The Brussels Post, 1889-7-26, Page 6CA.11ADA' B TIKENTY TWO TEARS'
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tOur Giant nomittion llinihing to Nation-
ality, and Peaceful Teem or Progress
1110 Milestones owl the 311ablY 111hh
way 00 1(0 Pro6peritY.
Aorose the border sneers at slow going
Canada have given place to anger with the
yonota giant which is sucoeesfully oompeting
with the great Republic) for the carrying
trade of two continent% Pitying contempt
for a few straggling culoniee has been rephio.
ed by jealouey of a 118,1011 wbioh is hard after
their own in the race of progresr. In the
United Staten the progress and resources of
this young Dominion are appraised ot their
full value, and even In Europe the name and
fame of Canada are known,
But the number of those who are without
faith in their own country is rapidly grow.
ing less. The succeeding enniversartes of
Osaitsda'a birthday, eaob marking a mile•
stone in national progress, are gradually
bringing oonviation even to them, that Canada
ie truly a great nation, Let ue on thie
coming anniversary calmly review the pro.
gross of the past, dwell for a moment on the
ponibilities of the future, and see if there is
not abundant e eason for faith in our Doraim
ion.
TORONTO'S hIAROH TO GREATNISS.
Toronto was merely an overgrown village
in 1868. In Diet and following years Eileen
wandered at large in the vacant field a and
fell an easy prey to titmice of tagleas canines,
rhe none too plethoric civic treasury being
drawn upon in 1868 for $226,50 to make
good loasee to sustained. But Toronto
is now far removed from the stage of
development attained on the day when a
new nation was born. Mile after mile of
hennaed streets have taken the place of
nand roadways. Factories and warehouses
have sprung up ae if by magic in the vacant
fields. Thickly planted houses have sup-
planted the orchard and the corn patch and
the hom of industry le heard now where
twenty years ago the atilinees was broken
only by the singing of birds and the lowing
of cattle. A population of 50,000 has in-
creased to 180,000; an assessment of some-
tbing over 320,000,C00 has grown to 61.15,-
ODOM°, and a total income from all sources
(loans and current revenue included) of
$800 000 to a casual revenue from sources
other than taxation of half a million and
one of a million and three quarters from tax
ation ttaelf.
There are a few other facts whioh can be
given in condensed form, and all of whieb
go to show that it is not by steps but by
leaps and bounds that Toronto's =ward
progress is measured. In 1868 the total
erne expenditure on sewers and roadways
was only $30,000. In 1887 the expenditure
under ibis head was nearly $1,000,000.
Die street mileage today is 235 miles, or
double that of eight years ago. In the first
year of Confederation our total civic expend
itnre was considerably less than 31,000,000.
This year the expenditure on capital and
=rent account will aggregate over six and
a half million dollars, or equivalent to one-
balf the receipts of the Dominion Govern -
meat from consolidated revenue in the first
year of the latter's existence. The city
posseeses to -day over tan million dollars
worth of real estate, a figure which repre.
gents about one-half the aeseseed value of
MI the property in the city twenty yeare
ago, and more than a tenth of the gross debt
of the Dominion in the Snit year of Coded -
oration. The imports into the oity last
year were nearly a third that of the whole
Dominion in its first year and treble what
they were in 1660.
erliE SCHOOLS or THE 9901mg,
BM our chief pride air °Wens is in cur
magnificent publics school system. There
is nothing better oalouated to develop
tbis high ideal than a well awaked ayetem
of national education a system which en.
sures to every child aeleast a reasonably long
course at sabools maintained at the public
expense, and where it isnot only fitted for
the ordinary business of life, but la likewise
prepared for the higher duties of citizen-
ahip by obtaining a fair knowledge of our
state= of government, the reeponaibility
its resting upon each individal ei Veen, and
where pride in and love for the country of
birth are developed by stories of past
acbievements and future possibilities. In
no country in the world is there a better
representation of this system than in Can-
ada. And in no province of confederation
does this system attain so high a develop.
ment as in our own. In the Queen City,
this Public school aystem moat nearly ap-
proaches perfection. Large, imposing, well.
ventilated and excellently Equipped build -
Inge are conveniently located, and at whioh
the children ot poor and rich are equally
free to attend without money and without
price.. In no way can the progress of the
first city of the first province of our glorious
Dominion be so clearly and strikingly set
forth as by a few figures }Mowing the pro•
press of her schools since the first year atter
Confederation was socomplished. The nine
schools and 41 teachers cf 1868 have in -
greased to 4Q of the learner and 300 of the
latter,
EDUCATION IN THE PROVINCE.
