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Nuecesso] id © x ov vin TRIE wt Perry, Nor. a» 1004. wm, H. HARRIS, B. ITY BARRISTER, a) ait of the ~ Yarnold. Port Perry, - Ont. MONEY To LoAN. Crivate Fands al 3 por cent. bv 10 Jno. w "Orozier, ABI Seuiairo CONVEYANCE, Be Offize "At resilience, 6th Con. a '(one wile. west of Port Perry, = | Money. 10 Loan. Issuer of: Marriage Licnses. E. FAREWELL, K.C% LL, B., : County , Crown Attorney, Burristér, County. Sol po &o., Notary Public and Consoyunces. Office--So! --South w g Court House, hitby, Ont. Ww A SANGSTER, DENTAL SUE SURGEON. Office Honra--9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 6 p,m. Also open Saterday o eveniuge, . oF Gold Fillings, Bri Bridge snd Crown Work » Specialty, Vitalised Air. RS L. GRAHAM Rr. F. D. MCGRATTZAN of the Post Offiee, "PORT PERRY. N branches of Dentistry, Incluling Crowa sud Bridge Work suseomially: practiced. . " Ard =" or Rubber Plates. Fillings of Gold, Silver or Gomions + 'Painless extraction when required: &F Puices to suit the times® 'North Ontario Observer A Weekly Political, Agrioulturat and |. Family Newspaper 1S PUBLISAED AT POUT TERRY, ONT, EVERY. THURSDAY MORNING BY H. PARSONS noe $1.5 EE EE on for leas r "8 En ci ae will be ot sind 1 hi | ADVERTISEMENTS MENTS mpured | Napa', ana : shatjed aooording tor wR a heii, Tb RR MIBERAL di A ft terster pa other THESE vorme wil tn ol) cases be: striotly adhered to * JOB DEPARTMENT. Pamphlets 5. Hand Bills, Posters _ don't fail to inspect the 1 Tecth on Gold, Silver, Aluminum | or seria Chunks; to. bie public i t yew, | wuld, reipect/u Large & Assorted Stock OF DOUBLER AND SINGLE HARNESS which Lam determined to sell very CHEAP will be allowed.on all Salés from pow until 'Wving We a Rak bafore lookin clsewhere 0 ier gor EERE EY | REV -- RICHARDSON Third Sunday £10.30 a. m, 3 eT JOS. I, ICEN-RK® 4 County of (ntario, Syle Wegater at the Onerrv ir Ofuo © P Gi : Manchester, Tan. 19, ay _Eblicitod: a po BAT a ef Dillon Hinge-Stay befice. Manpfictured by the Owen $ ie | Wire Fence Uo. Litd., - an: prepeied to supply' this whole comniunity with, the very \BEST WIRE FENCE he Je Test Continent and at prices _ mot fail to satisfy proce hg oR + The DiLroy Fence is withbut « peer. It is the BEST be cause it is flexible ; it is a square mesh jit is a perfect hiuge- -stay, fence, therefore itis impossible to bend the Mays, in fact it is the best fence made in | this or. any other country" Before purchasing a Wire Fence Fe Rutronage 'extéuded- to me for. fer, ' ot AUCTION Tre, the | ol face fal and clear, stents SE on fe=l yourseif a man and keow marr 'aud fakirs rob you of your hard earned £7 NO NAMES USED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT THREATENED WITH PARALYSIS AFTER TREATMENT Trearwewr and {6 CURES GUARANTEED OR NG PAY cure ACE Yi gus 33 Y. oop A MPLAINTS, KIDNEY ULTATION FREE. BOOKS FREE. If unable to call write for a Question Drs. KENNEDY &KENNEDY Cor. Michigan Ave. and Griswold St,, Detroit, Mich. E All letters from Cangda Juste addressed ya to Corresponde: H G. HUTCHESON, Bell Sa Office No. 6 Residence, No. 4 ADAMS & HUTCHESON SUCCESSORS TO DAVID J. & DOUGLAS ADAMS FIRE wo INSURANCE Mons ACCIDENT i: Real Estate Mortgage Loars: Bt am ship Tickets B.A. ADAMS, . Bell Phone No. 41 as uspal, now ready The busiaces, » 4 Ave & "As an indgcement to Cann purghaseis id Bisson of 10° por oath ow ab next, All work being + F Jan DE" BY HAND™E3 ¢ Ske t stogk, "thi 3 Fons wi: 2 cn fr: Jiroliiserh will find hi 'Mails Close. The mails are despatohed from the Pos Office Port Peery as follows : Going North-- 4.00 a. m. Going South--11,20 a. m, Goiug North-- 5.15 p. m. (ving South--10 pm m. No "Deadhead" Trip. One of the most famous of Ameriean marine was the between Philadelphia and Liverpool, says the author of "Memoirs of Charles H. Crap." By this line John Ran: dolph of Roanoke determined to go to Russia when he had been appoint Ceatral Livery PORT PCRRY. Jackson. Entering the office of the company in Philadelphis, he said to a clerk in his usual grandiloquent man of the leat shipping lines in the palmy days of our Cope line, which ran : short die gr : folfowed in bewll i Be saw their veperably fiying robe rush into the At came to bis peck. Then d, he faced hig astonishea id : loved brethren, I am not doubt many ef yon think. af the drug store I bought | nigrie acid and carelessly potket today. jure broke the bottle. 