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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-18, Page 3tr 1011.11111WISWIMMISIMIN OUR ITORTEIWBEIT. ea.dnantageS and Drestehlteile of raaraing jn Xaniteba. e(e/Q0D nOIL )3laTHIGH DUTIES. Levi H. Turner, writing tom Fairhaven, lianeshington, to the New York Standard, description of his journey from lelaxperati . Ferry to the Peoifio, sage : Descending to the Ohio River, WO ode through mountain passes rich in iron and coal, throughvalleye • Of bottom lands capable of rewarding labor bountifully; and as night came on our pathway was illuminated by the ceaseless flames of the gee well. Strange indeed are the contrasts pre- sented to the gaze of the traveller. The ex - headless wealth of natural resources, the lavish extravagance of the idlers at the pleasure reports through the mountains, the hopeless spectacle of poverty presented by the dirty, ill -clad and apparently ill•fed • coal miners and coke burners, the neglected •ohildren around the groups of shanties at the road side, furnish amplefood for reflec- tion, compelling the half thoughtful person to ask, Whyi? • Our stay n Chicago was limited to one day on account of the intensely hot weather. We took the night train for St. Paul. Here we spent the Fourth, which was celebrated •'by a boat race on the Mississippi. Specta- tors were afforded an excellent oppor- tunity to view this from the magnificent .iron bridge thrown across the river at this point. St. Paul is indeed an interesting city, its site, unlike Chicago, being considerably • elevated above the surrounding country— and, like Boston, it has hills, sharp grades and ()rooked streets. On the eve of the "E'ourth we took our compartment in the tourist's oar SO. Paul, to be ran over the Great Northern en Canadian Pacific Rail. *road on a four days' journey without change to Vancouver on the west shore. This is the part of the journey whioh from the first we most dreaded, but which proved to be the most comfortable and enjoyable. es WE APPROACHED THE CANADIAN LINE the morning of July 5th an officer passed through the train, stating that all checked and hand baggage must be searched at • Grand Forks. The passengers immedietely set themselves to work preparing for the ordeal, and this gave rise to a general die - •Grunion of the tariff, in which all seemed Interested and in which even some of the ladies took part. For more than an hone the discussion ran like a torrent, supported • on the proteot ion side by a few elderly gentlemen who were " republienans since '56." Gradually those who were at Ann listeners took sides, and free trade senti- ment predominated, especially after the "protector of Canadian labor" had com- menced his ridiculous task. In the valise •• of one of our neighbors he found a pair of new shoes upon which he said a "duty mast be paid," whereupon the owner placed them upon his feet. " That clears -the law," said the officer, as he passed out of the oar amid the derisive laughter of the passengers. Boon after our train rolled into Winni- peg which is the commercial focus of the Canadian Northwest. Representatives of all grades of society and nationalities were seen upon the platform of this great jueo- tion brought hither on the various LINES or RAILROAD WHICH RADIATE FROM THIS POINT like the spokes in a wheel. Here we made quite a stop, during which I ran about town to gather information. I hurredly 4 called at grocery stores and oiapenter shops and other places to ask questions. I found the price of sugar was 9 cents par pound, kerosene oil' 42 cents per gallon, cornmeal $1,30 per hundred pounds ; end that carpenters' wages were $2.50 per day, laborers 0..75 to $2. At the door of an office the following sign was posted: "Do- minion Lands. Free Grants. Sales Pre- emptions, etc. How to obtain them in the Northwest." This was the office of the land agent of the Canadion Pacifio Rail- road, a personage perhaps a little lower than the minister of the interior at Ot- tawa. He is fully convinced of his impor- tance, and of the fact that this great Trunk line is exerting an influence on Canadian legislation which makes "the dog" and "his tail" so nearly the same size that the question is often asked, "Which does the wagging ?" • THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET sun - /LOWERED THE EARTH To this corporation; but a few years ago it undertook the construction . of this railroad. Having built 650 miles, they sold out, or gave out, in 1880, to the company whose name it bears, and as an inducement for it to accept this "princely" gift the Government added $25,000,000 in money, 25,000,000 acres of agricultural land, and agreed to finish and surrender all railway then under construc- tion, together with a branch line of sixty - Ave miles of road already in full operation. In addition to these subsidies in land and money, the entire railway, when completed, was to remain