, 1858) that the brother (not twin•krother) whose spirit appeared to Wynyard and his friend was John Otway Wynyard, a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, who died on the 15th of October, 1785. As; this gentleman writes with a minute knowledge of the famiiy history, we may consider this date as that ef the alleged spiritual incident. In " Notes and Queries," July 2nd, 1859, appears a correspondence, giving fully the strongest testimony then attainable to the truth of the Wynyard ghost story. A series of queries on she subject, being drawn up ab Quebec by Sir John Harney, adjutant gen- eral of the forces in Canada, was sent to Col Gore, of the esme garrison, who was understood to be a survivor (Atte cflioere who were with Sherbrooke and Wynyard at the time of the occurrence ; and Col. Gore explicitly replied to the following effeot : COL. GORES TESTIMONY. He was preeent at Sydney, in the Island of Cape Breton, in the latter end of 1785 or 1786 when the incident happened. 11 was in the then new barraoke, and thoplace was blocked up by ice, ao as to have no oom- munioation with any other part of the world. He wan one of the drat persons who entered the room after the supposed apparition was Been. -The ghost pissed therm as they were sitting ab coffee, between 8 and 9 in the evening, and went into G. Wynyard's bed cited, the Window of whioh was pulled down. He next day suggested to Sherbrooke the pro- priety of making a memorandum' of the Incident ; which wee dene. I remember the date, and on the $ret of June our firab lettere from England brought the newe of John Wynyard'in death (whioh had hap. pened) on the very night they saw his ap- paritie=n. CoIone.l. Gore was under the im- pression that the person afterwards seen en one of the atreete in London by Sherbroke and William Wynyard, was not a brother of the latter faintly, but a gentleman (lie thought) named Hammen. noted for being like the deceased John Wynyard, and who affected to dress like him, A Heifer Adopts a Young Caribou. Some weeks ago a son of J. Francon, of Moro, saw what he 'supposed was a big rabbit with a heifer in the field. The catbie was pestered in a back lot near the woods, The bey, as he approached, saw that it was not a rabbit. He easily caught the enimel, which proved be be a young oaribeu, vine carried ib home in hie arms. It was apparently a clay cid, and wao weak and staggering. A nursing bottle was secured and the little caribou 'wee fed on milk. Very soon it followed the boy about the room. Ib was allowed to ,arse from a cow for some weeks, till it grew ao boisterous, butting and ',taking iia foster'nether with its feet, that the farmer feared the cow might injure it, and now feeds it with milk by hand three time a day. All this time it has evinced a foadueaa for its fret foster mother, the heifer. The little fellow is flourishing, to all appearances. It is very tame and delights to be led into the woods, whore it will run and. play. But at) the elighbeat ununuai noise ib will immediately scamper home. It be a buck, and its horns aro just coming through. Result of Experience. Landlady—Do have some veal, Mr. Fleecy. You wouldn't know it from spring obick en. Boarder—No. I thank you. I never care for veal melees it is tender The sett sea, which once covered the Yuma desert, wag the home of oysters from 14 to 20 inches in diameter. Overheard on the street—" Como apend your vacation on nay yacht." " No, thank you ; I've stopped drinking." Silver geescien--What did Judea Chem• berlain do with his thirty pieces ? Juatge. A Tft&OUGIITI,FaS 1tEM811XK. Predicament of ;i. `F'ell•,'YPeaning Man Who Talked if Good Deal, A man eotr,ebireen melee a very curious mistake ID :tet being explicit ire bin utter. anew. Fee example, our worth towns- mian, Mr. P. E. Pettibone, got himself into a prectoua scrape the other day by remark- ing' in the moat casual v tsy possible at the Caton League Club; "We've gob a fine boy et our hones." It happened in this way e Mr, Pettibone zgaa in biro coat room and was complaining of to �oa tt olive Thereupon a friend said that nobody .had any business having a headache such doe weather. To thio Mr, Pettibone usetwered, "You'd have