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The railway from Yokohama to Tokio
follows near the therm of Yeedo Bay for
its eighteen utiles. Trains;lemve hourly,
but the exact sahednle may be had from
the daily pahlere, At Oro ire hale way,
the toueiab should stop and take Hulk.' islta to the Iltegami Temples, a mile and
a half distant. Those aro the head
bemplce of the Nlohiren sect of Budd.
hide. The annual me suri, or religious
festival, coeurs on the 12th and 13th of
Oot., and preeeuts a spootaole almost un-
rivaled in Japan, Ib in the most popular
and picturesque of all the matattris in
the region, The train follows the chore
of the bay through the Sbivagawa sub.
orb and stops at Shinbaehi station.
Turning to the left after be passee the
wicket the stranger win lind the jtnrisk•
Ube stand. He may take a check from
the jinrikisha bureau at the top of the
steps and avoid all trouble of settle-
ments by paying for his runners there.
Seventy.five cents a day is the regular
obarge but as the distances which a
sightseer, shopper or caller covers are so
great,a gratuity in added for a long day's
run ar else two 000110E1 are employed.
Sanjiro, the famous Euglish.spetking
ti runner, pieke and oheosee hie customers
at will and will serve on.• as well as a
guide, but all his colleagues know the
rounds meant when told to mare mart%
(go sigbt.seeing,) The Olub and Seiyo•
ken hotels in the Tsultiji district, near
the railway station, at,d the Imperial
and Tokio hotels, wast of it, aro all kept
in European style. The Bribish Lega-
1
tion is in licjimachi faring the palaos
moats, and the U. S. Legation is in Aza-
bu, west of Shiba Park. Besides his
passport the tourist may samara from his
p' a legabion tickets for the Fukiage and
Hama Rikiu Gardens, two imperial
pleasure grounds where landseape•garden-
ing has reached its limit. Ho may also
obtain peemisaiot to visit the famous
garden of the old Mite Ysahtki, now the
Arsenal, by addressing the Minister of
War through hit legabion, The Imper-
ial Palrce in Tokio is not open to eight.
seers, Only thoee bidden bo its state
functions may cross its marble bridge.
The mortuary temples of the Tokugawa
Shoguns ab Shiba andII
eco Parke are
the lineal: examples of arahiteatlre and
decoration in Tokic, and the jinrtkish t
runners will lead to the gateways where
tt e•le etaraobe to their iuteeiore may be hel.
A fee of 25 sen ie paid the priest who
conduote one through the temple and to
the tomb of Hidetada, the Ni Dai Sho-
gun, and the same is paid at Uyono. Ou
entering a temple, the inner mama of s
shop or tea house, chose must always bo
removed as the finely -woven, exquisitely.
:cleat straw teats and the polished wood-
en floors would be hopelessly ruined by
the tread of course and dirty leather.
IIicletada's tomb is very line nut the
mostbtantiful mortuary chapel, gardeu
and tomb at Shiba are those of the 0th
Tokugawa Shogun. The bronze doors
at the entrance of the 'orb are deserved-
ly famous, At Aeakusa Temple shoes
ars not removed. Religion and amuse-
ment go hand in hand there, and having
paid and prayed the pilgrim may enjoy
and amuse himself in a hundred ways
at a tuousand booths, shops, theatres,
side-shows and restaurants. From an
imitation Fujiyama and a mock Eiffel
Tower be obbein's a bird's -aye view of
the city of a million and a half inhabi-
tants which rivals the outlook from the
Ronde Point of Uyeno Parlc, Great
flower shows are always in programs at
Asaknsa, There are three government
museums in Uyeno Park and a bazar for
the tale of goods of Tokio manufacture,
all of whish should be visited. The
Zoological Garden contains a good collec-
tion of aninutls and there is a pleasant
drive from blunt pleasure ground to the
Botanical Gardens, passing the buildings
a , of the Imperial University on the way.
