The East Huron Gazette, 1892-02-11, Page 6FOR THE LAIMES.
WithoutClothes-Pins.
Honsekeeper's Weekly: Most persous
take very good care of their table -linen after
it is washed, ironed and neatly folded ; but
the care should be taken before it reaches
this state. Table -linen is never worn in the
using, but in the washing and ironing the
whole amount of damage is done, especially
if the servant is strong, and rubs all with
equal vigor, from the dainty handkerchiefs
to the heavy sheets.
Table linen should be soaked over night,
with a little ammonia added to the water,
which softens the dirt as well as the water,
and in the morning, with a little rubbing,
thorough rinsing„ and careful *bluing (never
put any starch in table -linen), they are rea,dy
to hang out, and here is where the greatest
harm is done.
When I have a new servant, and Monday
comes, I think of the contest on the clothes-
pin question, and my heart fails me. Ser-
vants may acknowledge they have some
faults and failings, but they all know how
to boil potatoes, make bread, and wash and
iron. These virtues they are positive they
possess, and great is their indignation if
you question the results.
A table -cloth should be hung half or two-
thirds its length over the line, and no clothes
1I38 should be used unless the wind makes
it absolutely necessary. Servants take
napkins or handkerchiefs by one corner, and
fasten a bunch of them on the line with
oue clothes -pin, so as to save time and
and trouble for themselves. Soon you dis-
cover holes or tears in the corners of the
articles, and wonder what causes them. I
wily wonder that there are any napkins or
handkerchiefs in existence.
Neither napkins nor handkerchiefs should
aver come in contact with clothes -line or
tlothes-pine You who are fortunate enough
to have "real grass," which we city folk
sre deprived of, spread your table -linen
apon it. and the sunshine will do the rest of
the work.
Rings on the Thumbs.
Were it left to the ladies to decide the
relative importance of the five fingers, the
pride of place wouldscertainly be accorded
to the fourth finger, as the bearer of the
entward sign of wifehood. Granting that
honorable privilege to be sufficient to en-
title the fourth finger to rank above its fel-
lows, it is a question if it rightly enjoys the
privilege.
it has been contended that the master -
finger was originally the recipient of the
badge of matrimony, chiefly, if not entirely,
on the evidence of Tom D'Urfey and Samuel
Butler—the hrst-named writing of a court-
ship so fast and furious that
Ere three days about were come,
The ring was put upon tne thinnb;
and Butler decrying the abolishing of
That tool of matrimony. a ring.
With which the unsanctified bridegroom
Is married only to a thumb.
But then he goes on:
The bride to nothing, but her will,
Which nulls the after -marriage stall;
which may be read to mean that the thumb -
ringing ceremony was merely the preliminary
one of formal betrothal.
In the other ease, it does not follow that
if the ring was put tipon the thumb, it
staid there; since the old marriage ritual
prescribed that the ring should be put upon
the thumb at the words, "With all my
wordly goods I thee endow i" placed in turn
upon the second, third and fourth finger, on
which it finally remained.
Southey Wile us that in the time of the
first two Georges ladies transferred the wed-
ding -ring to the thumb after the ceremony,
and it is represented so worrvin portraits of
the period. He might haveTetine farther
back. The heroine of Southerne's "A
Maid's Last Prayer" declares of a lover:
"Marry him I must, and wear my wedding
ring on my thumb, too, lam resolved," from
which it may be reasonably inferred that to
do so was the whim of the few rather than
of the many.
Portraits of Elizabethan dames wearing
their wedding rings upon their thumbs are
said to be extant. Possibly the rings were
not wedding rings, ringing the thumb being
an old feminine fashion. It was upon that
member of the hand Chaucer's Canace car-
ried her wonder-working hoop, and a mum-
my case in the British museum bears a re-
presentation of an Egyptian lady, the
thucalm of whose crossed hands are each
encircled by a ring.
In the days of Queen Anne, according to
the Spectator, the feminine thumb ring was
the badge of widowhood, and women tired
of single blessedness were wont to don it,
and, as "jolly widows," achieve conquests
(leafed to them, as spinsters.
- Men's thumb -rings are no rarities to col-
lectors. Some of the Roman specimens
must havebeen cumbrous wear, one in the
Montfaucon collection, bearing the bust of
Trainee consort, Platina, measuring over 3
inches eczema
_AlidinsvaIchurehman of high degree did
nastiest "the largest, first and shortest of
the fingers" to go unadorned. A massive
gokl ring was found on the thumb of the
supposed skeleton of Hilary, Bishop of
Chichester, who died in 1169; and the re-
eambent effigyof Bishop Oldham, in Exeter
Cathedral, is remarkable for the pressed.
together thumbs being inclosed by a single
ring, says dhambees Journal
When the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket
was robbed -sof its treasures, the famous
Archbishop's thumb ring given to him by
the King of France, graced with a ruby the
size of a hen's egg, found its way to the
thumb of bluffKing Halt, and as the humor
of the King is always voted just the same
thing, we may be sure the royal hand was
not the only one so decked at noun. Mayors
and.A.Iderman imitated their betters.
