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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1884-05-02, Page 3..c - • CANADA'S TUTURE. • The Goverpogenefal on tho. ?twits for " Canadian lationality.. DIFF.1013ILTIES IN THE WAY. - • Widest Menem of Provincialindependence Kielty Necessary.-* NO_ OW FOR THE FENIANS. Spea gat.the banquet given in his honor by the St. Jemes Guth, Montreal, on Thursday bat, the Marquis of Lanedowne said the fabric of society ie more -.solid in Canada than it is in Britain, because elegatifte .4fe different provindeeof the! widest nteasurer of independence. with. e- gard to .;the --management - of _their local' affairii wit), Ishould hope; go far to reinove any causes of -appreheueion from this source. He would, hoWever,-be-a; coura- geous prephet. who' would predict that occiasionkwohld never arise when there might be e divergence of • I:0pm, Awn Mona, nantzsTs. - A great Bngiish novelist once cenitlained ottne custom of ROVE) 'prolonging the story of e thteetvitliiine _novel -beyund the -mar- riage of the hero and heroine; and; he pub- lished a enost humbrewi prolodgetion of one of Wolter Soott's most famous novels, introducieg his readers to Ivaigitie and: Rowena' * -a " married aoupie, no longer surrounded by the glamor *of remonite, but face to !see with the humdrum of domestic existence,. The story went on 40 show that Ivanhoe as a husband was not eon - • wealth and land are more- equally divided. opiettouS for domestic. virtues (laughter), _and thatRowena as a wife ported company .with those amiable qualities winch had rendered liar so lovable as a maiden. (Re-, newed laiighter.) . I amnot sure, at what moment it will become pessiblettedesorihe • the Doininicet as emerging from the honey- moon of federatitn, but when it dose the trial to *beta it Will be exposed will not be diminished by the fact that in this case -Ivanhoe will have half O dozen Rovienes to ream with. (Loud- laughter;) it is quite impossible to Bay what may, not happen- if fifty years hence 'one �f then should insist on ie bossing the. whole • eetablish, merit (rears. of -laughter) . another should eterry • on a flirtation. with a .coiebn tiptoes the road-. if. ! a . third should be always. asking 'for - more,..pin money, and a .lourth _ sheela openly_ allege incompatibility of- temperas:tent and threaten proceedings in. the Divorce Court.. (Laugetee.). Whether • these things Will hsppen oe no must depend upon the temper andwiecican and patience -of the :people of this -country I_ say the people of this country (applause),. because 'it seems to me that it is rather twee them thaii-uPon. their rulers that the feture depends, tether upon the different members of theefederal body than upon the central power ;Mitch dieeots them., Will the dominating fiend- nient hereafter be asthmal. or kited,- ,pana- dian or 3?rovincial ? That is the qeestion which will have .to be answered: by the 'thrifty femora of. -this ?mince,by the. dwellers on the rich _slopes_ of Ontario, by the. herd"' fishermen of the. Maritime Pro-. - Vince% by the inhabitants of ..our great Pacific Province and by the sturdypioneera. of the Northwest. (Applause.) Us1i:1st .any coxiteifugal force which may -come into. elay each and all Of these have something to opposcieethe determination of your. peo- ple to be something more than aefortuitous aggregate- fef -Provinces without national lifeeor national statesmanship, Or national aspirations, or ' national policy, Or national culture, her national precautions fordefence (loud .applause), the determinatiOn that the British Empire shall bave in North Amer- ica 110 a mere collection of outlying eettle-. ments, bat e great entente' power resem- bliegthe mother -country m'its-leve:of free izietitutionse & source of strength rather_ than Of weakness to the Empire. (Great applause) That is the determination Winch brought you to federation seventeen. peaks age, whiehteluis led you to to sacrifices of local' conyenimicee