OLD FAMILIAR SAOTfiS. AN INVESTIGATOR TELLS HOW THEY ORIGINATED. 9n Rrpratrd PhraHeH anil WordH Hare â- â- («re>llna Mt«rlrH Connrrtrd with Their Orlsla-Where and How They Ht«rl<^l. "Do you know who Mother Carey Is*'" aaked the man who delights in Investigating all sorts of odd things and who is never mo biippy us when following up some unusual line of thought. "She's a chicken fancier, I imagine," replied the man who takes things as they come without question. "At any rate she's seldom mentioned except in connection with her chickens." "Mother Carey," said the investi- gator, and he took another look at the book he held in hi.s hand a-s if to guard against the possibility of mis- take, "is the Virgin Mary. The name comes from the Latin 'Mater cara,' meaning 'Mother deax,' and her chickens axe the stormy petrels which the sailors formerly believed were sent to warn them of approaching storms. I tell you, my boy, there's a great deal that's interesting in these odd expressions and words if one takes the trouble to look it' up. 'Now, there is the saying, 'Oon't care a rap.' How would you Intej-pret that? What does rap mean 1" "As an off-hand gue.ss, I should say that it was a substitute (or a word that begins with 'd' and which is not supposed to be used In polite society." "You would be wrong," asserted the man with the book, "'Rap' is derived from 'R. A. P.,' which Ln turn comes from India and stands for rupees, annas and pice, representing the money of that country. The expression is al- mo:it an exivot e<quivulent to that other, equally common, 'I don't care a cent,' Now, I suppose if some one should ask yoa about 'Ja<ck an<l Uill,' who 'went up a hill," you would say they were simply nursery characters." I "L certainly «ihouUl." I "And you would be wrong again. 'Jacii' was the name of a pitcher made of waxed leather, and 'Gill' was and is a measure of small capacity. That is how they happened to go after water. Somebody was doubtless carrying them and carelessly dropped them." MIND YOUB TUOUUHrLKSJi WORDS "When you say 'Ly Jingo 1' I suppose you don't moan anything except that rou are excited or angry." "That's all." "Nevertheless, yuu are literally •wearing by the evil one, for the word is from 'Jenoo,' which means 'devil' in the Basque languaiie. 1 suppose, also, that you regard 'caipet knight' as a term of reproach." "Naturally." "Yet Uuary Irving Is a carpet knight; so was 'I'ennysou, and so are and were, many others of whom Kijk- laad is proud. A coi'peC kuight is one who wins bis title by his ai'hieveuieuts in the world of science or the arts, or, In fact, anywhere except iu battle, lie may be reuUy more tieserviug of the title than any of those who wuu it by the Bword." "You must put in most of your time with dictluoai ius iind cyclopedias I" suggested the man who takes things as they come. "Not at all. 1 am (.imply sufficient- ly interested to look up ihesu odd ex- pressions when I luii across thom to see what they really mean, and whe- ther wo use them properly. Do you know wh;^ the patrons of the top gal- lery of a theatre are called the godsf" "Never even gave the hubjoct a thought." "V\elli_they axe so described at the Drury Liirf^^^hoatre, in London, first, becuuse the ceiling was painted in imi- tation of a blue sky, with cupids and angels flying about. 