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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-8-6, Page 3listen te Has "Woe' A merchant, bent on economizing, 'Melded to out oil' his advertising. u. It costs me ten thousand a year," he 6aId, "And l'll (Kane oat just that much ahead." 111. Hie " ad. " appeared in the, papers no more; His customers went to an ' advertised " store. IV. His business, unheard of, ran stendiJY down# And now there is one merchant lose in the town. v. ASSIGNEE'S SALE. Left -Over Stock of the Great Unknown To be Disposed of at 100 on, the Dollar. .. .... . . . ... . . . . . . hi Search ore Monument. I was over in the Pennsylvania Railroad depot the other afternoon when a man came to me and asked if I knew of a place where a monument for a grave could be procured. He said if I had time he would like to sit down and talk with me about monuments, and when we had found a retired place he began with : " I've been thinking all 'along that I'd order a monument about thirty feet high, with an angel on top, but 1 dunno. It's for my. wife, you know ! Lost her two years ago. Awful good wife, but $500 is a heap to pay for a monument." " "I've been told that marble angels are going out of style. You are knocking around all the time ; what's your idea ?" "1 see more or less of 'em, but that's a matter of taste." "A feller ain't obliged to git one to show that he loved his wife ?" " Oh, no." "Wall, I guess I'll leave the angel off. I've been thinking all along I'd get a monument at least thirty feet high, but I dunno. Thirty feet's purty high, isn't it ?" "Yes, pretty high." " No, , particular fashion about it, I 'spose ?' None whatever." "The tallest one in our burying -ground is only twenty-five feet, and I thought I'd beat it, but I've sort o' changed my mind since leaving home. Every extra foot costs like Sam Hill, and some of the neighbors might say I was just putting it all on to nia.ke a show. Ever lose any of your wives ?" 1, a sad thing. Everybody said I'd go insane over it, and I expect I had a close squeak. Curious how much a man ca.n live through ?" "It is, indeed." "There are monuments twenty feet high, I presume ?" "Oh, yes." "A husband wants to do the right thing, you know, but it isn't them . as make the greatest show that feel the worst. One of the tallest monuments put up in our bury- ing -ground was bought by a man who was flaying baseball a week after his wife died. I haven't even pitched a game of quoits in two years. That shows the difference, ,don't it ?" "It certainly does." • "I've seen monuments fifteen feet high 'which looked real rich and stylish. You've 'been around a good deal and have probably seen the same thing. Didn't it strike you that the husband was grieving just as much if he had bought a taller one?" "That was the impression I always "Couldn't no person say he was stingy .szny mean, could they?" "1 should think not." "Wall, I dunno. I never was no hand .to overdo things. Pm not one of them :kind to paint the barn red and the doors white and the cornice yeller to make :people think a panorama is going on inside. You've seen monuments ten foot high, I se'pose ?" " "Did they look rich and solid and as if -the husband was really sorry ?" cc yeg, 11 "You didn't say to yourself that you'd tet two to one the husband was looking for .8, second wife ?" No.') "Well, I've sorter thought ten feet was .S3 party fair rnonunOent, but I wanted to lk with some one tr,bout it. Folks in a �untry town are always full of gossip, you •Isnow, and I didn't want to set their tongues sing. Ten feet nil about up to that tine.•4able isn't it't" ," • "Just about." 1 j "Well, I dunno. I want to do the fair ;thing, but I ddaitwant any one to think ' -I'm piling it on for et%ct. If I should make a great spread and then happen to get married again it might lead to talk, , •eh ? ' "It possibly might." "That's what I was thinking of. You .are knocking aroend burying -grounds a good -deal, ain't you? " Yes, quite a good deal" "And, of course, you see more or less tombstones—just common tombstones which -cost about $30 ? " 1C yes. n "No lamb or top, or anything of that kind?" "Just rich and solid with a scroll around Sacred to the Memory of —?" "Yes." "When you have noticed such a stone as that did it ever strike you that the husband was close-fisted and penurious ? " '4" No." "Didn't say to yourself that his grief was .all put on ?" (4 "Thought just as much of him as if he had put up a monument fifty feet, high with two angels on it?" yes. 2) "k1 "Wall, that settles it. Pll strike some- thing for about $25 or $30 and git a year's time on it if I can, and if folks talk I can't help it. Everybody who knows me knoWs that I almost went crazy and tried to jump into the well, and you could tell I was grieving if I hadn't said a word to you couldn't you?" "I think you look very sorrowful." 