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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-07-16, Page 6Atwi Seems Probable. They were looking at that celebrated statue, the Venus of Hilo. "But -where arc the hands'P" asked Mrs. Pneeritel:, "They were laid off, madam," explain- ed' the polite attendant, in consequence of a disastrous break in marble stock.' tliadditional Facts, The Trojan had mauled the wooden horse inside the gates of their city. "It has a rather suspiofots look about it,," they said, "but it isn't a steals roll- er, anyway." Web, bad it been for them, however, as we see by the light of the subsequent facts, 11 they had stampeded then and there, NOT EXPECTED OF HIM. Employer—So you want a job, eh? Wen, what did you do at your hist place? - Bey—I didn't do nothing. I wns the office boy. The Professor Explains. "Why is it," asked the doctor, "that astronomers, whose work must be peen - Harty trying on their powers of vision, almost uniformly have strong eyes?" "My friend," answered the professor, "it is heeause they have strong eyes that they are astronomers." No Misrepresentation, Boarder (at summer resort)—Didn't your booklet say there were no mosqui- toes here2 Proprietor—It did, sir, and it told the exact truth. il'e had that booklet print- ed hi February, and I am prepared to prove that there wasn't a blamed (slap] mosquito within 500 moles of here at that time. Declaration Amended, Arabella—Lil is going to marry Dick, is she? Isn't that just too ridiculous to talk about!" Estella—I should say not! It's too ridiculous to keep still about! His Excuse.' Sunday School Tencher—Tommy, I saw you running the lawn mower this morn- ing. Do you think it was right for you to do that? Tommy Tucker—Yes'n1. It kept the grass from growin�oln Sunday. Does Sometimes. Youthful Customer (at book'storn)— Wimt does "Bridge Whist For Beginners" cost? Sombre Salesman—It will probably cost you your entire wad. WHY HE WAS SENT TO BOARDING SCHOOL. Johnny -1 hate to bother you, pa, but really 1'd like to know-- Pa—Well, what? Johnny -How is it that baby fish dnn't get drowned before they've learned to swim. No Lack of Diversion. Mrs, .leaner Lec Ondego—Didn't you find it hard to entertain so large a conm pally on such short notice? :TL's. Gadder ---Oh, no; they all spend to find plenty of entertainment in the peculiarities of our new butler.—Chicago Tribune. What He Said. "Waiter," said a traveller in a rail- road restaurant, "did you say 1 had twenty minutesto wait orthat w' t t tl nt 1t was y twenty minutes (0 81" "Nayther. Oi said ye had twinty min. Mee to ate, an' tier's all ye did have. Yee train's just gone."—Everybody's Magazine. Not For Him. "I think it only proper to remark, 31r. Seek" said the' haughty girl, ole thought sire detected ' a)gils," "that 1 Would not snarly the hest noun living;' "Don't the alarmed," replied \h•. Con Seer, "he isn't going to propose. My interest in you Is merely platonic."— Philadelphia Press. Advice. "Never anarry ,r tmail to reform him, my dear," counsclled''Aunt I1 pzibah, "If you do reform him he'll late your for it, and n1 ton, don't you'll always be pitying yonlself TOr having married a man who Wasn't good enongh for you." fretful Lad. This son ofimine fs always np to sennethieg.' "Boys s will be boy's," "I wouldn't ohyecj to that. But 11e wants to take a fent •' apart in a college play." -Kansas City E urnal, Perfectly A "Could you, a pall happy in a cottage?" "Why, certainly, IIiu cottage? At New'pbrt Washington Herald. Formal Irid "Was it a formal dial' "I should say so. TLere i many knives, forks and spool everybody had his eye glued on hostess to see which to pick up nev'. _ Washington Star. Bird's Nest in Letter Box: For the past fourteen years a brood. of tomtits Inas been reared each spring in the letter box at Uttoexeter Workhouse. Since the parent birds first took posses- aion of the: box they have hatched 200 eggs.—London Standard. table. darling, be hes is (Itis tatoga?"— V'h'ti�"W MtM�1(4rV�N1nAN1lVv V� Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves V1 VW'AAAArNe aiNeWtr /1AiAAMa7 The person wu1 can tell fortunes by cards, palmistry or ten leaves, is sure to be a popular individual, providing as he does an, endless source of entertain- ment. For though we put not an atom of confidence in what we are told, yet there is a certain fascination about the subject in which we must all acknowl- edge an interest, First, the one whose fortune is to be told should drink a little of the tea while it is hot, and then turn out the rest, being careful not to turn out the grounds in doing so, and also not to look at them, as It 1s bad luck. Then she must turn the cup over so that no water remains, for drops of water in the tea grounds signify tears. Next she must turn the cup around slowly, towards her, three times, wish- ing OS she turns It. After this she must rest it a', minute against the edge of a saucer—to court luck. Then the fortune teller takes it and reads the fortune. Three small dots in a row stand for the wish. If near