Shocking State of Affairs. , CONVICT MINERA irae AND ae . tents el ee ee Pat geen tiene ve-Coal-Hiih-ons Gems yet ba had been eod by Warden puna wis that he Was in the the prisoners fight. The hod ot Mark Elder was exhumed, a ana it was of _.death. a post in the mines last summer Ae atid to death. As the investigation continves the more horrible details are re- vealed, and the citizens of Coal Hill are much excited and threaten to hang Graf ford and tear down the prison barracks. cide tintinioon The Kaiser's Last Hears. Farther particulars of the last hours of Kaiser Wilhelm's life have como to light. At5p.m. Thursday Court Chaplain Keoge! was summoned. to his bedside, aud, as at short intervals throughout the evening he addressed the Em with verses trom the Psalms and other parts of the Bible, the Kaiser several times interrupted him with the exclamations :--'* That ts beaati- -fult" " That is right." After the verse, * Lord, now lettest thou," etc., had been read, the Grand Duchess asked her' father if he prscarcet it, to which he replied, ** Yea," repeated the closing words ot text, * "' Mine eyes have seen thy sal- vation)" Weking up from -- he said :~- "TI have had a dream was the 7 ceremony in the crest: " Clearl > is had thought of his funeral i * ~_ mind, In voir Qype ae ee Passages wore recited, and again the Kaiser exclaim- --*Tt was beautiful." At the request of Prises William the 'Kaiser about this time took a glass of wine. Later on be press and turned his e eyes on the devoted ies and then closea the Emperor's inst;--*' Ich habe keine zeit _jetat mude zu sein"--"I have no time now moat and . Bat they were spoken lore his death and were sh La mse that the Emperor utter ed vies faseral is iis to taks place |" -on Satarday afternoo: The *Royal" aaaveding witiabhe are qusilabohe wack pure. M. Baurrex, electro ro gold, i, silver and nickel plater, Albert st., Stratford. The fumber of patients confined in asylums for the insane last year was -of whom 1,570 were males and 567 pate et, ~The previous year the total was A,117 @ percentage o 34.17. i -- od was as " THE E YOUNG I 3 FOLKS. ) SACQUEMINOT Mis Mirsate Rowetihens Was Too Mach) Who is there now veyed aught of his story? / for Her. | What is left of him but « name ahh ~ ty him who shared in Nape leon" There is a little irl of 5 years living in the, Of same house » with me who valle rae Der Ua uct med that this sword -bad won him his 4 There RD LAR. Poss seems - ra and one 'ot them has a big, falb beard. Ouse) Ah! Ose brypel oe a man js oa 'diceraing! }dity 2 askedther- M shar woabt-cather kiswlbias. le grant se Sere, than me. She looked straight at me and! A' Sisierliit ci or at said: "Wh how could I kiss bim! There That bis fame would ae va) _. art of arose? isn'teny Fr ae Bost m Gk lobe tessie Chandler in American Magazine. ox --_ 1 Globe mh Vords and Their Uses. The Musqrito of Trinidad. Two-yrarold Dorothy has had a severe ie particular room asaigned t case of chicken pox, She came down with it would have been equally delightful, but that the very day that the family had chicken for ™ possession of it was dispated even in day that Dorothy light by mitgquitees, who, for bloodthirsty Ty Comarestpet bee ferocity had a bad pre-eminence over the tween thé dinner and the disease, until a few Wort that Thad ever met Wiflt ls Wbere: i days afterward, just as the baby was getting killed « one wh » was at work upon me, andex- better, a turkey-was brought on for ean ner. -- him -- at --. a ic Pe Hors Dorath refosed to eat it, say mg ~The the inspiration OL genie, had drawn fit GA ebic it tindo te have chicke Tart ticeness te the dev ila latig -- -_ and I don't want.to eat turkey ¢ body, a nick for a neck, he key pox."