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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-11-24, Page 31,,,AuaK AND LEARN, can't define the word, but can elite Wonstiehossen nagatly eieptshe on the threshold of her nye- ' erelenveutieth yeer. Melted yet the world betore her—naught of past to (Maid or fear, n Anu she looked with happy longing, SS the yeme before her stood4 Richer, brighter. better, broader—heritage of an illuetretien showing' you the clattarest between them. She—What is it?Be- sin living on expectation anti any Mika living on hope. In a liewery meeemn there is a " gram of Lady Pie Eaten," and they depicted on the "oil painting" ouMide eagerly devouring great segments of womee isee Past tee ea.vevine, girlish fancies, east tho without the aid of either knife or fork fact that ought to etne l•he vexed quest it eliquette, how a limy should eat pie, gor aer heart JestA, Muni 'its double—settled now no more to roma aie she dreamed of himpy home -life in to -mon less search for her guest's silk umbre " Yee," and the landlady, after a ft row Mercy day—T theueht it had been stolen and no aloine where she eould sitin ellence, titanut love her life away; Where the joy of loving deeply brings no thought save that of bliss Where the sorrows born of living flee at touch of husband's kiss, 'Whore the strong via ii proteetor, cod the 'weak heartetrong alwey, Whore the eyrikefe snarl le vanquished by the sunburst of love's day. 'Blessed thought of home -life sweeter than over thought beeide eould' where two shall build their heaven, lov- ing ever perfectly. Would the horns -life be kept empty, naught beside o'er enter there?. Are they fearful lest the hearth -wealth scanty prove with three to share? ,Blessod thoughts of baby fingers, patter soft of baby feet, All there's room for child and husband Women's hearts are wide and deep. The Gulf Stream flows at the rote of four • miles an hour, Melly cooks have peppery tempera, but • few are ever committed for assault. I hear Lollypop has given up using tobacco." " Yes ; he smokes cigarettes now," "Did you and it Very expensive at the beach?" "Awfully ! Even the tide was high." Miss Flirt—Who is going to give the bride away ? Miss Pert—I could, but I wonldent be so mean. " Did eine engagement of Hawkins and Miss alleks end in a tie I" "No. It ended an a drew. She drew out." .Tureer Ven Newlesi—I am going to turn over a new leaf. Jack Bintintyr—Better turn down the corner so you Won't lose your . place. "Who won that long distance walking match 7' " Spriggins." " He did ; who was his trainer ?" "His lOnnonthe-old baby." Jack—Priscilla has made George happy. Clitra--Bin so glad to hoar it 1 When are they to he married? Jack—Never. She has refused him. Buggins—There goes a man who never lost a bet. Muggins---You don't say. What is the aeoret of his success? Buggine—He never made one. "Isfoothalt a gambling game ?" Rusher —Well, Dodger lost $25 in gold yesterday. "Why didn't he leave it at home?""He couldn't • it was in his teeth. " I always knew it was unlucky to sit down to dinner with thirteen at the table," remarked Chumpley, as the other twelve filed out and left him to pay the bill. Prunella--Leander Smith is the meanest fellow I ever heard of. Priscilla—I.Why do you think so'? Prunella—He saved my life, and then didn't ask me to marry him 1 Judge—Didn't you tell this lady that if she dirt net hand you over her purse she would have to die? Prisoner—What harm was that? Haven't we all to die some time "We doctors have the ativentagepf you clergymen ; we practice while you only preach." "Very true • we can only tell people to go to heaven, you send them there." "What makes old Chief Son•of•a•gun so happy to•uight ?" "He robbed a travel- ling opera troupe last night and scooped it trunk full of wigs. He thinks they're scalpa." "Hello, -Shanks' I ' Did yer hear dat Jimmy Julesee' dad is dead.?" " No. Did he leave Jamey anything ?"'"I dunno ; but I guess he didn't leave him nuthin' but a orphan." Millet—Did you notice there are certain tones in Miss Thrum's voice that deeply move people? Mallett—Yes, indeed, pretty nearly everyone in the room loft as soon as • she began teasing. Mother—Didn't 'I •beer a kiln as Mr. Hitiet was leaving last night? Mabel— Well, if you heard it you mush have pretty gond ears; we thought .we wore doing it as quietly as possible. Mother--DkIn't I hear a kiss as Mr. Mihai was leaving last night? Mabel— Well,-if you beard it you must have pretty good ears ; we thought we were doing it as quietly as possible. The following advertisement appeared recently in a French paper: " Wanted, a distinguiehed and healthy -looking man to be cured patient' in a doctor's waiting room. Address'," etc. "I thought you mid your boy's nurse was a colored girl, Mr. Hicks," said the visitor. " I saw her to -day, and she's white." "Oh, well, she looks white," said Mrs. Hicks, " but in reality she is veny green." "No, Mr. Titn,berwheol," said Miss Elder, kindly InWfirmly, "I cannot marry you, but I'll, be a—" "Thanks, Miss :Elden" interrupted the rejected one, spite- fully; "but I have two grandmothers. Gunter—Hunter intimated that he was a 'noted oolleetor. Has he any unique collec- tion at his house:? Bunter—Yes, his collie - tiers a autographs of private secretaries of ,oelebritiee le the largest in the world." The Empress of Russia's court drew, -which is valued at £3,000, has • only been ,worn on one occasion, viz..: at the corona- tion of the present Emperor. It is covered with magnificent embroidery in real silver. Husband (itrite,bly.)