The Sentinel, 1881-08-19, Page 3THE E4GL3P411 BEAUTIES.
Dirs. Langtry Fading -The -New Favorite,
I saw Mrs. ° Langtry-, says a London cor-
respondent, the other evening at the opera
on the oeetisien ef the first performance of
Rubenszein's.opera of "11 Demonic)." She
sat with her beek to the stage during the
entire evening, having evidently come there
to be seen, aud not to see. The Jersey
Lily looks worn and faded; and -her pale -
grey toi:et lacked the showy splendor that
used to tharaeterize her costumes in former
days. I never admired her, even when I
first saw her iu the very height of her
renown. How ate; face could be considered
handsclue with that broad, heavy jaw was
to me a mystery. And then she- always
licked the isupreme charm of beauty,
namely, uneoneeiousuess, whether real
or feigeed. She is always attitudinizing,
and always on the look -out for admirers.
The Prince of Wales dropped in to visit
hen ,me of the entr'actes, but Hi High -
nal., bed a eehl in his hcad, apparently, as
hertiseed neatly the whole of his period in
a serie-s of vehement- and most unroyal
sneezes. The beauty of tue.presentLondon
season is said; to be a Mrs. Simpson, who;
with her hushAtnd, nas just -returned from
a five years' residence in China. There is
also a -Miss Ctiallam, Who has a most lovely
face, but who spoile her vefy uudeniable
charms by thu top free use of cosmetics.
However, I thiiik the epoch of professional
beauty in Lontion society is pretty much -at
an end, which its fortunate for society.
Egshin- nii de World. .
"Dein Aid -saes up dar' in Kaintuck has
got me all brolfe up," said the old man as
he stood his brush nn On end. and leaned
against the rear walfof the market.
" What's the. trouble ?"
4'Buut de thitlin' up of de world, sah.
Sg oe of 'eni !said de gran' splash would
take place las'iweek, au' some of 'era say it
has been put off till the twentieth, an'
seme of 'elm ai gwine _ to prepar' to go up
nex':-Satrirda.y • When I leff de house dis
nuawe_in' I tole Ideole woman I war' gwine
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- to ax some wa Ito- man all 'bout it an" git
right down toldo. dead -level.. Now, sith,
what -am de cod facks mile case? .A.In de
afprld 'gvairse o kersplash dis summer or
• " Of- course lot:"
"Dat's "Zact y What I tole.- 'em up d..4F-
She-ettift do it- ' . She -can't afford it: Why;
'.` gala if do wQrii hould bust tip, what:would
' --become of all (10 leaks 9"..: , 1_ '
" That's true . • -
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- ‘., ytz.i., sail,- a x 'Mute. Would da -pieces -go
..a? . ILThyi- dal worildn't be reoii. fur -de
• splinters, le.t al, ne debig chunks: "_- De °le
r
woman may so , uri all night waitin' to h'ar
do fust.(irttsli but .she'll he disappointed.
You haVen* t sa. el a brirustun; liscae ve ?-"--
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"Nor ' I, eielier ; . but .clem -Kaintlick
lunatics_ tun_ esti/tire an' snuftin' an' cryin'
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out de...t.-eileely rld_ am- all: 'on--fialie--.2--Hpve
= ' longe stile, da -ou 'tspect -cit's world.' will
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- " 01, abii
out t . million Vear.g.niore.": -.
• -"Honest ?"
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."-Den I gueSS:-111 walk Uphome and-telle
do ole woman. lOnd:.reason why she feels
so bail is beka ee she waS-gwyne down to
- Toronto dis fail to see her sister, an' she
•'thought -de 'en in' up of, dee-W-01d might.
atop e aailroa
naillyon yraranf ' ! Why; she'dhave time
4kyara from runuin'. Ten
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to - -finish dat-al g cabin bedquilt arid -visit
her sister, too! ' '.---..Detroit...Free Pres.- -
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A Blillbonaire's -Bequests.
a - The win -of janaes Stokes was - admitted
in the. Probate_ genre, Nava York, on Satur-
day. The estate is Veined at 57,000,000,
and is divided e nally .areong: his children
with .the following bequest,- :• American
Bible Society, . 10„000; -American Homo-gissionary Society. $5,000 a Union_ Theo-
logical. SeminarY, $2,000.; Atner_idan Tract.