--Woman's Tribun: head aml a beak for a mouth, aie lle arm, and longer xpindle legs, twe pointed wings myself n the oad have tur on and a tail. Line for line there the figure & Jolmny Drew the Live. 2 i . fo line there ed was before me which, in the unforgetabl Little Johnny Vizzletop is an Austin boy, } who hast ; if to tailpiece, is driving the thiet under the ga » ha £ ob) Wwmany Vv r wear ape oye ery : lows, and | had a melancholy satisfaction in the cast off clothing «f his elder bro Johnny never gets anything until > geta through with at...A few. days ase Bob had a dreadful toothache, and it was decided tha * identifying hin. on the lookout for gers and land crabs, scorpions, cen' ipe he whe would bite. ine walked slipperices over the floer in the " the aching tooth should be pulic#l. ippe x i 'y, ¥ i! all t ch oe these | met with none, either there «: « ' gee © ape 'ee anywhere; but the sousquito of Tri 'dad is like," said Johnny, "but I ain't se by himself. For sanlice cechiry's tu you that) | with them afterward. I can tell ul venom of tooth and trumpet he is with- right now. "Texas Siftings. oat a miatch in the world.--J. A, Froud the M. 1." ~~ nai sa Bir A Memorable Incident, While making a professiorml catt- this : morning on a little child the grandmother, Charles Reede, the English novelist. once who has great faith in doctors, as I know |{Companied a party of friends to the opera from past experience, was telling of 9 ut Dresden. Wagner's *Lobengrin" was oa remedy sin asa poultice by some lady that evening, and here is Reade's account of twenty-five years ago with success, and then fone memorable incident related to that per added ioeladios "I guess she did not doctor |/OTmmance: 3 Ba er). "We had taken front seats in a proscenium -- SAFER FORGE AES Peet cae: tbox. Snddenly a stranger took a seat behind hus and expressed himeelf in such sentences as i* Ach himmel! Sebr gut! Ach schlect! Sehr Off the "Track. Teacher--John, what are your boots 'schiect! and many other gutterals-of the made of! jsame sort, clapping his hands meanwhile and Boy--Of leather. jstamping like a demented creature until he "Where does the leather co: come from?" Ibecame absolutely intolerable. As soon as "From the hide of the ox." the first act was over I sought the usher and "What animal, therefore, supplies you with requested him to have the lunatic removed. But 'boots and gives you meat wo eat!" I can never hope to give you the gestures "My father."--Boston Commercial or the expression-with which the fear stricken Seite usher replied: 'Ach! das ist Herr Waguer'" Dude Horse = Boston's ' rhe 1 History of Right. suburba, and summer, when years ald, Pape laying one day near again Think how large a part of bumaii activity piarza. Seeing a horse pass which was is consumed in the endeavor, mostly fruitless, boo ae with a net, sh8 extlaimed: "Pity '© settle questions of right. The whole ma- sakes, grandpa, there is a horse with a shawl © on!"--Boston Globe, Little Bertha lives in one of last. various instance, its judges, adyo- cates and attorneys attends continually upos jthis very thing. And yet the glorious uncer- tainty of the law has become a byword. Fleets and armies are still the last resource of civili- zation fordetermining the rights of nationa, | freey. as in the time of Brennus, the sword is mate makeweight in the scale of Climate and Weather. A little wadagece in the public school the other day, w by her ---- to > explain | the dffereace between climate "Climate is what we have with us'all the ' time, but weather only lasts a few days.""