"Whin I was abut thy years, Hal,"
says the rat Knight, "I was not an eagle's
talon in the waist ; I could have crept into
an Alderman's thumb ring ;" and that the
- wearing of thtinth rings waspretty general
in the seventeenth century is proven by
Brome's remark that a good man lathe city
serried nothing rich about him but the
gout ana a thump ring.
tion 031 their- faces ? —very much like the liteetneelniterielnP121160tirtmem eem --
ugly young man who ties hie cravat and
smiles at his image in the glass with the Prof. Fletcher, entomologist of the Ot-
comforting mental comment "Not hand-
_tawa Experimental Farm, at the annual
some, but devilish fascinating 1"
The statement that " uglmgirls are gen-
erally left to run to waste, as unapproprt-
ated blessings," is not supported by evi-
dence; who has not met wives as ugly as
any old maid in his list of acquaintances?
It is safe to make the broad generalization
that an ugly girl; all other things being
equal, is likely to have fewer offers than a
meeting of the Ontario Dairymen's Associa-
tion, held at Brampton recently, stated he
would speak to them upon "Injurious In-
sects. At Ottawa the work was divided
amongst the agricultunist, the horticulturist
the chemist (his own department) and a
poultry manager. Perhaps some of them
would not at first sight be able to see the
importance of his particular department,
the one offer which will make her a happy and yet when it was remembered that a very
pretty girl, but quite as likely to receive
large proportion of the farmers' profits was
taken away by the insects which devoured
wife. It may be doubted whethli-
er a plura
the gresses and other crops, it would be seen
i
ty of lovers s an unmixed advantage to a
girl; one good lover, the elect man, attract-
ed to her by affinity in its highest sense, is
forever enough.
But all other things (sa-re the gift of
beauty) seldom are equal between the ugly
and the pretty girl; by the natural law of
compensation, the ugly girl has either some
inherent or some ahquired ability that is
lacking in the other, which asserts its charm
as ammintance progresses. Beauty only has
the start in the race.
The ugly girl often has superior tact and
finesse. Being obliged to study human na-
ture closely in order to get the most out of
it, she learns so well how and when to
speak delicate flattery that she ends by
convincing the mai who scarcely noticed
her on the evening when they were intro-
duced, that the lips that can utter such be-
witching things are really beautiful; for
somebody has said --I cannot give the
authority for the quotatien—that men are
yam.
Propinquity oftenest decides attachments
of every kind; if a city man had to spend a
winter in a little village with a homely but
pleasant girl, he would be more likely to
find himself in love with her by spring than
with the pretty and pleasant girl he left in
Toronto when he went to the village.
An ugly girl has a firm grip, generally
speaking; she is not sated with admiration,
or confident when she gets it that it will be
perennial, so she does not let chances give
her the slip, after the fashion of many belles.
When once married she has plenty of grit,
too, to protect her lawful property and to
distance the pretty unscrupulous flirts who
would try their wiles on him.
It is questionable, after all, if a wonan's
beauty or homeliness mattes much difference
to a man after he has been married to her a
year; does he ever know how she looks?
He sees her inner nature, and the happiness
ot the couple is decided by tne effect of their
inner natures upon each other. Many a man
with a pretty wife has been infatuated with
,the society of a very plain -looking woman
who possessed either intelligence or some
power of adaptation he missed in his part-
ner.
The Ugly Girl.
Moat- inaiy girls have something pretty
ithoutthem, and th6 few who know that
they cannot claim eventhis limited endow-
ment behoine Pithetie to men of a generous
mind, e.xeithiMg -pity, and we all know what
1"110-113 akinto under favorable conditions.
,.t -recall-a-Maiden of this stamp who eemmed.
a handsome; and devoted husband- by her
very,hopelessness of sinning his preference
-the tender humility of her worship of
Living in the same- hone the
- !tot& chivalrybecarnemo
-last than all the variedeh
Every Girl Should Sew.
In these days the art of fine needlewcrk is
ID danger of decay. We have plenty of
decorative embroiders, plenty of workers in
drawn work, but ctmparatively' few who
understand fine henuning or the more com-
plicated parts of plain sewing. Yet this
should be a part of the education of every
girl in the land, just as we believe that some
ordinary manual training should be a part
of a boy's educatien. It does not matter
whether the individual is born with "a
golden spoon in his mouth" or is compelled
to sup ',porridge from a clumsy wooden one,
the demand for some manual training is
equally necessery. Fine sewing is a de.
lightful occupation to a woman of womanly
tastes, and one in whichshe can show as
much taste as embroidery. No one can tell
whether work is properly done unless one
understands how to do it. For this reason,
if for no other, every girl should be- trained
to understand how to form "seem, gusset
and band," though her general sewing may
be done by a seamstress. "Dangling hands"
are a shame to any person, rich or poor.
