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fleke ahd them fflubhet wont it be fanny when women vote if they act as silly as the men the burets of flour theyll have to tote the wheelbarrows theyll trundle then will she pay ner bills like a little man or hedge with a pretty pinkbued note will it be a game of catch ascatchcan when women vote wont it be innny to have it said of some political sweet girlbride shes actually gone and shaved her head made a bet on the losing side will they bet their boots and their chew- inggum and the bretty bonnets on which they dote will we think the milenninm has come when women vote a game dinner was served to 600 guests at a chicago hotel on saturday night thirtyfour kinds of game were represented on the menn king kalakaua is coming to antenna be has grown tired of the humdrum ot honolulu and wants to take a look at the new york tiger che richest gold mine in the world is said to be the dooglas mine in australia which yields about 5200000 every month and has but three owner count moltkea favorite flower is the rose and at his home he has one of the finest sower gardens in the world he is some thing more than a warrior literary interests in pittsburgh have re ceived a severe set back in the decision of judge ewing that literary societies cannot run liquor rare as adjuncts at a western church fair a device for getting up a testimonial to the pastor bore the following legend drop a dollar in the slot and see the pastor smile the prince of wales was so delighted with the hungarian national dance he csardas that he has made arrangements to- introduce it to eoglish society it will be a feature at tho fashionable london balls this season there is a man living at luray va who became convinced when young that kissing was wicked because christ was be trayed by a kiss he resolved never to kiss anybody he has been married twenty years and is the father of eleven children and has neverkissed his wife nor any of his offspring a correspondent ask which is cor rect lo the conquering hero comes or see the conquering hero comes it de pends npon the location if tho correspond ent should be out west and see an indian making for him wish a scalpingknife the former would be tht correct way of using the quotation mrs hannah j bailey superintendent of the peace department of the national w c t u i is one of the most notable busi ness women in the country she carries on a large factory in new jersey a wholesale and retail btore in portland and a large farm near winthrop in all she employs about 150 men a little sixyearold of point edward the post says was told by his school teacher that there was smallpox in sarnia and that he would have to be vaccinated he ran home to his mother and exclaimed mamma theyve got the little box in sarnia and if you dont be baptised youll catch it and die the cleveland leader remarks it is strange that the british colonies of can ada and australia should beat the united states and the mother country as well in rowing they have only 8000000 people against 100000000 but oconnor searle kemp beach and hanlan three australians and two canadians could probably not be matched by any other five oarsmen in the world today manistee mich babywhioh ate an eight- grain dose of morphine was given several antidotes but it beoame unconscious and was given up for dead about 16 hours later however while the friends stood aronnd and silently admired the beauty of the corpse the babe awoke and smilingly demanded a drink of milk says an english paper the first in ventor of the sewing maohino turns out not to be howe bnt a man named thomas saint who took out his patent in 1760 sixty years before howe prodnoed his machine a machine made according to saints specifica tion is now being exhibited at tho exhibition of sewing machines and domestio appliances at the royal agricultural hall isling ton a western medinm has interviewed adam on the question is marriage a failure i dont exactly say that marriage is a fail ure remarked the materialised first man as ho sat down on a materialized log just outside of the garden of eden and locked hungrily at the fruit on the other bide of the wall but it i had remained single this wouldnt have happened a desperado dogged- iul finally captured bjr two darin petectlre a despatch from wat virginia to the new york herald gives the following account of the capture of anotacr member of tho no torions hatfield gang of murderers another of the murderous hatfield gang has been dragged in manacles from the rough mountains where the desperadoes have so long defied the lis- and slaughtered as they chose the bloody border war that baa strewn the shores of the tug river with graves is being rapidly brought to a close by the iron nerved detectives who are prowling through the great wilderness to which law has so long been a stranger it takes a man with a lions heart to go into the strongholds of the hatfields now every trail over the mountains or along the creeks leading to the hatfield settlement is picketed by ambushed murderers who would kill without mercy any man they suspected these detectives are going through experi ences such as one reads of in dime novels it seems hard for a man who hears their tales to believe that such things can be in a civilized land ellison hatfield alias mounts the brute who was captured after a desperate struggle in the mountains with detectives gibson and cunningham about three weeks ago made a full confession he implicated alexander messer as one of the slayers of the mccoy boys who were shot to death in august five years ago by a merciless tri bunal of the woods headed by devil ance hatfield messer is known as ono of the most des perate ruffians on the border and was a con spicuous figure in breathitt county trouble in