The Exeter Advocate, 1893-9-14, Page 711011RID
lostitation That Left a Dark Blot
wi pailo's %story,
ISTABLISEED UNDER FIRDINAAD.
HOSE who have
aroused Christopher
Columbue of marrow,
;motet. eta bigotry arml
of enmity have nob
sufficiently taken Onto
amour -um the spirit of
the age in which he
lived, eays 8, W.
Ford, in the Yankee
e Made. The inteler.
%awe, the eigetry and
averoilens catrelty
of theb time are oufia-
dewily illuerrated in
then most monstrous
ef inatitntione, the
Hpuseish
Whab jgalled the modem inquisttion was
metal:dialled in Spain under bine reign or
%are inand and Isebelle—aovereigns who
ilmeeereeil Male Of the elemecite of greatcoat,
mod who certainly brraugb.t Spain to ts. high
porillion among tho natione of the wo.thi,
-.Yet it wee Mader the reign of these two
aovereigns that tlee monstroue inquitition
eatabliehed.
nip inquidttan couctiet ed of a coammisaien
menziatiog et several judges, when duey le
wee to leant coat ireretioe and purdah them
dPhe primary obj ot the inquisition was
tio extirpate
EvERY 'TRACE or neeenoamar,
and rake a land wbere none but the
ortheedox could live. Da succeeded in its
lattample but the history of be proceedings
ilarniabes one of the meet bloody narra.tivea
to wbloli the race bas ever listened.
511u) attention of the inquisition was
;Srt directed against the Jewa. This
thrifty race of people then, aro new,
were conspicuotia tor their fivancial
broporte.race. In the course of time many
Chrietians became their debtors, and it la
otrebable teat the desire to escape these just
notate frequeatly ocoaatorted the oeizure of
theme unfortunate Jews for hereay. The
lOhrietian not only did not feel it incumbent
upon binned to pay hie debts to heretics,
but even all their property was oorifisoated.
These heretics could be amused tawny.
namely, and it waa not considered necessary
tra bring the unused and the acauser face to
ilium. The aceueed heretio was
FOOLS AND 111Ellt gONEY
How Smart People Pull hi tile Dollars
With Facility. -
MONTREAL PRIZE SCHEME,
Word Sunning Competition and liwee
mrips—A Modest *seat Comnany—The
Toronto " ThiseS eattaelled as Ina
moral—Sch.mcs That Catch. Green
bens and lEurlicit SheaD Ones.
8Qb/11?1 thousands of
mon, wemenand children
fiee ming up their opare
time and ramie time that
they cannot, spare in
writing out lista of
',verde, These Mita are
not being writtea out of
clevotion to the denten.
farm but eveh the fond
and foolish hope thab
wiiwriera the writer hae con-
trived to mike eighilY
words out of the lettere
contained in the word "hlontried," he will
get a free trip to trio World's Fair at the
expense or a benevoient publisher., who
takee this way of encoungIng the smay of
the &glen; lauguage and seviug the World'
Fair from bankruptcy.
Among the enterprising individasels en-
gaged in the promotion of this verbal crazy. -
work and to the munificent dieMibution of
free femme or free tripe are the publishers of
bile "Dominion Illuetreted Monthly." They
keep good ofmpany and make fate promisee,
tor their head effice is in the traildhag of the
Young Men's Christien Anoolation, on
Dominion Square, Montreal. Thin is their
offer :
"If you cae make eightywords from
lettere contained in the word ° Montreal,'
you oan have a
TREE TRIP TO TIIM WORLD'S NAIR
A
SEMI) WITIMUT WARNING,
imenveyed to the chambers of the loquisition
And rigidly kept from all interceurae with
the outside world. No relative or friend
Jo condole with him or to advise him
twits permitted to orme into his presentee
was kept in ignorance of the charge
amen wnich he wan Moarcerated. Counsel
was allowed him, but tido was a mere for-
mality, for hie emceed was not allowed to
teenier with him.
If the prisoner refund to confess his guile,
eirwas oeuglat in evasions or conbradenteue,
he was conveyed to the torture chamber,
'11 ;w1lere he was submitted to the intenseet
liermingoaay whioh it is pooeibie fax human nerves
to sustain. Doubtlese many innocent men
eleclared themselves grainy under this ex.
visite torture in order to eaeape the ter-
itible agony. Indeed death was preferable
to the torment.
