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NX mo, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER ~ PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1879. duties 4 Fi UBLISI Cd n ORT, > AVERY THURSDAY MORNING, / I X "' PERMB.--$1 per annum, If paid fo ads ish 50 will bo charged. Ni 'subscription taken for loss than six months; ee per discontinued until all arrears "RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ard Col Of pad 4d r ont measured by Nonpareil, and charged according tothe space they oc- | cupy. ++. Advertisements received for publication. without Khir instructions, will be inserted until forbid and charged accordingly. No : ent will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal discount allowed to 'Merchants and others who advertise by the year or half-year, ! These terms will in all casos be strictly o-dto ; Job Department. Pamphle Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and solor, executed promptly and at lower rates shan any other establishment in the County. Parties from a distance gettiug hand bil s, &c. printed can have them done to take. home with them. : J. BAIRD. H. PARSONS. Professional Cros. -------- H. SANGSTER, M. D, Physielan, Sur- 4 «on and Accoucheur. Coroner for th County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Office over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of Queen and Perry Streets. . OfMee hours from 9 a. m. to12.m. Residence, the recently . by Mrs. Paxton. . ee tee R. WARE, Coronor for 'the County of Dn Eaten Surgeon and Ac- soacheur, Ofce, opposite the town ball, Port Perry. 4 es M. F. MOBRIEN, M.D., M. R. C. 8. Guy's N bE pd 2 England. The kiye R. Bouse Oshawn, NN ------------------------------ 1,1, LL. B., County Crown J BARE El Rarrister, Attorney, Aalleltor, and Notary Public. OfMee laiely o wunriad by 8, H, Cochrane, Esq., Brock street, : Whitby. ee et etre A L. ENGLISH LL. B, Soli A Attorney, Conveyancer, &c. "oshawn. ce--8imene street, opposite the Post QMae | YOUNG SMITH, LL. B, Barrister, Ate Ot FET aw. Solicitor in Chancery, nd Insolvency, Notary Public, &c. {\fee--MeMillan's Block, Brock street, + Whitby. WwW. Maurica Gpchrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW,Solicitorin Chan very Notary Public, ke., &o Mons: La (Dan at 8 per cent on all ind» of good security. Office, Bigelow's Itoynl Arcade, PORT PERRY. eee, . PATERSON, (late of Beaverton,) N. Rinrristor unl Attorney-at Law, Sollei- tor in Chancery; Conveyancer, Notary Pub- * &o., &c. He fos over Brown & Currie's Store Port Perry. cain mire BILLINGS Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, &c. Port Perry. 28 A large amount of money to loan at § per cent. J. A. MURRAY, > ATE Patterson & . : _4 Feuton, Surgeon Dentist Office over Corrigan & Camp- £3 bell's "Store, Port ¥ Perry, All work done in the very jatest and best style and warranted to give gatisfaction Por Perry, March 28, 1877. 0G. N. VARS, T.. D. S. "TH inserted on ull the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap 8s the cheap sat, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth estracted 'without pain by producing local anamsth- . Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new k, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King " Street, Oshawa. ee ee .. 'Hanning & Lally. 'I> L. SURVEYORS, CIVIL EN- » GINEE#R. Draughtsmen,: Solicitors of uts. Office, Gould's Bleck, Uxbridge, 0.4. masEiNG. | ©. W, LALLY, +7 Mommy 10 Loaw --C. 6. Hanning, Agent "forthe Freehold Loan & Savings Co. Uxbridge, March 26, 1879. .. \TTENRY GRIST, Paan Sooo ax INO. &D. J. ADAMS, AIRD & PARSONS. | PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. | A Savings Department is now open fn 'onnection with this Branch, Deposite of lars and upwards received and inter- g | est allowed thereop, /No notice of withdrawal required. of Steamghips. LICENSED AUCTIONEER. < Port Perry, Jan, 23, 1870. ETURNING ny, siusere tanks to my | -------------------- numerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed J AMES LUND Auctioneer during the past eight years, I 9 would now beg to offer my services to all who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or sell by Auction anywhere the township of Mariposa My long and extensive prictice as Auc- tioneer has enabled me to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to none in the County, and this is of import. ance as it the Auctioneer is not a good of the value of Stock he may soon lose far more than his fee in any Bill stamps always on hand. Sale Bills srranged and no BROKER, MONEY 10 LOAN In any