-00,n't you remember where I said I left my glasses at breakfast this morning'? 'Wife—I'm marry, dear; I really can't. Husband (peevistay)--That -just shows the forgetfulness of you women. Stranger—Why. do you Mai in this lake ? There are nm o fish it. Fisherman—I know "there are no fish here. That's the very 'reason I do enemy fishing here. It dement worry me in the least when I don't get a -bite. Another engine fitted with liquid fuel has been rousing on -the Great Easter Railway, England—one of it class of ten similar et - sprees engbies--ancl as compared` with the totlaer sante engines doing the same round of duty, is reporeed as doing efficient service. Bumpus—No weman will ever have me under her thumb. MeSruith—By Jove 1 Here comes your wife. Butrivis—Oh, heavens I Where can I hide? MOSinith— In there, quick 1 Bumpus—Has she gone ? IvIeSinith—Yes. Butripds—Well, whit did 'I tell you ? One of, the names given to the infant daughter of the German Emperor is the homely English pas of ' Jenny," aud thus the baby prisms will be known in the family circle, Victoria, Louise Leopoldine Ousel°, being kept for company and state • occasions. Who shall say now that grand - non William clews not like his mother's 'imily and its Euglieh aseeeiatione. Site—Is there any real difference betwee +hope and expectation ? He—Oh, yes, n nun eetisUed that it woe." "You may satisfied," replied the guest dryly, " Pra blest if I am." A church member in a western to recently attempted to have his pastor *tilled for using the slang plums° " not in it." But he was crushed wheo elergyman produced the manuscript of sermon and reaa this sentence from it: a word, my Christian hearers, the Ark t a miniature world; there Was no forl lite that was not in it." " There are no bones broken," seld surgeon after a brief exuaninetion of inanimate form that lay on the cot In drug snore, where it had been placed willing hands immediately after the r away accident,' but her phoulder is di acted, It will have to be pulled in place i main strength. That is all there s to With st eudden expression of pain the yo woman from Bostoo opened her eyes. think 'that is all there itt of it' is the mot expression," she said, and /abated a again, "it's quite a heavy shower w having," he said, cheerily, to the man had entered with his clothes soaked and umbrella crippled. "Yes, sir," replied stranger, testily, " it is a heavy show hut; you have failed to remark also interesting facts that the shower is fall downward front above, that it's a shower, and that ibis raining on both s of the street. Also you have neglected observe that this is the year 1892, that earth is round, and that there are seasons each year. But I'm obliged to for your information about the weath And the stranger walked away, wit glitter of vindictive triumph in his eye. The new treatment for pulmo disease, that of freezing out the cense tive bacillus, has very grave dise,dvante Living in bare rooms, almost fireless in severest weather, may prevent the gro of tubercle, but it would probably en der as fine a case of rheumatism as gee record. The theory that cold is death, heat is life, is one that physiciene a eating this "freezing treatment," will still works both ways. If one must d and that seems to be the fate of most pe —it would be preferable to pass hence o tenably, rather than to endure t physical tortures associated with pectin privation while trying to live. Howe the world is as full of fads and theorie the sea is of SA, and perhaps frer chi death is as rood a catch as any. There its one very interesting arti,a- the last "Popular Science Monthly" Allen Pringle on "Reasoning Animals, which some astonishing incidents are gi which lead him to the following oonolusir "The conclusion I have reached is t The horse, the cow, the dog, the honey and other animals have a certain dome reason and intelligence, as well as anti and also have, some of them, strong s and domestic feelings, and are there entitled to greater consideration and Iris treatment at the hand of man than sometimes get. I have also come to conclusion, viewing the multitude of takes and follies of the higher animal, ma that his 'superior reason and more exa faculties are not on the whole turned t good account as the inferior reason faculties of the so-called brute beasts. A drop of oil and a feather may make difference between misery and compar comfort. Where have I heard the deli fat story of the feather that cured nervous family? How the door ere and creaked, and the delicate wife shiv and was miserable, and the tired, worked husband fidgeted, and then grow anti then snarled, and finally