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WHAT IS WONG ON IN THE FOUR
COINERS OF THE 01.013E3.
Old and New Weed Events ofinterest Chron.
ed BricItly--Interesting Happenings ot
Recent Pate.
The loss a food orops by injarioue
inseeta Ls £100,000,000 per annum.
The Preece soldier is said. to be "the
worst dressed soldier In the world."
The £10 ordinary shares of Manehes-
ter Ship Crestal are selling for 20s.
Sir Arthur Sullivan. hasconsente& to
coeduet the Leeds Triennial Musical
Festival.
Military ex-perte a.ffirm that the
waste in the War Office amoun.ts to
millions yearly,
New Zeteland exports an importe
during the past fiscal yeer were tbe
beet SiO3rii 1891.
The worirmens trains running in
and out of Lonclon °eau day number
577. Total mileage, 3,440. ,
A bit 'of waste land at Cape Torn,
bought five years ago for 4600, has
juat been valued a,t n30,000.
The New Zea.land Lower House has
weed a. bill disqualifying bankrupts
frorn sitting in Parliament.
Three rare Ceeton volumes realized.
a, total o.f n3,650 at a sale at the
Astleburabana library in Lon&on.
Napoleon definecl war as a barbar-
ous trade, in wheel the only art con-
sists in being the strongest at a given
paint.
Dr, Herbert A. Giles, LL.D., of Aber -
dean, has been appointed. to the pro-
fessorship of Cheivese in Cambridge
University.
Thia British army returns for 1896 -
the, latest -gives 75,511 Ezeglishmen,
11,848 Irishmen, and 7,446 Scotohmen
in tile ranks.
The sadden death is announced of
• Mr. T.33. Hardy, the well-known mar -
•line weber colour paiater, at his house
Maida Vale.
The death is itaittiouneed at the age
of 80, Ot Mr. George Tenant Harney,
the last survivor of the leaders of the
'Chartist party.
La aoraa of the Hendee temples in
• South India- the wateetion, is taken up
• by an, elephant that goes round. with
a basket. Everybody conttribu.tes.
Of the fourteen doctors sent out to
•Rorabay by the British Government for
temporary service during the plague,
one, Miss Marion Hunter, is a wo-
Man
The oadest road i•n; England is said
to be the Dover road. Caesar is said.
to have marohed his men aiong this
road when he come to Britain in 55
Admiral Henry Nicholson, recently in
command. at Sheerness, and promoted
to fuel flag rank only three months
ego on the death of Sir Richard Welts,
hes retired.
On the beaks a the river Purus, in
Sou:eh America-, is be be found. a. peou-
liter tribe of people -men, w•omen, and
children, who haere •spotted. skins of
black and. white.
Sir Jebel Smith, one of the best
known oitizens of Darby, died. there
on the 10th ult., aged 75 years. De-
cease& was the head. of a large firm
of brass -founders.
Women; leaning proved. very success-
ful in telegraph work inGerraany, will
tu futire be em.ployed in preference
to the other sex. Tliis is else the case
In. France and Holland.
White the 13ishop of Sector and Man
was wattling bhe cutting down of one
of his trees recently, the tree fell upon
nine ktnocking him down. I catching
on a railing saved. his life. -
Miss' McLean, a woman of Glasgow,
has given a fund for mission work
among the dwarfs of the Cameroon die
-
trite West Africa., and the work of
evangelization among them • is fairly
• begme.
The smallesb horse in, the world is
• a Shetland pony owned. by the Mar-
ohese Careen), in Milan. It is 24 inohes
high, aad. when standing beside its
owner the pony's back Ls only an inch
• above les knee.
On of the handsomest patent chen-
ille Axmitieter carpets Which has been
ntede at Kidderminster for a eattsider-
able tithe has been, shipped, to Lima,
South America, It is •a, wanalees pro-
duction, and. measuees 33 feet long by
21 feet wide. MS carpet is specially
Media for tee post -office of Lima'.
n is atenounced that of the, 1,955
Baptist ministers in Great Britain and
treland, no fewer than 1,556 are re-
porteci to be total, abstainers, in ad -
alien; to e large number in the mission
Held; while out of 2,847 Con,gregaseenio
ministers in England tad. Wailes, 2,364,
or 83 per rent., are in the same cate-
gory. .
