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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1880-07-08, Page 26 leol000artoovaincrocoacolfonowasonvirooma Cive Them Now. yOu have gentle worths and looks, my franala Lo sparo fur mo—if you have tears to sbed That a bave sonercia-- am? ahem not, 1 ray. Veal 1 hear aot, sue not, aeingaleaa. If you have Amara to giVA—fair lily buds, roses, daisies mom:low-stars that be My ovti doar tiamenakela—lot tam smile ana maim • , Tie air, whits yet1 breatbe it, sweot for For loving looks, though fraught with tenaornoss, And ;away tear, though taoyfail thialt and iAwoa na r s of naisealas! eannauglit avail fast, To lift thu,sniulole from a lifo that's past. Ana rarest bloasoms, what can thoy suffice, chorea to ono Wu, van no longer gaze Upon their beauty ? Flowers itt coalus Iota Iola= ao rarectues., to departed days. asp CI 01)13 LAX it UOILIIE S; 111! A fens** of Two I40Yol neOrls. 111 tho quiet street of one of the quiet squares there is a tall, gloomy house, With narrow, dimity windows and a massive double iloort that still boars a brass plate with tho wordsGourley Brothers engrav- ed thereon. • Tho lower part of the house was used as an office, but tho blinds woro rarely drawn up, the door aolamai swung back to tho onergetio push of customers, the long pas- sage echoed no hurried footsteps and Eli Hoggart, the clerk-, waffato all appearance • the idlest maxi in LonRou, till oue came to know his mutate'. The Clourlay 'Brothers wore .never any busier than their faithful old sorvant— uover huraloa, flurried or worried ; atvor , late and never early. Every morning at 10 o'clock ,they mitered their • office together, read their letters, glanced at the paper, left instruetione for possible oallers, and then wont to the city. They always took the Sa1110 route ;, at 11 they might bo seen pausing along the sunny sido of Cannon street, at 1.30 v they onterod the same restaurant, and sat at tho acime table for luucheon. Wet or dry, shed° or shine, summer or winter, evgry working day for thirty years they had, gone. through the samp routine, always exoeptin,g the mouth of September, When they took:their annual holiday: . They were alderly•nien—jahn, tall, thin, melaucholy.looking, with light grey' oyes, scanty .grey hair andwhiskers, and a gone- ral eapression, of dralabiiiese pervading his whole face • and •faultlessly .necit attire. Boger was skater, rounder'more oheerfal and generally warrael eolor. His pervad- ing hue was brawn, ; ken, reddish eyes that must have been Marry ones; crier), auburn. hair that tibiae had, not yet quite transmut- ed to silver, a clemashaved ruddy face, and brown hands. full of 'dents . and dimples. John was the elder; still he looked tip to a they sat Over their desert John °Rolled hi a heart to his brother and told lulu of his hopes, dreanair and aimbitioue for the future. You will be surprised, and I trust pleased, to hear, Roger, that I love Alice Russell,' he said, laYlog his Lana on his brother's arm ; I eau hardly remember the titne when she was not clearer to me than all the world beside. The bitterest part of our misfortuno to me was that it a I love Lim,' Alleo replied simply, I can not ado any more.1- In thoir lodgiugs John Gourlay found his brother pacing restlessly up 4azict down, ' Boger, I've found out your secret and hers,' lie Said, laying both his hands on his shoulders. 4Loyal, faithful friend, go to her, she loves you, she is waiting for you.' .fercePaotoir Alice, Low sho must Lave suf. we all have suffered. But its separated inc from her ; nothing else can nearly over now, Roger—the grief, pain,. ever compensate molar tho ruin of all my • regret. , Its al clear and bright. Roger, hopes awl glorious ambitions, 1 °nee 'clear friend, can you forgive mo?' - dreamed of being famous, Roger; for .her 'Forgive you, John/ say rather cau you sake I put that behind me, and have forgive mo?' grubbed for gold like a raiser, We, Gour.'True to the last,' John nzurmured as ho lay Bothers, aro on the high road to for- *wrung hie brother's baud. 'Now, Boger, tune ; I may aspire to the hand of Alice go to 'her ; she is waiting for you. Silo now I' .Joves you4--loves you, Roger Good. -bye, Surely, Tohn,' and Om younger brother's and. may you both be happy voice was husky, and his baud shook as Late that owning, when Boger Gourley Ito took up Lis glass; 'I drink to your returned home full of a deep, quiet.glad- sUccess.' nese, he found Lis brother sitting. bit an Thanks,hrother. I should have confided easy chair near the window, apparently in you, but I feared troubling you on my asleep. The full tnoon shone down on his account; you would. have socn a .thousand pale face and showed a smile on Inc lips; shadows acrose,. my path; yon would liavo Ins Lands were clasped on au open book been, more auhappy than I was myself. that restod on his lmee. •Tho attitudo .was And now I want you to promise that ip lifelike, but at the very first glance Boger shall xualto an differonce between us. We felt that iiis brother was dead. The shall be Gourley Brothers still.' doctors said ho had died of disease of the Roger stretched his handacross the table heart. Perhaps tlfeY were right. More end John grasped it heartily. peoplo die of that malady than the •world Gourley Brothers to the end of the chap- 4tlIONV8 of. ter,. old fellow, and may you be as happy as you doserve. Gad bless