1 imagine the term 'battle royal' conveys an idea of grandeur to yuu in the fighting line." "1 thuuld think it ought to be rather thrilling." "NeverlJieless, it was originally no- thing but a cock-fighting term, and was used to describe a tight iu which three, five or sevtn birds were put intu the pit and left u^l all but one had been defeated. Uo>^do you suppose we got the expression, "cock and bull story'?" "Give it up." "You ought to investigate these things if you are going to uiuko use of them. A man ought to know some- thing about what he is saying, this comes to us from the time of the Re- formation. The i'upal bulls had a cock on the seal, an<l of course theie were a great many people of that day .who were iucline<i to discredit any- thing in the cock and bull lino. But tke expression that doubtless will in- terest you most is, "1 don't care a 'dam.' " : "You what?" . ' • " 'I don't oare a dam!'â€" the dam without the 'a,' of course." i "What difference does that make?" "All the difference in the world. Dua-on is a coin In India equivalent to an English twopence. If you are caught making that remark iu a loud tone some time it may be worth some- thing to you to know that there is such a. coin. It will help you to ex- plain matters. Now, where do you suppose the word 'peeler' and 'bobby,' meaning policeman, come from ?" "Again I give it up." "ITrom the name of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the London police force. SHOULD LOOK THQM UP. "Do jrou do anything except look up Nervous People Are great sufferers and they deserve sympathy rather than censure. Their blood is poor and thin and their nerves are con.sequently weak. Such people find relief and cure in Hood's Sarsa- parilla because it purifies and enrich- es the blood and gives it power to feed, strengthen and sustain the nerves. If you are nervous and cannot sleep, take Hood's Sarsaparilla and realize its nerve strengthening power. Hood's Sarsaparilla Ih ran nda'a Greate st Medicine. $1 ; alx fnr 85. Hood's Pllls~cura^l Liver Ilia. 25 cent8. PRINCESS STEPHAIE, When idolized in her girlhood by her father's subjects, the terms of endear- meant by which Princess Stephanie, second daughter of the King anrl Queen of the Belgians was known were "Our Little Moss Rose," and " Our Dear Prin- cess." .She was a winsome little lady, blue-eyed, fuix-haired and inquisitive to ai degree, her smile winning all hearts. Not that she was ever beauti- ful ; yet none could honestly deny her prepossessing appearance. Her dissolute these things?" asked the man who husband, the late Crown Prince Ru- takes things as they come. | dolph of Austria, unquestionably used "Oh, yes. ' repliwt the man of an in- i ^^r ill. and when iu his cups his bru- and ladles attached to their court cried Shame I" and on occasions not a few vestigating turn of mind. "When you % .t .. .i i j get into the habit of looking into the ^'^^'^^ 'â- ""â- ^ ""^J* ^^at the lords origin of the exi)ressions you run across, you do it as an amusement at odd times. Now, yesterday it suddenly I ^^p ^ servants of their Imperial occurred to me that I didn t know why I ... u i. ^ , .. .i. ._ it i-i that we 'rob Peter to pay Paul.' " { Highnesses hastened to rescue their "Did you find out?" ; exalted mistress from the blows and "Certainly. In 1551) iseveral estates kicks of her spouse, belonging to Westminster Abbey were j^ ^ , j ^ wedlock Ste- granted to St. Pauls Cathedral for re- . . , , ,. , paii-3 and maintenance, and VVeslmin.s- Pnanie, who but too soon discovered ter Abbey happens to be dedicated to her husband's faults, pried upon his St. Peter. There is an interesting actions m her jealousy, and upbraided story connected with 'buying a pig m;^^ cuttingly, spitefully, tearfully, a poke,' too. I e- u i â- .• u .. i . "Let's have it." ] l^-xhibitions such as these only served "A countryman once put a cat in ' to madden the Imperial reprobate, a poke or .