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The Tyre Agee.
Folks were happy as days were long
Ii . the old Arcadian times:
When life Beeined only a dance and sone
•In. the sweetest of all sweet climes.
Our world growbigger, and, stage by stage,
Ati the pitiless years have ro1e1,'
We've quite forgo tten the Golden Age,
And come to the Age of eold.
Timesweet by bi a sheepish way
Upon Thessaly's plains of yore,
Intim nineteenth century lambs at play
Mean Mutton, and uothing more.
Our swains at present are far too sage
To live as one lived of o11;
Se they couple the crook of tho Golden Age
With a hook in the Age of Oeld.
From Corydon's reed the mountain retina
Rasa news of his latest name ;
And Tityrus made the 'woods resound
With echoes of Daphne's name.
They kindly left us a lasting gauge
of their musical art, we're told;
And the Pandean rape of the Golden Age
Bringe mirth to the Age of Gol(1,
DwellerEi in huts,and in marble balls-
rxew the ellePhordessup to tho queen -
Cared little for minuets, and less for sbawle,
And nothing for erinoune,
Bu t now simplicity's not the rage,
And it's funny to think now cold
kedress they wore in the Golden Age
Would seem in the Age of Con
Electric telegraph, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons and steam,
Are. little events that bave come to pass
g ;
And, spitebf Lempriere's dazzling /awe
give --though it might -seem
A hundred years of the °Olden Age
h or a year of the Ago °Wald. •
• - isteart mecums, • , -
When an individual is reported to halm'
died of diaease of the heart," we are•in the
);tabit of regarding it as an inevitable event,
as oomething which could not have Ivan
foreseen. or prevented, and it Is too moll
the habit, wben persons suddenly fell down
dead, to report the "heart" as the cense ;'
this sibinees allinquiry and investigation, •
and "'avert the trouble and inconvenience of
a repulsive*" poet -mortem.!'- ..A. truer report
would have a tendency to save many lives..
It is through:, a report of "disease of the
heart" that many an cipiuna•eater is let off
into the grave, which covens atniaeia his fol.
...1ye and his eramee.;the-brataleredriniter.,..teen:
: quietly slides round the corner tints, and is
, • imard.olsicularire
' • of aiseade of -the -heart" is the ma-ntle of
. charity which the politic coroner and the
P sympathetic physician throw arbund the -
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• • graves of "genteel people' ,
• At a late scientific Congress at Straebfirg,
• it was reported that of sixty-six persons
who had suddenly died, an immediate and
faithful post-mortem showed that only two
• persons had any heart affection whatever:.
• one sudden death only,- in thirty-three, from
disease of the heart. Nineout of the sixty-
six died of apeplexy.-:one out of every seven
forty-mx-more than two out of
• thiee-died of lung affections, half of them
of "congestion of the •lungs," that lathe
Twigs Were ab ull of blood they could not
work; there was not room for air OuOugh
get in to support life. It is then of oon-
'derable 'practical interest to know some
• the common, every -day causes of this
•'" ;cation of tho lungs," a disease which,
• • the *Ores •above being true, kills thee
times as many persons at shOrt warning as
• apopl "ty and' heart disease together. Cold
feet ; ,ht shoes; tight clothing; • costive
bowels sitting still • until chilled 'through
• after h ing been warmed itp by.laber or a
•,!•oragrh ,•y•Wedk.; going toosuddenly from a
---eloserh Aederoem,-•as a -lounger or-lietether
• or speed while the bedy is weakened by
continued application erabstinenee or heat-
:- • --ed-by the • effort of a, )(NIT alarm ; theee •
• • are the fruitful causes of sudden death in -
the form et "congestion of the, lungs ; "
but which being falsely reported as "disease
of the heart " and regarded as an inevitable
event, 'throve people off *th ei r guerd, instead
of pointing ihem plainly tothe true canes,
all•of which are., aveidable, and -eery easily
• so, en a general rule, when the mind has
been once intelligently drawn to the
• subjeet.-Jaall's !Internal of Health ,
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• &demise Jottings.
Recent oe$ctri dredging indieate that ne
." -Marine life exist": at agreater depth than15-
fathoms. .. _ '
'The Swiss coleny NOrtli has
digievered : the mulberry tree grasys
" with as Muckluxuriance as the cherry, and.
0 that the soil 'Ind cliniate of that ,stete alike -
foretell the ftiture production of silk under -
the most favorable cenditionS. .
M. 5a-yel says that the fatigue exPerithiced
• '. . by the yes from' reading ,•with artificial
light is rtue more to the' want of light than
to its excess. Even in A very brightly ithim-•
' • inated room the pupils are very much more
. . dilated than by daylight, and this dilation
produces fatigue. ,, •.
In the writings of Confucius, the great
Chinese 'philosopher; ()Tura the ;following
pasiage "-As we use a glass to examine
'the forms of things, so must we study en-
• • tic/laity in order to.understend the present,'"
Thia sentefiee points most unmistakably to
the use of: Magnifying glasses- long before
the time or the writer, who died 478 years
B. C.
- A French electrician has devised an in=
.• genieue electrical low water signal for steam
boilers, which indicates the etistingwater
level at any distance. from the generator,
and when the water has sunk, below a Care
,tain level rings e eigtal bell, .while at
the same tiine the sign " low 'welter" ep-,
•- pears on the inclicatieg tablet. • •
. A very slight 'declivity Suffices tegive the
erunniug motion to water. Three' incheS Per
toile inc sraeoth; straight thaunel gives le
•-e'velueity-otallnattlifel miles an hour. The •
•Ganges,• Which gathers the viatere of the
Himalaya mountains, the "loftiest in the
world, Wept 180 miles from -its mouth, only
800. feet above the sea, and to fail these 800
feet in the long courge -of the river is eaid
V require More than it month.
