The Exeter Advocate, 1891-12-3, Page 7Itatie's heatime ating.
Sway to and fro in the twilight gran,
This ie the ferry for Shactow town;
It always sallS at tile and et (leas
a eat as the darknese is siosing down.
Rest, little head, on my shoulaer, so
A sleepy kiss is the may fare;
Drifting awaefrom the world we go,
Baby nnd 1 in a rockain cliair.
See where the lire -logs 0o w and mark,
Witter the lights of Shisdoweena ;
The peltieg rains on the winslow, hark!
• Are ripples lapping up its armed.
Alitere where the mireor lank/non-1g dim,:
A lake with its shimmering ..00l arid still;
Dlossoins ata waving above its brim.
• Those over there on the window -sill.
Bock slow, more slow, in the cheeky light,
Silently lower the anchor Stowe;
Dear little passenger. say gooa night,
Via eve reached the harbor of Shadowtown
Is This Common Humanity
New York Herald: A few days am—
,
the stry is familiar to the public—a young
seaman without friends, without money,
without hope, attempted to end her suf-
ferings with laudanum at the Grand Central
depot. She was teleen to the Bellevue
Hospitel, where with due care and proper
treatment she recovered. She has chosen to
comma.' her identity from the public.
Nothing is known derogatory to her char-
acter. It is a question whether she was
mentally responsible for her rash act. Now,
what do the authorities propose to do with
this unfortunate young woman who is pen-
sualause and friendless in this great metropo-
is 2 Send her home? Provide her with
I- moans to go to her friends? Help her
to get employment? Send her to an appro-
priate retreat for the mentally afflicted?
No. She is to be arraigned as a common
criminal in a police court. She has
offended, say these apostles of justice,
against that section of the Penal Code which
declares an attempt, at suicide to be a felony
putfiehable by imprisonment in a State
prison. This is an absurd law. If it has
missy effect it can only be to make a would-be
suicide more desperate—more determined
Bot to fail in the attempt. As a matter of
fact it has proved a dead letter, and rightly
130. lt ought to be blotted from our steatite
book. Shame on the attempt to use it for
The persecution of an unfortunate being on
the threshold of womahhood and to brand
with infamy a young life which deserves
more humane treatment.
The Badger's Weedy Thum.
A young man rushed into a city police
station last night to breathlessly tell the
Sergeant in charge that he had been made
the victim of a badger game. He had, in
• the afternoon, gallantly sheltered a dashing
young woman under his umbrella in Broad-
way. She invited him to call on her in the
evening. He accepted and was confronted at
the house by a man who epraug out of a
closet and played the role of the angry hus-
band. It was the same old game. ''And the
victim had only himself to blame for falling
to the trap. It doesn't appear to be
necessary for either the green -goods man or
the badger gang to change tactics. Given
the alluring promise of good money for a
Song, and the unwary farmer glides blindly
into the swindler's grasp. Given the blan-
dishments of a bright woman of the street,
easel the city "smart" man becomes an easy
victim of the badger. It is on the cards for
yesterday, for to -day, for to -morrow. --New
York. World.
John Mayor's Plea.
Chicago Press: There was a powerful
sermon in an appeal that was made by John
'Mayer, a good-looking German, to Justice
Lyon yesterday. "1 can't find employ-
ment, and would like to be sent to the
'Bridewell." " Well, I'll make it $25,"
A' said the justice. "Oh, please make it $75."
II _Mayer begged, "and that will keep me till
the grass grows again." And still we hear
from press, pulpit and platform, and in
essays on triumphant democracy, that
" there is work for all, opportunity for all,
plenty for all," only some folks are lazy,
trifling, good-for-nothing. As a comment
en this view of social conditions, John
3)/layer's plea for imprisonment for 150 days
is almost tragic.
No Better Off Than He.
Judy : Visitor (to inhabitant of very
jfl village)—But surely you must find it
-very chill here, never
pogetting any news-
apere. mw do you know what is going
on in London, for instance? Inhabitant—
Eh, mon 1 but dinna yet ken that th' folk
in Lannon are just as ignorant o' what's
vain on WI' US?
The Mistalte They Made.