The Greek prisoner's who have beeri
ir,ept at Constantinople, aadivere treat-
ed very geatly, leave been sent home.
They received. •before their departure
another proof of the feet that the Sul-
tan Dea,nxious toprove blinnelf less of
eit ogre that lee is genera -1,1y deseribed,
Jevery weed the prisoners received one
Turkish pound as a peeling gift,
Mr. Lionel Phillips, the South Ai-
re:len special/seer, iveo was one of Dr,
etteneetnie accomplices, has Leen ban-
• ishetl. for life from the Transvaal re-
public, He witS set free with other core
opiratoes, cat promieing never to in-
terfere directly or indirectly in Trans-
vaal politics. I•Ie broke his promise
by writing an artiele condemning the
Goveranient, in t,lie Nineteenth Cen-
tury.
TKO DiAtOh Goverement has rejected
i,he bid of an American thin for the
betiding of an iron bridge across the
Duel, add, lias accepted the bid of a
Dateb firm., though the Amerlearee ots
Aiwa to clo the work isernewhat, cheap-
en -611'1,000 against 4478,000. The rc-
te that the United States
teeetaa,votitte to bar °tie fereien,
tritee.. and keel theretore tereign nem -
tries are reef justified, in permitting
the competition, of Amerioans,
The revolution; itt ehe Philipptnee 18
oacied.. General, Prima de Rivera has
tome to terms with the rebels, whose
leader, Aguinaldo, bee left 'the colony,
l'his is a dietinot emcees scored ey the
new Liberal administration in Spain,
Rivera was given full power to grant
reforron anti he merle the most extern
elve tree of it. The epanish Liberal pap-
ers admit that nothing but bigotry o11
tee part of the priests end unneces-
oare' rigor Ont tees pert of the officials
ceueted the rebellion, and they confi-
dently hope that peeve has been last,
ingly restored..
• MUSICAL PRODIGY,,
iscurtettaniehentlee, need rive nears e-
xeunt Not Fondling Mani site Plasters
Most snmenit compositions.
Musical Niew York is talking aboue
a little midget of 5 who looks no
er than 4 and who is recognized by the
mils/eel world as a pianist of phenom-
enal skill. She is a pretty little
• sprite, with expressive eyes a liquid
lalaook, and. an engagingly unconcerned
air oe doing?' nothirg • in partioular
when astoniehieg the select circles of
amateurs and musical critics to whoni
her talents have been displayed. at
Private rebearsals.
S.he was ,found in seclusion ancl dug
oue of the oblivion, in welch she would
otherwise have remained, by one who
recognized in ber talent too wonderful
to be hidden from. the world. The pro-
digy is named Henrietta, Scbolder. Her
father, who is a, poor workingman liv-
ing att 230 East Thirteenth street, has
always desired that bis family should
know something about music, the Par -
Limier branch of education thathad
been neglected in his ease. With—this
object in view he set about taking les-
sons so that he could teach his child-
ren what he first learned himself.
Little Henrietta took an interest in
the eia,no direotl3r it was brought home,
purehased, by the savings of her fath-
er, and, as the latter tried laborious -
1Y to master the art of rausio the little
girl at his side watched him, with
wide opez. eyes, a.nd when he left the
piano endeavdied to intimate, his move-
ments, knowing little about the mean-
ing of them.• •
No notice WELS taken. of the child for
awhile, but one day the father was as-
tonished upon entering the room to
diseover Henrietta seated on the nutsic
stool and rattling off with perfect
ease frone memory the times that he
had. been' slowly acquiring for weeks
and •then had not succeeded in mas-
tering perfectly.
REVEALED HER, SKILL.
It .happened that the visitor who en-
tered the room with the father was one
of the best known musicians of New
York, Professor William C. Rehm, and
he, too, was struck with the child's
ability. He saw in it something that
even the fond father did. not -an in-
dication of wonderful skill that come
to but few.
