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,i0'. Chamberlain has been re-atanclint• A aeving 8D1*ng That to an `IInfattsug
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+ ' Government Enginn in
barye of then improvement of the
ed; clerk of Blyth; W. Blliett, n Sea-` Wonder,
forth' and,
d Mo>lgrson oLMcKillop Mal. Jones
Miele T, Gkould, of Goderich township, c p
iia* gone to spend the winter with her Misarayippi and tributaries, andin charge
sister, ,Mrs 13. B. Ward, New York of the roads and waters of the Yeti:matron,
city, Park, is just back from an exploring War
Mr ,Tames Cummings, of Eginond- through the Sheebone range of mount/Wet
villa, left, On Tuesday last for Sacra- whichskirts the park on the oast. He wino
mento. California; to see his son, who shown by a rancher a barometer sprang and
is illi foetid it to be one of the most wonderful.
Mr, Arthur Atkinson, of Winnipeg, *freak° of nature ever .discovered. The
foimerly of Seaforth, has been elected Major Yesterday „„,.4 gave ths account of hie
President of the Winnipeg Grain Ex- trip and the spring:
change. Soda Butte is a mound of travertine on
a small creek in the aortheaat portion of
Mr. Anderson,of West Wawanosh, the park. It was formed by the dopost•
had the pleasure of having all his fami- tion of sediment from a calcareous eating
ly together on Sunday last for the similar to those at Mammoth Hot Springs.
first time. The apring is now dead, but along the
Mr. i i gust Ehneo, of Zurich, who creek just below are aeveral small owes
purchased the Ferguson farm on the highly
charged! with game and salts of
Zurich road, near Hill's Green, paidsulphur,
$4,450 for it. 1 "One of these has developed into a peon•
Mr. Geo. Watt, of Harlock, recently , bey tyrbohoend inis therelict sofa severe
sold a very nice, young thoroughbred storm, I waa stru ,k with the peculiar inky
short -horned bull to Mr. James Taylor, blacknesa of the sediment upon the bottom
of Belgrave. of the spring and the short outlet which
James Grant and wife, of Grey, have leads its waters into a creek. Just then
removed to Tuckersmith, where Jim a rancher came along and, autos me, led!
takes charge of the Dickson farm in " "See say barometer a That spring is
that township. the finest barometer in the United Stake.
The wile of Mr Samuel Cluff, Tucker- When it's going to rain or mile h --i with
smith, left last week for the Bath the weather that spring gives the bull snap
Springs, Preston, to undergo a course away by turnin' black all over its bottom.
of treatment for rheumatics. Otherwise its bottom is all tie same Cie the
lilies of the field, mister. ilie gray of the
At the annual meeting of the Ontariomom' and the roses sad pinksof the evens
Creameries Association,which was held in' kinder get mixed and nsingoi l a►ee
last week at Harriston, Mr. John Han- aa. and she's a daisy thou. Z'ho tloiWm
nab, of Tuckersmith,was re-elected sec- tum whiter thou the swan when its gain
retary. to anew, redder than a volcano when veil
The annual convention of the West gofn' to be hot greener than an renerald
Huron Liberal Conservative Associa- when a tenderfoot look* in it.' ,
tion will be held at Smith's Hill on "I thought he was telling me a fairy
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1893, commencing
at 1.30 o'clock.
A dressed hog was brought to Wing -
ham on Tuesday, which pulled the scales
down to 825 pounds. A hog like that
is more valuable than an ordinary
horse at the present time.
Mr D D. Wilson, mayor of Seaforth,
entertained the members of the town
council with the retiring members and
town officials at his handsome resi-
dence, on Tuesday evening.
The old Verity foundry buildings at
Exeter have been purchased, and
Messrs. Murray Bros., of Wingham,
will -go there with a foundry plant
shortly and commence business.
Hugh McGinty, a former resident of
Goderich, but for some years an em-
ployee of the F. &. P. M. Ry at Sag-
inaw, died in that city on Sunday, 8th
inst., of tubereolosis.
The farm in Morris, belonging to the
estate of the late Mr. F. Rogers, con-
taining 100 acres, was sold by auction
on Tuesday of last week. Mr Chas.
Henderson, was the purchaser. The
price paid was $2450.
