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from the ground no mat -
1'e laying. The price of
it ean be attached to
ng. state thei aired of
ee the teeth are a
r wild you can have apart,
Rt-NCE, -
Brumfield 1'. 0.
Agent for Huron.
'it SALE.
t farm of 25 acres, 21
with a good log house,
Eirig orchard, and a first
the east corner of lot
of Hallett, Co. Huron.
iron Road, 5 miles from
th. This farm is well
Will be said either with
t. For further particu-
r on the premises.
ENOS: MORTON.
I31-tf.
Horses.
'*wises of the subscrib-
s'tephen, on the 25th
white spot on the back,
a white mare with a
tel a yearling grey colt.
iformation as will lead
,ve will be liberally re -
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Serepter PcO.
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135-tf.
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lute binding in: every
ging at a, distance by
Re Signal Book Store,
.t rctif ofce, Seaforth.
por them Iceing we
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ithout delay.
0. 80-tf.
R. SALE.
Dr sale, on easy terms,
r : A good harm of 51
*red, and well watered
to the barn yard. A
young Orchard, bear-
ruse, well finished—a,
Lwith Stable and Gran-
[f of Lot 22,5th Con-
three
on-th ee quarters of a
ftvel Road leading to
rthree miles from Sea-
l
house within a guar-
1 particulars apply to.
*rises.
}HN SP ARLING.
129-3m—
S. The National Pills,
areanewdiscovery
m medicine. They
are composed of
5,; purely vegetable
extract prepared
by a newlydiscov-.
erect process, and
5., are sugar coated.
They are the great
Wood and stomach
purifier. They act
3, an the liver with
magical effect.; are
mild, searching,
yet a thorough
purgative, & have
no equal as a first
class family pill.
See circulars + with
each box
and E. HICKSON
dealers generally.
ti'LY & Go..,
tors, Brougham,
Ont
UMBER
Band at their Mills,
`lie Village of Ain-
Good DRY PINE
lifferent kinds; viz
two inch, clear. A
and a quarter, and
dressed and under-
nuuc,n, boards and
Board and strip
e sold at - reduced
`irst-class planning
inery, and intend
l kinds constantly
elite aldol toprocure
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and lowest possible
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TRADERS,
revel a large assort-
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for 1870,
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and Book Stor
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THE HURON EXPOSITO tr
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Bangkok.
The city extends along the bank of the
river, here very narrow, for several miles--
ten,
iles—ten, I should think—and by no means ap-
pears to be as populous as it really is. The
river forms the principal highway, and its
surface is covered thickly with - boats from
morning till night. Here may be seen -all
descriptions of water craft ; from the tiny
canoe, propelled by one paddle, to the roy-
al. barge ; Nith one hundred and fifty rowers ;
from the native sail-boatto the full-rigged
foreign ship or the smoky steamer. A can-
al extends entirelyaround the city, with
numerous cross .canals, so that access by,
water to all portions is very easy. There
are but few horses, and these only about the
grounds of the king and -nobles, and afew
at the hotels ;; ` there is a road, about a mile
or more in length, which the late king con-
structed -for the ,benefit of the foreign resi-
dents. There are but few streets, and these
very narrow ; but the, various' palaces and
temples generally have wide open spaces by
which they are approached from the water.
There are about two hundred Europeans
in the city, principally missionaries and
merchants, with their families, The chief
of police, the harbor -master, the pilots,.
several captains of vessels, and some naval
officers, are foreigners—chiefly English and
American. A Frenchman is at the head of
the army. There are very many Chinese,
mainly from the district about the city of
Swatow, who are by far the most industri-
ous people in the place : they are found in
all trades, and the poll -tax levied on thein
forms no inconsiderable portion of the royal
revenue. The entire population is various`
ly estimated at from 50,000 to half a milli-
on ; from. information derived from the mis-
sionaries and from soma of the natives, I
schould conclude that it is in the neighbor.
hood of a quarter of a million, or about one
twenty-fifth of the population of the entire
kingdom,
A large number of the people live on the
water._, the poorer in their boats, those of
more wealth in floating houses. :. These cu-
rious edifices are built upon rafts of bamboos
about five test thick, and ale by no means
-devoid of pretence to arehiteature. The ma-
terial of which they are constructed is gen-
erally tea -wood, with thatched roofs. They
usually have a veranda in. front ; and here
are exposed for sale the wares of the occu-
pant, or it is used as a play -ground by the\
children. I visited a native photograph
er'a, and was shown over the whole house
In the veranda was a swing for the young,.