He agreed to take the little girl in
hand and train her as a mu,sician. At
a concert recently given. in Steinway
Hall she accompanied. no kw renown-
ed a musician thee the cellist Karl
Grienauer. 'When he entered the room
leading by the ha.nd the chu.bby little
obild, an amused smile appeared on the
faces of the assembled guests. Hen-
rietta, however, was very much in
earnest. Her fat little legs had much
troable in keeping up vrtth tbe tall
young eelltst, and when the two made
a bow ha unison the audien.ce was
ready to explode with laughter.
When Henrietta had been seated on
the piano stool, hovrever, she speedily
changed the laughter of the guests to
absorbed attention. t Henrietta gave
proof -of musicianly instinct that left
her years far behind.
PLAYED WITH GREAT, POWER.
Through the different and difficult
movements of • the Gounod-Sarasate
"Faust" fantage, in which Mr. Grien-
miler /Walked violin music to the cello,
the girl fellowed with wonderful
accuracy and intelligence. She played
with astonishing power, and. was at
her, best in bravura, passages. .
The audience had scarcely recovered
from its astonishment at this exhi-
bition' of skill when little Henrietta
began the Serasate "Gypsy Dances,"
and played with the same wonderful
skill. as in the previous number. As
solos she rendered the Chopin nocturne
in E flat, valse by Constantin von
Sternberg, to the great delight of the
assembly.
The litele pianist was evidently as
much delighted as her hearers, She
was lest completely in tee music, and
rat her fat little fingers over the
keys with a, happy unconsciousness
that made her doably attraotive. She
is tiny even for lier years, plump, reeY-
cheeked and •black-eyed, with none of
the tinpleasant features of the phe-
nomenon about her, She is simpiy a
beattny eland with a, healthy love, of
muse:.
She is attending the public school,
and when hot playing with dells is
practicing with an earnesine.se that
ttenet' tires
Trup FOR, ALL THINGS.
Miss testeti-Ma„ Miss Flighty- and
Mr. Sapheatl are to be married. to -clay.
Shall I take some ribe along -to throw
after theme
Practical Mother -No; my clear. Wait
until they have run through what lit-
tle money they have, and. then give it
to thene
WHYFIE MOURNEUD.
He -Even, the undertaker was over-
come with grief.
She -Was, _ be a, relative?
He -No; bet the deceased was the
only doctor in the town.,
C'enceneeenee=tetetr,Ples
Of .4444, oft et;
Weeper,
SUIT Eon Bcy FROM /2 TO 13 FROCK FOR GIRL FROM. 8 TO
YEARS OLD, t I YEA'RS OLD.
The suit illustrated. of gray -mixed
cheviot, is, oemposed of knee -trousers
and a sack -eat buttoned °lose at the
throctt. Line the jacket with sateen,
and face the froats with cloth over
canvas, interlining for the revers, Set
the lower pocket in both fronts, the
upper in the left only; take up the
small dart at the neer under the re-
vers, and, finish the neck withl a
standing band.. Sew a double row of
buttons en the front along the line.
The jecket has a belit buttoned across
tthe
9
This little frock is ef red cashmere
wiltha sorrel dJeaignLn weibe outline
embroteleree which can be omitted, how-
-ever, or replaced by white seutaehe. The
:skire isgored at the front and, sides,
and is im four breadths, the back bread-
tih being straight.. It is lined through-
out with pert -a -Line. Provide the fronts
wet& hooks and eyes. Cover the middle
off the front to the line with the vest
material, vrhich is white cashmere in,
!the model. It is tacked in fine tucks
I with a narrow eerttre-pleat down the
nted.dIe. Cut tee fronts and bask of thle
blouse the back on tee double. Shier
KAISER'S SEORET POLICE
•••••••••••••••••11.1121•01•1,.....,...
• honours of his rank, in the enjoyment
of a. comfortable pension, as well as of
the coeunderable fortune which he has
=nese& as a police official. Nor is
there any danger whatsoever a his
ever being in financiaa difficulties as
long as lie retains his memory and. his
confidential papers, for so many of the
Royal an,c1 Imperial personages of Ger-
many, as well as great dignitaries,
have availed. themselves of his services
e to not only spy upon their friends and.
- acquaintances, but even to insert sour-
rilous articles in the press affecting
one another's honour and. reputation,
that there are few of them who could
afford. to permit hina to disclose What
he knows.
MAJOR BARON VON TAUSCH HAD
A STRONG HOLD.