Tele evidecas upon which the heretles
were convicted awns to us entirely inauffi•
-
mint " The presumptive proofs,' rays
•Armond, it by widen the obarge of dele=
was eatablished aphasia the accused are ao
Uxorious that a few of them may deserve
entice. Ib was considered a good evidence
of the bob if the prietoner wore bettor
elates or cleaner linen on the Jewish
Ilisibloath than on other days of the weak;
LI he had no fire in his house the preoediug
leveeing ; if• be eab at table with Jews, or
seethe meat of animals slaughtered by their
hands, or drank a certain beverage held in
much estimation by them; if he washed a
trapper° be Wenn water, or when dyiug turned
Ide face to the wall; or, finally, if be gave
lefebrow names to his oeildren—e provision
to send money, foe whtell they
WON) Q receive seede emd ebriebri.
PONt) CeS0 Ikek3peotor Burnham le eel, of
tonsil to-deyr but at tile General Pb Offeie
ie weft foxed thet letters addreeced to the
cote -Pei/ go to e eaoan in en upeer get of
the Oegoodby buildiog.
There le no eign there to deeleneto tho
heetiquarters of the company, which la fee
treporteet commerolal concern to judge
from the advertisements, bub it weer finally
legated.
TWO yOUNG LADIES,
were in allege. According to fano of the
M. He Ofogoodny to the proprietor of the
company, but he was aWer,
" J. 0. Soett is our intanger," the oadd,
but he is la Buffalo. He is ending off
prizoe from there to save the duty. We
are jure Waring out the businen and eend-
ing off the last of the prizes. I do not thistle
Vire will resume the laminate next year."
M. Daly's complaint to the Armee was
Vale :
He made ra lot of words from thelebtere in
" Worldie Feir," earl tient 25 cents for nada,
which be received. By return mail he WAS
informed that he was
and return, as the publithers ef that well-
known magazine, the "'Dominion Mum
Meted," offers to pay expenna to Chicago
and return to the first person in each State
Kindling a list of not len than eighty words
as above." In 'addition to this attrac-
tive Inducement it was also prom-
ised that "a boob of other valuable
prizes will be given to staccereful con-
testants, and every one able to send a ltat
of not less than eixty words will be awarded
a prize valued by the publishers at not less
than five dollars.What these publisher
whaled to do with -these words, or why they
did net go to the dictionary and sorb them
out for thernelves, they do not state. If a
person could make 80 words out of those
eight ordinary every day letters, he or she
was quelified to travel and the publishers
Would send them to see "the greateat
show on earth." The eighty vrerds would
take them to " the white city." Of mum
ell could ,not succeed ; that would be too
easy. Some would not reaoh the finieb,
but there were prizes all along the way.
These conditions were net carried out in
many instanees, and there never was any
intention to do se.
MOST veneesena,La CRUEL,
since, by a kw of Henry II., he was pro.
krbited under sewer() panatelas from giving
them Obrierien Barna. SA mutt have found
tb diffieultto extricate himsell fremthe horns
tede dilename.
If the actuted was found gutiby, as be
macally was, be was led forth in great cere-
monial state accompanied by a proonnion
hIgh ectaleslattics, submitted to revolting
lambs and ignominieuray burned at the
Make.
While Torquemada was inquirabor gen-
end, a period of eighteen years, over 10,000
bemires were burned at the stake, nearly
1,000 burned in effigy arid almost 100,000
zubjected to heavy mud iguominious penal -
*tam This memo an average of over 6,000
persons antnelly.
Tbe bantisition was at first directed
apemen Jev.V but afterward aphid herdic
Oirizietiene themselves. It continued its
saveul work through many generiationo, and
its nefortunate victims were numbered by
the
INLYNDIRID TROUSAND.
Tbe preset degradation and degeneracy
el Spain le due to this nue° more than Any
ether, Wiserever fetters are pub upon the
linemen maid the race decaye, ehrivels and
laegienereten. Wherever f.eealone of thought
Is pruhibited a moo of itatelleet,tiol
;pygmies mud necetwarily result. Hu-
manity programa through the MEM -
moo of (anginal minds, which do
not think along the excepted lines
of thought Teba order of men it
wbich leads the world up to even higher
and 'higher conceptions, to higher and
axigher planes of Iivyng. It was the kind of
wan that the Sparkish inquisition could
Sand no better nee for than burnieg at the
*teaks.
