Lucknow Sentinel, 1892-03-04, Page 7s.
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ONE OF NATURE'S NOBLEMEN
aratoui Ree0140tiom_ol iJie late—L1
ShaTtetibnry.
A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE POOR.
"Leve ; serve," is • the heraldic motto of
the Earls•of Shaftesbury. Their arms have
borne this inscription eince the days of the
Platitagenets. Such legend would mean
little on the eseutcheone of many an ancient
line, but in the case of Anthony Ashley,
seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, it was t re true
description of his life. His figure atands
out in the picture gallery of the century,
bright against a background of. sin and
sorrow, noble among the "not many " who
are called to heavenly rank • a face well
., knoivn and deeply loved b'er the whole
English nation, familiar alike to the out -
princes.
cast and homeless, to statesmen , and
Two little, ragged, homeless children,
wandering down a great London thorough-
fare, stood for a moment, eand in hand,
before a shop window in which were dis-
played pictures of great men. Suddenly
ope peek feces lit with a light born' Ofthe
breasted love of t:.tucl, ea.;c1, pointing with
his thin hand, "See, Jim; Earl."
that's our
The suffering he sought to lessen had left
its imprint on his countenance. He was a
" a man of sorrows," like the Master whom
he served so well. His nature, sensitive
and deep, had suffered much from the oppo-
sition he met from those who ' should have
been his friends; and "yet, all who knew
im remember the sweetnese of his smile
and the playful gentleness which made him
80 human, living in at atmosphere not
"Too bright orgood
For human nature's daily food.
He retained, even in the winter of ' life,
the freshness and quick sympathy of youth,
and I have never known a tale of want or
woe poured into his ear but the tears would
start into his kindly eyes, and he would
often bury his face in his .hands and say:
"Oh, God, how can we help the sorrow of
the world ?"
. The earliest influence which turned this
ereat mind heavenwerd came to him through
his nurse. Lord Shaftesbury's mother was
a woman of fashion, who had no time to
spend on the education of her children, and
his father, the 'sixth Earl. of Shaftesbury,
was engrossed in the cares of public life.°
The lonely child had, however, one friend in
this simple woman; in her arms he
learned the story of the love of Christ, •and
her hand, as she stroked his boyish head,
touched the chord that vibrated in after
' 'years in such true harmony with God's love
- to man. He often said the prayer she
taught him, as he nestled on her knee, was
• on his lips in the midst of the greatest
struggles of his 'Public life ; •and when he
. stood on the very brink of the dark 'river,
and folded his aged hands, preparing for
.the last rest aftern long life of toil, he still
murmured the petition he had learned in
childhood. In after fife he never hesitated
to state, before vast audiences, and in the
home circle, that under the gentle, influence
of that faithful se servant, he had; at the age
of 7, i . c i d -heart to the g
's Father who in blessing him had so ble
others. .
His school days were memorable for
• incident which terned the tide of his
into the channels of philanthropy. W
walking down the street of the 1' I
The conditions of.the cotton nsanufacturers
were from that hour completely changed,
for it had made hand -weaving ,forever
thing of the neateeend nnilleemployeesswere
iibliired-to accept any wage or hours of
work dictated by the ewners. The labor of
adults was at a "discount Water power
was employed where' strength was re-
quired, and child labor was in , universal
demand. Barge loads of children wee sent
down- to' Lancashire froze; London werk-
houses,- and dispatched in gangs from
country places.
A horrible traffic sprang up. "Child
jobbers" scoured the country.gpurehasing
children, to sell them again to become the
slaves of factory ownees. Day and nightthe whirl of the machinelT ground out/their
young lives; one shift working by day and
another by night; whilst in times of pres-
sure the little lives were sacrificed by the
rernorseless cruelty of their taskmastere,
and they worked without intermission
through the twenty-four houre. Under the
"Apprentice System," young paupers, some
as young as 5 years, were bound to serve
until they were 21. In spite, however, of
the existing , factory system, • a per-
fect storm of opposition greeted
Lord Ashley's endeavors to obtain
legislation. Strange to say, Cobden
and John Bright were, among his
most formidable antagonists, and again and
again his measures were defeated in,the
Rouse of Commons. The cause was spoken
of as "a delusion he had created for him-
self," and he was regarded as a Utopian
dreamer. In this great crisis, however,
when failure seemed so imminent, it was a
woman's voice that thrilled the great
mother -heart of the nation, and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning in her "Cry of the Chil-
dren," with the infinite pathos of her
inspired genius, aroused the conscience
which had so long been slumbering in the
hearts of the English.