!Mead or the thipererN Perrional Ponce
Guilty or ninny Crlinefh, nut Escapes
Scot Free,
The verdict ren,dered at Berlin by th
so-called. disciplinary court martial ap
isolated to inflict a. punishment upon
ehe head a the Kaiser's personal secret
belies, Major Baron von Teasel% shows
the very strung hold, which the royal
end imperial secrets possessed by this
disreputable functionary have given
hien on his sovereign. By right he
should have been tried and convicted
by an ordinary ore:nine,' tribunal, as
his offences, according to his own ad-
mission, were violations of tee common.
law of the, land. His groes dishonesty,
his perjury, his slanders and his in-
stigation, if n.ot actual perpetration, of
nfllanSrOalS acts of forgery and embez-
zlement were brought to, lighe durIng
tb-e public trial of his agent, Baron von
Lutzow, who ,n1OW Is serving time in
prison for having obeyed. Tanache or-
ders. So damning were the admissions
of Tau.soh during the Lanier case, and
sosensational was ehe evidence against
him, that the Government had no
aaterna.tive but to place hiat also on
eria.l.
Nobody who knew of the, pasition
which he had °waisted id the entourage
of the Kaiser believed. for one moment
that his trial ever would he carried
through to the bitter end, tine it maY
be remembered teat the proceedings
were
STOPPED SUDDENLY,
by virtue of a juclicaa order before the
ease was more than a third finished, it
being declared thee inasmuch as he was
&bill ia the service of the military
police, and. Ind belonged thereto while
committing the offences with which he
was charged, he had a right to be tried
by his peers; that is to say, by a
court martial compose& of chiefs of the
police, who in Germany are all military
raen. That was a year ago, since
which time hie has been on leave of
absence with fu.11 pay and no diminu-
tion. of his rank.
Recently Von Tansch was brought
before a tribunal oompttmd of his col-
leagues, and, the latter rendered the
following ex traord na,ry verdict :
"Thecourt of clescieline finds that let
Traperial police • oommissary, Von.
Ta,usch,, has been guilty of nen-fulfitl-
meat of his duties and that by his con-
duct, both as a Government official
and as it private citizen, he has shown
himself unworthy of the respeot, es-
teem, and, above itil, the oonfidence,
which are indieponeable for a men cies
oupying his position. The court there-
fore decides Mat Von Tatisch is to be
deprived. of his ex:cogent office and to
traneferred to another post of the
same reek arel pay. He is to bear the
cost of the present proceedings."
110W HE GOT OUT Ole 4T.
The first thing that will strike the
reader Of thee verdict is that Inas-
much as actiordieg to its leivecte Von,
Tau,soli has ehown himself guilty el
tee cberges brought against him, it is
simply ottnegeone that he shotiltt be
retaneed. is tbe police, and merely
teal:teletext troth his poet itt the en-
tourage ef the Itinee.ror to one of sim-
ilar ra-rik and importance elsewhere.
Surely a, man who in the opinion of his
owe colleague is tinworie3r of the re-
blg)t)tr t1i.e esteetn, /tali 010 ocnifidenos
,ierlispensable t,o his office" is not a fit
person to be eppoutted. te any positioe
of trust.
Von Totwit, however, tete elleneea
any objeetiotis on this score by tettder-
ing his resigaetion, and, lee now wit'
deters tato privatte lits with, all the
THE DUC•HESS OF ZECK.
• It is generally agreed that the
dominant note of the character of the
late Ducheis of Teck was ter maga-
laity, and that term does inadequate
justice to the heart from which it
sprung. She was charity itself, and a
wonderful organizer of charitable re-
lief on a, large scale..
It is age that she gave out of her
own pocket a good. fifth of the ermine
amount granted to her by Parlianaent,
and a story, vouched for by the St.
James's Budget, shows than she
knew how to give en a small scale;
to be generous in mind as well as with
• money.
There were to be some festivities at
White Lodge, the Richmond residence
of the duehess, and an invitation was
sent to the secretary of a. charity in
which the duchess was interested. By
a later post the young lady received
a letter from a friend, asking her to
a tennis party, which was to be held
the same day.
