HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1893-09-14, Page 2THE WEEK'S NEWS
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" —•• The Canadian Pasiflo railway Iiits inued
II noWsrain tariff, tnaking three cents re.
dilation per hundred pounds.
Mr. W. ft. Bennett, M.P. for Ewe Sim-
* , h ha hen seriously ill is almout
Completely restored to betide
A forgery was committed on three bank.
le Peterborough, the other (lay, by which
two hundred aud twelitydive titillate were •
obtained.
Lerge cateates of mackerel have been
made along the emelt of Nova Scotia, adjas
cent to Idahlax. They will be meetly
shipped to the United S teteserg ''
The cerent g the corner -stone
of the 'tent 1,, Iv . de Nlaissonetive, the
. Joittider of Ville Mai ie, took place Monday
" morning 'm the flaw' d'Aentes square,
Montreal,
It bil undereteocl that a meeting iii to be
called in Windsor at an early ilate to
organize an bulependenee of Canada party,
and te select a candidate i 0 contest a seat
at the 'text elections
The Minute of the Hamilton Insane
saylum were on Saturday given a trap to
the Beech by tl.e steamer Mazeppa. On
the return a patient named la Fortune
jumped overboard and was drowned.
The (rubes Government has (stumped
the unearned provincial sublidies to the
extent of tiearly three 'Milieu dolles of all
rsilways a hich h toe not ttomplied with the
emulsion. under which such nubsidies were
voted.
Libutdieneral Laurie, ex.al, P., who is
now ie Ottawa asps that he will again be a
orndidate far ill° British House of Com.
mons at the nee generel elections, end
that ho has Wong hope of succeeding next
time.
The Lebor flay proceseion in Montreal
Ws a very large one. It extended along
the streets for more than a mile, and it
was estimated that upwards of four thou•
sand members of the various labour =lone
were iti the parade.
The parishioners of Varettnee held a
meeting on Sunday ta diocese the proposed
chase tu the tithe ayetetn, by which the
due. are to be paid in cash instead of grain,
etc The change le agreeable to both the
cures and the people,
Sir Charles Tupper, in an interview at
Winnipeg, said that he was confident that
he could offer to the British Depertment of
Agriculture such overwhelming testimony
thet the Government must give way and
remove the embargo on Can/Wien cattle.
Mr. Floridan, of the Aultralia•Canadian
eteameltip line who sailed by the Parisien
for England on Sunday, is sanguine of
seouring a subsidy of fifty thomand dollars
• veer from the Queensland Government,
iA d proposes asking the Victoria Govern•
ent to give a liberal subvention to the
nterprise,
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A correspondent of the Montreal Witness
Canadian Banks.
in the United Stets', a bank director, in
fact, sends that paper a clipping from an
Anterican monthly journal purporting to 1
be a list of failed Canadian banks and the
value of their bills " Our oorrespontlent,"
the Witneu says, "Boding most of the Mlle
reported worthless, naturally desires to
know how this statement is to be reconciled
with the general concemitin of opinion among
Canadians that our bank circulation is ale
solutely safe, The list epparently covers
the entire range of Canadian banking hie.
tory, end the billm of twenty•four of these
benks are declared to be worthless. As there
ere only some thirty.eight chartered banks
now in operation iit Canada iexcleeive of
the Commercial liatik, in liquidation), hank•
mos Senn the line may. well wonder how
Canadiene should be seisfied wit h a bank.
ing esteem, and a bank note circultition
wherein the rem ot worthlees to good notes
is as twelve to nineteen, The fact is, how-
ever, that the lire general Beek Act of
Canada went into force only in 1871, and
this consequently excludes from the (mew
lion the banks which failed previous to that
date. rho notes were, however, nettle a first,
lien upon the assets only by the act which
went into force in DM, and the Note Ito.
flee -ippon Fund wan instituted only by the
act of DOR This lastmatned act esti
seemly be said to be yet proved. It is true
the the notes of the Commercial think of
Manitoba, are not merely being received id
per, but are being hoarded in st me quarters
by result of the six per cent. which they
c irry until paid, and that io allappearanees
the existence of the Guarantee Fund hate
accomplished it* purpose, but in order to
be perfectly frank it will be well to let our
banking system reet upon the experience of
the wintry eine° 1080. The only bank in
Canada which hag not psid its note -hollers
in full since IMO is the Maritime Bank.
Of those banks whole notes are hesitated
worthlese in the clipping several have not
merely paid their note.holders in NIL but
have liquidated all their other liabilitien et
one hundred cents on the tiollar and fee-
quently had a surptue remaining for diet i•
button among the shareholders. The It eil-
eral Bank, for example, whose notes are
tucked only ninety•five eents,paid denote.
holders in hill, and after dieeharging all its
other lishilities to the outside public, paid,
we believe, ninetydive cents to its share-
holders In fact, it oan scarcely be said to
have really failed. The Bank of London
paid its liabilities in full also, and ninety-
eight cents to its shareholdere, while the
Consolidated liank paid twenty-one cents
to its shareholders after discharging ail ob-
ligations. It le I rue that the notes of min
tsin of the bank. reoently wound up aro
now worthless, end the list may be of some
value to United States bankere who Kea.
stonily meet with the °hetet,' ourrenoy of
Canada but, on the whole, the amount of
notes outstanding of any defunct Canadian
bank is very small, and the notes are out-
standing only because their hobbits neglect.
ad to forward them tor redemption, ample
notice of whieli alwsys given,"
In view of the fact that the entire eine.
lation Beldam or 'ever returns for tedemp.
lion, and that after the ethers of a defunct
bank are wholly closed up a lewd its notes
may be in circulation, especially, perhaps,
held in the United States, it may be nog.
gested-that in the cue of failed hanks the
different.° between. the circulation known
to be outstanding and the an ount redeemed
should be transferred to Government
fund to be held in perpetuity againet any
claim in yearm to come, lint while this
auggestien may appear plausible to the
outsiders, bankers will eee that it im Reece-
ly reasonable or feasible. Most bank.
habitually write off, or, rather, transfer to
profit and Ims, fairly largo amounts of out.
standing circulation of notes which they
may hsve been quietly recalling for a term
of yeers in favor of a newer issue, tor they
know by long experience that a portion of
eaoh issue will be lost or destroyed and
never teturn for redemption. To make
provision, therefore, for the entire out.
standing circulation of a liquidating bank
would ,be to curtail unnecessarily the
$11180111 eliO t11811098.1 Iiii111,10.•
tor.. Arel, f urthermore, if, atter due
notice, th4 holdere of notes do not
avail themselves of the redemption, it may
be claimed that they are no more entitled
to deley than any other creditor who doe.
not file his claim. This point, however, ie
open to argument, since the currency that
passes from hand to hand hem strong grounds
for claiming to be redeemsble at any and
all times, and the knowledge that the note
of one bank may be worthless yet eirculat.
ing, however small the amount, !aye the
notes of all other bloke open to doubt among
the uniformed, eepecially in foreign mom
tries. We do not see how any large amount
of Canadian bank onto) can lie long in the
United States, Since there DI a tax upon the
issue of all notes net redeemsble in lawful
money of that country, It is to be regret.
ted that American journals ehoold, even
unintentionally, =steed American barkers
as to tile worthless notes and failed hanks
of Canada. As well might they publish a
list of defunct Unitettlitatem National and
State bank. from the beginning of the een•
tory, only that to do so would require a
volume in itself. The table given by our
• contemporary in the United States is inter-
esting as an historical record, but of little
real practical value ; and it is not entirely
correct.