kentucky a few years ago it is said that he killed five or six men in that oounty and boasted that he had killed twenty six- men since the war so frightful were the doeds of this man that he was feared even by the ha fields to whom the shedding of blood is common place governor buckner vf kentucky offered a reward of 5350 for messe s body and gibson and cunningham have been on his track night and day since they captured ellison hatfield as he had left tho hatfield settlement soon after tho murder of tho mc coy boys feaiing the vengeance that ken tucky would wreakthe two detectives found it hard to locate him it is worth a man s life to ask too many questions or to pry around too much in the region where they had to go finally they struck the desperados trail and learned that ho was living in a log hut on ugly creek in lincoln county on last wednesday they met a man in chapmans store in that neighborhood who answered to messers description fearing to- make a mistako the detectives matceuvred after a short t ilk with them the man invited them to his cabin the detectives accompanied him and when in his home ho mentioned his name gibson at once whipped out his revolver and covered the assassin in an other moment messer was handcuffed his fury was beyond description the captured murderer wasbroughttothis city and taken from here to catlettsburg ky where he is now in jail he is about fiftyone years old and has a wife and six children he was formerly a deputy sheriff fn perry county ky messer declares that he would never have surrendered and would not have been captured only that the detec tives got between him and his gun he admits having lived with tho hatfields at the time of the murder of the mccoy boys but denies that he killed either of them he is the seventh of the hatfieldmccoy murderers arrested by the deteotives gibson who made the arrest is the young est member of the force but one of the most fcarless defectives in the united states singlehanded he went into the mccoy set tlement and captured two of the mccoy gang brought them to this state and receiv ed the reward offered for them in com pany with other detectives about two weeks ago he made a raid on the hatfields captur ing one and shooting the forefinger off tom chambers hand also shooting him through the side on that trip gibson lay in the woods three days without any thing to eat exoept what chestnuts he could find among the leaves saint nicholas saint nicholas was the most popular of the saints in the middle ages no other whose name is in the calendar was applied to by more people or by those who were more unlike in character and circumstarces- he was made the patron of the common people of laborers of prisoners of slaves of travellers sailors butchers robbers clerks scholars and in a very special manner of good girls and of boys he has been made the patron saint of russia much in the same way that ss georgs is the patron of england of the life of this saint nothing is known with certainty the most trustworthy ac count says that he was a native of patara in lycl as to the time of his birth it is less confident the supposel date is in the third century of our era and his life possibly extended into the fourth cen tury he is mentioned most frequently as having lived under the reign of constantine the great nicholas was bishop of myra in lycia about six hundred years after his death his body was removed from that place to ban on the southeastern coast of italy he had already become famous at the time of this removal and his reputation for performing miracles continued to grow rapidly as a specimen of what was reported to his credit sir richard torkington who made a pilgrimage to the holy land in 1517 tells tho following w passed the isle of seynt nicholas where be tooles made of iron that never lose their edgge by my- racle of seynt nicholas aa they say i saw itnrtt the day which in the calendar is de dicated to saint nicholas is the 6th of december it is surprising to find the ob servance of that day postponed to the christ mas holidays when the change took place and how it was broutrht about would not be easy to discover at this day that this observance and our present usage of making presents at christmas are one and the same practice will be seen from the follow ing account of the custom given by an early english writer from a very early day it has b4en customary on the eve of st nicholass day for children to put their stockings shoes or slippers in the bedrooms of those from whom they expect or desire favors when sure enough next moraine their little feetpieces are replete with sweetmeats toys or coins the manner of observing st nicholass eve is described by a poet of two or three hundred years ago at considerable length room can be found here for only a few lines oheesine a yankee produot several glass factories now cut the large cylinders of window glass by encircling the cylinder with a fine wire which is then heated to redness by an elcctrio current and a drop of water being allowed to fall npon the hot class a perfeotly clean cut is obtained the old method was to draw out a fibre of whitehot semimolten glass from the furnace by means of tongs and to wrap it ronnd the oylinder squaring the circle is gonerally looked upon as oithor sheer lunacy or unprofitable figuring it appears however that mr w j barnwell a wonderfully olever mathematician and the organist of tha east hundred in berkshire england has really hit npon some feasible scheme which he has laid before the french academy of sciences his formula consists of eight figures which in a concrete shape form a perfect cyclometer the discovery has taken fifteen years hard work forgery and embezzlement are evidently 10 longer looked npon with tho indulgent eniency with which courts of