While tt 6 province as a 'whole deem not
show the Herne rapid advancememt in educe.
tional facilities aa this city, mill that pro.
green 10 of a Mold] satisfactory nature. .A.1.
though the number of Public schools in
Ontario has only inereaged by about a third
in twenty years the number of teachers em.
ployed has almost doubled, and the toilette°
of those teachers and the total eipenditure
in connection with the !wheels have a good
deal more than doubled, thus indicating the
'lawmen Efficiency of schools already in
existence. It mtutb be to every citizen of
tido province a source of unqualified pride
to know that four and a half million dollen'
was expended on High, reline and Separate
echoolo loot year. There is just one came
for dioeouragement in conneotion with this
allowing, and that Is, that notwithstanding
all the advantages offered for popular edu.
cation over 20 per cent. of the children of
Ontario, between the ages of seven and
thirteen, attended aohool for Iola than 010
days 111 1887.
The following figures, showing the pro -
gees of the High, Publio and Separate
Eohools of this province since 1868, will
prove interesting :-
81711L/0 8011001.2.
Salary Total ex
Year.
1818-4,818 100,070 4,700 91,000,000
1672-4,400 178,117 6,222 01,829,000
1877-4,066 204,086 6,184 81,807,000
1862-6,000 100,602 0,407 82,000,1300
1867-0482 246,02 7,604 92,468,000
11101I SODOM:Ss
1008- 101 2,542 101 $ 06,000
1872- 184 9,090 280 9191,000
0E71- 104 0,287 280 8211,000
7E62- 104 0,728 802 $260,000
1957- 112 10,227 308 027,600
SUPARATH SCHOOLS.
1808- 102 0,806 HO 088,840
3672-.. 171 10,084 264 01044
977- 186 12,640 154 $70,208
1662- 102 18,674 000 081,000
1967- 220 451 *1-
81,682,800
90,188,470
82,863,070
82 088,000
88,792,009
TEE BRUSSELS POST,
00
cell FARMERS ARE PROSPEROUS
Bat Oat ario's progress is nob wined oloue
by the advancement of ite educational in.
terests, Material oomforte mud financial gain
hove kept pace with growing popular in.
telligenoo.
Tho prorparity et Toronto le but an evi-
dence of that whlob exists thoughout tho
'neaten% The log farm Lore hums given
place to the brick residence, the haek.break.
Ing cradle to the self -binder, and improved
implements of every dosoription have light.
enad the labour of the husbandman. In the
Mat Eve yeare the value of farm implements
hoe been added to by $12,000,000. live stook
by $94,000,000, and buildings by 02,000,000,
DOT TRE GREATEST OF ALL IS CANADA.
When we conle to deal with the Dominion
as a whole we find time the showing is no
lose eatisfactory. In DM the value of geode
imported for consumption only amounted to
$72000,000. Lad year tbe total was 5102,-
000,000, Our exports have increased during
thesame period from 857,000,000 to $90,000,•
000. In ten years the value of ex porta under
the bead egr.caltural products Pave 10
ed by a fourth ; the value of animals and
their products exported shows an increase
from 514,000,000 to 824,000,000; the value
of cattle c sported has increased from less than
one million to nearly eeven millions ; and the
export of charas has been trebled, our exports
in the last line being now valued at $9,000,•
000. The volue of imparts and exports does
not after all give a very olear idea of a
nation's prosperity or otherwi000 they are
regulated in a great degree by the extent to
which a country ie self contained or other.
wise. The unfailing barometer which marks
with unerring accuracy the prosperity or
adversity of a nation is the national revenuo,
facilittee afforded for tit ffic, the development
of its postafiee service and the records of
monetary institutions. Taking this as the
basis of calculation no country can make a
better showing than can this Canada of
ours.
The national revenue hae increased from
$13,000,000 in 1868, to 520,000,000 in 1872,
$22,000,000 in 1877, to 03,000,010 in 1882,
and $35,000,000 in 1888.
During the same period the railway mile-
age has inoreased aa follows :-In 1868 Can
ada had 2258 miles of railway, in 1875 4,828
miles, in 1880 6,S91, and in 185S 12,000
milee.
In the last thirteen years the train mileage
'has increased from seventeen to thirtyarix
million miles; the number of passengers
carried from five to ten millions ; the ton.
nage of freight from five to seventeen mil
lions, and the • earnings from nineteen to
forty million dollar%
The following table will Rive at a glance
the 11E12181180 development of banking enter -
pries :-
Notes in
Olreula.
Year: Capital: tion. Depoeits: Arsets:
356$ :SO 000,000 '
6 000,000 .9 02,000,000 77,000 000
1572 40'000,000 21000,000 04,000,000 101,000,000
15,77 68,000,C00 18,000,000 71,(00,000 )74,000,000
4002 60,000,000 82,000,000 115,000,000 220,000,000
1087 60,000,000 50,000,000 114,010 GOO 110,000,011
The deposits in Postscffice ;and Govern.
ment Savings banks show the following re-
markable seriea of increase :
YEAR.
