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Fath Onfarin Obserorr, WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL- TURAL §& FAMILY NEWSPAPER, _ 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, : Jo BY BAIRD & PARSONS. , TERMS,--$1 per annum, if paid in ad- wance ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; and no paper discontinued until all arrears © mre paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line; first insertion ... $0 Subsequent insertions, per line . under 6 lines, per annum ..... 5 00 Yietters containing money, when ad- dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester- ed, will be atour risk. : Advertisement: od by Nonpareil, VOL XXIIT, NO. 88.1 © Business ards. INQ, & D. J. ADAMS, Money, Land & Insurance BROKERS, PORT PERRY, and charged according to the space they oc= cupy. Advertisements received for publication, without spedific instructions, will be inserted antil forbid and charged accordingly. No advertisement will be taken out untilpafd for. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants and others who advertise by the year or half-year, 8@~ These terms will in all cases be strictly aanered to Job Department. Pamphlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads; Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Olrculars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c.,of every style and solor, executed promptly and at lower rates shan guy other establishment in the County. Parties from a distance getting hand Wills, &c. printed can have them done to take home with them, J. BAIRD. H. PARSONS. A cofensional Caras. © D. ANDERSON, MB.M.D,FTMS, J; M.C.P.S.. L.R.C.P. Graduate of the University of Toronto, graduate of the Uni. vorsity of Trinity College, Fellow of Trinity Metical School, Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Licentiate of the Royal College of--Physicians, Edinburg, Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, Office over Mr. Corrigan's Store, Port Perry. phi rashid Junta RSA H. SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur- a. geon and Accoucheur, Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. OMee over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of Queen and Perry Streets. Office hours from §a. m. to 12 m. - Residence, the dwelling recently occupied by Mrs. Geo, Paxton. * Sy re, R. WARE, Coronor for the County of D A ny aioian, Surgeon and Ace eonaheur, Office, opposite the town hall. Fort, Perr, eee M. F. McBRIEN, M.D. LR.C. 8, Hy N Frospital, London, England. The liye B. ji «dng Oshawa, erie eth F. PATERSON, (late of Beaverton,) N Barrister and Attorney-at Taw, Soliel- tor fn ©hanecery, Conveyancer, Notary Pab- {ie, &o., &o: UfMice over Brown & Curries Store Port Perry, BILLINGS Barrister, Solicitor, @otary « Public, &e, Port Perry. A large amount of money toloan at 8 per cent. E. FAREWELL, LL. B., County Crown . Attorne; or Ontario, Barrister, Attorney, Sileitor, and Notary Public. Office lntoly oc- oupied by 8. H. Coechirane, Bsq., Brock street, Whitby. 5 Las eS CC and YMAN L. ENGLISH LL. Rn,, Solicitor in J Chancery, Attorney, Couveyahcer, &c. Oshawa. co--Simecoe street, opposite the Post Office YOUNG SMITH, LL. B., Barrister, Ats x, torney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, and Insolvency, Notary Publie, &e. Omee--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. J. A. MURRAY, ATE Patterson& % Fenton, Surgeon Dentist, Office over bells Store, Port Perry, All work done in the very jatest and best style and warranted to give satisfaction. Port Perry, March 28, 1877. 0. N. VARS, L. D. 8. EETH inserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap as the cheap- est, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted without pain by producing local anwmsth- esin, Dentical Rooms-win Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Street, Oshawa. Hanning & Lally, P L. SURVEYORS, CIVIL EN- .~aixsers," Draughtsmen, Solicitors of Patents. Office, Gould's Block, Uxbridge. ©. G. HANNING. 0. W. LALLY. Moxzy 10 Loan.--C. G. Hanning, Agent for the Freehold Loan & Savings Co. Uxbridge, March 28, 1870. "ENRY GRIST, Patex SOLICITOR AND DeavenTuax, Ottawa, Canada. Pransacts business with the Patent Office and other dep: ts of the G t. Copyrights and the Registration of Trade an a d Designs procured, Drawings, « nd other Documents neces: B a sary to secure Patents of Invention, prepared in receipt ofthe model of the Invention. D. BATEMAN, Yeterinary Surgeon, " ' PORT PERRY. 