the property of the com- pany. And now the corporation is in pee. session of about 5,000 miles of road, includ- ing the longest continuous line in the world, extending from the Maritime Provinces, across the State of Maine, through Mon- treal, across the continent, to the Pacific •Ocean. I entered the °fan and asked for infor- mation in regard to Government and rail- road lands. We have for sale," said the lord of the company's kingdom, "some of the finest land in Manitoba and the North- west, at ten shillings and upwards per acre. We RESERVE ALL COAL, TIMBER AND :ORMUZ RESOURCES. Our lamb are in all the townships within the railway belt, and extend twenty-four miles on either side of the main line. You can buy for one.tenth cash fold balance in payments spread over nine years, with sin per cent. interest; or you can lease Govern- ment land not exceeding 2,650 sores, for a term not exceeding twenty-one years, for two cents per acre. The conditions require the lessee to place upon the ranch, within three years, one head of cattle to every twenty -font aoree of land covered by hig lease. No person shall be allowed to place Sheep on lands in the Canadian northwest without special permit. " Conditione of free grant lands are easier," Said he, " here, than in the United States, where the fee for taking Op is 426 and five years' resi- dence. Here it is 010 and three year& residence. NO OATE OP ALLEGIANCE IS Reournen, ,the land is free to all. Oor winters are milder than in Montana and Dakota, our •graesee are more nutritious, cattle Maio better, and the opportunities offered to Adders are much better than on the other side of the line." I then told him a story told to me by a •far roar down the road, who had just put' &aged an agricultural machine of Canedleal • &Jennies:tore for $21. A machine of equal Utility could be purchased in Bt. Paul for $15 wore it not for the oppressive Canadian titriff, "f this," I added, 'is! a eample �f •the reletiere coat of farming applianeee, X nen inclined to think the Ualhed States 1• offers better inducements to settlers in opine of the hisher oat of land, as they have lower prices for tools, and such neceeseries as farmees are compelled eo buy—sager, coal oil eto —and their farm products will net them fully as much there as they WO1114 here." Ho listened t My statement, which eeemea to chafe him exceedingly, and burst out with the declaration ; "That is not ed ! NNE TaREE TRADER HAD YOU ON A STRING, There are some of them around here. The people of the Stetes are overworked and underpaid. Plenty of proof of that, Tn. e eastern farms are being deserted and the western farms are mired in debt. Our tariff is not oppressive. It holds the markets of Canada for the people of Canada, and we intend to continue this policy," be said, with emphasis, as the start signal hurried me to the depot. Oar long train pulled slowly out on the Western track upon a broad plain as "level and green as a billiard table." The Rooky Mountains are yet a thousand miles away; i we have not yet seen the prairie ; this s only the widening of the valley of the Aseiniboine and the Red River of the north, which unite at Winnipeg. On either side of us are farm houses and etisoks of grain, men and teams at work upon a soil absolutely free from etone—as bladk as night and rich as a mine—and herds of cattle are feeding half hidden in the grass, We step off at a way station and look up the road which stretches sway before us as far as the eye can reach, with- out carve or defleotion. The roadway is dotted with grain elevators, the most of which are owned by farmer' dabs, insur- ing them some INDEPENDENCE IN THE San OF THEIR CROPS. After a run of 130 miles we stop at Bran- don, the second point of importance in the Canadian Northwest. The half hour was improved by me in asking questions of the farmers I met aledlit town, and whom I found kindly disposed to converse, espec- ially when I told them I had lately visited the lower provinces. They agked me ques- tions, 160. Kerosene oil and sugar are little used here—the prices are so high. They all regretted theit "Yankee corn" was kept out by the high tariff, as they could not successfully raise it here, and it is needed for provender. I found tariff reduc- tion a prevailing sentiment, and free traders as thick as flies. The farmers as a rale are paying enormous interest on the capital they have hired with which to pur- chase tools, seed and advance food: yet they seem to glory in an imagined inde- pendence, and they LOOK WITH PITY UPON THE TENANT FARMERS OF EUROPE, saying "We own our farms and outfits, and don't have rent to pay." Yet it was the universal testimony that there was not a working farmer in the region free from mortgage of some kind. Strange, indeed, that men are slaves where nature is so lavish 1 These people, like the overworked teams they drive, have a worn, woebegone look. The men wear faded shoddy