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The Wingham Times, 1899-11-17, Page 7MATRON AND MAIM, Miss Mercedes do Laski, one of the iat� eat London debutantes, is 13 feet 8 fnehas In height. The Baroness Burdett -Coutts is said to he worth about $4,000,0001 and her iu- trome is set dawn as being close upon $«',500 a flay. Mule,' de Steel, the most brilliant wo• loan of her time, endeavored to reconcile England and h`rance, and because of her . political iuiiuence was exiled Froin Perla by Napoleon, Mrs, P inlet, widow of Judge ?rtlnm, is still nave at the age of 84. She is the grandchild of Antabio Guiou, the first white .child horn in St, Louis, and re- members when English was au extra study in the schools of that city, - Mrs, Mary S. Witsou, who recently cel- ebrated .her ninety-first birthday at Oys- 'ter Bay, on Long Island, is living lu a house which is nearly 300 years old, and ' on the porch of widc!! George Washing. - ton shook hands with. the people of the town. Devona Burltl!u is the new queen of ^the gypsies, She was crowued at Lan- caster, Pa. The' queen was born in Egypt, nod her father, who is 92 years of age, boasts that none of their family for seven generations has ever slept in a house. Ileleu Gould has given Maury Sutton of Ifaltimore a law scholarship, which includes books and board in the'Univer- sity of New York, 11ir, Sutton, who serv- ed in the Cuban war, attracted Miss Gould's favorable attention when in the hospital at Montauk Point, Mrs. Clara E. Wright of San Francisco :started the Rampart CIty Whirlpool in the Klondike last January, and it has :proved to be a great suttees. ' It is issued •once a month .and sells at $1 a copy. It is not printed, but is typewritten by Mrs.. Wright and her daughter, and is well 'filled with good paying "ads." One of the most interesting women in :South Africa is Miss Alice Rhodes, sister of Cecil Rhodes. She has a beautiful country, sent near Cape Town, which she has named Groot Schur, and has In her .zoological garden nearly every wild ani- mal native in South .Africa. Miss Rhodes is said to be an authority on polities and :statecraft. She is, pronounced as mascu- line in appearance. Miss Perceval of Ealing, the youngest but one of the 12 children of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, the English prime minister who was assassinated in the lobby of the house of commons in the .early part of the century, entered upon her ninety-fifth year oa Aug. 27 last, She• •still continues to show a keen interest in .all.around her and retains a vivid recol- lection of the tragedy of her childhood. WHAT MACHINERY DOES.. One thousand bricks made by machine take 13.5 minutes instead of 2 hours and 40 minutes when made' by hand. To make 100 gross of your suspender 'buttons takes 11 hours and 9 minutes: It • used to take 85 hours and '10 minutes. One thousand yards of brussels carpet for your parlor now takes 200 hours to sveave. It formerly took 1,680 hours. A thousand pounds of crackers take 18 hours and 37 minutes to make and bake by machine as against 105 hours by hand. One thousand collar and cuff boxes that took '205 hours to make by hand are 'made in 03 hours and 45 minutes by ma- chine. • With machinery it takes 8 hours and 46 nainntes to make and bake 1,000 oue pound loaves of bread. By hand it takes '28 hours. To make and finish complete 100 pairs •of men's fine calf welt shoes by machine takes 296 hours and 38 minutes. By Brand, 2,225 hours. -Steam shears cut into lengths the steel /or 50 buggy axles in 80 minutes. The .blacksmith without machinery did well to do .the job in. 1S hours and 40 min- utes. ' Your coffin, if you are content with a plain one, can he made' complete in 2 hours and 56 minutes.;by machine as com- pared with 0 hours and 25 minute:;, the time it would take by, hand. GRAND ARMY NOTES. -' Over 7,000 posts. Metnbers number more•than 300,000. .New York has more members than any •other state. • - Ioirst post organized at Decatur, Ills., .on April 6, 1866. In 33 years the society has had 25 com- manders in chief. Surgeon Stephenson and Captain •Phelps wrote the retrial. Stephen A. Hurlburt of Illinois was the erst commander in chief. +`irst'national encampment was held at Indianapolis on Nov. 20, 1860. 7 Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana have posts; but stere are none in South 'Carolina. General Grant became 'a member' 'on May 10,15 7 7, joining Meade post of Phil- adelphia. • Chaplain W. J. Rutledge and Surgeon ;Stephenson of the Fourteenth Illinois Mere the originators of the idea. ' ' TOWN TOPICS. 'A scheme is on foot to lengthen the 'Chicago river. It hits already reached its Maximum thickness. --Toledo Blade. That monument to the British soldiers Mho • fell at Bunker Hill will be erected when the British sparrows sign a formai contract to exterminate the caterpillars. In other words, never. -Boston Herald. Roston may as well choke downthe lump in her throat and go on with her sparrow killing. Iler pole is not long enough this year to knock down the base- ball pennant persimmon. -St. Louis Re- public. It it Is true that Laurence Hutton has ti(iersuaded Marls Twain ,to take up his Abode In Princeton, N. d., on his return to America, it Is a great blow to Hart- ford, which thus loses her thost distin� igtlished citizen. -Boston Herald. OUR LOST ASTOR. 