5 da ight t] i AVL SALLS bY loon telegraph will be attended to without delay. D. BATEMAN. , Clerk of the H. McOAW. MARRIAGE LICENSES, PREREN R ONTARIO Street, directly south of Third Divi- Uice in Bigelow's. Block ONTARIO BANK. CAPITAL $3,000,000 PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. A Savings Department is now open in FiveDollars and upwards received and inter- est allowed thereon, No notice of withdrawal required. £ A.A. ALLEN, . MANAGER, LICENSED AUCTIONEER. JELURRIG my sincere thanks to my numerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during the past eight years, I would now beg to offer my services to all who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright. My long and extensive practice as Auc- tioneer has enabled me to judge the value of none in the Connty, and this is of import- ance as if the Auctioneer is not a good judge of the value of Stock he may soon Jose far more than his foe in any sale. free of charge, Days of Sale may be arranged at the Onserver Office, where a Sale Register will be kept, Terms Liberal, W.M.W. E. MAJOR, Bani AUCTIONEER. All parties Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &ec. Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa Parties entrusting their Sales to me to their interests. WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. ICENSED Auctioneer for the Township 4 of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Bama in North Ontario ; Mariposa, ete., in the County of Victoria. Residence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctnally attended to. Debts col- lected in Cannington, or otherwise, and prompt remittances made. Remember-- WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction- eer. WM. HEZZELWOOD, HE Undersigned having taken out a License as Auctioneer is now prepared | to attend to all sales entrusted to him.-- This Company is now fully organized and is Having had much experience in handling prepared to accept risks on Farm Buildi Real Estate, Live Stock such as Horses, and their contents, country School Houses Cattle, Sheep, &c., also Farming Imple- a ments of all kinds, Farm Preduce, &c, &c., thereby support a Home Insurance Company parties placing their sales in my hands may have now an opportunity of doing so, either rely on getting all for the property thatis by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the local Agents of the Company. Our rates All orders promptly attended to, sale bills will be found as low as those of any respon. made out and sale notes turnished free of sible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada, Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel Parties leaving their orders at the Brock St., Whitby, C. NOURSE, Seceretary. immediate an. careful attention, W. H. BROWNE, General Agent. possible to bring, charge. Opssrvee Office, Port Perry, will receive _ "+ AND GENERAL ADVERTISER si ho PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO dress to wear at Aunt Ruth's party," said Laura Corwin, fretfully, "I do wish T could have things like other folks for once--just to see how it Walker House, PORT PERRY, having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct particular so as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public, THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by noue out of the AVE large sums of money on hand for H Mortgages Purchased. A number of excellent Farms for connection with this Branch, Deposits of Sale or to Rent. AGENTS FOR THE Commercial Travelers, the Travel Public, Farmers nad othe. doing Earners in the Village and ie general public will nd in THE WALKER HOUSE all that can be required in the dution* and moderati Of Steamships, JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, Office in MF, Ross' Ontario Buildings, fhe Charges are No Higher at the '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 choice of the market and the utmost atten~ tion paid to the'convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. No better stable and shed accommodation Port Perry, Jan, 28, 1879, MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subscriber is prepared to lend money : on improved property for terms from other property to sell by Auction anywhere one to twenty years. Agent for Western Caxapa Loax axp Savings Company, He has also been instructed to