HGS wevLLoci. HIS Goa t 1g S D éN WEDDING SOON TO BE LEADING CONVERSATIONAL CHaRac- ! think, f1 ed {vOUgLY. CELEBRATED. Home Life of This Hale abd Hearty 4 My iw ee ee ehie kt | NATIONS AS TALKERS, TERISTICS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, The English Gitt fer ad ation on prish.- Peasant'. Empty aoa ri Ast aess c P93 35 Became Secretary of the Treasury. Hug Some time this motith the-To warm friemia, The Hon. Hugh ' a) ¥, u Mw Tait ay eee OMS Nati of farop Ziiling- nal Laces--The Jdew--Teutonic h and " like: the than z all Care ¥ retired from. all active bus of idleness, ¥ ' Hills, Md. Mr. rises ee HUGH a IUELOCR. brimmed straw ha al covering his b ead; m nak $ his daily round over the extensive farm con- nected with his place, devoting a great deal of care to the numerous broods of chickens, which he especially takes a Aalight in feeding and attending, while Mrs Culloch, with equal interest, superintends her sgigese dairy ar oil extensive hot gripes, i There is no pro: Washington who car rival her in the p sgt tion and wove ot rare and beautiful r MeCulloch annuz ot the choicest.cut flowerg_as presents to her. numerous friends, for the decoration of chutthes and fon the -- _ hetit af the sick wards of the hospitals. If Mrs. McCulloch ever neglected any of the many duties of her * wet it was for the ss weet ch arity which, with her, has Sat yaar begun at sends thousands chnreh and charitable institutions, i Ss her work would soon tire ont many of the -young Jadies and rmatrons of "the ree day, though Mra, McCulloch is only ten ears the junior of her octogenarian hus mand. Having frequently visited and lived several years in Europe for the sake of co pleting the education of her daughterg, both she and they have acquired a perfect com- mand of many languages,:and one rarel a better informed. tady than Mrs. Mo She is also an accomplished ama 'téur artist, and she knows how to delineate her favorites--the flowers--with a life like news and truth which place her work above the products of many professional | orn Holly Hills is an estate of over 400 clog rs delightfally situated in Mary 'ate 1, nd bought by Mr. MeCulloch mostly on asceika of its healthful, beautiful location. His Washington residence is o four-story & by its elegance 1y ite home lik» aoa « Amos ortable inte rior, situated in MePherson square, one of the most fashionable quarters in Washington; During the last few vears Mr. McCulloch has devoted several hours daily to the writing of his Inemoirs, containing most interesting reminiscences of the great men and times of his long and useful oN t is hoped that these produéts of keen Lense si , day given to the y mblic. ers in Decem- ber, 1808, in Maine, Mr. Me aallock re-| ceived his cariy} education in Bo MBAS. HUGH M'CULLOCH. ton, later studying law in that city. Beginning Fort Wayne in 138, somewhat lat inted cashier of a branch of the State bank of Indiana and also a director of that institution. In 1865, at the request of Mr. Chase, Mr. McCulloch went to Washington to organize a national bureau of currency, } In 1865 he od by Mr, Lincoln secre- tary of the treasury, filling this office until --Barch, 1800, In the follawing year Mr, McCulloch went to London as a partner ini m the banking house of Jay Cook, McCulloch} & Co. , which firm was afterward changed to} the style of that of MéCulloch & Co. in 1874.) He returned to the United States in --_ -- Suriday afternoon in the fall of dur Mr. en peCalock and family had gathered arotind a cheerful fire in the large sitting room at his country seat when 4 carriage) drew up the long winding path leading to the house, dent's, and Heartily wel _ fomed, he enjoyed what he rd spc of as a delightful evening. Requesting a few min of private conversation: with. Mr. oe before soinggtha gentlemen After the: $ had gone Mr. MeCullack informed. Versable "tah" a Lyonnais, a: Prosiint Arthur's po ree a or at all ev ents Recless, even to speculate. --Spectat or quote the opinion of 7 wise friend on this large question, I should say the ut one chief caus he talking or j Sone peasants ot t their proximate ancestors wal people. Thus the great mi se re of West Irish and nerth Scotch pea e of the ss over wt re} a 1 v, ntly educated in zeuce by pre yliem translating ideas from one inge into another, not to mention the inheritance of the special ide language in intel}! 