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IrAtit toper and the Sea.
Uo held a dipper in I1U hand,
And bravety did he ply
With all the strength 49 his COMMaild.
To dip the (neat;
" And ail the Ships that sail eses be
0 And go froni land to land,
On the drybottom of the sea,
Shall siuk into the saud.
"The waves are powerless to reslat,
Through Lne tuisIIled shall be
The words of the evangelist,
' There shsli he no more sea.' "
And so be plies his dipper fast.
And does net ceade to try,
As long as strength and life Shall pat,
TO dip the ocean dry.
•
And like this madman even we,
With little dippers, try
To drain the vastness of the sea,
And dip the 01680 dry.
The sea of knowledge with its din
Before us breaks, and we,
We thrust our little dippers in,
A.nd think we've drained the see.
And bound within a narrow creed,
Shut in by walls and towers,
We deem we have oo further need—
The truth of God is ours,
Then let tho endless babblers be,
Who for more wisdom erir,
We've thrust our dippers in the Sea,
And drained the coan dry.
—S. W. Pose in Yankee Blade.
nitre te etensekeepers.
A pie or eueterti will not burn if in the
•oven with a (Hale of water.
A gallon of lye put into a barrel of hard
water will make it as soft AS rain water.
lehrunken, half -worn bed blankets or
comforts, pest using on a bed, make good
pads to pat natter the etairmarpet.
The muekrnelou usuelly has nine ridges,
which are seperated by narrow stripe of
emooth skin, and if these strips are green
the melon is a good one to leave alone.
There is no better diet for ohildren than
milk, not cream, which is apt to be a little
too rich for the stomach. As a soporific+
nothing equate a glass of milk taken just
before retiring.
aeRaisins may be molly stoned by pouring
oiling water over them and letting them
stead for five or ton minutee. Drain, then
rub eaoh raisin between the thumb and
linger tilt the made come out clean.
A simple and effsetual remedy for ivy -
poisoning ie stud to be sweet epirits of niter.
Bathe affected parte two or three times
during the day, and the next morning little
trace of the poison will remain.
The old-time gimp loops for lace curtains
are passe. They are seldom seen any
more, the curtain being caught back by
bows instead, or, in foot, in any gromeful
way as long as you avoid the conventional
gimp.
To take iron stains from marble use an
equal quantity of fresh spirits of vitriol
and lemon juice ehaken together in a
bottle. Wet the spots and in a few min-
utes rub with soft linen and the spots will
disappear.
To make water -proof writing -ink, an
ink which 'will not blur if the writing is
exposed to rain : Dissolve 2 ounces shellac
in 1 pint elaohol (95 per cent.) filter
through chalk, and mix with best lamp-
black.
If you vvish year floor„ mattings to look
as fresh and bright at the Mose of the sum.
mer as when they were laid in the spring
eee that they are cerefully wiped off after
each sweeping with a soft cloth, wrung out
of salt and witer.
Hissed the Cold Tombstone.
As stated, the tombstone has received its
finishing touch, and heel been looked upon
for the last time probably by the dead
man's brother. Madera Benwell visited
the ohumh-y ard on Saturdey and stood
gazing at the cold marble slab for some
time. This was not hie first visit to the
grave by any means, but it was doubtless
his het, for he left to -day for England.
What awful emotions must have overcome
him as he eta farewell to " Connie's " last
resting place on earth! Had he a feeling
of revenge or one of sympathy for Reginald
Birohall ? As be wiped away the tears and
turned to go his good-bye to hie dead
brother's grave was sealed with a hies upon
the cold tombstone, and then, turning to
Captain Grigge, he thanked him kindly for
his attention in the past and made arrange-
ments to keep the plot in repair in future.
111 may never see you again,' he said as he
left, "but 1 know yoa will always have an
eye to this grave."—Woodstock Standard.
What the Editor Heard.
Philadelphia Record " I'm a Holm
must," shrieked a hideous fiery -tongued
Objeot in the city editor's ears.
4, And I am a Dull Thud," growled an
Object of gloom.
The oity editor made two grabs at the
reporter's copy and hurried to the elevator
shaft.
" What was that ?" inquired the man.
aging editor.
"I dropped a Holocaust down the ele-
vator shaft with a Dull Thud," responded
the oity editor, and a silence which might
have been Quay fell upon the editor's desk
without making a sound.
