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ALMANAC FOR FEBRUARY, 1878,

MOON'S CHANGES, New Moonptnd day, 4h 05m. a, m., N.E. First Quarter, TOth day, 9h. 05m. a. m. N_E. Fall Mooa, 17th day, 7h. 05m. a. m., N.W. Last Quarter, 23rd day, 1Th. 00m. p. m., N.E.

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RAILWAY.

TIME TASLE NO. 8, WINTER ARRANGEMENT,

Tu come into force MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1877

STATIONS.

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TRAINS GOING WEST.

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| Express | Mixed ma a 3 * GEORGETOWN Wp. ¢. Cardigan one Mount Stewart Junetion tea aie ‘ | # ' Royalty Junction ” a P.M. P.M. CHARLOTTETOWN = ¢jAt TE 1G. 240 j Dp. 0.00 Royalty Junctio 1 §* @25r ** 3.06 North Wiltshire | « 1920] « 402 Hunter River | * 19.40] “ 4.20 Bradalbane 12.18] * 5.00 Coanty Line ; EL 28) 50 ; P.M. Kensineton 5 a “ §:30 : “De . \ jAr. 12.40 SUMMERSIDE \\Dp. 200] « 6.20 Wellington “ 9.45 Port Hill ae ESS O'Leary “« 4% Alberton | 48 $245 Tignish 1 G35 TRAINS GOING EAST. ‘ . _—_ No. 2 No. 4 STATIONS. EXPRESS | MIXED, / © ‘ A.M. TIGNISH \Dp. 3.00 ALBERTON 1 8.55) U' Leary ina’ 9.02) Port Hill | - 11.07, Wellington | ** 11.48 P.M. ALM. a7 “Pe \ | Ar, 12.35 SUMMERSIDE | IDE. 210/Dp. 8,38 Kensington | foe tes Se County Line “© 3.30) “9.50 Brakalbane 3.40; ‘ 10.10 Hunter River ; ** 4.20). ** 10.40 North Wiltshire & 4.35; ‘* 10.58 Royalty Junction ad ae * 11.3% ‘ we t CHARLOTTETOWN . } |Dp. 2.05] “ 12.20 Royalty Junction -° ae MT. STEWART June. DE aah Cardigan *. B12 GEOKGETOWN. i 5.40 SOURIS BRANCH. Going West. Going East. ' ‘ ' aa “ No. 8:5. en nat ¢ Die.6 % ' ~- . t < : STATIONS. sfrygp, [| STATIONS.) atecen, ee ee ee Souris 'Dp. 7.30/Mt. St'w't Je! Dp. 3.50 Harmony | ‘ 7.55)|Lot 40 | ** 4.26 St. Peter's | ‘ 9.10//Morell =, ‘‘ 432 Morell | “* 9.42).St. Peters “< §65 Lot 46 | ““ 9,48||Harmony “* 6.20 Mt St'w't Jnc! Ar. 10,25))Souris lar. 6.45

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Cor, Queen and Dorchester Streets, opens Connolly’s Bank. | Sept. 19, 1877 eod

i there 50 fect deep, they employed 18 men ; | T :? _— J ; _ J ! i " ty ‘ aall ; 1 of 4s ‘ “ ~ . ~ 4 7 5 ae (up to the 36th of June last, they had ex- | 8o200N°F Sallie W. Steelman,” abandoned

jiracted 75 ounces of gold.

7,200 women pay taxes on $90,000,009.

WARD ISLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1878

' Gold Mining in Quebec.

Mr. 8S. L. Rivard, Gold Mining Inapec | tor of the Province of Quebec, in a report, dated 25th July, 1877, states that Messrs. St. Onge and others, besides the shaft they had sunk last autumn on Lot No. 11, Saint Charles range, Seigniory of Rigaud, on the Gilbert, had sunk another this spring of 50 feetin depth, and last month they were opening another ; about thirty men were then at work on this claim. These miners were, however, obliged to suspend work for some months last winter on account of the frost hindering the drainage pump. The quantity of gold extracted by them previous to the suspension of their work was about 70 ounces. During the months of March, April, May and june last. they extracted 222 ounces, 3 dwts. and .12 grains, which gives a total of 292 ounces, 3. dwts and 12 grains of the precious metal, The quality of gold is very fine and Mr. Rivard states that he has.seen some small nuggets of be- tween four ounces in weight ; it generally sells at the rate of 817.59 per ounce. The miners Sand, Olsen and others have been at work on Lot No. 11 since last spring ; they have sunk a shaft|

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Their works | proimse to hacome very remunerative.

tbbiditn <eritiemné: Alarming Announcement.

