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OFFICE, - TORONLO, ONT 'Oapital (Paid Up) + - - $8,000,000 Rest 2,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1867. BUSINESS. WITH FARMERS In addition to handling Commercial Paper, this Bank makes a special business of Loans to Farmers, and the discount ig of Farmers' Sales Notes at reasonable rites of interest. ¥ Careful and prompt attention is also given to the collecting of Notes, ete. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT, Special Attention Is Directed to the Following Advantages affered by our Savings Bauk: Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received aud interest allowed at current rates Interest is added to the deposit TWICE ju each year, at the end of May and November, The Depositor is subject to no delay whatever in the withdrawal of the whole or any portion of the deposit. No Charge is made ou withdrawing or depositing money. Port Perry Branch G. M. GIBBS, Manager. R. D. ARCHER, M.D.C.M. Victoria University 3 M. B. Toronto University, Memb ov ot the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Out.; Licen jate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Kdinburg ; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin arg 3 Meiber of the Faculty of Physicians 2 . Glasgow ola hn Dublin Yeon 'Street. Offlon hours--9 to 11 a. and 2 to 5 p.m, and evenings. I have taken as partner, my bother, Dr R. Archer, M. D., C. M., Member of Col ege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont, Port Perry, June 9, 1807. Late Resident Resi dl n ad A H. ¢. HUTCHESON, MANAGER. Port Perry, June 26, 1897, £10000 S T ERLING { (British Capital) To lend at 4, 45 and B per cent on good Mortgage security. Apply to DAVID J. ADAMS Banker and Broker, Port Perry, Ont. MONEY TO LOAN. TPVHE Subscriber is prepared to LEND ANY AMGUNT on Farm Seenrity AT 5 PER CENT. &¥ Also on Village Property. 4 MORTGAGES BOUGHT. TB HUBERT L. EBBELS, Banister; Office next $0 Ontaric Bank, J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, {Rooms over Allison's Drug Store] PORT PERRY, All branches of Dentistry, 4 including Crown and Bridge Work successfully practiced. Artifical Teeth on Gold, Silver, Aluminum or Rubber Plates. Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement. Painless extraction when required: £4 Prices to suit the times® DR. E. L. PROCTER (SUCCESSOR TO DR, CLEMENS ) M.D CM. of Trinity College University, Toronto, with Houor Certificate. Fellow of Trinity Medical College, Toronto. Mem. of Col. of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont., Licentiate of University of State of New York. Office and residence on Dr. Clemens' old site. Opposite Town all. PORT PERRY. NOTITCH. R. J. H. SANGSTER, Physician, Sur geon and Accoucheur, and Dr, W. A Sangster, Dentist, may on sud after 10-day, be found iu their new Surgical and Dental Offices over the Post Office, where they will be found as heretofore, prepared to attend to their respective professions in all their branches, Port Perry Dec, §, 1807. DR. 8. J. MELLOW; Puvsician, SURGEON, &o. "Office and Residence, Queen St., Port Peiry Office hours--8 to 10 a.m.; 1to3 p.m, and Evenings. Telephone in office and house, and day over the lines south, with the residence of G, L. Robson, V.8. + Port Perry, Nov. 15, 1894, ° WH. HARRIS, BA. LLB. BARRISTER, &c., or to o open night connected thi fete FH Yermod. C.y fi Temple Building, Cor. Bay P eets, Toronto. : ; rely on the ch 81, 1898, ! Be hn 2 W. A. SANGSTER, DENTAL SURGEON. )ffice over the Post Office. Office Hours--9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 6 p,m. Also open Saturday evenings. #¥ Gold Fillings, Bridge and Crown Work a Specialty. Vitalised Air. T "17 "<1 was vory poorly and could 4 hardly get about the ote was tired out all the time. Then I tried Ayer's Sarsaparilla, snd it only took to bottles to make me Jest P well,' Mrs. N. 8. Swin- border line of nerve ex- haustion. Take Ayers Sarsaparilla and be quickly cured. iar Avk your doctor what ho thinks of Ayers Sursaparilia, He knows all about this grand ofl family medicine. Follow his advice and we will bs satisfied. J. 0. Aver Co, Lowell, Mass. Castles In the Alr. | 'Yet I dream my dreams and attend to my castles in Spain. I have so much property there that I could not in con- science neglect it. All the years of my youth and the hopes of my manhood are stored away, like precious stones, in the vaults, and I know that I shall find everything convenient, elegant and beautiful when I come into pos- session, As the years go by I am