not astrls There is some agitation for tele ownership in the United States. is more sense -- may be fooled with some presently, ------ The 'Yorkshire Post does not encour- age the strengthening of England's love for the colonies. Tt is to be hop- ed the Post speaks only for jtself and not for the people of Yorkshire. The labo' vote has scared the re- Publicans in Maine. Gompers went in a the congressmen who voted agdingt labour in the last house and Re | 80ing to collide with the ~overnment, | Woman. Mrs, eh ---- . Whitney is quite philosophical he says that if the government Rone contrary to their expressed intentions on the power 'question it must suffer. It surely will, ---- The Hydro-Blectrie commission has Power to expropriate, it ia said, and oan 'take the Healey Falls and other properties. But the commission is not not: knowingly, A Toronto nr-- paper refers to the vigor {with which the stalwarts have boen | party undertakes ulterers than have law. But only ves. So ill do These were Spd from various parts of the dominion--frém. Prince Edward Island on the ust to British Columbia on the west. Of the total 189 were found to be genuine, 8% doubtful, and 45 adulterated. Kingston's contribution showed up thus: Genuine, 9; doubtful, 12; adulterated, 2. Names of vendors are given in the Bulletin, Those Who had the "genuine" or *'unadulter- Aled" article can gtand the examina: i with pride those who had milk "partly skimmed". or "under average in total solids," or "under average in cream," "adulter: ated with water," must read the com- ments of the analyist with some con. | fusion and shamefacedness, Het us have more of this kind of thing, this wnsparing and teathful and | tandid statement of the facts, and | there will be 4 complete refornk fn the business. The vendor of milk, expect. Ing popula The Evil Of The Deal. J The Healey Falls case is wot made whole ' ha {ae ately he themselves in the 'Whig. a'néed of vigor when the tary e to dictate to the both Ottawa and Tor- SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Makes A Farce Of It. Advertiser. Healey's Falls lease makes an elaborate farce of the hydro-electric Power commission. It All Depends. Guel Me A any p people Torget that a wed. re- Will They Escape ? Toronto Star, With the end of the fair in right the hope gains ground that the king's horses may escape from Toronto with- out the L.D., honoris causa, being conferred on them by the university. Getting The Axe. 0 that the hydro eheetric SRrunisdion a. Bot ignored in the disposal of the caley vy Mr. Coohe right. Far from' being" ignored, the commission was hit on the head with an axe. Doesn't He ? milt, i \ he Normal School agreement has arrived, bat the money to pay for the site did not accompany it. 1t may have an oversight, Mr. Cal laghan; what think you ? Surely Whitney doesn't expect you to pur< chase it ! Exchunge. . Cochrane declares * A Big Success. "lola," the new intermezso, two- ste C, 8. Johnston, is gok to be Ey musical hit of the A It is the first and only legitimate suc cessor to Hiawatha, whose popularity Jt bids fair to equal, if not excel. The title is a work of art, being a TARO ion _ of Fed celebrated German painting. music is R a ry h nothing in Yo tole conipoition that remind you of heard, was BRIEF FORM, embered. pr - sailed - from Liver- with ten million in "4G: Johnston, 'Westmount, "hd in the hospital at Cal © With political ends in view the Ger- min, stngecor is mid 10 be making an of 0. : battleship Towa to Ke Pncueshin with 'of Havana. "Frank, section foraman on the *» Was killed by being struck by tunnel near Sarnia. Pilot Mound, Man., destroy- : Harris witrehouse and | other husiness ha ievew of the tug Mamie, --: bani og r e steamer Trinidad, The CPR. Empress of Bri- tain," from Liverpool, was si ted six- ty 'miles eust of Belle Lide at 6:15 am, At Bowmanville. William Terry and Charles' Wilmot were committed or trial for highway robbery and assatilt on Richard Ford. contest of the will 8 Delricks, New York, which of kis property to his relatives and cut off his wife. use of a difference in religious haliets that Iyvonted Mabel gif armuth, ourteen from marry ng him, Jesse Weinstosk, New York, aged sey- enteen, committed suicide. ssevelt has appointed Col. Culver C, Sniffen to be paymas- ter-geieral of the army, to sicosed Gen. h Who has retired. (cl Eniffen' is a native of New York, At Rushville, , three workmen vere killed by coming in contact with a wire fence, charged with elec. tricity from the plant of the Indian- polis and Cincitnati Traction com- pany. The mayor of Lima, Peru, sented M left the blood has pre- re: Root, wile of the American secretary state, with a utiful golden 'brooch; with a mounting diamonds and rubies, and upon which is enameled the cont of arms. Boys of Newton, Pa., public school, blew up schoolhouse with dyna. mite, 'because their request for a longer vacation was not granted. They have Been male to attend school in temporary 'quarters, much to their chagrin. Mrs. Rachel Arthur, Watertown, N. Y., seeks divorce from wood, married under the name of Ar- thur, while the husband of another . G. Walroth of the same place, seeks divorce, alleging cruelty, ---- THE RURAL PHILOSOPHER ' fi S---- His Ideas of the Microscope's 4 Powers. The following st is related of a rural philosopher io was somewhat advanced in years without learning much of the mysteries of nature. What knowledge 'the old gentleman had gleaned was tirely independent of science. He did not know whether a microscope was "something to eat or a