The Exeter Advocate, 1893-5-4, Page 7LAUGH AND LEARN,
Bribish India has 10,417 licensed (Tient
hops.
The eerreepondence of he Pepe is carried
lea in latin.
A Russian is not legally of age until he le
'26 years old.
More women marry between the age of
00 and 25 than ab any other time of lite.
The first English work that mentions
coffee is Burton's " Anittorny of Melan.
°hole."
The average lin of women in France for
the teat 32 years has been 38 years, and of
men 36 yore,
Do nob overload the plate of a guest, or
press upon any one that which they have
once detained.
"The bride's father gave her away, did
he not ?* "More than that. He threw in
4150,000 to boot."
Chicago's mortality densities show that a
surprisingly large number of residents of
the lake city live to be over 90.
The oare of the forests in Germany imp -
ports 200,000 families and involves an
annual expenditure of $40 000 000.
Verdi received more than $30,000 in eash
for "Falstaff," and has eines received 40
per cent of the box-office receipts in royalt
nies. .
A few drops of myrrh in a wineglassful of
"'meter will make the breath delightfully
sweet if used whenever the teeth are
cleansed.
An old Episcopal church in Fairfax
County, Va., for the rebuilding of whioh
George Washington drew the plans in 1773,
is still standing, practically unchanged.
Mrs. Lynn Linton,the novelist, attempted
a three -volume romance when only ten years
old. Her first successtul book was printed
when she was twenty-two.
In China a man cannot by will dispose of
his land in favor of any one person, whether
relative or stranger ; it must be distributed
among all his male children without mune
ettion.
Edith—Oh ! Mrs. Muffles, haven't you
gob a mind? Mrs. Mules—Goodness
„amanita, child! What de you mean ?
Edith --Because ma told pa that if you
weren't) very careful she'd give you a bit of
hers!
The Kaiser is a very expert horseman.
„Notwithstanding the disadvantage of hs
lame and useless hand, he is afraid of no
.horse when once on its back. He is obliged
to rely on assistance in getting into the
addle.
She—There are moments when I wish
that I was a man. He—When, for exam-
ple! She—Whenever I see a jeweller's
adore I cannot help thinkinghow happy I
.could make my wife by buying her a new
ornament.
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland was
duly arrested yesterday by a tipstaff of the
Probate Court, and was taken to Holloway
Jail, to whioh she has been sentenced for
six weeks for contempt of court.
Secretary Gresham having learned that 'a
,charge was pending against the two Ohilian
refugees under the protection of Minister
gan, for violating the municipal law of
'Chili, has ordered their surrender.
A case of smallpox is reported in the city
of Winnipeg, and, the victim is a young girl,
employed as a domestic servant, who did
not belong to, and had no communication
with, the recently arrived party of iminn
anent&
Count Inetinoky, the Austrian Premier,
announoes that the Austrian Government
twill not grant an exequatur to Max Judd,
of Sb. Louis, appointed by President Cleve-
- land Consul -General for the United States!
at Vienna.
The details of the calamity that has be-
fallen the ieland of Zante show that since
the beginning ot April there have been a
total of 100 earthquake shooks, averaging
five each day. It is now known that 150
persons lost their lives in Monday's disaster.
The Pope yesterday gave an audience to
-480 Belgian pilgrims. He referred to the
recent mots, and said that good Catholics
,ahould not allow themselves to be deceived
by evil -disposed workingmen. They ought
to not in harmony with their employers,
nander the guidance of their pastors.
The failure is announcede of th Aus-
tralian Joint Stock Bank, with liabilities
amounting to £13,000,000. The deposits
amount to nearly £11,000,000. The failure
was due to the heavy withdrawal of de.
posits. The bank was incorporated by Act
. of Council in 1853. Ite paid-up capital was
ended as £704,394. •
In "The Medical Magazine" Dr. Blaok-
nnan says than the effect ,of music is trans-
mitted by the reflex action of the nerves
-which govern the blood supply; that it
directly affects tin circulation of the blood,
the blood pressure sometimes rising and
emnetimes felling ; and that the action of
music on animals and man expressos itself
eor the most part by increased frequency of
the beats of the heart. Renee'that music
is needed for the invalid, and becomes an
important factor in restoring the nervous
invalid to health.
