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DRY GOODS, CARPETS,
MOONS CHANGES, Last Quarter 3rd day . 48m., p. m New Moon 10ch day, 10h, 2m., a. m. Firat Quarter, 17th day, 9. 34m., a. m, Full Moon, 20th day, lh. 13m., p. m. .: ne : Sun '‘Sun ‘Moon/|Higch |! Daye [DAY OF WEEK isos \sots | rises water |len’h es h mh m aft’n , aftn! hm {Saturday t 47 7 25) 9 59) 1 40 if 38 9\Sunday 4S] 23/10 29] 2 23) 35 2 Monday 49, 2211 5| 3 14 33] { Tuesday | Sl} 2011 4 4 23 30) §. Wednesday , 52, 19 me ra) 5 47| 27 @ Thursday 53; 415) O 34! 7 14) 25 7 Friday 54 16) S 23 22 3 Saturday 56' 15! 237) 9 20, 19 @ Sur day 57; 14 349110 9) 17 10, Monday ; 58; 12) 5 4'10 53} 14 ll Tuesday ° 59 10) 6 20.11 39 11 12’ Weduesday \5 0 9; 7 33\morn 9 WiThursday {| 2 35 8 47) 0 14! 6 14 Friday } 3& 6 955 O 52 3 15, Saturday oof 41] 2) ) 32) 0 16 Sunday 5 2aft 4] 2 1613 57 17 Monday 7} Wl 4)3 Bi BA 15 Tuesday Ss Oi 2 0) 4 7 &2 19| W ednesday 95 68 2 52] 5 19, 47 90 Thursday 10} 56 3 40'6 33) 46 9] Friday 12 5+ 4 24: 7 33; 42 92 Saturday i: 2) 5 2) 829) 39 93 Sunday ; 14, 50) 5 37], 912) 36 g4’ Monday “| 49 6 9 9&6l 33 25 Tuesday 17! 47; 6 39/10 26) 30} 9g, Wedoesday | 15; 45.7 7I11 O| 27 gjiThursday | 19 43 7 3511 33| 24 28 | Friday 0, 41,8 Sait 6 21 29' Saturday 22' 40; 8 291040; 18 30 Sun Jay 23| 3819 611 7| 15 31| Monday (5, 24:7 36, 9 45; 2 O13 12 NOTES.
Dake of Edinburgh’s birthday on the 6th.
Dog days end on the 1} 1th.
Landing of Julius Caesar (B.C. 55) om 27th.
In this mopth the mérninge decrease 47 minutes; the afternooas 59 minutea.
OE RAILWAY TIME TABLE
For the convenience of the travelling public, we have carefully arranged the fol- lowing table of arrival and departure of trains on the P. E. Island Railway, accord- ing to local time :—
Going West. i tt 24 Hm: Chassettetown ...........- 647° 912 4@ Royalty Junction.......... 702 947 42? North Wiltahire........... 7327 1039 509 oe mer... 747 1056 52 §12 1132 6857 AE §19 1143 607 le ag ea 829 1159 622 P M. MINE, cco ncccecccsoc ae Uae Gan ( arrive....... 907 2si TR Summerside, ¢ depart...... 927 237 Ne cool aa ae i a 1001 329 1029 420 ee RN Tp 1122 §42 Alberton ie cate celnail 1205 657 NE ta cnn wdweicin ccs 1242 747 From West. Ve oh Tignish ia ee ot ee 2 07 6 47 i $45.. 72 RI a's «4's ones nu.oce ca I ook occ ccs ccacu ee ae FS — annamipapamesirert: ll 44 P arrive......8693 12@7 Summerside, < A. M, 5 ( depart. ..... 542 112 657 Kensington ..............607 149 729 ae és 23:13 2@ County ta. oe aed 6m. 237 8¢e aaa 638 237 812 Hunter i Se 702 348: G4 North Wiitshire,........ -.712 332 901 Royalty Junction.......... 747 432 947 Charlottetown........ 0... $02 452 1007 Going Enst. A.M. P.M. SINNED... . « < ocusscunmuneul 707 417 ST iibtsivetevevvecsttaaia 743 444 oie ky ce eee 804 4457 Moun Stews \ ee, ee 37 5 22 cr | depart... 258020 Oe a dies cso sccoc «cee teeeu 942 556 St. Peter’s.......... bets ccteeee 1015 617 PUES. és ccécsdccoctdale 1107 652 i re es ll 57 1-32 Mount stew 3 PP ee 9 02 - 5 32 INS. 0.00 su duditecceee 1015 625 CONS, «00s >cc'ecanecleceeae 1037 642 From East, ie ee i ccecescceccuuk, me 647 212 5 717 302 BS 6 cies voces theks Bena 752 354 RUSS... cic. 70 ee 814 427 Mount Stewart § arrive....-..«0842 517 sowart, | depart.......-847 637 Po. 912 614 York,..... thobibee cadena 926 635 eMaGOWn..........s0n02sui 952 712 OWE. cic. , eee 732 337 ke» os chavo sc ccu i le 7 49 4 00 Mount PORE. noes dma aem $43 512 mn eee,
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The above Company insures every class of business at
current rates. and on Farm Property and Stock, insures against | damage by Lightning, whether fire ensues or not.