1868
1872
1877
1882
1887
The next table shows the vast increase in
Fire and Life Insurance business :
FIRE. LIFE.
PREMIUMS. ASSURANCES
RECEIVED, EFFECTED.
DEPOSIT.
$ 1,687,000.
5,000,000,
7,000,000.
21, 000,000.
40,000,000,
YEAH.
1868 31,785 000 312,000,000
1872 2 62S,000 21,000,000
1877 5,764,000 13,000,000
1882 4,229,000 20,000,000
188Q, ,,,,,,, 4,932,000 a$,000,000
But perhaps the 121086 remarkable progrese TQ LAIMEE ALL EIS DAN.
of all is indioated in the following shut
table, showing the increase in the number A Strange Affliction 'Which Mas Merl)
of post. (laces and letters carried by mail :- Prostrated a Georgia Hann a,100.
LETTERS AND Joseph °Roar Johnson was gent to Roff
CARDS POSTED. Home a few days ago, and his case ie proba-
18,000,000 bly one of the meet remarkable that eve
48 000,000 went to that or any other hospital. He is a
90,000,800 paralytic, and one aide is entirely useless.
96,000,000 The stroke name on him some two months
ago. He is a locomotive engineer, and was
able to make a good living. He had seen a
good deal of the world, and. generally saw
the bright side of it. It wag In the town of
Clinton, S. C. , that the stroke came on him.
Ho was on run that carried him into that
town. He was one day doing aomo woxk on Iiia
engine, and. talking to come one standing
near. At the moment be received the blow
he was in the act of langhing, and, amp
to say, the muooleo and nerves of the facie
tbat are brought most into play in the aot
of laughing are the ones that are most effect-
ed, and over these he bee no control what-
ever. He feels, of course, that there is little
left for bim to live for, being utterly help-
less, and it is necessarily a sad thought to
him. But be can not think of it nor tell
of his trcubles:and the doubts and fears that
torment bim without laughing.
He hen a wife and five ohildren, and when
this sffilation oame upon him he went to his
father.linlaw, wbo lives in Wilmington, N.
C., and. told bim of his condition and of his
inability to entre furtber for bis family, and
telling him at the same time that for himself
he did nob wish to be a burden upon anyone,
but would go oomewbere and seek seclusion
and calmly await the closing sf what was
henceforth to be a uselees life. The recital
of his parting with his wife was most path's-
tio and heartrending, yet with tears in his
eyes and a heart full of agony he was forced
to laugh as though be had been telling the
moat ludicrous Inoident.
He has wandered from one county to
another, and has frequently gone for sever-
al days without a morsel to ea% Recently
he spent a night in the woods in v. violent
rainatorm, His crippled leg refund to nerve
him longer, and he was compelled, without
shelter, to take the violence of the atom.
Hie thin clothing was wet to the akin, he
suffered the panne of hunger, and the recital
of it all made him /Madder all over, yet ho
laughed all the while be was telling it. Ib
Was a most pitiful sight, Ho says he dere
nob go to church loot he be moused of mak-
ing ;Tort of the servicing and be requested to
leave the Aural% And as for a funeral it
would be out of the question for him to
attend one.
Hie cools a moat pitiable one, andis the
more so because he is only awaiting the
only relief possible for him and ono that he
would hail with pleasure and almost prop
for,
11EN, BUTLER BLRYEL READ,
1l Tells Colby lrniversity Literary Societ lea
Something About Cunneen.
WATEAVILLB, 'Me, July 3, -Gen, Ben
jewel F. Butler delivered an address before
she literary aooleties of Colby Univereity
Met evening on " The Aonexatiiiii of CaP.
11ely: Tht130 aro some el the thinga he
8
We hear men, some of whom bold posi•
tions which etateemen should 811, speak of
the annexation of Gonads to this country
with the same levity L18 0110 111 the ordinary
walks of life plight speak of the joining of a
tail to a dog -a little dillicalt to do, bub of
itself a very email matttr, But haw ehould
this be spoken of if the tall might happen
to be larger then the dog 1 In my belief,
this frivolous talk, belittling alike to the
Canadian and insulting .to the might and
power of Creat Britain, ts one of the Wel
obataelea to what every patriot in the
United Statee, and every Engliehman in
lamada, if not in the Empire, meat, if the
question la fully understood, greatly desire
-the union of these two great English.
speakiag peoples on this continent, which
must happen if democracy la nob to be a
failure, so that tble continent shall be the
home and exemplar oi English freedom and
of tho Eoglioh language, as modified and
improved by American genius and Amorioan
enterprise.
CANADAS ImmENSE AREA.
