The Exeter Times, 1886-2-4, Page 3A GLENGARRY 1D01IBLE SLEIGH OF
FIPrY TARS AGO.
BY JOAN FRASER, YIONTREAL,
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No. 17.
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The old people of a
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come faint recollection of a Glengarry double
sleigh of half a oentury ono, but to the
young of this generation, and even to young
Glengarrians of the present day, it will be a
novelty to them to ]earn how their worthy
grandfathers used to dome to town. There
fore, we shall bring them back to thee+,
quiet old times before the introduction of
railways In this Canada of ours.
There were two noted annual arrivals in
Woes daywhich caused 'more talk and ore-
ated great :
g excitement on the streets of arrival Montre .i than the o f an ocean
atearner,''' One was the first Indian canoe
from', e: No •West, carrying the news
and the 1cvterb of a pact year from those
then nearly Polar regioue. The other was
the first batch of Glengarry doable sleighs
to Wci " John Grant's " or some o'her of
the N. cotch Inns or Titverns of Montreal
about Christmas week, loaded with all
good things to replenish the cellars of the
citizens, and to pinee before the traders in
pork, butter, oheese, etc., an opportunity
for profitable investment,
Glengarry was then, as now, some 70 to
X30 miles from Montreal, but travelling was
different. You could not then take an early
train at Lancaster or Alexandria and Dome
to " Town," ae Montreal was then called,
spend some six hours and get back the
same night. To undertake a journey in the
old days in winter was a matter of a week—
two days to come down, three days here,
and two to return. A contemplated visit
in the old time by a Glengarry farmer was
known from one end of his concession to
the other. It was spoken of for weeks ett
Kirk or Chapel as an event, and many and
various were the little commissions imposed
upon him to execute.
Since the oonsernotlon of railways the
farm houses are stripped, nearly weekly, by
traders purchasing everything the farmer or
his good wife has to sell, such as eggs, but-
ter. cheese, etc, therefore doing away en-
tirely with the annual visite of the Glen-
garry double sleighs to Montreal during the
;past thirty years, The presentobjectis to pi -
tureone of those;old dou ble sleighs with which
the writer was familiar in his young days.
The county of Glengarry, at the time of
which we write, was fairly an agricultural
one. The land had not yet been overwork-
ed nor impoverished. The farms were well
stocked, having from 10 to 15 head of horn•
ed cattle, some half a dozen of good horses,
a treiam or two of oxen, some 15 to 20 pigs,
and about 50 sheep on each farm, besides a
well-filled poultry yard of hens, turkeys,
dunks, geese. From such resources at hand
the reader may fancy the people lived In
great comfort, The only scarcity was ready
cash.
The young men or the county usnally
went to. -t e shanties . during the winter
months, . tietheir teams of oxen or horses,
to haul the square timber from the woods in
which it was out to the nearest stream bank
—thence to be floated in the spring. By
this means they earned a good amount of
ready cash which they parried safely to their
homes in the spring. The hospitality of the
people was unbounded, particularly to
strangers, just such as existed in the Aoad-
ianlead of old time, and, unmolested by
visite of revenue inspectors orgnagers, Don-
ald and Evan "plied the beverage from their
own fair sheaves, that fired their Highland
blood tat fickle glee."
A great; change has taken place since
those primitive days. The young men
during the past forty years have almost
entirely left the county, a goodly number
of them to follow the occupation of con-
tractors on public works in the United
States and Canada ; many of them have
prospered. Not one half, we believe, of the
young men could now be found in the old
county of Glengarry as were there at the
time of the Rebellion of 1837, when nearly
two thousand fighting men wore mustered
In one week. •
We invite the reader to come with us, in
retrospect, to a farm house in Lochiel, in
the then backwoods of Glengarry. There
de a large home-made sleigh standing empty
under the barn shed. It is some 10 to 12
feet long ; 4 to 5 feet wide, with sides 3 to
4 feet high. The runners were cut from a
large birch or elm tree. The whole is
"home-made," except the iron on the'runners
and the neoessery nails and bolts. The
whipplo trees and traces may be the same
as used far plough or harrow. This is the
old Glengarry double sleigh, all homemade,
strong and well built, of which we write.
