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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1889-09-06, Page 3WISITS 1115. ::}IIiIM S. J.IONKING WITH THE J3A•, o:r natural history weire procured L'(1oN. ! t;.r him, itntl a world or w;,nfit41,00' 4TE'll BECAME RICII t n )e eri to 111.8 t,pprevitil lt'H eVu. rt•ui, anti sttnlit;,i, .ii.d ex- iunitie1. Ile wait,. -.1,,,,,i 1lie ue- ,. ,;u„•.ving ' rnellli: t f ur.ithenuttIe,, t;eooi•upl,s' to graini,�tu• f',r the suece,.sfu1 ccus•.•• in, un (Allis private LOA!' uu,i he rnade rapid progress in his Classes. Iii short, twenty years later he was eminent as a natur- alist, and owed bis success as he never hesitated to aoklowledge to that discerning teacher. ,AT Tt.F 1 ;:I OF t12 PUYSt. .t In the old Si. Loui» J3u,tu•„ we hid, among o'. let Lttructioos, said an old slits. sem. tt hobo ,f, called Dick. 11,, was a soli) • .' uQSToN, Au ;. 2I� -the hero of chunk of a fellow, good .tempered, checkered career, in which al and a great favorite. IIe had one v'emarkable train of misfortunes ! peculiarity, though, which we have brought -to him a snug little fortune, is Jocob Hannis, who has just returned from the west. Jac- ob lives in Somerville. He is on the shady side of 50. "20 years ago,” says Mr Hannis "I was no different from other' men. 1 had a good constitution, was called green, and es my par- ents were poor, I had to get out in the cold world and bustle for a living. In New York I got a chance in the street gang. 1 liv- ed in Jersey City, and used to go back and forth on the ferry. One night the gatetender opened the gate too soon and I fell between the boat and the slip; had my leg crushed so that it bad to be taken off. that gave me a great set back, but I recovered, got a good wooden leg and $5,000 damages. I secured a place in a round house on a Western railway. One night the fireman started up his engine and my right arm was out almost oft gip, r•. „:.. ,t t ,3,- 0 store in. Syracuse and dig first rate for two years. "One morning I was going down to the store, when a blast went off in an open lot near the street, and whet► they picked me up, I was minus an " eye and al. most all my teeth. That little circus cost the contractor who (I'd the blasting just $2,300, and I in- vested $75 of it in a glass eye and new teeth. I kept on at the cigar business and before a year was over, I fell throughan open man- hole in the sidewalk one evening and broke my other leg so badly that they had to take it off, too. 1 stuck them for $5,000 and got it. I sold out and came here. I had enough cash to keep me com- fortably and didn't worry much about a living. Two years ago last March I went over to the city to get a little piece of turning done and I waited while they did it. Turning to go out, I stumbled and fell against the shafting. In two seconds my scalp was revolv- ing around that shaft like a pin- wheel. I sued them, but the scoundrels allowed me only $115, and I had to pay $25 of it for this wig. NEW TERRORS TO WAR. ad to cater to. He took short naps twice a slay, and if aroused before bis time he was as ugly as sin all the rest of the day. We had bim•ressed up as a little boy, and whoa the time came to take bis nap he. crept into an old-fash- ioned cradle, and the fat woman generally rocked him to sleep. That very thing was quite a draw, and plenty of people came in sole- ly to see the baboon rocked off to slumber. One day, soon after Dick had closed his eyes, a half -drunken chap entered the place and creat- ed considerable disturbance. He wont by the name .of Awful Pete, and was a hard slugger. 1 tried to reason with him and get him out, but he unfortunately caught sight of the sleop'ng baboon and at once demonded that the animal be aroused and put through the tricks. I sought to explain, but he wouldn't have it, saying :— "I paid to see the bab, and I'm ing to see him or bust the ler 1" "But if you wake him up he'll fight."'