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ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1896. nO 2S is a first-c d falleo e latest news ass weekly newspaper—interesting 7 I, ’ recy ABP LT ONE WOMAN’S SECRET HOW i1—€ WAS ENABLED TO LIV WITHOUT GETTING INTO DEBT. & Selution ef the Question eof Econem) fhatthe Average Weman May Ponde Over with Prefit—Practical Hiuts for th: Vise and Practical Mouscwife, The other day I asked a successful heuse! per, says Johnstone Murra) in Womankind, how she managed ¢ k I table so plenteously and ® mely supplied, to keep the ! j l and neatly clothed, to Keep ! Pry and well and h h t keep her house tast fully furnished and still hav enocu I husband's not large sa!l- ar) t bify an occasional book and k t sitting roam table several C magazines, to pay her p rent | her club dues—in short, to live t? proper life of a middle cia fam and not get in debt Al - told >» her secret—a very simple or but one that the : \ yonder with profit. Sh . , I s y \ tisements, and I k* where and when and hew to purcha the |} hold supplies My husband used to langh at me for reading adver ti s so carefully, but he has lon since a i that I save many dollars ‘ I know of no better way t nomy, and do you know, t! is a wonder how soon you learn t : & 1 from the fals in tr yy, al ? I do n th I F I taken in’ by an ad tis t is always net abou t false ones that S 2 rou ag deal nowadays t I c pages of magaz s a I spa s, but for me the pract pases se containing the busines announcemenis of reputable business houses The housekeeper who tak« ad tas 9 practical hints th pages shows a great deal mor commen sense than does the one who tries to furnish a seven-room cottag« with a lot of soap boxes covered wi denim worked in fancy stitch, 1d feed her growing family with ver ending reminiscences of the meal that went before. To the economical house- keeper the advertisements are the fimpertant part of any publication.’ HINTS TO MOTHERS Useful Suggestiens as to the Care and Tratutnu; ef Childrea Try to be very careful of the skin of an infant in cold weather. Gentle fric- applied with tion the hand to back, ftomach 4. I bs after each batb, will aid a good, healthy circulation. > method of exercising the harmful one ol e arm pits and tossing ere is not cnly the dazr- z this practice, but a cy » produce a rush of » brain. h a child, very early in er food at regular eestion from which iffer is sometimes he- mes the result of feel} » often it is the moth- e she is not particular - ee to the regularity in giving he food. Try the following for infantile con- stipation One tablespoonful of un- bolt flour wet with cold water: add one pint of hot water and boil twenty minutes Add, when taken up, one pent f milk. If the stomach seems celicate and irritable, strain out the irritable, strain he * i 3 bran, but in ord'nary cases retain it. Try I careful from the cold air to a child of delicate siving m protection constitution than is desirable for more vigorous, It is true that cold air is a healthy tonic for the skin when it Coes not produce an uncomfortable ehilliness, but many little tots are un- comfortably chilly when their mothers do not realize it; do not be too anz- fous to “harden” the little chaps; keep them warmly clad. iry paying special attention to the poses of children when standing, They should not be allowed to rest exciu- sively upon one foot, as is a common anaes, for this position throws the spine to one side. Teach them to carry @ b ok upon the head occasionaliy when Waixing and standing, to keep erect. How te Boil Potatoes. In a bulletin issued by Prof. Snyder ef the Minnesota State Agricultural College, he makes a point of interest to the housewife. He shows that where potatoes are peeled and started boil- i in cold water there is a loss of $0 per cent. of the total albumen, and where they are not peeled and are started in hot water, this loss is re- juced to 2 per cent. A bushel of pota- toes, weighing sixty pounds, cortains about two pounds of total nitrogenious compounds When improperly cooked one-half of a pound is lost, containing eix-tenths of a pound of the most val- wable proteids. It requires all of the protein from nearly two pounds of round beefsteak to replace the loss of protein from improperly boiling a bush- el of potatoes. Lack of Care Ruins Clothes. It is not wear, but lack of care, that makes a bedraggled mass of one’s bést w n a couple of months, and iften it suffers most when not being worn. The way shopkeepers care for ' ty-made garments is an excellent t lesson. Coat hangers