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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-3, Page 2WEDDING Ctl10 ENT. tt Yon might near at a Fashteaable Wedding is Church,. Here she comes. Pretty, isn't she Who made her dress Is it numb silk or satin Ia her Veil real lase ? She's ae white as the wall 1 • Wader how much he's worth? Did he give her those diamonds. !de's soared to death I. lent she a cool piece? `.Chat train's a Horrid shone! don't her Snottier a, dowdy 1 Aren't the bridesmaids homely1 That's a handsome usher $ain't aha a cute little head ? Wonder what number her gloves ere! They say her sizsge airs fiym If his heir teal patted le tare middle! Wonder what an earth she married him fort For his looney,. of course l Isn't he handsome! - He's as homely as a hedge~Pg? Na he's like a siazicing master', Good einough for hers anyway - She always was a stuck zip #bung, See°ll be worse than evernow 1 She jilted SatuSozuebodye didn't she* No, he tzever eked icer: Re's left town, ouyray.. Thera, the ceremony has begun, Isn't be awkward:1 White ria hie collar 2 Why don't they hurry apt Did sloe .tray she weuld "obey:!' >i; hot area3ous feel There, they are married I. Doesn't else look happy 1 Pity. if she wouldu, t tWisls 1 were stn :icer piece.) What a haisdeome ceuple l She runs always a sweat little thing, Row eefeilly she wanes l Dear tee, what airs she pulse els l• Wouldn't bo iu her plane fpr s terra l z bet thse e tow,* were hired. t Well,. ala either father's heads at . los 1 Doesn't abs cling; tightlyy to him, though f She has a trnortgage ou imus now l Hope they'll be happy. They, say she's awful siaart, Too smart for him by a jugful. Thera, they are gebtiug in the earri,age That megulrcent dress will be equashe They nay alae worehips hint! Worship 1 Shea only rucels:icgbelieve1 It'a Mode nice to get married, isn't Nen it's a dreadful hero, 'Won't it a stupid wedding 1 What dowdy dewiest - I'll never go to another 1 Fre Islet suffo..a,ted Tired to death! G14 'We over 1. Oh, deer! WIT AND Oii?11O iRt" Egotism is only a weakness of the I's. A farmer alwaysweets the earth. With, out it be cooed do nothing. Dr, Jehe Ralf, of NewI ork, is worth I1:,- OQQ,O1Oi and poeaohes to a congregation. much200,000,00. In the literary circles of Chien() the old quotation is nude to read i• --" The pigpen is mightier than the sword." A Colorada mag has sola out his silver mine and reinvested in two Niagara Fads hacks, He hopes now tomake something. The mann who is looking for something to do rarely fiads .anything, but if be ie will- ing to do aaythisg he can always dud setae thing. Ds man dot has de pe'es side ob de align- ment elites talke de leveler'; jia' es de mute kieke; de Moe desperate dig has die leas' cause. The baseball fever has invaded Georgia in epidemte form, and the negro women, and girls in parts 01 the State indulge in the game. "I declare Mrs. Sgnildig is es pretty as a picture.' remarked Air, raieSwilli*era. "lnro wonder," replied hie wife, "she is headpeinted." aauteher : "I do not like to lose your eas- re. What cart 1 do to uzska matters all with you 1" Customer ; "" Bay ane a of teeth." Mrs. Rile@ . "Ae gee on caning, tame id sitar neighbor 1"Airs. Murphy ; "Ave PI aou. Sihe called rase 'Male* art' I led be another". I never could sea that Auauias told sash s that lee should be etreek dead for theta," Aud who ars you "," "I'm a real.estate Tit." "Alt 1 That explains it." father bas to have .a poi deal of ex- perieuee before he We oat what a lot of things' there are in this world that aro di- re„tly *Signed to wake ug a Steeping baby. Old Taxpayer-" rey little mats what do you expect to be whets you (cow up?" Little Bo ",ol politielenlike pope.:" " politiciau, eh?" s, Ygo,1 hate wore:," Yong lllaa tin a loud Mutt ef votes.) "Aw—waiter, have you quail ors toast; sk aiter»-" Yes, she" Y ouug Afar (in a low e of voice) —44 Bring me eoTne ef the „ intryuaau (to dentis;) ;^•^-41 The tooth hat leen edge tea, la ao, Dentist ; it seinen it syrnpstliy." Country,. Yank it out ; duvet scab syri.