not conscious: that my interest diminishes. If I see that age is subtly sifting his snow into the dark hair of my Prue, I smile, contented, for her hair, dark and heavy as when I first saw it, 1s all carefully treasured in my castles in Spain. If I feel her arm more heavily leaning upon mine, as we walk around the squares, I press it closely to my side, for 1 know that the easy grace of her youth's motion will be restored by the elixir of that Spanish air; If her voice sometimes falls less clearly from her lips, it is no less sweet to me, for the music of her voice's prime fills, freshly as ever, those Spanish balls. If the light I love fades a little from her eyes, I know that the glances she gave me in her youth are the eternal sun ghine of mykecastles in Spain.--George W. Curtis in "Prue and L" 18 BASIER TO MISTA * 04000000040 pared to jola in the man hunt = Th was need of many deputy sheriffs in, San Miguel sounty id those days, 1 | It was 9 o'clock when the alarm was sounded. It wus midnight before truth and fiction had been sifted and the women of Clmarron knew the worst | Every ablebodied, dependable man in the mountain town had been sworn in either as a member of the sheriff's posse or of the patrol which guarded | ey the town. On a cot in his office lay Heynman, the county jailer. He was encircled by stern faced men. A notary public was 'taking his last statement, setting forth that Randall Wolfe, Jose Roday, Manual Sanchez and Filipe Montez had choked and gagged hint while making thelr escape from the San Migpel county jail. Later, at the cor oner's inquest, the attendant physician testified that bad Heynman been in ordinary health the fracas with the desperadoes would not have proved fatal, but the poor fellow was & "lunger" who had come to Colorado for his health. The gag had caused a hemorrhage. The fugitives had been sentenced for six months or less on petty charges, and public opinion laid the exploit at the door of Wolfe, handsome, daredevil Randall Wolfe, who bad dropped into Cimarron from no one knew where, with plenty of money and a fondness for shooting at lamps In store win- dows. Soon after his arrival 'he had married one of the most beautiful Mexican girls In the' vicinity, and they' | had settled down to a somewhab, bo Dropsy Is one Positive Sign of Kidney Disease,--Have you any of these unmistakable signs? Puffiness underthe eyes? Swollen limbs? Smothering feeling ? Change of the character of the urine? Ex- | haustion. after least exertion ? If you bave | there's dropsical tendency and you shouldn't delay an hour in putting yourself tinder ihe | great South American Kidney Cure.--£6 | Sold by A. J. Davis, Why a Limpet Stickw: The limpet has gained notoriety by | the strength with Which it adheres to the rock on which it decides to rest. The force required to detach the limpet | from the rock has lately been tested by | a well known naturalist, who found | that more than sixty pounds must be | exerted for the purpose. So this little | thing, weighing about half an ounce, | sticks so tightly that a force equal to i two thousand times its own weight is | necessary to drag it away. It was at one time supposed that at- Dr F. D. McGrattan (DENTIST) L.D.S. of Royal College of Dental Surgeons, also D.D.8. of Toronto University, Office over McCaw's Jewelry Store, Office hours--8 a.m. 108.30 p,m. Port Perry, June 20, 1898. JOS. BAI DD ICENSED AUCTIONEER for the County of Qntario. Sale Register at the Opsgrver Office, Patronage solicited. Manchester, Jan, 19, 1899, . heri ie pressure had something to do with the adhesive power of the lim- pet, but it is now generally agreed that the creature exudes a kind of glue for this purpose. If you place your finger on the rock immediately after a limpet has been detached, you will feel that the surface is sticky, and if you allow your finger to remain there for a short time you will notice that it is begin. ning to stick quite tightly. A Sour Stomach and a Sour Temper travel hand-in-hand and ar: the recursors of mental and physical wreck. ine hundred and ninety-ninetimesina thou- sand food ferment (indigestion) is the cause. Dr, Von Stan's Pineapple Tablets keep the h {aid di 3 ™ AUOTIONEER. uae undersigned takes this opportuaity of returning thanks for the very liberal patrenage he hag received as Auctioneer in the past, The increased experience and extensive practice which I have had will be turned to advantage of patrons, and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on their interests being fully protected. No effort will be spared to make it profitable for parties Piseing Shott in my hands, $ egister und at thé ig pthenerve centres well balanced --they're nature's pan- acea-- pleasant and harmless. 