The electric light of Wroxeter is a
thing of the near future. The corpor-
ation has contracted for five or six
lights and the buisness places have tak-
en hold of it. It is understood that
Gorrie will be connected by a line of
wire and also lighted by electricity.
The annual meeting of the Grey
Branch Agricultural Society was held
r • ars the Town Hall, Brussels, on Thurso-'
day, the 12th inst.,when the Auditors'
report for the year 1892 was submitted,
,chewing a balance in the treasury of
$244.
The eighth annual meeting of the
East Huron Farmers' Institute was
held in the Town Hall, Brussels, on
Thursday and Friday of last week, Jan.
12th and 13th. The Auditors' report
showed the receipts to have been $144.-
64 and expenditure, $64, leaving a bal-
ance on hand of $80.64. There are 102
members.
The annual meeting of the Howick
Mutual Fire Insurance Company was
held last Friday. An unusual number
of small losses have occurred by light-
ning the past year. Several members
expressed themselves against the plan
of insurin stock away from the barn,
but no action was taken at the meet-
ing. The auditors' report showed the
Company to be in excellent standing.
The annual meeting of the Tucker -
smith Branch Agricultural Society was
held on Thursday, last week. The Soc-
iety are a little behind this year, finan-
cially, on account of the bad weather at
the fall show and the consequent light
gate receipts, and the auditors' state-
ment shows abalance due the Treasurer
of $43, but the South Riding directors,
at their last meeting, gave the society
a rebate of $50. which will put it in
better shape.
At the annual meeting of Township
of Turnbury Agricultural Society the
following officers and directors were
appointed: Chas. Henderson, President;
Geo. Moffatt, Vice -President; Direct-
ors—Peter Deans, D. McKinley, B.
Maxwell, A. Tipling, J. Diment, W. Is-
bister, J,'Brydges, A. Hardy and C.W.
Taylor; Auditors—W. Maxwell and
Peter Fowler. After the business of
meeting was over, the question of new
grounds was taken up and pretty well
discussed, but no definite conclusion
was arrived at. . John Anderson was
elected Sec. -Treasurer..
The annual meeting of the South
Huron Agricultural Society was held
in Dixon's hall, Brucefield, on Wednes-
day of last week. The chair was taken
by Mr Thomas Fraser, of Stanley.
The affairs of this society, as disclosed
by the Treasurer's and Auditor's re-
ports, are in a very satisfactory con-
dition. The receipts for the year
amounted to $1,686.39, and the dis-
bursements to $1,618.60, leaving a sur-
plus of $67.79 on the year's transactions.
The year was commenced with a sur-
plus of $297 in the treasury and closed
with a surplus of $365.08.
story. A month later found me again at
the spring. The day was demi-clear, but
fine. Ominous little clouds were gathering
in the upper sky, and it was getting to be
something of a question what was coming..
Suow in the mountains in November is
something serious.
".'Going to have a Ittle change in the
weather,' suggested I to the rancher, who
stood near me.
" `Not much, partner ; barometer says
no.'
"I went to the spring. The blackness
was wholly gone, and in its place was the
pearly gray of the morning, while in the
outlet the gray was softly blended with
delicate hues of pink and carmine. It was
beautiful to the eye, but the fumes of, -the
hydro -sulphuric acid were unbearable.
"It is a very curious tact that the sedi-
ment from this spring changes Dolor with
the changes of weather.
- "When mother earth wrinkled out the
Rocky Mountains there was left a very soft
and tender spot in the region where the
Yellowstone Park now lies. Here her ear•
face cruet of rook was softened from close
contact with the heat which is supposed to
hold her interior in a fluid condition, and
there was a raging of volcanoes through
craters and fissures many miles m length.
The face of nature must have been a lurid
show in those days. Great rivers of melted
rock flowed down the mountain sides,
spread over great areae of valley and
plain, and incidentally piled up the great, -
eat of all the wonders of the park, the tabu -
hone Mountains. This range is a mass of
peaks, in width about sixty miles, in length
more than 100, welch are almost wholly
composed of lava. It lies in apparently
horizontal beds2 cub into mighty canons by
the streams and peculiarly weathered into
the vertical cliffs which generally cap the
summits of the peaks. Ihave measured a
thickness of over 5,000 feet of lava among
these lofty peaks, which reach with con-
siderable uniformity altitudes of 10,000 to
12,000 feet above the level of the sea. The
mountain walls are weathered into peculiar
shapes of colossal magnitude, making the
scenery novel and magnificent.