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The Canned ties& Trade.
According to reports the canned goods
busiumis appears to he on the wene and to
have men its best day'', At the present
moment, says the Journal of Commerce,
there le a considerable stock of the old
pack of domestic vegetables end fruit on the
market. Even some of the peckers,besitio.
the jobbere and wholeitalere, have a halence
on bend ; tide ton at the commencement of
a new season when fectorymen are already
solioiting orders for new goods. In Mom
trail jobbers have made ep their minds not
to load, hut to make packers emery stooke
themselves One who was amongst the
largest operators a few years ago Ilse made
up hie mind to carry nothing but canned
fish. Canned Heiman hag been well cleaned
out. It is more than probable that a large
demand will elways exiet for tinned meats
and fish, but the public is lees disposed to
buy (lamed fruits and vegetables for more
than one reason. The mupposed injurious
effects of tin when brought into contact
with acids ts hard to reason away, especi•
ally when cases of poisoning are called to
mind, although the blame really lies more
with the consumer than the dealer, who
Mould examine whet he le going to conk,
or eat, to gee if it is fit for food, Tno many
went into the trade at the outset, the remit
beim( that goods were carried over from
yeti'. to yeitr end deteriorated in quality.
Nothing cen he len inviting to the average
homeholder than deception in the way et
stale canned goods, possibly opened up for
consumption at a catnping out, many milea
from lime. It must be borne in mind, adda
the Journal of Commerce, that canned
goods are a luxury, and that those who can
afford to buy them ean pay for a fresh and
consegnently more palatable artice. We
are noW practically supplied with free'
fruits and vegetable all the year round.
Rapid railway transit has opened to us the
marketa of California, Florida and even
Australis. Fruit and vegetables from dis-
tant places are daily summed off in this
city at extremely low prices." One result
has been that with ming good house.wives
the old fashioned sweet jams and preserves
for winter use are bemiring thing of the
put.
BRITISH.
°Wing tO the exceptional and long con-
tinued heat of the summer, both England
and Frame are suffering from a plague of
Waite.
Floods are causing great damage in the
Province of Behar, Hengal. The Hoe mops
Ore ruined, and thousands of people sre
homeless.
The pride) residents itt.Paris lute= giv.
fog a wedding present to the Duke and
Duchess of York, oonsisting of a Sevres
dessert ureic°.
The Bangkok correspondent of the Lon-
don Times aye that England is attacked
through Slant, and has already lomt prestige
in the East thereby.
Ten thousand tnore miners in South
Wales and Monmouthshire have gone back
to work in the colleriee. The number of
men ettll out is about thirty thousand.
The English Government will send Sir
be Meet Durant. ehortly on a special mission
to Cabal to settle with the Amcor the t
Lion of suocessiou to the throne of Afg an.
Wan.
Another patient, the daughter of a pre.
lions victim, died of Asiatic cholera in
Hull on Sunday, two more deaths are re.
ported from birimeby, and there erase fatal
oase discovered in Belfast.
The London Times says the friction be
tween the Healyitee and the followers of
Mr. Sexton le growing rapidly on the one
point of dispute as to whether the American
Parliamentary fund can he rightly applied
to the relief of evicted tenants.
It is learned that the Bank of England,
having defined to lend three million live
hundred thousand pounds to the India
Office, the banking firm of Messrs Glyn,
Mills, Currie & Co, has now offeretl a loan
of three million pounds to enable the Indian
Government to force up the rate of exchange,
UNITED STATES.
President Cleveland and family *re now
in Washington.
Alonzo Clark, a rattehorne owner of St.
Loulteaftersh Doting and dangerouely wound
Mg hie wife, yesterday committed suicide.
Senator Sherman has expressed his will.
ingneu to vote for the passage of a closure
rale In the discussion of the silver question.
A special from Savannah, Ga., says that
at least eight hundred persons were drowned
in that vicinity (luring the recent storm,
and that when all the reports are in op.
ward. of fifteen hundred will be found to
hive perished.
The United States Senate, by thirty to
twentyeeven, yesterday voted to adjourn,
so thee' Mr. Stewart might bee° needed rest
and have the floor today to continue hie
speech against the repeal bill. The vote wee
a triumph for the silver men.
Governor Tillman, of Smith Carolina, re -
!erring to the silver question, says that
the present scheme of the Democrat. to
make a gold standard is the most gigantic
scheme of robbery ever attempted, and to
frustrate it the people ought to rite in their
might and hug some ot its advocates.
THE SENSIBLE WOMAN 110 A GEM,
^
She Never Does it Thing Simply Because
Others Are Doing It.
A °relay old baol'elor once said that a
sensible woman was the noblest, Rail the
rarest work of Gott. Nis audience was
coinposed of congenial friends, and he was
not disputed, so he continued
" The 'tensible women who are horn into
the world outtiumher those who leave it me
to One."
"Got the figures to prove that?" asked a
teporter.
"No; but you can't prove that I'm wrong.
My statement is ten 'mom and will be ac.
knowletiged am such before long."
"What becomes of the sensible women
who don't die ?" wae the next questiom
'rimy die foole; veiled in the bringing
u "
A sensible woman inlets arty in life to
show her prevailing characteristic. As e
child mho can be reasoned into obedience
when the cannot, be coaxed or driven, and,
though it would be elle to attach tuatioe
importance to • the bachelor's opinions an
given above, it is wise to remember that
witty impulses may be changed to bad 01188
by improper training.
The seosiblo woman does not allow sell -
gratification to persuade lier to tio that
whioit is contrary to remon or sound judg.
mont. She never levee a matt so dearly,
notwithstanding his had beam, which she
despian, that " cannot, give Min up."
flor good mew tells her that love is abort -
lived unlese feti on reapect, and also that an
affection which N weaker than a bad lishit
is scarcely worth hiving.
