te

gs ieee al ee ‘ =

Se airs

> . — re + -"

Se ee

om

Terms :—Five DoLtuars a YEAR.

» + Ba

ee eee i

This is true Liberty, when Free-Born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.--Kuririvers.

Sincie Copies Two CENTS.

NEW SERIES.

is issued every evening by

The Examiner Publishing (o.| From their cflice, corner of Water and Ureat George Streets, Charlottetown,

Prince Edward Island. |

—RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION—

ee. swwhkis ou deal $2.50) SU ida odin tie ce cbke inowee 1.25 | EE bb'eeovbcee 40s 60as phuecs cal 50 |

Advertising at moderate rates Contracts may be made for monthly, quar-| terly. half-yearly, or yearly a ivertisemente, ou application, i | |

WARBURTON & SMALLWOOD, |

NOTICE OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.

| |

The uadersigned have this day eatered into partnership, under the style and firm of | Warburton and Smallwood,

f

Barristers, Attorveys-at-Law, ; . . Notaries Public, dc. | Office—Cameron Block, Qaeen Square, ' 4. B, WARBURTON, B.A, B.C.L. | C, R. SMALLWOOD. | + . os e@ The firm are Agents for the Equitable | Life Assurance Society of the United States, which does the largest business of any Life| Insurance Company in the world. Dec. 3—law wky 3 mo

Bistal L. ARTHUR & CO.

GHENHRAL Commission Merchants,

121 ATLANTIC AVENUE, | BOSTON, MASsS.|

ei:

Eggs and Produce a Specialty. |

July i5—dly wkly

en

Bw) Cae 3

S

eg

EHOUSE, 83 QUELN STREET.

———— Re a

FALL AND Wi5InATER STOCK,

NOW COMPLETE IN. EVERY. DEPARTMENT,

UNSURPASSED FOR VALUE!

Ch’tewn, Nov. 19

# EVERYONE CAN

call and examine the largest stock of Household Furniture, &c., &c., ever shown in Charlottetown, and also discover that they

SAVE MONEY

and get Good, Reliable Home-made Goods of andisputed value, fine finish and good honest workmanship

BY BUYING

| Staple Furniture, Bedding, Mattresses, Fancy Goods (for Xinas),

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1886 Che Daily Examiner! —-— aT eal fn talane pak cnn aes y Examiner 2] Pp T |

ee Ee

a

ene ame

| Nature's Agent-in-Chief. call electricity. It has been called a fluid oe simply because it flows, but recent investi- ‘gations do not attribute to electricity the common notion of a fluid, viz, that of a flowing substanes., It may be valy a force, a form of motion, as is the wind, or it ma be a very, or perhaps the most, subtle substance permeating matter. One thing ‘is certain, electricity has not yet fuily revoaled itself to the scientific mind. Asa channel Sof investigation it will be open to advancing thought for centuries to come, and may, and mors probably — will, demonstrate many mieconceptions of its nature, its uses, and its design. Just here it may be well to explain to our younger readers the difference between a fluid and a ‘liquid. As terms,the one comes from fluo, to flow,the other from liqueo, tomeit. Water is 4 fluid, by virtue of 1ts capacity for flowmg, but is also a liquid, becauge it is melted ice. Load, at a temperature of (say) 320 degrees, becomes # liquid and is flaid, but there ar other substances, as the gases, which are fluids only, and the distinction may perhaps be best exprossed by explaining that @ fluid ‘proper does not depend apon the melting | process, that ic to say temperature, for its fluidity, while, a liquid always presupposes previous. solidification. Eiectricity is perhaps the best type of fluidity now known and as he jonrneyed from Miletus to Crete &? Science, but it is quite within the range and Eyypt, observing the handy work of, of pussibilities that some day it will elude nature, “en went, and bent on discover- | 1'S present definitions and inform our dis-

BY ©, B. BAGSTER.

Tuv New Year’s fact that Charlottetown is fallen into line with this advocates of

electric lighting, seems to have awikoned a very general interest throughout the Island upon the subject. The whole world inde d, jfor that matter, is on its knees at the shrine of Eleetros, and multiplying their offerings lof ingennity to evoke his beneficence, andy /scal his power to their uses. The subject of

ELECTRICLTY,

nature’s agent-iu-chief, may well occupy some of our attention, for it is destined to | become a revelation of energy, mere mag- nificent than any of its predecessors, and give birth to many wonders of which the brain of man has never yet dreamed.

