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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-3-7, Page 2tibera who do not receive their paper will please notify us at Dace, erasing. rates on application,. ILE EXETER ADVOCATE, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1895 Week's Commercial Siummary. The new United States. 4 per Dent, loan is now offered to the public at 112:4. The Belmont -Rothschild syndicate made a con- tract with the Government at 1U4i for Whig issue, The receipts of grain are small and in oonsequenoe prices are firmer. Oats are selling at 80c to 81c on theNorthern and, are quoted in Toronto at 33.ke to 34c. White wheat is quoted at 58c west, and at 59e on the Northern. Dressed hogs firm at $5.20 and $5.25 at Toronto. The gross receipts of the Grand. Trunk Railway for six months ended December 81. are £1,945,082, and the total expendi- ture £1,899,101. The balance carried for- ward was £54,981 as compared with £600,287 for the corresponding period of 1898. Operating expenses were greatly reduced, and prospects, according to the general manager, are on the mend. An official announcement has been made that owing to long -continued ease in the money market of London, and the low return on the funds kept by them there, the Scottish banks have, after sev- eral meetings, concluded to reduce their deposit rate to 1 per cent. as from lst February. On the other hand, they have lowered their rates of discount on ordin- ary mercantile bills by i per cent., the rate now ranging from 2 to 8A according to the eurrency of the bills. Toronto wholesale merchants report a very quiet trade. In nearly all lines, business is limited to a small sorting -up demand, with prices generally unchang- ed. The spring millinery openings, be- ginning next week, are likely to attract a large number of buyers from all over the province, and kindred businesses will be benefitted to some extent. Wholesale millinery houses ars displaying large and varied assortments of goods, import- ed from the chief markets in Europe, and indications aro favorable for a good. sea- son. There is nothing of especial interest to note in staple dry goods. Some interesting facts relating to the cheapening of the prices of the necessities of life were lately given in the Boston Herald. The exports and imports of Great Britain are taken, as the calcula- tions there are not disturbed by tariff changes or experiments in currency. In 1874 England paid 8155,000,000 for 47,- 000:000 7;000;000 hundredweights of foreign wheat and flour; last year 89,000,000 hundred- weights cost her only 8188,000,000. The sum of 850,000,000 buys 25,000,000 pounds of tea more than it would have done in 1884, and 14,000,000 hundredweights of refined sugar can be imported for the price paid in 1884, for little more than ten. In ten years the quantity of dead meat imported into the United Kingdom has nearly doubled, while its declared value has increased barely 50 per cent. In 1874 14,000,000 hundredweights of raw cotton are valued among British imports at $255,000,000, while last year 16,000,000 hundredweights count for only 8165,000,- 000. The imports of wool were 180,000,000 pounds more last year than they were m 1884, but they cost 56,600,000 less. Great Britain received 825,000,000 less for the cotton fabrics she shipped last year than she did for those exported in 1874, but she nevertheless sent out 1,700,000,000 yards more. For less than 2,500,000 tons of iron and steel manufactures exported. in 1874 the price was 8155,000; for consider- ably more than 2,500,000 tons exported last year the pries was about 5593.000,000. Here and There. Steamship compartments do not seem to do the work they are supposed to do. Ocean travelers would like to know why. xxx A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was, LATEST CANADIAN NEWS. THE WEEK'S II.AI-'PENINGS. xxx There are about 100,000 islands, large and small, scattered over the oceans. America alone has 5,500 scattered around its coasts. xxx Berlin is the most cosmopolitan of large European cities. Only thirty-seven per cent. of its inhabitants are Germans by birth. xxx "Architecture is frozen music, you know." "Indeed ; then what fine archi- tects the street musicians must make at this season of the year." xxx The most cautious man we ever knew was the one who was afraid to buy a lead pencil for fear the lead wouldn't reach clean through it. Xxx ,Arranged and Oondeused For Our Busy Readers. EacbProvinoe Furnishing its Quota of Interesting Items.. Coldwater, wants a fire engine. Collingwood has a French society. Scarlet fever prevails at Atherley. Oolliugwood's band has reorganized, Stratford will build a $4,000 fire hall. Chatham has est.iblished a soup kitchen. Bayfield wants a meteorological sta- tion. Stratford's rate of taxation is twenty mills. The Regina Exhibition will open July 29th, London has a great spook sensation on hand. Orangeville has organized a new fire brigade. The burned stores of Midland are to be rebuilt. There are still rumors of smuggling at Quebec, Last year building. Wolves are playing havoc with