4g That settles it! I grieve right here in my heart—1, put up a $25 tombstone simply to mark the grave. All is 04 X. and I'm a thouSand times obleeged ausi will now go out and find a shop. If it happens to be a dull time and I can beat the man down from $25 to $15 80 much the better." --M. Quad in the New l'ork Woad. Madame Patti has decided to accept Marcus Mayer's offer for a seriee of coneert toure, and she will visit America for a stay of two months. Mr. Mayer will pereonally conduct her tonr, Robert Bonner has never raced a horse for money or won a dollar on a track in his rife, yet there has not been time in twenty-five years when he has not owned the hest trotting stOck in America. The one hundredth anniversary of Mozart's death will be commemorated at his native town, Salz)urg, Austria, beginning August 15th, with a performance of the Reqtfiein." TRAINING FOIL NEWSPAPEIS Wenn. are hardly more advanced than the t3ehoo1e THOSE /11CYSTEHT Thererort of the thirtrthird annual meeting o the Canadian Press Association contains anexhaustive paper ou " Type-tiet- ting and casting machines," and also a paper and report of the discussion on the use of plate -matter. From the address of President Pattullo the following is extracted: " But it is not only in the mechanical and business departments that we must keep up with the altered conditions of the times. The demands of modern life on newspaper workers are mere varied a,nd imperious than ever before. 'I2here never was a time when men of high and special attainments were more needed than now. The days of the typical Bohemian in journalism are gone ; they will never return. His place has been taken by more busy and earnest brain workeis, vastly more useful if less pictur- esque and odorous than the old type. While the newspapers of Canada are on the whole a credit to the country, there is still plenty of room for improvement. This can only be brought about by men of special aptitude and special training. How those whom nature intended for jour- nalists—and no one else should be a jour- nalist --can secure the best training, is a question which it is well that you are con- sidering and every other association of this kind should consider. We are all familiar with the time-honored platitudes of the in- fluence of the press—and no doubt the influ- ence of the press, when fairly and honestly exerted, is very great; but it should not be forgotten that the brain workers, as we may call the editors and reporters, 110 not con- stitute the entire interests of journalism. Perhaps few people stop to consider how vast are the business interests of the press, how much capital is invested in the news- paper business, and how much money passes every year through newspaper offices. I have suggested the collection of accurate statistics on this subject covering the whole Province. When these are at hand, they will no doubt surprise you. They will ena- ble you to realize how great and hew varied are the interests you represent, and which it is the object of your Association to pro- mote." Mr. William Houston said, in the course of his address on "Higher Training of journalists" "The higher trainingshould be: Literary. It is easy to mistake the sig cance of this term in relation to journal It means here at least three things : (1 training in the expression of though means of language; (2) a training in comprehension of thought as conveye language, and (3) a training in the appre tion of the beautiful in art as embodie artistic literature and especially in poe No man can possibly be a successful jour ist who is not an expert in the use of English language. It is something to able to put one's thoughts into Bente that will parse, and paragraphs that clearly defined. It is something to be to use figurative language without fall into a mixed metaphor. It is something be able to use words with that feli which makes the reader feel that each is right word in the right place. But th is something behind all this of m importance still — the evolution thought and the process of instantly fitt the language to it as the dress is made fit the body. Nothing but long experie can make a man an adept at writing themes, but not even a long experience make him approach perfection of st without some preliminary or contempora training of his critical faculty. It is h to see flaws in our own work, and the m that can be said of the teaching of com sition ha school is that it usually d nothing in the way of making pupils se 2. Historical. The possession of a la amount of historical knowledge is for t successful journalist indispensable, b this is the lowest view to take of t matter. He may be able to get OD so f as mere knowledge is concerned aid, of good books of referen but he cannot acquire by their use th subtle but unquestionable kind of cultu which a proper historical training gives. these days when it is the fashion to subje everything --law, politics, economics, ev religion—to historical treatment, the cul- ture may be to some extent acquired inci- dentally, but it must be exceedingly useful to have some preliminary acquaintance with the subject so as to secure breadth of view and a philosophical spirit. It is hard to understand how one with a wide acquaint- ance. with the events and movements of• • history can be a pessimist, and a pessimist in journalism has mistaken his calling. The journalist shouldknowbeatthe history of his own country, next that of his own race then that of modern foreign nations, and • astly that of ancient civilization: Having no time to spare for acquiring this know- ledge systematically after he begins his pro- fessional career' he should have some train- ing of this kindbefote he goes into it. 3.—Political. I have already called atten- tion to the true meaning of this term, and therefore I can be in no danger of being i misunderstood here. Political training s not, ought not to be partisan training. The study of politics rightly understood is the truest corrective of the narrowness result- ing from the constant discussion of things from a partisan point of view. It includes a knowledge, properly acquired, of the con- stitution of the country, viewed both static- ally and dynamioally, and it includes a knowledge of all of the institutions of the community, not merely those consciously devised to effect certain purposes but those that seem to have a more natural develop- ment, such as property and the family. The extent of the field covered by the term " institutions " forbids the assumption that it canbeusefully coveredincidentally during the journalist's career. He should know something about it before he enters on prac- tical work. 4. Economic. I use the term to imply that the journalist who. has from history and politics learned something of society on its political side should make a study of commerce and Industry so as to have some idea of the forces at workin the direction of men's activities exercised in producing and exchanging objects of value. Many of the most difficult questions of the day are con- nected with the production and distribution of wealth, and they are as practical as they are difficult. The journalist is supposed to know all about what determines the rate of wages, how to prevent Strikes and lockouts, the best means of utilizing the public re- sources, the economic, effects of any particu, lar policy, whether embodied in a law of the country or in a treaty with some foreign power. Surely he woold be all the better for knowing before hand that these are old, old questions, and for knowing also some of the solutionof them that have been offered by thoughtful men. I have, in pointing out what the journal- ist's higher training should consist of, indi- cated also how it ehould be acquired. He should have a liberal training before he begins to work, and he should steadily endeavor to supplement that with what culture he can secure by his own persistent efforts. Above all he should use his influ- ence for the improvement of the ochieational system of the country. So mild' of the teaching done m schools is mere memory work that it is of very queetionable itility, t and in this respect colleges and universities 1. nifi- ism. ) A t by the d d in try. nal - the be nces are able ing to city the ere ore of ing to nce on can yle ry OW ost po- oes lf- rge he ut he ar by ce, at re In et en No greater boon can be eonferred by jour- nalism on thia3 country—and we are no worseoff than others—than the substitetion of rational inethode of imparting instruetion for the rote methods now in vogue. There is a Buyer's Directory as an appen- d x to the report. HATtilED A BABY. Suleeessfut Test Of nil incubator in a New YOrk 11014511181. The doctors at Charity hospital, on Blackwell's Island, have just hatched out a bright, plump baby boy, says the New York World, The little fellow was taken out of an incubator yesterday morningand have been laughing and gurgling ever sinCO. Dr. Mallett says there isn't a boy in all New York who has a better show to live to a ripe old age than this tot who, in later years, can boast of having ha.d an eventful career before he fairly existed. The babe hasn't been christened yet, but he 18 the eon of Mrs. Eliza Dunn of 187 Mulberry street. Mrs. Dunn is of large stature and is the picture of health. The child is now two months old. It was born prematurely and weighed only four and a half pounds. One month of its premature existence has been spent in the incubator with the result that it now weighs some- thing over eight pounds. Though at first weak and fragile and without a fair chance in its unequal struggle, it is now healthy a.nd properly proportioned. This is how the doctors hatched the blue-eyed little infant. The incubator used had just been received frorn Paris, and Willie, or Eddie, or Archi- bald Dunn, or