The Clinton New Era, 1887-04-15, Page 7k
FRiD iY, APRila 15. 1587
How au Orizind. Engraver,
r41br-id>'o Iiiugsley, Warta.
' Qhe first ori Sinal b1uc1: which '1e.
Eingsley made was " In it Now Engla a
Forest," published in 2 he (.'. ilr;t17
Wcfgazicee, for November, Ina''. 'i.'his
was made dit.ctly from nature, theft is
IP say, he lead no drawing to work 1ro=i i,
but drew 1>i;: little movable house op-
posite they 1•.uuiscapc he wished to
portray, and engraved upon a wood-
-block the scene he sate,—with such
omissions and altesatione as were need-
ful for a proper composition " of tho
pinture. Some of the work was done in
the studio, sitting at the desk which
has beeu described and looking through
'the open whitlow ; but more was clouo
lander the shade of a convenient tree,
a die artist bolding his block in one Baud
and his gravor in the other, woraing iu
a free-hand manner, not only cutting;
into lines which could bo printed, fortes
already on his block, but drawing others
with the graver, a difficult feat if' eve
remember how mans lines have to be
made in one square inch of woodblock,
and that these must be cut into a hard
surface with a • steel tool, and that in
engraving there is no means of erasing a
Sue once maue.
Not all stir. Kingsley's 'blocks have.
been produced in this way, however.
Most of his later work is more the result
of observation of nature than a direct
copy from au actual scene. Thus, " At
Sea," printed in 2 he Century for April,
3683, grew out of tho article wh.ch ac-
•companied it. Mr. ningsley made many
trips down New York Bay,. studying
effects of cloud and water, making
memam
orcl y in iej en anti black anti
white ;' Said from thre.ad"he' tYrolvetl `lug'
Iteatitiftil picture.
And so, too, with "A Midwinter
Night." "Of tu,urse, the artist could not
aft out of doors upon such a night to make
an engraving, nor oven sit at the window
of his ear to look out upon what, by con-
trast with the light within, would be
nothing but biackuese. But on many a
rough wintcr night bas lie wrapped him-
self in a warm coat and gone out into
the wild storms to study just such au
effect as this, fixing. in his rniud some
needed detaii, and upon returning home
transferring it to tlie-w•ood-biock ; until
at last, \Attu he set out to stake an
engraving wliiclt shall embody all theta
impr s-;ionv, he gives us hi this frontis-
piece a truthful representation of such
a night ns .vr' should choose to spend in
staying at home.
Thus you will set; that Mr. Kingsley's
work is original—that is, he makes the
picture as well as the engravings. But
do not interpret this statement as belit•
Sing the work of other engravers. It
vequrres not only a high degree of
mechanical skill, bat fine ar i1 tie know.
leedge: and feeling, to faithfully render
Sue forms and, tints of•a good drawing
it painting. —S t
the Origin of the Circus (G Safety Ret."
(Tho following . extract from "Marcus of
me," the first of E. ti.Orooks"' Historic Boys".
ries, is intrrestinl;, not only is an evidence of
e nobility of clu ratter which afterwards
served to make the Emperor Marcus Aurelius,
_lane of the greatest of Rome's Imperial rulers,
bu as showing toe early origin of a eafe•guard
that nodoubt has'been generally regarded as au
ol.toomo of modern humanity:. The scene de-
scribed took place A. I), 1:.;S, at a performance in
the Circns Sla.aimns.)
Amoug the throng of " artists " on.
that far off March they, there came a
'fright little fellow of cloven years, a
rope -dancer, and a favorite with the
. stow('. .Light, and agile lie trips along
the rope that stretches High above the
arena. Bight before the. magistrate's
box the. boy poirses iu mid-air, and even
Sae tllought.u1 • young director of the
gamo,I-1stok-s-u.p tt.t-tlac-graccfu-1 motions
of the boy. ., .