the deer in Cardwell. Washago has 500 cords of shingle tim- ber in its yards. The Guelph Central Exhibition will be held Sept. 17th. There is an organized gang of robe thieves in Orillia. Hunter and Crossley will be at Carlton Place next month. Carnivals are the rage in the towns and villages of Ontario. A new mill, building company has been formed in Stratford. The Guelph Fat Stock Club held its an- nual meeting last week. Some Parisians want the licenses re- duced from eight to six. The Sarnia tunnel pays 4 1-3 per cent. on the amount invested. Four hundred liquor licenses have just been issued at Montreal. Large quantities of fish are bein g caught through the ice at Barrie. Ottawa City Council has refused to re- duce the number of licenses. A. North Hastings Farmers' Institute has been organized. at Madge. A Primrose girl boasts of having had twenty-four offers of marriage.. An attempt was recently made to burn the C.P.R. shops at Winnipeg. A sawmill is to be built at 'Windsor with 8100,000 capital back of it. It is proposed to run an electric rail- way from Aylmer to Port Burwell. The town of Blenheim has decided to separate from the County of Kent. Jarrett's Corners, by a majority of one, refuses to build a new schoolhouse. Prisoners in the Woodstock jail refused to shovel snow, and were punished. The Dominion Government is offering the emigrant shed, Sarnia, for sale. The Pembroke fire department will have a two days' celebration in June. Only fifteen voters' lists appeals have been made to the City Clerk of Hamilton. Willie Burnett, Dresden, was elected county master of the Orangemen of Kent, Barrie ladies last week played a game of hockey with the gentlemen, but lost it. Mattawa spent 8105,000 in A gold -weighing machine in the Bank • of England is so sensitive that a postage stamp dropped on the scale will turn the index on the dial a distance of six inches. xxx In China there is a Heavenly Foot so- ciety made up of young men who are un- der a vow never to marry a woman whose feet are smaller than nature in- tended. xxx It is suggested that sounds too high for our ears could be recorded by the phono- graph, and might be made audible by re- producing at a lower speed of the instru- ment. xxx Southern newspapers say that while the strawberry blossoms were largely de- stroyed by the . heavy frosts and snow of late, yet there is plenty oftime for new buds to form. XXX Some of the ranches in the west con- tains millions of acres of land, and are enclosed by fences that extend for miles. It takes an express train four hours and fifteea minutes to pass through one pas- ture in Texas. It may only be a trifling cold, but neg- lect it and it will fasten its fangs in your lungs, and yore will soon be carried to an untimely grave. In this country we have sudden changes and must expect to have, coughs and eolds. We cannot avoid them, but we can effect a cure by using Bickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup, the medicine that has never been known to fail itt curing coughs, colds,bronchi- tis and all affections of the throat, lungs and chest. Russian: petroleum exporters are con- sidering measures for promoting the ex- pert of the oil from Russia. justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia as successor to the lata Chief ;neat* Sir Matthew Begbie. The City Council of Chatham has de. glared, against awarding contracts to United States contractors, and against alien labor. It is a retaliatory reweave andrevents the Northwestern Stone'etl�l Marble Conipany, of Detroit, from doing business there, A thirteen -year-old girl named Lulu. Lacey was charged on Saturday at St, Catharines with having poisoned a fifteen -mouths' -old baby the son of 141r. Pierson, of South Grimsby. The girl says the child seen ' possession of a bot- tle containing sty.hine anddrank the contents with a fatal result. In one of those families which it is pro- posed, to bring from Michigan to Ontario there are no less than twenty six chil- dren all told, included in the lot being six pairs of twins. The prairies of the West are the p ace for this family. The boundaries of Ontario are altogether too narrow to give scope to such marvelous activity. The Best Manufacturing Company, of Hamilton, 0., makers of agricultural implements, want to locate in Canada. Leamington, in South Essex, is after manufactories since gas has been str, ek there, and the Best Company has offered to locate there if the Town Council will grant them free gas, free weter, free Site, free building, exemption from taxation and a bonus. In the Toronto House of Industry re- ports, it appears that of 1,306 orders is- sued for wood cutting to applicants for relief, only 746 had been used, the rest apparently preferring to beg on the streets. A recommendation is made that the municipal act be amended so that each municipality be compelled to pro- vide for their own poor, in justice to the larger cities. Georgiana Lanthier, and Ottawa girl aged five years, was convalescent from diphtheria. The health inspector burned sulphur in the house to fumigate it, or- dering the mother