manner to sult borrowers, Morigages Bought. accounts, Notes, &ec., Collected and prom pt remittances made. he Tr without commission, at the Lowest rate, and is allowed to fix his own time for payment of Interesg.once a year (not in advance), and he ean at any time, Just as circumstances perm pay part the Com pany binding themselves inthe mort- gage 10 aceept such sum, whether large or mall and apply it as a direct reduction of prin onthe sum paid. No extra charge ls exacted on such repayment. Loans made from 2 to Y) years on farm, or good productive' town Days of Sale may be arranged "at the Onsgrver Office, where a Sale Register will Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. © ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties 2 wishing his services can call at the m actin, «Observer Office, Port Perry, and arrange for s g both as Agent and Valuator for several Companies there can possibly be no publicity in the transaction. Port Perry, Jan 10, 1879. WM. GORDON, Licénsed Auctioneer, OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposs Uxbridge; May 17, 1877. MONEY TO LOAN. | g@F Parties entrusting their Sales to me eitor In | may rely on the utmost attention being given | iy Fhenadergigned hasany amount of Money Stinderland, Brock. © [ta len: T. H WALSHB, ICENSED Auctioneer for the Township the borrower! 4 of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in borfawer! North Ontario; Mariposa, etc., in the County Residence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctnally attended to. L "tually from 9 a.m. to 5 p,m. [lected in Cannington, or ot fice hey anrtunlly ; prompt remittances made. emi WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction- WM. HEZZELWOOD, Licensed Auctioneer HE Undersigned having taken out # Licenss as Auctioneer is now prepared to attend to all sales entrusted to him -- Having had much experfence:in handling Real Estate, Live Stock Cattle, Sheep, &c., also Farming Imple- ments of all kinds, Farm Preduce, &c, &c. patties placing their sales in my hands may rely on getting all for the property thatis THE undersigned would say to the nwners All orders promptly attended to, sale bills made out and sal: notes tarnished free of Onserver Office, Pert Perry, will receive immediate an. careful attention, WM. HEZZELWOOD, Rag Raglan. Sept 10,1878. M. SPENCE, CoxTRAOTOR, Burpee, &c. The Subscriber in returnin; thanks for the very liberal ¥ stowed on him in the past wou e 'T'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- be! ntion to his business as Contraetor, and 18 now ready to undertake Stone Work, Brick. Laying, Plastering, and everything connecte e will exeauteon the shori- est notice and in the best and most durable Prince Albert, Aprils, 1870. TOWNSHIP OLBEK, nses--Conveyancer, ay ph not exwaived andi pre pA y & Farm "Buildings Marriage Licenses. One door west of the Walker House ~ew Marriage Act. Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having been re- ASSURANCE Money, Land & Insurance PORT PERRY, HA: Targe stims of money on hand for Investment, 1 _ Mortgages Purchased. A number of excellent Farms for Sale Or to Rent. » "AGENTS FOR THE ALLAN LINE JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, , Offiog in Mr. Koss' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry. MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE ON VEY ANOER, Commissioner for takin, Affidavits in Court of Queen's Bench, or borrowing money can get it or all of the principal, Pal, ymmediately cancelling the interest property, in all cases where the title is perfect, the cost will be.very slight to the borrower, "As I If the title is perfect the money will be Jrid here In two weeks after making applica- JAMES LUND, Broker, &c., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and Bascom streets, Uxbridge. upd Farm and Town Property, at Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Loata eatbe fepaid in any manner to suit Al80 several Improved Farms, and Wild Lands for sale, cheap. Investments made in Municipal Deben tures, Bank #nd other marketable Stocks Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, . 5 Broker, &e. WEitby, April 10, 1873. NOTICE TO FAHMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. Real Estate, that he has in his hands a lagge Amount of private funds which he Is prepared to invest for periods to suit borrow- ers--iNterest at eight per cent Expedition and most reasonable terms assured. 