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The Advocate, 1887-12-01, Page 3UNEYPEOTED WEDDING. It was it co December December twilight, but the Doom was cosy where Harry Cutter wee seated in an easv-ohair before the grate. %flunk was stanaing beside the chair, with one hand resting lightlyupon brother's shoulder, the other hanging listlessly by her side. "Come, Harry, why don't you speak? You have been silent at least ten minutes. What are you thinking about? queetioned Winnie, trying to rouse her brother frem the reverie into which he had fallen.' " I was thinking, Winnie," he replied, "what you and Walter are going to do if you get married. He has only his clerk- eittio " I know it, Harry," said Winnie, " but we intend to wait a year at least. You will consent to our union then, will you not ? " "Ye, Whoa, and I shiPuldv not with hold my consent now if you withed to be married, for I know of no man more worthy of my precious sister than Walter Adam." . 1 am happy to, hear you speak so, Harry, for your manner toward Walter has always been so reserved that I did not know whether you liked him or net:" A silence ensued for a few moments, which was broken only by the monotonous -.,tioking of the old clock on the mantel. At length Harry ((poke. "Would you and Walter like to be mar- ried now ?" indeed," replied Winnie, the rose tint deepening upon her cheeks, while her brother smiled at her earnestness. "Walter said last nightlr. she continued, ',I that he did not wish to wait a year, but we cannot do otherwiee." "Yes you can, Winnie. Half of the fortune our father left me is yours. ,Next Thursday will be Christmas. You can be married than and live here with your hus- band. What do you say to this arrange- ment ?" " Oh, happr we shall be!". murmured Winnie, almost audibly: '• After a Pauseof a few moments she &eked : How old are you, Harry -37 ?" a Yee, Winnie,' was the reply. "Ware you ever in lee, Harry.?" was the next question. " Yes, Winnie, loved, once. But we will not talk of that now; some time I will tell you all about it." "Please tell me now," said Win*, eoaxingly. "Well, I will, since you desire it. "When I was a young man 1 loved a woman named Lucy Alcott, and her parents had appointed a day for our mar- ," nage. She was 20 year,' of age, beautiful and accomplished, with a kind word and a smile for everybody. She was the only woman I have ever loved, and I think she reciprocated my love; but I am not sure. Once I was absent from home a week, Mtending to business in a distant city. While I was gone Lucy attended a party with a young man who did not bear a very Food reputation. On my return I heard of it and immediately called to see her. She greeted me affectionately, as was her wont, but I was angry and upbraided her for her thoughtless conduct. " Why did you attend Mrs. Loring's party with Charles Baker ? ' I asked. t" • Because I wanted to. I did not think there was any harm in it,' she replied. a You knew it was against my wishes,' I said, sternly. "'You might have delayed your busi- ness, for you knew I wished to attend that pert): she replied, a little wilfully. " ' My business was of importance and obuld not be delayed.' Well, Mr. Cutter, I am not .your wife, and am not bound to obey you,' she said, in 'voice mingled with anger and pride. "'Lucy Admit, do you mean this 7'I asked. " I do,' was the reply. "Very well, MiSS Alcott. Henceforth you are free from all engagements with me, I said, calmly, and rising, took up my hat and prepared to depart. She accompanied me to the door, and there was a perceptible tremor in her voice when she bade me ''good evening,' and I think she regretted the words she had uttered as badly as I did rnine ; but I was too proud to seek a reconciliation. Nowyou know, Winnie, why I never married." "Have you ever seen Luoy Alcott since you parted with her that night ?" asked Winnie, after her brother had concluded. "No, Winnie' I have not; but I have heard she stillcontinues to reside in this city, but in seclusion. Let us drop this subject now. Isn't it most time for . year lover to be here ?" "Oh, Harry 1 I forgot to tell you about Walter's aunt—his rnother's sister. He has lived with her ever since his mother's death, which occurred 'bout ten yeate ago. Perhaps she will not like to be separated front him." "She shall not, Winnie. You can tell one of the servants to prepare a chamber for her. How old is she? Do you know 7 "Thirty-five, I believe," replied Winnie, and, with a happy face and a light heart, ehe left the room, while Harry relapsed into thoughtful silence. It was clear, cold Christmas afternoon. Harry Cutter was seated in his own room, deeply engaged in the contents of a book. ' • Everything had been arranged for the 'marriage of his sister, whioh was to take place faille evening. The opening of the door of his room roused Harry, and Winnie came in exclaim- ing: "Come down into the library and let me introduce you to Walter's aunt. She has been here nosily