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e4NAP .
Bishop Bond's'dote of health le again
causing his friends some alarm.
The City Council of Hamilton has fixed
the rate of taxation at 20 nails,
Senator Drummond has returned to
Montreol from Europe, much improved in
health.
The governing body of Trinity College
School has decided to rebuild on the present
silo,
At Rab Portage the Sultana mine took
fire. Eight miners were needed and only
one life lo't, '
Thieves ransacked the etreet letter -boxes
et Ottawa and scattered the °entente on
the streets.
A ten -year-old old girl named Lyles.
Haines was fatally burned at'London while
lighting a fire.
Mr. Thomas Lee, baker of 'St. dant,
ariuee, was probably fatally injured in a
runaway accident.
The members of the Toronto Caledonian
Society propose erecting a monument to
the memory of Burns.
A -Swede named Glove Christianson, ono
of the first eebblers of West Selkirk, nom.
milted auioide by hanging.
Mr. Hugh Wilson, of Valleyfield, who
eras wounded three times by Shortie, is
nowconsidered to be out of danger.
John W. Patterson, acting teller of the
Traders Bank at Strathroy, has dis-
appeared with $4,000 of the bank's mon-
ey.
Three street -car drivers were found
guilty of cruelty to horses in the London
Police Court and fined $5 or five days
each.
The London Board of Education aro
asking a grant of $26,000 from the City
Council to relieve overorowding in the
city' schools.
The Methodiete of London are having
plans prepared for a $65,000 building, to
replace the church burned on Queen'a
avenue recently.
A strike has been declared in the Spring
field mines, the largesb collieries in Nova
Socha. A large number of men will be
thrown out of work.
The date for the opening of the Territor-
ial Exhibition at Regina, to which the
Dominion Parliament gave a liberal grant,
has beenfixed for July 29th..
Activere oration are being
mad" for
P P
commencing instruction on the continuation
of the Bae des Chaleurs railway at the
earliest possible moment.
Mr. Cornelius White, a preaoher in the
Society of Friends, fell dead on Sunday
while preaching in the Friends' meeting-
house at Bloomfield, Ont.
Immense fields of petroleum have been
discovered seventy miles north of Fort
Saskatchewan, mud the Dominion Govern-
irient has promised to assist in their de.
velopment.
The sufferers by an accident on the
Intercnlonial near Levis, Que., four years
ago have been granted $12,000 by an order
in Council. Thirty.aeven claimants will
divide the grant.
The machinery and stock of the Crescent
Chemical Works, Montreal, owned by
Harry P. Hyams, who is wader arrest on s
oharge of murder, were sold by the Sheriff
r for $36.
Mr. O'Brien, junior member of the firm
yt..of Meredith & O'Brien, Montreal, was
arrested on a charge of false pretences pre.
ferred by the Manager of the Quebec Bank.
Mr. O'Brien was baited.
Senator Warner Miller, ofeNew York,
who was in Montreal recently, was very
warm in his advocacy ofa ahip-canel
connecting New York and the great lakes
for the cheap earring" of wheat to tide-
water.
• Mr. Joseph H. Stiles, who is promoting
the holding of an Internetionmf Exposition
-,` in Montreal next year, has just returned
,' from Europe, and states that during his
visit he met with very encouraging
euccese.
•
!' The Rev. Robert Johnston, B. A., B.D.,
pastor of St. Andrew's church, Lindsay,
tline accepted a call to a Presbyterian church,
!. in London, Ont., and will sever hie eoane°-
> tion with the Lindsay pastorate on the 10th
of April.
It is Lieut. -Col. Otter's intention to go
to England in about a ioetuight with several
of his brother officers, with the purpose of
adding to their military knowledge by a
;;..special coarse. Lieut. -Col. Otter will be
about abou0;fi,ve months.
The•Maasey-Harris Manufacturing Com -
piney contemplates moving its Brantford
eatabliaement to the other side of the line,
and is asking, for special inducements from
, Niagara Falls, N. Y., to settle there.
The Princeea Louise has written a letter
of thanks to Mr. Henry .1. Morgan, of
' i• Ottawa, thanking him for a copy of his In
Memoriam recolleotiooe of Father Dawson,
who was often a welcome guest at Rideau
hall when ` Her Royal Highness waa in
Canada.
