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.fie Woman in Counsel Over the Mer-
its of a Hath Towel.
One is bad enough ; two are worse, but
three women, in counsel over the merits of
a bath towel are enough to mike a poor,
worn-out clerk with he might depart from
h dr dpi., the Vit.
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a v l ni mm and awaited.* he coming of Lowe Chron de.
FROM . REAL LIFE.
A Woman's Story That Would Rejeice
Hymen -hating Tolstoi.
TH>eQVE N'd cir,»t>.>alRarrr t
T'o the Dube and Dueliwi of Connaught on
Them Arrival Han#e,
The London Times of Jima 28rd, thus de-
scribes thq meeting between the Queen and
the Puke*nd`Duchess of Connat`y"t'Tbe
Quest) ,_directly the appreach' of the train-
ljhe Du" le and Dgoheae, whole saloon paused
a few minutes lifter ()Waite, tli smiting.
room. Advancing towaidsthe Duke and
Dnhees ifl'mediately alter they had alight-
ed, the Queen kissed them. The same aifec-
-*ianette welcome-was-accordeetbY-the-other.
members of the Royal Family, while the
children, from whom the ' • Duke and
Dnp)ees:have been separated for a abort
Ohne, displayed it very natural eagereneeto
receive the eareesee of their parents. Tbe
Puke of C6nnaught looked bronzed, but
the Dnoheee. who wore a grey e
brown grey jacket, and light -gray ooatnme,
bad apparently; benefited by the ghange of
scene and oliMate which she hart e;perienoed
daring her absence from England. The
Queen entered her carriage with' the Duke
and Dnohese of Connaught and their chil-
dren, and drove through the Datohet-road
and up Thames street to the Castle, the
etatore along the route loyally 'minting
Royal y rty se they passed. Prince
and Princeks Henry of Battenberg and
gees• Louise followed to the Castle.
e Duke and Duchess of Connaught
ched with the Queen, and are expeoted
remain with Her Majesty for the pre-
nt. The Prince' and Princess of Wales
-grove to the ' thiVeciky Baer cka and took
^ luncheon with Colonel the Hon. Oliver
Montagu, of the Royal Horse Guards.
Upon quitting the barracks, they drove to
Windsor Castle before returning to San-
�dIngdale.
PRINCE O ORGix OF WALES
',k'o Pay a Vieit to'CanaTn and iiia Hinted
This Fall.
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A London Able says ; A representative
,ot'the house of Guelph will ,visit Canada
?Noy roil, 11 is Prince George, second son
Of the Prince of Wales, the present com-
mander of the Thrash, and altogether a
wary lively young fellow, It is hii,.intention
b ifail for Ca • ada sothelime Ibis month,
an , a er' . sing ns' o;iontr�si,
Ottawa and�XProibtq,.ttt.e9ntinne,hie, jbnr-
nty•through the Eastern-Statep.and per -
'haps see a bit of the far West before
'returning home. If he follows • his present
g , programme he will be Been at several faeh-
• 'iionable watering plades during the season,
. idhe may. be-counted°upon to make the
>r, limits of the young maidens go pit -a -pat,
tor he is a superb_ .,,t enniis " .player, a
good man at the oar, and as -the Marlbor-
ough House set say, " a divine waltzer."
Bye° is aognaiutea with- many Arnerigane,
whom he his Mat ifl London, and while not
" fast in the largest:dense of that word, he
is a very lively young man, who finds a
great deal of',amusement in hunting the
'limit in -the big oitiee and in the most
ego naive country resorts. It will interest
{ i the(rnng men ot,Amerioa to know that he
ire the proud owner of almost as many suite
-% of clothing as bis distinguished father. He
. affects loud jewellery, is fond of neckwear
" It seems lute quite a good obis fee • e
money, doesn't it," earl the intending: pur-
ohseer.
" Well, I don't know," says the other,
holding the towel up at full length and
eyeing it critically._ 'got one quite as god
for 37-i cents at Whites.