Bat let ag look back before we proceed Let us’sit down in imagination with Thales, who Was one sf the seven sages, living 600 years before the Christian era, and who took up all the inquiries about the material and physical worla that floated round him in his day. Ths ‘grand point of enquiry among the disciples of Thales was to ascer- tain what was the first principle of ali things in the universe, (among us, it is, | how will it come out in dollars and cents,)

ing new t@mths, it is interesting to note °OY°* how little was really known about it that it wage his genius, in all probabi'ity, | chis nineteenth century. Many of the that first perceived | wonderfal effects from it have been

lites Pad a beds ii | sufliciently learned however, and turned to

> Sper amber Cart & gonlen ray” |good aceount too in the industries of the and subjecting a piece of the fossilised world, to make us certain of great results in vegetable juice to frietion on his sleevo,!the near future, the measure of which is found that it discharged whatis now known) beyond Wuthids’ Gelictlatiod:- and? ‘the as negative-electricity, but it took twenty-|yaine beyond comprehension. at four ceniuries to link that germ of dis- | us look at the enfoldment of the sciénce covery with the invention of Carbon points |. jittle further. — Its path is studded, with to produce electric lighting. . Just twenty-| the names of great men, It has been alike four centuries from Thales the sage observer ithe toy and the hope of thousands before (B. C. 600) to Humphry Davy, the in-!y:, Wish, as the electric eel, have had it ventor, (A. D. 1800. ) 4 OG, 'added to their fish neturé’as' a means of Passing over the intermediate applications! Gefense. Bsetles have been endowed with to the eleetrie principle, viz. : those thas) js as a factor of their welfare. Plants have developed abont anno. 1600 and called | it for their benefit in possession, and man Frictional or static electricity and those | ig fuli of it; everywhere nature is at work that date from anno 1747, familiar to all as} producing " glneiaiela phenomena, and re- the electric telegraph, we come to the his-| yealing to man her mighty aes” wae. tory of the progress made with the electric | tricity always was, but its boundaries can light from its “initial efforts under Huni-/yeyer be known till man caf’ measure the phrey Davy, antio 1802 (when he produced } universe, determine all its motors, and put

electric with @aRon points) to tho partial |¢he truth of things into correct language.

Picture Frames and Moulding, Mantle-mirrors/and Mirror-piates,

lighting of oar Obarlottetown = thorough- fares atter rather an un-civil war with coal gas, which somehow hadn’t light enough to

Yet some advances have been made, many obstacles in the way of discovery have been removed, and man has grappled with diff-

BO S a ON ‘ ‘Bagatelle Boards, Handsome Oil Paintings, Framed Chromos,

jand One Thousand and One other articles,

Fail and Winter Arrangement,

——— oe ee

THE PALACE STEAMERS|

OF THE

INTERNATIONAL $.S. 60. | Ch'town, Deo. 3, °85

Leave St. John for Boston, via Eastport and Port- land, every Monday and Thursday, at 38.00a.m. | Fare from Charlottetown to Boston, 96,50, 2nd | class ; $9.50, Ist class. i For tickets and other information apply to

’

G. A. SHARP, F, W. HALES, P. E.1. R’y, P. E. Ll. Steam Nav. Co.,

or to your nearest Ticket Agent. Nov. 2, 1885—eod wky

CAUTION.

EACH PLUG OF THE

MYRTLE NAVY

IS MARKED

T & B.

IN BRONZE LETTERS. None Other Genuine.

FOR SALE.

TYRIGHTON TANNERY, with its Steam Engine, Boiler, Sp'itting Machine, Stuf fing Machine and other Plant is offered for sale at private contrac: ; The above Tannery was formerly operated by the late Donald \.cKinnon, of the late tivm of McKinnon & Co., of this city. It is fitted up on the most modern principle, and has hitherto paid a large percentage on the | capital invested, To capitalists no better in-| vestment for theic money, either by Bank or Manufactory, can be offered. Possession given immediately. MARY J. MACKINNON,

Executrix.

Oh’town, Oct. 17. 188%

Executors’ Notice.

HE Undersigned Executrix and Fxecu- _ tors of the Tost Will and Testament of the late Donald Mackinnon, of i actontngaal rp tanner, deceased, carrying on busin \ the name and style of “MACKINNON & 0O.,” hereby notify all persous indebted to his estate to make immediate payment to them at his late office, in Grafton Street, in Charlottetowa, aud all persons having elaine or demands against the said estate are hereby required to furnish the same, duly attested, within twelve months from this date,

Dated at Charlottetown, the Qud day of OCTOBER, 1885. : MARY JANE MACKINNON,

Executrix. JAS, CUBRIR, { Exo

FROM

THE P. E, ISLAND FURNITURE WAREROOMS, *

MARK WRIGHT & CO.