" Near the Ityogoliu Bashi the colony of
wrestlers abide and every spring hold
their great tourney. The word sumo
(wrestler) is suffioienh order to the jinrik•
isba coolie and if there be a show tent
open it is soon declared by long pendent
banners and gay standards and ono may
watch the obese, overfed champions con-
duct their struggles ou anything but the
Westmoreland - rules, The Shintomiza
and the Chibosa theatre near Asakusa,
all the region around the Asakusa Tem-
ple and the whole length of the Ginza,
bbe Broadway of Tokio, furnish one
dramatic, actobatio amusements, side•
show and outdoor enterhaiumeut of every
kind for the after-dinner hours. Every
night is fete night somewhere and always
one will find throngs of happy people be•
bween doubly rows of lanterned and torah -
lighted booths, where all the toys, plants,
flowers, halite, aonfeotinns, commodities,
notions and geegawe tempt and delight
the masses. Whatever these people
fashion, from the toy of an hour to the
triumphs of all time, in touched by a
taste unknown elsewhere. To stroll
down tho Broadway of Tokio of an even.
ing is a liberal education in everyday
ave, Two lot:g lines of gaily lighted
shops, etretelting off into bbe distance,
loolc otic across two equally endless rows
of torah lit booths, the deborous yellow
gleam of the ono oo0tresting strangely
with the demoniaoai red flare of the
other. As your feet follow your eyes yon
And voureolf in a veritable choppers'
paradise, the galaxy of twinkle resolving
into worlds of delight. Nor do you long
retrain a mere spectator for the shops
open their arms to you. No cold glass
reveals their charms only to eltut you off,
Their
'' • ,Y
wares Tia invitingly exposed to the
g.
ublfe needing to you already half our
own. 'At the very first you ometyon
atop involuntarily, losb in admiration
t over what you take to be brio'a.brac.
Ib is only afterwards you loath that aha
objeot of your oosbaoy cam the common-
est of kitchen crockery, Next door you
halt again, this time in front of some
leathern pocket books stamped with de-
signs in colors to tempt you instantly
to empty your wallet for more new ones
than you will over have the means to
l fill. Opposed as you may be to idle Our,
• chases at home, hero yon will find your-
ss1P rhoray of an acute case 6i efipppiug
j fever before you knew it" Nor will it bo
much consolation eobaegnaptly to ills- A, Visit 1'o Edinburgh,
cover that you have squandered your
patrimony 0pn the most ordinary arbi- The meet prominent feature of the
else of everydayuse, If, in deem:et:ynu city of Edinburgh is rho Castle, built
turn for refuge bo the booths, you will upon a precipitous rock on all aides ex.
hub have delivered yourself into the sm• bopt at the entrance, The castle within
brace of still more irresistible tasoine. the walls mmwern about six acres and is
tions. For the nooturnal squatters are about 400 feet above the level of the
there for the express purpose of catohing Firth of Forth. It stands, it may be
the susceptible. The shops were modest- said, at the upper end of the High street,
ly abtraobive from thole nature bub the the Palace of bolyrood being ab the low -
booths deliberately make ayes at you, er end, probably to mild apart. The
and with bolling effect. The very at• street is up grade all the way and keeps
mosphere is bewitching. The lurid getting steeper as you approach the
smokiness of the horchee lends an ap• castle. The buildings on High streeb
propriabe weirdness to the figure of the aro of varied styles of arohibeobnre, eotne
uucnuthlyolad peddler who, with the of them high and antiquated with a few
polibeuoee of the aroh fiend himself, die• of time Weide stairs left upon which the
plays to an eager group the fatal fasoi- people stood and viewed the proeessians
nations of some now conceit. Beyond of vttrioue kinds, malty of them historic,
this lien spread out ou a mat a moot whioh passed up and down the street.
happy family of curios, the whole of The entrance into the castle is up en es•
which you are quite prepared to pear. pianade, largely artilioial, between three
phase en bloo. So one attraction fairly and four hundred feet equere and treed as
jostles its neighbor for recognition from a parade ground on which groups of
the gay tboosande tient, like yourself, soldiers were being drilled as I wont up,
stroll poet in holiday delight. Chatter. One of the companies was being put
ing children in brilliant colors, voluble through its exetwiaes by quite to stripling,
women and talkative men in quieter but who though young was clearly no novice.