-- Detroit Frve Press. ityrdom. It is ever being crucified a and put to an open shame. o generally, we may assert that the cian wo for'? what are epee hitherto been venerated fresh mg a Leak. 8: Bike Hobby, » said his mother, an 6 by ma SEY > years before he i had been warned to bo wi | justice It may be said that the history a c right throughout the ages is onc long mar-/Viewed them frora the car window in all SR rman BILL NYE TAKES A TRIP. He Visits the Home of Jay Gould--Ning- . ara Palle Graphically Described. - Os Boarp trax Bocyptxe Trane ) | Loxorrcpe 000 Miues Weer { Grvex Por. ~ ous the flank of the Catekilis, at the head of the Dela im that quiet and picturesque valley: attention relatives there who fact that Mr. Gould He has a number of nate with pleasure the stroke bs. -- Crittering a way his means during his __ lif, lo the nil is a map of rr while in the surv ot Mr. Nish, o if Walton, there rounty ,made by Jay Gould eying business, and several oecame monarch of all he Iu Franklin there is an old wheelbarrow hich Mr. Gould used on his early surveying In this he carried his surveying in its, bis nightsbirt and manicure set. tel with the wheel there is an ct rangement by which at night the young veror could ~ at a glance, with the i» piece of red chalk and a barn door . how far he had trave led during the day. This instrument was no doubt-the father of the pedometer and the cycloraina, just as the boy is frequently father to the man. It was also no doubt-the avant-courier of-the Duteh clock, now, used on freight cabooses, which not only shows how far the « var bas traveled, but also the rate of speed for cach mile, the average rainfail and whether the conductor has eaten onions during the day This instrument has worked quite a change in railroading since my time. Years ago I © can remember when I used to ride in a ca- boose and enjoy myself, and before good fc tune had made me the target of the alert and swift flying whisk broom oe the palace car, it was my chief joy to catch a freight over the hill from Cheyenne, on the Mountain division. We were not due anywhere until the following day, and so at the top of the mountain we would eutof! the caboose and let the train goon. We would then go into the giorious hills and gather sage hens apd cotton tails, In the summer we would put in the afternoon catching trout in Dale creek or gathering maidenhair ferns in the bosky delix, Bosky dells were more pienty there at that time than they are now. It was a delightful sensation to know that!. i magi hinery of justice, with its legislatures, its ¥® heap loll about in the glorious weather, | Pe SUPP inne gg eprsibas - vourts a small string of stark, varn P Rrouk With clapped Becks, ks, hanging aimlessly Je" can exploded a patient was visiting him, x by one gill to a gory willow stringer and | -- py in confusion, and then beat our train home by two hours by letting off the brakes and riding twenty saad fifteen minutes. ; Isaw Niagara ie on Thursday for de [e first time. The si 2 be their might, majesty, power and dominion | Niagara falls pinnges from a huge eleva- | n- ition by reason of its inability to remain on But, speaking forever. forever. Te | j $30 ; 661 out of T74 supersensuous, ditt per aap, ates DESOLATION. Alone = sit in iiargockes wat jew my guthered teoneides rare, to mock my cruel fate-- My lonely lot, so bleak and bare: ined troer ther whistiing wind aod swirls with teckless might; Whose breath brings death to human kind wey cs ND Put the: 'cold wind af her deep acorn Has blighted all my joy of life; Within my soul no hope is born-- No rest or peace or savage strife And what care i for pride or fame, is driven mo Ashes the prize for wh ich I've striven Dead ashes fam a ¢ deep 4 eepair, A he art burned out by passien's fre A MESICINE MAN SUPPRESSED. The Amusing Story of a Powder Explo- sion in an Eskimo Village. There was another episctle which these pe- iliar peop je seemed to consider asa ike, Which I will exyiain as briefly as pomd- to show what the native yx n the frigid o men had a pa or i be Pp dnted so o marty was finally led ta: a huge = consider ask bi cheerfully assented t explain, ar a arins and suppress la me others, When he was a young