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The New Era, 1884-04-04, Page 34.pril 4 1884, . Olat aleNg4144 'Bum them!" Y.8; likethowtht they unillber011 The dear not* they'd flW to long, • So I mid "Their hours are oillitherWl And took up my broken min. But when to the light I brought them, Read the words almost effaced, Pondered on the hear* that thoughkthein Pondered on the hand, that traced, Such a. tenderness came o'er me (ot that pleases, nor that grieves) As the peat rose up before me From those hayed and faded leq.ves. And I dreamed, the old dreams over (Dreamed them though niy hair is white!) That were mine when my young lover In hie paiisiOned way weuln writ ' These must go 1" I paid, h none other Could their inekning understand, and I would not, friend or brother, They should fall into yourband. To the flames, this link shall sever, ,heir red tongues will never *11 ; Alien I've crossed the' mystia river,' Frew will keep my secret well." Yet, s.ne yet 'why do I Waver, And to weaker thoughtsgive way? hile myheart in tones that quaver, , Pleads, ' Not now," some other day. These, then, surely ought toperleh For they 011 a goodly apace-, There ip something I might cherish ' Better worthy of the place, So I snapped the cord asunder That had bound them in a sheaf. AndI saw with llttle wonder Dusky'epots on every teat - For they were my oldest letters From ray first my childhood's friend; Some were even worn in tatters, . ;Some, I•know, with tears were stained. As 1 turnedthe musty pages, Reading snatches thure and here, These old letters seemed the stages We had passed from year to year Now in joy, and then in sorrow, Treasures found and snatched away; Hoping stills glad to -morrow To succeed the bad to•day. • Tokens, too, of friendships later Long I scanned and lingered o'er, And their import grew the greater Ae I conned them more and more. , Strange, this page with mirth o'erflowing Neer before seemed bait eo good! Strange, these lines with pathos glowing Only half were understoodi Strange 1 I thoughtrae, as 1 reokonad All the dear ones passed away, That their spirits to me beckoned I a' mid let the letters stay. Thenithe ohildren's letters, scribbled With no thought ot care or grace ; Some with ink -drops soiled and dabbled' When from home a little space; But so full of guth and chatter, Of the sights so strange and new, Yet so 1 uI of earnest matter, • And of love for Mother, too. One I've read and-Fead so often I could every word repeat. Strange how this old heart will soften Paring o'er that blotted sheet l 'Twits the first he wrote to mother - 'Twee the only one he penned; "Love to sisters from tneir brother," Crossed with kisses at the end. Ah, my boy I no hand of mortal • • Pens me record of thy truth; Thou hast pissed within the portal Whence no message cometh back. . . • , 'Tis by faith -the veil ie lifted To reveal thy dwelling -place Wen another eoene hi shifted • • 'I shall see thee face to foes. • t, • "Burn them 1" Nay, a little longer In the olden nook they'll stay; Some time when my heart is stronger I may put them all away. • But to -day, as o'er I turn them, Weaker grown I seem to be ; . Friends, -if I should never burp them, Letthis weakness plead for me. • - M. A. MerrtAno. BtraYoYcl, Out., mareis, . „.... , . „ . . • FR s teA811 clasABB. • CURRENT TOPICS. Ai; unpublished letter from Blusher, writtct IMMOdJittelY after Wit iota i„r:thiBtoritn. osio $104.4,Pen bat 4hat been fouir 6, the moat glorjeue victory gained. Details will follow. I think the Bonaperte affair is now again about fin. ioth,Cd. La Belle Alliance, the 191b early. cep write •po more, for I tremble in all limbs, The exertion was too great." • Ix a long comulanication to the'Franich Academy of Sciences, BI: Paul Bort, a high atithOritY' testifies to the mellows° of 8 grammes of ohloroform veporized in 100 litC0O- air as _an enteothetie experi- Menke • were enacts on hureanbOrige of both Hetes !Mari nionthe upWards. The mix. tare is not disagreeable. Some rittla,er like it, Insensibility reaulted in 6 or a min- utes; and •in one case wee mitintained hour& There was no nausea. IN a letter dealing with Land Law Re- form, Dir.-Johal3right *risks the belief then opinion has go far navel:toed oi this question that the British Parliament:will before long consent to changes whiala a few years ego men thought almost Impossible. He feels satisfied that in the mein the owners Of the soil will profit by those changes not leo than Other classes of our population. "Some," he adds, "may be tiid eome maydoubt, but future years will prove the wiadoin of the -ohanges we have suggested, and which cannot now be long delayed." FROM a recent decision of the German Reichagericht it appeardthat snuff is to be oonaidered an artiele of food. A taker of enuff aiaoovered that his nose vote colored blue by the use of a certain article, and chemical examination proved that -.the ibacco had been colored with ultramarine. 