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7a $3)......Charlottctown..... lf 10 230

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Trains are run by Eastern Standard Time D. POTTINGER, Gen Mgr Can Govt Railways Moncton, N B. A. McDONALD, Superintendent, Charlottetown.

dec2s TIME TABLE YOR STEAMER SOUTH PORT. The steamer S uth port will ply on the

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Will leave Prince Street wharf for East River en Saturday at 5 a. m. leaving Hayden’s Wharf for Char- lottet at 7.30 a. m., calling at Hag- ” : ; a > et garty’s and Hickey’s wharves making re- turns trip at 3 p. m. from Prirtee St.

T steamer will run to Mount Stewart every alternate week as the tides may suit. WEST RIVER.

Ch’town for West River Bridge, Thursday, at 4 p m, calling at West when required. Friday mern- ing g West Liver Bridge for Ch’tcwn at 7.30, calling at Westville, making re turn trip from Chtown to West River Br t o’clock, p. m.

ROCKY POINT FERRY.

Leave Char town for Rocky Point l Sunday excepted)—6.30, 8 and 10 4 2 n; 2, 4 and 6 p m.

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A French Physician Dectarcs Ut Has Vranee the Lives of 6,090,000 Soldiers.

A highly interesting study of what 160 years of war have cost France wm human life has just been made public by Dr. Lagneau, member of the Aca- demy of Medicine of Paris, and is found in the Lancet. When the revolution Lroke out, France's effective army was only 120,000 men. For the wars waged during the 10 years in Belgium, on the Sambre, the Meuse, the Rhine, the Alps, the Pyrenees, in the Vendee and in

izypt there were called out 2,800,009. At the last census made in the ninth year of the republic-there remained of these only 677,598. In killed and in dead by disease the wars of the first republic eost france 2,122,402 men. From 1801 to Waterloo 3,157,398 men scarcely sufficed to fill the blanks which, in an inces- war against combined Europe, France incurred at Austerlitz, Jena, Auerstadt, Friedland, Saragossa, Smol- ensk, Moscow, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dres- den, Leipzig and Waterloo. Under the restoration, Louis Philippe, and the sec-

ond republic, in spite of the war in Spain (1823), the conquest of Algiers (1330), and the taking of Antwerp.

France passed through a period of com- parative calm. The army numbered about 213,748, and the mortality aver- aged 22 per 1,000. In 1853-5 commenced tire epoch of the great wars—the Crimea, Italy (1859-69), China (1860-1), Mexico GS862-6}, and the disasters of 1870. In the Crimea, out of 300,268 men 95,615 suc- cumbed ; in Italy, out of 500,000 there died 18.673 ; in China, 950 ; and in Cochin China 48 per 1,000. The second empire eost France about 1,600,000 soldiers. Ac- cording to Dr. Lagneau’s demographic tebles the century from 1795 to 1895 wit- nessed the death in battle or by disease ot 6,900,000 French soldiers.

Living a in Japonaise.

I do not know of anything more sim- Pler and more delightful than house- keeping in Japan—if you live a la Japon- aise.. I myself determined to try it, and, having found a suitable spot to settle in, on the highest hill in Tokio, I pro- ceceded to engage a native servant, who was also to be my adviser as to how to furnish my establishment in strictly Japanese fashion. The furnishing was completed in les than ten minutes, and here are some of the principal items of which it consisted :-—Two foutangs or thin mattresses, between which one Hes at night, and a makura, a wooden pil- low, or rather an instrument of tor- tare for the first few nights, furnished niy bedroom ; a hibachi, or brass braz- fer, with chopsticks to stir the fire with, and a water kettle made the hall couy ; and a little lacquer table, a foot squre and about six inches, with a couple of tiny little plates and a bowl, made the dining-room quite complete and replete with every comfort. Two silk cushions were placed in the sitting- reom for distinguished guests to sit on.