Hark 1 a warning shout rocs up ;
Slow another: the poor little rope -
dancer,. anxious to find favor in the eyes
of the young noble, over-exerts himself,
loses his balance on the dizzy tope and,
toppling over, falls with a cruel thud on
the ground, and lies there before the
great state box with a broken neck—
dead. Marcus hears the shout, ho soca
the failing boy. Vaitltiui from his
. canopied box he leapsdown into the
_arena, and so temdee , is ire of others,
stoic though ho be, that he hay the
poor rope -dancer's head iu hie lap be-
fore the attendants cin reach him. But
,io life remains in 'thatBruised little
body and, as Marais tenderly resigns
the dead gymnast to the less sympa-
thetic slaves, he -commands. that ever
after a herr r:ba.11 be laid beneath 'the
rope as a protection nga inst such fatal
-falls. This became the rule ;. and, when
next yon scu the safoty not spread be-
neath the rope -walkers, the trapeze
. performers, and those who perform
flimilar " terrific teats, remember that
its use dittos back to the humane order
of Marcum thebe Ma;is;trate.soventeeu
centuries ngo.
He lies Not Superstitious.
There was tried io Austin the other
'day, the case of the State of Texas vs.
Tom +Melons for horse stealing. One of
the witnesses for the defence, a gawky.
looking cove -boy, sworn positively that
he had mot the accnaed forty utiles
away Icon) Austin at the very hour the
horse was rt"len, thus proving a com-
plete alit„'. The attorney for the state
undertook to cross-examine the wit-
ness.
"You say you saw Melons forty miles
from «ere the horse was stolen at four
o'clock onthe 25th of Noverttber ?”
" Yes, sir."
" Do you know the meaning of the
word perjury ?"
"No, sir.'
"Well, it moana that if you swear to
a lie tlic devil will carry yon off right
then and there.
" O1e,'pshaw'l why didn't he carry me
offewhen I swore I saw Tom)9telons on
the 25th of November, a little while
ago ? Yon are a nighty' smart lawyer
but ylon can't fool int'. " T am not a
darned bit, superstifionea.
Tho jury gave the prisoner ten years in
the penitentiary on the testimony of his
devoted friend who was not supersti-
tions.
.
�• —At pat t!loes on Russian raileonds
there is a 1;iicvanee book in which tho
traveler nioy iuscribo his wrongs in any
language. aura 'which is periodically read
by tho authorities. Whether risfilts
follow the perusal is not stated,
6tor•ies of the Benet and Bar.
Ministers enjoy telling anecdotes
about the cloth; doctors—' -and Oliver
Wendell Rolmos is a conspicuous ex.
ample—overflow with stories at the ex-
pease of their brethren ; and lawyers.
and judges, when they get together,
make the rafters ring with inextinguish-
able laughter. Mr. Croaks James,whose
name is a singular illustration of the
old proverb that names go by con-
traries, wheu he retired from the law
after half a century's practice, dedicated
to'his companions a retesrtory of stories
which he had beeu long preparing,
selections from which he had often road
to them iu Grand Divan assembled.
'Mr. James first gives Lord Broug-
ham's�
definition of a lawyer as " a
learned gentleman who rescues your
estate from, your enemies, and keeps it
to himself," and then goes ani to recall
an old story of Lord Avonmoro, who
had fallen into the ball habit of inter-
rupting counsel. Thud Curran was very
often stopped short in his argument by
his lordship, who would say ;
"Mr. Curran, I.know your bleverness,
but it's quite in vain for you to go on ; I
see the drift of it all, and you are only
giving yourself and me unnecessary
trouble."
One day Curran, being too often stop-
ped in this way\thus thus addressed the
judge :• \
" Perhaps, lily lord, I am straying,but
you must impute it to the extreme agi-
tation of -my mind. 1 have just
witnessed so dreadful a circumstance
that my imagination has not yet re-
covered from theshoch."
Tho judge was all attention. •.:'•
" Go on Mr. Curran."
