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The Sentinel, 1880-10-01, Page 6' FARM AND GARDEN'. i• zi»abIe Hints t for A grie ni- turists and uthers. • AN r.:PRPENDENT .17,trar111. eors sing the -windy deep, . - • ! °Idlers praise their armor; t... • my heart thialoasertl keel): ; • independent farmer.r 1' .•tirst the rose, in robe of green, t • •. ,lds its criinson Ruin A .• • • tend his homely pordh is seen . noneysuekle twining desire the ee fectlby titres for .se year, _lenee aispo pedig They about requi perfo • 1.". banks of bloom theui sweetuess.yiehl I - other • „es that Anther honey, - 1: • • ' ; • ves thb team across the field, . seem, ee...eiv skies ara soft antl unnY. .chigat 9-• .e Tackbirtl. ehrelt.k.belii 1 his ploughi, • - T1-•• pipeshmeland - • A ..rehard• hides behind.' boughs. „givea .pastu • ttomp he loves so 'ilea ly.„. . • •,-_:-eyplil barn, whose dtkars enfold ' • • -;mple.store in measure„ -. • • ith than heapS-of holm:led 'gbittl, . . - ....-eious, blessed. treasure i ,oRter on.fhe porch tekostanes l 1 a •-ife,the lbvely char/ ler - • - . - .. eetest rose on all•hi' la:Ids,. .. ant.:pentient farialex.. • . . • : tispringcomes d',..ncing ai ,, n. • .,,the -summer lilwahes, _.:umn smiles with ut ;now ra, , t .. Ivey the winter Inist es; not how the wcirh . may move, • iiitrts or fears confot nd him ;-.. • . -. --. i li.,s' in calm content, rut rove - . • :tildreu gathered-'rbtInd him. -,t5 hyGoll, amdlovehis-wife, • :lief. nor ill maykar n her; : t • unre'suohlemarrin • • .udependent farmer. • NEEIVOF A rorrxrd DIGoEtt. : ternporary says- the potato :ger , -- • - - 6- : • erture-has yet te baperfeeted, if net • • - - 'a -invented. It is one of the t/ret; ,. r, ‘ • : -' ,f thetigricuItinal.World -0.rid of ;lei- . ••• - .wers especially, and when once ..0, • . "• 0 ie- Made and. put upon. the .14 ca ket . 1 il-do the work -of potato harvestipg nowinemachine does the . w rk of . .• _ling tge 'fortune of the inventor will 1..• • red. there are neillions of p fit in le, i14. the .. honor of . conferring . a • coon upon -a todine corenineity. - eueuher of Iron, . ' ublislfed i4 Lone , etzs an engraving o ' a, new inventien: may meet the lemand. It thee • erf it ; ' Itis the invention of-Maesrs. .. e •- -.•...... Fishwiek, and. .is manefaetured; . W-.: A.. Fell, .of Iridge Ironworks, •• = *- .-prere, who exhibi ed it:at thelslioye.• - • ferms -thenvario e operatidne of eeraisieg, , separating -aed. collecting -t - et,ies, and - is - thc4efor� a far!,more: • e • : . - te machine than t ose potato --raising . ,. - eents-which 'sinaph lift -the petitoes e : 'aii.- drill and de °sit them- on the the. 1- d, Fa eastu e acres o and i will per a cow. mixec 'thane grass eloVe year. - Th Worn sa,vin tam - plies the a he unde the b frequ eeaso ti h eque .111 edam, ed eke N in th1 sa eQn ethe Oa hors food. ; re. e. a leaving the. tediokis Work of ciollecte is.e. 7:•. be elohe by maneal labor. • In the -ie•ee. nuclei.notice' 'the potato 8 are re.;-. s ..: from the drill _.by means Of slightly . he.: a.- a. :steel prongs., Two - reeolving f .-' - then- carry tlie potatoos, toils and se I- ... • ckwards and upwi.rds oh to en and -- I: - .... volving web, thebtes- of which are of -s - . •. a nt widthte admit Of the soil falling et.e.• Is h, while the pota,toes are -retained. .. A• ei.: • top of the weh the haukcis are seized. .eIving •spikeS; by • which they are el; :e. _i over the beck of :the. machine, While . 11 - , :.- awes', falling on another web .Which- ri . -. '..--s.at right angles to the first (that is; a. : the machine), are deposited in' the b... . standing -on . a- shelf at the binder- -- . -Assoon as one basket is full it is le et itWay -and replaced by an empty one, tl.: I' -tatoes being deposited in e. eett,Which fee e. s.; or collected he heaps. It e011-thas .... b - ef that the :preceas of digging and 7-..- :trig is complete, erid on thiseiceount '-` the -;_feplereent claims a aap.eriority.over al.. .:.: of its kind. - We ,ere . informed that nee le the autumn of lat. year theimple wes'tried upder - unfavorable riireum- . ,ste e es, end its parka:maim° was eminently •sae . latory„ to which ample testimony is . - _bee - by its tieers.'; .. ''-1 - .. • - . I .. - _ , _ e . - TILE ntS1 ltITIt. . il eie is: :nature's renovator, and is ae7, nue -.sere.