“Ah,” said I to my servant, “but do you not think that I shall need some- thing more ?” as to my European mind what I had purchased seemed some- what insufficient to furnish a twelve- rcomed house.

“No, sir,” said he in his broken En- glish, “real Japanese gentlemen has no furniture.”” Upon which I began to feel rather scrry to have emulated the “Japan gentleman.” Still, I thought I would go on for the fun of the thing, and, though I must confess as I went around my new abode my rooms did not look overfurnished, I decided to make the best of what I had got. It ts astonishing with how little one can do if one tries, and how much better pen- ury is than profusion. When a couple of days had elapsed I almost began to feel that I had furnished my house too richly ! I could certainly have done with a deal less.—Fortnightly Review.

He Smoked 638.713 Cigars

The Paris newspapers tell of a pecu- liar old man who died at Vienna early fn March in his seventy-third year. They call him the most exact man of whom there is record. From his twenty- seventh year he kept accurate account of all he bought and what he paid for it. A few days before his death he made up his books to show just wh-* eating, drinking and wearing clothes had cost him during his last fifty-six years. The totals show that in this period he wore out eighty-five pairs of trousers and seventy-four coats and vests, for which he paid $8,000. He had beught 208 shirts and 306 collars, valued at $300. His omnibus fare was $208. In the twenty-seven years of his con- vivial life he consumed 28,786 glasses of beer. He gave up drinking in his forty-fourth year, but he continued to smoke constantly, even during his last sickness, raising the number of his cigars to 628,713, or an average of 11,217 a year. Of the whole number some 43,- 509 were given him ; he bought the rest for $12,500, or 2 cents each.

This exact old man took most pride in his socks, which were of the best silk and most expensive make, costing usual- ly $4 50 a pair. He wore out but sixty- two pairs between his twenty-seventh and seventy-third years, or hardly more than a pair a year.—Chicago Inter- Ocean,

The Cost of Confettl.

‘very one who has been in a Contin- ental city at carnival time has seen the “confetti” which are thrown about in the mimic warfare in the streets. The making and selling of these tiny paper pellets constitutes an industry of some little importance. It is estimat- ed that the Parisians alone spend £24,- 000 sterling, or 606,000 francs, upon them every year. Great fluctuations take place in the selling price. When the fun is at its fastest, and purchasers are eager, the price is as much as a franc and a half kilogramme, or say eightpence a pound English; but to- wards the end of the carntval holders are glad to dispose of them at 70 cen- times a kilogramme, or less than half the former price. The total weight of confetti sold in Paris this year has been estimated at 500,000 kilogrammes, or over 1,000 tons.-~London Daily News.

A Curtous Fad,

The Count of Montesquieu, a wealthy and eccentric French nobleman, in- habits a splendid villa in the neighbor- hood of Paris, chiefly remarkable for its magnificent conservatory, which is used as a banqueting hall. Creeping among the plants in this winter garden are to be seen a number of little tortoises, which their eccentric owner has had enamelled and studded with precious stones.—Buntes Allerlet.

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ODD LAWS !N ALL COUNTRIES FOR UNDOING MARRIAGE TIES. ~

Grewth of Divorce in France—Queer

Burmese and Chinese Customs—Distin- cuished Romans Who Cast off Tixeir Wives—England and Switzerland.

The question of divorce seems to be agi- lating pretty nearly every civilized coun- try in the world just now,-says the New York World. The French statisticians have tackled the subject, and show the extent to which diveree has grown in France. From IsSt to 1894 applications for divorces in France have exceeded 45,000, of which #,- 000 have been granted.

M. Naquet, in urging the passage of the divorce law in France, optimistically pre- dicted that it would prevent many rup- tures, and that married couples would remain more firmly united from the fact that their tie would not be compulsory.

Unfortunately, exactly the contrary was the result. The first year after the law was passed showed 1,700 divorces; last year there were over 8,000. When separa- tions alone were permitted they only reached 3,000. While in 188 the propor- tion was only one in 1,000, to-day it is twenty-five in 1,000.

