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I! RIOAN. RECIPROCITY
ME.N'S ANNEXATION.
aha 8erald's Washington corres-
11100 ant *aye ;—The second post-
golelaetlt of the discussion of real-
. . prooita with the Commissioners of
ttI4.q Canadian Government i8 no sur -
'p416 -those who were familiar
wittfibe feelings of the President
'Secretary Blaine last spring.
The President and Secretary Blaine
*re in accord upon the general pro•
position that reoiprooity of the kind
Offered by the Conservative party of
Oe,nada is not desired for the United
States,as was stated in the Herald
*t the time of the visit of Sir
ilhaties Tupper and bis as8ociatee
in the Cabinet. Secretary Blaine
ie £n favor of
'THE ABSORPTION OF CANADA
•
into the Union, but he believes
.. that the way to obtain it is to pursue
• a waiting policy rather Chau to irri-
fate the loyalists by seeming to seek
it, He is willing to see reciprocity
tried as a means • of cementing the
or union of the two nations, but he has
always favored a reoiprooity which
hovered nearly all classes of articles,
or, at leant, admitted our manufac-
• tures into Canada rather than the
real reciprocity presented by the
Conservatives.
THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS
last spring were watched here with
keen interest because of the light
they were expected to throw -upon
the feeling of the Canadian people.
if the Liberals had carried a major-
ity of the seats in the Dominion
Parliament a reciprocity proposition
would probably have bean submitted
by them which the President and
Secretary Blaine would have been
willing to accept. The victory of
the Conservatives, however, was not
entirely dnoxpected, and occasioned
no great regret
here,
becauseease Itw
was
believed iu the long run public
opinion would ripen quite as fast
in Canada, under the narrow policy
of Sir John Macdonald, as under a
broader policy which might be too
far in advance of public sentiment.
WHAT A MODERN GUN CAN
DO.
Unless one is actually brought
auto business relations with the
science of modern warfare, it is
difficult to conceive of the terrible
power of the latest and largest guns.
These engine4 of destruction, weige.
ing 110 tons, burl a projectile of
solid steel 16 inches in diameter
and nearly four feet long at a veto•
city of 2,079 feet in a second.
When tested recently, one of
these guns sent a shot through 20
inches of steel armour, 8 inches of
iron, 20 feet of feet of oak, 5 feet
of .granite, 11 feet of concrete, and
3 feet of brick, Comparatively, a
locomotive weighing 200,000 pounds
will have to spin along the tracks
at the rate of 135 miles an hour to
strike a blow equal to that projec-
tile. Thi) k f the damage wrought
up in a railroad collision where the
train speeds along at the rate of 30
,miles an hour, and one may calcul-
ate the destructiveness of modern
,ordnance.
LEISURE REFLECTIONS.
—H you want to live long don't
try to live more than a day at a
time.
—Every base occupation makes
one sharp in its practice and dull in
every other.
TEE ARIZONA. KICKER,.
THE UNIQUE EDITOR APOLOGIZES FOR
ISSUING A HALF SKEET.
—People are generally what they
are made between the ages of 15
and 25.
— We cannot conquer fate and
necessity, yet we can yield to them
in such a manner as tp be greater
than if we could
— An indiscreet man is more
'hurtful than an ill natured one ; the
latter attacks only his enemies—the
other injures friends and foes alike.
—Great efforts from great mo•
tivee is the hest definition of a
happy life. The easiest labor in a
burden to him who has no motive
of performing it.
—Tbere is nothing that has so
much authority, and is entitled to
eo little, as custom,—it rules all the
fools with a rod of iron, and threat-
ens even the wise.
—Nothing hinders the constant
agreement of people who live to-
gether but vanity and selfishness.
Let the spirit of humanity prevail
with benevolence, and discord and
disagreement would be banished
from the household.