no less pittaresgce costumes, stream on At the gate there was &licensed ur official
in kaletclosoopic oontianity, And you, guide who offered bis services in a re•
carried along by the an rsat, wander spectful manner. Fila charge is six -
thus for utiles with the tide of pleasure- pence for a shraugor whose time is ifmib•
seekers, till, late et night, when at lust ed and he was well worth the money as
you turn reluctantly homeward, you fool he showed mo the places of interest and
as one does when wnitenecl from tome too. their hiebory. The room in wit bolt James
delightful dream. I of England was born is a small room
not mare than 9x7 and lighted
Val-(;'t'IL',11, POULTRY il:llr;Tail, by a small window, the t.rasernerket
being probably 250 feet nearly perpon•
By T. A. lvmrlrrs, wasxon, oar. dicnlar below. The guide said the in•
fanb when a few week's old was let down
Before lmuuohing, into the sea of details the rook in a bt,eket and carried to Stir -
that go to stake up the sum total of ling Castle. This is true enough as to
modern poultry keepicg,a few prefatory the journey according to history but
remarks may not be out of plane, These there seems to be no confirmation there•
articles are written nob merely Prone a, in for the descent, 1 was shown the gun
fancier's eubhasiasm, but are the staid whtoh is fired every day at 1 o'oloek,
opinions and exearieuaes of one who has Greenwich time to a nomad. I also saw
devoted many yeas of study to this the crown jewels of Scotland which are
fascinating permit, Whilst the wriber kept in what is called the crown room,
admires well•bred fowls as =oh as any where they had been deposited after the
man livi,tg, and has himself bred many anion of England and Scotland and had
peize•wiunere, yet the chief object sought remained for 111 years hidden and
se-
durinRalltha-
a years of
merely lookeded in an oaken ahe
sb.
On thehas been utility.
Fith of February, 1818,the looks were
No matter how handsome a Fowl you forced open and they wre found securely
may breed, it may be a paragon of beauty, wrapped in linen cloths. After seeing the
but unless it is hardy and a good layer or drown jewels of England in the Tower
a good table fowl, we have no use for it. these seemed poor mod diminutive. The
We live in ten emiueutly practical age,and orown is of euro gold and was made fee
rue creature teat is not self-supporting, Robert Brune; the sword of aceto wits
be it fowl or man, is oonsidered a poor given by Pope Julius II to James IV ;
stiok at best, and sooner or later mast the sceptre was made for James V I rho
uome to grief. In this connection ib Order of the Garter, given by Elizabeth
should be borne iu mind, that whilst we to Samos VI ; the coronation ring of
bipeds are admittedly selfish, our fowl Charles I and the royal jewels are tail to
eslip.0 no in thin. particular ; possibly have been presented by the last in the
boaaatte they lack the knack of eoloealing direct line of the Stuarts (Oardinal York)
their faults ; at any rate we will bechari• to George 1V. The oldest piece of
table to our faathered friends, and take masonry on the rook is Queen Margaret's
tide view of the matter. chapel, a smell, antigae building, said to
No hen that ever graced or disgraced Ile about eight hundred years old. A
the barn -yard ltd the remotest intention fetv'yards from it is a large piece of
of laving one solitary egg more than the actilley nailed Mons Meg, a hooped
number necessary bus satisfy her own piece of ordnance, some arty made ab
requirements ; and thio number is genet' Mons and others say in the South West
ally about one dozen ; she then proceeds of Sootland in the titre of Jttmes IV, It
to nit on them with a vie,o to reproducing was buret in 1582 firing a salute to James,
her species ; here we have in a nutshell, . then Duke of York, afterwards James II,
the object of hong in laying ; it to quite It had been removed in 1700 and brought
true that most hens lay a great many back with great rejoicing in 1829 and has
more eggs than they h.tbuh, but this is remained there ever since. It is fully 20
because her owner is constantly robbing inches in diameter in the bore. It was
her, and she either has to lay mare or said of it at Dover t "Sponge me well
give ups erfin ntbatever in the old sin aw,— and kelp me clean, I'll throw a ball to
Biddy Gaines green.' 1 saw a aherob door
If et firer you don't succeed, try, try open on my right, oomiug from the
again,—and with admirable persistence Caatto, and the doorkeeper told no the
she will keep ou laying as long as the Established Synod , of Lothian and
eggs are removed, until she is utterly in- Tweedale was in session but the public
capable of producing another, then her teas not allowed in. He showed me in a
mind is quite made up to sit, and sit she different part of the building where the
will in spite of all remonstranaos of her General Assembly met. I asked him if
owner., even if site gets nothing but a John Knox was buried in Grey Friars
opine tient egg or the bare floor to sit tip- kirkyard and how to get to it. He said
on.
