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THE EXETER ADVOCATE,
THURSDAY, FEB. 28, 1895.
3I eek't7 Commercial SeamxnatrYr
Twenty five years ago banana growing
in Jamaica was insign ficant, just enough
�A b
for home wants, but during 1892.93 ban-
anas were exported from the island to the
value of over £f400,000.
The United States Treasury gold re-
serve stands at $41,215,181, the lowest
point it is lik-ly to reach for some time,
as the gold of the Belmont -Morgan syndi-
cate will soon begin to make its appear-
ance in the reserve and swell its propor-
tions until it again reeches $100,000,000.
The failures in the Dominion last week
numbered 51, as compared with 52 the
week before, and 55 for the same week in
1594. Ontario leads the list with 20, be-
ing one more than the previous week, and
7 more than in all the other provinces
combined. None were of any commercial
importance. Quebec had 18 failures ; 11
of which had our lowest credit or blank
rating. Nova Scotia. had 2, New Bruns-
wick 4, and Manitoba 8. None were re-
corded in British Columbia or Prince
Edward Island
R. G. Dun & Co,'s review of the trade
situation in the United States for the past
week says : Another week's exports of
gold and withdrawals from the Treasury
have been almost entirely stopped 'by the
contract for purohases of gold. from Messrs
Belmont & Morgan. For the moment
business o ..]y waits to know whether sales
of American securities and withdrawals
of gold from the Treasury b ave been last-
ingly stopped by the increase of confi-
donee. The two obstacles which block
the path just now are exceeding cheapness
of farm produce and restricted operations
in industries. There has been no gain in
prices of farm products on the whole ;
corn is nominally half a cent higher, but
with an insignifieant movement, while
wheat also, with a movement half of last
year's, is a quarter of a cent lower for the
week.
Wholesale trade of Toronto is without
special feature. The more moderate
weather tends to improve the general
feeling, and the distribution of merchan-
dise will be facilitated. Merchants speak
with more confidence regarding the out-
look for spring trade, but there• are no
indications of enhanoei prices for leading
staples. The comparatively small stocks
of merchandise in country points remains
as one of the favorable factors in the
trade situation. But manufacturers still
complain of heavy stocks, with a limited
demand from the trade. The movement
of country produce has been restricted by
the heavy fall of snow in many sections
of the province, and in consequence high-
er prices are quoted for barley, oats and
peas. Freights are lower from western
points, and to this fact the higher prices
of produce are also partly due. There is
practically no wheat coming out, which
gives rise to the feeling that there is no
more of this cereal in the country than
will supply domestic requirements.
Here and There.
Five hundred years ago not one man in
ten thousand could read -or write.
xx.x
We often hear men complaining of
their h. pee being dissipated, and, as a
rule• that's just what ails the complain-
ant.
xxx
A. Dakota court is struggling with a
prisoner named Szczys. We do not
know what he is charged with, but from
his name we suspect it is soda water.
LATEST CANADIAN NEWS,
DOINGS OF THE WEEK.
Arranged. and Condensed For Our Busy
Readers, Bach Province Tarnishing
its Quota of interesting Mane.
Lady Henry Somerset is obliged through
illness to cancelhorengag lments through-
out Canada.
Twa more eases of smallpox have broken'
out in Malahido tow: ship, making seven
new eases in the past few days.
About 100 men working' on the T. H.
B. railway struck on Saturday. Pay not
forthcoming is said to be the cause.
The Tor, nto Trades and Lab it Council
express strong disappz-ob'tion of General
Booth's proposed colonization scheme.
Mrs. McMahon, the Hamilton woman
fou. d guilty of passing counterfeit money
was sentenced to two years and six
months in penitentiary.
The Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Rail-
way Company have issued a writ against
the Spectator Printing Company,'claim-
ing $50,000 for alleged libel.
Prof. Foster, of McMaster University,
has resigned his position in connection
with that institution to take a chair short-
ly in the University of Chicago.
Prof. Dale, of the University of Toronto,
has been dismissed from his position ou
account of the statements made in a let-
ter published by him in last Saturday's
Globe.
