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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-7-23, Page 7KISSING AND MELLING PREACHERS. Mow Able and Experienced Den Are Nunuaiated. Toronto World: The Methodist Church is forever being confeonted with the proof that its systeiu of supplying ministers is faulty. lioevever that system may on the whole compare with the various other plans in use, it is certainly far from perfect. The latest instance of this occurs in the Davenport Church on the western skirts of Toronto. This church has been long estab- fished and once flourished, but of recent years the congregatione have fallen away, and the collectionand other sources of revenue dwindled to insufficiency. New churches have arisen near by and pros- pered, and the more the leading members of the Davenport flock looked about the more regularly, did their eyes revert to their pulpit and their hearts declare that a young minister must be secured. Their especial need was a young man, one who could eneile as well as pray ; who could entertain ancl retain the living as well as shrive the dying; who would be as handy at a picnic as a prayer -meeting, and in his vigorous humanity prefer a merriage to a. funeral. This opinion was arrived at last year, and a memorial was forwarded to Dr. .Pirritte, President of the conference [and formerly a resident of Hamilton], asking that the request be impressed upon the Stationing 011ommiteee. In the original draft of stations Rev. Mr, Well - woods was allotted to Davenport, ancl this suited the congregation to a nicety. Pre- sumably he is a good hand at a wedding and • a cordial smiler. At any rate this is what they demanded in their new parson, and they were suited with him. Rev, Dr. Pir- ritte, retiring president of the conference, was billeted for Orillia in the first draft of , 'stations, but the Orillia people presumably *anted a, parson who could put up swings at a pmnic if need be and go with zest tato his - sacred function of stealing first kiss from the bride at marriages, so they sent word that Dr. Pirritte would not do. Thereupon the •:Stationing Committee transposed Messrs. Wellwoods and Pirritte. The Davenport people held an indignation meeting and refuse to accept Rev. Dr. Pirritte as their minister. Rev. Dr. Pirritte is placed in a most humiliating position. After years of valu- able services to the church he is sent to one .station after another and told that he is not wanted. Last year he was exalted by his fellow -clergymen to the presidency, and that should, if it does not, attest his attainments as well as his virtues of head and heart. A system that can subject such a man to such humiliation is a poor system and has lived too long. The introduction of fiddles and operatic solos and bun -struggles and collections to get into church and collections to get out again -this style of thing is bearing fruit • everywhere. The preacher nowadays re- quires to be a Napoleon of finance and play the arts of a confidence man in filling his pews e In hiring him the congregation bar- gains for a broad smile saul a wife who will meekly be bullied by every woman on the circuit. The Stationing Committee should secure a list of those churches that demand ,circus attractions in the pulpit, and those •other churches that insist upon having a minister who can turn handsprings, and has a hereditary disposition to shake hands. In this way it might save ministers grown old in the service, but none the less sensi- tive, from humiliation they can never quite • forget in this life. Fresh and Vigorous. On a fine morning and a fine road, what is more invigorating than a spin on 'a cycle? Wien it comes to a race, the suggestion of Mr. George Phillips, Sec'y, Leinster Cycling Club, Dublin, Ireland, has force: "I have found St. Jacobs Oil an invaluable remedy for strains and bruises, and so have several members of our club." ' This ought to be borne in mind. A Few Sensible Remarks. But what's a diploma? It shows what you have been. It is no passport to success. It won't gain admission for you to a first- class college, and if you wanted a situation and showed it to a business man as a recom- mendation he would put you down as a , guy; and you'd be one. A diploma doesn't show that your education has left you anxious to learn more. And unless you are, you're not worth