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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-03-16, Page 2NEW.7ALEi`CIAr SULTANA, LONDON LAYERS ANT) 131,1t, BASKAT RAISINS, • NEW SIa.ASRN'S CURRANTS, CANDIED PEELS-4E1C/ON, •ORANGT'.i A YD CXTRO T,i ESSENCES, EXTRACTS, SPICES, QRA]!IG'stj.',$, ' it.ifl"S, DATES. CANDIES CHEAP. ,..... o.,-...� I have excellent value:in-highest grades of BLACK TEAS, FORMOSA. OOLONGS, MINING CONGOUS, PACKLIIvG, half chest and caddies., TR$Y LENN D OFPURE INDIA AND CEYLON TEAS, put up In one pound packages at 50 cents per lb. Vraz. Bert value in PACKAGE TEAS in the market. clifr 0 Extra Value in Crockery, China and Glassware. CFIINA TEA ANDTOILET SETS, CHEAP. We offer Speoial Induoements during the Holiday Trade to Cash Purchasers. 0 JIIIMINCOtnnintlanninnennatninet 1bertSt. The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance Wednesday, March frith, 1892. A -FORGOTTEN' CEIAPTER OF CANADIAN HISTORY HOW THE ,COLONISTS BEAT THE YAN- KEES. Most people forget the splendid defence of Canada; made early in the century, by the handful of Can- adians -225,000 total population of 'Lower Canada, and 75,000 in Up- per Canada -against the eight mill- ions of the United States. When Britain was involved in the struggle with Napoleon, its coin - amerce ruined by the "Berlin De- crees" and the "Orders in Council," its army and navy engaged In Spain end the Baltic, the States thought 1ta favorable opportunity for an• .hexing Canada, and, in spite of all concessions, declared war. ' The Americans thought the war would be a mere promenade, and on July 12th, 1.812, General Hull from Detroit issued a proclamation offering peace and liberty to Cana- daif it submitted, slavery and des- truction if it did not. On August 16th this same Gener- al, with 2,500 troupe and 57, guns, surrendered Detroit to the British General Brock, with 40 regulars 250 Canadian volunteers 700 Indi- ans , and 5 guns! Two months later the Americans failed in an attack on Queenston, nearsToranto tlren called--York—or Little York), when one of their Generals, with 900 men, surrender- ed, after a terrible slaughter, to a Canadian force, mainly militia and volunteers, not so numerous as the prisoners. , The war went on with alternate successes and defeats by land and sea, the only great and signal defeat on the British side taking place , when the veterans releaeed from Spain had come to the rescue of the Colonists, and the Britiah General was in command of the fleet. • What dimensions the war might have ultimately assumed, we may judge from the feet that the Cana- dians, after losing a whole fleet, had just launched a 100 -gun man•of war •ou Lake Ontario, when ponce was made on the status quo ante bellum in 1815.—Spectator. TWO -ROWED VS SIX ROWED BARLEY. Mr. Pringle has a letter on the barley question. Now, Sir, it is not my intention to follow him through all his perambulating back to Leith, in Scotland, or dip into politics, as he seems anxious to do. The first objection he raised to the comments on the barley in question was that the price I got was not given. I may say I sold none for lees than 55 conte. and I got 60 cents for some that I sold to farmers for seed, which is much better than could be got tor six -rowed- The last crop of sis•rowed raised was in the year 1889. I sold over 300 ,bushels, and jt did not average 40 'tents per bushel, and there was no MaK'.iuley bill in force at that time. Now, Sir, in looking over the Farmers' Advocate .I see, where J. '8. Pieree 8t Co., of London, put a sample of two -rowed on the market 40 838 what it vrould bring, and were o'ff'ered 58 cents for it, or if they would furnish a car load 60 cents. One reason why the two - rowed is not a better price at pree• ant in this part is that there is not a suf debt quantity to be got for shipping purposes. When Mr. Pringle shipped that two rowed to the American market, perhaps it waa not the first mistake he made while in the grain business. as it is well nnderstood it is the six•rowed variety the Americana desire. But not so with the English, as they have a very decided preference for the two -rowed, and when Mr. Prin. gle tette us that barky sold in Sea - forth some years ago at $1 to $1.35 does he wiah it to be understood that if the Mckinley bill were not in operation we would be receiving those prices today. If he does not and I cann9t for a moment think he does, then what has the quoting of the prices of those days to do with the question 1 The question with the former should be, if ho intends to grow barley, what kind at the pres ent time and under the present cir- cumstances is the most profitatle 1 Now, Sir, 1 'think, taking selling prices or feeding qualities. the two rowed is to be preferred. The Minister of Agriculture de- serves the thanks of the farmers of this country for the introduction of the best two -rowed variety at as low a price as possible, when the market for the six -rowed barley was threat ened by a high tariff. Mr Pringle states, years ago thorn wore large quantities of two rowed barley grown, and the English market was as near then as now. But if the advantage of that market were not then availed of, is that any ..reason --.'"