whatever he'll be named, had the honor of being its first occupant. The arrangement of the contrivance is anything but complex. It consists of a black walnut box just big enough to hold the little one. At the bottom are bottles filled with hot water heated to a temperature of 98 degrees. The patientAies on a perforated mattress supported by iron rods. At the foot of the box towards the bottle is a ventilator. The outside air runs through to ;the other side over the bottles. In passing it beconies heated. At the patient's head is another ventilator, and then at the top on the other side there is another. The current of air is induced to circulate by the' arrangement of the ventila- tors. The bottles were changed as often as necessary. The babe was wrapped in cotton and remained in the box steadily for a month. It was nourished every few hours during the day-. Every morning a pretty, motherly -looking nurse bathed the child in cod-liver oil from head to foot. It was feared that even pure water might injure the delicate skin. Scottish News Notes. Another of the venerable fathers of the Free Church of Scotland has departed. The Rev. Dr. John James Boner, of Free St. Andrew's Church, Greenock, Renfrew- shire, died on the 7th inst., aged 89 years. The Marquis of Bute has carefully re- stored the pulpit in Falkland Palace! Fife - shire, believed to have been occupied by John Knox. A recent return shows that in Scotland (excluding Orkney and Shetland) there are 11,793 licensed houses, or 1 to every 340 of the population. A proposal to confer the freedom of his native city upon Sir Daniel Wilson, of To- ronto, was on the 8th inst. discussed in the Lord Provost's Committee of Edinburgh. The Leith Dock Conrunission contemplates the construction of a reclamation wall, a deep water wet dock, a dry dock, and the deepening of the entrance channel, at an estimated cost of over 2340,000. The late Mr. Joseph Garland, shipowner, Dundee, has left 2100 to Dundee Orphan Institution; 2100 to Dundee Carr Night Refuge, and 2100 for prizes to Forgan School His personal estate amounted to over 222,000. The Peden monument at Cumnock, Ar - shire, has been entrusted to a local sculptor, Mr. Andrew Murdoch. His plan is Gothic in design; the Monument will be 20 feet high, and is to be constructed of Aberdeen granite. *what We Work For. Printers' Albums: To say that the news- paper is published for money•is to say no harm of it. It has passed into a universal maxim that "The church lives by the altar" —by the contributions which the faithful lay upon the altar. 'And it is true, and it is not discreditable. The newspaper press is generally as high in morals andintelligence as the public conscience and mind, higher than that it can never be permanently, as it must be what society demands it shall be. As a matter of fact it frequently runs ahead, temporarily, of public morality; it often creates the public sentiment that destroys public wrongs; it often secures justice by proclaiming the injustice. Personal, Experience. Edward. Hanlon, Champion Oarsman, says: "For muscular pains in the limbs, I have found St. Jacobs Oil a reliable rem- edy. Its results are the most beneficial, and I have pleasure in recommending it from personal experience. One of the London street car companies has in inie an automatic "starter." Two powerful spiral springs, fastened to the front axle, are wound up through being applied for the car's stoppage, so that when it is desired to go on again they are capable of starting it. Missionary—I have come here, brethren • to devote my life to you. Cannibal Chief —All right; thanks. But we'll wait a while until you are a little atter. A raw Scotch lad joined the local velum teers, and on the first parade his sister came, together.with his mother, to see them. When they were marching past Jock was out of step: "Leek, mither," said his Sig. ter, "they're oot o' step but our jock." BABY'S SUSPENSION MUDGE. Above the river of Tumblewoze, That ilowe thro' the Valley of Stambletozo, With its numerous falls And frequent se nails, Where the bitter berry of Grumble grows, There hangeth a bridge all blue and red, And when Baby% moritieg of play is sped He passeth o'er On its yieldiog floor To the Territory of Trandlehed. —Youth's Companion,. M. Sarcey, a French journalist, has a novel way of gaining news, He has ele- gant apartments, rich cigarettes and choice absinthe. Paris gossips and men of promi- nence enjoy his hospitality and unburden secrets and matters of interest. These he makes subjects for the bright comments over his signature which orace the Parisian —When business is brisk — advertise. When business is dull—advertise. You want to push on with your business, so— advertise. When you want to fail ---leave off, and not a day before. Advertising pays. No man can afford not to advertise. People forget him ; they have their own concerns to see