Four new cases of smallpox have de-
veloped in Malahide township. They are
all persons who have been exposed to the
disease, and have resided in quarantined
houses.
Robert r ewbury, a retired farmer, at
Tottenham, on Saturday shot his wife
and niece, and then committed suicide.
His wife was killed instantly, but the
niece is expected to recover.
The Hamilton Radical Electric Railway
Company have given notice that it will
apply for an amendment to its charter to
allow it to operate the Guelph and Berlin
branches by either steam or electricity.
The Queen's avenue Methodists, Lon-
don, have decided to rebuild at once on
the old. site. The new structure will be
an imposing one. About $20,000 has al-
ready been subscribed by a few wealthy
members.
The Rev. Andre M. Garin, O.M,L, died
on Saturday in St. John's Hospital, Lo-
well, Mass., at the age of seventy -fire.
During his early career he was a mission-
ary among the Indians in the Canadian
Northwest.
The Manitoba Legislature was opened
on Thursday. In the speech from the
throne the Government expressed the res-
olution "not to recede from its determi-
nation to uphold the present Public
School system."
The Coroner's jury returned a verdict
of accidental death in the case of Wil-
]lam Davis, the victim of the Binkley
Hollow dynamite explosion. The family
are very poorly off, and a subscription is
being started for them.
The Newmarket Court has dismissed
the 'summons granted to the Anti -Gam-
bling League against,the stewards of the
Jockey Club, which was applied for and
obtained on the ground.that the club was
guilty of illegal betting.
The General Trunk Line Association
has decided to raise the immigrant fare
between New York and Chicago from $13
to $15 on May 1. Immigrant rates will
be correspondingly raised from. other At-
lantic seaboard points in the Trunk Line
territory. •
xxx
A leasing astronomer says that the
noon looks 'better when it is half full.
Alas, what a woeful example.
XXX
February is the month in which the
greatest number of births oedur; June the
month in which the fewest.
xxx '
A promise should be given with caution
and kept with care. It should be made
with the heart and remembered by the
head.
xxx
If Queen Lil stays in prison she will
not have a board bill to pay.
xxx
The winter days in Sweden are only
six hours ong.
xxx
Dr. Parkhurst says that belief in im-
mortality is difficult only because we
think so.
x X x
A woman wrote in favor of her hus-
band, saying he was specially well quali-
fied to be a janitor in a school, "because
he had a sister who was married to a
gentleman whose father had been a
teacher."
Totally Deaf.—Mr. S. E: Crandell, Port
Percy, writes • "I contracted a severe
cold last winter, which resulted in my
becoming totally deaf in one ear and par-
tially so in the othr' r. After trying vari-
ous remedies, and consulting several
doctors,, without obtaining any relief, I
was advised to try Dr, Thomas' Eclectric
Oil. I warned the oil and poured a little
of it into my ear, and 'before one-half the
bottle was used my hearing was com-
pletely restored. I have heard. of other
cases of deafness being cured. by the use
of this medicine."
iiindness.
Do not be afraid of spoiling anyone
with kindness. It can't be done. Instead
of spoiling, it l eautifies the character,
sheers the heart and helps to raise the
burden from shoulders which, though
brave, sometimes grow very, very tired.
Let not a little adversity frighten you
away, for under the most frigid exterior
there is always to be found a tender chord
which can be touched by kindness and
which responds in beautiful harmonics to
those little dote of conrtesf that are as
sunehine to a straggling plant.
Help your children to grow strong and
robust by coun.teraetiug anything that
causes ill -health, One great cause of
disease in children is worms, Remove
them with Mother Graves' Worm Ex-
terminator. It never fails.
A 225 ounce gold nugget in the shape
of a horseshoe has been disoovered at
l:largraveta Australia,
may be formed of the great depadence of
the trade. And, strange as: it may seer",
when..Canade's export butter trade with
Great Britain was at its ;zenith, the qual-
ity was far inferior to that of the present
time. as creamery butter had not been
heard of in the Dominion. In those days
the make was all dairy. In the autumn
the largest shipments were made, and as
Great Britain's masses were then much
less particular than they have singe be-
come regarding quality, a well kept keg
of butter was considered a dainty article.