"For all the day the wheels aro droning, tu rn
ing ;
Their win' conies in our faces, •
Till our hearts turn, our ,h pads with pulses
, burning,
And the wheels turn in their places ;
Turns the sky in the high window blank and
reeling,
Turn the long light with drops adown the
Turns the black flies that crawl along the
ceiling,
All are turning, all the day, and we with all.
And all the day the iron wheels are droning,
.And sometimes we could pray,
'Oh, ye wheels (breaking out in a mad moan-
ing),
Stop! be Silent for to -day."
This came as an echo to the first great
speech in which Lord Ashley pleaded the
cruise of justice and humanity for the suffer-
ing and helpless before the House of Coin -
Charles Dickens, always a warm
admirer of Lord Ashley, wrote at this time
his famous "Oliver Twist," which also
largely contributed to form public opinion
and gave a deathblow to the abuses of the
poor laws and their dealings with paupe
cildre.n.—Exhange.
Re iVanted to Burn
Husband' (looking up from his paper—
What asses men can make of themselves.
Wife—What is the matter now, dear?
11.—I am looking at the love -letters in
this breach of promise case.
'W.—Are they interestine 9
reat . —Interesting ! They are absolutely
sickening. Hear this :. My dear duellesl'
ssed. My lovely dovey !' Ha ! ha ! ha !
' W. (demurely)—It does sound rather
life re.
i foolish, doesn't it ?
(with a burst of laughter)—Foolish ?
bile Idiotic you mean. 's the worst nonsense
imaginable. To think that any man in his
senses could write such stuff at; this : " I
send you a million kisses, my gooeieepoosie,
svveety peety !" Ha ha! ha! •
W.—PerhaPs he loved her when he wrote
these letters..
IL—Suppose ? Is that any excuse
for writing such bosh ?
W.—Yes, it should' be. Here are seine
,letters I found to -day when looking over
my old relics—relies of courtship. They
are very foolish, but very precious; to me, I
assure you. They are your letters. One of
them begins'"My ownest own preciousest
little duckydarling, my---"
H. (hastily) ---That will do. Put them in
the fire.
of Harrow, where the great Public school is
own
— situated in which he was a pupil, ' he was
startled by hearing the words of a low
• Bacchanalian song, aecoMpanied by shout -
in and yelling Voices, and the eight that he
saw that day was forever engraved on the
tablets of his memory—four or five drertken
' men carrying a coffin containing the mortal
• remains of one who had no mourners to
follow hizis to his last home. Staggering
and reelingin helpless intoxication, the
bearei-s with. horribleoths and imprecations
let their ghastly burden 'fall. The boy
stood spell -bound at the sight. "Good
• heavens !" he exclaimed, "can this be per-
mitted simply because this man was poor
and friendless?" Then and there, on
, the sidewalk, he 'Med up his young heart,
and accepted from God the misston ,
todevete himself to befriending • the help- I
less, and to their service he gave not etilY
his great powers of mind, but his still
.greater heart. ' "People talk " he said, "of
the d"ne right of kings.- No man has a
divine 'ght to anything except his soul's
salvati n." .
At the
ago of 25, Lord Ashley (as he was
•
. styled during the life of his father, Lord
Shaftesbury), entered the House of. Com-
mons. The firs'reform Measure which
brought the young member's name into
prominence was his attack upon the exisCing
Lunacy Laws. In theearly part of
the present century, lunatics were
treated as no convict in the prisons of
Siberia, could be dealt With to -day. Timer
were chained in dark cells, had nothing but
straw to Ile upon'their keepers visited
• them, whip'in hencl,—obedienee being u -
forced by the lash, or by puthshments esol
horrible that it requires all the in °milt f
o ima
g ne such cruelty. The Society of
Friends had worked long and patiently to
reform these terrible abuses, but with very
little success.. Lord Ashley's tender heart
was stirred to its depths, and he made his
first -speech in the Howie of C
seeondin
to bring f
lation of
diary at
the motion of Mr. W. R. Gordon
pward a Bill for the better regu-,
aatic asylums. In Lord Ashley's
j8 tim
e we find these word@
corded : "And so, by God's blessinge,
first effort has been merle for the advan
ment of human happiness. May I impro
hourly." This was the key to which w
tuned every speech' he made in the legisl
tive assemblies of his country during h
long career. With unfailing diligence h
labored from that hour by voice and pe
and with all the weight �f his great la
°nee until radical reform granted just law
providing for the proper treatment of thos
afflicted by insanity.