gar- ments and the women sleazy calico. Yet they tell me that 800 bushels of turnips to the acre, or 270 bushels of onions is a com- mon orop,in addition to wheat,iwhich is the standard and most largely cultivated crop, yielding thirty-two bushels to the acre. Leaving Brandon we enter upon a broad billowy 000an of buffalo grass—the first of the prairie steeps that rise at long intervals and almost imperceptibly to the Rooky mountains. Now the horizon, only, limits the view. Occasionally we pass a prairie farm house surrounded by great black squares where the sod has been turned by the plow. The house is usually a shabby thatched but; the monotony of the prairie front yard is broken with neglected looking children, pigs, churns and milk pans. A terrible life it must be to live in the soli. tude of a prairie—no neighbors, no school, no civilization. At intervals our train slows up at a little siding. They are all alike, and consist of a spare track, a few freight oars, a heap of buffalo bones, a few agricultural implements on sale, a station master in red shirt and blue overalls, and last, but not least," the poor Indian, "who is dying that civilization may live." ese A Dispensation of Providence The railway accident had been a terrible one and one of the men who were carrying the thirty-seventh victim up the embank- ment said with stronenteeling "Somebody will have to pay dearly for all this 1" The mangled passenger opened his eyes and glared at the speaker. " The company is not to blame," he said, feebly : "This is a dispensation of Providence !" He was attorney for the road. Money No Object. Old Gentleman—I want to stop my paper. Country Editor—What's the matter? Old Gentleman—Well, I don't lase the way you treat the tariff question. Country Editor—And do you suppose that I will permit you to stop your paper on that mama ? No, sir, I'll stop my tariff articles; first. I don't care for $1 50 a year; but I'm determined to please my patrons if I can. A Practical Divorce. Mrs. Quizzel—I hear you have stopped your proceedings for a divorce. Mrs. Laelode—Oh, yes ; it isn't at all necessary now. Hellas just got the bioy cle craze. I never see him except at supper. Advice Accepted. "Young man, don't Waste your money on drink.' •" I don't when I can get any one else to set 'em up." In 1865 there were practically no Christ- ians in japan. In 1875 there were 3,000. In 1886 there wore 14,000. And at the present time there are 80,000, out of a total population of 39,000,000. The Pinkertors Detective Agency, which is attracting so much public attention juin at present, has been in existence since 1852, when it was founded by Allan Pinkerbon in Chicago. Hardly half a dozen men were employed by the agency at that time, but to -day the detectives in its service form a small army. The Moldan river hon flooded a portion of Prague, Austria, and has done inuoh damage to the country between Mein:seer and Weld and the confluetice of the Molden and the Elbe. Many villages in the Danube valley are partly submerged. The author- ities are taking special precautions, Senator Stanford's fruit farm in Cali- fornia is the largest in the world. It con- tains 80,000 acres, and the grapes rained and the wines made there are famous Where Stanford himself is Unknown. The solieitor for the plaintiffs in the Town of Cobourg vet. the Regents of Via. topic University leas received inatractione to appeal from the judgment of ?Ir. audio() MteeMehorodelivered in the long naeation, i so far as it s against the plaintiffs. The only woman licensed AS a pilot on the great lakeIS Miss Sonia Langford, of Duluth She is the owner Of a rat. 4. t UP IN A BALLOONp 11015E AND FELL 1,000 FEET. Yesterdey the people attending the fair, says the Kingston, nig, saw a successful balloon mansion:by Prof. MoEwen, Jack- son, Mich., a famous aeronaut. He is tall, wiry young men and a hustler in every sense of the word, he balloon, a brand new one made of ootton,was used for the first 'HMO. It was infleted in the centre of the field, and the operation was seen distinctly from all parts of the grounds. pefore the canvas was ready to be filled there was a great deal of confusion. Small boys and men insisted upon crowding the professor in his work, and only by assum- ing a se,vesge and determined attitude could he get along: He did the work of three policemen in keeping the small boys out of the way, He soured twenty men to hold the balloon while it was being filled. Henry Edo0ambridge acted as engineer in- side. The fire was made out of barrel staves and, with a splendid draft, made hot air rapidly. Gradually the canvas began to swell, and the professor remarked to the engineer ; "Harry, is he filling rapidly ?" He replied : "You bet she is, and it is get- ting pretty hot inside." "We'll not be long on the ground," shouted MrnadoEwen, as he leaped over the sod. In an instant he divesited himself of his frock coat and silk hat, and