Since then, however, the English palate
has oliane ed, s•i much so that large butter
centres like Morrisburg and Brockville
have almost gone out of the business, so
far as the export trade is concerned,and
turned their attention to the manufacture
of cheese, which has stood them in good
stead. No doubt the extensive cheese
make in Canada for the past few years
has taken the place of butter -making, and
this has caused to a large extent the fall-
ing away in our butter trade, But
further, during the last few years there
has been a large expansion in the Aus-
tralian and New Zealand butter trade,
which, to a certain extent, has taken the
place of the Oanadian for the time being.
The. Trade Bulletin says : "Although
the quality of Canadian batter shipped to
England this season has been much small-
er than at any time during the past
twenty years, quite a lot of it is still held
on the other side, as there appears to be
no market there except at ruinously low
prices. Consequently holders of this but-
ter suggested in their last letters the idea
of reshipping it to Montreal, where it is
presumed by the, owners that it could be
sold to better advantage than in England,
after adding the extra cost of reshipment.
This is a further proof that England does
not want our stale creamery,but only our
choice fresh creamery. We can turn out
as prime an article as Denmark, Ireland.,
Sweden or Norway; bat if it is not shipped
in its fresh state it is no good for British-
ers, as they prefer fresh butterine instead.
There has been an advance of Ss to 5s in
the English markets according to late
mail advices from England ; but inferior
to fair Canadian is only quoted at 55s to
70s, which is equal to about 110 to 14c
here, while fine to choice Canadian cream-
ery ranges from 85s to 95s, or equal to 17c
to Inc here. The market here has the re-
verse of a bright outlook, stocks being in
excess of the demand, which is confined
to the local trade.
The trend of the market in Great Britain
during the last year agrees with that of
former years, and shows that the average
pr?ce of Danish batter in casks was 14
shillings to 18 shillings per owt. higher
from the middle of September to the end
of November than during the months of
June and July. These figures are from
8 cents to 31 cents per pound.. The price
of finest Irish creamery butter was from 8
shillings to 12 shillings per cwt. higher
from the middle of September to the end
of the year than it was during June and
July. That may indicate the desirability
of landing the balk of our creamery but-
ter in first-class condition in Great Britain
from August onwards until April.
As the quantity of Canadian creamery
butter which goes tq England is less than
2 per cent. of the total quantity of butter
imported into England, our shipments
cannot yet have a very great influence in
determining the market price for the finest
butter in the British markets.
The great point to be sought by Cana-
dian manufacturers and shippers of butter
is, to put the Canadian article on theEng-
liish market of such a quality that it will
command the highest price.
One of the workmen on the T., H. and
B. Railway line named Wm. Davis was
blown to pieces by an explosion of dyna-
mite at Binkley's Hollow. The explosion
was felt at agreat distance. A horse was
injured and several narrow escapes of oth-
er workmen took place.
Mrs. Richard Simpson, of Toronto, died
Tuesday night at Steubenville, 0., from
burns received. Her dress caught fire
from a grate, and she ran into the yard,
where she rolled in the snow. Neighbors
tried to extinguish the blazing clothes,
but failed.
Mr. Joseph Octave Arsenault, who has
been for many years a prominent figure
in the public affairs of Prince Edward Is-
land, will fill the chair in the Senate left
vacant by the appointment of Mr. How-
lan as Lieutenant -Governor of Prince
Edward Island.
This cold. weather is very hard on quail
and Hiram Walker & Sons, Walkerville,
have offered to donate fifty bushels of
grain to feed the birds. The Windsor
Keystone Gan Club have accepted the
otter, and have started for the quail dis-
tricts to scatter the grain.
The Butter and Cheese Association held
a meeting in Montreal Monday, at which
a resolution was passed by a narrow ma-
jority, declaring that the association
viewed with alarm the proposition of the
Dominion Government to advance 20 cts.
per pound for shipment to England of
winter creamery butter.
The cavalry return of comparative ef-
ficiency for the last annual drill shows
the highest number of points awarded to
any one troop is 114, to A Troop, Mani-
toba Dragoons. B Troop, Manitoba Dra-
goons, comes next with 113 points. The
Princess Louise Dragoon Guards of Otta-
wa comes third with 1121 points, only a
point and a half behind the leading
troop.
