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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-03-23, Page 6,..._,q NEW YALEN(I•A, SULTANA, LQ'NDQTI, LAYERS -AND. BIZ.. BASKET RAISINS, NEW SEASON'S CURRANTS, ,CANDIED PPELS•—LEMON, ORANGE AND CITRON'; ESSENCES? EXTRACTS, SPICES, ORANGES, F[c13, DATES. , CANDIES CHEAP. I have excellent value in highest grades of BLACK TEAS, FORMOSA OOLONGS, HONING CONGOIJS, PAC'KLING, half chest andteaddies. TIDBLY END Oulu urPORE INDIA AND CEYLON TEAS, • put up in one pound packages at 50 cents per lb. Bert value in PACKAGE TEAS in the market. 0 Extra Value in Crockery, China and Glassware. CIHINA TEA AND TOILET SETS, CHEAP. We offer Special Inducements during the Holiday Trade to Cash Purchasers. afteraset.toomusmcwormanneserracuarlem. 0 9 ertuSt, The Huren News -Record $1.50 a Ye..t—$1.25 in Advance. Wednesday March 23rd, 1892. STATISTICS ABOUT MARRI- AGE. If a girl wishes to know how long she may venture to retrain single without destroying altogether her matrimonial prospect she should investigate 'a table prepared by a mathematician who had apparently ,un out of anything alae to figure on. Taking 100 ne a basis, the figurer finds that the most women are married botweon the ages of 20 and 25, fully 52 per cont, of them. Only 14s per cont. wed between 15 and 20, which seems to show that sweet sixteen, and even sweet eigh- teen, aro no longer so fashionable or desirable as they used to be. Be• tween 30 and 35 the chances are 15x• per cent,. a little greater still than it was between 15 and 20. There is material for hope in this fact, certainly. After 35, however, there is a tremendous drop. No more than from three to four girls out of every hundred marry between 35 and 40. Tho young woman who does not intend to finish her days single should therefore make haste to take a husband before she reaches the fatal ago of 35. After a woman is 60 years old the chance is only one out of a thousand that she will ever marry. To complete this analysis, one esual'y"amede thtl=etna eriei'-tfinetatile tables prepored by Sir Francis Gal- ton. One learns from them that among wives 53 per cent. are good tempered, while only 46 per cent. are found to be "masterful." So it is still safe for a man to marry. LOLLING IN 'CHURCH PEWS T'1e Bishop of Huron, in a recent sermon in Grace Church, Brantford, said that if there was one thing which the church had forgotten more than any other it was the power of prayer. 1;t was a painful thing to look over a congregation while prayers were being offered rind to _see the light part taken in the how - age by many of those present. Many never condescended to bend the knee, but lounged back. in sumptuous indifference, while at the close there came but a feeble and meaningless "Amen." It was not wealth nor any other temporal power which the church needed so much as the deep spiritual power of prayer. There were three positions in prayer. Standing, which was scriptural and implied service; kneeling, which betokened consci- ousne.s of sin ; and another which was so popular among the elegant people of modern society. It was that of sitting and it implied equals ity. If in the presence of the Queen, they would know that they had no right to sit, and would never attempt it, and yet they do so in the presence of God. They appar- ently felt themselves the equal of him. Although God's awful majesty was there, they assumed the right to sit;. Strong, able bodied men lolled back In their seats, and the occupants of pews cried out that they were miserable sinners, while the carpets in their richly fiirnished pews had never been touched by the bent knee. ABOUT ANIMALS. HOW ABOUT LAMDS. John Northcott, of the 3rd coir of Hay, Out., has. a ewe that gave birth to four lainbs last week, all living. The same etre has had three lambs two previous years, making 10 lambs in throe years. A PROLIFIC COW. On Wednesday lest a fine cow owned by Mrs. Doesiekle, of Mer- rittou, Ontario, gave birth to three fine heifer calves, all' of which are doing well, and looked upon as curiosities. SAVHD BY A DOG. A whole family, nine persons, named La Roux. living on Forest Street, Centralville, Mase., were saved from suffocation Sunday by a dog. • The family retired Sundry night, leaving a good fire in the coal•stove, but the • fatherforgot to open the draughts. Several hour@ later the dog ran about the house whining, and finally sprang on the bed and licked the faces of the sleepers. Two sisters awoke, choking and gasping, and got to the floor and fell aeneetgss. All were overcome ex- cept the mother, who got the win- dow, and then carried her younger children down the stairs one by one. All are now out of danger, but had it not been for the dog, the whole family would have been as• phyazated in another half-hour.