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ENORMOUS SUMS LAID 013T E
Tk EPI IN THE tOt,0 WartieD.
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141111o* IRatilara &7& earale,3 $nx" Too Va chn t,
°
40no tri liVklicta Wne Never ri a d—Biul isw.d't
Otitlaalhw sand a t*x. trot Against Thera,
Admitting the iil~< ert:awe in net/ xaatre
wixi011 lama ►zzo+xztrolzica1 form of govern
meet tha,.t the splendor and dignity cit
the nevereign eine 1sl he, naintaiued, 'i'lze
f.r< mote Daily News ns►alarke that "there
are extravagant a well ate reasonable
methods of ut:iitxtasiaing stili the splendor
and dignity that .")zany he desirable, and
few people who give t eft:se1th the
trouble of dluluiriug into the subject will
to totted to deny that an enortzxotts
amount +caf money leas been needlessly
wasted izt connection with royal yacht.,
' `Greet Britain is far front being the
only country in tvhiela ntmlt wasteful ex-
penditure lias,34M',nrre:l and la oCourrdng.
ttassia is at great transgressor in this re-
syxiet. The late czar already possessed
bait a dozen capital yachts when he gave
orders for the 'Wilding of the notorious
Livadin, talte was to be the largestand
must Magnificent as well .as the most
original yacht in the world. Unlike alt
other vessels of the kind, she was to he
const actcl with a beam, equal to two -
'
thirds tit ler length, so that site aright
not roil, and the imperial family might
be ;;pared the 'horrors. 'of seasickness.
She was to he'supplied with d.kireescrew4
so that sire might be handy as weld as
gest, And u17ou her spacious decl, was
to be built a veritable palace. The plane
were carried out, and the L4vadla was
-launched at {sloven in 1880,
EXTRAVAGANT CZATtS.
Probalily me one knows what she
Duet, but it is certain that from first to
last Considerably more than £+500,000 was
expended on her. Yet her imperial own-
er would have nothing to say to her. As
rt yacht she was to colossal failure, and
today she is only useful as a kind of float-
ing
loating barracks in the Black sea. The pres-
ent czar is, nevertheless, ,expending a
further £,-1+00,000 ever a new vessel,
•< hiclz is to be called the Polarnaia
Zs' zda. and which, should she be a sue -
'
cess, will lzaceall the magnificence, near-
ly all the size and more than the speed
and handiness of the discredited Noah's
.ark' in which itis majesty once hoped_ tea
a :e.his pleasure.
The czar's extravagance does not in-
, Jure us. Neither does the yachting ex-
Gsaveganeeof the young German emper-
or, who, although lie possesses in the
1rohenzollern one of the prettiest and
most comfortable crafter the kind afloat,
line juetaf3plied to his faithful subjects
: cfor t grant of Money equal to £225,000
Zn ordc4 that he may build Iliniselfanew
yeclit,.' These examples. are interesting
to. the British: taxpayer only because:
they illustrate what appears to be a very
general tendency on the part of the Eu-
-
e'oixau royalties. It is not until the tft7;
payer comes to consider the royal yacht
question as it affects hinepersone.11y that
he eapee/ewes any- very discomforting
shoek.
tier majesty- at present enjoys the use
of four yachts: and tenders. The yachts
,etre the Victoria and Albert and the Os-
borne and the tenders, which for all prac-
tical purpose are yachts also, and the
Alberta and the Ellin, The .oldest of the
four is the little yacht Elfin, which was
built at Chathatn in 1849,and which is of
only nipty=tliree tons displacement. She
originally cost 26,168, or about 266 7s. a
ton. The Enchantress, the presentad-
miralty yacht, is a beautifully fitted
craft of 1,000 tons displacement, yet her
original cost was rather less than 247 a
• ton. It is clear, therefore, that, at the -
•outset, the Elfn was an expensive bar-
• gain. .She has now been in existence
.forty years, and, during that period, with
• out reckoning the wages of the Drew and
., the price of ber consumable stores, she
• tries cost an additional sum of over 240,-
900, or, on the average, more than 21,000
;a *ear, her total cost up to date being
about 247,000. It is as if an ordinary
citizen had bought a house for 26,000
forty years ago and had since spent £41,-
00O„ not in adding to it, but simply keep-
. sang it.in repair.. The little Elfin at this
moment has cost the country over 2500
Lor every ton of her displacement.