1 erfng the acid would cause ted my clothing and water to save wnyselt several pleces of glass from 'in witness of the tale. Then the company and hurried LA Remarkable Process Known as the © Caloric Paradox. is 'usually associated with ater can be frozen on a red- . 'yis pretty experiment bas gen called the caloric pgradox. of water is placed on a red- hot ory White hot metal plate it does not he flush into steam nnder the lofil of the great heat. It doves not ¢ boll. It simply evaporates quieityisted slowly as It rolls abont the plate. "Now. suppose that the drop on the plage 1% a volatile liquid ke sul Phu 'acid. It will evaporate, and thise tion will produce cold. Let a dropipf° water full In the sulphurous acid drop and it will be frozen in spite M. "white gacrted even Bomtigny thus froze water on a platinum capsule. Faraday this remarkable experiment per, Pouring some ether and _polidiffedd carbonic acid gas on a red- "hot jdetianm capsule. he formed a sp herdidni mass which evaporated very a ¥% » temperature of 40 degrees be- ero to solidify It, and bere it was n on redbot platinpm. Neighborly. 1 bave not seen you for an age, fonly n few streets apart here in 1 learned, you've heen fll Pp told vou that? me (rom India.--Fliegende Blat- 3 No Chance. Bat became of your anti-nolse gent iphones to popularize it without {ncousistent."'-- Washington Star. one sings As Tob har the gift Wtiarries ns he has the luck.-- From rtugliese. fpLUTION 0 OF T THE PIANO. W the First Tide in Instrument to Its Present Perfection, ithe begloning the piapo was a haped piece of wood, having two e strings. From time to time strings were added until the was invented. This was an in- minister to that country by Preside - ent In the shape of a capital b', 'ten strings stretched across the space. Many centuries afterward cians concelved the idea of ng strings across an open box. the year 1200 this was done, the lowls He then hrought sore. mer | Doctor, notwithstanding that we | with much regret, | Herr Doctor-- She--My brother | 1 fe couldn't hire brass bands and | Boed~ "6bip on: the fect of a-passenger, : taken to where it was picked "up By the ally disfodghd in the overshoe and ' :found #ts germimating place in Con-'! necticut.--~Chicago. Record Herald. Horn of the Unicorn. The horn of the unicorn was reputed {natantly to reveal poison in a disb-by | sweating blood, nnd great was the ri- valry as to the possession of the finest specimen while this belief still flour- ished. Charles the Bold proudly pa- raded six, two of them eight feet long, two six feet, two five feet, According to Benvenuto Cellini, "the finest ever seen, which had cost 17,000 ducats of the Camera," was the one for which | at the pope's command be made a de- sign, "the finest thing imaginable, mod- eled bnlf ou n horse and half on a stag, with a very fine mane and other adornments." Corynt speaks of the one at St. Denis ns about three yards long, and Windsor had two of four ella. The real "unicorn" in many cases seems to have been the narwhal. --Londou Chronicle. 