— Boston Herald, Feb, 23, 1892. THE HORSES KNEW THE TUNA. A relation of mine, who has hers well how, when living in Lucknow, and.enjoying the evening drive with other English residents in the Indian city, the carriage horses would toes their heads and paw the ground impatiently , when the first notes of "God Save the Queen" were played by the military band evening. It was the last tune played, the signal for dispersion. A sceptic—or perhaps more than one—having insisted that the horses only knew the tuno because it was always played last and they were able to calculate time, the experi- ment was tried of ,playing "Gad Savettlte Q'teen" in the middle in• stead of at the end of the evening. Ine;antly there was the same excite- ment in the Iiorees standing round "the course,"—the same impatient tossing of the head and prancing of the feet, the same general stampede, and eagerness to start homeward. No one could any longer doubt that they knew and recognized the air; in fact that they could tell one tune from another,—London Spectator. TWO STALLIONS FIGHT TO DEATH. On the farm of David Pulliam, about four miles northwest of Leavenworth, Kansas, was witnessed one of the fiercest battles between two stallions that has ever been seen. Mr. Pulliam is a breeder of fine stock and had two stallions which cost him $7,000 each. They were itnported Perchorone and were both extra fine animals. For some time the horses have bean noeiced to be trying to get together, but they were kept in strong stella, add it was supposed that their actions were simply the usual actions of stallion.. Last Thursday afternoon when both the animals were taken out into the ad- joining yards to be exercised they were greatly excited and endeavored tie get to each other. By some mite chance they got away from their hostlere and made a dash at •the fence, which broke down under, Savo Tote Hair '(�X a'ti@lytise al;IlBorr$ #pfr iYIBQx. + hiU prettaratlon hha no .e<1ut41 as a. dressing, It anti llealtt,y, kaened phreetsoryep$ ethloncoo, fullness, and beapty of Oti3 hair +t t vwaa rapidly` becoming 'bald 'end grafi; 'but' after Using two or Lhroe bottles. of 4yrir's ,1Flpir .YIg r 1 hair grew t11io1S and glossy And the Wens* color was restored."—Mervin ,Aldrich, Canaan Centre, H. H. 'Bente ti,ge a q }gs1z: kali, na hair eotIsegl{ouee At measles. 4ter due waitingi no neve .grawth appearel. then used Ayer's Hair Vigor and my .hair grow Thick'• an d Stro* It has apparently, Come to Stay. 'file Vi or is evidently a great aid to nature. —J. B. Willtame, I'leresville, Texas. "I have need Ayer's Hair Vigor for the past four terfiye years and find lt.a most satisfactory dressing for the Bair. It is all I could desire, being harmless cueing the baler to retain its natural color, and requiring but a small quantity to render the hair easy to. arrange."— Mrs. M. A. Bailey, 9 Charles street, Haverhill, Mass. "I have been using Ayer's Hair Vigor or for several years, and believe that it has caused my hair to retain its natural color."—Mrs. H. J. King, Dealer in Dry Goods, &c., Bishopville, Md. Ayer's Hair Vigor, PnsPAnriD BT Dr. J. 0. Ayer & 0o., Lowell, Mai& Bold by Druggists and Perfumers. their combined assault. When the animals got together it was like the meeting of giants, and the fight was the most furious on record. They struggled for supre- macy in a way that was simply grand. L'hey bit and tore great pieces out of each other, and their kicke and strokes with their fore feet wore terrible. It was impossi- ble to do anything towards parting them, and the owner was compelled to look helplessly on while the en- raged brutes fought. One of the animals . was about two 'hundred pounds heavier than the other, but what the lighter animal lost in strength lie -made up in agility, and hie attacks were so rapid that be 'finally got the larger horse down