Mrs. Potter, who ran for Mayor of Kan -
teas Ciby, Kg., makes affidavit that she spent
es 61,000 in her campaign. She received 26
..{ nrotes. The Keane political sharpers
frenged themselves around Mrs. Potter, who
le a vain and frivolous woman, and made
her believe that her election was almost
• nertain. All that was neoessary, they seed,
was to throw a little mcney in the election.
'eelp to the lase moment these sharp poli -
etiolates clamored aboub, pretending they
were hard at work, predicting victory and
ezaking for a little more money.
A French scientist of distinction Prof.
.d'Arsonval, asserts that persona apparently
anilled by electric shock, stunt as that ern-
:ployed in legal executions, are not really.
dead. Unstrapped from the death chair,
the unfortunate criminal may yet be re-
vived. The thought is a stunning one, that
prisoners executed by electricity are not
<lead until the application of the surgeon's
!knife when the autopsy is performed. M.
d'Arsonval challenges American phytionne
to try the method of resuscitation pre -
:scribed by hitn for persons who have been
eubjected to electric 'lock. This challenge
must be accepted. Until the remit is known
disoustion must be arrested. .
lb is not always tan to be too confidenb
in your assertions, even to at ignorant man,
eoe he tray get the better of you in an
argument This truth was well illustrated
in a story told at a recent conform:ice on
technical ecbulation in villages. One speaker,
referring to the prevalent ignorance about
common things, said then he mice taw a
taboret digging flint in the chalk, and asked
him if he thought) they grew. "No," was
the reply; "1 don't think about it; I
knows they do," "Then place a fillet on
your chin -they -piece, and tiee how much it
grows in a twelvemonth.' "All right, sir,
and do you the name with e tater, and ea)
hotv mueli that grotve."—Yetetkee Btade,'
leteeiclent Eliot, in a recent address to the
atudetite of Harvard, had this to eay of
married life : " An element in a matisfac-
tory career is a family life—the greet source
of herniae happiness. This family life,
mobbing te be looked forward to. Leek
forward in your Physical and rnerel WO to
marriage and children, ene you never Will
prepare for anything better in bleb life, The
°home of a wife is the most Important
Moine you will ever make. Do net melte it
hastily, and do not marry for anything bee
love. The most idiotic thing of all is to
marry for money. * * * Married 11110
improves as it goes on, You may think
your wedding day the happiest of your life,
but it will net be, for your happiness will
increaee until you become a pateiaroh."
The New York Ledger gives the follow
Mg pithy paragraph: "A person who has
no Malan in life is apt to run a vagrant
and useless career. A man who aims at
nothing cannot reasonabty expect to hit
anything. In military operations there is
always what Is called the objeetive point.
The objective point is the point to be
made, the thing to be done. All the
forces of the army are to be concentrated
on the making of thab point, and when
that point is made success fellows. In one
sense life is a warfare ; it is A enociession of
eatinpitignS. And every one should have
this objeotive point—a clearly defined pur-
pose—and work up to it with undeviating
peraistency. This ie the only way he can
succeed.
The New York Work i publishes a long
list of inetenoes where capital punishment
in thab State has deprived innecient men of
their lives. Here is a ease which ahows the
unreliability of oirounuitantial evidence in a
strong tight. A young woman committed
suicide 112 New York last Thuraday by
throwing herself under a train on the Third
avenue elevated railroad. Four witnessee
identified the body after death NI that of
Johanna Tenzer, a young woman living in
Brooklyn. One of the witnesses identified
a wrap of paper that was pieked up On the
spot when the suicide was committed as
being one thab his daughter had given to
Miss Tenzer with his address wribten on it.
Stu% evidence would convince a good many
juries. But Miss Tenzer is alive and well,
and curiously enough she resembles the
dead girl very strongly.
Few men in this world are able to travel
in the coinfore and magnificence in whioh
Dr. W. Seward Webb, son-in-law of the
late W. H. Vanderbilt, and President of
the Wagner Palace Car Company, is making
a two months' tour of the United States.
His party is twelve in number and they
will travel in six cars, one being a store-
house for baggage and provisions; another
a stateroom car to be eocupied by the
guests; a third a private oar to be used ex-
clusively as a play -room for the children a
fourth a private oar for the use of Dr. Webb
and his wife; a fifth car to be used as a
sitting -room, library and music -room, and
the math a car in which the meals will be
served. The itinerary has not been fully
arranged as yen but the first stop will be
made at Chicago, the next at New (Meant',
and from there the party will go to Cali-
fornia. The Yellowstone Park will also be
visited.