appeared in a glittering blue oosturne, fringed with eilvery lace. He got his parachute in order and in a short time Was ready for the ascension. Slowly the balloon began to rise upwards, while the people watched it with intense interest. When it left the earth the professor sprang on the bar hanging from the canvas and in his flight sang out, Good bye, Good bye, remember Josie Mills to -night." He rose over 1,000 feet, drifting to the oath. He then jumped with his parachute which had been attaohed to the side of the balloon. The supreme moment in the affair was when he left the balloon, and before the parachute opened. The drop was very MO - medial and the professor landed on Caton's property near the Montreal road, in view of hundreds of people, who had followed him. One young lady was so overcome by the sight of the man coming down that she fainted away. The balloon was recovered a short distance from where the professor landed. rensionate Heroines. The "Speaker's" second article addressed to lady novelists is "on heroines who burst and roll across the floor." This heroine (we read) is as "untiring in her efforts to please" as en actress, and she begins at once. She never merely laughs or cries; she bursts, whether it be into laughter or tears, as recklessly as the circus ladies burst through tissue paper. She does nothing, indeed, in the common way. When she visits friends she sits down (plump) on their invitation, and after the Guardsman goes she falls heavily on his departure. In her agony she rolls across her bedroom floor with her hair down. In real life, perhaps, she could not be quite so regardless of her person (not to speak of her clothes), but she is a (tendons sensa- tion to read about. I notice that she is nine times in ten a married woman. The most extraordinary thing about her and her husband, the earl, is that they are madly, wildly passionately in love, but each thinks she other hates him or her. She discovers immediately after the wedding that he is sup- posed to have married her for her money; or he discovers that the other man once kissed her on the lips, and after that they pass with a cold bow. They meet, how- ever, at dances at their own house; and in the conservetoryehe asks her hoarsely to dance teeth hintenencenthie timehek eyeseare blazing like two furnaces, one on each side of her nosen-thougef they used to be lakes with a forest of pines planted round about —and drawing her figure up until she coald fan the ceiling with her ripe hair she says that if he dares to touch her waist she will cat it off. He then strideshoareely away, and no sooner has the door closed than she moans "Oh, my God!" and fling- ing herself at the fender begins to roll across the floor with her heir down. Back and forwerd she rolls, beak and forward, and any man's heart would be touched to see her thus. If the earl were only to re- turn now I Bat there is no use hoping for that, and by and by she is back in the ball- room flirting outrageously and cold exter- nally as foe, thonghntill on the boil inside, and the ehrl gets hoarser' than • ever.—St. Imes' Gazette. Dyeing Roses. It is said that the tirooess of dyeing roses is becoming a reneunerative branch of in- dustry with English horticulturists. In- stead of growing new varieties of rosies, which is a process of years, they simply grow ordinary white roses and dip them into a chemical solution, which in an hour converts them into the most magnificent yellow tea roses, the rare scarlet red or the peculiar shade of bluish violet which has been one of the favorites of the season. In a similar way pink roses are turned into blossoms of the deepest rect. Some years •ego, before this branoh of "floral chemis- try" was developed, the first experiments were successfully, made in France with the popular pink hortensia, which, by being watered with a solution of iron, assumed a blue shade. Row Cities Grow. Now York oily put up 6,722 new build- ings last year, at a cost of .075,912,816. Boston followei with 4,431 buildings, cost- ing $32,400,00. Philadelphia came third with 11,965 buildings, costing $26,000,000; Brooklyn, fourth, with 4,500 buildings costing 425,679,400, and Chicago fifth, with 4,931 bnildings costing 025,065,500. The 3:10XS city to Chicago was Denver, where E,741 new buildings colt $10,807,377. The amount of new buildings in no other city reached $10,000,000, although St. Louis came pretty near that figure, and Minne- apolis, St. Paul end Pittsburg stood each at about $8,000,000. Lost to the World. Another georet is lost to the world by the death of the only man who knew it. Thies IS the Sterling Dyeing Company's process of dyeing a perfect fast black. jamee Pike, who knew the process, had for years been rnanagee of the company, where he had made a fotturie. A, few days age he dropped dead ei apoplexy, and the Sterling Com- pany is grieving over the loss of the Secret, es.