he was not buried there bub in what wan
It is clear, titan, this daily removal at the time St. Giles burying ground,
of the eggs, coupled with the foot that nota Parliament Square, a few feet back
for very many years poultry keepers from the equestrian statue of Charles II.
have seleuted their best layers to breed As I was searching for it a young man
from, that has brensformod a bird aha h was passing rapidly by me and I asked
in a eaten: of nature would lay only about him if he could point out to me where
two dozen eggs iu a year, into a, veritable Knox was buried. As he shot past he
egg machine, producing as many as said "He lies in Grey Friars." lie wee
fifteen dozen in some instances in that just sobering the doorway leading into
striae of time. This foot alone, should be the law court when I saw the stone,
sufficient to oonvinoe the most skeptioal which he must nearly have stepped on
of the great possibilities of catch" broad- as it is quite lecul lvith the causeway,
1115 1 why people will oonbinue to keep a On the stone are the letters J. K., 1572.
lot of uncouth mongrels, possessing There aro a great many monuments
neither iubrinsio worth nor outward standing singly in the streets but I failed
beauty, is one of the conundrums that to see one to the illustrious man who bad
nobreeder est of chore fowl an n
w n solve.
more to do with moulding the character
Most people who keep such wretched of his comatey than perhaps all of them
specimens of poultry, will bell you they put together. I passed into the Peelle -
don't pay, and this it is to bo presumed, merit building which magpies the same
dna eir reason for not getting sotnebhing place for Scotland as Osgaode Hall does
better. for Ontario. I had au introduction from
It is the writer's intention to shote in a friend to one of the assistants in the
these articles that foul will pay and pay Writers to the Signets Library wbieh has
handsomely, too, if you have the right 00,005 volumes hn it, We passed through
kind, and keep them iu a rational man- here auto the Advocates Library, which
nee. Ib fs partly for each popple that is more into•eetieg and contains 150,000
these acbiolee were written, bub more volumes some of thein very rare and
particularly for bhs,farmers of our land, aut•ioas. Among the relics is a manu-
who almost without exception keep fowl. seriph bible of St. Jeromo's translation,
Ths ponitry, however strangely enough, beautifully written and supposed to have
seems to bo the most neglected branch of boon done in the eleventh stentnry ; also
agrioulture ; why it the name of common a copy of the drab printed bible, in two
sense do farmeee keep fowl in utter volumes, from the press of 1+aush and
neglect, and put forth ouoh gigantic ex• Guttenberg; the original League and
ertions to raise art more or two os turnips ? Coveuanb drawn up in 1580 ; several
If they aro candid about it, they will toll copies of the Covenmtt of 1588 and many
you that the reason is simply bhis, the other artioles too numerous to mention
turnips will not thrive at all without a of reeolloot. The original parts of the
certatn amount of attenbien, whilst the buildings ware erected in the time of
fowl will ; the turnips must ate looked Charles I, tato foundation being Joist in
after or abandoned, whilst the fowl can 1582 and finished in 1040. The ghat
under complete neglect yield some return. hall, more modern, ie 122 feet long, 49
Dae it nob seat utte • 1
Does n z fol thou to
feet cid- and a
Y+ o finish d with a loftyroof
negleob Haab which possesses snob sterling of open woodwork of oawk. It was rowd-
Worth ; would it not pay to give your ad with Advocates in their wigs and
fowl more attention ? Let us reason to. gowns, pacing up and down with their
Other. Why are yen farming at all a clients or waiting till their oases name on.
Doubtloss you will reply, to make money ; In a roan about the Size of the oourte in
teach being the case, why not grow that Osgood, Hall there wore four Judges
which will bring you the most money ? sitting, a new President or whaa. we call
• a Chief Juebice among them, The con -
William Jonea,g lighthouse -keeper at duet of business could not be slistingaiatt.
