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reasons for rejecting the idea that the
like manner we find ourselves compelled to
of historic races is utierly lost to com- _ parison,
on
Gee ee
A Happy Conceit.
When to the flowers so beautiful
‘The Father gave a name, sack came alittle blue eyed one
(All timidly it came), And standing at its Father's feet
And gazing in His face It said in low and trembling tones:
‘‘Dear God, the name the gavest me, Alas! I have forgot.”
Kindly the father looked him down And said ‘‘forget-me-not.’’
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Sun Statistics.
The heat of the sunis the subject of very interesting statistical calculations in Cornhill Magazine, from which the follow- ing extract is taken: We can measure the quantity of heat that the sun con- stantly emits, because we can measure the amount received by our earth, which intercepts the 2,300,000,000th part ot all the light and heat emitted by the sun. We thus find that in every second of time the sun emits as much us heat would re- sult from thecombustion of 11,600,000,000 tonsofcoal. In passiny, it may b:feonven jent to notice that each portion of surface a3 large as our earth, emits as much heat per second as would result from the com- bustion of 1,000,000,000 tons of coal -a simple and easily remembered relation. Now it is easily caleulated from this heat that if the sun’s whole mass cousisted of eeal, and could buro right out to the last ton, mainta ning tll then the present rate of emission, the supply would not last more than 5,000 years. As the sun ha> been emitting light and heat for a far longer period than this, the idea of the solar fire is of course, altogether unten- able ‘There are, however, many other
sun is composed of burning matter, using the word ‘burning’ in its proper seose, according to which a piece of coal in a fire is burning, where a piece of red hot iron is not burning though burning hot. Ip |
believe that thesun may be a body raised at some remote epoch to an intense hent throughout the entire mass and gradually cooling. For we find that ia the course of a few years such a mass would cool far more than the sun has cooled (if he has cooled appreciabiy at all) even within the historic period; and we have evidence that he has poured his heat on the earth during periods compared with which the duration of the human race is but a second amid centurics, while the duration
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Antiquity of Umbrellas.
Dr. Morrison, the g-eat missionary to China, states that there is mention made of umbrelias and parasols in books print- ed in Uhina more than 1,500 years ago, and that most woaderful traveller, “Layard, relates that he discovered on the rains Nioevah, in bas-relief, a represen- tation of a king in his chariot, with an at- tendant}holding an umbrella over his head. In India we also find the umbrella has been used ia remote ages, and principally asap emblem of royalty, in shape differing very little from those in modern use.
In Burmah, the princes use a very large umbrella, and it requires a separate attendant to carry it, aod his position is a recogoized one in the royal household. One of the titles ot the King is as follows: * Knig of the White Elephant and Lord of the Twenty-four Umbrellas.’
The Emperor of Chioa, who never does anything on a small seale (if he can help it), has no fewer than «wenty-four umbrellas carried before him when he gees out huntiog. It is used in that country as a defence against rain as well as sun, and is made priocipally of a sort . glazed silk or paper, beautifully paint- ed.
We fiod umbrellas mentioned as in use, or at least kuown, in England 150 years ago. in Cambridge, we read that early in the Jast century umbrellas.were let out on hire for so much per hour, like Sedan chairs. Jonas Hanway, the founder of an hospital in London, has the credit of. being the first man in London who had the coursge to carry habitually an umbrella He died in 1786, and it is said that he carried un umbrella for thirty years; so
that their introduction for general use may be said to date 1756.
OEP ee
Microscopic Writing. '
The “ Iliad” of Homer has been) written in so small a compass as to be! enclosed in anutshell. It is nothing) uousual to find, now a-days, writing of a still more minute character than this, sceing that the Ten Commandments have been writtea in a compass small, egough to be covered by sixpcsce. There | is a portrait of Queen Aaous. ia; the! British Museum, on which appear a number of minute lines and ccratches,| which when examined through a micro-| scope, are shown to be the entire contents | of a small folio book which the librarian | hasin his possession. A pen-an-ink por-| trait of Alexander Pope, surrounded by’ a desiga in scroll work, containing the, life of the poet in the fine lines of the scroll ; it was 80 minutely transcribed as only to be legible by the aid of 2 magni- fier. This was an evident imitation of a/ similar effort in the way of portraiture’
which was at one time in a library at Ox- ford, where a head of Charles I. was drawn in miuute characters, so fine as to resemble the lines of an engraving, but which, when closely cxamined, were tound to be the Book of Psalms, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer.
Ose other instance of this kind has been recorded of a portrait ef Cardinal Richelieu, which appears ov the title- paze of a French work ; the Cardinal’s head is surrounded by a glory of forty rays, each ray containing the name of a French ucademician.
1879.
1879.