' The elephant hunters et Colon and: Ine
' • dim corroberate Sinbad's store; that ele-
' Phants," When they feel the approaeh of
death retire to .a solitary end inaceesiable
. valley, and there =dictein peace. The
super-
intendaut of elephants to the Geyer:le:tont
• of India states, that no living man has ever
' „name across the corpse Of a wild elephant
that has died it natural death.
, With so simpld an ,aitlelb as it red cab-
--bage it very old bub pretty Iittl ehernical7.
'experiment mai, be made by the young peo:
• /ha -with the result of amusing and aston-
ishing those aroued them. The *effeets
May bo etriltingly shown in this menner ;
• • Cut.theee leaves of the cabbage into srindl
pieces, and, after placing them in it basin,
. • pour a.nint of boiling Water over theni let-
ting thein• stand an hour; then pour Off the
liquid inte a dectinter. It will be of it Mao
. • .• blue color. Then take four wino. glasses;
• into one put six drops of strong Vinegar ;
into another six drops of solution of Soda
into third, the SUMO quantity of it strong
- solution of alum ; and let the fourth glass
remain empty,rill up the glasses from
the decanter, and the liquid poured into
• the glass containing the acid will quickly
'Change to a, beatitifal -rod; that pouredwith
the Bode will be a fine green ; and that pour-
ed into the erapty glass will remain un.
changed.
There is a rumor that -another inaportant
fader is about to be imported into the af•
. faint Of the Scottish peerage, by the mar.
440 of the Dowaget Dueliese of RoXbUrgho
With a =Mueller,
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'The Latest tyles SMet Whaler '
FASHION'S FROLICS., I
Diresseng.
HATS AND SONNETS,
• a
chatty ILacecriptions see accent recreissi
lanovagmes.
Tile newest combination for dreesee in-
' eludes the changeable silks and satins,
which have- beeneso long absent from the
.naarket. These blend effectively with the
various and many- tinted brooades and
nineties. •
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The loose ulster of light cloth is made
with Bussion or Chinese eleevee. 'They
are worn in all colors, from 'ecru tinted
cloth trimmed ou the eollar and sleeves.
with beaver f ur, to the darkest mixed goods
and black. The dolman continues to be
the leading shape for the riek silk and
velvet materials and for black cloth, and
in the latest impertations the pelisse is
occasionally seen.
Miss Hilary Anderson purchased. recently
at St. Loins a diamond necklace and Pen-
dant for 115,000.. The necklace is composed
of nineteen. verielaege_e_teld„„,heleutitnitlyee
Mende, all-firit-quality gems. From the
nocklacefeeuspended a pendant of exqui-
site beauty and workmanship, Which -is one
mass of -• diamonds: In -the ventre, and
directly ebove it, are two very large "soli-
taire diamonds of five carats each; Sur-
roundedby eeventy-seven smaller diamonds,
et) arranged as to' give the appearance of
'one inoreense solitaire of.great Value.
Short English walking jackets et. light
cloth* are found too convenient to -discard;
and are made of light colored cloth, They,
are :usually double-breasted and trimmed
with plueh: or • fur on the revers, pockets
and cuffs. Mittens representing owls'
heads; . boars, etc., .about large ao
quarter or half dollar, are used far fasten-
,ing an ornament. Fur buttons and bars
with Cords are -also used. Sable and mink
"fureirenecasionallrused,:with-theeriehebro.,-
endes for linings, and the, ends are cord,.
bided avitirttratich" fringesof somenfeethe-
inost elegant imported dolmans. . Ermine*
. and squirrel are, however, the, principal
linings of outside garments where' colored
quilted satin or plush is not used. .
The Sarah Bernhardt scarf for the neck
is a burlesque beside the scarfs which.have
hitherto, appeared • are Models or grace, but
which were already too large for elegance.
These newer additions .to the toilet are
'absurdly large, "They are fully twelve
'inches wide, and are tied close under the
chin in. immense fluffy ...bowls', a la Bern-• .
beech, .and aro supposed to give breadth to
the appearance of a yes.), slender -Jam
They, however, haVe • a contrary effect.
The.face looks -.longer and thinner. -than -
ever above these blaring wing. -like bows,
which give the weerer a Dorksnia Sheldon
appearance, suggestive of the znost ridicu-
lous and mietheprovokieg feminine el -farmer
eters portrayed by the immortal Dickens.
The following dress nate svcirn.et e recent
bridal reception in San Francisco A. royal
purple satin; lined With eritneen ; dead gold
plaques atclorned the sides; a drapery of
eau grabefully'depending from
the-right'shoulder,• was canght 'tip at the'
- base. of• the -tiain ;; artistic - jardinieres bar•,
tiered theihkirt, from wh ich arose.. vines of
esinilaX; neck mad-- arnise and
• branching"off atetifo beek.
a sort of .bower, which :allele:zed an ' ertistie
ruillikearrangement of pal -cocks' feathers;
- tiny harebells wreathed the brow; and gar-
lands of Sunflawerwand tiger lilies fell in
graceful festoons from the shoe iders.
"each plaque a; motto appropriate to •the
occasion i was. pUnited, •• • • .
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In the composition. :of 'bonnetathe 'same
.combieatione of rialy blended satins and
pluelies prevail:tee during last niontli, and
jet, steel-, gold, cashmere -end Colored beads
are still uSecl in proftiSion, ,With Star:handy.
