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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-7-30, Page 7Poynter ReeApes. Tau rie'rei. chunk, A diamondpie, a snowy shirt, A boundless wealth of gall, A haughty an makes up the thiug$ That we hotel clerks Tuts aueaomm. ANasto for wild soneations, cynic 'e power to rail, Make up a modern preacher who is certain not to fail. THE STATESMAN. ' From an ordinary citizen The heartand conscience take, iVe him seine boodle and a pull And you'll a statesman make. THE POET* A goodly share of laziness. A. Vague, :esthetic air Combine to make a poet if You throw in lots of haia The Old Apple Tree. Here's the old apple tree, where in boyhood I sported, When my heart was as light -as the blossoms 't b ; Where my old maiden aunt by the parson was courted, In her prim cap and her gown such as ladies then wore. ,On this rude oaken bench, aieath bending Whlifelidthes ,*;,,71Ito was humming its song hi the tree, There we children oft -times by our elders were treated To share with their gossip, seine cakes and weak tea. rook' here aro the names of the many now , sleeping, Of dear parents and kindred long gone to the tomb ; The old apple tree like a true friend is heap- ing The oici oak bench they sat on with beauty and bloom. In thc. glad days of spring, when the spirit re- aoices, When the old apple tree looks as gay as a bride, Tcould dream that 1 heard every one of the voices Of the friends that sat here on the bench by my side. ' Every rudely -carved name has a story to tell me— And that true lover's knot, I remember it well; It was carved on the day when my first grief befell me, The day of my parting from sweet Isabel. Oh 1 the old, apple tree, where in boyhood I sported,ieei Amle oaken bench, they are still in their place; But the dear household faces whose welcome I courted, They have vanished and left me the last in the race. —H. Coyle, in Viek's Magazine. Puttp Putt SUMMER eIhNTKS. The Effects ot various Vegetables, Fruits, atellt4, Fish, Drinks, Etc. A physician wno has made a study of summer vegetables and their general effect on a family, says the New York Press, states that beets, carrots, potatoes, turnips, green corn, peas and Lima beans are the most fattening of the oommon vegetables. Asparagus cleans the blood and ads on the kidneys. Tomatoes contain calomel and not on the liver. Some doctors go so far as to claim that a delicate woman should not eat sliced tornatoes unlas prescribed by her family physician. Beets are particularly rich in sugar and also excellent appetizers, whether eaten with or without vinegar. Beets contain from10 to 11 percent. of sugar, carrots from 0 to 7 per cent., parsnips 6 per cent., and turnips from 2 to 4 per cent., ac - carding to the variety. They are about equal as regards the proportion of nitro- genous matter in them, each containing from 1.3 to 2 per cent. of nitrogenous ele- ments. Cucumbers and lettuce are cooling. Those' eatin„,0 lettuce with some regard forits bene- ficial properties in the days when the ther- mometer is 100 degrees in the shade will use little dressing ; a dressing with little mustard and oil and much vinegar is by far preferable to the usual mustard plaster. Olives, garlic and onions stimulate the heart and quicken circulation, and conse- quently increase the flow of saliva and so promote digestion. Red onions are a strong diuretic. Red cherries, grapes, mulberries, pears, strawberries, English golden pippin apples and red raspberries, which contain large percentages of sugar, are fattening if thor- oughly ripe. If fruits are chosen for their cooling qualities, currants, yellow plums and small gooseberries should have the call. If drinks are to be selected on the same hypothesis, claret, lemonade and iced tea - are More refreshing than milk, soda water, ' lager and the body wines. Iced tea is much better than iced coffee,as it has ar tonic effect on the pores. , - Lean meats, poultry, lobsters, dry toast and cheese are cooling as compared With mutton; gravies, salmon, farinaceous foods, rapi oca, bread, pastry, nuts and confec- tionery Wire name Than Bair. We are at work just now, said a menu- lactuier the other day, on scene pretty small 'wire. It is 1.500th of an inch in diameter —finer than the hair on your head, a great • deal. Ordinary fine wire is drawn through steel plates, but that wouldn't do for this •work, because if the hole wore away ever •. so little it would make the wire larger, and that would spoil the job. Instead, it is drawn through what is practically a hole in . a diamond, to which there is, of course, no wear. These diamond plates are made by a woman in New York, who has a monopoly of the art in this country. The wire is then %run through machinery which winds it .spirally with a layer of silk thread that is .0015 of an inch in thickness—even