'Testimony Was brought forward to 'thew that tide was in accordance with long- established. image, but the judge regarded the Manipulation as an adulteratiou and imposed a fine upon the mangheiturer under the law prohibiting the adulteration of foods, eta; • Ibe Habitant and Mow He Melia HIS Wares. The Frenoh-Canadian habitant is quick to learn some thiugs. • During the. past winter the rage among fashionable young men -who goiobogganing and snow -shoeing has been the old-fashioned Csonadimi sash. This is a kind that have:great- breadth, length and length of fringe. They are, it is said, not woven nowadays, and Oan only/ be had from °mans and others who have had them for • yeare. Quito recently as much as e8 and 119 have been paidfor these relies of old Canada. A day or two ago a oarter's sleigh did a thriving buitinege by selling them for S4 or 65 each. To-dey' an aged outer decked out with a splendid specimen welked up and down inaront of , the St. Lawrence Hall so as to attract the eye of the young bloods who affect these Hashes, and who when they purchase one tell their friends that it came from some of the back country villages or that it is a family heirloom. The swain ie too far advanced for the old man toPell many now. -Montreal Witmer:. Lessees, the Suez and Panama Canal proprietor, has a running account with eleep, taking twenty-four hours at a time, and at another none for five or six nights. In travelling he gets into the first °camped- ment at hand, and sits anywhere if he finds an agreeable companion he telks, if not he folds hie arms and goes to sleep, never waking until -he reaches his destina- tion. When he went down the other day to Chesney, near Bordeaux, he requeated the guard to wake him lest he should go beyond. Oa a voyage from Marseilles to Alexandria he slept 1107 hours out of the 130 of the voyage, and theft not for Wine days. AN English judge, the late Mr. Justice Bytes, always took hie notes of evidence in shorthand, and he was :therefore enabled ton get through came with meet exceptional repidity. At Bristol Assizes, a few years before hie retirement, he was once quite/ floored by his own hieroglyphics and after a delay of some ma antes he turned for aid to the reporters' box. "Gan you gentle- men kindly assist me with a word -here? I have not put in the • vowels, and what I have got in my book looks as if the witnesa had said: Go and call the baby." The witness had been referring to a policeman, which thajudge had rendered" bobby." IN 1842 there stood, and there is every reaeon to.believe, still stands, at Watizs, on the Gulf of Depanto, Greece, an,Oriental plane tree, whose girth was, in 1842, at five feet from the ground, 37 feet. This. tree, situated in the middle of the village, con a gradual slope, standing on a railed plat - forth of flat stones, evldently, for protection to the wets, is a striking object on entering the village,, and especially noteworthy an existingan the days °transudes, the Greek ,historian, who, living in the imoond oen- /tury, makes mention of it in his travels; and the tree must have been of oonaiderable size and age at that timerrneve made it worthy of remark, ite Beprobably dating consideralely before the Christian era, mak- i ing it more than 2,000 yeara old. It woo in fall vigor.in 1842. The villagers held 10 10 high refs:peat; • Defects of our ibicilization." li, is often the case that the most telling criticieme niade on our civilization come hem those who have • been brought up under, a• different System. ;A statement made by the Japanese Ambits* aador to England ha reomatly been pub- lielted, which is a good illustration of the force of this astsertionl ' Whim waked what he thought of European society, he replied: "Ono great drawback to it is the entire absence of the sense of brotherhood which the strain and competition of modern busi- -----hestrheal-produced.- In Japan the membere .htt a family are all hound together by the elosest Booed ties. • When I am in Tokio, there is no man of my native village, no matter how poor, how mean er how desti- tute he may be, that would not have the utmost oonfidenee in coming to me for as- sistanoe. Nor- could. I refuse it to him. Thus, in the Jimmies° eapital, with a popu- lation of 1 500,000, there are only.800 98 900 peroons who depend upon the Stge for their support-athat is, who correspond to your peupere," The fatal Meta in modern eivilizstion. it the entire lack of outside responsibility. The rule of competition is an essentially Eighth one, and personal success -the reward whiell At offers-ean ordinarilybe Beeuredenly by ignoring the ehtima which Others may make. • , , -- .....