"On my,;jvay,.to.tllq.,aotlrtseany..adord,
ris�'I'p'a'sd'i by one -of the' markets,. I ob-
served It buteher proceeding -to -slaughter
ti calf. Just as his hand was raised a
lovely little child approached him - nn-
perceived, andrrible to relate—I see
the life -bloods gushing out still—the
poor child's bosom was under the
butcher's hand, when ho pluuged the
knife into—into—"
' " Into the bosom of the child!" cried
out the judge with great emotion.
" Your lordship sometimes anticipates
—it went right iuto the neck . of tete
• calf!"
Justice Willes once sentenced a boy
at Lancaster to.bc hanged,w,itli.the hope
of reforming hila by frightening hila.
and lie ordered hint for execution next
uioruing. The judge awoke in the mid-
dle of the night, and was so afflicted by
the notion that he might bimetal die
in the night, and the bey be hanged,
though he dal not mean that lie should
stiffer, that he get up out of his bell and
went to the lodgings of the high sheriff
and eft a reprieve for the boy, or w•ltat
was to be considered equivalent to it,
and then, returuing to liis bed, spent
the rest of the night very comfort-
ably.
When Lord Alansfield once exelltimed
to Mr. Duauilig when he was layiug
down a legal point :
" Oh, if that be tho law,?ilr. L)unning,
I may burn my law books."
" batter roast theta my.lord,'' was the
ready retort.
Iu a similar manner nu Iririii judge
shook his • }read its Mr. Curran • was
cluliorating one of his .points to a jury.,
" I see,' said Mr. Curran, " I see,
=L nt'.enie'.i; the mat on of his lorlslrip's
head ; common observers might imagine
that it implied a difference of opinion,
but they would bo mistaken. It is
merely accidental. Believe ice, gel:tle-
rneu, if you remain here many day:+, you
will yourself perceive that when his
lordship eliakes his head there's 'nothing
hi it 1"
CI E N .I I f(4 S .
—The parasol is a glorious invention
for biding an ugly face on trio promen-
ade ; but sometluug yet_ remains to be
invented" for protecting big feet from
the' Critical adze.
— A pert little girl in Troy boaatcd to
one of her young frieudt; that " her
father kept a carriage." '"Ah, but,'
meas the triumphant reply, -" my father
drives a street -car."
—A traveler, inquiring at a feudal
castle whether lie could sco the anti:
, qui ties of the place, received the simple
answer fr•oirt the servant : " I aro
sorry, sir , mylady and her daughters
have gone to town."
"How beautiful that woman sings,"
said ono lady to another, vvlio was in
gorgeous attire and blazing with dia.
motels. "Is she a mezzo•sopratn :?"
`• No, I guts{ not; I think she is a
Swede," replied the other.
—Reardon the lake : "efs!t that girl
skreto?" "I think not." Thou you'd •
better escort somebody else." " 14(t
what shall I do with her ?" " Oh, just
let 1:er
—A couutly girl wrote -to-her-le-vete
" Now, George, don't fade to be tit the
singing-schoel tonight." George wrote
back that in the bri;lit lexicon of youth
there's no such word its " fate."
It rather annoys the woman holding
• a pug clog in her lap in the sti•tet•car to
hear a learned -loosing gentleman re•
mark to a friend : Do you icuovr the
female onraug•ontaug at the museum
flay formed an att,teliment for a small
dog and fondles it constantly "?
—tt is-iiaid that the Spaniard:, believe
that the banana was the forbidden fruit
of which Adam and Eve partook in the
garden of -Eden. Ilos'ever true thin
may ho, there is no doubt that it has
often been the eatise of the fall of man
in modern tunes.
—" 1 onbt talk to me about beginning
at the'bottoln of the ladder," observe
" crashed" actress to a friend ; " I
I.nsgan tltero ten yestra'ag nand I'nl there
;t:11. If it was to do over again I'd
begin at the -top. It's much •asior to
fall down than to climb up."
