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. -x.o-p .‘a‘, mafia Were They Married 7 A YOUNG COUPLE DULY DISSECTED AND TALKED OVER. They were coming away from the theatre. and they fell to discussing the young Couple who sat in front of them. " They are evidently married," said the girl in the Persian waist. “ I no- ticed that they did n't exchange a word while the curtain was down." I " Nonsense, they're merely engaged." said the girl in the black gown. “ I heard him tell her that he did not con- stder the leading lady even pretty." " Perhaps they are merely brother and sister." suggested the young man of' the party. ” No, they are not." said the girl in the Persian waist; “he'd have gone out between the acts if he was only her brother, while an engaged man would not want to leave her, andâ€"” " A newly-married man would not dare to,” broke in the girl in the black gown. “ She took off her hat as soon as she came in,” remarked the young man. “ That looks as if' she was married, and in the habit of consulting the feelings of' someone else." “Or that they were not really en- gaged yet. and she wanted to show him how considerate she could be,” said the girl in the black gown. " Or that she was merely conscious of having pretty hair.” Said the girl in the Persian waist. " Will you wager a box of'choeolates they are not married ? ” “ l--I'tl rather you ladies would set- tle it between you," said the young man hastily. “ You have so much more in- sight into such matters, you know." “ There they come now,” said the girl in the I’m-sine waist. “Let us notice what they do. and perhaps we can do. cide. If' they are merely friends, they will stop for cream, soda andâ€"” “ if‘ they are engaged, she will tell him how hungry she is, and they will stop for supper," said the young man, bitterly. “ While if' they are married,” went on the girl in the Persian waist, “ beâ€" thcre. what did I tell you ? ” The couple paused before a cigar shop and he went in, while she waited at the door. “ You were right,” said the girl in the black gown, “they are married.”â€" --Chicttgo Times-Herald. Knew All About It? “Before beginning my lecture,.' re- mazked the professor, “ I will, in order to more fully establish the influence of' character upon handwriting, ask some gentleman in the audience to come for- ward and give me a sample of his pen- mauship.” A pale young man with short hair arose and stepped to the platform, seiz- ol the pen, dashed down a sentence or two and then returned to his seat. “ Excellent.” remarked the professor, as be surveyed the young man's work: “ This writing shows the advantage of' acquiring a fixed style. I don't suppose the man who wrote this could vary in his pcumanship if he practised a month of Sundays. It. shows an adherence to established principle, an unswerviug di- rectness of' purpose, a fixed moral code, an aspiration for orderly methods. I should classify it as a combination of conscience and commerce, so to speak. It’s the style of writing Oliver Crom- well tnight have affected. And now. young man. may I ask your business?" “ “ain’t had no business lately," re- plied the young tuan hoarsely. “I’ve just finished a. term in the. pen for forg- ing checks."â€" Cleveland Leader. A Poem on the Barn. She glided into the oflice and quietly approached the editor's desk. “I have written a poem," she began. “ Well! " exclaimed the editor, with a look and tone intended to annihilate; but she calmly resumed: “ I have written a poem on ‘My Father's Barn.’ andâ€"" “ 0h," interrupted the editor. with extraordinary suavity, “ you dor't know how I’m relieved A poem written on l your father's burn, ch 7 I was afraid it was written on paper. and that you wanted me to publish it. If' I should ever happen to drive past your father’s l, lurn. I’ll stop and read the poem."â€" Public Opinion. o - ... .....