8. H. CHRISTIAN. Manchester, October 17, 1877. r | "HE Subscriber is prepared to lend money on improved property for terms from one to twénty years, Agent for Wester Caxapa Loan asp SaviNas Company. He has also been instructed to invest a large amount of Private Funds. Inter st Eight per cent. No Commission. N. Ff. PATERSON. Port Perry, May 20,1878. - Solicitor MON KY [Private Funds,] terest. LYMAN ENGLISII, BARRISTER, &0., 4 Oshawa November 21, 1866. THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Inguance Co'y, Ww Head Office; Whitby, - and their contents, country School Houses and Churches, Those wishing to insure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doing so, either by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the local Agents of the Company. Our rates will be found as low as those of any respon- sible Mutial ce Company in Canada, Head Ofice--Opposite the Royal Hotel Brock St., Whitby. pou} C. NOURSE, Seeretary. Walker House, it in every partichlar so as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public, THE. WALKER HOUSE [wooo Sty whether tor extent or quality of accommo- dations. is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities. Public, Farmers and others doing business in'the Village and the general public will all that can be required in the matter of 'accommodation' and moderation in charges. [he Charges are No Higher at the &hoice ot the market and the utmost atten- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of in the Province, Attentive hostlers, Port Perry, Dec. 4, 1879, por PERRY HOUSE. of years this comfortable, pleasantly located Hotel will endeavor by strict attention to the convenience and comfort of guests to make the 'Port Perry Horse a desirable place of entertainment for the general public, Choice supplies for the table and bar. Port Perry, Dec 9,1879. O=T4n0 HOTEL, Brock st., Whitby not expense guests, He invites all his old friends and the public generally to call and see him, Whitby, Dec. 4, 1879, (COMERCIAL HOTEL, Dewsirt in the Commercial Hotel, Williams- burg, Cartwright, intends fitting it fp with n view to the comfort and convenience of gnests » fully selected, Cartwright, March 4, 1879. . F EVERE HOUSE, it will be my endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the public, {)TT2n10 HOTEL, will please feel at home. Dy CAMPBELL, . . . Prormizror style, and offers every accommodation to travelers. attached: Cannington, Oct, 20, 1875. 43 W. H. PARK, - - - PROPRIETOR. situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired Hotels. THE PORT PERRY. HE Subscriber having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct Commercial Travelers, the Traveling find in y THE WALKER. HOUSE Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up throughout in FIRST CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the ALL GUESTS. No better stable and shed accommodation W. HASLEM. The undersigned having leased for a term The stable and yard carefully attended to. JOHN RUDDY. 0. DAWES, PROPRIETOR. The proprietor will spare neither labor in securing the comfort of his Cnaraes To sure THE Tives, Good Livery attached to the Hotel, The ribseriber having succeeded Mr, The supplies for the table and bar care- PETER HOLT. MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the above excellent Hotel Manchester, Oct. 6, 18 WHITBY, T. MASON, - - PROPRIETOR. The public well card for, and all Guests 'Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. UEENS HOTEL, : Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. CANNINGTON, Oxr. This Hotel is now furnished in the best gay First class Sample Rooms, Livery SS OsaNERIGaN HOTEL, PRINCE ALBERT. Having purchased the above pleasantly and renovated the entire premises even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! Strict jon paid to the comfort of guests. The tab.e and bar well supplied. W. H. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12, 1875. a HOUSE, yy (LATR ALBION) WHITBY, ONTARIO. , +. 'B. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. The Only First Class House in Town. BEEox HOUSE, ate Jewett House, Kent Street, Lindsay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. Tee QUEEN'S HOTEL, WHITBY, ONT. W. H. BROWNE, General Agent. McCANN & TAYLOR, Proprisrors. : - Every dation for the g PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES Pe: 0 2 TPISSING HOTEL, ri N " SUNDBRLAND. ' The undersigned having leased the above c kK E Z Hotel has renovated and fitted it ith C. M x 4 N IE, view to the gn sdiurion pai convenience of . lor lable an coare- PROPRIETOR. Folly selected. 