to under- takeenatinnal werks greater 'thee have been -undertaken by any . young cobimunity. in the hiettety of the world; that is the deter- mination *hid" lies on the -threshold of. .your net -tonal life. May :you have wisdom land etrength to adhere - to it; and if diffi- culties or dangers should ever. beset Our path, may you feetthat-Your common alle- gtance to the old obuntryi whicih has ilwatei regarded a strong and "united Canadaas the - brightest ornament of the Enapize,eis a source of strength and. senility to your- selves. (Great applause.). H said e - _ ' - • efrethen, gentlemen, in the even distribu- tion bf wealth, and particutarly of landed.: property, and in the general diffusion of comfort, in your system of lobal govern - meat and in year arrangements for public. . education you have those buttresses likely ' t9- .give strength inctsolidity to that ef which I -have - spoken as the fabric of • society in• Cenada, siid,to render her people prosperous, contented, intelligent. and well . - quahfied to look after their own 'tininess-. (Appiause l We have been speakieg of the social- fib= of the Dominion. There is, • ,, however, . a other fabric -vihichi we meet utu . not lestOM of--4tne for the strengthening and con olidation . of wbich all good Canadians: are ready to put forth whnteviar Of energy ondotbility and, patreotisixi they peeseteeteateisthe fabric whicih we:should, 1 suppose- speak of - as the political or national -fit -brut (1 Cenada. Perhaps l -shall seem to yowniore vouregeous than; diteee.et --:' if I tread for an instant on ground white.] is seareely so firm as that over which I have travelled till now.- Well, sir, I suppose n Englishmen would be sosanguine as to say that we have no Week points in our national gtstematliome,and larainchnedto Bey with regard to Canada that he would be $ bold man who would maintain that' there . was impossibility of week points beingseiselosed . by experience in . . _ . ..-' TErz NATioNAL HYSTElf neez, It Would indeed be strange if it Were other- wise. There are several considerations to. "which unless' we wish to, be fatuous we Clan - not iskiuteeter eyes. in . the first -place we haveetto bear ne mind, that_ the foundetions. of our national systeirk here were laid only , Seventeen years- ago, and that we have been adding toand. altering the structure ever .sitice. Te mortar, so to speak, has scercely •, lied time, tor harden, and the strength of the tie:aiding to stand the autumn_ gales and the frostsof winter has 1308,7coy had a fairtrial. yet. Another consideration Of Which we . itantiOZ lose -sight. is this; that the builders .1 'tee themselves *problem in national 4rchi- - :lecture greater thanany Which has yet bet n eitlited hr. mortal statesmen, that of ORM-. ingout of diverse .elemente .scattered over .... the lace of this immense continent- & nation z fit to take its place among_ the great ones of • the earth. It we want to - realize the task) --which we have set ourselves we have only - to look at the map of the- Dominion and to ceeeiderlhe distal:lees with _ which we have to dee', and the extent- of the territory over which oureflve millions of inhabitants are scattered. Lay your rule -.upon the Scale - nild see how farit is weitwardsfronrObtiwra to Winnipeg, and again from Wimupeg to - Victoria, or ' eastwards from Ottewit to Halifax or Prince Edward Ieleild ; 1001t at he -phytecal • barriers whicb. we have to overcome -mountain lenges loftier and. wider than -any in the world -lakes .