. ess ae i THE LOST SONG. And drank awhile ite faint but feagrant beat, ee rift to death "Tis lost," F mall, tn it fa r asherm 1 the ti ta A tempted ene it he enatec lied i: kn a And rowed: "1 with be pure, sweet tower, } ike you." Aod L | pever knew E phockest a song from cot mix ota Chie oart ome clay, am of rhyme. ¥ ae of fragrast earta il grew, Be taught one sox! | reet and true. Amd f, aa eer kite George Horton Therd is nh vagne Lee minds of our peop re 7 in our Tite rature that witcheoraft follifs im Ne ngland came te an abrupt)-close in teenth century. Such; however, is not" the case. The = eor of the two Math- drs" in the Be hteenth--eetiuer--did not *haitite to proach fromthe pulpit their unwavering belief in "the work of the devil." Thiis the Rev. Ebenezer Turell a graduate of Harvard, left at his death, in 1778, a manuscript account of a case of witcheraft. Speaking of divination, he says: "Turn not the sleve, etc., to know futuritica, * You only gratify Satan and inv rite him into your , company to deceive you." Specially in- teresting is his notice of superstitious practices current in New England, He Saye: "The horseshoe is 4 vain thing and. has no natufal tendency to keep witches or evil spirits from the houses or the vessels they are nailed to. If Satan should by such meats defend you from lesser dangers, ' tis to make way for greater ones and get fuller possession of your hearts! "Tis an evil thing w hang witch papers on the neck for the cure o agues, to bind up the weapon inst the wound, and many things of the like' age which some in the world are' fond of. Ww hat a clear insight into superstitious whieh--eome- our forefathers were fond of. ter's advice sounds.--The Open Court, A Duel of Molliteness. Olid Jiunige Fernald, of Santa Barbara, has the reputation-of being the politest man in California. He never loses an opportunity to doff his hat or to offer some-slight.attention. to way faring. men and women. One day, as he was about totake the train for San Francisco, he reached the rear steps of the last car sere approached by a young justas they priest. "After the cloth," said the chivalric judgo, stepping back with a courtly bow. "Gray hairs have the preference," re- turned the priest, with a splendid wave of the hand, "The church altways has precedence," retorted the judge, taking another back- ward step, bat in hand. "The church follows in the Tootatena® of the fathers," replied the priest, bow- ing Je low and indicating the way to the The duel of politeness was not half through, neither yielding an inch, when the train pulled out, leaving both bow- ing and smiling on the platform.--San Fransisco Examiner. Tattooed Algerians. In Algeria every girl born of native parcnts is tattooed on her forehead be- © tween the eyebrows and just at the root of the nose with a cross formed of sev- eral straight lines of small stars running close together. These tattoo marks are adark blue color. Algerian women are also considerably tattooed on the backs 6f their hands, their forearms and chests, ds well as on their shoulders, their wrists being especially adorned with drawings representing bracelets and flowers strung togetirer. Asa rule, women are the op- erators, and it is principally on children' between thenges of 7 and § that they have to exercise their art. They use sometimes a peedle, but more frequently a Barbary fig tree thorn. They employ *kohl as a coloring substance. It is a kind of fine powder made from sulphur of antimony, which is also in great re- quest by the Algerian women for the eeepces of face painting.--Chicago Her- Aboat Money Making. No ene who has any experience can doubt that money is one of the great practical forces of organized socicty. The poor boy 'who resolves to "make mouey" is not necessarily mercenary in his spirit or low in his aims. simply one stepon the road to success. That gained, he has gained a great lever. i A farther advance was made by some' obtained. Were it otherwise those living dciver: te: dies Every energetic, aspiring American boy' may rightly and naturally look forward to the accumulation of property. But to Se 'Ten- oe How natural the minis: plac 'of dry fungus. Fixing a en MADE BY FRICTION. ;. THE SLANT ARN EATERS. THING | 1S DONE "BY NA HOW THE "Tintethe World. TIVES IN MANY COUNTRIES. Among the many be autiful birds found ee el jin western Africa, tione will compare with those bearing the name of plantain Methed--Crade Tnventious caters, being called