'Apropos of the Astor matter good Breen Vie should not feel sore because ii7nele Sett passed a bad 13111 of on her. -e St. Louis Republic. Wiliiatn Waldorf Astor refuse$ to sell Tris New York estate. Ills contempt for !America hal n limit -a dividend paying Blatt.- Itidgewoerl (N. J.) Netts. ' It seems to have got out on 'William Waldorf Astor that he was once a nnem• or of tho New Yot,k legislature. A bad ttttiasn will follow even a doh man to all hafts ort the world.e4t. Leak Poet-i.Mi 11 TH ii li lI 1481f3QQ+N, alVA\il,In11 11 1 r1 1��vi;NuK? [1'v; There aero time boom I would write, Throe words, as With a golden pent In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of roan. HMI hope! Though clouds environ round And gladness hides her, face in scorn, Put .thou the shadow from thy brows bio night but 114s its morn. Bayo faith! Where'er thy bark is driven,. The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth•-• Knew° tida-Clod rules the hosta of Deaver The inhabitants of earth, leave love! • Not love alone for one, But roan as man thy brother call And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities so all. Thus grave these words upon thy soul- Ilope, faith and love -and thou shalt And Strength when life's surges maddest roll, Light when thou else wort blind. -'Sohliler, AN AUDACIOUS ROSICRUCIAN. Ate /Pretended to lltaTe laved Tvro T]lousand Years, The cleverest' and most audacious im posture under the rose cross symbol was probably that of a gifted and plausible adventurer calling himself the Count de St. Germain, who !lashed upon the court of Louis XV. No one knew who he Was or whence lie came, There was n' gro- tesque report that he Was the Wandering Jew. Another story proclaimed him the natural son' of an Arabian prince, But • some practical investigators decisively announced that he was the oll`sprlug of a Portuguese established in trade at Bor- deaux. Under the patronage of the ltnrecital de Belle Isle, St. Germain made his de- but 'in the gay capital. Everybody was delighted with :the mysterious stranger. Ilia easy assurance imposed upon the highest people, Many who questioned his claim to have lived 2,000 years retired in perplexity, bewildered by his presence of mind, his ready replies, his astonish- ing accuracy on every point mentioned in history and his fertility of resource. He dressed in n style of the greatest mag- nificence, sported diamonds of princely value and made costly presents to the lar dies of the court with apparent uncon- cern. The ,king looked upon him with marked favor, spent hours at a tune in his company and would permit no one to .criticise his new friend. Mme. de Pompadour was as pleased with St. Germain as was her royal lover. IIe sold hig elixir vitae to all the grnnd. ladies, performed miraculous feats. pre- tended to remove blemishes from dia- monds and for a time was the wonder of society. In .the rnost.familiar manner he would speak of his friendship feria king or a grandee who had been dead .for cen- turies. and once. When supping with not overintelligent people, he had the impu- dence to speak of his persona) acquaint- ance with Jesus 'Christ. St. Germain hail a most astonishing vagabond for a servant, to whom he would often appeal for corroboration when narrating some wonderful event that had happened centuries before.. On oue occasion St. Germain was relating, at a state dinner a conversation he pretend- ed to have had in Palestine about 1195 with Bing Richard I of England, whom he described as his particular friend. Sigiis.of astonishment and ,incredulity were visible on the feces of the company, upon which St. Germain coolly ;turned to his servant behind his chair and asked„it he had not spoken the truth. "I really, cannot say," ,replied the man without moving te muscle. "You forget, sir, that I have been only 500 years in your service." "Ah, true," said his master. -"I •re - remember uow. It was a little before your time:" St. Germain drifted from, Paris to Ger- many, where he died while on a visit :to the Prinrle of Hesse -Cassel, whom he was seeking to convert to Itosicrucian- ism.