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5 ~ VOL. XIV, NO. 15.} PRINCE ALBERT, ONT. THURSDAY, APRIL 13.1874, {WHOLE NO, 690 ~ &fe Butavic Fhsecher, A WEEKLY . POLITICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND - x ! i ¥ ts PUBLISHED AT THE VICTORIA BLOOK, PRINCE ALBERT "-_ COUNTY OF ONTARIO, EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BAIRD & PARSONS. * TERMS: --$1.50per annum, if paid within six a nw RR sons: vp months;ifnotpaid within that Hime, 8¥:i0, Nosub- scription taken for less than six mon 1 11 sare paid. «soontinued until all arrear! pe ailrdotatts RSs sonainipg money, whe beatonr risk. RATES OF ADVERTISING. sFor each line, first insertion.......... $0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line. 0 02 Cards, under 6 lines, per annum...... 5 00 ants measured in Nonpareil and charged - inariag i gues oy occupy. 1 o Advertissmenist sceived foFpublication withoutspe- jons, will be inserted until forbid, and iy, Noadvertisement will be taken out until paid for. - Aliberslliseount allowed to Merchants and others " neredto. milp Mewspaper; s;andnopaper DENTISTRY. oR H.L. Harnden, L.D Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, Of Ten Years Experience, OFFICE IN BIGELOW'S BLOCK, PORT PERRY. RESIDENCE--PRINC BERT, Particular attention given to the 1 of Children's Teeth, ; L_ Mineral Teeth mounted on Gold, Silver and Vulcanized Rubber. > Teeth filled with Gold so as to preserve them from firther decay. : E Nitrous Oxide Gass administered for the painless extraction of Teeth. Consultation free and all work d r HE Subscriber ' Jas fitted up in a style in keeping with the hotels, TE rr re emai Royal Oanadian Hotel, PORT PERRY. laving leased to above Hotel, increasing business and pros, of the and neighborhood, and with direct re- ferent to the comfort and convenience of the public. |, Strict attention paid to the Table and the Bar. Comfortable Stables and attentive Hostlers. Neither labor nor expense will be spared in making the Royal Canadian Hotel worthy of public patronage. , HENRY FOY. Port Perry, Jupe 16, 1869. \ "REVERE HOUSE." MANCHESTER 8. PLANK, .......PROPRICROR., Hane purchased the above hotel, and has furnished the Bar with the choicest liquors and cigars. Every attention paid to guests.-- Stages to and from Whitby call daily, ~ Careful ostlers always in attendance. 8 3 Sept. 7 1870. 36-ly COL SGN, VARS RACTICAL Dentist, Oshawa, Ont, -- Dental Rooms directly opposite the post offie entrance Simcoe street, d door north . gr, ; of the Ontario Bank. Te PE se tpt | ores ine "ho constantly increasing importance of the Noi nsnvance. Bidingof Ontari d v . E dvocating right, and condemning ala di lead in fofwardinug the generalinterests of the Souuty) and in the mount oflocaland genaral newsgiven, willbe uusurpassedby My localpaperpublishedin Canada. . JOB DEPARTMENT: nd Bills,Posters, Programmes, Bill Hears, Brome Forme. Reseiph biaoks. Check. Hooks, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., &c., of avery style and color, executed promptly, andatlower ratesthan at any other establishmentin thiscounty. Partiesirom a distance getting hand bills &e. printed «can have them done to take home withthem. J BAIRD, { _ H. PARSONS. -- Professional Carvs. Dr. Brathwaite, PRINCE ALBERT, Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur. DR. WARE, Cones for the County of Ontario, Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur, Sgn, ? HYSIO Sar EAT ni 3g er wa. MIGILL, M.D. FRANCIS RAR. M. B. -- SAMUEL H. COCHRANE, LL.D. y PB RRINTER, County Orown Attorne) Brook Ys Solicitor in Chancey, Notary Public, &c., street, Whitby. ; R. J, WILSON, ARRISTER, Attorney at Law, Solicitor in ry, &c. Office in the Victoria B.1ilding, Brack-st., Whitby. LYMAN ENGLISH, L. L. B,, OLICITOR in Chancery, Attorney, 'J Oonveyaneer, &c., Oshawa, Office--Simcoe street, opposite the post office, @. YOUNG SMITH, LL. B, 'JR ARRISTER, Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor in | sor i Sr opery, and Insolvency, 'Notary Pub c., &¢ : Oca MoMillan's Block, Brock Street, Whit- , Ontario. CAMERON & MACDONELL, ARRISTERS and Attorneys at Law, Solicitors County Council Ontario. Offices: ourt House, 0. CAMERON. 