justice in the jnitcd states once regarded them the lentenco of twentyfive years imprisocmont ronounced upon james e bedell should i live a tendency to discourage these crimes i tany rate in tho state of new york tho idgmcntof tho court is generally approved iby the community in new xork wbj hvo coma to the conclusion that criminals of tb olaii can no longer bo trifled with a new name has been coined for an american substance whioh has been for a long time on the american and british mar kets and whioh is alleged to be eatable it is now called oheesine indicating that it is first cousin to those disreputable count erfeits bntterine and oleomargarine cheesine is doubtless cheese made from milk the natural fat of which has been ex tracted at the butter factory to the skim milk cheese any very cheap animal fat is added the product is sometimes called lard cheese the combination of words is quite as insulting to the hog as it is to the cow of course anybody who wants to eat a combination of skim milk and tho fat from died animals is at liberty to do so but legislatures everywhere should step in and compel all such commodities to be sold under their correot descriptions in can ada we have not yet arrived at oheesine and in the interest of our immense dairy ex port business it is desirable that the domin ion government should prohibit the manu facture of the stuff unless it can be abso lutely prevented from going upon the mar ket under a false name children on the eve do cause to fast and when they every one at night in sense- lees sleep are cas both apploa nuts and pears they bricg and other things beside as cap and shoes and petticoats which secretly they hide and in the morning found they say that this si nicholas brought this shows that at that time in england presents were made on the eve of the 6th of december instead of at christmas as now in the greek church and in the north of europe however schoolboys still invoke the liberality of st nicholas or santa claus as he is now commonly called on that nipht how st nicholas could becomo patron to characters so unlike as robbers and good boys is a matter now difficult to understand there is a ballad relating to his patronage of boys which is one of the most popular ever written its story is as painful as that of the babes in the wood strange it is that themes most harrowing are most popular as to this saints patronage of robbers w only know that such was the relation high waymen were called st nicholass cu rowley says i think yonder come pranc ing down the hills from kingston a oo of st nicholass clerkss slavery in the tj s an account of a white man being chained to a waggon and publicly sold as a slave in north america in these days would natur ally be received with incredulity but this is wht happened the other day in the se of massachusetts it seems that cbailcs t parsons a notorious tr flicker in immigrant labour is in the habit of going periodically to new york and hiring all the ignorant men he can find who are unable to speak english after getting possession of his men he takes them to his home at north ampton mass aid sells them to farmers at s4u or 50 a head the farmers use them just the same ai they do their cattle on the 20h instant parsons drove to holyoke with one of these immigrants a pole in a waggon he pulled up at a side street and went to seek a purchaser leaving his vic tim bound hands and feet with a chain which was fastened to the waggon the wretched foreigner was found in this condition by the chief of police who being of an icquirine turn of mind brought about an exposure of parsons operations parsons is now being prosecuted if this man de serves punishment what should be said of the farn era who were parties to his tran sactions it is to be hoped for thesakeof the reputation of the state authorities that an effort will be made to bring them also to justice propelled by water some fifteen years ago a british war ves sel the waterwitch was constructed to be propelled by tne force of water ejected from submerged tubes she was a passable suc cess but not fast nor economical a new york yacht designer seems to have applied the same principal in a different but much more effective way ha has constructed a yacht which may be said to have no machin ery whatever it is propelled by the direct reaction of an explosive mixture of air and gas ignited by electricity in heavy steel cylinders tho ends of which open under water it is as though the yacht itself was a gi eat cannon and the propelling power the recoil from tho discharge of the cannon the boat attains a fair speed the economy of the plan can be seen from the motive torce being produced directly from the fuel with out the loss from radiation friction slip and unused steam that are estimated to use up 95 per cent of the heat evolved in an ordinary ocean steamer the gas is pro duced in the same way as the water gas we burn in toronto namely by a jet of steam and atomised oil passing over a fire the electricity is furnished by a storage battery a powerful prayer the folowiog beautiful prayer is said to have been daily recited by the great thomas a kenipu oh my god give me a clear understanding against ail error a clean heart against all impurity a right faith again t ail indifference and negligence great patience against all disturbance holy medita tion against every fiifjy imagination con tinual prayer against the devils assaults good occupation against the tiresomeness and drowsiness of the heart and lastly a de vout remembrance of thy holy passion against the wounding of the soul by vices assist me oh my god and confirm me in all thy holy works amen tney swore like our army in fland6rs may be said of many sufferers from bilious ness headache constipation indigestion and their resultant