Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-08-28, Page 3DOMINION PARLIAMENT
Sir Hector Langevin moved that Gov-
ernment orders have precedence on, Mon-
days.
o The motion was carried on the under-
standing that the Government allow private
rtiembei s' L.aasiness to be taken up in• the
afteruoun of next Monday. -
Mr. Foster moved the third reading of
the resolution declaring it expedient to
authorise the Gevernrneut to sell to the cit.
of St. John for' 40,000 the Carlton brands
rarslwaay.®-Carried.
Rlr.`Cbsrgan moved the third, reading of
the resolution declaring it expedient to
amend the Inland Revenue .Act, and to pro-
vide fot•,ihci'eased license fees.—Carried.
t`nr siklalphe Caron moved the Chir([ read-
ing of the proposed resolutions respecting •
the granting of homesteads or scrip in Cer-
tain cases to members of the enrolled
militia force and others engaged in the
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outbreak in 1885.
The motion was carried, and a bill based
upon the resolutions was read the first tune.
Sir Johii Thompson moved the House•into
committee on his bill oto amend chapter 135
of the revised statutes on the Act respecting
the Supreme and Exchequer Courts.
Mr. Laurier said that iii cases where the
constftutfonaltty of 1 4
reeve to he ,Supreme
'ourt, the Minister of Justice would have
power 'under the bill to pronounce against
the decision of that tribunal. The decision
of the Supreme Court should be final,
Sir John Thompson said it was not in-
tended by the bill to limit the power of dis-
allowance. The power was conferred by
the B. N. A.. _et, and the purpose of the
bill was to facilitate the investigation' of con-
. stitutional questions, and it involved the
settlement of those questions by others than
the Minister of Justice. The bill would give
the court power to take evidence relating to
such questions.
The ,following bills were read the third
time anti passed:
Further to amend the Indian Act.
To amend the Act to Encourage the Des
veloprnent,of Sea Fisheries.awithesBuildings
of Fishing Vessels.
Sir John Thompson moved the house into
committee on the bill respecting certain
female offenders in the Province. of Nova
Scotia. He said that an instution for the
reformation of female offenders had been
formed in Nova Scotia under the direction/
of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and the
proposal was that female offenders sentenced
to penal institutions should be transferred to
• -this institution. and kept, there under
_restrieti s -whir .ere -imp-need—in like -
institutions
in O tario and Manitoba,. the
Mercer Reformatory; for instance. The
institution being formed under the auspices
of ladies of the Roman Catholic faith those
sent there would be of that faith. • •
Mr. Denison said that the hill provided
that offenders over 16 years of age and
'sentenced for over seri onr.hseheuld-ggothere,
'.while females under that age could not be
transferred there from jail. This he con-
sidered a defect in, the bill.
Mr. O'Brien said that the bill should con,
• tain a provision for official inspection of the
• institution by Government officers,and the
Government should be responsibe for its
proper conduct.
• Sir.John Thompson agreed that the insti-
•tution should be .subject to Official inspec-
tion. He undertook .to prepare a clause be-
fore the hilt is read a third time.
The .bill was reported. •
Mr. Haggart, in .answer to Mr. . Sproule,
saidthat, the Governinent was now consid-
ering the question of granting permission to
the International Abattoir Company to im-
• port cattle from the United States• • to .,be
slaughtered and the meat exported. •
Mr. Haggett, in reply to .Mr. Lepine,
• said 'that it was the intention of the Gov-
ernment to put into operation the Act
creating the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Mr. Bowel], -in answer to Mr.' McMullen,
said that the Salaries of superannuated civil
servants who were employed in the Mon-
treal•Gustom House were in the aggregate
$11,100, and 'the retiring allowances $,1,276
The following Bills were read a third
time : •
' In restraint of fraudulent marking.
Further to amend the Cu toms Act. .
To amend the Petroleum/Inspection Act.
Mr. 1)ewdney's resolution to atithorize
the Governor -in. -Council to convey to the
Quebec Skating Club certain ordnance
lands in the city of Quebec.' was teed a
third time. -
Sir John Thompson moved the House
into committee' to consider the• Bill to
further .amend " The Controverted Eleo-
tions Act." He proposed an •athendment
which did away with the necessity for
advertising in a newspaper of the 'district
the copy of an election •petition, it simply
being necessary to advertise the fact (of the
service of the petition: , '
This was adopted.. Y
Mr. Girouard presented the report of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections on.
the refusal of Thomas McGreevy to answer
questions put to him.