boy he was one of a small band of ni rad the t came ipon the remains of Sir John Franklin's un- unate parties that had starved to death, . sund many curious things among the scattered material at the site of the sad ne One, which immediately took his boyish ye, Was orod flattened can that he found, full of "'biack sand," and on tho first occasion he had to utilize the can, which was ono winter evening when ho wes sitting by the lamp in his snow house, be pourtd this useless material out on the plat- form of snow that held the lamp, and in do- ing 80 some of it splashed in the flame, Thero was an instantancous explosion, which he tried to explain by yeffing "boom!" until I thought the top of my bead had been knocked eff, and when some of the shock had passed away ho found that the top of his snow hut had disappeared in the dark night, the stone lamp was broken into pieces, and the kitchen utensils and parlor furniture all mi Ho was a medicine man of tho tribe--that jincantations, etc.--and at ts was not known for a month or 'two afterward, when he turned up in another tribe farther sou' whose doctors, he laimed, were not of such a pyrotechnic 'school of medicine. cine man said that his own nérv- fearfully of his story, but if his Fepuatlio-wunghen bined wrse more recovered, for he was the most enormous or civilized, tuck eterdancte 2 nore : -- "hows pare -- with what aoe ve paying 50 25 cents per pound for. A Chicago. man who had erected «fine -- He handed t called for Rigeimesstoee He had found it everhaul and change senate system of the ;estiioes te oun tied Vad ont: -amine them at Wale. Bicos., the plese Sor big a Lichy ed rings wl pepe tg lieve this story, and Lope Bary dre to tell it on our own The inventive' -- of the «Syed t large as absolute, sx 1 peity-- Walk oop just drank some coffee vinn --W ¥ proriyers: OF and ie tp ie "W. 8. Lilly in Fortnight! ly Review, oe didn't eet irene to tell 3 California's Towns and Villages. om. The small towns and villages of Califor-' inte we rr e ra - ag be beautiful and at- Feline Acoustics, the impro te now lounge, purring as loud| lecing KS Fak all of them en improve |ment societies are are organized. Youth's -- introducing the best water and lighting sye-| a ' tems available, and doing all that --o po of mothetio art i ae Didn't Hit. and beauty. This is a step in the right exclaimed an enfant terrible, direction, will do much to attract after scrutinizing the face of an elderly vie-|best class of people into the state --Saa itor for some moments, "Mr. Smith ain't! Francisco Bulletin. got but two teeth, and them don't hit!"-- ree Harper's Bazar. ine Corns, The question was egesh ot atte in Bern, Germany A news- use it had adver- 'clined giving an opinion on the point, and as ithe lawyers disagreed about it the case jto to be Senate to gain time for obtaining ---Chicago News, |. "Chicago Boy--Roller skatia' may be out of Reversed the Needle. style, but sister 6 A surveyor who was caught in jstorm while engaged in the Sistas Orlando, Fia., left his : The New Way. A new steel gun has been designed for ourjstorm a tree very near the compass new steel navy. As the enemy approaches/struck by lightning, and the effect upon the the muzzlo his attention is attracted by a was to erse it so as to instrument rev make | small sign, "Drop a nickle in the slot and see|the north point of the needle change position 'the gun go off."