how highly essential. it was that somebody
should make a special study of these insects
so as to devise practical remedies as soon as
possible. One tenth at least of the agri-
cultural produce of the Dominion was lost
by the ravages of insects, and therefore
every farmer lost one-tenth of his own in-
dividual crop. There was no reason why
this should be the case. A knowledge of
the life history of the insects paved the
way to the discovery of practical remedies
for almost all the most injurious kinds which
annually reduced our revenues. As an illus-
tration of the value of these studies to
farmers, brie( mention was made of some of
the best known insects which attacked fod-
der crops. This was prefaced by a short
statement explaining how remedies were
devised with regard to the structure of the
mouth parts of the insects, all of whieh it
was explained might be classified as Aber
biting or sucking insects. For the firattatess
which masticated the the substance of the
food, it was evident that the application of
some poisonous substance, such as pans
green to the food plant, was all that was re-
quired. For the second class, which lived by
suction other remedies must be used. Such
we have ix. insect powder, which, although
perfectly harmless to the higher animals,
was very fatal to insect life. Another
was very useful remedy tor all insects, where
it could be applied directly, was an emulsion
of milk and coal oil, or soap suds and coal
oil Remedies, it was pointed out were either
preventive or active. Speaking of the pre-
ventive Remedies the advantages were
shown of agricultural methods, as, first, high
culture by which a vigorous, healthy growth
was inducedmecond, clean farming, by which
weeds and all other useless vegetation were
removed ; third, early or late sowing, so as
to produce the crop when its enemies could
do it the least harm ; fourth, rotation of
crops. Active remedies were either the
application of poisonous substances by which
injurious insects were destroyed, or the dif-
ferent methods which might be classed as
hand picking. Short accounts together with
the best remedies were given for the follow.
ing well known insects; The turnip fiy,
although it destroyed annually the crops -on
an enormous number of farms in all parts of
Canada was a very easy insect to keep in
check. It was a usual practice with many
good fanners to sow land plaster along 'the
drills when the Young turnips appeared,
which induced a rapid growth and carried
the young plants past the stage when they
were liable to injuryse As was well. known,
however, this was frequently insufficient;
and under favorable conditions the insects
increased in suck numbers_ este-totally-de--
stroy the crop, afichmake rearm/him necessary
It was stated that quite `satisfactory results
had been obtained by mixing with the plaster
2 per cent. of Paris green, by which the flies
ereall destroyed. Cut worms which weretoo
well known to every farmer in the Dominion
had been made a special study for many years
Good remedies, by which a large proportion
of the crop could be saved, werewrapping
a piece of paper round the stems of such
plants as-ca.bbages and toniatoes at the time
of setting -out ; alsopoisoning. by -means-of
small brindles of weeds or other vegetation
loosely tied together, and distributed ever
the garden or field at from 15 to 20 feet
apart. Experience had shown the speaker
that both -of these methods were economical
and -practice's- In spealting-of the cabbage
worm insect powder has highly recommend-
ed. This could be mixed with five times
its quantity of flour and dusted over tne
plants as soon as the caterpillars wer e obseey-
ed. Although thy -substance was perfectly
harmless to human beings, every caterpillar
touched would certainly be killed.
In concluding, the speaker wished te re-
mind those nresentehat his work, like: that
in other beaches at Ottawa; was being car-
ried on specially for the itenefit of the: far
-
mem of Canada; that retnedies were known
for nearly all of the most frequently occur-
ring insect pests, and that if they would
apply to him it would always give him ple-
asure to assist them in protecting their
crops.
In response to questions it was stated
that the proper time to spray apple trees to
destroy the codlinee'worm, was immediately
after the blossoms had dropped, in the pro-
portion of one pound of Paris , green to the
hundred gallons of water, which was per-
fectly safe, and that no ppssible injury could
follow either to the trees orpeople eating
the fruit. Speaking also with reference to
theolover seed Midge it was stated that the
remedy was perfectly simple and easily ale'
plied, and if farrners would only recognize
this there was no reason why clover seed
should not be grown to the large extent it
was formerly. The discovery of the remedy
was due entirely to a knowledge of the life
history of the insect, which briefly was as
follows: The eggs were laid by the mother
insect in the forming flower heads of the
clover plant. As soon as the young mag-
gots hatched they burrowed into the form-
e
EFINIGN
On Monday evening a man and woman --
were heard quarrelling in el unfrequented
passage near the riverside, Birkenhead, and
shortly afterwards the woman was found
lying dead on the pavement. The man had
dpispaaprpeeantnthereed.No heo dmy.amarks of violence were
a
Among the weavers employed in a Bidde-
ford, Me., cotton mill is a woman who
stands six feet and three inches in her stock-
ing feet, and is large and strong in propor-
twiorenslitrg.
tion. She is more than a snatch for any
man about the mill, either in boxing or
In spite of the German Emperor's praise
of duelling, a court at Leipsig has sentenced
six students convicted of duelling to three
months' imprisonment each, and the land-
lady inwrehsos.se house they fought to a month
afort
The Pope hopes to be buried in the Later -
ane has byjust
fisinh
deisofecithere.Innocet III., whose tomb
h
There has just died ir. Poland a once
celebrated beauty, who refused the hand of
Napoleon 111. She was the Princess Helene
Sagonsko, and died unmarried at the age of
57.
