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unploasaut. Ho stood still in the
middle of the floor, looking at me.
Presently I said, 'Whence art thou?
What dost thou require?' "
"And what did he say ?" cried
the bishop, fixing his eyes upon tho
odd expression of the lawyer's face.
"He said"—replied the lawyer,
speaking in a hoarse whisper—"he
said : 'I beg yer pardon, sur. I'm
the watchman of the street, sur; au'
I thought 'twould •be bast for me,
sur, to come -up an' tell yer that yer
front door stood open I If yo do
be lavin' it that way, sur, it's bad
luck ye'Il have before the morn-
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AN ERROR IN A TELEGRAM.
TELEGRAPI-I COMPANIES CANNOT FREE
THEMSELVES FROM RE-
SPONSIBILITY.
The Montreal Court of Appeal
rendered judgment; in the case
ofothe Great, Nertti ' teetern Tele•
graph Co-, and. .B. La.etrence & Co.
This was an action for $200 damages
taken by respondent on account of
un error in the transmission off a
despatch sent him by his clerk here
while he was in New York. The
despatch ended with the words
"writing to•night." but it was trans-
mitted as reading "waiting to -night."
The result was that Mr. Laurence
left his New York busines and at
once carne back. Hence the pre-,
sant action in which the Court be-
low granted $30 datnages, being
the actual cost of the journey. In
Wednesday Jan. 27th, 18 92. rendering the judgment of the
Court in Appeal, Chief Justice
Lacoste remarked that although a
very „small amount was at stake, the,
dace waif of consiilerahle importance
as establishing the, extent of the
company's reaponsibility. Could
the appellant be taxed with negli•
genes in this instance? One letter
"I have become thoroughly con- only was changed, the letter "a"
vincod," said the Lawyer, "of the being used instead of the letter "r."
existence of nocturnal apparitions, After• a personal inspection of the
for I have seen one I" despatch referred to the Court Dame
to the conclusion that the latter r
was distinctly formed, and if the
proper diligence to which the public
aro entitled had been exercised, the -
error would not have taken place,
Consequently, on tho question of
fact there was negligence. Now,
on the question of law, the company
defendant plod that when sending
the despatch plaintiff's clerk signed
a form stating that the company
would not be responsible, even if
there was negligence on their part,
for any damage over and above the
Price paid for sending
the telegram,ra
m
,
exccpt.-howove ,
if tho-dosls4trli was
repeated, but even in the latter case
the company's liability was not to
exceed fifty times the price of the
despatch. The conditions on the
form and the signature were ad-
mitted, and the only question now
to decide was whether the Tele•
graph Company could stipulate for
itself immunity from its own faults.
The Code provides that a contract
cannot bo based upon an illicit and
immoral consideration. Now to
stipulate immunity from one's own
fault, is an immoral and illict con-
sideration, and consequently the
eonditiona mentioned in the form
referred to and upon which the plea
is founded, cannot be binding.
For all these reaeone, the judgment
of the Court below must be con-
firmed.
THE LAWYER'S GHOST.
A lawyer and a bishop (perhaps
the bishop should come first) were
talking, and this was the manner of
their talk :
"Dear me 1" exclaimed the bishop.
"I aro very curious. Relate the
story."
"I will, my Lord,' I will," said
the lawyer. "It was between the
hour of eleven and twelve. I had
gone to Led, and was just falling
into my first comfortable sleep,
when I was wakened by a strange
creaking noise. riLvunded as if
some ono was'walkit g up stairs !
The steps sounded nearer and near-
er, slower and slower ; solemn and
measured they were, and presently
they halted at t
Y door. d r
. Ic
]New
the s • •
}feet ovn-r
.m� }runt};' irnfl lay.
there trembling,not daring to
move. •
"Something," continued the law-
yer, "entered my room, and threw
the sheet over my face. I fell rather
than saw a faint yellow glimmering
light. I could not move at first,
but I presently tnanaged to gain a
little courage. I drew the sheet
cautiously down from my face, and
—loolred !"
" Well !" cried the bishop excit•
ed ly.
"In the contra of the room," said
tho lawyer slowly, stood a tall old
man. Ito seemed gaunt and worn
with age or hunger, and his long
gray beard hung Wolf way down his
breast. Ho was dressed in a queer
loose cloak with a cape, and he
wore a broad loather band about his
waist. In rine hand ho hold a pecu-
liarly shaped lantern, from which
flowed the yellow Light, making
strange ghostly shadows on the wall
behind him. In the other hand he
hold a staff, the look of which was
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044.1t4t0TER. 14 EVER
Four or five weeks ago; wh@it Mr.