the top it will soon be realised; if at the bottom, some time will elapse. If the grounds are bunched together it signifies that all will be well with the fortune Beaker, but if they are scat- tered, it means the revefee. A email speck near the top means a letter; a large speck, a photograph or present of some kind, what it is de- pending on the shape of the speck. The sticks are people—light. or dark, short or tall, according to their color and length. A thick one a woman. If they lie crosswise they are enemies. If straight up, intimate friends. or a plea- sant acquaintance to be made, If a large apeck is near them, it means they are Doming for a visit, bringing a vaJlee or trunk, If there is a bottlesIf a book the stick it means a physician. shape, a minteter or a lawyer. If many fine specks, a married man. The sticks with a bunch of grounds MI their backs are bearers of had news about you. A long line of grounds with no open- ings between foretells e. Tourney by water; if openings, by, rail. A large ring, closed, means an offer of marriage to an unmarried woman. To a married one it means a fortunate undertaking. To a man, success in busineoe. A small ring is an imitation, Dust like grounds bunched together at the bottom or side is a Burn of money, A triangle signifies good luck, as does an anchor or a.horecehoe. A half moon or star to married people means a paying investment. To unmar- ried, a new admirer or sweetheart. A pyramid is extremely lucky. A square or oblong means hinds. Leaves, sickneas and death. Fruit, of any kind, health. "Flowers, a present, what is it depend- ing on the shape or the present may be flowers. Black Watch "Biggest and Best" Plug Chewing Tobacco WOMEN AND GIRLS HELD BY ANAEMIA Oldest Hunting Centre in England. The Holcombe Bunt, under whose aus- picea the Edgworth Agricultural Society hold its twenty-first annual show to- day, possessed a neck nose thee sell years ago, Holcombe being the oldest hunting centre 1 t ,uc .. ,.a"ui. ....,g James 1., atter -resting at Boughton Tower on his wac to York, hunted with the Holcombe, and was so pleased witir the sport that he granted to them the right to Mint so many days a week for- ever in the township of tfuarlton, Which was part of the royal manor of Totting - ton. Carefully stowed away at Hob combe is an old huntsman's horn, which is 22 inches long and has been in posses- sion of the hunt for more than 200 years: London Standard, Your dining room and kitchen can be kept free from flies by using Wilson's Fly Pads as directed on each package. Get Ole genuine Wilson's; no other fly killers compare with then. Population of Russian Cities. The populations of the largest Rus- sian cities are: St. ,Petersburg, 1,94,- 000; idoseow, 1373,000; Warsaw, 750,- 000; 50;000; Odessa, 440,000; Lodz, 351,000; eff, 310,000; Riga, 200000; Charkow, 1000; Baku, 170,00)) Vilna. 102,000; his, 100,000; Tashkent, 130,000; Jekit- ertnoslaw, 135,000; Iiishineff, 125,000; Bestow, 120,000, r as *- Three packets`of Wilson's Fly Pads cost twenty-five cents, and will kill more flies than tsf tyfive dollars' worth of sticky page "No, he isn't su terin ;e',egot it, but he's quite pr. d h ^His doctor cella it an t , ! ,; alp 3v„ Vie• Unless the Blood is Made Ri.:h and Red Health Cannot be Restored. Throughout Gnoila there are thou- sands of growing girls and conch held in the deadly clutches of anaemia. Slow- ly but surely a deathly pallor settles on their cheeks; their eyes grow dull; their appetite fickle; their steps lang- uid. Daily, they are being robbed of all vitality and brightness. Their suf- ferings grow more acute if neglected, until the signs of early consumption be- come apparent. If your wife or daugh- ter or sister complains of weakness, pains in the side, hendadhes or back- aches; if her appetite and temper are uncertain and she is often low spirited anaemia has her in its deadly hold. What she needs is new, rich, red blood. Give her Dr, 'Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People without loss of time, for they actually make new, red blood. They make girls and women well and happy. impart an appetite and stead- ily bring back the charm and bright- ness of perfect, regular health, Miss Carrie McGrath, 20 Fenwick street, Halifax, N. S., says:—"I be- lieve Dr, Williams' Pink Pills saved my life. Three years ago I suffered from anaemia in a severe form. r was all run down and as pale as a sheet. I could scarcely eat any- thing, and what I did take did not seem to nourish me. My hands and feet were much swollen and the least exertion would leave me br ithles8 and my heart beating violently, I seemed to have pains and aches all over. I was so weak I could not even sweep a floor, At different times ` I was under the care of three doctors, but did not get ony better. One doctor said I had dropsy and that my blood had all turned to water, My friends thought I was in a decline and that I had but a short time to live. I was completely dis- couraged myself, when 'one day a lady friend called to see me, and: told