“ A German Professor has lately alarmed | the world by the announcement that short | sight is on the increase, and that the next generation is probably doomed to spend its life in spectacles. . This unpleasant prophet ascribes the development of the mfirmity to ‘*bad ventilation, bad food, and a general disregard of hygienic requirements.’ It is a comfort, however, to think that the Pro- fessor’s disheartening statements have been received: with somé inercduility, aud, that | his conclusions are considered to. be rashiy in advance of his facts. With .all our, ea- lightment, and with, men. iike Liebricht, Urichett and Bowman, who are supposed to know more:2bout eyes than anybody else, we have really in this department hardly emerged from the state of quackery. The most advanced oculist will frankly own that only within the last ten years have we began to study the eye in @ true scientific manner, and until nore observations ave «ccumulat- edit is premature to make sweeping asser- tions. It issonly the other day that ‘‘ long sigh®’ was considered a desperate flaw, and a well-know oculist used io all long-sfighted people to go to the evlonies and take out- door pursuits, as he consideved. them unfit fordesk work, A glass would have made these poor victimson an equality with their fellow- creatures.) Short-sight is apparently on the

NO. 236.

General News.

(Queen Victoria’s ‘‘ Leaves from our Jour- nalin the Highlands” has been translated into Gaelic by a Scottish clergyman named St. Clair, and the Scotsman declares that the translation abounds with bad grammar, bad spelling, barbarous phrases and villain- ous mistranslations

It is told of Miss Kate Claxton, tire act- ress, that partly at her instance, several years ago, two of her aunts invested their

little fortunes in Wall street through a’

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broker who has since gone into bankruptcy.’

The total amount was $12,000, and this sum with interest added, Miss Claxton has just returned to the two old ladies who had been left pemniiess by the broker’s failure:

Tie North British Agriculturist reports that a well-known English stock-breeder has offered to the Earl of Dunmore the en- ormous sam of ten thousand guineas for the 2-year old shortkorna heifer the daughter of Duchoss Y7th, by Gth Duke of Geneva. This extraordinary offer is conditional upon the coming calf of the heifer to be purchased being alive and a heifer.

The Schooner *‘ Speedweil’ on Moaday broight to New York the crew of the

at January 3ist. “The ‘‘ Steclman’’ encountered a gale January 20th, of Hat- teras ; Janvary 23rd, provisions all consum ed; January 30th, a negro. went crazy, and was killed by the seamen in. self-defence. The latter afterwards ate a postion of the negro’s body.

Liout. Col. Coffin, who died recently at Ottawa, was a man of something more than mere ordinary ability. He had been Sheriff of the District of Montreal,‘and for many years afterwards was Ordance Land Agent. As a descendant of an United Empire Loyal- ist, he naturally “cling ‘to British institu- tions, and was never weary of extolling then.” In 1864 he published the first volume of a work “entitled’ ‘*9812: The: War and its Moral ; a Canadian Chronicle.”

What is probably the most extensive and elegant wardrobe eyer owned on this side of the Atiantic has just besn received in San Francisco for a wealthy lady of that city. It comprises between 30 and 40 dresses and robes of all sorts, many of which came frout Worth, the Paris milliner, and were orders ed some six months ago. The cost of the wardrobe was over $100,000, and the dia- monds which go with it coat as much more, asingle set of necklaces, bracelets, ete., being valued at $75,000.

Themen ia the Moncton Railway shops wera given their pay for January on Satur- day. This.is the first time. the men have received their pay since the introduction of the famous 88 cent system, and they

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increase, Only because more eyes are dis- covered.» Formerly it was the rarest-thing fer a child te be seen in glasses, but now that we are more On the alert and recognize the infirmity when it appears, we at once callin the aid of the spectacle-maker, and no carefully-brought up child is allowed to read with his nose touching the book. In. the French Arniy, an orfer dias just been issued that short-si¢ht. which hitherto ex- empted a man from serving, shall 10 longer Ke considered a disqnalification. ‘The. soi- dier lias only to ‘correct’ his vision with a glass, and he can see'as well, or better, than his neighbor.’ The German Professor who insists that our eyes are going to the bad myst have iteall to his own way at present, becausd the subject of short-sight has not been sufficiently investigated to confute him with the only logic worth notice—the dry logic of facts.