finer than the wire, you see. This wire is used in making the receiving instruments of y .ocean cables, the galvanometers used in II testing cables and measuring insulation of covered wires. Not Jealous. New York Herald: Harry—I saw George down town last night hugging a lamppost • Ethel—I don't believe it, and I'm not of a jealous disposition, anyway. There is a story that $5,000 worth of diamonds are buried in a Brooklyn grave. They adorn the body of an eccentric person who died several years ago. The costly jewels were placed in the coffin despite the strenuous protests of the undertaker who had charge of the funeral and who feared the desecration of ghouls. Stanley is reported to have made $181,- +000 from his American tour.. One-half of this sum came from his book, and the other ,half from his lectures. Baron de Gondoria, the Brazilian india- gabber merchant who is trying to corner the entire rubber output of the Amazon -region, is an energetic man of Portuguese birth, 41 years old. He is of short and very portly figure, with light complexion and red hair. Leopold IL, King of the Belgians! Prides himself on being a workman. J.de rises at 6 and does two hours' work before breakfast. The most remarkable Waterloo survivor the London World believes to be Monsieur Philip George d'Epinois, who was hero in 1794, and still discharges the duties of bur- gomaster in his native village of Epinoisles The Chevalier d'Epinois was one of the civic guards who welcomed Leopold I. to Belgium 60 years ago. oBVI0158 INISTINCTION. The Christian Guardian, in its leading article this week, revieWts the contents of the liondon Quarterly Remew. We quote ie3 fol- loWs An article on "The Unearned Inerenient" re- 1.'10ITS KT. William Ilarbutt Dawsonee recent book ou that subjeet, and criticises forcefully and keenly the central assumption of the Anti- DOVOTtY men, is,, that all increased values of land, which cannot be shown to result directly front the labors of the owner, should belong to the community, :1,,nd not to the private owner. .Amoug the points made against this theory are the follewing,; (1) That there in the best reason to belici,e that'under this system there would be no such inerease in the valne of land es iS Seen tinder the present method. (2) That the increased value of land, or anything else, is not the result of labor ; but arises from the in- oreased demand. A thing may have cost pinch labor and be worth little, or it may have cost little labor and be worth nauch. (3) This p110- 011310 01 givmg the increased value to the com- munity applies equally to the increase AD, the value of everything else. All property is a monopoly as well as land. All Increase of values, resulting, from an increased demand, must be iven up, and the great niotive to active in nstry would thu bc dostroYed. .(4) The assmnption that those who cause an in- crease in the value of anything have a right to share that increased value leads to most absurd conclusions. Actions that in themselves are reprehensible may cause an inorease in the value of land and ether things. (5) The owner who sells his property at anincreased price earns or deserves the increase,because he trans- fers to the community the property which has become more valuable. (8) It would be unjust to give all the members of a commuuitY indiscriminately an equal interest in the increased value of land. (7) If the in- creased value should be employe(' to do away with taxes, then people would be advantaged in proportion to their wealth. (8) The scheme would be mischievous and impracticable. The argument turns upon section 3. Can- not the editor of the Guardian, with his logical mind, discern a difference between land and the products of labor, which makes the former a monopoly in the sense in which the latter are not? Land becomes valuable by reason of scarcity and the increased demand for it. Can any man increase the supply of land, and thus ease the mon- opoly? No, because land is a fixed quan- tity, the creation of God and not the pro- duct of human labor. Boots, or houses, or jackknives, or sheep may be scarce and therefore their value is increased, but by the act of man the supply can be augmented and the equilibrium between supply and demand restored. This essential difference has been overlooked by the writer who contends that the taking of the unearned increment of land value by the community for public use would justify the taking of the increased value of labor products and thus destroy the motive to active industry. John Stuart Mill dealt with this point as follows: "Laud, it is said, is not the only article of property which rises in value from the mere effect of the advance of national wealth, independently of anything done by the proprietor. Pictures by the old masters, ancient sculptures, rare curiosities of all sorts, have