----- " Who is the hero in that novel?" o Hero ? There is a prig, se dude, a min. niter and a fool, bete you don't expect a hero in a modern novel, do you? leshaw ! if it wee not for the villiane it would not be worth reading," The fleet tvemen to be admitted to the prentioe of law in Minnesota is Mrs, Mary L. InfoGindley, who prepared invent for eXemlination in her husband's law officio. The by-law to grant $85,000 to the Tilson- burg, Lake Erie & Padilla RiiiWay Was Vbted On in Bayleam township, county Mee, yesterday, and carried by a majority Of 00. rEouraiut BUP.E'ALO RUNDAte In Which, a 'Former Ideanneeille Belle Figures. 010,000 DAMAGES DEMANDED. (Buffalo News.) If a bridegroom Was to oudgpl his brains for a month could he think of anything more embarrassing than to be made de- fendant, on the eye of his own wedding, in a suit for alienating a wife's affection. Such a nue is before the Supreme Court. Cards were issued for the marriage of Edward C. Burkhardt, of the well-known real estate firm of Burkhardt Brotheraand Miss Laura Schmidt, daughter of Lorenz Schmidt, a well-known German citizen of High street. The complaint in an action brought by John, F. McLaughlin against Edward C. Burkhardt for $10,000 damages, for alien- ating his wife's affeotions and debauching her, was filed with the clerk ofthe Supreme Court this morning. John F. McLaughlin is a newspaper man. For a number of years he was Buffalo man- ager for the Elmira Telegram. At present he is special correspondent for a number of out of town newspapers. He alleges in his complaint that his wife, Myra McLaughlin, was assaulted by Edward O. Burkhardt at 184 Main street, in October, 1887, and that by threats Mrs. McLaughlin was made to continue an intimacy with Burkhardt for two years thereafter. He claims 010,000 (lineages. ' place indicated was the Buffalo office of the Elmira paper, and Mrs. McLaughlin was frequently there alone in charge of the office while her husband was away gather- ing news and collecting money. Mr. McLaughlin was found at his mother's residence, 432 Michigan street, and was at first adveree to talk about the °11'B'ei "It will do no good to talk about it," be said. "The public will get to know all about it when the trial comes on." "Where is your wife now?" "Living with some friends at 49 Seventh street," rt from you ?" "Yes. I am living with my mother." "When did you discover your wife's dis- loyalty 7" "This summer—not very many weeks ego." "How aid you discover it?" "I found some letters." "What sort of letters?" "Letters from Burkhardt. She called herself Ida Brown and carried on a clandes- tine correspondence with him under that name. They were ordinary love letters." "What did you do then 7" "Confronted her with what I found out. She denied everything at first and after- ward confessed Mrs. MoLaughlin is a brunette, petite of figure, dresses well and is rather good look- ing. She is 27 years old. Her maiden name was Myra House and she came from Beamsville, Ont., a village lying between Hamilton and St. Catharines. She was married to McLaughlin in this city July 8th, 1884, by Rev. G. Chapman Jones, formerly pastor of Asbury M. E. Church. McLaughlin is one year older and is a dark- haired, bright-eyed, handsome young man. Mrs. McLaughlin claims, her husband says, that she was loyal to her marriage vows until she met Burkhardt. Louis Brannlein is MoLaieghlin's attor- ney. He appeared before Judge Lewis •yesterday and secured denial of a demand from the other side for a bill of particulars. The complaint was served several days ago, but not filed till to -day. The defendant, througn Roberts, Alexander 8z Meager, his attorneys, makes a general denial. Divorce proceedings were begun, it is said, some time ago, but abandoned for a peculiar reason. Mrs. McLaughlin fell ill and her husband was sent for and spent the night at the sick woman's bedside car- ing her. Constructively this was a condoning of the alleged offence. Some surprises are expected when the case comes to trial. At noon to -day it was learned that Mr. Burkhardt and Miss Schmidt were married this morning at St. Louis' Church. The Senator's Daughter. The Chicago News says: If you should ask a rustics for what Grosse Pointe—De- troit'a amateurish Newport—is noted, you would probably receive the information: "E'er frogs and for being y the summer home of Senator Moblillan. Here the croaking of the very terrestrial frog moms celestial music in the ears of the knowing ones, and the anticipations of petite souper for which this little French suburb is famous arouses a keen appetite. Surrounded by rolling green lawns, ten- nis courts, palms, and blossoming hedges, here stands the summer home of Michigan's senator, James McMillan. Its russet tints are thrown out effectively by the contrast- ing blue of July skies. Close to the pier, in sight from its piaz- zas, lie a number of gay steam launches, dipping about merrily in the waters of