There are in the world 147 educational
institutions called universities. The largest
is in Paris, with 9,215 students; the next
in Vienna with 6,220; the third in Berlin,
with 5,527. The smallest is a branch of
Durham University, Fourab Bay College,
Sierra professors.
Leone,with with twelve students
ain
ndfiv
At one time Japan considered the question
of establishing a national creed, and a Mini-
ster was sent to Europe to investigate; hut
says the Bishop of Exeter who has been
following the subject, the agent returned to
report that Christianity exerted no more
Bud-
dhism. ficial influence upon vice than In Pomport Antoine Delair suspected his
wife. She fell dangerously ill, and a priest
was Bent for to hear her confession. The
husband hid himself while she confessed,
and having his suspicions thereby coiafimed,
after the priest had gone he demanded the
name of her accomplice. She gave it to him
and he went out and shot him, failing, how-
ever to kill him.
Benjamin J. Woodard, a famous Maine
hunter killed two monster bull moose near
Nahmakanta Lake a few days ago and took
their heads and antlers to Bangor to be
mounted. One of the heads and antlem
weighed 89h pounds and one pair had a
spread of four feet one inch.
A striking illatration of the spread of
civilization occurs among the Maoris of
Poverty Bay. A quarrel arose between two
chiefs. Pini and Tata, which being restrain-
ed with difficulty from taking the old form
of bloodshed, has been taken to court by re-
gular stunnions. A printing press has also
been set up in the King country to report
the sitting of the first Maori ParliaMent.
The people of Paris consumed within the
•past year 21,291 horses`, 229 -donkeys, and
40 mules, the meet weighing, according to
the returns 4,615 tons. At the 180 shops
and stalls where such food is sold the price
has varied from two sous to a franc a pound,
the latter being the price of the best horse
steaks. Only about one-third of the meat
is sold fresh and undisguised; the rest is
used in making sausages, 402 horses having
been seized and condemned as unfit for food
before being turned into sausage.
A neasant Word.
A young lady had gone out walking. She
forgot to take her purse with her, and had
no money ID her pocket. Presently she met
a little girl with a basket on her arm.
"Please, miss, will you buy something from
my basket ?" said the little girl, showing a
variety of bookmarks, watch -cases, needle -
book, etc. 'l'm sorry r can't buy anything
to -day," said the young lady. "1 have not
any money with me. Your things look very
pretty." She stopped 0 moment, and spoke
a few kind words to the little girl; and
then as she passed she said again, " I'm
very sorry I can't buy anything from you
to -day." "0, miss said the little girl,
"you've done me just as much good as if
you had. Most persons that I meet say,
"Get away with you !" but you have spoken
kindly and gently to me, and I feel a heap
better." That was "considering the poor.'
How little it costs to do that! Let us learn
to speak kindly and gently to the poor and
suffering. If we have nothing else to give
let us at least give them our sympathy.
Unlucky Days of the Year.
In Grafton's manual of his Chronicles,
1565, the unlucky days according to the
astronomers, are named as follows: January
1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 17 and 20 are unlucky;
February 26, 27 and 28 unlucky, 8, 10 and
17 very unlucky; March 16, 17 and 20, very
unlucky; April 7, 8, 10 and 20, unlucky;
May 3 and 6 unlucky 7, 15 and 20 very un-
lucky; June 10 and 22 unlucky, 6 and 8
very unlucky; Aimust 29 and 30 unlucky„
19 and '20 very unlucky ; September 3,4, 21
and 23 unineky, and 7 very unlucky e Oc-
tober 4, 16 end 24 unlucky 6 very unlucky :
November -5,6, 29 and 30 unlucky, 15 anti
20 very unlucky; December 15 and 22 un-
lucky, 6, 7 and 9 very unlucky.
ThaEarth's Population.
It is before all things desirable that we
should have an inkling as to the probable
future movement of the earth's population,
and, taking for his guide the figures -furnish-
ed by recent censeses and the ascertained
rates of increase, M. Riehet has calculated
appioximatelyend in round numbers the
way in which the world will be peopled 100
years from the present time. He arrives
at the conclusion that in 1992 the popula-
tion of Europe will be 78(1 millions, that of
Asia 1,000 millions, that of Africa, 100 mil-
lions, that of America -685 millions, and
that of Australia 30 These num-
bers yield &total of t500 -millions, against
an estimate for 1891 of only 1,450 millions.
Dm no Harm.
-RifOnner—" Don't you think that the
'eltrO,414411-!1 be: !-Itinl=j4- tea' from
silege,efi
don't know. It seldom las
Ainatient effect: T4.11 stident. usuAy
ts in sit,monthiLall he learned in four
To -Morrow.