'Igorote Craftswomen. Though their tovls are few and crude, the Igorotes are clever workmen. Some of their axes, spears and shields show a wild art all their own. The pipe- makers, too, turn out pipes of peculiar and graceful design. One day | watched the women working iv clay and turning out kitchen uténsils. Two girls car- ried clay from a distant pit, while old- er women In the village worked it up. Shapely urns and bowls are molded frown the plastic clay and set-in the' hot sun fo dry. . tapgaas, --~Christian Herald. | A Girl's Pity. | "1t was King Midas, wasn't it, who turned everything be touched to xold?! "i Ror tei "Poot old eS "Why do you think be was a poor | old fellow "He 'never could eat a pickle with | his fingers."--~Chicago Record Herald. Twas Sneezy Thing to Do. "At whom are you manded the young lady of the young man who obstructed her path. tim and hurried away.--Houston Post. As It 8hould Be. Shopper---1 want to buy a necktle snjtable for my husband. BSalesman-- | 8orry, madam, but we are not permtt- ted to sell neckties to women who are { unscarmpanied by men.-- Puck. "AN EYE FOR BUSINESS. The Way Disraeli "Put One Over" en Publisher Colburn. When the Hon. Mr. Ward wrote his novel "Tremnine" he wus fearful of | acknowledging himself the author un- til its fate should bave been ascer- tained. He accordingly, the better to preserve his incognito, sent the mann- script copy by the wife of his attorney to Mr. Colburn. The work, although accepted, was not considered likely to pay extremely well, and consequently 'a trifling sum was given for it. Con- trary, bowever, to Mr. Colburn's ex- pectations, It rap to three editions. The ingenious author of "Vivian Grey," then twenty-two years old, bav- ing heard of the circumstances, deter- a When, ps,' Asin, trod! tn; unts of !_ den fn thé' mud npd carried on board > niet bo b thence yon "Atchoo!" replied the hay fever vie Ea and cats from it A tion of 'the 'soft, thi This is dnmpened pA en i et sot of an American, 'WAS paipflity of the sheet 18 mych increas- | ed. The rough gray exterior is next . peeled off, and the 'sheet dried In the sun. The result is-a blanket, soft, Hght and fairly warm, of an attractive | cream color. It may be rolled Into a compact bundle without burt and with ordinary umage will last for several years.--Harper's. i Butterflies That Live on Fish. The butterfly was blue and transpar ent. As through blue glass its tiny heart could be seen beating inside its body, and the professor read a news- paper article through its loyely bloe wings. "This," he sald, "is the pter- opoda, a Mediterranean butterfly. It | eats Bsh. Ob Its tongue are rows of pointed hooks. They serve as teeth. Ibis beautiful creature would turn up Its nose at a garden of roses and lilies, pnt it would feast ecstatically upon a putrid eel. Now and then a pteropoda is found on the Florida or the Califor | ala coast. It Is only abundant, though, i In the Mediterranean." Ancient and Modern. | Mr. Choate, the well known Amer ! can diplomatist, was being shown over a very old Eoglish parish church. Pointing out an oak screen, the rector Informed hls visitor that It was "cen taries old." "And this paneling on the door?" inquired Mr. Choate, much Interested. "Ob," replled the rector, "that is quite modern! It was put up only forty years before the discovery of America, you know["--London Globe. | did vot see them bake | any pottery. They called these vessels | Buttons Barred. - "Our collection today, my dear breth- ren," sald the rector, "is for the cloth- Ing tupd. At th¢ same time, may I earnestly impress upon you that, though the collection is, for the cloth- ing fund, it ia et nppeenary to con- EE hE ceca wg | "The Hero, First Critie--1 understand you saw 8cribler's new comedy last night Who played the hero? Second Critic-- I did. 1 sat through the whole thing.-- | Philadelphia Record. looking 7* de | ' Neither walls, theaters, porches nor senseless equipage make states, but men who are able to rely upon themr selves. -- Aristides, "AN ACQUIRED TASTE. 