Sir John XItonipson intimated that he
proposed. to move to -morrow in this matter.
• Mr. Foster'moved thatthe time for receiv_-
--ing repoits`on private las be extended till
a week from Friday next: Carried.
Mr. Dewdney moved the second reading
of the bill to amend the Acts respecting the
Northwest Territories.
Mr. O'Brien said he wished to call atten-
tion to the ninth clause of the Act which
this, bill was supposed • to' amend. That
clause• enacted " that the Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor -in -Council should pass all ordinances
as to education, and that a minority of the
ratepayers may . establish Separate r#choels,
and such ratepayers shall not - be liable for
school assessment except in respect of
schools so established." From the wording
of the Act one might assume that the
power to establish Separate schools was
1 vested in the Liet,errant-Governor-fn-Conn•
cil, bet by the interpretation of the clause
the power was also vested in the Legislative
'Assembly. The question he wished to bring
to the attention of the House and country
was the system -of Separate schools in the
Northwest Territories. This - Act was a
restriction upon the powers of the people in
dealing with this subject. a
Mr..11acl)owall said the people of. the
Northwest would be willing to submit to
this bill as a temporary measure, and it
could only be temporary. He for one was
pledged to the maintenance of the Separate
Schonls•in the Northwest Ter•r•ftnri('s, and if
it Was proposed to abolish theist he would
oppose such a measure.
Mr. Lariviere was astonished a
t 11 Tr.
O'Brien s remarks. A goodeal had been FATE IN A TEACUP.
said in the House on the u soon of d Spooning
e uca- g Couples Should Learn All Their,
fences Lessons by Heart.. Convicti3 Systematically Tortured Until
a fe d superstitions regarding , Death or Insanity Supei venes.
n had the ever friendly cup that cheers : 1 In its exposurst of the brutalities prat-
n, and- If while_ t e ices ie -being made and the lid, ! tised iii Danarnora Prison the New York
were which has been rerrwved to pour in -the Aalccrticer says : The " deputy" or pr•iuci-
The water, is forgotten, it is a sure sign thiwt , pal keeper of Clinton Prison is James Moon,
s glad some one''will drop in to tea,
s any If •a singe person happens to Have two woodchopper front 'Warren county, who
would spoons in his or her smtcer it is as redaction ll came as guard and riz on his merits.."
that the fortunate (or unfortunate p) drinker i Mr. Moon is a personification of brutality—
of of that nary
Terri-
them-
ildren
ted in
Pusest
He
erent
that
their the spoon upright in the. ce t
. a
tido and dual language. In most ins
the objection ha -(I come from represen
of Ontario. The question of educatio
been well guarded in the constitutio
the, spirit and letter of the .constitution
alike in favor of Separate Schools.
ystem could not be alteretk He. wa
.Mr. O'Brien did not intend to pas
amendment, and hoped nothing more
be heard of this. question
Mr. McNeill said all that was desire was
;a h eroptc'- of -the -Northwest
tories should be allowed to act for
selves. He would like to see the ch
of Canada, if it were possibre, • educe
one school, and brceight up iu the e.
possible friendship one with the other.
recognized that. there' might be diff
opinions, and all that he wanted was
the people might be left to carry out
wjisl es Q2 itt : tliao—s � , -a
rust upon the Northwest Territories.
Mr. Lariviere said the experience they
had had ih Manitoba was so sad that they
could not afford to lay their interests in the
power of a, set of demagogues.
•
A PRISON RULED BY FIENDS.
tatives ' Here are w o1
the were prod o y
_-..-k P �--a•--1•uarilier-�s;�aap---in-••
temperate, profane, swaggering, and ig-'
nor•ant of .any of the amenities of civiliza-
tion. Barbarous atrocities which have
resulted in_plrysical disability and insanity
of the victim nave been charged against
•
hnn-
Under " Deputy" Moon's administration
convicts have a beers hung by the wrists in
shackles
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for periods
of
1.,
..4 and
3t' cars;,
chef f �-'b ; i'..',t'lEa' t=(;1`f'� tgaiictra [sun ny
heater ; frozen, almost staked,"in the prison
'yard ; driven to work when scarcely able to
walk ; worked *from daybreak until bedtime ;
deprived -of food and water four, five and
six consecutive days ;. beaten fn the face
with fists and over the head with clubs by
keepers while hanginging defenceless in the
shackles ; confined in dungeons for weeks
a year from that date. he alarmed
;if you put cream in your cup before the
sugar it will " cross your love," so be very
careful.