are cheap, but half a barrel hoop, linen-wound, with a loop in the middle, is even theaper, and answers the purpose as well. These are for the heavy skirts. waists and jackets. Thin garments 3} not be hung at all, as they gr ngy. These should be folded with light paper stuffed in sleeves and Baked Liver and Becon. Have the liver sliced thin, pour boll- Ing water over it, let it stand a few minutes, then drain. Lay a layer of diver in a bake pan, then flour it well, epper and salt, then a layer of thinly- t bacon, and so on till all the liver is put a layer of bacon on top, pour a cup of boiling water over, and bake. Chronology of the Fork. Two- prenged forks were made at Sheffield in 1608. Three-pronged forks manufactured in England and on the continent in 1750, and silver forks Sid not come either in England or ip France until 1814. Evangelist Moody has beeo persuaded to conduct @ series of great revival meet- ings in San Francisco, and will go to that city in afew days. It w ten years since his last visit to the Pacific coast. Alfred Miller, superintendent of the letter carriers in the post office at Kings- ton, Oot, has been suspended in connee- All day long we have been as busy as natlers opening up our SPRING CL READY-MADE CLOTHING we ever hand'ed were laid on our counters to-day. satisfi-d that you will have no hesitation in adding your testimeny to ours as to the MAKE and QUALITY of these goods. sents only goods opened to-day :— 100 Men’s Dark Tweed Suits, $6.50 ; Double Breasted Light Tweed Suits, $8.50 ; goods to jou. 50 Youths’ Dark Tweed Suits, $5.60 ; 50 Youths’ Double Breasted Tweed Suits, Light, $7.50 ; 50 Men’s Light Tweed Suits, $6.50; KAY WOOLEN COMPANY | i (CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY'S EX 2 MINER.) s —n ts =a s XO-DAY. OTHING. Withovt hesitation we say that the nicest lines of Call and ask to see the lines enumerated below, and we feel The following repre- 50 Youths’ Dark Tweed Check Suits, $6.50; 50 Youths’ Double Breasted Tweed Suits, Dark, $7.00; 50 Youths’ Double Breasted Fine Serge Suits, $9.50; 25 Youths’ Spring Overcoats. 50 Men’s Double Breasted Dark Tweed Suits, $7.50; 50 Men’s 50 Men’s Double Breasted Serge Suits, $12.50; 50 Men’s Single Breasted Serge Suits, $12.50; 25 Men’s Clay Worsted Coats and Vests, $12.50; 25 Men’s Spring Overcoats, Blue. We expect to be at the same job all day to-day and for several days to come. We would like to have the pleasure of showing these McKay Woolen Co., Bargain Corner. Big VYelues and Small Prices ! Those who wish to help themselves will be helped to Bargains at John Newson’s Furniture Store. Bedsteads and Bedding a specialty this montk. Our Chamber and Parlor Suites sell at sight, The finish and prices do it, JOHN NEWSON. Charlottetown, February 14, 1896—dy overs of delicious TEA are satisfied our lines of English Breakfast Oolong and Ceylon Teas. We to be the best on the market flavor and price. The public when they use it, and to-day are larger than ever before. We carry a full line of Canned Goods, Jams and Jellies, Fish, Boned and Skinned Dried Codfish Flour, Meal, etc., which we will sell at the very lowest prices. when supplied with Congou, India, China, for quality, strength realize a good article our sales on this Tea Our ain is t» biy the most reliable good and sell them at the lowest prices. Eggs taken in ex change for cash or goods. Goods delivered to all parts of the city. WILLIAM GRANT & CO. Charlottetowa, June 19, 1895—135 w QUEEN STREET. MEAT CHOPPERS, Just Received. FENNELL & CHANDLER. Charlottetown, Feb. 28, 1796 OR THE LENTEN SEASO NI 250 Quintals Choice Codfish, 100 . Hake, 50 - Pollock, 100 100 100 100 Barrels Herring, Half Barrels Herring, Qtr. ““ “ Kits “ Barrels Extra Mess Shad, Smoked Halibut and Salmon, Finnan Haddies. ALSO—Smoked Hams, Rolled and Breukfast Bacon, Pork, Lard, etc., Groceries of all kinds, for sale at low prices. J. H. MYRICK & CO., Cr tion with the disappearance of certain maouey letters, ’ Ch’town, Feb. 19, 1896—6i 135 FISH MARKET, THE CUBAN REBELLION, Another Pattle Reported, In Which the In- surgeLts Suffered the Loss. Late advices from Havana say that Gen. Lineras passed from San Felipe by | Gabriel, while Maceo was near Agnancate, the insurgents to the number of 1500 un- der Perica Diaz, Nunez and Cardilio oc- cupying the hills in front of the column of troops. Other inenrgent infantry and cavalry on one flank opened fire upon the coluuan. Gen. Linares had ordered the forward part of his forces to reconnoitre, while there remained at his orders four companies of the battalion