Sergeant Redmond of the Quebec city
police force, who was mosey killed some
time ago while distilling illicit whiskey,
haa been condemned in the Police Court
, on two different chargee to $100 fine' and
done mouth's imprisonment, or, failing td
pay the fine, six months' imprisonment in
each case.
The trade returns for February show that
the exports for the month were $3,653,401,
entered for consumption $1,709,237, and
duty collected $1,479,319. Compared with
the same month last yeas thio shows a de.
crease of 589,115 in exports, an increase of
," $709,877 in geode entered for consumption,
' and a deotease of $18,948 in duty collected.
Friday afternoon a special meeting of the
Wentworth County Council waa held in
Hamilton to take motion on the report of
the auditors, who had discovered that
County Treasurer Stook had applied 58,898
. of the County's funds to his own nee., Mr.
Stook'' sureties have made good the amount
to the county. After hearing a statement
' from Mr. Stook the Council decided to re-
tain him in lila position as treasurer.
GREAT ,BRITAIN.
Prof, Huxley, the seienbiab, is }suffering
serioualy;from influenza,
Great , diifioulty atill exists in English
parliamentary circlet in seleabing a oandl.
date to, strewed Mr. Speaker Peel who will
be aeceptable to all emotions of the Hotted.'
Ib is rumored in London theb Sir William
Harcourt will accept abs Speakership if hie
election la uooppoeed, The looderahipof the
House would then go to Mr. Campbell*
Bannerman..
The Britian Incorporated Seelety of Au,
there will present o largely -signed petition
to the Marquis of Ripon praying that the
Queen will withold her turnout bo the Cana.
dials Copyright bill.
The Duke of Fife, aon-in.law of the
]?rinse of Wales, ie teaming bicycle riding,
and goo out pracbisiog In Brighton with
it footman on ono aide of the wheel and a
page in buttons on the other,
In the Oscar Wilde libel suit against the
Marquie of Queenaberry,the two sone of the
Marquis eepoueo Mr, Witde'a oauee. They
say their father is of uneound mind, but
that there is a good deal of viae in hie mad -
Sono of the Radical membare of Parlia-
ment intend to urge on the British Govern.'
Inoue that both the Weigh Dis.eatablislitnent
hill and the Irish Land bill shall be referred
to grand committeee,in'which the nationali-
ties concerned ahall be granted special
representation.
UNITED ETATS9.
The Nebraska Senate bas passed the hill
abolishing the death penalty.
Harry T. Hayward, convicted of the
murder of Katharine Ging, of Minneapolis,
Minn., has been sentenced to be hanged.
The New York Aseembly has passed the
concurrent resolution submitting to a vote,
of the people the queation ofwoman's suf-
frage.
Thomas Wilson, of Toronto, an expert
diamond cutter, • committed auioide in
Chicago on Friday evening by taking oar.
belie acid.
Mr. Erastus Wiaian has been granted
a new trial, thejudgment ofthe lower
court being reversed by the Supreme Court
of New York.
The roundhouse of the Wabash Rail'
road at Toledo was burned. Threeperaoue
were killed, nine injured, and the lose
amounts to $75,000.
Gen, Harriaon,ex•Preeident of the United
States, who has been ill, is entirely out of
danger, and the doctor soya he will be able
to be out in a few days.
At Norwalk, Conn., Mrs. Peter MoClus.
key recently celebrated the 105 anniversary
of her birthday. With the exception of
sight, she possesses all her faculties.
The bill providing the whipping •posbfor
men criminally assaulting children under
sixteen has been defeated by a small major-
ity in the New York Aaeembly.
The dynamite factory of the Bancock
Chemical Co. at Dollar Bay, Mich., blew up.
Telephone and telegraph wires were broken
by the exploeion. A number of men are
missing.
The United States steamer Alliancia,
while proceeding from Colon to New York
was fired upon by a Spanish man-of-war, The
outrage has been reported, and may lead to
diplomatic troubles.
The Sabbath Association of St. Louie,Mo.,
has begun its crusade against tradesmen
who keep open on Sunday, proceeding
under an old statute, which has for a long
time been a dead letter.
