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Carpets,
Stair Carpet.
Window Carpet.
Window Holland.
Lace Curtains, 40e. to $5
per set.
Art Muslin, bleached and
colored.
Tabling.
Cretonnes.
Salisbury Cloth.
Verona Cords.
Printed Challies.
Wool Delaines.
Pink andeream Cashmere
and everyother shade
Nuns' Veilings.
Net Veilings.
Navy and bl'k DressSerges
Lawn Victorias.
Lawn checks.
Blouse stripes.
Flan.neletts7-17 patterns.
Shaker Flannels.
Carpet warp.
Weaving warp.
Black Dress Silk.
Black Sateens.
Velvets and Plashes.
Brown Holland.
Yalises.
Lunch Baskets.
Churns.
Butter Trays and Ladles.
Washtubs.
Crockery.
Glassware.
Hardware. -
Patent Medicineg.
Top Onions'.
Potato Onions.
Dutch sets.
Garden Seeds
Brushes, e.11 kinds.
Washing Soda.
Whiting.
Kam Oil.
entine.
Castor 011, by the ib.
Stone Crocks.
Earthenware Crocks.
Wilk Pans.
Milk Pails.
Wash Boilers.
Tea Kettles.
do copper.
Dish Pans.
Felt Hats, just to hand.
Straw Hats for 500 heads.
Lace Frillings.
Ties and Collars.
Top Shirts.
Dress Shirts.
Scissors.
Knives mid Forks.
Spools.
Teapots.
Canned Goods.
Plow Lines.
Bed Cords.
Marbles.
Wire Clotheslines.
Baby Carriages.
Croquet.
Spices.
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unions Triniiiph Over Disease Without Medi- ,- - feelar.ate s non
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Gas was first made in England about
1792, and for many years was used only to
illuminate the residences of royalty and the
nobility. It is now so plentiful and cheap
that as much employment is found for it in
cooking as in illumination.
Curved stereotype plates were invented
in 1815, but were little used for half a cen-
tury after that date. Since 1865 they have
co,..ie into general employment in every
newspaper office in the country whose ed-
ition is printed on a fast steam press.
The first almanac was printed in Hungary
in 1470. One medical firm in this country
now prints and circulates over 3,000,000 a
year, and it is estimated that the total
number printed annually in this country
does not fall short of 150,000,000.
Needles were first made with very rude
machinery in 1545. At that date a workman
did well if he turned out ten a day. It is
estimated that the present product of the
United States exceeds 80,000,ta 0 a year,
while England makes 110,000,000.
The first forks made in England were
manufactured in 1608. Their use was rid-
iculed by the men of the time, who argued
that the English race niust be degenerating
when a knife and a spoon were not sufficient
for table use. Last year a Sheffield firm
made over .4,000,000.
Tobacco was discovered in 149. In 1892
the United States raised 565,755,000 pounds
on 757,326 acres of ground. In 1884 the
world's production was 768,000 tons on
2,029,000 acres. In 1892 there were manu-
factured in the United States 2,877,779,440
cigarettes.
Carpets were brought from the East in
1589. At first they were made by hand,but
the development of machinery in their man-
ufacture is such that one English firm makes
400,000 a year. There are said to be in this
country over 70,000,000 daily!trodden by the
feet of our population.
Calico printing was invented in 1670. The
number of yards annually manufactured is
too great for computation. One girl of 12
years employed in the Lancashire mills will
make 35 yards a day, and in a year can turn
out enough to clothe 1200 persons in India
for the same lengthof time.
The electric light was invented in 18 46
and as late as 1876 was pronounced by a high
scientific authority "a pretty toy," and the
prediction made that it would never be any-
thing else. At present over 200 cities and
thousands upon thousands of offices and
dwellings are lighted by means of electric-
ity.
The American post office was put in
operation in 1710. Last year there were
447,51 miles of mail routes and 67,119
post offices. The revenues of the depart-
ment were $70,930,475. There were carried
3,800,000,000 letters. The world's annual
mail comprises 8,000,000,000 letters and
5,000,000,000 papers.