Right Yon Are.
New York Herald: A poor Italian .ap-
plied for naturalization papers yesterday
morning. In order to find out whether he
was worthy to enjoy the privileges of a
citizen some serious questions were pat.
Among others was this ponderous, solemn
and impressive query:
"What are men sent to the Legielature
in Albany for ?"
The Italian fumbled with his forelock
and stared at vacantly, then blurted out this
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"To make money."
That man has imbibed the true spirit of
at haat one of our great American inti.
tutions.
About Vegetarians.
The vegetarians are without doubt the
worst enemies of vegetarianism. for my-
self, I am a very small meet -eater. I do
not doubt that a large number of my fel-
lommountryrnen would be both healthier
,and wealthier were they to reduce their
butchera' bills by, say about 75 per cent.
But whenever I direct my attention to the
rpublio discussions or utterances of vege-
Wiens 1 beootne convinced of the intimate
etonneotion between abstinence) from flesh
and weakness of intellect. This drives me
back in elarm to my flesh -pot. So it is
• doubtless with many othera—London
;Truth.
Great Luck.
t1 And yon mean to say that your train
.croseed the chasm where the bridge had
'tanned without being wrecked? Remark.
able 1 What kept it from going down'Z"
" As good luck would have it, just at that
moment it was being held up by train
'robbers."
Alvan Clark is completing a lens for a
Mos Angeles observatory that aril' beat the
Lick teleecope. It will cost 600,000 to
'670,000. Through this glass the moon will
look as if only 100 miles away, and if there
are any cities or large buildings on its our.
face their presence Will be revealed through
its aid. The glass, it is thought, will also
settle the question es to the supposed
signals of light whioh the inhabitante of
blare are underatood to be Making to the
people of the earth.
AMONG NORTHERN ROOKS.
An Autumn. Holiday in the North Ontario
Lumber Regiens.
100 ACRES OF LAND FOR $1,
Ton can see Some rough country in a few
houre' travel aorthward from Hamilton. I
spent a brief holiday this fall in and
around the townehip of Rama, Ontario
county, and at the risk of being dubbed
disloyal I moat say I found it, from the
standpoint of an agrioulturiet a moat un-
int/4nm neighborhood. Originally the owl
oovering the granite and limestone rooks
was thin enough—so thin that the" bones"
protruded "'frequently and the plowshare
often skimmed the rook—hut the frequent
fires which leave swept over the slashings
have burned off the soil, until vaet areas
which once grew mammoth pines exhibit
little surface save rock, or that moss
which indicates that it alone can subsist
on the ecant remnants of aoil whioh have
escaped. In other places where the soil is
of a sandier nature, or where by reason of
moisture it has escaped destruction by fire,
scrub birob, balm, sumach and other
undergrowth have taken poesession.
TIBIBER, ONCE PLENTIFUL,
is no longer a matter of nicety of choice on
the pert of the lumbermen. The country
was culled over first about thirty years ago
and it hae been suomseively visited by axe -
men of all degrees of careful or ea eless
selection until now the chief ean r ob•
Mined far up the Head and Black rivers
and the several brenches of the Severn.
There ie little timber on land not deeded
that is of value and what there is it is dn..
milt to obtain --partly by reason of its in-
acceseibility, but chiefly became of the
domin-t/ammanger policy of those who oon-
trol the licenses.
WASTE 01' PINE.
Some of these liceneees having culled
over their limits will diepoee of the oull
timber out or standing on tonne to permit
its being utilized; but many make it a rule
not to sell and prefer to see the fire devour
millions of feet to making a sale to rival
lumbermen. I was shown overlarge tracts
of land on whioh stood much burned pine,
some of h already worthless because of
"punk spots" and more that will
soon become so, that is owned by licensees
who simply refuse to allow it to be worked
up into lumber. Every year or so a big
fire gets in its work and the dead timber of
a former year becomes fuel to feed it. A
couple of years ago a great lire
burned from the railway a short
distance north of Longford, eastward.
Thousands of aores were burned over,
millions of feet of timber were destroyed,
whioh, had it been sold at the local mills
would have been turned into money ; and
the settlers and mill men were obliged day
and night to stand between fire and ruin
e.nd work as only desperate men can work
to save their all.