- for • cleahshe the : feathers' of foa, i:•5 1 retra, V er Edin a d - proineeingeethe . - seceleions of the' skirefr m impurities -as a .weec r or vapor bath late- the hunian famila. . If - watch the habits Of fowls we Will see tre e.stinctivedesire in• the yettng and old tie heve freaueateacceSato the . dust heap.. ... -Be, 're dusting they *ill 'peilverilie the• me; •riaI it -in lumps, anLl will then`, adjust thee feathers, and by t. e rapid ection of 'the r claws areenabled to dust thoroughly. Re . ley "- shaking ' ki thernselves • of . - lice. Breeders', who, vale° 'their :fowls and took te- -their CO ort .and .health u•-•tIally provide: : th m . baths:--. .Bet there - is another ,.__Ple. s of poultrymen never never think of , such. thing:4. _We.- say to .hese go a,ncl do Likev, ise, provide andele. he'll's of road. dust, eoalleshes, d finel sifted f sanor weed sishes far eyotir - fevil to roll , iris haveit placed Wherelthe -genial rays of -'' the sun will keep it warm and dry, 'sandhi maker it more-effectuatii removiogvermin, Mix a pound of the floeir of sulphur in the • . • _ . . • duseheap Avoid using wood ashea,that is wet erhas the leastmo sture la it, as the. ' lye will injure the ' fo Is' : feet, heed and . 'wiegs. The dust heap bout& be tset in in. aunef meek of the few' houso or outbuilding, • arid should be accessiblci to the birds -at all • times, - By pursuing this course you will have reason to bethank lit; and at the same thee- you are following natureen, her wise - . prov:siens. awl -teaching „aud the benefits of cornierte'cleanhness an good health; which - 'Meet naturally &nee toe your fo741s from . habitual dusting, will more than fully cone: - periaate.You for. your trouble. • ' " " • .. TIMELT inXiS ON SEED .G MUT: 7 For Many years it wat my practice,' and :else of same cif nay heighbors,•te go. ita the field shortly before cerel Niraii ripened, select the hills and stalks-wli eh had the largest . ears and stalks on which two or -more ears • .were found; these stalks Cr hills we merk- ed by tying &rag on there in order, to End •_ them when • .ripe, - Were harvesting _the fieM ; these ears were strung hp for seed. This being done," year atter year, a _auperior variety of :'corn, 'giving large' yield, was . obtained, Of course, .all.farmers know and. It ' understand thin, but t ey db not. all - think lof and'. practide it 'in season ; . it is now - past tinee- to attend to it for mixt, sea- sons geed. This is , he: Way ill win& - - ' best sorts are peodticed—selectipg tbe • best for. seed every ltyear. - The sanie is- tr-ue Of . eeed whew and -other crqp.s ;. a. ;it sape.:;`Oh pedigree so may be eebured, as with animals:. Ever careful, intelligent farmer may produce la new. -variety, Or greatly improve his wheat for seed, in this -- way: just before the wheat is ripe go and I carefully examine different parte of the h field, 'and -where' th • .earliest ripe. the . _ _longest, plunipeet hea %the thickest stool - ng or, tillering-out isf und, with any other ..wtit . - , • ve -11 21, 'crire servi es w bold been .fron west urd the cler riag the him and biud trai Stre Joh the swe sere etat ring thi stat but •the pos ear :st Pft ven Th his the Bat an Ti tor sec .est we ad , ter old of tal ri RC tin ve fa ar WI th th as rit th th: 80 u. fo hi, la ea ga, 'al su -h -a 8. ud li ne go rn on by on it th eo t,, s 1 igl me. 11S 0 ep re. ag .gli rt Is vic tor By_ of es: tit te i tr 111 a pp a a a t„ tg Cr it.i initaa :e„ the pl Itt le t ars th de th -ds ualities, leave it stand till after harvest so that- it may get per - reap it by hand ad carefully ith the flail, and clean it well parsue this course year after pedigree wheat of high excel - be produced. Any • farmer so u do this. In this way valuable Wheats have been obtained. othing difficult - or mysterious are and attention is all that is nrl any farmer Whowishes can and be a benefit to himself and hint on these 1 topics, it would, ough for the wise.