three hours, but you have kept yourself aloof as if you did not desire to see her." " Well, I do not, to tell the truth, Win- nie," replied Harry, reluctantly rising and closing his book. • " I think you will when you know who she is," maid Winnie,while she vainly tried to repress the merry light that danced in her blue eyes. " Winnie 1" The voice wae grave, and Harry looked inquiringly at his slater., " Oh, Harry! it is•Lney Allcott 1" „0" I cannot see her, Winnie," was the 'Mph% You must, nekey1 She roi6 you. Why do you wish to wreck two lives ?"' ,For an hour Winide reasoned with her -brother, and at last she peistiaded him to seek et reconcillatioomith Lucy. Aloott. N,seoda .,4114,0:b more / Need I tell the reader there was a double marriage in thie inansion that night? And Harry Cutter often says he be gled his bachelor life is over, while his soder tells him a it bad not been for her be would have been a bachelor to this day. Blit Nye tend Bis servant Girl. personal—will the young woman who edited the gravy department me corrected proof at our pie foundry for two Ow and then iunmed the game on the evening that we were to have our eiergyman to dine with us, please oome back, or write to Park Bow, paying where she left the crackers and cheese? Come back, Wilhelmina, and be our little Plimbeard once more. 'Come back and cluster around our hearthstone at so much per cluster. If you think best we will quit haying company at the house, especially people who do not belong to your set. We will also strive, 0 so hard, to make pleasanter for you ineyery way. If we hadlinown tour or five years ago that children were offensive to you: it would have been different. But it is too late now. All we cari.do is to shut -them up in a barn and. feed them through a knot hole. If they shrieleliand enbugh tegive pain to your throbbing brow, let no one know, and we will overeeme any false sentiment we may feel towards them and send than to the Tombs. Since you went away we clan see how wicked and selfish we were and how little we considered your comfort. We miss your glad smile, also your Tennessee mar- ble cake andyour slat pie. We have learned a valuable lesson since 'you went away, and it is that the, blame should not have rested on Ole glom It',ehould have been divided Equally,lesvink me to bear half of it and my wife the other half. Where we erred was in dividing up the blame on the `basis of tenderloin steak or peach cobbler, compelling you to bear half of it yourself. That will not work, Wilhel- miha. Blame and preserves do not divide on the same basis. We are now in favor of what may ,be celled a sliding scale., We thinkyobwill like.this better, We also 'made, a„.grave mistake in the matter:of nights out. While young I formed thiWicked"and pernicious habit of having nights out myself. I panted forthe night air and would go a bong distance and stay out a long time to get 'mien& of it for a mess and then bring it home in a paper bag, but I can see now it is time for me to remain indoors and give young people like yourself a chance, Wilhelmina. , • So if 1 can do anything evenings while you are out that will assist you, such as stoning raising or neighboring windows, command me.I am no cook,' 'of course, but I can peel apples or grind Coffee, or hold your head for you when you need sympathy. I could also soon learn to go the plain cooking, I think, and friends who come to see us after this have agreed to bring their dinners. There is no reason why harmony should not be restored among us and the old ann. light come bads to our roof.tree. Another thing I wish to write before I close Hale humiliating personal. I wish to take back my harsh and bitter words about your singing. I said that you sang like, a shingle mill, but I was mad when I said It, and I wronged you. I was maddened by hunger, and you told me that rough and milk was the proper thing for ,a brain. worker, and you refused to give Me any dope on my dumpling. Goaded to madness by this, I said that you sang like s shingle mill, but it was not my better, higher na- ture that spoke. was my grosser and more gastric nature that asserted itself, and I now desire to take it back. You do not sing like a shingle mill—at least so much as to mislead a practiced ear. Your voice has more volume, and when your upper register is closed is inellower than any shingle mill I ever heard. Come back, Wilhelmina. We need you every hoor. After you went away we tried to set the bread as we had seen you do it, but it was not 1 success. The next day it came off the nest with a litter of smalft sinew rolls which would easily resist the action of adds. If you cannot come back, will you please write and tell me howyou are getting along and how you contrive to insert air holes into horne•made bread 7—Bill Nye in N. Y. World. A Curious Nurse. In India, where the elephant is treated by his mahout almost as one of the family, the grateful animal makes a return for the kindness shown it by voluntarily taking care of the baby. It will patiently permit itself to be mauled by its little charge, and will show great solicitude when the child cries. Sometimes the elephant willbecome so attached to its baby friend as to insist upon its constant presence. Such a case is known where the elephant went so tar as to refuse to eat except in the presence of its little friend. Its attachment was so genuine that the child's parents would not hesitate to leave the baby in the elephant's care, knowing that it could have no more faith - fol nurse. And the kindly monster never belied the trust reposed in it.