THE 110ALS,
as may be supposed, are not the best in
the world, although that fault is not due
to look of " solid bottom" or stone to
repair them. I drove from Fawkleam out
through Seabright—a kind of oaeis—up
through Digby and Dalton. Considerable
Government money had recently been
epent in repairs, but were the roads left to
the local municipalities I fear horseback
riding would receive a stimulus. Hilly,
winding °yap rocky, broken stretches, with
on occasional orosswayed swamp, with
huge boulders heaved out upon the fiat
endue:I—sometimes grenite blocks as big
as a large room lying on flat limestone—
ete if to invite wonder at the subterranean
forces that hurled them from their strata.
these thoroughfares would not be chosen
for pleasure driving. Yet that and the
Gravenhuret road are the best in the
vicinity. On some of the roads there are
portions which menace even a careful
driver and sure-footed horse with brokEn
limbs.
LAND IS VERY CHEAP,
and it ought to be. A man who wants
land usually wants it for the use he can
matte of it, and unless a man could dis-
cover mineral deposits that could be advan.
tageously mined what would he want with
those charred, rook stretches ? The whole
township of Rama is assessed for little, if
anything, over the value of the sawmills in
it. A few years will see them removed.
The many streams necessitate numerous
bridges and expenses are high. What will
the corporation do when the timber busi-
ness 18 00 more? I learned that land (?)
is very much of a drug, even at tax salee,
100 aores having recently sold for $11 And
the purchaser is said to have remarked
that had he net known where there was
one green pine tree on it he would not have
bought it at that prioe
A PREACHER'S OPIN/ON.
Apropos of the question of the soil, a
reverend countryman of mine is said to
have been very much struck with the
poverty of the oonntry on his first visit.
"Indeed, Dewed, an I'm thinkin' this
prat o' the country wasna' dune at the
creation o' man." "Not dune? What do
you mean ?" said his friend, whose bump
of veneration is particularly prominent.
" Oh, jist that the gude Bock says the
Almighty looked on his completed wark
an' said it was verry gude ; and he surely
never said that o' Rama." Whatever may
be thought of the preacher's opinion, the
geology of the discriet will prove an inter -
sting study.
RICH IN 5000 RESPECTS.
Scant of timber and barren of soil as it
may be it is rioh in some resources. In no
part of Canada have I eeen so many wild
berries. Raspberries, thimbleberriee, high
bush oranberriee, and huckleberries abound.
Thoneands of buebels were this season
picked and shipped from there, whites and
and Indians dividing the work. Strange,
in view of the plentitude of food that bird
life shonld be name. Frogs in millions
are to be found and, as might be expected,
garter snakes, the frogs' natural enemies,
are plentiful. I was told that in the early
summer black flies are a staple and aro so
little appreciated that they be seen lying in
shovelfuls on the water at the booms. They
divide the summer honors with the festive
mosquito. The other articles of plenty are
good water and abundance of fish.
A HOME MISSION 1,85140.
Here I found the pioneer sohoobteaohers
with their little schools mole with ito
dozen or so of pupils, and here, too, is
where the divinity student o are sent to
work where men of bigger aims, if some.
times less real ability or zeal, could not
live. A youne man named Davidson
seemed to be doing a good work,
jadgiim by the esteem in which he
is held by the mill men and settlera.
I attended a couple of eervittee in a little
boarded bp sahocil—something like one I
studied in twenty -odd years ago—one
there nomad to be past no mnoh eantest.
negg and truth in the preaolaing as I have
heard in a Mach more pretentious temple
from a eeveral.thoneande.a.year preacher.
The settlers are a simple.minded, hospitable
and generous people, and viewed the time
e
when he swat rettume bia steldiee wtth
sorrow, They support the services to the
extent their meaue 3110w0, and they are os
numh worthy of aid its are the Celeetiale of
Tobin -Whin. By the way, I found tktat
being divinity student didn't interfere
with haoling out 3.1b. base vrilth rereark-
able freetteney,
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.