Next morning both invitations were
acknowledged, bat the replies. were
earelessly put in the wrong envelopes
The duchess ope.ned the letter in -which
the writer declared to her friend thae
she was very sorry shs could nob come
to tennis, because "Stout Mary" bad
asked her to White Lodge, and she was
bound to go.
The day duly arrived, and the frank
young lady was warmly welcomed by
the duchess, who afterward took her
aside and laughingly said:
"Bry dear girl, T know I ani stout,
bub I cannot, beIp it. You should. be
more careful ba posting your letters,
and never forget that you do not knees.
who will read what you. write. .Don't
apologize, I have forgiven you,"
THE Mows MOVEMENTS.
The d10011 is the nearest, and, being
the nearest, it appears to us, with the
single exception of the sun, the largest,
although it is in reality one of„ the
smallest of the beavenly bodies, just
as the earth goes round the sun, and
the period of revolutions constitutes a
yeareso the moon goes round the earth
approximately in a period of one mon-
th. But while we turn on our axis every
twenty-four hours, thus causing the
alternations of light and derknees-day
and night -the moon takes a month
to revolve on hers, so that she always
presents the same, or very nearly the
SillnO, surface to us.
• SIGNS AND SEASONS.
1 aka always tell •when my wife has
hnight all the welter clothes she
tit eats.
How can you tell?
She begins to talk of buying 'seme
Ling for roe.
Constipation
causes toy hms tho siocioss le the world. 11
retains the 41gostod tqcd too loeg ln the bowels
arid Proetioes blitoteeless, tFild Ileor. hide
Resew, bad taste, coated
Pepe, sick headache in-
senniaotte, Hoode Pete S
eareeenstIpathin and ail Its
reettits, easily and thorn -18111e Me All aeuggists.
krepared• by 0 L Hoed Si Co., Lowell, ttitft
tee aide tee to take itith Rood's Sersaperille
NEWS OF MERRY ENGLAND,
A FEW READABLE PARAGRAPHS
BROUGHT BY THE MAIL.
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Breezy Notes from Many Pointe In Hui
- natters or new
Than Pas,eing Interest,
Madame Albani sailed, for Sydney on
the 7th ult.
Sir ;Jobe Gilbert's personal estate bee
been valued 14 4231,584.
The railways of tbe Melted Kingdom
possess nearly 20,000 locomotives,
In Britain naeohanies head the list
of inventors, clergynien waling next.
Coventey plumbers. whose wagee are
a.s
• 8rtotheT1 -Lheod London, °,TuorL171eTe ke g foris i.° a Prre:41:
thirteen times it week when he gets
Extensive structural alterations are
aboat to be made at the Liverpool
Town Hall,
The Hon Sir C. R. Pollock, former-
ly a Baron of the Exoliequer, left per-
sonalty to the amount of £12,388.
red at Bromyard, all the cases being
among the children of St. Peter's board.
esaexi hnPpoorarrriltf:4ea., dbul ysfer:o7m5i 0 :Ae rreseincoa: dt °oaf inGbrbneciebi tailsBoersrs.rt
An outbreak of diphtheria has °Gem.
The will of Margaret Lady Rather-
to5n8,4e4v1i,d, ow of the setiond Baron Han, -
erten, shows personal estate valu.ed at
There are 3,238,323 young teetotallers
formed into 20,355 societies, whieh make
unpriitteuinll KJvgttdoeilme .Band of Hope itt tho
Mr. George Salting has lent to the
J3ritish lefuseum, a reliquary of gad,
containing, according to tradition, a
thorn from the Coown of Thorns.
Messrs, Jones a.ntl Atwood, a Stour -
bride firm of engineers, have com-
menced working on the eight hours day
system. Mr. Jones made the offer.
Mr. Morley Punshon, son of the late
Rev. William Morley Punshon, and
well-known
occurred at Fairlawn, Bowes
paerllk-,knLoownndoinnCanada, is dead. His
.
No fewer than eight vacancies have
been oreated within the last week or
two in the House of Commons by death,
by eleva,tioa to the peerage, and. by
appointment to officers.
With the exception of Saneford Hill,
the elementary wheels itt Longton,
were, on Jen. 3rd, re -opened after
being closed for several months on ac-
count of tbe diphtheria epidemic.