-._ . Sunday Frerywhere. , . Totinify.was imailtiaingaged ta epinning his top on the front stepe on Sunday morn. Mg iti plain view of the people who were paeoing to church. Tommy's Mother, hap. penieg to look out of the upper window, saw him, and said: • "Tommy, tam. agtonished to see you at play to -day. Don't ,you know that it is Sunda , and it in vary wielted to play out there' •tlo into the baok yard if ybu want tospin i our top." • Well," said Tomy; • a ain't- itEti l' m nday out there, too?" --Pretzel's Weekly. ' rail Mgt Gatette, by a pleat of persecution about wbieh *question was saki* in the /louse of Commone a few days ago. 4 periehioner i Elp_phig spa his *fa Were refused the Holy Oommunion by the -vicar an the grerind that the wolnson waa the man's damaged Wife's, sister. The hue, band was 82 yew ohi, had tha wife 77; and the had been married 60 yeas; but Dr. Claughton, the Bishop of the diocese, .4P- perently held that they both came within the, _definition -of "notorious evil livers," An4 BRatoned the vicar in his entiou, Tim AttOroeyalaileral, hewover, • half nOW poioted out thee the marriage, having 'been aenfiraated before Lord Lyadhrinitai 40111 Li ettiourtaltd, and the vioar has been tad - allied by the Bishop that the two pariellion- ere "oannotilegally be repelled -bora the Iltly Communion." "Bad this view, of the.law. been preoent to my mind," . adds. DC °laugh ton in ;thither to the pariohioners, shopld have been salved the, paia-no inlesosobetomniy•soelrfepthualsnl_tp.,, youregyee-ef order. ,No rsinarin Britain probably has awl strong reations for desiring the ageoesioo of the Tory party to, poWer an that �t the Duke ot Aberomp, whew sons are the bittereet personal assailants of membere of the pree- ent Goveroment. The Duke is a.poor man for hisipeeition, and the action of the Land Compoiesion has by no means rideed his inoorne, which is chiefly derived' from Ire; land. Hie daughters have .married-' Men who have no need of money with their wives, but he has live sons, three married: and with ohildren, all of whore mainly de, pend upoo theft; fatherp ,puree, thile in addition to 'domestic expenses four have incurred those of eleatione. The eldeet re- oeivee a salary as a lord in waiting to the Prince of Wales, the second ekes out his income by being Vice -Chairman ot a rail- road and Director of about a dozen com- panies. The ablest, • Lord George Handl- marriecie lady UOOa-yenr whioh Ma brothers did not. It may eagly be imagined that to men so *Situated (mein, sion from office year after year is a serious mortificatioe. 'rhe Duke has new tofind money to pay the eleotion bills. of his SOU who has just been defeated at PeieleY. • , • Firm a rough draft of Prince Bismarek's Bilifornsuring men againet acoideots and death, it appears tn all the 'various. am- ployere will be required to establish ate surmise oompaniee and.to pay the whoole of the premiums on lie lives and limbs of their workmen, in proportion to the wages earned by the latter, and to the danger tariff.- Thus one element in the provioua Bill, wilioh formed such a bone of conten- tion badbeen dropped -namely, pert pay- ment by the btate bf the aceident assur-. awe premiums, viith which the laborgiVers or clapitaliste are now tn be ,exolusively burdened. Slateald, .however, any of the companies (Genosseneohaften) prove un- equal W.their liabilities they may be aided, or °vela taken over by the State. • ---Teeneram neWanapers in Germany have for tome time been dimming the relative veto° elf clover grown in this country. The The cortiing Rosa Bonheur is °aid to be Miss Streng, of Seal Francisco. Her teacher is Von Maroke;the cattle painter. ' She has had in the salon a life.size picture of a dog which showed a strong original touch. Then AO went to live in the country to study sheep and cattle paintifig, in which she eyincee like power. TrilLES Elat lessirilibEE The Way In Wedella Ilt-e Authors Cosno to Dig Vieus Shortly after marrying hia first wife, who, though a 1110411 1,10011 and °banning creature (see *4DaVid ")• very much of a housekeeper Charles Dickens atone home trona the -lodge one morning in the wee, eine,' hours, and as until etruolt a bee-lfme for the pantry, tie was unusually hungry even for laina, and aa he [stole stealthily across the.kitehen . flan in his stocking feet he thought to leanedf that the beet half of * gold .fried chicken would be about as eneeptable nighWap aa he could wear W bed. Bali When fle got there the eupboard was bare. From the top shelf to the bottom inid from one end to the