0 think: whe bo or ign to the English midh und who has never heard more thi an 200 300 words of a yer ial dialect of English, and therefore com- the outly ing Prov ince . t were ernie, tes women outa lent cul ture, the eontrary, ms wives a those sile nt rural folk ez often chat agreeably, and cive and take { in conversation. They do not only narrate; they discuss and ore capable rough hadinage, whieh Welps the : directly on. Moreover, the tering. peoples--the Neapolitans, for instance-- are not bilingual; and the best talkers in} the world, the born Parisians, spring o ancestors who knew no language but their) The border peoples, too, are not} ry as we see in are ex- saainiaine tae iturn. Nabaly would say} that an Alsatian, acenstomed from child- hood to two lamguages, and Shen among | the richest in the world, w; whe hardly knows of the existence of two, while a -arisinn seems nimble in talk by the side | of a Bruxellois, whois never for an in- stant out of the hearing of two tongues. The yoan who is bilingual, elther in fae t! or by tradition, has "tio do nbt a*larger command of words; but ts the command |; x words the key to the secret? If so, why >the women, as we said before, talk bet-| bide neti, and why are not all the! cultivated equally capable of conversa-|; tiou? How often can a professor's com- paratively ignorant wife talk well, w hile | the learned husband is incapable of con-| versdtion! And, finally, is '& question of know ledge 'of any sort, 1y does wine-so often, and up to a poin at. | i brighten talk-imnd talkers? It cannot add thoughts, or increase a Limited re pertoire| of words, At most, alcohol, any form, can but 'impart courage, haps a little speed to s the brain. We should say that the nears r} of talk, in the sense of conversing,.came! all from the wish to talk, th sire to manifest one's self to other: that this was in the first inst; aneibuen ote | ; what the professor says it is not--a race © peculiarity, Nothing. runs. amore } pletely in families than the habit of con-| oat Tene mueh, and-a race is nothing but a O38 bie family, Did Mr. Mahaffy, in his whole life, ever meet a Jew w ho could not talk, or who did not wish to talk, or who, if circumstances favored him, did 'not talk a jlittle tog readily? Persians and Arabs, jwho know not hing, chat twice as readily as Scotch farmers, who Know inch: and the populace of Naples, men as ignorant as the Tishes of their bay, talk, and talk well allday. The Greeks have been chat- terboxcs for 3,000 years, and have lived for 800 of them side by side with Turks, who in the lower classes scarcely so thle od ata Itis not even trie, so far as our observagion gocs, that, ontside the ry eu} tonic race, class makes, any. perceptible (difference, an italian: or Greek or French workman. ty @ 08 readil nore Tiors, ae enjoying talk quite as) | we fear that the truth . one which! Professor Mahaffy's cdurtesy imluces him! Only to hint, viz., nest ne Teuton of Buel three branches--Ger meri ican--though ee .7 filling the w oni, eer =| | wittec i enjoy talk, but rather feels it aiworry to on to understand words and make : response to them so quickly, does 1 take in readily, and therefore has Little pleasure in hearing talk; and he pnot give out saa ba therefore suffers in uttering it. As to the cause of Such a peculiarity of race it is tiresome, ot Py 4 grandfat he ts, country. "which they were paid. t human 20re con- + if the difference |; com- t yas hia! Flowers of the Aretic Regtons. The pois ur if ywers seldom hare any ean' { few that exhibit this de. however feeble, are, I lass that have Nigger iarked by the Ars vw Of the fifty nfen- we might call 4 bank -rhave May th ¢ : wers, tie tis Peoples. t ¢ n stly tinted snows and yellow ) bof a wn -- we ! of in "ares hs fer as to the t zh warmth if op them perfectts Ti9ns it gre iminew --F re derio : Se wipe atka in Wornan, The American, Influence of Syrubols. home recently England, happened to be nt at the funeral t a soldier, who, for braver yint eacpahnig- aie n writing I fron him farewe Hl, tone hed { ous bronze tokén and said: 'It kk f at losing him that*he sheeia tuk <0 'tha t into his grave t was the sytfibol