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nd the master of th. reception room to learn disturbance Francois once. On the next day ived this note. - ay I was a servant; to- an.- I no longer allow in the next. ten scourge. l Kosebery, whom hevdid secure a letter grunting 'eturn later. This was too fish statesmen, and thrust chois’s hand he com- ?in todeliverlit at once. wing away with the card :e name on it. Lord Rose. 1 so sharply that. Francois y. An exchange of mpg” 0...} ‘5‘ â€".4A- more talked about, in Central Africa, be. it was the greatest, rises west of the lake er Stanley descended e most western place 1' Arabs. It stands on rises forty_ feet above, accepted the challenge, exchanged without in- mcerned. Francois was {:oeebery was nettled at IiS antagonist might at the dignity of a retired Butler again, and "has iproach of having fought therefore gave Francois francs on the condition pm domestic service in I preserving his person- ‘m of honor. Francois the agreement as faith- kiss the continent. is descent of the un- er left it until be are a year ago the rm, organized th( e victims were men ister expedition and ate. marched east from jicted two crushinz p. killed the Ami lit, and captured his bder is a. Belgian, ho has served sever. itate. Having cap iat last accounts ad- Kascngo) the bes’ | eantorial Africa, > the son of Tinnn > the son of Tippu ‘J'Oined the rebel is two battles 0! i333, and when last *9833 as fans as be P big town to its aebery, and never work- ieast, that is what in nch newspapers which lie story in their obitu- Itler of honor. here that Lixingstone re of natives, a large rwho had come there >t down by the Arabs. the wide river before Here Cameron, who hysterions river to its ,owing to his inabilit ty d from the Arabs, em unsolved, and to ' -â€"J" “6" u of Paris. He was known simply as Franco», And 'y or more hohadlivedat '05 ca accruing to him from had fought. in his youth >f Eheflptesenp Earl of Rose- a!» will Restore Con- Ie Free State. n the Congo Free State months have chronicl- : oi the State forces in a Arabs. The latest Dhanis has occupied centre of the slave 3d the residence of the . who, a. year ago, re- ste’s authority. Id Duel With the Father on at an of Booebcry. ,,___ â€"~ . “vu- icei' in the french cavalry to lucrative duties of but. of a. c°nspicnous French day old Lord Rosebcry aster about the humans 0! nment. Francois deduct; deliver Lord Rosebery’i ., who was then engaged, DMAKA-_ ,7. - -A .4 “gets with which They must now I63 the eastern hot. 89 mRion in which knee 1868, eir enterprises, th :ontent to remaine from the natives Eht there. About I', they I) to mahing 3360?;- eta. ‘68 they reached Poet-3, they have avorahleinfluence. ing to show the of the country. rice and bananas reds of miles be. ad Stanley Falls. Ade have engaged 3 they have wan. my thcusands of r ivory and their '3' Conference of em haVing terri- 40 put an end to 18 cause has made “though at first, the interior into advanced. The R delivering the ‘Al has delivered the of State “foFBâ€"‘Jrzig; At. ".0303 Cabinet. I inconcilration nnce Bismarck 5 mun-ant to As a former ofiér is hand: my I dew E C0360. sroon ox 319mm“ 83 anon- , ~‘~ â€"'V unuuu. The fit‘t'le arms crept around grandma’s neck and her soft, white curls drooped down over J ohnny’s head and hid the young rascal’s face completely ; But: I could see that. the gold-rimmed glasses were dim and misty, and I hopeâ€"I don’t say that it was so, mmd you, I only hoperthat J ohnny was crying a. little bit, too. g H °__.._-..v..... o unuc one wnue. There was no approval in the mild blue eyes so he turned his back upon the old lady and made faces at a little girl who was passing. Presently he turned back again and plunged at once into animated conver- sation. " Gramma, was you ever up on a wind- mill?" “ No, John,” sternly. “ Well, I shouldn’t think you’d want to, you’re too old. It wouldn’t be safe, gram- l ma, for an old woman like you to climb up so high.” N o reaponse. “An’ gramma, you know that place down y the shee-poleâ€"” “ The what?” Grandma’s curiosity had betrayed her into speaking. “ Why the shee-pole. The place where they wash the sheep, you know, in the creek.” “ Oh yes, I understand.” “ W'ell gramma, don’t 3 in swimmin’ down around there. Why it’s so deep it’s over my head. An’ , there’s big fishes there that’ll eat you. They don’t pay no attention to beefsteak tied on a string, but they eat folks. I know a man that ,they bit, he showed me the place on his arm.