1 COMPARING ENGLISH VESSELS.
Neat of the four in point of age is the
• Victoria and Albert, the largest of the
:royal yachts. She is of 2,470 tons dis-
placement and was built at Pembroke in
1805. Iter original cost, inclusive of in-
cidental dockyard charges, was 2170,820,
or over 271 a tion, She, too, was expen-
sive at the outset. In the thirty-four
years which have since elapsed—setting
aside as. before the wages of leer" crew
and the price of her consumable stores—
she has cost, including incidentals, an
additional sum of more than 2887,000,
or on the average nearly' £12A00 a year
-cher total cost up to elate being, rough-
ly speaking, 250ti,000. As she lies in
Portsmouth harbor today she has Cost
the country about 2.412,5 for every ton of
her displacement, . '.third in seniority is
the Alberta, Which was built in 1863 at
r,. Pembroke; and. which is of 070 tons dis-
placement. We regret that we have not
succeeded itt finding out the exaet
cost of this vessel. We are informed
that it is about 270,000.
We believe it to be more; but, accept-
ing the estimate,' we pass on, to the
fourth and Newest of the royal y'achts,
WeOsjaorns. She, was ktilt tit Pena
broke In 187( anti is of 1,650 tons 41i-,
plac+enwut. Including incidental charges,
her original cost was close upon 41:14,
tit% .or emelt 279 84, a ton. In the nine -
Wet' your; that hove eines) eapireal slzo
has rust, iuc1wiin; incidentals, but ex -
'eluding wvnge.s and price of peel hab1e
cabs• 0. over £00,Ot10, or nearly 28,000 a,
r '1'hwi•o has, therefore, been sunk
"cs sum of about 4153 for every ton
of lisplacement, or cone £286,000 til
au, la no expenalilure that has been
ineurret out the fabric and furniture of
the, 'out 1.4.41 yachts is not less than
2000 00w We have good grounde for
ouPPoidli,14 that it is very ecnsiderably
over 01,090,000. The average expendi-
ture potiisa of di:sdxlacentent has Wen
more than 2200 on a total tonne's") of
4,0811, and the average age of the four
vessels is about 29 years.
That a great part of this large sum of
£000.000 has been wasted becomes tolera-
bly apparent when we examine into the
relative cost of other ships, The moon-
stant is a large iron end wood steam
frigate launched ip 1808, and is there-
fore 21 years old. IIer displacement
exceeds that of all the royal yachts
put together by more than a thousand
tons, A tnan-of-war is not, of course,
'decorated and furni'ihed as a royal yacht
is. Ori the other hand, she has much
more wear and tear and contains expens-
ive guns and machinery such as find no
place in a yacht. The original cost of
the Inconstant, including incidentals,
was just over £283,000, or ander £50 a
ton. There has since been expended on
her a little over £172,000, or soy £456,000
in all. This represents less than 270 a
ton, or very little more than one-third
of the cost per ton of the four royal
yachts.
The oldest of our ironclads, the Black
Prince, to take another case, was launched
in 1861, and is therefore of approximately
the sauce age as the average royal yacht.
She is of 0,210 tons displacement -about
twice that of all the royal yachts—and
she has cost up to date £740,000 in round.
numbers, or very little more, than 280 a
ton. Yet in her twenty-eight, years' ex=
istenco she has seen a great amount of
service, and when we contrast her cost
per ton with that of the Elfin—£80 with
£500—wit that of the Victoria and 1-
h r Al-
bert -280 to £125—or with that of the
Osborne -280 with £153 -it becomes very
evident either' that she is vefy cheap or
that the yachts are terribly expensive,
Tho latter is, no doubt, the fact and the
main reason of it is not far to seek.
Some Facts About -Renee.-
Charley Howard was talking to Burke,,
the old book store, man a few eveenitts
ago, ww+heli a stranger fresh from Nev.
Orleans slipped up, saying to Mr. Burke:
' "What will you give for a big lock of
Jefferson Davis' hair?"
"Alii I have plenty of: it," answered
what a Boy *hoot team.
To run.
To swim..
To carve.
'F() be neat.
To: he honest,
`Co make a lire,
To khn, punctual.
To do an errand.
To cut kindlings,
To sing if he clan.
