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The Gazette, 1893-07-06, Page 3Jest Received by sone Bros, at -the WJNCHAM WI b1e & Stone WORKS A fine Assortment of Granite Monuments of every style. Also a large amount of the BEST NEW YORK MARBLE. We are therefore prepared to furnish Monuments and Headstones at GREAT. LY REDUCED Prices. It will pay you to call _before placing your order. VANSTONE BROS. Dtilinsge WHAT YOU DON'T SEE, AU FOR; bT' 1) t • QJ s1 E C se tee a.. C O • Caun s., ® cd� cd b � ( s.3 ss s.. U O t>A (73 ho 1.4v � U in "Ft CD r-• C 0 Carpets, Stair Carpet. Window Carpet. Window Holland. Lacs Curtains, 40c. t . $5 Art Muslin, bleached and colored. Tabling. Cretonnes. VeronaSaliBbliXy Cloth. PrintedManias. Wool Detainee. Pink' and -cream Cashmere and every other shade Nuns' Veilings. Net Veilings. Navyb17cDressSerges Lawacheck Lawn Blouse stripes. lanseletts—l7 patterns. CCh Flannels. s. g warp. BBllacckk Dress Silk. Black Sateen. Velvets and Flushes. Brown Holland. Lunnch Baskets. Churns. Butter Trays and Ladles. Washtubs. Crockery. ockery. GPlardware. Patent Medicines. Top Onions. Potato Onions. DIA& sets. Garden Seeds all Raw Osl. Lire. Turpentine. (Astor Oil, by the Ib. Stone docks. Milk nRm s. a Crock ffiik Pails. Wash -Mailers. Tea. Kettles. Discopper h. Felt Hats, lost to hand. Straw Hats for 500 heads. Lace Frilling'. Ties and Collars. Top Shirts. Dress Shirts. Scissors. Knives and Forks. Spools. TeapotsCanned Goods. Plow Lines. Bed Cords. Marbles. Wire Clotheslines. Baby Carriages. Croquet. Spices. 1 tyt 0 fag 0 113 i) 'EF KEEP EVERYTHING, AND SELL CHEAP. , Lakele cJNO. BRETHOUR, FIRE ARD STOCK InsuranceAgentt NL7'1;i025C "- `$R. NEPr.E sEvrs : Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Waterloo Mutual Fire InsuraLee Co. Perth Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Economical Mutual Fire Lnsnrance Co. Mercantile Insurance Co. Etna Insurance Co. Give John A Call. PETER HEPINSTALL,I Fordwich. General Insurance Agency. Call and get your Will made. Or call an get - Dr. Wilford Hall's Hygienic pamphlet ' Max.i nelous Triumph Over Disease Without Mediu; cine," at half for jeer cost. Or ANY INSUit_ANCE, either on village or farm farm property. Or any writing you require. Or a loan on real estate ani ape lowest rates. • 8�ar n ANswAT. P.132ermsTA4u Ions Where - Dlamoad-Flashluz Clerks Don't Appear. Hotels in China are quite uniform archi- tecturally. They 'never- differ in point of cleanliness and other detail, bat they are almost invariably built in. the form of a 1 quadrangle inelosing a court. The building is only one story -high. In front of the !quadrangle is a space wide enough for wheeled vehicles to drive in. The front part of the structure is occupied by the kitchen and the restaurant, if there is any. Along the sides of the quadrangle are many small rooms. At the further end is the swell apartment, intended to be occu- pied by guests of means and distinction. This apartment consists invariably of three rooms, a sitting room in the middle and a bedroom on each side. There is no hotel clerk with a scintillating diamond in his shirt -front, the inn -keeper fulfilling that capacity incidentally to his other duties. There are three classes of hotels in China. To begin with, there are the business -inns, frequented by commercial travelers, as one might say. , They bear a certain sort of analogy to the hostelries in our own country, where agents with gripsaeks_'fuli of merchandise find accommodation. To these inns traders go for the pur- pose of showing ander disposing of their wares. In the large cities there are pro- vincial inns, each of which is kept up for the accommodation of people from a partic- ular province as Canton or Szechuen, re ceiving only guests who come from that province. These hotels do a considerable postal business, transmitting letters through the hands of the people who enjoy their hospitality. The latter are not legally re- sponsible for the safe delivery of such mail, but is is neverthless conveyed to the intend- ed recipients with the utmost regular- ty. In this manner letters are sent all they way from Pekin to -the borders of Bur- mah, the journey requiring four or five months. In addition to the kind of inns I have de- scribed there are offi eial hotels, where high officials stop on their way thrqugh the country. These establishments do not re- ceive tradespeople. The travelling official often takes the whole hostelry for the ac- commodation of himself and his retainers. He-oeupies the swell apartments in the rear, while they are quartered in the little rooms along the sides of the quadrangle. If he is a very elevated personage indeed he is likely to scorn the inn, preferring to hire a temple. Such religious edifices ordinarily have rooms attached to them, in which com- fortable accommodation may be found. An essential idea of the .duddhist doctrine is hospitality to travelers. Some of the most ancient inscriptions which have been discovered in India were made by a native sovereign, who in them conveys instruction as to how to provide for wayfarers, telling what medicines to give them, and moven giving directions as to the planting of trees along the roads for the purpose of affording them shade. In Mongolia there are no inns But monasteries are numer- ous, and they will always accommodate a stranger. As in France and other European coun- tries, the inns of China_ are _under police control. Each of them keeps a record of. its guests for the convenience of the magis- trate -of the district. Any suspicious person is subjected to inspection and the passport of a:foreigner is promptly asked for. The noise b a Chinese hotel is . deafening. It never ceases, day or night. Each guest yells from- his door to the servants for whatever he wants ; the servants shout back. ; the cook bawls out names of dishes as they are ready ; the cart -drivers wrangle, the mules bray and the pigs squeal. T first thing every person does on arriving is to call for hot water to make tea. Ev- erybody drinks tea at all hours, so that one servant does nothing but carry hot water for tea. The hotel furnishes nothing but hot water and oil lamps for lighting : everything else is charged extra. In North China, where camels are used as beasts of burden, there are special inns which take camels. The reason for this is that mules are afraid of camels. Other inns advertise to receive pigs. At the hotels cattle. and horses are fed mostly on sorghum stalks, chopped up and mixed with bran.