beeause they fee | on i lanitesinis and other fruits.. Tie nat- iralists call them Musophagida, lat it is hotvat-s4-likely that 'our bora and ¢ The Rubbing of Dry Sticks Together Is) aa) the Faworite Which Require a) Desteroue Ham! to Operate--The Pottery amd Fungus Fina. irl One * the first things every child | pr fer tis to the more easily remem- learnsntwiat fire iscthat certain 'savage verted name appearing at the head of this rac ra orate ithy the rubbing of two) arte ues sticks Dyeriiyi itfuily eit ople 29 the de BL er hiritr forte inthe forests scription of tlic ylof Beregal, and sometines specim "lek los tried to j met wil th on the coust of Guinea, certify 1 v new leat sit lar species is also ecen in oe, aun lL vi sith America, clare tyres The beaut fal pl umage of this variety "annot be fire frll justifies the atatemuntoo sive; under tiny nrost-ntt p Renee. -- fuinuia naturalist, that it atances--in countries is "OE uf ! princes of the feathered tion of fire in fl d3: man venta lay ure, wit ha griatiing nati toc The tiost notable of its Hak os eh ip the Weapons and give a } let plantain eater. It is a ge, ole bition of his own "aljlt--and : ifter many nly propertioned bird, twenty inne he joint and muscle Yiching expertarents lent chose onoral plunge. have givét up the attempt ina state of shining. blackish parple, set-off to great mind bordering on temporary insanity, advantage by y She deep lilac and crimson "We ourselves," writes a traveler, "haye of Its » ings, a combination of colorg * on ii hs ai Y birdin the world. Ithas a Jarge bill, the outer half of the upper and the whole of the under JUDOMENT.AND DEXTERITY. mandible being of a bright crimson, In the first place judgment is required shaded off atthe fronter thickest part in choosing the sticks. The immense intoa brilliant yellow, and then morg- variety of tropic vege tation furnishes inginto crimson agaia on the crown and many sorts that answer the purpose, but buck part of the head. Around the eyes y¥ also that will got; an expert some- isa naked spate which enhances the times may be long indinding-twe-species. beautiful coli Of the bi and crown. suitable. One must be li; ht and soft, Above its cars is a pure white 'sirfpe, ex: the other heavy, of close texture, and tending backward: and downward 'al ) both must be dry. Upon the heavy bit most to the upper edge of its neck, he cuts two grooves,in the form of a Nearly one-half of the lower part of the cross, fixes it tight--with his preliensive wings is of a deep carmine--huo, glossed toes probably--sharpens the light bit, with lilac, the margins being tipped with places it in the intersections of the crosa, the blackest violet color that spreads over and twirls it steadily between his palms, the rest of its body. This dark violet be- Gradually tinder forms, in' the shape of comes a very dark green on the under idust, which drops down the grooves in a parts, and is particularly rich on the tail, cheap on either side. If the twirling The legs are black, and its thick, hooked | ; be interrupted for a second that repre- and very broad claws, of thé same shade;'* sents so much waste time, which must show that it is fitted for living among: be recovered at enormous interest, If trees. This formation is seen in all birds ithe heavy piece shifts the finder is dis- requiring superior powers of grasping, laced. ithe middle toe of this particular species But the power of originating fire in 'being of sufficient length to encircle any this manner with facility is not an ac- ordinary sted branch. 'complishment possessed by every one, Another elegant specimen of this family ever in the countries where the practice is the variegated or crested ov eater, exist The inhabitants of the tropiesdo-se- on account its very peculiar not always depend wholly upon their crest or "topknot," which-is placed di- two sticks; among many tribes they are rectly on the nape of the one, and not, nothing but a last- resort. 