Sand Heads, B. 0„ lice beoome a raving ed from one Court of Appeal but for the
maniao, the solitude of the lighthouse wigs. I think it is What is (called the
having affected his reason, Inner Court titan was deelin with Civil
For publishing an arbiole wllioh a jury oases. The other or Outer Court or that
thought insinuated that Mrs. Isaac! Du- of the Justioiary was different, there be-
roohor was responsible for her husband's ing only three Judgoe, their gowns in.
loath the Montreal Star has to pay the stead of being sills were ermine, the white
widow $250, predominating, rho other color being
chiefly red, which at the first look had a
startling appearance and to which I was
not reoonoiled as long as I saw them. I
Llniehed up my iospgobiou by going into
the Royal Institution fn which I expeob•
ed to see a ooliootion of paintings. After
loolctng at a great variety of Mettles
which were being copied I suppose by
artists, the majority of them ladies, I
caked a somewhat surly attendant where
the paintings were. He told me they
had been removed some place I did not
make out where. The following day I
went bo Stirling, Bannookburu and
other ptaaea of which I will speak in my
next, T Gamer.
Wroxeter,
Number 48.
1ttresTJOty BOX. St, Thomas still hes scarlet fever and
DEAH Sin,- I would like yourself or wasters within its bounds.
somebodyalas to answer ke two follow- fall wheat is lookin rexoeptionally well
in the neighborhood 01 Port Elgin,
ing questions 1-e
One hundred sottlere from Dakota took
1 ---Why does snow in the 01d Country up residence int ikfanatoba dining April.
drift into the hollows while in this 0000- A large bug, costing $15,000, to be
try it drifts on the rising grouted 2 known as the Reliance, was launched at
3' Why ie it that the wind lulls in Collingwood Monday.
midday in the 011 Country while in Water was let into the Rideau Canal
America it increases at that hour ? Monday, and navigation between Ot'awa
May 2,'92, Monarnrrit• and 1Singeton is now open.
What is Teohnio, a word musicians The work of dredging Collingwood bar-
havo so mush to sayabout 7 bon has been oommenced under the super.
vision of Government engineers,
Purer,• The C. P. R. tae nenb from Montreal a
Vroxeter, April 2G, '92, Ane,—In its relation to the piano ft is specially prepared train for the oonvey-
the ability to tumbrel the hands so' as bo anoe of the blue jackals from Halifax to
lA•ue5C1A Mechanics'Inst Institute. ermines the beautiful tone and to make Vancouver,
that tone with all degrs»e of force and Alex. Cummings, a young farmer of
The annual malting of the Brussels
speed. So says Miss Flora Hunter in Boyer township, fell h••,m a vshiete at
Mechanics' Institute was held on Mondaybale "Etude," of Philadelphia, Chatham and received fatal may prove
afternoon, in the Library room, Presi• fatal injuries.
dont Rogers in the chafe.
LEATH The lose by the recent fire in Winni-
Seoretary.Treastrer Hunter road the peg is now placed at 575,000. 411 the
minutes and the various reports which Nearly every person requires a change buildings in the burned district' were of
were reoeived and adapted, of foot wear at this season of the year. very frail strooture.
Prom the reports we gleaned the fol- We can sell you shoes, either fine or The bell in the tower of the first Bap.
lowing information :—Total receipts for coarse, at,e the price of previous years, list Church, Guelph, is to be used as a
year, $107 ; total expenditure, 5105 ; Our mens' two buolde plow boots for el.- fire alarm, and the sexton will receive
value of library, 51,000 ; total number of 15 aqd our 0. P. It. boot, without seams, $25 a year for ringing ft.
books in library, 1845 subdivided as are wonderful, makes customers every be Parkhill Gazette has changed
follows :— time. Our fine laced boots with whole
av-
foxin for men for $1,50 cannot be hands Mr edtheflmi of. Ile it h
Books in Lib'y No. issued. ggot ing purchased the filminess. He will as -
Biography, 285 55 at that money elsewhere. Wo have a eume full control and management next
Cordovan gaiter ah 52.00 that is good twee.