'The. traveling publio will find I eve modetion necessary to comfort at HE Subscriber having now fully equipped the Nipissing Hotel. > Tn SES ELEC ALTAR sumterind, ay, ta0. | TL EL oh Tao first class : a LIVERY RIGS nase MCKENZIE. Seagrave, May 1,1879 Thue NONQUON HOTEL. The undersigned having purchased the above Hotel has had it thoroughly overhanl- ed in every department in and around: the premises ting it in every way to secure the 0 of \ . The supplies for the table and bar will ways be the best the market can supply. |' No eliort will be spored in making this large | Beaverton .| and pleasantly located Hotel an agreeable restiog 'place for the traveling public, AKEN in all the : proved styles, and finished SUPERB WARNER For which ovr work is where, order in good style, Port Perry, Nov, 26, 1879, XMAS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, ENGLISH & AMERICAN JEWELR first-class style and guaranteed. Executors'Sale Pi 6TO GRAPHS The British & Foreign Bible Society latest and most ap- in that Pictures énlarged and framed. Call and see specimens before going else~ Gold and Silver Electroplating done to ,'HY, JUST STEP INTO GOLD AND SILVER SETS, GOLD AND SILVER CHAINS, GOLD AND SILVER RINGS IN GREAT VARIETY. Port Perry, Dec. 3, 1879. LAND IN BROCK rg 'HE undersigned offer for Sale the opening fountains of living wate West half of lot number 16, in the 5th moral wastes of mankind, to revive the dy- concession of Brock, belonging to the Estate ing, to retresh the thisty, to satisty men's of the | Late GEORGE BRABALON, CONTAINING 100 ACRES. This property Is beautifally situated, one mile East of Sunderland, on the T & NR R. and three miles West of Manilla Station on | the Whitby, Port Perry & Lindsay Railway. ! The land is ina good state of cultivation, a beautiful crop is at present on this farm, It is well watered and fenced, There are a pretty good House and Barn and a good Orchard op the premises, 80 Acres Cleared The remainder is beautiful Hardwood. TITLE INDISPUTABLE. For further particilars apply to Romenr Branazoy, Suintfield Post Office ; or WiLnian Bap, Wick Post Office, Dated at Brock this 10th day of July, 1879. ROBERT BRABAZON, E WILLIAM BAIRD, } ZECUTORS, WANTED. 1000 BUSHELS . OF CLOVER SEED! ALSO Dats and Peas. IP, Madill Is prepared to pay the Highest Market Price for the above. WORTHINGTON'S OLD STAND. Port Perry, Dec. 3, 1870. 1.2 OF DIVISION COURTS FOR THE County of Ontario, For the year i18%79. humaa associations, --because the Bible is Divine, and its circulation in the world is the instrument and index of man's. highest welfare. The Bible lands are the lands of education and intelligence, of freedom and good government, of justice and, humapity, of power and prospenty. Mohammedanism is waning and Paganism is decaying, but the religion of the Bible is everywhere " " spreading and prevailing. Christian energy Photographs fox $1 per dogen for 80 days | and enterprise have explored the globe and so far perfected geography as to ake known the existence and condition of all tribes and and interlinks the 'islands ands continents J TEONARD as to facilitate the course of the missionary 2 Photographer, 2 and the circulation of the Scrip'ures; and Opposite Brown & Currie's Perry St. | both the Bible Society and Missionary Socie- -| ty are pervading the world with the truth. ; 'The Bible Soviety is purely biblical, It] ciiersirom England contain. complaints to hey are paying one shilling and Dever less khan 11d a pound for ordin. en English public opiniofi e stratagems of the middle Il margin which should go to cheapen the article and not to enrich a . whom the importer and \ nn cause a better cannot be had or because a | butcher might come in contact to the ad- f \ deeply prejudiced people will not accept a vantage of both, then the consumption will i A | bett i i i la a only till a befter is provided and | hCl Fo ich breeders and feeders with : ie people are prepated for it. = A tranla= | 4) the protection they want, and English consumers suffer. . . circulates the Bible alone, without apocry~ phal admixture or human comment, and in the best possible translations, If ever it |is awakened to circulates an in'erior translation it is only temporarily and as a matter of necessity, be. tion of the Bible that did not. intelligently convey the truth of salvation bas never yet appeared, and it is the constant aim and care of the Society to seize every means and C. B. DIESFELD'S opportunity of ifpproving the versions it Jewelry Store, And there you will see the FINEST STOCK of GOLD & SILVER WARE circulates. prehensive, Its directors in England be- long equally to the Established and Non- conformist churches, in