So.thetya.-$2...00,0 ' Mate for • Incurables,
cia
$1,000 ;•-Society f Ruptured -anal Crippled,
-$1-,000; Colored Orphan 'Asylum, .. $2.000;
. American Boar , of Foreign Missions, $10,-.
. ,
_ 000; Society fOrtthe Pi-eventioia.of. Cruelty
to Animals, , ;5140 , ' .Baptist-Ilothe Miasion-
a,,ry_Society, $5,0 0 ; akunericati.Baptist Mis-
sionary 'Union for -Burmah- and Foreign
Missions, $10,0 ; Baptist . :Theological
Sethinarya$2;00 `.. - - ' ' --- '
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: *a:misiaaable Jetting's.
° Blixo iS.' much: worn in silks, :from the
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da,rice-st tithe pliinest shades,-
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Skirts &rebel/rata ranch fullei, so aSto
give more ease anravalking. - . . - .•
.. The combination Of rose -color -with -Violet.
-I. lilac -Is extreniejytfastienable: • as-
.
-Nearly all dresses. for girls have very
, large collars, eithtrof tliecostumematerial,
cianamented withlaceaba of lace Alone: -
, ,
Mi
Moire antique s ingreat fisher,- and Will
be extensively used next winter. It Will be
made -hp into 8 'arfs,:7-cloaks, and benumb-
. - - atrings, as Siren a dresses. , _ .. .
A aselorativka d at the same time Useful
•_ -dispe.sition aintad tile is to: insert it
' Oh0 •nf- the little wooden-bratekets esipeci.-
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ally- for the purpose.
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- Flannel suite for .the- mountains; etc.. -
a . have; blousb. or pleated- Waists; -neither
"puffings ,nor : shitringg. -appear in ' these
dresses,but the n yestshow much pleating..
a
- =A Montreal des atch'says Adelina Patti,.
whose agent had taken the Academy of
• „, Music here for a ancert in January ilexia
-haade_clined to c
enthiecentinenteing too limited.' Great
1nab; owing to her time
disappointmentisifelt by those who were
anxious to hear the eelebrated.'cantatrice,
but it is Very questionable if her audience
at 529 aticket would hava adme hp to the
expectations of her ream -,E..
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p. Te Dukeo.f Ri,.ond had- the narrowest
ossible escape LZ,
death the' other even-
_ ing...-.4`.!-he. was &tossing -the-. railway line
-, from orae plate:inn-it°. another at Chichester
station, 'the train denveying the Prince and
. PrincesS of.Walea ran'into the station; and•
the_ Duke -wonkier- have been killed had not
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- the stition-master tisek`rate presence of
'mind is pulling hia-a, on tathe platform: - -
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Not long ago _-s, vkeli-known- BoAfou cler-
gyman preaohd one evening for et brother
who had to out 4f town.. , On his return'
ha asked his friendiif hehad agood,,congre-
gation. "011, - yesP said be, "about - five
' hundred hrethrent of Whom the- greater
part had fallen asleep."' , '
• - - Mr. W. pa Kidd, Tthe " Kingston _Inspector
• .of la:rash& Schools, is very ill, - and has- had.
to'give Up- his dutie' in consequence.
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SHOOTING ON THE MOVE.
A Novel Feature Introduced at Wim-
bledon.