other of all of them there was not to be disoloaered go ma& as a pickle. /to is said that upon this °warden Charlet' D.oltens uttered hie first; last, and only oath. "By gad, tor I," swore the great man, 44 this blawated cupboard presents as blank an &spool as the rest ot the establish - men*. • It's a derunition bleak house ;" and Mr. 0.Dickens was ao struok with thehappy eignifloance of Molest remark 'that he im- mediately forgot his 'hunger, and, rushing up stairs to his study, wrote on the title - page of Ins last half -completed novel: ; "Bleak House, by Charles Poisons." A Mated Frenchmen '.ot •en alleged soieutificiturn of mital ran &Way to gee in hie early youth. Failizmg ,10 gain, either' • fan:leer fortune in tile- sta4itring business, he became deepondentoted finally, re- solving to learh what the next world held in store for him, plunged one -day from the mast -head into the sea. Several seconds befere he came to the 'surface he had come to the conelusion that he was hardly pre- pared to die, and wondered how many miles it was up to daylight and air, 'rite was at last discovered, hauled on board the ship, the water pumped, out ot him, and Jived long enough to embody his submare -lifie-eXperiened-in-e-voluititziouri lie entitled- "Tweuty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." t • Curious Facto. . •A flower has' been discovered in South Ameries, Which ie only visible when the wind is blowing. The shrub belongs to the °setup family, and grows about three feet in height, with a crook on top, giving it the appearance of a black hickory cane. When the ' wind blows a number of beautiful flowers develop from little Jumps on the "alk. Aourious experiment has been tried by. M. Pdargelidet, a French ne,turaliat. Five years ago he pieced a toad in a hole made in some granite, and covered it With imper- meable cement, and recently, in the pre. &woe of several spectators at the Paris Museum of Natural History, he released it. The animal, though in a torpid state; was give.and healthy. A soientifio eiperinienter once drew out from the body of a mingle 'spider three thousand four hundred and eighty yitrds of threedor spider-silk=a 'length, of a little short of three miles. Silk may be woven of spider's thread, audit ie more glossy and brilliant than that of the eilk-worm, being of a golaen oolor. An enthusiastio ento- mologist secured enough of it for the weav- ing of &bait of clothes for Louie XIV. , Dr. George Soliweinfurth. the German explorer of Central Africa, who now resides in Egypt, hag sent to Sir Joseph Hooker,. direotor of the Kew Gardens, a long account of the plants contained in some wrestler found in the coffin of an EgYp• tie& Princess (mummy). They com- prised leaves of the willow, leaves of the date palm, oorn-poopy .flowers and corn flower. Of the poppies, Dr. Sehweinfurth says that the innerpertion are in a woia- derful State of preservation. Not a stamen, not an anther fa wanting ; nay, one might almost say that not even a pollen grain is missiug. Rarely are such perfect and well- preserved specimens of this fragile flower met with in herbaria. The °elm', too, of the petals is maintained in a high degree as in the dried specimeos' of the preeent day. It is a dark brown red, that leaves a deep stun on thepper where the flowers nave been soaked. he Primate; at whose funeral these flowers were used lived about °levee centuries before the Christian era. Pine cones, whiob mud have been employed as funeral offerings a thousand years earlier, heap been found in .a vault at •Thebes.. •• •Latcot Nov!. Noted. Messrs. Gilbert & Sullivan had alwaye belonged to that despieed guns' rif lumen; beings known as land-lubbers until 's fear ,years ago, when they awomPlished a short voyage aboard one of Her Majeetra• men- of-war. As might be expected,- heither ot them proved good sailors, and the.wiaathet throughout the entire yoyige'..being 'tupi usually tempestuous, they enCountered no little' difficiulty in keeping anything on their stomachs more then an hour or two at a time. At last, to save their shirt -fronts from utter ruin, both these gentlemen were compelled to resort to an arrangement usually applied to very young onildren under similar oircumstanoes. And "Pina- fore " was the name they naturally chose for the opera they subsequently produced in commemoration of that remarkable voyage. " Put Yourself in Hie Plat*" is a title which is suppoied to have suggested itaelf to Charles head° on observing the hope- lesaly henpeoked condition of the unbar- atinate Mall who married his former -sweet- heart. • "All that glitters is not gold;" moaned a certain song -writer when he discovered too late 'that the coins he had received in change for a