Now to the loading—let us take a peep at
dte contents :—Some ten or a dozen email
tubs or kegs of butter in the bottom, a dozen
or two small cheeses, a few bags of timothy
• seed, then much prized, a few fowl, turkeys,
geese, eto., to fill up gaps—then 8 to 10 well
fatted hogs, (Glengarry pork was nearly
equal to Irish) besides many little odds and
ends, such as home-made socks and wits,
then much prized in Montreal, and, maybe,
a few extra hides and stray furs collected
at the farm house during the year. This
was something after the fashion a Glengarry
double sleigh was loaded in the olden time
before leaving for Montreal. The whole,
we suppose, to weigh about 2,500 to 3,000
pounds, representing a cash value from
$200 to $250.
The time is the second week of December,
with good sleighing ; the delay in starting
is waiting o hear if the ferries had frozen
over. , :A 1 ':now ready. Food for man and
horse to be added to the load. This
was soled s dozen bundles of hay and a few
bage of o ,a for the horses and a small kiet
or box containing a good sized boiled ham
and a couple of loaves of bread with a few
other small "items, suoh as a select cheese
and a little "oroudle" forthe men on the
road. By the way—this top load of hay
towering high, something like a loaded
elephant, served as a nice protection for the
men from the ooI winds by making a oozy
seat in the centrof it, and if .the good wife
made up her minto go down to town she
would be nearly as comfortable as at her
own fireside.
Tho reader might suppose the Dost for
such a trip of nighty miles would be very
expensive. It did not coat over a dollar
and a half in cash to reach Montreal. Here
It is, an actual foot. The end of the, first
day found them at the Cedars, a halt having
been made at midday to water and fend the
horses—this cost nothing ; they were fed
from out of their sleigh supplies. The men
also had their food with there, but we shall
allow them to have indulged in a few pots of
beer on the road during the day, costing
about a quarter of a dollar. Beer was then
cheap—three or four ooppore a glass. This
was thc actual outlay in Dash the first day
fintll they reached the Cedara
The horses had to be ntablod at the Cedort'
costing a quarter of a dollar for a double
mall for the night. The ]nen fed their horses
from their own supplies, eosiing nothing:
As for the mon (there were alwayn two with
a double sleigh) a double bed .would coat a
shilling, but Glongarrfalas of that day were
aooustomed to rough it, and invariably made
beds, for themselves i't a corner of the old-
'aehioned large bar•rooma by using their
buffalo robes and blankets, thereby saying
,t little. W
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lr a quarter such for boor, ar something
else, to wash down the food from their sap -
plied box.
The first
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Oaecade, to water the horses, and sixpence
tor bear, The n' xt wee at St Annie, to
mater, and another sixpence for beer. Tne
third was at Pointe Claire, for an hour, to
feed horses and men, and we shall allow a
shilling for beer, Lachine le the next halt,
to water, and sixpence for beer.
Tho chargee for beer on the road may not
have been actually indulged iu by the men,
but theyhad to pay about sixpence at each
netting place to the country innkeeper for
the tree off his abode to water and feed their
horses, and for this payment were each en-
titled to a glens of beer, take it or not.
About sunset the second day a long string
of double sleighs (Gleng'arriana always oame
in squads of twelve to fifteen) might be
seen between Darr's brewery and the Tani
norms jogging along at the, Glow ,pace of
about five miles an hour, If their Approach
was slaw, they matte noise enough, announ-
cing the coming of .the Cameron and tho
Maodonnell mon to town.
The reader of today never heard the mer-
ry cling -along of the loud sounding large
Glengarry sleigh bells of those days. They
could be heard fully half a mile distant,
Those Glengarry bells were as characteristic
of the people ae were their own bagpipes.
Highlanders always make a noise by mak-
ing themselves heard and felt when they
come to the front—be it at market town, in
the legislative halls or on the battlefield.
Just as the shades of evening are closing
over the unlighted streets of otd Montreal,
the sleighs are passing down St Joseph
street, soros wending their way to "John
Grant's," on St Henry street; others to
"Sandy Shaw's," at the corner of Welling-
ton and Grey Nun street; a few to "Widow
MoBarton's," on St Paul street, opposite to
the centre of the present St Ann's market ;
and a portion of them finding their way to
"Jemmy Cameron's," the Glasgow Tavern,
Main street.
onThere were a goodly number of Scotch
taverns In Montreal, having large stabling.
