The Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-11, Page 7• AlHUNK QUITIVATION.
SfaU P/oughing Wanted to Make Clean
Farms.
Stn, -One of the greatest mistakes in the
practice a the Ontario farmer at the pre-
sent time is, without doubt, the small
measure of attention given to autumn oulti-
Nation. No means can be adopted which
will effect so much for the outlay in clean-
ing the land • and thiei method of doing it
is within the reach of every farmer.
"Clean farms for Ontario" should be
the watchword for every tiller of the soil in
this Provino. That our farms should be
practically clean is a possibility, and every
farmer who is true tie his own best intonate
will constantly exert himself to rid his farm
of every kind of noxious weeds, and also
the roadsides that may border upon it.
By autumn cultivation I mean that
cultivation which consists in lightly plowing
the land as soon as possible after the crop
is removed, and in harrowing it twice
with an interval between the harrowinge
prior to the time of the late and deep
ploughing, which precedes the coming
of winter. The two prime objects of these
operations are, first, to bury any weeds
growing in the stubble that would other-
wise go to seed, and second, to encourage
germination of seeds lying in the ground,
and which are then destroyed either by
the harrowing which comes later, or by
the late ploughing before winter. In the
accomplishment of these two objects a
third is realized, although it may not be
Bought. Sell decomposition is promoted
through the " weathering" of the exposed
surfaces, and inert plant food is thus un-
locked and made valuable for use by the
next year's crop.
This mode of cultivation is certain
destruction to the crop of weeds growing
upon the soil at the close of harvest ; that
is, when the work is thoroughly done.
Ragweed, the sow thistle -one of the most
difficult of weeds to eradicate -the Canada
thistle, burdocks and various kinds of
cookie, all of which will be found growing
in the stubbles where they exist, will thus
he buried. No other means of destroying
ragweed and cookie are so efficient for, the
outlay.
The first ploughing not only buries the
weeds mentioned ;with many others, which
though less troublesome should be given no
quarter, but it brings many seeds that may
be lyaug dormant in the soil so near the
surface that they will germinate. The
harrowing which follows in due time
destroys these, after which other seeds
germinate to be destroyed in turn by the
late ploughing. By this simple mode of
cultivation vaet quantities of the seeds of
mot plants as wild oats, wild flax, the wild
pea, wild mustard and pigeon weed will be
destroyed, for, unless in the case of the
wild pea and wild mustard, these naturally
mut forth the effort to grow in autumn.
There is ample scope for the exercise of
good judgment as to the precise nature of
the first ploughing, dependent upon the
kinds of weeds that may be growing, and
the nature and condition of the laud.
Where weeds are already growing it is
important that they should all be put out
.of sight. This the gang -plough will not do
effectively as at present used. If the gang.
plough is to be used much for this purpose,
the manufacturers will have to put some
form of a skimmer upon them to make the
tburial of the weeds complete. The two -
furrow plough does better work than the
ordinary gang -plough, but it also should
have a skimmer. For destroying thistles
the single plough with broad share whioh
outs off all the thistles is beet. It also
should be used with a skimmer, and
the ploughing should be shallow so as
not to bring up the horizontal
roots neer the surface, for when so placed
they are sure to grow if the weather is
damp. The first ploughing in any ease
.should be shallow, as it is easily done, and
haiewers the purpose quite as well as deep
ploughing.
In some sections the farmers have been
practising autumn cultivation for years, in
others it has never been attempted. It is
scarcely necessary to add that where au-
tumn cultivation has not been introduced
weeds abound, and crepe less remunerative
are harvested. In sections where soils are
naturally stiff it is lees essential, for weeds do
not grow there so readily, but it will prove
of much advantage in any soil.
Autumn cultivation is our practice, of
course, at this farm, and so beneficial are
the results that we cannot for a moment
think of doing without it. But we are not
awaking much use of the gang plough; we
are using the two -furrow plough instead.
The gang ploughs that we have here do not
turn the furrows sufficiently well and so do
not for the time being destroy all weed
, growth. All oar soils which have grown
grain are so treated, except each as have
been sown to grass, or are to be sown with
winter wheat or rye.
I am aware there are difficulties in the
way of autumn cultivation. The work to
be most effective should be done at once
after harvest. There is, oftentimes, no
labor to be spared for this purpose. The
teams are employed with the harvest and
so cannot be spared to plough. The
remedy is plain, though it may be very
difficult of application. It is this : Hire
more labor and keep more horns. Although
there is large expense connected with keep-
ing horses in winter, the number of work-
ing horses in the Province should be in-
creased. Yours etc., Tnos. SHAW.
Ontario Agricultural College, 28th Aug.,
1890.