-eod wky

Shoddy Boots Played Out.

Get a Pair ef Cur Own Make of Solid Leather Boots—Cheapest and Best. DORSEY, GOFF « CO.

Ch’tewn, Dec. 16, 1835,

NOW THEN FOR

——OFFER OF—

GLOTHING & CENTS’ FURNISHINGS

_—_——_!0:i-——-——-

2 have on hand one case Cloths, one case Gents’ Furnishings, sent by mistake, and sold to us at a big advantagqrather than return them. We are manufacturing

these cloths into

SUITS AND OVERCOATSE,

charging only FIVE PER CENT. OVER COST! and from $4.50 to $6 for making and trimming Overcoats ; from $5 to $7 for making and trimming Suits with Good Trimmings and

GOOD WORKMANSHIP.

9

CLOTH, by the yard or piece, Very Cheap. We have on hand a few Suits end

Overcoats, made to order, not called for

SELLING AT COST.

This ought to convince you that there is money lost if you ‘don't purchase from us, inatead of baying imported clothing. ALL OUR CLOTHING IS MADE ON THE

PREMISES. Ne $3 Overcoats.

The Gustom Tailoring,

under the management of MR. JAMES McLEOD, leads all others for Al work. Prices in this department, will be found lower than ever. Our past record is sufficient

uarantee to secure your future confidence. , A large portion of our Neckwear has been manufactured to our special order, from

patterns that will be found the very thing you want,

D. A.

BRUCE.

72 QUEEN STREFT.

Oot, Ind—law of

Ch’town, Dec. 3, 1886,—e0d wky 2mos

see the (osrion) point. Slowness to dis-! culties till, step by step, he has reached a cover the great sverets of nature is on & point, and a measure of success, that all paraltel with MAT s sl-~ases += Bolieve inl tha aera wiesguiave ao at onca a hieassite them, and thus tie most invaluable facts and a promise. = after they have rapped at the public door | js called for adi@ission; are often so rudely refused, that generations my pass away before an- other genius hours ee en but OnG? Te- | has yet to be learned, but some have guossed cognized as an irresistable trath, resistance | wisely of its nature, and established a good no longer stands in the way, and opposition | basis for future, investigation. We honor ceases, to bo wisdom, Electric lighting.| the men who have done so much for our that m'ght be supposed to rapidly develop | enlightenment, by patient experiment and itself, after the Davy demonstration of | close observatien. We honor'the ingenious 1802, took sixty years to producs the |wechanics who have aided them with ap- magneto-electric light, ‘devised Sy Profes | niianees that raiuced theory to practice sor Holmes, and successfully tried at the | We honor, the .-ontlemen nf the press. for Benth Foree aud Lighthouse at Dover, | their recording advocacy. We honor every England. After this was done, however, | adaptation of it by governments, municipal the French Government (anny 186!) order |}. Aj05 and private individuals. We honor ed eight lighthouses tobe illuminated bY | the gladsonie saile of every countryman, electric light. At the Magasin dq Louvre !as he contemplates the exhibited results of (anno 1877) eight electric lights replaced | city successes. with utilized electricity. 190 carcel gee-Uareue rhe electric | Bat. over ali and above alijet.aa honor the light awas successfully employed by Van | [nfinite mind, why alone has a perfect der Weyde for taking photographs, The’ Knowledge of allihe wonders of his creation gTAMME,,; 500, at this time, gave a light | Dermissively sought out by them who have equal to 758 candle. lu 1878 two of) > ioscure therein Siemen’s dynamo-magneto-electro machines | P . were ordered for the Lizard’s Lighthouses, | THE STORY OF PROGRESS