Bo all the neblest thinkern of Spain were
anareed, all her original bhinkere were either
lirled or suppres.ed and wily ammoniate...le
•xabads, vvbich accepted Imitating stAndardS
isolthOut investigation and without, thought,
were spitted. It is no wonder that Spain
;dropped into Ail intellectual lethargy hem
whiloli she rover revival. The inquieiblou
verna One 01 the meat colaseel rolotakee in ali
hilseory.
ENTITLED To AN EXTRA mum.
Four of then were to he given to Ferrous
in 'that eeighborhoed, ea follow, Gou-
t:doe diamond bracelet," "3 o'olook oilver
tea liervice," "solid gold ring," "i FrenCh
china servere.” The prime were to be given
out as the letters amend, the first taking
the diamond bracelet.
The condition Was OW) the CAlifeEllIeee
ehoold send $2.25 fer a "three dollar col-
lection" of shrubs.
Daly aent the money and received a few
plane) on which he had to pay 40 cents ex -
protege. He never got the promised prize.
The venlig lady turned up Pelee order
te thee:make and said he had been mailed
the gold deg. If ib did nob reach him the
company could net help that.
Another Toronto arareme.
DOw IT WAS WOREED.
The working of this concern is of intereat
to the public and reeve especially to its
numerous vintims. In the advertisement
referred to above A request ie also made that
people answering it must "enclose twelve
United States steeps with list of words for
sample number of this elegant and profusely
illustrated (96 'ago) megazine, oentalaing
full partioulare of this moot liberal prize
distrthution."
When the answer is received from the
onapentor a °insular is sent to him inform-
ing him that he is entitled ta one of the
prizes, bub that it is necessary that his
mune theuld appear en the magazine's
yearly aubsaription hooks before the prize is
awarded. He is, therefore, asked to aend
$2 50 by express, money order, postai note
or P. 0. money order (personal chap:tea not
scented) fer one year's suesoriptIon to tbe
" Deminion Illustrated Alenthly." A. form
is seat to him to sign and. return, as well as
another circular supposed to contain the
"governing ruin" of this ao-oalled "Quar-
terly educational prize distribution," •
The competitions were announced to don
on Aloe 241, July 24th, Aegust 24th and
September 23rd respectively.
The Toronto Star says : An information
has been sworn out against Mr. W. G.
°goodbye who is mimosa?, to be proprietor
of the Toronto Times. It charges him with
aeflleg publicabloos tending to corrupt the
puobridv.
ielniorais, and the 011110 will mine up on
m
The Times is a weekly paper started a
year ago by °goodbye A.bout five weeks
go it was given out that he had sold out
to One Bonner, hens ever the line, eine
which time Ofgoodby was to give his time
to the Dominion Illustrated, the Montreal
magazine, ef whioh he had become pro-
prietor. It was understood that Benner
was to carry en a paper similar to one
printed in Detroit, but hie publication hale
to far not shown much resemblance to the
American eheet.
It is evident that the authoritiee
believe °needier/ to be still the
proprietor of the Tints& Oageoalby
is the man who started " The
Cianadian Queen " in Toronto. He ran thee
for a, year or two, with prize attachments,
then sold it out and started the Times.
After a year at this he bought the
"Dominion Illustrated," and has been
devoting his attention to it for a few weeks.
He came from Buffalo originally.
ine neap MONEY
hand over fist on " The Queen," and ad np
a fine team and carriage, with a liveried
coachman of dusky hue. Sos day e. single
horse etteched to hie domeett ran away
end he was thrown against a street oar.
He got a verdict of $6,000 spinet Hon.
Frank &althea company for his injuriee.
Referring to the first of the foregoing
ones the Montreal Star says:
"And lima the Candian mails are need
by fraudulent concerns to dupe Amerioan
citizens. The American Government pro-
hibits the delivery of letters to such
schemers, and thus millions aro saved to
possible dupes. The Canadian Government
cannot move too soon if it is to nye its
repitatien as a defender of the innocent.
There ia a den of theae prize gift publiehers
and reedloine vendere who are worth look-
ing after."
The Star is right. There are many
" fakes " in Canada whith should be sup.
premed and their operators punished.
He Could Sympathise.
TALE OF A FRENCH FELON,
hi) Innocent Man Serves Thirteen Years
as a CORViCt.
EXAMPLE OF GALLIC JUSTICE.
noreiseers now 10 be Ail Ticketed and
11;teagrilestetreadm len ablittaP11:Yurtli;ohlni tool: otoill:
emceed iedince—Istrange Wredicament of
alcride—aa It a floor a Virile—The
French Duds 14 Neve Toy.