A wider field, however, shortly opened
into which this young David unhesitating'
stepped to meet the great Goliath of th
labor problem. The crowning work of hi
life wilalybe ociated with the
" fy acts" wh' h
re -
my
ce-
ve
as
a-.
is
11,
u.
s,
...............provedso great a
boon to his own country, ,a'nd which, have
afforded an object lesson to the whole
industrial world.' Richard Arkwright had
at this time produced one of the most
remarkable inventions of the century, the,
machine known as the " Spinning Jenny."
e house-
hold have come. The situation of the,house
is Comparatively low and the surrounding
country is flat. The purchase of this pro-
perty for the Prince of Wales at the time of
his marriage was one of the meet "injudici-
f ous acts which Lord Palmerston. ever coin-
/ mated. It is no secret that the estate was
ibought not, much in the interests of the
Prince as to help Lord Palmerston's natural
son to get rid of a burdensome property. -A
million dollars wait the
Sandringiiiant to be Sold.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have,
determined to sell Sandringham at the first
opportunity. . The feat is that Sandringham
is not healthy. This has long been the
opinion of the people of the district, and it
is the conclusion to which the. Prince ,of
Wales and several memor b
A CRUEL MoTHER.
Mrs. Montagu 0c:chanted for Trial for
Murdering Her Baby.
DARK OLOSET PUNISHMENT.
A Dublin cable' says
from Coleraine, in county
miles from here ,says
Margaret, Montagu, da
Robert Montagu, was com
this morning on the charge
death of her daughter,
Montagu, a child only 3
Only the bare details of
knovvn at present, as the
have been made to keep th
and to shield, as far as
important family involved;
is of such a shocking n
servants, neighbors and oth
ustiee should be done, and
be a prospect that a lady of
amily may meet death at
ands.
From the account@ of the a
eached here, it seems that
ad been badly used by its go
ition to being the object of
other. The governess lecke
dark room as punishment
ehevier. The mother appea
me so enraged at her lit
nduct that she resolved to p
ore severely, and going to t
ed her baby daughter's hen
ck with some stout strin
eply into the eheld.:s tend
en, not satisfied with this
nt, she connected the end
a ring in the wall, .half
by up and half fastening her
ter the mother left the child
n the poor child's cries grew
n ceased entirely. Those,
t the child had ceased crying
elusion that she had bee
d to her imprisonment i
m, and that she had conelud
noise she znake the sooner s
ed at, liberty. .At the e
e hours the door of the dar
ed, and when several kno
failed to obtain a reply fro
door was opened and the lit
huddled up under the ring
ody being upheld by the e
ned around her arms and sec
-Her face was horribly disc
rted, and a further examinat
she was dead.
dical attendance .was sent
s to brieg the child back to
ess. The physician, eery
bors who heard of the affair
indignant against the erue
insisted that justice shoul
Montagu was taken into cue
he was utterly broken-heare
curred, and that- her sole
ing the child to the wall -.4r
or from kickingt h oo
in which She had been con
urbing the family.
abed cable says : .Mrs. IIo
ine, was brought before
Magistrate yesterday char
rder of her daughter Helen
whom she had tied up to a
1 of a dark closet, in which
d for three hours. Mrs.
heart -broken over the deat
aughter, which it is gene
vas not maliciously brough
the result of a cruel system
on a highly sensitive child.
fluence of influential friends
counsel, Mrs. Montagu w
or trial. -
urther stated that other serious
sof cruelty upon the part of Mrs.