A London correspondent writes: A new
feature has this year been introduced to
tho Wimbledon shooting, a competition in
which the Cauadian Team were not per-
mitted to enter the lists. All through the
Transvaal war, and especially at the con-
test on Majuba Hill, the Boers showed
their superiority over our troops as marks-
men. This our officers thought to be due
to the deficiency in practice of our shooting
at moving objects at various ranges.- It
was this consideration which this year led
the National Rifle Association, aided by the
munificent gift of £2,500 by gr. Mullens,
to found prizes for "field ring"ifunder
conditions as closely resembling those of
actual warfare as possible. In this,
which was named the Mullens Com-
petition, five flat pieces of board, to repre-
sent the head and breast of a man, were
substituted for the ordinary targets, and
fixed on tramways moving from right to
left and left to right from mantlet to mant-
let, at a tolerably slow pace, and without
any noticeable pause. The squads were
stationed at 400yards from the targets, and
at the word of command advanced at the
double until it halted by the bugle call at
an unknown distance from the dummies.
From this point each squad fired as many
shots as possible, and at the word of -com-
mand they again advanced, repeating the
same process at a second and then at a
third unknown range. Although this com-
petition is an improvement, it is open to -
question if it *quid be of much- avail in
actual warfare. For then it is seldom that
troops are called upon to fir a at any enemy
crossing their line �f fire as these dummies
do. What I think would be more practical
would be a target on tramways moving in
the direction of the line of fire, as would be
the cage with an advancing enemy. -This,
I believe, would better fulfil the desired
object.
Pleasant -I-tace top Pedestrians.'
• Tho San_ Francisco says: Archie
McComb, theSan Francisco sprint -rutin" or,
.recently came tii _grief ,in Deliver, Col.,
w-hore,with the aesistance of Thompson,
he hail. Avon a great deal. of money. He
ascertained that e ThciinPso11 had swindled -
Male -out. Of abont, 51,900:he:two matches;
and reSolved te• get even .by. throwing the
ziext match. A match was made with.
Quirk, of :Canada; who was running under
. -
-an-assnmed.natele, arid .Thempsen, heltav.7
deg that the racewas,fiied for McComb to
Winit, induced all_ his intinaitteidrien.ds to
bet theirmoney on -the Californian:
Megalith fhad ineantiree told ohe Sind 'Moon
that he- intended to ‘! throw " 'Thompson -
-and Moon 'bet all the nioney he could -raise
on- Quirk.. The result- of . thO race was
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tli-ac the Quirk .partycarried off about $6;000
from Denver, and -Jini :Moon poeketedag
Much Mote._ -',Ilienipsen and his eenfidants
lostelitAitily,a-nd, knowing -that- Mo -Coni b
- run lese., resolved on vengeanee.
McConib, havirig_reason to believe that his
life wasfia-danger„.wen.t- to Moon -mid asked.
him:. -to diVide -the- winnings, . to -that -he
could -leave Dejaver---ancle-go east; To. Itis
astonishment -and: digtaay, Moon: eooliy-
refesed to divide one aeut, and turned hins.
out of his house. . McComb had barely got
intothe street - when - Thanipson'e_ friends
Opened fire on hibi, and ho. had to run for
.his life. His pedestrianaa'silitiee stood Id
in good stead,and he escaped without
injury. By running and walking all night
he managed to reach a point of safety, and
boarded an east bound train; -never stop-
ping uutil he reached Illinois'. He. stirtes
that -the day after his hasty departure from
Denver .goon was shot by the viotimized
gang, and died almost instantly.
A Conductor's Printing ()lake.
It appears that Grerman railway con-
ductors are Made happy by the addition to
their equipment of a paper mill and print-
ing office, theinvention of a Berlin engineer,
to be hung round the neck, which, accord-
ing
to an exchange, is to -completely manu-
facture passenger tickets before the eyes of
the wondering , public. The apparatus is
said to be. somewhat complicated in awl-
struction, but its manipulation is as simple
as its working is correct, for, should the
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Dy the mechanism, it will not print all the
figures and words wanted, but the word
"Falsch ", (wrong) hi the place where the
fault Was cominitted. -At the mune tirne
this Portable printer checks the number of
tickets issued, so that at any given mon:wilt
the money in the hands of the conductor
can be compared with the value of the
tickets printed and taken. '
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How She Sacrificed Her Wedding Mug
SITTING BULL.
tibiel by Inheritance as Well as by Deeds
ot Bravery.