*ack and .sold it in the mar- : ^nd their conjugal relations, with the ket^pLoce aa a, sucking pig. The cus- . , ^ ,. i « „ tu» t.omer didn't investigate his purchase '«»<i" •"'"Sion at a discount from the then, anil when he did he very natur-jvery first, became more and more ally 'let the cat out of ho bag.' There estranged. To breakfast on one bottle you have two explained at once.'' | gf Burgundy, and to lunch off another, "It 13 rather interesting, isnt Itr'i ... ' , . • „ „ said the man who takes things as they*^'^''! '^«>K°'"= '""^ champagne in con- come. "I believe I'll look up the next | stant demand the morning through- odd expressLon I come across myself." j out, unnerved the Prince, to put it Do," returned the Investigator. 'I'm sure you will find it quite as inter- esting as the genealogical fad and a lot more instructive." BRITISH SHIPPING. More Thaa •I.OM Tob> Drrllnr InTnnnafte Laitl I'rar. For the first time in fifty years, or since the repeal of the British naviga- tion laws, the tonnage of the British publicly known mercantile marine shows a deciine. A Board of Trade return has just l>een published dealing with British and foreign shipping, which shows that at the end of last year the I nitjed K.ing- dom owned steam and sailing vessels with a capacity of 8,1)53.171 tons, com- pared wiih the 7.978,538 U«is of 18iM), but us compared with I he 9,0.:0.2tfiJ tons of 189(i. it shiws a falling off of more than t)7,0(J0 tons. Induuing the ton- nage owned in the Uritlsh colonies, the Uni.m Jack floats over 10.11(J,!4:i tons of shipping, whi,:h compares with alxjut 4,7(i(<.000 tons for the Lnited States, 1,- 5liG,558 for Norway, l,487,r>77 for Ger- many, 891,071 for f ranee, 7(15,281 for Italy, and 75B,3(i5 for Spain. Accord- ing to the report British .shipping en- joys sixty percent of America's foreign trade, fiily-iight percent of lurtugiU's fifty-seven percent of Russia's, fifty- four and a half percent of Hollana's. forty-three percent of Italy's, and thirty-eight percent of Germany's, liriiish ships last year carri-d seventy- six per cent of the inward and outward trade of the United Kingdom aaiigiinst seventy-eight percent in 11^95, sereuly- nin" and a halt percent in 1891), and I ighiy-three percent in 1880. All hough the torin.igc. of Briiish .ships fell Insliind last year. th« pn p ^r. Im built for foreigners in Bri.ish yards was much alx>ve the average. Iho decline is as- signed to three causes: An unusually large transfer of Briti-sh .shipping to foreign flags, native builders filling mildly, for a walk or drive with the Princess in the atternoon, and it was under the iuflueuce of alcohol that he was wont to visit her, post-prandiail), in her own apartments, and conduct her to entertainments public and pri- vate. To what extent the crushed spirit of the Princess was affected by her tyrant's tragic death may never be Stephanie is of no confiding spirit, uud in her reticence her. pride precludes the enquiring sym- pathy of condoling friends. In her patriarchal father-in-law, the Km- perur, she found in her bereavement hdr stuuuthest ally, and the autocrat, who has liver figured as the fir.^t gal- lant gentleman on the continent of Kuroiw, in his tribulation at the loss of his only son, resolved that that son's widow iu all matters of court pre- cedence should retain her jMsition, maintain her court, and be regarded by the nation as second to none, the Kmpress alone excepted. .Simultaneou.s- ly Francis Jose(iii made provision that his deceased son's only child. Princess Klizabcth, should figure as the third on the lisct of the ladies foremost in rank in the empire and constituted a court complete in all its multifari- ous appendages, and distinct from that of the widowed Crown Princess, over wliich, in her minority, " Lize," the apple of the Imperial eye should alone preside. Stephanie, true to the