0dd Compliment That Was Paid te an English Artist. Richard Wilson, the English land- scape painter, was not of a pliant dls | position. Conacious of his own merits, | he disdained te humble himself to those who measure men by rank and value them by pounds, But Wilson's friends liked him no less for his brusque manner. Goldsmith, Sterne, Wilson and Dr. Johnson were assembled at Garrick's house with a party of ladles for sup- per. "We were very lively at your es- pense indeed, gentlemen," sald Mrs. Garrick, rallying them for having ar- rived late. "To punish you for not obeying our summons the ladies fkened you all to plants and fruits and flow- ers." "Pray Jet us hear," said Wilson. "Doubtless 1 come in for a sprig of laurel." "No, sir," sald the pretty, ively lady; Resistance to the Sum, i 7 Anlmals whose capacity for f | regulativo is iimiled, such as raubite and monkeys, rapidly succumb to ex= posure to the tropical sun. in NE, same circumstances the skiu of a man' rises some 8 or 4 degrees OU. above the | | | normal. | | Theoretically the black sing of negro rices should absorb move hea$ than that of the white people. lows ever, colured races are better able tame | the white tu regulate their temperatuesy onder the influence of the trupical sums | perhaps because perspiration: is mores abundant. The ape, although a native, of the tropics, is less capable of ng the sun tban other animals and¥ even the white man. This is no donb: | attributable to the fact that its natured heme is in the forests. Kot certalny mopkeys two hours of exposure to the: tropical sun is fatal. 3 ? A Unique Laboratory, Outsl@e the harbor of Sfax, Tuning) In the sballow water of the clear, ! Mediterranean, 1s situated a biological laboratory for the study ef spougen 1t is one of the most unique in the world and affords opportunity for ob=, serving the development of the sponge: | from tiny larva, so small that it caw! | only be stndied wuder a MICTORCOPE,, antl five years later it has developed Into a perfect spouge. >| Two 8idess "There are two sides, you know, toy every argument," sald the ready made philosopher. "Yes," replied the gloomy person, | "but 1t makes a difference which sides you choose. 'There two sides to a plece' of fiy paper."-- Washington Star. i An Exception. "Money, after ull, means nothing but | trouble." +s, it 1s the only kind of trouble which it is bard to borrow,? told him that we bad been married? [Me--Not really furious, suifurions.--Judge. None is to be deemed free who has | not perfect selt command. --Pythagosag. An Ants' Sewing Circle. . . Y A party of German naturalists rey cently returned from Ceylon have res ported the existence of a species of an¥ that has been observed In the act oft | sewing two leaves together for the pur« pose of forming a nest. This reporg confirms the observations of the Eng« lish naturalist Ridley, made in 18904 They saw a row of the insects pulling the edges of leaves together, then otha ers trimming and fitting the edges, and finally the completion of the work bm still other ants which fastened the edges with a silky thread yielded b, larvae of the same species the wor carried in their mandibles. It is sal that the sewing ants pass the thread. giving larvae like shottles through holes in the edges of the Joa ves. --BogH ton Post. MISSING A CARIBOU. An Attack of "Buck Agus" Made a Fool of the Hunter, What the "buck ague" is ilke is doi scribed in "The Journal of a Sporting, Nomad," by J. T. Studley. The an! thor's first attempt against the caribou! resulted In bumilia.ion. [le tells that! Jobuny, his Indian guide, suddenly dropped like a stone into the wet grass, mined to use it to advantage, and ac- cordingly, having arrfinged his work for publication, he proceeded to find out the honorable gentleman's fair er made its appearance, and tbe were struck with hnmmers. another hundred years or so hammers were held in the haods, eras xB "EB Hed Chicka they oan be saited'd lit, i - 3 wlio' quality and