—Learn from the earliest days
to insure your principles against the
perils of ridicule. Let men call you
mean if you know you are just ;
hypocritical, if you are honestly re-
ligious ; pusillanimous, if you feel
you are firm. Resistance soon con-
verts unprincipled wit into sincere
rospeet, and no aftertime can tear
r � frame -rid= thsee4eelingtrwhieh:every
man carries within Mw who has
made a noble and successful exer.
tion in a virtuous cavae.
But Deuces That the Lapse Was Caused
he pruulkengeis, And Proceeds 'to Give
the Reasons' Seriatim --Why He Pro -
pounces With is French Aeeent and
Says "Bayne."
APOLOOETtCAL.—We must beg the indul-
gence of our readers for coming out on a
half. -sheets this week, but, the matter was
positively beyond our control. Had we
been drunk, the same as our esteemed con-
temporary often is, we should not blame
our subscribers for kinking, but we can
assure them that no charge of the kind can
be laid at our door.
On Monday we had to attend the lynch-
ing of Abe Carter, over on the hill. We
didn't want to go, but Abe made it a per-
sonal .natter, declaring that he wouldn't
hang unless we were present to kick the
barrel away. He died happy.
CALLING ON THE EDITOR.
On Tuesday Jim Cuunnuts seat us word
that he would shoot us on sight. Jim is a
bad man, but he won't lie. We know he
meant business, and we had to plan to get
the drop on horn. \Vith our usual enterprise
and public spirit we got it. Some ofthe
crowd wanted us to finish him, but as he
promised to go hence and stay there we let
him off.
On Wednesday our esteemed contempor-
ary went out to our private graveyard and
attempted to jump our elaint and have some-
thing to point to when asked what he had
ever done for this community. \Ve drove
him off, but it consumed valuable time just
the sante.
On Thursday Col. Jackson, the founder
of the now town of Red Hot, called to see
us about a page advertisement. During the
misunderstanding over rates he shot us
through the thumb of the right hand, and
we left two bullets in his leg to bo probed
for when he got home.
Or Friday Major Larkins started to begin
a $50,000 libel suit against us. It took us
two hours to hunt him up and discourage
him. He is doing as well as circumstances
will permit, and unless inflammation sets in
will recover.
on Saturday fifteen of the cowboys be-
longing to Oen. Stover's ranch came over
to see us. They had several ropes along.
When they got here we were off or as fish-
ing excursion. They pied the fourth -page
form and shot our gray mule, but did not
have as pleasant a time as if we had been
home.
The above are our excuses, and such a
thing as our comingout on a half -page again
will probably never be heard of. We shall
issue an extra supplement next week to
make up for it.'
x * *
"IT's DAYro."—\Ve understand that Big
Jim Henderson is trying to work up a feel-
ing among the boys against our nomination
as Mayor because we insist on pronouncing
the word depot as "daypo." We don't do
it to put on airs over the boys, but because
it conies perfectly natural to ns. \Ve lived
the first twenty years of our life in Boston,
and it comes natural to us to give the
French accent to our words, as Henri,"
for Henry, "Cholly," for Charley, etc., etc.
We don't believe the boys will go
back on us on this account, on the
contrary, we think they will rather
feel proud of us. Its "daypo," though,
whether they stick or elide, and
we propose to also wear our shirts wit h the
buttons behind even if we never get a vote
in a caucus.
* * „
ERRATA.—Last week we had a local item
which we are convinced did an injustice to
the genial Tomahawk Brown, proprietor of
the saloon on Mexico avenue, known as
"Murderers' Delight." The item was to the
effect that Mr. Brown had shot old Joe, the
half-breed, because the latter beat him out of
the drinks shaking dice, and we advised the
boys to give the shooter a few feet of rope.
Mr. Brown called upon us yesterday and
subscribed for the Kicker for one veal'. He
explained that he only shot old ,hoe in the
leg anyhow and didn't do that until after he
had been called a liar seven or eight times.
We are entirely satisfied that he had any
amount of provocation, and we .only wonder
that he did not shoot the aged .Joseph bang
through the right lung and kill him on the
spot. Mr. Brown's advertisement also ap-
pears in this issue. He is one of those go-
ahead, enterprising men who believe that
advertising pays.