and kicked and pawed biro to death. The victor was so badly beaten that he, too, died in a few hours after the fight. AS YOU LIKE IT. A.PARTUTAN SHOT. The expression, "A Parthian Shot," refers to the manner of fight- ing by the cavalry of the ancient Parthians. It was their plan to feign or pretend to retreat, and when withdrawing from the field in this way they would turn around on their horses and diecharge their arrows with unerring accuracy. In this way, by counterfeiting flight, they often secured a victory, the enemy being thrown into great dis- order by these showers of arrows. THE FIRST SLANG TERM. The oldest bit of alang which can . be traced to a historical origin is said to be "He is a brick." Plutarch, es his "life" of Lycurgus gives an account of the visit of an embaesa- dar from Epirus to the, city of Sparta, who saw much to admire and praise. But he wondered greatly that Sparta was not a walled town, and asked the explanation of ..tls,� R1 4,..staferItikesn3' arks,,,No:. answer was returned that day. Early the next morning, however— for the Spartans rose at dawn—the Epirote was awakened and conduct- ed to the field of exercise outside the city, where the army of Sparta was drawn up ing battle array. "There," said Lycurgus, "are the walls of Sparta, and every man fe a brick." FATHER ANDRE'S CHARITY. Father Andre, a distinguished French priest, once, while• preach• ing against the too free indulgence in flirtation amony the lady mem— bers of hie congregation, threatened to divulge the name of one present as being the most culpable in this respect ; but feigning to pity her dread of exposure by this means, gave out that in charity he would only throw his skullcap in the direc- tion of the seat occupied by the lade for whom his special remarks was meant. As soon as the preacher raised his cap as though to throw it, every woman in the church, is said to have ducked her head. BRIDGIIT'S DiLEMMA. A newly arrived domestic was secured to do house -work by an up- town family in Lewiston, Maine. In the course of her duties she was told to iron some clothes and hang t/tent out on the horse. A little later the maid appealed before her mis- tress with the clothes in her hands and look of perplexity on her face. "Why didn't you hang the clothes on the horse, Bridget 4" inquired the latter. "Sure an' I tried to, ma'am, but he kept movin', so he did, an' they wouldn't stay.', Sore enough, knowing no other horse in her native land, she had gone to the stable and endeavored to hang them on the restive Dobbin, with the result indicated. The above i`... li fad,--Leuriatun (Ne;) Jour'naf, Sinnu k' P441aliY, . The follo yiug issveeeh Of CaptainCrawfo*I: "On all God's gteen'end beautiful earth there ate no purer, . nobler, Mere kind,heartedor attlf•aaeriftcing women than those who wear the sombre garb of Catholic slaters. During the war 1 had many oppor-. tunnies for obaerging, their noble, and her(*) work, not oral, in camp and hospital, but on the field, of. battle, Tright in the front, where bullets hissed and shot and shell 'flew, and dead and mangled forme lay. "I have seep 'them moving over the field, their time wet with tears, administering to the wants of the wounded and wh'spering words of comfort into the ears of the dying ; now kneeling to moisten with water the bloodless lips on which the Beath angel had left its pale imn- prinl; now breathing words of hope, of immortality beyond the grave into the ear of some mangled soldier; note holding the crucifix to receive to receive the last kiss from some- body's boy from whose breast the lifo•blood was flowing. "I am a Protestant, but I shall never forget, or cease to cherish with profound reverence, the memory of those noble, holy wo• men." RABBIT SLAUGHTER. Five hundred Grand Army boys attending the State encampment ai Fresno, California, participated in a monster rabbit drive yesterday. Early in the morning buggiee, drays, and express waggons filled the streets. By 8 o'clock delegates to the en- camptnent, with an immense crowd of men, women, and children, were on the road to the rendezvous. Marshal W. F. Lrowell, of Atlanta Post, took command. General Muller took charge of the left wiug, while Msrshal Browell held . the center. A slowly converging line eleven miles long was thus formed of fully 5,000 people. When