There are numeroue Armes which
traverse the country east and north, and
as meet of them run ou rock bottom there
are many picturesque falls. Cooper's Valle,
Weshago Falls, Severu Valle and many
others are to be found within a radius of
a few mile°, all eaeily reaohed by the eines
of the G. T. R. In one place two stream
Match pot far above left the same body of
water come together. One has an easy
fall e the second him very little fall until
within fifty yards ot reentering the other,
which it does from an oblique angle, and
compressed witkun a narrow gorge, and the
effeut of its 15.feet plunge over rocky step
is quite picaureeque. Camping parties
from various parts of the country put up
there during the summer, and reach Otellia
by boat. I was told some Hamilton people
had apent a few weeks there shortly before
my visit. They were recognized to be from
Hamilton by the remains of the camp—
some glass bottles with " Paisley " labels
on them. But that would not go dowdrin
a court of law.
Farming is done at a disadvantage in
these northern townshipa. The season is
very ehort at best. The rooky nature of
the country makes oultivetion patchy and
drainage almost imposeible, Gave where it
ia natural. If the soil is not drained it is
worthlees. Crops must be got in early to
do well and to get them in the soil must be
dry enough. If they are too early sown
they are liable to be frozen. The timber
has heretofore been the ohief reliance of
the settlers. The milling industry has,
however, seen ite beet days, and unlese
minerals are disouvered large stretches of
country will revert to the Indians and the
bears, some of which still roam at large
there. Of the EOM mills more anon.
1YLASQUETTE.
Some Practical flints.
The following practical household notes
are from the Boston Journal of Commerce :
Flowers will remain fresh for a fortnight
if a little carbonate of soda is mixed with
the water.
Flood the waste•wetter pipes every week
with boiling water, and ocioasionally with a
hot solution of sal soda.
Soiled wall paper oea be improved some
what by rubbing oarefally, in short strokee
with a soft old flannel oloth dipped in
oatmeal.
Silk articles should not be kept folded
in white papers, as the chloride of lime need
in bleaching the paper will impair the color
of the silk.
Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine
will take paint out of olothing, even if it
be hard and dry. Seturate the epot as
often as necessary and wash otit in soap
ends.
Whole cloves will exterminate the in-
dustrious and merciless moth. They are
more effectual as a destroying agent than
either tobacco, camphor or oeder shav-
ings.
It there are any suspicions of carpet bugs
do nos have a carpet relaid until you have
wet the make of the floor for a distance of
a foot or more from the sides of the room
with the solution of corrosive sublimate,
end the edges of the carpets with benzine
and carbolic acid.
Tioke or comfortables should. tedh
, -
taken apart; the covers waehed, and the
cotton thoroughly sunned and aired. They
should afterwards be retied. Waehing
cotton bettiug renders it hard and disagree-
able, and should only be resorted to with
bedding which is quilted, and the sooner
we °ease altogether from making such the
better.
If there are cockroaches or ants to annoy
you, sprinkle a mixture of equal parte of
powdered borax end sugar around their
bannts, after cleaning them ont thoroughly.
If yon will examine closely around the
back yard, yon will, no dobt, find the breed.
ing places of ants, and by pouring boiling
bot water or kerosene into the hills, you
will find prevention easier than cure.
A Memory Aid.
Goodfello—Here's your health, old fel.
By the way, what is that knot in your
handkerchief for?
Jollifello—Hem 1 That is to remind me
that I've sworn off.
Goodfello—But you just this minute took
a drink.
Jollifello—Y-e-s. Fact is, I never see the
knot till I take out my handkerchief to
wipe my month.
The Jumbo of Mankind.
John Hanson Craig of Danville, Ind.,
undoubtedly the largest man in the world,
was in the city to-dey. Mr. Craig stands 6
feet 5 inches in his stockings, and weighs
over 600 pounds. He measures eight feet
about the hips, wears No. 10 shoes, a 71 hat
and a 7et glove. His father and mother
were of mediura size. He is a great.great.
grandson of Gov. Crittenden, the first
Governor of Vermont. He is also a first
cousin of William P Hepburn, at present
solicitor for the United States Treasury,—
Martinsville, Ind., Dispatch.
In a Sick Belem.
Invalid—Ob, my friend, you are too
kind to come and spend the evening with
me, though of course it can be little plea-
sure to yon.
Friend --Nonsense ; you musn't talk like
that. Life isn't all plessnre. We can't
always expeat to do what would be most
agreeable to us to do. Some one had to
oome and see you, you know.