a headache, too, if you'd been kept, awake all night by a baby's crying." asked"Wthhy,wtaafriend, tdo you kcow about babies?' e " Whet do 1 Imam ? " echoed Mr. Pattie bone.' "I know a heap. We've got a fine bey up at our house." The friend scrutinized Mr. Pebbibone's Nee closely and saw that he was in earnest. So -just like a man—he went off and busied himself, apreeding the news that Mr. and Min. Pettibone had a baby son. Mr. Pettibone 'tumid have explained that the "fine boy" wan not his boy, buts merely tho'propocty of a friend vetting the Pettibone roanslon. You nee that he said; just enough to get himself-into'treuble. Well, everybody was delighted to hear about Pcttibene'e °" fine boy," and every - bony beard about ib, because everybody told everybody else. AS the club hie Mende agreed among ihomaelveu that Pettibone wan "a sly deg" and all that sort of thing, and they vowed that they'd get even wibh him for keeping the precious secret' from them ee long. At the same time every last, ores of his associates was hoping that Petti- bone would honor hint by naming the "fine boy" after him, and each made tho secret:; revolve to tend the little newcomer a solid silver spoon. Tho trouble brewed all that afternoon, and , ire crisis came about 8 o'clock in the even.;,;;. Mr. Pettibone was seated in his quit i.oine on the west side, reading aloud: to Mia, Pettibone from a volume entitled Row to Sall a Yaehb in a Calm," when all at . nae there oamo a pull at the bell. While bhey were guessing who under the sun it was who was "making calla this hot evening," in Dame the servant bringing a lovely eilver spoor, carefully wrapped in silk tissue paper. The spoon was for " Little> Mader Pettibone"—ao the card accempany- ing it was addressed. " Why, Foster, what can it mean?" asked Mrs. Pettibone. "I'n eine 1 haven't the least idea," laid. Mr. Pettibone, and they two eat there and looked at the gluon and marvelled. The epoone began to arrive. There were 20 of them by 9 o'clock, anal an hour later there were 14 more. Next morning before break, fast the whole number had increased to four dozen, and epoeono were still arriving; when Mr. Pettibone etarted for his place of business, Tho whole thing was se profound a mystery to him that lie was fairly wild with euriesity. He net himself to recalling the events of the last month, in the hope that he might detect therein soma clew to the secret of thane strange happenings. He retraced consecutively every conversation. he had had and every letter he had written, and presently he recalled-yoe, there Dame to him, lien a flash of lightning, a recoil o - tion of the few words he had passed •r h his friend at the club the prevnittain day. Mr. Pettibone saw through it all new. His friend had formed a hasty conolueion from a casual word, bed spread the news broadcast and—woil, there you are! Mr. Pettibone thought the matter all over, and the mere he revolved it the more he became convinced that he alone was to blame. It made him feel half vexed and half asbamed. So after telephoning an ex- planation to hie wife he was'4 too busy to see callers " ae the more that day, and in- stead of going to tho club at noon he ate te eurroptitious Inncheon in the corner of a retired dairy resteurant. Since then Mr. Pittibone has been kept pretty buey writing lettere to his many friends explaining tine ' ouriout complica- tion, and the task is by no means ended, for people outside the city have heard the "geed news," and they, too, are sending congrabulattoee and epoons. The proapeeb is that this remarkab)o agitation will con- tinue for an indtfinito period, fer Mr. Peb- tibeue'v friends ere legion. A pleasant: feature ef the affair is that those who have learued the truth refuse to take back their speons. " Keep them, Foster," they say, " and may that which was meant for a re- ward serve as an inspiration." The real value of this incident is, how - over, the lesson it teaches -viz , that it .lei aafeet always to be expicit in your cern- municatlons with your fellow men. It its merely to inculcate this moral that we have told thle true story.—Eugene Field in• Chicago News -Record. 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