harmony with the fact that in Christ " there is neither Greek nor Jew, neither circumcision nor uncircum- Ever brought into Port Perry, such as cision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, nor free," and in harmony with the command of Christ that no one was to be forbidden or ignored platform is the belief of the Bible as the book of the true God and Jesus Christ whom In keeping with its liberal | planets will be constitution its field is the world, The | Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter being in perihelion rule of its composition is, "All one in Watcher, Clocks and Jewelry repaired in | op ge a onus," and the motto of its operation is, * For all the World and for every All are respectfully invited to call and | creature." examine the goods. he has sent. N.B. It ig no_tronble to show the goods, |incident. mortality. The Bible Society fz the very first of all This society is grandly catholic and com-, Of all the auxiliaries of the British and | Foreign Bible Society the Upper Canada id foremost. So the parent society declares in its own annual report with studied emphasis, In that great empire on which the sun never | sets, including continental Australia and | much money and circulates so many bibles | are in the City of Toronto. Its income last | were 33,000, its branches are 400, its co-op { eration comprises the I'rovince of Quebec on | the east and Manitoba on the west, and by |. the stationary agency of its branches and the | itinerant agency of its colporteurs and visi- | tors, it is ramifying throughout the older | and the newer settlements, among emigrants and aborigines, among men of varions n= | parents are unable to purchase, combining the Word of God, and the reinforcement of the parent Society in supplying the world as at present, with 8,000 yearly. Pu The valuable and venerable society of tha Church of England for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge contributes to supply Ireland; the National Bible Society of formed for all mankind, and on this account aries th hout the world, printing their translations, and enpplying their schools and and portions. Next in magnanimity and power is the American Bible Society, which is eminently blessing its own great country and nobly contributing to the wants of the world. e---- service, The proposed vessels will belong The Sabars, of the Canard lin, will be over seven thousand tons burden, and will have | ic, Germanic, and more reesutly by the Arizona, to be beaten out of sight. Tne Allan Line ship is to be. smaller than ky W. 8, LATIMOR.| but quite its equal in the Sahara, a eq peed, { a Crippling the Trade. - 4 - A correspondent in the Mail of the 6th inst, is directing the attention of those .o1.} rafher of those Who may apply the remedy to the unjust and ivjuriotis dealing of the hnngry middle men wfio by their greed and covetousness siceeed iti pocketing the entire profits, so far as British consumers are cons cerned, of the great import of beef and beef cattle into England. The . OD fee "To make the trade a success it is neces sary that our beef should find its way among the poor classes of England, not now accustomed to indulgence in butcher's meat. nations, Christian commerce so traverses | 1{ beef could be cheapened in England, and 80 distributed among hundreds of thousands who live exclusively on pork, the demand would soon fill every farmer's feeding house in Ontario, not been cheapened jn Epgland by our con contribution to his disciples this effect, ary joints. men who absurb class, increase, Meantime the ways of the trade The margin in favor of the Ontario feeder is with fair play, amply sufficient for us o continue exporting with good beef at 8d per pound in England ; but some of the lecches must be knocked off who get the lion's share of the profits and do absolutely nothing for it." ----mw--. F A Doubtful Thanksgiving.--The worthy pastor of the James 8t. C.M. church Montreal, during his sermon on the late Thanksgiving Day damped the ardor of this hearers considerably by the following rathet " Rome wise students of the signs of the heavens are forecasting that cast out devils in his name. Its ample | terrible calamities next year and the year discouraging passage. the fear of heaven aay be as ou you as the fear of man, Yi APTER HEINE. It comes too Tate that smile all It comes too late, that s| n 3 The love is dend, though 1 A That once you passed so coldly 'by. It comes too late, thy heart's surtender Mine trom its cheerless doom to save ; That humid glance with passion tender : Falls as the sunbeam on a