'deeigned ornaniente of gilt; steel and jet.
The. small Panchen; composed of a puff of
plush three inches .wide; a beetleand fea-
•ther pr Small ostrich tip kir occasionally a
flower tincl.bud at one side, with;letrings of
silk or lace: is the extreme eximiple of the
. small bonnet worn: As if to concentrate
the Sealieth Of the capetes they are being
'Made of seal, tiger end- etter.tur. bealskin
is also ,used ie the aireposition of larger
hate end, bonnets. in .the piece 'of plush:
They are trimmed with birds andfancy
feather ornaments and heavy silk and elle-
• nille cords, with seal -balls in place of tassehs
at the ends. : •• -• • .
• The .well,knewn . muff 'has at last been
Modernizedby the, artietie spirit' which,
pervedee the dressineking 'of teday•frone
the cylinder of fee to- a beautiful Combina-
tion of . the 'chew' fabric', combined with
feathers,: plush, .flowers, Ince,satin and
ribbons, Making it an (Ornamental, as Well
tia uperel, .accessory to the Wet: • They,
are made flat, witha pocket opening at
the.bep for handkerchief and purse, and
are usually 'lined with quilted satin ;and
sometimesier. , The lateet novelties are
ornamented- with beads of owls, foxes,
squirrels, etc.,- 'and alga-. With tiger arid.
turkey dowel. The old-fashioned. reticule
admired by - our grandmothers is very
popular for the. s'azneperposes as the
pocket Muffs and is - made of" the. same
materialsand used, wheu a muff . is nor
iiatdede to protect the hands. • . •
There ite at present no indication of any
change ie ladies" bonnets andliats. Nearly
1Labonnets,mithonghLoi*rMhataaff -
varieus Shapes pro 'worn hy many to WhOM
they are more becoming :than the smell
beiniets;: .and also by young Miseere who
leek bettee without the strings, which are
often the Only- difference hetween.a bonnet
and a hat: The small capote now worn
fashionable rival of the loge ebonnets
which heve been imported, and it is•onlY a
question of aefew weeks whether the larger
or smaller styles Will. prevail through the
winter or whether, as will' probably be the
case,a comprOmise will .be effected and a
bonnet of modern Size will becOme • popu-
lar, which Will not leave the 'head in the
preSent• exposed eondition, and render it,
as now, it prorlo neuralgia and influenza,
EVen nOW the large bonnets are wart by
'the few* leaders who de not objeet t� being
Made cortspiduous by tsdepting 55 innova-
tion en existing modes. • • •
Short skirts are the rule always for the '
'street, and also with adjusts:bier trains for
special occasions -for receptions and in all
eases except where the most elaborate full
these toilet isedeinanded, Yoe entertain
ments Where claming is to:form a fart of
'the' einusement they aro 00 much more
convenient than an unmanageable train
that they aro almost irivariably -morn by.
young ladies, leavieg more Item for the
dieplay of the dignified trained toilets of
,the older married Whig. The ma-
terials used forstreet Suits are alto used in
evening and dinner ,dresses, and, though
the higher colors are employed or those
occasions, dark 'and subdned rich
colon awl `combinations are 'quite aS much
employed, Brocades, ph:miles and satins ha,ye
displaced in a great measure the piano eilke
but these are still used as. portiOns of the
Various trimmings. Basques haere taken
tho place of the polonaise, except in the
grateful drapery, where the back pieces
form the skirt drapery and the long ends
aro either brought up over the ehoulders
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and tied ai the neels, or carried over th
front breadth and knotted at the knee
The skirte ere finished et the edge with
plaitings, either the fine knife plaitings or
the wider side or box plaits. Above these
the skirt is sometimes out in points or in
reveres and turned back or • otherwise
arranged to allow the plaitiugs beneath.
The front end side breadths are trimmed
in almost any roamer, or not at all if the
wearer prefers. On some of the richerst
garments made in New York-whiclt are -
the equals of any Parisian couteetion-the
front breadth is alightly 'opened down the
centre and puffings or plaitings are ingerted.,
N. 0. O.
Mall There be n llguddle
The New York Suuday Courier says :
"411 revisions of rituals in every associa,
tion or 'society have tendencies to lead to
confusion, and even with the greatest care
a muddle is almost eertainto follow. HON
far this will be the case with the revision
of the Work of the Independent Order of
Odd-fellowas is yet to be seen. Old les.
sons, taught carefully and ea,reeetly studied,
are not easily eradicated. The same may
be said pf errors, It is far easier to learn
• a thing right at first than to remove
erroneous impressio'nin We have been.
-informed thattlneritual ,was- referred-loy-
the Sovereign Grand Lodge beets to the
Revision Committee for certain alterations
with -power '; eenseqnently the work as
exemplified before that body will not be the
adopted ritual. It is stated that in some
parts of thestate the incorrect rendering
of the revised work has been promulgated,
and that the only simon pure' rendition
of it hae been given in this -vicinity. There
again we are informed that the Revision
Oorntnitten members do not all agree as' to
howthe ritual should be rendered. eall tine
is very likely to lead to confusion, and get
tne order into a muddle).- If -the nevi,.
sion Committee cannot agree in the first
place, the resiht may be easily determin-
ed. If 'the greild representatives of thia
state to the Savereign Grancl Lodge cannot
agree so as to promulgate thosite ver-
-mon of the-Tevised-work-Fhow-is Tossible
that the ' district deputies ' will be sable to
tratISMitit-ttrtheirlblIglirr7T110! ritratri
supposed to be uniform in all parte --of: the
United States. How fa;r will it be So after
Janumy appears to be . a matter of grave
dcubt. 'First be sure, you itre right ; then
go ahead' is an old maxim. But it seems
some have been going ebead before they
have proven themselves to be right, and, if
this be so, there certainly will be a mud
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die '-with no ono to help it. All will think
they have the work correctly, and Will
obstinately 'contend against those *vho
might Beek to set them right where MOT.
are wrong -persisting in the latter rather
than adinihat they rneY possibly have
been in error.' We fear there will be te
muddle! --for- some -little-time ; and -we
earnestly belie. theemus, if any there
should be, will -not be planted too deeply
as to be beyond remedy."