- - "Then I'll wring his neck!" .Before I could stop flim he dodged under the rope and lifted Dick out of the cradle. The ani- mal woke up and took in the sit- uation in about the tenth part of a second, and then ho fastened his hands into Pete's hair, got a grip with his teeth on the slugger's nose'and we had a museum, men- agerie and circus combined for the next five minutes. Pete roared, and whooped, and pranced around in pain and terror, and the bab pulled handfuls of hair from his head, and bit and scrached like a wildcat. When we finally got him off that slugger was a sight to behold, and had to be taken to the hospital at once. Two hours after he had had his wounds dressed I$went in to see him, and as soon as I spoke to him he be- gan crying and asked :— "Was it a baboon which this ?" "Yes." "Big as a lion ?" "Oh no. He weighs about 26 pounds, 'Why did you weep ?" "Hadn't I orter weep?" he sav- agely demanded, as the tears came afresh. "I've had thirteen fights and knocked my man out every time, and now to be downed by a weazen-faced monkey in one round has broke me all up." With snaokeless and noiseless powder, such, as it is claimed has been invented, in England, in the wars that aro to be death will take on still more terrors. The first notice of the presence of an enemy will be in the sudden sink- ing clown of men as though smit- ten by a pestilence. The sentry will die at his post and give no sign. The sun will shine down serenely while the battle rages, and no canopy will obscure the butchery. Battles will be silent executions, save when trumpets sound and furious men shout or wounded men moan. There will be nothing to kindle the battle ec- stacy; aro booming of hotly work- ed guns will give notice where the battle is sorest. With the battle 'clamors and the battle can- opy•driven away, it will require more nerve to be a valiant soldier than ever before. Tho soldier will not only have to face the danger in sight, but also to .con- tend with the terrors his imagi- nation will paint him.—Salt Lake Tribune. NEWS NOTES. Miss Molly saw a freight on the C. P, E. leave the track near her home at Ottawa. on Tuesday. She was so frightened at the danger of the engine •demolishing the house that she Yell down and died in a few•minutes. The well-known mare Peacookbelong- ing to P. O'Dwyer, of Strathroy, broke its neck while turning in a delivery wagon the other day. The wheels naught and threw the mare forward causing her death in the above way: peacock, in her early days, was one of the finest roadsters in the town and did good racing in Canada and the United States, but for the past ten years she has done yeoman service for the grocery - men in Strathroy. Val. son of Mr A. Campbell, St. Thomas, and Robbie Waite had witness- ed a sideshow freak eating glass recent- ly and on Monday they determined to play circus and imitate the glass eater. They had succeeded in masticating two or three mouthfuls before their parents became aware.of the fact. A physician was promptly summoned and on his ad- vice the youngsters have been fed liber- ally on oatmeal ever since. No serious results are anticipated. CATARRH, CATARRHAL DEAFNESS—HAY FEVER A NEW HOME TREATMENT. Sufferers aro not generally award that these diseases are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining tnembrane of the nose and eustachian tubes. Microscopic research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result of this discovery is tliat a simple remedy has been formulated where- by catarrh, .,catarrhal deafness and hay fever are permanently cured in from one to three simple applications made at home by the patient once in two weeks. N,B.—This treatment is not a snuff or an ointment ; both have been discarded by reputable physicians as injurious. A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is sent on receipt of ten cents by A. H. I)rxov (Se SON, 01)3 West King Street, Toronto, Canada.—Toronto Globe. fi il'.'rerl from Celan hal troubles should . ,: -era xne rbcvs did THE BOY NATURALIST. NUTMEGS. The nutmeg is the innermost kernel of the fruit of a small tree that grows about thirty feet high. It is a native of the East Idnies, but it is cultivated in other tropi- cal lands. It has a small yellow flower. The fruit is small and peachlike, but with a smooth sur- face and turns yellow when ripe. The exterior, a thick, fleshy husk, dries up and cracks, disclosing the nut. Tbo outer covering of this nut is what is known as mace. It is red at first, but turns to a light brown when dried. Next comes a hard, shining snell, and inside that is the nutmeg. The tree bears about the eighth or ninth year from the seed. The mace is taken off and dried in the sun for one day, and fol; eight days in the shade, then dampened with sea water and pressed in bags. The remainder of the nut is vers thoroughly dried, when this. shell is broken and the nutmegs assort- ed, the best ones being exported. They are first pickled in lime-wat- er, ime-waser, then left to sweat, and finally peeked for shipment. The Pe- nang nutmegs, the -best, are about an inch long, pale brown, corru• gated on the surface, with red streaks in the gray interior.