to her not only of his heroic life, but of the -- of his I wondered, as I ird her, if we Americans make as muc "4 use as We might of the infine nee of symbols in train- | ing our uneducated ¢ sithsgt ilgetns tance of the effect of this | ther, bidding Rakes, t f i r " Me- mands neither the words nor the ideas of ki rid of symbolism was once shown in the famous reformatory school at Lusk. One of the teachers kad induced about twe nty of the boys to give up profane and inde- cent language, and to-do extra work, for But they ain ine diffe rent and half hearted in the effor "Form them into a society and give them a badge," suggested the superin- tenrlent. The hint was carried ont. Ina month the boys were enger and enthusiastic in their work, and as proud of their prison society as were the old soldiers of Napo- leon of the Legion of Honor. The man who is successful in leading nature to its highest endeavor {must work upon the innocent weaknesses jas Wellas upon thé stern Tove of duty. | imaginative men and women like to sym- | bolize their work or siicrffice for the world " |in some uniform or badge.--Youth's Com- | pan ion, Down on Mumblers. is one "here that TI with you paragraphists would ae into, " says Mr. M. B. Husson. "Yor have pretty --_ succeeded with your jites and flings yen nga stop tothe ¢llow who used to c its Tis wimnbrella under iis arm or over his shoulder and prod people with it. Now, iI should like to see you take hold of the |\fellow with the low, inumbling ha who + y Sonie |pcauaintances whom I shrink hide: meet- jing on the cars simply because I cannot hear more than half they say, and then I have to strain my cars so that it makes ing he adache. Idon't like to keep ask- jing them over and over again what they ihave said, so I frequently pretend to hear them when Ldon't, and I sometimes make distressing blunders in my answers. Only 'last week one of these eee told n0y, ed com "There new spaper ] and lenuettittne that a Bo had at born to his brother, I said, pleasantly: 'Is that so? w ell, we age make him set up the cigars on tha Now,fancy how I felt when I Senet 'the next day that the boy wardead. I wish you would go for these nsumblers, who mumble in the cars or in other noisy places,"'--Chicago Times, Fruits ef: Colombia, The fruits and vegetables in Colombia are delicious and grow without culture or care. The plantain is in universal use and is always served as n vegetable. It is {ried and boiled when the skin is yellow, when it ihe known as 'credit' plantain, and when itis biack and the fruit is-con- sidered churonghty ripe. The banann is never fried in the tropics, but is always served as a fruit, ties of banana, licious species in flavor and fragrance is the little fic or guineo banana, which is scarcely a finger in length. The red ba- nana ta different species, but a-va- riety produced by gz pact ne at Bara Spe ain. \yeliow, The carubs, or passion flowe fruit, the custard apple, called by an en- thusiastic. traveler "the spiritualized trawberry,"' and the guava are all de- j{licious fruits which never reach our sorth- etm markets ih perfection. papi Cc. F | Shanks fn Pood Housskavting The DBacket siete * Advantage, He)T you make is against the shop, You lay your monty that a certali stock Wilt 0 down, 'The shop bets it won't "That seems even; doesn't it? Bat it wiror ecco isn't, for the shop keeps a portion of your}. } wager whether E a etting ready lof au rpper when All the bananas in Colombia are | Murdered 'Mis Mother. | ver said in his note : to commit guicide, get credit with. the public for knowing oat itw na ming % DED OF JONN 'ce LLES, " FFALO SHIY CALKER. . as loaded. John Cullen, a years, killed his last night with an | if Jolin struck ck 9 he rad, inflic xs : her twice in the back af the hes » inflict | oe for several days and was unable to work, ing two horrible wounds. » She fell one vs ott John M. Richards, and the son then best over Pos Kiesed | ers. * alg For. all bilious troubles t Lig » then in a kit i a j ase B.B.F T ha« i le Pp " | his mother but I swashed my mm other's, brains out with an W 8 Buffalo, February 1 ship calker, aged 34 mother, Ann Cullen, p two. Were...tniss! A Severe Attack in-my life than cs Pirtey ud a severe bilions 8 could net mexer felt bette rant a TH Hc i: youn lady as made up My son, when a very demurely informs you that shat her mind never to marry, the t orop right there. f yeu are foolish , enough.to indu geri in ny leailing questions the first thing you know you'll be pric ing stationery and wedding-c , Trenacript. » let hiee subje hat he hia mother » workh: -- committed muld not have to i He was drank when a arrester Use "Mand S ders for loss of and cattle. . Jams Corcoran Japan tesa cat ten cents fine _-- owder tea pount 2. th } we ake -- Boston me on ait 10n Pow appetite ix horses Piits.