Bowser came home one evening and
found Mrs. Bowser in bed, and was
informed that it was a ease of grip,
he blurted out ;
"Grip ? Aud. Sou have gone 'to
bed and had the doctor for a case of
grip? Humph
"But I am awfully eiok 1" she re-
plied,
'Rate, Mrs Bower 1 Yon just
imagine it 1 This simply goes to
prove what I have often asserted—
that no person of any strength of
character hes ever had the grip. It's
a namby-pamby thing, which oven
a child three years old ought to be
ashamed of."
"You may have it before you get
through." •
"If I do --if I am silly enough to
lay down with any such thing as.
that— I hope somebody will pound
me to death with a fence rail 1 I
have the grip I I call a doctor for
such a nonsensical thing as that !
NOT IF MY NAME IS BOWSER !"
Mrs. Bowser was in bed threo or
foul' days. and Mr. Bowser lost no
opportunity to to talk about the
foolishness in giving up to a trifling
ailment. He likewise remarked to
the doctor that he thought it
was foolish in the medical fratern-
ity to encourage the public in any
such delusion,
"You'll probably have it, and
when it comes you'll change your
opinion," curtly replied the doctor.
"I will, eh 1 There isn't enough
grip in North American to pull
down one of my ears ! I'd really lilce
to be attacked, just to show you how
strength of will could throw it
off."
A week ago, at 3 o'clock ono af-
ternoon, Mrs. Bowser heard some-
thing fall against the front door
She called to the girl to open' it and
see wheather it was a bag of pota-
toes or a corn•sheller. It was nei
ther. It was Mr. Bowser—not the
Mr. Bowser who had gone away in
the morning stepping high and
carrying his chin in the air, but the
Mr. Bowser who had come home
SHAKING AND SHIVERING
and all bumped over until he didn't
appear to be four feet high. It was
a case of the grip. As he sat in
his office gayly whistling "Old
Black Joe" a sudden shiver shiver-
ed up his back. He looked around
to see who lrad flung it, but it was
toll4sveiinWST-Nvdtiivar'e'. He jumped
upc;with a feeling that all the ice
thus far cut out on tho Hudlo.u..had
been loaded on his:back. A whole
drove of shivers and shakes and
chills kept waltzing front his heals
to hie neck and back again, and
there was a roaring in his head as if
he stood on the brink of Niagara.
A boy who came in with a tele-
gram, looked Mr. Bowser over and
said : •
"Old man, you've got it, and got
it bad 1 If you've any home to go
to ,you'd better skip. If I never
see,you again then farewell."
Mr. Bowser didn't stop to exer-
cise any will power to throw it off.
He got into his overcoat and made
• for • home. Ths•--surest -car•-colydrtn:
-tor tried to console him by saying
that he would probably be out in
four weeks, and a woman on the
car named over twenty-two of her
acquaintances who had been carried
off in a week. '
• "Heavens, Mr. Bowser 1 but what
dons this mean ?" demanded Mrs.
Bowser, as he staggered into the
.hall.
"I'm—I'm a dead man?" he gasp-
ed as she pulled of his overcoat and
helped him on the lounge in the
parlour.
"HAVE YOE GOT A MILL
"Y—yes.1 Got forty bad quilts to
cover me up."
"And does your backache ?"
"Does it 1 Great Scot, but I don't
believe I can live half an hour long•
or ! -It's a congestive chill, I sup -
1
)oan.
f
,
"It's a situ rl :'
rt
simply the grip, p, Mt:-3315'wxe'r.
That's exactly time way everybody is
taken. Hadn'tgsou better exercise
a little will -power 1"
Mr. Bowser looked at her re-
proachfully and shivered and
shook.
"Curious how it took hold of a
roan of your strength of character,"
she continued as she got his shoes
off.
Mr. Bowser's chin began to qui-
ver in a auspicious manner and she
said no more on the subject. He
had been put to bed and was groan•
ing and shivering, when the doc-
tor came in.
"Well, your ear has been pulled
down, I see," remarked the doctor
as he rubbbed his hands together in
a cheofful way. "Have you tried
to throw it off by strength of will ?"
suppose its pneumonia„'
replied Mr. Bowser.
