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etied Voice Seid "4�;"
On a slab in the dead hens° a, little ono len
The roses of lito tintS Still eMored the elay,
'1`he little pink fingers weretbth1 elaspecl
As it some loved plaything they joalouely
grasped ;
The wee feet were poems on that pitiful bed,
13u1, the voiee of their poetry f.erover was 11OU;
Yet never voice Spake oA001181110Y 4711(1..
As that 1i1118 WO8 baby corpse, unnus a shroud.
The doctors had searchedwith their halves hi
it brain,
And the marics of their ravage were showu by
the stain
OD a, line 'whore the saW of the snrgeou so
bright
1-Iad searched, lest some druetinip,lit have dark-
ened its light.
And erullY mangled. and marked into twaih
Was the breast that, su elose to a mother's had
lain.
But the small features emiled, as at insects or
flovs.ors
That grow in a lovliee region than ours.
No drug in the brain had abridged the child's
i
No violence had compassed the death, after
strite,
But a metber's load arms in a fit of despair
Rad committed. her babe 10 1110 dark water's
gnrgle, 'a sob 'neon a bridge, and a moan,
And the mother bad stood m the clarkuess
alone.
A mother self.taughtin adversity's school,
Cursing Ged and the charity running by rule.
That morniug that baby had laughed in its
' sleep,
That noon the hot tears of a mother did weep
O'er the fatherless darling whose helplessness'
fair
Seemed to cry for Onmipotent pity, for euro;
For the poor mother's heart was o'er burdened
with. dread
Lest the lsaby might suffer—she lacking for
bread.
An orphan asylum she sought in her wee,
And the matron replied : " Rules forbid ; you
must go."
And go forth she did, like the Master who bore
His cross, refused, rest from the shoemaker's
door.
Sore heart and sick brain on she went till she
came
Where the merciful waters are waiting for
shame,
Where the heart of the blackness makes signal
to, rest
And 'beckons tired souls from the weary life's
breast.
So the baby was drowned, but its death is a foe
Bearing -witness to God 'gaiust the voice that
said "go."
—Mark S. Hubble,
Buffalo, Dec. lath, 1891.
christmas, 1591.
(Elizabeth Bullard, in Harper's Bazar.)
Through the still splendor of the Orient night,
To shepherds watching, waiting, on their plains
afar,
Breaks the glad rapture of the Angel Song.
Shines the calm radiance of the wondrousStar.
" Glory to God on High!"
Sing the bright, joyous throng,
While countless hosts prolong
Ceaseless the echoed song.,
"Glory to God on High !
Peace and Good-ivill!
God's Peace to Earth from:Heaven
This day with His Son is given.
Glory to God on High!
Peace and Good -will to men ra
And the Star, leading
Led to theChrist.
Through the sad mists of the world's dreary
waiting,
Down the fierce ages of tumult and war,
Through fear and confusion and deadliest
hating,
Still sounds the Angels' Song, still beams the
Star.
e Glory to God on High!"
Still sing the heavenly throng,
While priest and choir prolong,
In measured chant the song,
Glory to God onEigh 1
Peace and Good-willto me
God's Peace to Earth from
This day with His Son is giv .
Glory to God on High!
Peace and Good -will !"
And the Star,. leading still,
Led to the Christ.
Where now in the world's high noontide bright
Men halt and. doubt and question and bewdilt
Dazed by keen splendors of the bounteous
light,
Or, drunk with achievement, pose as gods, and
fuji
Of all the promised Peace ancl Rest;
Or, reaching, reach too far ;,
Or, searching for the Good, ignore the 13est—
Still, like the sure tide, throbs that song,
Still through the glare serenely shines the Star,
While chant the heavenly throng,
And thankful hearts prolong
Round all the earth the song,
"Glory to God on High!
Peace and Good -will to men1
To.day through His Son is given
God's Peace to Earth from..lefeaven.
Glory to God on Hight
Peace and Good -will!"
And the Star, leading still,
Leads to the Christ.
Jamming. at the Shops.
" I must have money," said my wife,
"The shops I want to see.
Shell out 3-mir cash, dear Hubby mine,
And quickly give it Inc."
1, like a husband fond. and true.
Obeyed. her on the spot.
Sweet wife," quoth I, "take care of this,
'Tis all the cash Tve got."
"0, never fear, yen cautious pet,"
She gayly made reply.
"111 guard this gold and silver like
The apple of my eye."
She viewed the coin with loving eyes,
Confessed it was enough,
Then slipped it in an open purse
Outside her little muff.
She chucked Inc underneath the chin,
She kissed ray martial chops,
And off she tripped right merrily
To contemplate the shops.