IT 33ROUGIIT IN THE MONEY.
As far as oan be learned from reliable
names the scheme worked mod etwone-
ully. and hundreds of rubsoribers sent in
their money frem all parts of the continent.
To all of these BART% numbers of the
roagmbrawere omit and their mance put
down on the lists, but from the oompleints
seen, the prizes were few and far betweee.
Several of these threatened to ahow up the
scheme les a fraud. •The complaints became
so numerous that a circular oerd wee printed
and sent one an follows:
Remittauce received and mane new
appears in our yearly subsoription books.
You will recelve the magazine regularly,
commencing with. the Jaly number. In
newer to many inquiries would say that
the "trips to tha World's For" are not
itwarded until September 23rd, the °losing
of U. S. division " D " fled Canadian *n-
ein "B." The prizereawerded ID diviriene
"B" and " 0" and the "guaranteed"
prizes requiring an efficiency of sixty cor-
rect words er better, The "guarantee
prizes awarded in U. S. division 'Aewill be
forwarded between let and 151h name
month. The receipt of one of then don
not Interfere with your eecurifart one of
the larger aware° at closing Sept. 23rd.
A Welikditelanfug dificial.1
'line prefect of -- hers gene, on a tour of
Inepeotion through hia department, beteg
eroxioug to emanate, if the neoeseary preOan.
Mlest have hen tealloo in every praeleh to
eat opera for s. potable invasion an bike perb
of the dread plague, cholera. To the Mayor
el* certain villege he satct
" 'Wellhave you carried out any ineerum
lianas t Wilt have you done?"
n' 1 have had graved dug foe all the in.
i)aleitante of the parieb."
The man *elite takes whiskey to help his
appetite genetally helps his oppetibe—for
wallekey,
TOO dittecativee 'profess to be notating the
titata they ed
h 0 $ ey taro inlede
espies Iti °leen,
TUE Poems remootago.
Chief Ifogbes, of Montreal, says that
during the Met few roontha he received ove
300 letters company:Jog of the Dominion
Illustrated. He wrote to the publishers,
statieg tbat he was tired receiving nom.
plaints and eeking for an explanation. They
replied than) the complaints were no Omit of
theire and thrall the matter would be et
-
tended to. They also asked that all lettere
be Bent to them.
Numerous oomplainto bey° been received
at the Montreal poet office for some time
past, especially from patios in the United
States stating that they have not received
the prizes promised them and Inquiring as
th,e nature of the magazine.
Mr, D. A Budge, Secretary of the Y. Is.
O. A,, called the ettentieu of the wathori-
ties to tbe matter i and aution midair ariviee
ha ff determioed that the Dominion Illus-
trated Company sheuld no imager °gimpy
say portion of the Y. M. a A. betiding,
A Retiring faced tionapaey,
The Toronto Arctes ee.ye : W F. Daly, of
San Francisco, writer to the Atetos for in-
formation about tire "Scott Seed (iom-
pany ef Tonto, with whiell lie has had
roma elleged uneatistectray tletatogr,
In Toronto there, bee always been con-
aiderahle emeterv as to WU compelled the
8entis Seed °eel pony " stwhere the firm
was locetteid. Teens is no alitielen he b lo
the directory. The ooneetta woe first 'booed
o laatitaarch *lien it iCOmmencett advertis-
ing este/lei:rely In papers ,putiliehed at
pOints distant from trorentek
4' old) COMPETITIONS"
Wore Sverige& 3Ao cootentatate kid
PARTS, August.
OW the Chamber has
promulgated its famoue lew
concerning the residence of
foreiguere in Franco, Who
from thin date henoeforth
will have to be ticketed and
registered, en thee at any
moment the euthorielee
may pub hand upon them
and my, if so minded,
Decampez V' or "O1111 IOU get I" Every
foreigner arriving in France to practioe a
profereion or carry en a bust:red or
induetry must, within eight dams,
make a deoleration to the mayor of his in -
Motion to take up bie residence there. If
later en he changes his place ef reeldenoe
for mother commune his certificate of resi-
dence must be presented within two days
for the Adayer's visa. Any person employ-
ing a foreigner who may have omitted to
melte his declaration is to be brought before
the Correctional Police Court. A foreigner
who may leave refrained from making hia
declaration within the stipulated period, or
who may refuse to produce the certificate of
his declaration, will be punishable by a no
of from ten to fifty dollen. No foreigner,
man or woman, it to be employed in any
railway terminus or station, in no matter
what capacity. The Prefect of Pollee has
ordered a sharp eurveillance for the
detection of spies be be set on fed in
such plane and at bridges, ferries,
museranis and monuments. In fact the
unregistered touriste is going to have a
lively thne of it, and complications and ger-
und annoyanoee are looming up ha the
future which will keep the various Embas-
sies pretty well occupied and. if the autho-
rities are not careful, keep the money -spend.