- and -wildernesses vett enough to separate empires.I Will the heart at the aational. . Capital be ttong enough to pimp a stream et natiOnal -life into the extremities .on :either mean? Will the collective aspire, :abuse! your people be strong enough not , . only to overt:vine these physical diffioulties, btit to efface differences of.redee.differenees- ' of creed,' differences of material interests more formidable perhaps than mountain chains and inhospitable deserts'. - . If . we *eh to . gauge the magnitude of the -problenelet us eek ou reelves what ere the - influences-. which in history. have_,gbien solidity and Unity to the -nations Of the weed; -They are, I - think, three- . - geographical-prOpinquity of the parte, . the fear a foreign invasion and identity of Interest. Well, gentlemen', as to geograph- ical propinquity, I am "-afraid --we Must admit that in spiteof ell that railways and ' telegraphs eau do for us, We can: never, geographically-. speaking, hope to be a, corn - pact nation. Tben, sir, - kr- IS THE PEAR_ OP INVASION -.' Whet invasion have we to fear? Our ' kinspien on the other side of the, line; hold relations with us. which _will; I:trust, never be leas friendly than they are to -day. If it difaCulty' arises between us it is promptly. - -and cordially. adjusted. An ,occasional suggestion from withinorfrom without- an favor of a voluntary ;.alteration of our nationality seems tofill so flatly that We cannot; depend upon these as a means of - keeping our national enthusiasm at boiling Toint, But, gentlemen-, I.ain forget -ting we are threatened. 'with an invasion, and the invederlileave been kind enough.to give us amttleeticifice of their intentions, ofthe plan . ottlieir campaign, of the numbers iu which theywill enter our territory, and of the . names-ofteir cominanders, who appear to be almest (Great Iatig ter.), Let iiii not judge these. ip umeious as the rank and file. - self -declared foes too basalt,. Their dee nionetration is, perhaps, after all, not with- - out its usefulness. I am convintiee that if- iepaseing breeze of impatience shouldflutter in the Northwest, if the great .Province of -Manitoba - experiences a little -perhaps!: not . unnatural anxiety . to : emerge haste frora her :minority, in which I believe no one. .desires 16 totain her an hour longer than. is necessary, no surer means of counteracting that passing disaffection , could be found than „.. the _threat , of disloyal interference from 'ewithout, an interference which I hove no doubt whatever her !sturdy settlers -- would be the firs -1 to resent and resist.- ' • ; (Loud cheers.) Welksentlemen, a we are , not to count on geographical proximity or on the fear of invasion tb counteract, any - centrifugal tendenciett which may manifest . thereselvee, can we omit Ution identity of interest ? 1 trust. that we Ofilly but Sven bare . we Must 'admit that only experience , Oen solvethe problem and that it is neoes- sartetolook cautiously ahead. .The wise . THE ,Isr.oisiao or ssraii.Am. - The Bees, Butterflies -and Bremintue Geode robs et the In Austria every lady,. n Matter how high her rank, learnt) tititooka keepliouse thoroughly With her own han • It has been.preeted.beyond ei doubt • that Mr. Charles Reade's "PititUr was taken from the French Of Mme. de Jew ybaud. ee - Two -daughters of . the 4chbiiihep of, Canterbury are among the stdente 'in the Woman's -Hall it Oxford, EtiMand. •• Lady C1aude. Hamulton,. under- .the -seperintendeuee -Of Prof. -ete,Tyndall, translating the e Life. and .144-3ra Of Louis Pastenr." • , - • 7 . The ,,lete Mrs, Arabella .41 •Wiltion,- Of New Bedford, Maes:, wrote. tk.M. well-kuoWn. verses, ".4 Apetoi for.„ FresettAie :. to _the Seeteactotthe Meetieg7Housce Clara S. Foltz, the 'Calif uhe 'W0i33/41. lawyer, watelies the -promo nit; of- the Sharon divorce trial oloaely.• hvlie Wants to know, YOn, know! - - • *.• Tbe oldest house now sticieling in New ()keens is _the ebeildin-g whe etbe Amens negre' Voudoo Queen lived.PIn her leee days, however, she ;surnamed' ".er gibberish and died in the Church. - te. - A level-headed woman; sp lung of lady - dead -beats - who - quarter. themselves on relatives and others, .84.34 AS a rule,. the ladies who scorn to. wan. Yoney -do ROI. scorn to take Was a: gift," Ex -United States Triage,- r Spinner say l$ that women clerks coun more . -*Om, rately . and rapidly . than m 1;.