• Msscbalt supply deader places he uaaasii array of bate and bells his show dow and then add* a large roll et court huge battle of armis"a awl as lanai of „ Great Haug "r in the E'1 sa The nails aro making mere trouble fo boys. Too hoe= prettygenerill expo t• ins eoniethingoftbe kind, and have been over since that historical episode in the (Lerida of Lien, and yet it can mot be fairly assuiu' 4 that the girls iatemd to make trouble, Do aigniug as they. Buoy be in awn partieniars, it would be unjust to ray that they calmly seek to maho life utterly undesirable to A largo and unprotected port of the lzutnan race. Bat the new trouble is ono which eau. not be lightly treated, duce it is having; estrous effects effects ua eomo palaces, It is one whish is going to make the kissing of some young women deadly peril, and possibly in cense- queue deatroy one of the sweetest taxuries of life Several instances have recently Como to public attention in which tho paint or cos - unties or powder, or all, whiohare used by tome young women have proved to beratio= which have had not anywhere near aneh dis- astrous effeets upon the girl who used them as upon the boy who has fed hie lova with her kisses. A case of this kind ocourred not long since at Reading. Tho young man was very i11 and the physician treated hun fur lead' poisoning, with which ho was pretty badly afflicted, An examination into the cause of it revealed the fact that his best girl had singularly rosy cheeks, which she made by the use of rouge, and the difficulty was at once explained. A similar case, although tees severe in its results, has been brought ant in St. Louie and the physicians are now quite free in tracing instances of lead pois- onine in young men to the artificial color on the cheeks of young women. NOTEf3 ON CITRRENT TOPIC Something of course, needs to be done in. a serious matter like thins. For years the young women have been warned against the we of preparationsfor the complexion, but the caution does not availwith them. Now however, when it is ascertained that the young woman who thus poisons herself is also likely to poison her very beat young man, it is time to take action. If the hays can not kiss the girls without incurring more than the natural danger% attending such event, life will not be worth much to some of them. If to the old man's boot, and the big dog, and the small brother must be added the other peril of poison, kissing can hardly be considered what it was always cracked up to be. The ordinary dangers are expected and can be defied by any young man of courage, but he eon be excused if he shrinks at poison. And what are the girls going to do about it? Are they going to ruin a moat delightful home industry by persisting in a policy of poison, 2 If they don't change, the boys will have to surrender some of their happiness in the interest of health, and when the boys quit kissing the girls will be quite sure to quit painting. The reforms which years of professional warning have failed to accom- plish may thus be brought about. Why shouldn't the boys try it ? They don't have to do it in Canada where painting girls would be like painting the lilies, but there are plenty of places where it might be most salutary and seems necessary. Smith has lost her husband." "I ; and, only drink of it, alio lois elf -mourning." "Very true know, Air, Smith wee a very am," cavo paper claims that a woman can shop all the of terne:on on 50 tents and her tour will include at least twenty atones, Thin statement 1* evidently merely a leap year dodge. " Yes," he said, a l'm tired. I've ,pont the whole day practising on a type -writer rnachico, and it's hard work." "1 thought ycm employed a typo writer?" "'k es, but I rnarricd her," A blind man died recently in Ohieheeter workhouse, I:.ngluud, who had been at in- by the dlebanaa and other Sonthern cruisers, • Notwithstanding the fate of the last great timber raft launched at Port Joggius, Nova Scotia, another attempt is to be made be the sauna direction. The new timber ship now being built, and whish will be launched in June, will be 000 feet longs 54 feet beans and 3S • feet deep. It will be constructed of 25,000 spruce trees of an average length of PROWL h P CHATHAM ST. AND THE uoWE$Y Ilk' T. ARMY hirer. I, like to prowl, 14 othirig pleasee me more than to go wand. eriug into narrow, out-of-the-way streets, to poke into blind alleys, and eo explore the 28 feet, The struetnre will htva six rnasis, queer and. (,,mint eermere of n large city. will be square rigged and lain be fitted wttb, Tbeaeispleasure in this, although •the