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PRINGR EDWARD ISLAND RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 8. WITER ASRANSEMERT,

Te come inte force MONDAY, DEC, 24, 1877

TRAINS GOING WEST.

i T x } 4 STATIONS. EXpriss | Mixed Pp. M GEORGETOWN iDp. ¢. b Cardigan ; | 9.02 Mount Stewart Junction — 35 Royalty Junction “11.46 P. M. P. M. CHARLOTTETOWN — ¢ /Ar-12.101Dp. 2.40 | Dp. 9. OF Royalty Junctie “* 9.25] ** 3.05 North Wiltshire “ 1022) * 4@ Hunter River ** 10.40] “* 4.20 Bradalbane “mae” Bee County Line “11.281 “ 5.10 P.M. Kensington a 37 ‘* 5.50 r : r. 12. SUMMERSIDE Dp. 200| “ 6.20 Wellington “945 Port Hill “« 3.28 O'Leary “* 4.43 Alberton “ 5.45 Tignish “ 6@

TRAINS GOING EAST.

= No.2 ; No. 4 STATIONS. Express | Mrxxp. A.M. TIGNISH Dp. 8.00 ALBERTON * 8.55 O'Leary * 28 Port Hill *{ 11.07 Wellington ** 11.48 P. re aM ? . Ar. 12. SUMMERSIDE Dp. 2.10/Dp. 8,35 Kensington +. 24 "~~ Qae County Line * B80; 7 0.50 B bane “* 3.40) * 10.10 Hunter River ** 4.20) ** 10.40 North Wiltshire © 4.35) ‘*- 10.58 Royalty Junction *€ 5.30) * 11.56 ’ TETOWN] j Ar. 5.55 CHARLOT Nd [Dp. 2.05] « 12.20 Royalty Junction “2.30 ‘r r J Ar. 3.40 MT. STEWART June. Dp. 3.50 Cardigan ~ 22 GEOKGETOWN. Ar. 5.40

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United States Tariff Bill.

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Horse Racing in England.

Betting, especially on the race-course, is largely on the increase. While thirty or forty years ago there were not, perhaps, more thaa 200 professional betting men, there are now probably 2,002, each of them doing a ** roar- ing” business. No one can tell, with any ap proach to certainty the amount of money which changes hands upon the turf;it is known to be enormous. ‘The owner of the horse which won the Cesarewitch of last year was able to back £100,060. Another of the significant facts of the turf was lately stated in a popular mayazine: The chief jockey of the period earns in fees as large an income as the Lord High Chancellor of Englanti! And his fees and presents are said to have amounted last year to over £13,000. In ail probability, the three principal jockeys of England will earn, or at all events receive, more money in a year than the whole professional staff of a modern uni- versity. The recent death of Admiral Rous, and the public accession of the Prince of Wales to the turf conspire to direct renewed attetion to the horse as an instrument of gambling. Horse racing was once the ‘sport of kings,” and in England will apparently become so again ; but it has sadly degenerated if ever it were the innocent pastime which some aasert it was. Now itisin sad want of reform, see- ing, to use a quaint quotation, that the “‘turf isdaisy'd o’er with scandals.” The running of horses, as we have tried to show, has be- come surrounded by all kinds of temptation ; the horse is in the hands of gamblers. Gen tlemen degrade themselves by dirtying their hands with a betting-book. Men bribe and stable-boys become corrupt in consequence of the turf having been selected as ona of the places where people make haste to be riches. The elements of chicanery which now attend the pastime of horse racing have given it a bad odour, and it would be a thousand times bet- ter that horse racing should altogether cease than that the race-courses of Great Britain should continue to be seminaries of swindling. —Contemporary Review,

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Japanese Temple and its Services.

This Temple is of very great dimensions, and gives evidence of the great popularity of the Budhist faith. We made our way tzrough the pigeons that covered the pavement with- out stepping on any of them, and up a flight of stone steps, followed bya great crowd of in- quisitive people, and entered without takin off our shoes, for which we were very gratefui for the whole institution being used as a rook- ery by the pigeons, it would have been incon- venient to walk there in our stocking feet. We

|stood before the altar among the devout,

whose prayers had the Christian merit of being short, though the suppliants made no scruples of being seen of men. There was a little shower of copper coins raining against the wire screen in froné of the shrine, which fell upon a grating, and so finally into Buddah’s pockets without a doubt’ The screen was covered with pellets of chewed paper, upon which the prayers had been written. The God could, after business hours, doubtless decipher the inscriptions, and put the petition on file. There is a small wooden figure of Buddah ac- cessible to the multitude, and which may be considered the working Buddah ; he was sur- rounded by the afflicted. 1f one suffered from healache she rubbed the head very irrevently and then the corresponding part of her own ; if her affliction was in the elbow, the elbows were rubbed in the same manner, and so every part had its corresponding remedy. The features of the poor idol’s face were worn com- pletely away and the whole centre was pol- ished in a high degree by the service he had performed as a healing medium, This is true homeopathy—similia similibus curantur-—and | then there can be no doubt of its efficacy,