The sensible woman never does A thing
simply because every ono else la doing it,
but beeline° she has decided that she mey
safely do it. She cares just enough about
the opinion of her neighttore and none We
emote She who does not care what others
think of her is lacking Illither in good sem
or morality. She whose first thought is
" What will folio say 1" lecke good sense
siel the firmness to do what she believes to
be right regardleaa of consequences. The
sensible woman is the medium between these
two extremes,
In time of troiride ono turns involuntarily
to the sensible woman. ()there may be fa-
voured companions when the skies (treeless
but under the (donde are se molest' ae a lace
eltewl in A Atm"? atom. But the sensible
woman known you ore hutnan, and although
that may have seemed prosaic, when your
fair-weather friends axe comparing you with
the angels you are not green!. She does
not gush, or look ecandalized, or say " I
told you so," or become sentimental, or try
to omelette you that ehe has suffered worse ;
you know at once that ale understande,the
ehe is net wanting in appreciation or sm.
pathy, and that she will help you if you
will let her.
I'm VAAL.
Lord Dulfetin hae returned to Paris in
connection with the Franco•Siamesedispute.
Herr Pamb, the notorioui enti•Semite,
has been pronounced a dengerous bowie.
Cholera in Hungary ie how increasing
rapidly. During 45 hours there wore 81
new cases and 45 death".
It IS thought that China may practio•
ally sued her rights of sovereignty over
Siam, whieh she hat' never really abandon.
od.
The Fran= commander at Chantabon,
in alant, mike for reinforcements from
Saigon, as lie considers his position run
sok
Four women have been murdered and
mutilated after the fashion of Jack•the
Ripper within the last few days at Oostburg,
in the Netherlands.
Private letters from the Congo state thet
Kerekboven'e expedition was completely
destroyed after their leader's death.
__......lasap,white men lost their lives
r Gra D-o‘dris commander of the French
troops in Dahomey, has telearaphed to the
(Government that he will be unable to etart
for 17pper Dahomey until reinforced.
Thousands of Poles have left the Warsaw
district in the last two weeks with the
intention of going to Amenes, but it is
doubtful whether their money will enable
them to get beyond England.
The Luoania, the Miter ship of the Cam-
pania, which is on her way from Queennton
to New York, did the first one hundred and
nineteen miles of her voyage et the rate ot
twen ty.one knot. an hour.
A four.year.old boy was roomed in an
uncenscioue condition from the water in
the Nordhafen, in Berlin, on August 2eth,
mid has been attsoked by cholera, going to
show tkat the water is infected.
An Aharehie named Olves, supposed to
be the author of the recent dynsmite ex.
ploeion at the residence of Senor Canova.
del Castillo, was arrested at Lisbon, just its
fie was embarking for Buenos Ayres.
The overdue steamer Alvo, from New
York to West Indian port", with a valuable
eine and many wealthy planters on board,
kis not been reported at any of the Bahanis
Maid% and she is now given up aa
The supplementary elections in Frame on
Smsday have given both tho Republicans
tad Ow Sot:Mete many additional sesta.
M. Chentenoeu, who was running in the
Tar diet riet, Was over li‘,,,•;ogly i
Now York World's tlnateinala ape.
O4A Ilayl : Salvadorean influences are at
work to keep up the turmoil in Nicaragua
awl 'louder's, and it is feared Ezets may
Pmvokv general Central American
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Emperor Framia toeepk, in addrese
to the Gslician nobles,thenked them warm -
for Weir fidelity and patriotism, with the
:t It is believed, of enlisttng Galicia on
*el* ed Austria in the event of a want
*at
line—rant.
There is a story of a farmer's boy who
boasted that he had a farm which was ex.
empt f rom taxation,not subject to execution
and equal in value to say other of three
times it. area. "Where is your farm 1"
some one asked. "Under my hat," said the
boy, That the would.be farmer some.
time' has not a very good farm under him
hat ie laughably illustrated by theauthor
of "Sunny Manitoba."
Many %musing sterlea are told et thn
ignorance of young Englishmen who have
gone out in the confident belief that "any
man oan farm." The following I know to
be authentic,
A man who had probably never before
seen, mueb less handled, an agricultural
implement, on being told to "hit.= hie oxen
t.o tbe plow, banked one of them between
the handles, and was then at a los. what to
do with the other.
Another man—like the former an English
gentleman—actually plowed for an hour
without a plowshare The event =a held
to be worthy of commemoration. Ho Wail
invited to ft convivial entertainment, end all
uneonseiona of his merits—or demerits,—
was well plemeel with he d. ri3O 'littera,'
bestowed upon tom, until the final act of
deeoratIn him as the champion plowman
of %mite mede htin unplessantly "ware
of his ludicrous position.
But ignorance is no monopoly of the
English emigrant. The laugh is sometime(
the other way. With charming simplicity
Canadien one day stemmed Moly *on his
urp rise that No many Englishmen emigrat-
ed to Manitoba.
"Why don't they remain at home," he
eked. "and take up homages& near Lou -
soft 1"
A REPORTER'S BUSY LIFE, trhr
news gatherer tomes him to pry almost into
the eyeful my/Metes of the Privy Connell
At Ottawa During the Eleaelom amber itself. Lobbying is an important
tart of the newrper man's work. The
plored for members who have auy pointers
Meng Press Gallery—Mow the Debates
corridors of the ouee are constantly ex-
eonielhtng Abont the Dinnistion Paella.
Arc Meported ror the Pre**. to give. The most suthoriterive intermits
tion, however, is to be ot only from the
Onoe every year Perliament essemblem at Ministers themselves hey are only Ogee.
Ottawa, and its meeting necessitates the sible when thelfouse is sitting, their tone
gathering of another, not nearly as New, during other portione of the day tents
but certainly as importaut a body—to wit, wholly taken up. The enterprising newt'.
paper man will seize the opportunity of
the parliament press gallery. The Cans.
dim Parliatneut—so long as it hss bee" twoosting the Minister when leaving or en -
worthy of the nsme of euch—has neyer as- tering the Amami bienr,,,eirilifi in,
temleed without the presence of newspaper the House, w
reporters, organized and united as that limo •shoal of others, He is generally reteived
it:t body " the gellery." There is no with affability, and frequently finds himself
lowing what might occur should the sea. rewartiv,:,1,0wolit,ilwaTgOeieoliititielltilutitil..::.
sion ever open without reporters to give
lustre and added dignity to the legislative
From no part of the Senate or Home of
body, and spread the account of its proceed •
ongnons18 the bona fide reporter exclutT
Inge far and wide. The reporters them.
ed. Ile can roam whero ho pleasea through
selves think that the Perlianient would the corridors, drop into the members' sinok•
indantly adjourn, realizing the futility of
Mg room for a friendly pipe, or a gain° of.
treuseeting heathens in the absence' of the
cheis, and loll at Ine mom in the readhlg
representatives of the press, end that man-
ruom, Ile shares' with seneters and mono
datory summonaes would lie forthwith sent berg tho privileges of the library anti of the
to the various publishers, notifying them
restaurant. If lie wishes ta introduce
to instantly, under pale of enforoed attend.
friends to the reserved gelloriee, any nmn-
soca at the bar of the Home to tomer for
ber of tickets are placed at him disposal. In
their contempt, provide for the proper re- hin own room ho monuch of all he
porting of the parliamentary debaters. This
serveys, and may etnoko, dance or do whet
however, is probably an exaggerated view
I it pleases, ao long as be does not exceed
due to the reporters' overrestintation t'ho „isoomii„„L mmed by
themeelves because the press oily might
actuator and member alike, for they realke
disappear altogether, And the utterances of
the power he wields. When Mr. Homan,
members would be gill recorded and in
M. 1'. for Stick -in.the. Mud, makes a
verbatim form in the parliamentary journal
speech in favour of a Government grant for
which daily bootee under the title of The , • "the hest harbour in the prov.