The Sporting Events Left Out.
Munsey's Weekly : Business man (exam.
ining it) -Do I understand you to say that
this is a complete history of our country
up to the present day?
Canvasser -Yes sir.
Business man -Then it is very deficient.
,Some of the moat important events in the
history of the development of this glorious
,nation have been completely ignored
Canvasser -What, for instance?
Business man -I can see nothing in it
regarding the Sullivan•Kilrain fight, the
world's championship games' nor in fact
any of the recent, importanthappenings.
Indeed, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Kilrain, Anson,
Comiskey and a number of _other men
whose names Omuta go down to posterity
are not even mentioned. I do not care for
,your book. Good day sir.
No Sign of It There.
" Horses, I hold, have great intelli-
genes." ,
" Some of them have. But there was
one horse down at the Branch that
hadn't,"
" How did he show it ?"
"He ran away with Miss Patter I"
He Was So Obliging.
HOStOSS -MSS Brown has no partner for
this waltz; you will not mind dancing with
her instead of with mc?
He (anacioug to be very Obliging) -On the
contrary I shall be delighted.
• -A tiny nosegay scoured in the bow of
the bonnet stringe in the latest and numb
-
test touch of millinery.
Jay Gatild sive honesty is thel best
volley: Jay Gould is an observing indie
TIBA 'X'ABLE. GOSSIP
PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Be gentle to the new -laid egg,
For eggs are little things;
They cannot fly until they're betel:led,
And have a pair Of wings;
If once you break the tender shell
This wrong you can't redress;
The yolk and white will all run out,
And make a dreadful mese.
'Tie but a little while at best,
That hens have power to lay;
To -morrow eggs may addled be,
Although quite fresh to -day.
So let the touch be very light
that tales it from the keg
There is no hand whose cunning skill
• Can mend a broken egg,
-The hotel waitress is maid to order.
-Half a lemon squeezed over a baked
fish makes it epicurean.
-Fashionable women like salads are
frequently overdressed.
-When a silent man opens hie mouth
look out for a flood of talk.
-At the rate of seventy a minute the
baby crop is never a failure.
- The rage isn't always to the swift.
Sometimes it is to the pool -sellers:
-It is a question which is the more
helpless, a baby or the man who is trying to
hold it.
scow rr HAPPENS.
A man who had labored and toiled
Wore a neglige shirt that was soiled;
When asked why it was,
He said 'twos because
His wife wore the shirt that was boiled.
-Before you do anything wicked, re-
member that the papers will probably want
to mention it.
-The following motto can be seen in a
shop on Ontario street: "In God we
trust ; all others cash down."-Etnestan
Whig.
-In going up stairs, the body should be
held erect, with chest extended, the
lunge filled with air, and the mouth kept
closed.
-Henry George, who is now in England,
will address the Financial Reform Club at
Liverpool August 22nd, and sail afterward
for home.
-Father-Young man, I do not like you
to kiss my daughter. Young man -Well,
all I've got to say is that you don't know
what's good.
-Mrs. Sumway-I see that Venue turns
round only once a year. Sumway-She
doesn't meet many women with new bon-
nets on, then.
A CLUE.
Within a hammock snug they sat,
But how the two behaved
One could not tell, it was so dark,
Had it not been for the remark:
"Oh, George, you must get shaved."
-It is a sign that her husband is making
money when a woman begins to get the
look on her face of looking at you without
seeing yam -Atchison Globe.
The trunk line passenger agents have
decided to give a two cent per mile rate for
ten or more persons travelling on one ticket
on any road of the association.
-" Disonseing women," said Snogge,
"let us view the bare facts-" "Yes,"
assented Woggs, " we'll take the next train
for the shore."
How happy is the thrifty man,
What peace attends his soul,
Who in the winter lays in ice.
And in the summer coal. ,
-The young Duke of Orleans has been
detected by his fiance in a desperate flirt*.
tion with a pretty opera singer, and the
young man who was to have saved France
is having a hard time to save himself.
-" Good intentions are often thwarted
in the most mysterious ways," as the young
man remarked when his beat girl , sneezed
just as he was on the point of kissing her.
- 1, I think We so stwange," said Chappie.
"She's awfully fond of dogs, but em won't
have anything to do with me." "That
does seem rather contradictory," put in
Cynicus.
-At Bar Harbor -What a number of
these Boston girls wear glasses; have you
noticed? Yes, very few Boston women
think it proper to look at anything with
the naked eye.
A CHILD'S VOICE.