you, John.' Doetaxang the Itiosauitoes. , • John's face becathe a shade or two paler - mosquito time is come'and, of course cmotion„. and he walkod up and, down tho afflicted want to know how they can be the town a Sow times; then he stood be- rola:Vol. We Alia in Nature :what issaid to . hind hisabrother's chair. ," , ••" • ' beta cure as sure as death and taxation.' ' Boger,you will think inc very woo,k, A sciontific nion after experimenting found, very nervous, hilt I dare not *oak to Alice that quassia' would drive blight ' from myself. I maid got endure a refusal from . poach trees. Satisfied thus far he then her, ',hay° novor given her the -most die- \rout to work in another direotion, and. taut hint of my feelings. I hey° not the gives the world the bonefit of hie investiga- sliglitost reason to g,uppose that shoregards tions as follows: A young friend. of mine, me as other thud -a mere .acquaintance, geverely bitten by mosquitoes and univilling almost as Maudo's brother. Bogor, wo • to bo seen so disfigured,Oent for:some quassia have aaways boon frionds as well as ehips ana had boiling .water poured upon brotliers—staaul by inc in this; you . aro . them.- At night, after washiag, sho“dipped- loss shy-and:mon .fitenatomaa to -women f lier hands into the quassia water and loft see Alice for ino, Roger, and Dalt her to be it to dry on her face. This was a perfect my wifoa. • • protection,and continued to bo so when- . 'John, you'ro Mad! You do not moan ever applied. Tito pastilles sola in Fla- . once and olsowhero,,whiali are aaamted to ' I de; it is my only ehaneo„ rival far be safeguards againatmasquitoes, emir= my.liappinoss, brother, • as I would piend raY, own experience,' of no use. - At the for yours. I am a roan of few words;butI approach of whitea, when flies and. kaats feel deeply. A refugia fronf her :lips wpu1c get into .houses and ooraetimos bite • acne - kill ; I dould hear it froin yOna mously, a grendchild of Mine, eighteen As you will, John ; de my best, and: •months old, was time attacked. I gave the. Roger 'leaned bis head on las hand and. nurse sonic of. my Weak solution of quassia sanded hie face from thelight. I'll canon to be left to dry on his face, and he .was Alice to -morrow.' .• • not batten twain. It is •innocuous to chil- The next day was the longest of • John dren, aucl A may be • a prbteetion els° • against bed insects, .which I have not had tho opportunity of trying. , Gourlayap Iife--n briglitaiva,rin, happy day, Itoget-witlagrave respoot, consulted him on that mado people in the city look glad and every subjeot, ancl aoyor either in or out of ahoezful. He went about his business as bilsiness took any step without his advico 'usual, a,to his luncheon and walked' home OL approval,. And Itoger. was no less de- leigiirely: .• Boger was. standing at the win- ferential ; without atny Profession of affec- dow watchinglor tin, and to kept his back tion or display. of feeling, the GourlaY to him whenlio entered tho room. . Brothers dwelt together in tho closest • ' Wall,' John said gently, 'well, Boger, friendship and love; -their 'life waw a long have you.seen her ?' • .' • ' • harmony: and. during all.the . years of their ! Yos, I've seen her,' said Bogor, facing partnership nesluidew had fallen between. round suddenly. ',liana old. felloiv, it's no than), and Clair public life was as har- monious aa their private intercourse. . ' . ' Brother !' mai ho lifted•his hend as if to ward off a •blow. . • ' .. • ,,Townships Named Auer into wogs. In the biography of tho Hon. W. lifer- • ritt, Pa• by his. son, Mr. J. P. Moraitt, of, St:•Catharinesa occurs the following pas- sage I a The item circulated the papers 'that Sir• P. Maitlandbad called Oomo of the townships after his lady's lap dogs is of sitiall moment, as he 'had, no doubt, difia oulty:in Making names, from the' feat that. Iu business they.were successful; •• every .during thafirst yacia of his administration, sgeenjetion'they made prospored ; every- It's no dee,' Boger went on in a bard in 1820,• tattoo now .toWnohips .were laid ' •••a-aattifig they-teitolflairturiodicagolaarentla as voice, ale 49.0...aaluove.a,a47,,eaeale"e „Mit. :,...,..Aalattor.azafareceivedalayaliar. T--Xera 'One Ona'aisda analiaaaa -;r1t.N.§,e1147.thelf'filM•qpr pfliFuods aadat.0.1, —theitaaboloalvoaavora.spent iialgettiaga aota • Oats, s spending, they. warp believed, and with it; for thoro's no hope.' • a • • fiaking permision:tor the Grown right reason; to be immensely wealthy': • 4Cold, . -One 16w, stiflea, groan; and. then. John „Of timber tor towiishipa bearinaa. the names. p"aa• •••-,---aiiiiadastortaeatorpriaitganien-balleatlieina Metiposa,. gme, Zer0 Java with_ an acutefiesa of vision and •a stoadi- ness of purpose only to be acquired by a. long and close application to business. Re- servea in./tanner, simple. in their tastes, • economical in 'their' :habits, the .Gourley brothers wore the Ia,st men in the world to be suspected of sandanenta- their •lives the least likely to contain even the lomat germ of a romance., And yet they had not ,always • been arnoro. business machines; tho sole en a and .aint Of their existence had not always been Money. In, early years they liad brighter dromaig, nobler ambitions. - • . At • sohool John had ,distinguished himself, and lila brief university . career a 4 * . * *. • *, , nal to the Hon. Evelyn •Pierroponta gave promise 61 a