The gallery'. " herd book" contains rielY'lllige like" to be reported as hilly as
Hansard.
vomit& and asks the reporter to give him
namee of men who have been eminently a „gaol show.. s
.'..0 reporte does not
sumemful in various walks nf life, It hoe
make any promise, however, because ho
faihioned many able and brilliant men for ,
()trebly remember* Mr. Boreall's rising
the political arena, Tire late Hon. Thomas
be the signal for his exit " to itlay the
White was a =Well writer In the early
me."
deys of thegallery, but relinquiehed the pen PA genuine spirit of camaraderie exists
to enter the Dominion house of Centime ^
' amongst the reporterm. Politics nor ritee nor
and afterwards the Cabinet. Mr. Robert S.
creed demi not separate thent. En lish
White wielded u trenelient pen in the gal -
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,Indlan Dore."
In June, 174n, Jonathan Dore, a lmy
twelve yeare old, wan told by his lather,
who we st work with other men in the
field, to nit on the fence and keep a Marro
lookout for Indians, who were suspected to
be not far away. 1 hie was in or near Rooh.
enter, N. II. The boy eat whistling on
the fence. me Indium all at once osme in
eight. Ile gave the alarm and the men all
escaped ; but before he could got down trom
the roue the Indiane aeized hint. His
father saw him captured and carried off,
but could do nothieg. Eleven -goers after-
ward the Fort William Henry massacre oc.
cured. Among the New Hampshire sol•
diem wbo escaped Was a Dover men, who
declared confidently that ho had seen Jons.
then Dore. He had often heen at el r. Dore's
house and knew Jonathan well. He watt
sure lie had not been mistaken in his ideal.
&Mien.
When the massacre became general, after
the surrender of the fort, the Dover man
gm for the woods and wee closely pursued
by an Indian, ilia pursuer gained upon him
so fast that he tented at last and faced hitn,
to meet hie unavoidable fate. The uplifted
mahewk was jeet descemling upon hie
ead when he recognised, aniiti the paint
. It...A coo of at,. Jeguee ripegyes of Jona-
n Dow '—
The recognition seemed to be meted.
The Indian dropped Me tomahawk at his
side, and walked slowly back to the fort.
Such Wee the story of the returned sob
deer, but it gained little credit. Two years
later, however, Jonathan Dore euddenly
tried° hie eppesranee in Rochester, alter an
absence of more then thirteen years.
He hal been treated kindly liy the St.
France' tribe, to which his captors belong.
ed, had married an Indian, and indeed had
almost forgotten that he was descended
from another race. He bore a part in all
the cruelties at the taking of Fort William
Henry. A white man whom he was pur•
suing turned upon him just in swoon to
arrest the descending tomahawk, and then
Dore saw a face whieh had been familiar
to him in childhool.
Memoriee of his father's fireside and the
=ropy sooner of his boyhood ruehed upon
his mind ; hie arm fell and he walked back
to the fort and took no further pert in that
horrible tragedy.
'From that time he thought continually
of his boyish home, but his wife and chiL
dren bound him to the Indians with tie
that could not be severed.
Then came Major Rogers anti hia Rangers,
intent tipon avenging the Fort William
Henry butehory. Dore was absent in the
field husking corn. Hearing a general dis•
charge of muskets, and knowing that an
onetny was upon the villege, he kept 'hive
self concealed, Red from his hiding.plame
wittieseed the toaasa, re that followed.
Then the villiage was act on fire, and after
the flairsie Wedded he ventured forth.
Among the ruins Ito found the bediee et
his wife end children. He buried them
in one grave, Mel with them nis attachment
to the Indium. As soon as poseible he
made him way hacic to Rochester.
He Nettled iii Lebanon, Maine, married
again, snd spent there the remainder of his
dam famous for his marksmanship, aspect -
ally with the bow and arrow, and known to
every one as "Indian Dore."
The New Arm for Volunteers.
The future arm of the Canadian Volun
Uteri is to be the Martini. Metford rifle. It
N generally considered, says the Montreel
Witness, the very beat of the single shoot.
elm end to have some advantages over the
magazine rifles which were chosen fur the
English and Continental armlet' booties° of
their quick-ffring capacity. The Martini-
Metford in a mall bore ride with so small a
trajectory that it is fired point blank up to
five hundred yards. We are not quite eat.
tailed that General Herbert's reason for
chooming a single loader for the Canadian
militia im a good ono. It is probable that
in inteltigenee, attentiveness and mechani•
cal knowledge as well as in carefulnese, the
Canadian volunteers are far superior to the
British regular noldiers, and therefore far
more capable of using and taking care of
the mechanism of the magazine rifle. It
,etans to us that the sooner Canadians are
lisciplitted and taught to use and take care
of the magezine rifle the better. If thes
ever fight at all it will be with troops armed
with megazine rifles, end the Canatliens
shoidd not be handicapped. Many of out
lanadian volunteers are already accustomed
to the need magazine ri flea. It is twenty or
thirty years Mum the I ienry magazine rifle
tecame popular throughoet Western
Ianada and the Wincheater still remains a
popular rib. Canadians are quite (freebie
of handling the best milieu y rifles and they
should be supplied with them. There is
10 uge in substituting the Martini-Metford
at groat ekpenee for the Snider only after •
ew years to substitute a magazine rifle for
he new einglo.loader. It will only end In
llooble expenditure. That some Canadians
would prove carelestrand unskillful with the
Innen:doe rille in probable but they should
Im tlrillea s iol ditelidihed' into the right nee
of 'lei hest weapons. Mr. ()scar lVilde utile
of the tried& he had with his aervants
while teaching them to handle the most
deOcate Venetian glase, but he Wan aucceell-
fol, mod he held that the use of the finer
glass wae cheap at the extra cost, owing to
breakage. The name would prove true in re-
gard to the use of the best magazine rifle by
Canadian troops. Tho early disappearan
je
of the Snider is a consummation devout y
to be wiehed for, but let us substitute fo it
the very hest quick.flring magazine ifie
known. The rifle 'elected ought, okeouree,
to me t he mame ammunition as the) Tiritish
service =wine rifle.
According to an old tradition, silver ')e,s
5,1 WW1 or.111 in 10,11 llrit n'11 1 f
yesrs ago. A mint is said to have /been
established at Colcheeter, in the county of
Emu, Englemd, by one of the natave ings,
during the reign of the Emperor Ath ustus
and gold, lima and silver coins to small
extent, wore issued therefrom.