A Chicago despatch says Thomaa Wilson
an expert diamond -cutter from Toronto,
committed suicide in a low drinking place
by taking carbolic acid. He came of a well
connected family in Canada, and left a wife
and two children in Toronto.
As a result of the row which disgraced the
closing session of the Indiana Legislature
Myron D. King, the Governor's private
secretary, is not expected to live. A rib
waa broken and it is pressing upon the
heart. ging was the centre of a rueh
made by bhe Republicans to prevent .him
from delivering a vetoedbill to the House.
On Saturday last Mre. Colinaky and her
daughter started to walk from Mammoth
Mine, Pa„ to Mt. Planaant, where they
intended to purchase tickets for Hungary,
They had $500 in their possession. The
bodies of mother and daughter were found
concealed to a brush heap at the road aide
.
four days after. They had been robbed
and frightfully beaten. -
A special committee of the Illinois State
Aaeembly is iaveatigatiog the treatment of
girls in the Chicago Home for Juvenile
Offenders. It appears that some of the cul-
prits who were 000ficed in the dark room
were fastened face downwards on the floor
by a heavy chain round their waists pad-
locked to staples, with their heeds strapped
behind their backs.
Edward Gorman, a Canadian, was fat-
ally shot by Police Officer lifainefert at
Chitlago on Sunday at 59th and Halsted
streets. The officer eves so brutally
beaten that his condition ie critical. He
interfered in a quarrel between four mon,
who kicked him into ineenaibility. Before
losing ooneeioueneae Mninefert fired two
shote, one of which entered Gorman''
body:
A desperate attempt was made to murder
and: rob the Greek Catholic priest, Rev.
Galovich,at Freeland, Pa. Hie housekeeper
and her companion were beaten into'
In enaibility. -The eafe in the priest's house
waa blown open with dynamite, but the
attacking party was frightened oft. The
priest made a fight for his life. He eeoaped
with a few alight wounds: Revolvers were
used freely, and the doore and walls were
Perforated.
Advices from the United States are some.
what more favourable with regard to the
general trade outlook. Railway earnings
have alightly improved, and farm product°
are higher, but there is little improvement
in the industrial situation. The money
market ie steady, and exports of gold have
ceaaed. Still trade le not by any means in
a satisfactory condition. There haa been
an advance in cotton, en a rather doubtful
estimate of decrease acreage, The dry
geode trade continues depressed, and pro-
duction ie much in exoeae of requirement's ;
cotton goods aro only moving at concea-
siona. The total bank clearings at 84 cities
of the United States showed an increase,
compared with laab year, of over five per
cent,, and outside of Now York City the
increase was a shade over 8 per cent.
GENERAL,
Cesar Cantu, of Milan, the historian is
dead.
Emperor William daily presides at the
sessionsof the State Council.
Tho Queen arrived at Nice on Friday
and drove to the Hotel Cimiez.
Snow fell in Tangier, Morocco, on Sun-
day night, for the first time in many years.'
A reciprocal trade treaty has been enter-
ed into between $outhAustralia and New
South Wales,
Sir Robert Duff, Governor of New South
Wake, died in Sydney on Friday. He was
sixty yearn 01 age.
There was an explosion of firedamp in a
Silesian noel ming on Saturday by which
fifty lives haveteen lest.
TOE BBUSSBLEy. POOT,•
The Chinese and Japanese Treace mime
are to meet to Simonoacki, on rho extreme
eolith -west 00051 of Japan,
The Government of the `8'rensvaal Re,
penile hats decided Go sariotly prohibit the
importatiou of foreign silver coins,
The remain§ of 'Victor Hugo, the French
pont, who died iu 1888, were plated in the
,L'antheon in Paris the other day.
Henry Cook, ex.Manager of the defunct
Commercial Bank of St, John's, Ned., was
erreeted on friday evening and lodged in
sol
g Prince ,loaohipm, the Meth eon of
Emperor WiJliam,whe le four yearn of age
issuffering from lull ammation of the,
bowels,
The peak of Orizaba, the'apolent volcano
in Corodoba,Stabe of Vera Cruz,is in estate
of eruption and the surrounding country is
blu'sateued.