the same tendency. If it is not unjust to deprive the landlord of the un- earned increase of the value of his land, by the same rule the increase of Raphaels and Titians might be taken from their fortu- nate possessors and appropriated by the state. "Were this true in principle, it would lead to no consequences in practice, since the revenue which could be obtained by even a very high tax on these rare and scattered possessions would not be worth consideration to a prosperous country. But it is not true, even in principle. " Objects of art, however rare or incom- parable, differ from land and its contents in this essential particular, that they are pre- cincts of labor. Objects of high art are pro- ducts not only of labor but of sacrifice. The prospective rise in price of works of art is by no means an unearned increase ; the best productions of genius and skill obtain that honor while the Increasing value of land is indiscriminate." There is neither force nor keenness in generalizing from an exception. While some things which have cost much labor are worth little, and other things which have cost little labor are worth much, the general rule is that the value of a commodity is pro- portionate to the labor bestowed upon its production. A man may find a big nugget of gold the day after he reaches the mining district, but on the average there is as much profit in digging potatoes as in digging gold. We quote further from,Mill to emphasize the distinction between land and other property, by ignoring which Mr. Dawson has supplied himself with the foundation for his argument: "When the sacredness of property' is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacrednessdoes not belong, in the samedegree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is 'wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not etpedient it is unjust. It is no hardship to any one to be excluded from what others have pro- duced; they were not bound to produce it for his use, and he loses nothing by not sharing in what otherwise would not have existed at all. But it is some hardship to be born into the world and to find all nature's gifts previously engrossed, and no place left for the new -comer. The clahn of the landowners to the land is altogether subordinate to the general 'policy of the state. To me it seem almost an axiom that property in land should be interpreted strictly, and that the balance in all cases of doubt should ncline against the proprietor. The revers s the case with property in movables, and in all things the product of labor ; over those, the owner's power both of use and of exclusion should be absolute, except where positive evil to others would result from it ; but in the case 01 1011(1, no exclusive right should be permitted in any individual which cannot be shown to be productive of positive good. No quantity of movable goods awhich a per- son can acquire by his labor prevents others from acquiring the like by the same means; but from the very nature of the case, who- ever owns land keeps others out of the en- joyment of it The pretension of two Dukes to shut up a pert of the Highlands,to Prevent disturbance to wild animals, .is an abuse ; it exceeds the legitimate botinds of the right of landed property. " The land is not of man's creation; and for a person to appropriate to himself a mere gift of nature, not made to him in particular, but which belonged as much to all others until he took possession of it, is prima, facie an injustice to all the rest." . Rev. William Thackeray, in his book on " The Land and the Community," presents tbe historical proof that the land belongs to the people. The logical free trader arrives at the same end by tracing the effect of the gradual repeal of duties and taxes on goods. The editor of the Guardian might get there by considering that " the earth is the Lord's," and by studying the meaning and inten- tion of the year of jubile. There is little value in an argument which ignores an important part of the premises, namely, the essential difference detween a gift of God and a precinct of human labor, one of Which is Axed in quantity while the other can be increased at will by human exertion. On the recognition of thet distinctioh, the great political problem of the day, in all civilized countries, hinges. When the cern- inanity takes for public use only the value produced by the community, leaving for in- dieicluel use the vela° produced by 1 he individual, population will be no longer differentiated into the too rich alid the very poor. And when men do not have to spend their whole time and effort ministering to their bellies, the preachers will be able to awaken their interest regarding their souls. Let the editor of the Guardian think of this, pray over it, study it, before lie again throws the influence of the Methodist organ ou the side of monopoly and of privilege. —Hann Uton Times. Livv IN ARIZONA. The Frisoner was Missing, but that Didn't Matter. They are not very rigid as to court formalities down on the Rattlesnake lode in Arizona, says the San Francisco 2fews- Letter. 