._, ,mho kids---ntir rlie at present. Some year ago tbe prinipal market for susplus cattle was in the United States. The English market was as near then as now, but until some enterprising shippers proved the shipping of cattle there to be a sue - cess that market was of no use to . the farmers of this country. Surely no one will nay it is not a great benefit at present. It would seem a little tbo soon to condemn the ship- ping of barley the first year there has been anything done in this bar- ley except a few samples for testing purposes. There are some of the farmers of this part, and I do not believe they consider themselves foolish Grits, and I am sure they are not good Tories, who have for years been growing the two -rowed barley, as they consider they get a better yield and a bettor feeding barley. Mr Pringle is the first I have known to state that one bush- el of peas is worth two of barley for feeding purposes. The best of feeders consider a mixturo the moat profitable. Yours truly, T. E. Hers, MoKillop. ----o+ —The claim made by Canada, on the strength of Engineer Ogilvie's aurvey, that the boundary line of Alaska was located too. far east, where it crosses the Yukon river, has been confirmed by the report of the surveyors sent out by the Unit- ed States government. The 141st meridian is the line between the two countries, and this crosses the Yukon river nearly 40 miles west of where it has hitherto been sup- posed to cross. This gives Canada the very valuable Forty Mile Creek gold mines, where the President a few months :ago appointed a post master. TUR ISIKWS QJ'` B WWORL 1510* Jlotienez't ai~'lvIOklee, 4'404Thi* l .iujr of 0, >$clop dpeatte.,l2 labs uagea, The distress in Austria is reported tt be "htereaQiug, Geo, Reyna Perrlosi has been elected' Pres !Anent et Quittemµta- $ueretary, Blaine. iii it Active of the grippe. He iii pew itnptov{ug., •f ' War between San Salvador and Outute. mala is again tamed of, „„,.„4 There has" been an 'Outbreak e£ feet and mouth disease at (Glasgow. The estate of the' Tato Lord Lytton is valued at £75,�7Q oterliitg. ' The new French Ministry leaves the ClOr- icel question in atattt quo. Four avowed Socialists have been elected to the London County Council. . Etienne Argo, the French writer, dra- matist and statesman, is deed. Mrs, Amelia E. Burr, the popular novel- ist, is the mother of 15 children. Ex -President Porter, ot,Yale University, died at New Haven, .Conn,, on Friday. The Pope celebrated the fourteenth an. niversary of his .coronation on Thursday. The New York Herald nays that Minister Egan will leave Valparaiso next month. Eight of the crew of the Spanish 'barque Hjjas de Vines have been rescued and five lost. Herr Reimer, leader of the Socialists of Hamburg, Germany, has committed sui- cide. C. W. Budd, of DesMoinea, Ia., defeated Champion Fulford in a shooting match at Chicago, One man was kllled and five seriously in- jured by a gasoline explosion in a Chicago dye house. .A French officer has invented a gun which will throw a stream of vitrol a distance of 70 metres. According to an official estimate 105 fish- ermen were drowned during the late storm off Portugal • — Two attempts to assassinate President Barillas, of Guatemala, have been made within a week. 'Latest indicatime are that the threatened great strike of miners in England and Wales will be averted. Many crimes are being committed in Vi. enna, due to the widespread distress now prevailing there. • The United States Naval Appropriation Bill has been practically finished. It appro- priates 823,667,322. . Unemployed workmen at Hanover, Ger- many, participated in a riot on Thursday. Many were iujured. John L. Sullivan has issued a challenge to fight all comera, excepting negroes, for a purse of $25,000. Joe Donoghue won all the skating races for the amateur championship of the United States on Thursday. The labor riots broke out again on Friday in Dantzic, the starving workmen looting the provision shops. It is said the New "York & New England Railroad has passed under the control of the Vanderbilt system, A report from the City of Mexico says it is rumored that war has broken out between Guatemala and San Salvador. Octave Mellario, the Paris jeweller who absconded with 875,000 francs, has been caught at Bayswater, London. The steamer Deccan, from Mauritns for Bombay, is thirteen days overdue, and it is feared that she has gone down. A Minneapolis despatch says Archbishop Ireland was summoned to Rome to become cardinal prefect of the Vatican. Lord Salisbury has informed the United States