The women of Boston, says the ‘Christian

Union,” will not keep still... They are al- ways at it in one way or apother. In one

quarter they are endeavoring to raise $40,- 000 to endew a. womnan’s professorship in Boston University ;.and im another, ons larger scale, ihey are; orgauizing a inove- ment to-secure politieal privileges commen- surate with their tax-paying obligation. Ip South Boston alone; it is said, there are 850 worhen who pay taxes on nearly $5,000,- 000 worth of property; in. Boston proper,

A recent discovery im South. Africa is a ledge of auriferous quartz. The location of the rock is in the coifee-growing district of Nynand. Sixty-two tons of i¢ yielded thirty ounces oi gold. A company with a capital of £150,000, has been projected to work the ledge. ..Experienced miners have often ex- pressed the opinion that goldexisted in pay- | ing qualities. in that district.

Mrs.:Sarah Parker, @ lecturer on divorce

and woman’s rights, who. has just gone back te Ireland from the United States and | reopened a diveree suit against her husband, is managing here-own .case and has de- livered an able speech. lier husband com- | plains of her levity and extravagance, says, dint fifteen years ayo,gust before she set , out ferNew York, she set up for her own | am2sement a :milliners shop, which was the | resort of fast ‘men, and invelved a icss to, him of £690; alko; that sinee her retura. to, Ireland sheshas sought tv inveive him in other liabilities. A decided sensation was created in a new |

er was arraigned for drunkness, and the | Judge, leaning ever to him, asked hia |

what he had'to say for himself. The pri- soner nade no response. ‘' What's your)

business ?” roared the. the Judge. “‘ ive, been 17 years inthe Smail-pox Hospital,

and [just came out, the prisoner replied.

He wasan attendant. The judge leaped

out of his chair, the audience bolted and the

culprit was discharged in hot haste.

and-..the menehants of the town will be forced toa full appreciation of the pecuhiar economy cf our, peculiar ‘* Reform” Gov- ernment,—a Gorernment which cuis down the wages of the jworkingmen and adds to the salaries of already over paid officials. Moncton Times. ;

A case gf death ia a dentisi's chair is ex- citing the people of Annadale, a small town on Stoten Island. A young-woman named Miss Wilson, whose teeth had) been .troubl- ing her, went to a dentist’s to.have them extracted, and was placed under the infla- ence of chloroform. Five teeth were ex- tracted, when the patient began to revive and was suddenly seized with spasms. The dentist, however, azain applied the chlore- form aud extractea five more teeth, when the patient died on his hands. An inquest showed ‘that she. died of strangulation, caused by the flow of bleod into her throat while wnder the influence of the drug, and hence unable to relive herself. .

A committce*appointed by the faculty,ef the University of Wisconsin to take into consideration the ‘co-education of the sexes have reported that a complete separation of the sexes would be’ inipracticable and a partial separation injudicious, as increasing the expenses for teachers and implying» difference of mental calibre in favour of the mate students, when in fact the females have shown themselves fully. the equals of their companions‘in the class-room. They further say, in regard to the moral effect.of having both sexes in the same class-room, that there hare never been fewer breaches of discipline than at present, and none grow- ing out of this relation. ?

Au important advance has been made to warps solying the problem of illumination at sca by an adaption of what is known as the Holmes disiress signal, in the form ofa

' : . . 'skot, for illuminating purposes, to be fired

from mortars at ranges uarying from 500° to 2,509 yards. These signals possess the re- markable property of emitting a very power- ful white light the moment they come4nto contact with the water, and when onée‘ig- nited, are absolutely inextinguishable® by either wind or water, and burn with a per- sistency that is almost incredible, thircyor forty minutes being an Average duration. The shot containing this Hint ss ‘constrneted so a3 to be buoyant upon® the “rvter4ind

atthe same time with suffitjent rigidity

ot form to withstand the edncussion of the powder. Upon striking the water

at tue reqtired range the shot, float-

e prefer tO have i vo:k Police Court on Saturday. A prison- ing up the surface, immediately bursts “into

a vridiagt flame with’ ‘great illumimating power, Half adozen of. these shots from an ironelad ‘or. gunboat would effectaally surround her with an impassible coréon“of light at any required range, and by ’sucly a device tho enemy’s movements of attack would be plainly discernible, and any at- tempt to break throngh the illuminated zone of light be at once detected, however dark the night.

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