brilliant 7future; Boger Twenty.,five•Years pao.s.Ocl'hy, ea,qnarter at ond sOnoaEaaaaitanners.':a0,strioh feathers had • been a baight, 'ardent boy, With: iv:century of changes and Ohancea; and -still' • formed a new foatute in the • trimmings of O taste, " mu.sio that avaa almost ...the Goarlayl3rotherslusia ;the even:. iloa the briclo's arose. Those of . the brides:. .a passio, and a• talentlittle shortof geaius: of•their way.' Theywore rich beyond their: niaids were ;lot .naoro. booth:Mug., The With his•deop eariiestnesa, •intense.stoad:,wishes or desires; ancr. netaaltogother un- dresses were so scantily made' that it was ness of purpose, and clear, vigorous Intel-. :happy in their solitary .frie'nclahap. • with soirie • difficulty that tlie wearers lect, John could seareely have failed:to .Aliocf. Russell seamed to have 'drifted struggloclato andfrom their knees. • Xlie make a•diatingoished lawyer. ' • . complotely oat. Of 'their lives ; ..her •minae ,liata were of the now poke shape; with a, P,ogaravasborii mr; artistaavitlisaostlesa, Wits•noveranioationial, arid whollieratheawas: nice cutioutait •thabaok: to- show, the hada... lofty ambition. ,Life seemed .vorybright' mai:tied or dead they did not know... , •Th o 'shape most trying to the 'face.- I for the brothera:;.:there wasnothing to pre- Ono morning about tho middle of Soptenia• .noticed that two of. the •bridearoaidathore . vent and everything to assist each in 101- -boa they wero walking along.the lung Broad were six altogether—had sensibly turned lowing Inc inclination,: But in the very • iit Brighton, whither they had gone.fea the poke brims back. The effect was over. dawned, thoir eareor •their father died,' and their annualholiday.. ROger entered a so much better. 'The color Of both claessea they were sialaoaly.aednixed liOm affluence shop to: parahase .,somotaing -and. John and bonnets was.pale- blue; thatihricapain. to actual poverty. -Nothing remained froin. stood outside looking dreamily at the pas- Among the dresags•of the gnbats were some the wreck ot ainagriifiont fortune but the . serealaY. 'Suddenly ixe ,tared and advanced effective .oc;mbifiatioaa—bright mauveaaiti. bitter experiorith that aiwayi. accompanies ..a atop: Os a lady ma • an invalid ohair was palest Mae, Pale blue with green brOche such reverses. Fine :friends failed them. ;. Wheeled by. Chancing 16 look up; she met and primrose with pit* gray. profusion flatterers looked coldly on their' distress ; those who litulanost frequently partaken Of their. lavish hospitabey passed by on the other aide. Not it friend aemanied itt their adversity. but • one, and she had in- deed the Will, but not. the power, to help them.' The boys left collage encia-turned their thoughts to business. It Viaa hapoless to attempt to follow up their professions with an invalid 'mother andan idolized: only sister .clepeading on them for support. John secured a situation as •clork itt a city warehoupe, Bogor aaceptod a deskaa the offito of Bernera Ituseell, an Old friend of Inc 'father's. They moved to eheap lodg- ings, and for several years plodded . on wearily, the only gleam -of • sunihino in: • their ..alterod home being the ocoaaional visits of Alico Russoll to their sister, • Maude Gourley and Alieo hed boon sehoolniates and ..friOncla ;., they usually • .apent their Vactitions together, and:Alto° felt the misfortune that had fallen on OA family as if it had overtakenber own: 'Bat sho could do nothing but pay thom flying . visits, send trifling gifts•of fruit and flowera found himself seated boakle her in a plea,. • Thaw MINES IN .N.tIVAM.—T110 d(ipth and writo 'pretty sympathetia . notes to . sant sitting-aoom ovorlooking.tho sofa as ;follows Tao llama Loaa, Maude. • _ A few yeas of litiadsliip and povorty told on Mrs,. Gourlay's elite:ye 'feeble framo ; still, for her daughter's. seko,.'sbe thing to life with a' strango tonfibity. "Bat when; Maiale's lover, who had. gone to Auatralia to Make his fortune, returned', net wealthy; but sufficiently so to claini his baffle ia her attired circumstances, Mrs. G ourlay soemed, to have ifo.otlior olacot to livo for, 111audea. Bogor levee you, Alice. •Ile las loved you Marriage Was liastefied, and tho very arty • all these long, weary -Years, though you miter the ceremony tae poor, weary, broken- heartal mother ailed. Goorge -Lealio took his wife baelt with . Min, to . Syanoy, and John and Bogor Goliality, were literally alone in the world. ---Ailaitain bitter mooltory of their lose ana loneliness, imincaititoly after their mothor's doath brothera inheritoil mall for: tato. Dot it was too late for John to go back to his stodies too lato for Itogot to .rotarri to haa piano; thoy • had. fallen into tin) groovo of business, and John at toast Was seized, with a fevorish oagornoss Goattley. wroag- Inc brothor'gabanclaarna avellted ateadily, oat of the room.- What he suffered in the boars that followed.' 11Q one over knew, and when he appeared at the .dinner table lie. avas calm mid self; Dewn,liaana, Mara, Sol,•OpsaQiden, Oso.' Qu this point the Orillia Packet says': Wo: :Waal:owe are dorrect in saying .that the naming of the townships aftor, a ',lady's lap possesaed, but something had either oonie dogs was the ad of subordmato offload. aint,G,overnor, Le needs no defence or opal, ogy for the selection. Tiny, Tay Flos and Vespra aro very pretty names, and quite • Jack, old fellow, we're Gourley Brothers as appropyiato as nine -tenths. of. the.cames into •his face 6): gone out of it that altered But oven if it had'teen done by a Lioaten, • Mani But of the tilo Roger looked the roost unhappy. The blow liad really. fallen • most hoavily onban. * • • ' of places nathe. provinCea • now to tho end of the chapter,' amid; huakily, • 4 I. know you'll never marry, and neither and somehOw JOhn felt that Rocca inomit what he said. • . Bariaia PRIN3S.ES.