irritability intellectual sluggishness ennui etc the temptation to thus violate a sacred commandment how ever is speedily and permanently removed by tie use of dr pierces pleasant pellets tiny little sugarcoated antibilious gra nules nothing like them one a dose druggists fancy ornaments of jet are used in pro fusion upon tho winter millinery beautys dower where grace and beauty most abound true happiness will oft be found where ruby lips and glowing cheek the gift of rugged hoalth bespeak the artist natures nobleman will risk the treasure of his art depicting deftly as he can the lines engraven on his heart fair maiden may lifes richest joy spread her bright mantle over thee may years but gently with you toy and pleasures sweet without alloy with fairest blossoms cover thee but should perchance thy beauty fade thou canst call quickly to thy aid our golden medical discovery remember that pierces golden medical discovery is a sure cure for all skin erupt ions and diseases of the blood- ninety thousand dollars worth of pic- tures and brica brae whioh a baltimore man had collected to adorn his house brought less than 21000 under the hammer woman i bo fair we must adoro thee smile and a world is w nk beforo thee i max 0fiell on amerioa tongue testers the popularity of peter pipers celebrat ed pock of pickled peppers will probably never wane as a snare to catch the tongue that would fain be agile bnt that test has formidable rivals the following short sentences as their anthors maintain do wonders in baffling the ordinary power of speech gaze on the gay gray brigade the sea ceaseth and it sumoeth us say should such a shapely sasu thabby stitches show strange strategic statistics give grimes jims gilt gigwhip sarah in a shawl shovelled soft snow softly she sells sea shells a oup of coffee in a copper coffeepot smiths spirit flask split philips sixth sis ters fifth squirrels skull when that eccentric and imaginative frenchman who is known to the reading pubio as max orell gave to the world his amusing skit upon english men and women entitled john bull and his island our american oousins found his book extremely entertaining and applauded his keen faculty for analysis and his discrimination as a orilio when subsequently he visited am erioa and with the traditional politeness of his nation said all sorts of sngary things abont americans and their institutions no one in the united states qnestioned his sagacity but alas since his return to europe he has been lecturing in london on the united states and it is now discovered that he is a very unsafe guide to follow and that his exaggerations are so extravagant as to take away all value from his criticism he declared that no man with any self- respeotbob anything to do with politics in the united states and that if a senator ac cidentally gains admittance to a select enter tainment the custom of the master of the house is to order that the silver as well as the hats and coats in the hall be carefully watched in referring to the national pre- dileotion for profanity he t oils of an american poker party on an english steamer of which each member laid down each card with a new and distinct oath the ssme poker party a short time afterwards sang hymns and psalms for two hours max orell declares that he has met men in other countries who swore and also he is triad to say who sang hymns but america alone produces men who do both with equal facility exeoution by eleotrioity the new york state law which provides that after january 1st next all executions for murder shall be performed by the agenoy of electricity is like to bring about a diffi culty which was not contemplated when the legislation was passed it was taken for granted that the new mode of death would be painless and that there would be no ghastly preparations to add to the ngonyof the criminal the legislature forgot to bpecify in what manner the death- dealing shock should be applied ond it becamo necessary to refer the matter to a commit tee of electromedical experts to suggest a mode of operation tho recommendation made by this committee involves a number of mysterious preliminaries which will in many cases inflict agony worse than death itself the criminal is to be strapped down npon a table or to a ohair then a metal helmentisto beplacedon his head and metal points are to be put in contact with various parts of his body while warm water is to be applied to his hair and head so pro tracted and coaplicated a method of prepar ing the criminal has aroused much discus sion and exciting strong opposition to the change in the law unless some more simple means of electrio application can be devised it is doubtitl whether the new law will be carried out putting down bribery it is satisfactory to find republicans and demoorata uniting in a demand for stringent laws against bribery at presidential elec tions of conrse suoh laws must be passed by the state legislatures a republican paper of st louis says that there were be tween fourteen and twenty thousand float- era we in canada call them loose fish in indiana alone every one of them seeking money it was a ten dollar apiece campaign in that state and many got twenty dollars for their votes the plans for raising funds in preoinots varied aocording to the looal bosses in one place the ohairman oalled together seoretly the halfdozen men who would in all probability be applicants for the post office in the event of the partys suo- oess he proposed to them an arrange ment whioh was carried out in this way each of tho six put up 50 making a fund of 5300 for that town next they drew lots to see who should have the post- office then the lucky man gave each of the five hianoto for 50 payable after he re ceived the appointment as postmaster all present pledged themselves to abide by