An extended interview has been had
with Sitting Bull at Fort Yates, Dak. He
says he was born near old Fort George on
the Willow Creek, below the mouth of the
Cheyenne River, and believes that he is
about 44 years old. His father wa,s the
famous Indian chief, Jumping Bull. He
says, "1 am chief by inheritance as well
as by deeds of bravery." He has with him
two wives and nine children, including
twins. After himself he regards Four
Horns as the greatest of living chiefs.
When asked why he surrendered, he
denied that he had done so. He says that
whenajse went to Fort Burford he did so
with the intention of remaining only a few
days, and did not understand that he had
given himself up. He will now demand of
the Government that it shall set him 'free.
He was asked in what way he considered
the Government wronged him, but gave an
evasive reply, saying that he had never
had either a misunderstanding or an
agreement with the Government. He had
never made any treaties with the whites,
never sold them any land, and never made
war upon the United States. Without
ever having committed any depredations
upon the white man or the white man's
country, he had been driven by force from -
lands whose possession he had neve!'
yielded, and had been placed in a position
where all his acts were dictated by neces-
sity and not by any desire on his part for
war. .
A Black Walnut Story.
The smartest Texan, and, in faot, the
smartest farmer I ever met, is old Sam
Graves, who lives on a100 -acre farm west
of Waxahatchle, in Central Texas. After
Mr. Graves had shown me his cattle. and
cotton, he took -me over to see his woods.
- "Well, what of it?" I asked, as. he
pointed out a ten -acre forest.' .
" What of it?' why them's black wal-
nuts, sir. Ten acres of 'eni. Planted 'em
myself, fen years ago. -See they are ten
inches through. Good. tees, eh?"
- . And sure enough there were ten acres Of
hand-plantedwalnut trees: They stood
about 200 feet apart,. -_200 to the acrei
all 2,000 trees
- how did, you get ;yontmoney
back9" 1 aSked...
"Blackwalauts are worth $2,5,0 a bushel,•
ain't they? I'll get 400 bushels this year.
That's $1,000 A hundred dollars a year is
good- rent for ..'land r worth- 15 an acre;
ain't it?"
Well,.what 'else 1 inquired, growing
interested
"The tlees," cont,inued Mr Grves, "are
„growing an inch a,year. . Wh n :they are
20 years old they will be 19 inches through:
A black Walnut tree, 19inches through is-
-worth 515. My 2,000 .trees _10 yeara froni.
now will be worth $30;000. If I don't want
tu cut them all I can cut half "of.:theni;'and'
then raise a bushel of walnuts to the tree—
that is, get -.$2,500. a °year: :for the prop.
-Trilinne.
-_ No land,ain't it ?"—C
- • hicago
Two hundred and fifty dollars an.a, a
fair rent for
" How They- Parted."
A new song' is entitled "How They
Parted." We have not read it, but no
doubt they parted in the usual way—about
2 a. m„ after kissing each other "(ad
night" at --least 37 times, "Well,guess
must go," he says, with a sigh, about two,
hinire 'before he does :gp. - Then, after
another hall,:heur'siconyersationsibout one
thing and atio'slier; he presses her hand With
Much paessiveness, says - he really must go,.
and—lovingly lingersanother half-hour..
Then he -says he didalknoW it so late,
picks up his. hat .and moves toward the
door, where he puts his arra around her to
prevent her.- ffromfallwg M a swoon, and
kisses' her five minutes in one inning and -
still lingers,' Then he gives her one more
kiss -just for luck,- and reluctantly steps
down and out into - the black,- lonesome
night, and calls areund the next night
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That is how they parted years age—if we
have not been Miginformecl.
neer Thigs About Horses.