35 cents.--8¢ Soli! hy A. J Davis. Fly Fishing. thera is no doubt that certain flies dre best adapted to different seasons, times of day and conditions of weath- er, but a dozen flies of different names will fully answer all of these require ments. An angler's files resemble noth- ing when cast upon the water. They Ty bs nS | ---- a OR the Townships of Brock, Uxbridge, i 4 1 Scott, Thora, Hrs, Rama, Mariposa and Eldon 5 artiescutrusting their Sales to me may utmsot attention being given to © E. FAREWEL \ K.C., LL.B., Crown Attorney, . A ster, sito, &e., Notar; fice--So a uth g Court House, B.S ee ublic and Comepanar i YM. GORDON, Sunderlan, PROF. 8. J. COHN PRATER, ra! Perry once in ix month.-- J i warranted t on. Ry zs--Mr. W. ork, Commissioner, &c. n any quantity of Money Security at 6 and 7 per. Mr. J ohn PATENTS GUAR! ED EAN ofa a | makeup. J | asserts that al hemian housekeeping in a picturesque cabin among the river willows, this bad happened months bel Wolfe had shot the lamps in Bro drugstore, thereby starting a confl tion and landing In" Jail Conchita, she of the great wistful and the lithe, graceful figure, had appeared from the cabin among 3 willows. People said that in her hou of disgrace she had gone back tol own people, who lived across the Bi ine. Two days, and three, slipped by, one posse after another rode we into town until only Sheriff Ma and a few picked men hung despe: ly on the trail of the outlaws. Thi too, were becoming disheartened w! In the steel gray of an early dawn th followed a wood haulers trail to Devil's caldron. A clrcular pit was this, its bottom reached only by rocky paths such mountain goats or fugitives alo would tread. On one side the wal dropped sheerly full fifty feet, and one point a clear mountain stream its way througa solid rock. § Maguire had ordered the hore staked a mile back in the thick tim and as the posse drew close to the he motioned his men to halt. dropping on his hands and knees, crawled to the edge of the preciph and peered over. What he saw sent thrill of exultation elong his nervy Near the smoldering fire lay the th Mexicans, while on the rocky led slightly above them, lay two other fi ures, one of whom he could e identify, even in the dawn's uncert light, as the stalwart Wolfe, The fi figure he studied carefully, but it. hidden by wrappings of gaudy bl kets. But Maguire, recalling the sull Mexican wood hauler they had pa tar down the ravine the day befo knew that the outlaws had been pi vided with food and tidings from t outer world. Then, turning his gs on the zigzag mountain trail within two feet of his band, thi smiled grimly. His pri neatly trapped. ; § All , § 1313 ply a something which attracts . hi A large trout wants some- 'thing worth his making an effort to se« cure. It is doubtless true that an ar- bitrary cast of flies cannot be made up which will be adapted to all waters. aris Ej; Years Old -- Oatard Fi Eh ears. Dr. ew's Catarrhal Powder cures him. Want any stronger evi- dence of the power of this wonderful remed: over this uni 1 disease? Want the tru] ofthecass on x 32 YrieCuninelons Shamokin, Pa. He says:--'"1I look upog 'my cure as a miracle. It relieves in tew he ae t Sold by A.J. Davis. enrla. French naturalist, Raphael Dubois, large pearls are nothing 1 in the center of which rest the dead bodies of small marine down In was one thin had done It before--but she wis a Ww man, a woman who had done nothin but love too well this man of a rac not her own. The sheriff had seen the firearms scattered about the campfi And If the outlaws fought the gl "would be In the midst of it. He crept back to his men. The was a whispered. conference, Eight men carefully looked over their gun Then, dropping on thelr stomachs, th to the edge of the light had cl Maguire's voice echoed sharply down the rocky walls of the pit. The fu tives sprang to thelr feet. "Might as well come up and render, Wolfe. We've got you sur rounded." Ae ; Wolfe threw back his handsome and gazed upward where the fir beams of sunlight touched the dwa ns, He saw elght set faces a eight guns. He dropped his own Ww 'on, with a bitter laugh, aud stood folded arms, staring straight at guire. When at last he spoke, Sher, even with the o of 1 unter upon him, caught hi -- v that voice would will help you," il crossed to the fireplace. F 10, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1902. Heynman's dying, and on't believe