to her child will be disclosed at
. Mary Helen, the baby girl, Was
February 5th, 1889. The more
in Upon the tragedy the worse
he conduct of Mrs. Montagu. At
at she testified to the fact that the
e child was in the dark room, and
n she went to release it ,from eon -
she found that the .little girl was
. Continuing, Mrs. Montagu said
hon carried the child to her own
stripped it of its clothing, and
store it to consciousness before
e alarm, That is the Story told
ther ; but rumor has it that the
d was stripped of its 'clothing
was imprisoned, and that
ted when found dead, and half -
is further Stated that the, dark
a terror to others of Mrs.
children, who will likely be
n to testify to the cruel treat -
have on many occasions received
heir mother and their goveeness.
servants report that while the
a endeavoring to restore her
fe, the governess was buy at
interi f closet removing
the ceiling and rings from the
leather straps and cords, be,
unfortunate victims could be
geniously painful positions: It
tortures were resorted to in
of the children, because Mrs.
io was a believer ' in corporal
was absolutely forbidden by
to use the rod in any form with
agu is the daughterdn-law of
Montagu, who, is an uncle of
Duke of Manchester. Her
was MeMicking7 She is of
gentry," her father being Mr:
eking, of Miltonise Ireland.
ied to Mr. Robert 'Montagu,
ng Roe •of Lord Robert Mon.
and, besides the child whom
of killing, she is the mother
Mr. Robert Montagu is a first
resent Duke of Manchester,
own in this country as L 1
There are three lives between
dukedom, two of them of
han himself.
W
innnomu.simmeaewmulem.......•
'REAM DICIADERERii.
CUrlieus Devices Resorted to to Extcr
Confessions ot
gee of the most dramatic features in a
French murder trial is, what is known as
the " confrontation " of the assassin with
the body of his victim.
Only the other day this was well illus-
trated in the celebrated case of the old
: A dpepatch miser murdered in his house on the Astenue
Londonderry, 47 de Neuilly. The evidence against the
that Mrs. Azusa prisoner was circumstantial and of the
ughter of Lord most flimsy nature. The prisoner had sub-
mitted for trial mated to the most searching questionings
of causing the with hardened indifference. He had denied
Mary Helen his guilt persistently and the police authori-
years of age. ties recognized that unless he could be
the affair are brought to betray himself in the preaence of
e matter secret him.
greatest efforts, the corpse they would be unable to convict
possible, the And so the scene of the murder was re-
. .
but the crime enacted with blood -curdling details. The
attire that the bed -room was 'darkened except for the glim-
ere insist that mer of a flickering night lamp. In the
there seems to corner was the bed where the old miser
the Montagu used to sleep. There, thrown tegether
the hangmeu's carelessly at the foot, were the wretched
clothes he had worn, while eleitched tightly
ffair that have. in the bony hand vas the key to his tree -
the poor child sure chest, a key which had never left iris
verness in ads person night or day.
hatred of its Then the murderer was' brought in, his
d the child in eyes bandaged. At the head ,of the room
for some mis- • stood the juge d'instruction. One detective
re to have be- guarded the door, while another stood ready
tle daughter's to take away the bandage. .
unish her still "js everything ready, sir," asked the
he dark room detectivo.
ds behind her "Ali ready," was the judge's solemn
g, which cut answer.
ee flesh; and Then the prisoner's sight was freed, while
severe treat- three pairs of pitiless eyes studied his every
of this string movement
stringing the His face w;as pale, very pale, and his
to the wall. lips bloodless, but by 'a supreme effort ef
in this posi- will power he &heed around the room
fainter, and with apparent indifference. Seeing that
who noticed the -first test had failed, the .judge, raising
came to the in one hand. the uncertain light, told the
ome recon- prisoner to approach Th
n the dark
ed that the
he would be
xpiration of
k room was
eke at' the
m the child,
tle one was
in the wall,
ruel string
ured to the
olored 'ancl
ion showed
for, but all
life proved
ants and but do not leave me a second longeg M this
were furi- cursed room !".
1 mother,
twenty
table.
, A month later that man's head rolled in
d be done. the basket under. the keen blade of the s, ,
—Th
tody. She instrument ofsdeath. HincOntinet at "eon- uto'1.170-go
d atwhat :frentation "had sealed his doom, and yet, -
object in perhaps, he was.innonent, for it is a fact generat
as to pre-
ayon peradventure that
r of the sinnocentnien are sometimes the moat affected
fined, and when brought face to face with the mur-
• dered body. •
ntagu, of Among other means employed in France
the local to /flake a criminal betray himself are
ged with drunkenness and mesmerism, which have
, aged 3 both been used with varying success in
ring in making prisoners reveal what they have
she was been concealing.