of San Fernan- do, two squadrons of cavalry and two bat- iteries of mountain artillery, besides one co.npany of infantry and one squadron of cavalry a8 @ rear guard. The forces invelved were in a short time hot)y engaged, the insurgents defend- ing their position obstinately, and giving back only # foot at a time. The troops charged with the bayonet enthusiastically and tinally dislodged the insurgents, who retreated seven miles, where they made another stand. Another bayonet charge 5 aan them, when they left twelve killed and, according to the official report, \ carried off over fifty wounded. The troops had two killed and seven wounded. Gen. Weyler has been much annoyel by accounts of acts of vandalism com - |mitted in the neighborhood of Havana, land it is announced that the government will take measures to severely punish the criminals aod bandits and those caught in the act of destroying property. PARKHURST ON COLLEGE ATHLETICS College Intention is Defeated if Physical Experts Are Made. } ! believe our 22c. Blend | Dr. Parkhurst, in his article to young meu in the March Ladies’ Home Journal, writes very forcibly upon the necessity ef physical development as a requisite for proper mental growth—the development of the body and mind—and says relative to college athletics : “ - It is, there- fore, encouraging that our schools and icolleges are making physical culture obli- gatory; and the encouragement lies lees im what euch institutio.s have already done in the way of cultivating the body than it does in their mak~ ing it a part of the acadessic confession of faith thata man can pever altogether get over being an anima), that there is no inconsistency between imtelli- gence and dust, and that the more a maan wants to make of himselfin the wpper strata of human possibility, the moze eare- fal he must be to keep in wholesome eon- dition of repair the platform of tisswe and blood corpurcle, into which, as se mach bud into so much stock, later upfoldings are inseparably knit. I should be sorry to have this interpreted as an approval of all, or nearly all, of what passes under the name of college athletics. It is one thing to train the body for the sake of the map, and it is another thing to train the body for the sake of the body. I regret that there is so much tendency among college authorities to shape the pbysical curricu- lum to the end of producing physical ex— perts—fuot-ball, bare-ball, rowing-match professionals. That kind of thing is @ craze at present, aod it isa p'ty that among our college presidents a: d profes- sors 80 many have so far succumbed to the mania as to be willing to endorse it as a form of advertisement and as a drawing card.” A STUDY IN DEBT, A curious calculation on the debt of the Uuited States and its people is made by the Scientific American “from official sources.” Itsays that the “minimum private and public debt of the United States for the year 1890 was $20,227,170,- 546. These figures must cause our civic financiers to marvel at their moderation. Think what a picnic it would be to con- tract all that debt! These figures divid- first into three grand divisions : Public debts,..............+«-§ 3,027,) 70546 Debts of quasi-public cor- porations, such as rail- ways, telegraphs, etc.... 6.200,606 600 Private debts...............- 12,000,000,000 $20,227,1 70,546 The last item, which stands most in need of elucidation, is made up as fol- lows t Real estate mortgages. s+ ++e-$6,019,679,985 Crop liens in the south ....-- 300,000,000 Crop. liens out-ide of the oaths. .ciscs ob oo <eseneess SO National bank leans, etc.... 1,904,167,351 Other banks, loans and overdrafts .............--+ 1,172,918,415 National, State and local a, ee Other net private debt (esti- SMEDY cncincrvsiscaredeseson 1,212,761 ,236 Total private debt......-..$12,000,000,000 There must be a vast desl of conjecture about that last detail. Men do not reac— il; make known the sum of their indelt- edness to a census taken or any other pro- fessional interrogation point. And if they dd, the information thus collected would © be capital stuff to put no confidense m. It is to be observed that the biggest item is the real estate mortgage total. The Scien- tific American credits this to abnormal speculation. ‘The large profits which were realized by the earlier purchasers, or original owners of inside and outside pro- perty in and around the rapidly growing cities of theStates,encouraged an abnormal! amount of speculation in this direction during the few years preceding the late cris,” it says. “In the Middle, and part- icularly