The first great tact to ne taaen into con-
aideration when we epeak.so lightly of the
annexation of Celled% Is her immense area,
whioh include's 40 per cent. of all the posses.
sions of Great Britain, wherever situated on
the globe. There is room,„for three British
Indian possesaions within the Dominion of
Canada, and enough territory left over out
of which the area of Great Britain might be
five times taken. Modern empires are
pigmies to it, for there Is room in Canada to
carve met nine Garman Empiree. The
Dominion of Canada boldo within its bound.
Ivies an area of 3,470,392 Equate mile%
while the United States (nob including Al-
aska, of which the limits are unknown) haa
an area of 2,970,000 square miles, or rising
500,000 ultimo miles less than Canada,
Canada and her surrounding waters contain
quite one-half of all the fresh water of the
globe. Please bear thio great fact in mind,
for I repeat it is a foundation of the re-
souroes to make one of the greatest nations
on f arth,
ERR CLIMATE.
The general idea, when thinking of Can-
ada, ie that her high latitudes must be
redone of Arctic mild. The immenee body of
water known as Hudson's Bay, 1,000 ranee
long and 600 miles wide, thrust down into
the centre of Canada, and which in ordinary
comprehentrion being connected with the
waters of the Arctic toean, is deemed to be
wholly frczen over for a great part of tho
year, averages three or four degrees higber
temperature than the water on the south.
western shores of Lake Superior. And we
must remember that on the soutinweatern
shores of Lake Superior lie Michigan, Wis-
consin and Minnesota of our North-weet,
Do we claim any State more flonriehiog, any
land more fruitful, or any part of the United
States which has made greeter programs than
the great North-west, to whioh the star of
Empire takes its way.
Canada has quite one quarter more land
fitted for wheat cultivation than has the
whole United States. It may be safely
said, that, leaving out the wormont wheat
lands of the United States, Canada has twice
the extent of unworn. out lands, which pro.
duce an average of more than twice the num-
ber of bushels to the acre than aro produced
by the average lands of the United States,
and on some lands wheat has been raised in
the largest producing quantities for twenty
years in succession without a fertilizer.
NO, OP
YEAR. 0072002
1868 3638
1877 5 161
1887 7,634
1888 7,671
POPULATION AND TERRITORIAL EXTENT.
Our population and territorial extent
show the same wonderful Expansion au do
our trade and commerce.
Commencing with a scattered and disunit-
ed population ot 1,000,000, we have grad.
ually moved np to 3,600,000 in 1871, to
4,300,0(0 in 1881, and to -day we have not
leas than five and a half million people joined
in commerce by bands of ateel, their hearts
beating response to one patriotism and ani.
mated -by a common feeling of pride in the
flag which ahalters them.
Bob while our increase in numbers nee bean
eatiefactory, nothing oan appeal more strong.
ly to the imagination or arouse more pat•
Hotta fervour than a contemplation of ao
increase in area from 416,080 iquare miles
in 1868 to 3,470,000 ignore ranee in 1889.
Ourjpopulation may seemamall in compari.
8011 with that of tho United States, but it
equals or excels either the ancient kingdom
of Egypt, that thriving hive of industry;
delguim, the maritime union cf Sweden
and Norway, or the plucky little guardian
of the Danube, Roumania.
Our national revenues equal those of
Pottugal or Norway and Sweden, are one-
seventh In excess cf these of 1.1EXi000 and
treble those of Spritz riand,
Our railway mileage la as great as that
of Austria or India, double that of Spain,
treble that of Brazil and long enough to
form five separate lines woes the broad
Atlantic.
But great as is the progresa of the past
it is but a promise of that Which 111 to coma.
We hove a territorial extent forty times
greater than that of the German empire,
and excelled by only one nation under the
sun. Our resources in sea, forest and. Boil
are inexhaustible. Every province but one
is rioh in almost every known mineral.
We have copper, gold and iron enough to
supply the world, and In the North,weat
alone there is a Emalbearing strata double
the entire arm of Portugal.
Rich in reSourcee, illimitable in extent
and with boandlese faith in her own future,
Canada is the peer of any nation under the
canopy of the broad heaven%
Bringing Rim to the Ma7k.
"And you do really love me, Charlie?"
"Love you, Jennie 7 With all my heart
and soul,"
" Well I'm glad to hear you sety so, but-"
"But what? Surely you oannet have any
doubt of the sincerity of my effootion
'Nob mutably, Still-"
"$till what ?"
"Well, I thought if you hedIovedmo yen
would hove a -that is to say -I think -T
thought you know, you Lould have kissed
At Grippaland, in Australia, they have
earthworms nix feet long. They live in
burrows on the sloplug aidee of °reeks, and
are sometimes turned out of the grattnd by
8107 000
9200000the plough. They have a ouriems smell,
81348,02011100 arose* and fowie refuse to tench
01%000 them ; but old natives of the diatriat say
0400,000
Me hefote this -that ie-" that oil made from them in good for them.