* * *
AT LAST.—For over a year past our es-
teemed contemporary has ached for some-
body to shoot at hint, so that he could get
up a great hurrah about it and telegraph a
big item to the Denver papers: He has
abused every man in the town who carries
•
ether .day and pull a ggun on
ht1n., Thq: gut+ tvaa, fit i ;of )1ate>1•i
with it. ,cork .drove Itnto the mu;+z•W%
Mike lied come are have a.ehot et• uta, b xt we
soon brought-, hliii elountl to toe that he
could da us a reater favor. He went dawn,
kicked open the shanty deer and uttered a
yell. Our esteemed didn't wait for any
more. He fell off his chair, rolled out of
the hack doer and brought up M. tlaa brush
two miles away, like didn't. even get tile:
revolver off his hip.
Our esteemed returned to telegraph A
column account of the "Attempted Assas-
sination of a Prominent Arizona Editor,"
but it didn't wash here. He never ought to
have left Ohio.—M. Quad, iu The New
York World.
Why Be Walken:
He was trudging along the railroad track
with a bundle an hi:f hand, whish he swung
in a cheery, contented fashion that, prompt-
ed a farmer to accost him.
"Goin' fur?" he asked.
"Not very," was the answer; "fifty or
sixty miles. '
'Jee gosh! Goin' to walk it the hull
way?"
"Oh, yes; I prefer it. I am quite a dis-
tance in front of the other members of the
company."
"Yer an actor, are ye?"
"Yes."
"I thought actors always had money
enough to ride."
"My dear sir," the traveler exclaimed, as
he drew himself up, "let me give you a bit
of science. Take a railway track or the
iron in a bridge and subject it to a constant
vibration. What is the result? It crystal-
lizes and breaks. Now, sir, when I think
of the delicate human frame being subjected
for years and years to the jar of a sleepi g
car I tremble every time I see a train; I do,
indeed."
And he strolled away over the ties as
thorounhly self-possessed and cheerful as it
is possible for mortal to be.
Remember the Game.
"In a game of euchre, the other night,"
said a club man at the Cafe Savarin, "I
held the seven, eight, nine and ten, and one
of the party observed that he had a good
foundation for a poker hand."
"'If you've got nerve enough to bet
five dollars on your hand, said he, 'we'll
play it.'
'I'll go you,' said I.
"He drew three cards- I drew one. I
got a jack and took the pot."
"'Well,' said he, 'if you haven't got
nerve to put anything on such a hand as
you had.'
"He forgot that we had ouly a euchre
deck, and I knew I had two chances out
of four to fill my straight, top or bottom.
And it took half an hour to explain to his
satisfaction that I hadn't dune a reckless
thing."—New York Tribune.
What She Said.
I sat at lunch in a cafe down town,
And gazed intently at a pair of eyes
Behind the cashier's desk. They were dark
brown.
And while I gazed, I saw the blue blood
rise
Into their owner's cheeks and at the floor
She quickly leveled both. I did rejoice,
Until I finished lunch and through the door
Was going, when I heard her gentle
voice.
I hastened back. The brown eyes looked at
me;
I saw their owner nod at mo and beck.
I drew beside her, thrilled with joy. She
said:
"Excuse me sir, you haven't paid your
check."
MIKE GOES no is'.
a gun, but the boys only laughed at him.
He couldn't even get anybody to sue him
for libel. This state of affairs has rankled
in his bosom until even his old yellow dog
got disgusted with him.
We are always willing to oblige. Knowing
ht w=bail1y our esteemed waaliaukering-after.
a little glory, we gave Mountain Mike
half a dollar to go down there the
A Boston Case.
. Inn
He—Are you quite sure that you love
film?
She --Yes, indeed! Why, I thought
of him right in the midst of my Browning,
to -day.
He Had to Swallow That.
Miss Laymlow—"Really, Mr. Squirmley,
I do not think that you had better take me
out. You don't know what a perfocteJoneh
I amt and always will be."