History,
77 55281 value for $2.75. Our ladies' low shoes The Queen's Own Rifles, of Toronto,
Miscellaneous, gnu for 78e, fine kid buttoned boots for $1.70, have decided to go to Owen Sound for the
52 and dull kid for 111,40 is just cost with
General Liters- Queen's Birthday, They will leave on
expenses added. You can get a pair f the evening of the 21st and return on the
tore, 48 boobs for your child or boy or girl or
Poetry and your boots repaired for lees money or night of the 24th.
Drama, 45 18 trade than could be thought possible, A gold care institute will be one of the
Religious Liters.a features of Windsor in a short. Dr. P.
Lure, 9:1 81 trunk at %Geo. Good'magniaoent zinc covered A. Aikman bas thoroughly tried the
Science ee Arts, 221 32 v- Monroe gold mire for alcoholism, and
Voyages and _____" pronounces it an assured amoebas. He
Travels, 187 149 Erneeels COnn.eil: will run the institute there.
Works of RePac- A meeting of the citizens of Comber
encs, 82 The regular meeting of Brussels was held the other weaning to consider
__ Council was held last Monday evening, the question of inducing the O. P. C. to
Total 1045 915 Councillor MoOraolcen in the chair. build a branch into Comber. The pro -
The following officers were cleated for Present, Geo. Thomson and Jno. jest was favorably received and overtures
the current year:— Grewar. will be made to secure the connection.
President, F. S. Scott ; edltlinntes of lest meeting react and pass. The Dundas Banner, noticing the drat
,
public
aPPear n a t
o Toronto onto
of the
Viae-Prasi
dent Rmv,
G. FThe following F. Salton; g aaoounts were present. kilted regiment, says :—"They say it
Seo. -Teas., A. Hunter ; ed :— was funny to see trouserless warriors try.
Direobore, Roy. J. Ross, B. A., Geo.Thos. Stewart, street scraping$22 50 ing to shrink up into their kilts when
Rogers, A. M. McKay, John Beattie Bros., Fire Dept 2 00 they saw the young ladies looking at
Shaw, J. T. Pepper, W. B. Mrs, Meadows, part salary 15 00 their bare knee joints."
Dieksou, Robb. Graham and W. B. Gerry, coal 8 B7 A youth named Callagham, of Guelph,
s1, RO1'i• Geo. Seal, charity 1 74 the .:bber day was driving the horse, at -
Ib is the incaution of the Directorate to lure. Wallace, charity 1 00 taabed to a horse -power, and by some
make an effort this year to enthuse the Mrs. Wallace, wood 1 75 means one of his feet was caught
reading public on the line of taking fresh Mrs. J. Blashill, charity 4 00 in the machine, resulting in the flesh
interest in the institute and thereby ae- E. W. ltfeisom, fire dept 5 00 being stripped from the safe of the foot.
cure their finanoial and moral support. Rich. Williams, street Dart - 0 00 from the heel to the thee. There is also
Miss Shaw was reappointed Librarian. Jno. Broadfoot, on salary 27 00 at deep wound in bis leg.
D. Stewart, Assessor's salary40 00 51. B. Roister, of Comber, met with a
.l7oi21iniO12 garlialYlelit F. S. Scott, on salary 25 00 painful, if not fatal, accident the other
Wm. James, to bal. salary 15 00 day. He was repairing the flat roof of
Hon. John Haggerb's health is such as Moved by Geo. Thomson, seconded by and dwelling,andted whileltinn theim asaaostore
t of
to seriously alarm lois friends. There J. Grewar that the above ac0oauts be elitnbin u a ladder with a pail of boil.
are fears that the honorable gentleman paid. Carried. ing itch, cite ladder broke, and Mr.
may permanently lane his eyesight, The resignation of S. 1 . Mointosh as Rnister fell to the ground, the ib
a meeting of the Banking and Oom• Reeve was read and on :melon was ao.