sters ; the front room had a bare floor, with
a centre -table and half a dozen chairs ;
several photographs adorned the walls. The
bedrooms opened oft this, with`sliding doors,
and the kitchen opened out on a back=yard
of water. The firer furnishes water`'for all
purposes, and it is at' the same time the
-common sewer of the city. Th.e houses are
moored with bamboo cables -to bamboo piles
driven in the bed of the river, so that they
can rise and fall with the tide, and yet not
be crrried away by it. They certainly pos-
sess one advantage, that .of being easily mov-
ed the occupant desiring to change his lo-
cation has only to unmoor his cables, take
advantage of the tide, and -go up or down
stream just as he chooses. It is a novel
sight to see one of these edifices come drift-
ing downthe stream at night, brilliantly il-
luminated, and with no noise or confusion
apparent. Most of the houses are 'milt up-
on piles near the river bank, only the pa-
laces being built of brick or stone.
Spiritualism Not a New Thing.
Archeology finds the pre -historic past
surviving among us in many ways. First
of all in our words (e. g., the names of the
days) ,• next in our -architecture (e. y., the
orientation of churches, insisted upon by
Vitruvius, a -relic of sun -worship) ; then in
our customs. Our games, particularly those
of chance, are traceable to ancient religions :
and among many tribes of savages dice are
still used for divination. Gipsies still put
cards to their primitive use of fortune-tel-
ling. But perhaps the , most curious in-
stance of this kind of survival is modern
Spiritualism. Dr. Bastian, of Berlin, has
lately shown how the very forms and tricks
of Spiritualism have been known- in the
most ancient tinges. " Planchette" has been
for ages a familiar instrument among the
Chinese for receiving communication from
their ancestors, who are to Confucians al-
most the only gods. The tyings and unty-
ings in cabinets aVere centuries ago familiar
to the Tartars and Ojibbeways of America.
A distinguished 'urologist of London recent-
ly designates Mr. Home as a 'Tartar in
evening dress." , But 1 find him more re-
lated to the ancient Celt. Thus, among the
.ancient . Celts, great spiritual elevation Was
halal to be frequently attended with physi-
cal elevation, and iti-1r. Home's latest featis
soaring in the air. From tire earliest wor-
shipers of Britain the idea pased into the
Christian Church,. Thus we read that Rich-
ard, one of the early, archbishops of Cantu -
berry, was surprised by a monk when float-
ing in the air. Indeed it - were easy to
match most of °the phenomena of modern
Spiritualism from. the records of this one
city. Once a friar, who neglected to -take
proper care of the tomb of Ethelbert, was
visited by a spirit, clothed in light, who ad-
monished liim, and retired. A.s for the
spirit -raps, they were _well known in the
time of the witches, since when they have
been repeatedly imitated by prisoners, who
have used them to communicate from cell
to cella one rap meaning A ; &o, B ; and
peculiar noises agreed upon as signs for-
" Yes"
or""Yes" and "No." Undoubtedly many of
the ancient observances have come down to
us through the alliance of the Church with
the religions it found already in occupation.
—From, 3 , "South Coast Sauntering in Eng
land," by M. D. COW" in Harper's Ma-
gazine for August.
l^
zy Woman Athletes.
9 is
[Prom the Philadelphia Ledger.]
What kind of process is this, which is
making two young women of Alleghany
county the theme of the course remarks and
flippant criticism of the " ten thousand spec-
tators" who witnessed their boat race, " on
the Monongahela river, on Saturday last ?"
The incidents of this "race" between "Miss
McAlice" and "Miss Lew," for a gold watch
and chain, are recorded in the newspapers,
with sensation headings of just the same
character as would decoiato an account of a
horse race. The, young women rowed a
mile and a half on the Monongahela river,
and Miss McAlicewas the winner by about
seventy yards. ° The spectators were mem-
bers of the Select find Common Councils of
Pittsburg, "leading bankers and merch-
ants," one Judge, "three or four clerical
gentlemen, a baker's dozen of alderman;"ri
large concourse Of citizens, " a great maI y
ladies," and " full delegations of the rough
element." This is rather a miscellaneous
congregation, and we are consequently
quite prepared for the announcement, that
as- soon as the race was over the liquor
stands " were again besieged" by the crowd,
who clamored - again and again for some-
thing to drink."