The shoe -pegging machine was invented in
1853. By its aid it is estimated that the
labor of one man can turn out 393 pairs of
shoes a day. One factory near Boston
makes more shoes every year than the 32,-
000 shoemakers of Paris. In 1880 3100
shoe machines were at work,producing 150,-
000,000 pairs of shoes a year.
Rreech-loading rifles were invented in 1811,
but did not come into general use for many
years. It is estimated that over 12,000,000
are now in actual service in European
armies, while 3,000,000 more are reserved
in the arsenals for emergencies. Statisti-
cians say that there are 100,000,000 guns of
all kinds in the world.
Morse's telegraph was made practical in
1837. The Western Union now has 739,-
105 miles of wire and sends 62,000,009 mes-
sages a year. The world's business is trans-
acted partly by means of 246,000,000 mes-
sages sent every year. In 1881 there were
in Europe 41,150 telegraph offices. The
world in 1.888 had 767,800 miles of tele-
graph wires.
Acid etching was first done in 1512.
Little practical use was made of the process,
however, until about twenty years ago,
when it was improved to such an extent
that "process reproductions" became the
cheapest means 'of preparing illustrations
for the prem. At present this method is in
use in the art departments of publishing
firms, magazines and newspapers.
Coal first came into use in England in
• 1234. During the last ten years there
were produced 11,086,000,000 tons; and
coal fields have been discovered in every
country in the world. It is estimated, that
the coal fields now known will supply the
constantly increasing demand for 1000
years, which will give the world time to
look round and either discover more or
find a proper substitute.
The harvester was invented by McCor-
mick in 1831. Since that time this machine
has been brought to such perfection that,
it is said, it will cut and bind an acre of
grain in forty-five minutes. To such an
extent- has machinery superseded hand
work in the grain farms, of the Northwest
that it is estimated that the labor of one
man will raise enough gram to support a
thousand men for a year, while the labor
of a second will transport it to market,
and that of a third will prepare it for
food.
Ingenious Chinese Thievel•
It is doubtful if any country in the world.
can produce more ingenious thieves than
can China. An inventory was recently
made of the stock of rifle barrels in the
_Arsenal by the Nanking authorities and it
was found that a large number had dieap-
peered. - It was clear there had been a rob-
bery, but how the thieves got the barrels'
out of the Arsenal was a mystery. No one
is idlowed to enter or leave the place with-
out being carefully searched. A watch was
set and the mystery was cleared up. The
coolies engaged in carrying packages in and
out of the Arsenal used long bamboostick
as carriers. The _sticks are hollow',and
when the opportunity presented itself the
• coolie -slipped in a rifle barrel and hoisted
his package on his stick and went out un -
1 te•After he had denosited his
r hewouldhiasticle at a Ter
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The French Army prefers Irish horses
for its cavalry.
The average life of a ship is about twenty-
six years.
The progeny of a pair of rabbits, in ten
years, will number 70,000,000.
A base -ball player in Independence, Kan-
sas, can throw a ball 290 feet.
The room in which the great Napoleon
died is now occupied as a stable.
The otter excels every animal in swim-
ming. Its speed is superior to that of
many fishes.
Newfoundland is without reptiles. No
snake, frog, toad, or lizard has even been
there.
A three-legged chicken attracts many
visitors to the farm of John Owens, in
Bucora, Washington.
The horse -cars of New York city annu
ally carry 225,000,000 passengers. Ther e
are nineteen street railr ads in the metrop-
olis.
There are just forty inhabitants in the
little French hamlet of Anmone, and
twenty-four- of them are over eighty years
of age.
The smallest tree in the world is the
Greenland birch. Its height is less than
three inches, yet it covers a radius of two
or three feet.
A device for stopping a, trolley car,
which is running at full speed, within the
space of three feet, has been invented by a
man in Rochester.
The whale moves through the water with
a velocity which, if continued at the Same
rate, would enable him to 'encircle the
whole earth in less than fourteen days.
• All the school -teachers in Canton, Mass.,
twenty-six in number, have been invited
by Augustus Heneenway, of that town, to
visit the World's Fair, at his expense.
An application of bruised bean leaves -
gives almost instant relief from the effects
of ivy poison. A decoction of dried
bean leaves is also a remedy for the same
trouble.