-1'. C. Penfield in horum. II The Colored Child at School. A public schoolteacher who has worked for years in the primary schools says that as a rule negro children are quicker and brighter than white children when they first enter school. Their imitative faeul, ty helps then to acquire many things drat white children an get only through more tedious' and' difficult methods. ,But the negro children soon roach their limit, and then the distance widens between them and the whites, Who take the lead and seldom lose it while they Continue in the pliblie schools. • "There is no child that can be. so abso- lutely idle and so thoroughly unconcerned as the negro," remarked this teacher. "Threats, coaxing and prodding are with- out avail. A few of the Italians approach the same condition, but many of them. are bright. and almost all of them show marked dexterity in any sort of handi- work. andiwork. The gebrew children ate for the most part satisfactory. to tench, because they show an inclination to learn, and they receive !tela and encouragement at home." ' A. Thrilling Rescue. Some few years ago a tight rope walk- er slipped while crossing a rope fixed, in, a public park. He just caught it as• he fell, but by some means or another had injured one of his legs and was unable to regain his footing, so he hung sus- pended at a great height, hanging by his hands, while the horror stricken Crowd gazed upward in helpless e-r'peetation of a tragedy. Fortunately for the perform- er it happened at a seaside place. A bright mind thought of the rocket aped - rattle. A. willing crowd roused, out the Coast guard, who shot a line over the' tight rope. A man was sent aloft to work the gear, and In less time,.than it takes to tell' the unfortunate performer vas lowered in safety. -Harmsworth. it Vienne lunch. "It's wonderful," said the meditative man, "how one small word tray induce en endless train of thought, speaking vol- times." "Yes," the caustic one replied. "Take the word 'but,' for instance, when a woman say's,. 'Of couese it'ti none of my bunfnest, 'but' " catholic Standard And' ".Cines, Hord to I'Ieese. "1 have never asked Edmund If he loved any other girl before he loved rile." "Why not?" "1 knew that if he had or had not 1< wouldn't like it.'; The men-of-war of the Romans had a Brew of about 22u Men, of which 114 were oar@men working on three leeks. The speed of these vessels wife about six stiles nn h ur in fair weather. This tasted pabils ShfrASTAINING OU MO; . - Trouble* of It TOMOS CoAsplet TOMO Jared In a..It hd, "Mary," saki a young business man. "my old friend Is in town with his wife, 'We must positively have theta to dinner and ask some people to tweet them." "Now, George," exclaimed his better half, "you know we cannot entertain in. a small flat, with two servants; we agreed about dist when we married. Asir Mein to go to the play and to supper soutewhere afterward, but we really cafe not give a dinner party as we are situ- ated." After much discussion, however, the dinner was decided upon, and the neat question was whom to invite. ' "We must ask the A.'s if we ask any- body," the decided. "The I3.'s must of course be Invited," added Iter husband; "The C.'s are more important than any one," she exclaimed. "But not amore' so than the D.'s," was ' the rejoinder, and so on, When the list was made out of the people who posi- tively had to be asked, It numbered about 30. "",!`here's not a single one of these peo- ple I can leave out," declared Mus. Z., with conviction, "and I really ought to ask more," "i\'hy not give a small party instead?" hazarded lv:r. Z. "That would include every one," ",But that involves more," sighed his more.prudent partner. "However. ns you say,it simplifies matters, and, 'as every ono has been so kind to us; it is only proper that we should make some return. But what shall we have? A dance, of course, is out of the question. We must call. it a musical, and have Some profes- sionals to perform," "But tIIcrJ cost like everything," ex- claimed the young husband'. "Hang it all, Mary,.1 do believe the best way, after• all, would be to' have a dance at Delmonico's or Sherry's. We would Mill all our birds with one stone and have something really creditable." "]'es, 1 .suppose, on the whole, that would be better," acquiesced his wife. "W'e'll economize afterward somehow and mnkelt up." So new lists were made, the Invita- tions sent out, and the 'ball (for a ball it finally became) was given. "Those Z,'s are going the ,pace," coni: mented the ungrateful Mrs. Grundy. who, with her daughters. had attended the dance. "I predict n smash up fur them .L'fore long. No, Bella," this to her eld- est. who was making out a list for a se- ries of dinners, "1 do not think I would put stem down. They are just the sort of people rone has to be carefnl'about. We will ask thein to some big reception. Tliat will do. We will have to give one or two 'functions of that sort for the Crowd before we begin to give smaller and more exclusive things." With the .L's the result was equally unsatisfactory. "I .do not call it a com- pliment" she declared, "to be asked to a dance where we know no one and no- body takes any trouble to introduce us: I must say, Harry, your friend Z. does not put himself out to entertain yen!" ' ' As to the Z.'s, they were in despair. "It was all perfectly ,)torrid from beginning to end!" exclaimer! !1'Irs. Z. "We will have to economise for months to make up for the outlay, and it did not do a bit of good. People liked us • better before we made the effort to, entertain them. It was all a mistake from beginning to• end!" Moslem •Arehiteetnre. The mosiem architecture at Agra and Delhi, so splendid yet so short lived, is so distiuctis*e of a dynasty and so alien to hecountry t as to be chiefly significant of the influence of,tbe west on the east and stands alike iu its permanence and in its feeling or ideality in remarkable contrast to all that was before it, is around it and has come after it. It is indeed • curious how ypung. India is in art and how old in her literature, her customs and her sooial framework. 