—St. Nicholas for November. A Romantic Engagement. "Whom did you say he was going to marry ?" „ Twenty millions,." • " Oh, how 'perfectly sweet 1" And then the ear stopped.—Boston Herald. A. Mean Man. He—" My dear wife, I love thee so fondly thst when I am near thee I feel not the cold blast of winter," She—" Me, too." "Glad to hear it. Then yoti don't need any sealskin sacque this season."—Flei- gentle Blatter, . Here's a free advertisement for Miss Martha Cosgrove, of Chicago, and she deserves it. She found it hard work to make a living with the needle in the usual way, so she opened amending establithinenti where she save on buttons for 10 cents a dozen, darns stealth* at 10 centri a pair, and does mending at the same low rates. She furnishes material for darning and mending and farms out the work, claiming one•half of the price paid. Mr. Robert Kennedy, eldest iiiirelving ton of the late Mr. David Kennedy, the Scottish vocalist, is giving& series of enter. Ulm:ciente' of Scottish song in Australia. He ire,everywhite ineetim with great mic- a , 0 PIJIGE1 THAT BtatItgwe Parasite& said to Cause many iltesteriewl, pomplatuts. A yotmg peeseot woman from a village near here has a new theory and cure for rheumatism, writes a Japanese correspon- dent to the St: Lowe Globe. Many of those short-tempered people, who have had rheumatism in their knees and gout in their toes, have declared that the sensation was as if something were, gnawing at their muscles, and this Japanese woman wipe that it is BO in reelity. Rheumatism, according to her, is a growth of small parasites under the skin, a innall insect that gnaws and bites and causes the .untold napery and all Ithe. twinges cif that ailment. She has had for one of her patients here a grizzled and meptkal sea captain, And as sea' captehas may always be believed., except about the sa sertaint, his case ought to settle it. The mariner was completely laid up with his ailing knees, end. the Japanese woman was sent for. She claimed to seethe move- ment of the parasites under the skin ordered foot.„bsthic.,M. bran and hot rice brandy, and carne .anot er daye,with a little steel hook and pipped smallwhite, insects ouChf, thi dozen.. ;Ey the stories; lan , large white flea, for one of them vilen brought out to the surface, made& sprinV Mid Was lest to sight. One' of the bystandere'lelt a sting, and the next der had 'a eere, place on his arm,. and cutting into it, it was found that the rheurcialiern bug was there burrowing like a tick. The regale": practitioners are sceptical about this new theoryof ihen- matiam. • They,pot,ehe of the insects une der emiscroscop and decided that, by ite 'organism; it 'never could have lived under' the surface of the skin' away from the sir, and that she must have carried it under her finger nail and introduced it at the pro - 'per Men:Lent: To this the sea captaio coterie et vigorone denial. She says, that she has fallen the unseats from his knees snob enkles by the hundreds now, and that all hive been killed in his eight, and that he ie,geineing better and .can find relief after each treatment. A deaf man was persuaded to gob her after suffering pain in his rears„ and the promptly took a doMn or' more parasites from one ear. The idea was so repulsive to theman that he would not continue the treatment. Those. who,„ believe in, the woman and her strange discovery are anxious to have her OM Tokio and be made famous and given a chance to operate' upon the Mikado, who suffers grievously .,trom kakke, a disease of the lege peotliatio.,,Tapan, and something akin to rheumatism in its excruciating pain. '-, If this Nagasaki woman's idea is proved to be the right one, there will be a' grand upsetting of medical theories and a closing of hot springs and other rheumatic resorts; and if they prove her to be an imposter, Japanese jugglers again come to the foreqte the cleverest in the world. Among the Clergymen. ' Rev. A. M. Phillip, M. A., B. D., of St. has accepted the unanimous invi- tation' 'of St. Paul's Methodist Chnrch, Avenue road, Toronto, to becometheir pastor for the ensuing year, subject to the action of the Transferand StationingCom. mit tees. , * The Detroit, Free Press says that the Rev. T. R. Reid, of 'Elt. Thomas' Church, Detroit, has received call from Trini y Church, Toledo, Ohio. The paper speaks' very highly of Mr Reid's labors in Detroit. Mr. Reid was not long