—The Mie mer, OTHER' NOM; . pendent of the .. Ohio Farmer °flowing _sensible advice about There are thousands of acres 'of • at_ will require at least three rry e cow through the Summer; le no argument to show that it .fitable to expend -several dollars O reduce -this to- two acres for a in more and more in fever_ of see- and- heavy seeding -for per- stuees. -Where I sowed•orchard ca erase . and timothy With the better new -than it was the first vantages of Spreading ratiniire weggee as it drawn out- are a labor; and a More even aistribue escheilble s1ts (ammonia,potash s, 'etc.) in -the edit by rain. If ra-ls heaped on the neld and. gets -in-before. spreadingtho ground heaps receives an 'undue shat e of art Of the mature, which not in - renders -these spots barren for a. two." - floated. ma. n ether things being kesea better ..farmere than the un - 'in just. as eertamly Sharp o more execution. thau a, dull one - Nes or t'eigh itt pastureare lie -saving much sett thaVeveuld. be Waatea.. • re the:. beet - :feed for working ,they:furnish more nourishment itaLking niateriai than any ether 4.TELIEE LASIIED. . _ • _—_,.. , - wail's Crime Filly Pants/Ad: ate for Which Henry Perry, t'aged ately sentenced at the .central court, : bondon., Eng., topenal. for twenty years and thirtylashes lie eat O' -nine -tails, was a very Ile Rile* that a fellow -clerk had. te by the. :Underground ' railway city to -collect-some money, in the. uherbs. Accordiregly on one Sat - nine he awaited. his. eietim. and y attheliensingtou station.: The first enticed into it first-cies:a car - eying his fare . paid. Ile carried y ie a. Satchel.- Perry -Rest plied Ita drink :of laudanum and Reit. n deluged; him with chloroform, y beat him- 'ea the head withra ..A11- this *REI doing While the seed Notting :Hill Gate, Pea,ed ayswater„Edgeware Road and St. ood _stations, without - attracting. est attendee', although the victim t he was conseimis of repeatedly . Moreover, the _tiao: important f .-Euston and St. Pancras were hout anypersore. entering the car- dlyeenough the esseilant'dida not uitting the carriage ' at the first et he - had: Secured his plunder, an with/the hell dead clerk until hed their proper station near the e. Here the robber 'quitted the leaving his- plundered associate g blindly on its fibor..'FOrtunately _observed blood on the inside a by giVing an instant alarm pre - he late occupant from escaping m revived eufficiently to outline when the money- wes,found upon ner. In the language of the Old e Was - apprehended 'red-handed,' iliac; had no defence.: DRUGGISTS AND PATS/CIA**. • The PerCentage Business and Nome of Its ConiequiEnces—Substitation of Drugs. According to the Medical and --Surgical Reporter, of Philadelphia, •the Medico - Legal Society, of that city, has recently -- issued a report whichshould be read and pondered both by . physicians as a profes- sionand by public-spirited • ' citizens throughout the country.- Sortie months ago the society eppointed ' a committee to, take into consideration tho. relations be- tween medical' men and . druggists and to .suggesteif possible, seine remedy for the existing; frequent :ueurpatioa of . the--finie,. thin of the • doctor by . his coadjutor- the- eompounder of prescriptions. The' remelt' has been a very brief but lucid and practical diselosare ..of the sources of the -difficulty, .conclecled with soine..remedial,:suggestions „that:are :eminently- Cowed and :fest:kW:ie.. By -60'r.. _ essional patronage •o drug- gistsyf p -. ; dens have.' unconsciously ..culti- vated • • r 'pecimoted popular ceafidence..ip the -discretion and tritimeg of their coedin- tors, thus leading their patient .0,-0k the advice of the elattereimeectaes of •- net • Yery serious indiatioSitiore- and depriving ,thein-. solve's, of .a. large soare0 et:Wan:ma' ]3y this meens the importance of the . phyeiCien.