not to open the doors or windows. The child died. At the in- quest doctors testified that the girl died frora inhaling the sulphur and the jury condemed the system as dangerous. Why not condemn the health officer. The Toronto Trades and Labor Council, sneer at Gen. Booth's criminal colony scheme, and think its primary idea is the warfare of the Booths, in land and money, for no reformed criminal, they say, would be content to settle down on Alberta acres and give the winnings above his clothes and food to the Salva- tion cause. The General is also criticized for stating that trades unionism operated against the elevation of the submerged classes. The Canadian Hardware and Metal Merchant says "Binding twine manu- facturers have decided upon a consider- able reduction in the prices owing to the reduction in the raw material, but they refuse to make any anouncement yet as to what the new figures will be. They claim that no business has been done yet on the new basis and wijll not be for a month. Efforts are being made to induce the Government to close the factory at Kingston Penitentiary, and probably they will succeed,, as the works were established by the late Sir John Thomp- son. for special reasons and were nottpopi lar with all other members of the Gov- ernment. They have not been a profit- able investment." The date for the opening of the Cana- dian Horse Show has been changed to Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 18th, 19th and 20th. The show will in all probability be held in the new Armory building on Universily avenue. Every effort is being made to make the show rival in importance and brilliancy the National Horse Show which is held an- nually in Madison Square Garden, New York. In the breeding classes, $2,000 will be given in prizes. The same amount will be given insaddle, harness, hunting and jumping classes. The Hunt Club, and the Agricultural and Arts Associa- tion have joint committees at work. The blacksmiths of the Midland region are arranging a cash system for their work. Guelph's Knight's of Pythias have leased the handsome hall of the new Op- era house. A Gananoque minister is crusading against the progressive euchre parties of that town. George Miner Campbell, of London, an old army veteran, died last week, aged eighty-five. Eighteen fine horses were shipped the other day from Bradford to Montreal, but at low prices. Mary Lovett, an old lady living at the Industrial Home, Aurora, was burned to death last week. There are 118 pupils on the roll of the Listowel High School, and the average attendance is 109. "Wards," on the Rouges River, an area of 550 square miles, has been sold to a New York gentleman for 8100,000. A French-Canadian woman of Atha- basca, Quebec, seventy-two years old, has just given birth to a fine baby boy. Canadian Pacifieconductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen are having their eyes examined by an expert oculist. Rev. R. A. Howie. Cotton, near Essex, died from gangrene in the foot, resulting from having a frozen toe amputated. The Port Hope Council will grant $1,000 towards erecting a temporary building to be used by Trinity ,College School. A quantity :of new machinery for a cartridge factory to bo established in Que- bee will shortly be shipped. from England to Canada. Windsurfs population is now 11,468, an increase of 468 over 1898. There are 8,786 Roman Catholics, while the other nominations number 7,722. Under a new rule adopted by the Ham- ilton Street Railway Company, the em- ployes are forbidden to enter saloons either when they are on or off duty. As a result of the recent revival ser vices in 'Chatham, conducted by Mr. Hammond, it is estimated that 800 people have joined the different ehurches. R. G. Flays, Goderich, has an almond tree in bloom, grown from an ordinary almond nut, over four feet high, with blossoms of considerable beauty and frag- rance. Mr. Davis, of St. Thomas, fence build- er on the M.O.R., has been notified by his son, a lawyer in England, that he has fal- len heir to 8250,000 by the death of an uncle. The Laughlin Hough Manufacturing Company, with e, paid-up capital stock of 855,000, has been organized at Guelph for the manufacture of architects' and school supplies. On account of the trial of Welter and Rendershott at the Spring Assizes at St. Thomas for the murder of W. H. Render- shott, a panel of seventy-five petit jurors has been seleeted, Mr. Theodore E. Davie, Premier. of :Brit ish Columbia, has been appointed Chief All About Phosphorous. Phosphorous is one of the most potent life-giving principles, and it is found abundantly in the Norwegian cod. liver. Combined with hypophosphites of lime and soda, it forms the most wonderful blood ereator known to science. Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil produced from the Norwegian fish is the finest prepara- tion of this oil in the world. Its flesh and blood. producing qualities enables the sufferer to gain the mastery over con- sumption and commence a new life under higher physical conditions. Miller's Emulsion is thegreat nerve strengthener andbloodmaker, and cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, scrofula and all lung affec- tions. In big bottles 50 cenes and $1, at hll drug stores. The Western view. "It is horrible, the way you have treat- ed the red ` man," said the Eastern lady. "Why don't you make some attempt to civilize him?" "'Tain't no use," responded the gentle- man from Kansas. Ain't much use try- in' to civilize a critter that can't raise no beard." And then he had to put in: fifteen min- utes inutes making it clear that white members of the sex feminine were not included in his sweeping condemnation, • Mr. H. B. McKinnon, painter, writes : "Last summer my system gob impreg- nated with the lead and turpentine used in painting; my body was covered with scarlet spots as large as a 25 -cent piece, and I was in such a state that I could scarcely walk. I got a bottle of Northrop & Lyman's Discovery, and at once cora- mewed taking it in large doses, and be- fore one-half the bottle was used there was not a spot to bo seen, and I never felt better in my life." Almost an Accident. "Speaking of narrow escapes," observ- ed Mr. Chugwater, reaching for his sec- ond cup of coffee, "did I tell you I was on the train the other day that came within three feet of being run into by another train going at full speed ?" lis "For mercy's sake, no . exclaimed Mrs. Chugwater. "How did it happen ?" "The train that came so near running into ours," he rejoined, buttering a bis- cuit, "was on the other track and going the other way." It was several minutes before Mrs. Chugwater broke loose, but when she did she made up for lost time. Money saved and pain relieved by the leading household remedy, Dr. Thomas' Eclectrie Oil, a small quantity of which usually suffices to cure a cough, heal a sore, etlt, bruise or sprain, relieve lam- bago, rheumatism, neuralgia. excoriated nipples or inflamed breast. WHAT UNCLE SAM IS A.T. DOINGS ACROSS THE LINE. The united States Furnishes a Number of Items that will be Found inter - "Ong Beading. Texas cattlemen estimate their losses in consequence of the blizzard at over 25 per cent,. - Governor Morton, of New York, has signed the Lawson Bill, preventing the display of foreign flags on public build- ings. William Lake, who killed Emma Hunt at Albi n, has teen sentenced to die in the elute e chair at Auburn during the first week in April. In New York City there are 8,500 phy- sicians for 2,000,000 of people, while in China there are for about 400,000,000 of people only about 100 physicians. Dr. Perkhurst, the reformer, favored the suggestion that a graduate of West Point or Anapolis be made head of the reorganized police force in New York City, The probab lity of the present Oon- gress reimbursing the Canadian fisher- men for the loss sustained through the Bering Sea seizures appears to be beeom- ing less, The strike of the Brotherhood of Elec trical Workers at New. York against the nine -hour day has resulted in a general strike. which will probably take out 1,000 men and st p work on at least thirty large buildings. The Chicago Bible Society is formulat- ing plans for a Bible house to be erected in thehusinrss district of the city., The proposed building is intended to furnish headquarters for the society and other Christian organizations. Benedictus Bamberg, a well-known whol sale milliner of New York, was ex- cused from a jury recently. He said to the judge "Your honor, I sat on a box of matches the other day and the matches took fire. Itis absolutely impossible for me to sit on the jury or anywhere else, no mat' er how tired I am." The late Col. W. P. Reynolds, of De- troit, Mich., left his estate, variously estimated at $50,000 to $100,000, to be held in trust b; thePresbyterian Erection Board for his wife during her lifetime, paying her an annual income of not less than 84,000, and at her death it reverts to the church. Every one of the 1,200 convicts in the Kentucky Penitentiary at Frankfort re- ceived a letter from the Christian En- deavor Society of Louisville on Christmas Day. These letters were of a religious character, and were worded differently. Some of the convicts signified their in- tention of answering their letters. The Illinois Christian Endeavor Union committee, through the medium of which young people removing to any town in Illinois will be given a cordial welcome to their n •w home. The committee will consider it a favor to be notified concern- ing removal of you g people to any town in our state. Addre.s Correspondence Committee, P.O. Box 1013, Chicago. The polyglot petition signed by fifty nationalities or thereabouts in forty dif- ferent languages and including with names and attestations not fewer than four million adherents, was presented in Washington, D.C., by the officers of the World's W.CT.IJ. and other leading women Febraary 15. The W. C. T. U. of the District of Columbia will work upon the details of the meetings. Among the speakers will be Ladv Henry Somerset, Miss Willard, Mrs. Stevens of Maine, Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Fes- sendon, Mrs. Hoffman, Mies Belle Kear- ney of Mississippi. The petition