much. What you really • are and are worth to others is •the test of capacity.. Goethe, the German poet, • says "You are, after all, -what , you are. Deck yourself in a wig with a thousand locks ' • ensconce your legs in • buskins an ell high ; you still remain just what you are." It is not enough that you • have gone through the school curriculum - end are supposed to have absorbed the learning in the books you were required to study. Henry Ward Beecher remarked , once that the first great lesson a young • man should learn is, that he knows noth- ing. And your college professor or your • employer will estimate you all the more highly for approaching the world of learn - fags or business in the humble frame of mind induced by such a lesson.-Drale's Magazine. Something To Re Avoided. We would guard the young against the use of every word that is not perfectly , proper. Use no profane expression -allude to no sentence that would put to blush the most sensitive. You know not the tendency of habituallyusing indec'ent and profane ;language. It may never be obliterated from your hearts, says the New York Ledger. When you grow up you will find -at your tongue's encl sense expression you -would not use for any money. By being mareful, you will save yourself a great deal of mortification and sorrow. Good men have been taken sick and become delirious. lis these moments they have used the most vile and indecent language imaginable. When in- formed of it, after a restoration to health, they had no idea of the pain they had given their friends, and stated that they had learned ancl repeated the expressions in childhood, and, though year's had passed •since they had spoken a bad word, the early impressions had been indelibly stamped upon the heart. Most of 'Ent Good, All the Same. A celebrated physica,n divides American women into for classes, of whom 30 per cent, make good wives and mothers ; 25 per cent good wives but not good mothers ; 20 per cent. good motherbut not good wives, while 25 per cent. are neither .000cl wives nor good mothers, bat find their greatest happiness in business. What of the thus - bands end fathers ?-Hartford Tintes. Ile Flail a Smile. Vew York Herald: Spacer -Whet can I say in this obittiary for Ginsling, the bar- tender? Editor -Work in something about his "having a smile for everyone." A Bright boy. Closefist-I told that good-forenothing boy to -day that he would have to paddle his own canoe. Mrs. Closefist-What did he say to that ? C1osetista--1-16 struck me for money to buy the Canoe. ,mensommomust_ TUE GENTLE WAY. How Expert ahoplitating is Carried on ODA Deteeted. She was a middle-aged, well-dreesed lady, and he had the next etoo l on my right alongside a dry goods counter in Fourteenth street. I wasn't watching her at all, but happened to see her place her shopping -bag on the counter and deftly pick' up and con - coal a pair of kid gloves within its capa- cious maw. One hates to meddle in such cases, but such things are wrong, and as the store detective was only 20 feet away 1 went over and told him what I had seen. 1 saw him look at the girl clerk end he gave him a nod to signify that she had also caught on. It was shoplifting, pure and simple, and I waited with considerablmarix- iety to see the outcome. Being waited on, ma'am ?" asked the detective with a bland smile, as he sat down 'beside her. " Oh, yes, yes!" she replied. " Pleamant day ?" "Very pleasant." "These gloves," he continued, as he picked up a pair, "are a wonderful bargain at the price. You were wise to make an in. vestment. I don't believe they will sell again at the price this summer. See that the lady is promptly waited on Julie." "Julia" sold her two or three bits of lace, included ninety cents for the gloves on her slip, and the bill was paid with- out a word, although the stolen goods were not even mentioned, and could not, of course, be wrapped up with the other things. It was only when the lady rose to go, after receiving her change, that she betrayed any emotion. Then she flushed up, grew pale about the mouth, and as she passed inc she gave me a flash of her eyes which seemed to promise vengeance in the future. "Do you always work it as slick as that?" I asked of the detective, as she swept out, "Not always. She was an old hand at the business and a sharp woman. They always make the best of it when