about; they only remember the man, or the firm, whose name and whose goods are constantly in print before hem. Advertisements induce custom. Goods will riot advertise themselves. OVS HANKS Sad 1101seever3' of a Twang Elr1 'Who Was in Love. " rnever saw such funny writing as George's is," f3aid the beautiful young girl, as she helan euvelope up for the inspec- tion of her married friend. " It is rather illegible," was the reply: " 0, 1 don't mean that," was the quick response, "He puts such funny marks in it. You know he's only written Inc three or four letters since we've been engaged, because he's been in the city all the time but when he does write one it leeks so funny. It's all filled with marks like this If,' and then he makes character 'ands' like this, '4, and puts a ring around them. And at the end of all his sentences he puts a cross like this, 'x.' Then, when he makes a figure, he puts a ring around it and always draws two lines under his signature. And sometimes he draws a line down through capital letters, and once he crossed a word out and theu drew a ring around it and marked it stet.' It's awful funny. I can't make anything out of it." "My dear," said the married woman, as quietly as her excitement would allow, "have you no auspicious ?" "Suspicions !" exclaimed the beautiful young girl in alarm.No'no. Of what 7" "Has he never confessed?" persisted the married woman with Spartan firmness. "George, confess !" cried the fair maiden. "Martha, you alarm me. Are they counterfeiters' marks?" Worse," was the solemn answer. "Ethel, your husband will be out nights. Re will come in at all hours. Most of his work 'will be done under cover of darkness. He will miss his dinners and be constantly changing the hours. He cannot be de- pended on to be at home at any certain time or to leave at any certain time. Ethel, the man your are engaged to is a newspaper man." "No, no, it cannot be!" cried the dark eyed beauty. "I will not believe it." " Ethel ! " she was very impressive. "Did he ever draw a straight line through all the pages of a letter ?" "Yes, and it was one of the best he ever wrote." "Alas, Ethel, it is too true. He is a newspaper ;Lan and he has absent rnindedly put in the marks for the printer. Poor giri! Try as he might he couldn't conceal his identity." Then the young girl cried "Horrible" and burst into tears and refused to be coin- forted.—Chicago g'rilrune. Only 122 Shares All Told. The following letter to the Globe clears up a matter upon which there was much doubt and speculation To the Editor of the GLOBE: Srn,—As executors of the will of the late Right Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald, we think it proper, having regard to what has appeared within the last few days in Tun Glom and certain other newspapers about a clause in Sir John's will disposmg of his Canadian Pacific Railway stock, to state as follows :— (1) That Sir John A. Macdonald was at the time of his death the holder and owner of 122 shares of that stock. (2) That he had purchased said shares in the open _market as an investment and paid for them out of his own money, (3) That he acquired the stock in the lat- ter part of 1888. (4) Thatthese shares at their market value were included in and formed a part of the item "bank shares and other stock" contained in the schedule filed by us on ap- plying for probate, and which schedule is published in THE GLOBE of the 17th inst. (5) That, except the 122 shares above mentioned, Sir John A. Macdonald was never at any time possessed of any Cana- dian Pacific Railway Stock, either in his own name or in that of any other person, in so far as we know or can ascertain. G. DEWDNEY HVGH J. MACDONALD. JOSEPH POPE, FRED. WHITE, Executors of the will of the late Right • Honorable Sir John .A. Macdonald. • Ottawa, Jaly 20. Ethic Statistics. The following Bible statistics are &emir- Stely copied from a slip of printed paper that is pasted on the fly -leaf of a copy of gaddock's Bible (Dublin, 1813), in Eines Mari Library, Dublin: ‘" More than once have statistics of the following character found their way into print, to the delight of both old and young. The ' statement is mainly taken from an English Bible, an given by the indefatigable Dr. Horne in his introduction to the study of the Scriptures and is said to have occu- pied more than three years of the compiler's life: Oki New Testa- Testa- ment. ment. Books. .. 39 Chapters . 929 Verses 32,214 Words 593,411 181,253 773,746 Letters 2,728,100 838,380 3,566.480 " Apoerypha--Books, 14; chapters, 183; verses, 6,031; words' 125,185; letters, 1,063,876."—Notes andQueries. TotaL 27 56 260 1,189 7,950 31.