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• , .1Preiv1ncini Alipointinentii. .
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-His Hon,: Thomas 'Miller, 'judge • of the
County Court of Flatten, end John Dewer,
clerk of the peace, and Thema": Remy,
. registrar of deeds 61, that county, to be,
coministignerts perdedicnna potestatem fox•
' Milton. Tlionaas Collies, of . Bane° Mines,
to be clerk ofthe Second Division Court of
thQ District of Algoma, instead of Belie-
:min:R. Thempstineaalsiguede L. G,Willeiee•
of Dorchester Statiori; to :be' bailiff of the
Ninth Division Court of Middlesex, instead
h\
of Johi Beverley, resigned. fIonn1.3eVerley„
of Lon ou East, to be bailiff of the Seventh
Divisio Court • of Middlesex, ' instead of
Albert.S ith, resigned. : Thomas Giles, of •
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Apsley, to be bailiff of the. Fifth Divisien
Court of P terbore'; instead cif Alexabder
Browu,'resh, ed. R. E. Miller, of Bruce
Mines, to be baliff of the Second Division
Court of the 'sti'ict of Algoma, instead. of
ThomaelSCallin resigned. '' ,
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. , The Provincial Grange. 2
Toueneo,Dec.1.6.The•Provincia1 Grange
was in session againyesterday. The com-
mittee :on railways\ recommended that
steps bo taken to cliOckthe growing ten.
'dency of railways to ; ccombine for the lair-
poSeof increasing freight rates. The 0m-
i/dace 'ou Cemmercial relations. reported in.
*fever of encouraging the battle trade with .
England; mei as to the necessity of raisihg'
a better. cslaiFi of stock for that market: The
.report of the committee on fire insurance'
showed- that 306 had been iisued.
by tbe Dominion Prange:Fire Lasurance
Coemany up to the present date; and the
committee n.hoped .thet in view of the de- ••
termined opposition offered the coinpany
since its organization thet the. Members of
the grange would give it their beat:Sup:pert
The committee on banking reported that
as Saturday We's a prominent merket day
they thought the banks should be kept
opeu till 3 eclock it the afternoon of that
• . AntteRi Canadian Notes,
. Robert Trihe,-of Elora, shot twelve deer
in Muskoka. •
IsTew elothieg will be issued' to the lOtli
Rciyals, Toronto, shortly. .
A sneak thief state 81.60 trona the house
of James; MarslialliEnphemia, afew nights
. ago.
The GlielPly Presbytery has appointed
the firstentire week in janniery to be it
week,' of Special prayer. • ' ••
Mr. Robert Wood, of the fith cOnceision
of Turitherry, shot a, wild cat on Mn. tadie!s
farm, Turnberry, on Tneeday last. The
animal measured thirty-six inches from tip
to tip, stood twentpone inches Irigh, fifty-
three inches stretch -of legs, and weighed
twenty.fiye pounds. •
• Mr.,Greener in his evidetice before the
coroner's inquest on the Stellarttin catas-
trophe stated, 0, rerearkable exaniple of the
extraordinary fore of pent np coal gas
which came under his own observation.
HO said when he was underground manager
of the Foord pit that on one Occasion
block of col about fifty feet long, ten feet
deep, and six feet in, breadth *ae disen.
gaged from the seam and reised completely
up by the fore") of a eamiatity of this gas
Which lay pent up.in tho 'It is said'
theta sudden change in the atmospherics
Pressure often brines about this reetit.
Law' EXAEI9ATIO5E1.--: n order to encour-
age students in, their work and to reward
ability, the 13enliom Qf therLaw Society,
deeided ta- bestow medals on the
students who 'Armies first, second oe third
places in honors at the final examiziatioes
of the above society. The following .condi.
Sons ev3 'Md. down The first place honor.,'„
mail is entitled to it gold medal, if he has
psessaboth the intermediate examinations
with loners ; the seeond to a 'silver Medal
if he has piteeeed both the intermediate ex't"
=Mations 'With honors, otherwise, to a
bronze medal; the third to a bronze medal
if he haepassed both the intermediate ex,
arninetions with honors, The diplomas of
ciesh will also certify to his being it modal.
list. Passing, without an oral will, be
regarded as with honors.
-" I say, Ina." exclaireed it little mint
,of 1$, " do you know svliat the pYreteehnical
remedy is for a crying baby I " '14 Goodnese,
grrieious ine, no I novae heard of4tmoli. tie
thing." "Well, ma, it's a roelzet:"
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FARM AND GARDEN.
Aroarsd, the Vire Chats with
garal iteaders.
331.JDOUT Or USEFUL INVOIMA,TIOINT•
- (Compiled by a Practidal,Agricuiturist.)
commix mum
Up early in the morning
Just at Cie pe,q) c aay,
Straining the mint in the dairy,
• Turning the COWS away -
Sweeping the floor in the kitchen,
, Uaking the beds upstairs,
Washieg tne breakfast dishes,
Doting the Parlor chairs.