An interesting discovery in the form
of a portion of Roman roadway, has
been mcule at Reigate.' The path is
very even, and composed of flints un-
broken, but with the edges trimmed to
fit.
When Sir Thomas J. Lipton appear-
ed at his London office after the an-
nouncement of his. knighthood he was
received with a ringing cheer by the
staff, ricIovvbeT,nheat once gave a day off
t
Mr. Barrie's play, "The Little Min-
ister," has caught on enormously in
London, and at the Haymarket, full
houses at every performance and ad-
vance booking right up to Raster is
the order of the clay.
The Parliament of the United King-
dom is the largest representative body
in the world. In the House of Linde
there are 553 persons entitled to vote,
and in the House of Commons there
are 670 members. •
At the Mogen House, London, an
the 5th ult., Augustus Colin Aitken,
bank manager was remanded on bail,
on a charge of applying to his own
use sums belonging to a company of
which he is a director.
At Gloucester Quarter Sessions, on
Jaw 5th, by the nee; act whioh came
into force on Jeratary 1st, the jury
were not looked up daring the adjourn-
ment, but were allowed to leave the
court for refreshraents.
Dr. Cundell, ex -Mayor of Riehmond,
has forwarded to the hon. treasurers of
the Royal Hospital, Richmond, a ebeque
for £3,090, being the amount collected
<luring his year of office in aid of the
jubilee Endowment fund.
An extraordinary sight was wi t-
nessed on January 4th, on the Dover
prometade pier, the sea being literally
alive with fish, chiefly whiting. The
spectacle attracted a number of ang-
lers, and over 2,000 fish were landed.
Samuel Deft, who for five years was
in receipt of relief from the Hoeneastie
Union, having come into a legacy of
se/00, the guardians have decided to
call on him, to repay the 43. a week
given him during the past 12 motets
The annual rate of mortality in the
thirty-three great tow no of .England
and 'Wales averaered 21.9 per 1,000 for
the week. ending January 1. The rate
in Birmingham was 84, Derby 19, Lei-
oester 24, Nottingham 24, and Bristol 25.
The Rev, Dr. Matthew, Getters!, Sec-
retary of the Pan -Presbyterian Ala -
'once, who is well-known in this coun-
try, has returned to London from
southern Persia, where he had been
attending officially the Nestorian
Synod.
The Queen, it is stated, enjoys it
plttin,itractical sermon, i possible sel-
ected from the leseons or pope' of the
day. There is a fixed rule that the
preacher shall not giye a diSeourSe On
politica, A, certain celebrated divine
eine broke this rule, but he never filled
the Royal pulpit again.
• Four peers will some of age in 1898 -
namely, the Duke of lentriehester, the
Earl of Bathes, the Earl of Wicklow,
and Lord Hindle). Severel peers' eid-
esb sons will ale° etene of age, among
them being the heirs to the ea,rldome
elf Suffolk, Cialeadon, Carnevatle Mor-
ley and Gosford, end the ineonieti of
ten:1016y, Monteagle cif Premien, dole -
ridge and °tomer.
81r leeward Clerk, iii eddreseing a
oroweed meeting of hie coostituente en
janatity 4 ih Plyelouth,
mainteined that lest Sessioe bad been
by no means berree of beneficial legis -
lateen, espeolally eoriefideritig thee true
to tbeir traditions, tbe Uniogist party,
bed not only fulfilled their pledges as
-to education, but likewise conferred a
practical boon enoet the ieduetrial
elaeses by the Workinen'e 0001Peese-
tion Act,
The typhoid epidemic' itt Cambourne,
Cornwall, is still increasing. There were
reeently 94 oases in that tow, and
aboilt- 40 mere La the eeighboarheini,
all being in, the district supplied by the
water compan'. A bacteriological ex-
amination has failed to isolate typhoid
baoillate, but one reservoir is condemn-
ed as suet/it:lees. The I.ocal Government
Board leas intlanat,ed its intention oe
sending a ntednal inspector to make
enquiries,
AS TO GRAY HAIR.
Gray hair is caused solely by tbet loss
of pigment whioh gave it color. Grayness
may occur at aey Period of life, tries-
peotive of age; it is also hereditary. A
drachm of powdered borax is nice to
put in the water when washing the
eair, but shoulcl not be used too often.