Awfully.
Blies Au Fait—And we save Niagara
Falls, too.
Anglomaniao—Weally 2 Fwom which
side
"From the American side."
Chappy (aside)—How vewy vulgah
Of More Consequence.
Visitor—Extent: me, sir, but are you the
president of the college?
Important person—Well, I guess not.
I'm the janitor. •
Mr. B.—What aro you langlibm about,
Jennie ? Mrs, B.—I was just thinking
what a fool you looked when yon proposed
to me. Mr. B., sighing,—Yes; and I was
just as big a fool as I looked.
The Ozer of Russia is the largest of all
living landed proprietors, owning an estate
which is nearly equal in area to the whole
of France.
The Prince of Wales left England Seim-
dity, says a London dispateb, on a visit to
Baton Hireoh, in spite of all the efforts
that have been made to prevent hie putting
the Austrian court n an awkard position
by acoopting hospitalitiee within the
Auetrian dominions of en Austrian stlbjeet
whom hie sovereign don not receive. Severe!
well-known Memberof Eu0011800184, are
on their way also to Moravia4
wiViut ortzitra Or Bi.l.198.
The Kiteheu WM Ile eianiehed from Their
Somes-41. Ooarperative unmake
The Philadelphia Beeord Farr: The Wave
of tio.oporative enterprise is sweeping over
Weet Philadelphia now, and soon house.
keeping may be conducted on the mutual
plan. A circular SVAB prepared last Week
by Dr, John Taylor, of No. 3,709 Brown
street, which is being handed around
among the residents of that neighborhood
for signatures, ane as soon as a euffioiently
huge number of awes are attambed the
central 000king.house will be establiehed,
and servant° in private dwellings will be
dismiesed. The eellowing is a copy of the
°insular which is being distributed :
"We, the undersigned, having formed a
favorable opinion of the plan of weepers-
tive houeekeeping, hereby express our
willingness to help form an association for
thee purpose when as many as ten families
or thtrty persons will agree to join it. We
also agree to attend all the meetinge moos.
eery to effect an organization of the
sodety."
A number of names have already been
subsoribed, and the promoters of the under.
taking are very sanguine of securing the
signatures of a large proportion of the
neighboring population. Bleetings are held
weekly at the residenoe or Dr. Taylor,
and a permanent organization has been
effeoted.
The astociation is in oommunicstion
with similar concerns in western °Wee, but
the Philadelphia aystem will differ some-
what from all others now existing. The
idea is not BO much to secure cheaper
living as to do away with ineividua
household work. At first the cook in
charge pi the central calinary eetablieh-
ment will purchase .all provisione metes.
eery, hire the needful help and collect
from each family its proportion ot the ex
pensee. The families will be charged
amordirig to the number of persons each
contains, special prices being made for
babies and very small ohildren. After the
lapee of a few weeks the aesociation will
settle npon o regular weekly rate.
Parohasing fuel and provisions in whole.
Bele quantities the asmoistion will buy at
a much lower rate than that charged indi•
lamas. Families can either take their
meals at private tables curtained in booths
in the main dining -room of the central
supply.house, or have them served in their
own dwelling°. The former plaoe is the
one mutiny adopted, and can be carried on
somewhat cheaper than the other.
Speaking of the association and its future,
Dr. Taylor said last night: " If the pion
works, as we have no doubt it will, besides
having a central 000king-house, there
will be established a laundry, eleotrio
light nlant and house -heating apparatus.
A good system is to have one central
supply -house .for eaoh square. The
dwellings are built as usual, with the
exception of the dining.roome. They are
built away from the main struoture and
along a covered aiele leading from the cen-
tral house to the middle ot the four sides
of the square. The dining rooms are oma -
story structures, and they are connected
with the main dwelling by little archways.
Thus each family eats in its own dining.
room, hut is served from the common
supeifidhouse.
Experienced hotel men tell ns that
three servants cen cook for forty families.
It would require three more to distribute
the meals. The laundry would not neces•
eitate the employment of more than three
people. The heating and lighting appar-
atus is attended by a few laborers. Forty
families thus diemiss at least forty ser-
vants, and have their work done more
laktheld better by a dozen."
Tomato Confections.