The aggregate of the chattel mortgages
registered in Ontario at the end of 1b93
was a little over $9,000,000. Of this total
$3,000,000 represented indebtedness in-
curredby farmers, $1,000,000 by lumber-
men, $740,000 by merchants, $688,000 by
manufacturers and $204,000 by printers
and publishers. These figures probably
account for the growing strength of the
Patron element in the Province.
The poet of the Guelph Herald, who is
writing some capital verse, wants to know
"if the angels look down with a smile on
the meadows and weep when they think
of the town ?" 'We are not in the secrets
ofithe angels, butwe feel ourselves author-
ized to state that if Guelph is marked on
the celestial map the angels probably
shed tears every time their eyes fall on
it, and they think of its crooked ways—
we mean the crooked streets, for Guelph
is laid out like the spokes of a wheel.
The Butter Trade. •
The imports of Canadian butter into
the United I%ingdom for the year ending
Dee. 81st, 1894, were 20,887 cwt., against
48,160 for the year previous, shown g a
decrease of 22,278 cwt., or over 50 per
cent.; but when it is remembered that
fifteen or twenty years ago the United
Kingdom imported 200,000 to 250,000
cwt, of butter from Canada, sonie idea
The proprietors of Parmelee's Pills are
constantly receiving letters similar to the
following, which explains itself. Mr.
John A. Beam, Waterloo, Ont., writes :
"I have never used any medicine that
can equal Parmelee's Pills for Dyspepsia
or liver and kidney complaints. The re-
lief experienced after using them was
wonderful," As a safe family medicine
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills can be given
in all cases requiring a cathartic.
•
UNCLE .SAM'S TERRITORY
EURNISIES SOME ITEMS
Of General Interest To Canadian Read -
era. Nearly Every State Adele Its
Noteworthy, Item,
George J. Gould was elected commodore
of the Atlantic Yacht Clue.
The banks of Omaha, Neb., have $3,-
000,000 in gold in their vaults.
Boston boasts of having had 610 pairs
of twins and nine triplets during the past
year.
Kate Field told the Democratic Club in
Chicago that prohibition was intemper-
ate.
Parker Pillsbury is now the sole sur-
vivor of the more conspicuous early
Abolitionists.
A saloon in which free lunch is served
with temperance drink r was opened in
Chicago,
Harrison Stevens, co'ored, was hanged
at Dawson, Ga., for the murder of J. G.
Wells a year ago.
A movement is to be made in the Michi-
gan Legislature to increase the price of
liquor licenses.
Ambrose Smith, a New Orleans at-
torney, was convicted of embezzling
$1,000 belonging to a client.
Theodore D. Weld, one of the original
anti -slavery agitators, died Sunday in
Boston, aged ninety-one years.
Col. Benjamin Ayr'rigg, of Passaic, N.
J., who for a number of years was the
oldest graduate of Columbia College, is
dead.
A Wisconsin lumber dealer has sold 7,-
000,000 feet of pine, to be shipped to Eng-
land, and for which he will receive pay
in gold.
A. S. Trude has been selected as coun-
sel for the committee that is going.to in-
vestigate the Chicago police department.
The costliest painting in America is
"1807," painted by Meissonier for A. T.
Stewart. Henry Hilton paid $66,500 for
it.
A bill has been introduced in the West
Virginia Legislature providing that crim-
inals condemned to death shall be killed
by electricity.
The lathes who attend telephones in
New York and other large cities are for-
bidden to chew gum when on duty, as it
affects their voice.
The Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie &
Boston Railroad was sold at public sale
at Columbia, N.J., to the Holland Trust
Co. for $350,000.
Col. William B. Berney, ex -judge advo-
cate general of the navy, who was retired
in 1892, died in the McLean insane asylum
at Somerville, Mass.
J. shua M. Sears, has regained his posi-
tion as the heaviest individual taxpayer
of Boston. His tax is $18,019.92 on real
estate assessed at $:3,751;000.