that hs is not willing to renew the modus vivendi as to Bering Sea. Three men were shot and killed in the streets of Paris on Thursday night by a thief they were trying ro arrest. Secretary Tracy believes that President Harrison will receive the unanimous no aka,, natiotr el f' the`RtgililicairP eu' iZi�-�Ye� C Mrs. Barriolhet, a florist of San Mateo, Cal., has a collection of chrysanthemums, including 250 varieties and 18,000 plants. A farewell banquet will be given to Mr. Whitelaw Reid on March 24, in Poris, prior to his leaving the United States legation for home. Loubet, the head of the new French Cabinet, is described as a man who has been 16 years in public lite without snaking a record. Miss May White, of Stockbridge, Mich., has alept for 259 days, except five hours each day, when she was kept awake by her relatives. Among those who Lost their lives in the recent storm on the coast of Portugal were 83 married men, whose families are now` destitute. The famine in the County of Arra, Hun. gary, is becoming more intense. In two months 75 deaths from starvation have been reported. The London Times' comments pn Em. peror• William's recent speech were copied by a German newspaper, and now the Tat- ter is to be prosecuted. A Republic -Conservative party will he formed in the Paris Chamber of Deputies, to act as the mouthpiece of the Vatican in order to fight Radicalism. During the trial of a horse thief at Dex- ter, Mo., the prisoner shot and killed the mayor and the city marshal. A. mob hang. ed the murderer to a tree. The large amount of indemnity asked by the States from Chili on aces not of the Baltimore affair has caused much anxiety in Valparaiso financial circles. Dr. Donald Fraser, who died in London, Eng., on February 12,- was unanimously elected at the last sederunt of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church of England to represent the London churches at the great synod to be held in Toronto this year. At Rew Orleans on Wednesday night Mr. Bob Fitzsimmons slugged, jabbed, pounded anti did up Mr. Peter Maher in t:very scien- tific manner, amid dazzling scenes of splen• dor in the way of lighting and decoration. rhe audience was an illustrious gathering of the moat noted "pugs" and their friends from all parts of the United States as well as representatives, from Britain and the Antipodes• ed+ it 094209 4t 40011009U rnsUy suer and row' are trutlrely free. .Its solute. • le indigestion and t4.,sluggish liver, the. aura for wlttek is readily found in. the ?fie of Ayex', !imp, -. �+ bave found that for ilek headabhe, taus, ed by agdisordered eonditlon or the Uabl e"" oder'"- Si mtud 0ore ,he most ra4buru Worthington, Mass. " "After the 'uao of Ayer's Pills for many years, in my r'aetico and renally, I am inatified in saying that they are all excelllent cathartic and liver medicine- euataininRall the claims for them." W. A. Weetfall, M. D., V. P. Austin $� N. W. Bailwey Co., Burnet, Texas. "piyer'a Fills ,are the best' medicine ' known to reeler 'regulating the "bowels, and for alt' diseases • caused by a die. ordered atomaob and liver. I ,suffered for over three years froth headache In. digestion, and constipation. I had no appetite and was weak and nervous most of the time, By using three boxes or A.yer'a Pilis, and at the same time dieting m soli, I was completely cured." --Philip Lockwood, Topeka, Kansas. "I was troubled for years with indi- gestion, constipation, and headache. A few boxes of Ayer's Pills, used in small daily doses, restored me to health, They aro prompt and effective."—W. H. Strout, Meadville, Ya. Ayer's Pills, rPtItrdlaED nz Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, Bold by all Drugglats and Dealers in Medtoinu AN INEBRIATED COW, Some time ago,eays a Los Angeles paper, one of our countrymen who lives at Pasadena was astonished, to see one of his b..bat cows lying ap- parently dying in front of the barn. The animal lay there inert, with open eyes, oblivous of everything. The man -called a -veterinary surgeon who could not diagnose the ease, and a butcher waa sent for to bleed the animal. He was some time in arriving, and when he did come the corn was found eating at a haystack but with legs a little uncertain. An investigation followed, and it was found that the cow had eaten copiouely of the refuse at a neigh- boring winery. This stuff, com- posed of grape skins and stems, had fermented and induced a state of intoxication. GRAMMATICAL POSERS. • Everybody remembers Dicken's punctilious footman, who at a grand party given by his employer, loudly announced "Mrs. Foote and the two Misses Feet." One of our townsmen, who assists in control- ling the business destiny of to large clothing, house found himself in nearly as bad agrammatical dilemma theotherday. The tailor's flatiron is called a "goose," as moat everybody known. The demand for dress suite for the Kid New Year's ball had caused it rush on the merchant tail- oring department of our friend's firm, and he was notiffed that an addition of at least three of these irons was necessary. Will at once seized a pen and one of the firm's notehead, and wrote to a dealer. "Please send three • tailor's geese by return express." That seemed wrong. The irons would not be called "geese," as a matter of course, so the order was torn up. Then he essayed again: "Please send me three tailor's gooses by earliest express." That again looked odd. "Gooses' sac,need,=tosbe-a-yord—be1'ongi>Yg elusively to childhood. So this one was also discarded. Then he had a happy thought. He wrote: "Please send me a tailor's goose by return expresa." P. S.