Aluminuin is to be used wherweer moth
cable in the accouterments, arms/and equip.
meat' of tile German army. al, its use the
weight carried by infantry snlytiers will be
a trifle over fifty-seven poundo, where now
it is slightly more than platy:eight And a
halt poindi
lery, and when the portale of the Houma of
Commons opened to admit n, his late
colleagues Nit with pride that the ranke of
j ,urnalism could have no better revesenta •
Gee there Mr, C. H. kfeekintosh wrote
brilliantly for the prate. non. Mr. Neuter
of the Quebec Government, Nerved ably in
the gallery. And there are othere of more
or loss importance who might be mention.
ed.
PERSONNEL OF TIIE GALLERY.
The prase gallery proper congests of about
30 representatives of the leading Cenadian
paper* Toronto mends the largest numeer
of reporters, Montreal being next. The other
large cities outside of Msnitolm and Britieh
Cotunibia generally hsye representative!'
at Ottewa, but sometimes assign the
work to we of the numerous correepond.
ante there. These gentleman some.
times report for as many as half a dozen
papers each. Of course, short reports only
are required, otherwise they would not be
able to cope with the task. The French
prose of Montreal and Quebec deepatch
=eclat reporters to ittsvfa. In =ditto))
to the gsliery proper there is an upper
gallery, where correspondents for the
smeller paper. and the country week Bee are
accommodated. The affairs of the premn
gellery, are stiministered by a president,
executive oemmittee, and secretary, who ere
elected annually. The annual meeting if!
generally held 20 day. after the opening of
Parliainent. One of the most important
ditties of the executive is the reoeiving awl
oonsidering of the credentials of applicaete
for admiseion to the gallery. This is e work
of conSiderable unportence beeautie yeer
&Utley
on the
for the
influen
avail t
gallery
peat 01. the exeoutive te the allotment oJ
seats. This is done soon after the opening t
of implant. The reportera of Conserve-
tfvo sie are given seats ou the right,and
tho the Liberal pros on the left of the
Speake h chair, regard being paid to the
importapoe of the peper and the mount of
work to'be done.
ar shoals of persons make applioation
rength of writing a monthly letter
uukum Bugle, or some other welt
1 journel, whose mole object is to
meet, es of the privileges of tie
Another importent duty on lit
journalist& oonimingle with French, 'on.
serves i.e.% chute with Liberate, and no jsrn
dieturb the iutereouree of that large and
happy family. At times when the work is
hard reporters enter a " joint" to lighten
each °three work, and this mutual inter.
come awectens the daily labor.
Tits PREAR GALLERY DINNER.
The ennual dinner is the great event to
which members of the prees gallery look
forward. It useally is held at the Russel
house, and is attended with inuoh eclat.
The leaders of both political partien sit at
the banquet as honored gueete, and the
afterolinner speeches are models of poets
prandial oratory. Theo it • is that the
cleverness and industry of the parliamen-
tary reporter are praised until his face is
mantled with bluebell, and his modeet
spirit would fain retreat within itself. But
the object of the gathering is not so much
long speeches as conviviality, and the re-
porter goto an opportunity of showing that
he is versatile in other meters hoiden t lie
nee of the pen. He is =le to sing well, to
recite well, to tell a good story and " to
hold his end up,' and the good opinion of
the gueet grows as he hateful to the enter.
torment provided fur Itim—rNat iu the
Empire.
Ratan on the Pacific.
That opinions have changed in England
as to the value of Canada to the empire le
well eltown by some remarks in the London
Times on the dispatch of three eaters and
72 men of the Marine Artillery to aid in
t,he construction of fortifications at teepee
malt. Some >care ago in rather precise
terms the Times intimated thatCaneda was
a burden to (heat Britain and that if she
had a mind to shift tor hermit she was at
erfeet Illy to take any etep she chose.
the Thunderer, after noting that the
tigli.th military etatioe ie Canada is
.x,wiiere there is a garrison of 15110
s The naval station at &eget.
hitherto been left practically to
y to defend. It is one of the re.
0 tho development of intercontinental
co unbeaten, by means 0,‘ che Canadian
Pacific Railway, that more efficient provia.
ion for the defence of Eaquimalt becomes
at once desirable and feasible. So long as
British Columbia was Notated from the rest
of the continent by a sea voyage round the
Horn, Esquinielt was valueltle only as a
naval citation for ships navigating the Pact'
tic onset. Now it is the western ootport at
once of Canada and of the Empire. To
hold Esquimalt is to hold the highway
through the Dominion and to ,minnianti
the defenees of Canada ill Uhl rear. It is
also to command the coaling supply of the
nortlewestent Ainericso cone. The beds
of Nenainie, on the ipland of Vancouver,
lontain the best coal which Nee been found
hi those regions and supply a very large
pert of the coal used in the Western Staten.
In addition to these consideration'', the in.
creasing aoinmercial impetance ot the town
of Vancouver,on the mainland, which, from
being the terminue of the railway, becomes
also the emporium of the maritime trade of
the Northern Pulite, has rooderell the
question of defence of late years always
more important. In the autumn of 11181.1
1111 00011 Of Vancouver did not exier It
ia now the port of shipnient for Japan,
China, and Australia. A successful Rue.
than roue .1, main might, in tho event of a
European war, put the whole of this trade
in Russian hands, and, though the coast
must evidently depend for its main defence
upon the ships of the naval ststion, it is
only the more advisable that the naval Mo-
tion should be rendered practically impreg-
nable by the resources of inodern engineer-
ing and modern armament. The harbour
of Esquitnalt is one of the most lovely eitua•
Gong on a lovely coast." With thote words
ringing in our ears it is easy to believe, as
an old military man remarked the other
day; " When Commis agrees to ennexistion,
if alio ever doter and I don't believe
ehe ever will, the greatest empire on earth
will perforce aleo have something to say in
the matter. She will not hamper the people
in making a free choice, Itut, there are many
details of importance that will have to be
agreed upon. '
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Money Well Spent.
Tae buffalo of Ceylon carries hia heed in
a peculiar manner, the horns thrown back
mid We nose projecting op a level With his
forehead, thus securing him from a fatal
front shot. This renders him a dangerous
enemy, as he will receive any uumber of
halls from a small gun in the throat and
chest, w ithnut %hewing the least distress. ln
"The Rifle and Hound iu Ceylon" an se.
count of a dangerons entiounter with this
animal is given. The writer had limit
without killing the buffalo, and had not a
single ball left. With a etealthy step and
a short grunt the bull advanced upon the
man, seemingly "ware of his helplennees.