Silken fabrics should never be kept fold-
ed in white paper. The chloride of
lime which is used to bleach the paper
causes a chemical change in the silk, and
injures the color.
The American musquito has crossed the
Atlantic, is entertaining itself to its heart's
content on the blue blood of England, and
is getting in its fine work most effectively.
It is asserted that since the earthquake
in South Carolina the soil in Berkley County I,
has been more productive than ever before.
Professor Newman, of Clemson College, ac-
counts for this on the theory that the earth-
quake provided better drainage than pre-
viously existed.
A stupid office -boy in Bangor was direct-
ed to take to the stable a livery team which
his employer had just used. He brought
the team to the wrong stable, where it
remained for a week. The owner of the
stab'e has sent in a bill for the board of
the horses, and the owner of the horses
wants pay for the use of • the team for a
week.
•
A big rancher of Texas, whose scheme
for exterminating coyotes by inoculating
them with the mange was mentioned not
long ago, reports that the plan promises
success. His. plan is to catch wolves or
coyotes in a trap and put them in a corral
with a dog affected with the mange and afte
they have become affected to turn them
loose to spread the disease. It is said the
disease is incurable. The rancher has in-
fected and turned loose about twenty
coyotes and wolves in this way in three or
four months. He has not yet found any
dead wolves but he has trapped several
that had the disease in an advanced stage,
from which he concludes that it is spread-
ing. He says nothing but a carnivorous
animal will take the disease and consequent-
ly there is no danger to stook in spreading
it. Wolves and coyotes have greatly in-
creased in recent years in spite of all at-
tempts to clean them out and stockmen are
watching Mr. Campbell's scheme with great
interest.
BUILDING VIATERIAL.
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Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty Wrought, Cut and.
Wire Nails, Spikes, Tools of all kinds, in.
• great Profusion at
Elul r lie n r y s
7,4t:
49- Fordw-ich.
Hardw-a_re
Store,
full stock of all kinds of Hardware. No
Ineed to go to the "big towns," for we have
'everything. Come and deal at a first-class
house, where goods are way down chear. . Immense line of
ALABASTINE for the walls, in all colors.
Tinsmithing and Repairing a Speciality
• An elegant stock of
1300FTS AND 31-10=S
P. H. SHAVER'S, GORRIE,
Something choice in
Gents''Walking Shoes,
Ladies' Lace Boots,
Boys' and Girls'
Boots and Shoes.
II have the choicest leather in stock and make a speciality of ordered work. Pe
fect fits guaranteed.
'REPAIRING PROMPTLY _DONE.
Dainty Work m anship of Old.
That minute mechanical construction can
lay claim to considerable antiquity is evi-
denced by the works of Pliny and Adrain,
who relate that Myrmicides constructed
out of ivory a ship with all her appurten-
ances and a chariot with four wheels and
four horses, both so small that a bee, could
hide either of them with its wings. A
still more wonderful work is that of Mark
Scaliot, a London locksmith, who in 1570,
manufactured a lock consisting of eleven
different pieces of steel, iron and brass
which, together with the key belonging to
it, only weighed one grain. • The same
artist constructed a chain of gold containing
forty-three links, which he fastened to the
lock and key, and upon these being attach-
ed to the neck of a flea the insect was able
to draw them with ease. A cherry stone
carved by the Italian sculptor, Rossi, con-
tained a glory of sixty saints. Another,
shown at Mechlin, in Brabant, was carved
in the form of a basket, in which were
fourteen pairs of dice, the spots on the latter
being visible to the naked eye. A still
more marvellous curiosity was a set of six-
teen hundred ivory dishes which were said
to have been purchased by one Shad from
the maker, Oswald Northingerns, and ex-
hibited before Pope Paul VI. These dainty
turnings, though perfect in every respect,
were scarcely visible to the naked eye, and
could be easily enclosed in a casket the
size of a peppercorn. Twenty-five wooden
cannons, capable of being packed away in
the same space, were made by a priest. In
1764, on the birthday of King George III.,
watchniaker of London named Arnold,
presented himself before the king to ex-
hibit a curious repeating watch of his
manufacture. This watch was in diameter
somewhat less than a silver two -pence,
contained one hundred and twenty distinct
parts, and weighed altogether less than six
pennyweights.