'Ther-have as in: the majority of- crested hirds,.da other methods of producing fire. Awa- thetoporcrown of the lead. The gen- tive carries in his betel box perhaps a eral color of the upper parts of this bird fraguent.of hard pottery and a morsel is very light gray, witha narrow, black- of the latter ish stripe viown cach feather, Th een successful just often enough to un-, > derstand the uncertainty of the opera- ion." oe Front in the hollow of the former, and holding and top of the head and the whole of the it down with the thumb--in such a way chin and throat as far as the breast is that it follows the edge--he smartly chestuut brown. strikes his box, which is bamboo, of The under plamage beyond the breast course, just as if he were handling flint is white, each feather having a dark and steel, The fungus tinder. is glowing stripe down the middle, while the pri- in an instant. mary and secondary quills of the wings The friction methods in 'use in differ- are blackish, with a pure white spot, nt parts of the world are various, One varying in-sizein the middle of each. of the simplest is with the stick and The feathers in the middle of the tail are groove--a blunt pointed stick being run gray, with black tips, those on the along a groove of its. own making in a being entirely gray. Its bill is pure yel- piece of wood lying on the ground. In low throughout, the crimson seen in the Tahiti Mr, Darwin saw a native produce violet plantain eater being absent, and fire in a few seconds, but only succeeded its legs are gray. Its length is the same himself after much labor. This device as the first mentioned variety, buf its is employed in New Zealand, the Sand- middle toes and claws are somewhat wich Islands, Tonga, Samoa and the smaller, Radack Islands. Instead of rubbing the Still another kind is called the crowned movable stick backward and forward, plantain eater, or Senegal touraco, an ther tribes: make it rotate rapidly-in a it rivals in beauty its violet. hued com-, coun hole in the stationary piece of panion. Like the bird just described, ita wood, in the nianner referred to, thus chief attraction is a magnificent crest. making, as happily designated, a fire The whole of the head, including the drill. This device has been observed in crest, its neck, wing covers and around Lab Australia, Kamschatka, Sumatra and the shoulders is grass green without any the Carolines, among the Yeddahs of gloss, and this color also extends to the 9 Ceylon, throughout a great partof South under plumage as far as the breast, be- Africa, among the Esquimaux and In- yond which it becomes obscured" anc dian tribes of North America, in the darkened with a blackish hue. The bill West Indies, in Central "America and as is blackish purple in the middle, but, far south as the Straits of Magellan. It along the edges and within the margin was also employed by the ancient Mexi- of the sides it isa bright crimson, the cans, and Mr, Taylor gives.a quaint pict- tips of both upper dnd lower mandibles ure of the operation from Mexican MS,, being blac kish. in which a man, half kneeling onthe 'Around the eyes is a crimson patch, ivan, is causing the stick to rotate be- the upper part of which is shaped some- tween the palms of his own honda, This what like the teeth of asaw. .Immedi- simple methed of rotation seems to be ately in front of the eyes is a white stripe, generally in«use, but various devices extending to about one-third of the length have been resorted to for the purpose of of the upper eyelid, while beneath each diminishing the labor and hastening the is a black stripe running backward to- result. jward its ears and terminating in a point THE FIRE DRILL. at the lower edge of thé crimson patch' The Guacho of the Pampas tikes "an already described. This bird is smaller elastic stick about eighteen inches long, than either of the others, ita total length. presses one end to his brenst and the from bill to tail being bat sixteen inches, other in the hole in a piece of wood, and' Tuken altogether, these of: then rapidly turns the curved part like the bird creation easy "unequaled in a carpenter's center bit." In other-cases brilliancy of plumage and shapely pro- To gain the rotation is affected by means of a portions, and it is to be regretted that be-| foothold by the ownership of property is cord or thong wound round the drilland cause of their rarity and extreme shy-| be' | pulled alternately by this end and that. (ness but very few specimens can Nosth American Indians, who a tein the neighborhood of muscums of nat- have applied the principle of the bow ural history would have a chance to drill, and the still more ingenious feast their eyes on this matchless arra pomp: wish for money, to seek it, or to use it in drill was used by the Iroquois Indians. of colors, and thus get a better idea of than |" -a selfish, base spirit, to make it in iteelfgFor a full description of these instru-| the first Jmnents mid ad higher Sine seriously of other hor: things mil of uber and his aie} ; Cquntry Bridgegroom--Yes, ho's got peintin' offices all aaa: city.