„ammo, knowing you madam. There are two other varieties of
$a 00:000504°5 " Upon my soul, , W0111 a Boaton girl I didn't dare to,
er
but here enormous earthworms known, oho Inhabit.
$120,200 goes 01049, you bot-" Ing South Africa and the othSouthern
allinif228001 Lot the ourtain Call, India and Coylen, bub the Anstralion kind
o
le the largest,
AS YOU LIKE IT,
A FANTASY.
What is a girl's life, pray 7
A little garden epee
Within who're every opriog
She seee her beauteous face
Whore she is solo poisoner
Of oll she hears and seea,
From the fluting M birds in summer
To the honey of the beee ;
Rosy wreaths and atringa of pearl
All belong to the happy girl,
And what le a bora life, pray
A quiet, shady nook
Where by has notbing to do but play
Nor over read a book ;
A kingdom of conteatment,
Which every hour disclosea
Some new delight of sense and sight,
Fresh growth of sweeter rosee ;
A rich Inheritance of joy
That orowna with light the happy boy,
We might be more than happy
And lead such perfect lives,
If all of us wore children
And none were huabands, wivea
But boys grow and girls grow,
Together or sport
Till some day each discover
The other has a heart,
Tide halves their joys and doubles their
emcee,
And ends in wrinkles and grey hairs;
In the feet that rock the °radio,
In the hands that toil for bread,
The trouble about the living,
The sorrow above the dead,
What oan we do, then 0 Nothing more
Than those who begot and bore us ;
They make our lives before ole
As theirs were mad o before.
We must be up and dotng,
Maidens flying and men pursuing
Then hey 1 for billing and 000ing,
And ho 1 for wooing and winning.
The world will never mend ;
Love was before the beginning;
And will be after the end,
The man who registers at a hotel at night
oan be said to be on the "retired list."
'-0818 McLean, a Scotehman, is Command.
er-in•chief of the army of the Sultan of
Morocco 12117,
When any calamity has been euffered, the
firat thing to be remembered ie holt much
has been escaped.
Ib ie laid that Gen. Boulanger has grown'
tired of London and contemplates making( a
short trip to America.
" That's a saw spot with me," remarked
the tramp aa he surveyed the farmer's wood-
pile.
Stout women should avoid belts, horizontal
rowe of trimming and ornamentation at the
t,p of eleeves.liatnna I h., erA* ge:=
Man proposee, God disposes, woman dis-
composes, the divorce.court interpoees,
and the press exposes.
The Municipality of Morden, Man., have
paid the boys for 4,660 gopher tails at the
rate of 20 cents a dozen.
An old man named John McCartney, of
Hamilton,. was killed on a Grand Trunk rail-
way orosenig ab Toronto on Saturday.
Advice should be like a gentle fall of snow,
and not like a driving storm of hail. It
ehould descend eddy, and nob be uttered
hastily.
Infanta' dresses made of white China silk
are ooming in favor. They wash quite Moe.
ly, bat the material ie more suitable for short
dresses then the first long robes.
The number of suicides in the United
Statee last year, as closely as can be figured,
was 7,000 and the majority of therm were
farmers and formere' wives.
Ten and threcoquarter miles is the range
the French have obtained for the 43 -ton gun
35 feet long, with an 800 -weight projectile
and 425 pounds of powder.
Mrs. Pilgrin-Now, these boys air settee's.
The Census Taker -No :' you mean brothers.
Mrs, Pilgrin-No, sir ; 1 mean jea what I
say ; they are my sister's. She lives next
door in the red house.
The new uniform of the Ruesian Imperial
Horn Gourds inoludes a spotlese
coat, top boots reaobing above the knees,
and a helmet of what looks like pure gold,
surmounted by en enormous eagle of silver.
An elephant killed recently in India and
secured by the Central Museum, of Madras,
when mounted se a skeleton measured 10
feet 6 inches in height, This is said to be
the largest elephant ever aeen in India.
The Britiah Impeder of Army Remount
has completed a list of 14,C00 horses, for
each of whioh the War Office pays the sum
of 10a. annually to have the right of using
the animals instantly in:ame of an emer-
gency,
D. Augustus Vanderveer, who owns a
large vineyard at Manalapon, J., has put
paper bags over ten thousand bunches of
growing grapes as a protection against in.
sect%
The Austrian troops are being armed with
the Manliober rifle. At target pramice re-
cently this weapon sent a bullet two and a
half miles, fatally injuring a soldier who
chanced to pass the line of fire.
The " Metalled," mansion of Lord Bute,
near Rotbeasy, lo Laid to bave cost not leas
than $8,000,000, and ie believed to be the
largest and costlleat private palace in ode.
Mace.
About 30,000 people a day go up tho
Eiffel tower. Of these between 3,000 and
4,000, go to the op. On an average a per-
son has to wait about an hour to go op in
the lift
A Southern newspaper offers to give a
city lob to every new subscriOer. A rival
paper makes the same offer and agrees to
throw in a city hall or a street railroad.