"You did ?"
"Yee, but it was eight or nine weeke ago,
and I don't e'pose they've any more like
it.'
" I may be mistaken, but I've an idea it
number three, taking_
IS
a corner of it over her finger. "Bee, it's a
little thin."
" Well, I woilldn't mind if it did
shrink a little, because—oh, look at this
one ! Isn't it lovely?"
"Beautiful! How much ie it ?"
" A dollar and a halt."
"Mercy 1 I'd never pay that for
towel."
" Nor I."
" These colors would fade: Q.
" Of course they would." •
" Do you know I like good plain
as well as anything for towels. '
" I don't know, but—see these towels for
15 cents. I Haid 25 cents for some last
weak not n bit better:"
" Let's see ; they are full length ? Yes.
They are cheap. I've a notion to—but I
guess I won't. I have so many towels
now."
" They'te a bargain it one only really
needed them."
" How .do you like towels used as
tidies ?"
" Horrid."
It I think' o, too."
" So do I—oh, let me tell you, I saw a
woman on the street one day with an apron
made out of a red and white fringed
towel."
" Mercy 1 Looked like fury, didn't it ?
How was it made ?"
" Oh one end was simply gathered to a
ani, an' •er , 'e o'wel"tra>i-ju6t this one—and she'd taken it so and gath-
ered it in so, and—really it didn't look so
bad,after all."
" Do you suppose the colors world run in
this border 7"
" Well, I hardly know. I had one
very much like it once, and the colors in
it ran dreadfully the very first time I
washed it."
" Then I'll not take this, for
it isn't4 o'clock, and "—
" I,mIIBti go ,, _.....,
" So must L"
" And I— no, I'll not take -the towel to -
a, bath
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Jnet a faded little old woman on the
ehady side of 50, living with a little 10 -
year -old girl in ra single upstairs room in a
Hamilton tenement, and eking out a pre-
carions. eabsistenoe byselling odds and
ends of--smallwtrree, which shecuriesin a
pack or battle .in a child's waggon. Her
husband is doing time in the city jail,. and
oircumetancee, never too encouraging, have
by reason of hie profligacy and her mis-
fortunes, forded her to give up the' little
house she was wont to call their home and
meet. Maybe yon have seen her? .,
Oh, no 1 there's nothing peculiar about
her story: ' Unfortunately it ie one of .a
class too common in real life. A young
girlie error in marrying a sloth, a drunkard
and a brute ; a wife's love that survives
long years of poverty, wretohednese, gaunt
starvation and cruel blows, and would even
in blighted old age shield from the conse-
quences of his crimes against herself the'
lover of her fondly -remembered youth.
Tell me, ye unoo grid, what chance either
as to heredity or training have the children
of each ill-assorted unions 1
We wind and tide fair i' your tail
Right on ye send your sea -way ;
But in the teeth o' baith to sail,
• It make an undo lee -!sae.
But the etory. To a lady who hasehown
her repeated acts of kindness she thus re-
lated it : My father was a paokman in the
city of Cork, Ireland, and ever since I left
sohool, when I was 16 years of age, at
which time my father died, I have carried
a pack. My mother also carried a pack.
We hod pm,- regular routes ; people were
irioh and radiant and in a word, is what -
•r would be termed " horsey in your Donn-
' • try. He looks very well in his `uniform,
and the London shop windows are filled
with his photographe, taken in all conceiv-
able attitudes. He is bound to create .a
stir.
DARING ROBBERY.
.A Clerk Bound and Gagged and a Jewelry
_ .. Store Plundered.....
A Danbury, Conn., despatch says : The
meet,, daring robbery ever . committed in
'this town took place this evening while on
the streets hundreds of people were stirring.