---011, Tuesday • at St, ,Georgeat, Haatover • eauare, 'Miss Sophia lakwright, of Sutton Soarsdale, was .mar- " his glance with smile of recognition. Goala,v, it must.bo you. I am soglaa to see you." Audi to meat yea,' john said with a courteous bow: !I have not the aleasizre of lace.wris worn with most of tho dregses. --London Truth. ' • • Hanons os• TrIt COLLISTON.—One •of the clerks of :the Stianingtou Wig ail amusing of knowing—' . story about one of the survivors \alio, being My naine—I am .Alice Russell still;' she unprovidecl Nvith a life proserver, flung two said frankly. •At that moment Bogor ap; cLairs ofterboard ' and followed with Inc peered. For an inattint the blood forsook valise ' and umbrella. He, picked. up a Inc ruddy .face, while a hot, crimson flush board, which he pieced betwoon. the ohairs - rose to Alice's pale chook as she tried to stammer Out soma words of .greeting. Roger was no less confused, and the expression of both faces was arevelation to John Gour- ley. He felt as a the world had suddenly drifted ,avaay from aiim and -•ho was, lett -solitery in some Utilmown iafinitd elude. But thereavaa nothing of that in his voice when lie asked Alice for her Mamas., and pormission to call -upon her in the plaza; and seateaalninself upon it. When it began to rain the prudent voyager hoisted his urabrella. A.nother man, a commercial traveller from Boston, hadnothing to cover his nalteanesa but a very. small Undershirt and a; high hat. 'a8alien a boat* With a lady came up, he was. too luckiest to be saved, but plumping. down ander the side asked them to soot° the women, first Ho got anacnig a boatload of men. The plugs noon ; thou taltiog ado brag= by the arm were out and. the boat half full of water, so IA led him away, and they continued their walk avithout oxelianging it single word &tout the afrango encounter: . • In the afternoon John callod at Miss Russell's • hotol; and in a few moraonts he that dui • luckleas drummer '. was !feta to use Inc cherishad hat for bailing.' A third ioaividual in it night-shirt • was seen using his bigh hat as a paddle „to propel tho mattregs to, which he was oliEging. ' Alice,' ho said, pluagitig into the sub. led% the Siorre. larevecla 2,500, the • 'Onion loot at once, 'do you reniembor a convor. Consolidated, Mexican, and. Ophir, ea,ch Pietism you had witl! ray brother a along 2,500, consolidated Virginia and California time ago?! • ' - 3,390 each, Bost . and Belcher '2,000, ' Yos, I am/Amber, Mr. Gourley,' she ro- Gonad tind Cary 2,200, Halo and Norcross • plied, sadly, and • Sava,ge 2,100, . Chollar , 2,400; Ward ' II° mode a request for me theft which 'vertical shaft, 2,168, Conabination shaft it was not in your . powor to grant ; I tun 2,400, Yolloiv Jacket 13,000; Belcher 8,000, corm to maim a similar ono for him now. Crowia Poiat 2,800, Overtax and Caledonia, "each 1,90a, Alta,' and 13entou etioli 1,950, Silver. Hill 1,300, Consolidated Imporial 2,809, Bullion '2,300 foot. , • .isair ream bolieve I did not kaow it than.' Poor Bogor!' Alice Aoki only, Yoa caro about ? Yon will mak° itho heppy oven et this lato hoar ? ' Tell mo,-Aliteathat yott love my bother -1' Yes, Gourley, I do. 'Why I deny it? I havo loved him always, though I did not know that he caved about Ino and if tho littlo lifo that is left ino can malto itim happior, will dovoto it to him glaalav, proudly—poor Bogor!' You. Soo I am too old for protonces, Mr. Gourley, and I fear I to turn his small fortuno into am 'dying, therofore I toll you all. a largo ono and become wealthy. • 'Dying, Alice ?,, No no 1 You will liyo 8o they went into business on ninny yoars yot, 1 hope, to mako lay doer thoir own account as Goualay Brothers, brother berm—key°, loyal, gaeat-heartod With the firm resolution of arotrioviag tho Bogor. Lot mo send you to him now and, position their father had. lost, and it vary Alio°, for my old end long affootion s salco, Tho comma enumerator& oomplotoroturn few years sa,w them osteblishocl in "Whitior make him happy. licadosoavos it and that' ' allow 'tho populatioii of Brooklyn, X. Yo street, and fairly on tho high road to for, in the. only, way I can over help to repay to be 550,000, against 482,000 ilvo years. •taft pno quiet sinnuaor ovoningastho aovotion of his life. lie, The. ' ' . . 4..0. • w .. a The anther of it recent work on Portugal says a Tho Portuguese are noithor 11,11 Orientiilapeolde nor a puroly northern, nor porely southern nation, bat a ram blond- ing the Character with the blood 'orthe nath Ana the imuth—ti, nation ocittcatod iti i•ts yooth by Moors and Arabs. Thor dancesapartalto of that linocige mai of thoir treating. They ilanco it jig and aro,a littlo absurd.; thoy clancoit bolotetantare inter- osting.' It is announooa :that tho Philadelphia, coalcomponios on Tuesday ctigroad upon total Bastion:40n of production from July the int to tho alth, 041a three days wookly thoreaftor, as at Present. ' ' • a •i • Think Before yon 410. it. The affixin„,a of the stamp is in the ma- jority of eases the last stage of the letter - writing. 