-
The military.pigeon aerobia has become
a part of the military aystam of amend every
country in Europe, Franco, Germany,
Austria, Rustia, Italy, Spain and Portugal
have adopted it.
An American has set up a.eohool in Pane
and advertises that he "will teach any
Frenchman to speak the only eensible
language in the world in six weeks and at a
oast of only $25.1
Farragut, in 1806, said that the armor
eventually would come off the side of war 0. P. R. people say their trains 'will run
vetaele, pub the time ham not come yet. into Windsor over their OW/2 track by the
Several of the new war vesaela now bandits 'middle of October.
In Europe are to carry 30 inches of 00041
arneot.
the foolish expenditures now oommon in
funeralel Aa matters ore at present, only the
well -to do o, it afford to die,
M. Bert reoontly 'rowed the tip of a rat's
tail into its back, and lt, the tail, Immo&
a, ely toolc root in ita new partition. Then bo
out the loop thus formed by the tail and the
rat had two talla, Ho has found, however,
that as a rule, the new tell has no °enaction
M. Sopluerd, tho groat French anthro.
pologiet, has been sod by the shape of the
leg Mame of the "noon of Spy" bo the oon.
offision time therm remote unoentors of the
human roue lied their leaver extremities half
bent, Hite those anthropoid apes that inhabit
trees.
Gov, Green, of Trenton, N, J., The Times
relator, tolls a good story at his own ex-
pense. A few days ago, while he woo
waiting for a train at the Elizabeth !Milieu,
he'enaeged the service of a juvenile boot.
black, Am the youth plied hiu brushes the
Governor grew sealable, and pleasantly
inquired :-" Bew'e businscs, Johnnie,'
" Name ain't Johnnie," leconioally answered
the lad ; "Name's, Tommy," Slightly taken
back by Tommy's indisposition to Mr Eooiable
the Governor said nothing for a while, bnt
finally, deciding to impress the young.
eter to a alight extent, he remarked : ' Well
Tommy, I guess you don't know who 1901,
do you 7" " Yoe, knowed you long ago,"
Bald Tommy. " Well, who am 1 " Ver
Bob Greener father."
"DOT WAS PIBNEOB,"
Hew to Sell left.Over firercents at ,More
Than One Hundred Per tail, Profit.
" Herman " said a Chicago ;:marchtint
clothier, addressing hie clerk, "hat yon sole
all of docs overgoats vat vas 1810 011011 from
last tinter 0"
"No, air ; dere vas dree of dem left yet"
" Volt, ve must sell 'em right away, Pring
me mit one uf de goats, und I NU show you
eurteding spout pioneer. I vill dell you
how ve vill Bell dem and, und you mat
learn de plotless,. Herman. De vinter hair
goes, you know, und ve haf had dose goats
in de store more 08 seox yeare."
An eight dollar overcoat wan handed bim
by his olerk, and smoothing to out he look a
bualeakin moneyapurse from the showcase,
and stuffing it full of paper dropped it, into
cue of the pookete.
Herman, my poy," he continued,
" vatsh me belt dat goat. I hat sold over
dirty -He uf dem shut de oame vay. und I
vont to deeoh you de pieness. Ven de
penal guotomer comes in do shop I vill
aho de vay Rube Hoffenotein, mine broder
in Detroit, Belle his Median und udder
dings."
"A few minutes later a negro, in quest of
a anitable pair of shoe% entered a store slow.
ly. The proprietor advanced, smiling, and
inquired : "Vat is it you wish 0"
' Yer gob any cheap shoes hyar 7" asked
the negro,
"Blendy uf dere, my trent, blendy-at
any price yon vent,"
The negro stated that he wanted a pair
of brogans, and aeon hie pedal extremities
were enoased in them at a barreain. As he
was about to leave the proprietor called him
book.
"1 ain't gwine to buy mai else. I'ee
got all I want," said the negro sullenly.
"Dob may be eo, my dear air," replied the
proprietor, "but I ahust vents you to look
at dis goat. 11 vas the pure Russian wool
and din dime last year you doan got de
eame goat for 3212. Mine gracious, cloding
vas gone down to nodding, und dere W88 no
money in de pianess any longer. De con•
gumption vita going round, und 80 doctors
dell me it vita de vedder, Moro den nine
beeblea died round where I lif last week
Dink of dot 1 Mine frient, dot goat vas
R11881012 vool, dick und heafy. Vy, Minder
Jones, who owns de pank on Conal
etreet, took dot goat home mid him yeeter-
Ulay and vore it all day ; but levee a leetle
tight /toren de shoulder, und he prodght
it pack limb a vile ago. Dry it on, my
dear air. Mr, Jones vee a rich man, und he
liked dot goat. How deep de bookeb vat
but it vas a leetle digbt across de shoal.
dem."