invest a Farm Stock with an accuracy second to large amount of Private Funds. Juter.st Eight per cent. Port Perry, Dec. 4, 1879. pest PERRY HOUSE, Port Perry, May 20, 1878. ee en The undersigned having leased for a term 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. The stable and yard carefully attended to. Bitumen band." INOTICE TO FARMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. HE undersigned would say 10 the owners of Real Estate, that he has'in his hand a Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. Treo bnvest for Doriods 10 Blt borrows A host FoasOBABIC Lerim nssured. Port Pony, Doe 5, 1909; (OUMERCIAL HOTEL, 8, Manchester, October 17, 18577. ishi his services © call at th ¥ mare Ofc, ay dl arts for MONEY TO LOAN 1s Sales, ------ . : port perry Jan 10, 1879. Déwart in the Commercial Hotel, Willinms- burg, Cartwright, intends fitting it up with a The undersigned hasany amount of Money | vi : ) ey| view to the comfort and convenience of |Of course." said Laura, crossly. "I| «What's that for?" = to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at WM. GORDON, Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Loans can be repaid in any mavoner to suit The supplies for the table and bar care- Cartwright, March 4, 1870. A NeLo-ANERICAN HOTEL, OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, the borrower. S Also several Tmproved Farms, and Wild and Eldon, Lands for sale, cheap. g a y Airy " om Investments made in Municipal Deben may rely on the utmost attention being given tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks. 1 situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repair and renovated the entire premises even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished | Kat§ g i i in First-Class Style and Stocked with the | Katie, Wha sat reading by jho win- best Liquors and Cigars! Strict attention paid to the comfort of conversation, JAMES HOLDEN, T. HL WALSHE, Whitby, April 10, 1873, MONEY [Private Funds,] 'I'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent im- LYMAN ENGLISH, (dow; and had taken no part in the Jo Lo The tab.c and bar well supplisd, Prince Albert, June 18, 1875. ; A PUSTRONG HOUSE, November 2], 1866. THE ONTARIO Licensed Auctioneer. Famers' Mutual Insuance (o', E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. HE QUEEN'S HOTEL, McCANN & TAYLOR, ProrrisTons. Head Office, Whitby, -- Every accommodation for the traveling Those wishing to insure and ASSURANCE COMPANY. INCORPORATED 1851, (With power to increase to $1,000,000.) HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. Charges Moderate, Raglan, Sept 10,1878, The Subscriber In returning his sincere thanks for the very liberal patronage be- stowed on him in the past would inform the public generally that having bought a pre perty and moved into the llage of Prince style, and at the very lowest digire at which can be doue. The best material good Job and fi Kk! hi 5 rst-class workmans Br M. SPENCE, $65 Insurances effected at the lowest current rates om Buildings, Merchandise, and other property, against loss or damage WM. HEZZELWOOD, PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES JNO, & D. J. ADAMS, Port Perry, Jan 283, 1879, PROPERTY FOR SALE. HE undersigned offers for Sale 200 Acres of Land, being lot 8, in the Tth conces- 8 WwW SPENCE, Conraumon, Bulloss, #0, C . M°K E N Z I E, HE Subseriber having now fully ecuipped 0 Albert, he will in future give his whole T his new and extensive Livery Stables with 0) s now ready to undertake Stone Work, Bricks | a supply of superior Horses and Carriages, is Laging, Faster , and everything connecte | prepared to furnish first class th, whic! therew! h he will execute on the shorts ost notice' and in the best and most durable L | VY 5 R Y R | GC Ss On Moderate Terms. Prince Albert, April5, 1876. Port Perry, Aug. 6, 1878 OHN CHRISTIE, e. TOWNSHIP OLEREK, suer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester, T CO, FORMAN, ISSUER OF Marriage Licenses. One door west of the Walker House Port Perry, new Marriage Act. Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. a » ENRY OHARLES having been re- appointed Marriage Lacense Agent-- TOWNSHIP OF REACH, 148 acres of which are oleared and in a good state of ciltivation, the balance of the land is There are erected on the Frame Barn with undergrou Sond ing her, she bad suddenly waked R. RICHARDSON Re<appointed Issuer Marriage Licenses. Under the New Act, Office, lot 10, in the 1st con Brock. Brock, Aug. 5,1874. Sitings Of the Division Courts COUNTY OF ONTARIO, 1880. Published by order of the Court of Genera Sessions, There are on_the premises ag Young Urehard, and a good Well 'Water Privilege. Water Power (a never SAW MILL, On lot 24, in the 7th concession of the town- BRIDGE. It is_about two miles the thriving village of Ux! (after sixteen years duty) fo fur. nish Licenses as herctotore--at Port Perry. FOR SALE The Anglo-American Hotel bi - PRINCE ALBERT. If by letter pre-paid to Epsom P.O. GOOD FARM FOR SALE, rs for Sale that Fine South-half of lot No. 8, cession of the Soe =| Oct E rt Perry, August 24th. | Township of Reach. 80 sores of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation Frame Dwelli nh Orchard 'ands Well of culars apply to the pro Whitby, 8th January, LUGGAGE "TAKEN TO AND FROM THE STATION AND AROUND TOW. Luggage toand from the Rail | 'tf ald . ¢ o letter psom P.O. Rasah Fob 1}. 80. % Epsom £, 0 . . THE BLUE SILK DRESS. | "Rat I'm sure you will look well| Somehow she could never come , THURSDAY, SEP. 2, 1880. -------------------------------- : wn enough," said mamma, "you bave|into his room without a vision of «I don't see what I shall do for a |two new dresses and one or two old | Kate revelling in its delights, and in ones that look nicely." «But T haven't a single thing to |ber head, it proved a most uncom- wear to the party," said Laura. "1|fortable visitor there, Thoughts of ¢ won't wear an old summer dress as | her unselfish sister would rise before would seem," Katie will. If I can't be like other |her, and for hours she could not for- "Why can't you wear your white |tolks I'll stay at home--there!" spite of the crust of selfishness over get them. Katio sitting alone in muslin, with new ribbons or flowers?" | Mamma sighed and papa looked their dingy room longing for asked Mrs. Cowin quietly, grieved. pictures and choice books; and all 75 And set up for 'sweet sim-| Katio said nothing, but she no-|beautitul things, ss she well knew plicity, said Laura scornfully, |ticed Laura's red eyes, and she she did; Katie cheerfully giving up not if I never go anywhere! I|knew that this visit had been her|all the anticipated delights of her must have something else or I shall | hope and dream for years. She was | visit that she might make a display not be decent," a generous soul and never could bear |on one evening; Katie losing" the Mys. Crowin leaned back in her |to sce. any one unhappy, and a |affection of ber aunt on her account; chair, one hand envloped in a stock- | thought flashed into her mind, herself loaded with presents, and ings she was darning, and pondered | What if I stay at home and let Katie's poor little money in her the old--yet ever new--problem : [her go?" It brought a pang, for | purse. How to make a new thing out of old |she thought of the books, the pic- Do what she would she could not ones. . tures, the thousand wonders the |drive the thoughts away, She got "How would it do to get a little | city holds for the little country girl. |8 better view of the real Laura than of something now and make up [She too bad longed to go all her life. «But Laura doesn't care for books | did not please her. with your old pink silk ?" a would be simply horrid. De. {ag I do," urged her generous ime When the long-oxpected evening cided colors are old fashioned, and I|pnlse, "she has no pleasures except arrived, and Laura put ont he coveted should look as though I cameout of |in society and going about, while I the ark. Besides, I shan't bave|can forget my disappointment ic a ed by somo old lace of her aunt's; enough left of my hundred dollars | book. It is hard, too," went on the and when at last that doting lady to buy a yard of cotton cloth, after |{nvisible monitor, "she is pretty, [clasped on ber neck and wrists a I have paid for my ticket to New [fond of dress and and society and | lovely set of pearls to complete the York. she has never been out into tho|costume; the thought ot Katie and "Well, I'm sorry, dear, but I|world at all." ber sacrifice, and her own selfishness Jowt see what we cap do," said Mrs.