A very delicious confection may be made
of tomatoes- The single or pear-shaped
tomato is the beet for this purpose. Take
eix pounds of anger to one peck of the fruit;
scald and remove the skin, sprinkle the
sugar over the tomatoes, and let them
stand two day a in stone jars; then cook
them in this juice until the sugar pene-
trates, and they look clear; take them out,
spread on dishee, flattening mile tomato,
and dry in the sun; a small quantity of
the syrup should be occasionally sprinkled
over them while drying; when dry, pack
them down in boxes with powdered sugar
between each layer. The syrap is cooked
down and bottled for use. When treated
in that way the flavor of the dried tomato
ia much like the best quality of figs.—
Margaret Ryder, in Harper's Bazar.
Knew by Experience.
Little Nan of four summers, considering
it her duty to entertain a lady who is wait.
ing for mamma, enters into conversation :
Nan—Have you got any little girls?
Cedler—Yes, I have two.
Nan—D-do you ever have to whip 'em.
Caller—I'm afraid I have to, sometimes.
Nan—What do you whip 'em with.?
Caller (amused) —Oh, when they have
been very naughty I take my elippere.
Nan (most feelingly as mamma enters)—
Y-yo.you ought to use a hair -brush; my
mamma does, and it harts awfully.
How to Close the Saloons.
Nashville American: "1! everbody fol.
lowed my example," announced an en-
thnsiteetio temperance advocate recently,
"every saloon in the city would close be-
fore the end of the month."
" How's that?" asked a rubicund -faced
auditor, who had not before spoken.
" They would olose for lack of patro
air. I never drink?"
" I see. I can go yon one better,
though. If everybody followed my ex-
ample, every saloon in the city would be
closed before next Saturday night."
"flow's that ?" asked the temperance
advocate, eagerly.
11 They would ran out of atook."
A $6,000 Cluster of Lights.
Baron James Rothschild, of London, has
adorned his drawing.room with the most
euperb eleotrolier ever made. It is
composed of gilt bronze and rock orvetal
in a dation of the time of Louis XVI.,
eixtmeightb eleotrio lights being skilfully
arranged among the bronze leaves. The
unique illuminator is about five feet high
by twenty.eight inches in diameter, and
cost e6,000.
"Only think," said Maud, " they used
to say that the drama was going to the
dogs. Now the puppies seem to be going to
the drama," and she swept with her flee
the rows eif seats filled with turbulent
inemeturity.
The Official Gazette announces that the
imperial Parliament will reassemble
November 25th.
She—I hope yen. do not remain in the
parlor when your sister receives her Acme.
He -.-No; 'cause I'm afraid of the dark.
The other day a gentleman save a profes-
sional florist watering hie plantin the hot
sun, end in a surprieed tone inquired it
Shat Wouldn't injure the plants. "Why,
no," Ives the answer; "why not bow ? "
"1 stippoSed they had to be teetered only
at night," said the ametenr. 4‘ Do you
drInNOnly at night 2" asked the florist ;
" areyou only thirsty after the sun goes
dowi?"
A BUORRIST
Handset the Happy Couple Tied. Togethe
with eine Thread.
A miseionary desoribee at marriage oere.
mony s Web he witnessed in the palace of
She Oovertier of Otembodie ae followe, REMO
the See lerancisco Argonaut
I was ushered, amid a tremencioue din
of gongs, into a large room beyond the
reception hall, where were seated the
Governor and about 100 noblemen and
invited gueats. The bridegroom a young
man about 20 yettre of age, elegantly attired
in eilk garmente, was aleo there. By the
time we foreigners were eeated a .proceesion
—headed by the bride, sapportee on either
side by demure looking matrons, conapotied
principally of Reed or married women, all
elegantly attired—entered and slowly
marelif d toward the Governor.