SlatinBey has arrived at Aaeouan,
having stumped from rho Mandi'e camp at
Omdurman, Khartoum, after eleven years
of captivity.
The Armenians have sent, through Kars,
an address to .Mr. Gladstone, imploring liis
aesietanoe, and, presenting him with a very
ancient Armenian Coepel.
The prima captured by the Japanese et
Yieng Now include several gunboats, two
steamers, one hundred junks and a large
quantity of munitions of war.
As a result of demands made upon' the
Spanish Government by army officers in
connection with the newspaper troubles
at Madrid the whole Cabinet have resign-
ed.
A conference of Australian Premiers at
Hobart, Tasmania, adopted a resolution
favoring the apportionment of the cost of
a Pacific cable among Englend,Canada,and
the colonies of Australia.
A terrible hurricane swept over the PI j
Islands a few weeks ego. Great damage
was done in Suva, the capital of Fiji, and
the cocoanut and banana plantations were
almost entirely destroyed.
Mustapha, the Turkish soldier who,
while intoxicated, recently ran amuck
through thestreetsof Conatantiuopole,
killing two men and wounding ten others,
has been found guilty of murder and sent-
enced to death.
The remains of Ishmael Pasha were
buried on Thursday in Cario. The funeral
procession which followed the remains
was composed of the chief European and
Egyptian officials, the members of the
diplomatic corps, the religious notabilities,
etc. The Khedive led the way on foot and
the crowded streets were lined by British
and Egyptian troops`
SAILORS FIGHTING FIRE.
A Very Destructive Blaze at Port of Scala,
Trinidad, Conquered by Blue Jackets
—Loss Four Mttllous.
AaPecial from Port of
Speen, Trinidad,
says :—This city has narrowly escaped
total destruction by fire. The loss will
amount to nearly $4,000,000, the chief busi-
ness section having been the oentre of the
conflagration. Nearly 20,000 people would
have been homeless had it not been for the
assistance, given by the United States
North Atlantic squadron and H. M. S.
Buzzard in extinguishing the flames. The
facilities for fighting fire are very unsatie.
factory, the Maravel waterworks, which
lie several miles distant, being ample for
ordinarypurposes, but not sufficient for a
great emergency. Soon after the flames
began to get hold in the town Rear Admir-
al Meade signalled from the New York to
the Raleigh and the Cincinnati to land as
many men as could be spared, and simul-
taneously the flagship's boat went into the
water. There was lively
RIVALRY AMION0 VIE LIEN
from each ship to reach the scene of the
fire first, especially as the British cruiser
Buzzard, having a nearer anchorage, was
also bestirring herself to land aparty. From
the United States vesaele more than 250
men were sent ashore, while the Buzzard
landed about 50, Eel boat's crew was
supplied with fire buckets, axes and ropes,
and the plan of action was quickly laid
down and. carried out. Chains or bucket -
passers were formed,and a steady stream of
water was thus conveyed to the lee aide of
the fire to prevent its spread as much as cos.
eible. To extinguish the fire in the buildings
already burning, or in olose proximity to
the flames, was impossible, and all efforts
were concentrated in tearing down the
buildioge around the main conflagration,
and wetting down everything upon which
sparks and burning fragments might fall.
Organized and determined fighting of the
flame at last had a good effect, and the
advance of the fire was checked, though
not until the sailormen as weilas the towns.
people were thoroughly exhausted. Every-
thing is in confusion, and it will bake
several days to determine whether there
was any lose of life. The blow to the city
is overwhelming, and it will be many years
before it recovers form it.
CHINA AND JAPAN.
Retreat of the Japanese to Totten Wan—
Chlna Must Cede Territory and Pays
Indemnity:
A despatch to The Pall Mall Gazette
from Ohe Foo says the Japanese have
evacuated Ring Hai and the advanced
positions at Wei, Hai Wei, and have mostly
gone to Talieu Wan.