It isn't) the pleasantest thing in the world
to live in a house with a sign To Let " on
in It is deoidedly exasperating unless one
has the patience and the disposition of an
angel. Every passerby who Bees the sign
feels at perfect) liberty to ring the bell and
ply the person who answers it with ques-
tions. "How many bed -rooms are there in
the house ?" one person asks, and the next
one who sees the sign stops to inquire:
"Is there a bath -room in the house ?"
Another is curious to know whether there
is hot and cold water through the house,
and someone else is only concerned to
know if the inner is damp. Of
course the people who live in the
house feel in duty bound to be 'civil to all
comers and answer their questions, no
matter if they waken the baby a dozen
times a day and seriously interfere with the
work of the household. There are some
people who come to look at the house you
are about) to vacate whom it is a pleasure
to show over the preinises. They are so
pleasant and agreeable about it, while others
are so disagreeable and snappy and go
poking about at such a ratethat they are
immediately seb down as nuisances, and ten
to one are the very ones to leave it to the
last minute to decide upon the house they
will take. Its all in the air though, and
house hunting comes in with the April
breezes that are strangely like March, and
is all of a piece with housetoleaning and
other disagreeable things. But wait for
sunny Jane to drive all these away and
brine only joyful rest and peace.
waited to Size tip congregation.
"Now," said the professor of magic, "I
am about to undertake a fest in which I
shall require the use of a pint flask of
whiskey."
There was a dead silence.
"Witt some gentleman in the audience
favor me with a pint flask of whiskey ?"
asked the professor, anyancing to the front
et the platform.
There was no response, and things were
becoming embarrassing.
"Surely," he said, "in a Southeastern
Kentucky community I ought not to have
to ask a second time for such a thing. I
pledge you my word I will return it unin-
jured. Is there no--"
"Strangen" spoke up a tall, gaunt, hard ‘ -
feathered man on a front seat, wouldn't a
Quart flask do jeab as well?"
"Why, certainly, I merely---"
But the generous, open-handed audience
had risen as one man and was on the way to
theplatforme—Chicage Tribune.
The Vienna Twist.
Women who cannot) wear the " bun "
chignon are favoring the Vienna twist.
You make it this way: Firen have your
fringe (or bangs) at least from four to six
inches long and curl it tightly. Wetzel you
come it out comb from, not toward your
face, and gather all your hair into one teen
tying securely just above the nape of the
neck. Then tease oub the hair over bile
crown and wave ie with the tongs. Twist
the tail into a smooth rope and loop it up,
twisting the end around the ribbon and
tying the hair above. Curl any'Molt hair
on the nape of the neck and pin the bangs
back into place with invisible hairpins.
Some women add a twist of velvet with up.
right bows'others affect a wide fold of
surah silk, fastened around the coil and
Welled by a paste buckle.
After the Proposal.
Edwin --Will your mother consene, do you
think?
Angelitm—Yes ; 1 can fix that. I'll get
papa to oppose it
can't Reed the Last nage First.
44 I hate atrial etoriee in maemzinee," and
she.
"Why ?" he asked.
" Because,' she replied, " you call never
tell how they are going to turn out till
You've read 'em through."
A woman Donate' that, hor husband acme
not wear his marriage ring on his fing fr,
but carriee it in hie purse. She bitterly re-
proaches him, whentimOrt he calmly re.
Marke : " The ring is time where it ought
to be My dem' since you did not merry me
for myself, but for my money."
A bride recently married in London were
the wedding areas which had been mule for
the Princess May, -
THE RIGHT HAND.
Why reepie Use it instead of the
Left Hand.
A seneetten Inviter Wett Than Answered
Maw" Statements and Theories Mora
or Less Plaitsible—Ineouveneies of
the Left naiad.
HY anybody should
be left-handed iS one
of those matters in
which the question is
easier put than an-
swered, says a writer
in Chumberanfournae.
The reason whet we
--- are right -ha n fi e d
en has been met by
abatements and
eheories inure or less plausible. In the first
place, it has been ahown that the human
body Is not eyrnmetrical. The righb lung is
larger than the left. The liver, during the
inspiration of the lunge, swings to the
right side, so that the centre of gravity of
the body is brought nearly over the right
foot. The weight of the viscera to the
right of the medial line is nearly a pound
and a half heavier than that to the left of it.