If
areful-
If a tea stalk floats in the cup it is called
.a '.' beau," and when this is seen unmarried
women should stir their tea very quickly
round
and round and round, and then hold
•,..
kl 11ti"a
e
a�e
and clings to it, he will be sure to call very
shortly, if not that same evening, but if the
stalk goes to the side of the cup he will not
come.
Examine the tel leaves in your cup if
you are plebian• enough to bail your tea
instead of drawing it in the refined and
dainty fashion, fora lot of leaves mean moue
ATTER RECESS.
The House resumed in committee on the
Northwest Bill.
Mr Pn•,. 1 ;1
power •eing given that would enable the
Northwest Territories to abolish the French
language. a
WILL BUILD A SHRINE
To Commemorate the Cure
/Daughter.
Detroit News ; Among the party of
pilgrims who left Detroit several weeks
in charge of Rev. Fr. Frank J. Van
werp, pastor of the Church of the
Rosary, to visit the shrine of St. Anne
Beaupre, near Quebec, was Miss
Doran, daughter of Michael Doran, a far
living two miles above the boulevard,
Twelfth street. Miss Doran is 21 y
old, and since her 14th year'has been a
tint of hip disease. She was compelled
hobble around on crutches, and although
• ev.eral•'years under the care of ono of
nest surgeons in 'Detroit, her case see
hopeless.
- the party arrived at St. Anne de Beau
and attended various ceremonies, includ
the blessing of pious articles and venerati
of the relics of St. Arine. It was report
at the time that Miss Doran received gre
benefit from the exposure of the sacred reli
and that her saying of the novenas, 'or ni
days' prayer, after returning home wop
efteel4t a_eomplete-ca-re.�-leis-would-seem
have been the case ; ,but, no matter wh
occasioned the cure, itis a fact that theyou
lady's hip trouble has entirely d+appear
since her return from Beaupre. She attest
services regularly at the Church of thoHo
Rosary, and -Revs Fr. Van Antwerp sa
this morning that her cure seemed, to
permanent. Miss Doran's father:.. --is.• s
grateful for fier unexpected restoration
health that. her has decided to erect an aft
or shrine to St. Anne de Beaupre at Fr. Va
Anitwerp's.church. It will be placed in tl
new brick addition,: which Fr. Van Antwei
is planning to erect: • The frame bullshit
will'be moved.back arida brick, frontadde
increasing the seating capacity of the chute
to 980 or about double tlie'present numbe
of seats. . • •
TifgxGs sue WON'T CONFESS TO.
One' Can at N r
Never V Prevail as
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That• -she -laces tight.
Thiet her shoes are the small for her:
That she is ever tired at a ball.
That she paints.
That she is.as old -as she looks..
That -she a sheen more than'five minutes
dressing.
That sliehas kept you waiting.
That she blushes when a certain person's
name is. mentioned.. •
That she ever says, a. thing she doe
•
mean.
• That she is fond of scandal. '
That slat—she of all perfous in the world
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- Knowledge -84m Jols.- •
•The Suez Canal took thirteen years to
•
build.
One-tenth of the' world 'is ''still unex-
plored. •
Only one man in . 203 is over six feet in
height.
A ton of dirty rags is worth about $50 to
a rag dealer.
At least one-third of thcearth iai composed
of oxygen.
The pedple of London are computed to
spend .$6,000,p0o daily.
An ornithologist says' that the birds,fre:
gnently commit suicide.
Three pinta of liquid a day' is sufflcieut
for the average adult.
'Rain is always falling in some part or
other of the British Islands.
The ave"rage person wears riearlyfourteen
pounds of clothing. -
Some insects are in a state of maturity
thirty minutes after birth.
l)nlvc>(•sa11y Detested.