otisp new greenback were counterfeit. He immediately set to Work and wrote a song about it. One night Wilkie Collins awoke suddenly out of a deep sleep, oppressedwith a sense of horror for whioh he could not account, but which almost deprived him of the powerr move • or breathe. After several which seemed to him superhuman efforte he man- aged to raise himself tip on one elbow, but fell quickly back with a emothered shriek, and °covered his eyes to but out the un- natural shape which etalked myeterioaely about in the moonlight of the room. The familiar voice of Mr. Wilkie telling him that the'baby had the cone, and the pare- goric was out, brought him to. Before Mr. Collins had returned from the drug store he had already blooked oat that thrilling story, "The Wonaan in.White."' Two bridges.•have been carried away by the freshets at New Hamburg. ' On one opeasion when her grandfather in hie -haste forgot to ask the blessing, Dot celled out, " Wboal whoa, papa Willard ! back uP and say your prayerel-Harper's Bazar: `. , The younger sons of peers are described in the Eton • 'school -lists as "Mr.," While the names of other boys are put down without any prefix., Snobbery 10 rampant at Eton. • • " Among the speakers at a mass meeting under the auepiese of the Chorch of Eng- land•Tempetance Society, in Toronto, last ni,ait, were the Bishop of Huron and Hon: Cr. W. Rom . President PdoCosh, of Princeton College 10 conbidered pcniceited becauest-he-tolca, gentleman who complimented him on his ability in dissecting Kant, "0h4 it was opiimPla lately expressed by a fume, in an .perfectly easy to me. But most men are agricultural association in Elbing, East Pruesiat, on the subject will be of -interest. Herr Sthwann said that he had used American governed for more than ten years, and never tiptoed that it Buffered in winter ;, that he had previously used Ger- man clover, 'which ellffered. coheiderably, and once the crop entirely failed. Elia has, too, notated that, though American clover :has a thioner stem, it geowa-flatte_r---thod„. gig& more. So, notwithstanding he cautions of the papers, he intended to one- time sewing American clover. He con. eidered the Canadian the best, and recom- mended applicant's to be careful to prooure fresh geed. . . , 'lint words :" sewerage *4 and " sewage ' are so often confounded that even our best dictionaries have been °propelled ,to give eat& of them the dame pair ot meanings. Yet it OMB just to avoid the embarrassment and make a useful distinction -that -they—so small that one cannot guess their were invented: They were coined by Mr. color, though' I ehould take them to be a &WWI Pilbrow, an eminent English civil very pale grey. \ There is a oast in the left engineer, and were first used by him in a eye. The forehead is narrow, the cheeks report in 1850. They soul came into ars-wide , and the cheek -bones high. The general use, but as they were not then ih mouth is a etraight line and a long one., any diationary8 he wee on one odoasion Canoe ream °Wads about five feet ten summoned beforlathe Lord Chancellor Of inches, and has a splendid physique, ,England to state their exact meaning. Ito although his face is pale. then explained I, gewere.ge " as meaning The Smith family fills fifteen closely the oomplete eystem of sewer -pipes and printed ogumns 111 the 120W lanidenrlireo.. drains cif any city or district," and "05W, tory, and the Browne eight. There ia 10 age " as denoting "the refuse whioh panes the city a charity for poor Smiths estab- through ahoh pipes or the soil." This die- Relied by .an alderixtan of the name 200 tittotion is plain and should alweyri be ob.- years ago. thi gave £1000 to captives served: _ „ • held by Turkish pirates, and 11,000 to _ poor kinsmen, and the latter fund has Trot aboUrdity of the Waif:at English inereased Until 101s worth about 560,000 a aware of their owii ability. When Thenkeray was in New York someyears ago speaking of his books one evening a lady remarked;" Mr. Thenkeray, you are the Vainest man I ever met." "Iresan adame," was the reply, "but you forget that I have a great deal to be very vain of." Pride often miscalculates, and more often misconceives. The proud man lanes -hi meelf-at-teadistance from -other men. Seen through that distal:me, others -perhaps appear little to him; but he for- gets that this very distance °anew him to eppear equally little te othera. • Canon irarrar Is a roan, in .appearance, Of 55. His Ube is most unoommon,rand is, says Rev. Robert Laird Collier, beyond the power of words -to pourtray. It is not a modern lime, and it is not in any way an. English face.Bo Morals it a Scotch face. The complexion Is fair,the hair almost yellow. The eyes are uncommonly small marriage