The sweetest note of the clearest flute,
The fall of the water where all is mute
Save the fountain's flow, is far lees dear
Than a pure child's voice to my waiting ear;
For heaven's light fills those innocent eyes,
And the lips breathe the IntliiC of paradise,
-" What a fine eatriage that woman
has," said Spilkins enthusiastically as Mrs.
Jennings sailed by. "You ought to see
my baby carriage," said Jones. "It is
much finer."
-Trainboy-Have a copy of "Baled
Hay," sir? Pannibs (author of the book) -
Ah, um, do you sell many copies of "Baled
Hay ?" Trainboy-Oh, I catch a sucker
once in a while. -Fuck.
-Q aeon Victoria pays great attention to
the floral wreaths which she sends out.
Inquiry is mede as to what were the
favorite flowers of the deceased person, and
if it be possible they are obtained.
DOESN'T NOTICE THE DIMPLE NOW.
When love was strong and love was young,
And she was yet to win,
He used to praise with flattering tongue
Her pretty dimpled chin.
Now, though she's still his heart's delight,
As in the bygone years,
When home he's going late at night,
It is her chin he fears,
-"Where are all those people going to
officer," asked a man from up the country
late Sunday morning, " to a fire ? " "No,
I should say they were trying to get away
from one. They're going to church."
-Mr. Ringruled -That Englishman ap-
pears to know n good deal about this coun-
try. Mr. Taxedhigh-Why so? Mr.
Ringruled-When I spoke of the glories of
freedom and self-government, he laughed.
Just a little lemon,
Just a little ice,
Just a little sugar,
Just to make it nice.
Just a little shady nook,
Just to sit and draw
Just a little comfort through
Just a little straw. • •
-American girl (at Windsor Castle) -
Porter, is there any chance to get a glinipto
of the Queen? Gentleman at the gate -I
am not the porter. I am the Prince of
Wales. American girl -How lucky I am I
Is your mother in?
TWO CONSTANT STA.YERS.
Poor Billy Patterson is gone; grim death saw fit
to pluck him
Before we clearly ascertained just who it was
who struck him.
Mid while from other Bills each day we're forced
to sadly rover.
Our tariff and and our pension bille, they cling
to us forever. -Cliticaqo Post.
--" Would you like to leave ?" said the
wood -chopper to it small tree. " I don't
know but I wood," was the answer; "can
• you take me down with a hack ?" "
grieSS so," mid the chopper, "seeing you've
only got one small trunk."
-Belle at Lemon Hill concert -1 wish
had brought a shawl along; I'm really
chilly." Thoughtful escort, buying an
afternoon paper -Here, tuck this around
your ahouldero. She aia, and felt like
toast.
-CoMplimentery to the Duchess of Fife
plaids the English ladles have taken to
wearing plaid eilk hosiery. This le one of
the novelitiee of the hoer, and those fortun-
ate enough to wear them lase° no fear of
institatiOn, as it is not posoible to produce
the bright Viola coloring in cheap loom or
Poor dye- As a result the members of the
puremilk stookiog circle are allowed the
sweet privilege of paying 65 apair for
Duchess of Fite full regular Bilk hoop.
A MIDNIGHT, serunDrin,
Only a cat in the moonlight;
Only a cat, that's all;
Only a song at midnight,
Only a wild, weird waul.
Only a man impulsive,
Only a reason flown;
• Only a clutch conclusive,
Only a bootjack thrown,
Only a sudden sally,
Only an uttered "Scat I"
Only a corpse in the alley,
Only a poor dead oat.
Fairs and Exhibitions.
Following is a list of the dates for the
leading fall fairs and exhibitions
Great Central Fair, at Hamilton, Sept. 92nd to
27th. ,
Dominion and Industrial, Toronto, Sept. Stla
to 20th.
Western Fair, London, Sept. 18th to 27th.
Guelph Central, Guelph, Sept. 115th and 26th.
West Branch Co. Monok Agricultural Society,
Dunvillo, Oat. 2nd and 3rd,
Guelph Central, Guelph, Sept. 25th and 26th.
Central Canada, Ottawa, Sept. 22nd to 27th.
South Norwich Fair, Otterville, Oct. 3rd and
4th.
Midland Central, Kingston, Sept, 1st to 6th.
Southern Fair, Brantford, Sept. 9th to 11th,
Great Northern Exhibition,Collizigwood, Sept.
30th to 3rd Oot,
South Oxford Union Exhibition, Norwich,
Sept. let and and.
Peninsular Fair, Chatham, Sept. 1st and 3rd,
County of Haldimaud Fair, Cayuga., Sept. 30th
and let Oct.
Southern Counties Fair, St. Thomas, Sept.
16th to 18th.
North Perth Exhibition, Stratford, Oct. and
and 3rd.