Rochester Herald: The 'chrysanthemum
abow in Buffalo did not pay expenses. The
florists of that city made a mistake. They
abould have opened a beer garden.
We Give It Up.
Boffalo News: According to the remarks
made at the Women's ChristianTemperance
Union in Boston no woman who wears cer-
eals can be ranked among the really elect.
What connection can there be between
whiskey and the straight-laced women of
the country?
All the Same.
Bazar "Say, Bonny," says Hicks, en-
tbusiestically, "you never saw my baby,
rlid—"
"No," returned Bronson, shortly, "but
Tve seen,plenty of others. Let's go play
billiards.,
In the Mart of Love.
New York Herald: "Was Bond's mar -
liege a failure?"
'No, an embezzlement. It took place
after six months' residence in Dakota.
"
Vitae ,Ssnes Tenor Notes.
Philadelphia Times : Chili, China and
Vematla are the high C's with Uncle Sam is
bound to reach unless he splits his larynx.
A Rare Chance.
Milton Champion: Champion for ono
year for a barrel of snow apples.
At the Chicago flower show the golden
rod was selected as the national flower.
It has just been learned, says the Calgary
Tribune, that the survey party which left
Cal/eery two weeks ago, ostensibly to make
a survey from that place to the boundary, in
connection with the C. & E railway, has
gone to tarow's Nest, The eport which
• was circulated that they were going to
make a survey to the boundary was evi-
dently urfounded. No doubt the sueeey is
made by the dieection of the C. P. R., and
as in connection with the proposed hew line
by Crow's Nest Pass to the coast.
The Islited of Malta is the most densely
populated spot on earth.
In sotne perts of Berlin there are special
public houses for women,
In order to fulfill yolt obligations yea most
love your neighbor as yourself even though
you don't think Much of him.
Daring the past season 104,309 head of
•=Wes 31,766 sheep, 79,309 packages of bid -
ter and 1,37,033 packages of cheese were
se/lipped from Montreal.
The Congregational Church in America .
MOW has 506,832 members, and in its Sun -
Any schools are 613,810 Children.
Because They Are Better Fed
and Clothed,
EFFECTS .OF CHEAPNESS,
agar and Milk Generally do the
Business.
The assertion that the 'fancy of the d
flows towards tall girls, about which
many essays have aleeady beea writteneve
that girls are manifestly taller than th
were, is, we think, true ; but it requir
limitations. Nobody knows neuch tibo
any general changes in the height or gir
of the population, the only data we hay
the measurement of recruits apnlYing
enlistment, being utterly deceptive, Tin
are younger and weedier, because t
wages of soldiers correspond less and be
with the Neatens of powerful unskilled' me
because the dislike to long engagemen
increases—and three years is now a lon
engagement—and because the poorest an
pluckiest class; is fonnd more and more
overcrowded towns, where brawnino
develops, if at all, rather late in lif
We think ourselves, as a matt
of observation, that English men an
women have profited by the cheap
food of the last thirty years, and a
decidedly bigger than when we were lad
but we freely admit that we are unaware
any scientific, evidence to support th
opinion. We are only sure that a certai
limited class, the well-to-do section of ti
middle class, lute become decidedly bigge
healthier, and, as regards ite young
women, apparently taller than was the cas
forty years ago. We cannot imderstan
how there can be any doubt upon the su
ject, and would appeal with the utmost ce
fidence to any jury of mothers accustome
to mix in general society. They would sa
thereby correcting an omission in th
popular view, that in seven out of te
families they knew, the sons were large
than the fathers, unless the latter wer
specially big men ; and that the daughtel
not only were larger than the mothers, bu
that they at all events seemed to be talle
too, Nor is there anything surprising i
the statement. The first cause o
bulk and stature is probably race
sve do not mean superior race, for th
Negroes of many districts are bigger tha
are the English, and the "barbarians
were all bigger tkan the Roman soldiers wh
enslaved them—but race, and the continu
ance alike of pedigree and conditions of life
usually involved in that word ; but the
second cause is diet in infancy; and the
third, training in childhood and early youth.