"The record of the rocks shows no place
in all the earth where so much volcanic
energy has been expended, and the geysers
and springs now in action are considered to
be part of the dying throes of the pent-up
spirit of volcanoes."—St. Paul Globe.
The King of 8wedon.
King Oscar of Sweden celebrated his
twenty-fifth anniversary as a doctor of phil-
osophy last month. As Duke of Ostgoth-
land the University of Lund conferred that
degree upon him a quarter of a century ago,
in recognition of his services to literature
and science. His Majesty spent the day at
the university and allowed the Bishop of
Fleneberg to place again a wreath of laurel
upon his brow. The university ie naturally
proud of its adopted alumnae, as the King
I9 a man of learning, able to converse in-
telligently upon almost any topic, and a
poet of no mean parts. He has also com.
rifted music. His Majesty is the tallest
Monarch in Europe, oderlapping even the
Czar of 1auss'ia by several inches. A fine
shock of hair covers his head, and a long,
heavy beard, adds dignity to his face. In
his robes of state he looks the ideal hinter
Chicago
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Chicago Times.
Cheerful Cant.
it is said that the bang must go,
It no more o'er foreheads will droop,
But we ardently, earnestly pray
That it will be saved from the soup.
—Chicago Inter -Ocean.
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Dawson—I caw seven doctors go into the
house across the street. Is there a patient
with some puzzling malady ?
Dempsey—Yes, a messenger -boy was
over -heated with canning.—Chicago Inter -
Ocean.
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"I know m feet are to stand on,"
said a crabbed individual in a crowded
cable car to his neighbor, "but if it is just
the same to you I would like that priviege
exclusively for myself. Will yon please
get down on the floor t"—Philadelphia
Record.
r e. .
at read Sehopenhnuer in German."
"Whey,„.. I never knew you nnderetood
"I don't.. But Schopenhaner is no hard-
er to understand in the original than in
English."—Harper'e Bazar.
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QAKQTA'S CAVE OF TH WINDs.
A
Tvemeudeus Oa4'er n Whtgh Use Been
Exploredfor gixi3'•three Milena
The. wonderful A3710111 Wind, Caves
disogvered apme seven years ago by a cow*
boy, ie in Fall River County, South Dakota,
twelve mites north of Bot Springs, end
consists of a series of caverna, sixty-three
miles of which have been explored. It re -
wives its name from the fact of a strong
wind iesuing from the opening, nye' a
writer in the Grand Rapids Democrat, and
for this reason many believe there is
another entrance, but none as yet has been
found. The wind does not at all time blow
from the cave, but its aotion may be core.
pared to that of the lunge in breathing.
The several routes are very rough and in
places dangerous. The two most frequented
are the "Garden of Eden"'and the "fair
grounds." The majority of people ohooeo
the former route, as it takes thirteen hours
to go to the "fair grounds," necessitating re-
maining In the cave over night. Few vie•
ltore are enthusiastio enough or strong
enough to undertake so long a trip, as there
is difficult and perilous climbing to be
done, many -places where one must crawl
on hands and knees, and passages, each as
"the Irish misery," of which co lent
persona should beware, unless they wish to
sacrifice themselvea to the cause of science.
The routes are intrioate, se there aro often
three or four passages opening from a single
chamber. The human voice is audible but
a short distance, though tapping on the
rooky wall can be heard from a half to
three-quarters of a mile, and lett Fourth of
July those who were in the cave heard the
cannon at Rapid City, et'sity-five miles
away,. Tho temperature is uniformly 45
degreed Fahrenheit and the air is very dear.
Numerous epringa are found, also a small
lake. Each chamber is unique in it'selt, a
marvel of beauty. The formations ere of
limestone, some created by fairy fingers,
many of them being too delicate to remove.
The "Show Palace," with its rifts of
snow, its gleaming, frostlike draperies, its
etarry snowflakes, spangling dome and
walls and floor : ite glowing of amethysis
and crystals. flashing like diamonds, even
in the light of a tallow candle, outrival
anything art has ever done in the way of
beauty. Other beautiful rooms are the red
room, the queen's drawing -room, the post -
office, the grand opera and the Lorne gal-
lery. One of the most wonderful rooms is
the catherdal, where the guide, by manipu-
lating the rocks, produces certain weird,
musical sounds. In the garden of Eden is
found the forbidden fruit, which in this
case reaombles plums and grapes more than
the tradition apple. The fair grounds, the
largest chamber yet discovered, are three
acres in extent.