1 H. J. MACDONELL, JAMES LAMON, TTORNEY at Law, Solicitor in O vy Oonveyancer, &c.--Land Agent, &c., Uxbri Office over Armstrong's Hotel, Main Street, xbridge. © FAREWELL & MoGEE, ARRISTERS, rueys, Solicitors, Oon- veyancers and Notaries buble, Oshawa.-- Office, one door North of the Post Office; and at Bowmanville, office Mr. Feeter's Block, oppo- site Town Hall. B®. FARBWELL, LLB. | RB. W'GEE, B. A. JOHN BILLINGS, ARRISTER, Alcoinay 8) fo, Solicitor Nota ¢, Conveyancer, &e, ame Otiico over Tao Royal Arcade, Port Perry. P.' A, HURD, A TIOENET 8 iaw, and Solicitor in Chan ser; %1 Mag Office in the Royal Pentistry, J. D. Ootti . nam, 1 DENTIST, BORELIA, C.W. By w New Prooess, Teeth oan be Ex- * tracted without pain, at his offs, preserves at teeth in good leto ticate food for the mle Reet te fond it the nl i 5 gd. 1. Ifyou he 4 tosth, £ot them fltad. i f the work is not satisfactorily done, the a will berefunded. hours ftom 84a. m. to 8 p.m. Jan 18,1867, Pm : . J in, d 3 ng 5 Alo dealer : al ade os Jewelry, Fancy SR ri . 17, 1868, So-1y THE ONTARIO FARMERS' Mutual Insurance Company Eapr---- PIES Dompany is now fully organized and is prepared to dccept risks on Farm Buildings and their contents, country School Houses and Churches. Those wishing toinsure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doing so either by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the local gents of the Company. Our rates will be found as low as those of any ibleMutual ompany in Canada. Head Office--The old Registry Office - Build- ings, Brock Street, Whitby. L. FAIRBANKS, Jr., 27-Iy S WESTERN ASSURANCE COMP'Y TORONTO, C. W. INCORPORATED Capital - $400,000 HON. JOHN MeMURRICH , Esq, AN, Esq: INGLE, GENERAL AGENT. BRITISH AMERICAN Assurance Company ! FIRE AND MARINE, Oldest Chartered Upper Canadian Company. HEAD OFFCIE---CORNER OF CHTRCH AND . COURT STREETS, TORONTO; tp Boarp or Drrgcrors.--Hon. G. W. Allan.Geo, J. Boyd, Hon. Wm Cayley, Tfios. D. Harris Peter Patar- G. Perceval Ridout, Sir Jas. L Robi n, Bart. E, H. Rutherford, Thos. Street, Governor : G. Perceval Ridout, Peter Patterson. Trustees : E. H. Rutherford, Hon W. Ca ley, Thos D. Harris. Mnnager Marine Department : Wm. Stew- ard; Fire Inspector : E.-Roby O'Brien. T. W. BIRCHALL. Managing Director. DAVID J. ADAMS, AGENT, PriNCEYALBERT. Deputy Goverror : uctioneevs, MAJOR & WILLCOX, LICENSED AUCTIONEERS FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO, Valuators, Land Agents,- Commission Merchants, &o, ACCOUNTS COLLECTED PROMPTLY. Money to Loan at 8 per cent. E. MAJOR, W. M. WILLCOX, * BoRELIA'. . Prince ALBERT. Sept. 29, 1870. » 39 J.C, PILKEY, Licensed Auctioneer County of Ontario The Subscriber will furnish Blank Notes and Soni in ded 2.25 i Terms liberal. harge.-- Debts collectedon is Shug tres of s J. C. PILKEY, x P. 0. THOS, H. W, iE, "a {lcEvzen Auctioneer for the ToWn- ships of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in (BY AUTHORITY.) Port Perry, Office,; the Bopaos - 152 at Hopsn. ; HENRY CHARLES, Port Perry, Nov. 11th, 1869, - | rowers, North Ontario; te Victoria, Res BIBER Brock 2 ders left at this office, or at be punctually attended to. Debts soll hc . Home Tho 'North One io Auctioneer. 4 re 5 Mackie's Hotel, 2 ; CC (LATE~BEPDIR'S,) ¢ WALTON STREET, PORT HOPE. Wa MACKIE, Proprietor. Jewett's Hotel, RENT STREET, LINDSAY. Good stable and shed attached, and an attentive ostler always in attendance. Free Omnibus to and from the Cars and Boats. A or Sul ale DAFOE HOUSE UTICA 00D accommodations. Careful attention to the requirements of travelers and guests. The bar supplied with the best wines, liquors and cigars Good'stabling. DAFOE; Proprietor. J. Centre Hotel, SAINTFIELD, JAS. CAMERON, Proprietor. ALBION HOTEL, WHITBY. A. MASON, - - Proprietor This Hotel has undergone a thorough renova- tion and been fitted up with a view to the com- fort and convenience of the traveling public.