* that they detect :counteefett Meetly wr • more Wore ty, *ad thet they are •ij.jnsver -than • •i in GrasiValley, Cal., the I le- daughter; of ttie Chinese interpreter get ,to the public schools and she has 'nagged 14.-* father ti.il she mile him consentto lett dress like - the American gine: • She is Otti,aars-oid and speaks eneelient..English, : , .-- In Talparaise, Chili, the. -e�t Oar ccoi-• &actors beeinie croes-grained ecir. some tea- m& :and. die not - glee aatiLotion., The OOTO • i nyeptityeutig.evemen iktheir , places , . - an ow there is hardly a va Int seat -to be, h , d; - 'their care. ' The Wont el have proved immense aweless. e. 1 - -. , . .e Near Fott-Niebrara, Neb. tee MM. Mil . ler; a successfutwoincut feria e She .dees- all the work on her email tab° . herself. Lastyeer she raided 300 bush of of potatoes, 50 bushels of Corp, 20 bushel's& •turnipstfed two hogs and .ber large :fitaniaot children, and supplied her neighbors I itife garden same" . Emily _Faithful is - Writin1eej enthindastki loupes to Loadow,: papers altAut Women's 1-- work in California. • At . Fresno thelound . ;.-! oIracle of lend entered by fog ladytobool- Ieedhere: They Worked it partnership: and planted in alfalfa, .a vieberd and an. orchard of aprioote; itectarint.A end almond trees. - They have been ver yl 'coessfal: . There are Imam Women t West. A week ago Mrs. Alexander, : . Denver, was walking .along the street on vening when twit rough Wen seized her- d attempted: to rob her.: ' Orie clapped hi end over her , . mouth and tried to ieatch h. Suddenly. ehe bit his finger to the bone lied he let her go in haste. . " There " laid - e, '" take My pocketbOolL" -' She threw towards WM and ran away, Omitting...* pocketbook contained very little money eit Mrs. Alex- ander had on ;her peeson,tetteides, a gold *etch and $30e whit% she, - -•' t 'the robber, get away. with. It - is a eight. good story!, Here is a -piece of the besteeessible advice _for bailiftor menind .womeulTry to forget that you have armii,lege anc-, feet. If you de not they Will ',,tbeltiply ,Intilir to your consciousness, they are as n _ .« itioes as the antis of the octopus and alw lain imminent danger of lying therneelvieepn knots and throwing you down or iriakift you. do some awkward thing; Try to fOrbt youreelf. In every way. .. Melton& hestygliteovement, but after stepping -builds the-dooteity pause and : A 431101101D8 SECT. Tbe Chicago itothustalts who Welt* ts_ poleseitte to Await Chrlst!..Ucaohug. - Chicago people have almost forgotten the commotioncaused some years ago by an - evangelist of the Moody type who suddenly abandoeed the orthodox theories of heaven _Of gold and sapphire . and began to &each_ Chiest's reign upon earth. This man, Mr. H. G. -Spafford, who lived at Lake View, aud who-tuid been a lawyerof some elan& mg, gathered about him -a' congregation. of theoruset amounting to perhaps -forty or *fifty, who eubioribed to his strange In _adoordance with their theory, Christ -was tee:appear for His finol 'residence- on Mount Calvary, and in order to. be there oze'hand Mr. Spafford and his -little band converted ail • their " property into otish and - sailed - for the -Promised Lind. A traveller who.reoeittly vieited Jerusalem ' inthe interest of one of the missionary Soeieties.-Of the. East states that she . visited' the house -in Which the Lake View community lived, and_that she found them in good health and epleits, still firm in belief, and waiting with hope and resigeation for the judgment day. Thie -young woman, sent out from Boston, returned to that city a 'fete weeks age, and has written lettere to Weeds in Chicago desoribing the wee! in 'which She Was: ret °Mired; having been sick for several weeks at the house in which *these people lived. Their dwelling -is desoribed as :large and. °mime -deeps -ea neatly, but net elegantly- furniehed hotweee-and -fitted Out wttheall the conveuiences. which the best civilize - don ofthe country- can furnish. She says thet about twenty persons are living under the same roof, and that all property is held in common. The hewn itself' is perched upon the side Of the mountain jest Without the walls of the. Holy City, and presents a, most strikingly picturesque . appearance. Mr. Spafford, the leader ot the ceinniubity, :is neatly. 