ago a minister of the Mono Road circuit of the C. M. Church. Rev. Dr. Rainsford, Of New York, on one occasion said' at the close of the service. after the usual formula, "Let de pray for the whole state ol Christ's Church mili- tant." " When I say militant that doesn't mean only the 'Episcopal Church ; remem- ber we are praying now for Presbyterians' and Catholics and every human being who calls on Christ's name." Two or three svere-a good deal shocked by his unconven; aionality, but the major part of hiecon- gregation liked him all the better for the reminder. • New Remedy for the Potato Bug. A new remedy for the potato bug pest has been discovered by Major-General Laurie, of Nova Scotia. The General informs the Secretary of Agriculture' of 'that Province that, on the farm of one of the most enter- prising farmers of Newport, his attention was called to a milk -weed which grew among the root crop, and to whioh the potato beetle is much attracted. It lays its eggs on the under side of the leaf, and the lame, when hatched out, feed on the plant and die, being apparently poisoned by it. Where this plant grows the potatoes are apparently not touched by the beetle. The milk or juice is very powerful, giving a burning sensation down the throat and into the stomach, and the weed proves to be EUphorbia Belioscopia, a common weed of gardens and fields in England. Senator Joseph R. Hawley, of Conneeti. out, was married yesterday in Philadelphia to Miss Edith Horner, of England, who has been for several years oneof thehead nurses at the Blookley Hospital in Philadelphia. There was -a large and distinguished assem- blage preeent. - The Arrow Steamship Company, of which Robert M. Fryer is the head, claims to be building a,steamer of extraordinary strength and speed at Alexandria, Va. The New, York Herald of yesterday says it is doing nothing of, the kind, and mouses the coropeny of fraud. On Saturday afternoon Mr. !Atkinson, a Dundee street (London) grocer, stepped out of his shop for a minute to assist a farmer's wife in packing her purchases into her waggon, when a eneak-thief got into the store and robbed the till of nearly $40 in cash. Magazine writer says: Should fortunes be limited 7 " The trouble with most people's fortunes le that they aria limited—Very limited. Six Modred Medical Don'ts" k the title 'of a book recently ptiblished. One of its Most Atriking omissions is expressed hy the words: "Don't overtharge or 'overdose a patient." —A bride nuty be robed in yellow and stand with her bridegroorn in a bower of yellow flowers and all that, ana even be married by a minister who has the Atm - dice, but no amount of decoration Will pre- vent the discovery of the coilPlel kr6enneas at 9n,fOrat.h.001,00x.PRituP et. HOW THE SULTAN 141/101,, L. At W4veli, Cela041)411" 1,4 81110.4 CoUtVOFS, The Sultan naakie's lie "rigid fast of forty daye at Rammer, like any.other good Turk, and at the end et the fast he receives every year a new young wife from hie Mother, according to the say of the prophet, or if his Mother be not alive, the oldest women in the harem presente the wife, This young girl k chesen six months .,before from among hundreds of candidates, whe are ChOlien in infect:I and educated expressly for that purpose, and then some ten or fifteen are chosen and put under a comae 'of purification with bathe of balm of Gilead and nekys tea with milk and rice for the principal diet. The last day of the feast the bride is selected from among the others and led to the 13utte,n's room and divested of clothing, and left standing there, with bowed head and folded arms, until the Kul - tan enters. Sometimes the Sultan never sees her again, and sometimes the pew bride becomes prime favorite. It is not always the most perfect beauty which renders a wife the favorite, but generally the most intelligent One who gains the coveted pea. tiOU. NO ceremony IS E011BidBrell neCeStiary when the'Sultan takes a wife. She is con- sidered sufficiently honored by his choice. In, the afternoon the Salient receives his sons. They are brought into his august presence by their respective " dadas " or totors, who each have entire charge over one hoY, and eeob boy is made to believe that Whatever he wantip he must have. Morsel Effendi, once when but 5 yeare old, declared that he would neithereat nor sleep until therhadebrought Milan -of -war to fire etealute in front of the place, and theY bed tdepind loeceie, 'gather a crew, buy and take on board powder and then get through the bridge and come down in front of the palace to fire the salute and scare Mure,c1 nearly tea &ROI. If during the day a new son arrives the news is announced to the Silltan, who, bored though he may be by the, constant repetition of the news of new arrivals, must give order that a salute be fired at Tophane first, and then on every fortress in Turkey, seven guns fora girl and 21 for a boy. The slave who first reaches the Sultan with the news receives a handsome present, and . then the monthly