All thin while it gives a mechanical advan.
tage to the right arm in working, and to the
right shoulder in raising a weight,
shows us also, passively, burdens
are more easily carried on the
lefb 'Moulder, for in that case
we stoop forward so as to bring the centre
of gravity through the atronger right limb.
Again, it has been pointed out that the left
hemisphere of the brain is larger and better
eupplied with blood -vessels than the right,
and that it is the left hemisphere of the
brain which, working crosswise, controls
the muscles of the right Um and hand.
Then there is the sword-andelield-stery,
which considers the earliest condition of
man to have been militant. To soldiers, the
vital organ, the heart, being on the lett side,
it was thought necessary to cover it with
the shield and wield the sword in the right
hand. True, against these is the wet -nurse
theory, whioh supposes left-handedness to
be favored in youth by the fact of the infant
being carried most frequently on the left
arm, thus giving .more scope to the early
use of the child's lefb hand. Fashion, how-
ever, is always alert, and to this imperial
mistress even our limbs must submit.
Fashion incessantly demands that the right
hand should have the preferenee.
INCONVENIENT TO BE LEIT-HANDED.
So that, with all these weighty reasons
Why we should be right-handed, ib is mar-
vellous why left-handed people should be
found at all. Yet such are by no means
uncommon. The teacher of an elementary
school who watched the proportion for many
years gave it as his experience that, in the
ruraedistriot in which his sohool. was situ -
abed, more than 5 per cent. of the children
were left.handed. In these oases the ten-
dency could be shown to be hereditary ; and
the left hand, even to the size of the thumb
nails, showed itself larger than the right
It was painful to see the attempts made by
the left-handed mile to write and
cipher normally; and, after the right
hand had been forced into service, the re -
Butt was a compromise, the writer generally
developing a handwriting inclined neither to
right nor left In the making of figures,
both the 3 and the 6 were for a time re-
versed, and 8 in some cases formed by draw-
ing the straight line down and curving the
',thin. from , below. In the mechanical
trades, the carpenter's bench, his gimlets,
screws and many of his planes are made to
suit the right hand, so that a left-handed
apprentice is handicapped, and must
either fight) against nature or obtain
tools fitted for the left hand. An elab-
orate print -cutter's gauge for measur-
ing off different sizes of copper re-
quired to be driven into the pattern if
made for a left-handed man is of little
value when exposed for sale. But we do
not need to go far for illustrations of how
inconvenient a world this is for the left-
handed. Purchase a scarf and the left-
handed owner finds the slit through which
the part requires to be pushed to catch the
pin on the wrong side for him. Let him alt
down to dinner and the waiter brings the
dishes from which he selects a, part to the
wrong shoulder. Let him lift a moustache
cup and he perceives his peculiarity has not
been taken into account. Let him attempt
to mow and he fain would reveres the shape
of the scythe. Let him learn drill or danc-
ing or endeavor to work in harmonious com-
bination and his awkwardness as forever
brought home to kip.
DEFTNEsS OF THE LEFT.
And yet, on the other aide, the despised
left hand makes good its claims in many
cams to be the defter of the two. The
fingers that touch and &climb with such
nicety the strings of the violin are surely
as cunning as those that mo m the bow.
The band that guides the reins and steers
with exactness the horse through the
crowded streets Is quite as cunning as, one
might say much more than, the hand that
wields the whip. Bat great is fashion, un-
answerable is theory. It would appear
that as life becomes more and more corn.
plex we are becoming more and more
specialized, end the difference between our
limbs is encouraged, rather them hindered,
by every pair of minors turned off at Shef-
field, by every screw made in Birmingham,
and by every slap administered to the young
offending fingers that would dare to shake
hands incorrectly. It is curious to notice
the vagaries of humanity in cases where no
hard and fast line has been already drawn.
Although moat righnhanded persons put on
their coats left) arm fine, a considerable per-
centage thrusb in the right first. Beldame
fire from the right shoulder, but sportsmen
are found who prefer the left. In working
with the spade, a proportion of right-handed
men grasp the spade with the left and push
with left foot and right hand; though, when
using an axe, the same individuals would
grasp farthest down with the right. The
Persians mount their horses from the right
aide, whichie the different side from that
vnounted by leuropeene.
SOME NATIONAL raneennemns.