60 years of age; but be -still hale, hearty awl happy. - - Ao Accommodating. Preacher.. - - •- • . , , . Miss Flora Stewart, a Ritchie County, look-aroundfor the hostess ,o1 you do not Virgiehielady, young and-_-handiome, Was at twee see her. Go. to her ectltetecti$VO: engage -4 to .be Married recently. , -Her her greetib•g and .then take tnothee. quiet tvedeieg.,. clothes were prepared, the day • glance atoutid to see what erseete fellow , arrived, and the preacher was on hand,_litit to dispose of. yourself pleesseetly. 00oseien- one thing was lacking to make the- nuptials:, ally persons' make the mistse in their-. em - a euecesfl, and that was the -bridegrbom. barrasementof detaining t air hostess. in This Advertent petsonage. failed to put in ciontersethei NOitiOR other gtee to are coming an appearance. It happened thatT the in,obliginglierto ask to be: used in order preacher was bi siogle men, With an eye for to -give the latter greeting. , beauty and a heart for love, and the damsel • : Was youthful., comely and sufeeptible, so -"Yes," ' said *fachionahlWady, "1 think the minister offered tnliathe plaint of the Mary has -made a very tI?od matob. I. absent g700/21. The -Offer was -accepted, heard that - her - hide:and one of the and the twe-hied toParkersburg, where the alireWdiat and most unPrikeipled lawyers- . connubial knot was tied, and Mies BleSiart- in. -the Z profession.; and, .o0ouree-,-. he can becarcieMitt. James Barker. • " • . afford to gratify. liar every _ - • Cannes, the .. noted healresort, Idea - _s . , t lty. in which. G. A.-i$ala says that Id had a cook. once sOribed by Di...Ernest-814r. the Britiah who, enteringon her duties, Wasasked Medical Journal- as lOc whether She understood - the • use of a seta- egress irregularities and touel.offentses Mender- "Perfectly she replied, -Against health and decencyittie permitted t is tol!till rats, with. - . . • • . to go on With iinpunity. • TIK drains of One A wor.thy old lady- afore-. the follovting the principal . hotels • rupt a riviilet. athlete to girls: "Whenever a fellow pops. Which -runs through the z oat beautiful - the . question don't blush and stare at your ipart of the tonwm,--atid th oublic gardene foot. jidst throw your -• arms around his -have . beimine permeated ith_miagmatic neck, ad look .him :full in the familia elenients.t • cominense talking about the furnittire." Pair Paritnennes-with wbr money is no At a nleeting the----Howard.;Societrin object - and who:aaPire elterYthille that London last evening the announcement is; pschutt -div,ersify :the-floyerst4ey wen; was made that the: society. was co-operating. according to 'the time DIA day. In :the with •Ancerecan-prieotieeocietteilte proinOte morning, from '0 to 1-1-or-I4Vvielets. areithe a central bureau for Orim'inal statistioi at correct,. biosiomft. trent_ 24-O 5, iniinoSe:18 Washington.- A letter on -the- subject from all r'the rage; - hyacinths primroses are- Preaideet Arthur was -read. . considered dinner wear Ond at dances, "Do you seer expect*" sitiit the House, soirees,: Audi,- in-; fact,' al4r. 11 at night, of Gammons, Mr.Bradlaugh?" "asked-, a re-, gardenias, Citpe. .heetheephite Mae, or porter -Of the -famous Englieh. agitate -1e *"11 roma are pettniesible. ' • . I could -find out what Methtisitleh. .lived- on . ,NElivoustmss.--qhereitriirJllyno -gage -of I could tell you was the cautious nervousness that ever.I.me4 with that -Can, answers " 46, Is it true, that- you are willing notbe either curedor alle4pted by ;open - to swear as the law requires ?"- "Swear 1 tion to diet, :avOidance. roUptimulantsii the Egad, an, I've been doing nothing else. for daily use Of bath' and.. trio ilati with rcingb.. ,1 the last two years." . towels and flesh -brush;- II11 • -,•mited.exereise ' -tEntsortit, fiendish twist '.