While she was looking through the glass
And thinking what she wanted,
.A. gentleman crept slyly up,
And with her purge levanted.
" 'Twas all your fault," said she to me,
In tones ot atm- pride.
"When Tarn looking at the shops,
You should be at my side."
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MIRACULOUS CURES.
Belt, A, B. Simpsan Sayg HeOaa Vuuoh
fOr SOOreS of Oases,
BROKRN LEG HEALED BY PRAYER,
The closing services of a two -clays' con.
verition of the " Your-Po/a Gospel" alli-
ance was held in their Lail, en Duffield
street, Detroit, on Sunday afternoon. The
fonr leading features of this society are
comprised in those declarations : " Christ
our Saviour, Christ our sanctifier,
Christ our healer, our coming Lord,"
The society is made up of members
of all denominations of Christianity
who assent to the above belief, none of
whom leave the membership of their re-
spective churches, but are simply banded
together, as they, declare, to cultivate in
themselves a higher degree of spirituality.
Their meetings, therefore, are held so far
as practicable at such hours as not to inter-
fere with the regular services of the churches.
There are between 00 and 100 belonging to
the society in Detroit.
In his remarks before the convention on the
subject of divine healing, Rev. Mr. Simp.
son (formerly Pastor of Knox Church, this
city), said he was personally acquainted
with a score of cases of immediate and
miraculoue healing in answer to the prayer
of faith. He gave one instance of the ease
of a young ma.n in Chicago, who suffered
cocnpouncl fracture of one of hie legs. Th
doctor set the bones and bandaged up the
leg in the usual way. Daring the
night, iu answer to prayer, he was
told by the Lord that his leg was
healed, and in the morning he removed
splints and bandages and went about
his work fully restored. Mr. Simpson
vouched for this case and repeated that he
personally Itnew of scores equally as em-
phatic. Nevertheless, he did not favor
these miraculous healings, as the tendency
of them on the subjects was to pride
and a falling away from that humility
and spirituality that characterize the
true believers iu Jesus Christ. But the
healing he recommended was that in
which the patient suffered through clays or
weeks, or months, it may be, of slow con-
valescence, in which his faith was put tothe
test. "Coming through •such a •fire of
affliction," saiehe, "one would more fully
appreciate and understand the lovin sym-
pathy of the Great Physician, and a come
the more fully devoted to His ser be n
the great work of lifting the world up to •a
higher plane of life."
The reverend gentleman's great work now
is in the missionary field. Ile relatedito the
convention his labors during the past four
months, in securing pledges from persons to
go to foreign fields as missionaries, and
pledges of means for their support. He
stated that fifty-four working girls in New
York have subscribed. $1,500 for the
miasionary work for the current year. At
a meeting a few weeks ago in Ocean Grove,
45 persons within 15 minutes, pledged $500
each for the support of 45 missionaries for
a year, and before the meeting
closed, pledges were given in less
amounts for the support of 60
He now reports a sufficient sum pledged
within the past fourznonths tosupportabout
150 missionaries at $500 apiece, and. one
business man has just donated $50,000
toward the expense of their transportation
to foreign fields. Within these past four
months, also, 240 men and women have
pledged themselves to, go out as foreign
missionaries. '
A missionary training school is maintained
in New York city. Mr. Simpson says that
in the past five or six years, since engaging
in the alliance work, he has received and
disbursed $500,000, all of which has been
voluntarily furnished and not a cent
solicited.
A chris(mas.Song.
rrict Prescott Spofford in Harper's Bazar).
e
Sleep dear, sleep, where nothing ill is.
Let no joy bells, ringing in the morrow,
Give your happy dream a thought's sur -
Screened. from all the world of wrong and,
sorrow
By the lilies
01 your spotless purity and peace.
Sleep, and only hear 171 dreaming
Far-olle music. beating, fleeting—
Never lullaby so sweet a,nrl blest—
Christmas bolls the heavenly song repeating,
Softly seeming
Angels singing you to deeper test.
' Sleep love, while the gracious story
Of another child the bells are telling
Whose dear hand is holding lours to -night,
The sweet Christ Child. bending from the
dwelling
Where His glory'
Mlle the heavens themselves with tender light.
Sleep 1 the Christ Child keeps the heavens' above
you,
Stills the song upon your dream intrhaling,
Folds around you siunfber's silent fleece,
rills the mother heart about you brooding,
So cloth love you
That Ile lends his purity and peace!
ST).'LE oa yuscnits,
ilerezifterNotliiii CandfWill Be Toieraited
by the fielvitt Ion Army.