- John moved his stool up a. little nearer help. and he tOOk one Of tho wrinblnd L-» .1, toads and soft summer sounds, and the gentle breeze swayed the hop vines ‘with a. lazy, waving motion. John did not: like “Now, grandma, you will have to watch him,” his mother said. And grandma.â€" dear, sweet grandmaâ€"with her soft, White curls and beautiful old face, shook her head gravely a. d reproachfully at the small John, whose fags was just as non- committal as a wooden mask. For once Johnny guessed wrong. His mother did whip, and soundly, too. After- ward she got a long rope and, fastening one end about his waist, she tied the other to a. post of the front piazza and then she brought him a. little stool and placed it at his grand- motht r’s feet. “Now, grandma, you will have to watch him,” his mother said. And grandma.â€" (Josu- umnnt -._-_ 37A John got down, but he gravely told his mother on the way home that she did a risky thing to call so sharply to him when he was up so high. “Why,” said he, “what if I had of thought that you’d whip me when we got ho...e and had of been so scared that I’d of fell 08'. Then you wouldn‘t have any little boy any more. I felt sure you wouldn’t whip me, mamma, else I wouldn’t have come down at ail. I can tell when you are going to punish me, an’ you ain’t going to this time, I know.” John’s voice had a. somewhat forced cheer- fulness and his eager eyes scanned his mother’s frightened, white face as though he were not so sure of his fate as he pi-e- tended to be. when his mother discovered him he was three blocks from home and up on the very top of a great windmill which had been put, up beside the warehouse. John had not. himself, discovered that; he was thereâ€"if we may take his word for it--until his mother called in a loud, frightened voice - “John, come here. Get dowu from there‘ at once.” ‘ _' v av: “C16 1101‘ there. Now, Johnny has a bad habit of forget- ting at times where he is going. He calls it this, but we call it running away. It actually grieves me to think how often it happens that he doesn’t mean to :0 any- sorrow is because it reminds me of my own childhood ; another is the chance that John might perhaps attempt to spell this article out and miss the moral.) ,_ "â€"‘uv the Stork brourgbvt the bafbyI promism that if he was he vyoul take him fishinn , _- luv, u you told him so. idea is that the whole end and ain people is to fool 111m. He has ded from the photographer’s telling watch for a mouse to come 01 camera, and the nurse’s telling 1 the Stork brnnaht +1“. 1H1.” . . . on.-- we Puuwgrapner's telling him to watch for a mouse to come out of the camera, and the nurse’s telling him that the stork brought the baby,a.ud his father’s promism that if he was a. good little boy he woul take him fishing some dayâ€"but all that is neither here nor there. Now, Johnny has a bad habit of forget- ling at times where he 18 going. He calls It thin k“. â€". __i‘ -. "w w any, nowever, than Johnny never had heard it-â€"for John is just 7, and lus store of knowledge doesn’t run in the hue of axioms and proverbs. In fact I don’t think that you could even make him believe that people call mamms’ “saws.” he would say: “Oh, you’re trylfl to fool me,” if you told him so. John s idea is that. the whole end and aim of older peeple is to fool lum. He has deduced this frOm tho “L-L_ h, ‘ . l- ZORENCE JOSEPHINE BOYCE. _ . sequ. \thn the good-mg 1:: kiss is ngen" . “1 wt you happy dreams. (I on the pillow Soon i's stifled by sleop’s cares“, Then forgotten the broken dishes And the tear in dolly's dress: Then vanished the cares of childhood - -~To that land of bright snnbeams. When megood-night kissis given ” With its "wit you happy dreams. Love and Beauty. -2 -- -...-5wu-mgnn Kiss is given ' \V 11:11 lt‘ ' t‘ . y hide the sunshine And darken the world for me; -. But the light of the past: shall bnghten n memory’s lovelit gleams, W'ith the kiss of the baby sirter And her “wit you happy dreams." woman who is a Re you awful sick. You it, will you? For I don’t ear gramme. to be sick, er fall ofi’n a. windmill Mn -_-..h.. ; so sure of hls fate as he pre- 'Johnny guessed wrong._ _His 17%;“ 4.-.: ..~ ”I ., and soundly? too.gAf1;Iâ€"‘: e. Get down from there ,but he gravely told his my home that she did a. on; not 1 don’t una. to be sick, er a windmill. No care a. bit, but: 1 h. n Lrouud grandma’s urls drooped down [the young rascal’s "null-l n..