A despatch from Berlin says :—Viscount
Aoki, Japanese Minister to Germany, said
to -day in an interviewwith a reporter of
Tlie; Lokal Anzeiger :—Without a cessation
of territory China cannot reokoa on the
termination of the war. While it is
fully understood that China meat in.
demnify us for our expenses in the war, I
am aware that the European powers may
interfere to prevent a cession of territory,.
but ib is to be hoped that the Japanese
Goverment will maintain its position that
the conclusion tf the peace equally with
the conflict concerto Japan and China alone,.
Foreseeing thab the war would involve the
risk of complications with the powers,
Japan did everything to avert hostilities,
and tried to mettle the Comae question
peaceably. China made this impossible.
Japan is willing at any moment co agree to
terms which are in any way acceptable and
honest.
A Superior Article,
Housekeeper—Are you sure this baking
powder has the moat raising power?
Dealer --Raising power ? Well, madame,
about ten years ago a, baker in this town
waa se near ruin that he had only one bar-
rel of flour loft. He Mogan using this
baking powder, and to day ,lie's a rink
man, and the and
of flour isn't quite
gone yet,
BROTHER (ABDNRR'
"Doe' I involve Brnddet' Sunflower
Bates ober day Gy de woedbox?" naked
Brother Gardner ire he arose and ehaded hie
opus with his hand .end peered in rho dhow,
tion indicated.
"Yee, aah, I was "perceived," answered
the member ON lie rose up,
"Worry well, I3rndder Bates. Yo' will
please step die way, au' stead on dat chalk
mark while I ax yo' a few queehune. • De
odder night, whoa yo' war game home wid
Sarnuel Shin, yo' got up a dispute 'pont de
garden of Eden ?"
"It waa Brudder Slain who (Reputed,
nab."
"Yo' told Brudder Shin dat ye' had seen
a cucumber nine feet long whichgrowed
n dal garden of Eden, an' when be said he
didn't believe it yo' punched his head."
"Yee, soh, but Pee sorry,"
"A few days ago yo' wenb ober to see
Elder Toots. Yo' found de elder hoein' out
hle tatera, and yo' at once set out an' told
hint yo' didn't believe de whale sweltered
Jenne. De elder differed wid yo', of Wee,
and' what did yo' dor
"Took him down an' sot on him, soh."
"Exactly—sot on him most all de arter-
noon—an' he's had aich a lame back eber
since lie couldn't git outdoors. One day
last week yo' called at de cabin of Brudder
Seabee. Yo' didn't seem to hev anything
on yo'r mind fur a few mimes, but all of a
sudden yo' axed I3rudder Beebe' if he
believed in dreams. He said de didn't, an
yo' gob up a dispute an' knocked most of
his right eyebrow ober de bask fence."
"But lie nailed' me a fool nigger, aah 1"
protested Brother Bates.
"Yes, I a'peot he did, an' nobody blames
him 1 One arternoon last month yo'
peeled to meet Shindig Watkins in a
grocery store. Ile was dor eater clothes-
pins an' codfish, an' he greeted yo' in de
most fraternal speerit. It waen't five
minks befo' yo' put yo'r fiat under his nose
an' declar'd yo'r belief dat de sun move's
around de aireh an' added dat yo' could
Holt any man who says it don't. Yo' was
atrikin' out to hit him on de chin when he
run away."
"Ise bin seek.' de sun move around de
airth all my life," replied Brother Bates in
extenuation.
"Two or three weeks ago," continued
the President, "yo' goea ober to nee
Brudder Whalebone Howker. Fur de last
fo'ty y'ars Brudder Howker has bin firmly
believin dal Cain killed Abel wid a hickory
club. He has axed me 'bout it seberal
times as
as I dean' know nether it
W was
hickory or oak I comforted him by eayin
dat it was probably hickory. Yo' purtend.
ed to him dat yo' wanted to borry a
shovel, but yo' begun talkin round an
finally got to dat club bizness and said yo'
thoug6dic it was an elm club, Brudder
Howker got excited ap begun to holler,
mo yo' hit him on the nose and knocked dat
organ half an inoh outer plumb."