Ex -Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, is to take
the presidency of a stock company which
will handle the product of a celebrated.
mineral spring at Urbana.
Mrs.,Castle, who was recently elected
justice of the peace in Webster County,
Ia., has abdicted the tribunal and return-
ed to the pursuits of private life.
The new churches in the new town of
Enid, O.T., have no bells yet, and the
town fire bell is rung every Sunday to an-
nounce the hour of religious services.
Prof. Felix E. Schelling, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, is at present
traveling in the Sahara desert in the
course of his long contemplated African
tour.
J. Scott Ellis, of Farmington, Me., aged
102. had a fall the other day and injured
his hip so that he was obliged to call in a
physician—the first for eighty years.
FORBIGN.
The Pope's health is much improved.
The King of Spain: is suffering from an
attack of rheum.
The last sacrament has been adminis-
tered to the Archduke Albrecht of Aus-
tria, the Emperor's uncle.
The Marquis of Salisbury was the guest
of the Irish Loyalist Club at their inaug-
ural banquet at the Hotel Metropole, Lon-
don, on Saturday evening.
On Saturday the German Reichstag
adopted the resolutipn instructing the
Government to issue invitations for an
ternational monetary convention.
Emperor William is ill with a cold, and.
confined to his room. He was unable to
receive the agrarian deputation which
was to have called upon him Saturday.
A despatch from Arco, in South Tyrol
says that Archduke Albreeh, who is suf-
fering from congestion of the lungs, is
sinking, and his death is hourly expect-
ed.
Grand. Duke George, ' the Czarewitch,
the brother of the reigning Czar, who is
passing the winter at Livadia, in the
Crimea, is daily growing worse from the
pulmonary disease with which he is af-
flicted. •The unusually severe weather
has had a bad effect upon the royal suf-
ferer.
The chief evidence upon which the Ha-
waiian Government relied for the prose-
cution of the conspirators in the recent
uprising of the Royalists was obtaincdby
torturing Capt, William Davies, of the
steamer Waimanolo, a citizen of the
United States. He was strung up by the
thumbs until he gave all the information
that the Government required.
Papa Caught.
First little boy—What you laughin'
at?
Second little boy—Papa is scoldin'
everybody in the house 'cause he says he
can't lay a thing down a minute without
someone piekin' it up an' login' it—he,
he, he t
First little boy—What's he lost?
Second little boy—His pencil.
First little boy—Where is it?
Second little boy—Behind his oar.
nflammation of the Eyes Oured:.—Mr.
Jacob D. 1VIiller, Newbury,"
writes : I
was troubled with inflammation of the
eyes so that during nearly the whole of
the summer of 1882 I could not work ; I
took several bottles of Northrop & Ly -
man's Vegetable Discovery, and it gives
me great pleasure to inform you that it
cured me of my affliction. It is an excel-
lent available for costiveness.'
Petroleum has been used for some time
in Germany as a means of preventing the
formation of'sce le in boilers,
than 179,672 miles. Of this mileage 54,-
300
4;300 miles were added in the last ten
years, an average of 5,480 miles each
year.
A hallboy in a New York hotel owns a
relic upon which he places a large price.
It "us a box of cigarettes given him by
Robert Louis Stevenson, ou the back of
which the novelist had scrawled his
name.
J. R. De Lamar, the"Monte Christo"
of Idaho, is a Hollander, small of stature,
large' of feature, red as to hair, has been a
sailor, glue workman, bartender and
butcher, and is now worth millions.
The old .Herald building, corner of
Broadway and Ann streets, New York,
has been sold by Tames Gordon Bonnett
for nearly $1,( 00,000, and will be torn
down to give place to a towering office
building. .
Mrs. Newel Case, of Battle Creek,
Mich., has a new pair of twin babies,
born on different days of the week, differ-
ent months and different years—onto jest
before and just alter the New Year mid-
night.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, re-
tires f:om office in Mereh, after thirty-
two years of service in the Senate, at the
age of sev. nty, poor, and a ith no profit-
able employment he can fall back upon
at that time of life.