—{Phila- delphia Times. Carlyle's Canadian Letters. It seems that a large mass of Carlyle's correspondence still waits publication. The world might well be tired of the prodigious quantity of letters poured from his prolific pen were it not that everything which throws light on his unique genius andre- markable character is of universal and last- ing interest. It will be remembered that his intense family clanishness which never left him, led to a constant stream of confi- dential lettere from him to one or other of his relations, among these was his youngest sister, Janet—or as he called her Jeannie— who still lives and resides with her married daughter in western Ontario. She married a Robert Hanning in 1836, and is now in her 81st year. It is Carlyle's letters to this sis- ter—"dear Jeannie" -that still await pub- lication. Very naturally,'the old lady will not part with them, though many applica- tions have been made to her by Carlyle so- cieties for their loan. It is certainly asking too much to require her to part with her treasures but why do not the admirers of Carlyle subscribe a, small sum to have a copy of the letters made, to which she will probably have no objection ? The profits from the publication would more than re pay them. Pretty Thin Stuff. "theextreme thinness of the gold on cheap jewelry has long been ,subject for jest by humorists. A party of Boston jewelers was being shown through one of the great plating factories by the proprietor, a man well known as a wag. As the visitors stood looking into one of the vats where different articles were being plated with gold by means of a chemical process, a gentleman asked : "Uncle John, just -how much gold do you use here in your business? " The old man looked up and answered, with ,twinkle in, his 'eye. "Well, .boys, rn tell you. When I started in, fifteen years ago, I puta $10 gold piece into the vitt and I guess there's some; left of it yet!" —[Boston Journal. Prince Bismarck is determined to never grow bent. When taking his daily walk he carries a stout cudgel across his back, held between his-elkts ; this helps him to keep himself erect. The Curious Dress to Be ' Worn by. leter Gruber at the World's Fair. Solomon in all his glory was not: clothed like Rattlesnake Pete. Joseph's coat of many colors was a very . modest garment compared with the scintillating costume of, snake skins worn by Peter Gruber, of Oil City. The report that a man proposed to visit the world's fair dressed in the skin of a boa constrictor aroused the emulation of Rattlesnake Pete," as he is familiarly ealled, and_ he immediately set about pre- paring the most unique suit ever worn by man. It consists of a coat, vest, trousers, -hat, shoes and shirt. A snakeskin stuffed and varnished answers for a cane, and a rattle serves for a scarfpin. 'i.wo hundred snakes were required to make the outfit, and to preserve the brilliancy and flexibil- ity of the skins in the greatest possible degree the snakes were skined alive, being first made unconscious with chloroform. Gruber, who is now 33 years old, has been catching rattlesnakes for nine years, and has subjected them to all sorts of experiments. "This rattler," he said to a Cincinnati En- quirer man in his place of business the other day, " is pure and unadulterated," and with that he yanked out of the cage a big rattler and tossed it on a pool table. It was right on its dignity. and rattled furiously. arovnd the table, showing its fangs and darting tongue. Watching his chance, he seized it by the back of the head withhis naked hand and inserted in its mouth an ivory knife and showed the poison sack -and fangs on the upper jaw of the now thorough- ly enraged reptile. To more fully illustrate the snake's way of doing business, Pete re- moved emoved the knife and then proceeded to tease him with a stick. He became furious and struck at the stick emitting a poisonous yellow fluid. The snake used on this occa- sion was the Rocky mountain- rattlesnake and was five feet in length, its string of rattles numbering eighteen. He said the rat- tlers were the most -dangerous between the ist of July and the 1st of September, when they are molting their skins. They go blind when the shedding is in process and will strike at any strange sound or touch. Even the eyes of the snake peel off in the shedding of the skin which sometimes takes place in a couple of hours and sometimes requires several days. Of the varieties of rattlers the black, the yellow and the- swamp rattlesnakes, he has found the last mentioned the most dan- gerous, being the quickest to snap and makin; the lightest noise when it rattles. Though the black and the rattlesnake are enemies in the woods, they never fight in captivity, but the blacksnakes will some- times attack each other when hungry, the victorious reptile not infrequently swallow- ing another