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ffWJI^^'^'"'^''" •^Plf" ^.sm-' m^f wtfm W^^^wW t THE LADIES' COLUMN. Sad Fate of Old World Professional Beauties. LATEST FASHION AND OTHER GOSSIP How tu Mttke Guriueutu " CIIuk." According to a, society writer, since MisB EaBtlake, the actress, made her tirst appear aiioe in thiu country in her soft, clinging garments, swaying in harmony with every step of the wearer, society has been on the qui uii-e to discover the secret and ^ain, if possible, a tithe at least of the swish and d»ay and rythmic movement which seemed to make the garment worn by Helle instinct with life and motion. The secret has been disoovered, and the reigning belles in tip- top circles in New York are more capti- vating than ever before. These picturesque gowns are made of some soft, clinging material, and worn over divided skirts, makiag the dress necessarily conform to the gait of the wearer. The secret is said to have been discovered by the costumer of Bceina Yokes and imparted to a select few of bis castomers. Th« Fate uf Profesitiuaal Beautleit. Mrs. Langtry. before she disappeared from English society, had seen many other ladies raised by royal favor to the now ex- tinct position of " professional beauty." There is hardly one of these ladies whose fate is not wot thy uf commiseration and whose confessions would not be valuable. Their reigns terminated in various ways. One offended by observing that a certain waist was not so thin as formerly ; another, that a certain head of hair was not as thick as of yore ; a third, in a festive moment, poured a teaspoonful uf ice-cream down a royal shirt-collar ; a fourth falsely and wickedly stated tu her friends that a cer tain bracelet was a royal gift, whereas in truth and in fact it was bought out uf the hard earnings uf her husband's brain. The position of reigning favorite involved untold expenses, for to know the I'rinoe involved kjiowing his set, who were numerous and thirsty, and for whose accommodation in a bou.se often of the tiniest the friends uf a lifetime had perforce to be discarded. Falsome was the adulation poured upon the beauty duiinj, her brief reign, and cruel were the slights and snubs put upon her when it ended, and when notliing remained tu remind her of it but shattered health, an alienated husband and an infuriated father - in law. In such circumstances there is uutbiug for lovely women to du but to go aad winter on the Hiviera. The future of iuch a fallen star is dark indeed, unless, uf course, her husband can secure election as member of Parliament, when she can get back into society by another door.â€" /-dhJuh Pa.! Mall Budget. Whliu« uf the Toilet. Japan ladies gild their teeth. The ladies of the Indies paint their teeth red. Ladies in Greenland used to color their .'aces blue and yellow . The ladies of Ciuzerat stain their teeth a Rable color which they think adds to their beauty. The two best female viulhiists in the â- States are Miss Duke, daughter uf General Basil Duke, uf Kentucky, and Miss Maud Tarleton, of Baltimore. According to the New Vurk i.orrespoii dents women are cousidered by pubUshers to be among the best judges of manuscript. Whether it be her critical judgment or her critical instinct, her coiiclusiun as to whether an embryo bouk or niaga/iiie article will take with the public ur nut is pretty sure to be correct. A new departure in the ways of women is the formation uf a tire brigade. Accord- ing to the London Fireman, this has been done by a thuusand girls einuloyed in a Liverpool cigar factoi i Tliey are well otiicered and drilled, aid at a recent bla/.e Li the factory turned out " to a man " and did most effectual work in subduing the fa^ies. At a recent wedding in New York the bride wore a dress more than a century old. It was made fur her maternal great- grandmother in l77Maiid worn at her wed ding, when .