Ad. Vertiser-7-." We want a man who
knows both -how to -keep his mouth closed
and how to stave off' the curious." Appli,
cant-`1,1201ink I-wonld suit you; I used to
be clerk W60110,0:41 btreq.u."
‘iltiat.-makolitke„Ateathersouncertain?':
said the man with his;eoitt,*bnifoned up to.
hiskin._ 'jar guess the thermometer must
haVetakeira,s1rop too much," replied his
F. M. SHAATFic
HERE
ARE 'YOU
MOVING TO ?
We are going to
CJI 1 3P 1PDEWA
Co., Michigan, near Sault
Ste Marie.
WHY DO YOU GO THERE ?
Well, we have .five boys,
eve have sold the farm for $5,
000., We can buy 640
acres between Pick-
ford and the Railway
station at Rudyard,
and have a good farm
for each of the .boys
and have money left.
What can a renter do there?
He can buy a farm on five years time
and pay for it with one-fourth of the
money he would pay for rents in that
time, and own his own home.
• Is it good land ?
• As good as .any in
Huron Co.,. Excellent
or Oats, Peas, Wheat
Clover, Timothy, -Po-
toes and all kinds of
koots. Prices are as good as any on the
lakes, owing to the nearness of the
Mines and lumber woods to the west-
ivaxd.
What class of people live there ?
• They are nearly all from Huron Co.
Yon meet there so many old neighbors
tihat yon can hardly believe you have
left home.
I want to see that land. Who has it
tor,sale ? Inquire of .
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SASH AND DOOR FACTORY.
H. S. SMITH & CO.
T_TAVE fitted up the Wroxeter Planing Mill
"with new machinery throughout and are now
prepared to furnish
Iloors9
and an kinds of House Furnighings.
• PLANING AND MATCHING.
• DONE PBOMP TLE
Only first-class work turned'
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Two Chieng1
Voyage Acr
Slays of a S
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men. NV, and P.
afternoon had
will not forget
the clay they w
and takinc.a s
Hanlan's point,
spenu. the ciay.
rowing about
steamer Al avfio
discharged ier
men come alon
steamer would
rowed about b
boat, when L.0 1,1
SURP
the hug P paddle
turning and the
was no time to
row, but the ste
in that there w
the oars to be us
tion the elder o
caught hold of
diately in front
bracing his feet
boat managed w
his craft, in wh.
from being suck
been certain de.
stayed, for they
send them to
Wilson, in the
D
for fear his bro
the boat. It a
increase in the s
trol of the boat
lost. Half th
was accomplish
the steamer inc
a sharp turn so
street wharf, th
moment it was
passengers and
has been rela
though the boy
one seems to ha
As the steamer
of the bcat, wh
RAPI
the huge padd
the position his
him to clutch t
great -effort
himself from a
body dragged •
wheel for some
himself up on
boat arrived at
to the lads. T
ever, and the
get them out.
soon, for both
WERE
They were e
of the Ferry Co
They were take
where their wl
When the Mayl
bad their boots
were lost along
crushed into spl
his ccat. In th
money they had
supply of boot
proceeded to se
would do for t
pany for all th
The crushed b
Lifeboat crew.
W. Wilson,
to a reporter t
in from Chicag<
spent the night
seen the Chical
Toronto to see I
shape of an ext
Domestic
The conseque
mestic servanti
abolition of sh
last British con
de Sul. It app
the male and fe
their master's
ing at the lati
evening, and w
eight in the mo
houses have a
windows takei
baker and mill
their early more
a member of th
the door. It
for a good coo
ing not later th
she may be abl
and go home e
demands are n
without any n
no law of mast
wages average
and the servan
every night t
These servants
and are nearly
of all their dr
preferred to
have nearly
blacks. Some
and German I
sdeernvi ctetic,1
anbuthtetl
scarcity of do
of factories w
in which fair n
ere can get tre
servant with e
It would see
graceful walk'
the lost scien
accomplishme
proaeh to perf
is the foundat
succeeds in p
means of their
walking. An
body should
down, chest e
from the hip,
immovable.
is said to be
combined wit
shoes and hig
in a most
brisk walk is
miles results
When mee
shakes his*