-aa the primary authority. in Medicalmatters has been .dintinished, his business impair. ea,- and the preatige. of : druggists- increased On Ocongonseven,, in sandier -cities, the doptor finds.the druggist to -be Master of the *Una -tier; and is conap011ed -id submit to any hineiliation rather. than .offend.hina'. and lose the practice he is able toiniluencei. Scathe druggist begins by offering the phy: aieuin a ereall•percehtage (Mall prescriptionssent to.'hitii,:apd . wide hy'etaeting of the physician a comihiseiee on patients. 'Casea. -of this pereentage business . itte more coin; Mon- than the infhlio suppose ; there: are .rnanyphysigiens.in this city to whore.- the drUggistpays a pettier', of ;hie receipts. cin every preecriptionsentte hied:, andis core.. pelted hicherge-abetirdieglye:hut of .course such facts .did.hot conies- within' thescope of theMedice-L.egel .Seciatity. - ' There is 0: aeutce ..ot., ebuse. by , drUggiets,:' however, which is too general to be „passed- with eonenient, and that -is- the Substitutioxeat drugs • for : -each.. other._ The doctor -.pre-. scribes qiiinirie ; ethe - druggist .substitutes • the e leee,eipenaive. quiniclia; encl. :Oherees for genaine, or -.use's- an inferior and iad711-- terated ertielee. -this. practice is .• triite extensive.-' . :Diluted _. tinctures are , -ploy,ed.; biemietir _adulterated Witlaarsenie is -Made to :sever' fere pine Inainuth itt. infantile troubles ;' the child dies, and the debtorgets the blame., - ' e.The Cain:nit* Salm/esteas a: reinedy for this state of things that'Physicians: shall 'unite: hi' d,einandirig. that druggists shell. cease: to -Sell quack. nostrums, to -prescribe, end-ft.-enew-. soriptions that lie.yebeee, placed.. in 'their hand, 'end shall Withatate their Patronage from those. who- refuse. ' It: the refusal is general, then the-prectitience:must7resdree, his dispensing e .fuection,. provide himself with the necessarydrugs and furnish' his ,patient a With sech.inedichies as . they re- quire. - The inevement tbue Initiated by :the Philadelphia MediedLegal Society,: is opaof the. highest .:meinent, Aaot, only :to practitioners but to .the public ;. and :if our enedical siesociationa take hold of - it •in 'ettreest; as neVe eeerne.littelY; patent_ medi- cines; adulterated, dregs -.and . 'aphtlideary advice to'patioptis will be -driVeh. 'from the market. e - • • : • -. ' - - The Rate of linterMat. ollowizig is from the. Monetary ' Loa;ns,'SaYs theItemilton S.pecta- now be had 011 geed real estate for an amount for which the . perfectly Safe, at 6_per cent: If thie in the general and mufnelified: which the Statement hi made, the hien follows to farmers to pay off s by new loans at the reduced rate st; would be sound : BSt- that dapi- as a rule, he borrowed on the secu- eal estate at 6' per centis an in- : statement. Money is -going at ;- but only -on choice security, and le if any of it. would be loaned : On petty at all. _ That came farmers ing a rate whichj is above_ rent, rate, oa mertgages given Wrest Was higher, is obvious; and of course rearranging their Diane tunity offers. But for farm- semi - suspect 7 per cent: is rather 'below - Dye the current rate:: In faCe of. ululation of capital seeking invest-. dot the rimy/French investing come ith its 25;000,000 francs of capital, 011:3 that the rate- of interest on i3 loans in Canada must fall; The. he fact ,is recognized and acted existingIoan companies, the better ; the onlYmeana they have ef re - their bueiness. 'Five million dol ed to. that Part - of- the loanable of the country which goes on Inert-. ust ntake.a perceptible difference- ;. bre so When, at existing -,rates, the s mere than eqiial- to the demand. er rel - ic of the Spiting.' Anna& . PR IMF VAL BUN. His 'Habits and Appearance Dee Prof. IlOya Dawkins. - ; At the recent meeting of the B -etish As- sociation Pref. Boyd Dawkins '.alectured upon 'Primeval Man.' Prof. Itwkine, generalizing from the - distributi of the animal remains found in the ea,r1eAtertiary s then und in ence of , Italy, Spain, Greece, North Africa, an rt, also in India, brought us, in his opieio -i, face to face in that • period. With the Condition of Aninian culture"- , o 1 :•• • • in all probability, all - prOgt been based. The absence. : graphical limitations 'already , i t to would account /,for he free -w: Pi With whichthe hunter passed to and f'.i Sub -.