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CUR NEW STUDIO, we would tnform them that we have now increasod facilities tor the production of first-class Work, and are prepared to make Puoroanarns of a Slydeand Guatily that has never been before ailempled in this City.
We have on exhiiiion, at our Rooms, a large wumber of Photograps «f every : variety, including the '
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he most beautiful style of Photograph known, possessiug a sofiness and deticacy of coloring that has never been equalled. This elegaut picture has become deserved|s . popu areiscwhere, aud cannot fail to be- ecine so here. Though the finish of our Photographs cannot be excelled, We would: direct alter- * tion to the beautiful
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which we make. They possess a highly efamelled surface, and are practically indes- tructible, vud will retain their freshness and beauty for any length of time. If they become sviled they can easily be eleaned. as they will not lose any of their beauty by being wet. ‘This valaa>le quality, com bined with their remerkable elegance Make them very suitable for presents, while the difficulty of their production will prevent them ever becoming so common as to lessen their value. Our patrons cap bave one or all of their Photos finished in this style—an advautage which cannot be obtain. d elsewhere.
We give special attention to making Groups of Families, Societies, Schools, &c
Our pictures of childien are sufficient evidence of our suecess in this difficult branch of our art.
Our ¢NLaARGEMENTS, finished in India Ink, Pastel, Creyon, Oi! aud Water Colors. have wade a favorabie reputation for them aelves throughuout the Lower Provinces.
Parties intending to have Photographs made will find it te their advantage to sit early, 28 the number of our cua tomers makes seme delay iv the delivery of tbe
~ Photos unavoidable. We prefer to have our silters come by appointment,
Photographs can be Obtained for less money cisewhere : but in this tase We ask that quality be given the preference; &-~ suring tue public that they will tlad our eharges very moderate.
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Physicians in all ages have thoroughly tested and well know the “effect of Capsicum; and it has alwayg been more or less used as @ medical agent for an outward application ; but it is only of very recent date that its advan- tages in ‘a porous plaster have been discovered. Being, however, convinced of the wonderful ‘eures effected by Dr. Mrivin’s Capsicum Porous PLAsTeRs, and their superiority over al) other plasters, they now actually prescribe them, in their practice, for such diseases as rheumatism, pain in the side and back, and all such cases as have required the use of plasters orliniment. After you have tried other plas- ters and liniments,, and they have failed, and you want a certain cure, ask your druggist for Dr. Mecvin’s Capsicum Porous PLASTER, You can hardly believe your own convictions of iis wonderful effects. Although powerful and quick in its action, you can rely on its safety foi the most delicate person to wear, 2s it Is free from lead and other poisonous material commonly used in the manufacture ef ordin- ary plasters. One trial is a sufficient guarantee of its merits. and one plaster will sell hundreds to your friends. '
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December 7, 1877.
To Trustees of bounty Sehools
HE Trustees of several Districts have been applying for school furniture, and in every iustance consider the American and Canadian Combination Seat and Desk too ex- pensive. I have just got up 4 Combination that is stronger, neater, and one-third cheaper than those that have been imported. Call and see saznples of the different sizes. City School Trustees fully approve of them. MARK BUTCHER, Dec. 18, 1877—ex 1m ne a pat pres 41
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INDIA.