The buttons ou cattle etc., are placed in
the right side, and the shed of the hair on
boys to the left, evidently to suit manipula-
tion by the right hand. The greab
pher Newton records that at first he con.
tined his patrol:mullein observations to bit
right eye, but efterwarde he managed to
ttain his left. But. thee are porticos who
could not do thio owing to the anequal
etrongth of their eyes. Strange to Hay, the
Chinese assign the place of honor to the
left. At Kunyenye, in Africa, Cameron
relates being inbroduced to the heir -
presumptive of the throne, the nein of
whose left hand had been allowed to grow
to an enormous length as a sign of high
rank, preying then he was never requirea to
perform manual labor, and also provid-
ing him with the inematt of tearing
the meat whioh ternaecl his usual diet.
The falcon in Europe is tarried on
the left Wrist, but la Asia on the right,
The Latin ranee hold canals to be favorable
'when towards the right; but the Touter&
reeee, including Or own, When towards the
lett, The Saxon ramie, as mestere of the
nr.
gop, land 11101300re in the laying of railways,
have imposed their own rune of the lefb 0140
on the Fon& and other Latin Wen who,
however, still in driving and riding keep to
the rule of the road derived from their
progenitora. The hands of clocks and
watches travel from east to west like the
sun, or as we draw a spiral from theinteeler
outwards; and eve baud aroundour playing -
garde and our hospitable bottle after the
tame fashion, which like fashion we adhere
to in turning a horse, so that the violation
of it, or the turning weaderehine—that is,
against the sun—is considered unlucky. It
ia a envious circumstance how few people
ever clasp hands otherwise than having the
right thumb outwards, or ooil thread save
one WaY•
ALL MEN LOBSIDED.
With regard to symmetricality, nature,
when she has a purpose to serve, IS nowise
loth to deparb from it. Indeed, there is
hardly a symmetrical human face to be
found. The right eye and ear are generally
placed higher, and the left leg 18 frequently
the longer. Quadrupeds and very young
children are more tistmmetrieal, leut the
hernaib crab has the claw protruding from
the ;shell the longer ; the cachalot or sperm
whale has the eye on the one side larger
than the other Parrots rather favor the
right claw; and the African elephant—as
Sir S. Baker assured the writer—works
more with the right; busk called on eels
account by the Arabs "the servant."
Aristotle declares that motion begins from
the right. "Wherefore the burden should
rest on the pare moved, and not on
the part moving, otherwise motion is more
ditlioult." He also looks on the spiral
curves of shell's as suggesting a right-handed
designer. Another anoient philateepher
assures us that our dreams are leas egotisti-
cal and selfish when we are sleeping on our
right side than on our left.
IN ANCIENT TIKES.
Cariosity was naturally highly strung
when discoveries were made of exceed-
ingly ancient engraving's and Beep -
tures fashioned by cave men at an era
farther removed from the earliest Egyp-
tian records than ours is from those.
We have the authority of Sir Daniel
Wilson that the earliest records of the
human race show a preference for the
right hand, although not so completely
as thab shown in modern times In the
scarcely so remote bronze age, the pre-
ference still holds good. One has onlyto
look over Egyptian, Etruscan, Assyrian,
Greek or Roman pictures, engravings or
sculptures, to see that man was righn
handed en he is now, and thee he carried
his burdens then, as now, mainly on the
left shoulder, while his dress and decoration
follow on the same lines as the soldier still
wears his sword or the shepherd his plaid.
At the same time shoes made
wipe:deny for each foot, and gloves de-
signed for each hand, have more of a
modern aspect. The sandals of ancient
times are extremely much alike. Among
the bumble classes in Scotland sixty years
ago shoes for young people not made for
right or left were preferred. It is pleasant
to be able to record that notwithstanding
the sinister ridicule of ancient and modern
language and literature, and the antagonist
pen and ink demonstrations of doctors,
there are and have been many eminent left-
handed individuals both professional and
gymnastic. A list of these has been pre-
served to us through the labors of Sir
Daniel Wilson and Charles Reade, the
novelist
Practising Self-Siterilice.
Rev. Mr. Cymbal at 11.45 a. m.—Ib is
not alone in the great battles of life, dear
friends, that we must gird our loine.
Every day, in the counting -room, the work-
shop, the family end° and on the street, we
musb use that eternal vigilance over our-
selves that shall make us useful and agree-
able to ourselves and others about ns.