"Ah wait," he cries, "but a, little loni
• The tonnebeyes glowing with holy fire,—
"And manthrough me shall grow purer,
stronger;
My words shall echo, my deeds inspire.
It lifts man's soul from its weight of son
row—
The Good—the Beauty— I dream and
plan;
There comes to -morrow/ and then to -mor -
ow,
And yet to -morrow, and I a man."
By the cliff whence the waves their gray
gloom borrow
The sweetest of sweet voiced Echoes lay,
And murmured, "To -morrow ! To -morrow
To -morrow 1"
Was there a thrill as of mocking laugh-
ter,
Sounding long after,
And dying away?
The swift years speed and his life is Duty :—
Ab, the old-time light in the eyes is
dead ;—
" I am faithful still to my dream of Beauty;
To -morrow, to -morrow is mine 1" he
said.
The elespareetoe platinum tor use insolence
has raised its value to three-quarters thee, of
gold. Three years ago it was worth $80 a
pound. It now costs $190, or eleven times
more than sillier. It is found in Ismail quan-
tities in Peru, Colombia, Brazil, the Ural Porter of the palace car,
Mountains,,Californie, Otegoiiand Bente°. In the morning, there you are;,
Whisp our clothes for half a minute
The yearly out -put has never been more
Because you see a quarter in it,
And you quickly mean to win it,
Greater than railway kings, by far,
Prince of the Pullman palace car.
—[The Middleman.
By the cliff whence the waves
gloom borrow
The sweetest of sweet -voiced Echoes lay,
And murmured,Z To -morrow is mine To-
morrow r
Was there a thrill as of mocking laughter,
Sounding long after,
And dying away ?
The swift years speed and the light is
fal-
ling;
Tne dim eyes turn to the misty west;
The white head droops, and he stands he-
wailing—
Earth's eewt. earied, dejected, disheartened
"Too Isahteell;
! There will be no morrow's greet.
Of my grand, great work but the ruined
Mg ;
I have always dreamed, as the years were
fi
'Thereisfell.
yetto-morrow 1' "—The dark
night
By thecliff whence the waves their black
gloom borrow
The sweetest of sweet -voiced Echoes lay;
'There is yet to -morrow!" she echoed, "To-
morrow 1”—
Was there a thrill as of tender sadness,
Changing to gladness,
And dying away?
—[Charlotte W. Thurston, in the Overland.
their gray
The Pullman Porter.
Porter of the palace car
How we wonder where you are?
When you cannot well be spared.
When for a game of cards we're squar-
ed,
Or when we want our berth prepared,
We cannot see you e'en afar,
Prince of the Pullman palace car.
Porter of the palace car
How we wonder where you are?
When we're tucked in snug and tight
Ready to put out the light,
To our rings you're out of sight.
Can it be there is a bar,
On the Pullman palace car?
Porter of the palace car
Early as the morning star
Will our berth be rudely shaken.
"Come, we're there ; you'd better wak-
en.
Thus our high-priced rest is taken;
We know now just where you are,
Prince of the Pullman palace car.
7)
thanifour tons end is now three.
A new cause has arisen for a lawsui'. A
woman in France was notified by the auth-
orities of a lunatic asylnin of her bier's
death. She went to the funeral, and ordered
a handsome tembstone. Her mother was so
elicited at her son's death that the plaintiff
hadto eoiye up her situation to take care of
herr- Then she learned that the directors
of the asylum had made a mistake and that
her brother was alive, After unsucessful
effortsior compensation she has gone to the
collet, claiming heavy damages for grief and
injury.
i The official report shows that 890 people
committed suicide in Paris during the past
year. 243 of whom hanged themselves, 205
were drowned, 164 asphyxiated, 138 shot,
65 jumped from windows, 33 were poisoned,
24 stabbed, 5 run over by trains, and 13
left by methods miscellaneous. Among
the drowned and wiudow jumpers the ma-
jority were women. •
At Oberleschen a man named Schwabe,
aged 70, had a wife, aged 72, who had been
a bed -ridden sufferer for years. In her
paroxysms of pain she -Would often cry:
"OK, heaven, I wish that I were dead i
Kill me ! Relieve me of this pain 1" The
other day, while old Schwabe was listening
to her appetite, in a tit of despair he took a
bootjack and beat her to death.
Prince George of Greeee will receive
shortly from the Athens Life Saving Society
the great golden medallion. He earned it
recently during a storm, in which a young
non-commisidoned naval officer tried to cross
the harbor in a little sailboat to the fort
where the Prince was stationed. The boat
upset and the young officer clung to it help-
lessly. There was a call for volunteers, but
nobody in the fort responded. Then a little
rowboat was pushetlaway from the fort and
one young offieer in it went to the rescue.