plea- anohors, rudder sial. steering gear. 11 wall sura ins often 1(04xe4 with pain when one be towed by a steamer with a tug, as convoy. The Maritime Province papers are some- what puzzled over the farewell statement left by Mimeo, the Prone Edward Island murderer, who was hanged last weeks, He did not assert his ineecenoe, batcomplained that be had been found gailty tbroegh false swearing, No reference was made to the crime or bit victim, Nary Toplia It would certainly have, cleared up the mystery .in dubious minds if 'Millman had left a frank confession, but outside khat elms of persons W110 allow criminals' statements to interfere with the natural inferences to be drawn from sworn nvtdeaee, all who know the ea" wiiifeel satisfied thatjustice was donewhea Millman was hanged. Alen condemned by earthly law may receive greater mercy' from *higher truss&, and it nae therefore only right that all the consolations of religlon showed feeely afforded to prisoners sen- teuced to be hanged ; but it is touch. to be feared that in some instances the piety and earneetnesa of pl,rgyz nen who attend the last uzoazarats of each atom have ani efFeet she is going to twang. teen n prowl.' difiereatfrom Chet Inteaded. The ooadeenn• "lVuerel' ed men, car-er-eatiruatiaag the value of repents O, asnnywlaera ; we have not been 00 the saes Are far ahead of their ceusolersa iu 'Bowery for VOW, Let in walk ori there,," comes into eontaet with the wretchedness, the squalor and tine misery that &ate in and. argued the font dens where the poor live. Still, I like to prowl and so does my €riezed Cusick.. Many and many a time have we two rambled together, by day and by night, is strange dries across the seas, and on mere than "ono occasion from dark until down,, have we tramped; and prowled, and explored,. I met. Cusick .last night. The time was seven o'clock ; fire piece, City Ball park, New York. "I have had. a dreadfed time of late," said Cusick. "Euro had a MOOdistrer.s- ingly decorous and respectable. ---Lent, you know -been to slow dinners,. whist padres, and all that—wife with nee too. I have been j1154 steeped in self -denial aid. bastes exercise*—no theatres, no balls, no nothing: I feel now as if 1 mat have an hoar to wiugte with people whet are not so iante?se- ly respectable as to be oppreasive. Tile bow has been bent a, long time, mybray; now rail(; orae fervor Were the day for the execle- Througlh Chatham street we walk. It need torn: ceITICa round, andfrequently from the ecafiold express pity far the unhappy wretehee whose eternal welfare bin di tiger basun€e the rope of wnrrniag la vet shoat their seeks. It is to a ters9u4 n thing to cballeug a the reasouablaaasa of n. ineerderer'e hope for forgiveness, hat a lsofeot• is notorious filet n ieny of their dual atatone?ata and protestations of innocence aro A delnaioa and aanare, Taking the record of previous years for ita guide the Ayc estimates that railway bundle& Will oda from $.olio to 12"000 to the mileage of the United States lie ISSS A number of the United Staten journals are eaten attention to the fact that, while gigolo POW more anivereoleked pee par- e evenly diffused in their cumin's, any other fernier period of iia Mo- e ra, aneavertheleas, #aero petvelennt, en* slug e*te,4t is that the g enterniothe'LltaitedStaten norm countries of Europe. go b eer-id:ears eve; "Crone has been la masa where the chasms* of of purissbmeet were greatest. In the power of a judge lu a eriuuu• little greater than that of the preaideub of a debating societng Juries, which in Europe may be peeks to convlot,. are Isere often open to suspicion of being gerrymandered to aesluit, tired after cons elation hes been obtained with difficulty there are olaawiicre auheard-of chances for reversal or delay of sentence. Tho beat thought of the' Dar and /leach has ling been directed toward reform of criminal practice, and it is hoped that the laity of the Share may soon wet In concert with the lawyers for reforms. M is well knejip, the United States made such exoesaivc and fraudulent claims far damages alleged to have been committed mate of that institution for 70 yearn. lie entered: at the ago of nine andpassed his Whole life there A nam named Pont and a woman named Stump were married some time ago by a preacher named Lockwood in a little town lo llarvland. They have a boy now named Jem,.s asap Poet, A— "How do you like your landlady'" B. —" Sue is a vary Clover woman, but elm has entirely too muoh curiosity." "In what direction?" "She is always asking mo when I am going to pay my board bili,' Dolby (proudly) -Yes, I participated in ono great battle of the .rebellion, and, if I do say it myself, I was one of the mon who led the way. Featherly (admiringly) -- What battle was it ? Du mley,—Buil Run 1 Upson .Downes (seated by :a stranger in a car) %That time is it by your watch, if you please ? 