[78 The Econonty of the lEffptiuns. A curious illustration of the domestic economy of the Egyptians has been met with in the unwinding of the bandages of the mummies. Although whole webs of fine cloth have been most frequently used, in other cases the bandages are fragmentary, and have seams, darns and patches. Old napkins are used, old skirts, pieces of some- thing that may have been a shirt; and once a piece of cloth was found with an armhole in it, with seitm and gusset and band finely stitched by fingers themselves long *since crumbled and their dust blown to the four winds. —Harper'e Bazar. When George Francis Train, the globe trotter, stopped in Jackson, Mieh. the other clay, he presented each reporter in sight with a Chinese cane. The thickness of human hair varies from the two hundred and fiftieth to the six 'hundredth part of an inch. —The population of the States could sand on a plot nine miles square. —The Emperor of Germaag has intro- duced the game of baccarat in erlin, Cincinnati enjoyed a novel sensation last Monday evening. A bicyelist appeared on the street with his infant son in a basket - shaped affair fastened to the head of his machine. A large crowed followed him, attracted by the unusual sight. Such turn outs may lad seen on the asphalt pavements of Hocheeter any evening, and they„ 510 longer attract notice, sol common is the oc- ourrefice. Otis Skinner is in Scotland. His brother, Charles M. Skinner, is rewriting the tragedy of "Medea" for Margaret Mather. A seamless steel boat made from one piece of metal by hydraulic pressure pro- mises to be very desirable, It Will last a great while and cannot, leak. Mr. Parnell's mother was Viten while fondling a strange dog at her home near Bordetitown, New Jersey, last Thurbday Her left, hand was severely lacerated. "German Syrup" Martinsville, N.J., Methodist Par- sonage. "My acquaintance with your remedy, Boscbcc's German Syrup, was made about fourteen years ago, when I contracted a Cold Whith resulted in a Hoarseness and a Cough which disabled me from filling my pulpitt for a number of Sabbaths. After trying a Physician, 'without obtaining relief—I cannot say now what remedy he prescribed —I saw the advertisement of your remedy and obtained a bottle. I received such quick and permanent help from it that whenever we have had Throat or Bronchial troubles since in our family, Boschee's Ger- Syrup has been our favorite remedy and always with favorable results. I have never hesita.ted to report my experience of its use to others when I have found them troubled in like manner." Rim W. H. HAGGARTY, Of the Newark, New Jersey, M. E. Confer- ence, April 25, '90. Remedy. 0 0. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr,Viroodbury,N.J. .4111111111 THE GIBE YOU LOVE. Harry Her and Sh.1—;:e HWe.lliHake a Nodal You say you demand a domestic, useful woman as your wife. If that is so marry Nora Mulligan, your laundress' daughter. She wears cowhide shoes, never had a sick day in her life, takes in washing, goes out house-cleaning and cooks for is family of seven children, her mother ansi three section men who board with her. I don't think she would marry you, because Con Reagan, the track walker, is her style of man. Let us examine into your qualifications as a model husband after your own matrimonial ideas, my boy. Can you shoulder a barrel of flour and carry it down cellar? Can you saw and split ten cords of hickory wood in the fall, so as to have ready fuel all winter? Can you spade up a half -acre of ground for a kitchen garden? Do you know what will take the lime taste out of the new cistern, and can you patch the little leak in the kitchen roof? Can you bring home a pane of glass and wad of putty and repair damages in the sitting -room window? Can you hang some cheap paper on the kitchen? Can you fix the front gate so it will not sag? Can you do anything about the house that Con Reagan can? My dear, dear boy, you sae Nora Mulligan wants is higher type of true manhood. You expect to hire men to do all the man's work about the house, but you want your wife to do anything that a woman can do. Believe me, my son that nine -tenths of the girls who play this piano and sing so charmingly, whom you, in your limited knowledge, set down as mere butterflies of fashion, are better fitted for wives than you are for a husband. If you want to marry is first-class cook andexperienced housekeeper, do your courting in the intelligence ofhce. But if you want a wife, marry the girl you love, with dimpled hands and a face like sunlight, and her love will teach her all these things, my boy, long before you have learned one-half of your own lesson.—Bob 13ardette. A Famous Clown. I have known in my life but one clown who was so naturally gifted as to justify the reputation that he gained both in this country and in Europe. That was Joe Blackburn, an uncle of the present member of Congress from Kentucky. He was an educated, cultivated man,, possessing rare mother -wit, a fine singer and a natural ora- tor. He came from a good Kentucky family, went to Europe in 1842 and played in Louden, where he became a conspicuous figure in the club rooms, and, although a circus clown, was recognized by the aristo- cratic men of the day, who were glad to enjoy his society.