He saved his man and returned. When the
rescrer landed from the little craft the
former was recognized by the garrison as
Prinde George.
ing pod and destroyed the seeds, leaving the
elover heads about the end of June, and
burrowed into the grotuid to pass through
the other stages of -their development. The
perfect flies emergedagain from the ground
/ust as the second crop of clover was coming
into flower and flewto the heads, where
theYagaineleposited their eggs which de-
stroyedthe hopes of the farmer who -wished
to save hisseedfrom his crop. It was
pointed out that if the first crop was either
fed off or cut before the middle of Jane all
that contained husects which were ohly half
developed mnst be destroyed, and thus on
that field there would be none developed to
lay eggs and destroy the second- or seed
crop.
The Day of Your Birth.
A good deal might be said about lucky:and
unlucky times of bizth—about the signifi-
cance of coming into the world on feast,
fast, and saint days ;about particular dates,.
particular hours, and particularsea.sons. It
will be sufficient, however, to merely indi-
cate these new fields of research, and, as a
start for the enterprise, to remind all whom
it meg concern; that—
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace;
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
And Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child isloving and giving,
And Saturday's child, works hard for its
living,
But the child that is born on a Sabbath
day
18 blythe and bonny, good and gay.
The cross is always a guideboard that
: -
Mats straight toward heaven. -
Hammered Raz into His Skull.
About a fortnight ago there was briefly
chronicled the extraordinary ease of a man
ID Vienna who had hammered five lenge
nails into his skull, and then walked to the
Central Hospital to have them extracted.
It was remarked at the time that the -ease - A Student of Human Nature.
wouldProbahly give rise to a great deal of Mrs. Slimpurse—Why in the world did
-A FORTUNE G0)11 IN A DAT,
Heavy Losses of an Englishmata elase -
Biotite Carlo Casino.
Monte Carlo is like a mini:tune paradise,
for the Casino is not in sight and thseecite-
teent of the tables forgotten for awhile
But only for awhile The absorbizig excite.-
ment like a magnet ; we can none of us re-
sists it. The beauty ot the place, the scent
of the flowers, the warm, bright sanshine,
are forgotten as we watch the turning of
the roulette with never-diminiehed eager-
ness. At present the place is quiet; there
is butlittle difficulty in obtaining a seat at
the tables, the concert theatre is but half
full, smart frocks are the exception and the
mentiug of friends is rare. Yet the tables,
undisturbed by the enemy, Mr. Wel* are
making goodly sums of money, the/ugh as
yet we have not been scared by the suicide
of a ruined gambler. Five thousaed pounds
in one day is an unpleasantly large sum to
lose, yet this was the fate of a chatitable
Englishman the other day. Charitable may
mem a misappropriate adjective, yet it is
the right one, for the man is an anomaly
who spends his time and money at the
two extremes of the pole, charity and
gambling. The greatest pang which his les
causes hitn lies in the thought of the good he
might have done with his .5,000 had not
the evil spirit taken posseation of him,
though his fell from the straight road is still
more brought home to him by the fact that
he had brought his wife over from one of the
neighboring towns to see the sishts of Monte
Carlo, and, having left her for a few mo-
ments at the hotel, entirely forgot her exist-
ence, and allowed her ts3 spend the whole
day at the hotel playing the part of Mariana
of the Masted Grange, while he lost coup
after coup at the tables. It is curious how
gambling is the one object that impresses
itself on the mind of the visitor, though it
is by no means the only charm of the place.
How often we hear of the fascinations of the
daily concerts compared with the attractions
of roulette, while the more than beautiful
drives which abound in the countly sur-
rounding the little principality are forgotten
in detailing the excitement of trente-et-
quarante Occa,sionally one hears of the
Corniche Road, that misie of wealth to
novelists; but, as a rule, the thotighM, de-
sires and recollections of the visitor to
Monte Carlo are bounded by the walls of the
Cassino.
Pis and Thistles.
God never sends people to fish in deep
water who have broken nets.
The devil may drag a Christian sometimes
but he can never drive laim.
No bad man ever makes him any better
by claiming to be a saint.
You can not get any more out of the Bible
than you are willing to obey.
Christ is always giving as opportunities
to show what we will do with him.
If it is the duty of every Christian to be
anything, it is to be a cheerful giver.
You can't tell by the length of a man's
face what he will do in a berm trade.
There would be more work done for
Christ if there were more resting in Christ.
You can't tell much about a man's relig-
ion by the length of his face on Sunday.
Whatever God's spirit leads up to pray
for, he makes our duty to work for.
If your religion makes you want to fight
to defend it, you've got the wrong kind.
The only safe place for a Christian when
his enemy is overthrown is on his knees.
The poorest of poor are very often those
whom their neighbors consider rich.
Every Christian should continually try
ctRao cirno,tshHe will of God as the angels do it. —
,
In Oeutral Park.
"Why don't you pay attention to the
-baby ? He has fallen out of the perambula-
tor and hurt himself. You shouldn't be VO
careless."
" I can't watch ebery ding when dese
sparrow cops is around smilin' at me."
The Deceived Husband.