' He was clawin fur me, cab 1"
"Yes, 1 know. Oce mo' case, an dal
happened only to -day. Yo' met Brudder
Sundown Judaea on de street an talked
'bout de hard times an de weather fur a
few minite. Den yo' suddenly axed him if
he believed dal de fleein children of
Israel passed frew de Red Sea dry
shod. He said he -did, of co'ee, an yo'
thumped him on de jaw, an he ' pears here
to -night wid a towel tied around his
head to hold a poultice on de swellin,"
"He was reachin fur my ear, aah 1 "
replied Brother Bates. •
Yes, mebbe he waa, an he hrter be fined
$10,000 dat he didn't get thar 1 Brudder
Bates, yo' sorter slipped inter die club.
W henyo' had gotin an'Ioum tolook yo' ober,
I made up my mind dat yo' wa pore timber.
We hev rules and regulaehune to govern
our conduct. One ob de strictest rules am
datno one shall diaputeober Biblical gnesh-
ene. Disputirs would be bad 'nuff, but in yo'r
caseyo' go round thumpin folks knee day
won't agree wid yo'. Izefeelin mighty bad
Muse yo' didn't cum ober to my house an
try to git up a dispute 'bent Noah's ark.
Had yo' done so yo' would hev had reason
to believe dat de ark and all de animals in
it had suddenly bumped up agin de bank o'
yo'r head 1 As yo' didn't cum, I want to
say to yo' dal yo' am no longer a member
of die olub. Yo'r name has bin acretalled.
off de rolls, yo'r account balanced, an' you
can take an yo'r hat an walk downstairs!"
Ex -Brother Bates was evidently surpris-
ed and pained, but he neither protested nor
apuealed from the seminary proceedings.
When he had disappeared Brother Gardner
quietly said:—
If dar am any member of die club who
oan't quite believe dat Lot's wife was turn-
ed to a pillar of salt, and who has got a
burnin' desire to orgy an dispute ober it,
let him oum to me in de anterrom arter de'
meeting adjourns 1 I hain't nuffin agin a
man gwine back to de y'ar 1 to git real
knowledge, but when' he picks up dis p'Int
and dal p'int fur de sake of argyment, an
den stand ready to thump de pusaon who
can't agree wid him,he's de gem, ran I want
to see alone fur 'bout five minite!"
BRITISH ULTIMATUM.
Nicaragua Must Pay for Ike Expulsion of
Mr. hatch and for Damages tofritiah
Residents.
A despatch from Managua, Nicaragua,
Bays :—The ?3ritieh Government, through
its Minister here, has submitted tun ultima-
tum to Nicaragua. It demands a cash in-
demnity of X15,000 as aniart•moneyto pay
foe the expulsion of Mr. Hatch, the British
Consular Agent at Blnefielda during the
troublea there last year, and also the
appointment of a commission to adjudicate
the damages suetained by the persona and
property of British subjects who were ex -
palled from the Moequtto reservation about
the same time. By the forms of the ulti-
matum Great Britain is to name one of the
cominiasionere and Nicaragua the other,
and these two are to choose a third, who
shall not be a citizen of the United
States. It waa also made known that a
British warship is now on her way to
Nicaragua to enforce those domanda,whioh
must be complied with within seven weeks
from the 25th of February loot, the date of
the ultimatum.
A despatch from London says :—Lord
Kimberley, Secretary: of State for Foreign
Affairs, today personally handed to the
Nicaraguan Minister at the Foreign Office
the ultimatum of the British Government
demanding reparation for the expulsion
from Bluefields.of Mr. Hatch, the British
Consular Agent, A copy, of the document
wee gabled bo the Britiph Minister resident
in Nicaragua. Lord Kimberly empiati-
rally demands adequate Satisfaction from
Nicaragua. in ofhotal Circles the belie
is general that the matter will be amicably
settled and that no dOmonetrabion by a
Britian squadron will be neeeseary to en.
force the demands of Great Britain,
THE QUEEN'S VISIT,
Preparations for tierSoulonr,t at Nice—
Extraordinary P0C illoas Tairen Or
lose safety,
A despatch from London says —The
Queen will leave on Wednesday for Nice.