Suddeuly a bright thought fiaehed
through tny mind. Without taking my
eyes oil' the animal, I put double charge
of powder down the right-hand barrel, and
tearing off a piece of my shirt. I took all
the money from my pouch , three shilling's
in sixpenny pieces, and two anna piece*
Quickly makiiig them into a roll with the
piece of rag,I rammed themff own the barrel.
They were hardly well home before the bull
sprang forward. I had no time even to re-
place the ramrod, sittl I threw it in the
water, bringing my gun on full cock at the
eame instant.
I now had a charge in mygun which, if re.
served till he was within a foot of the muzzle,
would certainly floor him. The horns were
lowered, their points were on either side of
me, end the muzzle of the gun barely touch-
ed hie freeload when I pulled the trigger,
and three shillings' worth of unall change
rattled into his hard heed.
Down he went, anti rolled over with the
euddonly checked motnentum of him charge. -
Away went B. and I ae famt as our heels
would carry us, through the water end over
the plain, knowing that he was not dead
but only rimmed.
Sundae fescepted. Then the un ortnnate There was a large fallen tree about half a
reporeers slept under the desks in the al. mile from um, whose whitened branches,
rising high ahove the ground, offered a
tempting asylum. To this we directed our
steps, and after a run of a hundred yenta we
turned and lookwl behind us. The buffalohad
gained his feet and wait following um slowly.
We now experienced the difference of feel.
ing between hunting and being hunted.
degreea Oho bull's pace slackened, end
he fell. We were only too glad to be able
to reduce our speed, MO We hail no sooner
stopped to breathe than he was up again,
mei ai• er us, • ), •
ed the tree, ant I beheld It i atretched power.
less upon the ground within two hundred
yards of us.
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THE REPORTERS AT WORK.
The reporters' gallery in the Home of
Common' ie about 5 feet in width, awl
stretches immediately above the chair of the
Speaker. It contains about 30 seats, 15 on
each aide, but it is only on the occasion of
impogtant debates that these are occupied
ell the time. A tone =crow desk rune
down the entire front fitted with drawer&
for the storing of "copy" psper or copies of
bills. So good are the acoustic properties
01 the chamber, and so well situated is the
gallery, that almost the faintest whisper
on the part of any legislator cen be' heard;
saul nom of the cross -firing that accompanies
a fierce debate is lost.
The rate of speed at which members talk
in the House of Comntons averages from
140 to 150 words. There ore • number who
talk far in excess of that rste. Judge Lem
dry, formerly M. P. for Kent, N. B., when
in the Rome tiled to rattle along like a
steam eugine. So did J. C. Rykert, of
Lincoln. Mr. Northrop ie gifted with re.
markehle fluency, and keepe the Hansard
men hard et work. Dr. Weldon, of AI.
bert, is a very fast speaker and not quite
easy to follow when engaged in an involv-
ed legal argument. Mr. MoMillan,
al member for tionth Huron, when engaged
in hie favorite occupation of denouncing
the lavish expenditure on fences and pig
pone at the Central Experimental Farm,
fairly gebbles, and tears along at the rate
of over 2t10 words e minute, Hon. Edward
Blake, by reason of hfr long and ponderoue
sentences very rapidly uttered, imariehly
floored the unfortunate stenographer who
tackled him for the first time. Sir John
Thomplon, Hon. George E. Foster and
Hon. Mr. Laurier are gifted with remark•
able fluency, and, although ordinary fairly
easy to follow, will in the excitement of
debate rueh along at the rate of 180 worde
a minute. Hoe. Charles H. Tapper, Mine
ster of Marine, is a very fluent speaker,
mid sometimes tires the wrist of the steno•
grapher. The late Sir John Macdonald
wits generally reported with eare. Some.
times, however, hie =deem when more
than usually anecdotal in cheracter would
be difficult to follow.
NOT ALLOWF.D TO HEAR PRAYERS.
Entrance to the gallery is obtained by e
narrow winding stairoase, opening off from
the members' corridor on the wet t side. Ite
guardian ie a stout, clean shaved, beitevot
lent looking,opectsaled old gentleman nem
ed O'Keefe. He is very careful not to ad.
mit etrangers and is very fond of "hie byes"
as he mile the reporters. One of Mr.
O'Keefe's most oneroue duties, which lie
carries out to the very letter, is to exolude
the "byes" until prayers are over. The
reporters are apparently considered& grate.
111811 and unregenerate lot, upon whom pray.
of would ho wasted. In the meantime Mr.
r Keefe is upetairs peering anxiously over
to where the eergeant-aterms is sitting, efild
upon receiving a eignal from that wortfity
officiaLtouches an electric bell commanitIet.
ing with the prase room, and then treetops
downstairs to unlock the door. Sometienes
the "byes " keep Mr, O'Keefe Blue in fords
!ow minutes. His surpriee and bowir ed
milt ire then ludicrous to witnees.
TIIE HARD WoRKED REPORTERS.,
Reporting in the Rouse is sometimes of a
very arduous °tweeter. The rnpnrter is
not like the member able to go and return
when he pleases, merely leaving hie =hese
even with the whip. Sometimes it is a
constant grind from 3 o'c/ook in the after.
noon until o'slock the following morning.
The reporter's( only hetpe of relief is when
eoine uninmortant =ember indulges in a
long "peach. lVfeen diecuseing the Fran•
dile Bill in late the House est continu.
ouelsr wed trie measure was die eased of,
Canadian Eipteraeleas,
While other nation,' are endeavoring to
boles the powthility of a railway through
Africa or across Oho Andes, or are struggling
with all t heir inight to eolve the problem oi
an open Polar Sea, the Canadian Govern•
men. a y sending explorent
through the vast 'smite north of us, men,
who, in their regular work at geolegists
dangers 01811 ever Stsnley did in the heart
ot Africa. Little is maid of Canadian ex•
platens nothing much written about thorn,
and their annual or biennial expeditions
are quietly made with nothing hut a few
parting goodbyes on leaving anti a ben voy•
age from Goer Jearest friend*
Two yearn ago Willfam Ogilvie, whose
intent is better k mom In England as alf ex •
plorer then here on hie native soil, explor.
ed the eauntry bordering on Alaska and
peened from the Yukon across what was
supposed to be an impassable watershed
into the Mackenzie River, making a joarney
of over 3000 miles in less than two yesre.
This summer J. B. Tyrrell, whose name
is wellernown in Toronto; is making au ex•
ploration from Lake Athabasca eaetwarti
into Magee's Bay. The region through
which he will einieevenr to travel is emelt
Wipe:feeble, quite unknown in character
even to the natives of that neighborhood,
and is said to he barren. Ilia chief diffi•
witty will be to obtain sufficient Notion' the
length of the trip prevente Itin carrying imp-
plimeand the whole country is nipped to be
devoid of game and fish. Another difficulty
is that unless he happens to strike twine
river !lowing Into the Myriam Fort ( ;touch
hill, he may be stranded for the winter oti
the inhospitable western More of litulson'e
Ilay,
Another explorer, H. P. Low, has a tatik
before him which far exceeds anything that
lias over been aceotnplisited in the way of
exploration, if we except, the journey
whioh Dr. Kisim made in le55 down the
coast of Greenland.