On the morning of August 17 our party
started for the cave. Alva, the Wind cave
guide, was secured. The route to the gar-
den of Eden was decided upon. Before the
trap door was lifted we could hoar the roar-
ing of the wind in its efforts to escape.
"Are you ready ?" said the guide.
"Yes." came from the crowd. The door
waa lifted, and down, down, down we went
into the dark abyss, groping our way along,
holding on to the stairs, as the wind threat-
ened to toss us out of its cavern into the
• darkness. One little girl said : "I don't
want to go down there ! I know I'll never
come back again."
The first, chamber we entered was well
named "the postoilice," for the walls were
covered with old box -like structures. On
we passed from one more to anothgy, with
meant a merry laugh and a jest over our
rough road and wondering awe at the beAn-
ties revealed.
While resting in a cavern we heard two
parties coming from opposite directions. In-
stantly all the candles were blown out, and
we greeted them with as unearthly groans
as ever Dante heard when he visited the
infernal regions.
At last we reached the garden of Eden,
five miles from the entra.ce and G00 feet
below the surface, gazed o. ..•.e forbidden
fruit, than began our journey . pward. On
the way back we heard voices singing,
"Nearer My God to Thee."
"Where are they, Alva'' said I. "They
are in the methodist chapel," he answered.
"It is a party en route to the fair grounds.
The wall is thin here; that is why they can
be heard so plainly."
Frenchmen Worse Than Fiends.
A curious royal relic of Paris is to be
brought to the hammer. Its history has
been given at the Academy of Medicine by
Dr. Corlier. It is the heart of the boy who
is said to have been the Dauphin, son of
Louis XVI., and who died at the Temple
prison on Juno 8, 1795. The Jules Favre
and Louis Blanc theory was that there had
been a substitution of en idiotic andscrofu-
lous child for the Dauphin, and that Tal -
lien and Barras had caused the rightful heir
to be spirited away from the Temple in a
laundress' basket, and sent to some place
whence they could produce him should his
restoration ever suit their interest. M.
Pelletan, being a famous surgeon, had
assigned to him the surgical duties
of the post-mortem, in which he and
three colleagues were engaged for five
hours. Profiting by an interval of
professional idleness when the other three
went to chat at a window, he slipped the
heart into his pocket, having first wrapped
it up in some linen. He placed the heart
in a glass vessel filled with brandy, and
when Louis XVIII. became de facto Bing
of France, and ordered all those who had
shown kirfdnees to the Dauphin in the Tem-
ple to be sought out, Pelletan claimed to
have been a benefactor of the unhappy
prince, and offered to give the heart to the
king for royal burial This was in 1817.
Louis neither refused nor accepted Pelle-
tan's offer. Pelletan thensent the relic to
the Sacristy of the Archbishopric of Paris.
In 1833 the people of Paris sacked the arch-
bishop's palace, and Dr. Jules Pelletan, eon
of the surgeon, saved the royal relic at the
risk of his life. He has recently died. The
heart in its reliquary is to come to the
hammer.
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Mrs. Bingo—Don't you think, dear, it
would be a good idea for you to give
me an expense book, no that the coming
year you will know where all the money
goes ?
Bingo—I can ball without any expense
book, darling. All I have to do is to look on
your back.—New York Herald.
err
A new theatre in New York was opened
a short time ago by Mrs. Beers. She
didn't take, and now they are going to try
"The Isle of Champagne." It's a big jump
from "Beere" to. "champagne," but New
York willrobably be able to stand it.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
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"Well I'll be blowed," as the safe said
when it learned that it had been sold to a
man who lived in Chicago.—Buffalo Ex-
press.
ser
Tho maiden who is "faddish."
Who is always in "the gams,
Ie just now devoting bout"(
Of time and all her powers
To the study of the right way to ray
Paderew,ki'e
n.
—Brooklyn Eaglamee.
ear
She—So a sinecure is a position in which
a person gets the salary another earns.
He—Precisely, my love.
She—That's the kind of a job I want.