Montagu
h of her
rally •be-
t about,
of pun -
In spite
and the
as com-
a
CO
CO
ti
ba
de
th
me
to
ba
Af
tio
the
tha
C0/1
cile
TOO
less
plac
thre
visit
door
the
seen
the b
faste
ring.
dispo
that
Me
effort
fruitl
neigh
ously
and
Mrs.
said s
had oe
fasten
Vent h
room
so dist
A 13
Colera
Police
the mu
years,
,the wal
confine
seemed
little d
lieved N
but was
ishment
of the in
pleas of
mitted f
'It is f
iastance
Montagu
the trial
born on
light let
appears t
the inque
• forgot' th
that 'whe
finemeut
insensible
that she t
bed -64)m,
tried to re
giving th
by the ino
poor chil
before it
it was nal
.frozen. It
closet was
Montagu's
called upo
ment they
from both t
Some of the
mother' we,
child to li
work in the
A rem Without -an Et
John Knox was a man of wondrous might
And his words ran high and shrill,
For bold and stout was his spirit bright,
And strong was his Stalwart will.
Kings sought in Vihin his mind to chain,
And that giant brain to control,
But naught otrplain or stormy main
Could daunt that mighty soul.
John would sit and sigh till morning cold
• Its shining lainps put out,
Year thoughts untold on his mind laid hold,
And brought but pain and doubt.
But light at last on his soul was cast,
Away sank pain and sorrow;
Ilis soul is gay, in a fair to -day
And looki for a bright to -morrow.
Baby.
Where did you come from, baby, dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
Where did you get your eyes of blue?
Out of the skies as I passed through.
• What make- your forehead smooth and:high
A soft hand stroked it as! went by.
What makes yo cheek like a warm white
rose?
I sari, something 'better than anyone knows.
Whence that flickering snaile of bliss?
Three angels at one, gave me a kiss.
Where did you get that coral ear?
God spake, and it cAme out to hear.
Where did you get t t•ose arm.s and hands?
Love made itself in t,) bonds and bands.
Whence came you:. t,•,•t, dear little things
From the same bp . • the cherub's wings.
How did they all tir.-; •ome to von?
God thought abou; 1: , and so T grew.
But how did you or, to us, you dear?
God thought about 1, and so I am here.
• —George Macdonald.
'TEA TAE GOSSIP. ,
—The Queen firmly believes that objects
made by blind persons bring luck.
—Heavy storms are raging in England
and the EasterirStates this afternoon.
—He—Mattie, if I only dared to kiss
you? She—Harry, whatever you are, don't
be a coward.
blae
styk
wi an unex-
pected movement. he threw back the covers seaso
A square toe patent leather shoe, with
lr,cloth top, for men's wear, is a _recent
which will be Offored the trade .1 this
Sir Morell Mackenzie kept sixteen
nts and spent all of his $60.000 a year
e. The doctor leaves a wife and three
• THE ADLET.,
An edict is a little "ad,"
The language -makers claim,
And, though tis very small, egad!
It gets there just the same.
customer with tender feet should be
with shoes late in the afternoon. The
e then 'at their utmost size, for ac -
enlarges them.
and exposed the miser's -withered and dis- —
figured body,, the. face 'drawn in ghastly i ,serv_ea
contortMns staring straight at the murderer. Aalc°'
The sheets were seen beneath' torn and t'Ll'ug
stained with bleed, which was still oozing
from a gaping wound where the. old man's
throat had been cut.