The negro buttoned np the coat thrust
his hande into the pockets and felt the purse.
A peaceful smile played over his face when
hie torah disolosed to his mind the content°
of one of the pockets. But he ohoked down
hie joy, and. inquired:
" Who did you say wore this hyar
coat 7"
"Vy, Mister Jones Yob owns the bank on
Canal streed."
" What yer gwine ter ax fur it 7"
"10 vas marked dirty dollars, and vas
sheep at dot but you can buy him for
twenty dollars todlay,"
" Dat's pow'ful high price fur die goat,
but I'll take it"
" Herman, here wrap up die goat fur de
shentleman und drew in a cravat; it will
make him look nice mit the ladies."
" Nebter mind, 011 keep de coat on,"
replied the negro ; and pulling out a roll of
money he paid for it and left the store.
While he wap around the next corner
mourning over the stuffed puree llaffenstein
said to his oleark :
"Herman, 6x up &madder von of dole
goats de same way, wad dean forget to dell
dat Mieder Jonce, vot runs de park on Canal
%treed, 11000 10 yesterday,- iSt, Paul Hu-
mid.
TRLEGRAPHIOB BRIM.
Mho Masonic: Grand Lodge will meet in
Kingston next yeat.
Oil has been e lammed almoat in the omit
er of Vancouver City, B. C.
Prof, Loudon and a companion will ex-
plore Lake Mistaesini in Northern Quebec.
St. Boldface, Man., people have been aa•
tonlahed by a great "cave in " of earth.
The by-law for an extra grant to the
Guelph Jailed= Railway has been defeated.
A humors' and =ebonies' institute has
been formed at Corbetton, Melanethon town-
ship.
(*semi Stanford, of Teetervillo, white un-
illoatioding bay, fell to the ground and broke hia
k.
La Justine implores French Canadians
to study current evade and bo be teady to
11610.
vir.
Anderson, the Atlantic mail don.
traotor, trays the new fleet will be ready in
two yeara,
713. Buffalo paper says that if the city
had the money stolen from It by boodlere
during the host twenty,five yore that the
sum would pave every street in the city and
keep them in repair for ten years,
An eel suklided in Forsyth County, Ga,,
the other. day, It hooked itself, and, fulling
to effeot Ito reloano, deliberately tied itself
Amend the rope in a hard knot, thereby
ohokiag keen to death,
Tho Louieville Oeurier,Journal hoped tbat'
the introcluotion of papet ceafina may rodoee
0
Capital Punitihnlent,
Weaoher, describing expo/d0nee/1 of the
day to a friend :
"In order to purtieh Johnny Hone= I
maimed him to Zit beside Mies Email, the
prottleeo girl in the sahool."
Friend-" And bow did lb Work 1"
Illeacher-"judge for youraelf. The girl
did not Lamm a whit dieconoorted, and
smiled so sweetly upon 30111114 that ho loot
hie heed completely,"
Ericied,a" Why, that watt oapital tainiah-
Ment,".
JULY 26, 18139,
WEATHER PROVERBS,
'551000 the nine surds Ten vt 1,110 1800111219
os ti on the W*og,
That kiras have long been gnidee to antlers
and ogrioulturista every ono who knows
anything aboutpoprlar weather prognostics
le well aware. Not only have the flight and
femoral notion of birds been noted by all
ci vilrzed nations, but among bat baroua tribee
to this and other lauds the migratory habits
of the feathered tribes have cbeeounted the
prognostics of government signal bureau%
Wind, rain and other atmospheric, (Mango
are predicted by those who uarrtwly watch
the migration of birde, and oilers in partio.
ule,r, who aro oloso oboervoro of the hes,
vane eleven the atmosphere around them
and the water beneath them base there
prognoutioil on all the peculiar phone of
land, water and sky and the °lemma of life
which people them.
Among the birds which serve to guide the
/tailors to look out for Equalla, the miler ex.
peota wind when the oormorants fly land.
ward. 11 the guile soar to lofty heights,
and, circling around, utter shrill cries, a
Moral is approaching. If the parrots whistle
on ahipboard lb will rain. If they drain
their feathers and are wakeful it will storm
the next day. It the petrels gather under
the stern of a ship bad weather will follow,
The stormy petrel surely betokens stormy
weather, and no sooner do they gather in
numbers under wake c f a ship than gallon
prepare to meet an impending tempest.
Hunters are Mose observers of tho habita
of circle, and many prognostics aro learned
from the vocabulary of an experienced bun.
ter, who will stay indoore in the morning
when an amateur hunter will bo tempted
out by the olear sky, to come beak in the
rain, or who will find thee a moderate tem.
perature in the morning is no mire precursor
of a warm day. Among the prognostice the
hunter draws from birds a few will suffice
If birds in the autumn grow tame,
The winter will be too cold far game.
