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ay house jffvhxe so per annum j solid nonpareil cl per line o 4 sx 4 r contract 50 00 30 00 ioa 10 00 i months la the tune rstto ie bros and proprietors main st stoufiviiie firstclass horses and rigs cartage of al kinds of freight and t express from tuj fctttioii promptly attended to charges moderate ims to and- from all trains- comtnerciirttravellers supplied at fcasonable rates j e addison proprietor til march 1888 i and life insumc i a brow3n rfvillb agent for ost london liverpool globe ontario mutual of london and manufacturers lifeiand accident insurance companies lowest rates monby toloan v i am preparedto lend money at lowest rates in on real estate a g brown shaving parlor firstclass shaving parlor i fitted up in neatest styles hair cutting and shaving equal to any city barber shop adies and childrens hair dressed in the latest fashion ladies please do not call on saturday after 5 p m wm a bovair liurkholders block stohffviile cumber yam jp haetney eps constantly in stock a full supply of r lath shingles salt plaster coal water lime plaster of paris coaltar tarjpaper eire brick fireclav tele cl c for hides woolsheepskins and all kinds of grain- he opposite nailwayslaiioiislouifville arnessi the undorsigned keeps on hand an oxcellent assortment of harness collars whips kto also a stock jof splendid agk robes all cheap for cash a von buseck main street stouffville harness geo minns has constantly on hand light k heavy harness collars saddles c all orders promptly attended to repairing done cheap main street stouffville east end geocery best vaxctie in teas sugars spices fruit crockery and glassware garden seeds woodbox stove polish sunset dyes all colors of these celebrated dyes kept constantly in stock price only five cents n j armstrong scuffvulc april 25 1888 farms for sale township of caloedon co ofpfe1 lot 27 con 1 aoo acres 180 cleared well fenced frame barns brick house orchard clay loam a miles from the town of orangeville price eight thousand dollars also lot ai con 5 100 acres 75 acres cleared well fenced frame stable rough cist dwelling young orchard soil good clay loam convenient to school a miles from a market price three thous and eight hundred dollars also aoo acres 165 acresclearedgood brick house bank barn frame stable and driving house well fenced 6 miles from town of orangeville must be sold price sixthousand two hundred dollars township of mono co doffbrin xa6 acres all cleared frame stable log dwelling this is said to be one of the best grain farms in mono raised aoso bushels last year miles from town of orangeville price five thousand six hundred dollars i also 100 acres 80 cleared frame barn frame sta ble log house wellfenced good clay loam i price five thousand two hundred dollars township of- amaranth jto acres 95 acres cleared frame house bank barn well fenced flag station on the farn p o 8 miles from the town of orangeville day loam must bo sold price four thousand dollars also x20 acres 70 acres cleared frame house bank barn welt fenced welt watered price two houa and eight hundred dollars all the above farms are level and very cheap also a number of other farms for sale cheap money to loan office days monday and saturday apply to tbcos parsons real estate agent p o box 138 orangeville dazed by the lighr how birds at sea arcdcuroycd by the iilgbluonncs the attraction- of lighthouses for birds is a very curious phenomenon it is said that just before the charleston earthquake all the lighthouses along the coast as tar north as cape may were enveloped by clouds of agitated birds many- wonderful scones are witnessed at the lighthouses on some parts of the british coasts during the seasons of migration sometimes when the moon is suddenly hidden by a bank of clouds the lan terns of the lighthouses are the pointtowbioh the stream of migrants hasten and where in a confused fluttering throng they beat against the glass like moths around a candle and fly to and fro utterly- bewildered and completely lost they seem to have no idea of their true course and fly aimlessly about many killing themselves against the glass others falling into the water below the lightmen are alerts on these occasions and 0 tpture numborsljfctho poor lost travellers with hand nets many of the birds are too tired or too dazed to move and allow them selves to be taken by the hand as they sit on tho balcony let the reader represent to himself a lighthouse on one of thesj migra tion nights the tide of migration is at its height the night is dark and the lanterns are the central point of attraction for the countless hosts of birds that were crossing the sea when thu sky became overcast birds of many different species aro flying to gether or are attraoted from all parts of the compass by the brilliant light bucks and geese are traveling with gold crests and swallows starlings and finches are flying