when so many millions through so many ages | have practiced it, and have such unshaken | faith in it. I stood for some moments watch- | ing the practice, and could not doubt, judging | from the expressions on their faces, that their

faith had made them whole. I noticed that

the little Buddah who did all the work got no | pay; but the big Baddah behind the sereen

got it all. The whole interior of the temple is

hung with curios, among which I saw a framed

picture of a steamship, and as he went out at a

side door there confronted usa large mirror, | in order that none shoule go away dissatisfied, | and worshippers of another class might pause | and adore the image they saw in it. 1 stopped

there myself, and saw the ladies of our party ali doing the same thing. From there we saw some sideshows, for the whole surrounding is like a fair, and two cent shows, with drum and fife, were abundant.—-Cor. San Francisco Bul- letin:

reductions varying from 50 to 60 per cert. on

the rate of most of the duties. For example, the first items of the bill relate to three ot cription ef cotton goods paying at present duties of 4, 5 and 54 cents per yard. The bill is designed to raise one hundred and fifty five millions of dollars, caleulated on the basis of the average imports for the last six years, which is a few millions more than the receipts from Customs during the last two fiscal years, and it aims at making such a reduction in the cost of collecting the revenue as will render the net income from this source considerably great- er than it is at present.

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Deformity Amongat Wild Animals.

About six weeks ago, Mr. William Smith, of St. Ann’s, Victoria County, captured a mink which exhibits some strange deformities. It has but two legs—a right hind leg and left fore leg. There is not even a rudiment of the corresponding limbs, shoulder or joint. The skin came off as smoothly as from the animal’s back or sides. Their absence cannot therefore be accounted for on the ground of accidental amputation. The fore leg is about six inches from the nose, or nearly midway of the ani- mal’s entire length. The backward extremity of the veterbrae is curved toward the left side, and terminates in a tail of unusual rigidity, the extremity of which is turned up, and forms an obtuse angle with the remaining part, ma- king a sort of foot. It thus appears that by the disposition of the fore leg and tail, the want caused by the absent limbs was in made up; as with the hind leg and nose, they formed well distributed peints of locomotion and support, Itis unfortunate that the car- cass did not reach scientific hands. It would have been an interesting ‘‘find” to the natural- ist. Mr. Smith still has the pelt, which it is hoped will find its way, stuffed, to the museum of Natural Science.—Com. to North Sidney Herald.

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Miscellaneous News.

There are many who talk on from ignor- ance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversa- tion.

The very last curiosity spoken of in the papers isa wheel that came off a dog’s tail when it was a waggin.’ The man who dia- covered it has retired from public life.

The joy resulting from tie diffusion of bless- ings to all around 1s the parest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have ex- perienced it.

Idleness is the dead fish that swallows up all virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of «@ liv- ing man, The idle man is the devil’s urchin, whose livery is rag$, and whose diet and wages are famine and disease.

King Alfonso’s allowance has been fixed at 25,000,000 reals—that is $3,500,000—which will, no doubt, prove a real comfort to him, and ought to procure him food, lodging and clothes of a superior kind,

A little boy in Woonsocket, R. L.. put his tongue to a frosty lamppost on a col night, and a bowl of hot water and a spoon had to be brought into requisition to release him, and then a part of his tongue was left on the post.

Truly, ‘‘the school-master is abroad” A few years ago about twenty per cent. of the recruits of the English army were obliged to confess their ignorance of the art of penman-

& ship by putting a cross to their names ; but at

the present time scarcely five per cent. of them are unable to write. But at the British - sion office nearly one-third of the old soldiers cannot write their names.

At Chatham, England, immense works are in progress for the extension of tne dockyard, which will make that naval gard probably the finest and most important in the world. These works have been going on for several years, and four or five are likely to elapse before all is complete. About 1,500 hands are employed, the majority being convicts. The extension consists of three immense basins, which will have a combined area of seventy four acres, and four graving docks sufficiently large te accommodate the largest vessel that is ever likely to be built. When finished, with all the stores, workshops, etc., erected, the new portion will be larger than the old yard, and combined, the duck-yard will havea river frontage of over three miles.

A MEMORIAL signed by the Archibishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Manning, many of the nobility, university professors, clergymen and others has been presented to Lord Derby, ask- ing for the ratification of the Chefoo conven- tion with China. The third article of the con- tion provides for the deposit of opium import- ed from India in bond until sold.” When sold the importer will pay duty and the buyer a local tax. The object of the articles is to en- able the Government of China to check the im- portation of er through local taxation. In an address delivered by Sir Edward Fry, who is thoroughly acquainted with East India, it was stated that 500,000 acres of land in British india and 500,000 in native India are devoted to the culture of the poppy. The usual annual export is 50,000 chests, from which the Gor- ernment revenue is £8,500,000. The culture is agovernment monopoly. Said the lecture r ‘No opium in British India is grown except for the purpose of the Government. We grow opium and deal in opium as a Government. Suitable land is selected by the Government oificers ; advances are made to the ryots to en- able them to grow opium ; it is removed from the land to factories under Government and sold to China merchants.” The fear of dimin- ishing the revenues of India has made Lord

| Derby hesitate to ratify the Convention,