"Well, I don't. It's grip—just
grip.”
"And I'm sick enough to die !"
"Pehaw, man 1 you have got a
t>lilti attaokn,-ttboiit (fa .thQ babi'e
have *t, If ypu land it•,aa,bad ani
Your w,ite did X e114uld feel'.' very
aufffQ98, rTt>et keep quiet 4.144 take:
thialn'edioilao every two .h.oure,"
"'IOW many woke will .,I be in
the house it,
"Weeke i Why, you oan go out
tommorrew if yap feel like it, Bet-
ter ;get up after supper and walk
around, It's t wonder to see that
such a slight attack brought you
home.
run Mu. I34WSER'8 fAOIC-4.011E
gtew worse, and when the chill fin-
ally went off he was o'it of hie head
most of the time with the fever.
During Mrs Bowser's sickest ,night
he had gone to bed to Bleep and
more and rest undisturbed by her
moans. She had to sit up with
him, of course. He wanted vichy,
water, lemonade, ice -water, ginger
ale, pickles, tea, toast and a dozen
other things, and he seetned to take
solid comfort in keeping up a groan
ing so doleful that it finally stopped
the clOok.
Tho doctor returned in the
morning, to find Mr. Bowser's pulse
jumping, his tongue covered with
fur and his throat almpst raw, but
bo expressed his groat surprise that
Ile had not gond to the office. IIe
encouraged him to get up and go
down collar and upstairs, but Mr.
Bowser stuck right to the bed.
"Dr., I dou't think you realize
how serious this case is," he groan-
ed. •
"I am sure I do. It's a very
mild case of that namby-pamby
epidemic called the grip. I have
five children in this neighborhood
who have it worse than you, but all
aro up and playing with their dolls.
Very curious that a man of your
stamina should give up. Keep on
with the medicine, however,
AND I'LL SEND A GARGLE."
For four days Mr. Bowser •emrg
lad and dosed and groaned, Mrs.
Bowser had to attend him as if he
were a baby. Ho had very little to
say during this interval. Ho seem-
ed to flatten all out and lose his con-
ceit. Once he even went so far as
to observe that if his life was spar-
ed he would be an humble man in
future. On the fifth day, however,
after getting but to the gate and
back, his meekness seemed to be
disappearing, and on the sixth, as
he started for the office, he said :
"I propose to visit two or three
different doctors to -day and find out
what caused my sickness."
"Why, it was grip, of course, re-
plied Mrs; Bowser.
"Not much ! There was a com-
bination there and I know it, and
it was a mighty serious one, too.
Nothing on earth but day determin-
ation not to give way to it puled
me through. Plenty of men in my
situation would have turned up
their toes, and plenty of others
would have been in bed for months.
Grip ! Humph 1 Mrs Bowser,
you don't know me yet. When I
knock under to grip I'll have the
decency to go and drown myself ?
Grip and brain fever are too widely
different things, and I want you
and that fool of a doctor to know it,
too 1"
A BLACK CAT FARM.
Some time since a wave of sym-
pathy pervaded the civilised world
on behalf of the domestic cat—due
to•a rumour that an American had
conir'liate d-o'Rtipp);y 'levo tons of
cats' tails to a firm which used them
in their business. Five tons of
tails certainly represented a good
deal of cat, and humanity was justi-
:fied in being sympathetic over the
waste of cathood with the contract
suggested. Fortunately, however,
it was discovered that the cat tail of
commerce was not the tail of the
cslncert-loving Tabby, but was a
horticultural tail, of time bullrush
variety, which was used for stuffing'
chairs and other furniture. Though
the extermination of th9 cat's tail
was thur averted, however, the com-
mercial aspect of the animal has
not been lost sight of, and a Cun-
solidated Black Cat Company has
just been formed in Washington
State. The object of the -company
is one which is likely to succeed,
and it would not be surprising if a
hap
daome'
•den
dlv
t d results from the
-speculation:a"TNeFe'is ria finer fur
than that of the cat, and the com-
pany has been formed for the pur-
pose of raising black cats,for the sake
of their skins. With this view an is-
land in PugetSound has been leased,
and an exceptionally fine strain of
cats has been secured from Holland.