- ‘.L flaPPY Dreams- I" Wife. her “8f. furtively ace the While. be mild blue upon the old __-..-_ -un. "LILUU is made for' this and similar purposes. When the filling is nearly cold, beat in these ground meats together with one teaspoonful of vanilla. extract. When the ‘cake is cold, use this mixture for filling between the layers. Garnish the top with a. soft icing flavored with lemon, and edge it with the beading of the half nuts. Put another row or two of nuts within the outer, if you like, but it will be sufficiently rich without that. No more toothsome cake than this was ever made, if you follow the recipe. - this concoction may be made by any favorite rule for jelly or layer cake. Each house- holder has her own method. For the filling Good Housekeeping says : Cook in a. double boiler one pint of milk and one cupful of sugar. Make one tablespoonful of corn- starch smooth with two tablespoonfuls of milk, pour over the sweetened hot milk, ; stir constantly, pour back and let it boil until cooked thick. Now draw back from the fire, let it cease to boil and beat in the yolks of three large eggs or four small ones. Let it cook without boiling until it thickens but does not curdle. While it is cooling prepares. rounded cupful of hickory nut meats(butternuts would do, but a. less quan- tity should be used, as they are rich), saving out the unbroken halves to use on the top of the cake. These nuts should not be pounded but ground in e. small mill which :_ ___jn FRUIT Pilesâ€"One of the best ways to make pies from small juicy fruits is to cook the fruit lseparately, thicken it with a little flour or cornstarch and pour into the shell after it is baked. The best- meringue for such pies is one of whipped cream. As pie crusts when baked without a filling ar apt to puff and rise unevenly, lay over the shell before baking an oiled paper, such as I confectioners use. Then put in a. filling of small squares of stale bread that you wish browned for garnishing soup, or other uses. An apple pie made without any under crust and with the apples cut in halves. dusted with salt to develop their flavor and sprinkled with sugar, is delicious. In serv- ing such a pie use a. large spoon. Any apple pie will be found more delicate if made without spices of any kind. \\ hen apples begin to lose their flavor, sprinkle them with the juice and grated yellow peel of an orange or lemon. SCRAMBLED EGGS. â€"Do not beat them be- ‘ fore cooking, have a. hot skillet, and take ‘ them off while they are yet very soft ; they cook a. half-minute after they are taken 06", ‘for which many cooks do not allow. A dash of lemon juice just as they are going to the table in a hot dish is an addition. CARAMEL FILLING FOP. CAK as. â€"Three cups of brown sugar, three-fourths cup cream, three-fourths cup of butter, boil together‘ until it burdens in water. Beat all the time. Very delicious. LEMON PIE.â€"The grated rind and juice of two lemons, to which add four eggs (re- serving the whites of two) beaten with two cups of sugar and one tab‘espoonful of but- ter. Then take two tablespoonfuls of flour, mixed with a. little water, add to it one cup of water, and stir into the other ingredients. The whites of two eggs beaten with twelve teaspoonfuls of sugar frosts the tops. This makes two pies. tiful home, worth having, worth working for. If a man is breezy, cheery, considerate and sympathetic, his wife sings in her heart ‘ over her puddings and her mending bas- ket, counts the hours till he returns at night, and renews her youth in the security she feels of his approbation and admiration. You may think it weak or childish, if you please, but it is the admirer! wife who hears words of praise and receives smiles of com- ‘ mendation, who is capable, discreet and executive. -v.- -v Jun-no “5U was incessantly in their seniors’ mouthgand was the origin in thousands of cases of posi- tive physical harm. A well-bred girl now- adays does not sit; as if she were listening to a. rebuke, and stifl'ening herself to disregard it ; but she does not “ lollop,” any more than she ties her waist beltaimt five inches too high. _ “v-.. uuulco ULAUAUII and “ ladies’ 93M ” are imitative trieks,with nothing to recommend them but the open air; but lawn-tennis is sharp,healthy work, a great deal better than the hay-making of the last century, which overtaxed the spine, and so are riding, as now practised, and the walk of eight or ten miles, even if it ends in a. rather fatiguing trudge. Exercise of that kind, while it makes