Lake St. Clair, and with them the yachts Lela and Truant. Upon the shining deck of the latter may be often seen a slender, refined -looking girl with a demure, fresh face and modest manners. Here yachting suit clings affeotionly to the person of Senator Monlillan's only daughter, Miss Amy McMillen. The white yaohting cap covers a small, ele- gant shaped head. The brown eyes express a quiet enjoyment of life, which have been in their owner's possession just twenty-one years. Sedate, reticent, simple in manner, Miss McMillan is utterly unspoiled by her host of admirers. A. Rinsed W. C. T. we In Northern Wisconsin there is a W. C. T. U. composed of Americans, Germans and Norwegians. One week the devotional exercises will be conducted in one language and the next week in another. Sometimes the Bible will be read in English, the prayer made in Norwegian and the songs sung in Germain but the entire audience is always attentive, and a remarkably friendly feeling prevails among the different nation, alities. Too Bad. "Did you propose to Henrietta 2" e -awns "Engaged 7 " "No. I Was for the League, but she pre - fared the Brotherhood." Owing to the almost total deetruation of the crops in portions of Northern Dakota, it is expected that the destitution of last year will be eolipeed by that of the coming winter. A young woman who has a dressmaking establishment in East 31st street Imhoff her rent by storing fusee, Wraps and winter dresses for her customers during the want Weather. The garment is cleaned, reno. venni and packed away, and where called for is freglioned with new linings, ribbons, buttons or Minn and a flEtaOldat NOIR charged to Oyer the bill, including in. sureties. 0 NM, A. Queer Case DevelePed py is too Frequent Use of the 'A 0430W:the. "Can I use your telephone ee This question was aeked of Mr. Vision. tiner by a young men who enteredhis drug std e, at the corner of Clinton and John etreets, yesterday aftereoon. Certainly," said Mr. Valentiner, point. in to the instrument, " go ahead." Ent I haven't Any money. That's all right; Ill obarge it to your brother," said Mr. Valentiner. Something in the man's appearance at- tracted the attention of a reporter, who happened to be in the store at the time. , The young man clutched the 'phone with trembling hand and giving a quick, sudden ring, shouted hoarsely into the micro- phone: "Give me 43,000 1 No • that ain't the number. What's Stollen number? I know it is in heaven, but what's he number 2" By this time the reporter's astonishment was almost unoontrolable, but strange to say/ Ain Valentiner did not seem to share it—he simply whispered. Wait 1" Again the young man gave a spasmodic ring, I've been waiting long enough, he shouted again. I tell you, give me "No I can't fiad the ember. No, I won't wait. I won't wait, I won't. I won't." And in a frenzy he dashed the 'phone against the wall and rushed from the store. "There is ene of the strangest oases of insanity on record," said Mr. Valentiner, when the writer had somewhat recoverei from his surprise. "That young man was as sane as you or I five years ago. His name is John Rickerhof, and he lives here in the west end. Five years ago he was shipping clerk for a New Yorkexporting house. He had become so worried, being of an excessively nervous temperament, by the constant ringing of the telephone all day in his ears that though sane on all other subjects, he is crazy on this, and runs into drug stores and uses telephones in a nervous, unstrung manner, calling the • name of a former sweetheart, long since dead. His case is a curious phyohologioal study."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Things to Remember. Never fail to keep an appointment. Never delay in answering letters or re- turning books. Never tell long stories of which you yourself are the hero. Never inconvenience people by com- ing in late at church, theatre lecture or concert. Never stop people who are harrying along the street and detain them -for ten or twenty minutes. Never call on people jest at bedtime, or during dinner or before they are downstairs in the morning. Never, when y»u see two people engaged in earnest talk, step in and enter upon a miscellaneous conversation. Never speak disrespectfully of your parents nor of ynizr sisters. People may laugh at your wit, but they will despise you for it. Never begin to talk about "this, that and everything" to one who is trying to read the morning paper or a book or anything else Never talk when others are singing or doing anything else for your amusement; and never the instant they are finished begin to talk upon a different topia.—New York World. A Scotch mermaid. An interesting spectacle has recently been seen in the Orkneys. It is probably the first of its kind ever authenticated in living memory.