will be presented to representatives of the United States Government, and calls for the separation of all governments from the protection of the alcohol trade, the opium trade and the legalizing of social vice. HIS MOTEER WAS A SLAM. V1rA, maitaxON, Feb. 22. — Frederick Dougla t, the noted Freedman orator and diplomat, died last night at his residence in Anacosta, a suburb of this city, of heart failure. iTis death was entirely unexpected. It is probable that the in- terment of Mr. Douglas -will take place in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y., where the family has a lot, in which re pose the remains of a daughter of Mr. Douglas who died at the age of eleven years. Mr. Douglas' first wife and one son are buried in Graceland Cemetery, on the outskirts of this city, but inter- ments nterments have since been discontinued at this cemetery. Funeral services will be held in this eity, and will take place at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. The Rev. Dc. Jenifer is the pastor. It is the opinion of several physicians who were called in by the family that death was due to apoplexy, but this fact has not yet been definitely determined. Frederick Douglas was born in Tuckahooe, Talbot County, Md., in February, 1817. His mother was a negro slave and his father was a white man. Syria have been fully confirmed. The Christians at Damasoas and Beyrout are in a: state of panic, and some of the houses are barricaded. Throe Arable newspa- pers, of which the editors and proprietors are Christiane, have bt en suppressed. TtIE DI)A`rli OP TUE 0I.AIt. Medi has been written on the causes that led to the death of the late Czar of Russia. It is admitted that his decline dated from the time of the Smolensk rail way accident, and a new light is thrown on the reasons that this had so great an effect by a correspondent writing to Blackwood's Magazine. The writer says that Alexander cherishedthe idea that all Nihilistic plots wore due to the evil tendencies of the Jews and Poles, or other unorthodox Russian subjects. For a time this was a comforting delusion, and every sentiment ° of religious bigotry was grati- fied by the assumed political necessity of severe measures against the unorthodox. Among the numerous measures decreed against them, one which E ntailed special hardship on a large number of respect- able families, was the decision not to per- mit the employment of any but orthodox Russians in positions of responsibility on the railways. One of the last railways where this change had been effected was precisely that Smolensk railway where the plot was discovered to blow up the Czar's train, The discovery of the mine was a mere accident ; but the inquiries which followed laid bare a deep -laid, care- fully elaborated plot, in which the nu- merous conspirators were, without excep- tion, orthodox Russian officials—the very men who owed their posts to the removal of the mistrusted Poles and Germans. The evidence of this fact was too clear to -admit of doubt, and in one moment all the. Czar's fondest illusions were rudely dispelled. and the utter futility of the entire policy of his reign became mani- fest. It was a death blow to the moral nature of the man. . . . All his most cherished ideas and convictions were con- futed. and irrevocably shattered by the irresistibl 3 logic of facts ; and he himself left a strandard, storm -beaten wreck, helpless and. condemned. No moral re- covery was possible. Nicholas I. died of moral mortification; Alexander III. shared the fate of his grandfather and model. FOREIGN. Lord Rosebery. and Mr. Balfour are both prevented attending to their duties by severe attacks of influenza. The Italian Minister. of Marine has de- cided to introduce the eight-hour woik- ing-day into the docks and arsenal at Spezzia. On the 1st day of January there were 107,751 paupers in receipt of relief in .London, an increase of 7,296 over the cor- responding data' of last year. The Queensland Government has deci- ded to throw open 1,500,000 acres of land throughout the colony for selection as grazing and homestead farms. Recent reports from the Labrador coast and the Saguenay state that a wanton desfruction of fur -bearing animals is be- ing carried on by the Indians. A. Berlin newspaper claims that in the settlement of the land question in Samoa the Germans .have obtainedlarge advant- ages over the British and Americans. The Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce has petitioned the Government to place Canadian petroleum under the minimure. tariff, so as to enable it to compete with Russia and the tnited States. Influenza is very widespread in Berlin just now, and though the disease is not of a violent type, .it is raging in all elaas- es of society, and many deaths from the malady have been recorded. Tho Prince of Wales, who is still suf- fering from, the cold contracted while playing hockey during the recent severe spell, has started for the Riviere, where he expects sooxi to recover cotrrpletely. Reports as to the disturbed condition of Dr. Carson's Cough Drops. Mrs. Henderson, 32 Cameron