grave, Yet, when our wounded lov: 8 «Xoire, Say | where the wandering spirits stray 1 Where now is the extinguished fire ? Where now the wind that died away? When a ner rin crossing. the bar there is always somebody ready to pilot in. ' Columbus made the egg stand, but Italians of less renown have made the pehnut stand, No Hottentot is permitted to marry more than eight sisters out of one family, This is right. Somebody else might want a chance. A fashion mag zine says, "Ulsters will be worn somewhat longer this winter." Well, then, by St George, the men who wear them have got to wear stilts, that's all, ; "Mr. Smith, father wants to borrow your paper. He baly wants to read it" "Well, go baok and tell your father to send me his supper. Tell him I only want to eat it. Itis a time of planetary per- ihelions and eonjnctions. following. in antumn of 1880. They tell us 'thatthe only times when our planetary approximated to this singular condition was periods of terrible visitations. With all this conduct'and history are co- {A D. 542 we had the perihelious of three Beginning like the mustard reed | of the planets, and, according to Gibbon C.B. D. |in 1804, it has pursuedite way with uoflinch. | over 100,000,000 of the human race died of ing purpose and unwavering ene:gy is the | special visitation at that era. In 1665 distribution of eighty-five millions of copies | there wae another such conjunction, marked of the Word of God throughout 'the world, | by the great plage in London, and which now in neatly three hundred labguages and | also harvested milions in Europe, Asia and # boy who upset my dinner basket I" --OF ---- jas and versions; adding about three | Africa, and the fearful enquiry is,' If three millions more every year, at an annual out~ | planets in perihelion proved eo destructive ing. When you hear of them having two Hay of about a million and a quarter of to mankind, what will five do." dollars. It is fringing the nations with | light, dotting the world with its stations, | Live Stock Trade.--The expcriation r in the | of cattle and sheep from the Ottawa district | nas been unusually large this season. One dealor alone has shipped since' September | ngings for deliverance and a blessed im- | 9,000 lambs from the county of Lanare from | the United States, valued at $25,000, Gems of Thought. Avarice is the chastisement of the rich. Riches got by deceit cheat no man so much as the getter. magnificent Tudia, as well as the triple| The reward of good works is like dates: kingdom, there is no auxiliary that raises so sweet, and repining late, Talent withounttact has been said to be every year as the one whose headquarters | like a fiddle without a fiddlestick. Our glorious aspiration, which give us life year was about $29,000, its biblical issues grow torpid in the din of worldly bustle. * Ths rich are more envied by those who | have a little than by those who have noth ing. Deference is the most complete, the most indirect; and the most elegant compliments. A promise is a just debt, which you must tions and of all sects and parties, supplying | take care to pay, for honor and honesty are Sabbath school cliildren with the Bible where the security. In the cities of the dead the houses are with efficiency the utmost possible economy, | ¢mal) and close together ; and a thistle is as and aiming at nothing less, in harmony | jigble so grow from a'rich man's grave as a with all other Canadian auxiliaries, than the | qqigy is from the mound that covers;the dust supply of this whole vast Dominion with | of 5 beggar. The more' man accopmlishes the more he y. An active tool never goes rusty. Yolf always find those men the most forward to do good, or to improve the times and manners always busy. its own friends and adherents with the bible Don't fatter yourself that frendship an and with many excellent religious works ; | thorizes you to say disagreeable things to your the Arey and Navy Bible Society is design=| intimates. ed to supply our soldiers and sailors; the come into rleation with a person, the more Yisuts a liver pad. Hibernian society has long been «supplying necssary do tact and court esy become, ' . The wife bas absolute power over her Scotland is supplying North Dritain and | husband's happiness, hence the importance nobly helping elsewhere ; but the British | of cultivating a cheerful spirit. Cheerful Bible Society of London is both Home and | pegs and gocd humor give beanty to the Foreign, both patriotic and cosmopolitan. Tt is the first Bible Society thme ever. wa: | jy not. 5 The greatest highroad of human welfare and