'Stranger—I don't know. Upson Downes—But you just looked at it. Strata ger—Yea ; but I only wanted to ace if it was that to this clay many Willow of the amount they thus obtsatned meta in their Treasury, became they have been unable to :find any ono with even a shadow of a claim to pertl. cipato in this ill-gotten wealth. It scema flint tho Chinese in a similar Casa having obtained u larger indemnity for the now Wyoming maeeacre than could be fairly sib. tributed, .have noted mare honorably and have returned the surplus to Washington. Who ueo of dynamite as appersuasive agents should in this and every other free country be persitsently and 'pointedly discouraged, Ili .enada the minority have the fullest lib - arty to enunciate and publiah their views, no matter how dist*stefni or adieus these may be to the general community; and persons who resort to explosives as a means of am- pheeiziag their opinion should be put down with a strong hand. The judge who presid- ed over the session of the Chatham assize court last week must have entertained these sound ideas, for he sentenced James Macey, the man convicted of Attempting to blow up ere. the house of the Chatham license inspector, to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Ugliness has long reigned triumphant in New York, but the people are beginning to emancipate themselves from its tyranny. The telegraph, telephone, and electric light wires are being gradually buried. Already 500 milts of Western Union telegraph wires have been put underground and 217 poles have been removed. Underground tubes have also been laid for 18 miles of telegraph and telephone wires and for ten miles of el- ectric light wires. A New York grocer has been sent to the penitentiary for three months for selling oleomargarine for butter. This decisive action ought to have a wholesome effect on the butter supplied to New York consumers. On Monday the United States Supreme The Wichita man who had to be sped by his waahwoman for fifty cents, and the Wellington man who gave a dollar to a news- boy who found and returnedto him a pocket- book containing $15,000, have agreed to flip copper* for the belt. Newly -arrived Irishman—" But fwhat good dot gib out av it if I join the Miley - limn Mutual Biinifit and Protective Associa- tion?" Acclimated Milesian—" We bury a mimber ivery Soonday, an' it's a beautiful drive to the cimetary." Guest (to Florida landlord, who has pre- sented bill)—" Does this include the good will and fixtures ?" Florida landlord— " Good andlord—"Good will and fixtures ?" Guest—" Yes ; I don't want the hotel unless the good will and fixtures go with it." A Case of Absentmindedness.Merchant (buying a bill of goods of, To- ronto drummers)—'What is.. your usual time, thirty days ?" Toronto Drummer (absentmindedly) " Yes, or ten dollars. I always pay the line oh-er—I beg pardon ; yes, thirty days or five per cent. cff for cash," be ca led Chatham; it is called: Park. Row, now. An twit sibs it is lined With 44' !vein. loading helmets, .restaurants, ealeomxa, elethieg enema, pawn aheps tang ealaens. The stores and their coateata have a ilium, sc f onishond look, and there are euggeatieneo_ chs,epue as an every wide. Tice rescmuranta have their aremsa printed either on the out side walls car on great beanie leaning up eg■ainat the -aides et the lsouaea. Tine' .rico of each article is reeotiomed la lerga1atlettere, And but few ef the (.lithos epecided cost more than five cants each. The I''rench l aiageoge to not used en there menus, and the English that as used would fail to pass a Civil Service exmmiaaticn.. Some of the sighs read ; "Ws step i:awat Tour 03* lake," Vireo iia*gene ter a alma. "'All Daka fi ;, Cerate." "A, Met liiaueer Io Ceuta;" sat the teruptatloa to Az Brown—" " How is business with you, Court