__._ What Put It Out? "Accidents?" slid the old captain. : " No. we never have any to speak of on i this line. Why. one trip about a year ! am the ship caught fire dowu in thel hold. and we never discovered it till we got. into port and began to discharge." “ That's strange. What put the fire out '3 " . u Why, it burned down through to the soninml the water put it out. It o nZ-l n't burn the water, vnu know." m--....~_.-__. And the captain walktid away smil. In )ilc‘)‘ iniquity u ‘ ing, whiio the interlocutor was so us. ; fm- Inc h ; “meme. alum“. .u, ‘ i A RUNAWAY Or an upset may damage your buggy or waogon, perhaps only sligh will want a new one. thing to do is to C tly, perhaps so badly that you In either case the best go to S. S. Gainer’s, where repairing and repainting are done in the best style, and where be had at prices to suit the times. the best kind of vehicles can Shop on Francis Street East, next door to Knox’s black- smith shop. Why Bother Looking Anywhere Else? 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Sustain gunman “'5? cmgiiiii‘fitfifimufi lute-limo! mnn d be \r thout It. WEIR? 83.001 :2: S! “n1: map.“ Address, :‘I? N' k 00.. mm 361 Broadwq, Now You our. popes In the h... .. . .-.. a... .. {ffi If you haven't. got- what you owe LINDSAY 936% n. CHMBERS he is prepared to furnish the people of Lind- say and surrounding country with MUNUMENTS AND HEADSTONES, both Marble and Granite. cemetery work. Piercs, t- ' e., a specialty. house. purchasing v laewhere. RDBT. CHAMBERS. North of the Town Hall ___.___._ ...â€".â€" newness ‘ It you want first-class single or double light or heavy Harness or anything in that line call at l l MEVESON’S ' new harness shop, between J. McFarland’s greet ry and Wm Campbell’s dry goods store. morass arse vauseslmny name. i kept in stock as usual, and also a good insso- l“"bll 0!" j: n ' n' 3 - g-rj'. ‘lnl-v' r: a! l 'r price‘. $92)“ Try " bottle 1"llnr'is's "CaLllmh‘d harms: polish. thing and you will I)" sure to 32L - is. .n.....--.none-nonstono-c-o- .nnuo-o- .l’larble Works. Estimates promptly given on allkindspf Marblo Table Tops. Wth Tops, Mantel WORKSâ€"In rear o the matrke' on (1am- britigu street,op;»ostte Matthews" pnsking Being a practical workman all should no his designs and compare prices before i l Q It is a new ; Jobbing attended to DIRECTORY. SOCIETIES. _â€"__ I'NIGIITS 0P TENTED MACCABEES. Diamond Tent No. 208. Meets in the True Blue hall in McAr'hur‘s Block on the first and third Tuesday it: each month. II E. Acsrts, Com. C. W. Brnoovsx, R K. N APLE LEAF TRUE BLUE LODGE No. ' 42. Regular meetings held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday in each month. Hall in McArthnr’s Block. H. E. Argus, Master. R. qunstn, Deputy Master. Jens Mchnvaav, Rec-Secretary. ANADlAN ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS Trent Valley Lodge No. 71. Meet i the True Blue hall in MeArthur‘s Block on the first and third Mondays in each month. Wu. McKsowx, N G. R. M. Mason, V. 3.. Sec. O. L. No. 996. MEET IN THE ORANGE . hall on Francis St. West on the second Tuesday in every month. stxs stnas, W. M. J. T. Tnoursos, JR., Rec-Sec. INDEPENDENT ORDER of FORESTERS. Court Phoenix No. 182. Meet on the last Monday of each month, in the True Blue hall in McArthur‘s Block. T. Ausrts. Chief Ranger. Ilmtnsnr Sasnrono, R. S. CANADIAN HOME CIRCLES. FENE- LON Falls Circle No. 127, meets in the True Blue hall in MeArthur’s Block the first Wednesday in every tnonth. P-. C. Holiness, Lender. R. B. Srussrna, Secretary. F. AND A. M.,,G. R. C. THE SPRY . Lodge No.406. Meets on the first Wednesday ofcach month,on or before the full of the moon, in the lodge room in Cunningham’s Block. E. Ft'rzcanALn, W. M. Rev. W. Faunconn, Secretary CIâ€"IURCIâ€"IES. BAPTIST CHURCllâ€"QUEENâ€"ST.