caught. Oise with less wit would have bluffed and stormed, and I should have had to take her back to the office and prove her a thief." - New York Herald. French Table Talk. Children being nearly alwa.ye at table in France, and oouversation often being ani- mated amongst sheir elders, they hear a great deal that was never intended for them, and they get a sort of education in talkativeness by mere example. They may make little use of this in the presence or strangers cluring boyhood or girlhood, but it bursts out afterwards when they get to a talking age. It is recognized by custom that when a family is in -private every one has a right to talk or not as he pleases, and silence being permitted, the taciturn will take advantage of it • still, nothing is more national in French life than talkative- ness at meal times, even when the family alone is present. This does at least keep up the national power of talking, though the mill wheels of conversation have frequently very little grain to grind. Talk of this kind has some use as a stimulating exercise of the lighter faculties, which in other countries are often left unexercised. The merits of ib are its facility of expression and its ample choice of language ; the defects of it, in France, may be inclueled under the one head of km/Relent or inaccurate information. - Philip Gilbert Harnerton, in the July Forum. Novelties in Earidtare. A handsome mahogany parlor suite is in empire style, picked out in gold. A. choice pure Louis XV. style is done in carved gilt, wtth a delicate peach and soft olive covering. Dead gold combined with burnished gold is a distinct and strong feature in the finish of the new goods. One of the most beautiful parlor suits is decorated with an exquisite Watteau upon the backs of the various pieces. Jewel cases of the daintiest and most delicate forms, beautifully covered, are made particularly for "inamselle's boudoir." An Egyptian booth, with elaborately designed fretwork top, is a striking oddity for a hall stand, and a full-length mirror in the rear refleots the fret to good effect. A massively carved bull's head forms the back of a curious hall chair. The polished back and seat and carved legs closely resemble the cloven hoof of the bovine. - Upholsterer. The Proof of the Padding. Have you humors, causing blotches Does your blood run thick and sluggish? Are you drowsy, dull and languid? Is a bad taste in your mouth, and Is your tongue all tarred and coated? • d's you sleep with bad dreams broken? Do you feel downhearted, dismal, Dreading something, what, you know not? - Then bo very sure you're bihous- That you have a torpid. liver, And what you need is something to rouse it and make it active enough to throw off the impurities Una clog it; something to in. vigorate the debilitated system, and help all the organs to perform the duties expected of them, promptly and energetically. That " something " is Dr. PierceM Golden Medi cal Discovery, the great Blood Purifier, which its proprietors have such faith in that they guarantee it to cure. If it does not, your money will be refunded. But it will. Buy it, try it, and be convinced of its wonderful power. If the proof of the pud- ding is in the eating, the proof of this remedy is in the taking. What They Would Woe Exchange: " Now' " said a Sunday - school teacher, who had given the boys a treat, and wished also to point a moral, "would these strawberries have tasted as well if you had stolen them out of the garden?" " No, sir," said one demure lad, serenely, "we shouldn't ha' had cream and sugar with 'ern." . ADdellie tn Walltraper. Put a small piece of the paper into strong ammonia water. If arsenic be present bluish color will be developed. Since copper gives a, similar reaction, as a further test moisten a crystal of nitrate of silver with a drop of the fluid. If the color be due to arsenic, a yellowish deposit will be formed on the crystal. -National Druggist. Princess May, of Teck, is the prettiest marriageable royal girl in Europe. • She is the present object of devotion of Prince Edward of Wales, but the match is prevented by the strong objection of the Crieen. She -Whom do you care more for, Jack ? Ile -Is it possible you do not know whom I love best in all this world? She -Yes, I know; but next to him ? Lucy Thicker, colored, of Trigg county, Ky., aged 105 years, has cut a