swore, the children whined and fretted and reled ; and all the while no one knew was the matter. One day the husband, by a self -defined impulse, took a fe and a drop of oil and oiled the hinge the door. When the wife saw him she thought," How kind and es:timid is William," and her nerves no lo rasped by the odious creaking, abs gre him with a smile that made hint like oiling doors all day; whereutto smiled too, and said something plea and was anowered cheerfully, and children tried that too, and straign found the day pleasanter than they thought, and resolved to go out and together. And the next thing, this k family was going to a concert toge all well and cheerful, and just like body else. "Probably nothing in the world," ci thoughtful conductor on the Grand Tr is more fascinating than a railroad Me motion. People who work in shops the tracks in towne and villages neve to drop their tools and run to the doo gaze out the windows whenever a passe train whizzes by. There may be e. doze them every day in the year, but that do matter. Every time the bell clangs ceases and the windows are filled faces. It is the same in the country. being whirled along at the rate of 30 mil hour'the traveller often sees alienee lo near the tracks. Somebody is always at log in the door or looking out the win to see the trainnitt pass. The same f may live there for years, and the traveller may pass and repass daily; h always notice that everybody, about place ceases work or play, as the may be, to watch the train. farmer plowing in the field fails to stop his horses and around so that he may gaze after whizzing oars, although they go by monotonous regularity day after da month after month, and even the meal in quest of beach-nute stops when way over the fence to wave his hat passengers. Some philosophical mat tioian who has nothing else to de mig out a few interesting statistics conce the time spent and money lost in gazi the iron horse." All the weeping willows of Ameri said to spring from a slip sent from En by Alexander Pope. This is not Ina as the willow takes root in champ toil remarkable ease. Cawker (entering etere)—Let me h bottle of arnica, please. Dealer—Thi a dreg store. Cawker—I know that yeti have a sign in your wiralOw which "Bicycle& supplies" Little girl—Papa is makin' a awful sniffiu' around Wm house,and oxen the drain pipes mict everything. Ma Mercy ? I insist have left my ot teed ancorcked. Run, get in They have got things down very 6 England. At the foot of every hi driver of a cortaih Yerkehire on shouts, '; First chutes passengers keep ou on -1. is me as le, '°"' it la beonly nih wo la- in see io rem of .1, the by an - ea- by me mg .' / or „ rig sne tgo his the er ; the ing nee nes to the 'our, you ent a a ,ary alp. ges. the , win i sem 1 3 on and tee> and e— tette om- Lose ,sam ver, 4 as ; to in hy ' in ran, I Ile : us: bee a of lot, cial fora tarn hey the nis- lan, Med ' a° and the live glib. the .ked sred vet' 'led, -hula " met led. dm. us of ee it trate tiger eted feel 11 be lat", the mon' had play 'bole 441r ' tid a nein in In long I' fini 's or ngst s of esnt nigh nine ea u.s' atm, emu low, may mum , will the ease The sever turn the with ' alio i bo5 half t the 4, „ • _ " g" ruins ug at ta are resold, s-l.ittle with tve a I isn't , but says, fuss a atan, I"—, :ar cn m in lithe nibue mem seats 1 Second class paesengrre get out and svalli ! Third OiSse passengers get out and push !" , asegletrate—I seep to know your face T Peisoner—Yee. ; we were boys together. Magistrate—Nonsense 1 Pritioner--Yus we WM. We're both about the same age, se we meat have been boys together.Nation .. It • t m going e put a policeman's chorus in • this Opera/' said tint composer, ;' if I can only get. a good characteristic effece" you have to do is to put plenty of rests i4 ov:. aohootth74;_y:roall.kopinagesatbhosi:riatiulaanc::: in Ian the worst of all is the man who slaps you on the back and says, ii Who will we elect this time, old boy ?' Mr. Backbay (of 1?.ote too) —Horrible I horrible I He ehoold see ‘, villein." - Mr. et el gttgonawAnt so your tether is a st•oollmoker in Boston? Is he a ball or a ' . .. bear? Boston child—Sir ! Mr. Gotham -- Does he deal for a rise or a fall in prices? B siten child—Oh ! Well somensnes he's ' en optimist and eornetirnee a neeentt.r. Customer—Yon told me my dates shirt would be done to -day. laundryman I know it sir. But the trouble is with my ' ' ' chief assistant. Customer—What's the matter—is he ill? Laundryman—Ob, no; he is just your 'size, and he had to go to • ' - a full-drees hop last night. . •place • Chairman (campaign committee) —Yes, we neva some good writers for our literary bureau. Have you had any experience at . campaign literature? Applicant—No, sin I am a writee of summer hotel advertise- merits. Chairman—Glorious I Take that desk there of the gentlemen who alongside g. w used to figuremp newspaper circulations, .The wife of the young Methodist minister was taking up her carpets and otherwise making preparations for moving, W " - - e've only been here for a year," she said, "and Wesley and I bad so