nurse, who is a power in a Turkish palace, as well as a poor American's home, brings the new born baby for the Sultan to look at. She also receives a valuable gift. The event means much to the mother, for it often lifts her from slavery to the position of legitimate wifehood. The Sultan shows little affection outwardly, at least, for he children, girls or boys, but they are taught to respect him as a superior being. The Sultan has over 6,000 souls attached in some manner or capacity to the palace and in his personal service, aside from the soldiers, and the amount of money the Sultan orders spent daily would bankrupt England in a month, only, as he is not very good at calculating, and his chief eunich, chamberlain and treasurer are, they put their heads together to out down everybody's expenses but their own, and of late years an effort has been really made toward economy, though still volumes might be told of how money is lavished, for each wife must have her own separate establislunent, and each as good as the other, and oach new child its separate nurse and tutor, and all the caprices of the Sultan and his irnperial family must be,humored. Latest from the Northwest. Winnipeg's local grain market is increas- ing in volume of business. Over two thou- sand buthele of grain are now marketed daily by farmers from the districts around the city. Large quantities of oats are daily being shipped to points in Eastern Ontario and also to British Columbia. James G. Dunlop, manager of the Coch- rane Randle, died yesterday, at McLeod, from the effects of exposure a few weeks ago, when he was thrown from his waggon and left on the prairie on a bitter night. He was one of the best cattlemen in the Northwest. Rev. D. M. Gordon'late pastor of Knox Church, bit with his family this evening for his new field of labor at Halifax. Farmers are complaining thst the Do- minion standards for judging wheat, as applied to Manitoba, are altogether too high as compared with Duluth, and it is proposed bringing the matter before the next session of the Dominion Parliament, with a view to having the grading changed. The flour roill at Dominion City, owned by James Spence, of Winnipeg, was totally destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morning. Loet,47,000 ; uninsured. There has been,a slight tenet snow inthe eastern portion of the Province, but in the west the prairies are still perfectly bare. The local banks have advanced the rate of discount from 7 to 8 per cent. The death is announced et Donald, from drink, of a man named Dean' formerly a Lieut. -Colonel in the Britisharmy, and richly gifted in many ways. Gen Middle- ton, during the Northwest campaign, rec. opined him as an old acquaintance. That Bitter Rivalry. "The Education Board of Minneapolis has exoloded the Bible from the public schools." " What for ?" " There was too:much about St. Paul in it." ---Neto Age. —Beautiful autumn leaves have made gorgeous albums which have been sent abroad to give foreigners a correct idea of Canadian foliage.Leaf mosaics, columns of leaves and pictures of leaves fringed with pressed sedges are some of the ar- rangements made by artistic designers. --The English sparrows which were allowed to come into this country on the distinot understanding that they would work for their board and clothes and free the land of caterpillars haven't done any- thing of the sort. This shows how little dependence can be Placed on imported con- tract labor. The anniversary of the battle of Slivitza WM celebrated in Sofia on Saturday with religious and civic ceremonies. ---iA, physician says that the best break- fast to prepare for a day's work is that of o acetic or chops, with good coffee, hot rolls and eggs." He declares that reoent expert - monk have shoven that to digest oatmeal Iproperly hard out.door labor seems to be neceesary, and he believe, , that the„. only Mitrifive value it tell inound in the cream yhidi is eaten with iti ORIGIN OF PIIRASF.A. pot pe poielo." o Gone to Ea," "0o910 t'a a Temp" 014 the Llite?" Therele pophably more of the .poetey of tradition than truth of history in the fol- lowing paragraphs trona the Christian Union : Hide, Queen of Tyre, about seven cen- turies before Christ, after her husband had been put to death by her brother, -lied from that city and established a colony on the north coast of Africa; Haying bar. gained with the natives for as much land as could be surron4ded with a bull's hide, she,put the hide into narrow Aries, tied them together, and claimed the land that could be surrounded with the lioe thus made, She was allowed to her way, and now, when one plays a sharp trick, he is Said to "cut a cuao.,, A tailor of Sarnarcann, Asia, who lived on a street leading to the burying greund, kept near bie shop an earthen pot, ilLWIliCh he was accustomed to deposit et. -pebble whenever a body was carried by taits,Apal resting place. Finally the tailor died; and seeing the shop deserted, -a person inquired what had become of ,its termer occupant. "He has gone to pot himself," was 7the reply -by one Of the deceased's neighbors. During a battle between the Ruesiens and Tartars a private soldier of the former cried out "Captain, I've caught eeeTar- tar." "Bring him along," mid the ofOcer. "He won't let me," was the response.