us, but we kill the fool. By heav- he brought the supper, we over, for a lark, but 'out an annoying one. We've ly the price, 1 suppose, but his Yoice seemed almost to 'as it floated up to Maguire-- wed me here, and now--well, u'll give her a chance to {ig ' earnest conversa- / hit. He saw something slipped ler hands and scent- bachery, but as she pushed tho into the bosom of her gown he hat it was merely a bundle of or letters, - Without looking at his companions and with Maguire's gun still aimed at hig - Wolfe led Conchita to the narve pape ow goat path, She took half a dozen steps, then paused, turned and stretched out her arms. Eight deputies imperiled their lives by closing their | es. onchita sprang up the path and thout looking back dashed into the dergrowth on the summit and dis- appeared. A second later there floated up to Magiiire Randall Wolfe's taunt- iag laugh. cringing Mexicans, 1 viet you cowards!" he cried and almed at Maguire. The fusillade was | n. - . . . - . hy The next day a ghastly quiet hung over Cimarron. The coroner had rid- den to the Devil's caldron, and four ballet riddled bodies lay in the town's small undertaking establishment. The armed guards still patrolled the town. The members of the sheriff's posse had been spirited away to Denver, Pueblo | or Canon City. A dozen reporters from city dailies were on the scene. There wad talk of a Mexican uprising. A netwspaper man was on the trail of a story, the true story of Randall Wolfe. Conchita met him at the door with eyes more wistful an ever and a pathetic droop about Her mouth. But that mouth took ona [etermined curve as the reporter talk- 3d. She shook her head. "But," he persisted. "did Wolfe never | you anything about his people in t ¢ enst? He got movey from them, didn't he? His mother wrote to him?" Stil) no answer, The newspaper man fried another tack. i "He's left you nothing, I hear, and t isn't to be supposed that his people He drew forth his purse. "Now, I'd be glad to help you out If you'll answer a few questions." The Mexican woman rose and threw open the door. "There Is nothing to tell--nothing." The newspaper man shrugged his shoulders and walked out into the sun- light. He knew the woman lied. She watched him through the yellowing illows. Then she closed her door and From her bosom she drew a packet of letters. Among them was the photograph of a woman with white halr. These she laid on the coals ahd watched them wn. Then she sprang to her feet and tore from the wall a picture of her dead husband. With hungry eyes she studied each crude line, then kissed the * photograph passionstely and, with a sob, lald that, too, on the greedy coals. "Ah," she sobbed as the flames licked 'and curled the blackened pasteboard, "mia carga, I have kept my werd! It b! was all 1 could do, and they shall never know!" f Then, with her hands clasped about er knees, she cronched weeping by | the dying embers. FIRRRREY LAS A Financial Puzzle, [| Here is a problem In finance which we submit to those of our readers who are always Inclined for an argument on the money, question: A banker sauntering home saw #& five pound note lying on the curbstone. { Of course he picked it up and took the number In order to find the owner. While at home his wife remarked that 'the butcher had sent in a bil) for meat mounting to £5. The only money he with him was the money be had . which be gave her. and she puld a 1 aid it bu Pp er ote z and paid ber note. The. € ized the note as the one bad found and which up to that had settled £25 of debt. On a careful consideration he tound ote counterfeit. w, will some of our financial nds tell us what has been lost in y transaction and by whom, if any- ?--London Telegraph. } English Oaks. he old patliamentary oak in Clp- ne park, England, Is believed to be 00 years old. The tallest oak in t country, called the "Duke's Walk- g Stick," 18 higher than the spire of tminster abbey, and the largest is "Cowthorpie," which now meas- Seventy-cight feet In circumfer- and at one time with its branches red more than an acre of space. RIT African Rivers. of Africa bave a marked ity. They seek the ocear far from theit source. 