hoped he would be sent back to this charge for another year, I try to be resigned to '• the Lord's will. but I tell you, Sister Wayland, if ever I get a chance to talk to •that Bishop I'll make his ears tingle—now you mark my word 1" ' • , The bicycle has been broken and tamed for domestic purposes. The old bicycle of a few years ago was as tricky as a broneho, but the modern wheel is as traotable as a lamb. The old-time bicycle, which would ren away with Its rider and then throw him off and kick him in the neck, is now eupeaseded . by one which , is ridden by a baby. It is no strange sight to see a proud father bowling along with his heir swung in frontof him, and chirping contentedly from itreplace behind the handle -bar, . The power of ashes to absorb heat is not appreciated or so many housekeepers would 1. nes so uniformally allow, their servants to empty the ashes. A stove that is kept , free front ashes and soot not only burns better, but gives out•more heat for the amount of fire. A mass of &ghee under a grate absorbs a large amount of heat, and for this reason, if not for the sake of neatness, the ashes should be removed systematically every day. A bright stove sends out far more heat than a dull one. So it is not only a matter of appearance, but a matter of use • lo keep the kitchen stove shining and polished as well as free from ashes, • ONCE UPON A TIME. Little maid Pleasant smile; Dude so neat, Dressed in style. Dude he bows, Maid she smiles. Married now, , 'Fight in three styles, Jayamith (worsted in a disoussion)—I won't argue with a fool. Cameo (cheerfully) --I will. Now that point you disputed last. I— But Javsneth had escaped. P.runella—Did you toll him I was out, Maria? Her 'Maid—Yes, ma'am. Pru- cella—Did he seem to ,believe you? Her Maid—Not until I said that you told me to tell him so. . Hotel D to I h there will Summer, . oc. t— hope. be no mistake in administering these meth- cities. Servant—Have no fear, doctor. I professional andmadam• ma am a nurse is a p fessional invalid. It's no use for e, man to try. and enjoy looking at the priceless treasures of an art gallery when he has a big hole in the toe of his tight stocking and can feel it while he is walking around. . , "I• think it's pretty rough," sighed Tommy, "that the best first baseman on the nine has to be kept in school. and •miss the game just because I said that the North Pole was in the North Sea." "There, dear," said Mrs. McBride, when the curtain went down, as she handed him a couple of doves, "There, dear, you won't need to go out between the acts to -night. Wasn't your little wifey thoughtful ?" • Mr. Hopeful (feeling his way)—I ton the -'Total only one your sister' goes to operas 'and theaters with. am I not? Her Little 13rother—Yep. Mr. Nicefellow is away, and you're the only one he isn't jealous of. ' Nervous Jenkins—I haven't felt well for months, and the worst of it is that the doctors don't seem to know what is the matter. 'Cheerful Stiggins—Never mind, old man; the autopsy will reveal every- thing, • h sold Alexandre Dumas, the novelist, as his house in Paris to a member of the Chamberf Deputies for 450 000 francs, or ,l fit of 330 000 francs e making a pro , . . will reside in a fine place in the Jolene of Mealy' • • The doctor had just made a professional Visit to her husband, and she overtook the "- wish You physician as he was leaving. T would cure his cold, doctor; but don't stir up his appetite until merketin' gets cheaper." . First Temperance Advocate—Old man Staggers is worse than ever to reason with now. Second Temperance Advocate—Yes, he says ibis of no use to sign the pledge now that a specific for the drink habit has been discovered. Strong Minded. Woman (to a relative, called )M hb dba „ who has on her — v • ' II° "I - now got a position in the orchestra. • He el e first fiddle,Relative—Nob t home e'''''' -''s a " does he 1 "You bet he doesn't play first " 'd1 t home." " That's / n nt ,) nu e a, whatt oug . The Rev. Dr. Rainy, head of the Free Church, recently Made an address in Edin- ourgh ' on the subject of "Betting and Theatre Going," in whith he asserted that "there are three things which still etiolc to the theatre—they are oeange peel, esavdtuit end vice." Upson Downee—Why do you avoid me Von don't owe me any money. ()pitons— No, Upton Downen—And X don't owe you C . X Upton I) 4. anything. mucus— o. , own —Then why do you avoid me t Crams— 4- So that ., , , .„t oo Deaner of Us Wiii ever On erten other anything. Edwaed Atkiheon writes from England and &inland that there is xio difficulty in preventing the escape of smoke from fac• tory chimneys whore the municipal authori• ties insist upon it. The coal smoke question neve be considered a burning issue, and Mr, eatiese. emete 41se wzreLwr tr. i. 11441.nt, 44.4.4, i.; • theme. What can be done in Europe can be deco here. Mother (to her oldonaid daughter).