-- Every attention will be paid to the table and bar, while obliging and attentive hostlers will have charge of the stables, 25 Whitby, 20th June, 1870. ; MONEY T0 LEND! AT ' REDUCED RATES, I Money on the security of Good Farm, or Pro- ductive Town Property at the lowest possible rate of interest in sums and manner to suit, bor Principal can be repaid by yearly in- stalments or in one sum. Several well cultivated Farms and Lots of Wild Land for sale cheap. In made in Del and other Securities. Silver and Greenbacks bought and sold. For further particulars, apply to ~ - JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Money Broker, &ec. OFFICE--McMillian's Block, Brock Street. Whitby,Sept. 29, 1869. 39-t , Mortgages, FIRST CLASS HARN ENN WM. THOMPSON, Saddle and Harness MAKER, MANCHESTER OULD embrace this opportunity of return- Ww in Hanks, to ig Sustomers "for ne 8 nj nage, and would in- orm The £ m OE SOMA and others that it will be to their advantage to with Wak.) Ta rae jp ondary M. [OMPBON, Tr. © uses the BEST MA' d makes it u iy 00D STYLE and ODERATE PRIC. ¥3~ REPAIRING NEATLY DONE. pq WM THOMPSON. Manchester, Feb. 16, 1871. 8 DISAPPOINTED AFFECTION, A THRILLING SKEECH. + Same forty years since, in the interior of my native State--New York--lived the lather of my heroine, an honest and respec- table farmer. He had two children~-- Lucy, a noble girl of nineteen, and Ellen, a year or two younger. The first named was winningly, rather than strikingly|besutiful, Under a manner observable for its serious- ness and nun-like serenity, were concealed an impassioned nature, and a heart of the pest capaciyy for loving. She was re- markable from her earliest childhood for a voice alNwilling and Tidnting sWeblieas. Elen Dutton was the brilliant antipode of hef sister; a ¢ born beauty," whose prerogative of beauty was to have her own way in all things, at all times. An indul- gent father, a wegk other, and.an idoliz- ing vister, uncBhsoiously contributed to the ruin of a nature not at first romarkable for strength or generosity. Where, in all God's creatures, is heart- lessness so detestable as in a beamiful young woman. Lucy possessed a fine intellect ; and her parents were well read New Englanders, she and her sister were far better educate. than other girls of their station in that Ifalf seitled part of the country. In those days many engaged in school teaching from the honor and pleasure it afforded, rather than from necessity. Thus, in a, few months previous to the commencement of our story, Lucy Datton left, for the first time, her fireside circle, to take cliarge of a school some (wenly miles distant . from nstive town, For soma time her letters home were expreesive only et happy contentment, which sprang trom the conscrousness of active usefulness, of receiving while im- parting good. Then were those records from home characterized by fitful gaity or dreamy sadness ; undefinable hopes and fears seemed struggling tor supremacy in the writers troubled little heart. Lucy loved. So for a time, that second birth of human nature was hke a warm sunrise struggling with the cold mist of the moru- ing... But one day brought a letter which could not be forgotten in the home of the absent, and a letter traced by a hand trembling with happiness. Lucy had been wooed and won, and she but waited her parents' approval of her choice to become the be- trothed of Edwin W., a man of excellent family and standing in the town where she had been teaching. The father and mother accorded their sanction with many blessings, and Lucy's next letter promised a speedy visit from the lovers. To such natures as Lucy's, what an absorbing and yet what a revealing of self isa first pas- sion--what a prodigality of giving--what incalculable wealth of receiying--what a breaking up is there of the deep waters of the soul, and how heaven decends ia a sudden star shower upon life. If thers is season when an angel may logk with inter- est on her mortal sister, 1t is when she beholds her heart pass from its bud-like innocence and girlhood, and taking to its very core the fervid light of love, glow and crimson into perfect womanhood. At last the plighted lovers came, and welcomes and festivities awaited them.