on account of the manner of its eftort ies along the old highway of Atendmt' for this end, it is grandly pre-eminent, and doing, and they who are the. most persistent claims the thanks and confidence, the sym- and work in the truest s 'rit, will invaria- pathy and help of all good men. It Is the bly be the most succensf i ; success "treads best helper and friend of Christian mission- on the heals of every tight eflort. On the contrary, the nearer you finest face, and imparts charms where He who waits for what he desires takes i the course not to be exceedingly grieved if hi It should be congregations with bibles and testaments Ss mie oFit. He, on the conlrary, hola. tashion. frowned de wa, bors after a thing too impatiently, thinks the anccess, when it comes is not A recompense equal toall the pains he has been at about it. . The art of gelf-possession does not mean The London Standard bases a long editorial | artful concealment, but that power of com= upon the announcement that three new | hrohending at one glance, and every point steamships of extraordinary size and speed of view, the situation in which - which. are are abeut to be built for the North Atlantic placed, and of determining fostantly what! tively to the Cunard, Inman sud Allan | mode of action we ought to pursue, and the (Canadian) company, and are to be in many | most eligable means by which to arrive at rior to anything now afloat. 7? 3 : Purposes, however wise, without ten thousand horsepower, with a length of | canuot be relied on for good resul five hundred and beam of any feck: | Her | dom or spasmodic efforts, like aimless shots peed will be greater than that of vessel ever better than wh we amy expect the remarkable > Jwvaelly A A a tire ) made by such fast boats as the strength. purposes in the businesses of this life are. formed a The Empress of Russia recently, received & dress from Piirs, the cost of which was $5,000, Probably the Emperor will bave last winter's boots balf-soled and wear the same old ulster. & «Well, my !son," said a good-natured father to an eight-year old son, 'the other night, " What have youd done to-day that may be set down as a guod deed ?" © Gave a poor boy five cents," replied hopéfal. - + Ah ah 1 that was a charity,-and charity is always right. He was an orphan boy, was he 7" +1 didn't stop to ask; "replied | the boy." I gave him the money for licking Editors arc generally poorly off for cloth- suits, you can calculate that one' is the suit | he wears every day and Sundays too, and | the other is a libel suit, A fashion letter says "Pinched waists are now thought vulgar." Fashion letters may say what they pleaase, but as long as the owners of the waists don't make a fuss about it young men will continue to pinch 'em, Noah, poor man, never knew what it was to slip down into the cellar of the ark when the boys were in the kitchen, with a'beer mug hid under his coat tail, and come up with a satisfied expression, observing that he had just been down to see if them taters wuz a sprouting. A Sunday School visitor who was interro- gating the children, asked the question :-- « Why was Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt?' There was a pause and then a small boy, with a preternatural growth of head pip- ed out, 'I suppoee it was because she was too fresh.' The changing' color of the foliage, the un= mistakable freshnes of early morn, and the dying hum of the Inet lingering mosquito, all give warning that the time is at hand when the impecunious tramp readjusts his flutering rags and makes a bee line for the sunny and solid South: Now is the time of the year that the young bride fondly gases at seven fish knives and a pair of sugar tongs a k n ring and a clock, and sweetly whisper fo the wedding gueecs, that, 'the other presents are not displayed owing to the wish of the givers who haté publicity.' A man has just died in the Portsmouth, N. H, poor house, who was 118 years old, and who had been an inmate ofgthe poor house for 76 years. Young men, if you want to live to a good old age,' quit your carousing and go ti the poor honse. It The young ined who set up until A té see the shoot'ng stars, saw them--but not until he was getting into. bed and collied 'with a half-opm door. It struck him between the eyes, and Be estimates the 'he number of stars that shooted " in the pace of half a second at 800,000,500,000, 470, 3 3 Flinging an old shod 'after. the bride is a very pretty custom, says an there is potheng objectionable this practice of flinging d& heavy taining the fol of the girl's father | would-be bridegroom is a