To sew on a button,
To hang up his hat,
To hold his head erect.
To respect his teacher.
To help his mother or sister.
To button his mother's boots,
To wipe hisboots on the mat,
To read aloud when requested.
Tu help the boy smaller than him-
self.
To Break pleasant to an old wo.
man.
To put every garment in its proper
_place.
To remove his hat nisei), entering
ti house.
To keep his finger nails from wear-
ing mourning.
To Lift the baby out of the cradle
and hold if for half an hour.
To treat the girls•so well that they,
will wish he was their brether.
- To close the door quietly, especially
when there is a sick person • in the
house.
The. Canadian Cheese Tr-datum
The progressing course of the
cheese dairying in Canada should be
encouraging to all concerned in it,
and at the same time may be made
a subject of the most profound inter-
est to dairymen, egress the boundary,
as an examp'e of th.e old, true but
trite adage that honesty is the best
policy. The manufacture of food
products espcciaily should be carried
on under honest principles. The
adulteration of food is a crime of the.
greatest magnitude, as with all crim-
inal practices it is its own avenger,
and carries its own punishment -with
it. It is with sorrow and pain that
we feel obliged, in noticing the satis-
factory progress of our Canadian
cheese manufacture, to take notice at
the same time of the depth of degrada-
tion into which this industry leas
fallen in the United States, and as
warning to our dairymen to sive some
information as to the condition of the
Atnerican oheese 'business with the
moat flagrant oauaes • for itti rapid
decline, add its progress to campers.
tine ruin.
Canadian cheese: bears a value in
English market. of 2 cents per pnusd
ahoe that of Americrn cheese, This
isea large bonne received for honesty
in its quality, which is. .due to the
enlightened liberality of the Dominion
Goverment, which, appreciating fully
the importance of the manufacture,
has inaugurated a system of practical.
instruction in the art of oheese malting
which is producing ita firstfruits, and
promises the reaping of an abundant
Harvest. Canadian cheese bas acquired
a high and solid reputation, and
nothing more is needed than that the
present honest and skilful manufacture
be continued, and all temptations to
begin fraudulent practices by means
of adulteration he instantly and stead
hotly resisted. It is no gain to make
a oheap article by means of dishonest
pratices..
The admission fen to the Melbourne
Stock Exshange is $3,250, and Beate
are in demand at that figure.
A young man named Brownlee,aged
about 21, was killed by a train on
which he"was employed. as brakeman,
a feiv days since. He was a son of.
iS1r Wm Brownlee, who formerly kept
the Royal Hotel, Minton, and nepheiy
of Mrs Brownlee, of town.
Anvxcs To ?OTREne,--Axe you disturbed at night
and broken of your rest by a sink child suffering and
trying with pain of Cutting Teeth? df so send at
once and get a bottle of "Airs, Winslow's Soothing
Syrup" for Children Teething. Its value is inealcul-'
able. It will,,,reliewe the poor little sufferer
immediately. Depend updn it, mothers; there is no
Mistake about it. It cures Dysentery and Diarrha,a,
regulates the Stomach and Bowels, curesWind Colic,
softens the Gums, reduces Inflammation, and gives
tone and energy td the whole system. "Mrs. Win.
slow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething is
pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of
the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in
the United States, ab.) is for sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price twenty -fete cents a
bottle. Be sure and ask for "Alas. winsaow's
6toris.se 6v617i," and take no other kind
.During the yew:- 1889 there were
carried over the elevated railroads of
New York 182,418,937' passengers,
not one of whom was injured by care-
lessness or other fault of the manage-
ment.
Chronic Coughs and Colds :
And all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs can be
eured. by the use of Scott's Emulsion, as it contains
the healing virtues of Cod Liver 011 and IIypophos-
phites in their fullest form. See what W S Muer, M
D. L R 0 P, ect, Truro, N S, says : After three years
experience I consider Scott's Emulsion one of the very.
best fn the market. Very excellent in Throat ale
ions Sold by all Druggists, 50c. and $1.
Mr. Burke.. "Quite a quantity."
Then as the stranger walked awayAN I
surprised that anyone ,should have the .
treasure he thpugllt so valuable, Mr.