These were the resort of the Glengarrians ;
they could stable their horses for quarter
of a dollar a day, while they feed them out
of their elelgh supplies, therefore coating
them a mere trifle for the two or three days
to town, The men could live like princes,
as they thought, at a coat of half a dollar a
day each. This was the charge par day at
any one of those Scotch Taverne.
The morning talk the next day at every
breakfast table, rich or poor,' was of the
arrival of the Glengarry elelgh('. People
now -a -days, when we have railway trains
arriving every hour, c:in hardly conceive'
the importance such an arrival was to the
old inhabitants of Montreal. Perhaps for a
whole month previous our Island City had
been cut off from the outside country—
waiting the freezing of the rivers and ferries,
many articles of country produce becoming
scarce and dear, and sleigh loads of good
things from the Townships, Argenteuil,
and Glengarry, were anxiously looked for.
An early visit to the Scotch Taverns by
the thrifty housewives of old Montreal was
the first duty of the day. There they
found Donald, Evan and S:ndy prepared,
with all the native dignity of Highlanders,
to greet their town customers and to allow
the ladies to inspect their good things, and
tuba of butter, cheese, turkeys oto., soon
found ready customers.
Glengarry butter had a special character
of being good in those old days, and the first
arrivals found ready sale to private families,
the traders and merchants pinked up the
balance, Some of the older Giengarrians
who had visited town several times before
bad learned that sides of pork out into nice
"roasting pieces" fcnnd a ready sale, there-
fore they had prepared themselves for this
demand, by which they profitted largely.
Our Glengarry friends goon found their
sleighs empty and their pockets full of good
hard silver. Wo shall allow thereto prepare
for their return home, after purohaslog such
needed oracles as they r:quirod for their
houses and farms, these being mostly in the
hardware line—such as axes, saws, nails
etc., but one very common article, Liver-
pool salt, took up most of the sleighs ; nearly
every sleigh carried half a ton of salt home.
This article was cheap, about a ehilling a
bushel, but one of the most expensive for
the farmer to buy from the country merchant
owing to the heavy charge of transport In
those days.
The old Glengarry double sleigh, like the
once far-famed mail coach of England, is
now an institution of the past—a relic of
departed days 1 We shall never again see
one on the road. We might use the vulgar
phrase, -".Their usefulness is gone 1"
Never again aba11 their loud sounding bells,
once so -familiar here, be beard on the
streets of Montreal, announcing their wel-
come arrival during the Corietmas week 1
Those days are gone, never again to return 1
Relic of departed daya, farewell! The
writer bas endeavoured to picture one of
those sleighs to the best of his humble abili-
ty. Although not a Glengarrian, he was as
familiar in his young days with a Glengarry
Rouble sleigh as moat Glengarrians,. Flo
has aeon aquaria of twenty-five and some
times fifty on the"road at one time, and he
was with the Glengarries on their entrance
to
Montreal a a in Fobruaryr 1638, when there
were about one hundred double sleighs con-
veying the two regiments,
Travels cls of the Printing I es,
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'1 he printing press 1s making its way
among the lees progressive nations of the,
world more rapidly than any of bhe other
great lnatrcments of Western oil/Watt—len.
It ie found from Danish Greenland to
South Africa, in the hands of native aril
cane, who are producing some very inte-
reeting specimens of bookmaking and
newspaper work. One of the moat etrlk
ing indications of growing liberalism in
China Is the constantly increasing influ-
enees of the native newapapera published
in Hong Kong andlhanghai, It ia only
fourteen years ago that the first of the
newspapers was printed. They are no
read not only in the seaport cities, b
A PREJIlSTO*IC I�O1111 a
DIacovERY OF wif4T IS SUI'POSED;'go BB TITLE.
OLDEST TiVMAN HAiliTATION
M?.j, Powell, chief of the geological
survey, has discovered in New Mexico,
near California mountain, what ,he pro
non
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es to be the oldest human habit
%then upon the American coatinort- The
mountains ia thio
vicinity are covered
with huge beds of'laya, in which' the pre-
historic non and his comrades have ex-
cavated egaare rooms, which were lined
with a speoiea of plasber made from the
lava, and in these roams were found merle•
oua evidences ofciuite an advanced civ 2
z ition, among them a sp s of cloth
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made of woven hair and a large ngmber
of pieces of pottery. In the sides of the
rooms, cupboards and ehelyea,were exca-
vated. In one room, sticking out of the
bare face of the wall, was a small branch
se of a tree. When this was pulled out it
at
was a hollow space behind the wall Cul
have a steadily growing circulation in th
interior. They are eagerly perused b
the official olasa. in Pekin. are carried n
the rivers to •many Inland towns, an
have become a necessity in all parts of th
world wherever the Chinese have exile
themselves. It was largely their infl
enoe that during the recent troubles wit
France fanned the war spirit to fever hes
They contain much false news, theircom
ments on foreign affairs are ludicrously i
accurate, but they publish also much i
formation of value, and they are gradna
ly opening a new field which China's thou
sands of accomplished and impeounieu
scholars may enter, and find in j ournalia
brilliant opportunities for the employ
ment of their intellectual energy. .