half or two thirds as long as itself. Pete also volunteered the information that the rattlers used by snake fakirs in museums are perfectly harmless. Their mouths are invariably sewed up. If they are too lively, drugs - are used to deaden them. No man would Le foolhardy enough to place a genuine rattler about his neck unless his-snakeahip .was fixed for the oc- casion. There are snakes in Pete's place that have not eaten anything in three years. Food is offered them, but they take nothingbut water. . Theyare fat and sleek as when first caught. - Some of them eat oc- casionally in captivity, their ,preference - being ehipmtioks, swallows, English spar- rows, mice, etc. The female rattler gives birth to her young alive and it is the only snake that does,'the others laying eggs from which the young are batched. Row Ships are Insured. An underwriter is a man who undertakes a proportion of risk upon the hull or the cargo of certain ships on their voyages from port to port,in precisely the same manner as a life insurance office undertakes, for an annual consideration, to run the risk of a policy -holder's death. It will become ap- parent that all kinds of factors go to deter- mine the exact premium of rate which has to be paid for inspiring the sum of £100. A short or an eosy voyage, the time of the year, the age, condition, and officering of the ship or steamer, the nature of the cargo and the number and reputation of tie ports - at which it is proposed to . call on the way. To ,put an illustration into very simple terms, let us suppose that the owner of a new steam yacht wished to insure against loss in a voyage round the world, the full details of which have been mapped out. They would, in all probability, employ an insurance broker (himself a member of Lloyd's), who wouldsettlethe rate to be paid with one or two of the underwriters of the large marine insurance companies. He would then get their names upon a slip of ,paper for, say, a line of £500 each, and would afterward', '.'in the room," get other underwriters each to put his name down on the slip for £100 or £200. In this manner, supposing the value of the yacht to be £10,- 000, the entire'sum would be insured, and the risk spread over nearly a hundred differ- ent persons. If the yacht, like the Wasp and the Naronic, should go down in a typhoon, or after collision with an iceberg, without leaving a trace of anything to salve or to sell, _ then each and everyone of the underwriters becomes liable for the full amount written, and must pay up the £100 or £200 as the case maybe. If the yacht in question reaches Loudon again without any mishap then those who took the risk of her took a clear profit on the premium paid. Like many other business transact tions, this is very much akin to betting. The Marquis of Lorne. We do not remember how long the Mar- quis of Lorne has held the post of Governor of Windsor Castle, but it appears that he has found a way of distinguishing his term of office from thatof his predecessors, most of whom probably did nothing at all for the salary which they received. This grand old stronghold is to be "armed"—more for picturesqueness than for practical purposes,. and only with such weapons as would not be of much service if these piping times of peace" should be followed by more stormy ones. An old bronze six -pounder from Fort Belvedere, near Virginia Water, has been hoisted into one of :the lower embrasures of the round Tower, and the others will follow in due course. It . appears that they were removed'from Windsor to their late resting Jplaee - during the extensive alteration at -the castle carried out by George -IV. The return of the pieces of ordnance is all very well, but .surely -such an important :place of defence as Fort Belvedere is not going to be dismantled altogether. If so what will. become of its Governor ?--[London Come spon.den douse cleaning time is now on, andou will as usual make some changes in which the Dry Goods Store takes a - part. - hatever these changes may be --GREAT or small --we twill be pleased to show you how well and how reasonably we can supply your wants. Laoe Curtains. We have them of different designs and prices in White and Cream, also the Lace Nett by the yard, the Pintoes of which are Roolk O 1 roM. We have the low-priced reasonable Hemp, which present a very good appearance and in colt - Carpets that are likely to stand for some time, also a better quality of Union of New- estan�. design just to hand direct from the factory. Stair and Floor Oilcloths in DifferP-st Patterns. i0ilcloths. ve g in Dress goods Parasols Laces, Gloves Silk Mitts Hosiery Underwear etc. for Spring, complete. CLOTHING. rIn this branch we excel. Ordered or Ready-made it makes no difference, !Stats or SPRING OVERCOATS made on the shortest notice at the ROCK BO . TOMEST price, and fits guaranteed —or no sale. In ORDERED CLOTHING we a fit the LIXTLaa Alen or LIG Mole or mea that !,int men at all. T31 We have them for a ys at 25. Men's Stiff, Lined at 90c and upwards. See them before you buy. A wagon load of Straw hats, made in sizes to fit everybody. Pattern Tweeds at 35c and upwards. Braided Dress Prints at 25c: and upwards. - Also a number of other lines too numerous to mention but which we would ask you to kindly call and inspect. • When we hang our litlte sign You can bet we are in line, To give the buyer figures that are right, When you read this little ad. - And you know you are wanted bad To corne and get our bargains out of sight That's right, They are out of sight. If you cant get here away from/he work make it a point to be here Saturdays. We'll - have something special for%. All kinds Marketable PRODITCR TAX KN.