} All the evening the contest went spoiled all the pleasure which had rwin, sighing, " I'm sure you've [on in hor heart while her eyes were cost 80 much, made Aunt Ruth's money go as far | bent on her book. as money could." tossed and tumbled and All night she| This was made worse during the in the|evening by her introduction to "I'd rather not go at all--for my [morning announced her decision people whose names stood bigh in part--than go shabby," went on |while they were dressing. the literary World, and to see whom Lous, "Laura, Pve decided not to go to| would be to Katie the greatest hap- erhaps you had better not try |New York, and I'll give you the piness she could conceive, Laura's to make the visit, then," said Mrs. | money to buy a party dress." cup turned to bitter waters in her Corwin. "She i not make it a| Laura turned quickly from the | band. point you know. glass where sho stood arranging her| The next day she astonished her "I sapposo I should give it up-- | hair, generally do have to give up every-|sharply. aunt by bursting into tears of shame sho asked |and repentance and telling the whole story of her complainings, and thing I want; I never have any-| «Woll," sad Katie, "T think you | Katie's generosity, and begging her thing a3 I like it; I never go any-|care more for it than I do, I don't | to let her go home and ask Katie to hy as other girls do""--and with | gare for society any way, you know, forgive her, this Speech she threw down her sew- [and the pictures and books and But Aunt Ruth was one of those ing and flounced out of the room, authors I'want to see, I will wait, | persons--not few, alas | --who never Mrs. Corwin resumed her dain-|My turn may come somo day," chango their mind, She was pleas- ing withiput a word, but a deep sigh| «Oh, well, if you don't care to|ed with Laura, and she would not foll on {ho ears of her other daughter | go," said Laura, eagerly, «1 shall be | believe her accoant of herself. books and pictares as I do." library." "Have you spent all your money?" askéd Mrs. Corwin, "No; I want to buy some books when I go there, a fow--for my own." Aunt Ruth lived in Now York City, and had not seen her two nigces since they were very little children. She was a queer person. age always doing something un- expected. Having allowed Laura and Katio. to grow ap without see- up to remember them and bad sent each a hundred dollars to use ox- actly as she liked, but accompanied by an invitation to spend a fow weeks at her house. The invitation was as unusual as thought. BINEI PHOTOGRAPHS, only per dogen ot McKensie's Gallery, Porf Perry, Jan. 1, 1874, Laura, snappishly, valuable books, « Oh I" said Katie, eagerly, "how |tion as weil as society to her. I shall enjoy them, and the Exhibi-| " Where is Katie?" tion, and -- everything. I wish |Ruth's first question when Laura|ong pecame a loving, thoughtful Laura was ready to go to-morrow." entered her door. "She preferred to stay at home. sho don't care for much but books, you know," said Laura hastily. « But when I sent the money I think she might have humored an old auntie onough to make her a visit," said queer Aunt Ruth, who persisted in kfowing a reason. «Well, she bought some books, I believe, and some clothes," said Laura carelessly, looking with eager delight on the elegant furnishings |gigted on Katie's accepting one. of her aunt's house, thinking how happy she should be always to live in such a beautiful pl ing in the fancy of how silk would look here. self-denial, and her aunt's missunder- standing ot it, she gave not a fight. was Aunt ace, and rejoic ell her blue To Katy's the gift, and trips to New. York| No' more was said about Katie. were very unusual in tholives of|A,n¢ Ruth made up her mind that these girls; in fact, neither of thom | .had deliberately preferred to had ever seen that city, and each spond her money for books and in her own way was full of anticip=| 1 thes, "and not como to see her, ations and dreams of the visit, and a hard feeling against her was At the tea-table that evening, planted in her heart from that hour. | to the dressmaker, Laura astonished the family by av-| With Laura sho was delighted, ing that she should not go 10|for that young lady, dressed to|iya Chinese saying, Now orks Hd a general | gyjt borself, pi Bond besides loaded 8 Ohigees say ine oxolamation of gurpriso, with presents by ber aunt, aud|, : ' « Well she said in explanation.