full set of new teeth, the old ones having decayed and disappeared, about forty years ago Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that if nine -tenths of the medicines in the world were thrown into the ocean mankind would be greatly benefited. -Husband-That fence wants painting badly. I think I'll do it myself. Wife -- Yes, do it yourself, if you think it wants to be done badly, ^ -1- - CANADIAN CRICKET VET/MAN& • The "Have , Reen's " Organize a Team and Adopt Good G'inieral The veteran cricketers of Canada have organized a teem, and the first match has been played. They have also adopted rides which mull be found full of wisdom, becom- ing to men of yeare and experience. They are : 1. That this club be called the "Veterans' Cricket Club." 2. That no one be eligible without being able to present a medical certificate stating that ot lruiu briefly ecorri gs oati 15" 1(11173 otisyeesd ,' " broken down," 3. That every persoe me being elected be re- quired to pay no subscription. 4. That the club colors be various, 5, Any member not appearing in 'same be fined one bottle of soda water (Canadian). 6. That the system of fast underhand. bowling. (daisy cutters) at present in use, be considered spurious and unworthy to be used by the V. C. C., and. therefore it be not admitted in their matches. 7. That to promote the efficiency of the Club, 110 member be alloeved to get Duels's Egg" (0) on pain of paying a bottle of soda water ,(Cariadian) for the good of the Club, and, furthermore, that any member obtaining "a pair of spectacles," do pay a fine of one bottle of beer in addition to the above. N. B. -The latter clause is not intended to prevent the use of eye glasses. 8. Any member missing a catch shell be fined ono bottle of soda water (Canadian); two catches, two.bottles, and so on, in proportion. • 0. Any member obtaining fifty runs in a single inning shall be presented with one bottle of soda water (Canadian) from the funds of the Club ; for 100 runs, with two bottles (Canadian) from the same source; for 1000 runs, and over, with four bottles of soda water (English). 10. Any member making himself disagree- able, bo considered as such. 11. Any member bowling a wide ball (under- hand lobs), be fined a bottle of soda water (English). 12, Any mermber bowling a "no ball" shall be required to bowl it over again. • 13. Any member letting a "bye"shall be re- quired to run after It. 14.. No member shall be allowed to uso per- sonal abuse to the bowler and umpire, and the same privilege shall be extended to the wicket- keeper and captain. 15. Any member bowling three wickets in succession will bo required to get himself a, new hat. 16. That these rules be strictly adhered to, especially rule 16. 17. That wherein not otherwise provided for, the rules of the Marylebone Cricket Club shall gnvorn. 13. Once a veteran always a veteran. TESTING' STRENGTH 01' A Device Which Determines the Strain Threads Will Bear. • In the textile industry there is great need of a device evhich will determine -fairly the strain that samples of yarn will bear. Here- tofore much has depended on the skill of the person making • the test, which must be made by the application of a dead weight. As there is difficulty in slowly incereasing the weight without shock or vibration, yarn tests have seldom been free from error. In a machine recently invented by an Englishman the • difficulties in testing yarn have been practically overcome, the dead weight being gradually increased by a shnple contrivance. A small cylin- der is filled with oil which will flow easily, a connection being established be- tween the upper and lower part by means of a small tube. About midway of this tube is a regulating tap by which the movement of the oil can be readily controlled. One end of the yarn is attached to a recording mechanism at the top of the apparatus and the other end to the piston working in the cylinder filled with the oil. To the piston is attached a, weighted arm, and. when the regulating tap is turned the oil is slowly forced from the lower part of the cylinder to the top until the yarn parts. In the meantime a simple recording apparatus will show the actual weight applied previous to the breaking of the. thread. It is said that these testers are *extremely simple and effective. Stormier of Boston. Judge : Mr. Yohrker, to his affianced, Miss