Miss Ruth Burnett, of Boston, after
whom "Baby Ruth" Clevelandwas
named, has been received into the Catho-
lic convent of the Sam d Heart at Al-
bany, N.Y. Miss Burnett was a close
friend of Mrs. Cleveland.
Col. Seward. Cary, the Buffalo rr illion-
aire and amateur whip, who bought the
coach Vivid, exhibited at the World's
Fair, has arranged to run it between
Buffalo and Niagara Fells next summer
as a public coach.
James D. Tillman, of Fayetteville,
Tenn., the new United States Minister to
Ecuador, was said to be the youngest
colonel in the confederate service. His
father and all the other members of his
family were strong union men.
Judge E. Rockwood 'Eloar, made a be-
quest to the town of Concord, amounting
to practically $15,000, of which $10,000 is
left to Harvard College, with the provis-
ion that it shall be used only for the
benefit of Concord boys.
William E. Gladstone, a second cousin
of the English statesman, died at his
home in New Tork at the age of fifty-
nine years. He came to the United
States twenty-five years ago. His grand-
father and the father of the ex -Premier
were brothers.
Mrs. Herekiah Watson, of Oquawka,
Ill., has recently celebrated her one hun-
dredth birthday. She is a cousin of
Henry Ward Beecher andHarriet Beecher
Stowe.
Free and easy expectoration immediate-
ly relieves and frees the throat and lungs
from viscid phlegm, and a medicine th • t
promotes this is the best medicine to use
for coughs, colds, inflammation of the
lungs and all affections of the throat and
chest. This is precisely what Bickle's
Anti -Consumptive Syrup is a specific for,
and wherever used it has given unbound"
ed satisfaction. Children like it because
it pleasant, adults like it because it re-
lieves and cures the disease.
The Erie railroad does not check bicy-
cles or allow them to be checked over its
lines, but it carries them free under a re-
lease of liability when accompanied by
owner, the owner agreeing to receive and
deliver the machine at the door of bag-
gage ear.
D. V. Tallent, mail carrier between
Rutherford and Columbus, N.C., walks
twenty-seven miles each day, carrying
the mail bag on his shoulders. His com-
pensation is $600 a year.
Governor Morton, of New York, comes
down from Albany every week to enjoy a
few of the social relaxations of New York.
He is overwhelmed with invitations of ail
kinds.
Twenty million railroad tickets for the
New York Central, Delaware & Hudson
and their leased lines have been printed
in Albany, and all bear a "No stop -over"
contract.
The women who attend the theatres in
Now Haven, Conn., have decided to wear
either low hats or to take off their hate
if they are large when they enter the
theatre.
Sylvester Jackson, whose widow has left
$100,000 to Tufts College for a building
for women, was formerly a soap manu-
facturer in Providence, and died about
four years ago.
Tilamar H. Fennyery, a friend and
compatriot of Kossuth, and who was as-
sisted by the latter to escape to this
country when he was exiled, is still living
in Springfield, Mass.
Judge :Roger A. Pryor, of New York,
remarks sarcastically that the marriage
service should be amended so as to read
"Husband and wife until death or divorce
do us part."
Gen. Booth spoke in the Mormon Taber-
nacle, Salt Lake City. The church author-
ities tendered the building to the Salva-
tion army, and an immense audience
heard the general.
A system of watch insurance is a new
scheme of a firm of watchmakers in the
United States. For $2 the insured's watch
is put in good running order and kept so
for one year.
• Brutus Junius Clay, the eldest son of
Gen. Cassius M. Clay, who recently mar-
ried a young girl contrary to the wishes
of his family, will himself soon get mar-
ried to a young widow.
Dubuque county, Iowa, boasts the pos-
session of the most unique subterranean
lake in the world—an underground body
of water with a bottom formed through-
out of pure crystals of lead.
The American Waiter's Union, in ses-
sion in St. Louis, adopted resolutions call-
ing on the Legislature of the State to
make it a felony for employers to requite
waiters to shave their whiskers.
The post office department has issued
orders prohibiting the delivery of mail
to the Eastern Assurance Company of
Philadelphia on the ground that it is
Conducting a fraudulent bttsinees.•
The steam railways of the United.