decided on an appeal case that the in- Dumley ? Dumley- Slow, very slow ; dividual States had the right to prohibit al - nothing Crain( ab all. Brown How about together the sale of oleomargarine. that little bill I sent you three months ago?" Damley—" Well, to tell you the truth, 1 The Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 haven't had time to look it over" promises to eclipse altogether that of ten Horses and carriages can be hired cheaper in Russia than in any other civilized country. . The average e cost per month of a private car- rie e or sleigh, ith one horse nd coach- man, is about $70, while a pair and carriage and sleigh both cost $1.25. a, Very Setb'ey. re with Iver Delete" we 4.15 not even 0 +" 1, nave tor mt:, rvlth a Chen betted,' Wo stroll BlastBaxterstreet, a narrow a dirty lana devoted entirely to stores where second -baud clothes, 'slices and haulm sold. Now wo pass Mott street, where the Chin. etc swarm mad seem to thrive in contra• diction to all sanitary" statistics. Hers), the corner of a dark street, is a seloou, the front of which is nailed a large came sign, and on the sign is printed The Qreelnat Sir saner 'MamieTee Claimant, 1s Actiane HumorFor This Saloon, ,end Qui bo Interviewee Inside. atilt U eentDdoks Seaweed to legentr. .Fite lunch Mi Day. We Susi that Sir Roger is not'. in ; he has boys—tramps, cripples, beggars, newsboys: and labourers out of work. The waiters: makemuch clatter end noise, and shout their orders to the kitchen, in hoarse voices. We tell aur tramp to evil for what he wants, Ile modestly orders cakes and coffee, "Sinkers anone in the dark," yells the waiter. We suggest that oar guest tray bet- ter add something more to bis, order, He tells the waiter that be wouldn't mind try- ing codfish cakes " if the gents is agree- able." We are agreeable, and the waiter shouts, "Sleeve butte= for one," The hill 14 15 cerate. We pay it and the tramp thanks us, Following us out he says, "'Which I wouldn't want to make too free or seem too fresh, but which yea gents is truly liberal, y gto sand if you would give ma ten cent* for pay my leanings, in would be a favour as would be kindly took and thankfully re- ceived by me," We agree to pay ter Ilia lodging if be will agree to abow ns theiece -here th ioe impe- cunious can rent a bed for a; dime. We fol- low hire down the street and -auto a house, over the door of which is a transparency an- uounci% teseginge, Bens Io :oats, Anna 15 Bente, Ecorzss 20 Ceuta. At the bead of t -we flights of stairs we find the pate. Whet we so of it ie a little window like the window of the box•oiace of a theatre. " Can't give you a bed -all full," we hear the aerie nay, " but you can have a b!teel~et' soil a pillow on the floor for 10 cents," There is no regis:terianp. We pay for our tramp : he gets a numbered brass cheek, and passes through a narrow pteastge where, at smother little window, he bands• over bis cent, bat and diem for safe-ke€ping during; the night. For these be geta m cheek mad we sea him no mora. We have over three hundred in the :house to -night," have the clerk, " We Have 150 teneceat double-daaked berthone one above the other, you know -50 diteeu•cept hede, aiud 10 twenty -Pout rooms, When these are all ocyaapiesll, lattecomere sleep an. tiro /100r wherever they can gildat vAca,Tzt ;spot." The bed* we :ace arela a great, wide hall, A haaadred feet by fifty. The bede neem fairly.elean,-but the room is very hot, and there tea sickening emelt of eeeeping gas awl unwashed hnrriaunty. Wheel blow insist, iaad cool, and holtthe air is astride I "There are iataay music halls, cheap theatres, nand dinfia x sueeoct.e cin the Bewer_y. We try A 114140=1* induced to do so by a shabby man who etande en thaaldewalk and loudly pruslairss Haat, "The a mbivatien of woudere Jodie ere ar amaransirra'renuoo,'aaara`ardiusry, andua'rau• eMs then rhe peirstinga ontside, and touch re true to nature." drunk scan is being violently fired out we enter -114 ()Mace, trying remake the Ilg#a•.Cr Cas plug tettecm. The Alligator ooaiti the only 'thing *arae to nature" in There is the fat WPM=and the an, the living afteleton and the 11, but the freaks awl fakes on o shabby and melancholy, and etatore who aro here aro apeeta- gloamy, cileoppaint:d way ; so wo away, and a block farther up enter Oriental Palsaee at