Ib was this aort of man in Japan, th
restless, poverty-stricken literati, who
after the revolution of 1868, •atartae
the native press, Although fettered b
official censorship and forbidden to crit
cine the acts of the Government, th
journalism of Japan has become a grea
power and one of the neoeseities of life
All the chief cities now have their dail
newspapers, and every considerable vil
lage has an editor wielding tbe pen in hi
sanotum. In the wonderful little empir
where seventeen years ago the Govern
meat Gazette, read only by the officla
class, waa the nearest approach Japan ha
made to the modern newspaper, there ar
•now several huudrede of daily and week]
journals, besides many other periodicals
which, like the "Proceedings ofthe To
kin Geographical Society," reflect grea
credit n1 on the scholarly arid scientific at
tainmente of native writers. e.
The missionaries introduced the print
ing press iato British Barmah, whore the
development of usefulness has been mux
more rapid than In moat unrliviliz id lands
Wherever misaionary influence has reached
in that country, it is scattering every year.
hundreds of thousands of pages,of school
books and Bible translations, Even more
interesting, psrhapa, is the work that na-
tive printers are doing in Levedale, Kaf-
fraria, where South African Kafirs, re-
claimed from the savagery around them are
issuing excellent specimens of printing
and bookbinding. Boys and girls as far
away as Lake Nyasaa are taught to read
from books made in this noted missionary
town, which sends forth not only the
printed implements of instruction, but
also native teachers to teach them..
The growth of the native press of India
has more than kept pace with the develop-
ment of ita railroad system. The news-
paper press is flourishing and influential,
and several hundreds of books by native
authors are annually', printed in the vari-
ous languages of the peninsula. Bit it is,
perhaps, in Greenland that the moat uni-
que productions of the printing press are
found. For more than twenty years lit•
tle books have occasionally been .printed
in bile Esquimau language at Godhaab,
chiefly devoted to the preservationiof Es-
quimau fables and traditions, and an illus•
trated journal, the Atnagagliuti (the Read-
er), la leaned there nearly every year,
whose letter press and mechanical fea-
tures,including the rather remarkable en-
gravings, are entirely the product of the
natives.
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Corn Sowing
Ie a process conducted by the agency of
tight boots allithe year round. Corn reap.
ing is best conducted through the agency of
Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor, the only
safe and sure -pop Dorn cure. Putnam's Ex-
tractor is now widely imitated. Bewar of
all poisonous and sot.e producing aubst 4rtes,
Dr, Wilhelm Schmoele affirms ; " He
who eats lemons in anfficient abundance'
need never die." The difficulty .is, you J
will observe, that no man ever lived long
enough to eat them in sufficient abundance
to live forever.
J. H, Stephenson, Major Powell's aisisb-
ant, broke this with a pick and found a
little concealed niche, in which was a
small curved figure resembling a man,
done up in closely woven' fabric, which,
with the touch of the hand, turned to
dust. It was black and crisp, Iike the
mummy -cloths of Egypt. In all, some
xy groups of these Lava villages were
fo
nd, there being about twenty houses
in each group. Tae evidenc civiliza-
tion were similar to, but removed Fy their
crudity and evident want of skill, a good
deal from the articles found in the cliff
homes, which have been so fully written
up in the reports of the geological survey.
Scientists await with a great deal of inter-
est Maj. Powell's report of these recent
very imp orban t discoveries.
Directions to Speakers on Religions Topics.
. 1. Don't talk too much.
2. Don't talk unless you are posted.
3. Give the best you have.
4. Don't talk when people are asleep.
Wake some one man and you will hold the
rest.
5. Don't try to show off your learning.
6,r Gat hold of the most stupid man and
you'll hold the rest.