Boon after 6 o'olook two men entered
Lames' jewelry store on Main street and
inquired for a monogram whioh was
ordered a few days before. The only clerk
in the store at the time was Clarence Knox,
18 years of age. As he turned to get the
monogram one of the men grabbed him
from behind and choked him almost to in•
sensibility the other man forced a gag
made of stone, covered with a handkerchief.
into Knoz's mouth, and threw him to the.
floor. The robbers then bound his hands
and feet. tightly with ropes, and proceeded
to ransack the store. linen, lying help-
less on the floor, could bear them as -they
went through the show case and eeleoted
snob goods as they could take away. They
carefully picked out solid ware, leaving the
plated untouched. They secured diamonds,
watches and other jewelry, valved at be-
tween $9,000 and $10,000, from the safe,
whioh was unlocked, and also $700 in
money. It took but a few minutes to do
the work, after which the robbers departed,
making their exit through the rear win-
dows, climbing a fence bordering on
Doyley street. A cabman was standing
near by. One of themen approached hire
with the story that they were medical
students, and wanted to be driven to Mill
Plain, a small town a few mace distant, in
all baste, as they had to perform a surgical
operation. On arriving at Mill Plain they
paid the cabman and 'started away.
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I—why, if
day."
Ricked Again.
15 is just as well that the Carnival held
in Toronto last week turned out a farce—
an expensive farce certainly but all the
same a farce. Had the thing encceeded
the anthoritiee might have been teimpt n to
repeat the performance. As matters sand
we think every rational citizen, except per -
.haps the hotel keepers and a few others
who made money tint- ot the affair, is quite
willing to go out of the carnival business.
Sap ooing it had encceeded of what use
would the display have been to any human
being except the few whb were interested in
it finanoially. To epeak of each tomfoolery
as advertising the city is pure nonsense.
There were not twenty people in Toronto
last week who do not know as much about
the city as they caro to know. Perhaps some
of them now know a good deal more about
the Ontario Capital than they wanted to
knew.• Supposing Toronto had shown to
the world that the city can get up a
o rnival what good world that have •done
Toronto ? The thing shown is that the
city can't get up a carnival. ,Perhaps that
is about-ae -creditable a thin - to show as
that it clan. What is it es' nieal anyway ?
. - _ —_ - '0'[tftael ad. alt Sec" aidA _.
The Third Party convention in Winnipeg
was a fizzle.
CATASTROPHE AT A LAUNCH.
Fifty -Five Bodies Recovered and Many
People Maimed.
A San Francisco despatch says : -At
Osaka, Japan, 55 people were drowned
June 15th, during the launching of a new
sailing vessel. The launching excited con-
siderable interest, and about 250 people
crowded on board the boat. The owner,
Mr. King, however, became apprehensive
and ordered 100 of them ashore: When
the launch began it • was ebb tide, and, as
the ropes used in mooring her were too
short, the vessel keeled. The people on
board immediately. rushed to the other
Bide, whioh bad the effect of turning the
vessel completely over, and those on board
were thrown into the water. . A terrible
scene followed. Those on shore gave every
assistance possible, but their efforts were
generally : unavailing. Fifty-five bodies
were recovered. About twenty psi one
were more or lees injured. .
CHEAPER SACQQES.
Competition in Sealing Likely to Bring
Down the Prices.
Isn't it unfortunate that children meat be -
reared in such a household'
But that is aside from the story. It halt
been briefly' told ; the details imagination
will scarcely paint too vividly. When the
victim come along treat her kindly. Yon
don't know her ? Well, it matters not ;
any poor old woman striving to earn an
honest living'and not be a. burden on the
yen» g ereeidberiem will not be wasted.
li'IABQUETTE.
;Questions for the Prison Commission.