\lexander Hamilton was groomsman and General Washington and bis staff were present as guests. It was worn for the second time by the bride's mother forty-five years ago. Woman has no vote in Iowa, but Hhe is allowed to hold office if she can be elected. According to the official register for ll*87 three counties have Kecorders who do not belong to the voting sex ; ten cunnties have women Superintendents of I'ublic Schools , a woman's name stands in the executivedepartnient of the official register she forms one of the Board of Honored (.'orators uf the State Hurticultural Society, and has a seat among the Educa tioiial K.iauuneri^ in Agriculture and M'-<dicine. The Ciovernur has recently appointed a woman visitor to the Insauie 'loBpital, and two of thein act as trustees of the reformatories. Altogether Iowa women make a pretty guod showing in public life, and the mere fact of not being allowed to vote ought not to trouble tlieui very much. Ttlla Week's Faxhlon Nut4-s. The most fashiunable fabrics for spring w«ar will be of cotton. The skirts of almost all walking dresses are made quite plain, or with a very nar- row pleating set underneath the edge. The stitchiiigs on the backs of the fash- ionable tour-button English gloves grow broader anil broader and the buttons con- stantly increase in siw. The favorite color is a reddish mahogany shade, with the stitchiiigs of black. Little visites of plush are worn for after- noon calls and to the matinees, and at night to the play. They are of a shape to match the coHtumo sometimes, but more generally seal- brown, which goes well with any cos- \ime. They reach only some two inches below the waist-line behind, and have sling sleeves. A charming travelling costume worn by one of the early departures for Europe had a plain skirt of dark electric-blue moire, draped with cashmere of the same shade ; the tight, round waist had handkerchief fronts crossing over a vest of the moire, and fall sleeves gathered at the elbow to deep xoire cuffs. The waist was belted with watered ribbon. The long coat, reaching to the hem of the skirt, was of heavy blue camel's hair lined with brown fur, and the turban was of the same material trimmed with the fur. Covert coats of light tan u..d mastic liv- ery cloth, and with the lapped seams, are constantly growing in popularity. They are to be found ready made in the big dry- goods shops. The collars are very high, and many of them button across with a little strap of the cloth ; most of them single-breasted and with three pockets, one uf them high up on the left breast. There is in Lundou a tendency to give a hint of the Greek simplicity and richness of drapery in the newest costumes â€" a result of the Greek plays and tableaux in which many of the fashionable women took part. Some charming ones have been shown in white and daffodil-yellow China crapes that skilfully combine the beauties uf ancient and modern dress. Nothing is prettier for little boys than the Eton suits, with kilt, vest and short Eton jacket, which slopes open from the throat to the waist line, is wjuare cornered there and crosses to the back, where it is slightly pointed. A pointed vest of cor- duroy or pique covers the front of the waist of the kilt skirt, is lapped down the front and has pearl buttons set closely to getlier. This is pretty in brown or blue serge and Suede-colored or white vest and braid, the color of the vest around the jacket and on the front pleats uf the skirt. Black silk hats are worn with these. Dresses for little girls are made with plain low, s>|uare-necked waists, slightly pointed in front, made of tine embroidery or uf cashmere, ur India foulards. Tiny pearl buttons in rows close together trim the revers. A single full skirt is worn with these waists. The atrapiied Gretchen waists, instead of having ^Mjuare openings, are made in a V to the waist in front and have merely a low sijtnire neck behind ; embroidered edges, two inches wide ; is turned duwii around the V front and stjuare back and i.s slightly gathered in the arm hole. A feature of the new bead passeineiitt-ries is the use of i>[>v\\ meshes in the midst of otlierwise sulid designs. Points and long leaves with one straightedge are the newest patterns in gimp^. .