No one spoke for a Moment, while the!
focussed on the bed.
prisoner's eyes with dilating pupils were 1 —A
fitted
"MY God !" he cried, his knees giving , feet ar
way beneath him, "you are robbing me I tiyity
of thy life. Por the love of Heaven cover _ci
him up ! Take me away from here ! Take
rrito prison, to the guillotine, anywhere, man se
mania
You bet," he said, "I don't think
ge is a failure." "Are you a married
asked a 'sad -eyed woman across the
"Not much ;I'm a divorce lawyer.?
e population of Rome has doubled in
years, the number of residents
increased in that time from 200,000
,000 and the city itself has been re-
ed.
has been sai.c1 that Queen Victoria is
person now living who knew Sir
Scott personally. But there is an
kseller in Edinburgh who often
ith hirri.
established b
—It
the only
Walter
olk boo
talked w
paisi for the pulley6 from
place, and thePrinee has, during the last wall; and
30 years spent at least- a couple of million which the
more on it. If he therefore parts with it, secured in in
it will necessarily be at a/considerable sac- is said these
riScthe training
Montagu, yyl
punishment,
her husband
her children.
Mrs. Mont
Lord Robert
the presept
maiden name
the "landed
Gilbert McMi
She was marr
eldest survivi
tap, in 1880,
she is accused
of six sons.
cousin of the p
who is best kn
e.
TEE Ancient Order of United Workmen,
the Grand Lodge of which' is now in session
at Ottawa, is one of the largest and most
important of the benevolent secret societies
in Canada. Its growth ha's been remark-
able in Ontario, ancl especially in this city,
where several successful lodges are in ex-
istence. So large, in fact, has it become
that an effort vso made yesterday to cut
the Canadian section of the Order adrift
from the parent stem in the United States,
but the motion was rejected by an over-
whelming majority, and that settles the
question of separate jurisdiction for ten
years.
Princess Mary, of Teek, was celebrated as
beim/ of
1Jandcvjfle.
e es(, dancers in London; him and the
and it was during the course of a dance at
Mme. de Falbe's country house, Luton lime,I Younger men t
that the Dukeproposed marriage to her.
'
Her teacher was the late Marie Taglioni,
Comtesse de Voisins, the most graceful and
fascinating prima, ballerina of the 19th
eefitury.
ere's a letter from poor s Carrie. She
neither can got it." " Whit's the matter ?'
and her husband both want a divorce and Miss 1)...7.1 (w
1
I !young for fifty
fulness upon'h
' "" He, unknown to her, was about to elope ried at thirty.
With the governess, just as she unknowii to
him, was About to elope with h'ia Secretary. • The her—er—seeend
• They met in the dark and eloped with erten
other." total ri
amonntri to 819,0
, ithan eight the
"Here, young man," she called to the
grocer's' boy. " ordered a dozen of eggs
• and you only sent 'me• nine, how's that?"
" Well, mam• three of them were bad
d -id, and 1
n't think you'd want them." , •
ishing'to impress her youth:
listener)—My mother looke
, does she not? She mar -
Her listener—Er--was that
marriage?
.s
eb t of the '1 - on treal
00,000,
A NEW ROUND DANCE.
"Iolaulhe " is its Name, and it is Gliding
Into Favor..
It may seem strange, but I am really
•
sorry, .Chriatmap is over,_ -because.. I- have
itist-,seen a new dance that would have been
just the thing for the holiday parties. It is
something new in round dances, recently
invented and introduced to Mr. R. M.
Crompton, . of Bernersstreet "Iolanthe"
that is its name, is graceful, sprightly and
,exhiliarating. I Should not be surprised if,
it a short time,' it superseded the waltz.
It has long gliding steps, short quick steps,
all sorts of steps, but the gavotte step
seems to be the predominating one. You
would certainly get' " enthused " over it if
you saw • it danced as I did by two of
Mr. . Crompton's graceful ' pnpils.' The
music of " Iolanthe ' a medley of tune-
ful airs from " Faust up to Date " and
" Ruy,Blas."--.11fiss Manlalini, in Pall Mall
Gazette.
Front Bad to /II orse.
.A lady whose Christian name was Jane,
and whose little daughter was named after
her, engaged it housekeeper who. was also a
Jane.
Thinking that three Janes in one house-
.
hold might occasion confusion, the lady said
to the newcomer, who. was a tall, angular
woman, with a rigid sir 'and an uncompro-
mising east of eountenance "1 think,
Jane, it will'be better for me 'to call you by
your last name, if you have no objection:"
'"No'ziz, I have no objections, answeree;S
the housekeeper, standing stiffly erect, valise
in hand. " me nie'rn, if
you prefer. That's my name !"—Youth's
Companion,
•
Healthy for Tt llllll ty.