— London Standard. A teacher had charge ofa school in a country town early in her career; and among het pupils was a boy about fourteen years old, who cared very little about study, and showed no interest, apparently, in anything connect- ed with the school. Day after day he failed in his lessons ; and detentions after school hours, and notes to his widowed mother had no effect. One day the teacher had sent him to his seat, after a vain effort to get from hire a question in grammar, and feeling somewhat nettled, she watched his conduct. Having taken his seat, he pushed the book impatiently aside, and, espying a fly, caught it with a dexterous sweep of the hand, and then betook himself to a close in- spection of the insect. For fifteen minutes or more the boy was thus occupied, heedless of surround- ings, and the expression of his face told the teacher that it was no idle curiosity that possessed his mind. A thought struck her, which she put into practice sit the first opportunity. "Boys," said she,, "what can you toll me about flies 2" and, cal- ling some of the brightest,, by name, she asked them fF they could tell her something of .% fly's constitution and habits. They had very 'little to say about the insect. They had often caught one, but only for sport, and did not think it worth while to study so common at insec+i Finally she asked the dunce, who had silently, but with kind- ling eyes listened to .what his schoolmates said. Ho burst out with a description of the head, oyes, wings, and feet ot'the little creature, so full and enthusiastic that the teacher was astonished and the whole school was struck with wonder. He told how it walked, how it ate, and many things entirely now to the teach- er, so that when ho had finished she said :— "Thank you. You have given ns a real natural history, and you have learned it all yourself." After the school closed that afternoon, she had a long talk with tho boy, and found that he was fond Of going into the woods and meadows and collecting in- sects and watching birds, but that his mother thought he was wast- ing his time. The 'teacher, how- ever, wisely encouraged him in his pursuit, and asked him to bring beetles and butterflies and caterpillars to school, and tell what ho know about thorn. Tho boy was delighted at this unex• pccted turn of affairs, and in a few days tho listless dunce was tho marked boy of the school. Books Children Cry for A RIDICULOUS QUESTION. "Do you enjoy good health 2" asked Brown of his friend Jones. The reply of Jones was short, sharp and to the point. "Why of course I do, what fool doesn't?" Everyone enjoys good health when he has it. But some people do not have it to enjoy. Sick head- ache, biliousness, constipation,der- anged liver, and a host of ills, real and imaginary,are their heritage. Thousands of persons cure and prevent these distressing com- plaints by taking Dr Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Small, sugar-coatedand easy to take ; one a dose.: A DRUMMER'S DILEMMA. ROBBED OF HIS TROUSERS—RARE COMBINATION OF WISDOaf AND MODESTY. Will Hansard, a traveling sales man of this city, was last week pursuing bis calling in' Dell and Harlan counties. These counties are the most mountainous and thin ly inhabited in the State. When he went to bed he hung his•trous- erson a chair near the window. Next morning the trousers were gone and no one knew where. Some one passing in the night bad reached in at the window and taken them,- for his Bost was above suspicion. Mr Hansard called loudly for the farmer, expecting to borrow a pair of trousers fromI him. Hie wife came to the door and said that her husband had gone bunt- ing an hour before, and as bad only one pair of trousers he had very naturally wore thein. Here was a dilemma, but his hostess, who was a woman of expedients, solved it. She came to the door with one of her Mother Hubbards and suggested that the drummer put it on. He oansented. She tossed the garment to him and closed the door. He got into the Mother Hubbard, went out to the stable, hitched up his team, and climbed into his buggy. Here he took the garment off and hand- ed it back to the kindly old lady, who was full of symyathy for him. Tho buggy concealed his lower oxtromitios,and he wrapped his linen duster. around them to keep them warm. Mr Hansard drove quickly to the nearest store,about four miles away, expecting to buy a pair of trousers there, for all the country stores keep ready-made clothing. When he got there he found num- erous ladies who had congregated to see the opening of some new goods. Ho could not leave his buggy, but ho yelled for the pro- prietor to come out,and to him ho made known his predicament. Tho