\ great deal uf metal cord ur gold bulliun gimp is shown for wool dresses or coats, and there are cttshiiiere- coloreil bead trimmings for silks and velvets, in dark, quiet colors that will not be conspicuous. For wool dresses are galloons and pointed braids made uf imrruw plaited inuhair braid in iqieii de signs in one color, ur two tunes, iir in contrast. White gloves are becuiiiiiig popular for evening wear. Tan are now worn in th twenty button lengths only with the darker shades uf evening dresses. I'alest prim rose, lilac and mastic are the most popular, and despite the fre<|ueiit aniiouncenient of elbow gloves, well dressed women continue tu wear them up to the shoulder. Tu hold them in place uiwii slim arms a little ehistic is caught tu the inside eilge uf the glove with a few invisible stitches. It is best tu add this even wIk-ii the arm is plump, as it keeps the glove smootli and saves the injury that frequent smuolhing and pulling up causes. UEATU ON BATS. How a Womuo .Sulvod a VexaUouHPrublem iu DoukMstie Life. Mrs. Benedict's business is that of a rat- catcher, a new profession now fairly oiiened to women, and one which Mrs. Benedict, at least, has made lucrative, says the New York Star. The business of rat extermina- tion is not strictly new, and yet Mrs. Bene- dict is fairly entitled to rank as its inventor, at least in an important sense. She has raised it to the dignity of a profession. It has always been easy for housewives who were troubled with rats io poison them, but the problem has been to induce them to die outside their haunts. They have usually preferred to retire to their inaccessible re- treats in the walls as soon as they have felt the symptoms of arsenical poisoning, and the low state of sanitary science pre- vaiUng in their communities is .^uch that poisoned rats are never properly buried or incinerated by their associates. The prob- lem has been how to kill rats without bringing unpleasant odors into the house. Mrs. Benedict has found out how to induce rats to die on the kitchen door. Like many inventors, she is somewhat indebted to accident. She was engaged, it appears, iu the domestic manufacture of plaster casts of various kinds. One of her de\ ices was to mix wheaten dour with her pulverized plaster of Paris, so that the gluten of the tlour might make the paste less brittle. One evening she had visitors who rang the door bell just as she was sifting the mi.\ed plas- ter and dour for the third time by way of mixing them intimately, as the chemist says. She had already set a dish uf water at hand, intending to make an experimental cast at once, and when thedoor bell rang she hastily removed her apron and went to welcome her guests, leaving her materials upon the Uitclien table. Her guests stayed until bed-time, and when they bade her adieu, Mrs. Benedict went in bed without returning to the kitchen. '.V'hat happened in the night was this : A rat made his way up the legs of the table to the top. where he was speedily joined by others. The dish uf tluur ami plaster was casil) reachuil, and the rats ate freely and hastily uf it, as it is their ciistuni to lio. It was a rather dry supper, and water being near each rat turned to drink. T!ie water drunk tirst wet the plaster in the rats' stuniachs, and then, in technical phrase, •â-  «'l ' it ; that is to SUV. the plaster thus made into paste, instantly grew hard in eoch rat's stomach and put an end to any exercise of thut oigttii. The rats derided .Mr. Mallork's .(uestioii : " U life worth living '" in the negative without quitting the table. The iie.\t morning thirteen of them lay leml in a circle around the watiT dish. Mrs. lieiH'dict, when she entered the kitchen for the puri>ose uf making her tire, saw them ami acted â€" that is to say. she screamed and climbed uiwn a chair, t'luni that positiun she studied the scene and very soon saw the cause. Like a wise woman, she kept her secret and made proht of it. She undertook, for a coiisideratiuii, to clear the premises of her neighbors of the pests, and succeeded. It was nut lung iK'fore the town was as free of this sort of vermin as if the pied pifn-r uf Haiiielin had travelled that wav. LateNl New» NoteH. Hev. Mr. .Jiidar. of Slcdicine Hat. will be the next rector of All Saints' (.'hurcli in Winiii[jeg. 