7. Don't try, but don't be afraid, to make
people laugh. Milk that slops one way will
the other.
8. Be natural ; don't try to be some one
else.
9. Avoid cant and pulpit tones.
10. Don't talk too long. A man in Lon-
don, who preached until the people all left,
said he thought it was a pity to stop when
there was nobody to. hear.
11. Don't hesitate to repeat what God
uses.
12, Dan't' keep on talking just because
you are holding the andience. Send them
away hungry.
13. While the people are gathering use
the time with song.
14. Shoot where people stand. As the
old Quaker said to the burglar : " Friend,
I am going to shoot where thee stands. Thee
had better get out of the way."
15 Don't gesture and move about too
much, and don't talk with your hands In
your pockets.—D, L. Moody.
Something Good in Old Fashions.
Mrs. Agaseiz, in her charming "Life of
ProfessorAgaeelz," gives an account of local
customs in his early home in Switzerland,
and of the personal profit he derived from
them. It reveals an educating power in
some of those old customs, which has been
lost in the improvement of our modern life.
She says :
"In, Swiss villages it was the habit in
those days for the trades -people to go from
house to house in their different vocations,
The shoemaker came two or three times a
year, with all his materials, and made shoos
for the whole family by the day.
•
" The tailor camp to fit them for garments,
which he m tde in the house. The cooper
arrived before vintage, to repair old barrels
and hogsheads, or to make new ones, and to
replace their worn•out hoops ; in short, to
fit up the collar for the coming season,"
The influence of such visits on children
gifted with imitative skill may be easily im-
agined. Young Louis was a eharp observer,
Ho watched shoemaker and tailor to see how
their work was done, and was kd`ound to do
it himself in some fashion.
He acquired a good deal of skill in all de-
partments. He could cut and put together
a pair of shoes for bis sister's dolls as well
as an expert, had enough skill as a tailor to
be equal to all emergencies in school and un
versify life, and was able to make a
ture barrel perfectly water -tight. He was
accustomed to at^ribut his skill in minipula-
tion in later life to the training of eye and
hand gainedin bia childish imitation of the
villa e mechanicee.
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Newspaper reporter to president of com-
pany : "Has your company taken any steps
yet to pay its taxes ?" "Why, certainly,
sir, Wo have made two protests against
t he constitutionality of the ifrw "
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MILLINERY.
Efate havo not varied much
Pince tho sea:
son began. The effort made to place the
trimming toward the back takes well with
a garniture of ostrich tips; otherwise it
lecke stiff, Stoekinggnette hats at $3.50 of-
ten have a brim of sills Astrakhan;
.the Tut.:
ter is also used for flat or full crowns, with
FIG, 18,
beaver, felt or velvet brims, the joining of
the two materiels being hidden by a double
row of cord or tinyfolds of velvet, Smooth-
ly covered hate f vclvot, with tips and
birds, are certainly the most stylish designs
shown, Figure No, 20 shows a popular
shape, with a straight brim turned up in
the book. The picture Is of brown felt
with the brim covered with brown velvet,
FID, 20,
banded with brown and gold ribbon, has a
lull bow of moire ribbon in the back reach-
ing to the crown and four tips drooping over
the front, Figure No, 19 represents a de-
sign of seal -akin trimmed with fur pompons.
The shape shown in figure No. 18 is a rotind
turban covered with boucle cloth In a fall, Ir-
regular fashion, caught hero and there, and
finished with a brightwing
A Cure For Drunkenness,
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neon unable able to cope. e, Nine•t
caths ot man-
ind look upon runkenneee as a social
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rf will.Drunkenness is a bad habit we all
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m In the moderato drinker. In the
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prevent the physioial and moral prostrati
chat often follows a sudden breaking o
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taking it, if so desired. Those of our
readers who are interested in this subject,
should send their address for Lubon'a
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opium, morphine and kindred habits,
which will be mailed free to any address,
when stamp is inolosed for postage. " Ad-
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east, Toronto, Ont, Mention this paper.
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The circulation of the London Times is
now confined to clubs, hotels, restaurants,
persona who hire it to read, a very limitei
class of, businessmen, and families 01 ex-
oeptional afll ienco; hut thousands coming
ander the latter head do not take it. It ie,
no doubt, . always glanced over -for few
persons actually read through its yarde of
print—by the majority of peers and mem
hers of the House of Commons. - The effect
of the new enfranchisement will be to di
minish itis influence still further, as the new
voters know nothing of it. While, how-
ever, its circulation declines, or at best
stagnates, it probably is as an advertising
medium more valuable than ever, The Lon
don morning paper having the widest cir-
culation among the well-educated elites is
the Standard.