`(There---ist'---says a horticulturist,
hardly an instance innatural history of a
plant so universally detested by 'the animal
world as the castor oil plant. No sort of
bird,'boast or creeping thing will touch a
castor oil plant. It 'seems to be a .ranh
poison td all the animal world. Even a
goat w•illFstarve before biting off a leaf and
a horse will sniff at it and turn up his uppet
lip as thpugh it had the most detestable odor
on the face of the earth. Army worms and
the locusts will pass it by, though they /nay'
eat every other green thing in s'ght, and
there is no ,surer way to drive ni iles away
from a lawn than 'to . plant a few castor
beans here and there. Even the tobacco
worm will refuse to he fed on its leaves."
The Detir Girl.
]Vew York IItrah d . He (kissing her)—Do
you remember, darling, the first time I ever
kissed you ? ' •
She—Archibald, are you crazy? Why I
can hardly rebid' the last one, it seems so
long ago. i
A woman of extraordinary beauty is said•
to be .Mlle. Telcky, a llnngarian singer,.
who has appeared in Covent Garden in
"'rravviata.'
The 'Wergilds' of Lorne is said by the ,7few
York World to cherish a secret passion for
cn It-tiglatimg. 11e is never so happy as
when a groom gets up a rattling set-to for
im in at stable -left.
you want to'know how many years will
elapse before you niay expect to be married,
balance your spoon on the edge of your cup,
first noting that it 'is perfectly dry ; fill an-
other spoon partly with tea, and holding it
above the balanced spoon, let the drops of
tea gather to the tip of the spoon andgently
fall into the bowl of the one below. Count
'the drops—each one stands for a year.
It is a sign of fair weather if a cluster of
small air bubbles formed by the sugar col
lect and remain in the centre of the cup. If
they rush to the sides it will surely rain be-
fore night.
When toast is made, ;three, or four. thin
slices of bread must be cut thwhole length
of the loaf, and place one over the other?
This done they must all be cut in half with
one sweep of , the knife. If this is done by
a .young woman, and . the slices are not
severed clean through to the plate, she will
not be married within the year ; if the bread
parts in two even. heaps, she might as. well
order her trousseau. On no account must
she take the last piece of toast or bread 'on
the plate unless she wishes to be an old
maid.
BaiItIES ARE,. CHEAP.
So Cheap in London Th» t 'Men Mahe aLiving
-_-.--._•_•-----'b'Y--0Iti1Hssiifu'--.oi' .Theta. .
My friend the policeman has just told me
of a new profession. It is not to be -recent-
xnericled as a complete•breadwinner, but as
a prop, or stay, or •temporary makeshift,
when one is stony broke. The method is
this : The honest tradesman should live in
a poor and humble neighborhood where
..children --swarf m, ands -the are always
'parents .who, if they could feel satisfied that'
,their children would be cared for, would be
quite ready to Part with them. .A young
couple going to emigrate; for instance,,
or- ready to,tramp abroad. • in. search
of work,. or a young mother • will-
ing to conceal '• her •maiternity—such
possibilities, in short, as turn up every day
may furnish this tradesmiaii with his, chance.
He represents himself. as an agent of some
orphanage ; he says he• is personally con-
nected, with Dr.• Barnardo ; he possesses
extensive e b ac c
,
1 etas
rs influence
with
home. ;_let the some
..
belay be to frim• ; for a
few shillings he will undertake the job of
'providing for the baby,. t shall be received
into a home.• The money with the child,
is handed over to him. 'He then sallies
forth, ' carrying the baby, to some back
streets. where he is net known. Here
he presently meets • e. policeman.
” Look here," he 'says, " I've just
picked ' up . this baby lying on. the
doorstep. , What's - to 'be done with
it?" " Take it," says the policeman,:"to
the station." Yoti now see the beauty of
this profession. He pockets the money,
and the baby goes to the workhouse. The
Work is easy ; it cava he learned in a few
minutes ; it is lucrative: There are also
many possible variations in the method.
You can find the baby on a doorstep while
walking along in the.presence of a police-
man. You can leave the baby on a door-
step and go away. That, however, is dan-
gerous, and bas brought, one practitioner at
• least to trouble, because the baby nearly
diced of exposure. But it is a neat' and easy
profession, one to be taken up at slack
moments.— ll'ailter Besant in Ch irnyo Herald.
A NEW IDEA IN SURGERY.
i raln•liLining Pencil or Magic Properties.