newfangled farming machine." "A young friend, fresh from school, once paid him a visit, and was very anxious to enlighten the old man on the wonders of the microscope, a spe- cimen of which he carried about him. While the old philosopher was making a frugal meal in the field at noon the youth produced his microscope and ekplained its operation, which he i lustrated by exhibiting its power up. on several bugs and divers minute atoms of animate matter at hand, To his surprise, the aged pupil did not manifest © much astonishment, and stung by his indifference, he detailed to. him how many scores of living creatures he ¢ odd at evory mouth- ful and in each drop which quenched his thirst. At this his hearer was skeptical; to prove the fact the boy snatched from his hand a chunk of rich cheese which he was then devour- ing, and, placing it under the magni- >, the mass of wriggling animgl- oulae was triumphantly pointed . The old man gazed upon the sight indifferently, and length, with the utmost monchalence, took another bite. "Don't," exclaimed the yi "dont's eat it, Uncle Ren; don't yon see 'em? See 'em squirm wriggle 1" "Lot 'om wriggle 1" the "old ilosopher, munching away calmly. "They've got the worst on't; if they kin stan' it I kin,' and he de- iberately finished his meal. He Eluded Capture. Residents in the vicinity of Mallory- town take issue with the article in the Whig last week, where it was stated that the escaped conViet Charlabran "literally walked into the arms of his captors, being anxious to give himself up." Those scone state that this was far from the Case; the conviet frustrated every attempt to induce him to . | ing together. » Jest. relative would receive the sum Spure Moments. Mrs, Booth tells a story of a little boy of the London slums, whobé pa , Fents wery 'very, very poor; his father, in fact, was dead, and his mother had worked herself to a shadow over the wash tubs in an endeavor to keep her children together, The little boy had heard how the publishers of a certain pauper had ised that anyone who was accidentally. killed while carrying dir pager, in his pocket | be protected, in that his near- of 85,000, A new form of life insurance, you see. The vext day after he had read this the little boy was seem to throw him. #1 beneath the wheels of a cab, whith crushed. his head and killed Fim. The policema to pick Fim up searched his pockets 'for some scrap of writing to tell who the Kittle fol- low was, and he found a copy of the Duper fe to and a note in a childish scrawl which said : "Floors give de five t'onsan' plunks to me mudtler she works so hard," and following this was his address. When the policeman had read the scrawl and realized its 'significance he cried and sobbed like a baby, Throngh the Jittle boy's act charitable people were interested and they saw that the mother and the ' little brothers and sirters were placed bevond want. The little boy was wrong, for a mother wopltk- rather have her little boy than all thé money in the workl, but he had the courage to do what he thought was right and his dct was an act of unselfish heroism. He had sand. -- i PLAYS BABY ACT | -- And He Does It With Decided Skill, EDWARD GARRATT, New York, Sept. 12.--ARhough sev. enteen years old Edward Garratt now plays the part of a fourteen months old baby in "The Little Stranger," so exceedingly well, that the audience at the Hackett theatre in New York are no little suprised. Garratf is a midget and «only thirty-seven inches tall. He is un exceedingly "clever ac- tor. A FRENCH DUEL. Rails at Duels Pistols. New York Post. % Apropos of the recent Andre-Ne- grier duel, the Paris Figaro sought the views of a man who had the reputa tion of an expert on the field of hon- or, He at once began to rail at duels with pistols. He could not bear even to speak of them. The fact was that he had once himself, at an encounter of that kind, received a ball in his shoulder, Then you disapprove of them sim. Hy because you were defeated ?"' *Why, 1 was not defeated." "What 1" "No; I was a second ! You may well believe that I promised myself never to mix again in the affairs of that sort. However, one day I had to ac. company a friend on the fiold. He had asked it of me as a personal favor; 1 could not refuse, But I insisted upon one condition." "What was that?" "That 1 should climb 'a tree during the firing." "A good scheme." "You think so? Well, I was wound. ed again; my friend fired in the air I" ----e, TWO BRAVE MEN. How the Expert With Duke and Laborite Met. Bristdl Times and Mirror. William Crooks tells this incident of his adventures at ao fashionable re ception, whither he had gone without putting on evening dress. He passed the policeman with difficulty, and be- came--on his entrance into the bril liantly-lighted halls, the eynosure of all ayes--in fact, it was i great ocon sion for the lorguette, Nobody spoke to him, and he wandered round the rooms, alone, looking at the wi tures braving it out. Presently should be' annéuwndxd but his rare the Duke of Norfolk, He saw what. was Iked straight cup of coffee dike and 1vbor mem. the best part of the even: ---------- Tories Claim Everything. Hamilton Times. . Has anvone heard of a liberal be ng appointed {o office by the Whitney . {government Kingston Whig. . 16 hasn't been necessary as yet. Nor will it be until the ranks of qualified conservatives, willing to accept office, have ee thinned to a cipher point, -- tories marvel that object to the jo a Little Lad Did For His} Disease. 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