Pak fly-
Atd.
weld -
memo committee R. S. 1'Vhita's hill bo aepted. Anew election was ordered, ing into his face, and los wn..s badly scald -
require every insuratoe agent to obtafu a nomination to be held on Wednesday, ed about the eyes. Itis thought that
license from the government, was thrown May 11th, in the Town - all at 12 o'clock they will be permanently injured. Mr.
out by 19 to 14, after considerable die- ('loon) and the election, if necessary, on mister suffers much pain,
cession. A strong feelingwas reseed the following Wednesday, 18th inst. Fleeter W. Charlagworth, whe for some
ex p time bad been managing editor of Toren-
that the clause prohibiting rebates, wan Rev, R. Paut addressed the Comma to Saturda Ni t
d
an iuterferenoe with private rights and relative to the gleaning out of a drain fie •,has tar and takken aen a his peel -
that the bill would bave the effect of orossing Primulas street, The Street Mon on that papenother on
nce
Committee to see about it. The World, J. T. Clarke, lately of The
causing a combination among insurance World, has seeeeeded Mr. Oharlesworth
oompaniea and thus raising the rates. The question of tree planting was balk. in the editorial chair of Saturday Night,
A deputation of fifteen railway mail ed over and Constable Broadfoot was in•
clerics from all parts of the Dominion sbruoted to secure the co-operation of the Mr. Clown has already made himself
(tune:m t the number X. W. •McLaren of residents- in setting out maples where well known o ehrs heoopeen onyn to Sat -
$S ' required. nrday Night over the pseudonym 'Mack.'
South Loudon), waited upon the Post.He has for some timeast edited The
mester•Generai on Wednesday of last Oouucil then adjourned, Pickering News with good judgment and
week and urged an inorease of pay and ability,
Tay -
Hutt some scheme of Government in. 's'aotgat- axe Nevwcs. A second victim of Wednesday's big
suranos be adopted as on amount of the storm is reported, be being Satre Tay-
natme of their employment railway mail Ingersoll is agitating for an all.night lor, a young yuan recently arrived from
alecks found it diftoult to effect inanranoe
iu ordinary companies. Sir Adolphe MP
telephone service. anchester, ngland. Deceased left J.
Navigation is now open at Fort Wil- R. Sturt's residence, Adelpha, at 8
Caron said he was afraid ib was too late liam and Port Arthur. o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, aoaom-
to do anything about salaries this seseiou, Braettord'a electric railway will be to ponied by Harry Stud, with the inten-
bul be would sea what could be done for operation by July 1. tion of walking bo a chanty four miles
nnext year. eard toe 05urancenow male, Samos Lowles died in the Township of away. They missed the trail and were
fug enquiries of
frtthwith e department
wto the Tan Arran, Ont., aged 98, out all night, and Taylor died of exhaus-
P The majority of Mr, Lowell, the Libor. tion and exposure. His body was found
adopted in England, and he would see if al candidate in Welland, is 280. 15 hours afterwards, half a mile from
anything in that dieeotiou could be done The Winnipeg painters' strike has cal. John .Highman's residence. Sturt ar.
here. apsed, the men returning to work, rived nearly exhausted and alightly
Tito death of Mr, Mackenzie following The Nova Scotia Legislature was pro -
frozen,
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old neceso ssarily auggeahsStto us allr John thera• rogutd Saturday afternoon by Lieut.- Jim Woods Palls is a little hamlet near
pidity with which changes in parties and Gov. Daley, Watertown. Afew weeks ago a sensation
in Governments are affected, Some Samuel Davis, of Brantford, wag fined was created there by Jenny Green, Amy
years ago a picture of the d. Ss of $1 Saturday for exposing for sale meat Green and Myrtle Smolder, three young
unfit
for food. ladies of the village, e, taking g
Prank
Bart-Uoufoderabinn was
printed by order of The steamer Maaaaga made her first lett out and giving him a good sound
Parliament. There are about thirty trip of the season from E'amiltott to To- horsewhipping while the father of the
figures in that group, each representing rano Saturday. Green girls looked on. The girls alleged
a statesman who in his day oaonpted a Edward Bell, of Waterford, has been Haab young Bartlett circulated scandalous
large place in the public mind. At this Heed $20 fon practicing dentistry with, stories ,boat theta, Bartlett, however,
moment only eight remain with us, and out being qualified. caused their arrest awl the Dasa was tried
of these there are only two iu public life. Tbirteen•year.old Martin Maloney, of ab Brownville before a jaetioe of the
The eight living fabhees are Sir Charles Roxborongh Township, Ont„ was kicked peace. The girls pleaded guilty to horse -
Tupper, Ste Leonard Tilley, Sir Alex• to death by a horse, whipping the rang man, and the father
ander Galt, Sir Elector Langevin, Sir P. Morrison, private secretary of Rail- of the Green gale also said he was guilty
Adam Archibald, Peter Mitchell, Oliver way Cootrantor Ross, died in Montreal of encouraging his daughters. The four
Mowat, and William Macdougall. The from a stroke of apoplexy. were lined six pante eaoh, and Bartlett is
two ocempying representative positions During April 4237 actual settlers en. still smarting from the lashing he remits.