He—You have 11 dearest.—Detroit Tri•
bane.
ase
"The great problem that I have to fled
with," said the keeper of tho imbecile
asylum, "is to find some occupation for the
popple under my charge."
"Why not, sot them to inventing college
yells P' mated 'th t visitor. -Bu ato Bxp'leita.
He Thou My Guide.
Be thou my guide, and I will walk in darkness,
As ono who treads the beamy heights of day,
Feeling a gladness amidst desert Badness,
And breathing vernal tragranoo all the way.
Be thou my wealth, and, raft of all besides thee,
I will forget the strife for meaner things,
Blest in the sweetness of thy rare completeness,
And opulent beyond the dream of kings 1
Be thou my strength 0, lowly one and saintly)
And though unvie(onod ills about me throng,
Though danger woo me and deceit pursue mo,
Yet, in the thought of thee, t will be strong I
—Florence Earle Coates, in Lippincott'.
TRE' WORLD } LA,B r
ECHOES FROM, THE BUSY MILLAND
THE' WORKSHOP. • •
armee sad llU.$ppenings of 8peolal ilnterntt'
In the Various Fields Where the Bee.
clonic and Artisan Uold Sway Visit
MA Day,
There are 150,000,000 Bibles.
he Georgian wears a 15 shoe.
Bath (Me, ), has a floating hotel.
A Scotch palace goat $5,000,000.
Uncle Sam bas 12,090,152 families.
$t. Louts oxporte quail to London.
Now Zealand has 62 large creameries.
England has the largest needle factory.
In Spain 5,000,000 people are illiterate.
Black glass wise once need in.mirrora.
Snit India furnishes onr grata .percha.
Newmarket joskeye earn 00000 a' year.
British India hoe 10,417 licensed opium
AV*. of coal yields nearly 10,000 feet of
gas -
Chicago has the biggest publishing house.
The season's whale catch is worth ells.
500,000.
The Moscow Greek church cost (M0,000,-
000,
at oar Italians go home ane
Seven hundred Columbus Mogrsphtea ase
tartan*
Liberians g.4 drank on a rauskroom ova"
Queen Victoria's dining -room furniture
oust $100,000-
The
100,000.The Emperor of China orders 200 pairs of
boot* at a time.
There are 110{000 epeeist) of (leveeing
plant* on the globe.
In Queen Eltaabeth's day dudes wore
*hoe* three feet long.
The telephone hoe been known in India
for thousands of years.
The dyeing of one piece of linen requires,
18 distinct processes.
There is more money spent for eggs than
forflour in the United States.
Female stenographers are to serve the
Parliament, of Sweden and Norway.
- Nails can be driven into hard wood with-
out bending if firet dipped in lard.
Tho higbeet avergage speed attained by
railway train° in England is. 51 miles an
hour.
New York city's annual production of
manufactured artiolea is valued at 8100,-
000,000.
The weight required to crush a square
inch of brick varies from 1,200 to 4,500
pounds.
The average duration of lives in the
United Stetesis 49:3 formechanice and 521
for lawyers.
It is estimated that last year Arizona
produced $3,0"00,000 in gold, $2,000,000 in
silver and $4,500,000 in copper.
Three hundred million eg$a-- are used
in the United States in making albumen
paper used in photography.
The first patent in the United States was
issued July 31, 1790, to Samuel Hopkins
for making pot and pearl ache..
In manufacturing occupations the average
life of soap -boilers is the highest and that
of grindstone -makers the lowest.
The coetlieet cigars ever exported from
Havana were a quantity made expressly for
the Prince of Wales and valued at $1.87
apiece at the factory.
A drying house for lumber has beep
erected at ;Ottawa, in which electricity i4
the heating power. This is the first estate
liahment of the kind in the world.
The smallest eomplete Bible ever pub-
lished has just been issued by the Oxford
University press. It is 3Q inches long, 2i
inches wide and a of an inch think. —
An attempt with electric omnWusses is
to be made on Liverpool street, in Lon.
don. The ooeb is estimated at three pence
a mile, as against five pence for horse
power.
In England clerks of a large provincial
bank jointly own a cottage by the sea, 50
miles away, where all pass their holidays,
occupying it in detachments during the
summer.