Actress—So you are dissatisfied with my
acting?
Manager—Yes, you don't die naturally
enough. You must die as if you really
meantto accommodate your husband, and
put hinvin good humor. You inust die so
that he will be deceived.
...1.1100.•••••••
medical controversy, and the event tuts- veri-
fied thisprediction. The man, who is of weak
intellect, is doing very well lathe hospital,
and is quite outtof danger ; but all the most
eminent professors in Vienna, beginning
with Professor Billroth, are unable to Under-
stand how he can have hammered the nails
into his head without killing himself. One
papofrisheneentnt:sailsbuchrtiresissattirmiedasdt:avIritiraleteviiersinpgen,waeastrasautebdtrinbeeleerts,
Liechtenstein, who gave him Wilorinis as a
laborious and dangerous. .Amon _the
have done who have closely- watched this
inches, so that the extraction of it was more
.
reall7Phenmenalca8e°- ,, ,
It. is saict of Lord Brougham " t
-r
never left a minute unemployed."
yon ten liars. De Fashion we had summered
in Europe?
Mr. Slimpurse—You don't suppose I'd
eoufess to her that we'd been economizing
in Vrogtown, do you? Not much.
"But, -dear me, she'll tell others, and be-
fore long all sorts of people will be asking
na about Europe, and we haven't either of
„its_ eter been east of Sandy Hook."
h--64,D011t you fear. Tell people you've
just ot -bath from Europe and they'll
ehmAi the subject quicker. than a wink, for
lea nuil Start to talking about it.
"1 understand one can do a
UChicagmwith very. little capi-
Iteen—" Yes, sae Why a
a wife on the installment
Golden Thoughts for Every Day.
Sunday—
Who is the Angel that cometh
Life
Let us not question what he brings,
Peace or strife.
Under the shadow of his mighty wings.
One by one,
Are his secrots told;
Lit by the rays of each morning snn.
Shall a new flower its p -earls unfold.
With the mystery hid in its heart of gold.
We will arise and go forth to greet him,
Singly, gladly. with one accord,
"Blessed is He that oometh in the name of
Lord."
Monday --The great rule of moral conduct
is, next to God to respect time. As every
thread of gold is valuable, so is every mo-
ment of life. We cannot waste hours with-
out wasting improvement and duty. We
cannot kill time without blighting eWrnity ?
Tuesday—I find the great thiug in this
world is not so much where we stand as in
what direction we are moving. To reach
the port of Heaven we must sail sonuetimes
with the wind and sometimes against it ;
but we must sail, and not drift or lie at
anchor. —[Oliner V endell Holmes.
Wetniesday—A imekward look over the
departed year can Intrilly fail to be tinged
with sadness. The memory of its lost
time, unimproved opportunities'unkept re-
solutions, unrealized hopes and countless'
shortcemings may well cast a somber veil
over scenes which, as we passed through
them, were bathed in sunlight and had
many joys. Such thoughts, however,
should not make us morbid, but only quick-
en us to make the coming year more Wisely
and largely fruitful in improvements of self
and usefulness to others. That weer is op-
portunity ; that way is duty; that way hi
the way for retrieval of past errors; that
way is usefulness to others and improve-
ment and happiness to ourselves. No regret
for the past should turn our thoughts trom
wise improvement for the future, from rising_
higher in character, in attainment, in all
that makes life blessed on earth and pre-
pares for the better life beyend.
Thursday—
Little by little and sure and slow.
We fashion our future for bliss or woe
As the present is passing away
Our feet are climbing that stairway bright,
Up to the region of endless light,
Or bearing us downward into the night.
With every fleeting day.
Friday—
In the daily intercourse of life it is by lit-
tle acts of kindness, recurring daily and
hourly, in words tones and looks that affect -
tion is won and kept and happiness, confer-
red on those around us. He who neglects
these seeming trifles and thinks that when
some great sacrifice is called for we will make
it will rarely if ever do so or if he does it
will be for his own sake and not for the
sake of others. And he will never know the
luxury of being truly loved.
Saturday—
Do to -day's duty; fight to-day'tempta,-
tiona ; improve to -day's opportunities. Do
not worry or mourn as to the paet, or be
anxious as to the future. Never weaken or
distract youself by looking forward tethings
which you cannot see, and could not under-
stand if you saw them. To 11 e aright to-
day is the best preparation for the morrow.
1
Drat Times.
There's weeping now and wailing too
Among those genial powers,
Which erstwhile used to laugh anti sing
Throughout the happy hours.
" Alas 1 Alas 1" Consumption mite,
"Oh!I am quite undone!"
And "Woe," wails gay Pneumonia,
"I've lost my pristine fun."
La Grippe and Laryngitis, e"
Andjonal Cartarrh,
And myriads of Coughs and C ds
Are mourning near and far,
And in a wretched Ohorus
They sig this dismal song —
"Oh,- these are dull, hard times for as,
The open car is gone!"
A Lonesome Family.