Mr. Low ham undertaken to go through
the heart of the Labrador peninsula, and
left ()thieve last June for that purpose. Ile
will go to Mistemaimie, north of Lake St.
John, and pane from there northeant to
Nitehogoon, and then nay proceed north
to Hielmoti'm Strait or eastwards to the La.
brasier Coast. The Lebrador country is
prolehly the rengliest on the face of the
globe. Travelers who hove been up tho
Saguenay or along the north shore of the
fiulf of St. Lewrence can form some hies of
the mountainous character of the region.
Mr. Low hes ito otiviable trak before him,
cepecially al he will have to winter in the
interior of Labrador. He, however, expects
to complete the exploration in two years.
When one attempts to form an idea of
the labor* of these Canediau explorers he
realizes that an expedition such as that of
Stanley Africa will not bear comparison
with one such es that being !nide by Mr.
Low. Stanley had ueually to contend only
veith numbere; he had s large army with
him ; provisions could always be obtained
and his personal safety was alwaye ensured.
In one of those Canadian expedition. half.
a.dozen men start oat in It 'woe with all
their belonginge and go into% wilderness to
contend against famine, danger. of running
rapids and the intenee cold of the northern
winter. There are no waystations nr vil-
lages to obtain food or supplies, and when
they do meet native' the letter ars getter.
ally starving. Too little credit hae been
given to the small band of Canadian geolo-
gies and surveyore who every year or two
at the rifit of their lives help to Advance the
welfare of their actuary by opening up new
fields and new toutes, and we hope Dist
such men as Ogilvie will not be lost sight of
by the Canadian public.
hal, or laid theinselvee across chairs. ' he
session of 1881 during which Sir John Mao-
doneld died was a very long and trying one.
The Privileges and Elections Committee,
which investigated the charge' preferred by
.7. Israel Tarte against the Public Works
Departmentonet practically twice a day tor
about three menthe, tiaturdaye included.
For a part of the eame period a Senate
Committee eat to imeetigate the Bate des
Chaleure matter. Other important matters
were in progress at the stone I into, so that
when the suasion ended the reporters were
neerly desd and the newspapers almost
ruined with heavy telegraph bills,
IICW TUE NEWS IS tiATHERED.
It is not only in reporting the parlisment.
ary debates that the reporter is em•
played, Committees meet at shout the
sante hour every morning in both the Senate
and House of Common. to consider im•
portant measures. Then traneactions have
to be noted. Deputations conatantly ar•
riving in town bave to be followed. up and
the objeotot their 'elision °Maned. Tbr dlisrs•
The way of an Empress.
The Einpremit of Auntria is maid to epend
nearly half the day iit having her heir
cared tor. During t his One she DI road to
and smokes incessantly. She is credited
with disposing of fifty cigarettes a clay and
after dinner she caps the climax with two
or three of the biggest and strongest
President Cleveland's Health.
Is the whole civilized world to undergo
attother period of sunpetise and torture
such se it underwent during the illness of
the Emperor Fredrick, of tieheral Grant
and of Preeitient Garfield There have long
been ruinors that #resident Cleveland was
far from well, th V, in fact, his life was
threatened by
owl thtehr mdei‘ol taniolyt
more have-4wen
ively, but in spl
tal anti phymical ctivity, in rapt his
fishing and yaohteng exeursions with
friends, aud his energy in the execution
of urgent end harasning public duties, there
has always existed an uneesy feeling among
the people that there must be something
seriously wrong witlt Propitiate Cleveland'e
heelth. There has apparently been too
much anxiety to make pehlic his pleasure
excursions, and though the President 11118
acted ably and energetically in setting in
motion the legislative machinery to
relieve the financial situation, yet him
elience from Washington during the
session except for a few hours, his visit to
the Capital with his mango and his hut.
ried return to the seaside eroded apprehen•
Rion. It ie now reported by a very reliable
New York paper, the "Post," which has
been one of the strongest admirers and ex.
tremely friendly supporters of Mr. Cleve.
land, that he underwent an operation for
cancer of the jaw very reoently while on
board a yacht. The fate of the Emperor
Frederick and Gutted General Grant renders
even a hint of the prospect of Inch auffering
on the part of President Cleveland, who by
his megnfficent rectitude and firmneee of
purpme, kis clear Insight into public ques-
tions and hie powers of convincing the
public, has become one of the foremoot
statesmen of our time, is a ahock to the peo-
ple of the civilized world. It is to he hoped
that the report ie an exeggerated or mite
taken one, or that if it prove true, the
President Wiii, I#11 it ia said hia physicians
hope, recover entirely from hie dinease RP a
result of the operation.
me mysterious disen,‘,
yet ineapacitate
ph slimily. l'hese
ore or less de
The Uritidi In Africa,
Even after the actual difficulty hal been
munnounted anti a fresh untlereanding ar.
rived st bete/atm the chartered company
and Lobengula, there will, under the am
Gist art angementlebe no essurence of lasting
peace in .Matelfelelaud. The queetion that
athlete then, is whether, in consideration of
the hve million or so of clothe* already
spent to bring this great territory within
the British sphere of influence, it is worth
while to be patching up broken treaties and
continuing to recognize the rule of a Ravage
rivet, with all the drawhacks to ptogreee
and seourity which tt implies. Some day
or other it is to be hoped that all that rich
region, will be the abode of civilized men,
but so long as the authority of uncivil.
ised chicle is acknowledged as something
that must be taken acoonnt of, there will
always be risk of collision with savage.,
and thie must necessarily retard thc de.
velopmen t and colonization of the coutlry,
The question la, then, whether it Would net
be the wiser, less coatly and oven more
humane policy to defy tbe savage power at
once insisting on its submiesion and, in cane
of refusal, proceeding to cope with it by
force of arms, Thin is an imperial quention,
and however impetuous Mr. Reales or
others limy lie to reach a 'meetly decision,
they cannot act without the sanction of
Downing street. The feeling 011 the pet
of the company'a servants is in fevdr of int.
mediate action, both ao a duty to civ i I ize.
tion and in dischaige of obligations to the
Mashonas, whom they promised to pro•
t ect.
No Disappointment
Con eine from the time of the great surepop
corn cure—Putnath Painless Corn Ex tree.
tor. Putnain's Extractor removes cortta
painlessly in a few days. Take no subeti-
tute. At druggists.
WHENEVER I sen
Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla now I want to bow
111111 say
Thank You
',0714 badly affected with
irrsrum anti hirrof ohs
*lore., rot eller; almost
the whole of one side tit
rny fare, nearly to the
hip of my liciul, Bunning sores drab:Heim
from both ears. My eyes were very liad, the
eyelids se sore It vas painful opening or
dosing then). For nearly a year I ea.; it,
NV,11/ 10 tile hospdal and had au operation
performed for the Genova] of a entantet front
one eye. Otte dity my skter brought me
A. I'. ON
Mrs. route).