- sequently; 'in • the cavo-pieri lie f.-Iondz the' successors Of the river -drift hunt .. -Min of /bed by periods, concluded that Europe joined to Africa. The evidence the midplioceneperiod of the eip the river -drift -hunter in Fran imitive which, s 'had: f 'geo-' eferred. Much higher type: • .He gave of th thehyPethetical de They dressed themselves ineekins -gloyesepot unlike those worn at t time. They . wore necklaces anc and probably Pierced their ears. ta eeption of eat-tingefor •ornafl They uiecl'red /addle, and, hidee the pre -aides ottlio Present -time looked upon „distinctly as .being t•Langhteie) The skies ,. Wit hey clothed- themserVes th together :with ,.,bene --:needles, he sketches they had -left behi end pieces of skin alio: the, tike, i hat they -were able to forth a dist,: . Shocking ITI:order and Suicide. - 'A ,shepking tragedyhas been enacted itt Carlisle (England) ia the . house of a taller 'a,nd outfitter nettled Thames -Barnfitther. This man had foe. sometime been in .a: de- sporident. state - .mind, and- _had :giyen expression to morbid _fancies about some family affair e With which he was not satise flea, His family had been Warned that in hipeiresent state he -might. go.somoinjurY. On:Friday night Barn -father event to bed -ahout 11 o'clock, and his wife followed abentlialf hear later.... A little_boy of 5 Years Old slept in the some,. bed.: About two hours afterWards the *ether ihmatee of the house -were alarmed by hearing -Mra. Barnfather" .screaming. for help. Eher eStnis ran to her aesistance, -.but before they could reach the bed -room the unhappy, woe:tares throat had been cat by her.hesband, Who had also. cut his- Own ircie mediately aftereierds. Mrs: • Barnfather . - . . died in the course of two or three menutes.. Bernfather, -with:the blood streaming down busbody, went to his daughter's bed -room, and:atonce fell to the • floor • end expired. Tine wounds inflicted .on. Mts. Betufather. eating like -other L.people is unfihuallye fat:- extended-feom the right ear to. . the left. she:now Weighs 89 pounds,- bil.k4 in- as gem, shoulder .blade,and the left aeirC watt; donditiod as mostgielsof hersPe, rooks sine, is cheerfulewalka about the hepate: a little weakly, but without essistandal and does sem° tight work.-e-Bleaford 1* habits ,tt4ription chid wore present rralets, :the re- eitation. some of ight be eievevals.„ -which sewed from n belies ppeared net idea f the ' ereaturee Which they lite', ted, the representations thus left ' y being the trophies . of the chase. . VA-ny Were leviers -ana fisherre -Ana it Ve4-Ovident teitiorthe figures of animals lic1i had - been' discovered that :the ' hunte. these times hade'great facility pa re (arms ofaiiinia1 o bone ; bu 'tetntita at: reptegerating the-, ha ,were rude... _They also 1 them .. evidence: of, the 'art Of They were igeoreat of metals. oedothestic- animals..; Apper ---i•esentine 1 ' heie :at! A an form. behind • gculpture. *hey!heel 1- 'ttly' they 'Were not ie the habrtof burying e dead.. Ve• axe 110 t aware- of .What'sort d hysique they lied, but there Was reason they -were enoet_ closely relat Esquiniaue. They were •who rani the riVeYdrift men; The an was. in a state of prineeye, .aerci,gery ; ithe cave Man was Of a higher tt, but ip .liistUrn Was wholly -inferior to filet armer, herdsman and merchant who loOwealien. We had MIS -proof et the. deyetkpineet of ithe .human .race in: tineeS-begle, history began,: and it occurred to him t 1"iy. had no -reason for fixing any limitas to'There pro- -i believe - to the different iver-drift ress • would tend; his. Opinion an would go on increasing in 'Iliad improving. in- the . arts; of Mita in perhaps not -a very re e would be as 'Superior to - 880.- as We were . Superior to, bunters and cave raen. ye the %Edinburgh Daily Review, ured'at Stains, Aberdeenshire, this y the efforts:: of Mr. David:Ritchee e• Bannon. fishermee. It is a large sed from the place Where one of the elonging to the Armada Was wreeked. a,nge to say, though. it has been ip ce for upward of 290 years, yet it e,Sound as ever. • The length of the ight feet, the diameter at the touch - =teen inches, and the diameter of e atthe muzzle four indlies. It apr o be ;Scalded partly with nails. Otto nails is in • a. complete state:veil nd arrowfsbaped.