Mr. Squirmley (seizing a long-awaited
chance)—"Oh, Miss Laym—Clara—let me
be the whale!"
Miss Laymlow—"This is very sudden, Mr.
Squirmley. But I have no desire for a
three days' engagement."
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te,e ttse'e .
4 M9st i,iterestni$ Coltna*s oE'Condif► sea
Infornwtton,
When the J`.I Ianesootiftt a. horse,in .tthe
street' they aC00/Apliph it by tying iiia fore
lege together.
The claque has been.diseardetl at the Am-
bien, the first theatre in ]aria to break into
the tradition, -
Dr. A. M. Wilton, of Catnl ridge, Eng
land, born in the spring of 1790, is looked
upon as the oldest surgeon in Europe.
A funeral cortege in a Pennsylvania town
was recently attacked by bees. There was
no need to ask, "0 death, where is thy
sting?"
The formation of an Trish club has been
begun in, „London, the Irish population th ere,
about 300,000 having no such place of ren-
dezvous.
Tea -growing is becoming one of the lead-
ing industries of Fiji, and it is anticipated
that a large traffic in the article will soon 0e
developed.
The history of the world in Arabin is be-
ing written by Mahmoud Fehmy Pasha, a
companion of Arabi in exile in Ceylon. Ye
hopes to finish it this year. It will be in
five large volumes.
The most celebrated collection of fans in
the world is now in the print -room of the
British Museum. It was brought together
by Lady Charlotte Scribner who presented
the fans to the museum.
The latest theory about the Mau of the
Iron Mask is that he was General de
Bulonde, and was condemned for disobeying
the orders of Marshal Catinat by raising the
siege of a town in Piedmont.
A lung walking stick that belonged to
Louis X17111. didn't educe the upset offer
of $30 at the Hotel Ornot, and the state
sword of Charles X., a handsome weapon,
had to be withdrawn under the reserve of
$40.
Supposed to Be Funny.
"Mr. Gayboy," said his employer, "I met
you Sunday night and you bore unmistake-
able signs of being intoxicated."
"AV -well, sir," replied the young, clerk, i
"I hope you won't be hard upon fire, but 1
confess I—I had taken a little too" --
"That's all right," said the old man, "
only want to know where you got it.
haven't been able to fin d . anything in t�
town ou tuiditys
r
hound to Rise.
The phrenologist ran his hands rapidly
over the boy's head, reflected a moment,
and tried it again, but more slowly.
"Well, professor," said the boy's fattier,
"what calling do you find him best fitted
for"
"Judging from his cranial development,"
replied the phrenologist, breaking it as
Keutly as he could, "I think he would make
t good parachute -jumper."
A Chinese Aneedote.•
The husband of a young, married woman
lied. As soon as he closed his eyes the
widow began to fan the remains. Some of
her relatives asked what was the object in
%cting in that peculiar way, whereupon she
-eplied: "The last words of my dear husband
were, 'Wait until I am cold before you marry
again.'"—Texas Siftings.
A ship's side light which will swing as
she heels and always shine upon a horizontal
plane has been invented in Cardiff. With
the fixed light and the ship well heeled, the
leeward light can be seen only half a
mile.
It is estimated that the treasure lying idle
in India in the shape of hoards or ornaments
amount to X.350,000,000. A competent
authority calculates that "in Amritsar City
alone there are jewels to the value of t2,
000,000 sterling."
There is an immense garde:: in China that
embraces an urea of 50,0l)( square miles.
It is all meadow land, and is filled with
lakes, ponds, and canals. Altogether it is
as large as the states of New York and
Pennsylvania combined.
Statistics show the American to be the
greatest traveler. The record of railway
trips taken by each nationalityg ' • the
following portion: Americans, 27; l:n glob,
19; Belgian, 11; French, 5; Turks, So isa and
Italians 1 each.
TheParis waiters, who have formed a
trade union, are now ili+,•nesing their ulti-
matum with the restaurant keepers. They
not only insist upon their right to wear
beards and no uniforms, but also to smoke
when not actually serving.