—And while you are about it, just send two more." That is said to be the only issue he ever dodged. It was a grammati- cal poser which no schoolmaster can settle. STANDARDS OF BEAUTY. The Americans write as if their awomen were a galaxy of loveliness; and then comes a military critic (English) who only saw three pretty women in the States, and one of them was a foreigner. There is no knowing - what to believe when patriotism boasts of the local fair, Are the women of Arles really more lovely than their neighbors 1 Is "Auld Ayr" peculiar, beyond Gir- van and Maybole, for the presence of bonnie lasses f Were the wo• men of Tenures prettier than those of Thehesl Or do they owe their reputation to the local acbool of artists? Are Irish complexions and Irish eyes the pardonable inyentione of Hibernian patriotism 1 Are all Lancashire witches more bewitching than they of Shropshire 1 These questions can never be satikfacto'rily answered. Perhaps it might pay an American journal to send a com- missioner on beauty all around the world, one who should give a com- prehensiye and unbiased opinion. But it would be difficult for the world to believe in his judicial fair- ness, and no really scientific result could be obtained. At home we may all look about us, and ask where beauty flourishes most. Now it may be a, heresy, but we think that the scientific observer will find beauty most common among the young work••women and shop girls, on one hand, and among "the high- est circles," the oldest families, on the other. L4 I Acrd<, xJ�,15�A, ,jtug. gtxx l+ George ratters= fell from a aecondrstory Window* striking a ffettaas l: faand itirninei . 1! la used it freely all .aver his bruises t saw bine next Morningat, ork e A.11,;tihe bitty cp9t rapidly dishpp, ,rod,, 1 avittg �neither' pain, sc r.ngr'swellin . C, K,.NEUMANN, 14.'7:4 ..,At 4,;R1�1 t T.JACtret>t.,QiM�,. ►if1 iT,•!{ THE JEWELLER'S BEST DAY. MIX B081N1188Is BRISK ModDAY-- IT FOLLOWS SVNDAT, "There are peculiaritieie about al? branches of trade, but one of the most striking of thorn is connected with the jewelry business," said a State street merchant to a reporter of the Inter Ocean yesterday. "Those who are connected with this branch of commerce hail Monday morning with joy and gladneee, for the buainees of that day is almost sure to be large . and profitable, no mutter what the season of the year, "For a groat many years retail je waters were at a loss to assign a reason for this. Finally, the ques- tion was sprung at a convention of jewelers and, as a result, a queer fact was made known. It seems that a large percent- age of the marriage engage- ments are made Sunday night, and the happy young Yuan can hardly wait until the jewelry shop' open Monday morning, so anxious is he to purchase the golden circlet of love. "And then, ..again, harried per- soils generally talk over domestic affaire Sunday evening, and papa is usually beguiled into handing over a check ample enough to buy the set of silver spoons or the silver auger bowl and cream jug upon which mamma has se't her heart. "And then, again, persons who go to church Sunday are apt to see something worn by somebody else that strikes their fancy, and Mon• day they go and buy a duplicate." EXTENT OF BRITAIN'S EM- PIRE. ""•Few persons canrealize, without looking into books of reference, how vast an extent of empire the Duke of Clarence might have been the constitutional sovereign of had his life been spared. I3eeides Eng-. land, Ireland and Scotland, the em-• pire in Europe includes Gibraltar, Malta, and Gozo, with a.total popu- lation of 184,279. In Asia ite,pos• sessions consist of Aden, Brunel, Ceylon, Caprus, HongKong, India, tke Indian Feudatory States, the Kneeling Islands, Kuria Muria Ie - lands, Labuan, North Borneo, Per- ine, Sarawak, and the Straits Settle- ments. The total population of these lands is 261,564,000lsouls, and the total area 1,903,800 square miles. This Asian population is more:than twice as large as the pop- ulation of all land ruled over by the Czar, of Russia, and this Asian ter- ritory is very . nearly as large as European Russia, and two thirds as large as the United States, In Africa, Britain possesses As- ,.