Much milk, for example, makes good bones;
and soldiers caught young visibly lengthen
out under their food and drill. In both
these latter conditions, the change within
the last generation—eve are @peaking only
of the well-to-do—has been very great
indeed. The world has grown unconsciously
much wiser as to the management of chil-
dren. Nothing improves physique like
oocl milk—that, and not porridge, is the
cause of the tall Highlanders, Irishmen and
Sikhs—and the little children of our dey
are nouriebed on cream. -and -water, or milk
procured from the great dairies, which is
as good as milk can be, and as different
from . the milk of thirty years ago as
bran is different from old beef -tea. The
very cows are of a different breed, not to
mention the improvement in , their food and
lodging. Then a prejudice of an extra-
ordinarily injurious character—we write
these sentences on first-class medical evi-
dence—has silently, no one knows why,
entirely disappeared. Nothing nourishes
like good sugar, possessing as it does just
the requisite heat -giving quality.; but the
mothers of 1830-50 dreaded sugar. They
had an idea that it sickened babies, who
always crave for it like horses for salt; that
it spoilt the teeth of growing children; and
that it swelled the tongues of children a
little more advanced in years—the last a
fancy based on the effect of sucking taffy.
They therefore withheld sugar, thus leaving
the children half nourished, and perma-
nently sensitive to a climate which for seven
months in the year is always chilly.
Nowadays, everybody among the culti-
vated knows that sugar is beneficial, and
the children are left to their instincts,
with the result that they make flesh,
and are almost always warm. Then
the matrons of 1830-50 had a fixed
idea, incurable by the men, who never quite
aye in to it, that children, if left alone,
would invariably over -eat themselves, a
theory true of about 5 per cent. The nur-
series were dieted like prisons, with the
result—all nurses exaggerating the popular
ideas—that the children who longed for food
were never fed enough, and the children
who disliked much food—a peculiarity of
many good constitutions—wero gorged to
indigestion. And finally, children are kept
warm eneugh. The horrible old idea of
those two decades, that children should be
" hardened " by exposure, has died away;
the nurseries, besides being properly Yen -
Witted, are kept warm, and the whole
principle of children's clothing has been
radically, and we hope finally, modified in
the sense that the "body," as distinguished
from the limbs, is thoroughly and warmly
clad. The result is, that the child with
a tendency to grow does grow, and that a
greatly increased percentage of boys run
towards 5 feet 11 inches, and of gills to-
wards a feet 8 inches and 5 feet 9 Melees,
than has ever been the case before. More-
over, as the boys and girls grow naturally,
they keep their good looks, and, except for
a year or two of life, it has become a positive
rarity to see" gawky" lads and lasses, as
great a rarity as to see the latter with the
shining red elbows which forty years ago
were at once the most" dreaded and the most
frequent of the minor deformities. The
improvement always, mind, in a strictly
limited class which hardly considers the
cost of food, is manifest at every turn, and
is reported not only. by every artist, but
every caricaturist the country. The
undersized lads and skinny girls haae dis-
appeared from pictures of the middle class,
even when drawn with distinctly hostile
intent. —London Spectator.
A Sure Sign,
New York Weekly : Mother—I'd just
like to ktow who this young man is you
have engaged yourself to.
' Daughter—Oh, he comes of splendid
family.
"Does his family object to the match ?"
" Thee. I guess he's alr right."
She 'Would Re.
Colorado Sun: She—Ab, Jack, Pm afraid
I'll make you o, sorry wife.
He—I've no doubt. Ally one who marriee
me will be sorry. I
President Yerkes, of the North Chicago
Street Car Co., offered $225 in prizes
meritorious se\Vice to grip men ori his cable
Examination showed so Many de.
serving inch that $975 was distributed to
them,
The Kingstoaians have seffiscribed $2,338
toSvatals the Macdonald Mernorial menuxnent
$1114.31einitae,
now tate iteeorel 15 neva and the l'athele on
Observation.
The British Government has a man Sta-
tioned at Roche's Point, who is paid to
record in a book the exact time thew steam-
ers pass hie signal station, both inwerd arid
outward bound. Since the acute rivalry
between the fleet ships, of the White Star
and Inman Lime/ has sprung up this mau
has been evea tnore than ordmarily careful
in carrying out his inetructioup, says the
Pittsburg Diva/ch. In passing Roehe's
Point the vessels go through a channel
hardly three miles wide, and as a general
thing they pass within an easy mile of the
Government signal station.