-â€"REV. James Fraser, Pastor. Setvice every Sunday morning at 10.30. Sunday School every Sunday at 2.30. p. m. “ETHODIST CHURCH â€" COLBORNE l Streetâ€"Reverend T. P. Steel, Pastor. Sunday service at 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sabbath School at 2.30 p.m. Epworth League of Christian Endeavor, Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. Prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 7.30. T. ANDREW’S CHURCHâ€"COLBORNE Streetâ€"Reverend M. McKinnon, Pus- tor. Services every Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and 7 p 111. Sunday School every Sunday at 2 30 p. in. Christian Endeavor meeting every Tuesday at 8 p. in. Prayer meeting every Thursday at 7.30 p. m. ALVATION ARMY â€" BARRACKS ON Bond St. Westâ€"Adjt. and Mrs. Miller. Service held every Thursday and Sat- urday evenings, and on Sundays at 7 a. 111., II a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. ST. ALOYSIUS R. C. CHURCHâ€"LOUISA Streetâ€"Rev. Father Nolan, Pastor. Services every alternate Sunday at 10.30 mm. Sunday School every Sunday at2 p. m. ST. JAMES’S CHURCHâ€"BOND STREET Enstâ€" Rev. Wm. Fnrncomb, Pastor. Servicu every Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. in. Sunday School every Sunday at 11.30 a. to. Bible class every Thursday evening at 7 o’clock. 3%“ Seats free in all churches. Everybody invitedta attend. Strangers cordially welcomed. MISCELLANEOUS. XV ECHANICS’ INSTITUTEâ€"P. KELLY, Librarian. Open daily, Sunday except- ed. from 10 o'clock a. m. till 10 p. in. Books exchanged on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 12 a..m. till 3 p. m.and in the evening from 7 to 9. Reading room in connection. OST OFFICEâ€"F. J. KERR, POSTMAS- TER. Oflice hours from 7.40 a. to. ma p. m. Mail going south closes at8 a.m Mail going north closes at 3 p. m. COUNTY COUNCIL. Waansnâ€"Jons Cnananas, Frauen. Bexley . . . . . . . . Geo. E.Lnidluw.Reeve Bohcaygeon.. .J. I. Read . . . . . . Reeve Cnrden........ A.Jacob. . . . . . Reeve Dalton. . . . .. Joe. Thompson. . . Reeve Ema" } Dr.J.W.Wood Reeve ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ‘ lC. McDonald Deputy W. C. Switzer Reeve T. McQunde..Depnty Jno.Chnmbers Reeve Wm. Hall Deputy Fenclon Falls. .Jas.Dick5on. .. Reeve Lnxton, Dighy and Longt‘ord John Bailey... Reeve Richard Kylie Reeve Lindsay . Geo. Crandell 151 Deputy W. M. Rhson . .2ntl Deputy Emily Fcnelon . . . W.Lownsbrough Reeve Mariposa l’.Slittver. .... lst Deputy Robert Adam 2nd Deputy Omemce . .. T. A ll cl’herson Reeve ‘ JUI'HSIUU E lis Reeve Ops ' ' ' ' ' ’ ' ' " {Sunni-l Fox. .Deputy John llowu:..Rteve A Morrison..Dt-puty vorulum {Jaes l.ithgow.ltet-rt-: ""' John Kelly .. Deputy Wooriville . ... Arch. Campbell Recvef Somerville . . . . WHIP. LOOKS .. ‘ .x J. T. THOMPSON, Jr., ("3.3.12 PI'ZN'J‘?‘1‘E?. Wall Brackets and Easy Chairs made to order. “'“l’l‘ml 'l‘“ M "M" “mug.” of 'sk' kind of Farm pt'otlut‘u Will be Agent for Pianos any organs. Workshop on Lindsay Street, Near the mg “by the ship did not sinl:.â€"â€"-Lou~ do» Smoker. l taken at market prices. l l-eaelou Falls, Kay 20th, teamâ€"1H,. G. '1'. It. Station. Fenclou Falls. Then began its final departure; but it â€"â€"_. N Japanese Memory. Wu} H The Japanese memory is one olvfho" l wonders of the World. For exampll': it is the custom to number the l-ouscs in the street in what might be called thuir clnrOoological order instrsd of their so- quencc; that is. in the order of tl:’-ir erection, so that No I! may adjoin No. 999 on cue side and No- 70 on the other. No. 1 may be three miles from No 2. and No 10 may be midway betw‘otu them. In the city l' Tokio there are 1,330 streets, and l-\‘ the last census, 318.320 houses, wl .ch are divided into 15 ku, or wards. When a Street passes through more than one word the houses are numbered ind prudently, so that.