There are places—slow places—where
this sort of spectacle would scarcely be con-
sidered an improving exercise _ for young
women as the central figures and principal
actors. The affair seems, however, to have
been sufficiently a success to start competi-
tion in a neighbouring city, for we notice in.
the Cleveland Leader on Monday hist, that
" two ladies" of that city are to "run a foot
race," on Monday next, for a purse of mo-
ney. The ladies are commended as of "re-
spectable standing." between thirty and for–
ty years of age, one being married and one
a widow. " Betting," we are further in-
formed, "is going on to a considerable ex-
tent," and one of the ladies offers "to bet
$200 that she will win." The affair is
chronacled as quite an event for Cleveland.
As this spirit of "progress" seems to be ex-
panding as it moves westward, the next
event in tie usual course, must be a puge-
listic encounter between "two ladies," for it
is Only in this way that some other ambiti-
ous tiW estern city can surpass the Pittsburgh.
female boat race and the Cleveland female
foot race.
\' All this isvery suggestive. At this
time when some of the best minds in Great
Britain, where athletic !sports - have always
been held in high esteem, are deploring the -
extent to which the development of mere
'muscle" riabeen carried by theyoung men
present the e aeration, we are having. in-
troduced
troduced into tin country an abuse and! de-
basement of,physicahexercise, in the form of
boat races and foot races among women. It
is bad enough to see the diversion of
base ball turned into a "profession" and de-
graded into gambling,: by these new sports,
where women are the athletes, are infinite-
ly and infamously worse. If the Pittsburgh
boat race was characterized by hoarse cla-
mors for liquor, and patronized by the
"rough" element, what are we to expect
from the Cleveland foot race ?
The Originator of the Telegraphs ystem
The name of Mr. Francis Ronalds was
lately recorded as having received the honor
of knighthood. Who is Mr. Francis Ron-
alds ? was a_question more- likely to be ask-
ed than answered. Mr. Ronalds is neither
more nor less than the originator of pur tel-
egraph system. He was the very first,
either here or abroad, to invent an electric
telegraph so constructed as to be capable of
extensive practical application, and so far
back as 1823 he fully ,developed its princi-
ple . and mode of action. Still earlier, viz.,
in 1816, he had constructed a working elec-
tric telegraph, and on offering it to the then
Government, received an answer which can
never be too often cited as an illustration
of official complacency : " Telegraphs of any
kind are now wholly unnecessary, and no
other than the one noN4 in use will be adopt -
eel." Nothing daunted by this apathy. Mr.
Ronalds matured his invention, and in 1823
published a "Description of an Electric
Telegraph, and of some other Electrical Ap-
paratus." Mr. Ronaldswastoo far ahead
of his time, and too purely a man of science
to secure ':a hearing for his discovery in those
early days, and it was left to others to ma-
ture. his idea and to establish the system
which his prophetic eye bad foreseen would
one clay. transform the world. It was not
till 1847, fourteen years after Mr. Ronald's
pamphlet, that Messrs. Ceoke and Wheat-
stone took -out their first patent. The sci-
ence and practical skill of these and other
electricians have brought electrical commu-
nication to its present state ; but the great
fact remains that Mr. Ronalds was the first
to demonstrate practically the .principle
which they have developed. At last, thanks
toMr. Gladstone's •sympathy with genius,
the special merits of Mr. Ronalds as a pio-
neer in this great field of action havereceiv-
ed a public recognition. Mr. Ronalds, al-
though still an ;fictive devotee of science is
now in very advanced age. A little longer
and his honors right have come too late. --
Pall Mall Gazette.
STORY, THE SCULPTOR.—Story has hacl a
remarkably varied, yet uniformly successful
life, and when I saw him at his work • in
Rome .many scenes of his previeus career
came to my -Mind. I remember .himas a
playful boy about his father's house and the
streets of Cambridge, with his down -turned
collar, merry eye, and, if I mistake not, with
clustering curls of hair ; then a college
youth taking his part at foot -ball on the
Delta, and on the platform at exhibition
with an original poem, I think. Then he
was law student and lawyer and maker of
law books, with a word of poetry now and
then in the magazines at the Phi Beta Kap-
pa anniversary. Then he astonished the
public more than his friends by 'dabbling in
clay with the moulding stick ; and he is
now one of the_.most pronounced facts of
that old Rome whose rubbish he has so cel-
ebrated by his pen. He looks well and
strong, with a touch of a soldier's tough-
ness in his make, ..as if he kept muscle as
well as mind in full play. He talks well,
and said more than is worth remembering
for original thought than. any man that I
met at Rome. They scold about him a good
deal there, and accuse him of turning the
cold shoulder towards Americans and cur-
rying favour with the English, especially
with the aristocratic. class. - He did not
seem to me to be of that temper, but rather
to be a lover of culture wherever he finds it ;
and it was this, and not time -serving., that
led him to have Browning spend part of the
summer with him. If there is any coldness
between ;him and Americans. it is probably
as much 'their fault as his, and they prefer
less intellectual work and less exacting so
ciety than his, while perhaps he makes too
much a luxury of his gifts, and does not
wholly keep up his republican loyalty.