Northwe.tern Exhibition, Goderich, Sept. 15th
to 17th.
Norfolk Union Fair, Simcoe, Oat. 15th and
16th.
North Brant Exhibition, Paris, Oct. 1st and
and.
Caledonia Fall Fair, Caledonia, Oct. 10th and
11th.
Ontario and Durham Exhibition, Whitby,
Sept. 23rd to 95th.
Brampton Central Fair, Brampton, Sept. 30th
to 1st Oct.
Northern Exhibition, Walkerton, Oct. 1st to
4th.
County of Lincoln Exhibition, St. Catharines,
Sept. 29th to Oct. 1st.
South Grimsby Exhibition, Smithville, Oct.
6th and 7th.
Peterborough Central Exhibition, Peterboro',
Sept, 24th to 26th.
Bay of Quint° District Exhibition, Belleville,
Sept. 23rd to 26th.
Eastern Townships Agri. Asso'n, Sherbrooke,
Sept. Cud to 4th.
North Riding of Oxford, Woodstock, Sept. 30th
to Oct. let.
Barrie Fair,Barrie, Sept. 24th to 26th.
Trenton Union, Trenton, Sept. 11th to 13th.
North Wellington, Mount Forest, Sept. 16th to
17th.
North and West Oxford, Ingersoll, Sept. 17th
to 18th.
Bentinok. Hanover, Sept. 18th tol9th.
Clark Township, Newcastle, Sep. 23rd to 94th.
East Grey, Flesherton, Sept. 23rt to 24th.
Horticultural, Mitchell, Sept. 23rd to 24th.
Wellesley, Wollsely, Sept. 23rd to 24th.
South Grey, Durham, Sept. 23rd to 24th.
Georgina and North Gwillirabury, Sutton,
Sept. 23rd ro 24th.
Mara, Brechin, Sept. 25th.
South Lanark, Perth, Sept 23rd to 25th.
Lindsay Central, Lindsay, Sept. 23rd to 25th.
South Grenville, Prescott, Sept. 23rd to 25th.
West -Wellington, Harriston, Sept. 24th to 25th.
South Grey, Markdale, Sept. 94th to 25th.
Centre Bruce, Paisley, Sept. 64th to 26th.
Normanby, Neustadt, Sept. 25th to 26th.
South Renfrew, Renfrew, Sept. 25th to 26th.
West Durham, Bowmanville, Sept. 25th to
26th.
Essex, Windsor, Sept. 29th to 30th.
Manvers Central, 13ethany„Sept 99th to 30th.
East Huron, Wingham, Sept 30th to Oct let.
North Waterloo, Berlin, Sept 30th to Oct 1st,
North Ontario, Uxbridge, Sept 30th to Oct 1st.
Palmerston, H S, Palmerston, Sept 30th to Oct
1st.
West Middlesex, Glencoe, Sept 30th to Oct 1st.
East Simcoe,Oriliia, Sept 30th to Oct let.
Central Agricultural, Walter's Falls, Sept 30th
.to Oct let.
York Colony, Yorktisn, N W T, Sept 30th to
Got 1st.
Morn ington, Milverton, Sent 30th to Oct 1st.
North Lanark, Almonte, Sept lath to Oct 3rd.
Cartwright, Blackstock, Oct let to aud.
Huron Central, Clinton, Oct let to 3rd.
Gt. S. Western, Essex Centro, Sept. 30, Oct. 1st
and and.
Art. Ind. and Agr., Windsor. Oct. let to 31st.
Central, Oanuington, Sept. 26th to 27th.
Esquesing, Georgetown, Sept. 26th to 27th.
Arthur Union. Arthur, Oct. let stud and.
Peninsular, Chatham, Oct. let to 3rd.
South Middlesex, Belmont, Oct. and,
Sew:bore', Woburn, Oct. 2nd
East Huron, Brussels, Oct. and and 3rd.
South Waterloo. Ayr, Oct, and and 3rd.
North York, Newmarket, Oct. and and 3rd.
North Renfrew, Beachburg, Oct. 2nd and 3rd.
Melanothon, Shelburne, Oct. and and 3rd.
Clinton and Louth, Beamsville, Oct. and
and 3rd.
St. Vincent, Pleaford, Oct, and and 3rd.
Holland, Chatsworth. Oct. aul and 3rd.
Caledon, Caledon, Oct. and and 3rd.
North Grey, Owen Sound, Oct. and and 3rd.
Albion and Bolton, Bolton, Oct. 7th and 8th.
North Brant, Paris, Oct. 7th and 8th. '
Proton, Dundalk, Oct. 7th and 8th.