Within five miles of the corral, the center and wings were joined, the peoplo dis- mounted aed a semi -circular line of battle was formed, with earriagee in the rear. The slowly converging line mov- ed on, driving before them the jumping, leaping dodging mass of haree. Abort eighteen actions of land had been covered. When within a view of the mouth of the corral the sight was one which once witnessed could never be forgotten. Before the contract- ing line of men, women, boys and girls lay about 500 acres of plain so thick with madly rushing hares that the ground was actually hidden from sighs. When within 100 yards of the mouth of the corral the marshals lost all control of the lines. There was a wild yell, a mad rush, and 7,- 000 people were moving toward one point, trampling down and literally crushing to death several thousand hares that were unable to get into the corral owing to the large num- ber alaeady there. Within space of a few acres over k.25490.0aarabbitssacere—huddlingso a gather. In one place the terror stricken mass had rushed into one corner and lay there over a foot deep. It is estimated that at least 3,000 were never touched by club, but were simply smothered to death by the rush of those in the rear. Photographs were taken of the mass as the lay huddled up, and then the veteran guard of California, clubs in hand, wore formed in line of battle, and with a yell moved down upon the masa of 25,000 bun- nies, clubbing as they ran. A sickening slaughter took place, lasting abort an hour. o..o A SACK. OF COFFEE. BETS ABOUT WEiCIIT NEED NOT IN• CLUDE THE PIIRASE "MORE OR LESS." A. beta that a sack of coffee weighs 29 pounds ; B bete that it does not. The eoffee weighs 21 pounds, and the words "more or less" were not fused. Paso decide. T. B. X. It would seem that if a given article of whatever nature actually weighed twenty one pounds it rnuat per force weigh at least twenty. Euclid, a Greek gentleman loved by mathematicians and detested by small boys studying geometry, states it succinctly and forcibly in what lie terms an axiom, or self evident truth, by Baying "The greater in - eludes the less." This would seem to be as true today es it was some hundreds of years before the Chris- tian era when he just thought it out. True the words "more or leas" were not stated. Upon reflection it can not be credited that any person not a confessed paranoiac who would lay a wager against any- thing weighing twenty pounds more or leas. Why, that's all the God- erich court house weighs, end it ie certainly comprehensive enough to include the weight of a human hair. It is not a statement of exactitude, .ST. J WOBS 0114, THE OREAT REMEDY FOR PAIN, RHEUMATISM,, *ions, C.rpisesr Cute, Wounds, $je,eis smogs,St+teIllnDs, Baakoehp, Neg. ,sepia, Seiatioa,•;Curna, . THE CHAR.LES,A VOCELER COMPANY,, 1:11110113901 Md.. ' 4Ctirtudlan Depot: TORONTO, ONT. but it istrue tli it it is only twenty feet from here to the sun, wore or lees. If that phraee is omitted 80 is the word "exactly," nor would a man learned in physics like to wager that any object weighs something "ex. actly." It is too apt to go above or below the term of precision, It can not be presumed that there was any catch geeetion involved. There is a presumption of law that what ought to be dune is dnne, and no less .strong a presumption of good manners that words are to he taken in their usual significance. It is believed that a little. iutrospecs tion into the mental processes pro - ceding the actual making of the bet will reveal the fact that A thought the sack of Mocha, Java, Rio, or whatever else it was, weighed at least as mush as he said, and B thought it weighed'not so much: In a1.y event that is about what was said. A therefore wine, because be bet the coffee weighed 20 pounds, and it did ; B loses, because he bet it did put weigh 20 pounds—and it did. • REMARKS OF GREA.'