-has •-. been in the Open air, whether *t eather. be wet given- - crime: - in ,Paterson, N. 3. Six or•dry; cold di .hotearid p ,=esant -sootety. :thieves .With accordeons attacked -ar' house Mixingwith pleasant eOcie is One 01' the :Cater the manner of serenaders, and while Very beat means for the c e Of nervens, thelnmatea„ dazed and paralyzed by the nem:. -It takes one .fo e e being quite sounds, were Suffering the agonies of the out Of one% 'self, quite a y- from One's '.doomek the- oonfiderittes ..of the gang troubles -and aches. '-Itoust, however,. . pitinderod, the house. - When •the enemies never be exciting soctiety,:f .1-4 this etude the of society add- acoordeons to burglary it is blood to the l .heacl. and ni.4)ireff the .. --very time tolitA lynch, law became failtionable; foundation Ot nerve -power, What do...,you just One mile .betWeeii Sa•ult. St.:. You never talc -8tinitilitntfi to Maxie, ,T)fich., and the Canadian village cog- excessI doubt it;" for ,..if tOci.miuth Posite, yet .inail communication between indulged in, hi a dangerous timulant, and the two points occupies ten days. .4 letter se is coffee. A °tip of tail that has been posted on -- the American side goes fire to boiled: and allowed to cooli Ould:often du Detrolti'orcesee to Windsor, where it enters far niore good than tea Tet -drinking the Canadian mailk"and is then sent 'over grows On one, and *Oared' :when it dOes Canadian routes back to the ..Satilte twat*. so, it'shattere the -nerves -irremediably ing the' Canadian -office. there - In te days as. • does - Wine, _ or even . sp. 141.--4..F.ontily frotrt-thO time it etarted.: • DOC*. A. Bab* of, the. Basillead.. Not long wean English ladytook passage on a vessel bound from Kingston, Jamaica, to Louden. A large, :strong- and . active monkey on board the vessel took* fancy to the lady's blind; a babe about 2 months old. The Monkey would follow • the lady -from place to pleas, watching 'her as she rooked and fondled her little one. . It so happened on a beautiful afternoon during the voyage that a distant sail- attracted, the attention Of the passengers. - The polite captain offered the :lady the use of his.glitia. ' She placedherchild on the sofa and had just raised the glass to her eye, When a drymas heard. Turning quickly she beheld a sailor in pursuit of the monkey, which had grasped the infant 'firmly- with one arm and wee nimbly olinibing the shrouds.. The timOther feinted as the nionkerreached the toiof the mainmast. The captain was at his Wit's end._. He -feared. that . if be sent; a Benet in pursuit the Monkey Would drop the -babe, and escape by leaping from mist to -mast. Meanwhile the Monkey was seen to be sooth- ing and fondling the child. After- trying in many ways to lure the animal down, the eittiitrats. A.Vkirse.Denglit Ttgem ft the e ••• -44 the de.:`, " No ; I am not going -tat At, show you how IrM e QO," Sal . base den- „..g p.-.;„ • - fist, to a New reporter yesterday afternoon,. He had get flubbed -an operation on the grinders of a -mare tharpulled On one. line, kept her mouth open when being driven, slobbered all the time and had got to act- ing ivy and Viacom§ ;imply -because some of her beck teeth had -pointe whtoh out into• the sides of her Mouth. * - " NOV7 this mare is about 15 years *old,' but she ootild be fixed up so as to look like one of 7 or EL You see, thoonly way you -can tell a horse's age is bytheteeth.. 