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gona aud other desert regions of the g2Teoat southwest is called ‘Our Lord's candle- stick.”

The leading botanists of the world are unanimous in the opinion that plants grow faster between 4 and 6 o'clock a m. than atapy other time.

Bishop Culver, tn his pamphlet entitled “A Million Pounds Sterling For a Black Flower,’ says that no perfectly black dower bas ever been produced.

Seven hundred ard sixty-two different kinds of plants have been found within the arctic circle. Ninety-five per cent of them are pale oF absolutely colorless,

Roses discovered In tombs containing Egyptian mummies often have their colors perfect, even though some of those thus found must be over 3,000 years old. —st. Louis Republic.

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ANIMAL FACTS.

The wolf is more cunning than the fox

The elephant is almost as amphibious as the hippopotamus.

Wild birds do not sing more than eight or ten weeks in the year.

The vommon house sparrow flies at the tate of 92 miles per hour.

Naturalists who have investigated the matter say that s bat's heart is aided by the ‘rhythmic contraction of vein in the wings."

The leopard is the most meanly treach- erous of all beasts, and the trainer never turns his back on one if he can possibly avoid so doing.

Reaumur says that each thread of what we call a ‘‘spider web’’ is composed of

‘about 5,000 separate fibers, and that it would take 27,648 full grown spiders a

«year to spin a pound of such silk.

DUSKY LIL. Maybe Queen Li! will be present at the

® = Swaugurs) ball. —Baltimore American.

The visit of Liliuokalani to this country bas no serious import, She simply dropped over to do a little Christmas shopping.— Kansas City World.

Queen Lil onght to understand that it is now everlastingly too late. It would beim- possible to get her crown on straight with a derrich .—Rock Island Argus.

The revival of ‘‘Tie Lily of Killarney’’ at one of our theaterg may be intended as

acdelicate tribute to the visit of the ex-

queen of Hawaii.—Boston Herald. Ex-Queen L? still regards herse)f as the

heir to Hawaii’s political fortunes and

wonldn’t miod having this country act as

_#® kind of beir restorer.—Philadelphia

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The Sabbath Day.

Those who devote the day wholly te pleasure,as so many are doing at present. or even wholjy to rest, make «a etn. m)3- God has set apart the Sabvbail ina large degree and a special sense for worship, for study and mediation on hely things, for united as well as private

' prayer and praise, fer Christian inter-

course and holy deeds. It hurts a soui Hever to worship thus. But God mean- the day to be also one of real and refresh- imgrest. How this may be sought and @hjoyed is one of the vexed questions. The only safs answer to it is to try to _ keep the heart warm with love for Jesus Christ and to segilavwe conduct on the Sabbath ae you thin< He would in your place. And as for others, let them de- tide for themselves, and do not blame them if their conclusions do not coincide with your own. A Christ-like and Christ-rewarded Sabbath-keeping never favolves or allows dictation.

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Dated at Teronto. this s7th dsy of Novem-

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MACDONALD, BOLAND & THOMPSON 2 Toron'o-street Toronto, solicitors for Applicants

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exist, something ought to be done.

tation wii] be mide to the Parliament 01 Canada, at the next session thereof, for an Act changing the name of The Deminioo ding and Loan association, tw that of

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clothes thaf clothes. are uot low.

worth $5.59. now $3.95.

worth $6.75, now $4.50.

and $13, for 9.

Nerth Sen Fishing faces. The number of smacks employed ir

deep sea fishing in the North Sea i: over 5€C0. They fish in fleets of 15) vessels. Over :0000 men are employed in this fishery alone, and they remais

at sea never less than two months at a time.

Neet Ne “The sood dic vovng.”

“]T wouldn't take out a life insurance policy, if I were you.”

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The full intensity of living is reached Sickness discouvts the capacity for erjovment. If his body is al] out of order and run down, he will not be able ty enjoy aafthing, no matter how full of enjoyment it may be for other people. If he is just a little bit

ont of order, if he “ is not sick, but doesn’t

ferl just right” he will only beable to

enjoy things in a half-bea~ted sort of way

The nearer he is to being perfectly wel | the nearer will his eapacity for his enjoy - ment be perfect. If this condition doesn’ Tha weans nine cases in ten the use of Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Diszovdry. It works directly on the digestive organa, and

on the blood and through there on every

tissue of the budy. It makes the appetite good, digestion ard nutrition perfect and supplies rich, red blood to all the tissues, building up solid, healthful flesh.