--Epoch, the apse of the tain eaters ican, ed bya mere pen picture. : Philadelphia Thines po 3 Testing the Hardness of Waters. only in connection with-superstitious ob-/ -servances. gF We fe ine--Weate jamount of lime and sodium carbonate ago "that to soften-a- the rea: geal of « ecklenberg vil-| buen devised by M. L. Vignon, It gives minded A belief in the = Roe by the friction of wood has.at ~~ 1 the water oder enn aad aetign ed among 3 y solution of sadium carbonate contain- ition European race, and. not et edt pe plienol-phthalein | many years f need | ago : being used to indicate the end of pel re Praction' in thé Highlands of o¢ the reaction. The amount of sodium | One of its princi oat lbp lg vot has always been considered to be its ef- tity of salts of calcium an: magnesium | ae Kitna erin prot j = water. --Industrics, end &re sneak boxes and the like ¥ ir aaa in St. Abrabam's Oak. The old oak at Mamre in Svria, or, as | Deseription of Three-of the Most Beauati. it is known everywhere, "Abraham's edenstein, the editor 'of aT Oak, " js One of the most famous and ven- eral le treea in the wor 1, It isi rever- enced alike by Jew, C Hristian and Ma- hometari, for it is supposed to mark the yot where the patriarch pitched his tent in fhe desert. There is a superstition in Jerusalem, and in all the country about, that whoeve 'r shall cut or injure this tree sp will lose his first born son. So fur cen- turics it has been allowed to toss it "nt ied and contorted limbs in the gales whi 'h sweep from the Mediterranean vert e Syria n plai ry a Thi u was Visit ed by Sir Joseph Box Y of 1560, and in his pares BP n Srrian otke .tead the follow- ing rear before the i eoceLy pera mae rip € 1. Gait Ty hii own bi amet Al Pee ee eee See eee to Que res pret lo-wecifera, tich, to quote from Sir Joseph's paper, "ia by far thie a lant tr througt ut Sy s rocky cEpe ¥, w ith a dense myro hr trees cight to twelve feet high, "ee ba ing from the base, thickly covere; i with anall avergreen rigid leaves, and' lear- ing acorns copiously, On Mount Carmel it forms nine-tenths of the shrubbery vegetation, and it is almost equally abundant on the west flanks of the An- tilehanon and many slopes aud valleys of Lebanon. Owing to the indiscriminate destruction of the forests in Syria, -- oak rarely attains its full size. " The ci cumference of. the trunk of "Abrabann's 'iy givers 2a fh Germany's Beldest Blackmailer. | Berlin, Feb S24 The trial of Herr' Fri- the new Derlis newspaper, for blackmriling, is the sensa- tion of the hour in Herlin "hr reve |e thom in Court cone: rning society happer it ge ait e mething Jterrib'e, the public he tog tre quently excluded, as the Judge thought thas the evidence was liable to corrupt people's The trial showed a tient Frieden. stein wae the bolcest and at eaecersfa blackmailer in the German nee. dealt only with wealthy and pron people, and among those vi timized were Baron Kohn, of Dessau, the, Emperer privat banker: Fraenkel, the chief of the Beilin bank: Gerson, the head of the largest s hoovein the emy; Sept ont: OWL merous shining tishts of the ccert and she. army. 0 6@e o --------- L\emeuber that Apers Cherry Pert re has no qual as a Speécitic For CONS, ph aad all Wfections of the throat and iongs For nearly halfia century it has been greater demand than any other remedy ke pulmonary complaints, All: drug#ista ave it for aale, Dr Talmage emiles at nowsparcer rei tions on him, even when the New York Fun takes cevéral co'umna to prove hima tumbeg, But when John Howson made in. bs Taimage in the role of the Sorecre', in Sallivan's opera the « nergetis doe' or' pailosophy didn't wear sowel', He git) mad and took to the law to stop Howsen's mighty reproductian of himself. Dr Tal. mage probably thinks there ia a differen | even in free-advertising. _ The Worst Of All The iems. + Don't talk to me uhons your political | Rheuma: 5 ptf due to the presence of uric acid in the blood, is most effectually cured by the use of Ayer's Sarsapa- rilla. Be sure you get Ayew and no other, and take it till the poisonous acid is thoroughly expelled from the system. We challenge attention to this testimony :-- "About two years ago, after anffering for nearly two years from rheumatic out, being able to walk only with great iscomfurt, banc vi trled ¥ Temec neluding mineral waters, without relief, T saw by an advertise- sponge Ina) ver" ' Sara make a trial. of "this medicine, and took it regularly for eight gee aad am Pleased to state t ected @ complete cure. I have since bad no re = ~ot--the- --Mra__h Dodge, 110 West 125th st., New York, "One year ago T was taken i) with- { | cons fined to pot Fe six months. out of the sickness very much debili- tated, with no appetite, and = system disordered in every way. menced using Ayer's Sarsaparilia and 'ek to 2 6 Gt ones, gaining in soon recovering my usual the. T cannot say too pool. in praise of this well-known medicine." --Mrs. L. A. Stark, Nashua, N. H. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BT Or. J. ©. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, Price 61; aix bottles, (1. Worth $4 a bottle. W. 8. COWAN, of the spread of the wp as 90 feet. Quercus pseudo-coccifera is an ever- green species, with the general appear- ance of the Ilex, of southern Europe, and closcly related, botanically, to Quercus coccifera, a common and widely distrib- uted scrub oak of southern Europe and of Algeria; indeed, ®ooker was of the opinion that the two plants were merely gpographics il varieties of the same spe- den and Forest. Shooting Canvashack. "The only proper way to kill canvas- back ducks is to shoot them'on the wing as they fly over vou. If you are a muff you will have lota of sport, and will not hurt the ducks, You will blaze away at them as they fly toward you, which is precisely what I, asa lover of the species, would-leattike:you to do, unless you-are generous and are disposed to divide your mg. Solongas you shoot them in this way only a rare accident will cnalilé you te do any harm t6 the beautiful crea- tures, They wear a breastplate of fvath- vers which. is practically impervious to shot. If you areas win let them fly over, and shoot the a; a3 a tey recede, "The fact that the ducks fly high and are very swiftof wing renders it diffl- eult to kill them on the wing at all, and as very few uten are really good shots, resort is had by the majority to such 'blind' shooting as is permitted. Tat- teries-.are, of course, forbidden, and so Put it is permitted to the half skilled sportsmen to build blinds of reeds along the shore soit cot shooting very litthe harm would be.done but for the fact that the canvas- back is beset with a curiosity surpassing | that of women, "If he sees anything in motion on the shore whic sh he does not understand, no prudence will. restrain him from paddling at once towards it, regardless of all danger, and the duck shooters take advantage of this by train- ing little dogs to run about in a frisky, absurd fashion in front of the 'blinds' when ducks are in sight. As soon as 'dacks seoobatic ging one. flock makes for the shore, and the sports- men can shootat what range they will. --Philadelphia Record. A Milky Way. [learned the other day that the big i milk supply companies of the city found it necessary to exercise a surveillance over their drivers, but it has been a ready reduced to an elaborate system. An experienced and dishonest driver can start out with fifty gallons of milk in- spected pure at the depot, and from the supply deliver sixty-five gallons, the fifteen gallons accruing to his own profit, and being secured by judicious watering at various points on the route. Before the discovery of this practice some of the drivers bad arecular run of customers of whom their employers knew nothing, The companies' inspectors now go about the city at erent: and, following a de- livery of milk, us'soon as the driver is | gone subject it to an inspection with the jlactometer. If it has been watered that harged, and, by an agree- }ment with the other dairy companies, he £0 cannot enter the employ of any of them. Louis Globe-Demo- A rapid' method" for ascertaining' the prof. {2 comparatively modern times. was unknown if an- :elent Eesope. The black rat first came Asia in the Sixteenth |[~ to Europe from eentury, and about the beginning of the Seventeenth or the-ending Six- eee: NEW GOODS ; Mrs. Hobson's 'Mrs Hobos I wish Uked 1 something 'to read. . Did you get only one Sunday Paper? Mr, Hobson--Yes, my dear, but it isin two parts. +" Vell, et ms' have oné while you are | "oe "Certainly, gr Which half would ot prcerthe pliteal half rth base peal halt?' --New York bey © ve ae Sead " en teil you there's no = on earth so bad as Rheum The venera' was right. St Lawrence's gridiron or "uatimozin's pallet of fire was not more a bed of torment than the couch of