'I'he reported e.xciteiiient in Newfound land over the disallowance uf tlie Bait .Vet is said to be greatly exaggerated. It is proposed to add a " Victoria wing " to the Guelpli General Hospital in cum- memortttion uf the (Queen's jubilee. The Boston (ilnln' thinks the nun inter course Hill will be a good thing fur L'anada when the imniigration boom commences in April. The London World says that Lady Kosr- bery's diamunds caused quite a sensation at the C'alcutta State ball last moiitli, at which were present many distinguished visitors. It is reported that Parliament will be asked at the coining session tu authuri/.ean increase in the Northwest Mounted Police Force, and that each post will be supplied with a Nordenfeldt gun. Warning has been given by the lmp<^rial Privy founcil that unless the losses which have uccurred aniung animals carried on deck while crossing the Atlantic are red need, the carriage of animals on deck during the winter will probably be prohibited. An important motion is being argued at Osgoode Hall on behalf of the Ontario .V' Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company to re- strain the I'anadian Pacific Railway Com- pany from constructing a branch line over the plaintilT's proposed route from .\lguma Mills tu Sault Ste. Marie. ^uver TlitiiKs Al>uu( .>loli**,v. A woman who bought an bid fashioned bureau at a second-hand store in Cincinnati discovered a secret drawer which contained $l,;WO ill gold and old bank bills. Money was so scarce in certain counties of Southwestern Texas during the earlier part uf the winter that in some instances the skins of javelina hogs were used as circulating niediiiin, and 'possum skin were freciiiently offered in liquidation of grocery bills. 'Squire Royal, the tax-collector of Taylor County. Pa., took out a well-worn overcoat to sell to an old clothes man, a few days ago, and fuuiid Jl'.IO in bills rolled up in a sheet of notepaiK'r. The 'Scjiiire is confl dent that the money is his own, but he has no recollection of having placed it in the pocket. The pet cat belonging to Mrs. Lucy Cain, of Hannibal, Mo., brought a mouse into the parlor recently, and with it a small piece of paper money. Mrs. Cain thought nothing about the occurrence until one day last week, when she discovered that a roll of bills was missing from her bureau drawer. Then she put two and two together and began a vigorous search of the premises. The missing bills were finally unearthed in a corner of the cellar, where a colony of mice had made a nest of them. %VI>K MONKEVN IN IM>I.\. I'lif . One of several gamecocks that were being shipped to Portland, Ore.,eBcai)cd from the coop and the baggage car, and all the efforts of the trainbands to catch it were unavail- ing until a bright brakeman released another cock. In a oaomeut the two had engaged in battle, and were easily picked up. Sllr«'\v<l .Ibuiil Hoiii*. Things, Ixit Too iireeily lor "Miclr Outi tiu«»tl. I remember once couinig across a Hm- dot» who \vas [jtonsly scattering corn for the niuiikeys, about a hundri'd of which were gathered round him snatching up the grain with greedy hands and culling soundly uny monkey that ixiaihed on his mighbor's share. Swarms of other monkeys weresit ting on the trees and banks close by, with faces uf rueful resignation, looking wistfully at the feast before them . but the man ex plaiiitni tu us that they lieloiiged toailitTer- out caste and woulil be half killed if they attempted to join the party. One huge fellow we noticed particularly, whu sat as near as ln' dared ami looked on, hut did not try t<i pick up so innchusan outlying grain, although we were told he was ' a noted wrestler." ill certain camping-grounds the monkeys were perfect pests, fiis)iiently stealing the servants' dinners, and even snatching food out of their hands, or carrying off their cup- per coukmg-pots, rushing up a tree with them, and throwing them down after eat- ing the contents. The servants would often come and complain uf their mis- duiiigs, but redress there was none ; wide as an Indian civilian's jurisdictioi is, it does not extend over the monkey world. The natives have an ingenious way of catching monkeys, so simple that it may with truth be said that the monkey catches liiuiself. .V narrow niimthed jar is lillcil with corn, and accidentally, of course, left on the gruund. The evir watchful nionkeys ijuickly take note of tins, and no sooner is the owner uf the jar out of sight than they steal up tu insiMjct and discuss their wind- fall. Having satislicd themselves that there is no trap, one of them thrusts in his arm and snatches a Inindful of corn. He then finds that the mcmtli of the jar is too narrow tu let him withdraw his doubled 'fist, but he never thinks of dropping the corn, and out rushes the owner from be- hind a tree and treacherously slips a noose around the victim's neik.â€"/.DH(/(//i Field. \n Avcoiumuilitliiig .Han. Cullectorâ€"How mivnv more times do\i>u wish me to call for this money ? Debtor My dear sir, yuuneeil never cull again. I shall nut be uffeiided. /'..