— " Backward, turn backward, 0
time 1 ' Papa—According to the new
astidnr,l bine, Minnie, wo must set the
' clock back about four minutes, eh ?
:Weide, (still in the market)—Four
minutes! Put it back lots, papa.
Nothing lcsy than tun year will do ine
any good !
--Postal regulations. Abigail --What!
Alt
these letters again for Miss rarity
iml not ono far me ? Postman—(I[iher•
min=t --.1v course not. Do you think me
as mane as to be brin!;in' ye letters from
lam her genticmnu, and I killen' myself
gi=ns to see ye every monde' this
chole month past, darlin'2
he Popular Nouse,
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Very attractive lines in
Prints and Ginghams.
A special line of all _wool
Dress Goods in all the lead-
ing shades at 25c. per yard.
Full range Ladies Jerseys,
from $1.25.
Full lines of Linens, Towel-
ings, Shirtings, Ducks and
Cotton,des.
A fine White Shirt, Linen
Front and Cuftl at 50 cents
White Shirts in •Boys sizes.
Full range Linen and Cel-
luloid Collars.
Full range Ties and Silk
Squares.
Complete range of Ladies
fine Lace and Button Shoes
Children's Boots and Shoes
in several lines
Selection Mens LacedWBoots
Boys & M9ns Hats, Stiff &
Soft in English & American
Large stock of Wall Papers
Stock choiceFreshGroceries
WE' •INVITE YOUR INSPECTION.
O4TIIVIE ' Ti:,
For the next thirty days we will sell any article in our immense stock of CROUK-
ERY and GL,A .SSWARE, at A discount 01 40 per cent. Just think of it,
,•$15 00'
8 00
6 00
Cbina Tea Sets, 44 pieces for
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15 -00 Dinner • /1
11 00
• 8 00 Combination r/c • 85 11
6 00 D6corateil stone tea 41- el
3 50 Irony Tea Sets, 44 "
2 25 Stone " (e 44' ee
5•-00 Decorated chamber 10 'C•
4 00
" 2 50- Stone chamber sets 9 11
.... -•,Fin.s-liaug'in La.ni-1 s --for-- • - •
1.0 Per cent off GLASSWARE, LAMPS, FANCYWARE, ETC. .P.emoniber
the sale just lasts THIRTY DAYS.
Le
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$13 50 Cash.
7 20 cc
5 40
13 50
9 90
7 10
5 40
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CHRISTMAS, GRO C E RIES' .
In Groceries, our stock was never mare complete. All oar .new
RAISINS, CURRANTS, PEELS, WALNUTS, A'L=
MONDS, FILBERTS,' CONFECTIONERY,- &c.,
Are in and will be sold as cheap as the cheapest. . Call and see the handsome
presents wo are giving with
COOPER'S IM.KING POWDER IAN Da
JONAS' FLAVORING'.,EXTRACTS
To every purchaser at our store on I)ec. 2-lah, we will give a deeorltted cup
and saucer. We want any. clua.ntity.of good Bitter, Rams, PoeLtry, Potatoes, and
Wood in exchange for groceries. Give us a call, it will pay you.
os Cooper ;: Son
CLINTON..
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DO NOT RUN TIIE RISK OF PURCHASING INFERIOR SEEDS
WHEN YOU CAN GET JOHN A. BRUCE s FROM
s. D .AVIS'
AND DO NOT FORGET THAT WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF
Uardware, ginware, Stoves,
Lamps, paints & Garden goofs
.11)A.:147- +,
ffiEWSPfi1�6a�d Qf�dCP�
BOOTS 86 SHOES
At 0. Cruiolushaisl o,
My Stock is now very complete in all depart -
menta, and will still -continue to sell
•at the lowest possille prices.
Ordered Work as Dual Illfeliol to Nam
LIS
FOR
LADIES', HIM' 8i CHILDREN'S USE.