the boys lissom, sets the girls up, achange which is no doubt one cause of their apparent increase in heiiht. Theystand on their feetand stand up as their grandmothers, with all their drilling on; ‘ backhoards and injunctions to sit straight up against chairbacks, which were tortures, never did. The girls stand like soldiers, without their stifl'uess, and because they can do it, and know they can, they fall instinc- tively into a style of dress which displays their ability, which recognizes, for example. the place of the waist in the human figure. Girls do not “lollop” now, have indeed almost forgotten a word which 40 years ago was innnaunn‘l" :- n. -:,, , - . - , ""II ‘ Food has been helped by training. It has become a. custom to let girls live in the Open air, to suffer them to play games which thirty years since would have been pro- nounced “hoydenish ”â€"then a. most oppro- bnous adjectiveâ€"and even to train them through gymnastics with scientific attention a: d regularity. They may take as much exercise as they like, and owing to the partly accidental introduction of vigorous games in which both sexes can share, they like to take a. good deal. “ Ladies’ cricket ” : and “ ladies’ golf ” are imitative tricks,with J nothinn 4-- _-_ A pities her husband among other men, as Sir Gawain’s wife may have done, that his wife is uncomely ; She longs to fill his eyes with pleasure; She would be burned alive if she 1might rise from her ashes fair enough to take the reproach of her uncomeliness away from him-fair enough to see his gaze fol- low her with rapture. She does not realize that it is herself that he loves, and not an evanescent bloom or sparkle; that if she has not beauty he does not miss it; that his eyes now follow her with rapture of an- other and better sort; that fair or foul he - "wvv vucul, 30 change her to one fairer: The Girls of To-aay. 'or the Cooks. ..vvvuya three-fourthé ellâ€"p cream, of butter, boil together in water. Beat all the Mark This- d. The bést- meriixgig; f whipped cream. As ed without a filling are unevenly, lay over the yet very soft ; they they are taken 06", u nut! and juice id four eggs (re- beaten with two espoonful of but. ‘. A dash them be. the 1” I came to my home in Iberville county, five ‘ : re and a half miles from St. John’s. I was then he doctored by a medical man from lberville. ‘ as His treatment seemed to relieve me very r 0f little and I determined to visit Montreal and see another phyiscian. This I did in March, (three years ago) and put myself in an eminent physician’s care who treated me ’d from March until July, and certainly did “1 all he could for me. I did not stay in e V' Montreal all the time but went backwards le and forwards to see him. In July I got f, ‘9 tired of this and was beginning to feel down- (1 ’3 hearted. I then called in a medical man n from Henryville, a village a‘few miles from n where I live, and be prescribed for me over and over again, but by this time I was al- ' >f most powerless to help myself and no one . e knows what frightful agony I suffered. For P; - seven long months I sat in a chair with my n2 1; feet on a lounge. I was unable to lie doWu of a day or night and often thought that death m f would be happy relief. Last spring my th - wife read an account of a Saratoga miracle an ' in The News and determined to get a box co , of Pink Pills for me. 'I remonstrated with eh I her, telling her that it was useless spending :h l: ' v 11 SE an ‘. more money, but she persisted and wrote As r to Wight 00., druggists, of St. Jahn’s Pa and had a box sent by mail. I took them mi to please her, never thinking theyipo. would do me any good, but much to'uh; my surprise, after taking the box I feIt l for slightly better. We then bought another lin box and by the time that was goneI felt A1 that they were certainly helping me. .I wi¢ could now lie down, something I had been can unable to do for seven long months previous- mo 1y. So I kept on taking the Pink Pills and to 1 am now on my tenth box, and to-day I am . pm: 1 practically a new man. Last winter I had , fife an attack of la grippe. I took Pink Pills and they cured me. We figured up to see the amount of money I had expended in trying to be cured before resorting to Dr. C Williams’ Pink Pills and the figures reached to 1 $825. I willingly tell you my story and my E wife corroborates every word I say; in “ the hope that any one who is as unfortun- W01 ate as I have been may attain relief by em- “ nloying the same remedy. Put it in The bric V .