street, Toronto, writes : "I was suffering from plea risy and bad cough. I was wasted and very weak, having to be propped up in bed. I was told to try Dr. Carson's Cough Drops. Six bottles restored me to perfect health." Price 50 cents. For tale by druggists every where. Allan & Co., proprietors, 53 Front street east, To- ronto. The Longest Word •. Below are the nine longest words in the English language at the present writ- . nSubconstitutionalist. Incomprehensibility. Philoprogenitiveness. Honorificibilitudinity. Anthropophagenarian. Disproportionableness. Velocipedestrianistical. Transubstantiationableness. Proantitransubstantiationist. No family living in a bilious country should be without Parmelee's Vegetable Pills. A few do=es taken now and then will keep the liver active, cleanse the stomach and bowels from all bilious mat- ter and prevent ague. Mr. J. L. Price, Shoals, Martin County, Ind., writes : "I hav tried. a box of Parmelee's Pills and find them the best medicine for fever and ague I have ever used." Master -Pat, I have a suspicion that either you or I was drunk last night. Pat-O'ive a suspicion av that koind me - self, sor. Master—Well, Pat, you rascal, which one of us was it ? Pat—Well, sor! O'ill not be casting any reflection, but Oi do be sayin' that Oi envied ye. MISSINsi YANKS. "Our gas meter froze up the other night," said a man, "and we didn't have lamps enough togo around, and I w5nt, out to buy some Dandles. It's a long time since I bought any candles, and 1 didn't. know what kind to buy ; but when 1 gots to the store I found it lighted up witlr just the kind I wanted ; their meter was.. frozen up, too;" "I know my age," said a man, ' but it, is, to me at least, a curious fact that I esanoot remember what year I was born, in; I have to figure back from my age to find out. I know a man that is just the other way. He knows the year he was born in, but doesn't remember his age i he finds his age by subtracting his birth, year from the present year." • Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters. Mr. J. Martin, notary public, King street east, Toronto, writes and says : "I was suffering from dyspepsia, sour stomach and torpid liver for years. I was advised to try Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters, which I did, and a few bottles have completely cured me." 50 cents per bottle. For sale by druggists—there is none as good ; the only Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters. Align & Co., 53 Front street east. Toronto, proprietors. Good Advice. The stronger temperance lectures are given many times to cnly one person in privacy. The one given below deserves universal reading. "I drink to make m work," said a young man. To which an old man replied : "That's right ; thee drink and it win make thee work ! Hear- ken to me a moment, and I'll tell thee something that may do thee good. I was once a prosperous farmer. I had a good, loving wife and two as fine lads as ever the sun shone on. We had a comfortable home and lived happily together. But we used to drink ale to make us work. Those two lads I have laid in drunkards' graves. My wife died broken-hearted, and'she now lies beside her two sons. I am seventy-two years of age. Had it not been for drink I might have been an in- dependent gentleman ; but I used to drink to make me work, and mark, I am obliged to work now. At seventy-two years of age it makes nie work for my daily bread. Drink ! drink ! and it will make you work." The State of tp.e Case. He had struggled manfully to make both ends meet together, but he did not always succeed, and there were painful gaps in the continuity much oftenerthan was pleasant. Still, he was not quite dis- oouraged, and kept at it. His wife as- sisted him all she could, but she was not strong, and there were moments when she almost gave up the struggle. It was at su••h a time when. he came in one night with a dollar, all the money they had had for a .week. "Oh, George," she cried, as he handed it to her, "I am so sorry for you. It is so hard to be poor." "Yes, doarie," he replied cheerily, "but its a great deal harder to get rich. Otto trial of Mother Graves' Worm Ex- terminator will convince you that i" has no equal as a worm medicine. Buy a bottle and see if it does not please you. Her Answer. She did not say "yes" then and there, As maidens often do, But next day she picked out a chair Just big enough for two. You cannot bo happy while you have corns, Then do not delay in getting a bottle of Holloway's Corn Cure. It re- moves all kinds of corns without pain. Failure with it is unknown. "I once saw in an open casket in an: undertaker's window," said a stroller, "a. square card of the conventional style, an- nouncing the summer -night's festival of a social club ; it stood in the casket lean- ing against the side. It seemed a curious sort of thing to display in a casket, but I suppose the uneertaker must have been a member of the club, or he was a friend; of one, for whom he had displayed the card." "The long, lamp -lighted streets of a. city were always impressive," said a citi- zen, "and they are so