merchant brought to him five or six pairs of trousers. lie drove down into a neighboring hollow, tried them on, found a pair to fit him, and thus his tri- bulations were ended. • "It goes right to the spot," said an old gentleman,who' found groat benefit in Ayer's Sarsaparilla. He was right. Derangements of the stomach, livor, and kidneys are more speedily remedied by this medicine than by any other. It reaches the trouble directly. Benjamin Fritz, aged 24, fell madly in love with a Miss Baily at Dowagiac, Mich. The young lady failed to re- ciprocate and tried to persrade him that he was making a mistake. After per sistent pleading and as persistedt re- fusal, the young man shot himself dead at her feet. At Campbellford, on Wednesday, Mr James Gibson was driving past the station when hie horse took fright and ran away, overturning the buggy and breaking Mr Gibson's arm above the elbow, besides inflicting some t, ugly scalp wounds. . idler's Castoriao, A NEW AEP/-I/a'TU/; E" INA41ED!C'VNE The four greateatmedicd centres 011ie world are London, Parts. Berlin and Vienna. These cities have immense hospitals teeming with suffering humanity. Crowds of students throng the wards studying under the Professors In charge. The moat renowned physicians ofthe world teach and practice here, and the institutions are storehouses of medical knowledge .and experience. Wih a view of making this experience available to the public the Hospital Remedy Co. at great expense severed the prescriptions of these hoepitab, prepared the specifics, and although it would cost from $26 to WO teatime the attention of .their distinguished originators, yet in this way their pre- pared specifics are offered at the price of the quack patent medicines thatood the market and absurdly claim to cure every ill from a single bottle. The want always felt for a reliable class of flood remedies-le now filled with per- fect satisfaction. The Hospital Remedies make no unreasonable claims. The apeclfio for CATARRH cures that and nothing else; so with the specific for BRONCHITIS,. CON8UMPTION and LUNG TROUBLES; RHEUMATISM is cured by No. 8, while troubles of DIGESTION, STOMACH, LIVER and KIDNEYS have their own cure. To these le added a specific for FEVER and AGUE, one for FEMALE WEAKNE88—a GENERAL TONIC and BLOOD -MAKER that makes blood and GI E8 FORM AND FULNESS:and an incomparable remedy for NERVOUS DEBILITY. NO.1—CURES CATARRH, HAY FEVER,ROSE COLD CATARRHAL DEAFNESS.—The only authentic cure emanating from scientific sources now before the public. V is /s nota snuff or ointment—both are die- ded as iyurlous. 41.00. --000OHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CON- SUMPTION—An incomparable remedy ; does not merely atop a cough, but eradicates the disease and strengthens the lungs and restores wasted tissues 11.00. NO. S—RHEUMATISM AND GOUT—A distinguished and well- known specialist In this disease in Paris, who treats nothing else, built his reputation on this remedy. 11.00. NO. a—LIVER AND KIDNEYS DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION and BRIGHT'8 DISEASE—A favorite slaughter -field for the quack who has ruined more stomachs than alcohol. Use a remedy sanctioned in high places. ;1.00. NO. b—FEVER AND AGt1E; DUMB AGUE,. -MALARIA, NEURALGIA —F.W know what grave damage this doss the system; it Is treat- ed to break it for a time Use a remedy that eradicates it. 81. NO. 6—FEMALE WEAKNESS, IRREGULARITIES, WHITES—Many women are broken down because they neglect these Waimea until chronic and seated. Use No. 6 and regain health and strength. 11.00. NO. q—HEALTH, FORM AND FULNESS depend on good blood and lots of lt. If weak. if blood le poor. If scrawny, use this perfect tonic. 41.00. NO.8—NERVOUS DEBILITY LOSS OF POWER—A quack cure - ridden public will hall a genuine remedy for an unfortunate von- dltion. No. 8/s golden, which one trial will prove. Beware of ignorant quacks who charge high prices for cheapand worthless drugs and pills, the properties of which they are utterly Ignor- ant, and who expose you by selling your confidential lettere to others In the same nefarious business. Use No. 8 and Use again. 