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OF PRINGE EDWARD IS
SPRING TRIP.
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SIX TONS (MANILLA,
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Bin garm EoR Tx £ 5.334 By oR OS,
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100 Tons Round *‘ACADIA MINES; y anda smaller lot of NUT, at our usual low prices. OEE 3 : " Wright & HacGowan, QUEEN'S WHARF Ch town, Feb. 8, 1879-—-taw for 2m
Hxeeutors Notice Xecuwors TOXUHE undersigned Executors of the Estate of Ralph Brecken Peake, late of Char lottetown, in the Province of Prince Edward [sland, merchant, deceased. hereby notify all persons indebted to the said Estate to make immediate payment to them ; and all persons having any claims against the said Estate are hereby required to render the same to the undersigned, duly attested, within one year from date, Dated this twenty-first day A. D., 1879.
of January
EDWARD J. HODGSON,
GEORGE W. DrBLOIs,
THOS. HANDRAHAN, Executors.
Jan. 21, 1879. rg 3m
Valuable Freehold Farm FOR SALE.
HE Charlottetown Cemetery Company are
prepared to sell, on very favorable terms, all that portion of their well-known Farm, beautifully situated on the north side of the Back Royalty Road, and extending from the Malpeque Road to near the Railway track, containing about. FIFTY ACRES OF EXCEL- LENT LAND.
The premises are all under cultivation, and have thereon a good Dwelling House, large Barn, Stables, and a fine Orchard. A fine Spruce Hedge surrounds a great part of the property.
Immediate possession will be given.
For further particulars, apply to Jchn Ings or H. J. Cundall, Esq s.
By order of the Board, F. W. HALES, See’y.
Ch’town, Feb. 20, 1879—dly caw
GRAY’S SPECIFIC MEBICINE
“=a, English Rem- bores @GY, an unfail- FY eye gly 9 9 ; eo F Hoy:<= & ing cure for Sem- ae J ./ &% inal Weakness, B) 4 “s+ Spermatorrahe a, Se Senge” gy N AONE LENS Impotency, and <f%~ eR eee" ES all diseases that as |
Before Takingfollow as a se-After Taking, quence of self-abuse; as loss of -Memory, Uni- versal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other Diseases that lead to Insanity or Con- sumption. a. Full particulars in our pam phlet, which we desire to send free by mail to every one. 83. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggfsts at §! per package, or six pack- ages for $5, or will be sent free, by mail, on receipt of the money, by addressing The Gray Medicine Co., Windsor, Ont., Canada.
sa” Sold in Charlottetown by ail Drugists, and by all wholesale and retail Druggists in the United States and Canada.
January 24, 1879.
CATARRE.
Gonstitutional Catarrh Remedy CURES CATAREH.,
Hear what a Reverend Gentleman says of the Constitutional Ren.edy.
\. J. B. Harprne, Esq., Brockville, Ont. :—
Drar Sir—itis now two years since your ‘“‘Constitutional Catarrh Remedy’ was intro- duced to me: I have waited this eng to see if the eure would.remain permanent before do- ing this, my duty, to you, as at first the happy effects seemed to me to be ‘‘too good to be true.”
I was afflicted in my head for years before I suspected it to be Catarrh. In reading in your Cireular | saw my case described in many par ticulars. The inward ‘‘drop’ from the head had become very disagreeable, and a choking | sensation often preventing me from lying long, !T would feel like smothering and be compelled
to sit upin the bed. My health and spirits were seriously: affected. When your agent cameto Walkertown in August, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before 1 had used a quarter of the contents of one bottle I found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and a third. I quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not used any since until | of late I have taken some for a cold in my head. } A sense of duty to sufferers from that loath- some disease, Catarrh, prompts me to send you this Certificate, unsolicited, with leave to make what use cf it yon may see proper. Yours truly, W. TINDALL, Methodist Minister. Port Elgin, Ont., Aug. 24, 1878.
Ask for Littlefield’s Constitutional Catarrh Remedy and take no other. } T. J. B. Harprna, Dominion Agent, Brock- ville, Ont.
For sale by all Druggists at only one Dollar per bottle.
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FLOUR! |
>) bbls. **‘GREENHOLM,”’ | 100 bbls. ‘‘ CAMLACHIE,” 100 bbls. ‘‘NORVAL.”
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“Get THe Best.”
NIGHT SOIL.
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right in removing night soil than we have. WILLIAM BYERS,
THOMAS ROBERTSON Ch’town, March 3, 1879, te
FOR SALE,
HE HOUSE and Premises occupied by A the Subscriber, at the head of Queen Street. oe particulars apply to the owner on the Premises, or t =XAN Reet tas ; 0 ALEXANDER
DONALD McKENZIE.
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MIORTCACE SALE.