- A correspondent writes to a contemporary "What is said to be a mermaid has been seen for some weeks at stated times at Southside, Daerness. It is about eix to seven feet in length, with a little bleak head, white neck and a snow- white body and twn arms. In swimming it appears just like a human being. At times it will come very close inshore and appear to be sitting on a sunken rook, and will wave and work its hands. It has never been seen entirely out of water. Many persons who doubted its genuineness now suppose it to be a deformed seen"— The Table. A Stab. Mrs. Cameo (indignantly)—I never go through my husband's pockets when he's asleep. Mrs. Banks (sweetly)—How wise of you not to waste your time. The Chicago carpenters' strike is prac- tically over. There are less than 700 car- penters still out. President O'Connell, of the Carpenters' Council, bag been forced by the discontent of members of the union to resign. Ward thirty-three of the city of Chicago is a great big thing. It is ten miles long and three miles wide, and contains 19,200 mores. There are sixty railroad stations and seven post -offices in the ward, and the population is fairly estimated at 100,000. A Boston preacher, in speaking of the danger of permitting the Bible to be crowded out by the newspapers, perpe- trated the following pun " Men, now - a -days," said he, " are like Zacchens desirous of seeing Jesus, but cannot because of the press." REVENGE IS SWEET. A young minister once, who'd been greatly an noyed By the chatter and" ;chin" in the choir, Hit upon a nice plan, which he used with effect And wreaked on them vengeance most dire. He stopped short in the midst of his sermon, and then Struck a sort of listening pose. When the alto was heard to exclaim, with a laugh: "All he kissed was the tip of ray nose," —New York Heralcl. Mrs. Grace January, the wealthy St. Louis widow, who was reported to be en- gaged to marry the lion. Mr. Truen, of England, hen a fortune of $5,000,000. She is not yet forty and is a vary handsome women, with delicately out features, bril- liant dark eyes and dark hair. Some of the large iron mills in Pitts- burg are going back to coal on account of the abOrtage of natural gas. It is likely that in a few years they will all have to go back to coal. FOR =tom WHO IDAN» DRUB, Where Horses of All Ktud c11 Quickly and for Fnir Prices. Probably only those who live close to the great Bull's Head Mart have any jams of the immense triad in horses carried on there. Active, glean limbed horses, etrady horses, great big horses weighing from 1,300 to 1,800 pounds, and occasionally one scaling even more then that; coach hoses, driving horses, tiny ponies for °hilt:lona/ use, ponies for athletic young men who play polo, and gentle, kindly -eyed noniett for young ladies; highstepping spirited cobs, seedy trotters, and 000rneonally a batch of thoroughbreds—every conceivable kind of horses ---make up an end - lege tide that ceaselessly Rona! through that part of East Twenty-fourth etreet which lies for a block on. aide of Third avenue. This tide over- flows on to Lexington avenue; evidences of it may be seen too, on Twenty-third etreet and on TwentY•fifth street, Old dealers estimate that from five hundred to eight hundred head of horses come into and go out of the Bull's Head Mart in the dullest season every week. The maximum is reached in the middle of the spring activity of the horse market, when from 1,500 to 1,800 horses reach the " street " between Sunday and Sunday. It is expected that an average of 2,000 head of horses a week or more will be reached this autumn on account of the stimulus given the trade by the auction sales. The auction sales seen tem in New York is receiving lots of dis- cussion and there is just as much question now among the conservative dealers whether or not the new plan has come to stay as there was at the beginning in the spring.—New York Herald. How gold is Shipped. The Bank of America is the largest single shipper of gold from New York, and, in- deed, from the United States. Shipments are made in stout kegs, very much like the ordinary beer barrel. Every one contains . £10,000 coin or bar gold. The latter is the favorite for these shipments, since coin. in a single $1,000,000 shipment, is liable to loss by abrasion of from eight to twenty ounces or from £25 to £64, while the bars loge only about threefourthe of that value. Where coin is sent double eagles are prefer- red. They are Rat in stout Canvas bags, each one containing 125 double eagles, or £1,000, and ten bags fill each keg. The only precaution taken against tampering with the kegs is a treatment of keg -ends technically known as "red -taping." Four holes are bored at equal intervals in the projectingrim of the staves above the head. i Red tape s run through these, crossing on the keg's head, the ends meeting at the centre, where they, are sealed to the head by the hardest of wax and stamped with the consignor's name. The average in- surance is about £300 per 2200,000. 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