—Why ., jam weat do you mean by usine the felatIlY B IIIe in that way ? You are aerate)), Mg °ape . eras in the family record and in. starting enema. Julia—It le a morn of my birth, isn't it? "Yee it is," "Well, I en) lowering the record." The residente of Hamburg refused to s et fish duriug the cholera scare, and the fiete pitti:thrz4anaerdbe4neoa tmuodef, firotiAtIoullk(rii se: it; t,:ti, eteiho. eatITt: ei bet:1;y: nypfi oueoulellinientridgb ietttt,oeti eitisrteEetahliclual rii.t s • i ,us t ' give their I' ,'' - ° Hamburg. Whenevr r a ieSt, loi., S an egg, se set en is she in selfetioniatatiou as to feel that the whole lIt111/0h.1 mum he sumnaoeed to teas note of the ueeneurtu.3 event. Joshua one- , , niandine liiik, 0 I, it V.I.', .11,1 Still in thil heaves tal he bed got terough with his lti.t le looal light was modest); iti;elf to the hi 44',4 44.•Ivete consciousness ' More skill and dexterity are neptired in ' • carving roast fowl than in ordinary jeinte. begin by inserting the knife between the leg ani the body, so as to out through thejoint; then Imre the leg back with the fork, and if the bird its young the joint will give way Deily. The wing should next be removed . . „ , . In a similar zunmen After these four quar- ter s have been removed., enter the knife into the top of the breast, and out under the merry -thought so as to loosen it, lifting it with the fork, then out long, thin slices from both sides of the 'breast. Next turn the fowl back upward, put the knife into the bone midway between the nook d the sal e d ' '1 d n Ill an on raising the ower on x w rump, • separate readily. The breast and• wings are considered the most delicate part of the fowl. , ' There is one young'• gentleman in London who is determined that marriage shall not be a failure with him at least. He took the young lady he was engaged to to the Lyric Theatre on Monday evening and . installed her in a box. In tile next box was another sroung fellow; handsome and dashing, with whom the young lady established a lively, though surreptitious flirtation. Young fellow No. 1 protested in vain, whereupon he left the box, reappeared at that of the masher, and told him that the young lady in the next box wished to make his accrainin anon Young fellow No. 2 Was delighted and accompanied young fellow No. 1 to the presence of the fickle tam one, and young fellowNo. 1 intreduoedthernmayingquietly: "This gentleman will see you home." He then. left the theatre and the young lady has never seen nor heard of him since. All parties are well known in good society, and consequently the affair is much gossiped about. JOHN BOLL AND ROYALTY ' j - - . '01 t , --e---- Soifio Princes and Princesses the British i Has to Support. r e A. Fenitly or Dorn Ruiers--Eire and Dis t riltiantLI et csrna IT.; th:e y. 8 4) alareett i unit eoer:11 srt ehoe: At osr4ro my:so:fur :8 ec ariecdote of the Late Lord Tennyson. t LONDON, NoVelilber. n 1..; else, mt OTT. you know the ll n British tempeyer is i si quite Loyal enotigh to a feel.plearre.4 when Her a. I - Majesty Queen Vic- t •., c torie feels pleased? ° and by way of °Wig - 7 ,, hag the Queen, who 4 • , a' '',010 has been the boast of a e e _en. -1 / !) the country for 55 T i''Illi years,daihme vonciteey8 oangaonodd 1 I ateass I 4--- off to benefit Her e '' lif Majesty's very flamer- 1 one relatives and friends many of them u 1 . 6 foreigners. Whatever changes may take e under another reign, Royal incomes a are eafe enough at their preemie quotation t during the lifetime of Victoria I. The ` Sovereign' d daughtersall Sovereign's sons an are a pro- aided for, and so are Her Majesty's cousins of Cambridge the Duke and his two n ' t th G, el Duchessf II kl b - am erg— e ran o cc en urg- , ' ' . ' Strelitz and the Duchess Mary of Twasken- t ham. The three last named were fortunate n in securing an income from the national - s exchequer long before the Hue was drawn 1 &gams e grandchildren. 1 t the Monarch's The Cambridge's, George, Augusta and ] Mary, were put on the life allowance list 3 because King George III. was their grand- 1 father. Augusta married well and went , away to spend her English allowance of i $15,000 a; year in Germany. George rose by , leaps and bounds in the British army till he became its Commanderan-Ghlef and re -i oeived corresponding pay, Mary remained ( the One most in need of an annuity, having i elected for love in a cottage with a Prince 1 who had nothing_ to do. A. bargain being 4 a bargain, John, Bull has- never made, any 4 bones over the stipulated royal pensions, , and displays the same philosophic spirit in 1 forwarding fortunes to the wises of Teuton . Princes residing abroad as in providing home 1 Princesses with a sufficiency for husbands , and children. JOHN. KICKED AT THE srunTrronterous , • ,3 CHILDREN. 