'The lower front teeth are the prinoipal guides, thelength of the upper ones goiug to show age, but you @lie that can be fixed -easy.: enough by filing them • olf. . These teeth - here be horse dentist opened the mare's - mouth, showing' the stx lower trent ones - don't come before a. hose is 5. years old. -The . ones before _that lige are colt's teeth. At 6 years of age each one of these has cup. . " What's a cup?" . "That's a little round hole in the end: of the tooth 'with a black epet in it. - When' the boas AB 7 years old these cups disappear in the two middle teeth but remain iu the two• - Witold° ones on each side. • At.8.yeers the. cups- are Only on- the two -outside teeth, After that age :they -disappear On- all of them. That's why SO many, bosses just turned 8 '- are sold; When these cups are gone you can't tell how old a hose is. Now, - if. we -wanted to work this Mare off on any- body for an 8 -year-old, I'd just take this inetrunient, dig a little hole in. each of these outside teeth, touch these boles with a nitric acid, file down ths. upper row of teeth to the proper length for an 8 -year-old, and the joba done." ' - • - "Would that deceive an expert ? " "-Certainly.. He'd just open the mouth . this way, glance at tise. teeth, Satisfy 'him- self. she was an 8. -year-old, and if she suited him in other ways and the price wact -satisfactory he'd. buy her." • - "Is there much Of that kind of work Yes-; considerable. 'Thato's What we call captain ordered .the men -below,-and con-. ceitIed himself on deck. In • a moment, to his great joy, he saw the monkey carefully descending.. Reaching the deck, it looked cautiously around, advanced to the sofa, and placed •the ohild upon it: The liaptain restored -the -child to its -mother, who was soon satisfiedthat her darling had escaped- withoutinjury. I- 1 . • . - Don't forget, my snobbish friend, that. you. have got to die just the same as the rest of tte, and you -cannot bay yourself, either. - - , : Next to a snOw•storm, for, a decided nuisance, 00MeS. a 'holiday, in a great 'oity.• When a man does drop out of sight in a 'great city, you not only never hear from him again, but you .oconnot Mgt find the hole he fell through. , • • • It is the strongest possible argument for our tnimortality that Mee of every ten human beings believe in it. : Politeness has no oreed. About -half - we know we guess at, and the othehalf, somebody has guessed at for us. . . ' -A man of a great deal .of character Can- not hide it. He will bstray it even when he sneezes. - One of the strongest evideneek to me of a hereafter is that we -cannot prove it. : Every ladder' hittia top round to it. Our charaoters'we make, our reputations are then Made for us.. -- ••• It is no disgrace to be hit by a deg the .first time, -but the seoond time it is, - Very- intelligent ' people carry a large share of their brainsi . n their Mete --Zeiss Fairchild, in The Manhattan for May.. bishoping '.;a hose " -Detroit News. • -' Peculiar Numbers. ThieBrahmins are said to have invented - the numerals -1' to 10-80p213 time before the Christian era, and the.Arabians to have intrOdUced them into Spain. whence they spread all . over -Europe. - They did not • come into use in England.until the Ding of the 'seventeenth centlity.. In olden times there was -8 belief. in the occult power of numbers, whith were.thought to express . the harmonies Of- nature. Divination by *lumbers oatie from this -belief. In a well knoWit song -Rory O'More declared tha -*there's Wok in odd numbers "-bad luck for some. the numeral Hebrew cabala - 2 was - paid to - be the most :impart e Cornelius 4grip7a. wrote that, therefore, 0 the second day. of the creation the Al- mighty did not pronotince_the very work of His hands to be good, and Rabbi Akkiva as- serted that hell was made on the evening of . the -second day. I . • --pleeP EIS a Medicine. . Theory for rest hasalways been louder than the cry for food. Not that it 11 More impertant, but it is often harder to obtain. Thebeet- rest Cornett from sound sleep. Of two men Or women, otherwise equal, the One. whosleepsthe best will be the most literal, healthy and efficient.. Sleep wiltdo mut% to care' irritability of temper, -peevishness and uneashiese. It will restore to Vigor an overworked brain. it will build up and make -strong *weary body.