ing globe trotters away from the gay cape
tal. The stranger expelled from France
whe returns without leave of Government
will be liable to imprisonment for a term of
not lees tbran aLx months and not exceeding
one year. A full month is granted to
strangers now in Paris to conform to the
providers of this law, which is ingeniously
called "A Law for the Proeotion of
National Leber," but which in reality has
wider and deep-seated motives.
SUICIDE IN NOTRE DAME.
Yestithfeli erhoinel, earned Knebleoh, threw
ewe)Ugb ce eaysterieres murder of
Lfioetcle. Kracolotoola, for reamous wbeilt
hem, not yet been explained, gave himself
up to the polite es tile utbe o robber.
tee con -mimed by bine eta Idonteetail reel
Stant Wileree. ao a aid be beloeited to a
peg of oelprita, erganizari by Abadie, wed
game the polio to endersten4 Jahn
he knew how Lacerate was Pollees-
ieated. ' Withent fi,rat ueraing
aceonapline ootafessed that the crime
woe perpetrated by three perrione, ores or
whaler vitae himeelf. Premed by further
examination, ao finielied by flaying that die
two admit/isle were Abadie, elrefuly mem
toed, mad Peed Kirall, another memeer of
the gang, who hacl elready been tried end
petialiora for e rolonery commieted at the
wmeehop referred to above. Huoblooti end
bdie Were condemned to death,' and
Matte to triamportation for life, but the
sentence Of the former waa aloo commuted
to traingiortatime.
THIRTEEN YEA -US IN PENAL SERVITUDE.
The other day they were out driving, and
after an interval of silence Mra. Pate re -
VIM ked
" 1 wonder juab what a horse thinks
when he is driven in this way. Ib must be
very urcomfortable to be driven bore and
there, without any idea what it is all for or
where you are going."
" I think I can appreciate his feelings,"
said Mr. Fibta. "1 imagine he feels just
about as I do when you take me sub on a
shopping trip."
A Ilroken Promise.
Ile sat on the front stoop with his elbows
upon Ilia knees and his chin ID his hands,
looking the very piettire of deopair.
"What ails you, aminy 7" asked a good
Same ritan.
"Oar folka is going to move to
Brooklyn."
"And is that Emir a hardship?"
" You bet Only laat Christmas dad
promired he wouldn't take no over there tell
we died."
Down With Eigh Prices Pot
Electric Belts.
$1.55, $2.65, $3.70 ; fornier prices $5, $7,
$10. Qualty remains the same -16 dif-
ferent styles; dry battery and acid belts
—mild or strong current. Less than half
the price of any other company and more
home testimonials than all the rest to-
gether. Full list free. Mention thet
paper. W. T. BAER ere CO. Wincleor, Ont.
What's the Dinereneee
Marnma--Come, Johriny, say your verse
for the lade.
johnny—In the multitude of coanselers
there ie a bicyclic.
Mamma—Why, Johnny 1 "thereinefety,"
nob '4 a bicycle.
Johnny—Well, what's the differenoe?
A CHICAGO centls Soren
1 am married today,
But what of to -morrow
Let it be as it may,
1 am matried to -day;
Yet tho pleasure gives way
To a savor of sorrow; .
I am married to -day,
The historic Cathedral of Notre Dame has
just been the scene of an anoient ceremony,
width, fortunately, is of very rare perform-
ance. On the previous day a young man
had committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head within the sacred build -
bag, and In aoccordenoe with the usage of the
olauxoh no further service oould be germ
through until the edifice had been "puri-
fied." Accordingly at 8 o'clock in the
morning Cerdinal Richard, Archbishop of
Padre entered the cathedral, attended by a
lege following of 'allergy, and offered up the
:medal prayers fax the amanion. After this
His Eminence sprinkled eaoh pillar with
holy water, wbile the priests marched
solemnly three times round the nave. This
InOgrefie completed, the thane was again
declared sanctified and the mass of pent -
tents in waiting received absolution in tree
ordinary manner.