1 1 The only time this universal provider 4 ever when the attempt was made 1 kicked was to bind him everlastingly to' a covenant 1 with the Sovereign's grandchildren. It was quite assumed for granted by royalties and an obsequious entourage that sons and daughters of the Qneens eons were quite 1 safe for life pensions. However, the ten- ! deney of the present age tends more to new i laws than old ones, and a " break " *ensued I between past and future provisions for the 1 first family. Under the old regime the tax- I would have been called upon to make I payer • • • - life-long provision for the children of three s Royal Dukes—Edinburgh, C 1 t d I annaug i an Albany—as well as the Wales branch. The 7 new dispensation supplies the Prince of 4 Wales with an extra $180,000 per annum, 7 for his family, and leaves his brothers to ! bring up and bring out their sons and I daughters on whatever means they may 1 already possess. Queen Victoria's retire- I meat from public representation has largely I helped this state of things, it being argued by the bulk of her subjects that Her Majes- • ty's savings must be so considerable that she : can handsomely provide for any grandehin ' dh rein needing such help. MRS. VICTORIA_ FORKS OCT. Whatever the Queen's reserve funds may be—perhaps not so many trillions of dollars as imagined—is is evident that the chief pull on them has not been made bysons, but by. those daughters who haverearried poorly and been thankful to fall back on dear mamma for assistance. The Duke of Edin- . burgh having fallen in love: where Money was, following a wise old . saw, is happily above the ne- washy of appealing for further, allowances as his family grows up • though, had the old 'rule remained in force the country would doubtless have been called upon for $15,000 a year towards his daughter's, - Princess Marie's, maintenance as Crown Princess of Roumania. The comfortable circumstances of the Connaughts preclude all apprehension that their children will run short of money; andas for the Duchess of Albany's orphan boy and girl. it must be hoped thet their august grandmother will remember them .in her will to the same advantage as her other descendants. Other - wine little Duke Leopold, who is a true - born British Prince, may have scant means to back his name, style and dignities, and be little better off than the semi -royal prineelets, sons of foreign fathers, who seem likely to found a colony in the British empire. WALES LOSES HIS AMBITIONS. The British court has arrived at a pitch of stagnation the like of which has .never before been known. The question stands thus. The Queen has reached a consider- able age, nothing extraordinary, but still, Her sons and daughters e considerable. ar all married. The heir -apparent has waited g for the expected reversion of the so lon- throne that they say he has now abandoned • - ''' • • the idea of ever wielding the. sceptre or donning that crown which nob a few fear he will find rather uncomfortable to wear. He has seen everything worth seeing end knows everybody worth knowing; he seems to have no mission to effect, no purpose to carry. out. Politics he must not meddle with, nor, if he might, has he any aptitude for such a game. He has exhausted the material resources of life and doesn't care a rap for amusement of any k issa. The "exigencies of his position" Prevent him from acting sensibly and compel him to keep up a show of '' state " whether he will or not. He is at the beck and call of all manner of people, most of them having axes of their own to grind and all of them hoping to get something out of their shots der. rubbings with the Princes , AN ACCOMMODATnem FAMITaY OP RULERS. , , , The matmer in which Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, who is to marry the Princess Marie of Edinburgh next January, cense to be heir -presumptive to the throne of Rotimenia is eminently characteristic of ; the family to which he belongs, and in which there is a nicht supply of princess . . . . ... . of various religious dhs—RonsenMatlioncs Orthodox ancfProtestant—hept " in stook" for emergencies. They have always been able in this fatalism to provide e ruler for ; any nacelle throne. The King and Queen Ro ma 'o, re childless, hen the - o u en a ce e sue cession fell to King Charles' brother, Prince ___ , , Leopold of Hohenzollern ; he, however, some years ago renounced hie regime in • favor of his brother, Princes Ferdinand, who is now the heir to the Ron - minden throne, which, rumor has it, be soy very. possibly occupy oven. before the death Of King Charles, who has been credited with a desire to elidicete. His . ' MCCOM17111 s Rheumatic Revenant. , Do you suffer with rheumatic pains in body or limbs? If you have used everything available without relief, ask your druggist for this valuable internal remedy neatly put up hi dollar bottles by Vin A. aleCollom, Tilsonburg. Sold by Wholesale Druggists, of Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Leaden and Winnipeg. Drayage or Cartage Mate& At the meeting of the General Freigh ; Officers' Association of Canada, held in Montreal last week, the question of dray- age or cartage at points where that service is performed by the railways was considered, &eft it was decided that on and after No - vernber 14th, the charge for that service would be separated from the freight tariff rates charged. to and from tne points affected. Under the new regulations a charge for cartage or drayage will be as fon lows: On classes, L IL. ILI. and IV., the drayage charge will'be 1-e. per 100 lbs., and on class V. le. per 100 lbs. at each place where cartage is