The hotels and villas at Cornice hired ler
the Queen and her suite having been turned
'Haid° out, and, in fact, almost rebuilt, it le
now announced that the place ie a fit habits -
tion for England'e sovereign. A poses of
English and Freud' detectives are already
on the spot, on the lookout foe prowling
strangers. The precautions taken exceed
anything hitherto considered necessary in
the Queens' Continental' journeys, and
people are wondering whether there ie any
special need for them. As far as can be,
ascertained, however, they are almost en-
tirely due bo President Faure'a nervousness
at having a foreign monarch on french soil,
and his determination that nothing shall
he allowed to imperil her safety in the
remotest degree or mar her pleasure. If
Monsieur Faure be nob careful he will
overshoot the mark, for there is nothing1
the Queen detests iso meolt as making a fuse,
Up With the Times.
Old Hen—No more domestic drudgery
for me 1 I'd have you know that I'm an
emancipated hen, I am.
Old Rooster—" You still lay eggs.
Old Hen—Yes ; but they ars hatched in
an incubator.
For Twenty -Five Years
BAKING
POWDER
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THECOOK'S BEST FRIEND
LARGEST SALEINCANADA.
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Oshawa, Ont.
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Paris in the Joints
Caused by Inflammatory
Swelling
A Perfect Cure by Hood's Sarna".,,
purifier..
"It a5ords me much pleasure to recommetue
flood's. Sarsaparilla. My son was afflicted witlt
great pain in the joints, accompanied with
swelling so bad that he could not get up stairs
to bed wltheet crawling on hands and knees. I
was very auxiouS about him, and having read,
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so much about Hood's Sarsaparilla, I deter,
Mined to try it, and got a hal`-dozen bottles,
four of chilli entirely cured Min." MRS. G.A.
LARY:. Oshawa, Ontario..
T.B. 11e sureto get flood's Sarsaparilla,
Hood's Pills net easily. yet promptly and
emen:idly, 00 the liver and basals. 280,
Never Lost a Battle.
Lord Napier won the Abyssinian war in
1867 without a single reverse, and Lord
Wolseley conducted the Soudan campaign
with equally unbroken success.
BENE
F, v vi,eitr"'
Hon. Reuben, E. Truax, one of
Canada's ablest thinkers and states-
men, a man so highly esteemed by
the people of his district that he was
honored with a seat in Parliament,
kindly furnishes ue for publication
the following statement, which will
be most welcome to the public,
inasmuch as it is one in which all
will place implicit confidence. Kr,
Truax says:
" I have been for about ten years
very much troubled with Indigestion
and Dyspepsia, have tried a great
many different kinds of patent
medicines, and have been treated by
a number of physicians and found
no benefit from them. I was recom-
mended to try the Great South
American Nervine Tonic. I obtained
a bottle, and I must say I found very
great relief, and have since taken two
more bottles, and now feel that I am
entirely free from Indigestion, and
would strongly recommend all my
fellow -sufferers from the disease to
give South American Nervine an
immediate trial. It will cure you.
"REUBEN E. TRUAX,
" Walkerton, ant."
It has lately been discovered that
certain Nerve Centres, located near
the base of the brain, control and
supply the stomach with the neces-
sary nerve force to properly digest
the food. When these Nerve Oen-
tree are in any way deranged tile,
supply of nerve force is at once
diminished, and as a result the food
taken into the stomach is only
partially digested, and Chronic Indi-
gestion and Dyspepsia soon make
their appearance.
South American Nervine is so
prepared that it acts directly on the
nerves, It will absolutely cure every
case of Indigestion and Dyspepsia,'
and is an absolute speciSo for all
nervous diseases and ailments,
It usually gives relief in one day.
Its powers to build up the whole
system are wonderful in the extreme.
It cures the old, the young, and the
middle-aged. It is a great friend to
the aged and j lfirm. Do not nested
to use this precious boon ; if you do,
yon may neglect the only remedy
which will restore you to health.
South American Nervine is perfectly
safe, and very pleasent to the taste.
Delicate ladies, do not fail to use this
great cure, because it will put the
bloom of freshness and beauty upon
your lipe and in your cheeks, and
quickly drive away your dieabilitiea
and weaknesses.
Dr. W. Washburn, of Neil'
Richmond, Indiana, writes; "I hayb i
used South American Nervine ltd
my family and preseribed it is
my practice. It is a most excellent
remedy."
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