price, m: Jater Heads, Wedding Invitations, long experience in the trade being an indin "Blank Forme _ Bacolut Books. Fuginess Cards putavle giacantes that perfect sa and mattered "Stag." and there, sure: enough, strolling along the front was) a fine caribou. "1 sat down, resting) "you are wrong." "For rue, perchance," sald be. "No, sir; guess again." ner: " j "gir, 1 wish to see Thomas I'. Cops." He was shown to Mr. Cope's office. "] am John Randolph of Roangke," EARTILY thanking the public for the Shor] patronage received durinsge many years I have kept a Livery Estabiish Books Olrowars, Asembly Cards Y. yriicle wschaeed " x Le o i Vat thing An constantly on Ji "| promptly at LLL Port Perry, Ihave much pleasure in . announcing that [ have removea MY. LIVERY ! to my former phe business he sald. "I wish to take passage to Liverpool in one of your ships." If he expected to be tendered a he was grievously disappointed, "J am Thomas Cope," replied head of the line. ' "If thee goes ai the ship and selects thy stateroom § will pay §150 thee may go." yon THE | goUsTY or ONTARIO AND TOWR COR CARTWRIGHT, pass { ben some genius invented a key- , which, being struck by tbe tin. used the hammers to strike the This was called a clavicy- or keyed cithara, and from time it was modified and im- Qisen Elizabeth's time it and then a spinet, messenger. This he quickly effected and upon a promise. of giving her £20 induced her to be the bearer of his novel to the same publisher. The woman was instantly recognized by Mr. Colburn es the same person who brought him "Tremaine," and, recollecting the great sale of that nov- el, he leaped at the manuscript pre- ~ sented: to Hint with the utmost eager- med Cbristofoll, an italien, in- board similar to tie one It was quickly read and a haud- some #um 5 for the copyright. 'A short time, However, enabled Mr, Col- burn to find out his error, but too late to remedy himself. The work was not successful, and a considerable sum was lost by its publication. 'ons | TRAPPING AN ERMINE. One of the Reasons Why the Prized t Fur ls So Costly. "This stole of imperial ermine is worth $1,000," sald the 'dealer. "Dear? Nix. "Jost bow: the comprised in. it were. caught! "In the first place, they were caught "Why, 1 am Qubbed bitter enough, perhaps a crab" sald be, "for that man," pointing to Garrick, "has dub- bed me Sour Dick." "Guess again said Mrs. Qarrick, laughing. "Will you give it up?" "Yes, madam." "Why, then, sif, yon are likened to olives. Now, will Jos dare to inquire further?" "Let mo see a wvimom; with ait eyes upon him. "Well, then, my dear, out with itl 1 dare.® "Ther koew, sir,®"gaid sbe, rising and courfesylng most gravely, "Me. Wilson is rough to the taste at first, tolerable by a Little longer acquaint ance and delighttal at Jast"--Bx- change. CAUGHT THE 'BLUFFER. ei my elbow on my kuee, waiting ui be should put in an appearance wy: side of the rock. 1 had the rifle to o iH} shoulder, and at lust the grand beasd' walked foto view, not more than 1004 yards away. [Ie stopped, looking] about hinn, and I drew a bead on 1 shoulder. Useless! The rifie wabbled all over the place, and for the iife of! vay breath My ® : mouth, and ail the time the rifle' trem bled and shook. The caribou mo fire again. Still no move on the i on a few paces, and | deterinined if 1 meant to shoot at all I must obtain' better control of my nerves. 1 stil}; covered him with the sights, ort ght! 1 was doing eo, as | pulled the trigger] on the beast that was standing broads side on with bis head turned from me. "1 was using a One rifle, and it was the work of an instant to pomp #ne other cartridge tuto the chamber snd par TY of my target. He faced the other | nonchalantly, listening with intere | the echo of the rifle in the distant | yons. 1 was getting: desperate: On | and could hear the Micmse all sorts of imprecations on ie mar ah at