in the Western States, this form of speculation, if it was not directly con- tributary to the crisis, certainly served to render it very acute when it came.” The most aggravating of all the debts must be that ot the crop liens in the South, which were entered into after the war to obtain tools, and which, this high authority as- sures us pay & ruinous interest, averaging forty percent. The interest on them rare- ly goes as low as 25 per cent, and often rises as “high as 75 per cent. and more.” There is nothing else of this kind recorded in the list of debts, the average interest being 6.44 per cent. The average on pri- vate debts alone is only 6.67 per cent. It is remarked by the Montreal Star that debts massed together in this way have a formidable appearance, bat the wealth behind them, if so massed together, would prove to be immensely larger. Then, fur every debtor there 1s a creditor; which shows that som? men must be a long way ahead of the world. SLEEP AND INSANITY. ¢ Edison gave it as his opinion tome time ago that mankind would sleep less and jess as time went on, the introduction of the elec ric light having made it possible 10 work with as much ease at night as by «lay. Sleep is for the most part merely @ abit, according to the inventor, and was forced upon our ancestors by the wretched «juality of their artificial light. This re- minds one of the man who was teaching his horse to live without eating, and would have succeeded, too, but that un- fortunately the animal died just as he had him reduced to one straw a day. The universal belief has been that sleep is a provision of nature for resting the weary frame. refreshing the brain and nerves, and restoring the strength exhausted by the labors of the day. ‘this belief would have to be ziven up if Edison’s views were correct, but the experience of mankind is too uai- form in establishing the physiological function of sleep, and its essential and necessary character, to permit of the peresy making much headway. Indeed, @ recent writer attributes a great deal of the insanity which is found in the world to early rising, that is, to iosufficient sleep. Another writer joints out that Cer- vantes observed the connection between the two. Thus, he writes in the first chapter of his life of Don Quixote: “The master himself was nigh fifty years of age, of a hale and strong complexion, lean-bodied, and thin-faced an early riser and a lover of _ hunting.” And again: “In fine he gave himself up wholly to the reading of romances, so that at nights he would pore on until it was day, and a-days he would read on until it was night; and thus by sieeping little and reading much the moisture of his brain was exhausted to that degree that at last he lost the use of his reasun.” God bless the man who first invented sleep,” cried Sen. Panza, and now that we have the boon Jet us cherish it. “ Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleep of care, the death uf each day’s | f+, sore | sbour’s bath, balm of Lart minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast!’ Without it we can remain sound ne ther in mind or body. Racked with Rheumatism Unable to Walk, owing to excruciat- ing pain. After ten years’ terrible torture, Cured by Scott's Sarsaparilia. A. H. Christiansen, writing from the Clifton House, Niagara Fails, says: “I owe you more than I can ever pay. For ten years I suffered the tortures of the damned with rheumatism, Father had it before me, and I believe it is an here- | ditary disease. My knee joints would get inflamed and if 1 was out in any, *tweather” I was sure to be laid up, which to a travelling man is a calamity. | In a score of Canadian towns local doctors treated me, some giving relief, others none. I read that Sarsapari i rheumatic cure, and I asked a —— for ‘‘a bottle of the best Sarsaparilla on the market.” He gave me Scott’s, re- marking that it was an improvement on all others, and that he could honestly recommend it. I hawe taken four bottles and am as free from pain as a man can hope to be. I was out in arainstorm two days ago and never felt a twinge. As said before, to Scott’s Sar I owe more than I can ever repay.’ : The — remedy for thesmeten: sciati neuralgic arisin a a ee ia in the bloo —is Scott's Sarsaparilla, a modern con- centrated medicine, prompt in its cura- was a; == SCIENCE SIFTINGS. THE RECENT DISCOVERIES ON 1TH: MOON AND PLANET MARS. SYhat Recent Telescopic Investigatisn~ Mave Kcvealed to Prof. Pickering of farvard College @Observatory—Other Wonders. I shali speak first of the mvon. To give you an idea of how small a detail ran be observed on its surface, I wiil state that if the Mechanics’ Build 5; were placed in the crator Pilato it would be possible under favoring ecn- ditions to make it out through the telescopes. The most interesting things, perhaps, to be found bs the telescope On the moon’s surface are the variable spote. These are often so large as to be seen by a small telescope. The conclusion is that there is a real change produced in the nature of the reflecting surfaces They cannot be the effect of shadow. We must ascribe them to water, but not to lakes or ponds. Ice would ke the better explamation. Is there really vegetation on the sur- face of the moon? There is some at- mosphere there, and there is some evi- dence to suppose mofisture, which might not, however, take the form of ponds or lakes. The dark spots are dependent on the phases of the moon. Sometimes the spots take four or five days to become dark; sometimes only a few hours. The planet Mars resembles the earth more closely than any other boly in the solar system that we know of. Yet there are greut differ ences. A man weighing 150 pounds here would weigh but 50 there. He could leap to a rock the height of his head without special *xertion, The reasor is that Mars is so much smaller than the earth, and the force of specific gravity so much less. The atmosphere is very rare- rarer than our highest -nountains. The barometer at Mars must stand lower than on the highest monntains here— 3 to their 10, perhaps. it is probable there are no oceans on Mars, and very little free water, except in the spring, when the snow melts. She “seas” of Mars, like those of the moon, are not seas, but plains, only in the case of Mars it is likely these plains are COv- tered with vegetation. The question of most interest is—igs the planet inhabited by intelligent creatures? The only answer we can give is that it is not impossible that it should be. People much like ourselves, with only an increase of lung power, could exist there, for a1 we can see to the contrary. If the: : is vegetation it is likely there is anin al life. If the “canals” are really canals, there must be intelligent animal lif: there. If we admit the fact of artificial canals, we must explain the word by saying they are broad belts of vegetation, divided by narrow ditches, to be filled eacs night with water produced by the great nodeturnal condensation prevailing in ihe planet.—Prof. Pickering, in Bosion alerald. A DROP CF WATER. | Sen Mistery t* Fatt of the Werdcra of Romance, Water that is now in the ocean and ‘ the river has been many times in the sky. The history of a single drop jaken out of a glass of water is rcatly “a remantic one. No traveler has ever accomplished such ajstances in his life. That particle may have reflected the palm trees of coral islands and havi caught the sun ray in the arch that spams a cloud clearing away from the valleys of Cumberland or California?” Jat may have been carried by the Gulr “treamn from the siwres of Florida cr Caba to be turmd into a crystal ¢- ice beside the precipices of Spitzbergen it may have hovered over the streets xf London and have formed a part 0° the murky fog and have glistened 02 the young grass blade of April ia Irish ‘elds. It has been lifted up to heaven and sailed in great wool-pack clouds across the sky, forming part of a clouc nountain echoing with thunder. Is has hung in a fleecy veil many miles ‘above the earth at the close of long seasons of. still weather. It has dc- <scended many times over in showers to refresh the earth, and has sparkle« and bubbled in mossy fountains im every country in Europe. And it bas returned to its native skies, havi © accomplished its purpose to be stored once again w.th eicctricit, jao give it new life-producing qualittes I f and equip it as heaven's messenger to earth once more.—The Museum. GREAT BATTLES are conun ually going on in the human svs- tem. Hbood’s Sarsaparilla drives ou. ‘Comb to me, my honey,’ quoth Harry,. sceopocntal. At $1 per bottle ef your ee when Henrietta replied, ‘Behive your- tive effects. Doses from one half to one == ww i ae ; _ ‘ Ya welf,” Harry’s shame waxed strong. SE —e.? ad Tired but Sleepless Is a condition which gradually wears away the strength. Let the blood be purified and enriched by Hood’s Sar- saparilla and this condition will cease. “ For two or three years I was subject to poor spells. I always felt tired, could not sleep at night and the little I eould est did not do me any good. I read about Hood's Sarsaparilie and decided to try it. Before I had finished two