operator not proceed in the way req n
uired
A despatch from New York sayswell-
,
dressed woman_ giving her bathe as Mary
White was arrested in Patersonyesterdayfor swindling. She represented herselfas
a widow; and said that she was poor and
had Sold: everything,, till atlast shewas
forced -to part with her wedding ring Then
she exhibited What appeared te be a massive
gold ring, rounded at the edge% to look is if
worn, -and --engraved on the inside -with the
initials "lit C." :The ringappearedto be
wortla'$15.' :She sacrificed it for $4. Then
she went to some one - else and told the
same story and sold another ring bearing
the same initials. Pretty soon the .phr-
chaisers went out to 'make their neighbors
envious with their bargains. This resulted
in the discovery that the neighborhood was
full of the nngs A jeweller tested them
and found that they were brass, and worth
about ten cents apiece. - The woman was
arrested yesterday. , - -
Lord Sandhurst was Married a _fortnight
a -go isa St. .James' Church;' Piccadilly, . to
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Lady Victoria Spencer, youngest daughter
of-thelate.Earl Spencer, and' lialf•Sisterof
the present Earl, by whom shewas given
away. . The, Prince and Primess Of Wales
were -present and gave . the bride .0 very
handeoree' Chippendale- writing -table. :7' An
India- ellawl, which..appeared among the
preaents -_Was,-, of 'Course?, from the lQueezaz
who sent, in addition; aegoideenateelled
diamond peadant, with her own miniature
in the centre, and: having alarge pearl drop.
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"She -get on the boa -and -I asked her.for
ten cents befere she ioit her head in the
rope. Sheareuldn't give me' the ten cents,
and rlet her go; aiscIshe didn't put her
head in. - She hollered4- fell dawn,- and
then you then .came 'tar , il.m." -' This- is the
graphicstory of a Ca umbue;..Ohici;,. boy
whcih-aa_agreod teassis-la, Woman -in' Coin,
reitting suicide if she av*Onld giye.: him. ten.
cents.
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In a meeting at New York the otherdayi
Dr Ga,rrish, speaking of horses, said that
greater attention "should be paid- to their
conafOrt. They should: get fruit and sugar.
occasionally, and, above all things, they
ought to have one :day's rest out of seven.
He said that horses, though not so intelli-
gent.as dogs; are very sagacious, and meu-
tioned .an instance' of a horse- of his that
used to stop of his own accord at the door
of a patient whom he had been treating for
fever; a year ..afterward, passing by, the
horse astonished the doctor by stopping as
before. Dr. Lambert thought that while a
horse might not be sointelligent as a dog
he could See further. A • lopg,lived horse;
he said, was known by the elasticity _ and
fireinees of its ear, and a Short-lived. one
has a fiallsy ear. The same rule, he said,
hem good with regard to women. A woman
whose ear was pilled out =by a
heavy ear- ring hadnotMany years to live,
. While one whoseearastOod the strain would
attain-aagood old age. - .
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Arecent traveller in equatorial Africa
says: "Lions are one of the dangers
between Zanzibar and the great lakes.
They some times_ hunt game in packs of
,six to eight.. Some animals show fight
against them successfully. Lions never
venture te attack the adult elephant, and.
even avoid the buffalo, unless they are more
than two to one. In genelal ' they never
attack caravans, and never in daytime.
At most a hungry lion may .spring ,upon
and carry off a straggler while passing
through the brakes and jungles. But it is
otherwise at night., When -lions scent the
caravan from afar, particularly if it con-
taans goats' or beasts of burden, they
,approach and announce their vicinity by
terrific „roars. Nevertheless in a well
enclosed camp there is -no danger; the -
lions -never attempt to clear the ‘obstacles,
and marksmen from behindthis paheades.
can pick them off- with almost - unfailing
aim. There is danger only when the camp
is not completely enclosed, or when -those
inside -go out to attack them."
`Robert Browning is pleasantly deacribed
as -.wandering through. the- :cravid- at the
Royal Academy :entertainments i with ta
-kind word and warm grasp of .harid for
allhisafriends,. and, above stolen
glance affection at his son'S pictures mis
hp:Wet' aseee them b
P - Y -
BLACK WALNUT.
The Supply Almost Exhausted, and No
Substitute Yet Found -A Gloomy Ont..
look for Furniture Men.