The commission appointed by the Ontario
Government to examine the question of
prison reform should give some/attention
to inegnalitiee in the sentenoea passed
upon prisoners. The enbjeot has recently
been dieouaced in England, and will bear
investigation in Ontario. It may be
quite true that the inequalities that startle
the public are sometimes more apparent
who tries a prisoner ought to know better
than any one else the nature and extent
of the punishment he deserves.. The
benefit of the doubt ' ehonld always be
given to the man who does the work and
has to bear the responeibility. But admit-
ting all this the fact remains that to the
average man, who presumably bas com-
mon sense, sentences do often seem vary
unequal. One prisoner seems to be treated
leniently, while another, so far as -the
public can punished with matted
severity. not at all probable that
the public are always wrong in their judg-
ment, and it is equally improbable that
judges are. infallible. If this is a question
that the Ontario Government have power
tohandle, the commission might aoa
mnoh worse thing than spend some time
in looking into it.—Canada Presbyterian.
Queen Victoria's First Trouble:
One of the earliest troubles—perhaps the
first crumpled roseleaf in the the queen's
royal conch—was the proposed dismissal of
her iced chamber Whet on he fail of the
Denounced by a Former Omit Clergyman,
as an Enemy to the Church.
The San Franoleco Examiner thus reporfs,
a recent sermon or address of Dr. J B.
Smith, formerly pastor of Knox Church, -
gait, the largest congregation in Qsnada :-
"41Zsny empty pews and a very small
'iii' kvs ` �i'v9luu 1-W.:<zcY:.s:sa-..�.�
mho_ he slowly elbtanbed t®.p
he stop into me
pulpit yesterday morning in St. John'ic•
Presbyterian Church. For some time past
the size of the congregations in the various'
churches has been gradually diminiebing,
and in looking about for the cause the
reverend°gentleman decided that it was, in
his opinion, largely due to the presence of
the Sunday newspapers in the homes of
those directly under his pastorate. The-
small number of people in attend-
ance was evidently' a sore - spot to the
pastor, for he beoame very vehement in
ing away from church an • e
reading the newspapers on Sunday. The
subject of -the sermon was an exhortation
to those who were present to do more to
aid in the work of Christianity, and cope -
daily to lend their aeeietanoeln filling np
the chnroh on a Sabbath morning. He .
began to surprise his bearers by decIdeIng
that he might be able to fill the ohne -,,---all
by himself if he would condescend to preach•
sensational sermons or deal in the various
topics of the day, but this was a species of
progress with .whioh he did not sympathise
and emphatically declined to adopt, brand-
ing it as nn -Christian -like.
" One of the principal reaeons people do
not come to church," eaid he, " is that
every Sunday morning the carrier delivera-
a monster Sunday newspaper to each
family, and you sit down to read it and you
find it more intereeting than the church..
The Sunday newspaper is too large—in
fact, a Sunday newspaper ehonld not be
printed at all, and those, printed should be
anppressed
•+ God's' day should not be desecrated by
reading the newspapers. I do not believe
in them and I will do all I can to suppress.
them. I would never let an adverts ens
of mine go in a Sunday paper, and on
should not. To place the great Sun ay
newepaper in the hands of the people on
the day when all should worship is directly
against the canoe of Christianity."
Tho_wor hip a .atenightened n and
listened with unaccustomed interest to the
pastor who would not preach, in a eensa-
tional way. Raisins his voice, the speaker
made an appeal to those present to assist
him. He said :
" Yon ehonld all of you refuse to read
these newspapers. Yon should all of vow
refuse to have those newepapere delivered
at your homes. A determined effort should
. be made to try and put them down -so the
A Missionary Murdered. pews of the churches may no longer remain
A Rockford, Ind., despatch says : Letters empty and one of the greatest enemies of
received here from Persia give details of Christian application . be removed from
the murder of Mrs. John L. Wright, an your homes and your lives, for the com-
petition between the ohuroh and the Sun-
day newspaper is growing dangerous."