The new brewery tax is causing general
depression in the beer business in Germany,
The Alton* Brewery Union has already
raised its price three pfennigs the half -litre.
It is estimated that England's wheat
erop for this year is about 55,000,000 bush.
els, or leas than two bushels for each in-
habitant. She must buy at least 150,000] .
000 bnehels more from some outside
source.
Aluminum 18 found combined with 193
other minerals, and, therefore, constitutes
a large part of the crust of the earth, but
until recently has been very expensive, be.
cause of the difficulty of separating it.
According to the best and most recent
calculations 100,000,000 tons of water pone
over Niagara every hoer. This represents
16,000,000 horse -power. The annual coal
production of the world would not furnish
steam power sufficient to pump it back
again.
A man in Columbus O., has patented an
electrical device intended to automatically
lower and raise railroad gates at grade
crossings at the approach and after the
passing of train.. The apparatus is expecte
ed to supplant flagmen and gate -tender..
Probably the smallest electric light ha
etallation rn tiie world is to be found in the
little village of Bremen, bear Dormbach, in
Thuringia It eem riaes a Bingle aro lamp
installed in the church, the lamp being
operated when required by a small dynamo
arranged in the village mil, and driven by
the mill wheel.
Origin of Trousers.
By the present archeological research
carried on by one woman it has been pro-
vided for the gratification of all women
that the bifurcated nether garment, sup-
posed to be specially distinctive of the mas-
culine toilet, rightly belongs to the femi-
nine dross. Tho women of Judah, it seems,
wore the firet wearers of the garment in tho
bifurcated form, and man, perceiving the
oonvenience and comfort of this article of
dress; evolved by the superior intelligence
l
of woman, appropriated the same. for his
own use and doomed his womankind
to encumber their limbs with flowing
robes which render it impossible for thet
to cope with man in the useful. avocations.
*Baltimore Herald.
PrI7Ad': r• r+ er
'Sir P.:ri +w
HUGE CREATUR8.8 THAT RULED THE
PRIMEVAL. liilOFtt..l.
Sframe Beanies of the .Mezoeole Peried
--TelerteatatIns Dinoeanre That Po.sees-
ed the Faculty of Leaping like a Kan-
garoo—Alan Gould Not Rave Lived
"Comfortably With His Neighbors In
Those limes.
When first the groat French naturalist,
Cuvier, began to tell his countrymen the
strange tale of the huge, uncouth monsters
that inhabited the primeval world, the
world that existed before history had been
written, or the men that make history had
come into being, there was no end to the
akepticisre and acorn he encountered from
scientist and layman. h is strange to
think how the most civilised and awakened
nation upon. the globe laughed at Baron
Caviar's absurd notion that beings once
walked over the surface of the earth, or
dived into its waters, or winged their way
through the air, the like of wbich were un-
known upon our present man -inhabited
globe. '
It is now established by science that dur-
Ing the meaczaio pearled of the world's his-
tory evolution had proceeded so far as the
development of lite into the farm of strange
reptiles. This was the "Age of Reptiles,"
but of such reptiles as the earth has not
sins* hefd a its snrfaoa. As 'yet main -
Purify the Sick Room.
Do not keep a sick person too long in
one room without taking him ont�lnd fumi-
gating it. Put snlphur m an iron or earth-
enware pan that will etand the heat, and
set it on brinks placed in another and larger
pan containing water up to the top of the
bricks. Set the sulphur on fire : close all
the windows and crevices eo it cannot es -
ca e. Bo exoeedifigly careful to remove all
colored stuffs, such as carpet, window
shades, oto., from the room. Sulphur is a
well -know bleaching agent, and when em-
ployed for disinfecting should be used in an
utility room. Brio -a• rao, furniture, eta,
should be taken ont, for if subjected to the
fumes they will be ruined. Keep the room
shut up for 24 hours ; then open all the
windows and doors and freely ventilate the
room for a day.
Sulphur fumigation is not necessary
melees there has been an infeotione or con-
tagions disease in the room.
An easier way to sweeten, freshen and
disinfect a sick room, and one Which neces-
sitates no removal 'of furniahtnge, is to burn
coffee for an hour or two in the closed
room. Then freely admit outdoor air.
Nothing ie so restful to the weary invalid
as a Olean room. The mental effect of
cleanliness and fumigation is marvellons
and may aid wonderfully in hastening the
recovery from long and tedious illness.