States now aggregate in length no less
Agitation in the world of homcepathie
medicine has been its very soul of prog-
ress, as in politics and religion—the diln-
eulties of opinion and the individualities
of men have been parent to the disagree-
ments by which the standard of these
bodies have been elevated. So with most
of our famous preparations—foremost in
illustration of which truth stands the
world-famous remedy to general debility
and langour " Quinine Wine," and which,
when obtainable in its genuine strength,
is a miraculous creator of appetite, vital-
ity and stimulant, to the general fertility
of the system. Quinine Wine, and its
improvement, has, from the fust discovery
of the great vi
rtues of Quinine as a medi-
cal agent, been one of the most thoroughly
discussed remedies ever offered to the
public. It is one of the great tonics and
natural life-giving stimulants which the
medical profession have been compelled
to recognize and prescribe. Messrs.
Northrop &Lyman of Toronto, have given
to the preparation of their pure Quinine
Wine the great care due to their im-
portance, and the standard excellence
of the article which they offer to the pub
tic comes into the market purged of all
the defects which skilful observation and
scientific opinion has pointed out in tht
less perfect preparations of the past. All
druggists sell it.
tious, vain, proud, arrogant and vindice.
tive knave."
A news paragraphed in the Norwielk
(Conn.) Sun the other day anoouneed
that "Frank Crumb, of South 1 lymouth,,
narrowly escaped death Wednesday at
the hands of a ferocious bull,"
Dr. Mueller, of Australia, claims than
strychinine isa certain antidote to ser-
pent venom. The India Government has
recently had a series of experiments con-
duoted with a view to test its c fficaey..
The results thus far have not been en-
tirely satisfactory, but the experiments.
are to Le continued for two years more.
b. fore a final judgment will be passed.
The thermogen is an appliance for
keeping up the temperature of a patient:
during an operation, doing away •a.ith
blankets and hot water bottles: It is in,
the form of a quilted cushion, with an ar-
rangement of fine wires inside by which
any desired degree of heat may be main-
tained by electricity. Itwas exhibited at , <:
the last meeting of the Royal Society of
England.
The Salvation Army began operation&
against Hawaii two months ago, estab-
lishing a fort at Honolulu. By noon of
Oct. l3 sixty-one of the enemy had been.
captured, and a representative of nearly
every one of the dozen or so nationalities
lit the city was among the converts.
There wore twenty-four 1 awaiians, eight
Chinese and a Caroline Islander among
the number.
The law of Russia requires all Russian
subjects over the age of twelve years ta
take the oath of allegiance on the acces-
sion of the new Czar. The Russian Gov-
ernment never surrenders its claim to the
allegiance of a native of Russia, nor ad-
mits that a Russian can, without its p i• -
mission, become a citizen of another
country. Of course there is no means of
enforcing this claim against Russians:
who have become American citizens.
The effect of American asseoiatiuns,
upon the oriental mind was illustrated
the other day when a we:l dressed com-
pany heard an East Indian deuounce
Ohristian missions, ridicule the assertion
of a bishop that there were 20,000 mum
applicants for baptism in India than his,
sect could baptize. The reply of the
Hindu sounded. like a piece of irreverent
American wit. It was in effect, "Send
over fire engines and baptize them by
wholesale.
It is contrary to law for a private in-
dividual to buy gold from the mines of
Transvaal. The entire product of the,
mines must be sold to the Dutch Govern-.
ment at rates fixed by statute, and any
person found with uncoined gold in his.
possession is liable to severe punishment.
This somewhat singular law is being en-
forced rigidly, and quite a number of
well-to-do people have been sent to prison
for violating its provisions.
The shark, much as the sailors may
hate it, furnishes several valuable pro-
ducts. An oil obtained from its liver
vies in medicinal qualities with that ob-
tained from the liver of the cod ; its skin
when dried takes the hardness and polish
of mother of pearl, and is used by jewel-
lers for fancy objects, by binders for mak-
ing
shagreen, and by cabinet makers for
polishing wood ; while the Chinese pickle
its fins and think them one of the greatest
delicacies beneath the sun.
It Does the Business.