11 is a kind of sealing, signing. aud delivering. It would not be a bad, moral habit for a man to pause beforo affixing his postage stamp, and to consider whether judiciously and coneeientiouely he had not better save Lis money. When onee lie has dropped his letter into the inttOr- box, ho has committed ono of the irrevoc- able acts of hie life. As you prepare to affix your stainp,•give one final thought to conscience, whether you, might not alter, improve or altogether obliterate that let- ter. There may be all sorts of wrong and evil connected with letter -writing; but to specialize an instance, you may have been writing an angry letter. It may he a clever, caustic letter, and you feelr other inclined to regard it approvingly, considered as a liter- ary production. But it may be a passion- ate and Unjust letter, It may bo unrea- sonablo and untrue. Thu may be giving unmerited pain by sending it. You may bitterly regret the moments whott your hand obeyed the immoral behest of your mind. You have heard of the physician's prescription about the cucumber: to peel it carefully, slice it tenderly, be gingerly with your vinegar and plonteons with the oil, sprinkle the pepper, brown or red, over it—and then fling the moss out of the win- dow. So when you sit down to your letter, my clear and slightly excited friend, pile up Your invectives, accumula,te your adjec. tives, be caustic and cutting in your phrases; but just before you post it give a thought to the ethics of a 'postage stamp, light your pipo with it, and save your mouey. . waft lost. .Frorn Quebec they went to San incladed in Boston, • A. TALE oclasoineo MUMMA Ten ttthe drill ;bed on Ali spin* of Paragraph:or. One of Om worst vases Known in the -re eee colleer a Thursday evening, Dumas, June 5.—Tlie bells of St. Peter's. d 9 Ionhtin Courts, After tho Raeee—The real Derbv drags church, in rung.oat a joyous peal ea 'mime and empty Pure"' Not fio gasy.—What shall we do with on the bright May morning, eight years ago, 'Guide?' 'Wood her I —Punch. on which Miss Caroline Thorp, the datigh-* ter of a solicitor, was led to the altar by The society lady nevor Sheds tears. She George Bacon, who there vowed to love kno se enough to keep her powder dry. and cdierish her all the days of her life. .A.t this season of the you the patient • Tho bride of eight yea,rs ago, for whom the angler 'svelte for bite with bated breath. marriage bells then made meet musis, Sankey's now Lyzn' Ift your lamp appeared in the witness chair in the inv.tri. burning ?' should bo,inseribed to Edison. - monial court yestorday and told the story of her wedded life. She is now it broken- -130,fTelizye anitolu,onrtteci31 epiolsliocue.rTeciriettiutesxhtabveatacrbrized heartod looking woman, with three ehil- leave about the 15tli of July. ridrocultie, *aophotuncaanineityt,otoaskuntaloie tjggien,airnriathgee Au Italian engineor has invented a eteam that was celebrated in St. Peter's elinrch. bicycle; the boiler v,ncl maelliuery are The poor woinan, in the midst of tears and directly under the seat of the rider. sobs, related her piteous history to.,0this Thu are thinking of changing the name effect. Soon after George Bacon became of Cape May to Cape l'une, as no OneWanta her husband he took to drink, and Qom- to go there until the latter mouth. menced the career of neglect awl !oruelty It is said Miss Louise Pomeroy has a which he consistently adopted tdward her play written. for her by Miss Schiff. Now in various parte of the world. Upon tho elm will play the mischiof. death of her mother she became entitled to it sure of £400. 'With this the husband, It will be well to put tho tomato wife and family proceeded to Quebec plants in sun -bonnets, Mr. Vennor says On the voyage out George, having much there is going to bo frost. leisure time on his band, devoted it chiefly 'Persons who •escape being enumerated by to worrying his wife, according to his the census men may tbink they are not custom. One day he f3tole her purse eon' worth the two cents allowed' for counting. tainiug some monoy, which be expanded Mr;Georgo Fearnley, of the Gth emcee. in whiskey and gambling.' no had a four sidu of London township, has corn. growing days' spree ; ho was drunk the tinic, and oa his farm over five feet nine inches in. got into delirium tremens, in which state aaigita. he landed at Quebec, whore, owing. to his The TonsuS of Poston, Mass., slutwe v. incapacity to do auything but stagger about population of 30,000, B.n. increase of nearly and swear, the luggage of the entire family 60 WO in ten years in the territor now Vo'nei or war op iircikond Property. 'tato tg tell the London shareholders of . the Lord. Claud Vamilton had a mournful Lime railroad at the rocent fdurteenth.. annual mooting. :War, and the consequent depression in trade,. haw reduced the nor- mal aath of oxoliaogo from 3n0a the sol to aud 6ad the sol. The ' result haa been that 'though' the noininal profit for the year luta boon i',52000, tho exchange having. ouly • averaged , is 2c1 pr sol, the net paolit itas boon reamed to £482, as againot a.:14,867 itt 1873. The loss on exchange 'during the yea,r has, ia feet, been £61,893, and the present disastrous rato of 6acl per sol meana for every :2100 rient over to England O loss of X86.' las. It is no,edleas to pay that mi hope of- a dividend was heal out, and the chairmatt was Obliged to confess that affairs-laul got to 'such a low ebb in Peru that am if war were concluded it Would take a long time to reach' again the pros- perity which existed three years ago. • karin;AA'IELD Or A BLAST FinnlAOn.