FRED. W. HYNDMAN,
GENERAL AGENT FOR P. E. ISLAND.
June 20—2m eod
Enolish and Canadian Fire Insurance Companies,
30:
The Commercial Urnien Assurance Co. of London, Eng.
CAPITAL, $12,500,000
70.
The British America Assurance Co, of ‘Toronto, Canada,
(INCORPORATED IN 1833.)
CASH CAPITAL, $500,000.
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The Citizens Insurance Company of Canada,
(ESTABLISHED IN 1864.)
: $1,188,000.
CAPITAL,
I am prepared to accept Insurances in the above well- known Companies at Lowest Current Rates.
A. S URQUHART,
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, Brown's Block, Queen Square.
ROYAL GAWADIAN INSURANGE GO. AT RS.
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Pe eo ny aE $2,000,609
CAPATAL,
HEAD OFFICE~—Montreai. HALIFAX BRANCH - J. Scott Mitchell, Agent.
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In Windsor Castle.
SOMB SPECIMEN OFFICIAL WORK PER-
FORMED BY HER MAJESTY.
The Queen of England’s finest resid- ence is Windsor Castle. In fact, intel- ligent Londoners often said to me_ that Buckingham Palace was a miserable old rat-trap, not fit for Victoria and her family to live in, while they were as ready to declare that Windsor Castle was the finest royal palace in the world. The Queen spends a large portion of the year at Windsor, and there she transacts a large proportion of that formal yet mainly rather amusingly useless Court business, the details of which are daily. paraded in the Daily Court Journalr These matters are mostly quite familia to average readers, yet one or two curi ous illustrations of the point in hand are too singular to be omitted.
Here for instance is the Court Circular for a day in early spring. In it is this item:—The Sheriff of Lancaster at a private audience which the Queen gave the Chancellor of the Duchy of Laneas- ter, was pricked by the Queen.
The Sheriffs for England and Wales were pricked by Her Majesty at the Council on Thursday last, the 5th inst., and not after it, as stated in the Court Calendar for that date.
Now, what does all this mean? The explanation is simply this. Every year the judges of assize make return to the Queen of three persons of every county in Bngland, from whom she is to select one to serve as sheriff of each county. When three names, written upon a sheet of paper, are presented to the ucen, she takes in her fingers a pin and sticks it through one of them, being thus supposed to indicate her choice—to make her selection.
The old phrase of *‘ stick a pin there,” in such common use in New England, must have taken its origin in this very ancient royal custom of making a selection which I have just described. But the pin-sticking of the Queen at Windsor is, of course, a mere meaning- less forth; for all the appointments of the officers whom she is suppesed to select are settled upon by the Govern- ment before being submitted to her.
There is another and more fitting use of a pin which the Queen sometimes makes. When officers or soldiers have particularly distinguished themselves in in the field, decorations are often bestow- ed upon them. And in such cases the heroes are sometimes summoned to the palace of the Queen and personally re ceived and hospitably entertained by her. Then, in her presence, the services of the men are read over to Her Majesty, after which the pius, upon their breast with her own hands the decora- tions granted to them. [f is not uncom- mon for such au audience as this to close with a personal introduction to the soldiers aud members of the household at Windsor, often including the three little Princesses of the Palace, the grand- children of Victoria.
There are many other palace public ceremonies which are of a somewhat similar character to those I have been describing. When the Government has made an appointment of a diplomaticre- presentative, the Minister selected make a journey to the palace of the Queen be- foge he goes forth as her representative, and on bended knees kisses her hand in recognition of the honor he has received, The forms gone through with at the palace when an address of the Queen is to be presented to Parliament are peculiar. The Ministry—the Prime Minister—prepares the speech, and then the Cabinet makes a stately and most formal journey to Windsor for the pur- pose of reading the document to Her Majesty. After it has been read in her presence it is supposed to become Her Speech from the Throne.—London Let- ter.
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Too Poor to Marry.
EFFECT OF HARD TIMES UPON THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
(New York Post.)
An Ohio man has compiled a table which shows very clearly the effect of hard times upon the matrimonial mar- ket. Just before the war the number of
23,000 a year, the total in 1860 being 23,106 out of a population of 2,339,511. The influence of the war was reflected in the fall to 19,540 in 1862 and 19,300 in 1863, while the return of peace was fol- lowed in 1866 by the unprecedented ‘number of 30,479. The average ‘settled down to about 26,000 a year, ‘after 1870, but the influence of ‘the panic of 1873 is seen in the
‘drop from 26,678 in 1874 to 23,489.
in 1875. A similar result has followed ‘the business depression of the last two years, and the number of marriages fell from over 30,500 in 1882 and 1883 to only 28,720 in 1884. The other thiags
are shown by an analysis of the table.