There are to be no more expensive f uner-
als itt the Salvation Army, The general
ukase has been issued, and hereafter mena-
.bers who have fought the " Kunkle -horned
Clootie" in its ranks will be interred 'when
the.y die with "en entire absence of, any
vaui 811011`.." There is to be no hearse, no
mourning., carriagee, no mourners, no black
crape,
" \\re propose to conduct the funerals
hereafter in a style that will be itt keeping
with our soldierly status," said Captain
Flory. "11 we can carry the coffin along,
just holding it among us ' by the haedies, it
will be all the better. Yes, a battlefield
stretcher would be even a better scheme.
" A. half-dozen comrades would lug it
along easily, and all of the commissioned
officers and members of the departed sol-
dier's corpse could walk along with it befope
and behind, singing and glorifying God. If
there are any sick relatives who wish to
attend, but who cannot walk, they can hire
ordinary cabs themselves. We don't wish
to be obdurate so far as the wishes of the
family of the deceased are concerned.
Every funeral conducted in our simple
manner will prove attractive to the people,
and we will use it to make niore converts.
You g,et more strength from on High when
you are walking than you do when you are
riding, The relit° to the cemetery will
always be chosen through the thoroughfares
where there are the most people, and with a
band of music in front, and the Grand
Army chen•us will be most impressive." 1
The funeral announcement will be made
hereafter on white cardboard, surrounded
by evergreens. This will be hung up in
barracks. Every member will wear 4
white band on the left arra until the Sun-
day after the burial, The services at the
grave will include a solo by some sister,
with the full chorus. Then three volleys
will be vocally and verbally fired from the
mouth. " God bless and comfort the be-
reaved ones I" "God help 118 who a e left
to be faithful unto death," and "God bless
the Salvation Army." The band will then
strike up a hymn in quickstep time, and the
Army will march away.
, The Salvation Army War Cry for, this
iveek contains two or three thrilling pieces
of news from correspondents, viz
"Staff Captain McIntyre, who has just
*taken charge of Newfoundland, says that
on his reception tour one night his slumbers
were much disturbed by- the snoring of a
lady in the -next house, resembling the dis-
tant roaring of the sea."
Another paragraph announces that " the
total number of Orys taken by La Salle,
111., is 0000000000000000000000000000."
A third piece of current history is to the
effect that neck strand of bells with a
tambourine j'mgle has been presented to the
little dog that acts as rank sergeant at
Colusa in the Array turn -outs.
Ile 'Was the Fool Ruler,
Two friends, newspaper men, went on an
excursion. While on a railway train they
were moved to mischief by -the comical
appearance of a country -looking fellow who
sat near.
"Row lona did it take you to write
a
"Paradise Lost ?" one of the friends asked,
addressing his companion.
"Oh, about two weeks, but I was busy
on the Course of Time' a good bit of the
while. You worked quite a while on the
Vicar of Wakefield,' didn't you?"
"Well, yes, quite a while. Oh, I could
have done it sooner if I hadn't worked so
hard on the Rasselas ' dining the time.
But when itcomes to work, let me tell you
that I caught it on 'The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire.' I had to have it done
by a certain time, and hanged if I didn't
write a volume a week for six weeks. After
that I took it easy and didn't write more
than a volume in two weeks."
They glanced occasionally at the country-
man and tittered gleefully. Pretty soon the
fellow got up, approached them and said:
"1 have taken a lay off merely to look
for you fellows. I wanted to have some fun
with you." And before they knew what he
was about he seized them itt a strong and
mysterious way and btunped their heads to-
gether; and then, as the train had. reacded
a station, he bowed politely and got off.--
Arkcensaw Travder.
Bail in 0 Barn.
What would the plain country farmer, a
genuine "hayseed," have thought of the
entertainment given in the barn of Ham-
ilton 11,1cK. Twoinbley, son-in-law of the
Vanderbilt family, at 1VIa,dison, New Jer-
sey Friday evening? This big barn,
with its enormous wings, was lit up with
thousands of incandescent electric lights.
It was decorated with. evergreens and
crimson; with laurels and feather plant;
with an immense rope of pumpkins and a
carriage wheel at its end • with vases of
chrysanthemums, sheaves of wheat, and
red, white and blue pampa grass, with
white muslin, rhododendron, jack -o -lanterns
and ears of corn. Lander's orchestra was
in one balcony and the Hungarian band in
another. The cow stables were turned into
dressing -rooms. Delmonico furnished the
supper. The New York Mail and Express
calls the entertainment "old-fashioned
fun." We shall have to ask Josh Whit-
comb if he ever participated in such an en-
tertainment. He could tell us, no doubt,
about the old-fashioned husking bee with
the candle or oil lanterns throwing their
feeble rays into the darkness and the' bevy
of stalwart farmer lads and rosy-cheeked
country girls ; but what resemblance did
that bear to the McK. Twombley fete ?—
Rochester Herald.