Dr. • Robert Wiesenclanger, of Hamburg,
has just ,patented a method of employing
carbonic acid' to produce intense cold, for
the purpose of causing insensibility, which
will prove particularly useful in dental
operations. It is used in the form of a
pencil, and any part of the body on being
rubbed with this pencil 'loses 'sensibility,
without the freezing of the skin ; and slight
surgical operations can then • be performed
without can ing any pain. Dr. Krummel
experimented in the Hamburg Hospital on a
boy of 13; who, without the • slightest sign
of flinching, allowed him to make a long and
very deep cut in his leg, the doctor having
mubbed the place with one of these pencils.
The process , has the advantage of great
cheapness, for fifty or sixty operations can
be performed with it at a cost of a dollar
or so.
Musical and Dramatic Notes. ,
It is now seriously proposed that a
musical guild should be formed in Loiu1 iii
for the treatment
of illness," Hess ,. to be called
" Tho Mission of St. Cecilia" The first
instence•recorded of music havieg been tried
as a curative agent was when Davidlayed
the harp to the sick King Saul ; and/ it is
chronicled that early m •the performance
Said threw his javelin at, the:young harpist.
The guild in• question is to be composed of
laxly vocalists and violinists, a combination
in the presence of which even .persons in
robust health have been known ;o tremble.
[fumble Enough.
Trick : Mrs. `(:adb'y--Mrs. Henry Peck
has, her husband in complete subjection.
Mrs. Clatter.. -From what do you judge ?
Mrs. Gadby--.I asked him n question the
other fright, and he turned to her and said
" Let think."
.Ta10,1 Rossf:t.r. Lei -est.'s last, words:
" Oh ! why don't you let Inc die ?'
an a g o water ; shackled backward to
cell doors for' long periods ; placed in
positions of torture •daily for weeks ; hung
by the wrists with a slender cord of waxed
thread until their terrible agonies end in
unconsciousness, and subjected to other
brutalities, and overworked until, as
Officer James McGraw remarked : " Two-
thirds of the loafers are half crazy."
Scream after scream of agony rang
through the prison corridors on Wednesday
evening, January 28th last. Convicts
shuddered and trembled in their cells, and
officers in the uniform of the State of New
fork stood by laughing as Keeper Haggerty
forced his heavy cane into the mouth of
little Joe' Smith and wrenched 'apart his
.bleeding jaws.. The victim, Joseph Smith
of Cell SG, Company 8, is a frail youth .of 18
years He weighs about 105 pounds—
a miserable, starved -looking little
waif from the gutters of New York.
Hanging by one skinny wrist from "Hag.
•gerty's Christmas 't'r'ee," the boy's feet
touched the floor lightly, the weight of his
body straining his puny arm. , Deputy Moon
stood by directing Haggerty's movements
and the unconcerned' air of guards and keep-.
e
rs indicated that nothing unusual was going
on, Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, and as the cane
was forced backward with a horrid wrench-
-i-ng-lnotiun-iflto the Ti'ttteTellin s Mouth his
cries grew fainter and fainter, until he
finally sank into the arms of his cruel tor-
menter limp and motionless.
Released from the keeper's grasp and the
"bit" removed, the boy's,frail body swayed
with wagging head and bleedingmouth.until
he recovered consciousness• He•then cried
nut4againr-uttering-one pitiful-wail••of•.. -
•It was his last. • Give it to hire in the
mouth !" roared the deputy, and like a flash
Haggerty's big fist struck the boy. full in the
face., Reeling and swaying from the force of
the blow, the wretched little ereature's body
swung from the pipe like a pugilist'•s sand-
bag, Then John [Marsden; another guard,
took; a hand, and, to outdo Haggerty, struck
the boy two blows in the face- • This was
met with a grin of approval from the
deputy. Stunned and bleeding, •the quit/
Bring victim. Muttered, ."Please, please,
mercy . but Keeper Joseph Nash seizi;d
him ,paying nohecdi_to his cry. He grasped -
the starveling by the shoulder, and, holding
hith up, struck hirn blow after blow in the
face until your correspondent, unable to
endure the spectacle longer, 'stole around the
corner of the inner cage of cells and shut out.
the horrid scene. " All right ! " sounded
and the prison 'closed, leaving the' wretched
child of criine with his bruised and swollen
face, to hang . all night on the terrible
"Christmas tree."
On the afternoon of the next day—Jan.