3 t+ Discase Relieved In 3 ul lass Agnew's for the gore relief in all cases of . Sympathetic Heart Disease in nd speedily fhe pt F Spells, Pain in of a Disea onetv Tor He swung round on the | [ who had been | talkig with the postmaster suddenly | struck off ih tbe direction of the river | 'and the cabin among the willows. He | In every town and village may be had, BREAD AND BRIDES. THE PARTS VIANDS RLAY IN MAR- RIAGE CEREMONIES. Syeetheasrt Cakes of a Dutch Dam sel -- Egyptian Bridegrooms Must Work For Their Supper--Wine In China--Married by Candy. The important part which different viands play in marriage ceremonies wakes rather an interesting story. For example, the Swedish bride fills her pocket with bread, which she dis- | penses to every one she meets on her | way to church, every piece she gives | away averting, as she believes, a mis- | fortune, On the threshold of her new home & bride in Seivia is presented with a plate of bonbons, one of which she and the bridegroom share between them, the divided bonbon signifying that no bitterness shall divide them. of wheat corn is also given to the bride. Of this she takes three handfuls, throws it over her head, emptying the sieve upon the ground. | corn, denotes that the bride brings joy | and prosperity into her new home. The | bride is still outside the door, nor can she enter until she has placed two loaves of bread beneath her arms and taken a bottle of wine into her hands. With these emblems she at length crosses the threshold of her future home. At the first meal of the newly married pair bread and wine must be taken by both to denote that thence- forward all they bave shall be equally divided between them and that their married life shall be passed in unity and fidelity. A Russian wooing culminates in the betrothal feast, at which«the bride elect In retury for a long tress of hair which she has given to the bridegroomr re- celves bread and salt and an almond cake. In Holland if a young man is in love with a girl and wishes to ask her hand in marriage be buys a small sweet cake and, wrapping it up in soft paper, proceeds to the house of his inamorata. He is ushered into the midst of the family circle. Without a word he walks op to the young lady and lays the cake on the table before her. The rest of the family affect not to notice anything unusual and continue their work or their reading. The young man turns aside and talks to the father or mother on some very ordinary subject, keeping his eyes eagerly fixed on the girl while be is conversing. - If she ac- cepts his offer, she takes up the cake and eats it. If ghe is a coquettish dnmsel, she tortures the young man by turning It over and playing with it bé- fore she decides to taste it and then en- raptures him by eating it to the last crumb. If, on the other hand, she wishes to have nothing more to do with her admirer, she puts it back on the table. The young man takes up the cake and, with a "Vaarvoal byza- men," leayes the house. The matter is then kept a profound secret by both families, and the outer world never hears of It: In place of a wedding cake in Holland wedding candies are given --~"proild zuikers" they are called. They are passed around by children and are served in flower trimmed bas- kets. Bride pudding is the name of the plece~de resistance served at a Norse peasant wedding. This is not brought on the table until the last day of the festivities, three or five days being given up to feasting and merrymaking. The appearance of the bride pudding Is the signal of diswissal, and at the close of the feast the guests say fare well, presenting at the same time thelr gifts, which consist of cash. This the 1s all the ceremony necessary to make a marriage in some Chinese provinces, provided a' quantity of fireworks are get off. These are to wake the "great joss" from his sleep that hé way wit- ness the ceremony. At a Hebrew wedding man and wife sip from one cup of wine, symbolizing participation in the joys and pain of earthly life. The emptied goblet is placed on the floor and crushed into a thousand pleces by the bridegroom, who thus shows that lie will put his foot on all evils that may enter the family circle. At an Egyptian wedding feast meat is not eaten because of the belief that it would lead to future bickerings be- tween them. Eggs, fruits and sweets are served. The first meal in the new louse eannot be touched until, after every device known to the bridegroom, the bride bas been at last induced to speak. Once she utters a word, be claps his hands, and supper is brought to | them. 5 | Married by candy is the plan in Bur- ma. Of all marrfage rites this takes the palm for conciseness and sweet simplicity. Here the dusky lady takes the initiative. Seeing a youth who pleases her, she offers him a sweet, it be accepts ber proposal, he Lair id eats the token of affection, and { de man and wif are heres jive 1 is not to his taste, and the matter is A sieve | The scattered | -- ---- all gallantry that that