What if it be a little sacrifice, dear hearers?
Remember that it is our sacrifices, our self -
denials, our willing losses, and perhaps
petty martyrdoms, that make the beauteous
jewels in that crown we are all anxious to
wear.
Rev. Mr. Cymbal at 2.30 p. m. --Maria,
have you forgotten that I like cranberry
instead of apple sauce with roast pork ?
Doesn't) matter if I did change my mind
lest week; you oughts to remember without
my ever mentioning it what kind of sauce I
like—and the coffee was 80 poor this morn -
Ing I tasted it all through divine service.
Well, I'm sorry if your back troubles you
still, but you married a minister, and they
don't tread easy pathways. You've got
your burdens to bear just the same as I
have, and ib's no use shirking them.
You'll have to tackle one of them now and
copy that address for me that I've got to
deliver before the Christian Endeavor
Guild at South Beatville, and I don't sup-
pose I shall get even my car fare.--Boaton
Gazette.
Not So Ignorant Atter AIL
"You think you know a lob about music,"
sneered Mawson. "Bub I'll bet you don't
know the difference between grand and
condo opera."
"Yes, I do," said Jackson. " Theres
some fun in grand opera."
Different Din& or Poetry,
Aunt Priscilla--Elizebeth, Elizababh !
wasting your nine over Billy poetry again, J.
eee. Besey—Bat, aunt, dear,, that is pas
toral poetry. Aunt Priscilla (softening)—
Ah 1 What is the pastor's name, dear ?
Coneinsive.
Sadie—Does young Giltedge ever imbibe
too freely?
Florris—Perhaps nob, bee I sew him last
night trying to light his eigarette from an
incandescent lamp.
AWL Fort.
Fortress Monroe is said to be the largest
military fortification in the world. The
aggregate cost of building and equipping the
fortress is aaid to have exceeded $3,000,000.
Wilhing
t
Mrs. Nagger—I would just like to see any
one abduct ma
Mr, Nagger—H'm, so would r, my dear.
Wealth and Health.
"You eay he left no money' ?" "No.
You see, he beet his health getting wealthy,
end then lost his wealth trying to get
healthy.
Too Sensible.
Mrs. Matchein—Why didn't you marry
her ? She ia aloha sensible girl.
Hewman—Yes, that's just the trouble.
The sbylish woman abroad on a rainy day
seta to it that the lining of her mackintosh
cape, her umbrella, her gloves, her soft felt
or Alpine hat, her vein and her spatter -
(lathes are all of the eame shade, which
Must be a eonservative one, as dark gray or
gold en brown.
Henry Villard has placed 60,000 marks,
or About $12,000, at the disposal of the Ger
-
matt Government to eneble worthy young
lima to visite the World's Vein Allewanees
avetagleg $450 will be matte to the favored
came, 60 per rant, of whom must be entlearts,
ineelianie tent theoldtiete
IJORD DERBY DEAD.
Death of the Brother or the HoYernor*
General er Canada.
_The deceased nobleman was the Right
atm. Edward, Henry leniency, eldest son
of the fourteenth Awl of Derby. He was
born at Knowsley, July nlat, 1826, and was
educated at Rugby and at Trinity College,
Cambridge. He first entered into punies
as member of Parliamene for Lynn
Aegis and continued to represent it as Lord
Stanley until he ouoceeded to the peerage.
In March, 1852, he wee nominened Under
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in
his fether's firse administration. The death
of Sir W. Molesworth in 1855 having
created a vacancy in the Colonial Office,
Lord Palmereten offered him the seen of
that department, but he declined the
tempting proposal. He became Secretary
of atone for India, with a seat in the
Cabinet, under his father's second admin-
istration in 1858-9, and it was under his
superintence that tbe management of the
Indian empire was transferred from the
East lxidie Company te the British Govern-
ment. He was. appointed Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs in his father's
third ' adminiatration in July, 1866. He
was installed L rd Rector of the Univer-
sity of Glasgow April lab, 1869. The death
of his father on Oct.. 23rd, 1809, trensferred
him to the House of Linde. In Feb., 1874,
when Mr. Disraeli formed his Government,
Lord Derby was again entrusted with the
nen ef the Foreign Office, which
he held. until March 28th, 1878,
when he resigned. In April, 1879,
Lord Derby withdrew from the Lancashire
Then= of Conservative Aeaociation in wa-
ft-mem= of his disapproval of the foreign
ptnicy of the Government and dis datire to
zentete aloof for a time from all party obli-
geetenzet, and in October, 1879,1b became
beaten that be had detached himself defi-
nieney from the Conservative organization.