ne aan a e , At this time (1878) Elis mM, of New York, with electricity is‘an interesting and long announeed his discovery of a method of PtO"| one, biit it may be-briefly told. Iu @ very ducing a great number ofjlights, to be work.-| condensed form ws would offer the follow- ed by water RPPet SS See and this ‘ing leading features of the electric advance. caused ‘a panic among gas companies in jm, begin at the beginning we mast select a London and lowered the price of shares piece of amber, the name Anglicised from Phe electric light was gakven up at Bill- ithe Arabic word ambar, and rubbing it (or ingsgate Market, London, in 1879. Ali, place of it a stick of sealin? wax), we committee of tho English House of Com-) .) 4): percaive that it attracts. mons was appointed, with Dr. Lyon Play- | Pythagoras did so, more than tweaty-four fair as chairman, to consider whether itis jin dred years.ago... This power..to aitract desirable to ane? mupicipsl. corpore- |is due to the presence of negative elce ricily tions, or other local authorities | to adopt! in the amber, and when first observed, a any -seheme for eng by electricity. | fact was established that has led up to all Their report says: “The energy of One | we think we know about itin this year of horse power may be converted into gas-/ grace, 1886. The finer sorts of amber fetch light and yield a luminosity equal to) very ‘high prices. A picee of & pound twelve candle power ; but the sae AMOUNT) eight is considered worth from $50 to $75; of energy, transform vd into electric light, | g5 000 was lately offered in Prussia for a produced 1600 caudle power, , lniece that weighed thirteen pounds, and Scientific witaesses considered that in the! Which an Anmenite tettebaskiesid would future the e ectrie curren§ might be ex’en-|foich in Constantinople from $30,000 to sively used ko transmit power as well 45' $40,000. The largest piece ever found is light to considerable distances, so that the) | oin the Royal Cabinet of Berlin, and _ pitta applied to mechanical purposes) weighs eighteen pounds. The Greek name during the day, might be made available: for amber is e/ectron, from which the word for light during the night. | electricity has been coined.

There seems to be no reason to doubt; The story of Benjamin Franklin flying a that the electric light has eae vo kite during a thunder storm (anno 1752), for lighthouse illumination, and is fitted to jis familiar toal!. The experiment was « illumine large symmetrical places, suc! a8 | success, and proved the identity of light- squares, public halls, railway stations and | ning with the electric spark. oO) workshops. * + GOompared with gas,| The terms **magnet” and ‘‘magnetisin’ the economy for equal illumination does | probably owe their derivation to Magnes, a not yp appear a be conclusively cata} shepherd on Mount Ida, who was Roba fant lished. * * as companies, in the! to the earth by the nails of his boots from opinion of your committee, have no special) standing on er. The Greeks knew claims to a as = the ae aaa tho attractive power of loadstone 1,000 tributors of electric light, - ° our; years B. ©. Roger Bacon (anno 1294 committee, however, do not consider that ) ite that the midea pointed to the alee the time has yet orripad to give general! and almost everybody all round the world powers to private electric companies t°/ now knows what a mariners compass is. booed. # ee streets, unless by consent of Magnetism is the power of the magnet to the local authorities, | attraet iron.

Dr. C. W. Siemen made some interest- | The phenomena of magnetism are divid- ing experiments in 1880, on the effect of| ed into two classes, the one called Terres- the electric light on vegetation, and the trial and the other animal. The former, covclusion arrived at was that it acts pre-| may be explained as, the action of the cisely like solar light. : ' magnetic fluid in or about the earth; the

Space forbids a longer consideration of! other as the action of the magnetic fluid in oe ae of _ a science, but connection with animal life and organized what has been shown will serve toe inform matter. Then there is what is called those to whom the subject is new, anditis ¢lectro-dynamics, a Fcience which treits of hoped, lead them to an enlarged view of the agency of electricity, or yalvanism in the beneficence of ow Heavenly Father, eff. ctung chemical changes. The term who is the author offevery good and perfect palyvanism, resulted from the experiments gift given us richly to enjoy. ‘of Galvani, the Italian philosopher, who

We pass on now to an examination of died auno 1793. Madame Galvani observ

THE ELECTRiC FLUID.

The trues ¢haracter of whav |

ca 7 Thales and

i

the fluid, if, indeed, it is a fluid, that we ec the convulsion in the muscles of fogs

VOL. 18NO. 46,

when brought into contact with two metals (1789) and then Galvani, from these obser- vations laid the foundation of the Galvanic Battery. Bat Galvanism is also colied Voltaic-eléetricity, after the Ltalian yhysi- cist, Volta, who died. anno 1827. He (1773) dise »vered development of eleciric- ity in metallic bodies, and invented the ‘“electrophorus.” The Hydrogen lamp, 1777; and the ‘‘voltaic-pile’* — 1793, composed of discs of zine silver, and moistened card. By the Voltaic pile, Nicholson and Carlisle decomposed waier, aud Dr. Henry decom- posed nitric acid, ammonia, &e, Bherene, the German phycicist, who died anno 1813, fornied a dry pile of eighty pairs of zitie, copper and zine paper (1805) Zamboni, the Ltalian, born 1776, constvneted « dry | pile of paper dises, evated with tim on one | side andjperoxide of mauganess on the other | (1807). Wollaston, President of the Royal | Society o£ London, by his thimble battery, ignited platinum wire in 1815,

But we have not time to follow the bril- lient crowd of discoverers at this time, nor space io note their specialties, for we! ree there Ritter, Davy, Ampere, Schweiggér, Cumming, Do la Rive, Ritchie, Joule, Faraday, Ohm, Asecguerel, Sturgeon, Danielle, Grove, Jacodi, Smee, Bunsen, &:., &c., all men who made their mark uvder the light and guidance of the ciao- tric spark.