TRW ET.
CaEl mC. �'t��iiek 'I 1,11%, the hoot
ALBERT STREET, BRICK BLOCK, CLINTON
EGGS TAKEN IN- EXCHANGE.
FIVE PER CENT OFF FOR CASK.°
FR .S1H ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
HELLEBORE CASHMERE BOQUET PERFUME
CARRIAGE SPONGES Nine lino of IHAxn MERRORS, cheap:
• PURE INSECT POWDER
�E ASIIME$ HULK PERFUME
ATLANTA SEA SALT C PEARS
l'IGLIS r SOAP
t EARS (Eriousn) SOAP
FRESH 1.151E JUICE PEARS VIOLET POWDERS'
PU4k_PAktt GREEN •,* ti .:_PE+flsltoou or' Nttef, ..
We pay special attention' to TRUSSES, and have the largest stock in the county.
Best 5 cent CIGAR in town. '
• NI FIS 1I. C03113F.,
CHEMIST AND DLtLJUGIST, CLINTON, ONT.
Removal! emoval!
..ass
Dr. Worthing r having bought cub the business Lately, carried on by W.H. Siff.
son, purposed emoving. it to the 'wilding Lately occupied by Thompson &; Switzer
where he intends to open up a large stock of
3ooks, Stationery and Christnrias •
Novelties
Which willies) second to none in the county. a also intends removing Via
DRUG STORE to these premises. As he has tali advantage of the times asti
bought at very love prices, he can give you good vas, for your money. Plc*,
call and inspect his stock.
A. WORTHING -TON, Clinton.
What — they � Say.
Twenty -eight -Thousand Dollars paid at auction for the renowned trotting horse
• Pancoast, proved his- exelence, and so the
Leading Clothing Hose of IISCHER'S
-Opposite trig Post` (ITii e—truly Prove's it';n el%otty_—al•opiositionrin-St, v
and Fit it beats them all, ar.d .
F!SQHERS LEADING : SUITS
Aro'worn froin one end of the county to• the other. The Spring Stock has arwir-
ed, acid is one of the. finest in the town and vicinity. • A discount of 10 per coat
from the 15th of Feb. till the 15th of March, will br>, given for Gish, Pricek lows_
. and workmanship unsurpassed. Terns Cash.
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FISHERS LEADING CLOTHING HOUSE, Mato"
liominio-n.... Pitiiiing .ill,
Cooper & fwaffie1d,
SUCCESSORS -'1O_...
H. STE.VENS & SON, CLINTON.
Manufacturers of SAS11, DOORS, 13LINUti, FLOORING, SIDING,
CLILING, MOULDINGS, FRAMES, PICKETS, SSC., and all kinds tat
Interior and Exterior Finishings, LATH and SHINGLES kejpt
on hand. Mill on Wellington St., opposite Woollen Mill.
PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS PREPARED.
.. Cooper,
VP. f . waflfne1d..
Change of Business
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The undersigned bogs to notify the people of Clinton and vicinity that he has bought the
HARNESS BUSINESS formerly carried on by ' ', L Newts,
And that he is prepared to furnish
Harness, Collars, Whips, Trunks, Valises, Buffalo Robes, Blankets.
And everything usually kopt in a first•claas Uarnesii Shop, at the lowest prides. Speoi*
attention is directed to my stock of LIenr 1L1.1011,1M;" Which I will make a specialty.
RE3'AIR.ING''PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
fly vtrtet attentinu to business, and carefully studying the wants of lay customers, I hope to
1 i .1 COW merit a fair' share of patro'iatre. �)iv.. mo a nail Yleforn ourrh,tssng cisewhere.
RE'I JMBLR TETE S1`. [n—OPPOSITE THE MARKET,
THE MAMMOTH HARDWARE ANI) 4i'OV1: HOUSE.
GEEK). At S .C3..C:l..d.'b',b�9.L Ar."
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