A congress on Prehistoric Anthropology
will be held in Moscow next year.
The Earl of Errol, Baron Hay a,nd Baron
Kilmarnock, died on the 3rd hist. at Staines
Castle, Aberdeenshire, aged 68 years. He
was the eighteenth Earl of Errol—one of
the oldest, titles in the peerage, having been
created in 1453 --and is succeeded by his
eldest son, Charles Groe Hay, preeently a.
major in the Royal Horse Guards. ,
Scotland is fast losing its distinction as
the honte of religions conserVatisum A few
Sundays ago Rev. J. II. Crawford, the
esteemed pastor of a Presbyterian Church in
Dundee, made a plea. iu his sermon for
cheap theatres.
Saidee—What Wag tliat selution you gave
my wife for her eye ? Dr. Endes--Ohloride
of sodium ; evhy ? Saidso—Nothing, only
Mrs. Knoltall wee 80 cock -sure it wee salt.
To Prevent Frozen Feet.
In cold weather never wear a woolen
stocking inside a thin tight shoe. To do it
is to invite frozen feet, says The Ladies'
Home Journal. The wool grows damp and
clammy with insensible prespiration, the
shoe pinches the blood vessels into sluggish
torpor. Betwixt them you have a frozen
foot almost before you know it. Much
better put a thin silk, lisle -thread or cotton
stocking next to the foot, and draw the
woolen one on outside the shoe. With
arctics over the stockinge, you can defy
Jack Frost, if you are shod like Cinderella
herself.
Tun Monetary Times says that the beet
sugar factory at Farnham, Que., is at
work, and a good deal of sugar has been
made and sold. The beets have yielded
fairly, and the farmers who have raised
them are, with very few exceptione, eatis-
fied, and find the cultivation remunerative.
The correspondent of the SI. Johns News
says that the resident superintendent,
Baron Seillier, has just gone to Nevi York
on business connected with the factory.
" There is some idea of running the
factory throughout the year, using it 08 a
refinery in the summer." More than half
the sugar consumed in the world 'is now
produced from the beet root. The Canadian
refiners import raw beet sugar from
France and Germany. The Canadian soil
and climate are perfectly fitted to produce
beets rich in sugar, and unless the cost
of labor is too great' the businese, properly
managed, should thrive here. The home
market amounts to 200,000,000 pounds a
year, and the market �f the United States,
which imposes no duty upon raw sugar, is
practically limitless. The established
success of the Farnham factory Wottld lead
to the erection of many more factories
throughout the Dominion. Our farmers
require slime new crop to take the place of
barley,' the price of w doh has been reduced
by the McKinley Bill.
A, London ointibas traverse,boat eigny
miles a day) and earns $80 a week.
Want Their Rights.
New York Com2nercial Daily. Bulletin :
Workingmen want neither sympathy nor
pity ; all they ask is their equal rights, with
every other class of citizens, and freedom to
pursue their own interests in their own
way, without obstruction from others upon
whom special protections and exemptions
have been unwarrantably bestowed. Charity
may be, ought to be, offered to the helpless
or the unfortunate '• but the honest, manly
workman asks nothing and will accept
nothing beyond the Divine bestowals, his
liberty and his independent strength and
skill.
,
$AT WIIA'r YOU MEAN.
James Gorden itenneties Sarcastic Interriew
With 3:011114; 1tO1lOr4C1`.
" There should be a rtile in every news-
paper fffliCe prohibiting the use of certain
phrases and expressions," said an old war
correspondent to a New Yorle reporter, as
he threw down a paper in an, elevated can
" It distresees Ine to isee poor, old, hack-
neyed expressions kept at work, daily when
they should have been retired long ago.
Why sboold a reporter always refer to a
man's immaculate linen ' when he means
to say that the man wore a clean shirt, and
why in heaven's name should. a man or
woman be described as well groomed '?
Here they are both in one paragraph,
and just beside them, is the man who,
according to thmreporter, is always saying
something real devilish with a twinkle iu
his eye,' and the other fellow who made
this or that remark as he lit a fresh
cigar.'
Cher° should be a cemetery for senile and
used -up words eeid phrases that have out-
lived their usefulness, if they ever were
useful, and about one thousand of them
should be laid away in, quicklime at once
and never resurrected.