- - A slight ribbing piece of cloth makes it ahineewhials' a thesupposition that it is Made of erediron.- . • . Al eihorwill clean SilYer.' Yes, alcohol: . A CURIOUS CUSTOMER. c- 41. Man who Waited to Engage Board tor Twenty Years. Yesterday afternoon, shortly after the terrival Of the traina, man entered an hotel in this city and asked the clerk, who stood. ' busying himself -With a patent blotter, the torres upon which he could engage board. - 'Owing to the ideation of your room, sir. Big demand for our rooms. Feed well.' ‘I don't care semuch about the eatin' parte- replied the Jld man. '1 am forte/ - Odd years old, and have been eatin' about cAl'my life. It's getting to be an old thing . to pee. l'Well, sehigive me a respectable room—how•mucl4 you charge?! * - l: 'Just Yourself, sir ' ' - " c - ' -irWell in a, mennter.' - • 'Twenty-five - dollars -per month; in case , .yeer are alone.' .. 4 • - -, . You.see, it's thilWay : -My wife Will be with Me, but as gb-aes are pretty tight '.I .60#oluded.- to arrange it -in this way: I'll • • take bleakfast, newife. will take dinner, 1 r,s _ and we'll throw up- -wet .or dry—for supper. , BY that! means- vq,i can both get board- for neprice. I reek 4.11 I'm a little the best manager ever you 'cod.' - . - - - 4'ifty.dollaes fo, the two.' - ' ' • I dohteniderstapa that sort Of 'rithinetic. T..3otle tegether we'd only eat the meals allowed ifer one pefi_ oh. : It don't hurt a bed at ny more for two ,,,-,4 sleep (Mit than foe one. xe-_.'"Ve got la bed nut 14 the country that watt ler en lep be eo elisented to my Afe when we gotmamed, • ., rIlbe dingeriftif it ain't lust ttboUt as d ite new. It's 4:4e of these old:fashioned. s,withhigh,yelltir postawith knobs 'on the as big:aa younalipumpkine. Ill famish room With t is bed load one chair. lf eleing. that nowldege vilizetion te future. men ef he early . . . _ . A IIIVALt TO. TANN trtie.ncmarbableA.eatevenien el a plea,' . . . . - - - . ' ford Girl. , . -t . • -There Is- withilia mile • of ,.).leafOrd sa, 3 wee " *email wh sii aQiiieVetlielltS-1-110t derbtaken. for:the Sake of..neitoriety Or iprofit---erat mereigtOnishingth -,'`il. the forty , days' Water diet of Dr. Tanner. .;;they:Oung, Woman ia now, under ,Dr. Mac, ec mile &tree and from ' him the profession. neaY. learn' mere of the Vase by -end -bye, Alsireit a year ragOlastribrnary this. young el'Aratan :gave' hp satheg, net On account of illeeiealtle but. simply:because:she felt no 7 destri foe food, and for -six months theteaftil she :took abeeliftely nothing- but a chit Or two, of buttermilk once or twice peeve411,Witle _an occasional drink of water. At 0 end Of six months she began eating, apa.0..rogiiherlY and heartily for about six inontir,when she again repeated her fast of half fe year ander like • circumstances. - A little 11, Yee ...three. weeks - • ago-enot haeing. yet -le broken her eseeond fast --she was placed inger DrI,Mae--:: lean'sprofeesiensel -Care, andei.i.i hireetee days' thereafter, though . offer .1 food, fre quently; but at thelsa-me titheflieing care- fully evatehed, nothing PasSed f* lips •.but. acup- or. •tYvd- Of •cold . water da -y. During thistime she teat . weight at .alitiest exactly a half pound -per. day. Caleb ,kiirday. last the waspersuaded to :- eat...a aqty "little of Watermelone and for the next `three:: de,y- her loss wasthilY hail a PotinCli all, : The -girl is under the medium heighrie but When , wife can eit o- :the floor. I've lived in l'416•country.-41 inyillife, and having ;nide a 5'-. . i.tittie meney list Year, Iconcludee to coin& , . e0.,:tewn. and .sphilate a little. Thar's te -woman . clown the fiountry that has all the - VI t4ie been bucki9.1.agein my wife, and • to get away with hell we have concluded to , bo rd at -a hotel.'., et. . . . • . - •F ify chillers ier Month is our lowest . a rate. - . - .. el • • 1How - MuchliVthe : year? Iam goile • ' .iiito thig.bUSiLleSg•keight.' 