Sir’ James Stephen has published a long letter to the Londen 7 vmes,’in which he tries to disprove what Sir Arthur Cotton and Mr. Bright said of the condition of India, and the neglect of the Government to provide a pro- per system of irrigation. His defence of the Government is very lame. He says the Gov ment did begin to provide a system of irrigation so long ago as 1371. He further says that a general system could not be provided without interfering with private fights, All this is absurd, as Mr. Bright stateai the traces of the old irrigation works, created under native rule, aud since neglected and allowed to go to des- truction, are to be seen all over India, and their purpose was to save for careful, judicious distribution the water which falls in such abundance occasionally. An exchange thus summarises the letter :—
Sir James, after remarking that Sir Arthur Cotton’s view of the irrigation question seems to commend itself to Mr. Bright, ‘‘ not so much because he has specially studied the ubject as because it furnishes him with materials for attacking the Government of india,” says that the question about irrigation divides itself into two parts ;—First, is irriga tion, as Sir Arthur Coston seems to think, a pana e2, the application of which as an heroic remudy would at once and for ever put an end to India famines? Secondly, has the Govern- ment of India neglected the subject, be its* value what it may? As to the value of irri- gation where it can be employed, Sir James says he supposes there is practically no ditfer- ence of opinion atall; but there are not only physical, but moral difficulties in the way of applying the supposed remedy, to which neither Sir Arthur Cotton nor Mr. Bright alverted at Manchestey. The engineering difficulties are not small; and when it is proposed to eonstruct a network of canals all over Ind without increasing the exist- ing supply of water, it must be remembered that every such project involves-more or less interference with existing rights and interests. Then, too, people are unwiJing to take the water, and hardly any canal wiil pay when it is made unless the cultivators are compelled by law to take the watcr. Therefore, Sir James Stephen says, you must carry out large plans of irrigation very graduajly, unless you are prepared either to compel the cultivators by law to take the water, or to waste milhons a year in making and maintaining canals which they will not use when they are made. As to the second part of the question—Have the Government of India neglected irrigation ? Sir James eontends that they long since undertook the very task which Mr. Bright says they have neglected, that they have made great progress in it, and are proceeding with it steadigy. So far back as 18,1 the Government of India had entered upon various imigation projects, the completion of part of which was then estimat- ed to cost upwards of £20,000,000. About £8,500,000 has been actually spent upon those or other projects in the course of the last ten years, aud ti remainder is being spent by
| yearly instalments. ‘“lome (Sir James Stephen
says) the charge that the Government of India has ot late years neglected irrigation works is strange. ‘there was no one subject on which Lord Mayo and his deservedly trusted and valued counsellor Sir John Strachey, were so eager. (reneral Strachey (Sir John Strachey’s brother, who was in’ Lord Mayo’s time a member of the Legislative Council, and acting Secretaay to the Public Works Department,) stood in the same sort of relation to the advancement of irrigation as that in which Mr. Bright himself stands to peace or par.iamentary reform. To tax suca mén with being negligent on such a subject is as absurd as to tax Mr. Gladstone with apathy to the wrongs of the Christians in Turkey.” Mr, Bright’s assertion that the Government of of India has spent £100,000,000 or more upon railways is, Sir James asserts, as ill-founded as the assumption that they have not spent and are not spending $25,000,000 on canals, for mo.e than two-thirds cf the whole number of miles of railway open in India have been con- constructed at the expense of English share- holders who supplied the capital tor the pur- pose. Mr, Bright’s contention that the Gov- ernment of India spendg freely on railways be- cause their min importance is military, while it undervalues irrigation because it only saves life, is also as erroneous as his other assump- tion. For one European who uses railways 1g India, they are used by literally thousands of nativez. .‘* On the other hand (Sir James Ste- phen continues) if the matter were looked at solely from the point of view of a jealous des- pot, a good deal might be said in favour of ca- nals as against railways. The master of a sys- tem of irrigation is master of the life and pro- perty of everyone whose lands is irrigated by the water. He has only to shut a sluice or break down a dam and he can produce a local famine when and where he pleases. If there are to be canals, such a power must of neces- sity be vested in their masters. That the Gov- ernment of India are not greedy to possess it is proved by the very accusations made against them.” Sir James promises t> deal with Mr. Rrizht’s general attack on the Goverument of
India in another Ictter, ~S7, John Freeman,
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Turks and Their Customs.