The Prince of Wales scarcely passes
more than four months of the year at
Sandringham. The real of his time is
spent in London and Scotland, paying
visits, and travelling. He has three
residences—Sandringham, Marlborough
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147- ILD LANDS FOR SALE—S.} 21,00NOESSION
V V 2, Nottawaeaga, Blames County; 100 acres;
one mild from Stayner ; will make a flrst-olase grain -
or dairy farm; also lot 36, 2 Voepra ; 100 acres ; will
be sold cheap ; also lot 32, north boundary Stephen,
Huron County, 100 acres ; will bo sold oheap. Apply
to T. Eng, Barrister, Toronto,
OO1D STOO n. AND GRAIN FAItM FOR SeLg
Ix Cheap —Lots 53, 54, 64, 65 and 06, Maitiand
concession,.Goderioh Township, Huron County, con-
taining 334 sores, '6`miles from Olinton; 250 in
cultivation ; 84 acres in heavy' hardwood timber ;
well watered by an arm of the Maitland river; frame
house and barn erected: Price, 123 per acre if sold
before let March, 1886. Apply to TaoxAs Jdaseorr,
Clinton, or to T. Ens, Barrister, Toronto,
A cadsua of Dorwich at the present tibe
would show that about bed persode out of
every nide are suffering frob a biaerable
node id the head. Sneezy thig to catch, a
code is:
Pile Tumors,
neglected or badly treated, often degenerate
into cancer, The worst pile tumors are
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without knife, caustic or salve. by our new
and improved methoi s. Pamphlet and
references 10 cents in stamps. World's
Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
It seems that e.• Nevada Indian has just
beaten the champit?i Chinese poker player
quite badly. There is no doubt of it. The
Indian oan be civilized.
" He who is false to present duty," says
Henry Ward Brecher, " breaks a thread in
the loom, and will find the flaw when he may
have forgotten its cause." A case in point
odours to us. Mr, Wm, Ryder, of 87 Jeffer-
son street, Buffalo, N. Y., rec:ntly told a
reporter that, " I •hada large abscess on
each leg, that kept continually discharging
for twenty years, Nothing did me any good
except Dr. Pierce's ' Golden Medical Dis-
covery.' It cured me." Here is a volume
expressed in'a few words, Mr. Ryder's ex-
perience is entitled to our readers' careful
consideration,—The Sun.
The employes in a pity box factory are re-
ported " on a strike." It is no uncommon
thing for boxers to strike.
No lengthy advertisement is necessary to
bolster up Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
" Whom shall it be Y" asks a Chicago
stock yard poetess. We don't know, but
whoever he is he has our sympathy.
The entries for the great Colonial and
Indian Exhibition still come in from all
quarters of tbe Dominion, and corporations,
societies, and institutions of all sorts, are
contributing to make the displsy of the
meet varied character. One of the novel
features in the Dominion display will be a
journal printed in the building. This paper
will be edited and published by Canadians,
printed from Canadian type, on a Canadian
press, and from Canadian made paper. It
will be published by a syndicate of gentle-
men, under the name of the " Trades Pub-
lishing Co„” with cffices in Toronto and
Montreal,
" It is more blessed to give than to re•
ceive," remarked the pugilist as he thump-
ed his opponent,
Catarrhal Headache, hawking and spitting up
phlegm, etc., at once relieved and cured by the use
, 1 Dr. Carson's Catarrh Curc. No reason why you
Mould suffer another day Many cases of catarrh of
longstanding have been cured by a single bottle of
Dr Carson's Oataah Cure. A1I Druggists $1.00 per
bottle.
One has to know a woman's walk pretty
well before he can tell by her limp whether
it is rheumatism or tight shoes. •
Imperial Cough - Drops will give
Positive and Instant Relief to those suffering
from Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, etc.,
and are invaluable to orators and vooalfsts.
For sale by druggists and confectioners. R,
R. & T. WATSON, Manufacturers,
Toronto,
It ought to be explained that the weary
traveler who fainted and fell by the way-
side in all probability had vertigo.
CO UMPTION.