side by side with gulls and waders warblers and herons scatter scientific classification to the winds and fraternize with swans and goatsuckers and larks falcons and owls appear to lose all propensity for preying on their companions in misfortune as soon as the weather clears and the moon shines forth once more the birds appear to get on their track again and the feathered hosts are gono as suddenly as they came these migratory movements lend birdlife its greatest charms in autumn a favourite skirt for wear with the hand some brocade coats for evening wear is of white silk muslin it has a deep hem above which comes aluster of tucks t oltuiasttime bxeofjiiohs death by electricity the most humane ot many cartons inventions thij employment of the eleotrio current for inflicting the death penalty upon oon- j demned murderers marks another step of progress in the refinement of the methods of capital punishment and ye if twenty condemned criminals were asked today what mode of death they would prefer it is not too much to say that all would vote in favor of the past system of hanging because the dread of death by electricity which is so mysterious in its wcrk is terrible in antici pation and it is in the anticipation of death that the punishment of criminals is myster iously emphaazid death by electricity will probably prove entirely painless thus the condemned felon of today finds a far leas terrible revenge awaiting him at the hands of the law than did the criminal of past generations the story of the tortures undergone by convicted men in olden times is almost revolting to contemplate and yet the barbario in- genuity displayed by the official torment ors is interesting in view of the recent change in some places in the method of in flicting the death penalty for the most inhuman and crusl deaths we have to go today to central asia where the victim is buried in the earth up to his fhiuldeva and there left miserably to die still more barbaric in cruelty were the ex ecutions of the past done in the torture- rooms of the prisons where judges sought to press avowals by the most inhuman means one of the best known of the mediaeval methods of execution psrhaps is the so- called iron virgin a model of which may still be seen in the great musenm at nur- emburg there were many forms of this dreadful invention one was a figure of the virgin which clasped its victims in arms furnished with poignards and then opening them dropped the body down a trap on a sore of cradle swords arranged to as to out it to pieces a running streaa below clewing all traces it away the model now preserved in nuremberg represents a nuremberg maiden of the six teenth century in the long mantle generally worn the front of the figure is provided with opening doors and then it is seen that the inside of the infernal thing is provided with sharp irou spikes which when the victim was placed within pierced every por tion of the wretchs bedy the machine is said to have been introduced into nuremberg in 1533 and is believed to have originated in spain and to have been transplanted into germany during- the reign of charles vwho was monarch of both countries verestchagin the russian artist has three stricking pictures of ancient and modern methods of executions these are the shoot ing of mutineers in india by the british from the mouth of cannon the hanging of nihil ists in russia and orucifixlon among the jews in regard to the latter it may be noted that the crucifixion applied to christ was one of the simpler modes of putting to death by the romans there were crucifix ions in all possible imaginings in some cases the victim was suspended head downward and in others the cross was made in the shape of the letter x and on this the wretches were btretohed out till death released them from their agony j the romans displayed indeed a surpris ing degree of inventive genius in their machines for the infliction of torture though the rope the lever the crank and the pulley were the great motors in all cases one of their refinements of cruelty was to fasten the victim firmly by his hands to theground and then by means of a windlass worked by long arms axid strong men pull the wretchs limbs out of joint by attaching a rope to his feet and lengthening him out gradually till something gave way another method for political criminals was to hurl them from the tarpeiean bock but even in their methods the old saxons oonld give them a pointer in wholesale butohery one of the favorite methods of our dear old barbaric forefathers in disposing of their prisoners of war was to sacrifice them to their gods in the wicker image whioh is described as a statue or image of a man in a rut proportion whose limbs consisted of twigs weaved together in the nature of baeketware these were filled with live men and after that set on fire and so the poor creatures were destroyed in the smoke and flames a modification of this system