" Speaking of cemeteries why should a
man as soon as he is dead be referred to as
'poor'? Here I read of a railroad conductor
who was killed in a railroad collision. Yes-
terday he was the genial Conductor
Brown' ; to -day he is poor Brown.' The
word seemed to be applied especially to
men who, in life were good fellows and also
to those whose death was eaueed by
violence. It is not used in connection with
great men. You never hear of poor
Napoleon,' poor Shakespeare,' or poor
Frederick the Great,' clo you ?
"1 do not expect the reporters to reform
as long as their employers allow the use of
such Idiotic words and phrases. When I
was younger than I am to -day and thought
I knew about as much as an ordinary 1118,11
could be expected to know this side of the
grave I was reporter ou the Herald under
the elder Bennett. Mr. Bennett seat for
me one clay. He said:
"'Young than, I notice that ha your
efforts to find men whom you have been
instructed to interview you never enter a
hotel.'
" Never eiater a hotel, Mr. Bennet?' I
said. '
"No, sir • you iuvariably write that you
,
"drifted" in, and when you do drift in you
never meet the man.'
" Never meet him ?'
" No, I observe that in every case after
drifting in yon either "run against" or
"stumble across' the object of year pur-
suit. I wish that in future you would sim-
ply walk into the hotel and meet these
petiple. That's all, sir."
"1 was angry, for I prided myself on
said: English and on my literary style. I
id:
" 'Mr. Bennett, I have been writing now
nine or ten years and have worked on a
munber of newspapers as good as the Her-
ald. , I flatter myself I know something
about the English language, and I—'
" 'Young nean,' interrupted Mr, Bennett,
did you ever read of how a man once
boasted to Sidney Smith that the stick he
carried had been twice around the world,
and how Smith took the stick, and, after
carefully examining it, said, "Ansi yet—
and yet it is only a stick after all"?'
" What did you say to that ?" Tasked my
friend, the, war correspondent.
" I maintained a tumultuous silence,
and—no, I did not drift out—I went out of
the room.'"
Apropos of Whom?
Chicago Times : It isn't the man who is
at the top who always has the most sense.
Remember that a balloon is sure to rise,
but is nothing but a bag of gas, after all.
William II. of Germany. puts Mr. Stead,
of the Review of Remews, in mind of
General Gordon, in that he believes that he
is a partner with the Almighty—except
that Gordon was humble enough to con-
sider himself only the junior partner.
What will you do if you are elected ?"
asked the deputation of voters delegated to
ascertain the ground whereon the candidate
stood. "Great Scott What shall Edo if
I am not elected!" groaned the candiate to
himself before he had made an andilele
reply.
Enpec— A man told me a story about a
woman who did not speak to her husband
for fifteen years. Mrs. Enpec—Indeed,
what was the matter? Enpec—She was
dead.
Smelling Contest.
The young people of Lewiston, Me., have
a new scheme for entertainment. At a
gathering the other night a smelling con-
test was the thing that made the most fun,
according to the Journal. There had been
obtained from a local druggist eight bottles
containing as many different liquids • of dif-
ferent odors, all common but one, ancl each
numbered on. the corks. The game was to
smell of these and identify them, and write
the decision opposite numbers on a card.
Now, it is a well-known fact to those who
have studied the matter that the sense of
smell is the most deceptive of all the senses,
for the reason that after smelling of three
things in quick succession the nose refuses
to do duty with most people, and beyond
that everything is mixed and confused. A
young lady and gentleman each identified
seven out of eight of them; nine more
identified all but two. But generally the
things written down were wide of the
mark. Bisulphide of carbon—the only un-
common one—proved a sticker. It was
written down as extract onions, oil of brim-
stone, laudanum, boiled cabbage and white
rose. The contest was the funniest kind of
fun.
Provincial inamigrateon Returns.
The Provincial Immigration Department
has issued its annual statement, showing
the number of immigrant arrivals and de-
partures at the several agencies for the
eleven months ending November 30th,
1891. The number of arrivals by way of
the St. Lawrence and Halifax was 8,022, as
against 9,958 during the preceding year ;
and by way of the United States 40,765, as
against 41,858 during the preceding year.
Of the total number 37,517 are reported as
going to the United States, 59 to Quebec,
1,289 to Manitoba and 9,922 to Ontario.
Last yea,r the figures were 38,011 to the
United States, 96 to Quebec, 1,732 to
Manitoba and 10,977 to Ontario. The
nationalities of the settlers in Ontario were
as follows : English, 5,930 ; Irish, 1,194;
Scotch, 1,316 ; German, 626 ; Scandinavian,
94; Swiss, 2 ; American, 643, and other
countries 117. The net result shows 4,055
fewer settlers this year than last in
Ontario, and 1,573 fewer in the three Pro-
vinces named.