Bata flying late In evening indicate fair
weather, bub if they epeak fly ing it will rain
on the following day. A solitary buzzard
at a groat altitude indicates rain, bur if buz-
z trds fly high together ib will be fair weath.
er. It chickens crow before sundown it will
ram next day. If they go out in the ram 16
will rain all day, If they run to shelter 11
will nob ram long. If rhey oome off the
meat at night ram will soon follow. The
Zuni Indian huntere say when chimney
swallows circle and call they epeak of rain,
and Indians predict a deep fall elf 800W
Wbell grouse drum at night. Hunters and
fishermen have e saying that "there will be
no rein the day tee crane flies down the
oreek," One crow flying alone is a sign of
foul weather, but if orowo fly in palm the
weather will be fine. If crows make =oh
noise and Sy in a oirole, rain is expected. If
the cuckoo halloos in low land the weather
will be fair. Domestio fowls look toward
the sky before ram and go ,to roan in the
daytime. If they stand on one leg the
weather will be cold. If birds are fat and
sleek in February ib is a align of more cold
weather. If geese walk eaat and fly west it
will be cold. An old proverb says : "When
the hen orowe, expect a storm within and
without," and huntere say that the direction
the loon flies in the morning will bo the di.
rection of wind the next day. Owls hooting
in the day time indicates rain, but if ab
night the weather will be fair.
When lite t0000ek loudly bawls
Seen well aye botkraln_and squalls.
Pigeons return to their dovecotes urinal -
ally early before a ram. The habito of wild
geese are watched and furnish many prog-
nostics. The following is a popular verse :
Wild geese, wild geese, going to the sea,
Good weather it ill be.
Wild geese, wild goeee, going to the hill.
The weather it IOU spill. trar 1'
In Kansas, when the wild geese fly to the
aoutheast in the fall, the people expect a
blizzard,
There are many prognostics of the season
whioh have their origin in the migrations of
birds', and in the peculiar formation and ap-
pearance of the goose bone, which is to -day
looked upon by thouEanda of people as a
sure prognostic) of what the coming winter
will be, and in Kentucky if the bane should
be raised whether the signal aervioe bureau
or the goose hone should go, the Kentuckian
would oling to tho goose bone ; intact, Henri
Watterson, if he had to (Mom between
the star, eyed goddess of reform and the
goals° bone, would not dare to offend Ken-
tuckians by discarding the prophetic bone,
The people of Kentucky say U the breast
bone of anomie is red, or has many red spots,
expeot a cold and stormy winter, but if only
a few spots are visible, the winter will
be mild, and they furnish the following
reoipe so that it may be read intelligently,
which instructions are ma followe
"To read the winter of any year take the
breast bone of a goose hatched during the
preoading spring. The bone is translucent,
and it will be found to be colored and spot.
ted. The dark color and heavy spots ilia.
0860 cold. If the emote are of light shade
and tratteparene, wet weather, rain or snow
may be looked for,"
When wild geese and wild ducks move
south the weather will be warm, and birds
migrate south muoh earlier if the winter
will be early. A severe winter follow if
crown fly south, but if they fly north it will
be an open winter. No killing frost °times
when the martins return to their old haunts;
and the first song of the robin is the voice
of spring. The swan le Bald to build its
near high during seaeona when freshets visit
locialitiee where the ewan broode, and those
who cultivate lowlands note how the awan's
nosb is built. 11 10 le built low there will be
no unusual taine. There are many other
prognoatics derived from observing the
habits of birds, of intermit to the seaman
and land lubber, and in concluding the pop.
ular prognostic of the farmer, drawn from
watching the neat of the swallow, if, given:
When the swallew's neat is high
The summer Is very dry ;
When the swallow buildoth low
You oan wifely build and 80W.
"Kansas Farmer,"
Fatal Toronto Bay
Tonoloro, July 18, -Shortly before five
o'olook the other evening a lad about 14
years of ago, named Thomas Cartwright, ro.
Biding at 19 Hagerman street, and Arnett
Foley, 83 Terauloy etreets embarked on a
raft to go fishing on the Credit Valley slip,
at the foot of Samoa street. When they
were some &tome from allure the thnbera
sI the raft parted and preoipitated them
both into the water, A gentleman who
happened to be pasaing e.6the time, named
0, P. Spellman, ran to their aesistanoe and
stiooseded in recalling Foley, but before aid
(mid reach him young Cartwright had got
tangled the Woods and was drowned.
Ole body was rem:voted about nix o'dlook
and taken to the morgue. Coroner Johnson
being notified, altar hearing the oiroom.
stems', decided that an inquest iva n01-
10000001409, and ordered the body turned
over to Undertaker MoCabo, on th 0 request
of the patent%