--With gee ures , the liver dis apot nelent, unles s ty he » expelled HoeLuoway's Aarkening | The dered, and the mir vd da t re cause of t e hic alterative as 'these ' Ret ® | attack the source of the th rust out "d "with it, all impurities from the circulation, restore th é b dis te MPS aed organs to their natural a al deter tive or conta min- ~ahe -_ physio- ; neh an easy means of enth "Th h, pr ran a and ented Winter Balin, for chapped hands ; bottle and you will be delights For sale only at' N. A. Bos Market street, Strat Mernrcan Procrrs logic al discove ry the seve waa, the circulation of the blood. great medical discovery of the nin etee nth century Was an aiterative for the purity- ing of the blood. These two discoveries, Harvey's circulation theory and Ayers j worth's, ra ~ send, or whose hexSe are overworked. Holloway's ntially a blood temper- ing medicine oy its influence reaches is esse , wheret the history and progress of Medicine. If you have a chain, watch, or locket that is worthless on -account of it heing brass, get it platec 1 ig either gold or silver, whicl h will inake it look.equal to new and _be tter than most new plate a universal good. For Bilious Disorders and Acid Stoniach, Campbell's Cathartic ( ompound very effective, NOTICE metal put on. J. 78 & HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Mecting of -plater, plating rooms opposite W indaor Hotel, Stratford, = . "Gor County of Perth Mutual Fire Insarance Go. Will be held Market Square, on WEDNESDAY, --" i Day of February At one o'Clock, p. m. Dangerous Counte rfeits. Counterfeits are always aangerous, more so that they always closely IMITATE THE ORIGINAL IN APPEARANCE AND XAME, The oreoeige success achieved by Nasal] | Ba sitive cure for Catarrh and) | Col 1 in the sien ad has indaced | unnprisio "pled | parties to imitate it. The public are | cautioned not to be deceived by ------ | imitating Nasal Balm in nam@and appear ance, bearing such names as Nasal Cream, | Nasal Balsam, etc, Agk for Nasal Balm and do' not take imitation dealers may For sale by all druggists -paid on receipt of -- (Oe nd $1) by addre sting Fulford & Co, Brockville, On Certain Cure. A Conw ror Cuotera Moxsvs, -- A positive cure for this dangerous complaint and for all acute or chronic forms of " complaint incident to summer or fall, found in Dr, Fowler's Extract of Wild aint lc to be neared from _any ruggt in the Company's office, CHAS, PACKERT, Setretary 1883. 62o-3t COAL! COAL! Fresh Mined, Just ECG, STOVE, No. Jan. 20, COAL! Received. 4, NUT, and BRIAR HILL. "PR. JARVIS, Market St. 629-aro, ae xi FAR ROUN D, -- = National Pills ore a aood blood purifier, liver requl tor and mild purgative for all seasons, Stratford, Jan. 24, 1888. SCHOOL BOOKS! Don't waste time, but go direct to DUFTON' S, where you had be sure to get anything fhe bg ide in above line. yvthing in the Line of Stationery sells at Astonishingly Low Prices... For inacaotn. ey (5) Cent ibbling Book is the Largest, Nicest and Best ever solid "pay Ask for it. All other Lines cf School Stationery ety Good Value. NEW: BOOKS. . Canadian Almanac for 1888. Office and Pocket Diaries for 1888. tions Received. 'tor the Daily and Weekly any Other Magazine or Paper: Jak, DOE TON, No. 1 OLD ALBION BLOCK. rr oe EMPIRE, an CITY BOOK STORE, DIRECT IMPORTATION Per S.S. " Sarnia," LARGE LOT OF CROCKERY Li Vanoy Chamber Bota. . 