F. them, sali himself with the Liberals
and W.38 MOM 18 as Secretary of State
Ler the abionies in Mr. Gladstone's Ad-
miniatratien Dte. 16th, 1882, and held that
office untfl Jetty 1885, In 1886, however,
he took the Unionist side in the Irish eines-
don. The Earl. was elected Lord Rector of
the Univeraity of nalinintrgh in November,
1874. He will be succeeded in the title
by Lord Stanley of Preston, the present
Governor-GeneraI of Canada. The late Earl
was married recently, but dies without
sale.
Musical Notes.
According to the pianist Joseffy, Ameri-
cans are too quick. He says: "Hasty
attempt withone sufficient preparation is
the bane of all American effort in the realm
of art." This applies elsewhere.
Another observer of American life says:
"As soon as a student is able to earn a
little money she stops studying and begins
to teach. And this 18 a very bad thing—
bad for art." This also applies elsewhere.
Paderewski is reported as engaged to an
American girl. It is also reported that he
laughingly but positively denies the truth
of the report, saying that " it is ridiculous
that one so wedded to his art should have
time for tender thoughts."
- An English paper is suspected of
poking fun at the rage for titles in music
when referring to a proposed doctor's con-
cert at Cambridge it speaks of "Dr. Max
Brach," "Dr. Saint-Saens," "Dr. Tachaike-
waki," "Dr. Bnito" and "[)r. Grieg."
"What for I be made a, doctor ?" exclaimed
sturdy old Handel.
Madame Alban, once the greatest con-
tralto singer before the public, and now in
her sixty-seventh year, recently took an
active part ia a musical performance on her
birthday, and showed that much of her
wonderful voice and tell her old style re-
main&
The following inanity is said to be in the
libretto of a popular opera now on the
boards in London :
Ducky darling, sweety-meaty,
Eassy-missy me,
•Nicey-pioey. periwinkle,
Lovey-dovey, rosey-posey,
Oh, ker-noocue, do,
Popsy, wopsey, kicsky-vricksy,
Winky-pinkey-poo.
Sash sublime verse must be very helpful
and inspiring to a composer.
The magnificent organ built by Messrs.
Farrand & Votey, of Detroit, for the large
concert hall of the World's Fair has four
manuals, sixty-three speaking stops and
tifty-three meshanical accessories. Ib will
be one of the most complete organs ever
built
glade the Convocation Laugh.
At a recent meeting of the Convocation of
Canterbury the Archbishop of Canterbury,
among others, spoke on the small stipends
of many curates in the Eaglish Chureh. An
enormous ameunt of money, he said, has
been spent on the restoration and building
of churches during the last few yeare, but
nothing hog been done for the inferior
clergy. l'he endowmentsof the church
made due prevision for them up to the
sixteenth century. Then the church was
robbed by Henry VIII. Most of what was
left was estate by Edward VL, and, the
remainder was stolen by Elizabeth. Than
he ceneinded, the church was beaten hy
two kings end s, queen, le way of putting it
that made the convocation laugh.
Th.1 Art of Sell-Defene e.
Quill—Wt icing another book this season,
ol d men ?
Scree-l—No ; I'm in treaning for a 6 -round
go with Booth hi, Ham.
Quill—Why, you fellows aren't pugilists,
are you?
Screed—No; but we've got to do some.
thing to prevent the profesh from crowding
us both from literature and the stage.
Sticker.
"Kate, what's become of the porous plas-
ter I left in that desk?"
"Porous plaster' Why, I thought it was
one of those new posteme stamps, and I put
it on a letter to ma."
An Investigation.
Younghusband—Didn't 1 telegraph you
not to bring your mother with you ?
Young wife --That's what she wants to
see you about She read the despatch.
HoW te Strop it Razor.
The blade should be drawn from heel to
point, starting at the heel and rawing it
diagonally 30 the point and always turning
it on the bank.
An open question--" Will you *Me
hut that door ?"
There should be no difference between
" company manners " tied thee') in daily
use.
Ilarkaway--Just before you Were married
you told me that you loved ma But you
heed not fan that I shall tell your luis-
band, of it MM. Cutting—Indeed, I told
him of ib long ago, bub he anti it was ini.
possible.
