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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-2-17, Page 7emee, "Iti• 111 T ¥ES RCUND IIIE 111101[„101i1,1). 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. --- 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 44+074+.401 4,t' WREN a woroso iO 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. 4444:4. V' 44:4444 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.