It is wise ours g indeed which help; both
mind and bod
HORNED DrnOSAIIIt, LENGTH 25 mins
malian quadrupeds did not exist. The
horse, the ox, the elephant, the lion, the
deer, and tho thousand genera of four -
footed mammalian beasts which tenant the
earth to -day had not been created or evolv-
ed. The seas, the estuaries, the marsh,
the forest, and the plain were lorded over
by the dinosaurs, reptiles indeed in a scien-
tific point of view, but that mimicked
in their structure and habits the nature
of the mammalian quadrupeds of
to -day. Of some of the dine -
sears the bodies and limbs were as massive
as those of our elephants and rhinoceroses.
Theywere four -footed, but many of them
walked the earth erect on their bind feet.
Some were horned creatures of terrible
aspect, feeding on vegetable food, while
others were carnivorous animals with for-
midable teeth and claws. Moat of the flesh,
eating and many of the graminivorous din-
osaurs were kangaroo -moving creatures
with powerful hindquarters and the faculty
of leaping as a kangaroo or jerboa lento.
In the case of the vegelable.feeding din.
ARMORED DIBOBADR, LENGTH 30 rIffir.
osaurs it is eonjectured that the creature
was enabled to stand upon its hinder
legs and feed on the branches of
trees—as is here shown in the case of the
giganticdinosaur known as Iguanodon Ber-
niseartensia. The most terrible -looking of
these ancient monsters are by no means the
carnivorous' ones, es, for instance, the
awful horned dinosaur represented hcre,
with helmeted head and akin studded with
spiked armor bosses. These formidable
means of offence and defence belong to a
purely vegetable feeder, and tho strength
of the osseous skeleton betokening a strong
and active body, is a measure of the anew
and struggle for existence during the Rep-
tile Age. Triceratops Prorsus, though
larger than the largest rhinoceros, was
evidently armed and equipped against the
attacks of the still larger, ferocious carni-
vorous dinosaurian reptiles, of Atlanto -
saurus, for instance, of whom we know lit-
tle but that his thigh -bone measures rix
feet two inches in height, that his length
could not have been less than eighty feet,
and that if he travelled on his hind legs, as
THIGH DONE OP TIM LARGEST DINOSAIIRVfI.i
he probably did, he most have been tali
enough to look in at the third -story window
of a London house.
There is no scientific reason why the seas
serpent ahonld not have survived from the
"Age of Reptiles," for creatures that exact-
ly repeat in size and shape the fabled sea -
serpent of nautical men, incapacitated by
fertility of imagination, or other more tem-
porary causes, from observing scientifically,
were abundant in the seas in mezozoio
times. "Come now," said an inquiring
•savant to an old sea captain, "have you
ever seen a sea -serpent 1" "Why, no, sir !
Inever did. I'm a teetotaller."
Ono thin is apparent from a study of
mezozoio hfe on the globe. Man may
thank a kindly Providence that he only
name on the Boone in quieter times than
mezozoio once. Ho could hardly have lived
comfortably with his neighbors. The earth
was a huge zoologidal garden, or rather a
huge reptile -house. He could not have
gone to sea, because the first mosasaurus
that passed his ship would have lifted 30'
feet of nook from the depth and picked the
steersman from the rudder or the reefer
from the yards. Ho could not have tilled
the earth, for it would' have been propose
*emus to yoke the mildest dinosaur to a
plow, Flying rarnporynchueoa would have`
pecked his eyes out. When he took his
wallas abroad the winaod dimorphodon—a,
cross between a bat and an aligatore-would
have chopped his nose, perhaps his head off,
. with its cruel rat -trap jaws.
griganAslo iln ids'
To read, of tri adage i,n Italy
doubt if thie.oan be the utnet *nth pen nr,
Here ip a couuteyp, Sloe of the okleet asatal or
Burepeeo civilizlyti9n, where, , the ill
rogtiisite of stable goverumeue scour y gi!
life and property ie, sear}ting.. The ,001Wbliy
groans under the financial bardea.
army and navy big eaiaush toe a vs$ .eine
plre, and yet the troops spree to be Me
busy 'Oohing for an Weeder en tate �A
frostier that they cannotpprefeyase tea sem+
beta and =ideas cif the tnteri s , e •
authorities should redone tie atw,ra hire'
a pollee force.