29th—this boy, with his hands manacled
behind' him, was marched out between twit;
burly keepers into a ruined wing of the
prison and shackled backward to a cell door
This wing, which ma's partially destroyed
by fire on Jan, lst; was'entirel'y open to
the weather, which • was ' -bitterly
cold.. All throrigh the •afternoon
of the 29th. and the • morning of
the 30th the little fellow could be heard
crying, " Have merry on me ! have mercy
on me i" , Keepers enveloped in bearskin
overcoats hurried past him'to reach shelter ;
companies of convicts in lockstep marched
by him " double-quick " to ,escappe the
piercing cold'; the. prison dogs hedd.le.d in
their warm kennels. "Joe" remained in
his position all through the night and until
noon next day, with the tears freezing on
his cheeks; his bare .hands manacled behincl
him to the frosty bars, and his plaintive,
boyish voice uttering that • pitiful, heart-
rending cty, " Oh, have mercy on me I have
mercy on me !" •
Interviewed afterward•at his• cell, the boy
said that he was shackled backward to the
cell'door in the burned wing 'for 24.hours.
During that time lie was deprived • of food
and water, and suffered untold agonies
from cold and hungers Qcestiened in • the
officers' Tess as to the cause of the boy's
punishment, his keeper replied that " he
was a very mischievous little fellow."
Ilousekeeping Made Easy.
Ink stains on•linen can be taken out if the
stain is first washed in strong salt water and
the linen let stand reser night. '
New tins should be set over the fire with
boiling hot water in them for several hours
before food is put into them.
If sponge cake is mixed with cold w for
itis
yellow, but if the
wager be boiling hot
the cake will be white. .
In 'packing bo:,tles or• canned fruit for
moving slip a rubber band over the body of
them.
/lot solution of salt and vinegar brightens
copper and tinwar(',• also zinc bath till s.
Never lint tea leaves on a.light•ch1oi'ed
carpet; they will surely leave a stain.
Cold tea is.<'x,•elleut for cleaning grained
wood.—[tonne (,fru en.
William O'Brien having paid the costs in
the action for libel brought by him against
Lord Salisl ,for
the action of the Bankruptcy
Court in declaring him insolvent has been
annulled.
The high price of coal nn Mexican rail-
roads has resulted. in the adoption of a novel
type of compound engine on lncomoti-es.
The high pr('s Ire (elite's,' i9 enntained in
the low pressure cylinder, itnd a saving of I
25 per in coal is obtained with only a
little increase in weight.
A REFRACTORY FINGER.
The Ring Finger Is a Source or Annoyance
to AM Pianists.
Every one who has tried to learn how to
play the pious) knows what refractory mem-,
ber the ring finger. or, as the foreign
piano fingering designates. its the fourth
finger is, • If you are not a piano student,
place your baud on a table and see for
yous'self how irupoesible it is to raise that
Pilger as high as you do the others. Now.
White many are aware of this difficulty,
not everybody knows just what is the
cause. Some simply allude to it as• the
" weak fourth finger," and let it go at that,
withs ut seeking for the .alio. of the
weaknesss. The trouble is that when
pian was pr•eated, the possibility of his
wishing" at some future time to play the
piano was overlooked, and some unneces-
"} 1R<o!s,,.-; ao ate. r^.�-�a�-di`triw`=1`3$Ih4•ir„rax»s;m „;,r:,ps,'t4;
which do not tend to facilitate his c;fforte in
that direction. If the muscles of your
hands were laid bare you would find two.
tendons running to -the first finger and two
to the little finger, while.but ono goes tq the '
noddle and one to the ring Linger ;, but the
one connected with the ming finger sends off
two short tendons which connect it with
1 the tendons of,the middle a.nrr
wo s for n ons w ' rc • do
not seem to be of any special use, wh'ch
cause piano students a vast amount of
trouble. Not only do they hold down the
•fourth finger, but they abridge the span of
the hand. A way to overcome the difficulty
by some• other means than by long and '
assiduous practice has often Leen sought.
Robert Schrnnann fastened a cord to his
fourth finger'and passed the cord through a
pulley fastened to the ceiling. He could
elevate his finger by this means at will while
playing his pieces, and would Bold it back
for a long time. His device was not only
unsuccessful in releasing the fourth finger;
but caused permanent injury to the hand,
to such an extent'that he was forced to gime
up piano playing. ,r•• -
That the difficulty caused by the super-
fluous tendons may be overcome by per-
sistent practice there can be ne doubt.