law le Well illustrated, ;says the year THE WORLD'S SVORITARKS, Will There be at Strike me the Ct. T. U. 0,-. What 441 Chlleirellt AlliOnagor Other Labor Netts - A Montreal dermatch Rays ' With 'rider, mice to the retrenohment: policy of the Grand Trunk Beilway management, the offirdels Mate that no defioite, terroe;01 get- i duoUon in wages have yet been, fiakid. Mr. Hickson has held °utterances With. engin- ears, conductors and treniailai, alill laid the matter before the nien'siad• itaked them to meet the oompany fairly during thetime they are running the road Itilbsa,we PanY had ii.anet AIME were good and advanced wages, aeliallnred teem that when profits inetegged sufficiently wages would be advaneed So, the, 'former au flertto.,, The engio,00rt, giPPOsz, t9411)Ve en Oelyea e propontwo with isposition comply with the requeat, but the Dtenagin Directors halving left it to •both them and the oonductore to propose what the reduce tion should be, the rates are WI yet an open question. It was Understood -here that a deputation of employees on the `Neater portion of the road were coming down from Toronto yesterday to interview Mr. Hickson, but up to the preaelat writing nothing has been easel or heard or them by the offiteale. Remora of a strike on the part of conductors and tralialien, which seem to have gained .ourreney more -par- ticularly ie the street. have not yet seemed a shape to be dealt with, as the offieials have received no intimation of such an intention.' The offieisla state that notwith- 'deluding the recent reduotione ie staffs, they could Ball profitably dispense with a large nomber of -trainmen. Pending a ie - ply propooiog a reduction from the eye- - player's the matter rests for tbe.time A Port Riehnaond, Pa., telegreat siege The) iioal troubles in the Sehoylkille Leg- hastaaWyoming and Laokawanna regeqni. are beppring worse. Continued eusperemen efaciPerattons and -the- half -pay plan that hasalieen,..imiaoted by the leaders of; the eambinetion are oreatinelistense dissatiof ma • tion.Tee miners are orgeniziug for pro- tection: ' — . ; , BOCIEU-i'AIIIII." Quick, coMplete our% 1l alinoylng Kidney, Bladder and Urinary ,Diseases. el, Dreggiste. Ernest Dore, elder brother of the 'late Gustave Dore, is -dead, aged 53 yeare. • . *The term hydra May be used to represent any Manifold evil. If you would battle suedessfully with this many -headed monster of disease you will find it expedient to keep Mrs. PinkJacm's Vegetable Coinpound always at hand. -Dr. Ban- ning. A Dublin despatch says Mr. Parnell hap sned one of his tenants for arrears of •rent. ." Nt, Deo.1, 1879. • am the '.Pciator of the Baptiat Church here, and an educated physician. I am not in prac- tice, but am ray sole family physician, and ad- ' vise 'Arming chronic, cases. Over a year ago I ruoommended your Hop Bitters to my invalid wife, who has'been under medical treatixtent of Albany's be.t physicians several years.. lthe has become thorougoly cured of her varioug nom - .Plicated diseinies by their use. We both recom- mend thenxto' our friends,- many of whom have also been cured of their various. itilmente by them. , • Ray. 10. B. Waatene.. Lieut. -Col, Villiers has been examining oandelatee for second:class . military certificates at Belleville. Theexaminations concluded last evening. • • • THE _ - IllUDNON BAK ISOUT.C. •• Thrge.101,. osntohteillitatnb e—aoeffr ;it eNegoevd1K:allen Wt! h The Hudson- -Say Committee • met at Ottawa yesterday inorning, with Mr. Royal in the chair. • Mr. Wm. Smith, 'Deputy Minister -of Menne, was examined.. Be stated hat. he had secured from the Hudson Bay Company the log -books of their vessels running to Hud- son -Bay during the past thirteen years. The vessels were sailing vessel& One Of them OA 42 days to reach York Victory from Stromness. Another 88 days, and one on the 22nd July met With many ice. - bergs and thiek -fogs in the Straits.: The Ocean Nymph was on one occasion 14 days workirig her way through the Straits. In 1870, 1875, and 1893, the vessel.was 17, 22 and 32 days respeotively working through the Straits. In 1872,1873, 1874,1876,1877, 1878, 1879, and 1881 the Straits were passed without detention. The opinion of Capt. MoIthenny was as follows on the subject of navigating Bodeen Bay "1 am of opinion that 'steamers fitted for the work cen make the passage with •very little difficulty as. earlyas August let, entering_after,the_let, keeping along the north shore and avoiding the pack ice. Three months' navigation is all that 'can be depended upon, extended from 1st August to 1st November." • Ten Million Car Wheels. ' • • "There are more then 10,000000 -iron car wheels in uskon Amerioan railroadia said the master-theohabic of one of