of cruelty was that applied to the christian martyrs in later years the old saxons too killed their malefactors by means of hanging in about the same way as we their descendants have done up to the present time the cruelties of the seventeenth and eighteenth century were terrible and in the torture chambers tbe instruments used were surely the devices of hell the torture instruments in the tower of london form a loatheaome collection there is the trough in which the victim was wracked to con fession the iron necklace tho scavengers daughter which consisted of irons for the neok hands and feet thumb screws an axe and hook for the tearing away of fiesh then the executioners block and hatch- et and mask in use at the final ceremonies as shown in gilbert sullivans last operet ta yeomen of the guard in that scene where librettist and composer reallv come up to the height of the situation in a brilliant finale and men were slain in the good old times for very small offenses in germany especially the most dreadful punishments were infiioted in forty years from 1626 to 1666 tho judges of the otty of lelpsio condemned at least twenty thousand people to torture and death a refinement of cruelty was that committed by the dutch on the english in ambovna where the viotims arms wore nailed to the upper beam of a doorway his feet tied to the sides underneath his soles were placed lighted candles torches were applied to his armpits and then after a bandage had been placed about his chin beer was poured into his mouth and he was com pelled to swallow it until he was as full bodied as an ordinary dutch burgomaster toe idea that the poor wretch was filled with beer may be scooted unless it were stale and undrinkable anyway it was a terrible punishmont for any briton wha had not been a heidelberg student the french joothod of executing criminals is by means of hie guillotine the invention of a certain dr guillotin the doctors invention has been made the subject of a painting by canot a pupil of david who in his matters studio had be come acquainted withtahna danton robe spierre marat and guillotin himself the picture represents guillotin showing the model of his deathdealing machine to the convention which adopt d it in place of be- heading by the axe the first trial was sven to it on april 15 1792 when a dead dy was decapitated successfully the guillotine was however only the imprc ve- ment of an earlier deathmachine in use at halifax in yorkshire england and called yorshire gibbet it was in the form of a guillotine and was under the control ot the lord of the manor of wakefield if a felon we are told were taken within the liberty of the borough with cloth or other commodity of the value of thirteen pence half penny he was after three market days from his apprehension and condemnation to be carried to the gibbet and there have his head cut off from his body in april 1650 abraham wilkinson and anthony mitchell were found guilty of stealing nine yards of cloth and two celts and on the 30th of the month received sentence to suffer death by having their heads severed and cut off from their todies at halifax gibbet and they suffered ac cordingly these were the last persons executed under halifax gibbet law the original of the gibbet and the guillotine is thought to be bornan for a small print by aldegraver one of the little german masters in 1523 represents the execrtion of manlius the roman by the same instru ment the french executioner is styled monsieur de paris who when his at tendants fasten the wretch to the fatal board of the guillotine whispers in the suavest manner courage my friend it will not hurt you much the fate of some regicides is not pleas ant to contemplate respecting the death of d unions who attempted the life of louis xv f franco an old chronicler says i can scarce guide my pen to tell you what that insane and wretched mortal endured before as well as on the day of his execu tion i will pass over the trifling tortures he was put to in private and come to the day of his public sufferings first desiring the reader to lay down this paper if he be not well prepared to hear related the saddest tale of truth that even pen or press produced it can 13 imagined that the honors were something frightful when it is said that even four wild horses driven to four contrary points did not free the victim from his sufferings the old chronicler says of this execution it was observed that during that last and terrifying operation all the mens heads were turned away from the horrid sight but all the womens immovably fixed on the criminal louis xv was a man of a per- feot good temper therefore i hope and be lieve the bufferings of the assassin arose from the love of his subjects otherwise i would prefer being the departed shade of damiens to that of a king of france and the story of horrors is not yet fully described in fact much of it would be too horrifying for