Bolton, Bolton, Oct. 7th and 8th.
West Garafraxa, Bellwood, Oct. 7th and 13th.
East Algoma, Sault Ste. Idarle,Oct. 7th and 9th.
Howard Branch, Ridgetown, Oct. 7th and 9th.
Simooe Union, Elmvale, Oct. 8th and 9th.
Halton, Milton, October 9th and 10th.
East York, Markham, October 8th and 9th.
Central Wellington, Elora October 9th
and lath.
Dufferin, Orangvillo, October 9th and 10th.
Tossoronto, Alliston,October 9th and 10th.
East Kent, Thamesville, October 10th and 11th
Toronto Township, Cookeville, October 14th,
East Peterboro', Norwood, October 14th and
15th.
King Township, Schomberg, October lith
and 15th.
Norfolk Union, Siracoe, October 14th and 15th.
Had Luther, Grand Valley, October 14th and
15th.
Erin, Edo, October 15th and 16th.
West York, Woodbridge, October 21st and 22nd.
A Difference.
" What is the difference brtween ice and
water ?"
"Ice is frozen water; that is
"There is a greater difference then
that."
"What is it?" •
" Water always finds its level, but ice is
constantly going up."
Wanted Damages.
Excited Female -Say, if you have filed
them divorce papers for me I want you to
go around and stop 'em right away.
Lawyer -Have you made it up with
him?
"Lord, no. I don't have to. He has
jest been run over by a train. I want you
to EUO the company for demages."
Pundits Ramabai sends favorable news
in the latest bulletins received. She has
three new widows tar next month in her
school. She says: Besides these, we
have M., a starved widow, who has been
here only throe weeks. Though still a
skeleton, phe is improving, is happy and
interested in everything, and willing to
work. The girls all like her. A letter
comes to me this morning that the mother,
recently widowed, begs that we take her
Moo.' Pandits Rettnabor's school it located
in Bombay, is an attractive building,
nicelyfitted up in the English end
American feshion, and is industrial as well
as educational.The Pundita is out lee.
luringon its' behalf almost constantly, and
working much harder than she ought.
Miss Frances E. Willard, who to one of the
vice-presidents of the Bernabed Association
• in America, will be glad to receiee and
ferward to the treasurer any money that
philanthropic people may be willing to
.
give; also to answer questions an relation
to thig enterprise. The Women's (Atria,
had Temperance Union has favored it from
the lint, and done all in ite power to aid,
both by influence and money.
jimflOrt (daring a hal in the convene -
tion) -However it may tappear to you I
don't think I ever thought-- limo
Sriubb (reassuringly) -No, I herdly thought
so myself.
WOKAN .CIONTORTIONIST.
The 'Young American Lady Who le 'M.
toundlas the eirttone.-Strange Feats
That She Can Accomplish with Fier
eenabe,
In the person of Mies Emilie Sells
A.oaerioa has produced a woman, who,
during the past few months has been
astonishing London Music all.patrone
by her wenderfal feats of contortion, says
the Cincinneti Enquirer. Some of her
trieke surpass the moot wonderful of those
performed by the "snake man," without
whom no circus is complete. She disoovered
that she possessed her peculiar ability
by pure accident. "
After witnessing the bite of a male con-
tortoniat at a theatre one night Miss Sells
went home, tried to 'imitate them, and, to
her surprise, found she could do it. Then
ehe commenced to practise, with a view to
going on the stage, and in a short time she
had made her spinal column and joints
so flexible that the body could assume
almost any position.
his the easiest thing in the world for
her to turn her back on you, and, without
moving her feet, twist the upper part of
her body so as to face you.
Another favorite trick of her is to lie on
the stage, raise her right foot, twist her leg
and use the heel of her foot as a pillow for
her head. Such little things as twisting
her legs around the back of her neck are
common feat e for her.
One day shit called on Dr. Dwight, the
famous Philadelphia physician, whose
astonishment at her antics knew no
bounds, and he said he wouldn't be stir -
prised to hear of her mapping her spinal
cord and dropping dead.
Miss Sells, however, says that she feels
no pain or giddiness when she is on the
stage. Many people thought the used a
"snake oil" to limber her bones, and a
few have offered her large prices for a
few bottles, but the fact is she uses noth-
ing. On one occasion a visitor forced his
way into her dressing -room and, snatching
a bottle of embrocation, slipped a ten -
dollar bill into her maid's hand and dashed
off with the prize.
Miss Sells eats anything light and easily
digested, and she nightly practises a little
before going on the stage.