Beauty andCurio," nsgarenog informs us that it Is "Par Jewell. only." .. heavy curtain be. nd the little boxofiiee prevents one get - net any lice of the conteuta of the "Pollee" until a diem fa paid, and a dirty ticket re, caved. and banded to a man with whore hands and g euer,al t6Zet enTsene tM the dirty ticket seems to harmoniously bleed. We have viable* of oriental luxury, vol - gone to Ragland to lance mora claim rho uptuoue black-eyed and bejewelled Isouris: _ years ago. The subscription to the guaran- '.Clehborno estate and title. The Doubtful Beres business during the last year has been to sit on A high stoolbehind the bar and as. sumo a wronged-hefr expression of connten- anco ; else to drink beer at the expense of **people who have caned to shake hands with him. It is raid to have been very Com- forting, eepeoially to the poor, to have the claimant to *hake bode with. Men, whose ehildren were aufferias ; for lack of food, have been known to ego ant. spend their last dime In treating Sir Roger to beer for the sake of shaking hands with him and listeningto a recital of his wrongs that made thein orget their own. Those who could buy an auto- graph from him were boastful and happy ; while those who were toopoor to pay for the beer were content to pick up from the naw- dust an " h" or two, as he dropped them in the ordinary course of conversation, and carry them home as souvenirs. We pasts out and on up Chatham street, and now we are in that overflowing stream of human misery and vice and want and crime known as "" The Bowery." The sidewalks are thronged with a motley crowd of men and women. Cara rattle and jingle along below; above, rush and roar the trains on the elevated railroad ; and over all, the gleam of gas jets and the glare of electric lights. Among the Bowery types we see theyoung man who affects brilliant neckties, tight trousers and rho pea jacket style of coat. There is an observable lack of harmony in the different garments he wears. They seem to have been bought at different times and places, suggesting that he never had enough money at one time to buy a whole suit. That girl he is speaking to—she with the youth- ful figure and old' face, the low-cut bang and the juanty hat -she is a cigar factory hand and his sweetheart. She speaks of him as a gent," the police refer to him as "a tough," and his chums call him " Dully." Now comes an older man, the hardened criminal on the watch to turn an honest pocket inside out. This whiskey -soaked wretch here, begging for a dime, is the typical city tramp,and that man with, the misfit clothes who jostles the people as he pushes his way through the throng, and lifts his feet high like a blind dog in a wheat field, he as a country man who thinks that is seeing life. All of these we see, and with them an innumerable host of foreigners from all civilized nations. The Pole and the Rus- sian meet the Japanese and the Greek, and the Connaught manruns against the Italian on neutral ground, and sometimes `wipes it up with him. And out and in among them all moves' '" the strange woman " angling for.victims, and using for bait such gifts of face and form as nature gave her, audit com- plexion that she buys in a drug store. It has been computed that the strike tee fund amounts to 23,124,000 francs, or on the Burlington, Quincy and Chicago about a50.Great s ane inBheain Cham been railroad has. cost the strikers $601,- al largep Champa and the road $2,100,000. This is a total Mars, and will make an imposing display. of $2,701,000. But there is another party The United Sates, Egypt, Syria, Anam, to the contest. The general public served India, China and Japan are preparing to by the road and its connections have also send a most elaborate and gorgeous wore- been sufferers. Who can compute how septation of their wares and products. The much thepublic have lost ? And who has exhibition of electricity and its applications been the gainer by the conflict 2 A. few will, it ie said, be the largest the world has hundred or thousand workmen whohave ever seen. taken the strikers' places, and the stock- holders of the lines whioh are rivals of ee2iliIlg a ChO©1 House a the 0° Q," have made something out of.it. Three citizens of Fairmount, Dakota, have All others who have been affected in any been arrested for stealing a schoolhouse. way