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I wish to inform the public that several parties are travelling the coun ty using my name and pretending to be selling Spectacles for me. Mc. C. H. White is the only traveller that I employ. He is competent to test eyes and fit Spectacles properly. Ifany others call and say they are selling for me please ask them to show their licence.

E. W. TAYLOR,

Cameron Block, City. OPTICIAN

BINDERS, MOWER AND RAKES

MAXWELL BINDER isreeogniz2d to be the best im plement on the marked. Itis trne only right hand cut, and also the simplest and surest knotting machine, never break. ing twine.

MOER.—The lighest cutting and strong:st machine inheavy or hght hay. Hasall the best improvements —foot lifting spring, raising finger bar clear of all obstructions, stumps, roots, ete.

RAKES.—Tiger and Sthied. These Rakes are fitted With the new steel wheel, having 26 teeth and solid steel axle. Also, angle steel bar to hold teeth. The teeth are set to rake, not toharrow the ground. They are the most perfect Rake made to-day. Inspection of those machines in. Vited, or write us for prices.

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LIFE IN THE POLAR SEAS.

Plenty of Bears, Birds and Narwhals, Millions of Fiddlers and Fleas.

It is evident, according to Nansen; that the waters of the polar seas are far from being deserted by living creatures. Wherever the sea is open or partially sc seals, narwhals and birds abound, and on the heaps of ice near the edge of the water the bears are numerous. Under the ice marine animals are not wanting. The explorers found in abundance little crustaceans, whose discovery was the result of an accident.

One day the cook sunk a picee of meat in a hole which he had cut in the ice with a view of thawing it out. That is a method often resorted to for the purpose of sparing the fue]. Forty-eight hours afterward, while taking out the meat, the cook was astonished to find an immense number of little animals that dropped upon the surface of the ice and commenced to jump about like fleas. Nansen, who is a professor of zvology, bad no trouble in recognizing those little crustaceans, which may be seen jumping in the sand, and which are called sand fleas. He was delighted at the discovery, because the creatures are good to eat, although they contain but little nourishment.

A few months later on, when in 78 er 80 degrees north latitude, in Octo- ber—that is to say, at the beginning of the long winter night—he fished up in a little net with close meshes a quantity of, little crustaceans. This proves that life is by no means suspended under the ice; on the contrary, it is very active. In the mud of the bottom, where the water is shallow, there are pumerous starfish, mollusks, worms, spunges and several species of crustacea.—Journal des Debats.

The Roman Fisherman,

A traveler in Rome tells of a citizen who was evidently too lazy to sit oa the bank of the Tiber and fish after the manner of the ordiny fisherman, but instead arranged his apparatus in the form of automatic nets, which are made to revolve by the aid of weights and the current of the stream, so that it is not necessary for him to visit the spot oftener than onee a day. With the aid of a pneumatic tube to shoot the fish from the bank to his house it would seem to be unnecessary for him to do even this. Nothing would be lacking then to complete his happiness but an electric broiler and possibly an auto- matic bone extractor.—Butfalo Com- mercial.

A Measure of Distance.

**How far is it from here to Brush-

burg?’’ asked a tourist of an old felléw who was hoeing weeds in a field of sickly corn ‘‘down south.’’ ‘‘Is it far?’’

“Waal, it bain’t so very fer nor it hain’t so very nigh. If you go raound by the big road, it’s ferder nor it is nigh, but if you cut acrost country it’s nigher nor it is fer, an if you keep right straight ahead it’s kinder betwixt nigh an fer, but it’s considerable of a ja’nt from hyar no matter how you git thar.’’ —Harper’s Bazar.

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The covtilence of the people in Hord’ Sarsaparilla is due to its unequalled r cord of wonderful cures.

ELEPHANT NOT CLEVER.

| | The Popalar Belief Contradicted by an

English Writer.

The elephant possesses very charm- ing characteristics and makes a very pleasant companion. For one thing he is not easily mislaid, and he is very obedient to the slightest hint given by bis mahont.

er, but he can get over the ground in his shuffling way at the rate of 15 miles an hour, when he likes.