1. Six Ihundred citAlare.' . : I Thi S is e whckasale businese'veith me.. , How nehelefor tehlyears? ' . • _ • I.Six tleousand Viers.' - t That's gettingldoWn toit. Bow' Much, fo twenty yearsle, . : _ : -• 1 .- . Twelve thousand. dollars.' ' - . - ; All eight. -MO Me down for a ' snack right n ` w and che'.ik it off for twenty_ ters.". - i. - ,;-See that °era said the clerk; po ting - to", the hotel maitia of . persons without baggage are-requia' ed to pay in advance. . Oh,' Fve got gie baggageland.the .man - lifted t.p the carp t bag. ttt Thet won't gcel • - .. . • f. - :' No get out of :.heee.". ' - .f Bu I watit tb,liotied.here tweritYyears.' • e Go oa away.1-i - ' - I'll -leave yoriii side hotel, sir, but first' ` le nie show you'il lle lifted up the "carpet - bees,. -Opened- it ta- dapia.yod .1540,000 in • "!Won't you. tak_i this as Security?.' le - • • • I •go,vernMent bon" -fieerlY severed from the body. Her fin- gers had also been • severely . but _the struggle.. higneat on.; the bodies was held before h.tr, J. H. .Brown, - deputy coroner The jury found that Bernfatlier had killed'. his wife While he fi 'was in - state et unsound mina, and that he had ceminitted suicide while itt the same . gendition... It is -stated that- Barnfather. had: been laboring . under an unfounded impression of his. Wife'S , delity. .• LU to: clean all the silver you Maw- it Woman _ • Dr. John Ruth and,tus wife nave_given in 'exhibition 'of their wonderful wonderful Shooting at Brooklyn (N -Y) driving park. As a remarkable exhibition of quickness of shooting arid of manipulating the repeating rifle aglaes ball- was placed on the - ground, and Dr. Ruth fired-abhIlet into the -earth a few inches from it. • The concussion sent the bail about eighteen inches into the air, and before it again touched the:grass the marksman had removed the exploded shell, allowed-a:full -one to be pressed into the space thus made- vacant, and broken the ball. This feet heaccomplished twice (nit of four attempts, • and earned' a round of hearty a,pplanse. ThenMes. Ruth stepped forward lagain • and levelled a rifle et ae piece of glass-- about; in inch and a half 1 square, Whicleher husband, standing about twenty yards. away, held- in. his fingers -att arixi's leagth. '•The -rifle cracked and the piece of glagsaephivered into emelt frag meetts; floW from the doctor's hand: . Then he held between his teeth a piece of paste bard not mach larger than the glass; and turning with his side - towards his wife, al- lowed her to sce, perhaps, an inch of it protruding from his niontlie Mia. Ruth raised the rifle, and cut a small piece- out cif it With a riflebedlet Iirthe goad Old Testament days it Was considered, a miracle for an ass to speak and now--nOthing short .of -a, . miracle, wig. • • Old World Billitary Preprationit. the.Eritish Government is igow building at -Chatham- al naval •• nionst 1, called the _Polyphemus. • This' vessel, a ss a corre- spondent; -. -Which i's . uttittly :unlike al. anything previously seen i 1 the Royal Navy, designed aa an a ' ored'sheet plated rani, of -2,640 tons ant 5,500-hore? pchaer. - She is built almosi entirely of steel, and as a torpedo rem gli„..; will- be the most_feraidable Vessel in thil world, end the opinion has been formed Oat- theta is tie vessel afloat, ne matter Of Vlimt deScrir, tion, which could•surviVeraften one or twe blows.from her ram. :- A - ' Spain, .in the- opinion- of '41the -1;endoe. Times, is, of all countries; othEuropee the one best entitled to assume n'i pacific a,nd neutral :positionthei one bat Placed to take the initiative': Of - disahnareent. 'A. telegram appeared a few day; ago to the `ego* that 15,000 teen of the Piloan. army ut of your pooket.- e keep one quiet.-- .f.:YOu can stay,kitait.' -, ., .j' No, -I belieeinot.' ' It tekes tod mileh. -.. . money to put up, at this hotel._ Geese .FII. 4., '- tolin a ad iint-np. at a-weggeti Yard.-- ttle Rock Gazbite. - • • e . _Iiietiell 61'.._. .G.001S. wfuwa.,e,. - A Derisian of .S-.