still in the cities. where they eau be seen, despite the more•. brilliant illumination of the newer elec- tric light. The electric light may easily be placed anywhere at any height, but: the very uniformity of the rows of gas. lamp added greatly to the impressive-- nese." • "One of the things about English rail- roads that pleased me," r aid a traveler, "was the placing of signs bearing in large plain letters the name of the station, at a. considerable distance, 500 feet or more, from the statton building itself where the: train stopped ; these signs were perhaps. on the fence by the long station platform If you looked out as you approached the- station hestation you learned beyond doubt its. name. It was interesting as information and if it was the place you wanted to get out at it was comfortable to know this, unmistakably. As far as reading the name of a place on a sign is concerned, if the sign is placed..onlyTe or -tate door of the station, it m be that it can tl`d.seen: and read, if the t ain is on the track est the station, my by those in the c_ in front of it. To be sure, we call tht stations in adv ce, but 1 think the plai sign in view as he train. approaches, ill good thing." Geographers are A vexed with the difficulty of presenting truthfully to the. eye of the pupil the relative areas of the states of the union. The New England: states, by reason of their dense popula- tion, have long occupied in the school geographies a map space quite out of pro- portion to their area, and few children leave school with any clear notion that jlt each of several of the smaller southern; s'. states is about as big as all New England., put together. If Texas were represented in proportion to the space usually accord -+i, ed to Rhode Island in the school geogra- " �. phies, the great southwestern state must, have to itself a map fully a yard square.. "It seems to me," says a man who has - lived in the city and country, too, "that the city boy doesn't make quite so much out of the snow as he might. In some di- rections he does, but in others not. .Por instance, he gets his sled out when the snow comes and slides all he can, but he doesn't build snow men and forts and that sort of thing, as the boys in the country do. True, his opportunities for this are. not so good, but I should think he would, do with them more than he does. I saw in an up -town street the other day a lit.. tic cave cut out under a snow pile, but I• don't know when I have seen a snow man, in the city." • Lovers of flowers not rich enough to buy often have various ways of prolonging• the life and freshness of the few they get. Violets may be kept fresh if put in fresh water and covered overnight with a tum- bler. Most flowers will retain their freshness for several days if kept over- night in the open air. Any one posses- sed of one of those delicate French clocks. that have to be covered with a glass dome cannot do better than sell or pawn the. clock, usually an object of neither use nor ornament, buy flowers from time to time with the proceeds and use the glass dome as a protector for the Sowers at night. It will keep them fresh for days, • Some young men still persist in study- ing telegraphy on their own private ac- count, and for such there are full outfits, including a book of instruction. at a cost of about $5. The man that thus learns telegraphy is a little like tee one that learns French without a master; his pro-- nuneiation, so to speak, is peculiar, and; the pronunciation of the skilled tele- . grapher has to him an unfamiliar sound. Nevertheless, practice soon enables him to correct his defects of sounding and hearing, and there was a little group of farmers in one of the states of the middle west who setup a private telegraph line, and in that settlement nearly everybody learned to send and to receive short mes- sages. "Mussels are generally eaten pickled," said a fisherman, "but fried mussels are delightful. They should be opened as you would open oysters and fried as you would fry an oyster car a soft clam, touch- ed in crumbs or dipped in batter. They are richer than oysters or clams, and so they may soon pall on the taste, but as a novelty they are a delicacy." According to stories down in North. Carolina, the old negro who declined to sell to Mr. Vanderbilt fourteen acres in the midst of the Bellmore estate, after an extravagant price had been oflexed :for the land, gave as an excuse that ever since he was released from slavery he had wished to live near a rich man. He is undisturbed by the reported threat of his rich neighbor to build a high wall about his homestead. . a. It is not a false but a true water lily that chokes streams and ponds in the Adirondaeks. There are scores of streams in that•region so thick at points with the lily pads, the food of the deer, that even the light Adirondack boat is driven along only with the utmost labor. At times one saes an acre or more of the water sur face covered with white and .old lilies. The oars bruise and crush the lilies as the. boat passes through the field, and the. odor of the flowers floats about the row- ors.