TEA TABLE OfOkSTP.
Now cloth the weind-be alderman
Approach you with a $1T11 0,
4.11d grasp you warmly by the hand
itt very cordial style.
Ho mks after your family,
And how Year lineinese 1 roe,
And eeeins (0 beke stith a'aSf
io all of your affairs.
But always ends with, "13 the way,
Limn in No. 3,
I hope that OA 01001401, da
You tvill remeniber me,'
—The dumb waiter never o pects a tip.
na—trVe.ages always a,ppcel to nutn's hire
tu
— Lawyers lay down the 11 w when they
take up a case.
—People who are alwa in a hurry
should sit on rush chairs.
— The man who wants the earth is satis-
fied if he secures the dust.
—Only one couple in 11,5)0 live to cele
brate their diamond wedinge
--" A eimple look is all I crave," said he.
"Gaze into yonder mirror,) and you'll get
it," pad she.
— John 13, Sisson, of Algeria, Cal., has
made a perpetual motion 'machine out of
what was his wife's sewing Machine.
The num who neither di:1114,11er smoke
Nor danues, nor plays tentne,
Nor goes to theatres, nor joke',
Nor bets—his name is Dennis.
--Jaggs, entering a pawnshop—Say,
mister, I've just escaped from the Keeley
Institute, and .l'm full o' gold. How much
can I get on it1
--Enpec—I must have been drunk when
I came home last night. Mrs. Enpeck--
What makes yoa think so ? Enpeck—The'
last eI remember, 1 had no notion of coming
h
—Ife—Tiiey weremarriecl through a matri-
monial bureau and he selected her by a
photograph. Sile—And now they're on their
bridal tour? "No; he's gone to kill the
photographer."
--" Are you the master of this house ?”,
asked a stranger, addressing the yonng
married man. " No," said the young mar-
ried man, with a deep sigh ; my wife
has just taken the master upstairs to nurse
him." ,
--Jeweller's wife (looking doubtfully at
the Thanksgiving tarkey)—Can we afford
as large a fowl as that, Henry? Jeweller
(stuffing a roll of bills into her hancl)—Afford
it, Henrietta? Great Scott! I've sold a
watch crystal every day tins week.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Bright Christmas tells
With merry bells
And children's happy voices,
How all the earth
At Jesus' birth
Forevermore rejoices.
0, sing aloud
Ye joyful crowd,
For songs the more endear us
To all we love,
To God. above,
And Christ, oar King, SO near us.
—Francis .7'. Moore.
—Next year Christmas will fall on Sun-
day.
—The Austrian Emperor receives a yearly
"salary" of $3,750,000. ,
—The microscope shows that the humble
nail has 30,000 teeth in it sinouth.
—The man who makes a bad break ought
not to be employed on a railroad train.
—The man who is not Carrying a letter to
Santa Claus around in his pocket is an
anomaly.
--" That was the stroke of a master
hand," said the boy when the school -teacher
punished him.
—" What would you do if you were in
my shoes, Jephson 1" asked Hobbs. "Black
'em," replied Jephson.
—Every man who does not labor and lay
up a fortune may cause absolute suffering
to his daughter's future husband.
—We have noticed that the smaller the
town the more its papers have to say about
amoans religion when he dies. --Atchison
aibe.
He sat at tho dinner table .
With a discontented frown—
The potatoes and steak were -underdone
And the bread was baked too brown;
The pie too sour, the pudding too sweet,
And the roast was much too fat;
The soup so greasy, too, and salt,
Sure 't was hardly fit for the cat.
A man of average strength can lift with
both hands a weight of from 230 to 240
pounds.
A ship described as A 1 Lloyd's means
" the best of hulls with the best of furni-
tttre."
St. Mary's Church in Newry England a
0 • ,
Protestant Anglican place of worehip, was
on Sunday the scene of a very disorderly
occurrence. While services were going on
eleven vestrymen advanced to the altar and
seized the commiillion cloth, on which were
embroidered the letters I. H. S. The rector
also seized the cloth, and a struggle ensued
for the possession, a struggle in which the
vestrymen were victorious. Having secured
the cloth, they cut off and burned the letter-
ing I. II. S. The vestry had long agitated
the subject of the removal of this lettering,
which peeved extremely objectionable to
certain of the parishioners. After the ves-
trymen had attained their object, police
were summoned and took their names.
They will be summoned.
The latitude of INew York city is about
seven hundred arid fifty miles south of that
of Leaden.