â€" vill- Jvuxo “EU, 51“ Mr. Du uque, “ while our steamer had an excursion party on board for an evening run, I was rather tired after a long day’s work, and went up on the upper deck to" ‘enjoy a. Smoke before retiring. At that time I felt myself to be in perfect health, but when I went to my room I was taken with chills and was unable to keep myself warm. Although that night I had but little sleep I felt comparatively well the next day. About a fortnight after I was taken with frightful pains in my back near my spine, and in my side. I went to the hospital in Burlington. Vt., and was treated there for three weeks an then feeling but little better T nan-A 4-- »-- ‘ M r. Mr. Camille Dubuque is a. man of fifty- three years of age and has been a. mechani- cal engineer for twenty-five years, working on the steamer Reindeer which runs on Lake Champlain, and occasionally on the River Richelieu. “Four years ago,” said lVlr h“ ..n...\ n _-_'._,-1 . A The gentleman who was a. short time ago so greatly afflicted is now almost as well as he ever was and cheerfully related his story to the representative of The News, in the hope that those who read it might be bene- fited thereby. :e An Engineer‘s Painful Existence and Won- }. derrul Rejuvcniillonâ€"llospltals and it Doctors Failed to Cure llmnâ€"uealm n Restored by a Remedy Almost Forced 1: Upon Himâ€".1 Story Worthy ora Cure- ‘: ful l'erusal. . " The News, St. John's. Quc. It is now some fourteen months since The 3 News commenced publishing reports of the ‘ wonderful results produced by Dr. Williams’ , Pink Pills, and every one must admit that 1 many of the cures efl'ected seemed little 3 ) short of the miraculous. The names of the ‘ [ remedies which claim to cure all the ills flesh is heir to are to-day legion, and what-_ ever the merits and demerits of these prep- . arations may be there is no question as to. ‘ the great reputation achieved by Dr. Will-l iams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Some people no doubt laugh at these stories and believe them to be advertising dodges tol catch the unwary and rope in some of thei “ D Shekels. We have now-printed and publish- ed The News for nearly halfa century ; it enjoys the reputation of being a. high-toned ' weekly with a. large circulation, and we } naturally do business with the advertising 1 men of the day, and from the reputation of j the Dr. ‘Williams’ Medicine Company, we is have never had any season to doubt the. perfect accuracy of the cures related ; but i it is only now that we are placed in a posi- ,5 tion to testify personally as to the wonder- ' ful curative powers of Pink Pills. The story ‘ we are about to relate though no less re- markable than others regarding the same ! u medicine naturally impresses itself more i f‘ upon our mind and upon the minds of others i in the commuity because the party chiefly l a. concerned is known to us, and we are (311- v abled to bear personal testimony as to the . correctness of his declarations. it a mans-t Eight Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars Spent in Vain Efforts to Regain Health. strong coflbe, two and a} one teaspoonful of soda, spoonful of cinnamon, 0) of cloves, one-half thaSpo cupful of raisins, and 83.9 Cover with soft icing. LEMON Warnâ€"Cover a quarter of a box of gelatine'jwith four tablespoonfuls of cold water and stand aside for a half hour, then add a half pint of boiling water, a. half cup of sug-ir, the juice of one small lemon a tea- spoonful of vanilla, stir until the sugar is 1 dissolved and stand away in a cool place to stifl‘en. When congealed but not really hard add the unbeaten whites of two eggs and beat the whole to a. stiff white froth. Turn into a pudding mold and stand aside for several hours to harden. Serve with vanilla sauce made from the yolks of the‘ eggs and a pint of milk. COFFEE CAKE. â€"One cup of brown sugar, one-half cupful ot molasses, one-half cup- : ful of butter, one-half _ouptuli of very] QrI'nnn nAaAâ€" 4U, ans’ N ESTS. -â€"Toa.st small slices of bread. butter, and place them on a platter. Break as many eggs as there are slices of toast, keeping the whites and yolks separate. e Beat the whites stifl’. seasoning with a. little salt. Place a spoonful of the stiffened whites on each slice of toast and lay a yolk in the centre of each. Set the dish in a hot oven until the yolks are sufficiently cooked then serve hot. , A ST, JOHN’S MIBAULE. [a Stand