From the history of divorce it appears that the proportion of unhappy marriages increases from the day divorce is legalized in a country. It appears among people of the highest civilization at the period of their decadence; from that time can be dated a retrograde movement in morals.

The Bible says that if a man after mar- rying a woman and living with her con- ceives a disgust of her, for some shameful fault, he shall draw out a decree of divorce, and, putting it into the woman's bands, shall send her out of his house. Vhis was not always easily accomplished, because the majority of people did not know how to write, and the Levite or priest whom they consulted could refuse to grant their application if he saw fit.

in Egypt the laws authorized no divorce except in certain cases. Infidelity was punished severely; the man received 1,000, stripes and the woman’s nose was cut. In

of a marriageable age was held once a year. The untying of these knots was even more simple.

Confucius, writing on Chinese laws, established seven cases of repudiation, among Which it appears that the wife could be put aside for excessive gossip or for not getting along with her father or mother-in-law. But there was this pro- viso: ‘‘The husband is advised to retain her if she will wear mourning for her mother-in-law for three years.’’ As a matter of fact, the Chinese resort to the

widow marrying a second time in the utmost contempt. what similar to that of the Hindoos in former years, when the widows flung themselves on the burning woodpiles up- on which their husbands’ bodies were being consumed.

India recognizes certain causes for divorce. Up to the commencement of this century a childless Hindoo was per- mitted to lend his wife to a brother or other male relative in order to have child- ren. In Burmah the women when marry- ing do not take their husbands’ names, but retain their own, with the addendum of ‘‘wife of So and Sv.’’ This makes it convenient for them to assume their pre- vious status in public knowledge when they come to be divorced, as they are very likely to be, for divorce is easy in that country.

In Greece the main idea in marrying was to bring children into the world, males especially, for the good of the country; hence the great facility offered for break- ing the marriage tie in case of sterility. The legislators recognized the right of divorcee. At Athens divorce could be ob- tained by demand of one of the parties or by mutual consent. The case was argued before a tribunal. The parties on being freed were expressly forbidden to marry with a person younger than them- selves. Grecian wives convicted of break- ing the Seventh Commandment, were put to death, after having their hair cut off and their heads coyered with hot ashes.

This barbarous costume was also adopt- ed in Rome after the conquest of Carth- age and Corinth. The Romans, being masters of the world, only thought of re- velling in their riches, and cut them- selves adrift from the austere rules of virtué, which has been theirs for cen- turies. Civil marriages and religious mar- riages were little by little cut into by divorce, which spread to such an extent as to almost suppress marriage. Nearly every cause was admitted—infidelity, sick- ness, old age, drunkenness, poison (which was very prevalent), going into the church, the army, and, lastly, mutual consert. The husband had the right to demand a divorce if tie wife obtained false keys to the cellar, or if she went ‘‘ondding’’ to the theatre or circus to the neglect of her household duties.

All these reasons were but pretexts, after all. The virtuous Cato obtained a divorce in order to marry Marcia, Scilla remarried with a woman whom he met at the circus, Cicero repudiated his wife to take Publilia, whose riches would en- able him to pay off all his creditors; Caesar and Antony contracted four suc- cessive marriages; Pompey went as far as five. Juvenal felt justified in saying that faithful spouses were as rare as ‘‘white crows,’’ or, as We say to-day, as ‘‘white blackbirds.’

The law of Mahomet admits of divorce —though itis very little resorted to by the Mahometans—but exacts four months’ reflection on the part of the hus- band before sending the letter of repudia- tion, which in this case is called tetoik boin—a temporary repudation is called {etoik rid jee, which is used as a forewarn- ing.

The nation which grants fewest divorces is England. A special court—the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Cases—copes with all matrimonial difficulties. Divorce ean be obtained for ‘‘criminal conversa- tion,’’ and is denied for personal injuries and neglect. A rupture of the marriage tie is granted only for infidelity, and this is known to the court as the “specific remedy. "’

Switzerland grants more divorces than any other country. Sinee the Federal law of 1874 was passed the proportion has risen from for:y-seven toa thousand. In Sweden since 1831, in Holland since 1851 and in Saxony since the Federal law of 1875 the proportion has doubled and even tripled. In Belgium it has multiplied six- fold.