Emiieror's fatherly dictates, took under her spe- cial protectorate the artistic, .scientific and humanitarian movements which had been fostered under the patronage of her husband. But the ambitious wife of the successor to the throne. Archduke Carl Ludwig, was jealous of her overwhelming precedence. This Tortugueso Princess, Archduchess Maria I'heresa, daughter of the de- throned King Dom Miguel of disrei-U- table memory, had ho|ied on the death kaiserstadt the exacting and the puTl-j tanical alike accepted her as the | guardian angel of the afflir.ted and the poor. Her social regime has been ; a singularly happy one, and now that she US recovering in the atmosiihere of the health resort of Grios bei Botzen, in the southern Tyrol, from her re- cent dangerous illness, the Viennese are imTiatient to have her among them once again. Steiibanie, who is 34 years old, is tiiU and graceful. She is a gifted wo- man, and besides excelling as an ama- teur photographer, her brush makes a brave show in water colours. Her literary achievements, too, demand attention. The exquisitely illustrated volume she (iroduced on Lacroma. an island in the Adriatic, facing the ancient republic of Ragusa, testifies to her poetic fervor. Stephanie is the protectress of the Austrian Golden Cross AsscK-iation, and the last social function she attended before her ill- ness at .\bbazia on the Adriatic was the opening of an asylum for incap- acitated government employes. During hrr illness her hair was cut short, which pivea her quite a 'ooyish appear- ance. Short hau- is now. consequently the rage, and so, too, is the stout brown cane with heavy silver incru.stations, with which the widowed crown princess has armed herself in her convalescence. LAW Mills. Mill* * Maioa, Barrist.«r«,et,c.. I'emovea to Wosley Bliijl" . I'.loh- monrt 8t. W.. I'oroato. TORONTO CUTTINa 5CH00L offen ipacUt » indnoementa to young men deiiroaa of taklna UD CaitlBK. Kull part^oui-Ti o» »ppl» oaUo*. 113 VONQB ST.. TORONTO. PAINT to OHBAP roa c&n aie it nn •M Bhingta rouft or tides of bultdiutt- V.^tA 23 yean. With a Bood jprayrr you cu riiint »hnrn In half u ilajr. Writ* ui for olrcului aua llfomiation about painting. The Finch Wood PrnarTH tl>e * Paint (Jompanr, 870 IJUMn Wait, ToronM. foreign orders at the expense of domes- of Rudolph to precede Stephanie, but tic, and the great engineer's strike. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Talia L«j»ti»o Bromo Quinine T.iblel«. All Dmf lints fluuA tha monor If It falls to'Oura. Km. TRUE AND FALSK CULTURE Anything that draws the home-keei>- er from a healthful, loving, faithful in- terest in her home affairs must be un- worthy of her pursuit. Let a woman join a .study club if she finds that it will be helpful to her; but it .she finds that this will force her to neglect things that would tell upon the home comfort, there are books that will furnish whiii. she needs for the purpose of mental «iltiv8t ion, and [lerhaps her husband cJPjl. after he has rested of an evening;' Join in the study, and, so the two would have the pleasure of a joint interest in a subject. But Ipt the woman who chooses the reading-cours* beware of taking uu a work because it ha-s become the fashion. Hpr own intellectuil need should be oonsulled. She must learn to select for herself ; to .see with her own eyes, and ta doculo Ibrough hor own judgment. Hor home must be an ext>res8iou of h|er own ta.st e. and, must prove the f.'ict of. her economy of time and strength and money. She mu.st not feel herself su- perior to the most careful planning, nor reject the most trifling means, to- wards "accomplUhing success m home management, indeed, she should he proud of an ability to make a