A murderer in \lecklenhurgb ten minutes
before his execution eh"Itett-the clergyman,
put on his long black coat, dashed out and
mixed among the officials around the scaf-
fold. He had almost reached the gate when
he was caught.
While flats are becoming increasingly
popular in France among people of moderate
means, people in a corresponding position in
Germany aro as anxious to live m houses of
their own, and a company has just been
formed in Berlin to enable them to do so.
The Belgian military authorities have dis-
covered that various songs used in the
army are not quite proper, and several poets
and composers have been applied to to sup-
ply the army with sonic unobjectionable
songs in French and Flemish to take their
places.
Mrs. Lucian Mayberry, of Little Rock,
Ark., is the another of ten boys, all boru
within a married life of thirty-nine months.
There are two sets of triplets and two pairs
of twins. Mrs. 'Mayberry is a pretty blonde,
plump and hearty of barely twenty-four
years of age.
A Composite Beanty.
He—She's a perfect (.reek goddess. She
has Ole face of Venus herself.
She --And the hands of Ceres, and the
waist of Juno.
She Knew Better.
Jimpson—"People have been telling you,
no doubt, I'm entirely ton 'fast.' "
Cora (yawning)—"Yes; but I wo.tld never
believe thein."
Luck in 01.1 Shoes.
Boniface—So they threw old shoes at you.
Wdre yen, lucky2.... .. ... -
Nuwec- Yes; there didn't any of them
hit us.
»t Torp natiPe',..:
girl more titan once,,
the talking'
Nature's Diandlwor,
"Whet dentist. tlll,)deyour teeth
"Those are tray own teeth. No
made them," was the indignant reply.
"You don't say so? How deceptive th
are: They look as nice as the best kind of
false teeth. What ,'onderful thing nature
is."—Texas Siftings;
Got of fila Line.
4'I'm afraid my boy is a liar!"
ti Why
"He told me his employer gave him fits
this morning." ,
"Whatof it?"
"His employer is a fashionable English
tailor."
Business Not Pleasure.
"I hear that you are engaged to Lord
Hardsquoze," said a belle to her wealthy
friend. "fait so?"
"Ola, no," said the business like young
woman. "I shouldn't say we were engaged,
but I-1 have an option on him."
A Sad Predicament.
"I understand your barn hasbeenburned,"
said a sympathizing citizen to an out-of-
town fanner the other day,
"Yes," was the gloomy reply; "1 ain't
got no burn nor nothink to put nothink into-
nor nothink."
Justifiable Wrath,
Wiggins—I'd like to scalp that fellow
GabbI
Grafton—Why?
Wiggins—Because after he makes a state-
ment he goes all over it again, "in other
words."
Smiley Scores a Point.
The haughty Miss McBride—Alas! I fear
I shall develop into a confirmed invalid—
why, Mr. Basker, where are you going?
Smiley Basker (grabbing Itis hat)—I'm
going to study medicine.
Misplaced His Comma.
The clerk—Do you like it, sweet miss?
The Miss (eyes flashing fire)—Sir-r-r!
The Clerk (prepared for emergencies)—
Why, I simply asked if you liked it sweet,
miss.
Somebody Is Always Willing.
Banks—Did yon see that disagreeable
paragraph about Jenks in the paper yester-
day?
Jinks—Yes. I wonder if Jenks has seen
it. Somebody surely ought to show it to
him.
Henry Giles and family and Henry Mest
and family, of Earl township, Berks Coun-
ty, Pa., picked 1,000 quarts of huckleberries
this season, for which they received an aver-
age price of 9 cents a quart, of about $00.
They will probably pick 500 quarts more
before the season is over.
The Chinese are getting hohls of large
quantities of fruit in Tulare County, Cali-
fornia, and are becoming quite a factor in
the shipping trade. One great objection to
this is that Chinese, not realizing that they
are cutting their own throats thereby, per-
sist in sending inferior fruit to market.
