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Sreauiye, Ill., June 2.—-Robbed, mur- dered and cremated. That tells the awful fare of George Kauffmann, a young farmer. He stood guard over his father’s granary to protect it from thieves, who | killed him at his post and sought to, wipe out the evidence of their fiendish crueliy | with fire. There is no clue to the} murderers, bat bloodbounds are on the | trail. George Kauffmann began his vigils | two weeks ago. He was successful, and regularly went back to his father’s house for his breakfast. Yesterday he did not

come at the usual hour. The family waited forsome time without concern. Then his father became alarmed and started for the bara, accompanied by Charles Scharder, the hired man. They noticed that the strawstack had heen nearly burned down and was

etill smouldering and went to eXamine if. Thev were horritied to find on the top of the smoking stack the body of young Kantfmann burned to acrispaod with the

clotiiing all consumed, Evidently be had heen clubbed and his skull crushed. His throat had been cut and the head was nearly severed from the body. A bullet

hole showed that the wurderer had shot the young man.

CURIOUS MARRIAGE CUSTOMS-

s of the customs peculiar to courtship nd marriage among the race of dwarfs who inhabit the Andaman Islands are according to M. de Quatrefages, who recently published a book called “The Pygmies” about those people, very peculiar. Not the least remark- able of them is the precedure of courtship. The young man who has made his chcice ad- dresses himself to the parents, who never re-

fuse, but send the girl into the forest, where, before day, she conceals herself. The young man must find her.

If ke does not succeed he must renounce all claim to her. The wedding ceremony of

these people is equally curious. M. Quatre- fages thus describes it: ‘*The two parties climb two flexible trees growing near each other. When the head of the man touches that of the cirl they are legally married.”

Turning from Asia to Europe, we find a very curious custom prevailing in Roumania. Among the peasantry of this country, when a girl attains a marriageable age her trousseau, which has in the meanwhile been carefully woven, span and embroidered by her mother and herself, is placed in a painted wooden box.

When a young man thinks of asking to be allowed to pay his attention to the sirl he is at liberty to open the box, which is always placed in a cOnvenent position, and examine the trousseau. If he is satisfied with the quantity and quality of the dowy he makes formal application for the girl’s hand, but, if pot, he is quixe at Ijberty to retire,

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Pc vine AWayY From Homé.—A lady in Truro sent $27 toa Toronto catalogue house for a suit of furniture, advertised and illustrate | inthe catalogue, says the Truro Guardian. Two weeks afterwards the furniture was received. $3.27 freight was due and paid in order to secure delivery. Total thus far $30.27, plus postage and trucking. Three pieces were in the shipment, when put together. ‘But there must be a mistake,” said the purchasxr) ‘‘i ordered a whole suit, and» paid fer it. The one we bought some years agoin Truro ccn- sisted of seven pieces, and there are only three here. I will write to the firm and enquire about it.’’. when the firm replied, the answer was to the effect that the catalogue made no mention of the number of pieces; butsold as pec the illustration, which being again examined showed only three pieces.” A suit of similar make and style may be hid to day at one@fthe home establishments, comprising seven pieces, price $31.—Sackville Post, ‘

Sy. Jouyx, June 3.—The common coun- eil this afternoon pas-ed grants amounting to $2, 10) to societies, glubs and tiremen for Queen’s jubilee celeoration, .A grant of $200 was alxo made towards entertain- ing otticers and men of a warship if one caa be ~ecured

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To me the modern newspaper is so vast and comprehensive that I can never contemplate its possibilities without becoming interested and en thusiastic on the subject. To bea real, a cap- able and a trustworthy journalist, wise, honor- able and efficient, isto attain the highest plane of humanopportunity and usefulness. To love and proclaim truth for truth’s sake, to dissem- inate knowledge anc useful information, to cor- rect misimpressions, to enlighten the misinform ed, to **feed an expectant and anxious people” with the occurrences of the world daily—-indeed almost hourly—to discover and correct abuses. to fairly and honorably advocate a great cause —i:ishort, tom ad and direct pullic opin oe, which is always .ne mission of journalism, is surely the noLlest of professions,

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This iniquitous and dec p'ive work haa caused a vast amount of loss and trouble to many in Canada, and will continue ne long as women are foolish enough to take any:hiog that is offered them.