Brusbing the crumbs from the pantry,
Hunting for eggs in the barn,
Cleaning the turnips for dinner,
Spinning the stocking yarn -
Spreading the whitening linen
Down on the bushes below,
Ransacking every meadow
Where the strawberries grow.
Searching for " fixings" for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream, .
Rinsing the pails and strainer
Down in the running stream -
Feeding the geese andturkeys,
Malting the pumpkin pies,
Jogging the little one's cradle, •
• Driving away the flies.
Grace in every motion,
inervere tette,- •"•-- '
'4 Beauty in form sod feature,,•
Thousands might covetto own --
Cheeks that rival spring roses,
• • Teeth the whitest of pearls, ' -
One of these' country maids is worth '
score of your city girls.
• , TRIMMING roe warn%
Those who wish to winter •their live
stock well, and b ing them out in spring in
preiseworthj: condition, should begin now
by giving all the animals a little fodder Of
some kind early in tlae morning. While the
air is old and the grassfrozen, a, few corn-
stalks or other food will be eelished, and
, do rquoh good: It -is very •:•-eseehtial when.
-foddering cattle or'Sheepin the' field;
especially wben young animals tun with
older °nen, thet thefood should be pitt over
a \vide space, So that eechlittle heap will
be:tht a distance fromothers,so tnat all'
aaneat with:out being „hooked., kicked Or
-drivenawaye_bee.the strongest, -Some lazy
pamle vvill-throW fodder •. largeTeaps se
near together that the strongest pat all
from the weak, th ua depriving those most
needing feed from hav1ng any. The farm-
ers who are net sure of their Men
being -reliable, should, pay particular at•
• tention to the comfort and wel•i-doing of
everything new; or 'two or three earelees
men may cause them losses greater thee
the whole of their wage's. Inung weanling
colts, calves and 'Iambe . should have par-
• Soutar 'atteetion .e,t tbie season of .the year,
and they might to be by themselves, so that
they will not be abused by older stock:' „
• 'air emir Tur "Bonse.
eLeteny_o• ne_whe has tilt', •eareeet.aliersee
these. cold, ftnety mornings, deliberately
grasp in his hand a piece of iron ;.indeed,
let him touchit to the tip of his tongue,
and -then let thrtist the bit into the
.meuth. of his horse, if he has the heart to
do it. The herse isan animal of hormone
orgenization. His mouth. is forined of de-
lidate glands ,and. tisseeS. ' The tempera-
ture of the blood *is the same as in the
human being, itinVas in man, the mouth is,
'the Warnielie" part of the'liticlY,
we repeat, -the . irritation that .would' tea
caused • the liumaii; . and consider that, if
, not te the same ' degree,*.st 11, the enfteri
:Wanda ifivery great.. . And it is not
it Momentary :pain. Food is eaten with
diffioulty, and the' irritation.; repeated clay
'after clay, causes lees of appetite' and: loss
of strength. Many; a. horse 'ha become'
. worthless from 110 other (mdse. than this.'
• liENT4MOT (MOWING AS •AN INvESTMENT.
TheprospectivedeVelopinent of the,beet
.riegai
r ndustry in Quebec' has: led aar Ow!
tario. farmers to bestqw.inCreased attention
on the sugar beet: An •interesting 'experi-
ment has been' conducted ,by Mr. P. D.
Tilsou; of Tilsonieurge With the. ebject of
•deciding whether,this crop will remunerate
the farmer Tsva and three-eighths acres
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were Sewn, the .seerl: apPareutly
nuked, fee about °he -third et the land had,
no beets on it. 'The total. Outlay was 1$55.,
eize:•prepairlog ground, seed and. sowing -46;
nultivation; 035 ; haryeeting and 'pitting,
.When the crop was . ripe 'half • an.
sare
was Measured, topped and teanied to
the market scales 'end weighed. The resUlt"
was 10,525 lbs., equal tO eighteen and alialf
tens per acre; ' orthtrtY-fOur tope for the
two and three -eighth acres:.' Had there
been a beet sugar fadtory in operation here
lie would have received 114 a ton for them.
Below is the'result ThirtYtfoun bus -of
beets "at §4 t'18.6••• • less ca-ftf raising 555'"
talealee:for protit;181. Had the seed been
'good and .the ground Well ebee'red witlf
beets, it is tie:eight therewoeld,,have been.
• telly twenty-four tons* per aere, iti which
eaee the yield Would have • been fifty-seven
thee, andthe profit '•173, for the cost of
raising would . not hive been increased.
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This s .a fevora.ble test for the 'farmer, 'ma
She -whole work Was done'by hired. labbk,
The soil on which. they were • grown was
the common:sand that is .sci plentiful in
Tilsonburg""). : ' . • .
• - • MIXT .0AIMEN.,
Winter Proteetion."-:-Many plants are
killed by taro much protection. For exani-
strawberries are ' hardy, and the
covering of straw, marsh hay, etc., that is
recommended for the is not so much to
shield from cold as to. prevent frequent
feeezing and thawingof the .soil. ' The
covering should be mainly around, and not
upon the plants. Shrubs that are not
quite hardy do not require' bundling up,
as was thought neeessery not many years
ago, when mOre plan•ts were smothered
than benefitted :by. the covering. :A. little
brush, or better -some eVergreen boughs
placed clotse to 'the shrub will ward off
the severe weds; •reodify sudden changes
of temperature, and be a surdcient pro
-
Motion. Tenderlatspberries must be bent.
down, and covered with earth before
freezing prevents it.
TilEATMENT•Oy.