" The bride WdS not partionlitrly interest.
ing as regards personal °harem • she was
young, however, and dreesed riebly and in
good Mote, Beatles her Silk d mse she vrore
a gold embroidered scart upon her
ehoulders ; oleo gold rings upon her fingers,
bracelets upon her wriste and ernalets above
the elbows!. The bride took up her pontion
near the bridegroom, both eittiog upon the
floor, but not looking toward excle other;
in fact, throughout the entire ceremony
they both were perfectly inmeseive and
no,nicithhalettnataarr
lag° ceremony proper now
began. A number of wax candles were
brought in o salver and then lighted by one
of the nobles. The silver waiter Wall then
passed around before the company
eight times, each one in turn saluting
the couple and wishing them good
fortune by waving or blowing the
smoke toward them, thus expressing some-
thing like the old English custom of throw.
ng the slipper alter a newly wedded
bet:Tie—the band of stringed instrumento
playing the meanwhile. Two large velvet
onshione had been previously placed before
the bride and bridegroom and UDOII them a
large sword. The leader of the theatricals
now came forward and went through, for a
few moments, a most fantaetical sword
exercise.
"Dishes had b nen placed before the
couple upon the floor, with covers upon
them. Nothing, bowever, was eaten.
Nest the hands of the expectant couple
were bound together and to each other
with silken threads by the women
attendants, probably some near relative.
Theis were they truly joined in Buddhist
wedlock. And this completed the simple
yet effective ceremony."
England's Coal Supply.
Who will say that our coal supplies are
giving out? Mr. Ltwie, speaking at the
meeting of the Fenerated Institution of
Mining Engineers ie Nottingham, declared
that if any enterpriting person were to
obtain permission ot he Town Council of
that famous historic, town to sink a pit
in their market 'elect (we are told, by the
way, that there is ample room ") he
would assuredly come down upon the top
hard seam of coal, ane that at a depth
probably not excel Atm three hundred
yards. Mr. Lewis even tells us that "the
whole thickness of the coal measures " is
there. This, if literally true, would mean
that at least for three thousend feet lower
the shaft might go on sinking through
seams of coal. For some years past the
Nottingham coal fields have been more and
more developed; but Mr. Lewis is of
opinion that we have ea yet "little more
than touched the fringe" of the great
Nottingham coal field. These vast unde-
veloped resources will be there for our nee
as the times require them, or as the smaller
collieries at the outcrop of the coal in
Derbyshire and West Notts become ex.
hautited.—London Daily News,
The Summer Girl a Back Number.
New York Herald:
Pack away my blazer, mother,
Four in hands and vest;
Give my russets to the waitress,
Lay my bathing suit to rest.
Come and it beside, me mother,
Smooth the puckers from my brow,
For the season's over, dearest
Mother, I'm a chestnut now
DI Chicago.
Penelope—There ,is a slight coolness
between your father and mother, is there
not?
Perdita—Oh, no, only a divorce.
• " I couldn't help getting mad. Now, I
appeal to you, if you were I, wouldn't you
be angry ? ' "1 don't know as I would be
angry; but if I were you, I should bo inex-
pressibly sad."
THE Philadelphia assessment roll for
1890 ahows that nearly e100,000,000 worth
of property is exempt from taxation. The
total assessed value of exempt property in
the city is $95,408,994, divided as follows:
699 churches, e‘seessed at $20,292,300; 341
charitable inetitutions, valued at el3,693,-
650 ; 161 public schools, assessed at $4,456,-
000 ; 38 hospitals, assessed at $3,708,500 ;
68 cemeteries, valued at $2,359,500. Pro-
perty belonging to the city of Philadelphia,
assessed at 09,399,044, whittle. inoludee
some school -houses, police statione, the
public buildings, the park, the engine.
houses, etc. If to this is added the $10,-
000,000 worth of exempt property owned
by the United States Government and
$1,600,000 worth controlled by the State
of Pennsylvania, the aggregate is $50,899,-
044. This question of exemption will yet
have to be dealt with in this country. By
exempting one all the rest are the a rule
hurt.
THE unfortunate individuals who fail to
prizes in the now popnlar "word com-
petitions" may feel interested in a
portion of tbe annual report of the British
Postmaster General. It says :
The fashion of offering prizes for competitions
of various kinds amongst the readers of news-
papers and magazines gives rise to much corres-
pondence. On the 2nd May last year no less
than 31,808 postcards were delivered at tho office
of one magazine, and at another office about
half -a -million postcards were delivered in a
single week, ono delivery alone comprising
185,250 letters and postcards, carried to the office
of the magazine in two vans. In another week
as many as 118,000 letters wore delivered at the
office of one journal, the postage alone amount-
ing to about X1,000. Doubtless this will explain
why so many candidates in those competitions
coine away disappointed.