nickel go as far as possible, and so oil the machinery of service that it seems to run itself. to her chagrin discoivered that by im lierial edict she figured as fourth in precedence. To escape the bickerings and backbitings of her enemies Sto- phaniAi early in her widowhood absent- ed herself from Vienna during festive celebrations at the Hofburg, nothing being more alien to her breast and more derogatory to her pride than the squabtiles in which some of the arch- duchesses are perpetually involved. On the deaih of the heir-apparent, Carl Ludwig, the Saxon ai>ouse of Otto, the heir presumptive. Archduchess Maria .losepha. stepped Into Maria Theresa's shoes, thus involuntfirily throwing her Portuguese highness into comparative i insignificance, seeing that Carl Lud- wig had not been officially recognized OS his brother's successor. No sooner had Rudolph's widow come prominently to the fore under the of- ficial title of "H>er Imimrial and Aloyal Highness, the widowed Crown Prjcess. Archduchess Stephanie," than^kher popularity in the est iniatlon j^Blh< public as.suiiied dinien-sions farj^^Cei than in her former capacity Qgfti>' Princess. In a word she eclitipc*" self. Thus to the adage " nKy begets love," the nation raised her to popular fame. They had idoUzeil Rudolph as their future sovereign and he had won all hearts by his ingratiating qualities of affability and condescension. Not- withstandiiig the broadcast sowing of his wild outs thny were fully resolved to extoiKl their allegiance to his widow in their fealty to his memory. The period of mourning prescribed by sotuety decently over, Stephanie l)e- caino the fashion. She developed a craze for pleasing social novelties and was lionized accordingly by all classes. Ill gay Vienna she set the fashion and the world of fashion bowed Iwfore her dictates, while --x the philanthropic Four For One ^ ^ YOU CAN BUY FOUR POUNDS OF ^ ^ 9 @ .... BLUE LABEL ^ ^ LUDELLA CEYLON TEA FOR ONE DOLLAR. IN LCAD PAOKAQia. NO ENTIIT'SIASM 'WHATEVER. Miriamâ€" No. I have derided that I can never be his wifia. Gertrude â€" Why ? Miriamâ€" He is too matter-of-fact, too unemotional, I could never stand it to go through life wiih a man who has such a cold, calculating nature as his. (Jertrude â€" Hut what makes you think he is so unemotionalâ€" so cold and calcu- lating ? Miriamâ€" When we were at I he picnic yesterday he didn't suggest that we have our tiutyiies taken. HOatE DECOHATION. Mr.*, li'atpurseâ€" You paint pictures to order, don't you ? Groat Artutâ€" Yes, madam, Mrs. Fatpiu'se â€" Well 1 want a land- scape, with lots of deer, uud duck.s^ and quail, and reed birds, and cattle, :in<l sheep, and pigs, and so on, you know; and put a lake and an i)C»(an inâ€" fresh and salt water, you know ; and he sure to have plenty of fish swimming around, Iwcuuso it's for the dining-room. A Fine Fellow. n«4 may be, but if ho tells you that any preparatiim in the world is as good as Putnam's Painless Corn Ex- troi-lor distrust the advice. Imita- tions only prove the value of Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor. Bee signa- turt! on each bottle of Poison & Co. Get "Putnam's." A COSTLY CHAT. The Nurseâ€" Oh. 'J'alk is cheap. The Policeman â€" Oh I 1 don't know. I know a cop who was fined lliree days' pay for s|>eudinj; ten minutes talking to a girl here. X phi.sler which relievos pain, heals cut.