Zang :Will lay up to ,Chrietinas, if they
have warn quarter13. A manure shed;
where rnixed =nuke throws off consider-
able wernith, and which is closed in, bet
well ventilated, is an excellent place for
fowls. • They are kept mann and conefcirt•
able, their droppings:are all savedegoing to
enrich the manure, and they keep on lay.
ing; oftenall Winter. At noon feed, in
open wes;ther, soft food -that is boiled
'potatooS mixed with bran and aorinneal, or
something or the hind; night, givo. a
good feed of whole grain, throwing down
enough to toll them off •tho Moots for an
early breakfast, unless thereby yon will be
feeding an areny of late all night. In Snowy
and frozen weather, feed three times a day,
end give only what' they will run after at
-otteh .meal.
'EXTENSIVE 1?011/NO. •
The famous Graedin farm; in Dakota,.
produced this year 187,287 bushels of *heist
On 6,621 zeros of land; an average of 23 140
butilield to the -acre, nine -tenths of which
was "No.' 1, herd."' The Gremlins. pro.
'rioters, claim that 37,60 beshels ofe this
crop will pay all eosts'of cultivation, har-
vesting and 'marketing, leaving 100,000
btu:hobs to represent the net profit. This,
at 75. t� 80 emits the bushel, Which bae
been the range at the reeeiving station a of
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the North Peeitio road, is at least S75,000,
it very fair profit for a farmer who has no
heavy rental to pay. The proprietors are,
therefore, encouraged to put in 8,000 acres
next year.
OTEEn NOTES.
A. correspondent of the Fruit Recorder
says his observation, extending over many
years, goes to show that dry rot in apples
18 caused by poverty of the soil or want of
moisture at eome period of growth. Some
applea may be more subject to it then
"others. The same kind of apples will he
affeeted or free from it according to the
situation of the orchard -those planted on
deep riab soil are generally free from it,
while those on shallow or poor soil are
often affected.
8. nervous, excitable 'steer is not as pro-
fitable to feed as a lymphatic one with
broad, deep chest, for this last is seldom
disturbed much by anything -he feeds well,
sleeps well, and fats well.
The largest bog in the country is a Poland -
China, 4 years old this spring, lately on ex-
hibition at Junction City, Reuses. Hie
length is 7 feet, girth of neck ,64 feet ; girth
of chest, n feet ; girth or centre, 8 feet;
width mime the hips, 20 inches; anst weight,
1,532 pounds.
A. well known and successful wool mer-
chant says that unwashed Cotswold wool
'will not to.clay- sell fox mine than 25 cents
per pound in any market in the United
States. ' 'Yet it shrinks far less in scouring
than do the finewools. At present the best
selling wool seems to be that produced by
topping half or three-quarter blood Cotswold
ewes with Merino rams. -American Stook -
man and Farmer: •". •
"Ttustees.cainwd°,1rsanteupdayWeerasewheilr1Lremernber
that 'the school trustee nominations take
place on the 22nd inst., and the elections
on the 20th.
_The Christmas examinations fer Tiniver.
'shy College siia the Sebool of Practical
Science begin early next week;
Some very curious information is given -
in • the work of Prof. Boyd Dawkins-
" Early man in Britain about the artistic
faculty in Clavereen ' 111 ancient Britain."
He says, "although the Neolithic men
*ere immeasurably-aloove-the Cavemen -in
culture they were far below them in the
arts of design," And further he goes orate
state that the Cavemen "possessed a singu.
lar Went for representing the animals he
hunted,. and his sketches reveal to 1.15
thathe had it capacity for seeing the
beauty and grace of natural form not
much inferior to that which is the result
of, longeiontinued eivilizetion in ourselves,
and very much higher than that of his
succeseors in Europe in -the Neolithic age."
Dr. Hoeub in a paper on the Central
South Afritian tribes" has confirmed this
statement by analogy, showing that the
facility of desigriror artistic aPtitude is in-
-dependeet of -advanced-or" advancing -
Civilization. He remarks in connection
with the Bushmen that these people who
araregarded as the lower type of ,Afrieens
one thing excel al/ the other South
African tribes whose acquaintance I made
between the south , :least and 100 south
latitude. nave in my possession about
200 Sketches on Wood and stone and ostrich
shells, by various tribes, 'but every oneWhe
-knows- anything- about- dringnanetae--knowledge thastAllose-Whieh 'were done. by -
Bushmen are superior to any of the
others."' •
• 7A. ;Terrible Trial of illke;i. '
." Stranger," said the stitgedriver,. '44 this
was •how I. fouud out her speed; I was driv-
ing .alon.gaide the railroad track jut as .5
big load . of hotel furniture started. The
feeight car Wotilde't hold it all, bat they
managed te equeeze everything in except e
king bar -mirror, which they' tied to the. side
of the car. ' The mare saw her reflection in
the glass find thought it was another horse
spurting for the leacl, You couldn't have
.held her back with it steain Windlass. She '
just laid bach her ears and snorted -along
like a 20. -inch shell. The passeugereillt be-
gan -to get excited: . They rushed out ()nth()
platforms and 'began to make bets, . The
condector steed up on it seat and 'boom to
sell'poole• The engineer pulled the throt-
tle-yahni wide Open and. tore along at 65
miles an hour. Soon the mare was abreast of
-the etiwcatcher. At San Brunq welled. half a
mile the lead. 'Near the Six mile heuse the
train was $o much .4(Ra .9g: time that it
fell through. an• Open clean.ci everlast-
ingly srrip.shed-up7-72,killed encl 12e wound-
ed-. It was prettyroticti" he Patisan.•gers,.4)
but then wedist aucethe...•• rain, bet yer
life. ' About a Math after r: old thrit mare
to her present owner for $60,000." '... • ' •,
. Xtraconsfield and Me Queero.'• •
A. . despatch Lord Beacons -
014 • 'says:: •
field's recent prolonged visit to thequeen
revives • the awkward rumors that :the
'Queen is seeking ootnisel Outside her Iceiv -
spitutienal advisers:. Snell :rumors: are
unimportant in practical politics, belt are
undoubtedly true.- Lord Beaconsfield
rather ostentatiously Maintains his per-
sonal 'relations 'with the 'sovereign, which is
Unusual in the ca:se Of the leader :Of the
Oppesitien.• PalaCe traditionslimit., all,
visits to • it single night, -but' Beaconsfield
steered tare-W.edneeds,y and. Thursday.