Little Mabel, 3 years old, suddenly
buret out crying at the dinner table.
" Why, Mabel," Said her mother, "what is
the matter ? " "Oh," whined Mabel, "my
teef trecl 00 my tongue,"
Prudent Papa.
New York Herald : IIe—You said that
I might lea,rn my fate to -night.
She—Well, I spoke to papa and he
told me to wait. He wants to consult a
Mr. Bradstreet first, though I don't know
him at all.
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ANCIENT IONaliNCIERING.
The anther of " Salanunbe" toile how
Spendiue effected an entrance into Carthage
in time of siege by floating down the aque-
duct. No man can sail or swim through one
of Mr. Gartshore's medern cast-iron water
pipes. It is interesting, indeed, to be told
about the magnificent system of aqueducts
and covered reservoirs, &QM which, 2,500
years ago, the inhabitants of Caithage drew
their water. In looking at these works, we
must remember that Carthage flourished for
over 700 years before its destruction by the
Romaas, 150 years before the Christian era.
Rising again from its ashes, under Beeman
role, it flourished for another period of 700
yeare, and became one ,of 1110 moat magnifi-
cent cities in the world, then fell again, and
for 1,000 years was destroyed piecemeal,
until nothing remains now except reinnamts
of the waterworks. On a commanding
eminence, looking out upon the harbor and
the sea, there 8tancla the Cathedral and
Monastery of St. Louis, marking the spot
where Louis IX. of France died in the year
1270, aud also occupying the eite of the
citadel of Carthage, called the Byrsa,
named as tradition says, in commemora-
tion of the artifice by which Dido, 852
years before the Christian era, secured
from the uatives the gronnd on which it
was erected,agreeing with. them for as much
land as a bull's hide (byrsa) would cover,
and then cutting the hide into thin atrips,
and inclosing with it a tradt of twenty-two
stadia. Here it was thatDiclo watched and
waited for Aneas and from this hill the
smoke of her funeral. pyre ascended to the le
sky. Thou a great city spread in all direo-
tiona around the citadel. Now, outside of
the white walls of the Monastery, utter
desolation reigns as far as the eye canreach,
except 1rOlT1 the occasional smoke from a
railreed train between Tuuis and its sea-
port Goletta, On closer examination of the
Site of the ancient city, some interesting re-
ma"ins are to be seen, however, of the
waterworks. The toeriat in Tunis may
visit the site of Carthage by taking a train
on the raalroacl.to Goletta, or he may take
a carriage and drive over five miles of
dusty, but pretty well -kept macadamized
road, out to the great reservoir of
Maalaka, half a mile from the sea. The
Arabio word Ma,alaka, means "connected
together," and typifies the collection of
vaulted communicating chambers, which
covered a space of about 500 x '750 feet, and
served to collect and store the rain -water
from the marble -paved area around the
reservoir, and the streets of the city.
A recent visitor to these ruins says that
enough remains to show the character of
workmanship and materials that were used
in ancient days, and that it gives one a
curious feeling to see the arches of concrete
and rubble masonry, which, where not cies-
troyed by the hand of man, have stood un-
harmed by the elements for more than
twenty centuries, and to consider that we
are now, with our latest improvements and
inventions for securing pure and wholesome
water, simply returning to the practice of
the days of Dido. But these are, by no
means, all of the remains. All over the
site of the ancient city, somewhat similar
cisterns are found, and there is another
great public reservoir near the sea., about
100 feet long and 110 feet wide,
vaulted, a,nd divided into 18 compartments,
two of them evidently intended for filters
or settling basins, and the rest for
the storage of the settled water. These
reservoirs have been restored, and are
now used for the water supply of the
towns of Goletta and Mersa, water being
brought to them from the hills of Zaghouan,
some 40 miles distant: utilizing for a portion
of the way the magnificent aqueduct built
1,670 years ago by the Emperor Hadrian.
The greater portion of this aqueduct lie"
on the other side of Tunis, and it is a some-
what arduous journey to visit it. Long
colonnades of arches of cut stone cross the
valleys, and even in their "present state of
decay are said to be most imposing. But
between Tunis and Carthage the original
structure is still utilized, and few things are
more impressive and surprising to the
tourist than to encounter on the drive from
Tunis to Bardo, the palace of the Bey, the
lofty aqueduct which crosses the Manouba
Plain. We pride ourselves on some of our
little modern aquedncts, but here is a con-
duit carried for more than five miles on
piers from 70 to 80 feet high, and which has
been in 1188 for 1,700 years, and still is used
for its original purpose.