.l' MEN UNDER STRANGE CIR. CUMSTANCES. From Harper's Young People. The kettle of the Nile was fought August 1, 179S, between the French and English fleets. Sir Horatio Nelson was in command of the lats ter, and as the engagement was about to begin, he exclaimed, "Vic• tory or Westminster Abbey !" And victory it was. When Charles IX. of Sweden, at the age of nineteen years, fought and defeated a large body of •Itus slaps at Nerve in 1700, Peter the Great, who led his army, had sev- eral horses shot under him, and while exchanging a dead steed for a More useful one after a repetition of the occurrence, he remarked, "These people seem disposed to give me exercise." And events proved the truth of the prophecy. The mace is an emblem of author- ity and use 1t1 our Cohgreaa as well as in the English Parliament, and though it is merely a symbol, it commands respect ; but it was never so insulted as when Oliver Crom- well stalked into the English House to disperse the members and disc solve the Parliament. The 'mace lay in its regular place, and when Cromwell saw it, he must have sneered at the petty symbol, for he called ono of his soldiers, and order- ed, "Take away that bauble." So, as the mace was carried out, the doors were locked and Parliament effectually dissolved. 6 The message of Commodore Perr,y Imo.. treT.. ,Ntre of is Better Known. �`�i`e Lake Erie had taken place, and the British fleet were defeated. Then the -Commodore sent ,to General Harrison, grandfather of the pre. sent President, his famous despatch, "We met the enemy, and they are ours." It was but a little longer than Caesar's, "I came, I saw, I conquered." An English General, however, made the record for brevity when, after he had conquered the province of Scinde in India, he sent a punn- ing despatch io the one word, Peccavi, which, as our young Latin students know, means, "I have sinned." GIGANTIC AND FEASIBLE. THE $15,500,000 IS FORTHCOMING. The Railway Committee of the House of Commons considered the bill to incorporate the Ontario Ship Railway Company. The applicants are David Blain, II. H. Cook, John C. Fitch, Hugh Blain, Joseph Blakeley, E. L. Corthell, Mark H. 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The most remarkable religious book of the age, written by 800 eminent scholars, Non-sectarian. Every Christian wants it. Exclnsive territory nivou. Apply to THE HENRY BILL PUBLISHING CO.. Norwich, noun. railway proposed is something over ninety miles in length. The estim- ated cost is $15,500,000 and the railway will have three tracks. Al- though it seems a large expenditure the proposed improving and deep- ening of the Welland Canal would mean an outlay of almost twice this amount, THE UNITED STATES RESOLUTION. In this connection Mr. Blain made reference to the joint resolu- tion which was introdured on Jan- uary 5th in the House of Repre- sentatives promote the improvement of the waterway from the head of Lake Superior,. by way of the Wel- land and St. Lawrence canals and St. Lawrence River to the sea, by making them conform in depth and navigability to the 'standard adopt- ed by the Government of the Unit- ed States for the improvements now in progress within theUnited States of the waters connecting the great lakes. „gerAnL —or. oarun uro.,S,000 io•Ns..—...,. The proposal of the preeant scheme is to do away with the neces- ity of these alterations by construct- ing a ship railway capable of carry- ing a ship laiden with 5,000 tone. The idea was rather large for the committee on Railways to grasp at one Bitting, and consequently the discussion was postponed till the meeting on Tuesday next, s CANADIAN NEWS NOTES. —The late Jacob Crank, who was burned to death at Blleville the ether day, left an estate valued at $125,000. ' —The Dominion government has decided to enfranchise the Indian population in British Columbia. The Governor -General's proclama- tion will be issued today. —John Stevens, a foreman for the Keewatin lumber company near Whitefish bay, Lake-of•the-Woods, attempted suicide by taking poison and afterward slashing his throat with arazor. He cannotlive. His home is at Keewatin and his wife left him last fall on account of his ungovernable temper. She is said to be living in Toronto with her family. —Hugh McDonald died in Fite- 'tiAri* roy township, Frontenac; on Satur- day, aged 103, —In the Ontario Legislature yeeterday Hon. Mr. Hardy intro- duced a bill to reduce the number j sit, of county councillors. Counties of 40,000 will have seven councillors; over 40,000 and under 60,000, nine and over 60,000, eleven, —While John McCallum, farmer of the 10th conoession. Kincardine Township, was loading saw logs, last Friday, he accidently slipped, and a log rolled over his body, caus- ing injuries which proved fatal.