-- ati society Lh raro gaieties, sompaniments they Keep. «1 haven't money enough to dress had not a wish ungratified, and. con-| © | 7 decently while I am there, I know [sequently was amiable and appar- It isn't rod until it is opened. very well how countrified I shall look | ently as lovely as one could wish, and feel and, I would rather stay at| Much as she enjoyed ber "aunt's | was a christening, homo till the ond of time than be [house there was ono place sho did mortified to death about my looks." | not like to visit, and that was the «But, my doar," remonstrated |library, It wa sa large room, sombre paps, "yom have accepted, and |with dark woods and rich bindings, c - Aunt Rath will think very strange witha cheerful open fire, plenty od the indigant mother. "indeed of it." of comfortable reading chairs, and i «T don't care if she does," said |shelves upon shelves of choice and | ister was allading to the day of tbe 3 E very glad to have it, for Tdo want to « Say what you will, Laura," she go awfully, I'll get a blue silk I} saw at Mason's yesterday, a lovely «What is it mother? she asked, |shade, and I won't have Miss Steele sco me--never." "Nothing, dear, except that Laura | make it; I'll take it to New York| Now Laura began to sco that the is 80 unhappy about her "dress, I|and have it made st§lish"--and so | evil she had done was ever sgreater whould liko to have her able to get [selfishly full of her own pleasure, | than she had feared. She begged all that sho wants for once, just to [she accepted Katio's hard self-denial show her that happiness does not [without even thanking her for it. really depend on it, even for her." Katie felt a sharp pang, but she « 1 suppose it is hard," said Katie [had not expeoted gratitude from [not on Katie's account. thoughtfully, "she is so ford of|Laura. The worst was to tell mam-| Now, little reador, of course you dressing, and she wants to have a|naand gether consent, for she did {expect nothing less than the odd old pleasant visit. It's different with nos wish Laura's selfishness to be me," sho went on, 'dosen't make |humored, Papa positively objected, | whellmed her with kindness, and any difference what I wear; but |but Katie pleaded so earnestly that, Laura'is really pretty when she is |finding her really set upon it, he |over for her self-denial. dressed, and sho dosen't care for |gave an unwilling consent. The dress was bought, Laura's «You'll have a nice time in New [trunk was packed, and in high York, ¥said her mothor, smiling,-- |spirits, with the remainder of Katy's | selves. Aunt Ruth never forgave "Your Aunt isas fond of pictures hundred dollars in hor purse, she as you are. She has some beautiful started for New York, while Katie | an house, ones hersolf, besides a splendid buried herself deeper than ever in the books that were to be consola-|.1one "It" was hard for Katie, but after all she had her reward. Laura fought her selfishness constantly clared it was only to please her, and sister. many nieces--excepting Katie m---- hi ---- shoes, the hour, month, "0h, that I were a rich man and think that you have not & friend iu the world, Shed a tear or two, and take a walk in the burial ground she ever bad before and the picture silk dress, made in style und enarch- said firmly, 'I shall never beliove that Katie really wanted to como to | harder to go home, and at last Aunt | Ruth gave consent, thongh she de- aunt should seek out Katie, and over- she would be paid a thousand times But in real life things don't always turn out so nicely ; errors and mis- takes, don't always correct them- Katie, never again invited her to Every year she ipvited Laura, And when Aunt Rath died, she divided her property among all her This made opportunity for Laura's last crowning act of penitence, for though the whole sum would have en- abled hor to go abroad and travel with a party of her heart--half ot it would not furnish sufficient income to do this. Yet she instantly divid, od her legacy into halves, and ine Laura's fight was a long one, ind as long as she lived sho kept the blue silk dress hanging among her other dresses, as sho said, that every time she saw it she might remember the dragon Jf selfishness she had to A two-foot rule-- Don't wear tight Only a question of time-- Asking A fitting opportunity --The visit « Do not talk ico to the butterfly,' Musicians are known by the "ac- The watermelon is like a book. At aoburch in Southwark there After the cere- mony, and while the minister was making out the certificate, he hap pened to. say," Let me see, this 'is the 30th." <«Thirtieth 1" exclaim- it is only the thirteenth. The min- Sit by the window and look over the way to your neighbor's excellent mansion which he has recently buils and paid for and fitted out, saying, "™ Get angry with your neighbour continually saying to yourselfi-- "When shall I be buried here?" Sign a note fora friend and never forget yout kindness, and every bour ih the day whispex to your- self: "I wonder if be will over pay that note?" * . - Think that everybedy means to cheat you, Closely examine overy bill you take, and doubt as to its be- ing genuine until you have put the owner to u great deal of trouble.