, A WEER BOY BRIDE.
A strange incident occurred at St. Denis
o few days age, where a wedding came to a
conclusion in a rather abrupt manner. The
bride in her white areas and wreath of
*mange bloom= was snorted to the Town
Hall, where the Mayor was in attendance
with bie Mt -colored soarf of office round his
waist. The bridegroom appeared with his
friends and the formalities proper to the
amnion were begun. At the moment when
the young laey was asked whether she con-
sented to take the young man for her hus-
band the Registrar en casting hie eye over
the bride's certificate of birth &covered
theat, through some strange mistake, ehe
had been registered as a boy, although her
ne,me was correctly given as Eliza Webert,
The discovery stopped the core -
mealy, much to the discomfiture of
all oencerned. Before it can be re
-
reamed Mlle. Webert wLU have te settle in
proper legal form the question as to her sex
and prove to bhe complete satisfaotion of
Hi le Maire thab she is really of the femi-
nine gender sod that the wrong entry is due
to the dumdums of the official who made
it. As the Mayor properly remarked, "He
could not marry two boys,"and the blushing
bride will have to wait at least six months
whilat the various antra 2 as to her netimity
are being set righb through all the Offices'
records.
STORY OF FRENCH JUSTICE,
Pool Kirall, alter peening thirteen yore
in penal servitude, has at last been proved
ID be lonocent at the orime for which be
was condemned, Bad character re) he was,
hie ceunkiel, Melina Comby, ha never
°erased to deolare hie innocence as regarded
tbe crime ID queetion, and he hes en lad
amended in hia task. The decret de grace
rendereol in his favor woe issued Iron
Murch, but it did not reach, Calcdonie.
before May 14th. On the 15'h of June.
Kirell, rafter waiting ab Noumea two
menthe without a farthing, Was informed
that he could leen the settlement be the
next ateamer bernad for Europe on the 22ed
of the stone mouth. He emberkiad and
Arrived in Park ou the 31,11, of July.
Kind is nef35 yeasts of age. Fie is a
MAO of medium 'natters with Week hair,
piercing eyes and low forehead. Of °puree
he had nao sooner landed in the Prowl
capital than the reportera penned on hitn.
" At length," rated the innocent convict,
"1 AD1 free. It was indeed high time them
justice was rendexerl to me. Just imagine
what thirteen years of penal captivity is!
Never shalt I be able to thank my counsel
as he deserves to be thanked." Rattle hie
first visit was made to Maitre °ember, whom
he embraced moot effmbionately.
THE SALM WITNESS.
ID
Reopeotleg Abadie and Knoblechi
says "On earivin'
g in New Caledonia I
lost eight of Abadie, who was employeolas
carpenter in the /eland of Non, bus I acci-
dentally came anon Knobloch as I wee
leaving the settlement. I need hardly say
that I reproached him in violent terms for
having falsely aroused me, and thereby
bretreht about nay =just condenonetion.
He aeked me to ftrgive him, and added:
'1 give you my word of honor if ever come
across Abadie will avenge yeu and myself
et the same time, for ib was he who per.
auaded nele to demount) you.'"
VIRTUE ITS OWN REWARD.
Kirail la now one of the heroes of the day
ID Paris. He promisee to turn over a new
leaf and become honest. He is particularly
desirous of obtaltaing rehabilite.tioe, but,
considering hie past career, that will not be
se easy as he expecte, even under a Repub-
lican Gavernment, which is so lenient to
black sheep. For the time being, however,
he will not be in want, the Socialist papers
having got up a subscription for him,
amounting to $250. La addition the Voltaire
has anderlAren to engage him as meesenger.
His portraite, too, are to be found in the
shops. Altogether he has became quite an
intereating persenege, end should he relapse
into his old ways of earning his livelihood
there will be no excuse for him.
NEW MURDEROUS WAVICLNO.CANK.
The Parietanenedemiecle dudes are making
use at present of a wonderful " atiok"
called Canna enterainement, whf oh they
can only dory after having accuracmed the
arm to it. The, stick consists of a piece
of iron hidden in bamboo cane, or a piece of
wood, finished at the tep by a large steel
knob, gelidly ocrewed on. The weight of
this knob mark% from 500 greaunnes to a
much heavier ODD of a few kiln (2e lbs, in a
kilo). The chic of the affair is the vvay this
terrible instrument ja used. Fenoere fmd
much advantage in this gymnastic exeroise,
because havhsg accustomed the wrist to
carry se great a weight easily, they do nob
suffer any Inconvenience inusing the fencing
foil or the sword.