Having thus denounced in a loud tone of
voice the alleged enemy of a full church,
Mr. Smith turned hie attention to what he
called the enemy of the prayer•meeting—
the theatre. On this head he dropped his
emphasis and took up earoasm. He said,
strangely enough, that he did not denounce
the theatre, but intimated that ohuroh
members who went to the theatre on
prayer -meeting nights might bo in 'better
business
The sermon created quite a flutter among
the listeners, and after the sermon was
over comments were freely exchanged as to
the boycott which the preacher declared it
to be a Christian duty to start againet the
Sunday newspaper." •
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kind and wealthy patrons favored ns so Melbourne ministry. Sir Robert Peel and
that we made a good living and were very the Duke of Wellington tried to persuade
comfortable. Ah, it was a bad day for me Her Majesty that her ladies were on the
when I married a pensioner 1 Of course I same level as her lords, but the Queen
would have none of it, and wrote tate
famous letter to Lord Melbourne, in whioh
ehe said : " They wanted to - deprive me of
my ladies, and I suppose they would de-
pl`iVi liftrlibittd—Il'tybolos~ ai'Eer-tOrts0.
maids ; they wished to treat me like a girl,
but I will show them I am Queen of
England." The Elizabethan ring about
these words has eohoed down .the years
until to -day, and Her Majesty has never
failed to remember, and to make others
remember. that above and - before all else
she is " Queen of England."—Lady's Pic-
torial.
only saw happiness ahead, but how differ-
ently it resulted ! Instead of him b3ing a
bread -winner for me I found I had taken
another to support, and sick or well, aslong
I- `e ebbe tie teedges_l_htkvilka&to
tramp with my pack and earn a living for
myself and him too. Even when my
ohildren were born I had but brief ex-
emption from the work. His pension of £20
was but a means of furnishing him with
drink, and when he was drunk I lived in
constant terror. Abused me ? He beat
me before we were married a month ; he
has almost been the death of me at critical
periods of my life, and in twenty-three
years I have become eo accustomed to nurses
and blows that they do not Burt me as they
once did.
Well, my husband had been in America
and would .come again. I did not resist ; I
thought from what I heard .that we could
make a good living (and we could if he
would work) and that my three girls would
have a better chance. My hneband Bold his
pension good -will for £80, and we name to
Hamilton about eighteen menthe ago. We
did not find it what I expected. My busi-
ness is not what it was where I was ' born
and raised ; but if we had the little money
for the pension and my husband would
work and save his earnings' we might be
happy. It cost us quite a bit to get here,
and when we came to the country we had
$200 in cash. My husband took $25 out of
that, and for a while played the lord among
fellow passengers. He gave me $10, but
afterwards got it away again, and—well, I
and the girls had a hard time of it.
When we reached Hamilton he gave me $70
to furnish our house, out of which I caved
$20, but that, too,'out
from my
purse. The last $1.00 he also drew from,
the bank and got drunk and was arrested
and fined. I had no money, but I knew
he ' had " $85 of this enm some-
where, so I went and told him to tell me
where it was that I might get enough to
pay his fine and save him from going to
jail. He refused. Soon after he game to
the house with a policeman, and while he
went into the bedroom the policeman kel-
me out. I knew my husband took tl
money away ; I knew if he got drank
would never get a Dent of it for -the famil
and I followed him to a grocery store a
found him there with the policeman.
reproached him with his conduct and ask
bin for money. I euppose the policem
thought he did right, but I never was
humiliated before or since; he grabbed
and shoved me out doors. Only 15 oen
of that money ever . came into the hone
My husband instated I had it, but not
penny of it did I handle. Where did
go? Who knows? And oo'it has gone o
Then my oldest girl married a man w
turned out a bigamist, fled, and as it
The San Francisco Chronicle states that
the Alaska Commercial Company, which,
until recently, had the exclusive right to
capture seals in American waters . of
Behring Sea, has now secured a contract
with the Russian Government granting
them the exolnsive right to capture seals, on
the Siberian coast. The number of Beal to
be taken .yearly is not known, but is
believed to be very large. The steamer
Karluk, owned by the oompany, has recently
Bailed for Petroffsky to capture seals there.