Iphigenia, Baustohn-And. now, Iffie, as we are engaged I want a kiss. She -Mr. Yohrker, the osculatory pheno- mena often accompanying the ante -connu- bial state are indeed reprehensible and viewed with commendable animadversion by — He -Break away, Iffie ! coming (Reaches for her.) She, sliding to extreme end of sofa -Mr. Yohrker I such impetuous amatory manifes- tations necessitate a contravallatioia, lest cumulative concessions conserve to con tiguity and concomitant conjunctive con- tractile consequences which — He -I pass; look out! (Slides after her.) She (with a slight but cultivated squeal) -Mr. Yohrker, would you constuprate ? Would -would -really, Mr. -I -oh I -G -- G, -George, why, I positively !-I-I--am now— He (emphatically, folding her in his arms) -So am 1? (A moment's silence.) - He (inquiringly) -As you were saying, Iffie, you are now ?— She (softly, and in a muffled voice) -Out of sight. Sudden volley of explosions followed by a veryslight silence. Boston had surrendered. -Judge. The Typical Modern City. Paris is the typical modern city. In the work of transforming the labyrinthine tangle of narrow, dark, and foul medieval alleys into broad modern thoroughfares and of providing those appointments and conven- iences that distinguish the well -ordered city of our day from the old-time cities which had grown up formless and organless by centuries of accretion -in this brilliant nineteenth century task of reconstructing cities in their physicial ammeters, dealing with them as organic entities, and endeavor- ing to give such form to the visible body as will best accommodate the expanding life within, Paris has been the unrivaled leader. Berlin and Vienna have accom- plished magnificent results in city making, and great British towns -Glasgow, Birming- ham, Manchester and others -have in a less ambitious way wrought no less useful re- forms ; but Paris was the pioneer. French public anthorities, architects and engineers were the first to conceive effectually the ideas of symmetry and spaciousness, of order and convenience, of wholesomeness and cleanliness, in urban arrangements.- Dr Albert Shaw, in the Century for july. warin invitation. Bolivar (an ontlinsiaStic advocate of creina,tion.)-1 wrote the Cremation Com - pally last week, asking them to file my formal applicatieni to be cremated. Van Dyke -Ah 1 Did you receive a, reply? Bolivar -0, yes. They told me to eotrie early and avoid the rush. -Capital Chips. Uncoad Mona! Surrender Necessaty. Farmer Firkin (to small boy) -If ye don't mane right down eut o' that tree, I'll let go o' the clog's eollaa Small Boy -Huh 1 A dog can't climb a tree 1 Fanner ; but I kin, an he kin squat under it WHAT TO NAME THE BAHL Names Have Meanings and Nay lalluence Valero Livca. People might select names for eheh- chil- dren with better discretion if they were aceuainted with the very' expreesive mean- ings borne by many of the pereonal designa- tions in the language, said a linguist _pro- fessor to a writer in the Washington Saker. "Some of them have rather funny signal- 4 cations. For example, Julia meansmossy; bearded,' Ursula is female bear, Priscilla ie a little ancient,' and Cecilia is 'dim -sighted.' Barbara signifies foreign,' Abel is vanity,' Bernard is bear's heart,' and Caleb is a dog.' Daniel is judgment of God,' and Raphael is mecti- cene of God.' "Ever so many English names have very beautiful meanings. Beatrice is making haaa.Y,' Letitia is joy,' Mabel is my fair,' Selina, is nightingale,' Susan is a lily,' Sarah is a lady,' Rebecca is faithful,' and Lydia is a well of water.' What is prettier than IVIargaret, which signifies a pearl,' or than Amelia, for sincere,' or than Sophia for wisdom,' or than Katherine for pure,' or than Adeline for a princess r. Bertha, is bright,' Charlotte is allnoble,' Cor- nelia is 'harmonious,' Caroline is noble - spirited,' Harriet is a sweet perfnine,' and Jane is a willow.' Again, Henrietta. is, properly translated, a star,' Judith is praising,' Jemima is swet song,' Isa- bella is 'fair Eliza,' Agatha is good,' Felicia, is happy,' Luey is constant,' Muriel myrrh,' ancl even humble- city. I do not know by whom. I was at a sounding Bridget is shining Might.' • little musicale the other night, and some "If these are good names for sisters, ' folks were there who were better posted sweethearts, wives