Quite a Different Matter,

Miss Blanc (contemptuously)—That’s a nice looking watch; did you have to buy a suit of c'othes to get that?’

John Ware (reflectively)}—No; on the contrary, I had to sell one.—Harvard SS ——

A Coo! Deed.—“I saw a coo] deed this morning,” remarked Fangle at the supper table. “‘What was it?” asked his wife with interest. “The title to an ice house,” replied the wretch.

First twin—This is my birthday.

Aunt Jennie—And isn’t it brother Wil- lie’s, too ?

“Nope. Ilicked him and made him give his half up to me.”

Maternal Solictitude--Head Surgeon at the Hospital: “I must tell you, my good woman, that your son will be compelled to

have his leg taken off.” Anxious Mother — “Ob, dear! Then what canI do with his other boot ?”

DIVORCE CURIOSITIES. |...

Babylon a public auction of all the girls |

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beautiful flowers in the world are mem- bers of the orchid family, and among them all the most wonderful is the fam- ous Espiritu Santo, or Flower of the Holy Ghost. Have you ever seen this marvel- ous blossom?

Some of you may, perhaps, in the greenhouse or in a collection of orchids, but it isa rare sight even there, and is seldom seen in all its beauty except in its native land. It was there that I saw it first, on the Isthmus of Panama.

It is not a common plant, being found in certain sections only and in isolated clumps. It does not like high, dry soils, but low, marshy spots springing up from logs or from crevices in the rocks.

To describe this beautiful flower, after a fashion, is easy enough, but to fully real- ize its peculiar leveliness and the marvel- ous accuracy of its shape one must see it. The larger and older bulbs frequently snd up leaf stalks six or seven feet in height. and from these, which are joined, broad lanceolated leaves are thrown out in pairs.

The plant is an annual, and in June, July and August the flower stalks start up from the base of the bulh, devoting all their energies to the formation of the buds. The buds are arranged on the stalks much like those of the hyacinth, the usual number for a well-grown stalk to bear being from twelve to fifteen. The leaves are yery pale green in color, as though in harmony with the delicate purity of the blossom.

The blossom is of alabaster whiteness, much like the old-style English pulpit. This, of itself, is strikingly curious, but it fades into insignificance when one looks into the centre of that strange blossom, fcr there, nestling in its very heart, is the perfect image of a dove. It requires no imagination to see it. Noone could mis- take it for anything else, for no human skill could fashion its shape more perfect- ly, no artist could adorn it with more delicate tints, and no perfumer could en- dow it with a more delicate fragrance.

Right in the cup of the blossom, with the snow-white canopy about it, rests this wondrous image, its delicately mold- ed wings drooping, half extended at its side, its gold-tinted head bent slightly forward, and its tiny, crimson-tipped bill alinost touching its snowy breast.

And just as the figure of the dove itself is there, beyond dispute, so does an ex- pression pervade the image, an expression that even ihe most careless cannot fail to notice, the very incarnation of humility and spiritual purity.

It is not in the least to be wondered at that the early Spanish Catholics, brought up in ignorant superstition and ever on the watch for miraculous manifes- tations, should have paused, awe-struck, before this strange dweller of the forests and bowed down before it, reverently call- ing it the ‘‘Flor dei Espiritu Santo,’’ or Flower of the Holy Ghost. No wonder, either, that the still more superstitious Indians should have knelt before it, deeming even the ground whereon it grew and the air it perfumed as holy things.

So deeply was this feeling implanted in the hearts of the Indians, and so carefully was it handed down from generation to gencration, that it has only been within a comparatively few years that collectors have been able to trace the precious bulbs

to their native haunts.—Philadelphia Times.

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