Since the fast ships began to reckon their
speed so carefully this signal officer has
timed them from the moment they were
exactly abeam of his station.
The outward -bound vessels usually go
past him at full speed. What becomes of
them after that is of no concern to the signal
man. He immediately telegraphs his record
to the steamship agents in Queenstown,
whence it is forwarded to the mein office at
Liverpool,
Both the lnmen and the White Star Lines
have a man of their own on Roche's Point
to make observatiens and figures. Some-
times they differ. But if by any possible
chance the question of a vessel' e actual time
came up 10 a British court of law the
Government signal man's figures would
stand.
In a similar way the official time on the
other side is taken the moment the vessel is
abeam of Sandy Hook. The line is set by
the compass and the telescopedoes the rest.
The moment of crossing is almost as clearly
defied as in the case of the running horse on
the track.
Passengers on the Transatlantic steamers
date the time of their passage either from
Land's End or from the time the vessel
starts until she collies to anchor. The
steamship companies do not take this into
accouut at all in their official records. They
know the time, of course, that a vessel
leaves Liverpool, and of her arrival at
Queenstown. But this is not considered in
the record of her passage.
The subsidized mail boats—the White
Star and Cunard—usually anchor at Queens-
town, a mile or two farther inside Roche's
Point than do the Inman boats and other
Atlantic liners which are not obliged to
await the arrival of the Irish mail atQueens-
town, except for a stray passenger or two.
The mail boats are usually the last to get
away from the harbor.
What a Kiss Has Done.
Was not Voltaire publicly kissed in the
stage box by the beautiful Duchess de Via
lars, in compliance with the demands of an
enthusiastic pit to thus reward the author
of " Merope ?" The kiss has been the bribe
of politics, for wheu Fox was contesting the
hard won seat at Westminster the beautiful
Duchess of Devonshire offered to kiss all
who would vote for the great statesman.
And the inspiration of -patriotism is the
kiss, for did not the fair Lady Gordon turn
recruting sergeant when the ranks of the
Scottish regimant had been depleted by
Salamanca and tempted the gallant lads by
placing the recruting shilling between her
lips for all who would take it with their
o wn ?
A Fake Hen story.
Rochester Herald : The newspapers
hostile to ex -President Hayes have for
several years had a great deal of fun at his
expense over his alleged poultry farming.
Now the ex -president quietly punctures the
whole business with the statement made at
Atlanta recently to the effect that he had
never raised a chicken in his life. " The
story of the chickens . was started by any,
friends as a joke," said the ex -president ;
" they began it for the fun of it, and others
who were not friendly to me, wishing
perhaps to belittle me in the eyes of the
public, published the fake for all it was
worth."
Wiky He is Enlisted.
Rev, Dr. Lyman Abbott : So long as there
are women in cities who buy their food by
selling their womanhood ; so long as there
are /nen in the rich coal fields of Illinois who
must stand without, shivering at the door,
with pick in hand and muscle ready for
work, while wealth locks the coal fields up
against them and a shivering population ; so
long as in the iron fields of Pennsylvania
men work twelve hours a day, with no time
to court their wives or kiss their children,
so long my heart and my hand are enlisted
in any and every movement that gives fair
promise for the emancipation of iniustry.
Temperance and Strife.
Canada Presbyterian : Temperance ad-
vocates have exhausted strength enough on
each other to have well nigh driven the
liquor traffic from this continent. An effort
to do any good thing may end in nothing
more or better than a wrangle about how it
ought to be done. One is often tempted to
think that the one-man power is, after all,
about as good as self-government provided
the nee man is a reasonably fair kind of
mortal. ,The working of popular govern -
me nt in either church or State involves an
enormous amount of unnecessary friction.
The Humane Girl.
George—Either you must marry me or
put me out of my misery.
Ethel—Must I choose?
George—You must.
Ethel (with a sigh)—Well, where is the
axe?
In the Court Boom.
Texas Siftings : Judge (to a very homely
old maid) --Miss, in what year were you
born?
•Witness—In the year 1866.
Judge—Before or after Christ?
Ten to one woman could keep a secret
if she could only find some other way to
prove that she knew it.
A man was put in the stocks in England
as late as the year 1860.