A raresb remarkable instance of the tole -
carriage of justice ba l just some to light,
whereby an innocent man has aerved many
of the beat years of his life as a convicted
felon in New Ofaledonia.
Oa the 3rd of January, 1879, a grocer's
Resident, named Leoerole, in the employ of
M. Martin, who kept a shop in the Count de
Vinommes, left in a cart to collect the so -
counts due to his master. A few hours
afterwards the cart, apparently deserted,
was found by the controller of the Vin-
cennes tearaway. It wan conducted to M.
Martin, who, on examining it, discovered
the boiy of Lecerole hidden under a sack
at the bottom of the vehicle. The body
was covered with wounds made by dag-
gem which showed that a terrible Struggle
had taken piece between the viotim and his
reurderere. An inctuiry was at once ordered,
but no trace of the guilty pardon could be
obtained.
MURDERERS CAUGHT AND SENTENCED.
trbree moethe after* on April 17thi an.
ether niurder Wee committed in the neigh -
But what of tomorrow boring locality of Montreutheouri-Beis it a
Mr. and Mre, Gladstone have been (small, inland wine ohm() kept by an raged
ried for 54 years. freiquented by bad there:Mem. One morning
mar" °maple, M. Bassuangeend and his wife, and
Madame Beesangeand Was kited dead in
her ehop, covered with wounds similar to
then !billeted en Lecerdle, the head being
ently fievered from the body. &Minden
felt en two young 133eDv_etie of wean bore
the name of Abadie. He was arrested on
blot 22n4 of April, in a room in the Fan.
hourg-du-Terople, which he occalpied on the
day of the crime, together with a rriend
teemed Gillette who was Mao arreoted. The
letter at that time wee only 17 yearn old.
toth were tried and found guilty en tkixtd#
own confeaelon. They were Senteneed to
death, but the ',enmity waft commuted tea
trandporbetion for life.
CONVICTION be( THE INNOCENT.
A faahieemble revival of the masquerade
ball is predicted for the oomiog winter,
It is a great pity ib le not as difeoult ID
borrow tearable as ib ie to borrow Money.
the etullyt of eigtyeetrettyrochee
itaisor Seers° to be immethieg of
an Army Bit( hireselL—.Zdew York World.
A woman man keep a amain but elm
nth diejitlita f,hel fact that oho is keeping
one,
In Geranany 01 s tit %Teo
gro'Ott to ihe re.okh
No one ever 40mirotila404 att Overstook of
WIed0111 by intotieg for the mistakes of
inhere.
Be thou the final, tree Merle to be (deed;
hit proem le loet who Weite tilt all eeinmend.
—.rept
They Were About) to be sent to New Oats,
dente When the reVelegenii Of another
A Precocious Child.
Teacher—Now, Charles, tell me the
oymbolical meaning of the various °okra,
Of what, for example, is green the symbol 1"
Pupil—Hope.
Teacher—I:4)A. And blue ?
Pupil—Modesty.
Teacher—Geed bey1 And red.
Pupli—Social Demodium
The clay pipe emoked by Miles Standish
in his friendly treaties with the Indians is a
part of the U. S. Governmende exhibitat the
exposition.
The people of London drink 45,000,000
gallons of malt I quere every year.
1.0.4430.111.1•01.1.11.1114.....110.6.9MS.V.741.1.1.01.1110
is the best Shortertimp
for 2,11 cookftt5 purposes.
`121°
ErSibRY:
°fro LEtile. is the
only heOfirut shortentiv
snail e fhysiciatts emit:welt
An ..11.1
Vent miettorndortable feelie23
of rrtoo much richness',
from food, cookect iro.ohsrd.
A
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rood cooked
C„orro LEN Et IS
delicate., del -1'0014s,
Ile4Ifh full co rmAsvtit,:ts,
11 0 Y(')u use Coy7oLe mat
Made only by
N. K. FAIRBANK 45c. CO.`;
Wellington end Arm Strecte,
MONTREAL.
Sick Headache and rel We all the troubles inch
dent to a bilious state .oe the syetem,euch as
Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after
eating, Pain in the Side, &c. While theirmont
remarkable succeas has been shown in ouring
weadacho, yet eimerees LITELlt LITRE PILLS
are nuttily valuable in Centipede% curing
and preventing this annyingcoraptaint, white
they ales correct eli disorders of the stomach,
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels.