Lord Rewton; Who is still Beaconsfield's
private seeretary, redently visited Balinciral,' ,
and 13eaemisfieid himself went to . Os-
borne when the Qinsen was last 'there. No
precedent's exist for such frequent commu-
nication between the, Queen and an ex -
Minister. , Stenety...goesip 'explains the
present visit. on literarygeonucla the Queen
desiring a talk over '"Endymion " with the.
author, his lordship having sent her the first
oOPy, richly bqund, with an autograph in-
seription. In the Bailie quarter some coin -
Meet is Made on Mr: Gladstone's refusal
to the easy royal command to visit Windsor,
the truth being that 'Mr. Gladstone inter-
preted theinvitation as purely formal, and
hence declined 'formally because Of the
pressure of official ' dutiei.: There is no
reason to suppose thatthe porsonel nig, ,
thins of Mr. Gladstone end the Qtaeee -are
• other ellen cordial. .. ' .
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Pay Dem-I:rani returnso„, tanion re-
Contly it appears that in Hamilton 1,705
then are, paid Weekly 'en Saturdays,
.50 fortnightly on Saturdays and ' :2,880
weekly . On • aher . days ' and reenthly.
Total rineaber. 4,647. In Toronto the ma-
joritY of the Men are paid on Saturday.
In Kingston workmen are Paid every.liiri.
'day, with the ereeption of three Arras, Who
pay •on .Saturday mornings. In Ottawa
most Arms pay over Monday. In London
She greater .number of Workmen are paid
fortnightly on Fridays. • •
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7.1t is understood that the president and.
Council of the 11(3yal Geographipiii Society
aro coneidering a plan for :thew Arai° ()fig
pedition. A tommittee of expertd will
probably be first appointed, and report on
the eubjeet. It ' is mulerstood that the
route by way Of Erenz Seed Laud will be
recommended, but the feet of reaching the
North Pole will not be the main or eve
0110 6± the principal °bleats or the expedi
tion. It svill bo' timply to-ex/here the
unknown area north ot .the 1911t and 00th
degrees of latitude, •
,--Novel scarf pinsrepresent diminutive
oysters and lobster's, miniature nowspapees,
letter envelopes and pearl bootjack's, inlai'
with mockyabies.t . .
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• the ChIldrenio itospialt.
(renorsou'o new volume)
mons.
per doctor had balled in another. I never had
seen iihn Were)
But he tont a chill to my heart wbon 1 saw him
come in at the door,
Fresh from the eureery schools of Trance and 01
many other hinds -
Harsh red hair -big voice, big °hest big nioreileee
bands
Wonderful cures Le bad done, 0 yea but they
said, too, of hire
Heves happier using the knife than In trying to
SaVe the limb,
And that 1 Can well believe, for he looked go
coarse and so red!
I could think he was one 91 those wile would
break their JeSta on the dead,
And mangle the living deg that had loved him
and fawn'4 at his knee -
Drenched with tl3e hellish eorali-that ever such
things should lie!
liero was it boy -1 am sure that some of our
children would die
Ilut for the voice of Tiove, and the smile, end the
comforting °ye-
ller° was a boy 15 the ward, every bone scorned
out of its -mace-
caught in a min saa crush'd-it was' all but it
hopeless case;
And he handled him gently enough; but hie
voice and his face were not hind
And it was but a hopeless case, he had seen it
and made up his znind,
And he said to me roughly, "The lad will need
little more of.your care"
"All the moreneed,"„e told him, "to seek the
Lord Jesus in jiraye_,___r •
Th-ey Ili s pia3, for
them an as my own ;" "
Wit' he turii'd to mei, "Ay, gooe woman, can
,• prayer set a broken bone V" _ • • ,
When he mutter'd, half to himselfbut I know
that I heard him say
PAH very well -but the good Leta Jesus has had
• nis
Hall? has it chrrio 1' It has only clawn'cl. It will
dome by and hy.
o how could I serve in the wards if the hope- of
' -the whrid were it Ile?
Hew could I bear with the sights and the loath-
some smells of disease,
.Bat thabHe said," -Otto 15 10 me, when ye do it
. m these !,'
se no went. Ancrwo past,to,this ward, whore the
'younger children are laid; •
Her is the cot of our orphan,' our darling, our
• meek little maid ;
Empty you see Just nowt We have loather who
loved her so Much--
ratient of pain the' as Tack SSS semiitive plant ,
to the tach;
Hers was the prettiest' prattle, it .often meted
me to tears,
lifiirs was the gran:dullest beert I have found in a
. , child -of -her -years, • .