have loaf. This state of things is The people of the district have long been not, particularly consolatory to either of divided as to where the house ought to the two parties directly involved, stand, a part of them wanting it on the north side of the creek, and the rest claim. Cord and braid garnitures will be used in in that it should be on the south side. The profusion upon the spring and summer toil- northerners took the house and moved it its. The designs are mostly flat, and may across the creek in the night. Tnetnextmorn- be procured either with or without -dropsing the southsiders awakened and found and fringe. the house i Here is a broken -spirited, shivering out oast who' wants ten cents to buy something to eat. We will not give him the money he, might; not spend it on food. We.shall take him into this restaurant and pay for hie in the enemy's. land, The next supper. The cheapest of cheap restaurants night it was back to its former place. After this is. Rough, unclothed tables, wooden the house had been hauled 'back and forth benches for seats ; fifty or sixty seated and until it was nearly worn out, arrests were eating, ;while others wait for their .places.. made, and the building is getting a rest. and other things incident to a Paine of Beauty, but these visions are wiped away with one gesture of the dirty ticket taker's arm us he pulls back the curtain and ushers us ante the palace, It consists of one low• roofed room, at the further end of which, on a dais, sit two young women, whose faces are painted .and whose dream are gaudy with tinsel and span glee. They are amok - inti; cigarettes. Standing around a atovo in the centro of the room aro four young men of the very toughest of the Bowory variety of " 'tough." 'hese spiders aro evidently waitingfor flies, but It acetas to be a bad night or flied, and the spiders look hungry and vlcious. As we hesitate about going further, the man at tho entrance says, " Gwen up gents, an' talk wid tho ladies." Tho men around the stove glare at us, and we leisurely make a circle of the room and walk out. The thing is a sell and afraud ; neither the curio nor the beauty advertised is on exhibition; but as the mon at the stove are there evi- dently to make it interesting to any one who may express dissatisfaction, we do as we suppose all other discreet Bier' do—we say nothing. 4Vo bave two Irons of sight-seeing in company with a friendly police officer. Of this t shall tell you another time. A cynic says : " If the ancients believed the earth was square they never could have got the idea from the dealings of its inhabi- tants with each other." "The Cups that Cheer," Etc. An interesting token of the growth of the temperance sentiment in GreatBritain is fur- nished by a correspondent of the St. James' Gazette. He shows that during the past forty-seven years the average annual con- sumption of tea per capita of the entire population has increased from leas than a pound and a quarter to nearly five pounds, and of cocoa, from about an ounce and a quarter to nearly half a pound, while the use of coffee has fallen off slightly, from seventeen ounces to thirteen ounces. The total consumption of these three leading nonalcoholic drinks has thus increased nearly three -fold; the exact figures are from38.08" ounces to 99.04 ounces per capita annually. This may not indicate a fully corresponding decrease in the consumption of strong drink ; butitmust mean a consid- erable decrease and it proves that the people are learning to appreciate the ", cup that cheers but not inebriates."—N. Y Tribune. They are quiet, subdued, ill -clad men and r. The Eyes of School Children. An examination of the eyes of the children in the Pulelie shools of Columbus, 0., result- ed in the discovery that exactly one-fourth suffered from some defeat of vision, and that the proportion ;increased with age. The; number of children examined was,4,700, and of these 1,175 were found to have defective vision in one or both eyes, 936 of whom had trouble in two eyes. The prevalence of near-sightedness increased steadily from no per cent. in the primary schools to 13 per cent. in boys and 17 per cent, in girls in, the senior class of the High school.' And, ac- cording to the ages of the scholars, ,it in- creased from no; per cent. at, 6 years to 11 3-10 per cent. at 17 years.