ane Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured her daughter of anaemia and urged me to try them. I decided to try them, .end in the course of n few weeks fait somewhat better; 1 met the doctor one day and he remarked bow Ince better I was togqe�ilnig, told him it was not his redlcine but Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that were helping me, and he told me I had better keep on taking thein. I con- tinued to do so until I had taken an- other half dozen boxes, when my health was perfectly restored. I am more then grateful for what these pills have done for me and strongly recommend them to all weak girls." Thousands of men and women, now well and strong, praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for having cured anaemia, general weakness, indigestion, rheuma- tism. neuralgia, nervous disorders, hnralysis and, the ailments of girl- ood and womanhood. These Pills do this by making new, red blood which feeds thestarved nerves, drives out disease end strengthens ev- ery organ in the body. Sold by all medicine dealers or bv mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes fllr $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. •-♦ Making the Sultan's Cigarettes, "The Turkish Sultan," sates a tobaccon- ist, "has for generations smoked the finest cigarettes in the world. Cigarettes like his boeght here would cost over one shilling apiece. "Bt the royal palace there has been from time immemorial a small cigarette factory—a light, airy room, a bale of ex- quisite tobacco, one or two simple hand cutting machines, half a dozen Iarkmen of marvellous skill. Here the 'cigarettes of the Sultan are turned out. The beat cigarette tobacco comes from Turkey and the best of that goes to the Sultan. A hundredweight of leaves is rejected before a pound 'sufficiently fine and flawless is found for royal use" —From P. T. 0. 4.4 A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL. To All Women: I will send free with full instructions, my home treatment, which positively cures Leneorrhoea, Ul- ceration, Displacements, Falling of the \Vornb, Painful or Irregular Periods, Uterine or Ovarian Tumors or Growths, also Hot Flushes, Nervousness, Melan- choly, Pains in the Head, Back or Bow- els, kidney of Bladder 'Troubles, where caused by weakness peculiar to our.,aex. You can continue treatment at home at a cost of only about 12 cents a week. My book, "Woman's Own Medina' Ad- viser," also sent free en request. Write to -day. Address Mrs. M. Summers, Box H, 8, Windsor, Ont, BEFORE HE SKIPPED, Landlord's Daughter—Feline says you are ten :knees le mien iu your ,ward and you must par oefora you leave. „eluutll,g ,.)lest—Toa ...tit your fa- ther it is he who is behind: 1 am ten dol- lars ahead. 0- as Some people loot: upon tea as a mere drink. It all ''spends upon the tea. "Salado" Tea 1s a delicious and re- freshing beverage. Sold only in sealed lead packets. '!EAST IN A PLANT But It Can Be Seen as Such Only With the Microscope. Yeast is a small plant which can be seen only with the aid of the mieroscope, says Good Ilealtlt. There are two varie- ties, wild and cultivated, for these tiny plants can be improved through et ltiva- tion as larger plants can be. Firms which make yeast for the mar- ket toast grow these plants 1111!te as carefully as the florist grows his flow- ers, Care must be taken that they do not become mixed with other wan'eties, therefore destroying the culture. In some laboratories where yeast is grown two separate buildings are ktpt for this purpose. These are aoih en1e- fully disinfected, and if it is fowad fiat the yeast becomes contaminated in cue building the culture is started anew aid the other building, 'previously lisiufoct- ed, before moving into it. The purest culture of yeast is probably obtained in the compressed yeast cakes. These can be kept only for a very ohort time, and then in a cool place, which renders it inconvenient for the wanner parts of the country. In this ease of course the -dry yeast cakes must be used, which when fresh are perhaps quite as good as the compressed, except that they require a longer time and should be started in the sponge instead of the stiff dough, This plant, like bacteria, requires warmth, moisture and food. The nutter - bale out of which the bread is trade should always be warned and the dough should always he kept in a warm place. The temperature most favorable is about that of the body, a little lees than 100 degrees. There is always considerable moisture in bread and plenty of food for the plant. The food which it requires is sugar. This it obtains from the wheat, there being Bone sugar in the flour and more sugar is also formed from the starch. As the yeast plants feed upon sugar they break ft down into two substances —alcohol and a gas known as varbon dioxide, or carbonic acid gas. As the gag is formed it is held by the gluten, which is a very elastic substance. When the bread is put into the oven the heat ex- pands the tiny bubbles of gas, causing the bread to rise, or to become much Lighter, The alcohol formed, being a volatile product, passes off in the bak-, ing. ♦t• Pa's' Dentist Bill. "I guess paw must have passed a lot of time at the dentist's when he was is New York," said Johnny Green. "Why do you think so?" queried his mn. Cause I heard him tell a man to- day that it cost him nearly $800 to get his eye teeth cut," replied Johnny.