The man who has never made a fool of
himself has lost the luxury of an oppor-
tunity; he was probably a fool to start
with.
" Money talks," but to most people it
says vood-byeit,
The latest feather boa around the fashion-,
able woman's neck looks like a fringe of
whiskers.
Frank Gifford,* near Dawn Mills, met
with a heavy loss yesterday by the burning
of his barn), w,ith contents, and other build.
rugs. The barn was one of the best on the
tiver. The contents consisted of 600bushels
of wheat, 200 bushels of beans, 60 tons of
bay, and 209 bushels of corn. His machinery
was biumed,also 250 chickens in an adjacent
btrilding,.. The origin of the fire is unknown.
It was partly !nutted.
An exchange recently said that "one of
the tricks of the coffee trade is to sift the
beans eo as to get the small beans out of
inferior Java coffee and Mix them with
Mocha, eo es to sell at a higher price.
Somethnes even experts will be deceived by
this trick."
NEWS OF TE WEEK,
iDtwrl
aayitisoyillto have an eledrieal street
Complete ceble eerviee With Brazil bas
been re-establisbed.
Adam Lotto, of Napanee Mill, has been
killed in a railroad accident at Chicago.
The Montreal agent of immigration re-
ports 26,729 arrivals during the past year.
A case of arnalipox has been quaran-
tieed en }Kingston, N. Y., by the Board of
HeTa'ilitell.Gertnan Government has forbidden
Berlin bankers to vasist Russia in floating
hes'
There rrnow 4,000 miners on strike in
Indiana, and the supply of soft coal is almost
entirely put off.
The drought which prevailed in Texas
since early seamier was broken on Saturday
by a copious rainfall.
°omit Toistoas two daughters have opened
a free soup kitchen for the famine -stricken
neer their father's chateau.
Over half a foot of snow fell in St. Paul,
Minn., on Saturdaynaorning, and it looks as
if winter had commenced in earnest.
Measles. MeNaughton & Co., of Windsor,
on Friday took across the liver into Detroit
14,760 dozen of eggs, valued ataa2,214.
The Spanish Cabinet Ministers with Senor
Canovas del Castillo as President, have re-
signed their portfolios as a result of the re-
cent ctisis.
From November 1st, 1800, to November
let, 1891, there were 429 homestead entries
in the Edmonton land office, an increase of
290 over the preceding year.
At Lonsdale Heetines county, a verdict
of wilful murder has been returned against
Jamie/ McGinnise in connection with the
death of B. Ford on Thanksgiving Day.
On Saturday afternoon Mayor Clarke laid
the corner -stone of the new Citv Ball of
Toronto. The total cost will be $1,000,000.
The building is to be ready for use in 1895.
The commercial treaty between Austria
and Italy was signed at Munich yesterday.
It gives Italy large facilities in the expor-
tation of wines, olives, fruits and manufac-
turers..
D
Allen, the Medical Health Officer of
the city of Toronto, took possession of the
old smallpox hospital on Saturday after-
noon, for the purpose of using it as an in-
fectious diseases hospital for isolating diph-
theria patients.
Mr. Foster, Alinister of Finance, denies
the truth of the report that the Donainion
Government has nearly completed arrange-
ments with Mr. C. Furness, an P.,Preeident
of the Furness Steamship Company, for a
fast Atlantic mail service.
The Pope has appointed the Bishop of
Chietoutimi, Province of Quebec, Canada,
to be coadjutor of the Archbishop of Que-
bec, with the right of succession to the
archbishopric. The Vicar -General of Que-
bec, it is expected, will succeed to the
Bishopric of Chicoutimi.
A new binder, invented by E. Ingleton,
of Brantford, and intended to bind all kinds
of grain with straw taken from the sheaf
while being cut, is about to be introduced.
On Thursday last several sheaves were bound
to the entire satisfaction of those who were
permitted to witness the operation.
A telegram from the Viceroy of India
states that no doubts are entertained that
the pilot brig Culdoon foundered during the
terrible hurricane which recently passed
over the Andaman Islands and the Bay of
Bengal. The Culdoon had a crew of six
British officers and 35 natives, and it is be-
lieved all were drowned.