- It will euro a leadashe. it will cure a brash spirit:. It will - cure- sorrow. Indeed, we might' Make.; a long -list of nervous and other ma. ladies. that -sleep ;will •-euro. - The ours of - sleepiest -mesa requires -a .olean, good bed, sufficient.:zexercise- to produee weariness, pleasant occupation, good. air and not too warm a ZOO1r4j-., 010tie oimseienee and avoidance of -tifemtilants ondnarootioi. For these who are - oVerworke aggard,and nervous, who page eleeldeee u te, we 001011- Mendi the adoption of -snob habite se shall Bemire- sleep; otherwise, life.willbe short, and -Whit there -is of it sadly. imperfect, - Little Jack-" Mamma's new fan is hand -painted." -, Little • Dick --45 Pooh who cares?. Our whole fence is." • _ Charles Goodnight 113 a king among cattle kings -in TO7.813, and has, fenced in 100,000 acres with 250 miles a wire fence, at the head of Bed Rivet in the Panhandle. '1.Hie ranch oontainw nearly,. 2.5,000 acres More than there, are in the entire,State.of Rhode Island, and he bought the whole at from 50 Gents to ti an acre. - Dili Times. Canadian Hotel Keeper -I don't see how - we are going to get along. The house is about empty, yet it is impossible to reduce expenses. Look over the American _ papers and see what the news is. . • . :Hotel . have looked over them, there has net been a big defalcationin the United States for two weeks. • Canadian Hotel Keeper -14 stars! We . will- be ruined1 never knew' the times to beio_dull.-Phiiadelphio Call. - , • On 'Way -41 Gelling. Free AdreittSino. _ Philadelphia reporters are exposing Forepaughls sacred White elephant as a painted; fraud. T.bey washed it ,with a sponge; a white substance canto off, end the dark akin wevexposed. This may be only a scheme of "Forepatigh's to_ advertise the animal and draw a crowd. _ Thousands of - people who wouldn't go out of their way to bee a real white elephant will go to see whether this animal is painted or not. ° Toyont4 RON. Someacitore are more sticoessful in draw-. . ing.a cork 'than in drawing a paying andie MUM.- - *- • Sleep is very healthful. There is nobody whoknowis this better than the hired hired girl especially n the morning:'' Keep- it in. itind_thit the•gteat Object of study is- to fit the mind for usefulness in . A little. •:.praise. is good for a shy temper. Itteaches it to. rely 'on the kindnetai of • others.-Lanclor".: • - . . . woman's "(heart, like --the 0200111' is always aliment; but there 11 always a man in it. -- . - • -Mrs. A. W. Rollins, • wbo. died In . Des Moines, Iowa; last week, left $.75,000 to the American Home Mission Society. • The Duke of•Buceleugh, who has just died - in Scotland, was known wherever he went. - uncovered by a peculiar markl--a large wen uponthe top othis head. • • . When a very strong attachment . or a young lady you feel at times as thow h ' you could eat her, at least you say lo.; but justlet her go off and flirt with some other , fellow and you feel immediately as thoUgh. you oonld ohew her tip. • FRESH Pincr.-The current belief among householders that the _ smell of fresh lead.. paiIntis noxious is founded onpretty gene-. • .ral experience, but is opposed by the belief, 'equally current among chemists, thatlead compounds are.. not .volatile. 41. -fact re- oentiy.brought to our notice seems to sup. port the domestic. theory. The basis ef the useful and popular luminous ,paint is known to be sulphide 'of calcium. Now; this-co:impound, when unprotected by var- nish, glass or some other impervious sib; • • stance, is slowly sated on by the • acids of the itir, -and sulphuretted hydrogen is. evolved, which blackens lead paint. This is well known, and can easily be -aveided by proper protection of the paint. But the curious thing is that unprotected luminous paint its found - to be perceptiblyblackened by the -fumewfrom fresh lead paint. There Beams to only :one poitsible explanation of thiti-namely,: that a =due - freshly covered with lead paint does .actually Mnit some volatil*cwinlpound at/lead. 'wo be- lieve that many phytdmansz could :cenfirsti this view from then *own observations -in regard to newlppidntid houses. -Lancet. •