— Boston Post, Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. • Living in the Tropics. Most Americans in the tropics make the mistake of eating large quantities of beef and salt meat. The best and cheap- est fish market in the world ie found right at our doors. Spaniels mackerel at one and a half cents a pound can be had any day. Fifty cents will furnish fish for fifty people, The longosta del mar is a forty-second cousin of. the American lob- ster and altogether toothsome. It may be ordered the day before and delivered alive at your dpor. Mindanoo coffee will not be found In the market just now, but Senor Torre - ion, our enterprising grocer, will secure it soon. The writer will then tell the ladies how to make coffee from the best bean in the world, The Singapore coffee sold in the Chinese stores is infinitely superior to the commissary brand and can be freshly roasted, without which no coffee should ever be drunk.—Minda- nao Herald. Minard's Liniment Co„ Limited. Gents.—I cured a valuable hunting dog of mange with MINARD'S LINI- MENT after several veterinaries had treated him without doing him any per- manent good, Yours, etc., WILFRID GAGNE, Prop. of Grand Central Hotel, Drum- mondville, Aug. 3, 1004, Japan's Purpose to Rise. The important inquiry with regard to Japan in a large way is—is it not?—as to the direction in which the nation is now moving. And in answer to this inquiry I am able to give a most un- equivocal and quite satisfactory answer. Never before in the history of the coun- try, and at the present time in the his- tory of no other country, do we find the same intelligent, deliberate and widely prevalent purpose to do away with the nation's reproach and to rise in the scale of national business morality. In saying this I speak what I know to be true.—From George Turnbull Ladd's "On the ,Business Morale of Japan," in the July Century. •.• Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. WOMAN'S BACKACHE The back is the mainspring of woman's organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the Joins, weight in the lower part of the 'body, that a wonian's feminine organism needs immediatoattention. In such cases the one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is LYDIA Es PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Mrs, J. A. Laliborte, of 84 Artil- lerie Street, Quebec, writes to Mrs, Pinkham: " For six years I have been doctoring for female weakness, heart and nerves, liver and kidney trouble, but in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I can safely say I have found a cure, "I was continually bothered with the, most distressing backaches, headaches, and bearing down pains, and I kept growing more and more nervous. " Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound relieved me of all these distress- ing symptoms and made me a well W0112811. I would advise all suffering women, yqung or old, to use Lydia 10. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands o women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera- tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, o pains, backache, that bear- -down feeling, flatulency, indd�iges- tion,dizeiness,ornervous prostration, Caesar's Dilemma. The boy advanced boldly to the front of the stage. With a coulhrehesnfve liow that took in the Board of Education, the school principal, and the audience, he be- gan his ore tion. "Caesar," he resonantly remarked, "had! reached the ranks of the Rubicon -1 should say the branks of the Brubtcon— that is, the bunks of the Braibicon-1 mean the brab of the Banksieon." The boy drew a long breath. So did the audience. , "And so," continued the orator again, "he went back and tried it again." . This time he succeeded. ---Cleveland Plain Dealer. • • Diphtheria is spread by the common house fly. Wilson's Fly Pads are the best fly killers known. Refuse unsettle - ,factory substitutes. Daring Deeds. Sir Willtant MacGregor, Governor of New- foundland, 30 years ago, while holding the post of meatem officer In Pip, performed o remarkable feat of heroism. A ehipful of Indian coolies had been wrecked about twelve hours' steaming from the capital, and Dr. Maa0r0gor—• man of vast phyalelel strength-�Fbo headed the relict party, clamb- ered Wag a broken mast which gave ac- cess to the vessel and returned again and again with a man or woman on Ute back, and sometimes a child gripped by its clothes In his. teeth, Nis greatest feat, however, was rho rescue of a woman who bad Callen ono a reef below, and who, having got at the Indy- 115' was to save her worewith ) swept out ton who, sea, but young Maedregor, lowering himself down a rope, seised the knot of the woman's hair In his teeth and dragged her up to lite again. •.