- ..,In- vestigation proved that the captive hid•the captor by the arm and would not allow, him to move. So "catching a Tartar "' plicabbe totne who has found an antagonist too powerful for him. . While lying on the gridiron over a slow fire, St. Lawrence—in Whose honor the Escurial was built by Philip to the Emperor, who Wag witching his suffer- ings Assatus est; jam versa et eitandme," which one translator, not quite literally, but appreciatively of the grim humor char- acterizing the original, rendered ; , This side enough is toasted, Then turn me, tyrant, and eat; ,o4 And see whether raw or roasted I am the better meat. Hence, " Donato &turn." Formerly in London, when a smalidealer bought bread of the baker, for every dozen loaves purchased he was given an -extra loaf as his profit, from which oircunastance "a baker's dozen" signified thirteen. Vari- ous origns have been assigned the phrase, i but the above is the only one that s based on a sure foundation. In a work, "Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe," published in 1815, the author'C. Miner, tells the stork, of a boy who, by the offer of liberal compensa- tion, was induced to turn a grindatone'for a man who cleeiredto sharpen his axe. The promised compensation was never paid, and of one who disguises his own selfish aims under an appearance of generosity or dis- interestedness it is remarked "He has an axe to grind." Favors. "It's nothin' but perliticle parties in my house, Sarah. There's Jimmy, he'werpro- 'bishunist ; Eddy's a Hinry Georger Patsy's a Jimmerorat—asme as his father was, God bless him; Tommy, he's- jined the Pergressive Labor Party; an' would you believe it, Clementine, my 'only gal Clementine'come last night an' axed if, she might join the Pergressive Ewker.i,parpe just formed in the neighborhood, azi","as she said it was no end of favors shs was to get, I let her jine."—Harper's Weekly."' 0 A covered waggon drawn by a somewhat weary -looking pair of horses crossed the ferry at Detroit to Windsor on Saturday. Upon the side was a rudely painted legend : "In Dakoks we trusted. In Dakota we busted." Within were John Ainslie, an intelligent farmer, his wife and six child- ren, who have been drawn from Douglee County, Dakota, a distance of over 1,000 miles en route for Garfield, Essex County, Ont,, former home. In spite of their long journey all looked clean, comfortable and in good health. Diphtheria is alarmingly prevalent in the neighborhood of Ottawa. At Lake Opinicon a number of cams are reported, and at Aylmer Dr. Woods, the local health officer, has ordered the closing of the con- vent schools in consequence of the preyeal,. ence of the disease. In that village three children of Mr. Granville died in three days. One was buried on Monday, a second on Tuesday and a third on Wednesday. Two others are in danger of ,death, while the dread disease has entered- the families of Mr. Portelance and Mr. Rivals. , Vessels are leaving the Neva to altid being closed in by ice. —In the earlier editions of Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur " the dedication was '' To the Wife of My Youth." He received so many letters et condolence on his supposed widowerhood and so many offers of mit quate consolation that latterly he added the line: Who still abides with me." —A yellow wedding is one of the latest freaks. The bridesmaids are in yellow, the decorations yellow, the laces yellow, the flowers yellow—everything, in short, but the bride, who is of course all white, wears that jaundiced hue. The effect is some: What trying and more suggestive of a rous- ing bilious attack than a gentle, amorous' scene a fashionable marriage ceremony" seeks to be. An influential committee has been ap- pointed by the citizens of Meaford tOsecure lte establishment of a High School in. the own. LIFE IS SWEET. He sang with vigor, He sang it each day, "1 would not live always, I ask not to stay," But when with a fever And chills taken down He quickly had in all The doctors in town. —The pocket sewing machine, to intro. duce which a company has been formed in' England, andshare sold for genered invest- ment under a Very glowing prospectus, is now said to be a failure, and the inttnipti:' laters of the company are charged with' deliberately getting up the scheme *0 swindleinvestors. If Rubinsteth can bb said to heco a rived , as a pianist it is Eugene d'Alberttottho for, about five years is the only one of The thousand and one virtuosi whom the critiorte have dared to compare with that mute At present, however, everybody lei talking of a young man 14 the nane ol StaveWa Hagen, tied d'Albert is beginninci todeteleti little hiletmtbiteible. " 4 t .to •