Eveu If they only cured
Ache they would be ainmet priceiese to those
who suffer from this distressing complaint;
but fortunately their goodness does not end
here, and those who once try, the will find
these little pills minima in so many ways that
they will uot be willing to do without them.
But after all sick head
Is the bane of so marky lives that here is where
cl,•etlit1e1oLkothers eearnadorgrueoatt: boast. Our pills cure it
ii
CARTER'S Lieree Liven num are very small
and very easy 0 take. One or two trills tone
a dose. They are strictly vegetable anti do
not gripe or lenge, but by their gentle action
please all who use them. In vials at 25 cents;
ave for SA. Sold everywhere, or sentby mail.
CANER IlliDIOINZ Cannon Torn
hol FAL hol Dm kali hico:
is the latest tritunph io. pha rmecy for the cure
of all the symptoms mdico.ting Name lam
LIVER Complaint:II If you are troubled witle
Costiveness, Dizziness, Sour Stomach,
neanache, LudItgeotion. Poen. Arrsran,
TIRED FEELING, RHEUMATIC PAINS ; SleepICSO
Nights, Melancholy reeling, BAcE ADHE,
lksonxbray's Eidney and Liver Cure
will give immediate relief sud EITECT A cure.
Sold at all Drug Storeo.
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PETERBOR0', ONT. fa
LAUGH AND LEARN.
Edison is a vegetarian.
Icelanders never whistle.
Rye is of Russian origin.
Heston ham a girl druggist.
There are 3,000 languages.
There are 500,000,900 sum.
France repute celluloid pane.
Boston has 3,000 Portuguese.
Breelan has a paper chimney.
France makes the finest fame,
Princess Christian makes jam..
Washable well papers are new.
Edison's father le 91 years eld. •
Queen Victorie hos 40 pet doom
Danvers has a 363-eciamold tree.
Uncle Sam has200 lady dentists.
North Dakota luel a winged calf.
The soorpion is a total anstelner.
London has an aluminium statue.
A locust plague threatens Algeria.
Women embalmers are nunierous.
We make the finest stained glass.
Deep water divers use telephones.
New York oity has 8,000 saloons.
Oar railroads cover 175,223 miles.
We have 37,000 lady telegrapher& ,
Colorful° Springs home wear veils,
A. ton of gold is worth $602,799.21.
Jules Verne has written 74 newels.
Pennsylvania leads in cigar output.
Belgium's Questa is a clever hempen.
There are 137,0b0,000 Protestant,.
Uncle Sam has .413 epecieri of 'trees.
Weide is mod by nearly 1,000,000.
The Duke of York is breedbag pigs.
There are 750,000 species of Moeda.
A New York parrot is 80 years old.
Great heat ofben causal melanoluelia.
Thera are aluminum railroad passes.
There are 881,000 miles of telegraph.
Agrioulture employe 28,000,000 meta.
Europe hoe 270 ranee of electric roadie
England reports a 101.year-old bride.
London omnibuees have electric lights,.
There is a finical° every three minutes.
Gladstone) has preeerveel 60,000 letters,
.A. Ballemore horse IlitS'an artifiolal eye.
Killarney borate the mon perfect echo.
June le the favorite month for suicides.
New Eagland hail 240 apaches of spiders.
A German scientist eats epiders for butter.
The uneacoinated cannot vete in Norway.
Pethons are abundant 113 the Philippine.
London hats over 1,000 " imitated " houses -
In Europe 70,000,000 wear tamoden shame
A wateht ticks 157,680,000 times a yetira •
The States have 242 life raving istationa
Exporting rice le Shan's chief industry.
Newspapers are printed in 59 languages.
Money Mike—The Congreesional debates,
The mocking bird, like the bull, hates
Md. r
Kneen Penneylvaratans will hold a re'
mien.
Fairope import's 660,000 tone of wheat a
year.
Perspiration, is now gettleig the drop
on us.
Strange, but tight Money produeeei eciber
thought. ,
Niegera represents 16,000,000 horn.
power.
Glare blowing by nifithinety 10 accetilew
pitehed.
Riohnierad centaine eighteendtorgeWath,
Weenie
Frahm has 6,000,000 oo,vicgo battk do.
positoto,
An altunhittin bridge over Gibrottor to
ytop000d.