the trunk lines, "and it requires about 525 pounds .of _pig iron to make one wheel. About 1,25b,000 wheels are wore out every year, and the same number of new CMOS must be Made totake their places. The iron men are called upoen for only a small -proportion of the 312,500 -tone of material required for theee new wheels, however, for nearly 290,000 tons are 'supplied by the -warhaatit -wheels -themselves. Formerly the life of a oar wheel was eatimated at eight years, but the reduction of the "railroads generally to the standard gauge, and the improvements in loading and unloading facilities, have materially deoreaeed the length of service theta wheel may be depended on to perform. The Mai; fortuity in geuge.keeps oars in more oon- tinuous uee, while the decrease in time of loading and unloeditg enables them to be put tO more motive service even wind° they are run may on short local routes, These figures do not include the wheels on palace coaches and the 'better olass of passenger coaches. The wheels on that grade of rolling Mock are now made almost eagle slimly of paper. They are as aervieetible ts� irtmaand combine lightness with strength, a greet desideratum where epeed and (Pommy in motive power are of paramoutit importanoe." A. man wen received into the Laborisiere Hospital, Pule, the other day, With a yard of rope hanging from bis mouth. • Trention upoil the oord revealed a Motion of olothea line measuring eight feet, He had been surprised in an attempt at emeide and had tried to cent:opal his design by swallow- ing the cord. He lived, of oeilme---they genergly do. " •OOITGla ON COIGNS." . Askfor Wells' "Bough on -Corns." 15e. Quick, complete, -permanent euro. Corm, warts, bunions. Falsehood is in ' a hurry; it mai be at any moment deteoted and punished. Truth is calm, serene, its judgment is, ma high; ita king cometh out of the chambers, of .eternity. 14*Wilafea WI_THOOT The Hifi et Fare and Experience ei le Lan - den sociem. LoAndscrnie:adhrooateete nthree"MinperYOrefotnrstianillid cheapening of the 'diet, One of ite Wan objeota being to thaw that a flesh diet is ,amtaintidnembleesmonetouroeuriooahaehvtleinygbet,beanAn naguimvvebeleigeoleone,rute0obtaeernuther anspicee of she National ,.Food Before% Society, of wItiab the follOwing supper cis so sPrhimen: One hundred and fifty perleme,. for the most parkbeloeging to the working °lessee, sat dew to a bat of fare consulting of Scotch broth with snoop of whole meg or grahean'bread, green pea pie with pota- toes, the pie Ortliit being made with ootton- seed oil, and for dessert sweetened semolina or farina pudding witb'etewed prunes. Mr, Dereanue.Seoretary of the so- ciety, addressed throe present after the cloth had been'tedeoVed,' and said that as they had all apparently enjoyed their map- per, they might, especially the niothera and heads Of families, hke to know something . about ita ingiediente and proportions. In making *soup, or broth, there were used ' for everagelien of Water, four canoes of pearl barley, one turnip, one carrot, two cunel of g7rkormealwlhP:P' sail eteon. itle re aPA the contents were dried 'green peas boiled tender, a herd -boiled egg, a little tapioca. and mint to flavor, For the &inert, one pOund ot:semolina or farina to a gallon of water, with sugar to sweeten and served with stewed prunes. Aftee exhibitiztg BOMB colored diagranact 16 show graphically the relative gun:alike of water, ramie -tom - in.. bone -forming andheatgiving constitu- plata 'of limed,oatmeal. and beef, . he remarked •- %hit • they would, see by the difference ig the proper- ' tame Of, , OMB 8131/09.1100%MOO in a polled of hittoher'e meat 12 Onedee represented the water present, ler wheal • they were paying at the'rate p19 pence to 1 shilling (18 to 25 cente)'per prima, while iti the dried peas, tenting 40 to 6o a pound, the water was a very small pert of the whole'they getting 14 to 15 ounces of solid food instead of the 4 ounces °contained in the pound of meat they ..had to Pay 25 :mints for. Mr. Dorenitte atated that the 'membere of the National Food Reform . Society themselves prao- deed what they preached. He instanced hie petsoual eXperienee of four or five years lia favor of •the sufficiency, whcleeonieneas end superiority of a diet into whieh meat, bird or fish had not entered. Dr. Allinson, aprorainent member of the Kislev, also stated that for nearly two years he had taken no meat at all; that his 'food cost him little more tnan 12 Cents a; day; that ' he could do bis work as' well et better without meat, - and that he frequently worked 16 holm out of 24. ide Fast, brilliant and fashionable are the Diamond Dye colors. -One package eolora 1 to 4 lbs, et goods. 