0' I don't see the prisoner," said the County Judge, as he walked up preparatory to sentencing a culprit. " Where is he ?" " I'm blessed if 1 know," said. the Sheriff, looking under the benches. " Just lent him my paper of fine cut, too." " Was he a big red-headed man with a scar on his cheek ?" asked the foreman, who was playing poker with the rest of the jury. "That's the cuss," said the clerk, who had been betting on a horse race with the prosecuting attorney. "Why, then," said the foreman, " he asked me to go out and take a drink about an hour ago, but I showed him I had three sixes, and he said, Well, next time, then,' and walked out." "The thunder you say ?" roared His Honor. However, he's sure to be in town next week to see the dog fight, and some of yOU must remind the sheriff to shoot him on eight. The docket is just jammed full of horse stealing cases, and there is no time to waste over a measly hornicider. Next case." For New York's Young Women. Ground was broken in Brooklyn last Monday for the new Young Women's Chris- tian Association building. The building will cost $225,000 and will be six stories high with a front of light brick and terra cotta. In the basement will be a gymnas- ium, bathroom and pharmacy. Opening from the entrance hall will be an octagonal reception room and a chapel with seating capacity for 800 persons. The reading room and library will occupy the second story, and a lecture room and parlors the third. The rest of the building will be devoted to the olass rooms, kitchen and work rooms. One of the pleasantest features of the build- ing will be a roof garden. The building will be finished by May 1, 1892. Mr. D. C. Wood has given $125,000 toward the cost of it as a memorial to his wife. l'inished HI Story. On January 15th last two laborers were at work on a railroad running into Indian- apolis from Alton. One was telling a story, and as he was bending over he was accidentally hit on the head with a hammer by his companion, and his skull was fractured He was rendered unconscious and remained in a comatose condition uritil last Friday night, when Dr. G. D. Sturtevant? of Indianapolis, trepanned. his skull, and immediately upon removing the pieces of skull from against the brain the man continued the story which was starte d five months before and had lain latent in his brain during all this time.—Globe- Democrat. Four•Footed Gentleman. .„ To be well-educated, to have good man- ners, and to be used to good society, are certainly strong claims to being considered a gentleman, and if a gentleman may some- times be called a donkey, why may not a donkey sometimes be called a gentleman? Something like this may have been the reasoning of the man who framed a novel advertisement which appeared in a London paper: "For sale, a donkey, well-educated, of gentle manners, good-looking and a good goer. Has been driven and cared for by gentlewomen, and is a gentleman. Only parted with because no further use for him. Price, 50s. No more, no less." Large Coins. The largest gold coin now i11 circulation is said to be the gold ingot, or loof," of Anain'in a French colony Eastern Asia. It is a flat, round gold piece, and on it is writren in Indian Ink its value, which is about $220. The next sized coin to this valuable but extremely awkwaiel one is the " obang " of Japan, which is worth about $55 ; and the next comes , the " benda " of Ashantee, which represents a value of about $49. The California $50 goltlpiece i woeth about the same as the 'a benda." The heaviest silver coin in the world also belongs to Anam, where the silver ingot is worth about $15. ' In the Same Boat. Printers' Album: A preacher recently said that a newspaper that told the truth, and the whole truth, couldn't be a pecu- niary success. The minister who will at all times and under any circumstances tell the whole truth about his members, alive or dead, might not occupy the pulpit more than one Sunday, and in some cases might find it convenient to leave town. The press and the pulpit go hand in handwith the whitewash brush and pleasant word is, mag- nifying little virtues into big ones. The pulpit, the press and the gravestone are the great saint -making triumvirate. laudable Solicitude. Mrs. Brown—John I hear you. took that horrid typewriter gidof yours to the theatre last night Mr. Breavn—Well, surely, my dear, it wouldn't be right to let her go alone. — Peoria Herald. Johnny All Eight. Ashland Press: "I'm afraid, Johnny," said the Sunday schoot teacher severely, that I will never meet you in heaven Johnny—Why, what -have you been doin' nowt • The