particular candy ended. [n Mandalay three weeks after a marriage kinsmen bring the bride- groom a bowl of tice, a vessel of wine and a fowl, much of which collation Is sacrificed to the spirits of ancestors. A Bagoda bride~in the Philippines-- If she be good looking and the daughter of u warrlor, 18 sold by ber father for about $30, which sum is not given in mohey, but In vegetables and chickens. One way of estimating stch things iy at ie piise brass gong: Such a Por : ¢ silver d and : 0 ay 'There are as many vagaries in the | waters ad in the winds. Why, for in- | stance, should three great ocean cur- Two men sat side by high stools of one of those places lined with pale bathroom that abound in the waiter calls their ol tube into a kitchen some ground, and they hold Jurisdiction over the they are served just they tip them or not. in 0 ce ed thre ders mnd then in a strange false called that of the man who had been | rents send their warm waters across the wide Pacifie, Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope? There have | been many theories advanced to solve { the problem of their origin, but all have proved fallacious. Other and equally mysterious currents exist in well nigh all parts of the world. The | tides are so erratic in different parts of the world that one hesitates to accept the theory that the moon controls them | in all cases. It is on record that thé sea has run | | for weeks out of the Java sea through the strait of Sunda and thence back | | again for a like period without any per- ceptible rise or fall during those times. Then there is the equatorial current | that flows into the Caribbean sea, the | ever flowing current to the eastward | around Cape Horn, the cold stream | flowing from the icy regions of the | north past Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and along the American coast to the extreme end of Florida, the con. tinual current running with a velocity of from four to five knots an hour through the strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean sea, the swift cur- rent running across the rocks and | shoals off the end of Billiton island, | which apparently starts from nowhere and ends somewhere in the vicinity of | the same place, and the current which, | | starting half way up the China sea, runs from two to three knots an hour to the northeast and finally ends ab- ruptly off the north end of Luzon. Then we have those tidal vagaries | known the world over as bores. Resl- dents on Severn side are familiar with | them, and those that run up the Hu- | gli and Irawaddy rivers from side to side in a zigzag shape till they reach their limit, often tearing ships from | their anchorage, originate nobody | knows A why. The rush of wa. ters To ay of Wundy is nothing but a huge bore sweeping all before it up to the head of the bay ll the waters have risen to the height of fifty or six- | ty teet, Off Southampton we have the double tides, while at Singapore it has | been observed for days at a time that there has been but the one rise and tail in the twenty-four hours. The tides may be and very often appear as though they were "moonstruck," but | they certainly are not controlled with hard and fast rules by that or any oth. er body.--London Shipping World. | | | | Private Gambling In Russia. There is a good deal of gambling in society in England, but it is nothing to what goes on in Russia, says the Lon- don Candid Friend, Vint, preference and roulette are the principal games. The second is the most popular in army circles, while many ladies of the high- est rank keep roulette tables and have regular "evenings," on which play goes on for yery high stakes, Asis usually the ease at roulette, the bank mostly | wins, and the hostess takes good care | to keep the bank. | One of the most notorlons of these private dens is run by two ladies of the highest rank and connections. Only the fine fleur of the society of St. Pe tersburg are admitted, and the entree is eagerly sought. The stakes are high, the plunging often desperate, and men have been known to leave these salons in a financial condition which ap- proaches ruin. The princesses, howev- er, make a bandsome income out of the bank, and no one thinks the worse of them. How High Onan » Balloon Rise? The altitude that may be attained by a balloon depends, first, upon its | size; secondly, upon the filling of gas, and, thirdly, upon the weight being | carried. A balloon of ordinary size, 43,000 cubic feet, carry lest speaking, "You see?' sald he to his companion. "I tip and those other fél- lows don't.'