and mothers, equally about the origin of songs which have become appropriate for fathers, sons and brothers famous thanthey are about music,. One of are Nicholas,which means 'victorious,' the party said what I have just told you. David for 'beloved,' Hugh for thought,' , And then he added soine information which Horatie for 'worthy,' James for superior,' was new to Inc. Thomas for a lion,' and Edward for ' truth He said that the author was Benjamin R. keeper.? Philip war -like,' Robert is Hamby, of Butler county, 0. He was a famous,' Richard is powerful,' Eastace is I preacher and an avowed abolitionist. He firm,' Ralph is help,' Charles is man,' read an account of a young colored. girl Matthew is a gift,' Hubert is bright . whose name was Nellie Gray, who had been mind,' and Hilary is cheerful.' William sold andtaken Jimmy front her colored lover. stands for helm of the will,' Patrick for a He wrote a Song from the incident and sent nobleman,' Felix for happy,' Oliver for 'an ' the words to a Chicago firm, but never heard olive,' and Isaac for laughter.' anything from irs "Incidentally to naming children, it is Meng time after the sending of the words worth while to look out for the initials. I he -was a visitor at tha house of a young have known two men who were obliged to lady who 'blast Coltunbus, 0. He asked write theinselves for short A. S. S.' just' her to play something. She said she had because of their parents carelessness." 1 i:ArriTlyrrilx;Y:g3 You." tfaionaz iff.b.0?" "191,17 the in."SoaritOr of JL Whitt cared me et CONSUMPTION." age thanks for its discovery. That it dem not make you sick when you take it. • Give thanks. That it is three times as efficacious as the old-fashioned cod liver oti. e Gizr thanks. That it is such a wonder- ful flesh producer. Clara. thanks. That it is the best remedy for Consumptio2,6'crojte1a, L.2ronehltis, Mating Ins - eases„,Coughs and Colds. Bemire you get the genuine in Salmon color wrapper; sold by all Druggists, at sac. mid $r.00. SCOTT & BOWNE, Belleville. Original- the Song "Darling Nellie Gray:, The old plantation favorite, "Darling Nellie Gray, was published first in this TO PRESERVE FLOWERS. Fine, Dry Sand Will Give Better Results Than Anything Known. nothing new except a negro song which had recently came out. She then played analmang "Nellie Gray.” Hamby askecl to see the music, which . was granted of course. He then pointed out his name on the music. She had not noticed that or if To preserve delicate flowers take very she had she had. not connected the name with the visitor. It was the first. time he fine sand wash it perfectly clean, and when dry sift it through a fine sieve into a haclever heard it. Hamby wrote to the pan. When the pan is deep enough to hold the firm that published the music calling atten- more Sifted sand. and carefully cover them- The publishers sent him six- copies of the tion to the fact that he wrote the words. flowers in an upright position take some sang, which was all the pay he ever got. A spoon is a good thing to take for this,as it fillsin every chink and cranny witlout The publishers, according to the gentleman breaking or bending the leaves. When the who told, the story, made a fortune out of it. pan is filled solidly leave the flowers to dry -Interview in Chicago Tribune. for several days. It is a good plan to warm the sand in the oven before using it, as the flowers will then dry more thoroughly - Pansies preserved in this way will keep, their shape and brilliancy of colorall 'winter. size of the tvvo ends of the biock, and paste Ferns when preserved in this way have a them ma securely. Round the centre of the more natural look than when pressed, and block put a. strip of satin ribbon, rnd fasten the maiden hair fern looks almost as well as it with invisible stitches. Then take when it is freshly gathered. --Neto York velvet ribbon of the same 'color and pass it Tribune. , round the Mock so that it will meet the F sandpaper at one edge and overlap the Cities as Smuttier Resorts. ribbon with the other, blind -stitching • It is odd that people who live in cour4ty together at the joining. Fasten gilt or towns, while as eager for a change during silver tinsel from the mside edge of one • the hot weather as their city cousins, do not strip of velvet to the other ; this should be oftener come to the city for it. This