-- Mr. W. gave entire satisfaction to father, mother, and even the exacting * beauty." He waa a handsome man, with some pre- tension to fashion, but in manner, and Pp ly in oh s the of his betrothed. ! : It, was declared that Lucy should not again leave home until after her marriage, which, at the request of her ardent lover, was 10 be celebrated within two mouths, and on the birthday of the bride. It was therefore arranged that Ellen should return with Mr. W., to take charge of her sistei's school for the remainder of the term. The bridal day had come. It was vsher- ed in by a May morning of surprising love- liness ; the busy hours bad worn away, and now. it was near sunset, and neither the bridegroom nor Ellen, the first brides- our REAT THE, G LABOR MACHINE! Over 00 Sold, within, the last few TH EE an THE ONTARIO + | From Hurd & , Are now 'to far hag a Heep in perfectre- thoday" Every description of Wood Work, and repairipg done off short notice, *. .- NEVILLE & HURD, Wines Albert, Oc, 26, 1870, » SAVING Wis nine Maca maid, had app d. Yet, in her neat little ch sat Lucy, g doubling, nothing fearing. She was arrayed in a simple white muslin, and & few bridle orcaments lay on the table by her side, Miss Allen, her second bridesmaid, a bright.eyed affectionate hearted girl, her chosen friend from childhood, was arrang- ing to a more graceful fall, the wealth of light ringlets which swept her snowy neck. To the anxious inquiries of her companion respecting the absent ones, Lucy smiled, and replied ¢ Oh, somethicg hae happened to them awhile, We heard from him the other day and all was well. They will be here by-and-bye, never lear. % Evening came, the guests Assembled; and yet the bridegroom tarried, There were whispers, . surmises and wondering, aod a shadow of donbt passed oyer the bride elect. At last a carriage drove slowly to the door. ¢ ¢ They have come !' cried many voioes, | and confused inquires of all around him, Mr. W. uttered something about + unaveid- able delay," and stepped up to the side- board, tossed off a glass of wine, and anoth- er and another. The company stood still with amazement. Finally a rough farmer exclaimed :-- - ¢ Better late than never, young man ; so lead out your bride * Mr. W. strode hastily across the room and placed himself beside Ellen, and took her hand in his. Then, without daring to meet the eye of any one about him, he said :-- ¢ I wish to make an explanation. [am onder the painful necessity --that is, I have the pleasure-to-snnounce-tirat 1-am already' married. ~The lady whom I now hold by the hand is my wife I' Then, turning to Mr, and Mrs. Datton, in an apologetic manner, he added :-- "¢ I found that I never loved unti] 1 knew your second daughter." : oly Aud Lucy? She heard all with a strange, calmness and then walked steadily forward and confronted her betrayers. Tertible, as Nemises herself, shs stood before them, and ber looks pierced ike a keen oold biade into their false hearts. Ag though to Assure herself of the, dread reality of the vision, she laid fier hand on Ellen's shoui- der and let it glide down her arm ~ but she touched not Edwin. As those cold fingers met hers, the unhappy wife gazed full in her sister's face, and ae she marked the ghastly color of her lips, the dilated nos- trils, the quivering lips, and the intensely mournful eyes, she covered her own face in her hands, and burst into tears ; while the young husband, awed by the terrific silanco of hr he had wronged, gasped tor breath aud staggerod back against the wall, Then Lucy clasped her hands on her fore- head, and first gave vent to heranguish and despair in one fearful cry, which could not but ring forever through the "souls of that guilty pair, and fell in a' deatb-Jike swoon at their feet. After the insensible