The instrument called a voltaic battery, as variously constituted for generating aa electric current, and usually consists of tw or more plates or cylinders of dis-simlar metals arranged in jux‘aposition in a single pair, or alternetely in a series of connected pairs, each pair being immersed in a saline or acid iiquid, which acts chemically on oné metal and not on the other. The whole combination (when the dis simlar termiwal metals are connected by a wire, or other conductor) is a complete voltaic circuit, traversed by an electric current. But we must not be tempted further on this inter- esting path of labors; those desi-ous of ex- tended information, can read up the works of Parady, Miller, Graham, ete., or if curiously disposed, Foulers experiments with galvanism on animals, or Albinis account of the muscular covtraction of a criminal, adjudged worthy of martyrdom to ecience, and the electric current. Or if its bearings on agriculture are wanted to be known, the lecture of Dr. Bardon Sander- sot will show the connection.’ Or if #ome- thing about the effect of electric ligh ing upon the a'r we breath, is wanted by some heavy owner of gas shares, he will chuckle over the discovery (Dec, 13, 1878) of Mr. T. Willis, that the use of the el-ctric light produces nitric acid in the air, and if that Ye WSUM cient, be wing tues do thé diraction {of Prof. J. Dewar, (sutomn 1879) and | find | also hydro-cyanic, or pruss'¢ acid, which in | its pure state, in quantities of one or two {drops, swallowed or applied to the skin, | will cause speedy death. Itis some con- | solation, however, to know thet very dilnte | prassic acid, euch as the air of Charlotte- | town, is ever likely to met with, ts a bene- |fit in cases of chronic cough, and phthisis | sumed som other diseaves. We close this | paper by.congratulating Charlottetown upon the new department. Go in, fair cily, and mend al! your,ways, and supply all your wants,

which is

a ES KING’S EVIL

Was the name formerly given to Scrofala

becanse of a superstition that it could be

cured by a king’s touch. The world is wiser now, and knows that

SCROFULA

can only be cured by a thorough purtfica- tion of the blood. If this is neglected, the disease perpetuates its taint through generation after generation. Among its earlier symptomatic developments are Eczema, Cutaneous Eruptions, Tue mors, Boils, Carbuncies, Erysipelas, Purulent U'cers, Nervous and Phy- | sical Collapse, ete. If allowed to con- i tinue, Rheumatism, Scrofulous Ca- | tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases, Tubercular Consumption, and vari- ous other dangerous or fatal maladies, are ' produced by it.

i

|

| Ayer's Sarsapariija

Is the only powerful and always reliable blood-purifying medicine. It is so effect- unl an alterative that it eradicates from the svstem Hereditary Scrofula, and the kindred poisons of contagious diseases and mercury. At the same time it en- riches and vitalizes the blood, restorin; healthful action to the vital organs an rejuvenating the entire system. This great

Regenerative Medicine

Is composed cf the genuine Honduras Sarsaparilla, with Yellow Dock, Stil- lingia, the Jodides of Potassium and Tron, and other ingredients of great po- tency, carefully and scientifically com- pounded, Its formula is generally known to the medical profession, and the best hysicians constantly prescribe AYER’S SARSAPARILLA as an

Absolute Cure

Tor al] diseases caused by the vitlation of the blood. It is concentrated to the high- est practicable degree, far beyond any other preparation for which like effects ere claimed, and js therefore the cheapest, as well as the best blood purifying med cine, in the world.

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Dr. J. €. Ayer & Co., Lowell, thase. { Analyticai Chemists. ]

Sold by all Drugglsts: Price $1; ” Six bottles for $4

packs, 12 names, for $!. A sample pack and agent’s outfit with illue- trated estalogue of Tricks and Novelties, for 3c. stamp and this - A, W. KINNBY, Yarmouth, N, S,—mar

Lovely New Styie of {Uhromo Cards, hi} with name and prize for 10c. 12