Nay you remember our Minnie; you used. to
send hor the flowers;
liow slid would smile at 'em, play with 'cm, talk
to 'enthours after hours I
They that can wander at will where the works of
the Lora aro reward,
Little guess what Joy eau begot from a cowslip
out of tho field ;
Flowers to those "spirits in prison" are all they
• ean know ef the spring, . . •
They freshen and sweeten the wards like the
waft of an angere Wing; `
And she lay with it ft0WOr in one hand and her
. thin hands crest on her breast, -
Wan, but as pretty 'as heart can desire, 'end we
thought her at rest, -
Quietly sieepieg-so quiet, our doctor said "Poor
little deal-, •• •
Nurse, Imust do it to:morroW.heal-never-live
I walk'd with our kindly aid doctor asfar as the
Then _i, un o war._ ; the child.chae't see
1ft ipPletO3t:zir' 'a •
"e1 was there. • ,
E.ever since I was nurse had .1 been . so grieved ,
• and so vext I r
Emmie had hearcl him. Softly:. she &Ord from
He eheyersciotstoatihi enneveexvt, live air°, . .
An• nie," was you,.
-Ishould-cry to-theslearLord *Josue-to:help '
. for, Erninie.. you see, , • ----- •• •
It's all in -the Minim 'there : • Little elindron '
_
asmaning the•priutthat- yoe 'gave us,'.-imid•that " '
it always can please ' ,
0,ur children, the doar Lord ,TOSIIS with children .' •
• about His knees.) • • ' . •
Y• e, s'eaanllitioAvlii101;L%Latl,
•How should He lcnow that' it's Mo.?. siich a ldt of ,
beasin the ward e' ' • - • •,
That was (1' puzzle for • Allele. Again she ,
• Blamed ' . • • , •
. " Eitimieyou put eat you itrinsto so5A you•Ipavo
ITth, s.etLh'n fiilt
youeOhatitseideoo own .
toll it Him plain, • ••;'•i• • •
tlegirrwith her arnis lYing Out On the
Iliad cs°aItutihterrele)annig°11"fs by thp' child-1•
could not
.
--watch her for four -
My brain had begun to felt 10010111 do it '
That thought that
• it never would laws. • :
There was it thunder-clap,otice, and a clatter -01"
• hail on the, glass, ,'. , •
'And.there was It 'phantom cry that 1 heard as I
. -.test about, -• • ,
The motherless bleat of a lanth M thestorm and • • . •, ' •
', the darkness without ; •
My sleep was broken, boaide, with drecuns of the ,
dreadful knife • • ,
'And 'fears • for our delicate Ernmie who Beano
would escape with her life; ; • -
Then in the gray of •tho morning it sooni'd shp
• stood by hie and smiled, '
And the doctor 'came at his hour; and We went to .:
, • see to tho the child. „ - • • •
Ho had brought his. ghastly tools; webelieved
• .hor. aeleep again- , • .•
Her doar, long, lean, little arms .Iying out On tho •
• eounterpano.;„ •
Say. that Ilis .dajo.ln.done I- Ah, why should we •
cake what Him -say?' . , .
The Lord of the' children hati heard her,- and
Eremio had passed away.• .
All'improVed triethod:.oz the • June process .
of softening and purifying -water in ,btujc,
ineluding the cleansing of the filtering areas, .
by teachinerY, has been exhibited' and ex-
plained.at the Royal Aquarium, Westmin-
ster. Silica the adoption . of this'system,
which is the. invention of Messrs. Atkins &
Co., of 62 Fleet street, London the, aanar. ,
iuni,there has been a marked reduction in the
mortality of the fishes. 15 18 estimated
that by means of it the whole'evater supply
of tendon.could he treated at no greater '
cost than that of the present inefficient •
systate of sand fittrittioe. .
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s y years since either party. in
England, 'has had theebeuelit-ofa political •
: Salon. 'The Duchess of Manchester has .
established . herselfin Loudon for 'the' •. •.
winter, 'and'intenclerto make her house the • ''
focus of politics andthe place where clietin- . • • .
"guielied men of all shade's of polities Can -
meet and talk over the events. She; pee; •
sessesall thequalitiesneceesary for success- •
fully earrying.oat this idea. The cainpeign
was recently inaugurated by a dinner, at
whiChIned Beaeonefield, Lord Harington,
Lord Dufferin, and.Lord Odo Ittissell met, .
and were joined in the evening by a few
phoiee political spirits, Mel cling the Seere-
tary of Ireland. • ; • .•
• Ann enny Rnfatee?-:Out 'n• • Minneeeta,
they have 5 temperance lectu er Who goes
by the name Sdiap Iro Bill:" We •
wonder if lie is any relation to. CaSt Irou ' •
Pat," who is well.known thong th Welland ''
Cenal. The:latter would:make EG rat class -
temperance lectiner if eoliverte to. the
cause.. Ilis experiences would ' be worth
While listening to.-Thorald Post. '
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Locen,./43e.se.-In' Common' Law:0 arri-•
• hers o,n Saturday, • Nesbitt .vs. Gates -
Ogden moved absolute e stunInous to po t -
pone trial frant the coining county court .
Woedstoek. Mr, Aylesworeli centre, Orde
made to postpone trial watleleave to ,plain.
tiff' to go. .to trial at the ITamilton assizes
if he demo.'
When the Parry Sound, School valtra
Inot dated= clay for the purpose of en.
gaging a now staff of teacher's for the ensu -
'ng year, they had as. many as ,ninety.nine '
applicants for the Vacant' positions. The
:salaries to be paM are 0850 for the prinei.
,pal ; and 627620Q, and 1140 for the other
three respeetiyely,"
Fuse Wtiourzo o TOXIONTO xis 00i
-Mr. El. Orson Shoroye of Moetreal, loft
Winnipeg on ths nooreing of Wednesday,
Oth inst., at 0.15, and arrived in Torento.at
6.15 Saturday morning.
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