bottles I began to feel better and in a short time J felt all right and had gained 21 pounds in weight. I am stronger and healthier than Ihave ever been in my life.” Jounx W. CovGHLim, Wallaceburg, Ontario. Hood’s Sarsaparilla «’ Is the Only — True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eyetoday. Be sure to get Hood’s and enly Hood’s. Do not be induced to buy and other. e on Dillous | Hood’s' Pills Sir. sisie" ne England proposes to raise a regiment of gentlemen. There would be plenty of re- cruits from the young men who failed to pass the examination admitting to the military schools. Lord Wolseley farore the plan. Costaki Anthopoulo Pasha, the newly appointed Turkish Ambassador to the Court of St. James, recently remarked to an interviewer :—‘‘ Look at me. I am, although a Turkish oficial, a Greek and a Christian. Many Chrisians are in the Turkish eervice. If Turkey hai any feeling against Christians as such would this be possible ?” An Ottawa woman has been fined $20 and $2 costs for selling cigarettes to min- ors. Bicycle snatching is a new form of crime developed in Paris. The wife of Forain, the caricaturist, was nding some distance ahead of her husband near the Porte Maillot recently when two men stopped her, pulled her off her bicycle and were making off with the machine when the husband caught up with them and had them errested. Mics Francis E. Willard, as President of the W.C.T.U., after her labors in the South are completed, will go to Ireland with Lady Henry Somerset to build up the | cause in old Erin. The Narragan:ette tribe of Iodians have voted to bring suit against the State of Rhode Island fur $4,000,000 as redress for dameges incurred by the taking of their land. Legal authoruis say their case is A good. A Connecticut clergyman travelling o2 atrain the other day was annoyed by a man who bad a flask of whiskey, from which be drank at intervals. After some persuasion the fellow euli the flask and its remaining contents tothe clergyman, who promptly pitched it out of the win- dow. An observer handed the clergyman a $5 note. | The New Brunswick papers announce that in the sear future itis the intention fl to bave all baggage going to the United States examined at St. John instead of at Vanceboro and Bangor. Baggage coming } this way will probably be examined at | Boston. * Toronto is preparing for an exhibition # in 1897. A bill now before parliament § provides for the incorporation of an asso- i} ciation, for the regulation of its finaaces, * and for the nomination, to its directorate, .. Of commissioners to r present the Govern- f ment of Canada. Itwill be a national . affair, and the invitations will be backed | by the names of men of standing in the i country it-elf, having @ defined official | i position. 1: will g've ayear anda half to : exhibitors to prepare for the inauguration. i William Stair2, Halifax, has sent a cheque for $250 tothe new hospital at New Glasgow, N. S. The subscriptions now amount to $6,600. The christening of the second son of the 4 Duke of York was celebrated recentiy. The i font was surrounded with white heather || for good luck, and the infant was sprink- 4] led with water from the River Jordon. ene een 4 - = a None Better ! None Cheaper ! For Fineness of Finish and Artistic Posing, LEWIS’ PHOTOS are unsur- passed anywhere. Special attention given to CHILDREN’S PICTURES; aleo to Copying and En- Jarging Old Pictures. ‘ENTRANCE ON GRAFTON ST., OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. feb20 SAM’S LOVeE-LETTER, Some Amendments Added to the Original Drait ef i. When Representative M. W. Howard, the Podpulist member from Alabama, tirst hung out his shingle as a lawyer he was 19 years of age. His patience nearly exhausted by days spent in vain waiting for his first client to was come, when one dar he heard a knock at the door. On calling “Come int’ a darkey, known as Sam, stepped into the little office. “What can I do for you?” the lawyer asked, as visions of his first fee came to him. ‘“Scuse me, sah,” said Sam, “but deed I wants to see you on pertickl.r biz- ness.”’ Mr. Howard, thinking that the man most likely wanted a divorce, said, “Sit down and explain everything cares fully.” “Deed, sah, I would lixe to close de dore, fo’ de bizness am mighiy per- tickler,” said Sam. After having closed the door, he took the profferel seat. Then he explained: “Sah, I has got a gur! in Georgah dat I wants you to write a lettah to fo’ me.” “Do you love her?” asked the lawyer. “Do you want to marry her? Does she love you?” and many other questions of a like nature. To all of these questions Sam replied “Suttingly.” The replies being satisfactory, he pro- ceded to write the letter. After having finished it he read it to Sam, to see whether it agreed with his ideas. “’Scuse me, boss,” said Sam, serateh- ing his woolly head; “’scuse me if f offer a suggestion; I would like to put something else in dar also; something like dis: De roses am red, And vylets bleu: De pinks am pretty, And so is you. And having put it in, Howard asked if that was all. Sam scratched his woolly head a minute, and then said: “Boss, dar am one mo’ thing dat ought to go in dar—dis: ‘I hopes dat you will ’scuse de pore, mizrable writtin’ an ‘de bad spelfin!’ "—Washington Post. Iria Wit. An Englishman was driven up to @ hotel] where he had formerly stayed, and he missed the face of the oid waiter. “What has become of Joe?” he asked the driver. “Och, ‘tis dead he is, sort,” was the answer. “When him.” “Well, if he'd lived till next Sather- dy,” said the carman, “he’d have been dead three weeks.” The tourist remarked: “The present man doesn’t look as if he'd live very long.” “Why, yer honour, he’s dead this week an’ more, on’y he’s too lazy to shut his eyes.”’ I think that carman story ‘vas pri- vate property. But there is the Dub- lin postoffice story, more widely known, tut worth telling all the same. A foreigner, i.e., an Englishman,char- tered an outside car on a very wet day to see the sights of Dublin. “What is thac tine-looking bullding?” he enquired. “That's the postoffice, said the’ driver. “And what are those statues on the top?” “Ah, thim, they're the twelve apos- tles, yer Warship.” “I see only four,” said stranger, pointing to perance, etc. “'Tis what th’ others never come out in wet weather, me Lard,” was the answer, given with an ingenious smile. On another day when the skies left nothing to be desired the driver ac- counted for the eight absent aposties in the following manner: “Sure, sorr, gome of them does be dowr below, sortin’ th’ letthers.”"—Westminster Ga- atte. did he die? I'm sorry for me Lard,” the puzzied Justice, Ten- A Jolly Old Tar. The captain of a certain large sailing tessel insists upon being addressed as “Sir” by every one on board. One day a new hand joined the ship, and a short time after leaving harbor, being a well- seasoned old salt, he was intrusted with the wheel. The captain came up and put the usual question “ilow’s her head?’ “Nor’-by-cast,’””’ answered the old tar, very gruffiy, taking the customary hitch im his trousers. “My man,” suavely answered the captain, “on this craft, when one of the crew speaks to me, he gives me @ title of respect. Don’t you think you might do so, too? Now, how's her head?” “Nor’-by-east, I tell yer,” shouted the tar, displaying not a [ittle irritation, “{J'm afraid you don’t quite under- stand me,” responded the captain, good- humoredly. “Let me relieve you at the wheel, and then do you take my place and ask me the question. I will then show you how it should be answered.” They accordingly changed places. “’Ow’s her ‘ead’ roared the tar. “Nor’-by-east, sir,” replied the cap- tain, with gentle emphasi» on the “sir.” “Then keep her so, my man, whilst i goes forrad and has a smoke,” was the startling rejoinder from the old reprebate, who calmly commenced to suit the action to the word, and dis- appeared up by the forecastle, lighting a match @s he went.—Harper’s Round Table, : a A Child's Quaint Saving. The Hey. David Macrae has brought together in a most interesting lHittie vclume entitled, “Quaint Sayings of Children” a number of stories, many of them old, but nearly all of them good. There is one, evidently told in print for the first time, of a little gin in Abe:deen who brought a basket of strawbcrries to the min:ster very early on Monday morning “Thenk you, my little girl,” he said, they very beautifyl But I hope you didn’t gather them yesterday, which was the Sabbath day!” “No, sir,” replied the child. * them this mornwg growin’ all yesterday.” are “I pull- But they was Oh! What a Difference ! Dawkins—Come to dinner with me, yd fellow; my wife w.ll be glad to gee a Dut I can’t promise you gny- ng very fine, for our cook’s oniy Jiawley—Better come home with me; sur cook’s black, but her cooking is ~celient.--Harper’s Bazar. Tiuat large Shop, part of the “London Hovs:” Building, lately occupied by 4 T. McKenzie, Tailor, with good room tp tairs for work shop or store room, Apply io HON. DANIEL DAVIES, L. H. DAVIES, Q. C., Executors Estate late Geo, Davies, Or to F. W. L. 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