A few years ago black walnut was a drug
on the market, and was not at all popular
with furniture manufacturers and dealers,
but resently it has been so universal:y
sought for and used so extensively for
almost every kind of furniture, that latter:y,
it has become very scarce, and now it is
found next to impossible to obtain a suffi-
cient supply to meet the increasing demand,
at almost any,cost. An idea of its scarcity
and. value may be gained when $100 per
thousand feet has been paid this year for
the same quality and quantity of black
walnut as could be purchased last year for
$70. The rapidity at which the supply
has decreased is owing to the impetus the
trade has received through the organization
of a large number of extensive furniture
companies in . the United States. The
imfnense number of sewing machines (the'
wood -work of which has been manufactured
from black walnut) that have been annu-
ally turned out both -in the States and in
Canada is one of the principal causes of
the rapid consumption. A prominent
dealer in the city stated to a Glolie reporter
that there are now ten anxious buyers
distributed throughout the States to every
one there was two years ago, and that
there is more difficulty in procuring a few
thousand feet of the precious lumber
now than there was in securing
half a million feet three years ago. When
walnut first came to be used it was
obtained in large quantities from Port
Stanley, the Tinges of Kent: Essex and
South Middlesex, and it also grew in abun-
dance on the banks of the Thames River,
Ont.; but now the Canadian supply is
exhausted, and lately it has been obtained
from the State of Indiana. There was such
a great similarity betwth
'een e wood of the
two countries that mahufacturers had no
3hoice, and_paid the same price for either.
Since the Canadian supply li,as failed the
immense drain 011 the forests of the State
of Indiana has caused the supply to give
out there, and now the walnut (which is of
a lighter Shade and consequently net So
good) is obtained from the States of Arkan-
sas, Kentucky; Kangas' and SOuth. Ten-
nessee. - . '
of Toronto, states that when
he first came to Canada was used
for rail fenchs. . -
Tile -principal value of walnut is that it
is an excellent wood for furniture and is
handsome in appearance. it bas -a, close
grain, is nOtliable to be affectedby changes
of temperature, and at the sanie_. time- is
not hard to work, .whieh_ renders. ill' a- -very.
valuable - timber eoca;omically. Another
,
reason why it is soon &sive is th at it hasi
to be hauled a- great distance 'Iv teams
before -a railroad can be reached.
- SUBWITTiTE. -
-Thitternut ras becialconsidei,ed an excel-
lent Substitute for walnut, _but as.it can'
seldom Olatained- without -flaws; it will
never - fill -the. place of: the time-honored
walnut. Besides this it is also very scarce,
and is gradually increasingia price.
- CherrYwood, whiCb.! is as enduring as
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walnut, and.which his' been rapidly grow-
ing in favor with furniture dealers,- 120,13
doubled in price within the laet. two years
on account af its. scarcity: -
ran nEnte ny.,
If walnutis not 'replanted at 'once,- the
outlook for good furniture in the futhre-Wilf
be very dreary. If it were planted along
the shores 01 Lake Erie or in the counties
before merOionetl, or in auy ;part of the
Province west of Toronte, in twenty Years'
time it would pay 5,000.../Per 'cent,: so says
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an old arborieulturist. In the .meautihae
the prospect -is gloomy in the -extreme, and
dealers look forward to and ancorn;
plete exhaustion of . the supply.--.--Toroutca
Globe:, -• ; :
Kati] _Keepers. ;
(Johnny Bouquet in N. T. Tribune.)
" Minehoist " wus once a term ofamean-
ingwhen tavern keepers were not above
their trade, and. the guest found .at the
door a plain, well -led man, with honest
eyes, Who took his baggage or his hind and
Said, "Now, come to me if anything goes
lwrong." In these days some - bar keeper
turned great Man has replaced the host,
whose ambition it is to -appear to do
nothing and to look haughty and Intellec-
tual, as if a glorious ancestry i kept his
impulsiveness in -check. Some of these
parvenus run four or five hotelsand spend
moat of their time travelling between them,
instead -of looking after the personal comfort
of the bird theyhavecaught. Thewerdtable
d'hote they are now affecting means the
table of the host's family, at which he pre-
sides and..carves,hut the average host now-
adays is so ashamed of hie . guests that he
hides his family like a Mexican or Brazil-
ian grandee faem the sight of. travellers.