Soak clothes filet fade over night in
water in which has been dissolved one
00006 0! auger of lead to a pailful of rain
water.
TUR AUTOCRAT.
The BUR Wo Makes aud lealoshell Iffeekt
ions—nis COStUniell.
Few Canadian women who have visited
Europe are unfamiliar veldt the entresoi 02
the Altana° de l'Opera, in whioh Worths
the monarch of drestemakere, holde hia
court. Worth was originally a short:tan
la a large London dry geode store. He
was promoted front the counter to become
a buyer for the firm by which he wee
employed. In that capacity he visited
Pans, and there conceived the idea of *ha
drefeamaking business, which has msde
hie name to familiar to women. Worth'e
manner is autocratic. He fully appre-
elides the feet that he heti aohieved great-
ness. He lives in a pretty vine, buried
in flowers, at Ville d'Avray, the suburb of
Paris where Gambetta died, Worth re.
(mitres would-be oustomere with the digni-
fied, air of a veritable sovereign. He listene
to their indications of the styles in which
they believe the forthcoming 00Stiltne
should be created, hat he does not alwaya
follow their suggestions. He refuses to be
tettered in any way in his creations.",
The interview ended, he waves his fair
vieitor toward an adjoining room, vrhere
Mlle. Louise, or some other of his (thief
aseistants, perhaps " tries on " a dress at
the FAA° described by the miller, and
attend o to the details of her order.
She Required It.
Detroit Free Press ; A middle aged woman
called at a Grand River avenue drug store
the other evening and asked for morphine,
and the clerk replied to her request with:
'1 Is it for your husband 2'
"Oh, no, sir; I haven't got any."
" You don't think of subside 2"
" Far from it."
" What do you take it for 2"
Must I tell, air 2"
"You must."
"Well, then, don't you think that a
woman 40 years old, who has had her firek
offer of marriage less than an hour agoe
naturally wants something to quiet her
nerves and give her a good night's sleep 2"
The druggist thought so and she got her
nerve soother.
Hints to Housekeepers.
To keep lemons, put in a glass can and
cover with cold water, ohanging the water
every week.
To prevent tin pans from rusting, rub
fresh lard on them, and set in a hot oven
until thoroughly heated.
When mattresses are stained, take
staroh wet into a paste with oold water.
Spread this on the stains, first putting the
mattress in the sun. In an hour or twee
rnb this off, and if not clean repeat the
promos.
0. R. Tunnel.
Surveys have been made for a tunnel
under the Detroit river for the Bliehigen
Central Railroad. The Vanderbilt lines
will have to come to it. The Grand Trunk
has recently finished a tunnel under the
same river. In these days of fast travel
passengers would prefer not to wait for the
slow moving ferry between Detroit and
Windsor. A one track tunnel at the place
indicated would, with approaches, be 6,500
feet long, and cost 3,000.000;5for twO
tracks, $2,000,000 additional.
Off for a Holiday.
"When you asked for a holiday yester-
day, Mr. Soimmerman, you ahould have
stated the facts."
" I did, sir."
" What, sir, a holiday and all you did
was to see your wife and her mother oft to
the railroad station 7"
Tan centenary of the death of Wesley
will be celebrated in illarela. It is pro-
posed to raise £7,000 to be applied in
building a new and worthier tomb over
Wesley's grave ; to set aside Wesley'
house as a museum for Methodist antiqui-
ties, and to thoroughly restore City Road
Chapel, London. The present wooden
galleries under the church are to be re.
moved and handsome marble pillars plaaed
in their stead, each to cost $500. The
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, the Canadian
Methodist Church, South African Metho-
dist Church, Australian Methodist Church,
West Indian Methodist Church and the
Irish Methodist Church are expected to
contribute a pillar apiece.
John Barns, the rising English labor
leader, is a man of etriking individuality.
He is a candidate for parliament.
D 0 N L. 45. 90,
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Best, Easiest to Use and Cheapest.
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E. T. Ilazoltine, Warren, Pa., U. S. A.
ermudaottedi
"mem must 50 to Bermuda. Iff
you do not I will not be respongl.
ble for the consequences." "But,
doctor, I can afford neither the
time nor the money." "Wells if
that is impossible, try
SCOTT'S
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