*, burns, scalds, or wounds, is made by spreiwling "tiuickcure ' on cotton or linen. Cures most violent toothache without injuring the nerve. It should be in every house and travelling 3at>- cihel. A DISTINCTION. Isn't (hat new neighbor of yours ra- ther eccentric? inquired the coniiuer- oial traveler. No, answered one of the village's pro- minent citizens. He ain't rich enough to be called " eccentric." He's just a plain crank. How's This? WeotTer One Hundred Ortllurs Kew»rd fol any oa^•o of c^tarrli that oauuot bo cured by Hall's Cularrh i'ur«. F. .1. CHKNKY & CO.. PrnpB.. Toledo. O, We, the uuilorHignod, have known F. J. Chonoy for bUo IasI 15 ymr^, anil botievo tiim perfoctly tionoriblo in all budineiti Irnn.'Hi^ tions, nnit llniiDoially abin to carry oui an^ obllRalion mada by their firm. Wkst & I'liWAX. wliolaiMkIa I)ru .'gluts, Toledo, O. WAtDlNO IClNNiN X -MAIIVIN, WIlO.OBSlS DriiifBlstw, Toledo, O. HftU-CMarrh CurelB taken internally, aob ingdirco'Iy upon the blood and mucous snij faoM of h'syatem. I'rioo 7.io. po bottle . Sola by all DruKKlxti. TextliuoninlH fra* Hall'a famtly I'llls are tho best. RATHER MONOTONOUS. Is your daughter having a good time at the seashore? No; she writes homo that she is en- gaged to the sums man she met last year. SHIP YOUR PRODUCE, Butter, Bgts, Apple*, Prult, Ac ta .^^ THI DAWSON OOMMItBIOH 00., Umltad, ^'-«-> Mr, tf WMt Markat and Oottama tts^ TOBOHTa mtflTATinll <« hiirphv Mtendfrd to all jrounfl inTIIMIlUn „^„ ,„j wonifO l.ittreKlwl la pr«<-tlcj»l oducall(.n to trite for tha N<-w Pn.iptclua al tliUJesTml. Ru«TNl8aroi.i.ni«"rT.iKiiNT". Fall TSRM Oer.Nl S IPT 1M-. Eiflit rcKul.r ifacl.ara. a» • icallcd faoilitli.«tor Aromintlnt, Ta elr.phr Short, hand. ..tc. Manr ttudfnta aecilrr jplrrulnl I'"';""â„¢ .ach trrni. Oat parlU-ulara. Addre«a W A SHAW, Principal. Yonj » and Oerrard 8U., T.ininto. STAMMERERS. Oalr Inttitutioo Id Canada lot lb* aoiaad •TFrr phaaa of apwota dtfaat. lataliUakal oBifnowa AUTo-TOCJB n(8TirCT«, • Painlirolia St. TaraMa^ •â- â- â- *» THE TRIUMPH'*' ADjnSTABLB STOVB PtPM. Baar put tip aad t&kaa down. Oao ka olaaoa<l. neatad, and put away in • aiDall ipxw). Am four daalan for kham. Manufactured bj G. B. BARCLAT, â- AS Adalalda5t. W.,Taraato. L. COFFEE & CO., -"â- â- "-^^^ GRAIN AND COMMISSiOH MERCHANTS, J â- eo«M 40S-IS Baard af Trada Bulldtag^ TOBONTO. ONT. . ..f,^ TnoMAa Fltmb. Joint h. Corraa Dominion Line Steamships. Mootrral and QliFbac to Ltv.rpool In .unDiu(.r. Larga and faat iwtn icr.w Rtraiu.liiii. ' (.abitfdt.r.' 'Van* oouver.' ' Dmninlon.' •ScoUiiiBn,' â- Ynrkahira.' Siipnrior Roconimodftllon or TlrKt Cabin, Sao. on d Cabin aud^luerage paaKauKem. Itaiai ol Damage â€" FirKt Cabin, 1.52.JO ; -e.ond fabtn, |3I ; Siaeraue 1^2 ."lO uiid upward* iiooordlnK U itaaiuer and borlh. For all Infonnni Ion apply to Local .A,{eni«, or David Torranck ft Co» Oao'l Asenta, 17 St. 3a«ram«nt Ht.. MontraaL ALLAN LINE Hoyai Nail Steamship COa, Montreal to Liverpool. Steamera aall from Montraal aran Thondaf momlntt on arrival of mlna from 'roruato aa* Iha Waat aboni 9 ofolock. j RATXS or PASSAOB OablD 091.00 and upward! ; Second CaMa 134 and ami |36.2i; Sroeraga ti< UTtrpoal London, Ulaairow. tlairant. txandondtrrr *t Qneanatonn tllM and VO-M. A radnotlon of Ave per oanii, la allowed da i round trip flrat itnd ••ooiid nuliln ttoketa, fdi •alitnga of Htonmein or otbur InfomiaUoa apfii to any anthorltad auaoU B. Bourllar. I King St. W. or a. • it Allaa. MantrMl. MAPLE LEAF RAIN BINDER. KMPTY T.\LK. Higgins Hallâ€" Have you heurd that empiy box story t Huslio Uridgeâ€" No. Higgins H.tIIâ€" It's just as well you. haven't there's nothing in it. TWO a zics. KOlt AM V l-OWKR. "o. 1 h(iK inincb I* par.^lblit lutrra. No. 2 liiin giiich 8 ttii) hurrM. Holh bavo ball.boar. liiK burr iilnleo, rflliof t prtiiKH itnd Hhiiko frod. (ii'iiid line iind fnol with lift^l powor. Always tiuiu'itnlood. A trial Kivt'ii. We make Patent Roller and Ball-Bear- Ing Steel Windmills ot<i|t k iiilii tlio tin ^st In the niitrkol. tOKt material. Llghto<it innnlng,