Uncle Ned—What are you Ong to give
sister for a birthday present ? Oliver
I'm geitig be ask papti, to get her a foot.
bell, Mid 111 OnoW her lee* to play.
" eloW bid leen /nest Last Witt nee
" Row did you rest last night/"
I've heard my graa'pap.say
Them words a thousand times—thatis right.*
Jos' them words that way !
AS_Mulotohul-like as mornin' dub
'IV ever heave in sight
Olan'pap 'ud allus have to est—
' HoW did you rest last nightb"
Us young 'Mas Used to grin,
AS breakfast. on the sly,
And meek the wobble of his ehla
And eyebrows belt so high
And kind. "How did you rest last night?"
We'd mumble an' let on
Our voices trirobled, and our eight
Was dim and hearin' gene,
*
Bad as I used to be,
AB a-wantin' is
As puore and ea'm asleep for me
And sweet a sleep as lus !
And so 'pray, on JedgementDaY
To wake, and with its light
See his face dawn, and hearhim say—
"How did you rest last night V'
—.Tames inite(mtb Riley.
IT SALVED MS LIFE.
Ingenious Interposition of a Little Word/
by u Speaker In Won't&
A few days ago a party of Texae Con-
gressmen called upon the President to in-
troduce Judge Jacob Hodges who is a can-
didatst for the Attorneyship of the Fastens
District of Texas. " Oh, yes,". said the
Preeident, instantly, "you are the man.
who divided time with the negro who wee
burned."
Judge Hodges was naturally surprised
that the President should have read an
tamely the account of the terrible vengeance
which was wreaked upon the Texas negro,•
but thinking that the President had not
heard the whole story, he said :
"1 thought that I would prevent the
tragedy if I could," said Judge Hodges
" and 80 I rode oyer into the crowd
with the air of a field marshal. I
ascended the platform which wan
already prepared for the negro and looked,
out upon the angry mob. 'Fellow chime,'
I began, 'you are about to commit a crime
that will bring disgrace upon our fair and
growing city. It will return to plague our
children's children and wia redound to the
discredit of our State. It will---'
"Just at that moment someone in the
crowd whipped oub a revolvers pointed it at
me and shouted, Shoot the—
"Instantly it seemed to me as if every
man, woman and child had revolvers
levelled at my unprotected breast. My
wits did not desert me.
" 'But!' I exelahned.
" 'But!" I again shouted, still louder,
"if we are to lay aside the slow processes of
law and resume our sovereignity as indi-
vidual men, let us do so in an orderly and
quiet manner.'
" That simple word 'bub,'" said Judge
Hodges to the President, "saved my life.
--Washington Poet.
A. Lesson in Natural History.
Teacher—What ia the use of a watchdog.
John?
John—To guard the home by night, sire
Teachen—What does he do when ai
stranger approaches the house by night'
John—He barks'sir.
Teacher—Does he also bark when the.
master of the house, your papa, for ex-
ample, comes home?
John—No sir.
Teacher—Why not ?
John ---Because my papa never comes home.
until near morning.
Why Miss Itlarshall Objected.
A gni residing in a Lek% Michigan town
harrecovered $500 damages from a steam-
boat company for naming a boat after her
without asking her permission. An ex-
change says she took offense at a marine
item stating that "Kitie Marshall, having
.been thoroughly scrubbed, painted, refitted
with canopied stern and new boilers, will
hereafter serve ea mei' carrier and poke her
pretty 13080 mb0 the lake business for all
she's worth."—Duluth Eferald.
SOIFilte Saloon Statistics.
Mere is a liquor saloon for every 93 per -
eons in Sall Francisco ; in Albany, one for
every 110 persons ; and. in New Orleans.,
one for every 121. parsons. Now, let some-
body figure up the number of drunkards,
and make the stetietice complete.
If a woman an succeed in making her
husband [mead of her she can get almost
anything she wenn,.
Few belies past, 60 have not had to wear
mourning, ane nun" be said that ninety -
women out of a hundred over that age wear
black only. leishen that is the case, the
double shawl is the most elegant and C0111.
fortable wrap WP en !neck only is worn, it
leaves little limit for choice in fashion'but
there are endlees combinations in blackwith
white tulle and lacer,.
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lirst supplies it needs — if be
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planting
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li'CrryiSieC8 Annual, for 1883;
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