-- Put confidence in nobody, and be- lieve everyone you trade with to be a rogue. Brood over your misfortunes, your lack of talents, and believe that a no distant day you will come to want, Let the workhouse be ever in your mind, with all its horrors of distress and poverty, Follow these receipts and you will be miserable to your heart's con. tent, if we may so speak--siok at heart and at varience with' the world. Nothing will cheer or e»- courage you--nothing throw a gleam of sunshine or a ray of warmth ipto your heart. epee A Favored Man. Sometimes when I look back over my life says Burdette, [ am amazed to see how its pages are dotted with hair-breadth escapes,-- 1 escaped the dangers and hardships of the Revolutionary war by waiting until the war had been over about sixty years before I got born. When the Brooklyn theatre burned I was in Burlington. When the yellow fever broke out in New Orleans 1 was in Minnesota and immediately skipped out for Cunada.-- When I was a school boy at school one day all the boys in tho school were flogged all round for robbing an apple orchard, and the flogging did not do a bit of good, for every begger of them had the cholera-morbus all tint night, just the same. And I? I was attending another school, twehty-three miles distant, When all of my brothers and sisters were down with the scarlet fever, I was down south in the army, and when I read the letter from home I laughed aloud to think of my great good fortune, and thas I would only have to be shot at once or twice a weck, instead of having to take medicine three times a day. When a man comes to the office with a little bill, nine times out of ten ten I am out. And if, by some astonishing blunder, I am in, then, indeed I am more unfortunate, but the man 1s In no better luck than before, m---- An individual at the rces was staggerd about the track, with more liquor than he could carry. «Hallo, what's the matter now ?" said a chap whom the inebrinted man had run against. * Why--hic--why the fact is--hic--a lot of my friends have been betting liquor on the race to-day, and they have got me to hold.the stakes," ------ i ------ Desn Stanley was not quite equal to the opportunity when bo performed the mar- riage ceremony of Prof. Tyndall. The Dean should have asked to groom i= Do you take this anthropoid to be your co-ordinate, to love with your nerve centres, to cherish with your whole cellular tissue, until & final molecular disturbance shall resolve its organism into its primitive atoms 1" ---------- "Hello! when did you return ? asked Snopson of his friend Binns, whom he met on the street. "Why, I have not been away," replied Binns. "You haven't!" in- credulonsly asked Soopson. Why you look 80 worn out and near dead that I posi. tively thought you Lad been away to one of the watering places for a few weeks for the benefit of your health." BE Sop sy A Smarese.--The other day a St. Catherines carter was accosted by a well dressed man who held in his hands bills of lading of certain goods said to belong to him and which wero lying at Jordan. Thesb goods were required in St. Kitts sod would the carter bring them for him at once. And by the way, he was short of money, 0 the carter lend him $1.75 until he returved with the goods. The accommodating oar ter could not refuse so reasonoble a proposi~ tion while he held the bill of lading as se- curity. And away be drove--five miles up the Hamilton--jolt, jolt, jolt, over the rough macadam with his two wheeled and tail piece vehicle of torture. Jordan roached and search was made for certain there was no goods of the description there, s0 that the ride in was less agreeable than the ride out. And the disappointment was doubly annoying when the carter returned home and found that tho gentlemanly owner of tho goods had ascertained where hie lived and had borrowed another sum of money.-- There was a clear loss footed up of $2.50 cash and 8 half a day's work. It it nee goods named on blank form produced, but >