girl had been remoy- 'ad to a chamber, a etormy scene ensued in tha room beneath. The parents and guests were alike enraged against W., but the tears and prayers of the young wife, the petted beauty and spoiled child, at last soft ened somewhat by the anger of her parents, and an opportunity tor explanation was ac- corded to the offenders. A sorry explana- tion it proved. The gentleman affirmed that the first sight of Ellen's lovely face had weakened the empite of her plainer sister over his affections, Frequent intor- views had completed the conquest of his loyalty, but be had been held in check by his honor and never told his love until, when on his way to espouse another, in an unguarded moment he revealed it, and the avowal had called forth an acknowledge- ment from Ellen. They had thought it best, in order to ave pain to Lucy, and to prevent any op- position trom her, and to secure their own heppiness, to be married before their arrival al C--, . Lucy remained insensible for some time. When she revived aad apparently gained consciousness, she still maintained her strange silence. This continued for many weeks. When it partially passed away, her friends saw wuh inexpressible grief, that her reason had fled--that she was hopelessly insane, " But her madness was of a mild and harmless nature. She was as gentle and peaceablewas ever, but frequently sighed and seemed! to be burdened with a great sorrow, which she herself could noi] prehend. She had one peculiarity, which all who knew her must recollect. -- This was a wild fear and caseful avoidance of men. She could not, would not be confined, but was continually escaping trom her friende--they knew mot whither. While her parents lived, they, by their watohful care and unwearied' efforts, in some measure controlled this sad propensi- 1y ; but when they died, their stricken obild became a wanderer, homeless, (riend- less and forlorn. And through laughing springs and rosy summers, tramp, tramp, tramp--no rest for ber of the crushed heart and crazed brain. 1 remember her as she was in my early hildhood the last of her weary pilgnmage. Ae my father and elder broth- er were frequently absent, and as my mother never closedfher heart or door on ¢ Crazy Luoy,' she often spent an hour or two by our fireside. Her appearance was very (singular, Her gown was always patohed with many colors, and her shaw! or mantle was worn or torn until it was open work or fringe. The remamnder of her miserable wardrobe she carried in a bundle under her arm, and sometimes she had a number of parcels of old rags, herbw "In the seuson of flowers, her tattered bon- -.|net {was profusely decorated with those which she gathered in 'the woods or by the wayside. Her love for these, av.d her sweet' voice, were all that were left of the bloom and the musio of hier existence. Yet, no; 'ber meek and childish piety still lingered. Her God had not forsaken ber ; down in the. dim chaos of her spirit the smiles of His and Ellen entered, In reply to hurried love yet gleamed taintly--in the waste gar- ------------ don of her heart she still heard his voice a eventide, and she was pot afraid. Her Bible went with her every where--a torn and soiled volume but holy still; and, it may be, as dearly cherished, my dear read- er, as the gorgeous copy mow lying on your table, bound in.¢ purple and gold,' atid with gilding untarnished vpon its delicate leaves. * Thirty years from the time of the com- |! mencement of this mournful 'history, on a bleak autumnal evening, a rough country wagon drove into the town of C lt stopped. at the alms-house, An attenuated form was lifted up and carried in, and the vaggon rumbled away. This. was Lnoy Batton brought to her native town to die, | She had heen in a decline for some months, and the miraculous strength which { bad so long sustained her in her weary wanderings, forsook her utterly. Her sister had died same time beforo,.and the widage § ed husband had soon after removed to thé far West, so Lucy had no friends---no home but the