The effect of the continual use of per-
oxide is to dry anti break the bair
ani cense premature grayness. Rain
or dietilled water should be used when
wasting the hair.
IMPROVED TFTB1 SLANDER.
There is 8. Mexica.a bull fighter -E1
Curita-whose enemies have made Use
statement against him that he ittad
hewn; beaten by it, wero.ala. He denied
tele and notified. tire bowl newspapers
that the actual facts were that he had
kuorkee the woman down four times
with' a glair. Mennover, he had. been
sientpwed. to jail, but his eight-day
sentence had been commuted. ton the
payment of a. fine, which he construed
as a. vindication of his cha.racter.
HE HAD BERN THERE OFTEN.
Dadh
Did.
*Yam'veyourever.aelcifeea l9k thou
eYypoilnfrillthas;
ba
eye, when you came home and ask you
if you. had not forgotten something?
Many it time, my boy, answered the
old raarried man. She does yet. In the
early days it used. to men a kiss but
now it is usually a reference to wip-
ing my shoes.
DRYING CLOTHES.
The drying of clothes in frosty weath-
er, is sometinaes, itt the case of delicate
fabrics, 'attended. with tearing, because
of the quiok stiffening in the very cold
air. A eim,ple precaution which will
prevent an such trouble is to dissolve
three or four handfuls of coaxes salt
in the lest rinsing water, thus making
' in fact, a weak brine. Articles so
rin.sed will not suffer from or stiffen
with the cold.
THE LADY WAS SATISFIED.
Traveling on a railway that zigzag,-
tge4 up steep hillsides and. wriggled
about among precipices, an old lady
asked the conductor if there seas any
fear of au accident
Plenty of fear, madam, he said, but
no danger.
Why so?
Because there is a brake to every
wheel.
But supposing the brake went wrong?
queried the old lady.'
Then we can reverse the engine, an 1
prevent the train going up or down.
But supposing that failed, what would
become of us?
That raalam, finally said the grizzled
and guarded conductor. depends on the
life you hsve
!WISHING HIM ,TOY.
Bylesby-I wish you joy, my dear sir.
As an old friend of your father, per-
mit me to sae that you will always look
baek oh this day as the happiest in
your life," -
Larmsote-Tbank yeti; but it -is to-
morrow I am to be married.
Bylesb3r-I quite understane that,
CIRCTTAISTANTIA.L EVIDENCE.
I suspect there has been some crook-
ed work going on here, he said,
Anti he W58 right. His wife had been
driving nails.
. LOST IIIS SUPPORT.
First Tramp -When did yer take t'
de road.?
Second Tramp -When me wife died.
First Tramp -Dat must 've been a
hard blow.
Seeond Tramp -It wuz1 didn't bave
a Vine t' swelter 'cept de lump in me
tenet Ler weeks.
EXPLAINED,
wonder wile it is that we
hear of so mane men breaking down
ia the prime of life nowadays
Fox -It is due no doubt to there
being many more self-made men than
formerly.
114.,•••••••
BOUND TO APPLAUD.
At the entertainment given in a
London Hospital where many of the
patients besi lost the use of one tana,
the andieace managed to applaud by
arrengiug itself in pairs so that each
pair ben the use of two sound lends.
+THE LION'S LENGTH.
The lion, though he stands no higher
than a large mastiff, ie from six to
eight feet in length.
The late Sir Peroival IleyWood, of
Deastone, left persotaity valued at
4131,601 lis.
• Molly Addlepate "Aw'
have weeently been afflicted.with fkar-
ful headaehee," Doctor -"I see. Some
of these netting voids we read About."
•
She (gusbiegly)-"nhere, are d4ys
whorl *6 Seen]. More in unison with
tare than at other thaw, when ear
hop:to reein to lime itt aeoord with tho
sablime bermorly of the universe. litiAre
you eerier hoticea it ?" 1
tt to always that way with mo
sn ,Y
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tawrole, 1orpb.N4
vow,. sleepless, there is As plea,-
mo in life kr lior tiii 40 .141 her
46 systerra pot tight 4'
Indian Woman's Balm
• It Ls the. onfailiog remedy for
41b. ciebil1tate4, dyspeptic, detsposelent
women and girL% Makes rkh,
*nee new blood ani improves the
• eornpfexion. $1. 1ldreggis' ts.