-linniortanr.e- 'to - . "Cottiateraal Olen. . -.The'English 14, Curt of Appeal ha' s just e'n : , rendered an intereeting decision on an im- portant questioafof commercial law in this .. - • as well -es in thf3t . country. : -The question' - is a inerchant or - manufacturer who has Bold t i good. Will .of his trade in ., 114 at liberty to en, jr ation the game bneinesa againand if B41 whether he if; subject to any resteietiOnspi_ The law 'as interpreted by the eCourtAt. Appeal may be made • clearer by a-briiestatenient -.of the essen- tial filletS in tiiii CRS° deeided.The two - 7.paztiels_. to the'j controversy had been partners_ --in th, iron • business .at Bra/4 fer&'1Aliont.•: n. year ago -one sold to the other; the ,stee„k in trade, together with thee geed evilt of ;'. the business, • and agreednot to:l'earry-ore the hen - leasitiecis for ten Yeers eektlun- ten miles of _Bradford. • eicept. at Lees.. tSabseqaently the retir- ing partner;:nnilor -anew firm ;lame, setup in theji3R):1253 bitille9B !at -Leeds and began to solicit the pOronege .of the customers of the eta _,Brialferd `tem, Thereupon the. Master of the*olls grantedan injanction: restreiaing thca defendant not 'only. froin trying to- get .e.p.yechstomer from -.the old. firm but also (teen dealing with 'such cus- tenier in Oeset4e letter • came unsolicited. In a Similar ca ie Which came before him a short. :tithe ..pe.ivioriely the lle:ester of the Rolls -had takift the 'same vit4V .thelaw., 1-.. here- is authority for sayin ,' he then eemarked, ',that a -men who has Cold the good -will ef liiis bapindas must not solicit the old ; ctistorgers to =deal with hine ; but ' V ee further and Say thet . he must not 041 with the old customers:, The • rCourt . tit -Animal. affirms: in part andoverruleaAn part the law_ as laid down , hy-,the Mastetilef the:Rolls: Itholde hi the . ease first 'rite) - above that the retiring - Paituer was tlierred 'from meldng- any solicitation or ::active efforts for the patron. age of the Oldierm customers, but that he lia,d a, right t Ileal with them in ease they - to deal Conic; to. -him voluntarily. • In a. - Suit decided One years ago Lord Bomilly, then 1 Alas:Wit of the : Rolls, _ held , that a tradesman wl> luta sold the- -good-will Of : his business .0as. justified in .advertising - generellyhis f4eW epterpris liet that lie .E; 4: not entitjed to 'mole , y special or - direetappeelki to hisPittner :customers, This; :decision ' is in' harmony. with the jiidgpient -justendered by the -.Court of Appeal whicne for sometime at least, will represent thd-pieglish law on this important point.. ' .• -were presently to be -dismissed. • It :is net unlikelY3hat aegood nunebered-the .151,667, of the troops gairisonipg tite peninsula could equally be • spared:_ ... . , Acorresitiondent writea in a , ttnglish joule nal concerningEngland's natiteIndiair army as follows: '.The native recruit is no longer so easily to be foundas beforlii Years ago the pay was the same as it is now; but_ ta every necessity of life reqnirele for a:native soldier was atleast three tixi . tils as cheap. Now .things are -so much _Aatiiged, and .nieney hag lost So niuch of --iti value, that commonlaborers aro. beginging t� -earn. more than• -soldiers, while "tte latter find great difficulty in supporting ftlieirfaMilies. In a few years this; difficult' will be in.- ' sUperable.' --- _ 41- -The distinctive - title •of 1.1e Episcopal Church in Canada will in ftjure .be • Tl:e .Cleurch_of England itt Cantarir _ • • • The days ar now past and gone forever. When any firfie can repose . upon RS cele- brity. Competition .and advertiging have revc4utionizc'i business altogether, and when energytdirects both, old: houses. feel - the Pineb. seerely.. There is nothing like keePineourerelves well before our custom- ers.1 Says trteaLondon Printer .and Sta- tioner, an advertisement should be like -a Continual in/itation to a feastseductive and satisfy -44g in result. Further, good goods will always pay for advertising, new customers wi Li come again, , what he watt a like to' have for dinner la The worst--,- Imo! day for asking a ,man just after beakfast. • 0- te. ne• 12 , t•