There is one thing that he is not—he is not a really clever animal, in spite of all the tales in the story books to the

himself to be so easily captured in the kheddabs, the hage forest inclosures in- to which the hunters drive the herds of elephants for the purpose of capture.

All the actions which are apparently spontaneous on the part of the working elephant are really performed at the bidding of the mahout. The driver on his neck directs every movement by pressure of the knee, and as the man’s knees are concealed under the elephant’s ears it is very easy to imagine that the elephant thinks for himself.

When the mahont elects, for a change, to sit on the saddle, or pad, he drives with bis feet, aud the dullest eye can detect how a rub of the heel on the

right shoulder turns the elephant to the left, and vice versa.

After his tractability his gentleness ia the elepbant’s most marked characteris- tic. The mahont takes cruel advantage of his disposition sometimes, thrashing him on the toe nail with a billet of wood, or—if free from risk of discovery by his European master—pricking his trunk with a spear till blood flows.

An elephant has rarely been known to retaliate save when it must. When that curious madness comes on him, no one dares approach him in his picketa. If he be taken in must, and the fact es- cape notice, the consequences are likely to be awkward at least.

In a suburb cf Rangun an elephant belonging to a firm of rice merchants was one afternoon taken down to the river for his usual bath after work. He had, the mahout said, been ‘‘dull’’ all day and seemed out of sorts. He was in must. He signified the fact by seizing his mahout and tossing the astonished ran into the water; then he ran into the ‘‘go down’’ close by and, with one squeal, dismissed some 200 coolics at work there.

The go down was a huge palisade shed, covering over an acre and was full of loose paddy (unhusked rice) and stacks of bags and grain. For two nights and two days that elephant enjoyed himself among those stacks. Spearmen, posted round the palisade wall, kept him in, and one might have supposed 40 elephants bent on mischief had been there instead of one mad one. At last he was made prisoner with the aid of two big tuskers and chained up until such time as he should recover himself. —London Sketch,

For your summer house.—Camp stools and chairs, folding chairs, lounging chairs, camp beds, folding wire cots, cheap fe: ther pillows and cheap mattresses, at prices that will please you.— John’ Newson,

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SPECTACLES.

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Over twenty-five years I have been in the Spectacle bud inoss and during that time have fitted hundreds and hundres of persons, Some had put off getting glasses sy long that the

could not se a large 4 inch letter A withont going within 2 or 3 feet of it, and might have gone blind if they had put oft getting glasses much longer. Others have been fitted or rather wisfitted, with Wrong glasses by travellers, and charg- 2d a great deal more than they ought to have been. This , ¥-ar our traveller, Mr. C. H. White, intends calling on par- | ties at their homes in the country, to test eyes and show sam ples of our goods. Should he call on youl bespeak for him your favorable consideration, and an y order you may give him will be fille as soon as possible and-guaranteed by me. | Glasses can also be exchanged at the store, CAMERON Brock. | City, if after a trial they du not prove as satisfactory as you

Wish. EW. TAYLOR, City

a Just a Minute :o23°%2 | been all the Spring. | So busy that we did not have time to advertise and tell you all the fine things we have for this season aad the low prices we are selling tur, but the pe»ple find us out, for it takes over forty people to keep the orders we get made up, 30 it keeps us moving to keep everything going right, But for those who do not know, we might say that we keep all the old reliadile cloths such as Bellwarp Coating and Serges, Tyke and Blen- heim Serges, Fashionable Trouserings to no end. Come and see us and see our stock and the fine clothes we make,

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$18,000--IN CASH--$18.000 CAND PROVINCIAL EXHIBILION

Halifax, September 28th, to October st, 1897.

Goid. Silver and Bronze Medals

The largest amount ever offered Proyinces.

In addition to the grand Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, special attrac - tions have been ar:auged for every day and night.

_ The Spectacular Seige of Sabastapol every evening,—the most gorgeous and realistic eftects every produced in Canada. .

An unequalled half mile track for speed competition.

Exhibits carried at exceedingly low rates, Very cheap excursion tickets on all railways and steamboats.

Full particulars later. Apply for prize lists. entry forms, ane all). information to

in prizes in any Exhibitica in the Maritime

| JOHN E. YWroon.

Secretary, Halifax, N. S.

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