performed. This is practically carrying out the transportation - service for collection delivery a aimile.r manner to that in force in the Tanked States and Great Britain and gives mann- fecturers the benefit they are entitled to for the money they have expended on private • • sidings where such exist, and in addition will probably distribute to a great extent the cartage business, which is now so - largely controlled by the three important cartage agencies of the country—the Do- minion, liendrie's and Shedden. Emaciated Peonie Grow Fat. — Do you sometimes feel as though your vital energy was sinking, and you needed some 'powerful agency, to recuperate it? Do you sometimes long for stimulants to brace you up'? That is the time to take "Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil," be- cause it contains life giving principles through its power tonreate flesh aad blood. By Miring it according to directions emaci- abed and eafeebled people have been known to actually grow fat at the rate of from five to ten pounds per bottle consumed. In big bottles, 50o. and $1, at all Drug Stores. . Abstinence. The Catholic School and Home Magazi9ia published an earnest appeal to mothers to guard their homes against the danger of in - temperance. The following are some of its forcible sentiments : "Mothers of Christ tee homes, be apostles of temperance. You can sum:nest where the printed word and the eloquent address will fail. Preach in your homes ; preach total abstinence by word and example; and in your family prayers b I t d its sweet influence, into beg maven o son . the hearts of your loved ones. When your boys are pledged at their first' communion, watch over their pledge very carefully, th • dawningb l K especiallyin their man oot• Keep them out of clubs which are frequently the places where their pledge is most endangered. 'Watch them, pray for them, advise them, and you will be themothere of good men who will be your pride.' Corns Corns • Tender corns, painful corns, soft corns, bleeding corns removed in a few days by the only sure, safe and painless corn cura— re Putnam's Corn Extractor. Try it At draggista. • • Facts About Scarlet Fever. From the study of statistice and the fade derived from actual experiments with scam . .. e, let fever in his mate, Dr. C. N. Hewitt, Secietery of the State Board of Health of Minnesota, gives the following brief of truths that should be known about this disease: That ecarlatina is mast fatal in ' young children under 5 years of age (65 per cent.) ; that 33 per dent. of all deaths ea- our in school -going children; that it has hot proved fatal, in the last five years in Minnesota, to persons over 30 years of age that it is most fatal In the spring, but mom ? Miley begins to rise in the late fall, and iti. creases till May; that the mortality , . test in our larger 1° the foe' - a cities, and least in scattered population t Winos tat ort conclusions that these w a . i prt d. . baited on other Ovidenee, that the Mew is it largely b •contact d • spree. y ,personalan in- footed clothing, chiefly by the last. - - Winne suffering from toothache use Gibbons.' Toothache gum. Sold by all drugglete. • ' ., ,. _ There have been many' cases recorded. of infirttill1R who have never had any teeth, ueen, the romentie "Carmen, Sylvap the oat and playwright, enjeye feeble 1184404‘ nd by no means hankers after the delight* I royal receptions. She would infinitely refer the solitude of her picturesque Quentin home at Siuia. EIJAL COUSINS AND DIDN'T KNOW Ma An ingenious pedigree hunter has just iscovered that Princess Louise, daughter f the Prince ef Wanes, and her husbands he Delo of Fife, are cousins, not of the list degree, certainly, but near enough to onstitute a relationship upon more solid rounds than 110141e people sesame when hey, want to class kindred with those Lu a ore exalted position than themselves. It worked out in thle wipe; The mother of the Dake of Fife was Lady gluts Hay, whose mother again was Lady lizabeth Fitz -Clarence, the issue of Win am IV's, well-known Ziai8on with Dora dors Ian, the aotrese, whose eldest son was reated lied of Munster, and whose brother ally FiM-Clarence, was a well-known man bout town. Whop ibis remembered that the Duke of eist and the Duke of Clarence, William V., were brother, the cousinship can be asily traced. Through the workings of the oyal Marriage Act the offspring of Dora °mien has to bear the tele -telling prefix of 'Fits" which likewise precedes the mane f the children of the larike of Cambridge y the late Mrs. Fairbrother—the "Fitz- eorgea." ME LORD WRO CHEATED AT CARDS. A question which is raising a considerable mount of speculation in court circlee is hether the post of .Lords -in -Waiting on he Queen shall be permanent. Hitherto uoh has been the case, but With the &d- ance of the times and the march of intel- ot ibis thought that a little variety would. to permissable. There are two permanent ords-in-Waiting, viz., Lord de Roe and ord Churohill. Apropos of the former here was a great scandal in the first year f Queen Victoria's reign in connection with he