I I have n pootttvo remod y for tho above disease ; by 00
nso thoueonds o f cases or the worst kind and of ions
btaadingtgC have bean cured. Indeed, ao stronga l a my faith
in its efficacy, that I will bond TNO BOTTLES s'REn,
together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on th ie dibeaba
to any sufferer. (live exproes and r 0. address.
A. aaocUM, 581 'earl St., Noir York.
Ci ELLER BUSINESS COLLEGE,Guelph,Dai
NI/ That man only how to use himself, whghoposa who
ees eeoucy educated prn knows
knowledge and such manual skill as will enable him
to compote successfully with his fellowe in the buss.
nese of lite. To impart such education, to prepare
such men is the design and purpooe of this Inetitu•
tion, For terms, &o., pall at the k3o11ege or address,
M. MAo00RMICH, Principal.''
IIORTHA11IS TAUGHT FREE by mail. Stu
dents thoroughly prepared in Shorthand, Type-
writing, Penmanship, Bookkeeping. ; Arithmetic,
Grammar, classics, Matriculation, and Civil Service
exrtp,oatfons, by attending our. Academy. Students
helped to situations when proficient. Shorthand
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Canada. Send for new circular. C. O'DEA, Secretary,
Axle and Machine Screw Works.
LINTON, LAKE at CO"
Manufacturers of all kinds of Carriage and Waggon
Axles, Iron and Steel Set and Cap Screws, Studs
for Cylinder Heade, Steam Cheats, Pumpe, etc.,
GALT, ONT.
Branei Medal at Industrial Exhibition, 1885.
Price List on application.
;IAMBS PARK & BOA%
Pork Packers, ,Toronto,
L, 0. Bacon Rolled Spice Bacon, 0. 0. Be,
Glasgow Beef Hemq
Hams, Sugar Cured' Ham, Dried Beef,
Breakfast Bacon, Smoked Tongues, Meas Pork, PIokL
ed Tongues, Cheese, Family or Navy Pork, Lardles
Tube and Pails. The Best Brands of English 1'1n&
Dairy Salt in Stock.
Allan Lino Royal Mail gtcaiahips
8ailingdnring winter 'Tram Portland every Thursday
and Halifax every Saturday to Liverpool, and ha summer
from Quebec eaery Saturday to Llverpoo, o' llina at Lon-
donderry to land mails and passengers for Scotland and
Ireland. Also from Baltimore, via Halifax and St, John's
N.S., to Liverpool fortnightly during rammer monthr-
The steamers of the Glasgow linen rail daring wmter
to and Irma Halifax, Portland, Boston and Phltadal-
Dhia ; and daring Grimmer between Glasgow and Mont.
treat weekly; Glasgow and lsoston, weekly, and Giaegow
sad Philadelphia, fortnightly,
For freight, ,passage, or other information
Capply to A. Scumacher fit" l;o , Baltimore; 8.
unard it Cao, Halifax; 6hea.& Lt St. John's
N. F.; Wm. Thomsen o. Co,, St. John, N. B.,
Allan & Co„ Chao c; Love & .nsdem, New
York ; H., Bourlier, Toronte ; Allan Rae & Co.
Quebec; Wm. Brookie, Philadelphia ; H. A,
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FOR THE MILLION.
Along the lino of the Chicago and Northwestern
Raiiwav in Central 15altota and Northera
Nebraska. New sections are being opened up, and
rapidly settled in these wonderfully productive.
regions, and the " Oral emote" will have "first
choice" of location.
For full information (which will be sant yon trees'!
charge) about the free lands and cheap homes,
apply to .JOAN HI. I1ORLIEY,
Western Canadian Pass, Agent, 0. ds N. w, By.
R. S. HAIR, 0 York St: Toronto, Ont
General Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ills:
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When I say taro Ido not moan merely to stop them
for a time and then: have them return again T mean a
radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPI•
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cure. Send at oncofor atroatdsoand a Free Bottle of
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CANADA PERMANENT
LOAN & SA.VTNGS CO.
INCORPORATED A• D. 1835.
Subsoribed Capital 63;000,000
Fold up Capital 2:200,000
Reserve Fend...,. 1.100,000
Total Aseete ..:. ,. ..: -.x.8,600,000
OFFICE:
Company's Bnildings, Toronto St
Toronto.
The Company has now on hand a large
amount of English money which it is pre-
pared to lend on first-class securities at low
rates of interest. Apply to
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Managing Director,
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