away in a cool place to I Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are a perfect hen congealed but not really blood builder and nerve restorer, curing eunbeaten whites of two eggs such diseases as rheumatism, neuralgia, awhole to a. stiff white froth. partial paralysis, 10001110“)? ataxia, St- pudding mold and stand aside Vitus’ Dance, nervous prostration and the hours to harden. Serve with tired feeling therefrom, the after effects of a made from the yolks of the la grippe, diseases depending on humors 111 hint of milk. the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. Pink Pills give a healthy ‘KE' â€"Oue cup 0f browusugar, . glow to pale and sallow complexions and are ‘ ful 0t molasses, one-halt cup- ‘ a specific for the troubles peculiar to the ’9‘" one-half cuptul 0f very female system, and in the case of men they . two andahalf “1““!st flour, effect a radical cure in all cases arising f.“ 0f soda, one heaping tea- from mental worry, overwork, or excesses :uinamon, one-half teaspoonful of any nature. PT half teaspoonful 0f mace, one These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. uns,and 03‘? cupiul 0f currents. \Villiams’ Medicine Comyany, of Brock- Df“01118- ville,0nt., and Schenectady, N.Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm’s trade mark (printed in red ink) and wrap- . JUHNQS MIRACLE. girgoat Bzgrceiits a. box, or six boxes for mind the Dr. Williams’ 1):..1- 13:11- ___, .- . _ ,, ears, working I lich runs on mally on the I rs ago,” said! amer had an] r an evening. a long day’sl “’szse there is so bricklayers can’t work.’ Old Gentleman: “What would y01 to be when Boy: “I you grow up ‘2” ' ’d like to be a. bricklayer.” “That’s a commendable ambition. “ ,nu man like to be a. bricklayer?” ’ 4.]_-..- A, V V--- __ VIIVIJI OTY I It is'assertedrhy some that the nails of the the right hand grow faster than those of ne- the left. , It is interesting to watch the history of a ti" case of disease as recorded upon the finger :m‘ ; nails. When we look at the patient’s nails mg l we see on each of them a. distinct ridge, g“ I showing that the portion of the nail which ; e _ i has grown since the acute attack is much “d ! thinned out. an] If 8. Derson has brniran Li: a...“ --.:u_:,, Where the Telegraph is Least Used- The four countries in the world which pos, . sees the smallest telegraph facilities are Peru Paraguay, Uraguay and Persia. In the first named there are only thirty-six telegraph offices in the whole country and but 1,600 miles of wire. In the territory of Paraguay there are only 510 miles of wire in operation, and the entire telegraphic service of that country requires the services or but twenty- eight persons. One line 0 1:5) miles, owned and operated by the Gore; mnent, runs from Asuncion to P33!) de Patria, the limit of Paraguayan territory, and the other 150 ' miles by the railroad from Asuncion to Pira- ‘ po. Owing to high water and campfires in that country the line is often interrupted for days at a. time. At Paso de Patria the line breaks, there being no cable over the Alto Parana River, which is three miles wide. Communication is therefore by canoe, which takes messages over in the morning to the Argentine side and returns to the Paraguayan side at night. An im- portant telegram is often delayed ten 'or fifteen hours. Ulhul 1"". I In typhoid fever, where the disease comes , on gradually, there is no such sharp cutting of the nail. There are several well-known sayings with regard to the paring of the finger nails, and among them are the following : “ ()ut them on Monday, cut them for health ; cut them on Tuesday, cut them for wealth ; cut them on \Vednesdav, cut for a. letter ; cut them on Thursday for something better ; cut them on Friday, cut for a wife ; cut them on Saturday,. cut for a long life ; cut them on Sunday, you cut them for evil, for all of that week you’ll be ruled by the devil.” I If a. person has broken his arm withiz i eighteen months the ridges on the nails 0 the hand of the affected arm may be seen while they will be absent on the other hand: ”‘1... _.A,,, . .. .._ The finger nail is a very enduring evi- dence of disease. If there has been an acute rheumatism in the system, with a temperature of 104 or 105 degrees, the nail -i-..