Send 31 centsin one-cent stamps to World’s Diepensary Medical Arsociation, Buffalo, N. Y.. and receive Dr. Pierces’ 1008 page “Common Sense Medical Adviser,” profusely illustrated.

The finest assortment of American cloth e ps in town. The latest styles, the lowest pr ces —McKay Woolen Co.

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5,000 men, women and children te to call and inspect my New Goods, Qompare prices with othor stores,ahd be convinced by buying from me your watches, clocks, jewelry, silverware, spectacles, eye glasses, ete, you will save woney, and the goods bought from me will be warranted to give satisfaction.

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Men's Clothing,

50 heavy blue black Ulsters, storm collar, tweed lining, 50 all wool fibre lined Waterproof Ulsters, shades,

150 Ulsters, mixed shades and qualities at a big dis.

24 blue beaver Overcoats, very fine; d. b. worth $12.50

Men’s Pants, 75c. $1, 1.50, 2, 2.50, 3, 3.50, 4, 4.50

that do kind only, but that doesn’t You can easily realize that by a glance at tl ese offerings

There is a saying that ‘the coat doesn’t make the man,” opinion it goes a long way towards it shough. well fitting apparel is most marvellous, wear and clothes We keep the good

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$2.90 to $7.00.

Children’s Overcoats and Uisters, prices we cannot enumerate them, but we promise they are the best values ever shown in Charlottetown

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50 youths’ Overcoats, mixed”shades andfqualities,Sfrom

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Youths’ Ulsters, heavy all wool chamois #fibre lined, storm collar, worth $5 50, now $3 50

Boys’ Knicker Pants, 45¢

Girl’s heavy blue serge Reefers, $1 50

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Fire Alarm Repairs

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| SEALED TENDERS, addressed to ' the undersigned, and’ endorsed ‘Tenders ' for Repairs to Fire Alarm,” wil! be re- ceived at this office until noon on Monday tha 27th inst, from anv person or persons willing to keepthe City Fire Alarm in good working order; also to provide the material recessary for repairs, for one year, subject to the supervision of the City Flre Board.

The Council do pot bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender.

For any further information, enquire at the City Clerk’s office.

By order,

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H.M. DAVISON, City Clerk. City Clerk’- Office, Citv Hall, December 15th, !897—- 3i.

KING OF THE BUMS.

Onee a Hotelkeeper in Waterloo—Now Now Buried in Chicago.

Edmund G. Drown, better Known as ‘‘Brownie, the King of the Bums,’’ is dead. He died in Chicago. Brownie for years has been well known in the ist ward politics, where he gained an in- ternational reputation in connection with the book “If Christ Came to Chicago,’’ written by W. T. Stead, the London editor. When Mr. Stead came to Chicago and announced his intention of writing a book he looked around for aman familiar with the slums and one who could give him valuable pointers on that phase of life in Chicago. He chose Erownie, who proved to be a yaluable assistant to him. For years Brownie had been known on the ‘‘lavee.’”’ He was a habitue of every resort in the ‘‘tenderloin’’ district,

Brown was born in Middleton, near Montreal, Canada, 40 rears ago, His father was a wealthy grain dealer and gave his son tha advantages of a college edneation, Soon after leaving college young Brown went to Watertown, N. Y., where he assumed the management of the St. Lawrence Hotel. About this time the elder Brown died, leaving his son $25,000,

In threes years the young spent the fortune. In 1881 Chicago and put up at Walsh’s lodging- house, No. 826 Clack street. He was without money, but because of his dress and education ha was given the title of ‘*king of the bums.’’ He at once became active in politics, and since then has been a power in the %th and 19th pre- eincts.

His death is said to have heen directly due to the inordinate use of cigarettea,

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NO THE CAR WINDOW.