Mrs. Blinks—Where in the world it; Mr.
Blinks' revolver 1forgot to take it from
,tincler his pillow this morning.
'
New girl -(a recent arrivall—What's it
like, mum ? ,•
Mrs. Blink's—It's 'about so long, with a
crook at one end, and it's bright, like
silver. „.3
New don't know, mum, unless it's
that thing little 'Tommy is haminerin' tacks
wid.—Good Xerrs.
, Captain Archie Kerr, well known at every
lake port from Kinston to Midland, died
yesterday'at Orillia.
Irish rintes : He—How chilly it is to.
night. I could hug it stove, I feel so gold.
She -.43 that so? Why, I'm so warm I feel
just like a stove.
The average duration of human life is
said to be increasing at the rate of ten years
each century.
Queen Victoria Was 'married when she
was 21 years old. The Prince of Wales Nvas
22 when he led the Princess Alexandria to
thever alydtar.
ismal reports continue to arrive of
the effect of the death of the Duke of Clar-
ence upon the London theatrical season. It
is the absence of the fashionable world front
the high- j rc eitra-stalle 'that is
, peculiarly felt, A fortnight ago no fewer
atres were closed.
—At the annual meeting Of the. Indus-
trial Exhibition Association directors yes-
terday the financial statement showed cash
profits for the year of $12,814 ancPpresent
assets over liabilities of $135,124.
" Scrawk !'Scrawk ! Serawk ! " •
Shovel the snow from your broad sidewalk ;
Wake up the neighbor who sighs for a snore;
Rest for a moment, then .give him some more.
" Scrawk! Scrawk ! Serawkity ! Scrawk !"
Reed not the whirlvvind of wild wicked talk
That answers each burst of_your 6 -now -shovel
din, • .
Piling up volurneeof recOrds of sin.
Just when the dawn is beginning to peep,
Just when we feel the true value of sleep,
Get out the shovel and all slumber balk,
With a " Scravvk ! Scrawk ! Serawk !"
PREPARING FOR BEATH.
Famous People Who Dave .Rad Their Men -
'anent& Erected.
Visitors to Woodlawn ceinetery are struck
by the tact; that scores of living people have
caused to be erected, in that great city of ,
the dead, monuments to themselves which
will probably outlast the builders hundreds
of years. Family monuments have, of course,
been common for years, and these also
abound in beautiful Woodlawn, but the
stones erected to the memory of people now
in the flesh is a fashion which prevails
largely in this cemetery.
In beautiful Linden plot a granite shaft
bears the name "Pauline Hall." Thus the
former Casino fa,vOrite prepares for posterity
when she shall have joined the'silent major-
ity. Austin Corbin, the railway magnate,
is still very robust, but ,he has also erected
a solid monument to himself. Others who
have taken Time by the forelock ate William
C. Whitney and Joseph II..Choate. In all
nearly 30-monument5 are waiting to mark
the last resting place of men and women
who still enjoy life in this bustling world. —
sVert. York Adrerfiher.
Scotch Proverbs.
•
Birth's good, but breeding's better
Take a pint and 'gree; the law's costly.
He is worth zio weel that can bide no woe..
called.
13e the eame thing that you would he ,
cian.
Every matt at forty is a fool or a physi-
. •
bone.
.A dog winna growl, if ye fell him xvi' a
la'dies.
• Far sought and dear bought is good for
he wad.
He that whine when he may shanna when
Fair worth; break never a bone, foul
words many a one. —Good Housekeeping.
So great has the dersity of the Dead Sea
become that the human body easily floats
on the surface without the slighest exer-
tion .of hands or feet.
At a Catholic Convent in Fort Berthold,
N. D., all the sisters, including the Mother
Superior, are Indians, and the spiritual
director is a priest of Mohawk descent.
It is said that one woman in every 00
in London is ft gin -drinker, one in every
20 a pauper, a,nd one in 13 illiterate.
Amalie Joachim, the distinguished Lieder
songstress, is about to visit the United
States professionally. She sails for New
York Feb, 13th, and will at once fill a
number of engagements_ of...which the most see
mportarit verve the resentation.
_ __see
Liederseyelmilisde :re eve of the growth and
fruition of German song, and divided into
four afternoon or evening entertainments.
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