remains of Dora Shaw, the old time actress, Who died at the Forrest home last week, were cremated. According to en eminent German statistician the world has had 2,550 kings or emperors who have reigned over 74 peoples. Of these 300 were overthrown, 61 were forced to abdicate, 28 committed suicide, 23 became mad or imbecile, 100 were killed in battle, 123 were captured by the enemy, 25 were tortured to death, 134 wore assassinated and 108 VICP'tl exe- cuted. Charles E. Locke ie re -organizing the Emma Juch opera company. If persistence counts for anything Locke is bound to win in the encl. Kansas is a large state in some respects. It has been discovered by a statistican that she could take in seven countries the size of Belgium anal atilt have 409,000 acres to dis- pose of. The societies for the protection Of animals in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have petitioned the Queen of Italy to exert her influence in protecting. the northern birds i which migrate t� Italy n winter. - THE MORDANT MOSQUITO, The Thing that Sings the Mieerere in Mid- summer Ears, It As the Itkidame Who Bites—lit is She Who Finks the Boby's Fat Neck and ReOdmas the White Skin 4.f the "I stood on the bridge at midnight," is what the anything but genial "mosquito," " musketo,' " musquito," " musquetoe," mese i to, '" os chetto," " mosquetto," " muschetto," raushetto," or " rnusquet- to," sings on these damp warm summer evenings. For such a very little .pest the ''mosquito "has more namand 10 anmore languages than any other living thing. Scientists variously caliber the entex pipiens, ailex Americalw, the comb', the snow:heron and the " humming gnat." The Centenary dictionary describes the insect of many aliases as "one of many different kinds of gnats or midges, the female of which bites animals and draws blood." Persons who are given to attribute to the female SOX all the gentleness and amiability there is in the world will bear this M mind. AN INDOLENT INSECT. Mr. Mosquito, says the St. Louis Globe - Democrat, is an easy-going, gorgeously - arrayed creature, with neither the disposi- tion nor the ability to bite animals and draw blood. He is a sort of Turvey-drop in the insect world, who seems to have no higher object during his brief life than to show himself about town." ma REAL CIJURIT. The female tnosquito can at a pinch live the life of a vegetarian, but what she wants is gore, piping hot gore, human if she can get it; but never overlooking any chance. The toughest hide that ever covered a horse or a steer does not intervene between the lady mosquito and, her vampirish thirst. It is even doubted that Col. Msquito is given to vocal effect. How TILE MOSQUITO IS BUILT. In the human family the female is the more ornamental as well as the more amiable animal. But in all the species of the mosquito family the male apparently is the superior being. In grace and elegance of architectural construction, as well as in variety and gorgeousness of raiment, the male mosquito far surpasses the female. The male also enjoys privileges and preroga- tives to which the female can never aspire— certainly can never gain. The function which she performs in propagation of the species compels her to consume more food than he does'and all this food she is obliged to getherself. In every essential particular she has to make her own and the family's living without the slightest aid fromehim. mosquito first appears in the form of an egg. The eggs are deposited in the water by the mother mosquito. Before doing this she crosses her hind legs in the shape of a letter X. As the eggs are dropped they are caught by the crossed legs, the glutinous substance attaching to the eggs holding them together. The number of eggs laid by one female before rising is very great. These eggs are arranged in the form of a raft and left to ride on the water, shallow, stagnant fresh water usually being selected. /3y the additions made to the number of eggs the raft is converted into a sort of a boat, and when the laying process is all completed the boat consists of from 300 to 350 eggs. This is the first stage in the, exitsten,ceaef the embryo mosquito. . HATCHED, A few days after the egg boat is launched the knee appear. These are of an elon- gated, worm -like form, and come out of the lower end of the eggs, leaving the empty shells forming the boat lying on the surface of the water. The shell is soon destroyed by the action of winds and water. When the larvie appear the eggs are hatched. The larva) are vulgarly called "wigglers." Suspended front the surface of the water, with head downward, they are enabled to breathe by means of a sort of tube communi- cating with the traebte. The appearance of the TnEm elanae may. be said to complete the second stage in the existence of the MOS- ciuiOSQUITO BEGINS ACTIVE LIFE From ten to fifteen