—Dan Bice in the Epoch. She Anew Better. Mrs. Jaysruith (to grocer)—Ten pounds of sugar. Grecer (as customer walks out)—I beg your pardon, but you didn't pay for that augar. Mrs. Jaysmith—Of course not. Sugar's free now. I read the papers, I do, and, you can't fool me. -2,7. Y. Epoch. Vinnie Was Tart. Philadelphia Record: Miss Gray (the evening before her wedding)—Suppose the clergyman should want to kiss me after the ceremony, dear'what shall I do ?" Miss Vinnie Garr (her dear friend)—He won't want to. Nearly $2,500,000 is spent every week by London firms on advertising. JAYE% A HOODOO. The gamesters encircled the table round, And clicked their chips with a merry sound, When suddenly all to their feet dld bound And tuned themselves three times around; Then 'twixt his lingers each spat hini twioe. Why, do you ask, did they act this wise? 'Twas only a hoodoo they sought to suffice, Fora cross-eyed chap had brought their ice. —Not scriptural—St. Paul's epistles to Minneapolis. —The Epoch Caller—Has your mistress gone out? New Servant—No, but she ain't at home. The Austrain census shows thatin Galicia seventy-four per:cent, of the population can neither read nor write and only nine per cent. can read. Austria is hardly ripe enough to be a republic yet. —Willis J. Abbott, vhose books for boys heve made him so well known in the literary world, is a Chicago newspaper man. PAPERS MTH SR1 'UUE,U, The 211511 Where United Maks Note Fsper Is manimietured. Anybody who wishes can go into the big Crane SD Co's, factory at Dalton, Massaehu setts, and see the workmen place the blue silk on the machine that inaltes the paper for all the United States notes. The silk comes in spools, a,nd is made by Belding, of Northampton. It is sold here in Bangor. There is no more secret about it than there is about the water flowing over the dam above the toll bridge. The real secret ie in the composition of the paper. The silk thread is secured by patent, to be sure'but the making of paper, the compound of the ingredients, is safe Ms the head of J. Murray Crane, who received the art from his father, who made bonds for Salmon P. Chase Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, away Vack in war times. The pure linen pulp 113 in a big room, looking for all the world like any linen pulp. Then comes J. Murray Crane with a grip sack. He and the "grip" enter the rooan together, ansi it is presumesi that he leeks the door, for the door is locked on the in- side, and the " grip " does not look able to do it. They are closeted a half an hour. When. they come out the pulp goes to the paper machine, and Mr. Crane and the grip go home. But the pulp is changed by that visit, and nobody has beers able to penetrate the Crane secret. The company gets about fifty times as much for that paper as for other linen paper made in the same mill.— Bangor News. Canada's International Exhibition. Arrangements are in progress for holding a dairymen's convention at St. John, N. R., during this exhibition and it ifl expected that several experts will be present and will give some lectures on dairy interests. Arrangements are also being made for show- ing several varieties of cream separators and other dairy apparatus in operation. It is proposed to offer some special prizes for dairy products, and that the nompetition may be open to all the Provinces. Prof. Robertson of the Dominion Experimental Fenn, who is now visiting the creameries and cheese factories throughout the Mar- itime provinces, is taking quite an active interest in this matter. The exhibition opens on September 23rd and continues until October 3rd. The Thirteen Superstition. Here is some comfort for the super- stitious. On March 13th, William Hanlon, whose neck was broken by his fall from the trapeze last week, was present at a dinner where the number of guests was 13. He was the thirteenth man to arrive, merlon July 13th, at the age of 31, Hanlon was killed. His funeral took place from Thir- teenth street, and the number of the lot he was buried -in was 13.—Boston Herald. The first newspaper man known was the father of Pocahontas, who raised is club over Captain John Smith.—Dansville Express. A. prominent banker in 'Paris has com- mitted suicide. Prominent bankers in New York go to Canada. This is why it is better to be a prominent banker in the United. States than in France.—Texas Siftings. At Cape May Point the other day when. the high tide was about to carry away S. fence President Harrison gallantly came to the front and saved it A little practice in looking after his fences will do the presi- dent no harm.—Chicago Mail. Berlin has just decided that wooden pave- rnents are a failure, while Constantinople is having its first one put down. D. O. N. 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