The fishermen of San Deigo have utilized
electricity in their war upon the fish. Incan-
descent electric lights are lowered into the
water at night, and a large net is lowered
below them. The fish are attracted by the
light and are plainly visible. When suffici-
ently numerous the nets are hauled up. The -
catches are enormous. ,
The canal which is to connect Manches-
ter, England, with the sea is one of the
greatest undertakings of modern times. Its
total length will be thirty-three and one-
half miles. It will be twenty-six feet deep,
120 feet wide at the bottom and 230 feet at
the top. It is about three-fourths complet-
ed and will cost about $45,000,000.
It is narrated that a New England
preacher of the olden time was paralyzed
during as sermon by discovering itis rude off-
spring in the gallery pelting the hearers in
the pews below with peanuts. Ilut while
the good man was preparing a frown of
reproof the young hopeful cried out: "You
tend to your preaching, daddy, I'll keep
'ors, awake,"
A wonderful flower has been discovered
on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. Its chief
peculiarity is the habit of changing its
colors during the day. In the morning it i'
white, when the sun is at its zenith it is
red, and at night it is blue. The red, white,
and blue flower grows on a tree about the
size of a guava tree, and only at moon does
it give out any perfume.
The Church of St. Olave, in Old Jewry,
London, within the shadow of the Mansion
House, the Guildhall and the Bank of Eng-
land, is for sale, its parish, for lack of resi-
dents, having been amalgamated with a
neighboring :one. The church is one of
Wren's, but dues not possess the interest of
most of the structures which the famous
architect designed for the ornamentation of
the city.
The annual coffee crop of the world is
estimated at over 11,000,000,000 pounds,
worth at first hands $135,000,000. This
enormous quantity is grown in islands be-
tween the parallels of 30 degrees north and
30 degrees south latitude, mainly in British
India and the neighboring islands, in Liberia
and other parts of Africa, in the West
Indies, Mexico, Central America and Brazil.
The domestic consumption of the United
States amounts to 561,132,100 pounds, which
is valued here at$72,140,000, and of which
90-perventveornesfrom•eauutriesgeo.gcaplii:-
oally belonging to this continent
It Will Be Chilly for Him.
Humker (who wants to propose)—Miss
Scadds, let us go out on the porch. Shall I
get your wrap?
Miss Scadds—Thanks, but I shan't need
it. You might put on your overeoat, how-
ever.
A Good Suggestion.
"We'll have to offer extra inducements
to that bass," said old sport. "The bait
doesn't seem to, please him."
"Pull in your lino and offer him a liberal
rebait," said Waggles.
with
Dublin
Gout
lands 'agent,
months' impit
— It is especie
Centail Railway of
be in operation within a in
— The Epworth Bible use
John Wesley is beiug used by the
Ecumenical Conference now meet-
ing at Washington.
—The poet of honor at the World's
Fair iu Chicago will be reserved -
for Spain, as a souvenir of the dis-
covery of America.
—Shoults and Macdonell were
each sentenced to ten years in Stony
Mountain Penitentiary for burglary
at Calgary.
—At Knox College convocation
the other day it was announced that
iu January next Principal Caven
will visit the Holy Land and Egypt.
—The longest horse•car line in
the world is that connecting the
city -of Mexico with Galapa-72
miles. The trip is made in eight
hours.
—ln the 6,000,000 lettere that
reached the United States dead let-
ter office last year, there was money
amounting to $28,642 and cheques
and notes of the value of $1,471,871.
—Frank Melbourne, the rain-
maker, has signed a contract to sup-
ply dampness to the northwestern
part of Kansas during June,. July
and August uext year at ten cents
an acre.
—Voting on the question of the
repeal of the Scott Act will take
place on the 26th of November in
of D Zlobed. Drummond, (
the county
The Act was first adopted in that
county on May 8, 1885.
—Fourteen thousand one hundred
and twenty-one barrels of apples
were recently shipped from Mon—
treal for the export trade, against
5,822 barrels for the same period
last y.'ar. A good proportion were
grown to Huron and adjoining
counties.