days after the appear- ance of the larvae the substance enters the pupm state. They take on a thin skin, almost completely covering the larvas, and roll around in the water, their motions being directed by a fin -like contrivance at the end of the tail. The quick, seemingly irregular movements of the puree , give them the name of "tumblers." They, too, are familiar to persons residing in the rural districts in the spring and summer. The change of the larvm into the puree com- pletes the third stage in the mosquito's existence. Between five and ten days after the pupra appears the last and most critical stage in the entire metamorphosis of the egg into the perfect insect arrives. About this period the pulite skin bursts open, and the mosquito takes its first look at daylight. • The Summer Girl. Now that the reign of the summer girl is at hand, these are a few of the things to count on the beads of her rosary of her remembrance: The girl the boys like Best to take rowing doesn't trail her hands in the water, even if they are pretty and her rings handsome, for it gets the boat out of trim. She doesn't act frisky or kittenish in the boat or playfully spring out of it at the shore, only to fall back very unplayfully into the stream and dip the skiff half full of water. She doesn't pretend to steer if she doesn't know how, just because the bright cords of the rudder are effective against her dress. She doesn't put up her sunshade when the wind is dead against yon, even if its lining is becoming to her complexion. She doesn't get a headache and have to go home just when the fish are beginning to bite ; and she doesn't squeal if you happen, inadvertently, to land a gamy catch in her lap. --The Eye. One of the Mysteries. Chicago Tribune: Maud—What do you think of Irene ? Laura -1 detest hen And she hates me like poison. "Then why do you and she always kiss when you meet?" "Heaven only knows." Potter Did. "'wok: Miss McEadd—Palmistry is all the rage now. Do you understand it, Mrs. P°1VIrbtest.? Potter—No but I think Jack does. Last nightI heard him ery in his sleep : "Show your hands, boys 1" Boston Courier: Tertly—Doctort what do you really think is the inatter with my wife? Dr. Bias—I am sorry to say, sir, that I fear that she is losing her reasen. Tartly—I thought as much when they told me she had sent for you. Maple edger on snow was the attraction at e recent gathering near North Adams, Mass. The enow had been kept since win- ter under a thick eovering of spruce branches. MUCH BETTER Thank You! THIS LS THE UNIVERSAL =SIT- MONYof those who hare suffered from, CHRONIC •131e02verims, COUGHS, COLDS, Oh ANY FORM OF WAST - i ING DISEASES, after they have tried 1 SCOTT'S MULSIO Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES —Of Lame and Soda.— IT 1S ALMOST AS .PALA2'ABLE AS MILK. IT LS A WONDERFUL FLESH PRODUCER It is used and endorsed by Physicians. .Avoid all inatations or slibstihstions. Sold by all Druggists at 50e. and $1.00. SCOTT & DOWNE, Belleville. I .......0.1.01........,N,....1., ......*•,......**41.•••••••• LITTLE RED le WORN. But All the Rose rinks Are in the Bloom of Favor. Fashion favors almost every shade of pink, running from wild rose pink to deep rose color, from old rose to "neille," and from china pink to geranium. Fresh blues carry the clay just now, although what are under- stood by gray -blues are still a great deal worn, but these really ought to be classed among the neutrals along with the slates and lavenders. Gray -blue is often obtained by the weav- ingof darkish' blue with white just as a varied scale of pink is the 'resultof combin- ations of different reds with white. Warm yellows are more in vogue than cold ones— phat is to say, golden yellows, maize,amber, marigold yellow, with a brown or a red tone, now bordering on russet, now ap- proaching more or less nearly to orange, and not greeny yellows. Very little actual red is worn, though scarlet and crimson crop up in millinery, trimmings, etc., or are introduced in small quantities in the designs on figured fabrics. A decided movement in favor of ,green has been noticeable of late, more particularly very light shades of rather bright positive green, which would seem to denote that this color will be fashionable next winter. The wings and crape draperies with which so many hats are' now trimmed are often in ebande-bal or absinthe green, which harmonize equally well with pink or mauve. Pale green silk is also often used as a background for lace and other transparent tissues. A TALE OF CRIIELTY. Shipwrecked Sailors Shamefully Treated by an Island Governor. A London Cable says: Forty of the crew of the wrecked British ship NewYork have arrived at Liverpool. They were landed at Plymouth last night ha a shocking plight. The New York sailed from Swansea on Feb. 61h last, coal -laden, for San Francisco. She