The competition of the Alaskan Commer-.
oial Company will be very severe for . the
North American Commercial Company,
whioh was recently awarded by the United
States the sealing privilege in Behring
Sea, and it is believed the effect will be to
greatly reduce the price of Beal skin's.
A Pretty Theory, Spoiled.
Some workmen in Canada the other day
exhumed a lot of big bones, whioh the
eavants declared to be the bones of an ex•
tinot mastodon. But an old settler
knocked their theory endwise by declaring
that they were thel bones of a worn-out cir-
cus elephant that had died di few years
before. All of which auggests Bret Harte's
poem, " Truthful James " :
Till Brown, of Calaveras, brought a lot of fossil
bones
That he found within a tunnel near the tenement
of Jones.
Then Brown he read a paper., .and he recon-
etrneted there,
From those same bones, an animal that was
extremely rare ;
And Jones then asked the chair for a suspension
of the rules,
Till he could prove that
one of his lost males.
Then Brown be smiled a
was at fault.
It seems he had been
family vault.
New York Tribune.
those same bones was
bitter senile and said he
trespassing on Jones'
—I can toll yon one thing, boys in Shia
land are able to do something that yon can.
not, that is, make kites that sing and fly
with their tolls upward. The latter fact
is a standing puzzle to me. I can under-
stand the noise for they tie piece° of wire
or something of the kind orosswise on the
tail, making it often several feet long.
This makes a sound similar to that of the
telegraph wires in winter, bat a great deal
Tonder, but wby their tails fly upward, I
ii i`2Yt 'eg'L* esti ) +l ill 1Atsaa >w deft FBI' e
Maude Fairbank,of the China Inland Mission,
to the Guelph boys.
make it all the harder she sticks to hi
and bas left the country to follow hi
When he is tired of her what will become
the poor. girl! I thought a while ago that
husband was going to supplement
scanty earnings, but the second week
worked he was paid at,a hotel. He os'
home with le few, Dents in smell ohan
Rent was behind, fuel and food w
scene ; my daughter who worked out ga
all she could to help ne, but times w
hard enough with it all, and whenever
took it in his head we bad to send fi
liquor for him to avoid being beaten.
last he came home drunk, and because
did not get supper as soon as he wanted it,
he threw a betoher'e knife at me. Yea, an
ugly cut. The dooter said if it had been a
little farther back on the neck it would
have killed me. Well,'my girl said that
was the lest straw, and if I did not prefer a
charge she would stand • by me no longer.
He got sixty days. I was laid up arid got
further behind with my rent, and had to
give up the little house and get a room. I
am tired of the struggle and wile try to
support myself and the little girl and let
him care for himself.
Only an every day tale, of course ; bet it
is a home one, and in real life. ' Perhaps
thoneands of women in oomfortable oir•
onmstances in this fair city will treat' it
lightly. But, mothers, your daughters are
not all comfortably married. What if one
of your girls made such a match ? What
if your eon -in-law led his wife snob a life ?
Oh, yes ; heroism is cheap when the hero
or heroine is somebody else and is poor and
mcdect. Led you, fi th find- brothers,
don't yon think the laws give such a man
toc=n notes llatr ovor_Abe_siemko.wile.,bf51.s
made the mistake of marrying him ? Isuit
it paying too dear for an error of judgment?
American Presbyterian missionary, at
Belmar', Western Persia, in April. Anative
eohool teacher, half .American and half
Syrian, killed her with a dagger in her own
home in revenge for her discharge from her
employer. Mrs. Wright was a historian,
and was beautiful, well • educated and
accomplished. Her father was a teacher
of Ancient Syrian in American colleges.
She was married to Mr. Wright four years
ago. They were in this country last year.
Wright was a native of Ohio. The mur-
deress is in custody. ee
Bigotry in the Highlands.