"Tell your mother Pm coming to see
her," said a lady on Austin avenue to Mrs.
Gibson Btgelovets little boy, who replied;
"1 am g'ad you are coming, and mam-
ma will be glad too."
"How do yon know your mother will he
glad to see me ?" asked the lady.
"Because I heard her tell paprieresterday
that nobody ever eame to the home except
men with billet° collect."
Fitting Advice.
Bardm-I have a poem here on " war,*
and I don't know inst wawa to place it.
Mat wonhl you s.. ise me to de - *Pith AT
Pard—Get it in 0118 01 the nolgtuunea,
course, —(Yonkera Gazette.
4
MRS 1U
&La. Clifford and her da
ed in a fiat in a coinfortabl
house in the West End of
act that it was an cld hou
the did not krow why M
below, was so ready to e
many inconveniences of an
should she know ? Here w
tle Madame, like most Fr
full of reaourses and ready
for her" locataires," also M
tittle servant, who thought
be allowed to enter the aa
thing could have been mo
ranged than this same flat
ed house.
When the water froze d
Madame had to thaw the p
plumber • no, indeed. M
men; they were dull, slow
men, and charged exorbita
nothing Madame eould n
than a man.
Madame rose every mor
hour and noiselessly arra
below, thus holding hersel
moment to attend to the a
early winter of 18
tma iiTird.se.
Christmas Day w
warm to be agreeable in h
stoves and furnaces. Ou
snow was melting in tile br
the mountain lost its daz
and masses of snow and ic
the river. As yet there
road aeross the St. Lawren
The papers were full of
deadly Grippe, which was
across the continent. I
heavy influenza had alr
Montreal'but the doctors
calling these " The Grippe.
Then suddenly the city
the enetny. Doctors, ole
young people were among t
to intensify the miseries an
hour, the mild weal her gar
cold, and a travelling bli
earlier enormities by a wh
on the province of Quebec.
Dove rose that morning w
ed with lead, head aching a
ing ; every symptom, in fae
of Grippe or influenza; b
drove all remembrance tb
case away, and she really
the disease ran its course or
her mother in agonies of
grippe" allowed itself in an
of forms, and this of heart
of the most painful.
"Madame," she called
do*n to the grocer s and
doctor? At once, please,
There was no answer ; onl
lie cough from Madame's
ran down to find this rock
as an infant, unable to lift
the pillow.
"And where was Martha
"Alas 1 Mademoiselle, p
not hold up her head last n
has the" Grippe.''
" Here's a situation," gr
she put on her furs and w
phone to the doctor.
"I've been up all night,"
doctor, hoarsely; "and 11
myself, and ought to be
try and come round in the
morning."
Dove found the wind so h
turned that she could har
against it. The cold, too,
penetrating quality; exh
vitality.
Iknow it's down to ze
"Oh how I hate zero! Pe
we shall feel nothing oF it
Thus encouraged, she s
knee-deep in the snow, an
by the wind in a drift at t
steps; but Dove was nothi
so she clambered up the
and slid down to the porch
Presently the doctor ar
very cross ; very tired a.nad
not cheerful of either inval
had about 200 patients wait
now here was the blizzard
worse; for 4t is an enethy
kept out by brick and sto
like an icy ghost through th
ciliates round and round th
appears as though one sto
and stoves and furnaces gar
wind was pelting the snow
agbanst the windows, throu
ed, though the outer panes
keep out draughts.
"It's a regular blizzard,"
'The thermometer has been
It ie ten below zero now.
the windows with blankets
cold air. Keep up the te
degrees day and night."
- The doctor ran down sta
his sleigh and drove up ID s
Ids two hundred cases of Gr'
to hold up his head for pail
Dove went to work with
ladder, ha.mrner and nails,
watch over the open stave a
blazed cheerily, burning in
as coal always, does during
weather. To her discomfit, u
thermometer very obstinat
the fifties, and she ran dow
on the hall stcve "full dri
-closed all the doors except
ID tlae two invalids, and p
incessant work for one or ot
noon was drawing to a close
ized her very serious positi
hthrhad
tobitzte.e house since
in
morning.
SheShe went into her room,
tilating pane, and for a sec
• the street. There were no s
in fact not a human being
:The street was simply a sn
would be an utter impossibi
get as far as the end of th
phone for help.
The last of the coal was i
thefi.re'and there was no <
-More, Dove understood nov
- aimed.= old-fashioned houa
to be kept in a shed some tu
theikitehen door. She ran
leek at Van self-feeding stay
'rate, was gooa for another
liaed.
buutst- thesupply upstairs w
The registering thertnomet
indicated thirty below zero,
- -degrees below freezing pie
- :cold which only the robust d
- and combat without exhaust:
mometer in the sick roomwas
&all Dove's pains, still in
permit the fire to go dow:
, teektain death to the invalid..
elIe, Dove
passe efl0d Madame aspas
no eoa
:0--;40 matt mamtantedemtheliere is l
osisheaelie. " shall
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