—A million dollars in bonds of
the city of Chicago are soon to be
sold in aid of the World's Fair.
This is the first of a series of five
blocks of $1,000,000 each to be
donated by Chicago to the exposi-
tion.
—According to Herr Japing the
hourly rate of water falling cver
Niagara Falls is 100,000,000 tone.
representing 16,000,000 horse power
—and the daily production of coal
in the world would just about suf-
fice to liulnp the water back again.
Waiting For the Beam.
"Miss Bellows is a bud. Wonder when
she'll open?"
"When the golden son beams on her."—
Toronto Globe.
Why, Certainly.
"Ah, I tell you, old boy, that was any
chance of a lifetime."
"What was?"
"When I was born."
Like Most Dandies.
" How's that razor I gave you? Isn't it a
dandy?"
"It is indeed. Pretty and dull."
Stealing a March.
"I want to give you a piece of advice."
"All right, let me give you one first—fol-
low it. '
Sparks and Flashes.
It is surmised that lovers cooed if lovers
wooed.
He is a most successful painter whose art
is in his work.
The "fake" winter is a sort of evil genius
who invents lies.
Is a man in the saddle in total darkness
until he comes to alight?
"I will now pass around the plate," re-
marked the funny man of the ball team,
snaking a circuit of the home base.
It is safe to say that there are some leet-
ting amen who have lost more on the "bank"
than they ever dropped in a "pool."
Fish and game.—Vacationists who amuse
themselves with the rod and line during
the day and wile away the evening hours
over poker.
As you may have noticed, it isn't often
the girl just off the farm about whose pres-
ence hovers that fragrant odor so suggestive
of new -mown hay.
Brooklyn has a veritable safe breaker.
If inclined to dishonesty he might cause
the police no end of trouble. His integrity,
however, is equal to his skill. This mani-
pulator of the cold chisel has been breaking
into bank vaults and safes for forty years.
In all. he has entered 4,000 safes, and,
though past seventy, he expects to add to
the nutnber. The explanation is that he
is employed to open safes whose locks
have become fixed or the combinations
lost.
The barmaids of Berlin have started an
organ, the Herzblatt. It offers opportuni-
ties for literary work and for the disclosure
of cases of ill-treatment. The subscribers
form a material aid society to help the
needy members, to secure planes and to
appeal to the courts if necessary. Whoever
is uncivil to the members of the league will
have his name published, and, if he is a
student, a copy of the publication will
be•senteto,..thea,,aulthorittet+sitf 441 ugi_vsk„
city.
LOST TO THE MUSEUMS.
DEATH OF TILE SMALLEST BABY EVER
BORN,
Connecticut's smallest baby died
last week. The widget was a girl,
and its parents, Mr and Mrs.
Rafael fi>sroleo, live in a big tone --
meta on Chapel street. When the
child was born it weighed nine
ounces only, and on the day of its
death, two months later, it weighed
less than a pound. The baby's head
was smaller than a league base ball,
and its legs were so small that an
ordinary finger ring could be slip-
ped over its foot and passed up the
leg to the thigh. The arms were
no larger than pipestems. The mid-
get fed on milk from a spoon, a few
drops only being all it required at a
time.
—The Right Hon. William Henry
Smith, Goveraunent leader an the British
House of Commons, is dead.
SALE, BiLLS.—The
News Record has un-
surpassed tailities for
turning out first-class
work at low rates. A
free advertisement in
Tho News Record with
every sot of sale bills.
FARMS FOR SALE.
Three farms containing eighty acres each, on
3rc1 and 4th concessions of Ooderich Township,
throe miles from Ooderich
Apply to
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Ou the premises.
TiHE CELEBRATED
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and Wringer.
THE BEST IN THE MARKET'
Machines Allowed on Trial
ani also agent for all
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Wareroom opposite Fair's Mill.
call arra sec free. :w
J. B. WEIR, CLINTON
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