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HARD WATER FOR DRINKING PURPOSES.
—Dr. 'Letheby, in an. article on the water
supply of London, states that water of mo-
derate hardness, like that used in London,
Paris, Vienna, and some other European
cities, is always to be preferred to that
which is entirely soft, as being best suited
for domestic purposes, on account of being
brighter to the eye and more agreeable to
the taste. He also makes the singular an-
no!incement that the French authorities are
so well satisfied of the superiority .of hard
water that the pass by that . of . the sandy
plains, near Paris, and go far away to -the
chalk bills of Champagne, where they find
water even harder than that of London ;
giving as a reason for the 'preference that
more of the conscripts from the soft -water
districtsarerejedted, on account of thewant of
strength of muscle, than from the hard water
districts, from which. they conclude thatthe
calcareous matter is favorable to the_. forma-
tion of the tissues.,; Dr. Letheby further
states that the , mortality in England - is
greater, on an average, in places where soft
water, is used, other circumstances being
equal, that the sparkling Bard waters of the
limestone districts are relished, not only be -
.cause they are pleasant to the eye, but on
account of some hygienic properties in the
excess of carbonic acid they contain, and pos-
sibly because the percentage of lime acts
medicinally upon the system. The Doctor
con lades by expressing his preference for
the very slightly hard water of London over
a softer quality, although reprehending the
use of water containing an excess of mine-
ral matters.
Ilow THE PRINCE OF WALES LOOKS NOW-
ADAYS.—In a large box on - the grand tier
sits a broad -shouldered, full -bearded man,
his head supported on his 'hand, and fast
asleep. He bears a striking resemblence
to the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII,
When a youth, which hangs in the gallery
at Hampton Court ;.he is apparently about
forty years old, -and as his head sinks fur-
ther forward; you can see that a premature
baldness has alreaeady thinned his hair.—
It is the Prince of Wales; -twenty-eight
years of age, and the husband of the fragile -
looking, pensive beauty with the sad, soft
eyes and swan -like throat who sits beside
him. Very fair to look upon is the Prin
cess of Wales, and no portrait of her that I
have ever seen, whether photograph or
painting, can give any idea of the peculiar
loveliness of her countenance, particularly
wh€n it is illuminated with one of her rare
but charming smiles. -The fair-haired,
sinister -looking lady on the. other side of
the Prince, is that titled dame of whom it
is said that she vowed to make Alexandra
of Denmark rue the day on which she be-
came the wife of the future King of Eng=
land. The bridal coronet of the Princess
of Wales- has proved almost .invariably a
thorny circlet, from the days of Joanna of
Kent to those of of Caroline of Brunswick ;
and I fear that its present fair, gentle wear-
er has not escaped the heritage of woe be-
queathed to her by her predecessors. It is
to be hoped, however, that better days are
in store for her. I am told that the Prince
is kind-hearted and generous, always ready
to aid with his purse or his presence any
charitable undertaking ; and surely if there
be any trust td be placed in the purifying
and elevating influence of true and_ noble
woinanhood, the son of Victoria, the hus-
band of Alexandra, may yet retrieve the er-
rors of his youth by the virtues of a worthy
manhood.—Lzppincott's Laga.zine.
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WIVES OF THE PERIOD IN TND].\, --Miss
Brittain, who has spent much of her time
in India, recently gave a lecture in Phila-
delphia on the manners and customs observ-
ed by Indian wives. Miss Brittain was
•among persons of high caste while in India.
She avers that Indian women are married
at any age from two to ten years. After
entering upon wedlock, they. also enter the
Zenanah, or women's aparjcment in the rear
-of their husband's house.. From here they
are never allowed to- depart,except occasion-
ally to visit their mothers. Here they sit
and mope all day, day after day,in quarters
not. even decently furnished, while their
lords occupy luxurious front parlors,. mag-
nificently crimsoned anct upholstered, with
fine libraries, etc. •But under the laws of
India, no matter how.anxious a loving hus-
band may be to improve his wife's condition
he is not allowed to do it. The mother-in-
law has the entire control. Thus again it
is shown that woman to woman is most un-
kind.
A writer in a Dublin medical journal
says that many sworn teetotallers inIr-eland
have acquired the habit of intoxicating
themselves with ether.
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