W001021 have an opeakig in the hotel
-business here as in England. They are not
held speculators, and are willing- to
undergo_a_aiLliostai responsibilities. :At
Brighton,_ England, which is the largest
watering place on the;g/obe, with above
1150,000 permanent residents, • the 'chief
duties of hotels are performedbywomen
mainly, the porter's work excepted: The
hotels frequently .send a the 'guest out
to one of the thousand's of clean private
dwellings, wherelor from 15 to 30 shillings'
week room and attendance are furnished.
British extortion, -80 celebrated among
Americans, omits the-, exasperating solici-
tation here, but more boldly expresses
itself in the tariff. The l British hotel OS -
tem, vapidly intruding here, is popular with
landlords as a means -of ,greater revenue;
ingeneralthe same Cooking is served as at
the public table, bitt'with higher' tariffs on
the various dished._ Wine,- Which is the
Matter of greatest_ Profit to the foreign
lealdlerd;ie of small relative consumption
here; a profit of about $10 a case is made
upon champagne. Claret; _which costs 40.
nte a 'equart bottle from the _grocer;._ie
/tea 51 and upward at the_hotel table.'
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I
In passingkthrough Germany on her way
to SWitzerlancl the Empress Eugenie, who
travels as the Countess l'ierrefonds, first
drove bathe neWpalace.ha order to view
the juurds in which the 1114 Priooeie Mies
lived,_and -afterwards proceeded to the
Royal -Mausoleum, where she was , niet by
tho hereditary Grand i'Duke : and - the
Princess Irene and -Alice. ',The- Empress
thenknelt before the total Of the Princeee,
and a after passing' some time in ell'ett:
prayer placed seVerallareithe upon it. -
TEA TABLE GOSSIP.
—Green corn and green apples are akin.
—Exchange. And the small boy is akin to
tackle them.
—A west end young man calls his sweet-
heart "Silence," because when he wants
to kiss her she " gives consient."
—Says G. A. Sala: "The object of all
devils ' in cookery is to provoke thirst and
to incite the guests to drink heavily."
—The Citizen is the name of a new
temperance paper published in Toronto.
It is edited by Mr. William Burgess.
— Recent tests show no perceptible
change in the strength and elasticity of
iron after fifty years of bridge service.
—A Buffalo girl will not have her wedding
dress made in that city, for fear somebody
will say she was married in a buffalo robe.
— Pineapple shortcake is one of the new
departures in cooking. But the old veteran,
huckleberry pudding, still holdsjits own
— The polo quadrille, just introduced at
the watering places; is much like the old
basket quadrillea and the feature is a very
rapid all hands round.
—As a rule girls rather like military
men, but they universallyacomplain of
General Indisposition when asked by their
mothers to help wash the dishes.
--L" air. Smith; father would like to bor-
row your paper; he only wants to read it." *
"Well, go.back and tell your father to
send me his supper. Tell him I only want
to eat it."
—A strange astronomical phenomenon is
seen in the fact that when the irate father
takes down his trunk strap there is liable
to be spots on the son.
—The 'giraffe is a very tinaid
His neck.i so long that when his heart
comes up to this mouth it takes him half a
day to get it back where it belongs.
— Sounds near the pyramids: " My donk
Doodle ! Have my donk?"
What shall a man say -2--Boolieger Expros
Well; .
red nose- that she laces too -tightly, but
,pia fellow, what woilld youSay your;
geolo_fd?-d-on4k,!". ." dook he speek Ingleesl
He -very good!" ,“ My donk name Yank'
—Awoman may offer in excuse .for her
. . -
is the latest Western form -Of -
Saying af manwashanged': ." -He was
Unanimously.Chosen:by a convention of six
property holders to-jorup from a new pine
platforni Into the sweet -subsequently,"
,-We shall have a new comet on exhibi-
tion in about -tea days, ,when the fiery
Visitor new being examined by theastrolio#
- - -
niers willbe,vieible -to the naked eye in the
Iiorthera sky. a T
—' Tommy, did • you .not hear your
mother call you?" "Corse I did r Then .
why don't you go to 'her at once 2" "Well,
yer see, she's _nervous, and it'd shock her
awful fi shonld go too stiddenly:" '
----Ws said the children are 41-,dyitto..like
gies" in Brooklyn, Said the cause is a anys,
tery. It is-sugfgested that bad milk maybe -
a fertile :Cause, or too much:ice water.