Mr. W. Cusden'M. C. R. brakeman, St
".1.*nitaase aged 22, died suddenly yesterday
morning. He had been ill with preritonitis,
recovered and was to have gone out on his
run to -day, but, was taken ill again on Satur-
day afternoon and died on Sunday morning.
He came from 1Vlanchester, England, four
years ago, and has no relatives in Canada.
There was a lively fracas at Deseronto on
Saturday evening, the result of family
trophies. Douglas Powles assaulted his
father-in-law, Charles Maracle, pounding
him severely on the head and stabbing him
several times in the thigh. Two hours
later two sons of Charles 1Vlaracle gave
Powles a terrible beating, disfiguring his
face and head.
A young man named Barnes, a cutter in
John Marshall & Co's. establishment, Lon-
don, who was arrested on a capiasat the
instance of Mrs. Hughes, who charged. him
with seducing her daughter, married the
latter in jail last Wednesday, and as soon
as he was liberated he swallowed a quantity
of crotan oil, from the effects of which be
died ;ass evening. An inquest will be held.
James Mahoney, a laborer of Belleville,
while working for Contractor Joshua Lang,
also of Belleville, on the roof of the new
RomaneCatholic Church at Brockville, fell
from a broken scaffold on Saturday at 3
p. m. and died at midnight from fracture of
the skull. He leaves a wife and one child
in destitute circumstances. Joshua Lang,
H. Sills and a man named Lister were also
on the scaffold, but caught themselves and
were uninjured.
Mr. George Curzon's appointment to be
Under Secretary for India is a marked
instance of political selection for fitness'
sake. He is 32 and an Oxford celebrity, has
travelled much in the East, has written a
readable book of most solid merit, is a man
of the world, has been Private Secretary to
Lord Salisbury, has five years' party expera
ence, and has the crowning distinction of
being a leading spirit in that select com-
pany known as The Souls," to which Mr.
Balfour also belongs.
An immense demonstration was held in
Limerick yesterday in commemoration of
the death of the Manchester "martyrs."
Messrs. Michael Devitt, John Redmond,
Edward Harrington and others met on a
common platform. 'The speakers demanded
the release of the Irishmen imprisoned in
England. The meeting passed off quietly.
Letters apologizing for their absence were
received from Mr. John Dillon and Mr.
William O'Brien, who were in Mitchells -
town, where they addressed 6,000 persons
at is federation meeting.
At the Somersetshite Assizes on Satur-
day the Rev. Dr, James Casper Clutter -
buck, D. C. L., inspector of workhouse
schools, was tried for obtaining on false
pretences end with intent to defraud, from
iVfra Tualler, of Park steeet, Bath, the
sum of £1,600 ; froxn Charles Martin
Hodges the sum of £1,000 ; from William
Pearce'master of the Dorchester work-
house, the sum of £2,000 ; from Die Blaxall,
of Clanlodge, Bath, the sum of £2,400;
from the Rev. C. McCausland, of Wood -
hall Place, Bath, the sum of £2,500; and
from the Rev. II. H. Pearce, of Bathwick
hill, Bath, the stun of £5,650, in all the
sum of £16,050. Dr. Clutterbuck pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to five years'
penal servitude.
Mrs. Lavinia Mason, the stewardess of
the steal -nee Mongolian, svhieh arrived at
Liverpool froth Montreal on Wednesday
last, was ar:migned in court on Saturday,
charged with shooting, With intent to kill,
Purser Stewart, of the same' veseel, While
the steamer was passing Londohderry on
Friday last. The prIsbner declared that
for (Infants and Children
"CsastorilaiS wen adepted to children that Castaria enree Censtipation,
I recommend It aa superior to any prescription Sant' Stomach, Diarriwea, Erlittatialb
Immix to me." it, Lacuna, II. D., Kills Warms, gives sleep, and proalotes
11 Mo. Qzioni tate Brooklyn, lt Y. Vaitgoe)siitTii:iuriolis niedicetien.
TEE CENTAUR Coneater, as Murray Street, N. t;
'
Nme•••••••••••,
Stewart had betrayed her under promise of
marriage, and when asked, to fulfil bis
engagement on the steamer's arrival at
Liverpool he threatened to discard her. She
then became so enraged that she fired three
shots at him for the purpose of frightening
hun, and that she did not desire to do him
serious bodily injury. Two of the bullets,
however, took effect in Stewart's body, pain-
fully wounding hint. The prisoner was re-
manded without bail.