10 Pieces, Do., do., ois: <3 10. do., Extra Fancy Chamber Sets,10.. do., Fancy Tea Sets, do., Do., do., do., whee 3 00, weee -- Balance of Lamp Goods -wilibe sold-out Cheap, Fancy Lamp, with] Shade complete, $ 1.25. We sell an extra quality of Tea at 25c. per pound, Our 50¢. Tea Still Keeps the Lead. Call and See our Stock. = |B. K. BARNSDALE & CO. STRATFORD AND MITCHELL. FU RTHER PARTICULARS ---- FROMISED "EY----- 5 Tb. Lots for $1, 'the family that he had. been asked by the; _spresident to accept the office of secretary of; hearty grandsons of Mr, Me Culloch tox the! y ident, showed the delight of the family to we their beloved sire thus honored. No secretary of the treasury has twice held that! t se save - McCulloch. iis alcitbitad Sees vies cheek & one dtamatic are mingled to gether in one of the prominent lows on Broadway, where. tiesto taste. and. Pre ate supposed. Sreguate: with soot. and- in ee Kevern the establishanent. -- New York, these plants afiord ais indication bt erat i ih Pas a Peenliatities of Lichens. The lichen-is remarkable for the creat $7. Iground| 8nd I think a man isa fool to be con- ge to which it lives; there is good grou bt believing that they endure as Jong as years. An authority states that some} cna have been found by actual observa- tion to efdure 45 years. Their growth is jexceedingly slow, indicating that only a little nonrisiiment serves to keep the lalive. Ina dry time they have power of Suspending growth. altogether, renewing init again a! atthe fall of rain, Jn time of bout f mesh the! 'hy at oi er found growing in the an of towns, hee the atmosphere is i 1m) sion; it--is--entiot--t er idan ~ Tear dollars is your bet on seveh shares against 50 if the ecmavidanion af one-quarter; stantly daying 'money against a smaller sum, It will-break him sure. You will Voge find 'a experienced gambler who can induced to have payeiing to do with Nar concerns. "--New k Tele- : . & Petrolenm Engine. A vessel in use in the upper 'Thames owes its motive gypse to the explosive neces een at ting a lafp, and Leones ieee A tema at workin is of American origia. R. R. GOULDING, the Hardware Man, AT THE ANTWERP BLUE FRONT, am accused of selling Hardtare, of Her Majs dom am ascused of having the most complete stock ta choere from. eel: Pacey a ta a beantifal new store, fitted expresaly for may oninemn, and stocked with sovaliies in house tu tarnishing hardware, gosh at Lanape, Curtain Pte, a ao Plates, Goid Medal Carpet Sweepers, Clothes Weingers To all the above I plead "'gullty," and confidently await the verdict of the public. jaceeenetne 5 win ive SECRET. . It le = of to who Silver a 1s be steare question sasietr peas wie _roayite Silver Secure ey eric to buy then: then from me i you nt thei elaew are, bot thee eter the tight variety. trek Chak at 8 ged pols ot Speing ne , el : Paint, Oils, Glass, &c., cheaper than any ene else im this part : | A suicide who killed himaelf with arevol- | - Sarsapari}la, are prominent lan imarks in | the remotest fibre of the frame and effects ' WE LEaw rm 'FINE STYLES OF YORNITORE ~AXSD-- LOW PRICES IT WILL PAY 'You TO BUY FROM US. BRADSHAW & CO., FURNITURE DEALERS AND _ UNDERTAKERS. -- prt. te. 120 DOZ. DIAMOND DYES The "Medical Hall. DYEING MATERIALS! OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. J. H. NASMYTH & CO., Dispensing Chemists, ONTARIO-ST. NIGHT BELL. CASTALIAN, A California Natural Mineral Spring Water. TELEPHONE. FINE LINES OF PERFUMES, TOILET SOAPS, &c., JUST RECEIVED AT EK. J. JOHNS' WEST HwD DRUG STORE! Ontario, St., West. NIGHT BELL ON =" DOOR Stratford, Dec. 5, 1887. 23m HORSES & CATTLE MEDICAL HALL! NASMYTH'S Condition Powder & Heave Remedy T™ aay Improves their Condition, Appetite and Coat. Nasmyth" 8 Black Oil. hoi se article wl keep Sola out aud} eal qu ie ty, re for Shoulders, cad C Cracked Heals, " Prive, 2 Nasmyth's Spavin Ointment. Will clean Spavins and such like out--every time. Shite. 47 We _-- have a complete line of all the Staple Veterinary Preparations, J H. NASMYTH & CO., The Medical Hal, a Curate R. --REMOVAL.---- < eyecare HARNESS MAKER, ---- HAS REMOVED TO -- H. Baker's Block, South of the Market, Opposite the Man- sion House, Wellington Street, Where he intends rar oy First-Class Stock of Kinds Whips, 628- Harness, Bells, Combs, Brushes, Blankets. Very Cheap. REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. Stratford, Dec. 9, 1887. 623- / 42 YEARS. Steadfastly for (oe years the Waxaur Wrr- Brea has held to plea wi stood to large expense te secure a The ee MASTERPIECE nowles (who was selec a the scene at Princess ~ Jom ae & fox, at ae r) A 2 an | L LSAM | \