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tte ROBERT BURNS. The Poet's First Love and the Verses io Whick He Praised Her.

Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, was born at Mount Oliphant, Jan. 25, 1759, near Ayr, in a elay bailt cottage, reared by his father’s own handa When a lad of 18, the family moved te Lochlea. His first three or four years at Lochiea were still with the poet times of inno- cence, and ‘‘bis conduct was governed by the strictest rules of virtue ard mod- esty.’’ At last he set his affections on a young woman named Ellison Begbie, the daughter of a smal farmer, and asked her to be his wife, but he could not prevail on her te marry him, and this disappointment had a malign infin- ence over the poet. Long afterward, when he had seen much of the werld, Burns spoke of this girl as, of all those on whom he ever fixed his fickle affec- tions, the one most likely to have made a pleasant partner for life. It was to her he addressed the pure and beautiful love lyric ‘‘Mary Morison,’’ and in these lines the lyric genius of Burns was for the first time undeniably revealed:

Yestreen when to the trembling strisg The dance gaed through the lighted ha’, To thee my fancy took its wing. I sat, but nefther heard nor saw, Though this was fair and that was braw And yon the toast of a’ the town. I sighed and said amang them a’, ‘*Ye are nae Mary Morison.”

Oh, Mary, canst thou wreck his peace Wha for thy sake would gladly dee? Or canst thou break that heart of his Whase only fault is loving thee? If love for love thou wilt not gie, At least be pity to me shewn. A thought ungentle canna be Tho thovght of Mary Morison.

—Boston Woman’s Journal. The Science of the Morning Fast.

Dr. E. H. Dewey says that the heavy morning breakfast which is universal in America is all a mistake. The hun- ger one feels is abyorma! and is simply the acquired result of a lifelong untime- ly meal. More than this, it is often dis- ease undergoing evolution, and many complaints are cured simply by not tak- ing avything beyond a small cup of tea or coffee, and sometimes not even that, until 11 or 12 o’clock. The experienee of hundreds of persons proves that even the severest manual labor can be per- formed for several hours ‘‘ou an empty stomach’’ and with more ease, energy and satisfaction than ever is possible after an early morning meal, and that it can be done even up to high noon without unusual exhaustion or incon- venience from the pangs of hunger. A great many people are now giving this matter a prolonged test, and the wis- dom of the method is clearly supported by physiological evidence. —Exchange.

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‘‘Say,'’ said the drug clerk to his friend at the soda water fountain, “I ran against a play last night that made me think that I was the unluckiest man that ever drew a card.”’

“What was it?’’ asked the man at the fountain.

“Why, I had an ace fall beat by an- other full. I'll tell you how it hap- pened, You know we have a quiet lit- tle game over here on Dearborn street near)y every Saturday night. Well, last nighs we got into a five handed game. There were Julius, a chattel mortgage man, in whose cffice we were playing; a real estate man, a clerk for a bicycle firm, a lawyer and myself. Well, it was asmall game—2 cent ante and a 50 cent limit. Aleng about 12 o’clock I opened the pot on a pair of aces. The lawyer raised me half a dollar, and Julius stood the raise. Of course I had to stand it too. I was the first to draw cards. J drew three cards. I thought I was pretty lucky wheu I picked up an ace ard a pair of tens, making me an ace full. The lawyer, who had raised me on three queens, drew down to his hand and caught a pair cf sevens, which made him aqueen full. Julius asked for one card and made a spade flush,

‘*Well, I bet a check on the go, the lawyer raised me another half dollar, Julius called the raise and I raised back. We raised each other till we got about $7 in the pot. Just then the jani- tor of the building appeared on the scene. He had been out attending a wedding and happened in at this rather unseasonable hour. He was pretty well loaded with some kind of Scandinavian wine. He -was good and ugly. It was a’ great surprise to him to see a game of cards going on in the building over which he had control, and he knew that if the facts ever came to the ears of the owner of the building there would be 4 janitor looking for a job.