** A moment later he added trinmphantly: "Look at the difference between my order of roast beef and our friend's over there. I've got a big tut out of the heart of the roast, an he's got two or three little chunks ol 'end.' "Oh, yes; it pays to tip in these places as well as It does anywhere!" id ¥oreing nn Pension) ' When Thomas Snodgrass, eX-collect or of Ganjaw, Madras, was expelled from the service of the Bast Indi company owing to his extravagance; he applied for a pension, but the coms pany turned a deaf ear to him. Aes cordiffizly he arrayed himself in tattered clothes and, armed with a broom, set to work sweeping a crossing in Lead- enhall street in front of the Bast India house. Immedixtely all London was agog with the intelligence that an old and distinguished officer of the Bast India company who had ruled over 100,000 people and reveled in a palace' was how reduced in the evening of hig' life to the necessity of earning his bread by sweeping the streets. The king was thunderstruck and {mplored' | Mr. Snodgrass to take himself and broom away. This he did when the company gave him his pension. The Celts and Greem: AF i The eatly Celts worshiped the dawn' and the sunrise. It is more than proba ble, therefore, that their liking for the color green which we see in their flags, sashes, etc, arose from & mistake among those who had lost a thorough | knowledge of the Irish language. The sun in Celtic is called by a word pro- nounced exactly like our word "green," gh: aud it is likely that the Irish fondness for that color arose through the strike | ing similarity of the two words. Id the same way, when we talk about & greenhouse we think they are so called | because plants are kept green in them during the winter; yet it is far more' probable that the word is derived from the old Celtic word for san, because' greenbouses are so built as to catch the' rays and heat of the sun and store them for future use. Based Consciences, ¥ 'A well known English dean recently had the misfortune to lose his umbrel- la, and he rather suspected that its ap propriation by another had uot been altogether accidental. He therefore used the story to point a moral in & sermon in the cathedral, adding that if its present possessor would drop It' over the wall of the deanery garden during that night he would say no more about it. Next morning he re- paired to the spot and found his own | umbrella and forty-five others. Sharks as Game Fish, J As game fishes sharks do mot, 1 think, stand high. The most common of them, the dusky shark, when hook~ ed, circles round on the surface and usually bites off the lines and escapes,' If so hooked that the line cannot be cut, the struggle is furious but short,' the shark giving up In much less tithe than a game fish of half his sige, sueh® as the channel bass, salt water trout or snapper would do. Two Expressions of Peel. : Was there ever a more mordant and | sardonic stroke of description than that O'Connell gave of Peel's blood: lesspess? "His smile was like the sil- ver plate on a coffin" Less scathing, but less witty also, was his description of a lady of a sl 3 flar repellant temperament, "She Y. the welglit--that is, one person--when filled a hy of a poker, "4¥hy 80 you put so maay Latin usked the of the unusual dimensions of 300,000 | cubic feet. The German emperor fur- | nished £500 for making experiments | with it, and the Meteorological Insti- tute decided to make use of this op- portunity for studying the highest re- glons of atmosphere. i ---- A Bad Way to Feed Birds. It is quite a common practice for per- gons owning pet birds to teach them to take bits of sugar or other food liked by the bird from the lips. It has been discovered that the trainers of young birds in Europe frequently contract in this way a peculiar parasitic growth on the throat and lungs tbat is frequently fatal, and a warning has been issued by French physicians which may well be heeded by any one feeding birds from mouth to beak. A Psychological Deduction, "My dear," said the wife of the eml- nent professor, "the hens have scratch. ed up all that eggplant seed you sow- ed." 8 a them." "That's just the point. Misery loves, ¢ompany. 1 want to be sure there some one besides myself who n't know precisely what I am talking about," -------------- _ Robert Toombs' Advice. 'A lawyer sent to Robert Toombs once and asked what be should a client in a case to which Mr. To had just listened In the. courth "v 011," said Toombs, "1 should ¢ $1,000, but you ought to have $5.0 for you did a great many things would not have done." Le