--Burdette in Brooklyn/and point south. The of Eagle. ~~ ithe Couldn't Bore Him. ee Cree for breath}--I-fear|covered the fact. --Chicago Times. BING ST a 'weary y Mr. Hearyweight--Sot a a cy of it; play on, can't tell one note.of m rom another, "Burdette in in Brooklyn i robles ee The Superior (Wis) Inter Ocean has been a tri to Wait. "Oscar W Wide expect tobe buried in West i 'Abt r: a float Hem Usman Kling and plows tnd wicked nd pug ban trict there any reason for th 3 J nacious and brave and voluptuous and great Lees Costly t= the Long Run. tho poate --1 Rovwadeg a0 yearly contract Worth and His Em th = phaser. Worth, milliner, lives in the Look Hard and You'll see eee eo sev acres Gout whe pet eee, girl ston in 'a year it 1s thiceen open to bis = "Post-| the sts a day -eeript. nee cease ne Moore |e Burlington Free ; p according to se Te Sow York Hreing Wert gher than a Ft life, and could easily dispose of a rein- ia the point to which the falls are |™Y life, y 8 w falling, This causes a ic amas ham ata lunch be came pres thunder Say * paneet which interested him and called him away. After he noticed the paragraph and a thick m of see . How convenient and pleas- of this can be @2t it is to be a cataract like that and have People thei homenin oer to attract their Many sind in the United States and who were once a4 pure as the bean- tiful snow, have talon: buh thaty did pot a8. tract the attention that N The officer said that I had nothing in my luggage that was liable to duty, bat stated that I would need heavier underwear SE ne nn Ok Bh May tres cae me. I met a man in Cleveland, O., whose namo Ho was at 'the Weddell house, and talked freely with me about our gone I: he bad bones seeding, ed enw thai fo gehen who had ved in town from New York, and who jwas introducing a new line of green goods, I have often what there is about y seems to draw green goods men wher- 'ever I go. lads the oder of new mown hay, eee oe ee I seem to of the loftiest bufidings Pith my ee ws erage the busy haunts lof men and throng the crowded marts trade? Or do strangers suspect me of being Bre otory In Cleveland owing to the fact that I had been AF ss Panky ra his story, which was alto- Guaranteed to Cure when ad othera in Fad ask your Druggiss for The Greet Kectiecs I was rather indisposed, -~ rou-want 10 be cured ay ll euvons ON Ry ee 1. Six $5, Garcke Detroit, For Sale by C. E. NASMYTH & CO., Stratford. For Bilious- Disorders and Avid Campbell's Cathartic Compound e, i He i nd by heir will save the lives q [Bat why do you wee weep! The acting is cer- en] tainly "Excuse ine, Tamj}-- ~ 'They Naturally Gijected. bowslling a manny I paid to come. in. Ibis alleged that ina -- near New York an old tom used eeaecneaestemegmammsanest aes a tonading Leave suki Rirchen: bat the woman jimpressed into the bottoms of their loaves of bread.--Good Housekeeping. -- The Logic of Poor Merchants. chicken cholera Sn i ey woe venoms no Lao fond of the classical lane nich Se ens =n fes See ime aap wht ow ne rae cami i vahphommacn to having f leased with objected ving fragments of (pl _ 1e don't know of ; n ae, E SST a Pee Aaah BA "ne : of j complaints, |» ICH! IcB: IcB! Undersgned has Jaid in large stock "DilPere fee, tro the tte Lak rll ot "Barat, Feb. om, a _ BEN, SLEET. UNRESERVED AveTIO' SALE oF-- FARM 'STC K! ! serene &, "COWAN, "juctioneet, has * w:etractions trom Mr. Ww. woonD, tosi! by Public , on Lot 10, Con 4, Tow o WNIK, on TUESDAY, MARCH 27, ite8, st} o'clo*k p.m., the following F 7, vin >~-3 of mar d to n foal to ** Laird @'Urie =~ i filty, rising 3 yrare old, ai by * Darn! 3 a heifers, 5 rising An will be eld ieee 31 fanning mill. WILL CURE OR RELIEVS BILIOUSNESS, DIZZINESS, DYSPEPSIA, DROPS INDIGESTION, PLUTTERING JAUNDICE, OF THE HEART, ERYSIPELAS, ACIDITY OF SALT RHEUG, THE STOMACH, HEARTBURN, DRYNESS HEADACHE, OF THE SKIN, And of dinease aris' Guordered UIVER, KIDNEYS, "STOMAGn BOWELS OR BLOOD, T. WILBURN & C0,, Preveigere GRAND TRUNK --* wee "pen eit OF TIM Trains are eeeaers as isis _ FOR MAIN tine AST. i 6250 P- 70 9 p. m.-- Passenger. FOR MAIN LINE WEST. "= 16 a. m.--Expres, 25 a. m.--Mixed. 1228 pm Eaprese m.--Expreea. a: FOR LOXDOX. --- - a. m, 'ahied. 25 p.m press. $5 pm --2x ete. 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