Lizst, Rubenstein, Billow, Tallsig and hun- '
dreds of others attest this truth in their
work. As to the policy of having these
tendons cut by the surgeon's knife and .
thereby escaping much hard work, we find
that it is a much mooted question among
musicians.—flo,ston Herald.
ENGINEER JENNING>S' '• IF."
A• New Version of " Wapiti c_a_ud_.I'll_Cousp
to Ye, My Lad."
The Toronto. Police Court was crowded
yesterday to hear the case of City Engineer
Jennings, .who was charged by C. J. Smith,
the * ex -coal and wood merchant,- with hav-
ing used insulting language. Mr. Osler ap-
peared for Mr. •Jnenings, and contended .
that as only grosses insulting_langnage_was.-
•prohibited on the street the charge should
be dismissed. To call a.man " a — fool".
was insulting, but couldnot be characterised
as " grossly •insulting," he thought.
The Magistrate 'considered • the'(, ex-
pression out of place unless the parties
were- wellact uainted. with one another.
He had fined : ned a man . for call-
ing another • "a — thing." Mr. Smith
was the first witness. He said he saw Mr.
Jennings going along King street on Mon-
day, .and whistled after him. Jennings,
turned clown Leader lane, and witness came
up with him near Colborne street, when he._..'
torched him 'ail the-- shoulder, Jennings
said, " Do you think I am a dog, you —
fool, to answer to your whistle ? I'll hit .
you." Although invited by the witness to
" wade in," he. did not do so. , Messrs. E. "
McKay and George Duncan bearil-_Mr. Jen-
nings use the expression complained of, but;
the latter explained that he had -told Mr.
Smith that "if he thought he was• going to
answer to a whistle, he was .-a ---fool." '
The case was dismissed, each party paying
his own costs.
IHEit FEMININE. ('APRiCE. •
How She Tried to Test filer Loycr's Opinion
of•thc Other Girl:'
S1ie _Oh, don't you think Miss Browne in
the nicest girl in the world ?
He—Why, yes, ,of course, -"!f you think so.
She—And her.eyes ! Oh, don't you think
they are splendid ?
He—Very.
. She=And, hasn't she the cutest little
mouth and the kindest, dearest face ?
He—Yes, indeed.
She—And such a beautiful complexion !
And what hair !
I-Ie=Very beautiful.
She=And, then. isn't she graceful, and
!doesn't she waltz divinely ?
He—My, yes.' •
She—And isn't she the .sweetest, sweetest
girl ?
Ile -Wes, indeed.
• She— And•'den't- you think she knows an
awful. lot ; and don't you-oo-000-000
t -h -i n k'—?
He—Why, what's the matter, Mabel?
She -0-h.! I t-h•o-u-g-h-t y•o-u I -o -v -e -d
me, Tom.
He—Why, so I do. •
She -1V -a-1-1, then, how can .you bear to
talk so a-b•o-u•t t•h•a-t h -o -r -r -};b t e, o -1-d,
u -g -1-y Browne girl ?—She fjield I'eleUraph..
Crtt!neant and indlan Veterans.
In the British House of Commons on the
12th ult. lfr. Robertson asked the Secretary
of War if he would now state what steps he
proposed' to take this session with reference
to the relief of the Crimean veterans and
veterans of the Indian mutiny. Mr. Stan-
hope said that he proposed to make a state=
meet' tide year on, the lines already men
boned and that no legislation would be
necessary. There are quite a number o
these veterans in Hamilton who will watch
with interest for Mr. Stanhope's statement.
I;aeonragenient.
New York Herald: Kidlets-1)o Jou
suppose your sister w+outd'Marry me ?
[)ick Hicks --I guess s0 ; she istl't very
bright.
Of 326 officers and men on the t'. S. flag-
ship Philadelphia, iladelphia, lately at Halifai;, It is
stated that 43 are Irish, 13 English, 4 Scot-
tish, 14 German, 10 Norwegian, 1 1 Japanese,
9 Swedish, 8 Finnish, 6 Danish, 2 Swiss, .1
Greeks, 2 Portuguese, and one each Spanish,
Belgian, Maltese, I)utchnian, Italian, Now
Scotian, Chinaman, besides several negroes•
Only 177 of the. n. 11614,'. .ittiml+rr are 'lats.(
[torn citizens of the Republic. That w(ntld
not be :t comfortable kind of a crew for a
captain to go into -battle with.
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