On the modern stage there are many
men and boys who earn a living as con-
tortionists, but very few women. The
authorities, however, declare that only
women are recorded as performing in an-
cient Egypt, and bat few instances were
known of men and boys contorting in
Greece and Rome, while in the early Saxon
translations of the Gospel it is stated that
the daughter of Herodias " tumbled" before
Herod.
The Benefit of Newspaper Training.
I believe I have done everything which
an editor or publisher ever has to do, from
directing wrappers up to writing the
biography of a president within an hour
after his death. This means, if the train-
ing be continued through many years of
life, and if one be under a good chief, that
one gains, of necessity, the ready use, at
least, of his own language. We newspaper
mexemay write English very ill, but we
write it easily and quickly. So that to us,
who have been in this business, there is
something amazing to hear a clergyman
say that he occupied a week in composing
a sermon, which was, at the outside, thirty-
five hundred words in length. One can
understand absolute inability to do it at
all, but no newspaper man understands
how a men,who can do it, can spend thirty-
six hours in doing it. •
If you have to Bend' "copy" upstairs,
hour after hour, with a boy taking the slips
from you, one by one, as they are written,
and you know that you are never to see
what you write until you read it the next
day in the paper, your copy will be punctu-
ated carefully, written carefully, and it will
be easily read. That is one thing. An-
other thing goes with it. You will form
the habit of determining what you mean to
say before you say it, how far you want to
go, and wherewou want to stop. And this
will bring you to a valuable habit of life -
to stand by what has been decided. Napo-
leon gave the same advice when he said,
" If you set out to take Vienna, teke
Vienna."
For these reasons, I am apt to recom-
mend ) oung men to write for the press
early in life, being well aware that the
habit of doing this has been of use to nado-
Edward Everett Hale in the September
Forum.
Anxious to GO.
Aunty -So your papa has decided to
send you to boarding -school?
Little Boy-Yea'm, and I'm goin' to
study awful hard, so I can go to college.
Aunty -1 am delighted to hear that.
You are anxious to go to college, are you?
Little Boy -Yes, indeed, I love to row.
Of Interest to Toronto.
Susie -Papa, isn't it 'murder to kill a
hog?
Papa (who is a lawyer, with a sly wink
at mamma)f-Not exactly. Murder is as-
saulting with intent to kill. The other is
killing with intent to salt.
Her Weight in Pound Notes.
Many parents are apt to consider their
daughters worth their weight in gold, but a
Scotch gentleman estimated his two
daughters' value at even a higher rate than
this, bequeathing to each her weight in 21
notes. The elder seems to have been slim-
mer than her sister, for she got only 251,200,
while the younger received 255,344.
Couldn't Escape.
"Have you boarded long at this house ?"
inquired the new boarder of the sour, de-
jected man sitting next to him.
"About ten years." •
"1 don't see how you stand it. Why
haven't you left long ago?"
"No other place to go to,". said the
other, dismally. The landlady's my
wife."
• Conclusive.
Hiram -Wal, Maria, I got lots of proof
that I'm a good-looking man, when I was
up in New York.
Maria -You don't say so?
Hiram -Yes. Even the cab drivers spoke
to me as " Handsome sir."
How Fruit Gets in the cans.
Visitor (at a canning factory) --Well,
suppose summer is your busiest season.
Canner -Yes, we have to put up ' or
shut up.
Henry George has been pronounced by
Tolstoi "the greatest living American."
Mrs, Anna A. Delearr has received a
license as mechanical engineer from the
Chicago Beerd of Engineers.
The Aberdeen Appeal has for its motto :
" Under God the people rule. Women are
people."-Waiworte (5'. D.) Record.
A woman's face always reflects the
hidden tragedy of her his, if there la one.
-Scientists have decided that the mos -
quite Can transmit yellow fever and nialetia
by puncture with hie little hill. They might
have added that the meet:Mite can also
cause profanity.
OVJEEICLOE COURTS.
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AUTUMN
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ASSIZES,.......
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............AItOS........
,nilton Wednesday, Oct. 22.
Bramptoa..,...... . . . .... „ Wednesday, Oat, 29.
St, Catharines- ..... Tuesday, Nov, 4.
Orangeville...... . . . .. . . . . ,'Puesday, Nov. 11.
ROSE, a,.
•
. Sept. 16,
Hwriilton ' Monday, Sept, 22,
Monday, Ost. 8.
Ouelph Monday, Oct. 13.
Sitneoe aionday, Cict.20.
Cayuga......... . . . . . Thursday, Oct. 23,
Berlin. • • • Monday, Oat. 27.
Brantford • Monday, Nov. 3,
• VALLooliBEIDOE, 1.
Boattranwiea..,,,„ . tee., ememet,?anate,
Sept. 22.