fact is in imitation of the snares of a drum. The not semh eacempliment to rnratcharm.s as it tinsel may be caughttogether with spangles. seems, for, owing to the " faht that the The itmibis ii'veiledffeetive suspended from a beauties of summer in a city have not been well advertised, country townspeople seldom go anywhere during the warm spell - New York, Chicago, Boston, San Fran- -cisco -all the large cities are natural water- ing places. New York, for example, is sur- rounded by water, and is so near the ocean. that excursion steamers to Rockaway go ont of sight of land to lengthen the trip. People hear of the stifling; city streets -but the streets of New York are far breezier than those of many an inland town which boasts of its shade trees and its sprinkling cart. , FLIm every other pier in New York steamers put out for a half day's trip on the Hudson, down the bay, up the sound and beyond Sandy Hook. Central Park offers A Dainty Match.Scratcher. • Take a pasteboard ribbon block and out Iwo round pieces of sandpaper the exact ,t Slight Miattike. " Look here," said an excited man to is druggist, you gave some morphine form quinine this morning 1" I " Is that so ?" replied the druggist. " Theft you bwe me 25 cents. " That's the difference in price."-Brooleion Life. gas jet by a half-inch wide ribbon fastened to the drtun by a pretty bow. --Ladies' Home Tournab A Steam Phaeton. Among the latest engineering feats is the the manufacture of a steam phaeton, which has just been introduced into Paris by Mons. Serpollet. This steain phaeton is said to re- semble an ordinary phaeton and has under the body of the carriage a Serpollet motor, with an inexplosible boiler and a funnel bent down to discharge the smoke under the hind seat at the rear of the vehicle. It is guided by a single front wheel, after the naumer of a tricycle. The tank is capable of holding enough water to perform a jour- ney of 18 or 20 miles; the bunker can fur. it hundreds of acres of woodland anti nisk fuel (probably coke in cities, as it is meadow, a row on the placid Harlem is a smokele.ss) for running 30 miles. The treat, open street cars afford a breezy ancl weight of this vehicle, with water and coke, luxurious ride through odd corners of the is 2,500 pounds. Oa a good country road a town, and the roof seats of the Fifth avenue speed of 50 miles an hour can be kcpt up, stage give every man a triumphal chariot yeah seven persons in the carnage. 11 can • Because "Drake's Magazine" lives be started. in 20 minutes and the feeding of New York I have exploited New York's ad-•, vantages 'as a watering place. Every city is the,. engornarri_ieLy,_with water and fuel goes on s- one more or less. ' one, to the city in the summer for your Deathorthe Queen's Piper. outing, you who live in country towns. William Ross, the Queen's Piper, who was Start the ball amolling.-PikestaffiaDrakes buried at Windsor two or three days ago, Magazine. was in his early days, in the Black Watch; but he had mastered the bagpipe before he An Agreeable Empress' • enterel the army, having been instructed by Thecelebrated Dr. Metzger of Amsterdam, an GM Highland piper whose daughter he who last year successfully treated the BM' subsequently married. He distinguished press of Austria, has only one sitting -room himself as piper while with his regiment, for all his patients, whatever their rank and and in May, 1854, be was appointed piper to condition. Each has to wait his turn. Some the Qneen, and head the position until the time ago a poor woman who happened to be time of his death. As a player of a " Pib- there turned to her neighbor, a lady of clis- roch" or of a: " Lament " Ross was unap- tinguished appearance, notwithstanding the proachahle. But the work by which he simplicity of her attire, and said: will be chiefly remembered is the great "How long we have to wait, to be mire 1 " Caection. of Pipe Music," the preparation and produetton elf which cost thirty years of patient labor. I dare say ycra have got a little child at home, too ? " Neo "But when you get back you vvill have to Iteward of Merit. sweep out your rooms? Begin' ITeraid Bank Teller -Will you "No, I have folks who do that, forme," take it as ,presumption, madam, if I offer " I.usleed ? But you'll want to get diluter you these few roses ? ready?" Miss Caramela Golddust-I don't know "Not