â„¢.s Siftinii». ^ • Three years ago seventeen bachelors of Keystone, Dak., entcnd into a solemn compact never to many. Eleven of them are already husbands and two of them are soon to wed. .\ Quebec despali li says the records uf the (jiiebet: Ubservatoiy show that there are actually lOH inches of snow on the ground there, an amount that has not been recorded since 187H. A vineyardist near Livermore, Cal., keeps from twenty to thirty cats on his place all the time. They are his remedy for rabbits and gophers and effectually keep those iK'Sts in eubjection. A bad boy in Massachusetts village sur- prised and pleased his teacher by promising to contribute a fine steel engraving of Washington to aid in decorating the school room on Feb. 2'2nd. The teacher left a large space among the evergreen trimmings on the wall, and the boy brought a two-oent postage stamp. CURRENT TOPICS. Onk of the singular projects to which the forty-ninth U. 8. Congress turned a deaf ear was that to appropriate a sum of money for digging a hole ;i,000fe«!t deep, or as much more or less as the funds might warrant, in each State and I'erritory. 'the memorial of the author of this happy thought promised a general revival of in dustry as one of its results, and only asked for 94,(>UU,UO0, being 9 100,000 for each State and Territory, to carry it out. Its imme- diate object was " getting useful knowledge or discovering valuable minerals. " A coMMU.NiCATio.s to the London Meteor- ological Society, by Capt. Toynbee, states as his conclusion that clouds of nut less than 2,000 feet in thickness are seldom accomiMinied by rain, or, if they are, it is very gentle, consisting of minute ilrops ; with a thickness of between °i,000 and 1,000 feet, the size of the drops is moderate ; with increasing thickness of the clouds comes an increasing avm of the drops, and at the same time the degree of temperature becomes lowered. Wlien the thickness amounts to more than )i,000 feet, hail is produced. Tin: occurrence of earthquakes has a perceptible influence upon health. Describ- ing in a United States medical journal the influence of the recent shocks in Charles- ton, S.C., Dr. F. Peyre Porcher, of that city, says that many persons exi^erienced decidedly electrical disturbances, which were reiieated uiwn the successive recur- rence of the shocks. These (.iisturbances were generally accompanied by tingling, pricking sensations, like 'â-  needles and pins,' affecting the lower extremities. One gentle- man was completely relieved of his rheuma tism ; another, who for months was nervous, depressed and entirely unable to attend to business, regained his former activity and energy. Mils. I''.)i..-.(.M is reported to have saiil that she would rather be known as Mrs. Cleve- laiui's mother than the mother-in-law of the I'niteii States Ptesident. It is quite natural, says the " Casual" uf the New Vurk ifmiilih . Some of th',' loveliest of cdderly ladies haw taken to heari the cheap jokes at the e.-iiH-'itse of motherhood that have been so curiously |Kipular for many years. Vet. if the statistics might be had, it wimld transpire that the mother-in-law has been as tenderly cherished as the ilaunhter to whom she willingly consigneil the larger portion of her ambition and her dignity ; and the " Casual " often ri'ineiiihers one, as doubtless do two-thirds of the male readers of this paragraph, the majesty of whose gentleness and willing thoiightfulness of self was larger tlian any kingly assumption that can be easily recalled. TiiK fact is well understood, of nuirse. that Great Britain and other parts of northwestern Europe owe uiuch, m the matter uf climate and temperature, to the warming intlueiice of the Gulf Stream. The extent of the effect which is thus pro- 'duce<l, according to the calculations made by Dr. Croll, almost exceed belief, or even comprehensio'i, in a matheiiiatical sense. He has found, by careful scientiHc esti- mate, that the amount of heat conveyed northward in the Atlantic hv this stivani is e.iiiivaleiit to 77, l7'.l,lirj0,000.0(MJ,000,0t)0foot pounds of energy per day, which is equal to all the heat received by L.'iliO.'