alms-house. One day, about'a week from the time of her, arrival, Lucy appeared to suffer greatly, and those about her looked for her release almost impatiently ; about night she was evidently better, and for the first time she slept tranquilly until 'morning. The mat- ron, who was by her bedside when she awoke, was startled by the clear and earn- est gaze which met her own; but she smiled, bade the invalid ¢ good morning,' to reassure hor, when she exclaimed : ¢ Where am 1, and who ire you? I do I not know you.' A wild srrmise flashed across the mind of the matron ; the long-lost reason of the wanderer had returned. But the good woman replied, calmly and soothingly : ¢ Why, you are among your friends, and you will know me presently.' ¢ Then maybe you know Edwin and El- len," rejoined the invalid. ¢ They have coma! O, I had such a terrible dream! 1 dreamed that they were married. Only think, Ellen married to Edwin! Strange *tis that I should dream that? ¢ My poor Lucy,' said the matron, with a ( @ush of tedrs, ¢ that was no dream; "twas | true." ¢ All true,' cried the invalid ; ¢then Ed- win must be untrue, and that cannot be, for he loves me; we love each other well ; and Ellen is my sister. Let me see them; I will goto them.' I She endeavored to raise herself; but fell back on the pillow. ¢ What does this mean ?' said she, ¢ what makes me so weak 7' Just then her eye fell on her hand--that old and withered hand. She gazed on it in blank astonishment. ¢ Something is the matter with my sight,' | | she said, smiling faintly, "for my hand is like an old woman's.' ¢ And so it is," said the matron, gently, ¢ and so are mine; yet we had fair, plump hands when we were young. Dear Lucy, I, was to have been your bridesmaid.' 1 cannot say more. 1 will not make the vain attempt to give in detail all that mourn- ful rememberance, since the recreant and traitorous lover stood before her and made that terrible announcement. The kind mation paused frequently in the sad narrative of her poor friend's mad- ness and her wandering ; but the invalid would say, with fearful calmness, ¢ Go on, go on,' though the drops of sgony stood thick on her forehead. When she asked for her sister, the matron replied : ¢ She has gone before you, and your fath- er aleo.' ¢ And mother ?' said Lucy, ss her face lit up a sickly ray of hope. ¢ Yourfmother has been dead twenty years. "Dead! All gone! Alone, old, dying! 0, God, my cup of bitterness is full!' and she wépt aloud. Her friend bent over her, and mingling her tears with hers, seid affectionately: -- ¢ But you know who drank that cop before you ¥* Luoy looked with a bewildering expres- sion, and the matron added: ¢ The Lord Jesus, you remeraber." A look like sunlight breaking through a cloud ; a look which saints 'may wear, ir radiated the face of the dying woman, as she replied : 40h yes, 1 knew Him snd loyed Him before I fell asleep.' The man of God was called. A few who hadrknown Lucy in her earlier days, came aleo. There was much reverential feeling and some weeping around her death-bed. Then arose the voice of prayer. At first her lips moved as her weak spirit joined in that fervent'appeal. Then they grew still ; and poor Lucy-was dead--dead in her gray- lisired youth. : Those who gazed pon that 'placid face, and remembered her - harmless life and patient sufferings, doubted nof that | the morn of an eternal day had 'broken on her ¢ night of years? | © U0 00 ne ol # You labor too hard on>your composition, doctor,' said- a flippant clergyman to a ven- erable divine ; ¢ I write a sermon in. wo, hours;.and think nothing of it." So do your congregation,' quoth 'the dootor, ¢ with ali dis child's heart. are haughty and proud, and wont stoop to drink with a police officer ; but Jat's wrong. Link a police officer almost, it not every way, as good as a nigger --'speoially when', a nigger's thirsty, your back a violin with these lines :--¢ Madame, your invitation you will more realily forgive the apparent neglect,.as I send my instrument. striking cases of meanness on