the; Smarty to rhenmatism. It ia considered by the faculty one of the most obstinate as well as one of the most painful of maladies, and it © certainly does resist all "neat oe with ex- ill and as howerer, in this age a! Y concen Si master powition ; and even this pe ful disease, entrenched anaes muscles, and interknit, an i: were, with the sinews and tendons of cur frames, is compelled to yield to the curatives they have provided. We have it on ---- authority --the testimony of patients themaelves-- that rheumatism, however aeons seated, may be cured by the regular raise tant application of Holloway's Ointment, This. we feel assured, will be welcome in- te thousands of \ 'deen by the disease, or limping with , stiffened joints along the pathway to the tomb Ina climate where the quicksilver sometimes makes a leap of thirty degress up or down, the climate is of course a prevalent one; and in onr new settlements at our preat the South and in all low and damp locs- tions, few pervons reach the age of forty years without a rheumatic visitation. It is clear, therefore, that a preparation which will afford immediata relief, and effect eventually a thorough cure c the compluint, must be of especial value to the people of all countries. We cannot reasonably deals in view of Bhi: well-at- tested suite which before us, poses as they are re by stances within our own eoewe the Ointment referred to object ; and among all the erasers hich the discoveries of the t celebrated physician and philanthropist have conferred upon mankind, this is certainly not the least important. Many an rican tiller of the soil, whose services are needed in the field, is at thin moment Tanguishiog on a bed of sickness ; the hands that should quide the plough or grasp the spade rend werless by Rheumatism, Many atoiler in every branch of productive labour is similarly situated ; and we can imagine with what joy there sufferers would hail the means of immediate cure. 'o all euch we feel justified in resommend- ing this balsamic remedy, the application of which, with the aid of a few doses of + Hidinway!s-Pilla to-regulate.the internal organs, would, we feel asstired, them to health and usefulness.-- Jaily Arua, circam- jones Forcible Facts ~ 'The testimony ag tothe merits of Bar- dock Blood Bitters is overwhe'ming an? admits of no dispute, It is the beat blood purifier extent. It4 action on the stomach liver, carbide and bowel« in perfect cures sia, constipation, bad blood, AaiSeuenead; sick headache, and all skin diseases, NOTICE--A GOOD BULL FOR SERVICE, O* EB txp CON. OF SOUTID EANTIOPE, - r~ oo, of pnt na --6 minutes walk from. Oo. T. 8. station -- Terme Strictly. Cash. are JouN 'SILL TFANT. Stratford, Feb. tith, 1 RECEIVED LATELY MEDICAL HALL. Piso's Consumption Cure, Cases Syrup of Tamarac Gum, Tamarac Elixir, Diamond Consumption Cure, Diamo Purifier, Mother Siegal's Syrap, Turkish ©8, Diamond Dyes; Paine's pound. JH. NASMYTH & C0., correc pein Just to Hand. Confectionery ; Combs and Brushes, of all kinds E.J.JOHNS' 'DRUG STORE, Market Square. Siesiford, Feb 10, 1890. let along the alluvial boners, of} rivers, in the hemlock swamps sit Large assortment of English} AMS Valuator, etc, Bales attended et) a W. D. WBIR, AUCTIONEER and Appraiser fo ot Waterlon, Sales at- tedided in all parts of the ee Grane German ken. emma lama aoe inte W. B. FREEBORN. Mri ONT., Conveyancer, t Fo M-F.1. Co., Auctioner, &a. to Rates of Interest. Special at- tenn, ov kc > At Princess Street, cena ae Out. _Savattord, June 13th, 1-86. JAMES PROCTOR ratford Terrapin Hotel, Ontario street, will receive promp _Sirattond. Apeil ara, aco THE STAR-LAUNDRY BER sow apee 205 © MANAGEMEST OF ITS re ro work at dhe lowest laundry new pre who sill try and do the possible prices oe want any done, give him a « JOSEP H A. HINSPERG Aaa ~ Stratford, Feb THh, Bo work A SURE CURE Fou SILIQUENESS, CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DIZZINESS, SICK HEADACHE, AMD DIstAsce oF THE LIVER. AND. THCY ARC MILD, THOROUGH AND PROMPT T {4 ACTION, ANO FORM A VALUABLE AID > BURDOCK BLOOD SITTERS Ih THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF CuROeIC AND OBSTINATE DISEASES. ~ DON'T DESPAIR. F YOUR HAIR 18 FALLING OUT, bec I thin or gray, there is a way Out of the firulty. * «MAIR MAGIC." DR. DORENWEND'S yetor | PREPARATION, and ae hair use will eee Se pada a ha As os reqolar ; i - & iL i : i iu (i oF E aati q ag variates of Worms, Ri ren ote ees ottended to. Btat- » rietcr. i