.tHo s<|uare miles at the e<|uator, and more hent than is coiiveyeil bv all the air currents, and m) positive IS Its ciimalic effect, ami so far- reaching, that, according to Dr. Croll, the hint c)f the Arctic seas and North .\tlantic would be liiminihhed to thut immense extent by the stoppage or ili\ersion of the great ocean river. .\ Mo.sr pernicious habit, which is very prevalent amuiig children, is that uf sleep- ing with the head under tin? bed covers. .Soinetimcs children acijiiire this habit when young, on account of their " fear of theilark. ' I'nwise parents often do their children .i vast deal of harm by using the imaginary man in the dark as a means cif frightening thelittleones into obedience. Such children, when put to bed, nestle down uniler the covers as .soon as the light is put out, and thus breathe over ami over, during sleep, air which is contaminated by exhalations from both the skin and the lungs. Another cause for this injurious mode of sleeping is cold sleeping rooms. The custom of sleeping in rooms in which there has been no tiro fur weeks or muiitiis is a must pernicious une for uiany reasons, and this may fairly be included among the number of grave objections to the oldtime custom. The tenqH-rature of such a room is often some degrees beluw freezing. Children, and even ulder [leuple, sleeping in a culd Ix'd room, are often comiK'lletl to cover the head with the bed covers to protei.'t the nose and ears from freezing. Children who sli'ep in this way aw ake in the murniiig pale and languid, and present all the evidence of systemic poisoning. Such chilrlren do not develop properly. When they sleep with older persons, as is often the case, the evil is greatly increased by the greater degree of impurity of the air beneath the bed clothing. Infants are not infre(iueiitly smothered to death by this means. Several cases of this sort have come under the personal observa tion of the writer. The habit of sleeiiing with the head thus covered is sometimeH continued to adult life, and a vast deal of constitutional injury is thus done. tiALATEA AII1> smtLTt^Ht. Luuueh of a Cruiser anil Torpedo Boat fur the Britinh Goveruiuent. A new belted cruiser, the Galatea, was launched yesterday from the Napier yard at Govan, on the Clyde, just below Glas- gow. Lord Charles Beresford was ou board. The Galatea is 300 feet long be- tween perpenaiculars, M feet extreme beam aud H7 feet deep. Her draught of water is I'J feet and her displacement will be .>,0OO tons when in fighting condition, with every thing on board. The Admiralty expect a siieed of eighteen knots an hour. The engines are of the triple expansion type, working twin screws. They indicate tl,500 horse power at a working pressure of 130 pounds. The boilers are of the double ended multitubular type, with corrugated flues. Her armament is composed of two long range nine and one-quarter inch Arm strong guns, ten six inch guns of the same class, eight six pounders, eight three pounder quick tiring guns and six torpedo impulse tubes. The engines and steering gear under the water line are protected by two inch thick steel decks extending the whole length of tlia ship. The water line of the ship is pro- tected by an armored belt ten inches thick, and steel faced and strongly supported by a teak and steel backing and capable of resist- ing shot or shell from ten-inch guns. 'Lhore was aloo launched at the Daver. port dock yard the torpedo cruiser Serpent. She is entirely of steel, all exposed fittings being galvanized. Her lines are particu larly graceful. Her length is '225 feet, her beam M feet and her displacement l,i>00 tons. She will have six six -inch breech loading central pivot guns on Vavasseur carriages ; eight three-pounder quick tiring i;iiiis, two Nordenfeldt and one seven pounder. She will be htted, in addition, with five Whitehead torpedo tubes, eaih fourteen inches in diameter ; one directly in the bow. with one on each side and ona on each quarter. The Uandkereliier Cuio. Tile Philadelphia rime.- last week con tuined this interesting and instructive bit of news ; Poet and Editor .lames K. Randall created a sensation in .-Viigusta the other day. .