13razilian ports are infected with yellow
fever.
A big binder twine trust has been formed
in Chicago.
Counterfeit one dollar Dominion of Can-
ada notes are in circulation near Ottawa.
Winnipeg City Council has passed a re-
solution in favor of a direct railway line to
Duluth.
Stratford Council proposes to have a new
fire hall. A by-law will be submitted to
the people.
M. de Giers, the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, dined withPresident Carnet
last night in Perin
The by-law to raise $28,000 for water-
works for Parry Sound was carried yester-
day by a majority of 19.
During the past week there were 33
failures in Canada, as compared with 27 for
the corresponding period last year.
The London Baptist Social Union has en-
dorsed the proposal to hold a Baptist Ecu-
menical Conference in Chicago in 1893.
It is reported that the Czar is only wait-
ing for a chance to choose a successor to M.
Vishnegradski as Mitiister of Finance.
The election trials in North Perth ancl
East Bruce were proceeded with yesterday
at Stratford and Walkerton respectively.
There was a rumor current in Ottawa
yesterday that Lord Stanley intends resign-
ing the Governor -Generalship next month.
Judge Elliot at London yesterday decided
that the Liberal notices of objections to
names on the Dominion voters' list were in-
valid.
The special train to transport 250 marines
and 25 officers of the Imperial service from
Vancouver to Halifax left Montreal last
night for Vancouver.
There is a rumor current that the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway Company will start a
telephone company in Montreal in opposi-
tion to the Bell Company.
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FOY' Debility, Neuralgia and
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THE NUMBER SEVEN.
Its Mystical Significance in Biblical
History.
On the seventh day God ended his work.
On the seventh month Noah's ark touched
the ground.
In seven days a dove was sent.
Abraham pleaded seven days for Sodom.
Jacob mourned seven days for Joseph.
Jacob served seven yeare for Rachel.
And yet another seven years more.
Jacob was pursued a seven days' journey
by Labial.
A plenty of seven years and a famine of
seven years were foretold in Pharaoh's
dream by seven fat and seven lean beasts,
and seven ears of full and seven ears of
blasted corn.
On the seventh day of the seventh month
the children of Israel fasted seven days and
remained seven days in their tents.
Every seven days the land rested.
Every seventh year the law was read to
the people.
In the destruction of Jericho seven per-
sons bore seven trumpets seven days. On
the seventh day they surrounded the walls
seven times, and at the end of the seventh
round the walls fell.
Solomon was seven years building the
temple, and fasted seven days at its dedica-
tion.
La the tabernacle were seven lamps.
The golden candlestick had seven branches.
—Cincinnati Co9nmermal-Gazette.
Witeasing the Baby.
Texas Siftings: Military instruction on
the frontier.—Sergeant—You sent for e,
sir ? Captain— Yes, sergeant ; don e -
quick the company up and down there a few
times; it makes the baby laugh.
What She is Trying to Bo.
TONZ Topics: Bessie—I think it is
economy that prompts Mrs. Vantageur to
wear her dresses so decollete. Agnes—
Economy? Yes; she is trying to make
both ends meet.
No Show,
Nev York Herald : "1 had no show,"
growled the sawdust man.
" That's just the trouble," replied the
Justice gravely, as he sentenced him.
"Your performance wasn't worth the price
of admission.
She is SOH on Deck.
Atchison Globe: " What has become of
the old-fashioned woman n ho cured her
children's sore throats by Mzuling the
stockings they took off o,t night ..round the
throat with the foot part direotly over the
moat?
A Geed Neighborhood.
Epoch ; Foley—Have you nice neigh-
bors?
ae
penesen—Elegatit. Why, v spend
and
umm
efall anedr inN
winterinoPrlto. ride Indhtelie sprislg
Ah thadentitiedNobodY.
Judge • Louise—See that little insigni.
ficant fellow yonder 1 That's Mrs. Splur-
ger's husband.
Clara—Indeed? What was his name
before marriage '2
Db net sitriatiOns of hearted best prove
the sincerity. of friends