Pembrokeednesday, Oct. 1.
L'Origoal.,,... . . Oat. 7.
Peterboro'
Owen
nh sound .............
........ Oct.
...... 140v.2 4, odnesday, Oct. 29.
Lindsay • •
swanor, y.
Kingston-- . . .... Sept. 8.
.. . . .N .menday,l6ept. 10.
Cornwall Tuesday, Sept. 23,
Belleville uday, Sept. 29.
Pleton
Napanee
Cobourg
Whitby
NI inlay, Oct, 6.
kb eiday, fl�t. 13.
Monday, Oct. 20.
DrAciamtN,oNta.da.a.3', Oct. 27.
London .. • ...... .... ....... _Monday, Sept. 8, .
Woodstock Thursday, Sept.18.
Walkerton
..,Monday, Oct. O.
Monday, Sept. .
Goderich
Sarnia Monday, Oct. 13,
Sandwich
Chatham - Mulooniuddany, y. Oocott..220.
7.
St, Thomas Wednesday, Nov. 5.
AUTUMN CHANCERY SITTINGS, 1890.
BOBERTSON, J.
Toronto Monday, Nov. 17.
Born, C.
St. Thomas Wednesday, 001 1,
London
Mond,rdon d na yy Oct. Nov.1130. .
Monday, Oct. 6.
ChathamSSaarnndiwai ah
WalkertonBwrahrirtibey
,. , ..Wednesday, Nov, 26.
Tuesday, Nov.18.
Friday, Nov. 21.
Godericla Friday, Nov. 14.
Monday, Dee, 8.
FEBOUS ON, J.
Lindsay
Cobourg
Friday, Sept. 1 .
Monday, Sept. 15.
Peterboro'.. . Tuesday, Sept. 23.
Ottawa'; Monday, Oct. 00.
Brockville - ... ...... -Monday, Oct. 27.
Cornwall Friday, Oct.30.
Tuesday, Nov. 4.
B e 1 Kingstonlesil l e '
Monday, Deo.l.
R013EHTEON, J.
Sinacoe Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Owen Sound
- .Tuesday, Sept. 23.
BorTuesday, Sept. 33.
St.aCnattfhadrines ...-.Monday, Oct. 6.
Monday, Oct. 13.
HamiltonStratford
• Monday, Oct. 20.
Woodstock Monday, Nov. 3.
Guelph Monday, Nov. 10,
A. Lesson in Arithmetic.
Yesterday evening a number of teachers
connected e • ha well-known institution of
learning wei .• in the Union Station waiting
for a train. Chey were discussing the
business attemments of a friend who is
engaged in selling something for el a bottle
that cost 'him 30 cents a bottle.
"Just see Ole profit he is making. Why,
think of it; 70 per cent."
"I would like to know how you gentle-
men figure on per cents," interrupted D.B.
Robbins, a qtaet-looking, travel -stained
men, wearing a lead -colored duster, who
eat near them.
" Why, it's simple enough. His profit is
the difference between 30 cents and $1-"
"Yes, his profit is, but that's not the
per cent of his profit. . I am not ranch of a
scholar, but I have been a travelling man
for a good many years and have much to
do with figuring out per conte, and dis-
counts. According to my arithmetic the
gentleman of whom you are talking makes
233 1.3 per cent profit on his investment.
How does that strike you? "
The teachers stared a moment and smiled
in a way that showed they were bored. -
Indianapolis News.
Two Modest wills.
This was not millionaire's day evidently,
at the Surrogate Court, if the reader
judges by the following:
James Dwyer, undertaker, has applied as
a creditor for administration of the estate
of Mary Fawcett, of Hamilton, widow,
who died Aug. 10th, 1890. The estate is
worth 630.
Hannah Lawson, of Pietsburg, Pa., has
applied for adrnicistrationtaf the estate of
her mother, Eineline Graham, who died on
Aug. 8th, 1890. Estate *tied at $42.
New to Him.
At the first production of a farce comedy.
First Nighter-Who is that fellow in the
box?
Second Nighter-Tho author of the play.
Pint Nighter-fle ought to have better
tante than to laugh so uproariously.
Second Nighter-Oh, that's all right.
He is the author of the play, but he never
heard the jokes before; the tutors put
hem in.
Dissipated Bug,
Mr. Mosquito (staggering home) -Whoop
la! Bazz-z-z hio I Whazzer mazzer wiz
me (hie) ?
Mrs. Mosquito -Husband, I'm ashamed
of you! Where did you get so intoxicated ?
Mr. Mosquito -Just struok a Maine man
in (hic) i own on a weeks'h vaca(aic)tion I
Whoop (his) la III
A Cool Proceeding.