perusal nowadays some pop ular ancient methods of slaying criminals were the crushing of the bones by having a spiked roller dragged over them by horses or by means of sharp spiked harrows dragged by spirited steeds the placing of thorns upon the victims body and then letting a huge stone fall upon them a favorite method praotised in india up to a reoent date was the employment of elephants as executioners either by trampling the victims to death or by having the huge creature do it as gently as possible by pressing his ponderous paw upon the head the sultan of zanzibar has recently held high carnage of executions in the street of his capital by topping off the heads of his people by wholesale until stopped by the interven tion of european powers in japan they do the business in this way an official asks the culprit if he is ready one ot the assistants slits the dress at the back of the neck and turns it bapk over the shoulders leaving the neok and upper portion of the back bare he then pours a little water on the neok and then for the only time a shudder passes over the poor wretchs flesh the executioner then takes the dipper and pours water along the blade of the sword also wetting the linen wrapped around the handle so as to secure a firm grip then he quietly moves to the left of the prisoner who is motionless as a stone two assistants stand in front and two behind the kneeling form there is a silence of death en the crowd the execu tioner measures his viotlm lifts the sword with both hands shoulder high a lightning stroke given apparently without effort a never- tobef orgotton thud and the head rolls off in china dreadful punishments are in- fliotcd upon criminals but they do not ex ceed in horror those of mediaeval times it is unnecessary to go into further details such as the employment of boiling oil the application of the iron boot the strangulation by garotte tho burial alive in dungeons and a hundred other forms record ed in criminal history battle between man and woman a very peculiar preliminary to a death sentence that deserves to be put on reoord was thatin vogue in franconia in the fifteenth century that is in the days of the ordeal in whioh heaven itself was supposed to take a hand in the distribution of justice in oase a woman had been made to suffer in reputation by a man she was at liberty to challenge him to combat wbioh took place in the following way a regular ring was formed for spectators and chairs were placed for the judges in the middle of a ring was a hole about three feet deep in whioh tho man armed only with a club had to defend himself against a woman who was armed with a stone weighing a c ound tied up in a hankerchlef and attaohed to a slender will owy stick the lady had a space measuring ten feet in diameter in whioh to evolute and to attack the rules were as follows if the man in attempting to strike the woman touched the ground with arm or hand he made one er ror if he made three such or if the wo man succeeded in disarming him he was de clared defeated and was then delivered over to the executioner to be put to death whioh was by being buried in the same hole in which he had vainly attempted to defend himself but if the man succeeded in thwart ing the attacks of the woman or in dis arming her he was then declared the victor and the woman herself was then the victim and was sentenced to death and burled alive the unpubliclty of the proposed method of executicn by electricity will be deeply re- gretted by hardened criminals who have read up the last speeches on the scaffold by the heroes of their craft many a blackhearted wretch has died comparatively happy after being allowed to address the world just be fore being launched into eternity thedark- estdyed criminals loved dearly to prear sermon as a warning to the rest of huma prior to being taken off many a brute i left his friends with the disgusting auura that after the fatal noose hat done its wo he has a first class entrance ticket fori realms of eternal glory and the great j lie enjoyed this kind of sacrilegious pi hugely this speechmaking on the s appears to have been a relic of still renv times when the practice of chanting last ing speeches in the vicinity of the place execution was a common thing la from the notes of a fine solemn air of time of elizabeth called fortune my fo published in chappells popular muslo i the olden time it is learned that a tune which is immortalized by being 1 tioned by shakespeare and is alluded tsj ben jonson beaumont fletcher li chettle and old burton was the one whioh metrical lamentations of extraordi aiy criminals were chanted in eoglar centuries ago in proof of this a passage l cited from rowleys noble soldier 16311 in whioh we read the king i shall i 6e bitter gainst the king i shall have scurvy ballads made of me sung to the hanging tune and another from the penitent traytor the humble petition of a devon shire gentleman