HOW THE SULTAN MARRIES A DAUGHTER. penses, as the Hatti Hamayoun of 1868 stated,
| re? mF or S a The marriage of princesses, on whose exe ‘ ; {no saving could be effected, deserves specia§
jnotice. ifone of the Sultan’s daughters hag jattained the age at which Turkish girls are
| gererally married, the father seeks a husband |tor her among the nobles at his court. If @ young man specially pleases her, he is given 1 is »* r .
the rank of hentenant-general, nothing lower bemg ever selected. The chosen man receives, mm adaition, a magnificent, fully-furnished pal- j ace, and sixty thousand piastres # month, pocket-tnoney:+ and, in addition, his father-in- law defrays all the house-keeping expenses,
.| The bridegroom is not always over and above
pleased at being selected. If he be married, he is obliged to get a divorce—he must never have a wife or mistress in addition to the princess ; and, moreover, he is regardéd as the servgut rather than the husband of his wive, The Sultan himself announces to him’ his im- pending good fortune, and it is his bounden duty to bow reverentially, kiss the Saltan’a fect, and stammer a few words about the high honor, the unexpected happiness, etc, He then. proceeds with a chamberlain, who’ bears the imperial Hatt to the Sublime Porte. A inilitary band precedes him, and soldiers are * drawiup along the road, who present arms, At the head of the stairs the bridegroom is received. by the grand vimer, eonducted by him mto a room where all the ministers are assembled, and the Hatt is read alond. . This ceremeny corresponds to the betrothal.
Ais A TURKISH GRANDEE.
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On the occasion of the circumcision of the thirty-year old sen of Damad Pasha, a brother- in-law of the Sultan, a grand ceremony took place,in his palace at Constantinople on the uth of November. The chief civil dignitaries and many of the Mollahs were present. In honor of the event 600 poor children of the city of the same age were circumcised at the expense of the Pasha and presented with money and suits of clothing. Although Damad Pasha is 4 man of great wealth and the most powerful in the empire atter the Sultan, he is very unpopular, and may lose his pre-eminence at any nvoment. He was originaily an ambu- latory vendor of amulets, and owes his good fortune to the grace he found in the eyes ot the sister of the Snitan, who capriciously chose him for her husband on account of his good looks. She called him to the palace, had him dressed Up in fine style, and then took him for her husband. _Findmg—woman-like—that she would have her way, the Sultan made him a Bey, next a PasMg, then a Cabinet Minister, ete.
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The Household,
To Judge Silks,—There are two ways to judge silks. Note the closeness and evenness of the riban it, and hold it to the. light to see this the better, That shows the texture. Then crush it in the hand and reléase it-sud- dently. Note if it springs out quickly, that is
the verve, and leaves no creases behind. The
quality of the silk is denoted by . the verve. ‘he Italian silk Is the softest in the world,and and often wanting in stiffness of appearance. The Chinesesilk is the poorest and deficient in verve. And again, there is a great decal of silk manufactured adulterated with a material called lute, which is interwoven within the fibres of the silk, This manutacture will be found when tested as I have named, yery de- ficientin verbe. Itis a silk which, if wetted, stiffens almost like paper. ;
CoLtp IN THE Heap.—A cold can be cured at once if taken care of in the very beginning. Dissolve a tablespoonfal of borax in a pint of hot water; let it stand un- til it becomes tepid ; snuff some up the nos- trils two or three times during the day, or use the dry powdered borax like snuff, taking a pinch as often as required. At night havea handkerchief saturated with spirits of cam- phor, and place it near the nostrils, so os to in- hale the fumes while sleeping.
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Crotp may be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar, ‘The way to accomplish the act is take a knife or grater and shave off in smal! particles a teaspoonful of alum, then mix it with about twice its quan- tity of sugar, to make tt palatable, and ad- minister 1t as quickly as possible. Almost in- stanteous reliet will fellow.
Potato Puppinc.—For potato pudding beat well together fourteen ounces of mashed pota- toes (free from lamps), four ounces of butter, tour of sugar, five eggs, the grated rind of a small lemon, a pinch of salt ; and a small tea- cup of sweet milk, pour the mixture into a well buttered pudding-dish; pour a little clarified butter on the top, and then sift plenty of white sugar, overit. Bake in a modern oven three quarters of an hour.
EXceELLENT GINnGER-SNAPs.—One pint mo- lasses, one teaspoonful of ginger, one cup of butter. Put these together and Jet, them boil up once, cool, then aud two even teaspoonfuls ot soda, and flour enough to roll out thin.
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