It Resisted the Efforts of the “Stronzest Man,” But--

They were talking about car win- dows. It was in the smoking car of one of the Atlantic City express trains, and the man with the Trichonopolis had just sat down, after a ten minutes’ wrestle with a blind that wouldn’t budge the sixteenth of an inch, despite his frantic efforts. The man with the five-cent straight had just finished tell- ing the story of how he had broken his wrist one day last summer in trying to oblige a lady who wanted her window raised, which, he said, was why he al- ways rode in smokers now, when the man with the Spanish hand-made broke in and said: “I'll never forget the time I was traveling through Wis- consin last winter. It was a trip full of incidents, and one of the most im- pressive of them all was the battle a half-dozen of us had with a shade in one of the car window frames, It was an innocent-looking, harmless sort of thing. andit had the delicate appear- Yet there wasn’t aman in the crowd whe could pull it down to shut out the blinding sun, We yanked it, and jerked it, and banged it until we were thoroughly enraged and exhausted, and it never budged. Finally one of the number said he’d fix the blamed thing, and he went out into another car. Presently he returned with a big, thick-set man with a determined air, whom he intro- duced as Herr Rocks, the famous strong man, This athletic gentleman walked up to the shade and, placing one hand upon it, gavea firm pressure. It didn’t move and he put the other mighty hand upon it. Still it remained intact, Then he looked surprised and gave the thing a vicious tug. But it seemed to be acomponent part of the side of the car, so firmly was it imbedded in its frame. Well, this strong man pulled and hauled until the perspiration rolied of him in a stream, and the wooden shade didn’t seem to mind it a bit. He asked a few of us to go into the bag- gage car with him, and we did. He unpacked a big box there and rolled out a lot of iron chains and balls, and big dumb-bells. With the assistance oi some of the train hands we got these intothecar. The strong man fastened his chains onto the obstinate shade, and with a mighty effort attached one of the dumb-bells to it. It didn’t move a speck. Another and another of the weights he fastened to that delicate- looking piece of pig-headed cabinet work, until, gentlemen, would you believe it, 1,100 pounds were pendant from the thing and yet it didn’t show a sign of the strain. We took the weights off and just about that time the colored porter came along. We told him we’d give him $5 if he’d have the shade pulled down or torn out, and, you may believe me or not, but, gentlemen, he walked over to it, put one finger on it, and down it came as smooth as wax. How do I accouut for it? Well—”

But just then the conductor yelled ‘Atlantic City!” and the explanation was lost in the scramble to get out into

fresh air.—Philadelphia Record.

“ha Naee’s toe Where is the north polar contirert that cnce figured on the mans? f 's not so long ago that the renowned #>*>- grapher, Petermann, believed he ha! good reason for faith in its exi.t* The pole was probably in this c nti-

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nent, and he thought that towering rocks near Bering Strait, now known to be an island, might be one o° ihe termini of the great land mass, Fa’th

in this thecry has gradually weakene! the farther men penetrate! into tre “White North,” and now Nanse, ha: thrown a flood of light upon the qu®s- tion. The-ocean d pths he has found to the north of Franz Joseph Land ani Spitzbergen, the disappearance of Vi- mal life in that recin, the structure +f the ice, which is plainly formed ¢t 3°24 and not on lani, and the fre: m» ment of the ice masses driven, as they are, in any direction by the prevailing: winds, point inevitably to the cueclu- sion that the man who reaches the north pole will probally find no land there, but a deep sea instead, cuvered by closely pack: d and drifting ice.—ilc- Clure’'s Magazine. Interes ing Neliecs.

Amorg the fragments of Egyptian papyri at Dub).n e'ghty lines or parts cf lines of Hcmer’s “l.iad”’ have been identificd from books 4, 8, 21, 22 and 25 cut of a manuscript of che third cen- tury before Chr’s', before Homer had b-en put inte shave bv the critics of Alexandria. In the eishty lines thir-

teen do not ex st in the “Tliad” as we have it. Professor Mahaffy asserts that the Alevardriiws too great jibor-

tics with the text, and that if an early

edition of the “iad” turrs up in E-ypt, there will be an add tion tn nnantity of fifteen per cent. to what

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Buy her a dreses,—We make it easy giving 25 per cent off all our stylishsin dress lengthe.—Moore & McLeod,

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