‘*‘Now, what do you suppose that fel- low did? Why, he just walked over to that table, kicked it over and sent the eards and chips flying in all djrections. Then he told us to get ont, aud to do it quickly; that ne world call the police and have us pinched.

‘*We got out and hunted up a small rec in a hotel to continue the game. When we got settled down again, made a kick for. the, pot--on the last hand. I told the boys that I had an ace full and that there wasn’t another full could beat it. But old Jnlius spoke up and ecid; ‘‘Oh, yes, there was. Vat d6 you t’ink of a janitor full?’’—Chicago , Tribune, ’

A Surveying Camera.

A surveying camera, styled the Bridges-Lee instrument, is being intro- It resembles an or- dipary camera, haviag a brass bound box with rapid rectilinear lens and double backs, and the usual ground giass screen. The camera body turns on a horizontal plate having a graduated rim, over which slides a vernier attach- ed to the camera for reading horizontal angles. A ciamping screw fixes the camera body to the bottom plate, which plate is mounted on a tripod head pro- vided with leveling screws. On top of the camera box is fixed a rotating level and telescope mounted on a horizontal arm and fitted with a rack adjustment and scale, permitting vertical angles to be taken. This telescope has a vertical wire, which bisects the pieture on the ground glass screen, and is coplanary ~ with a second vertical wire inside the camera. This wire casts a shadow, which is clearly discernible ov the sensi- tive plate or filam when developed, and thus marks the center line of the pic- ture. ‘Behind this wire is a compass, mounted on a rack inside the camera, by means of which, when a photograph is to be taken, it can be moved back until it just fails to touch the plate. The graduation of the compass card is carriea out on a vertieal strip of trans- lucent material, through» which the lighé passes to the plate, thus photo- graphing thereon the compass bearing. A horizontal fiber is also placed inside the body of the camera, similar to the vertical one, which, when the instru- ment has been properly leveled, indi- cates the true horizon.—Engineering News.

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I have read Dr. Leuf’s letter on ‘*Physiogunomy’’ ia The Medical Coun- cil and am prompted to say, in reply to his request for contributions on the **chin:”’

Protruding chins characterize men and women of the get there type. Suoc- cessful people usually carry their chins thrust forward, with compressed lips. This chin, if heavy, with broad rami

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ing blood.

A retreating chin shows lack of force, mentally, morally and physically; usu- ally of the yielding sort; soon discour- aged; desires protection; small exec- utive farce. The development of other faculties often makes up for this defect.

A small, well rounded chin, with mobile and red cushion of flesh upon, jndicates a pleasure loving owner. If dimpled, all the more so, for dinrpled chins belong to coquettes. People with dimples love to be petted and loved; like admiration and praise. Generally fickle. Usually this chin is healthy, re- cuperative and long lived.

Broad chins signify nuobleness and large dignity, unless vertically thin, when, if with it there be thin lips of bloodless kind, you find cruelty.

Square chins with little flesh denote firmness and executive ability. These make good haters.

Drunkards usually have a circular line about their chins.

Slovens have wrinkles about their chins.

Long, thin chins are poetical, unsta- Sach people are subject to bowel derange- ments. If thin through the angles of the mouth, too, theyoare prone to tuber-~ culosis. Generally short lived.

Medium chins with a suggestive bi- furcation in the center, with small mounds of flesh on cither side, charac- terize generosity, impulsiveness, cheery patures. (The same sized chins, with a dab of flesh just under the center of the lower lip, indicate meanness, selfishness, brutality. )

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