11.00. TO BE HAD OF ALL DRUGGISTS. du", Dr iffest does not twee these remedies remit price to w and we wIDship to you drroct Nowiitissten I Take �noeot,,her r-�emedYy. discontinue quadceure.all medicines sad use instead these hi,h.giass Hospital rCaAtea.cs which eminate Irow 'Cipntthe anarOati and thus prolong Your Lie. A. HUTTON DIXON, Prop. Canada and United States. New ; Furniture ;stock Opened out in ELLIOTTB BLOOM N,E%T DOOR TO THE CITY BOOK STORE, CLINTON.. i a.. BEDROOM SETS, PARLOR SETS,LOIJNGES .. SIDEBOARDS, CHAIRS, &c., - ANA A GENERAL AS90RTMENT OF THE 'ERY BEST MADE TUBE Az REASONABLE PRICES. JUS. CHIDLT37. FURN I In thanking you for past custom and soliciting a continuance of the same, I beg to intimate to the public that I have a full stock of D.M. FERRY'S and STEELE BROS GARDEN, FLOWER, FIELD and GRASS SEEDS. Also a large quantity of POTATOES. FULL STOCK OF FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS A full case of BIRD CAGES, cheap. My stock of GROCERIES, GLASS, GLASSWARE, HARDWARE, HARNESS, &c., is full and complete. Large stock of CROCKERY just arrived direct from the old country. A good Tea Set for $1.75, and a better for $2.50 LARD, HAMS and BACON in stock. IAll kinds of Produce taken for goods GEO. NEWTON, - LONDESBORO NEW PUMP FACTORY IRowell's old Blacksmith shop, Huron Street:, Clinton The undersigned has his new factory thoroughly equipped and fittedjup for the manufacture of algz First Class Well and Cistern Pumps. There being nothing doing in the building -moving business in the winter time, I have improved the opportunity by getting out pumps, and am, therefore, pre- pared to supplythem at the lowest possible rate. Those wanting anything in this line will find it to their advantage to see me. This will be carried on inde- pendent of the moving of buildings, which business is stilllattended to as hereto- fore, by the undersigned. Cistern Tanks and Pumps supplied at LowestRates JOHN STEPHENSON, CLINTON', LL PAP Selling Off AT COST The undersigned will sell off his well assorted stock of Wall Paper and Decorations at cost for cash on delivery. This sale will probably coutinuc without change, until the whole stock is sold. A.WO] TT'• TLNG-TON,Clinton Groceries, Crockery, Teas, &c, 5 TO 25 PER. CENT below regu- lar prices Subscrihor having purchased tbo entire stock of Palliser & Co. at a great bargain, and added it to his own large and magnificent stock, also bought on favorable terms, offers the entire lot for tho next 00 days, at 15 to 25 per cent less than the regular prices. Call and in- . spect and thus prove that this statement is correct. "Terms cash. Putter and Eggs taken in exchange. J. -W. IRWIN, The Tinges Tea Warehouse Cooper's Old Stand, Cur. Se:ulr',4 fl k, ('1,iNTUN• BANKRUPT Stock -of- Hardware, 0 Special Prices for One Month On the Hardware Stock of . R. M. Racey In Cutlery, Spoons, Spades and Shovels, Rakes and Rees, Harvest. Tools, Nails and Hinges, Paints, Oils and Glass. • We have also REDUCED OUR PRICES ON STOVES, and our prices on Tinware are now about 25 per cent less than ordinary prices.. PURE MANILLA and FLAX BINDING TWINE, order early so as to s✓ re it. Full stock OILED al." ANNEALED WIRE, RIBBON WIRE, BARBED WIRE, &c. Call early r i."ia3ure a bargain before all is cleared out. H.A.R,z,.A.rTMR, os., Iron and Hardware Merchants, Stoves and Tinware, Clinton NEW GOODS THIS MONTH SPONGES. SPONGES. Five cases of Sponges, which will be offered very cheap. 41so a gross of ENCLISH TOOTH BRUSHES. Colgate's FINE SOAP, and pare white CASTILE SOAP. Full stock of the celebrated English -Franco -Ameri- can FLORAL PERFUMES. JAMFS H. t-%U31I3F, • CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, CLINTON, ONT, NEW 13AR,1\TEis F'2Ravr J�hnson &Armour PRACTICAL HARNESS and GQLLAR' MAKERS :x. Having bought the business and stock of GEO. A. SIIAR,MAN, we are prepared to fill all orders in our line at the lowest living prices. We are both practice workmen, well known tc the people of Clinton and vicinity, and can guarantee a superior class of work at moderate rates. The material will always be found of the best, and by strict attention to business and honest dealing, we hope to be favored with as liberal patronage as our predecessor. W'ehave a splendid line of SINGLE HARNESS, which, for material, workmanship and price, cannot be surpassed. Full stock in all lines. REPAIRING promptly attended to. JOHNSON & ARMOUR, OPPOSITE MARKET, CLINTON OUR SATS Youi Like. We are showing the finest line of SpringiSummer- Hats Ever brought to this town. All New ,Styles, Best Quality, and Prices Low. TltY ITS ONCE. WE CAN PLEASE Y017. . We have everything theta gentleman requires, at prices to suit all pockets. Our extensive line of HOSILRY comprises goods of all weights, in a variety of colors -and qualities, from an expensive Sock to the cheapest grades. SUSPENDERS will also be found in great variety, at all kinds of priced. Stock of Shirts, Collars, Cuffs and Neckwear is larger than ever before, and the finest in the place "GEO. GLASGOW, CLINTON ' fi i