was wrecked at New Year's Island in the Pacific on April 20th, when one of the crew was drowned. The Governor of Itooroon or Staten Island, to whom the shipwrecked men went for assistance, was unmercifuL He refused to give them clothes and com- pelled them while barefooted to draglumber over the snow. They escaped after five weeks, during which they fared shamefully, to Oshooa, whence they escaped in five days to Sandy Point. The men are in a miserable condition. The British Consul sent them home. The Typical Modern City. Paris is the typical modern city. In the work of transforming the labyrinthine tan- gle of narrow, dark and foul medieval alleys into broad modern thoroughfares and of providing those appointments and conven- iences that distingmsh the well -ordered city of our day from the old-time cities which had grown up formless and orgaailess by centuries of accretion—in this brilliant nine- teenth century task of re -constructing cities in their physical characters, dealingwith them as organic entities, and endeavoring to give such force to the visible body as will Best accommodate the expanding life within, Paris has been the unrivalled leader. Berlin and Vienna have accomplished mag- nificent results in city -making, and great British town—Glasgow, Birmingham, Man- chester and others—have in a less ambitious way wrought no less useful reforms; but Paris was the pioneer. French public authwities, architects and engineers were the first to conceive effectually the ideas of symmetry and spaciousness, of order and convenience, wholesomeness and cleanliness, in urban arrangements. —Dr. Albert Shaw. Dr. Konrad Brunner of the University of Zurich has proved by a series of experiments that micro-organisms are discharged through the perspiration as well as through the blood. The bacteria can be seen in the drops of perspiration by means of a micro- scope. "MARCHING AS TO wait. She was young and none was fairer, Cupid, raptured by her smiles, Chose her an his arreor-bearer And gave her all his dainty wiles. Down to the sea they went together, Andel' they met fell in their toils; And through the merry summer weather Brave Cupid fought—she bore the spoils. Frau Aders, the Florence Nightingale of of Germany, died ab Elberfeld last week M her 78t1i year. She was chief of the Woman's Union of the Fatherland and of the Lutheran Wei -nail's Union for Nursing and Succoring the Sick and Poor. She also founded the Children's Hospital at Elher- feld. For her services in the Franco- Prussian war she received many decora- tions Maclaine modjeska will return from Europe early in August. The following month her tour will begin in Canada. Her repertoire will include, besides sev- eral standard plays, " Marie Antoinette," " The Rose of Tyburn" and " The Tragic Mask." 11041110ING.11011SE BASEBALL. Wily 0 lre$Simist Was Forced to Leave His Good quarters. The trouble all arose over one breakfast, fl iney be that they knew he hated baseball9 or it may be that their talk resulted from the faet that every man, woman and child in the boarding-house, with the exception of the lank pessimist, had been to the game the day before, says the Chieago Tribune. At any rate, wheu the landlady took the coffee pc>t in the one hand and the cream pitcher in the other, and begau pouring from both at the same time, he was inoveet to ask, without a suspicion of danger, what she was doing. "Making a double play unassisted," was her prompt response. He booked pained, but said nothing. A moment later, when a codfish -ball was gallantly declined by the dude, who in- sisted on passing it to his fair neighbor, the dry goods clerk on the other side of the table cried out : "Passed ball The pessimist fingered his knife nerVouslY as he glared at the clerk, and had hardly recovered his composure when the waitress kicked the cat through the doorway and the pretty typewriter lisped: " Put out !" And the young lawyer added: " Safe hit 1" He hardly had time to shift his reproach- ful glance from the pretty typewriter to the young lawyer when the old rnaicl began tell- ing what a brute the man next door was, and the real estate agent sang out : " Score one 1" For sympathy he turned to the landlady's pretty daughter, who sat next to him and who had thus far said nothing. 13ut as he declined the last muffin on the plate and she took it, she looked him straight in the. eye, and with her most captivating smile said: " A sacrifice 1" Then he got up and stalked out, and there is a room to rent in that boarding- house. ,Yew York Weekly: CityEditor—The street is all excitement An electric light wire has blocked traffic, and no one knows whether it is a live wire or not Editor—Detail two reporters to go to the wire inunediately— one to feel of it, and the other to write up, the result. 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