- v“ nu: uuucr uauu. The mo're acute the illness the sharper will be the ridge. Extreme anxiety and mental depression have the same effect on the nails as physical disease. to Cut Them. l I The philosophy of the finger nails is a most interesting study, simple though it I may appear. I It has been computed that the average growth of the finger nail is one thirty-second of an inch per week, are. little more than an inch and a half per year. The growth, however, depends to a great extent upon the ra‘e of nutrition, and during periods of g sickness it is undoubtedly retarded. I It is understood to grow faster in Sum- ‘ 'mer than in “7 inter, and difl'ers for differ- ? cut fingers, being most rapid in the middle i finger and slowest in the thumb and littlel ? finger. According to the rate of growth agreed 1upon by eminent authorities, the average ‘ time taken for each finger nail to grow its full length is about four anda half months, I and at this rate a man of 70 years of age would have renewed his nails 186 times. Taking the length of each nail at half an inch, he Would have grown seven feet nine inches of nail on each finger, and on all his fingers and thumbs an aggregate length of seventy-seven feet six inches. l Thelr Growth, Their ._ â€"‘~UVIV“W° Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company from either address. The price at which these pills are sold makes a. course of treatment com- paratively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. ,,_ __ --....u vuv u... I’V uuams Pink Pills are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. The ‘ public are also csutioned against all other so-called blood builders and nerve tonies no matter what name may be given them. The) are all imitations whose makers hope to reap 9. pecuniary advantage from the won- derful reputation achieved by Dr. \Villiams’ Pink Pills. Ask your dealer for Dr. Will- iams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and refuse ‘ all imitations and substitutes. l â€".v a... ‘A J cal. ago his neighbors thought; him a. doomed :nanâ€"to-day they consider his cureas little short of miraculous. ’ Messrs. Wight 00., old and reliable druggists of this town, assure us that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have an enormous sale, which is additional proof that they really are what the manufacturers claims for them. - ABOUT l‘lNGBR NAILS. Reason. 'hat would you like _llcaltl| and the Time Why London contains one-eighth of Great Britain’s population, has a. larger daily delivery of letters than all Scotland, a. birth every four minutes 3.le a death over; nix. 5"!!! l [C - ch t1 In condection with the heavy exporta- on of gold to Europe the very important matter of international gold and silver certificates has been revived. E. Benj 'mf Andrews, in the Atlantic Monthly for 0 April, asks how insane it is that whenever 3’ exchange between Europe and America for ' instance reaches a certain figure gold in quantities more or less immense, must be ' carted to the wharf, placed in vessels, and at great expense for freight and insurance, carried across the ocean, only to be return- ed after a few months in the same expen- m sive way! Not seldom the cost of recoin- .5; ing is added to that of transportation. A ‘1 million pounds sterling in gold weighs 8.93 tons, and in silver at present market value over 196 tons. This enormous and needless g (especially among nations so highly civiliz- ed as Europe and North America) expense might be saved by an arrangement on the part of national treasuries or banks par- allel with that between the principal banks 'of New York in which, in time of crisis, they utter clearing-house certificates. r P! D. g! No one can estimate the good which ll er id m i. would follow the most ‘desirable general wish that the nations of Europe and Amerâ€" ica would provide themselves with a few gold coins for use in common. This is in a~ business sense more important even than a common language and much more easy of accomplishment. Immeasurable benefits would follow from the extra ease with , which accounts, prices and statistics per- taining to any one of these countries would ; then be understood by the people of the other countries who had occasion to ex- amine them. The recurrent perplexity which proceeds from the absence of such a common denominator is an acknowledged barrier in international trade, making what ought to be as plain and exact as the first problem in Euclid a sort of occult science, wherein those specially skilled profit at the cost of the ignorant. Money is the root and heart and fruit of all business, and yet, paradoxical though it seems, it is about the only factor in our daily