the agreement and in this way that particular precinct was provided for indiana was corrupted because havinr been a pivotal state it had been corrupted in nrevious elections a fine fellftw the marquis of quccnabury and his rales are in new york a miniature balloon ol pearl entwined by a serpent studded with small diamonds forms the head of a gentleman scarfpin the completion of the lino of railway from st john to quebec and montreal by the st john valley is causing a golden vision of the acquisition of the export trade of the west to fire the imagination of the people of st john a journalist of that city writes this line reduoes the distance of montreal from this city by more than one hundred and fifty miles and gives us an advantage over halifax in the matter of traffic from montreal or quebec which cannot te over come except by reducing the rates on the intercolonial to a nonpaying point next year the short line will be completed and ready for traffic and this will bring st john within 465 miles of montreal or nearly 300 miles less than at present by the inter colonial railway if st john is ever to acquire the export trade of the west now is tho time to make a beginning to enable us to obtain this trade we want wharves and we wane elevators and other appleances or handling grain it is sincerely hoped that st john will get all the advantages from the enterprises she anticipate ho may be but if he tells you that any pre paration in the world is as good as putnams painless corn extractor distrust the advice imitations only prote the value of putnams painless corn extraotor see signature on eaoh bottle of poison co gat put nams but how can a woman smile when she is suffering untold misery from couipla nta from which we men are exempt the answer is easy dr pierces favorite pre scription is an infallible remedy in all cases of female weakness morning sickness disorders of the stomach nervous pros tration and simiiar maladies as a power ful invigorating tonic it imparts strength to the whole system and to the womb and its appendages in particular as a soothing and strengthening nervineit subdues nervous excitability irritability exhaustion pro stration hysteria spasms and other dis tressing nervous symptoms commonly at tendant upon functional and orgauic dis ease of the womb it induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency sold by druggists under a poeitive guarantee from the manufacturers to give satisfaction tinsel effects are nov introduced into all- classes of brocades and both dark and light grounds are figured with tinsel the golden gate special the union and gjntralpaoific roads and pullman company put on dec 5 a weekly train of pullman vestibule cars to run be tween cunoil bluffs and san francisco steam heat 1 electric light separate bath rooms for ladies and gentlemen barbershop observation and smoking rooms and a female- attendant for ladies and ohildren make it the finest train in the world fare between counoil bluffs and san francisco including everything tioket berth and meals will be 5100 the empress of japan has established a college for women whioh is to be ruled by a committee of foreign ladies two of whom will be americans chinchilla is still the favorite fur for childrens wear oof ho more watson s cough drops aro the best to the world for the throat and ohest for the voice unequalled see that the letters r t w are stamped on eaoh drop a real live princess keeps a millinery store on fifth avenue new york a core for drunkenness the opium habit dapsomanu the morphine nervous prostration caused by the use ol to aoeo wakefulness mental depression softening o tho brain eto premature old age loss of vitality oausod by over exertion ol the bralo and toss ot natural strength from any oause whatever men young old or mid dieaged who are broken down from any ol the above oausos or aoy oause not mentioned above sent your address and 10 oents in etamps lor lubons treatise in book lorm ol diseases of man books aentsoalod and soonre from observation address m v lotos 17 wellington street east toronto om a p 427 patents proon red patent attnrneye and experts esfdlaw oonnldc bldouttco toronto to save timesend for illustrated catalogue of our parsxt pistsss clotiiis likb it will be ready very soon taiutox bros toronto on the boiler inspection and insnr ance company ol canada consulting engineers and solicitors of patents toronto 1- ross ohlef kukioeer a frjwhr seoytreas according to the london timet nov 12 ono of the reasons for the hostility of the queensland people to the appointment of sir h blake as governor is their desire to have the right of eleoting their governors the timet says certain agitators have been busy for some time with the suggestion of substituting election for nomination i re gard to appointing governors and no donbt this recent effort of the queensland premier to obtain a consultative voioe even if not a power of veto in the selection of tho gov ernor is to a certain extent an outcome of this agitation the cable states that sir harry parkes premier of new south wales has passed an address to the crown in the legislature of that colony in favonr of giv ing tho colonies the right to pass npon gubernatorial appointments before they are actually made in the meantime sir h blakes appointment to queensland has been withdrawn and ha goes elsewhere mhe dandy patent baoholder x which every farmer want now costs only 75 cte nd if there is no local agent may be obtained free by aoxpress or mail on sending price to 0 w allen 6 co world building toronto money established i860 to loan on ruis cvojt rates no dolay correspondence solicited e w d biitlek hnanolal agt 72 king st e toronto artificial limbs forclrou lar address j doan 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