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Which I took, and gradually began to fed bet-
ter and stronger, and slowly the sores on 1,,y
1111d 111 tey Oars healed. I ran now hear
and See as well 0e0." MRS. Am ANDA PAIS.
LFY, 1711 Lander Street, Ne•vIllottli, N. Y.
cure all I.tver Ills, Jattiultre,
Hoocrs Pitts
sick headache, biliousness, sour stomath, nausea.
1.110CP,
Rubber Stamps
QUM City Rubber Snap Welke, 2oronte,
Feels In Few Werdi.
China has only ten daily papers.
A steam Maple is a German invention.
A fly's eggs will beta in twelve hours.
England takes 40,000 tons of eggs from
Ireland yearly.
About 10,000 gross of pens are produced
from a ton of steel.
There are 0,000,000 leaves upon an elm
tree thirty feet high.
In the eity of Mexico the street railway
furnishes f 'mewl cars.
A jelly -fish of ten pounds when dried
weighti about ten grains,
A thermometer has been invented in Lon.
don for giving the warning of it fire,
The farmer in .1 wan who has more than
telt acres of land is looked npon as a molter.
Teo United States redeem; more grain
in proportion to populetiott then any other
nation.
Dogs, horseseilephants,seele, kangareoe,
bears awl lione heve been taught to box
with glo vex,
Cuba etiquette requirea that a Gamest
from One smoker to another for s light mumt
alwayg Watered.
The value of the coal product of the
United Stall', in nearly four time the value
of the silver product.
The licad of the rattlesnake has been
k nava to Millet 5 painful wound after being
severed from the body.
London containn onweightli of Greet
r itain'n population. It has a larger deity
delivery of letters than all ecotland.
Fi hy•six years ago the block on which t
Chirago pontolthe »ow stands was sold at
en tion tor It is now worth Farion,•
coo
A Rentarknble Dam
One of the nest remarkable dame ill the
world for height end eonstructimi is that hy
which the Vyrnivy River, northern Wallet,
is enabled to supply water to the city of
Liverpool, Some seventy miles 'Beane In
building this dam a great trench was at
first excavated %errata the valley for a
length ef 1,100 feet, a width of and a
maximum depth of nit 'rho mammy was
started in this trench ; it coneistm of lee •
mense irregular Weeks of slate, wedged to•
nether and thoroughly bedded in Penland
cement mortar, the facet' being formed of
out atone blooks fitted together with great
wire, the greatete height of the dant iming
Hit feee its most remarkable texture is
t he lack ot any Amulet to carry off liotele,
the surplua the lake flowing down the E
front id the dam, which itt curved to per•
mit as free a dement as possible and pre-
vent the formation of eddies at the bottom.
1 he Idle formed hy thie main date covers
from (me -quarter to live-eighte of a mile -
wide, and holds largtly over 1 2,400,000
gallons, tho loped tint leading from the in.
take tower to the distributing reservoir,
about two ,miles from the city, is sixty-
eight miles long end consists principally of
a largeeasteiron pipe line from thirty.nine
to forty.two inches in diameter. There are
number of reservoirs and tanks along the
line and at one place is a great flIteritig
plant.
An Important 8 lenlIne Discovery.
Nerviline, the latest discovered pain
remedy, may safely challenge the world for
a substitute that will as speedily and
promptly check inflammatory action. The
highly penetrating proportion' of Nerviline
make it never failing in all cases of Mama.
tism, fteuralgia, ',ramps pains in the back
aniii aide, headache, lum'intgo, etc. It pork
'lessee merked stilunlating and counter
irritant properties, and et once subdues all
inflammatory action. Orman,' & Walt,
druggists, Peterboro'„,write : " Our (mit-
ten -tors speak well or Norviline." Large
battles '23 cettts, 'rry Nerviline, tim great
internal and external pain cure. Sold by
druggies and country dealers.
An ifreenelve raw
Two bemired pounds for an egg, how
ever, a large mum for a collector to pay.
Yet this appears to be the market price of
a portent spellitineu ef i he egg of the gigantic
fossil hird °prangs. The egg in meveral
tittles as large as that of the oatrich, IRA
not otherwise beautiful. lint then it in
rare, which is not eurprising, since the er
' ill Boma t ho.seoa,
p r inps in r
M. Hamelin can get them if any man can
and lie promiees to pm ono or two on th
European market. lie ie going back to
Madagascar, notwithstanding the fact,thst,
haviog unfortunately got a chief, Ns ho was
his "blood brother," killed in his service,
he has had to take over all the deceased
gontlemnit's family, including his wives.
I ho orchni•seeker sees and tlors sti nose
things. -1.8t, Jainci tiazette,
Oar Old Fire Company.
"That wan a gay old company that we
belonged to, Joe, away hack in 'GS, when
you and I 'ran with the machine. Do you
remember that big fire in Hotel Row, one
freezing night, when fifteen people were
pulled out of their burning rooms and came
down the htehler in their nightelothee
how 'Dick ' :recite brought down
'kids ' onee—one in his anise the othe
slung to his beck ? Poor 'Dick '! Ile got the
catairh dreadfully, from so inuch expoeure,
anti suffered from it five years or more. 1Ve
thought omm he was going in consumption,
sure. But, fleetly, he heard of Dr. Sageht
Werth Remedy, and tried it, and it cured
him up as sound as a flint. 1 tell you, Joe,
that catarrh remedy N great thb g It
saved as good a men and as brave a fireman
ae ever trod shoe leather."
A bunch of sweet plus placed on a piece
of newnpaper makes an ex eel lon t "Ily trap."
The flies are said to 'leek the deadly meet
of the flower and then ilie, -
Dr, Harvey's Souiliern Red Pine tor
cough aud colds is the moot reliable and
perfect cough medicine in tho market. For
sale everywhere. •
In opening the State telephone between
Stockholm an i Christiania on Saturday,
King Omer said he hoped to counteract OW
Separatist movement in Norway, the
existence of which wss the greatest alllic•
tion of hie reign.
. .
The Wealth
of Health
Is in Pure Rich
Blood ; to enrich
the blectO is like
putting tn„ongy out at interest,
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pesseses blowl enriching properties in
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as Palatable as Milk. Be sure and
get the genuine.
remand only Ay neon IA Bernie, Belleville.
rrEANIE110 and older Scholars ran mann
money entiva.s0ou ter "Font -term' Friend
and A reounl iloolt.'• Send for on•eular,, %AIL
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"August
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" I inherit some t.ndency to tys.
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if 1 Mel constipated
the least particle a dose or two of
August Flower (Ines the tvel 11. 'rho
beauty of the media le is, Obit yott,
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Constipation While I was sick 1
le 1 t everything it
seemed to me a man (r,iild
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