If you want to know what Miller's
Emulsion of Norwegian Cod Liver Oil will
do for a consumptive patient ask one who
has tried it. Ask any One who has used
it in lung troubles of any kind. What
they say about Miller's Emulsion shall be
its recommendation. It is the finest pre-
paration of its kind in the world, and is
worth its weight in gold to a consump-
tive sufferer, whom it will raise from a
bed of sickness to health and strength of
body and mind, giving a new lease of life.
Thousands testify to the value of Miller's
Emulsion. Miller's Emulsion is the gr. at
nerve strengthener and blood maker, and
cures, coughs, colds, bronchitis, scrofula
and all lung affections. In big bottles,
50e. and $1, at all drug stores.
Items of Interest.
Tusks of the mammoth have been
found of a length of nine feet, measured
along the curve.
Edison's great-grandfather died at 102,
his grandfather at 103, and one of his
aunts at 108, while his father is alive at
90,
Siberian peasants clean, stretch and
dry the akin of the turbot for leather
bags and as a substitute for glass window
paned.
The national department of agriculture
returns this year's clip at five and a half
pounds of wool per head, 240,000,000
pounds.
It is believed by microscopists that the
highest powers of their instruments have
not yet revealed the most minute forms
of animal life.
There were two, total eclipses of the sun
in the year 1712 and two in 1889, This
rare phenomenon will nut happen again
until the year 2057.
According to statistics gathered from
the English probate courts, brewers' for-
tunes in .that country are made with the
greatest ai!erage rapidity. Bankers Come
next,
Washington was the victim of merci-
less political attacks when he was Presi
dent, General Gates once alluded to him
as that "dark, designing, sordid, a.nibi'
Snap Shots.
How do poor men get so many bricks in
their hats ?
The man who hasn't a good opinion our
himself is sick.
The children of this generation are not
called lambs, but kids, and that is about..
right.
With some people self-denial is a fiat.
contradiction.
The devilis the same old thing over
again.
The man who leads the procession does
not always head the list.
Many people waste time looking after -
things that have passed away.
If some mortals were not deceitful they
would be at war continually.
No matter how reckless one may bo he
cannot run over his bad habits with im-
punity.
Donot walk about with your record:
under your arm.
One may know what he wants at pres-
ent, but he does not know what he is go-
ing"to want after he gets it.
Give Holloway's Corn Cure a trial. It:,
removed ten corns from one pair of feet
without any pain. What it has done
once it will do again.
Eve and the Apple.
A modern scoffer, who like other scofa
fers has now and then gleams of light,
has lately written that the reason why
Eve yielded to the serpent was because
apples are good for the complexion an&
that he told her so.
Whether the argument was needed or -
not, it is a true one. Nothing in all our
varied and fascinating range of fruit,
holds quite the quality of an apple. A
ripe raw apple at its best is digested in
eighty-five minutes, and the malie acid
which gives it its distinctive character
stimulates the liver, assists digestion,
and neutralizes much noxious matter
which, if not eliminated, produces erup-
tions of the skin. They do not satisfy
like potatoes, complain people to whom.
they have been recommended as food,
but .the starch of the potato added to the
surplus of starch we are always eating
makes that vegetable a thoroughly un-
desirable stand-by. The more fruit we
add to our dietary the clearer brains and
the clearer skin we aro lila ly to have.
Our forefathers must have felt this intui-
tively, for the chief relaxation of New
England evenings was apple -eating, and
no one has given us much more piotur-
esque putting of this fact than Beecher.
A Thoughtless Question.
He—And am I the first man you ever
loved, darling ?
Darling—Gracious, George ! you forget
that you are in Chicago.
During the Performance.
Antony—Friends, Romans, country-
men ! lend mo—
Voice (in audience)—Don't yer do it !'
You're a sueker 11 yer do. He owes me
$20 on a board bill.
A woman died recently in Allentown
who had lived as a servant in one family,
for a period of sixty-seven years, Another
servant died in the service of a Boston
family, at the same turns after serving
sixty-two years.
A. guardian of the peace at Gardiner,
was recently found asleep by. a..
townsman, who handcuffed him and re..
lieved him of his valuables.