♦ The Rub. "My I" exclaimed little Billy, as he gazed at the lithograph. "I'd like to be a giraffe, Just think how easily you over the baseball fence." could 'rubber'a "That's all right," replied Tommy, "but there is another time when you wouldn't want to have a neck like a giraffe." "When It that?" "Why, in. the mornings when your ma begins to scrub your neck with soap and water."—Chicago News. Sueerors from Fits, Epilepsy, et. Vitas' Dance, Nervous Troubles or Falling etoknra should write the LISSIG CO., 170 ging etrgnet,Toronto tura trial bottle of their Fit Cure and Treatise. Enclose 10c for postage and nuking. ISSUE NO. 29, 1908 TERM HAD A QUEER ORIGIN How a Quarter of a Collo. Came to be Known as "Two Bi:s " "Did you ever hear the expression 'two bits' used as an equivalent for a quarter of a dollar?" asked a New York- er. "The tern is commonly used in the south and west. Not one person In 1,000 even of those who habitually use the terns knows Its origin, "Even ns -late as, the close of the eighteenth century the silver coinage of the United States had not superseded the Spanish 'milled' dollar in thewest and south. Factional currency was par ticularly scarce and to obtain this the Spanish 'milled' dollar was cut up to make change. Halves and quarters, of course, suggested their own names, but when the quarter was cut in two the worth 'eighth' was discarded for 'bit,' a mall slug having the value of 12% cents. Many curio collectors have these slugs in their possession, although, of course, they have long since gone out of use as currency. "So with 'thrip,' used inNew-Orleans and the vicinity as an equivalent for the nickel or 5 -cent piece, 'Thrip' is merely an abbreviation of 'threepenees, the coin of that value once in general use, rep- resenting about the same amount of money as a 5 -cent piece,"—New York Mail and Express. H • DOLL PREVENTED WAR. Remarkable Incident in United States History. It is not very generally known, though it is a matter of history, that on one oa- caaion a doll prevented n war between the United States aistl the Apache In- diana. The American Government allot- ted the Indians certain territory, which the latter did not feel inclined to accept, so war began, One day a little Indian child strayed from its father's wigwam and was found by the American soldiers , It was crying bitterly, and they were unable to console her. The commanding officer then thought of a doll which had arrieed that day for his little girl, and he gave to to the Indian papoose, who soon ceased ary- fng, Soon after a detachment of soldiers es-, corned the child to its father's wigwam, and its arrival caused great excitement. The Indian mother appeared at the And ' erican tents th next ley with the doll, to return it, bu she was overwhelmdd with joy when she heard that her little girl might keep it. The result was that the incident created Al change of feeling among the wandering Indians and led to negotiations, which ended in their going quietly back to the land set apart for them by the United States Government without any trouble. Adonis In Hard Luck. A man once asked Thnekeray to lend him five shillings, which he would con- vert into £20,000. Asked how, he ex- plained that he knew a young lady with £20,000 who lie knew would marry him if he asked her, but he had pawned his teeth, and wanted five shillings to re- deem them in order to propose effective. ly.-5'. P.'s Weekly. Mr, Alfred Brawn, of ?denim, Ont. Saye :—" For six years I have not known what it was to be free from pain. No one ever suffered more from itchlog bleeding Piles than 1 did and I tried everything to get cured but failed. One day a frlend of mina who had been cured with Zam•Bolt gave me a pert of a boa to try, and the mite( I got was marvellous. 1 then bought asupply and before I had aced it all was completely cured." Of all dmggists and steres, got. AM—BUK� RELIEVES &CURES Between Those Girls. Miss Aacum—When Mr. Richley saw my photograph he said it -was very pret- ty, didn't he? Come, now, honest! Miss Chellus—No, quite the reverse. Ile said it was a good likeness.—Phila- delphia Press. ♦-♦ Minard's Liniment Cures target in Cows: Reasonable, One day when Arthur had asked, it possible, more questions than usual dur- ing thee dinner lour, and coaxed for everything on the table until Inc mother despaired of e'er being able to finish het shortcake, she turned to hint and said sternly: "Arthur, keep still. Mamma wants a little peace." Without a moment's hesitation he looked into her face palntively and said! "Arthur wants a little piece, too," 4 • Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. •.• Horrors. Bacon—You say he's up-tc1ate? Egbert—Sure; he's ordered a couple of Merry Widow bonnets for his hoses, this summer.—Yonkers Statesman, ALWAYS EVERYWHERE IN CANADA ASK FOR EDDY'S MATCHES Eddy's Matches have Hailed from Hull since 1851—and these 87 years of Constant Betterment bare resulted in Eddy's Matches reaching a Height of Perfection attained by No Others. N Sold and used everywhere in Canada. r