One is the tact that the number of
marriages in Ohio is appreciably less ia proportion to the’ population now than
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marriages in the States averaged about'
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it was a quarter of a century ago. Be- fore the war there was one marriage every year to a little over 100 inhabi- tants. The same rate would now re- quire an annual average of about 32,500, whiie for five years past the average has been only 29,255 and the highest num-
ber— 30,659 in 1883—is well short of these figures. Another discovery is that the number of
childr en to each marriage has fallen of in amarked degree. In 1860 there were 23,106 marriages, and the number off births was 71,170. During the last five years the number of marriages has averaged 29,255, and the number of births has been but 68,458—fewer births than twenty-five years ago, with a married population over 25 per cént. larger. This disparity would doubtless appear still greater if the comparison could be restricted to the native popula- tion, for a full eigth of Ohio’s inhabitants are of foreign birth, and another con- siderable percentage are the descendants of foreigners, among whom large families are the rule. It would probably be found upon such an analysis that the fecundity of Ohioans who are of New England descent has diminished in ss marked degree as that of the inhabitants of the region from which they went.
a > tp A Word About Dr. Bell.
The Newfoundland corespondent of the Montreal Gazette writes :—‘‘It was a great pleasure to me to renew my acquaint- ance with my old friend Dr. Bell, whom I had not seen for fifteen years. He is at once doctor, geologist, naturalist and general scientist of the Hudson Bay ex- pedition, Nosooner was he on shore than he was eagerly at work making excursions into the country for the purpose of collecting nautral history specimens—insects, butter- fles, plants, wild flowers, ferns, etc. I had the pleasure of accompanying the doctor on several of those excursions, and admir- ed greatly his keen powers of observation, which nothing seemed to escape from a beetle or a lichen to a rock formation. He was especially interested in the evidences of ice action in the rocks around St. John’s, the striations being everywhere visible, showing that at one period this island must have been iu the condition in which Green- land now is—having an immense cap of ice, 2,000, or 3,000 feet in thickness, which was ploughed up by glaciers in all directions. The hand writing of these glaciers is plain- ly visible on the surfaces of our recks, which show their parallel groovings and sscratchings. It was pleasant to to hear the doctor discoursing as we went along, and pointing out the courses of these
‘ancient glaciers and the way in which they
had seooped out valleys and lakes. Geology is his specialty, and in it he has had a Jarge experience, but he is a many-sided man—a botanist, ornithologist, mineralogist, chem- ist, etc. To be a good geologist a man must be master of many branches of science, and the doctor’s accomplishments are suffi- ciently varied. He is a most genial and pleasant compenion. I may add that he has unbounded faith in the practicability of the Hudson’s Bay route, which he has studied most carefully.
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Poundmaker Junior.
A 8ON OF THE CREE CHIEF WRITES TO HIS FATHER,
Ee Manitoba publishes, both in the original Cree, and in French, a letter written by Jean Marie Lestanc Poundmaker son of the Cree Chief Poundmaker, who is now awaiting his trial at Regina, to his father. Tne young Poundmaker who has been adopted by Rev. Father Lestanc, writes from St. Albert Mission, under date of July 2nd, as follows:—
My Dear Faruex.— Learning that there has been fighting in your lands, I have been in much trouble, but I am glad to know that you were not killed. Be grateful, father, to the Great Spirit who has pro- tected you. Ialso thank him for having spared my father whom I love. I have heard the priests; that is why I am glad now. Believe me, Father, do as I do, hear the priests, and then their teachings. God grant that you may also be paptized; if you do that I shall be glad; the Great Spirit will love you and bless you on earth and still more in heaven. I desire also that all my relations may be praying people, as well as all the Indians who are upon your lands. Father, do that, and when we die we shall be be united in the joy which the good God pre- mises in heaven. I wish to be a carpenter. I am learning the trade. When I know it well I shall be able to earn a little money to pro- vide for my subsistence, and to be useful to my father. If everything turns cut thus I shali be happy, but I shall be more so, if you all give yourselves to prayer. I em- brace all my relations, and especially you, my beloved father.
Your loving son, Jean Marre Lestanc PounpMAKER.
SILVER JUBILEE oF Bisnop Mclytyre.— Excursion Return Tickets, at one first-class
‘fare, will be issued from Tignish and all in- ‘termediate stations west of Summerside, and jall stations east of there at which express ‘trains stop, to Charlottetown, and from Souris, Georgetown and all intermediate sta- tions to Charlottetown, by afternoon trains on Angust 11th inst.; also from Summerside, Souris, Georgetown, and all intermediate ‘stations to Charlottetown, by forenoon trains on August 12th, all tickets being good to re- turn up to and including Ith August, inst., to parties attending the Silver Jubilee of His Lordship, the Bishop of Charlottetown. augs—dy wky tl daté her jour li. —_————__---
Wut. friends kindly remember that in this hot weather gifta of fruit would be very acceptable at the P, E, I. Hospital. [jly13 2aw