father of the present holder of the title, us'bioh still renders the name notorious. Lord de Roe, the twenty-second of his ame, was,in fact, convicted of cheating at ' rds having brought down this charge ponhitriself by a foolish action for defame - ion he entered against a gentleman named amming, who had moused His Lordship f using marked cards at play. Among the witnesses who came forward to prove this ad accusation was that mighty whistplayer, Lord Henry Bentiek, Lord de Roe losing, ot only the day, but his good name. There as a good story told at the time of a oung member of the Travellers' Club, here the incident occurred. The yougster d noticed Lord tie Roe perform that pretty but dangerous trick known as neuter le upe, and on asking an older member what e ought to do, received as a reply, "Bet pon him." , THEODORE HOOK'S GRIM JOKE. It was of Lord de Ros—whose name, by he way, is pronounced " Room "—that heodore Hook once suggested the follow-, g pithy epitaph, as an allusion to his ondness of candy, "Here lies Henry, worthy -second Baron de Roe, in joyful peotation of the last trump !" It was his Lord de Ros' brother, whose widow Lied only the other day, the last survivor of hat historic ball given at Brussels, by the uke of Richmond on the eve of the battle f Waterloo, and referred to by Byron. ady de Ros was the Duke's daughter. he present Lord de Res is the twenty - earth bearer of the title, one which has • armed through some singular vicissitudes in ts transmission from the thirteenth con - Lord Churchill, the other lord -in -waiting, who, ibis said, will shortly retire from his oat, is not to be confounded in any way with his namesake, Lord Randolph. Both, ibis true, belong to the same stook, the first Lord Churehill having been a second son of he fourth Duke of Marlborough. . Curious to say, the Duke of Marlborough f the present day is also a Baron Churchill, but the family name of the Lord of Blen- heim is Spencer Churchill. It is purely by the act of descent that Lord Churchill la a. "Prince of the holy Roman Empire," an honor shared by some dozen or so other members of the English aristocracy. FROM SCULLERY TO CORONET. Lady Ida Waldegrave—the name in cor- rect society, by the way, is pronounced as if only of two syllables—who hoe just died, was & daughter of the sixth earl—the present holder of the title is the ninth—and a sister, therefore, of the well-known Lord Waldegrave'whose brilliant wife made Strawberry Hill, near London, famous even after the memory of Horace Walpole. Tc many of the past generation she was, how- ever, far more interesting as the daughter of John Braham, the singer, the predeces- sor of Sims Reeves in rendering the " Bay of Biscay" and many another song of that "brandy and water" school to which Thackeray referred all such ballads. There was a story about that Braham's name was originally Abraham, and that, for obvious reasons, he knocked off the "A," bat whatever his origin, his voice was the sweetest of his time, and clad in the mar- vellous theatrical costumes of a period that racked not of accuracy in such details, he • was the hero of many an opera that, in these days of Wagner and Ilaecagni, the present generation is far too ant to pooh- pooh. THE POET•LAUREATE PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT. Anecdotes of Tennyson are still rife. Here in another to add to the innumerable ones already related. A very dear friend of the late poet's, the Rev. Dr. Fowler, is the narrator. It was, he says, in the latter part of 1862—the year after the death of the Prince Consort. I was conversing with Mrs. Tennyson on the sudden death of a much -valued common friend and the lone- liness of his widow, when Tennyison, who had been stalking up and down the end of the bow -windowed drawing -room with his taunt long stride, suddenly broke in with: "I saw another widow three days ago." "Indeed," I replied, and who was that ?"' "The Queen," he replied in his deepest tones. She sent for me to Osborne." "I said that I supposed. Her Majesty wished to thank him for his noble tribute to the memory of the Prince Consort, and, with perhaps pardonable curiosity, went on to ask what the Queen had said to him," "I can't remember,", he said. "I lost my head. I only remember what I said to the Queen—big fool that I was." "What was that ?" Why what an excellent king Prince Albert would have made. As soon as it was out of my mouth I felt What a blunder I had made. Bat happily it proved to be the Very right thing to have Said, The Queen replied that that had been the constant sorrow of her life—that she was called on to govern while he who was so worthy of the first place was obliged to take a remade*, potation. Tennyson had little more to say of his reception, except that, notwithetending the perfect oalmness and self-restraint of the Queen, and the sweet eonaideration she manifested for hint, the interview was a peculiarly trying °tie, and he was glad when it was over. But however trying at the time, the occasion woe . one on which he dwelt afterwards with honest pride as one of thereat rewards cif his lifp.