Twenty Things Worth RnOwlilji,
Keep the cover on the oanieter.
Rub lamp chtmnies with dry malt.
Throw chloride of lime in rat boles.
Wash oilcloth with skimmed milk.
Boat carpets on the wrong side fret.
Cover apple barrels with newspaper!.
Keep everything clean around the Well.
Apply hartshorn to the sting of. insects.
Pour boiling water through fruit ataine.
Drink cream for a burned mouth and
throat.
Put your coffee grounds on your home
plants.
Good eggs always have dull -looking shells.
Boiled vinegar and myrrh are good de.
odorizers.
Use oatmeal instead of soap for toilet '
purposes.
Camphor le the beat anticmoth pregame
tion known.
Use whisky Instead of water for making
liquid glue.
Sponge roughened eldn with brandy anti
rose water.
Use hartehorn to bring back colors faded
by acids.
Wagon grease will take off warts and
protruding moles.
If sneezing be induced it will stop a dim
agreeable hiccough.—Home 4rieen.
Increasing Tido of Pauper Immigration
The secretary of the Jewish Unemployed
Committee has made the astonishing state.
went that there are 15,000 unemployed
Jews in the east end of London. He may be
right or he may be wrong. Large as the
dimensions of pauper immigration are at
the present time, they bid fair to increau.
as the winter advances and the distress in
Russia increases. It may be said that the
unemployed Jews are not all foreigners.
It will scarcely help the situation to re-
ceive into an already over -crowded labor,
mtket the 2,000 Jews who have, accord-
ing to report, left Odessa for this
country.
WHERE ARE YOU
MOVING TO?
We are going to Chippew
Co., Michigan, near Sault St
Marie.
Why do you go there ?
Well, we have five boys,
we have sold the farm for $5,-
000. We can buy 640 acre
between Pickford and the Rai -
road Station at Reedyard, and
have a good farm for each of
the boys and have money left.
What can a renter do there'
He can buy a farm on five
years time, and pay for it with
one fourth of the money he
would pay for rents in that
time, and own his his home.
Is it good landl
As good as any in Huron Co. Es-
cellent for Oats, Peas,Wheat, Clover,
Timothy, Potatoes and all kinds of
roots. Prices are as good as any on
the lakes, owing to the nearness of
the mines and lumber woods to the
westward,
What class of people live there 1
They are nearly all from Huron
Co. You meet there so many old
neighbors that you can hardly be-
lieve you have left home.
I want to see that land. Who has
it for sale? Inquire of
E.C. DAVIDSON
Sault Ste Marie, Mich.
T. E. McDONOUGH,
Real Estate, Loan and Insurance
Agent
FIRE -and ;LIFE INSURANCE
Money to Loan on Farm and Town Property in
largo or Bmallr sums at the lowest current rrtee,
OFFICE—COOPER'S BLOCK, CntsToa
DD.ICLELLAN, LONDON, ON -T
4D7 Talbot Sb., Bpecfallst on the
EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT
Graduate of the New York Bye and Ear Gespital
1889. Post Grapduate Coarse at the New York
Post Graduate 'Medical School and Hospital on
Eye Ear Nose and Throat 1892. Eyes Tested.
Full stock of Artificial Eyes, Bpectaelee and Len.
sea. Will he at the
Rattenbury House, CLINTON,
The First FRIDAY in Each Month.
First Visit MARCH 8rd next. Hours 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Ohargen Moderate.
STOCK FOR SALE.
Four splendid drivers, aged respectively 8. 4
and 5 years, all in good condition, well bred,
eto., Will bo sold cheap. Also three stook Steers,
and'a cow to calve in a month. Will exchange
foroseh or approved joint notes. 0, WILLIAMS,
Maitland Con„ Goderlob Township, Holreesvlile
Post Office. 'lin
Blaeksmithing & Horseshoeing
Subscriber desires to thank the people of this
vicinity for the patronage bestowed on him sinoo
he started in business. At the some timehe
world intimate that he is prepared to do all kinds
of Blaokemithing in tho best manner and at low
rates. Horeesbbeoeing done at following prloes:—
also
ao uantityof Hooh t 011 whe if ich he will sehhoheap.
WALTER HEATON, DoWnfe Stand,High Street,
Clinton, •'-41