Burke said: ,
"The truth is; I have everything a relic
'hunter wants. I have hair from the
head of many distinguished men dead or
alive. Maybe you wouldn't believe it,
hut one-quarter the money I put into my.
house came "from the sale of hair off
x
George Washington's head."
"Do you. know," Me. Burke went on,
"that the relic hunter is the biggest fool
on earth, Any relic.• he may want has
no value. It is simply a question of how
much he is able to pay. I can always
;.eine a man up as he comes in and am
therefore able:to hit him just right.
"Take a battlefield relic;" said Mr.
Burke after a pause. "I go home, say
and get _ my.wife to mark a half. dozen
-pieces of ribbon as I want it. Then I
pound two bullets together and fasten to
the ribbon. , They artebullets, you know,
which met in mid air on the i{enesaw
field. I put, ane in the showcase with
the card and the others in a drawer. A
relio hunter, buys the only ono, but as
soon as he is gone the drawer is opened
,and another takes its place. They cost
about 'a dime and bring in a five."—At-
tante Constitution.
To Keep Trousers in Shape.,
A well dressed man recently entered a
leading, men's, furnishers store and asked
to be shown'suspenders, Presently after
dile investigation he selected a certain
style and inquired of the salesman how
many pairs he had in stock. Eight was
the number and he" took the lot, the
clerk meanwhile looking at the custom-
er with a suspicion eta to his sanity.
There was method in the man's mad-'
ness. "You see," said he, "when one
has a, pair of suspenders for each pair of
trousers and one hangs the trousers by
the suspenderd from the closet nail, the
dependant weight keeps the trousers in
shape and the 'hag' out of the knees.
Moreover,"'continued this practical lat-
ter day' Beau-Bruntruell, "think of the
waste of the time involved in the chang-
itig of one's suspenders every time one
changes one's trousers, 'let alone the.
bother.
"And then consider in such a case the.
wear and tear in both suspenders and
trousers. Besides, one pair of trousers
'nuty be longer or shorter than anotherr
and the suspenders, if they have not to
bo changed, once adjusted properly, the
process of hoisting up or down, which
Causes an expenditure of time and pa*
tience, is done away with. It is in-
finitely pleasanter and decidedly cheaper
lathe end to have a dozen pair of braces
on hand," exclaimed the argumentative
toff in a tone of conviction, as he ploked
tip his package and -strode out of de
finOrwrzzv,—("r'lothiet' abet 4 urnis ;C.
MENSE STOC
OF — a
CHRISTMAS G O C
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Po illar lloolistoro!
I'M'" $1111780
All partial itibo have not peal
for the TIMk13 " for the years
1808 and 1889, are requested to re-
mit the amount sit once. We need.
money, and hope this notice will
be sufficient, and brat a Renese
reeponse will be the result.
R. EILZ+IQTT,
Shingles,Shingles.
The undersigned have ore hand a -targe+
quautity of
FIRST-CLASS
Shingles,
l3ooks,, Booklets, Stationery, Cards, Fancy Goods,
Toys,Dolls, Notions, Toilet Goods, Games,
Fancy Cups and Saucers, Plush. Goods,
EtC., Etc.
Annuals and Diaries for 189.0.
Appropriate Presents for Ladies, Gentlemen' and Children, and at any
sunt you desire to spend.
Bim' A call solicited before buying.
POI. ULAR .BOOKSTORE.
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L. & J. MuLEAN.'
W1ng' am, Oct. 11.188e.
L 'We claim to have the largest and best assorted stock of Watches
Clocks and Jewellery in Wingham. Our stock consists of American
and English Gold Plated and Roiled plated 3ewellery of all descriptions,
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We give special attention to the
following lines:
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INCU.
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.F1RE BRICKS, MILL FILES,
MACHINE OILS.
AMERICAN' WATER WHITE COAL
OIL.
We are sole agents. in Wingham for
the sale of Genuine.Rubber Paint
the best in the world.
2. We buy all our goads in big lots, and pay spot cash for every-
thing we buy, therefore our customers may be sure that we are at no
disadvantage as compared with others.
It will pay you to call and inspect our goods before 'buying else-
where, We will sell you 20 per cent lower than any other dealer in
VV in ;harn.
In order to make room for our large Xmas stock, now )rticred, we
will sell at Cost for 30 days,
WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIAL'
All kinds of shelf and
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bottom prices.
Land Plaster in bags always on
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