—Fur. note 13 of the plant now in procoss of .com- pletion at the Edgar Thdinpson Steel Works, Pittsburg, Pa., has recently niatio rocord unparallelea by any blast furnace in the world. Tho following is tho yield in pig metal for seven consecutive days in May: Saturclaya148 toas ; Sonday, 150 tons; araondey; .184 tone; Tuesday, 168 tone; Wedneaday,•165 toile; Thursday., 166 tons; Friday,' .154 :tons. Total 1,141 ' tous, or tin average daily (24 hooks) pro- duction . of 163. tens. Furnace Big 80 feet :high and 20 feet filo koplaaand, fr aohanail esi a os not di oa asnatoixa Ty an Italia -as front other blaar ffiaiiiiceg.Itt - its appoiamentsahowever, furnace B is os- pecielly notable for thabeating capacity' of theato.vea,:anathe power of tho blast. ,,Tho: ores .need were MA especially rich aaVeiaging less thaii 60 per oent. during the' period of :this enormous run. Hitheato the• best re- cord of the ' furnace, ,Pittsburg Paa —142 tonsa-4..as considered a romarkhbly good day's work, lint furnace • B, to .use tt western • expressiah, ' takes the. borne.' Dating March last the product of "the rail ✓ ill of the, abave•eteol works was 9,538 tons finished steei rails, or jut about. 1,000 miles. ' •• • ' • • .3 " The Italian cliet, as practiced by tho Italian laborers omployed in building opera- tions neer New Yob, is .frugal, and yet filling for the price: ' Oatnioaadropped raw anoold -Water and half a loaf of•broailaccim- prises a breakfast. Half a loot of bread, with lard as a • substitute for butter, two smoked hearings and oald wator serve tot dinner. Supper.is genorallya repetition of "theme:tallied repast, and. this prearanaino oontinues Withoift variation wook• after week, tho,, making :X10 oxoepticin. :These people; are thus enabled to live at a cost of less thau ono dollar .por week; probably -not More than hoventyl-.five °eats. They pay bout Cellte per log for baead, one goat °act for smoked. herrigg, and,a dime's valet Of raw oatmeal lasts' them several days. They grow fet oirallia diet, Which is. apparently. about ea poor .as. that • indulged , inlay Chinamen.. • '• • ' Francisco, where, if possible, his treat/tient y of his wifo -was Worse than it had been in llepr,orts conic) from Scotland of oxtensive „ it 4 .„ damaoo having been done to the turnip and Dublin oi in Quebec, It wan GOO] 00 S Othor earepe. by ' storms of dust.' "Whole fitult that be wasn't the mem ratirderor of hia wife and child iu San Francisco: When fields will have to bo sown over again. . drunk ono clay Tie let fly at her from a ie. General Sin Garnet 'Wolseloy will soon - 4. volver, and barely missed souding a ballot gd to Balmoral to receive personally 'the into Ler head ; he discharged another bar- thanks of Queon Victoria for his services at rol st one of his children, but missed his the Gape of Good Hope. Ile ':will also be aim. Ile drank straight on untirdelirium Invested witlfthe ineigitia of the highest- - - calne, as usual. En next resOlved to re: class of the Order of the Bath., :- move the family to L'ondou, 'England, and Suppose kcal wore nlivt tapossass Loa took ship accordingly,. During the voyage lier beauty ana all you desitea, aer•Oss he kept up.a lfigli state of dolirium, now a9011YOU WOOkE OeaSO to eareSs nor, How soon of her beauty be Urea. and in one of his fits of fronzyit seems to Then sing a moro rosolind ineasare' *. have struck him that a practioal way of Iteoil'islainanirucli of a treat)* in sighing tho day; clagling the matrimonial trouble would be whaose onarinsivith possession deoay. • to throw his wife overboard. lie pulled "One of the simplost ways to get rid of the passengers iuterfpreGd her from her borth by the and hair ; rats is to place within their reach a pan of her away h ' - '' took swore flour Mixed with unglackod lime, .and 'a , ,• 'ut eoi pn of water placed. begido it. The 'lime he'd do it. yet Moro the and of v ai the voyage.). eausee thirst, Itud the rats did almost diregt- In London he obtaioed a situation,. and .^ ly they drink. gave her but 3s. a week, sometimes- only . • 18d. for- tho support of' herself and throe It is -trite. that a drowning, man wilt each children.. They livecl itt a dark ;.she at mi strawrhOf the puzzle is what does he was half naked; for ho panedai1 her want with a straw ? len't big enough for a life -Preserver mid' tia. man in no : clothes and every portable artielo to got •position to onjoy cobbler,.evon if he had money for drink. All this. time he didn't forget to abuse her. Ho ugually beat her* one IttUidy." : • • " ' With a polcor.,! until ' he pawned it. *In Leoturei(on The classical essayists of * • September.of laat year he dragged her out the last .century'..,-tho,st interesting)—' We of bed byaho hair and kioked her brutally. talk of food for the mind as well as of food. .." At last she sumnioriacladm before the polio° for the body. Now a good boolt,--' • . • magistrato for his violence and lidwas.gent Sporting 'man (interrupting—he ,found it for 12 .months to Clerketwell prison; wherci: ra,thor slow)—' 'Ear, 'oar! Any gent. waut '- he is at present. The Wife idstituted a snit to do ctuythink over the Easeot Curl?' in the" Dahlia' Matrimonial* (.1ourt for 11, * SITIMERY .11414t9i.A1 S.