„can.tien..Islanel f,• Basetoland; —Bee h is- analand, Berbera, British East Afri- ca, Cape Colony, Gambia, the Gold Coast, Lagos, Matabeleland, Maur• itlue, Natal, the Niger Districts, Nyassaland, St. Helena, St, Paul, and Amsterdam, Sierra, Leone, So- cotara, Tongaland, Zambesia, and Pemba, Ibea, and thence to the Egyptian frontier, the northern Lomat coast, Tristan d'Acunha, and Zululand. The total area for Afri- ca is 2,462,436 square miles and the total population '39,836,600. On the American side of the globe Britain's possessions are those: The Bahama Islands, Barbadoes, Bermudas, Canada,Falkland Wands Guiana, Honduras, Jamaica, Turk's Island, Leeward Islands,Newfound- land, South Georgia, Trinidad Tobago, and the Windward Islands, a total area of 3,648,255 square miles, (the area of the United States, including Alaska, 3,501,• 404), and a , population of 6,255,- 211. In Auetralia it. British Empire claims the following :—The Cook Archipelago, the Fiji and Rotumah Is!n ls, the Kermadec Islands. New South Wales and Norfolk Islands, New Guiana, New Zealand, Queens• land, South Australia, Auckland and several email islands. For this region, the total of area is 3,270,532 square miles, and of population 3,675,811. — London Times. oaf— —Mr. Thos. Lynch, the first male child born .in Guelph, meth with an accident on Tuesday evens ing. It appears that he was chop. ping wood when the axe got caught in a clothes lino which was sus- pended above bis head which caused it to fall from his hands. In alighting the blade of the instru- ment struck Mr. Lynch on the fore- head, just above the eye, inflicting in Ugly gash. A doctor was called, who attended to the injured man, but it will be some time before he is all right again. E1etrie lair RstQreI Restgrea Orey.,Male to its Oreirtlat,Ea Cpior, Beauty and, Softnao . Keeps the Head Clean Cool and free from Dandruff— Cures andruffCures irritation and Itch-- ing of the Scalp 1. Gives a beautiful gloss and perfume ter Wee hair, produces a new growth, and will stew the failing out in a few days. Will not., the skin or the Most delicate head-dress,. FULL DIRECTIONS WITH EACII Born= Try it and be convinced, Price I+r7',r Cents per Bottle. Refuse all Substitutes,. SOLE AGENT FOR CANADA., H. SPENCER CASE Chemist, No. 50 King Street West tTn-nilt,n 1)r4” ' Sold by J. H. 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This camp was only abon& two hundred yards from our settle• went, and it was my daily custoseo to walk over to the moorong as they call it, and study the habits of tion blackfellowe, as the original nativese of Australia are called. I was naturally more., interested+ in the boomerang than in any other of their weapons, and with sr. little practice soon learned to throw it. In the language of this tribe,,. the Wong-ei-bong, which is situateds in the Bogan River region, then boomerang is called a womera. I shall therefore cail it a womera., The womera ie made from what i.,a technically known as an "elbow" from the kurrawung tree, and same-•„_„_,•,,,”, Aimee•~frum” 't'ii'a""yiirran" sad �myell trees. All of these trees belong to the acacia tribe, and have sweet - scented woods. The blackfellow, having found Is, stitablo elbow, chops it out of -the - tree, and, as itis generally too heavy to carry home, trims it on the spot, into the rough outline of the forth- coming weapon. After about two hours' labor the• womera will be reduced to three os - four pounds weight, but it is still es long way from being a finishedl weapon. As it now appears it is a flap, heavy club louger and and: thinner at one arm than at the other.. The black is a decidedly lazy sped - men of the human species, and has will as often as not lay aside his un- completed weapon for a week Or perhaps a longer period. Where he resumes work the wood wilt have become hard and dry, and con- sequently difficult to work upon,but. it never once occurs to him that he, is now paying for his former iddol -once. Time however, ie of little or no consequence to the black, . . After some further paring down the weapon is charred all over, and: this part of the work is quite skill- fully done, no one part being more- burned than another. The charcoal is chipped off, and the blaokfellow• then licks the weapon all over with his tongue, and places it in a smoky fire of green boughs, which warms it and makes it quite pliable.— Arthur Howlett Coates, in March. St. Nicholas. —A blackmail ease was up be- fore Mr. Mackie, J. P., at Berlin._ the other day. It appears that a man named Culpe accused a hotel man with selling liquor without a. license, and the report says Culp!, told him that unless he paid soros, money he could have him up before - the authorities. This the hotel man refused to do, and forthwith laid a complaint against Cutpe for black- mail. The outcome of the case ist• awaited with great interesE by many. r 4