"1 wish you could eat the bread and pies
I've seen my mother make
They are something like, and 't would do you
good
Just to look at a loaf of her cake."
Said the smiling wife, "I'll improve with age--
Just now I'm but a beginner—
But your mother has come to visit us,
And. to -clay she cooked the dinner."
—Only a heartless father will make his
trusting baby try to say "procrastination,"
" hicomprehensibility ' and " metempsy-
chosis," just to make friends laugh.
CREDENDA.
Do 1 believe hi Santa Claus?
Of course I do, my child, because
I know the dear old fellnw well.
Rest but a moment and ra tell
Why I believe in Santa Claus!
He comes at dead of night, you know,
As good deeds are not done for show.
Ile comes with sound of merry bell,
So cheerful must we work as well.
He comes with bounding reindeer fleet,
So good deeds quickly clone are sweet.
He comes o'er roof and gable steep
That hard -ways may not make us weep,
Throtigh grimy chimneys -makes his road
That lowly paths be humbly trod.,
Alt, yes, I know it well, because
I dp believe in Santa Claus!
Member of the Legislature.
In addition to the testimony of the Gov-
ernor of the State of Maryland, 17. S. A., a
member of the Maryland Legislature, Hon.
Wm. C. Harden, testifies as follows "746
Dolphin St., Balto., Md„ U. S. A, Jan.
18th, '90. Gentlemen: I met with a severe
accident by falling down the back stairs of
my residence, in the darkness, and was
bruised badly in my hip and side, and suf-
fered severely. One and a half bottles of
St, Jacobs Oil completely cured me. Wm.
0, HARDEN, Member of State Legislature."
The German Socialists wan ecttla o
frage, the direct participation of the pe ple
in legislation, with the right to initiate or
reject laws, and the animal revision of the
scale of taxation, the abolition of capital
punishment, free medical aesista,nee, includ-
ing attendance at childbirth, free medicine
and free disposal of the dead, and an un-
broken period of rest of at least thirty-six
hour a in , each week for every working -
math
By the collapse of an overweighted breva-
ery at Pinneburg, Germany, yesterday, 28
workmen were buried beneath a masa of
debris, and 15 of them died before the
milers could reach them.
Figgs—Do you believe the Bible writers
were inspired? Diggs—yes especially
those who wrote '.Che Family Record."
" How could they have been inspired?'
"How else could they tell in what year a
woman was born ?"
A Kingston syndicate is having a large
steamer btill, at Buffalo to run betWeen that
thy and Grand Island with summer excur-
eione. She will accommodate 1,200 paseen-
The Comietion.
Puck: Benedick—I'll give you the money
for your Christmas shopping on one condi-
tion.
Mrs. Benedick—I know what that condi.
tion is. That I don't ask for too much.
Benedick—No ; that yeti don't ask me to
go with 'you.
"When I was a young man," said Jonathan
Gray,
"It a fellow took physic he lcueve it, you bet.
It would cramp you all up in a colicky way,
And, good Lord, what a twisting his ineidet
would get!
But the pills in uso now -days by sensible folks
Are as easy to take and as pleasam i as okes."
Of course, the kirid referred to by Mr.
Gray was Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, tbe
very best Liver Pills ever made—mild, but
sure and effective. The only pills,sohl by
druggists, absolutely on trial Satisfaction
guieranteecl, or your money is returned.
One of the Irish members of Parliament,
Peter McDonald, is totally blind, yet he is
one of the most fluent debaters in thenoUse
of Commons. He is besides one of the
Gfree 1
most accomplished ecaolars in the
inereitee Your Weight.
If you are losing flesh and blood, com-
mence at once taking Miller's Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil, which is for ahead of all
other preparations of the kind in existence.
By taking Miller's Emulsion people gain
from five to ten nounds by the time the first
bottle is consumed. It is the greatest
blessing of the century to all in delicate
health, or who suffer with coughs, colds and
ailments that tend to consumption. Remem-
ber Miller's Emulsion contains all the con-
stitiuents found in wheat. It is used in the
hospitals ancl asylums of the country. In
big bottles, 50c. and $1 at all drug stores.
Realm. Vokes, when she appears at the
Park in the "Tinted Venus " expects to
produce a new two -act comedy as one of the
three short pieces of the evening. The San
Francisco critics praised Miss Pokes and
her company highly on their recent trip.
It would never:: do for a baker to stick
up a sign "No loafing here."
It is said that the first regular theatrical
company to perform in the United States
came from England in 1752 and landed at
York, in Virginia. Its first public apputg
ance was at Williamsburg, Va. '
Only one American in 264 is ovea
feet in height.,
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