They die from similar causes inthisateigha-
borheod. _ •
as -A sad"..Warning, to .bibulona folks_ is,
telegraphed froin New Bruuswiek,.N.s.,,as
ionows: Annie Towers, of this •city, died -
to day from the effects of tartaric acid
pOisoningironi lemonade,"- of which he
drank fifteen: glasses at -an excursiog
receatly. s
tor,eign exchange 11 tin.•articie on
ninsic gays : "As in cookery; so in, /amain,
the question may. be asked, What -goes
With what?" So far as 8111211110r ,12111si0 is
vciacernidi it may be said that the -same
•r4ghts that produce the cats producethe
apcordeons
, —A queer story is told from Torontoofkraan named Loudan-selling his wale and
children: to a Man 120.121ed Haines. The -
vife- had deserted -het husband for Haines.
Failing to induce her to return, Loudan
handed her and :his childrenever to Haines.
on the receipt el $5... -
1:a --The. mighty have - fallen! tdward-
Harden; the oarsman, has been summoned
for selling liquor on Sunday on Torento
Island, and his brother John is also sum
100/lea 012 four charges of selling liquor
A _ o _
Without a license. _ -' _
' i== --Ort account of intuitionalism _wet, have
relapsed into 'utilitarianism; or universal.
istic hedonism. This gtatilying statement
isl made on the authority of a professor of '
philosophy at Concord. Itis. too, too—
bad.
._
—Little .-' Johnny had lieeti caught by his . .
aunt -teasing a fly. " Jojanny,' said she,
"supposing some great beast a thousand „-
tithes bigger than yourself should: -tease-
yeti, and Perhaps .. eat you all up ?" "1
hope," said -Johnny, "he'd feel 'as bad sal
de When I Swallow a fly," -
- 1-7" Hi I 1 Where did you get • them
trousers ?"laSked an Irishman of a paw
who happened -to be passing with a_ remark- -
ably :short, Pair of trousers. "1 got them
where- they grew," Was thoL•indignant
• zieply. :" Then,- by my Conscience,' said• ..
Pat, "you've pulled them* year too soon'!"
- _ • ... asasmnrrivrarra's soma. -
. .
i . 0 come out of it,
• Come out of it,-mySoul, thousze not fit
For this vile traffic -house, where day by day
Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart, -
'-Anct the ridepeeple rage with ignoraiit:en'es
A. inst an heritage of centaries. - -
lits
tmars my calm: wherefore in dreams 01 Art *
nd loftiestcultureI would stand apart, -
Niither for pod, nor forhis-enemies. _
-Oscar Wilde, the wstlistio.
--There ..lih a- war - among the weather
prophets. !Vennor predicts One sort of -'
weather for -August, De We., the Jersey
meteorologist, another and . the . Weather
Department a -third.' And,, -iii the mean, .. ,
tirne,the average citizen is made tlioroughlY •
aware of the fact that it is hot. • :
. Alcoholic fermentation generated In
thi?.rootis dapple trees has been found by
D. Van Tiegliem to be often the cause . of
disfease in such. trees, As the roots do no
Sonietimes receive enough of oxygen in we
weather, drainage is -the remedy recast
Smen4ea..
A correspondent of the New
E4ningPost asks if 'any one can gi
tJo -241.91"41iP of ti* 1007 -in• a'a
riles ' • • .
Belo* the dark waves, where thedea,
• There -ire gulfs of night more'deep.
But little care they whom the waves
How fir from the light they sleep
Bub who, in sorrow though be be,
Pearsileta 'deeper 13#11? . _
'Ali; God that sorrow.- werei*
Os° topmost waters
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