record. says he knows a society which hired man lo blast rocks, and as he was pounding the powder with a crowbar, an explosion 100k place, sending the man and _crowbag out of sight. Both came down all right, the man went to work promptly. Bug though he was gone only about filteen minutes, the company " docked him fof lost time." A correspondent of the Scientific Amert- can recommends turpentine ss a certain' cure for lockjaw. He says :--¢ Let any" one who has an attack: of lockjaw take small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pout it on the wound, no matter where th wound is, orwhat its nature is--reliol with follow in less than one minute. can be applied to a severe out or bruise Nothing hat is better than cold turpentine ; it will give relief almost instantly. eet eee Why will young fellows be such fools 'as: to give their eweet-hearts locks of theit hair, when after marrisge they can't - help hemselves. oi ~The New Orleans tow faotory is ome of vies ~~ most interesting wights of the eity. six machines, each costing $25,000, snd It rune reezes sixteen tons of ice daily. The water 0 pumped from the Mississippi, purified and frozen into blocks thick and twelve by wenly-four inches, in acres. -" -- ~~ --et A police officer, seeing a nigger whom he knew, exclaimed, ¢ Ah, Sambo! you are an honest, faithful fellow, I'll give you a drink." ¢ With all my heart, sir," said Sambo i Some nigger's An English tourist visited Arran, and: made arrangements fora day's fishing.-- Being told that the cleg or horse-fly would suit his purpose admirably for tackle, he: addressed himsell to Christy, the Highland: servant girl--¢ [ say, my girl, can you get me some horse- flies 7° ' Christry looked stupid, and repeated hig question. Finding that she did not compre- hend him, he explained, ¢ Why, girl, did you never see a horse- fly " ¢ Naa, sir,' said the simple girl, « bus }' wanee saw'a coo jump ower a preshipioe.' Sr ------ 0 ~----eet A great violinist accepted au invitation: rom a vuigar notary at Brussels, and was kind enough to play during the evening to he guests. A month after the votaress, sent the musician another invitation with - his postaoript :--¢.Above all, don't forges instrument." Fhe musician sen regret that, pessonally, | cannot accept for the ----. I am sure rr trie » Lady Yarmouth asked Gartick one day why love was _adways represented as gy child. He replied * because love ne: Tr eaches tha age of wisdom and experience." . ---- tt ------ Z Two cooks in a Chicago hotel got into & riot, and one got her head broken with § skillet. people should pay more attention to the do you, not know me ?- Iam Marie Allen | thickness of the scull, or such accidents would be very common. ought to be at least half an inch thick, the way skillets are made now. The coroner recommended thay A oook's scull ------------------ ) Mark Twain produces ous of the mosh He i To ¢ do-up" Black Silk.-- Boil an old kid glove (cut into shreds) in a pint of water, till the water is reduced to half a pint, then sponge your silk with it ; and ten minutes after iron it on. the wrong side while wet. The silk will retain its softnesg and luswre, and at the same timo the ¢ body? or pew silk, 4 i Pyrography is a new art invented i England and consists, as the name Jindi- cates, in printing by fife through a 'aystoin of metallic _oyijuders, which burn into the wood any design required, which is inde- stiuotable. From its nomial post and beauty, it seems likely to take the place of ? \ much of the expensive ornameniations ao inlaid work done by hand, v wn ---------- ees A Connecticut farmer, wishing fo try experiment of raising colton, igstéad of time-honored wooden nutmeg wre to My, Greeley for some advice, and received ft.-- Horace told him he hedn't better go into 'it too extensively until he found whether tis oould raise it, and advised hint to first gat yard of unbleached cotton and cnt 'the eyey out and plant the eyes the same as pétatos The farmer did as direoted, and is up nights" 1 thete no law on