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Price se,-crits per Box, or 6 for 52,5,e., At
Druggist,s."41- Maul en Receipt of Price by
eineitiRe et CO.. Toronto. •
THE
EXETER
TT Al ES
OF ANT
SOME LATE °ABM NEWS,
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS FROM
THE MOTHER LAND.
The LOlta ell Star eineined Over the Annul.
San Klondike Expedilion-To F1'411104
by newton -Naval Programme
�lnder-
50.
A despeteb, from London says :--The
Star of Tuesday., under the beading a
"Raid en the Klondike," quoted an an-
onymous American corresponaen.t, who
recently erreved int England as saying
with, reference to thie relief expditiens
to the Klondike, that those who axe
fa -medlar with the facts "know that this
exCUSe is as flemsy as Jameson's de-
sire to relieve the women end children
of johannesbuirg." Continuing, titre an-
onymous correspondent remarks:
ery American kaitreve this to be anotbe
er Jeraesen reed, a,nd that the Ameri-
cans iin,ten.d to keep oontrol of bh,e Klon-
dike. The Klonaileers hatire aaree-dy an-
acne:toed that thte Stars end Stripes well
be flying at Danysen City by july 4.
It would, please a large body of Amer-
icans 111 t,hte Kbendike weld be made a
pretext foe war betewen England and
the United States, veleta would result
in the annexe/doll of Canada." There
is rance more en the same strain.
The Daley Men, -F.Vhieh Oil January
16 aantounoett the engagement se Mr.
Laurence Irving, -son a Sir Henry Ir-
vacilifig:esst°, ii:wid°stuysEs136113thai Brienl°reen'
tlte
trg
ment has been cancelled. There has
been no sort of quarrei between Mr.
Irviing and Miss Bezrymore, bulb they
bare recognized that the engagement
was enterect into in a romantically
hasty manner, lead are mutually eon-
consuilted by regardieig tt prema-
tviiinrcee.d that their haltspiness will be best
An aeronaut named Spencer, who
started in a babloon front the Crystal
Palace on Tuesday inarnente for France,
arcompaoiod by a, newspaper man„
passed. Boeloe,..nee-Sureeter et 2.30 pm-
goelg in a SOUtli2a,SLerly direetion.
The Daely Telegraph nes i.t under-
sta,nds t,he Goverainerit's sceeme is to
separate civil ati.thority froini the trad-
img powers el the Breese South Africa
Chartered Coneany, and to govern
Rhodeses, by a Gevernor and Counell.
The paper beans that Mr. Cecil Rhodes
ilea Mr. Mired Reit will rejoin th,e
cliaectorete of the campatay.
It is reported that Sir Robert Peel,
grandson a the faMons Prime Minis-
ter, the young Baronet whose financial
camel: oetrth. er troubles have attracted much
attentionis to , adopt the stage as a
The Daily News publishes a detail-
ed statement Showing that three-
fourths of the eatire British naval pro-
gramme, has 'been thrown back 24
weeks by the engineers' strike.
At the sale on, Tuesday at Edinburget
a Berne' works a, copy of the first
Kilitiarneek edition in the original
paper covers, umut, brought te572.
THE, RTISH TO THE GOLD FIELDS
A despatch from Vancouver says :-.
Boats are, crowding north to Dyea
Skagway ansI Warnget, crammed wite
Klondikers, On Monday the Thistle
left Vat:weaver aid was followed Tues-
day by the Deambe. The Thistle car-
ried a party eng in by Stikeen River
to Tesler]. Lek. The tanabe took up
it eew mill to be erected. et Ita-ke La-
barge. She ha& to refuse two hum -
tired tons a frei,glete iachuling three
ea,rlortes, of bacon from. Omaha, for tee
United Sttitea relief expedition. Hen.
G. FL B. Helene, Comtgesioner of the
Government of the Northwest Tey11-
dories, was on board, He goes to leek
into the 'question of the liquor traLlici
chiefly. Most of the RIoladike passeth,,
gers ensured their outfits.
CASTOR IA
Tor Infants and. Ohiliven.