lives upon which the simplification process character- istic of the 19th century' has not operated. No two gold coins in difi‘erent countries in Europe are equal in value, nor is there any equal to our dollar, yet the difference be- tween many at them is less than 3 per cent. Not only would business men be pleased to see this relic of barbarism cast aside. but all travellers would hail achange with ladness. A measure in this direction woul strengthen immensely the gold hold- ings of national banks, and has everything to recommend it with not one tangible ob- jection to ofi'er it. U ,V-__ -... vuvaycl nu: insurance: 7' The premium income of life insurance com- panies doing business in Canada. only in- creased from $2,882,000 in 1875 to $3,044,- 000 in 1882. In the subsequent ten years there was an increase in this income from I three acd a half million to upwards of nine million dollars. The enormous advance in the latter period, as compared with the former one shows that our people are be- coming rapidly educated as to the advan- ‘ tages ofi'ered by this system of making pro- vision for the future. Another fact is worthy of attention both from the public and the managers of companies. The prem- ium income last year was, above stated, over nine million dollars. The sum paid in claims was only a little above four millions. When the receipts from premiums aloneâ€" excluding the revenue from investments made of surpluses collected in years pre- viousâ€"is considerably over double the outgo in payment of claims it certainly does seem as if a material reduction might be made in the charge for carrying risks. According to the Rand-Manlly Bankers’ Monthly, there are eight thousand banks in the United States, and nearly half of these are Nationnl banks, the remainder are State or private banks. National banks put up $100,000 in United States bonds in Wash- ington to secure $90,000 in currency. Con- sequently the currency of theNational banks is crrrent at its face all over the United States, which is a. distinct advantage ozer the old State bank notes. The Toronto Evening News gives the fol- lowing reason: for cheaper life insurance: "Plan ....--._:,,, - - L, recently completed in Rhode Island for the Mexican Central Railroad. The weight on the drivers is 201,000 pounds, and 20,000 pounds on each truck. This great load, however, is greatly distributed over the ridged wheel base. ports, carried by 155 steelâ€"n: E1311 sailing vea- sels. This is said to be the largest gram fleet that ever left Chicago at the opening of navigation. , v._â€"‘v‘ tv ~0,UW,VW¢ I According to the Scientific American, corn husks boiled in caustic soda are being ‘ utilized for the manufacture of paper. The cooking process results in the formation of a spongy glutinous paste, which is subjected to heavy pressure so as to eliminate the gluten, the fibre remaining beingfmade into paper in the ordinary way. In one day last month 11,000,000 bushels of grain left Chicago for the lower lake ports, carried by 150 steam and sailing vea- sels. This in said ‘tn k- u... L__,_,. . Following closely the failure of the Stand- ard Bank of Australia on the 28th, With a capital of £1,000,000 and a reserve fund and undivided profits of £12,500, as well 83 a high reputation and numerous brancheS. comes the announcement that the National Bank of Australia, with 150 brancheS. £2,000,000 authorized capital and liabilities in the colonies alone of £7,500,000, 118-8 : failed. The Standard is practically a build- ing society ; and its failure is regarded as unimportant compared With others. Alia- tralian securities were not seriously dis- turbed. The assets of the National are expected, as it was only on Thursday last that the bank declared its annual dividend of 10-per cent. Like the others, an extra, run on deposits is given as the cause. De- posxts amounted to £9,000,000. Not since the failure of Baring Brothers Company for $75,000,000 has so large a. banking failure been announced net/hat. of the English, Scottish and Australian chartered bank of London with liabilities of $40,000,000. Charleston, 8.0., is considered the first phosphate market in the world. 1111819 512,949 tons of phosphate rock valued at $4,210,000, were taken from South Carohna. mines. The export of gold from Cape Colony during March amounted to £430,000» TRADE AND COMMERCE. the extra ease with s and statistics per- ;hese countries would y the people of the had occasion to ex- recurrent perplexity _. -LA ,