are Sir hector and Mr. Mowat, Bub all rived in Manitoba, and cluing four el at the hands of the girls.
are °Avanued in years, for while a quarter months of the year 9294. A tragio affair 000arretl at the dry dock
of •• century is la small period iu the life Mrs. W, R. Mere Ebb and the Mimes Sunday afteehoot. The steamer Wil -
of u weary, it is a very important end Meredith, of Toronto,who went to Switz• helm Celssner, which ran ashore at the
a very large space of time in that of a erlend a year ago ole at presunb sojourn. mouth of the Halifax harbor, is in the
man. When lumeConfederation was disown:. ing in Germany. dook for Impairs. Three of her ores
ed by slnoou6niuodattt of meads, -b s two An ingenious railroad signal and auto- were ebanding on the deck Sunday after.
Hous thgre aro in pn 200 life tbers. Ply, matio switch .hen boon invented by T. noon, semi•inboxioated and conversing iu
to the here and obl in the House af Botcher, of Belle River, which is said a loud tone, They made a wager for the
U �ho titillate
s . There ore thus only fourteen to be a marvel of nmoltanical 51111, beer, that ono oe them, Carl Henget, a
mon m Ottawa who qac give from per. Wm• Blight, aonta•aetor, of Ohetham, fireman, could not walls from the steamer
soots t Ottawa particulars eau
give
of the great brought into that town the other clay to along one of bbe "etays" to the side of
sonstiexperie debate of 1805. In Pat- magnificent lake, salmon broub from Lelco the dook. This distance was about 15
P1rie that t"stay"
pas
m nod over
Ave feet axil feet, and
'lament 6 + o , d the was roan
hero i bd and
s but one only
o gentleman—Sir
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Eoatoe Langevin-.who was a member of weighed tbirty-uioe pounds. five limbos in diameter, Mengel started
Sir John Maodbuald's first Cabinet—thatThe first conviction under the new law on his fatal trip, the ship'e company by
of 1807 ; and there are only two, Sir titniting the nabob of black bites by an in- this time watching him attempt the fool•
Riohard Cartwright and Mr. Saab, who divtdnal was gemmed at Amheretburg hardy fait. When a little more than
belonged to Mr, Maokenzie'e Cabinet as lot Friday, when George and Lewis half -way across he staggered, lost tie
formed in 1873. Of the National Policy G odobild were fined 510 moll. balance and fell. The poor malt tried to
Cabinet of 1878, only one member, bit',The dot ble.braoking of the Toronto save himself from the certain death tltnt
Bowen romaine in the Mfnisbr although
two are in the House of Commons, branbh of the G. T. R,, is under way awaitwed him on the granite bottom of
y g again, over 100 men being at work. It is the dook, 80 feat below, by clinging to
expected that the line will be completed the stay. It wee of no avail, and, after
'' into Hamilton in about six weeks. a momentary struggle, he dropped to
Last Saturday the crown attorney re. The winter butterrotaking experiment death. .His skull was crushed and the
delved word from the Attorney.General in the East and West Oxford cheese body frightfully disfigured. He was 22
of Ontario that, oviog to the seriousness factory, near Woodstock, proved a grand years of age, unmarried, and a native of
of the crime, it would be neoestary t0 emcee. The resulb wag moat eattefaa Lttebeblc, Germany. The two men who
bring Lundy, the Brampton murderer, 'tory, lnasmull as from 15 to 25 per won their bet of the boor but 'saw their
before the magistrates. Au examination nenb, more butter was obtained,bspeoiaily mate die, are Otte Sonntag and Carl
has been fixed for Saturday, May 7th, from the Milk of "stripper cows." Liotta,