even that, for I dine at the hotel." you sir. "Very well, as you have nothing Partiene yon, Teller-Tarn aware•of that; but you lar to do, you might let me have your tuna?" are the only WORAREL in the ,history of this "Very willingly," replied the lady, who hank who ever indorsed a Check on the was the Empress of Austria. -La Bon Mee- right end! sager. Ste Fall the Usual Way. * tittle, But Lively. • Pack: Brown ---Was that boy going up Little drops of water, the ladder or comin,g down when he fell. 2 Little grains of sand, 3 tittle Johnny -From the way he looked, Make the mighty ocestra And the pleasant land." dad, .L guess he was coining down. And dropping into prose, we would say, The coroner of YubeeCounty, Cal., fined that Dr. Pieree'e Pleasant Pellets are mild, a„ corpse ia5.0 for =trying concealed weapons, but prompt in relieving eenstiPatis3ns isiek confiscated the pistol from deceased's pocket, headache, bilious attacks, pain in the region and took for fees. the remaining $25 of the of kidneys, torpid liver, and in restoring a $75 found on the remains. healthy, natural action to the stomach and bowel. 25 cents a Vird. One pellet a dose, Little, bet lively. The use of the old sty/e, ;•, ete drastic pills is an outrage on the hannatz system. A Sfirew41,63r1. Munsey's Weekly: Laura -What a clover girl Jennie is 1 She had 67 offers of mar- riage within a week after she left colle.ae,e. Clara -Indeed 1 And she is not very good looking. • ' Laura -No; but the subject of the esresy that she read at the graduation was " ifow to Keep Hohee on Twelve Dollars a Week." Among the pasSengers whb arrtkre(t itt New York on hloaday on the steanislup Arizona was the evell-known rough-emited St. 13ernard, Prince Regent. The Pritmegie it grandsire, and is the father of most of tala prize-wiunere of late years. 'IMOIL DOWN THE CROSS. PerilonS AKent of a Nighilitog nod Oa a ItrookiVn VIMireho Three hundred and twenty feet up in the air went Charles J. Kent yesterday after noon, says the Brooklyn 1Ja1jle. Over two hundred feet of the distance was inside of the steeple of St. Stephen's- church, at the corner of Summit and Hicks streets ; the rest of the dizzy height he climbed up by the lightning rod from a window of the tower, with a rope around his body, which was tightly held by his two assistants,. Lewis B. Woest and Stuart Cooper. When he got out of the window many people saw him, both men and women watched him with nerves unstrung. In a few min- utes he was at the top and had a hold of the great cross that has stood on that steeple for the past eighteen years. It is six feet in height and four inches in width at the cross and made of galvanized iron. It had about six hundred glass bull's eyes in it -worth about $1.50 each when new --and the cross was imported, from the Netherlands by the late Father O'Reilly., the former pastor of the church, and placed there when the steeple was completed. The cross was formerly lit up by electricity and could be seen seventy miles at sea. Com- plaints, however, were made by the pilots of New York harbor that the light of the cross seriously interferred with navigation, so the light was taken out. The present pastor of the church deemed it necessary - that the cross ohould be taken down, as it was getting rusty, and its galvanized iron fastenings were becoming loosened. Kent took the cross down. In six hours from the time Kent began his perilous ascent from the topmost window of the tower the cross, weighing in the neighborhood of eight hundred pounds, was lying in the yard of the church. Holidays. The Chicago News, in the course of a thoughtful article on the subject of holidays, points out that it is not merely kindness of heart, nor patriotism, which prompts men in business or trade to assume willingly the financial burdens connected with holiday observances. It is simply a keen perception of the working of economic laws -a realiza- tion that the whole community is benefited by well -observed holidays, and that the expenses which they themselves incur are just as much legitimate investments as the money expended for advertising or for the proper ventilation of store, workshop or counting house. As the News observes in summing up the question: " Holidays are not philanthropic concessions on the part of the employers. 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