- thero may be five or six numbered 20 and eight or ten numbered 2â€"perbapu miles apart. Thor lure. when a strun- ger sets out to fitu No. 217 )lotomara tnachi. which is tht name of‘ the street, and Azabu. the name of‘ the ward, he might as well lool; tor a needle in a hnystack. Al‘ter Iunting for three or four hours and finding seven or eight houses in the street with the. same num- her six or eight miles apart, he will sit down in the nearest tea-house and weep. Then he will hire a jinrikisha man, write the address on a piece of' paper, and go whirling no and down streets and alleys, round the corners and thro' short cuts until he is landed ntthe proper place without the slightest dam- age. The jinrikisha men are coolies, without education or tncntul training. Most of' them can read and write the names of' street and men, and merchants and factories. They know the location and the number of‘ every~ one of the 3318.320 houses in Tokio, and the name of'almost every one of' the 15,000,000 inhabitants. They are very seldom puzzled to find an address, even though it may be given incorrectly. The same phenomenal memory appears in other classes of' the people. This is the result of' centuries of' training. But the rea- soning organs have had no such exercise, although Japanese science is rapidly advancing. __.~â€"_~.*. The Ice Age. For centuries the North was an ice- |ocked land. and conditions of life had changed. From the pole to the southern ice limit, not one mountain projected its head above the unbroken snow ; even Mount Washington was deep down under the surface. Manhatten Island lay buried an least fifteen hundred feet under the ice; a wild. wierd stillness rested over this favored spot. interrupted only by the crashing of‘ the ice as pieces broke from the end of the glacier beyond the Narrows, and. as icebergs, floated out to sea. Ages had now passed since man first appeared in his primeval home. Some progress the I‘thl‘ had made, but man was still a rude and untutorcd savage ; his crude weapons were only pieces of roughly chipped stone; but it Was man with progressive and endless mind. And as years passed the rude paleolithic ancestor gave place to men with a higher degree of primitive art ; flint-tipped arrows and axes of'stone now gave man the mastery over every animal; food was no longer a matter of chance, but a matter of skill. Still, at war with the elements, wild beasts and savage neigh- bors, it was a fearful struggle; the world at the best was then no Garden of' Eden. For twenty thousand years or more the ice, with its various ad. vances and retreats, covered the North. was probably as slow in going as it had been in coming. The land began grad- ually to sink, the winters became milder, and the summers longer.â€"â€"Lippt'nwtl's. "-..â€"7...-..” - . ._.._ Nevada Timber. One of" the most remarkable products of' Nevada is a species of wood known as mountain mnlmgnny, which. when dry, is as hard as boxwood, very fine grained, of a rich red color, and in weight very heavy. It has been used for boxes for eliciting, and in HOIIM' in- stances for Slides and dies in quartz mills. It burn< with a blaze as long lasting as wood, and it is then found almost unchanged in form, converted to a charcoal that lash about twice as long as ordinary Wood giving also an intense heat. L’reater Illfll. coal gives. Anather notable species- of wood. having extraor~ dinary durabiity, if said to be the qno. barcho wood, of Argentina. 'Posts that how been in the ground 150 years in soil alternately st tl-lt-n by tropical rain: or parched by I! “HM: heat. are found to be in round ct» Ilition. The wool in also duet-ibth a~ tree from .v-w'.» of insects, due-t not decay. is not compres- sible, and weighs nearly eighty pounds per cubic foot. ._ ...â€"4..” The smallest bird known to the orniâ€" tlultgpt is the West India humming bitd. It weighs hut twenty grains. The flying moose ix 3 recent discov- rrv in the Cameroon countrv of' Africa. Il’isa link lit-tween the but and true mome. has a tail like a mouse and l Inuy grey for. while ltn wing» an, ...,t, I LU null developed as those at the hat. a w», w -. â€" ..--.. ....