(3PO,X.PitiC.3LIA,t1n4at14.0,brIlteaaa•ANZ410,11'^, in 77 •• - , • the judao hoard this --ta,e of cghl *yams • . , Won't 5111 tho4inSf •, Stiff&ing, liegaa6 a &foie° for separation, • Tis nut an idle oapdr. ' . So take it down obaerviog tliat it Was about tIA worst ,no : . - ' The d'eath:of tate. 'Bantle:y..1e ' • , flounced by -the London journals* jugt • . • A coil/. Juni Episcnie., • received.. Miss 'Salifloir was a native of Germany, though her early lite was passed, • Mociera scieoce haibrought the: oerk.leg mostampossiblo for tho Casual observer to *Fe ..a./4-1111i'les to a atete of perfection, -which roadors. it til-' n EnglaucL ciSuloies.,lictpaile.ipactbloottffrmisd, Warkitahluis7, the legitimate drama. Atone timn she. cletaatithe allterence between the .real and in thonatificial. Talon whs. an eininent ser- appeared as jessioa to . Charles . Kean's, ' goant-at•laav some yoars ago who had a cork •Phylock. • ,beg that was a triumph of ,artistio decep- Copyheads for Voters that Will • 'ann., None but hiaiahnatos knew for eerp clear cariacieacialasts longer than a bread- ' • tain which Was' tlici real and -which Was the mod -hoof tiekota , Welanne. the electioneer- shana linab: A wild, ayoung• wag Of , the :ing, agent, but do not burn his coals. Wish. • utter'bar,'. who kiieva the . sergeaut pretty •ever' One's good health,but drinlanoboaaas. • well, ence thought to utilizeathisaknoWlealge You can show your respect for your tarty • of the sergeant's Seoret to take in a green,: flag without dressing your wile in it. The newly -fledged young barrister. Tho set- sixpence that bitys tangle vote will ,somea . geant was addressing. h• .special" •jury at. times. sell a whole 'lacironglia Accept the • Westminster usual earnest and ache: 'candidate's assaraece, but refuse las now ' • ' • meat style, and the wag whispereci•to his. hat. Never sell year political birthaight. neighbor; .'You oee•laaw hot: old' •Buzfliz is .for a gallon 'of porter. Tell the' truth and ,. ovorhis ease a now, Pil bet Ton sovereign I'll ran this pia into hie log up to the head,. and ho'llneaerinotioe it, lie's soaiibsabed • in big base. Ho's a• most oxtraordinary inan in that-waya.. This was more-the:a the greenhorn emild SIVA11.0W, SO he took tab' bet; .The Wag ,cireiv -a large "1 -.,in from Inc waistcoet; leaning forward drave• at Up to the head into the sergeant's leg.. A yell that troao tho blood' of. all' Who beard it, that maae tbe liaia jutY• stand on end 'nod baus'ea.theaudges wia abiaast to'. fall . • of married misery that ova/. camo tafore ri..anomatsociatoesthofoutilwicass papolv. him.' • • ' Ma. Goober was a gentleman who. lived. itt tho Moamon country. He had but oho wife, and noverthought of takinganymoro till '0,110 day ' an older tackled hire .atid. told him solemnly it ayes his; aoligious -duty to seal uato himself h fow-othersiaahlr. Gavel= went holt° anci Sealy inteamod his' wife of 'what '• the elder • had,' said, and Mrs. Goober seal silo would have no objection . providod the .elciet avealcl come round end ...ague the case with her pioualy. Goober told the older, and tha elder dropped around.. smiled 'sweaty as Mr. Goo- ber advaiiceato moot But, alaftl that snail° 'Wits his last—for a week or two. The mixt thing ho know he Was skipping around tlio room with Ma coatalitupthe beak cual his hat knocked into pi, whilo Atria Goober whooped dp with a, broodastick. • lie finaily junipodout of a windowattl oseaped With his life, a' sadder mai a 'wiser man. The neat timo ho met Goober „ho told'him". he had had it celestial revolation by \vital ho (Goober) 'was relieved, from tho necessity of taltimainiy more wites, Thoouo he lia,a (Mrs, Goober) Would. count. for almost it thousand in the Now Seatsalemi : • • Tho Winnipogcorreapondent Of the Hata faa Chroniale„ writing on tho 21st, Of May says': Tho dountry avithin 50 miles west of this is **ad, SO 11111Ch SO that tho pasfieitaa gerstehmor Margottola List Wook mad° a straight, pours° eoross tho. prairie instead of following the sorpontine course' 6.$ tbe rivor Assitiboiao. It naust bo bane: in Inindthat theso boetia. although carrying hundreas.of passengers and an annionaity of freight, do not draw so much water as our acoatago. ing stoaniors, tho avorago arapght being about 18 inches. . aff, ran through the court. By Soya, it's the wrong leg, and. I yo lest my nionoyr ex- elaimod the dismayed and conscience- stricken wag, quite regardless Of the pain he had inflicted Upon, tho learned sea. pant. • _ . Theeffect of the Licenshig Act in ,On - taxi°, if we are correctly informed, has been • to throat flax liquor trade', to a groat extent, into the hands of k.eopers of low dens, which aro sald to abound. itt tho outskirts.: 'of Toronto', and which are Sao, to be far was° in overy respect* than taverna kept by responsibIo publicans; while at the same time a patronage of • the most •unconstitaa tional and clangermia kiiid is entrusted to a patty. goyernmeat. The English bishop' who, in hisaipoech against prolubitiou, said ' he would rather have tho peoplo fate than sober, put his sontitnent auto euobjection-, able Riau ; but if lie had paid' that tho pea' Hada evils of sumptuary . legislatioli wore a heavy set off to any good that it could do, he would have. had .experionee on his .aide., IasPeetion