who was condemned frjr treason and executed for the same anno 1611 the last verse but two runs how could i bless thee couldst thou take avray my life and infamy both in one day vut this in ballads will survive i know sung to that preaching tune fortune my foer truly a desperate world was ours at me time in the search for oruelties to be meted out to malefactors traitors and sinners in general modern criminals may perheos thank their stars that they are bpared iia- necessary bodily tortrue and that the evident hope of justice today is to get them out of the world with as little noise lind preliminary suffering as possible i the year 1900 although the year 1900 will be divisible by four without a remainder it will not be leap year twelve years must elapse be fore the interesting event takes place but it was just the same in 1800 and 1700 but not in 1600 for that was a leap year and the yeai 2000 will be a leap year also why this should beia a problem to explain jsa detail would be a tiresome task bnt it raits on the principle that a difference of 11 min utes pe day exists between actual time and calendar time thus a year is computed at 365 days three years being 365 days if ng and the fourth year 366 days it faot the year is 365 days 5 hours r and 45 minutes long or 11 minutes short of 365j days thf leap year every four years is said to havj been an invention of julius csaiara to 1 low for this difference of eleven mlnub per year one leap yar was dropped ever hundred years b it this was found not tl be exact and pope gregory xiii in 1581 made an improvement and decreed thai centurlal year and letting it remain as uerjj- al on the fourth centurlal year a system ia obtained so close that it would take thousands of years to make up another days difference in time the calendar time is still not ext act mathematically but as no bhange will be necessary for 4c00 years it will not fall to the share of the present generation to correot the discrepancy the chinese emperors wedding the pekin china gazette says th board of bites presents a memorial ooncer ing the marriage of the emperor whioh 1 i take plaoe feb 26 her majesty the et press dowager has already sanctioned j programme presented by the board wherein are set forth in order the ceremonies proposed to be performed first will taike place the sending of presents to the bride then the marriage next joint worship by the imperial pair the conferring of a patent as empress on the bride presentation to the empress dowager reception of felicita tions and imperial banquet the board now reports that it has given orders for f ho fabrication of a sheet cf gold for the patebt and a golden seal it also pressnts a list ov the duties whioh should be performed brtr the various departments of state in connec tion with the celebration and it will communicate the same to the departments when her majesty shall have given her approval of them at the festivitiiea attending the marriage will be employed 40000 horn lanterns 12000 glass law and 24000 pieces of embroidered silks skilled artificers are now hard at manufacturing these artioles an editors prayer book- when the late rsv dr ingersoll died i 18s3 the present writer was called on report the funeral services in writing the aceonnt afterward occasion arose make a direot quotation from the book common prayer and not finding the voluv on the book shelves of the editorial rood the quest was pursued in mr matthewsl private office haventyou a prayer boo of your own i he asked here walt taking a moroccobound copy from bis desk he wrote on its flyleaf a line of preset tation and in memory of dr ingersoll funeral added the date and his own name and handing it to the reporter aaid-j- theres a present for you mr ad let me say this if you dont care to road it for the moral lessons it contains studj it for the sake of its pure english theres no better use of the language anywhere to be found than in that book i know thats so he added with a thoroughly character istic touoh of self appreciation beofrse that is an edition of the prayer bookjbhat matthews warren published arsl read every word of the proof of it myself the grateful recipient has studied that cherished book from what motives no mat ter save this ho has searched it pages for typographical or textual errors nd hasnt found one i a oloaer poofreadur a better printer than mr matthews never lived buffalo e the cable despatches thlt morning state that the french investors in the panama canal they number about sooooo n0 angry with m de losseps but with the chamber which np to the present has rpfu ed to come to his assistance wpenjohn laws mississippi bubble came v pt similar phenomenon was witnessed the ruined sympathized with law and shrew the blame upon those who had predicted a ool- lapse and upon those who had refu n invest rather than confess judgment against their reputation tor wisd- n usually cast about for s scapegi