There is still a great deal of bigotry
among the Scottish Highlanders. During
the recent . session of the Free Church
Assembly an attempt was made to convict
Profs. Dods and Bruce of heresy, but they
were acquitted by a majority. The deci-
sion does not appear to be popular in the
Highlands, for at the half•yearlydispensa-
tion of the sacrament, in the Free Church
of Fearn. the Rev. D. Matheson announced,
ncing the tables," that all persons
td the opinione of Profs. Dods and
net be debarred from sitting at
while "
who
art• f the ." This annonnce-
1ui pLordractically a sentence of
,ation, met with the hearty
reigregation of $.00 nes e.
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O/7n �'Ytl.r w- _.� wA-s' a'•S, `a"C76 �1 as '
quenoes." Regarding the chances for tt
final settlement of the French shore que -
Sir Baldwin said : " The whole etory hi e
been exaggerated. The lees said on tl e
French ebore matter pending negotiatiot s
the better for Newfoundlanders, and thee
more likely to restore to them the sole con•
trol of their own comet."
Marks of Civilization.
Telegraph poles are getting to be so close
together in cities that there is no loner
mach excuee for a drunken man falling
down.
Mrs. Thrifty—Yonng Mr. Moneymaker
has been paying some attention to Ella. I
do wish he wonld marry her. Mr. Thrifty
—That would be a good carob. I'll kick
him out of the home two or three times and
tell him to keep away from herb. That will
surely accomplish the, object, and withogt
the expenses of a long courtship, too.
--, _timid pe pon_think of doingbnslnea
as illi`ttn afiv rb ---
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John Wanamaker.
—Cabbaee leaf hats are worn by per -
eons susceptible to sunstroke.
,A woman can do more harm to a rival
by praising than by maligning her.
" Ah 1'' exclaimed Fangle, " I begin to
smell a rat 1" " Where?" screamed his
wife, jumping on a chair.
" I acknowledge the corn," said the
hen, " but it etioke in my crop."
When its too hot for a fanfaronade, take
a fan for an aid to keep cool.
" How did you enjoy your vacation ?"
" Oh, I hada great time. Couldn't go
to work when I got back, I was so broke
up."
The QFieen has withdrawn her prohibi-
tion of Sunday music at- Windsor Castle,
where the straineof the band have not been
heard, on that day, for more than twenty-
nine years. Princess' Beatrice hue been
importuning for this boon for ye r
A man at Brownfield, Me., who has been.
married sixteen years and has moved
thirty-five times during that period, thinks
he has beaten the record as a rolling
stone.
The best shot, of her sex must be the
Counteao Maria von Hensley, of Bohemia,.
who in one day last winter, on her estate
of Chlamce, idiot 138 haree.
A gold nugget worth $700 was taken
from a mine in the Big Bug district,
Arizona, recently. It is now on exhibi-
tion at Prescott.
A flowering plant has never been found
within the antarctic circle ; but in the
arctic region- there are 762 kind of flowers.
Their colors', however, are n so bright
or varied as those of warmer regi as
• In the past three yeare Pasteur treated
7,893 persons bitten by mad doge, and only
fifty-three died. The ,tonal percentage of
deaths is 15.90, so that Pasteur would
Seem to have paved 1,265 lives.
Capt. Spratly, ot the British • steamer
Aiela, at Liverpool from New York, reports.
that he boarded the abandoned steamer
Benguella on Juno 24th, in latitude 40
north, longitude 40 west, and found 12 feet
of water in her hold. Some of her salla
were net. The yards were adrift and the
hatches off. The passengers' luggage was
on the dock, breakfast was on the table, in
the saloon. Capt. Spratly wonld not risk
towing the veaeel. ' •
E. D. Gallagher was banged at Van-
couver, Wash., yesterday for the murder of
Louie Mar. Gallagher died omreing the
sheriff.
- The Right Hots. Joeepb.. Chambeelei.n,.
M.P., end' Mrs. Chamberlain have decided
s. as' atpgno�until.-next ear their ro'eg
trip ichte' oonnry; owing tp the or ti A't
condition of the Tory Cabinet.
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