10 canfor any color. Riches are less wealth than is learning, for wisdom cannot be stolen or lost; it is therefore thy hest friend. • The best advice may come too late." Said a suff rer from Kidney troubles, when asked to try Kidney -Wort. try it but it will bebay last dose." The man got well and is now recom- mending the rebiedy to all sufferers. In this case pod advice mine just in :time 10 save the One can no more judge of the true value of a inapt by the impression be makes on the public than we can tell whether the seal was gold or brass by whish the stamp was made. • - -Eno. e'lL.Itroul:TgliGottr 0711d CenTiiwill'itee--17o8"ohilaMen 08 440115. Troches, 11e. Liquid the. At druggists Mensonier is painting a large pie ure which represents FrOLICil I. and the Chevalier Bayard in the widest of a gor- geous company. Crowned with !Success. . Success has current yalue the wide world over. .It .13realte down .every barrier and holds the key that nolooks every door. Pre- judice, the result of many failure, and the memory of painful experiences melt away lihe-mist before the convincing naerit of Puma's' PAINLESS Cons EXTRACTOR, and now when thoueande are willing and glad to testify -to its wonderful efficiency, it goes forth °roamed with the success that only real merit atteine, Bay Patnam's Painless Corn Extractor. Beware of limitations. N. C. Poison & Co., proprietors, Kingston. A little girl Pf 7 years, daughter ,of Mr. George Duncontier, of Et. Sauveur, Que., died suddenly on SundaY. She complained to her mother of a headaohe, and iname. diately fell dead at her feet. , The Agony Over. Pain baniehed as it by magi°. Mateo -1,1Enve.titig is a positive and almost instan- taneous remedy for external, hateenal, or local pains.. The moot active remedy hith. erto known falls far ehort of Nervaline for potent power hi the relief of nerve pain. Good for external dr internal use. Buy a 10 cent sample bottle by dealers. Large bottles 25 °onto, at ell druggists. ' Buenaventura Baez, ex -President . of Santo Domingo,' has -died, aged 75. He loft a foremne'estitnated at 92,500,000. Tears are softening showers whioh cause the wed of heaven to pring up in the human heart. - • 0 MIMI Digna's martial rebei consist of a sheet and a straw hat. He does not depend upon the set of his clothes for his Dignified appearanee. • The Bishop of Ontario will shortly leave few England in -Order to attend the annual meeting of the . A. wound front a tongue ie Worse than a woued from tt sword, for the litttisr taffetas only the body, the former 'the spirit -the ul. • Waring had roade a will giving Dr. Newmans New Yorkgmroh 0100,000, but on theapriaranee of the recent troublee revoked the clause end direeted that the - Money, at her deeeitee, be spent amording t3 Dr. N_e,wman'a jadgment The righting on the Nile. The rumored fight at Halfayall, if truly reported. is a very creditable pieee of work for the Khartoum garrison. eialfayah is a large village on the right .bank, el • the- - 1Jpper Nilethe capital of ,rt district of- the • same nenie, and quite neer enough to Kuartoum th become a formidable.beas of operations in the hands of the,rebels..: The , latter assailed it • accordingly,. but were promptly. met by a sortie from Khartoum add forced to retire. This feat, involving a march of eight miles through loose sand, under an African sun, deserves to be classed with the snoceisful sally from Reseals (the capitol of the Hallengai Arabs, on the Abyseinian border), which cost the besiep. ers 1,000 men. Such fade ,proye, that all Egyptian troops are not like Ihe melees poltroons who brought destruction on poor Gen. Hicks, and it may be hoped that timely aid win yet Bay° these gallant fellows from the fate of their Binket brethren. Mrs. Vanderbilt Allen, in a suit for a limited divorce, claims that her husband was unduly intimate with Bala. Edith DeBeUeville, the divorced wife of an enter. . In the oeurt yesterday her couneel asserted the defendant had disposed of a number of his wife's wedding presents, and when he left her he had taken $3,000 of her money. • IS A SURE CURE for all diseages of the Kidneys and • mmumm. LIVER -a— . it has apeoido action co this most important organ, enabling it to throsit oft torpidity and inaetibn,atinnaatbag the healthy accretion Of the Bile, and. by keeping the bowels in free condition, afflicting NA regulaCcUieharge. maigtrila.;1221:1131:17hIg fzir are 3,illed/4 dyapeptio, or constipated, Sidney - Wort will surely relieve and quick's' oure. In the Spring to olesneo the System. ever/ .one should take athorough 000850 01 it. it- SOLOS* DwukliaisTs. Price ..,N :EY W /THE COOKS BEST IE,ND EYE EAR' AND T /MOAT. , DR. G. S. itYgRSOX, L.11; 0.13. 8e • 0. 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