\ street car horse liecame unruly and a male passenger proposed throwing sand in the animal's eyes. " Oh, no !" said the Colonel, ' don't do that , it is un necessary and iiihuman. The poor beast only needs to be diverted. Tieahaudker chief round his fore ley and he will start off promptly. ' I'he driver agreed to try it and the horse moved at once. Then tl-.e driver snatched up his whip, I'loked at tha Colonel and oxclttimed : • If that don t beat the Dutch '" Divices for startinu balky horses ara about as numerous as the sands u(xiii tha seashore or- to put it strongerâ€" as tin cures for sea-sickness. Mr. Randall's con tribution to tlie slock is entitled to con sideration because it is cheap, readily ap plied, and does not call for the infliction jC pain. ^ Fortune's Favorites Are lliu..,e who court foruiiie tiios*. whj ard alwa>s loukiiiu -.ul for aiul iiivestiKattut; tt:i) opiM.rtuiiltU's :li,»[ art' oltered. Selui yiur ilj >tress to flnllett \ Co., I'ortiaiHl, Maino, &U'I ihey will mull y.-u. tree, full ]mrtieulai-n about, worti ttiKi Noll i-aii <lo wliile Uvinu ai liuuie. â- â- herever \ou are loealeii, anil ..ttrll from ^Uj *'i'> lu'r tluy and upwur'lh. tapilal not rt»quir.rl- ^'111 .ue Ktarttsl free, tttith hexen. .Ml *s«- Sunie iittve earned over â- #J0 in a sinelu day A'l is new Customer (to boy in coal office^" A toniof .stove. How much is it ' " Boyâ€" "Six tifty.an' 'J.Oueiitsforputtin' it in. " Customer --" Well, you will have toslateit. " Boy- " Slate it '.' That coal is half slate now, mister. ' Sue la/A Sun. A W«.a<liliK PreMtiit Of practical importance would l>e a bottle of the onl\ sure-pop corn cureâ€" Putnam s Painless Corn Extractor- which can bo had at any drug store. .V continuation »f the honeymoon and the removal of corns buth assured by its use. Beware of imita tiuns. A maiden lady says that if single lifn is bad it stands to reason that double life is twice as bad. But ladies rarely understand mathematics. I had rheumatism four years in Miclii gan, and during four months could not move without help. I siHiiit over 31,000 without benetit. McCoIlom's Rheumatic Rcpellant cured me so I can work hard and enjoy good health. Gkohmi; Kktchabaw, Bayham, Ont. Wh.v She We|>l. .V lady called on a friend who had only been married a few years, and was surprised to find her in tears. " I am the most un- happy woman in .\nstin. and it is all on account of my hiisbainl. " " Why. your husband lives for you done. Ho stavs at home all the time. Ho never goes away from home; he never brings any of his friends to the house. " ' Yes, ' replied the unfortunate woman, putting her handker chief to her eyes, and sobbing coiivulsively, "that's -what â€" makes mo .so miserable.' â€" 'I'ejim Sif'tiniiK, - - .*. â€" Paid 1)15 lor » Kiss. Edouard Brisson, a barber, was tined i'> yesterday afterinxin by the Recorder for assaulting Miss Angers, daughter of Sergt. Angers. He e.\plaiiied to the Recorder that the style of the young lady as he passed her on Craig street the evening previous so for cibly struck him that he involuntarily put his arm around her waist and kissed the cheek. Mtnilrenl Stur. Farmers who raise turkoyr, in Lehigh County, P»., drive them to market as they would sheep. Sometimes flocks of '200 are thus driven along the public roads. Florida fruit men say that the straw berry crop this year will nearh double that of last year. .\n Albany preacher, watching some of his tloik as they were having great fun tobogganing, was asked by one of them why he did not taki' the toboggan for a text. He said that that was a good idea, and that next Sunday he'd preach on winter s[>orts. lie was as good as his word, chousing for his te.\t the last four words of the tirst verse of the twenty sixth Psalm. A clerk in Louisville invested JoO in pork at a bucket shop the other day, and succeeded in running it up to So,000. Then he determined to make it 910,000 and quit and get married. His So. 000 crept up almost to the desired amount, and then th.) market took a turn against him and in a few hours he didn't have even the original SoO. lie will not marry this spring. CONSUMPTION. I hAvnn jMiditlv-if iiKHly lor tli<> «tiov»>llMM« : by ttt IM« thoiiMnili if laHi'* ^1 Ilia o oi'fll kind «tt i o( long itAOillnc b«v« be«n '-ur'<l. In<l«ctt, »<> itTonic l» ni^ f«lth Id Iu «mr»cy. ttiAt 1 »1M fl.ii.1 TWO HOTTLR* PRBR, t«ii«Uiflr wim ft VAl.nAltl.ft I'KKATISK on ritit dlM«M i« tay â- ulT«rAr. Olvn ni]ii»K» .-tiKl I* <> kddrraft, i>it, " A. si/>ci;m, Branch Office, 37 Tonga St, ToCMto U C N L. I'j. 87. DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THE COOK'S BEST FMENQ