'There is no social institution surviving in Greece or Italy diet 'can in respect of age or of interest compare with the Iiin- doo castes, and there are no buildings or monuments in India that can boast an antiquity equal to much that can be found in the Latin and even in the Teu- tonic countries of Europe. Only a few of the ruder and smaller rock temples go bee. hind the Christian era, the greater and more elaborate belonging to a more re- cent date, and it is but what the 'later history would lead. us to expect when we find as regards some recently recovered Buddhist sculptures that a sense of form begins to appear just as Greek influences become active in India, though the imi- ' tations stand ' at . an immense distance from the originals.-Coutomporary Re - vie W. Children Cry for TR MOON'S MARINE EXPRESS BOAT. Another Novelty in the rieltl of Navigation. Grabaan Moon, of tho postoftice rte. 'I,iartment, Ottawa, has lauuohed his marine express boat. It is not another roller boat, as some have iina ined. It is simple in its construction, incl con• silts almost entirely of four big eylindors, somewhat similar to those of a side. wheel steamer, while surmounting the Whole is a largo deck for passengers. The boat is 24' feet in length and 12 feet in width and presents a unique ap- pearance, The four cyliutlet's are each eight feet deep and four fent across. They are Covered 'tirith galvanized iron, and are made to revolve with graat ease alai rapidity. On the outside of' the wheels, about AIX inches apart, fere the 'small nine dotes, 'lvhich,coining in eon- taot with the water, Will push athead the boat at a good rate of speed. Itt be- tween tho four wheels a miniature boiler mut engine of four horse power has been installed and connected by shafts with tho wheels, will furnish power for locomotion. Moon ''C . 9 theboat to o frill t.. m Ct Mr. 1120 .i y 1, attain a, speed of twolwttiliilea an !tour. MYf'SI... It is always our ineapaeities that irri- tate us. The evening of life comes bearing its own lalalt. Nothing dwarfs fl. Blair 00. ntuoh as potty pleasures. The num who fears pleasure is of finer stuff than the man whohates it, There is nothing good in a tian but his young feelings and his old thoughts. Those who love always haven° leisure to pity themselves, or to be unhappy. A Word of 'Warning, Thera aro so many substitutes, most of thein dangerous, being foisted on the public, that we would advise everyone to see that the full name T)r. Fowler's Ex- traot of Wild Strawberry is on every bottle'you buy, Only one Canadian editor, Sal. Hughes, has gone to shoot Boers. If wo over shoulder our rifts it will be to go in hunt of delinquent subscribers, and wo will use dum dum bullets, the kind that flatten out and kayo their mark. o y oze4. iS .'Y E•i.l'.N • Couldn't sleep at night with the torture. Eczema, or Salt Rheum as it' is often called, is one of the most agonizing of skin diseases, nothing but torture during the•day and two- fold torture at night. But there's a remedy permanently cures the worst kind of Eczema -- relieves the itching, burning and smarting and soon leaves the skin smooth and healthy. It is Burdock Blood Bitters. Mrs. Welch, Greenbank, Ont., tried it and here is what she says: "B.B.B. cured me of Eczema three years ago and I have had no return of it since. I was so bad that I could not sleep at night with it. • "Being told of B.B.B. I tried it, and two bottles made aperfect anduermanentcgre." Carpenters' Kidneysa Carpentering is not an easy trade. The constant reaching up and downs the lifting and stooping over are all severe strains on the kidneys. No wonder a carpenter `` exolaimed, recently, that every time he drove a nail it seemed Ts as though • he was piercing his own back. He uses ®AM's may Rigs now on the first sign of Backache and is able tg follow his trade with comfort and profit. I have had kidney and urinary troubles for more than three years with severe Hain in the small of my back and in both sides. I could not stoop without great diiculty, and I had severe neuralgic Vain in both temples. Seeing the advertisement of Doan's Kidney Pills, I got abox. They have given inc quick relief, removing the pain from the back and sides, and banishing the neuralgic pains from my head. The urinary difficulty is now entirely t n the mornings, ' orot s ig . gond, I feel fresh and vigorous and am much stronger in every way since taking these pills," Onaitzxo' z' B. Sst:ns, Carpenter and milder, Trenton, Ont. Arelefnatieat Care Of mica serious mos as Serefela, Old . 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