Some two or three years einco a
Glasgow man conceived a eimiPar
scheme, but it was laughed at and
treated as a joke. His idea was to
lease the Little Cumbrae, Scotland,
and there organise a oat farm. Tho
isolation of the island, he contend-
ed, would prevent the cat farm be-
ing a nuisance ; plenty of fish as
food would be easily secured from
the Clyde, and a fine crop of excel-
lent fur might be expected. His
scheme fell through, and the Cum-
brae is still utilised to feed half•a-
dozen sheep.
—A severe blizzard occurred in
Texas last week. Many cattle were
frozen to death.
—The famine favor is increasing
at a terrible rate in Russia.
A 1u1TTL ClRM,r'$ PANG'S
Ayr. Hent/ Naxonitbe, Beyland.:S.t.,
Plackburp, Leaden, ing., states. that .hia
14041 fill ,and Struck .her knee against
a curbstone, The knee began ,toswoli,
Ingenue .,very painful and terminated iu
w at doctors' call "whltewglling,t+ ,She',
was trea%ecclt by the beet. tzaedicai :Ineu, ;asst:
grew worse. Finally
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HOW MONEY'WA8 RAISED FOR THE
CHURCH AND THE GOSSIPS
WERWH;ORRIFIED..
There is'a split among the mem-
bers of theaLuthei'au'Clrurch in the
town of Burns, Michigan, over a
mode of raising money which was
introduced at a social ono night.
The affair was given by the young
ladies, and it was announced that,
the girls had a groat surprise in
store for the good people.
The social was given in the
church parlors, and they were
thronged when the time came.
Across one end of the room was a
curtain. For an hotly the guests
chattered after the oldfashioned
chureh•sociable style. Then the
curtain was suddenly withdrawn.
There in a row stood six of the
prettiest girls in tiro congregation,
blushing and giggling, each bearing
upon her bosotn a placard, on which
were the words: "You may kiss
me for 25 cents."
It was fifteen Minutes before t
device began to work, but when
did the silver quarters fairly showe
ed into the aprons of the you
ladies; circle; Old men and youn
eagerly rushiid to the front to e
change coins for kisses.
The show lasted only a short tin)
when the Curtain was again draw
Then the storm burst. Sonlebod
thought it was not quite proper
somebody else insisted that it w
decidedly improper. The criti
were largely of the feminine gend
and did not include any of th
pretty gills. The social finally di
persod with several members in
huff, and the tongues of the gossi
have been continually busy eve
since.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
—The Countess of Cavan died at
her son's residence in Ottawa on
Monday.
Reports compiled -in Winnipeg
show that 33 per cent. of last year's
crop in the Northwest has left the
.farmerst•bande,.... •• .•.
—A girl in Venezuela wont to a
ball against her mother's wishes,
and the latter poured kerosene over
her daughter and sot fire to her.
The girl died in great agony.
—Mr. C. S. Hymn], M.P., has
presented the Royal Humane
Society's medal to John A. Bland
of London, who saved Miss Ruby
Smith from drowning at Port
Stanley.
—An individual known as "Jack
the Slasher" was arrested by New
York police on Sunday morning,
charged with a series of assaults on
drunken men. Iu each case the
victim's throat was cut.
--The exports from Montreal last
year amounted to $31,464,783.
against $32,027,176 in 1890. Tho
imports in 1891 were $300,000
more than in 1890.
---Mrs. • A it o
g st Walker, of South
Easthope, died on Jan. 1 at the age
of 45 years. Several weeks ago
Drs. Niemeier, Whiteman and Wil-
mot performer a delicate operation
on Mrs. Walter, removing an
ovarian cyst containing over 150
pounds of fluid matter. The opera-
tion was an entire success. Mrs.
Walker lived six weeks and three.
days after the operation was per-
formed. The immediate cause of
her death was heart failure, due to
fatty degeneration and valvular
troubled as established by the
autopsy.
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There being Benue misunderstanding with re-
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that if any personakes possession of' any kind
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—George Boosa, a German far-
mer living near Elmstead Station,
Essex, Ont., has been frozen to
death.
—Lavinia Lindsay has been sen-
tenced to gaol for life at St. John,
N.B„ for manslaughter.
—A snowstorm in Spain put a
atop to all telegraphic and railroad
communication with France.
—A Russian Famine Committee
will purchase 10,000 horses to re-
place farmers' animals killed and
eaten on account of the famine.