and thoauso of -,detectives are in- evitabla concomiteatit of the .iiyatena ; but in communities such as oars9 inspection foal the tiao ef detectivea mean corruption.. To incluce the whole human raco. entirely to renounce the stimulants whioli have so long formoa a part of ita mixed. and arti- ficial diot, is surely a very difficult tinder. taking. The introduction of light , and . wholosomo, in pla.co of heavy and unwhole- some bovorages, is far more fonaiblo. . In. tho value -growing countries, the poopie, 05 a rulo, are temperate, to the ratiolial sense of tho torm lind whialcey itt tho real lanai, and no mean OX0ran; Wonla bOliativo wine> if Canada could snooped. in At peoduction. —Tho Bystander. Ihrnt Suriaccaa Oaertatmaaa-A. raro RV, gioal oporation Wag performed. by. 1)r. Athens on a young wotnitn named Halmos at the general hospital, Toronto, on Satur- day. Silo .wits suffering. from a groat on- bargement of tho rightantorior jawbono Tho bone was reinovea and. tho pationt in doing woll. • The operati* was withossoci by it large number ot loading pliasiciaus anti surgeons. Whon tho consus-talter, wishing to• corn.- plimont, said to a oitizon : ' Ali, sir, yeti'vf3 mt wifo Of a hundred la tho lady grabbed a rolling -pin and healed ia on hitn, oying : You villein; I told. you 'I was Italy 25. Don't you daro to put it (Iowa as 1001' ,A. Froneli writer thinks that Akiaco and Lorreino aro 05 littlo Germanized now. as thoY weiotten yoare ago, Limo juice .au d—what ?this hot woathor Social clacks et Pittsburg wore much intorested on Wednesday itt tho ennounco- mcvnt of the marriage of John 'II. Shoon- borgor, tho Iron -King,' to Miss Alico Taylor, of Now York. Shoenberger's first wifo died two years ago. Haig °Vier nialalo age, end ha gave his bride as a wilding gift O elioque for $1,000,000. • Sho iv, it noted belle, and the mister -in-law ol tho rootor of Trinity church.. Thoy go to Eurppo for it yeara , lloodpt discoveries 'in Qationslana laivo lod to • a determination to oxnapino tho groat attach of country lying between Cloncarry find tho nathern gold fields, which is Bald to be a virgin district as far 08 gold minors aro concornod. A party has rocontly started to exploro thoroughly the auriforona Country at Willas creek. or jglit laussiaa commending cora tmt,,aa won have Gorman names. AL. astonish the coinnaission.—Punch. a• • • • Sitiegi•.27 x,tx;faordionry:. • • • • Most Of our' readers Rayon° doubt beard • • of the sitedess 61 theaparacesa of skin -graft- • lug. This is flap mode of healing ulberated ' surfaces by the application. of pieces of fresh akin takeu front other bodice. • But, • a • according to a stattment in the New York . , • Herald, this remedial Method haa now ,ro-• oeived. a degree of improvement which- ' vastly *raises its iinpertance.An evident • •. dialoulty abont skin-grafting'lias been the a pain causeil to the, subjects from whom the . grafts are taken. la is now geld; hoivoVer, diet Dr. fairdnor, house surgeon: of the • 13ellevuo HosaitaLaies discovered that the ';• ' althatakee from a freshly decoased corpse is . perfectly.offeetive for the purpose of grafting. . Our New York contomporary.' says this ' grafting is eoiatinually going on,at Bellevue; •aud, give accotnits:of some Successful cases. • • - Sax Sroaa AND tam Eraacas.--aTho sun's ' fate is again spotted: A small spyglass slime h row of spots north: of his•equatota ' ranniagin a noatheasr dfrectioll, and it group of haat) Spots just coming into view'. inound tao castern, edge Of the diso. With O suitablo toleacopetho ricighigaf the sur- . faca about the spots and the broken edges • ; and gloomy deptbs of tho vaist ofiverns can be studied. jupitor„ -now very, bright in.' the emay morning skyais haoteniog toward. liis perihelion or point of aidareat approach. to th.0 Anna and sthrio tatronomors haaie " conjectuaecl that it is his influent° that is throwing the great oential orb into suoli it. • • stato of perturbation: • The periocia 'of greatest sun -spot activity; at any : rate, correapond pretty closely with •Jupitoras „ perihelia. Whotliet the faction. • of these • . forces causesacYolooeff and other atmos- • • . plioridal disturbances on our &not itt an unsottlea. 'question, but them tire* two thifigs that the prcaonoo of the sun -spots • promises with certainty, to wit, north- ern • aald of ono of tho lady Tory menabors in • 1 liahts and utusual elf:di:ice' activity. A. .t0C.kti stiery " tho Ontario Logislaturo Whicb haft not pre- viously boon publialied. A frienct conVors- ing with hini happened caautilly to allude ' to .tho proposal to construct the canal • across the, fathoms of .Panaina, and poem, hited 011 tho enormous 900 of tho iniclea- taking. The Tory Loofa member --whose anto-olection mind:seam weal that he did. , not know tho first thing ebout Ontario ' politics, but promised to do tho beat ho could to learn if elected—am:ilea to hie friend, and with amazomont hi his Oyes remarked, You don't meau to say the Ontario Govornitiont prop000 to do that. as. Their oxtravaganco IS becoming unbearable: r fawn vote against Rio proposal when it is • brought up in tho Logiolaturea Ana then ho wondered why hip friond laughea. Thor° aro morals in all things. A Tandy . fernier Was saying to his man What a mean looking chickon that 'Whet was it ovor hatellea for ?' To prova'nt tho egg • boiag thrown at a toaious,political spoakora• said lie. .