To be sold, by Publie Auction, at the Court ~ House in Summerside, in Prince County, on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day ef February next, at the hour of one o'clock, in the afternoon, under a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage, dated the fifth day of October, 1878, made between William Thomas Mill, of the one part, and John Brecken, Frederick De St. Creix Brecken, and Robert Robinson Hodgson, trustees, of the other — 4 All that tract, pieceor parcel of land, situ . ate on Lot Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows: Commencing at a stake tixed on the shore of Indian River; thence by a line running south twenty degrees west untal it meets the boundary line dividing Lots or Townships Numbers eighteen and nineteen; thence running due east on said division line for the distance of thirty-two chains; thence by a line running north twenty degrees east until it reaches Indian River, aforesaid; thence following the course of the River to the place of commencement, making and including tifty- six (56) acres of land be the same, a little more or less, in Prince County, aforesaid.
2. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of Land, situate on Lot or Township ‘'wenty- five, in Prince County, aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Com- mencing at a stake fixed on Wiliam Me- Murdy’s eastefn boundary line at the south. east corner of Joshua Harding's Lot; from thence running south for the distance of forty. four chains; thence east eleven chains and"fifty links; thence north forty-four chains; thence west eleven chains and fifty links, to the afore- said stake or place of commencement, making and including fifty (50) acres of land, a Tittle more or less, being the southern moiety of one hundred acres of land; and being bounded on the north by the northern moiety thereof, known as Joshua Harding’s lot; on the east by — Gay’s land, onthe south by Keefe’s land, and on the west by the said William MacMurdy’s land.
3. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of land, situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a square stake fixed in the south-west angle of land in the oe- curation of Peter Gillis; thence running north six degrees and forty-five minutes, cast four- teen chains and two links to division line be- tween Lots Nineteen and Eighteen; thence along said line westwardly twenty-six chains and sixty-nine links to the entrance of Barbara Weit River; theace along the course of the said river to the place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres and forty perches, be the same, a little more or less.
4. All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a stake set on the shore of Richmond Bay in the centre of a road on the line of Lots Eighteen or Nineteen; thence northwardly along said shore sucha distance as shall make fifteen chains and sixty five links (15 chains and 65 links) at a right angle from said division line; thence north
eighty-nine degrees cast or . parallel with the said division line forty-eight
chains and tifteen links (48 chains, 15 links) or to lands the property of the said William Thomas Mill, thence south twenty degrees west to said division line to the stake at the place of commencement, containing seventy- eight acres of land, a little more or less,
5. Also all that otier tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Twenty-five (25), in Prince county, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say, commencing atastake set in the north boundary line of land in possession of the widow Keiff or Lawrence Malone, being the southeast angle of fifty acres of land the prop- erty of William T. Mall, from thence by a line running north twelve chains and fifty links, thence east nine chains and fifty-five links or to the east boundary line of land in possession of William Gay, thence south to the first mentioned land, thence westwardly along said land to the stake at the place of commence: ment, containing eleven and nine-tenths acres, a little more or less.
6. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot orTownship Number Nineteen, in Prince County, bounded as fol- lows, that is to say, commencing at the southeast angle of land in the possession of Neil McDonald, from thence running west along said land twelve chains and twenty links (12 chains, 20 links) or to the southwest angle of said land, and from thenge-two points running two parallel lines south thirty-one (31) chains or to the south boundary line of plot G containing thirty-seven and one-halt (374, acres of land, be the same a little more or less, together with all buildings and improve ments thereon and appurtenances to the same belonging.
For further particulars apply at theoffice of Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod, Solicitors, Char- lottetown.
Dated the 13th day of January, A. D 18 9.
JOHN BRECKEN, FREDERICK Dz Sr. C. BRECKEN. R. R. HODGSON,
| By E. J. HODGSON, their attorney.
Jan. 13—law ts prog
‘The above Sale is hereby postponed till WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of April ae 1879, then to take place at the hour an place above mentioned.
Dated the 17th day of February, A. D.,
1879. JOHN BRECKEN, FRED’K De Sr. C. BRECKEN, R. R. HODGSON, _ By E. J. HODGSON, their Attoruey. Charlottetown, Feb. 18, 1879.
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a
FREEHOLD FARM
FOR SALE.
7Z.%O BE SOLD, by private contract, that valuable FARM ot 50 acres of excellent Land, situate at Graham’s Road, Township No. 20, now in possession of ASneas Brenan. This well-known Farm is eligibly situated im the immediate cicinity of Churches, Schools and Mills, and is in a good state of cultivation. For terms and particulars apply at the office of Longworth & Shaw, Solicitors, Ch’town. ; F. S. LONGWORTH. Ch’town, Dee, 23, 1878-—
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