" Please, will you give me a piece of ice
for my father? he's sick," said a little girl
to the driver of an ice cart the other day.
" What's your father sick of, sissy?'
asked the driver, as he broke a chunk from
a cake with his pick and gave it to the girl.
Please, sir, he's sick of the heat," she
repliet. as she walked away.
The new British army rifle carries a
Small hall consisting of a steel shell filled
with lead, end is said to carry "with a cer-
tain amount of acouracy," a distance of
two miles. What a weapon it would be in
the hands of trained shupsooters !
J11,01ES raiser, was excused from jury
duty at Phiettlelphia the other day on the
ground that he was over 75 years of age
and'ehar'dathinekrbahranrodoinTallswihLThinafayette•
traman
-No, sir ; I never take water. Angular
Stranger -Say, how's all the folke in old
Kaintuck.
A STORY OF THE PAT.
Illscovery of the liorthweet Vassage by
Capt. Robert McClure.
Aug. 28th, 1850, the Pullman* of Greet
Britain paid to Captain Robert NoWttre
and hid officers and men 050,000 as a prim(
for diseovering the mucholought-for
" tlorthweet passage" from the Atlantic fat
the Pacific. Five years before that tima
Captains McClure and Collinson were entt
out in the ship? Investigation and Enter-
prise to assist in searching for Sir John
Franklin and his, hapless companions.,
They sailed around Cape Horn and up the.
Pacific to Behring's Strait, and thence
worked their way eastward to the
frozen regions. Collinson's course took
him through the waters near the Ameri-
can shore, but McClure pushed forward
on a more northern route. He penetrated.
into an Arctic wilderness where civilized"'
man had never been before, and endured.
great hardships. For four years he and
his men fought against the dangers which.
surrounded them on every hand, and at
last escaped from the very jaws of death.
They were forced to abandon their ship
locked in among mountains of ioe,and then
had to walk or sledge over hundreds of
miles of rough ice to meet other vessels
which had entered the Arctic regions frame
the opposite direetion. Capt. McClure
returned to England from Davis' Strait in
1854, being the first commander of a ship
who really made the passage. 'True, he
did not find a navigable passage, but he
had water under him all the way, and in
that sense he had solved the problem. In
1855 a committee of the Howie of Com-
mons investigated the matter and decided
that a grant of e50,000 should be made for
the discovery.
The Galley slave.
Think of six men chained to a bench,
naked as when they were born, one foot on
the stretcher the other on the bench in.
front, holding an immensely heavy oar
(fifteen feet long), bending forward to the
stern with arms at full reach to clear the
backs of the rowers in front, who bend.
likewise, and then, having got forward,,
shoving up the oar's end to let the blade
catch the water, then throwing their bodies
back on to the groaning bench. A galley
oar sometimes 'pulls thus for ten, twelve,
or even twenty hours without a moment's -
rest. The boatswain, or other sailor, in
ouch a stress puts a piece of bread steeped
in wine in the wretched rower's moath tat
stop fainting and then the captain Mouth
the order to redouble the lash. If a slave
falls exhausted upon his oar (which often,
chances), he is flogged till he is taken for
dead and then pitched unceremoniously
into the sm.-Franz " The Barbary Corsairs."'
by Stanley Lane Pool,
Bombay Oysters.
The very newest thing about town is the
"Bombay oyster."
"The "Bombay oyster" isn't an oyster
at all, of course, but this is the name that
has been bestowed on it.
It is a composition sufficiently oommon
and simple to please the lean and larded
purse alike. It is nothing more than an
egg dropped unbroken into a tumbler and •
deluged with vinegar and sprinkled with
pepper and salt.
It is consumed always before breakfait
and by a great many sporting men in ther
city.
- One of its effects is to counteract the
evil tendencies of over -drinking and over-
eating. Some stout men like a " Bombay -
oyster in the morning and eat nothing
again until noon. For a bilious stomach
it is the finest kind wit a remedy.-Bostan
Globe.
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Wanted Things Brought to a climax.
" Have you been reading the serial, The -
Soma of the Sierras,' thee is running in.
my paper ?"
" Yes, I am very much 'interested in it.
,Who is the author 2"
" I am the author."
"You are, oh? Well; I want to tell
you right now that unless the hard-
hearted adventuress comes to grief and
the brave scout rescues and marries the
captive maiden pretig soon, slop ray
paper."
THE United States spent for pensions in
the year ending June 30th last $109,357,534..
In the year' ending June 30th, 1888, the
amount was e80,288,508. What the bill
will bei when all who bore arms in the oivilt
‚war have passed from the scene nobody
'can guess.
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