* "oanine i ye . the youth upon whom depends the tray- * eer comfortfor the next "Fite? hard a er einen ine. sites. caitnrcachiaabieiken Satalxanrtine ase pin . 2 : : Sat a= i cp alo BGR ig > hs TES RSLS OS . pandas 80 HR. 333: UN saat . * 'isenthiadiendliccientl 5 ats -- Ee _ TYPOGRAPHICAL WIT. Peints Tint Every Practical Printer-Edl- ter Will 'Appreciate. A rapid comp wilt tiistribute-more let- ters in a day than « mail carrier can dis- i¢ in a month, although a camp has to read all of his letters before dis- tributin; them. Fortunately for some people (married and «itgis), mail car- * gers are not required to do likewise, Like mail carriers, comps are liable te drop letters into the wrong box, occa- sionally. Questionable-- Y? Circular letter--O. - An open letter---C. Fow! case--A hen coop. Tailbearer--The letter Q. Casemates--Printer friends. Compositors are the only class of men who work hard and take their e's at the same time, and who set standing. Always crooked--The letter 5. The long and short of it--I and T. Good printers are never hard cases. Never counterfeited --Printers' quoins. Copperfaced. types of mankind--In- Double leaded articles--Cannon loaded with grape and canister. A printer's purse is never so full but what it has space for more coins. There is this difference between a prin- ter and a sprinter: One works with his fingers and arms; the other with his fee 4 and legs. A printer may strictly observe dil golden rule, but the steel rule that fits the measure of his composing stick-is of! more interest to him. - Pied 'type is something that printers! dislike; but when it comes to pied chick- en, or even pied veal or muttom, thecase) is entirely different. When opposing armies come together, the conflict is generally decided in favor} of the one that forces the other to look} after the greatest amount of leaded mat- ter. Ata roller skating rink a short time; ago atepo - considerable atten} tion by his graceful and difficult mov e| ments. 'Nothing strange," said one of! the audience, "for a printer to be at home! with the rollers." ly A "sub" with a battered nose, on en-! tering a newsroom the other night, was! asked who had slugged him. . 'A fellow with a stick," he replied, " 'and to save | I " That 8, put: a . to further interviewing.--Detroit! , Free Press. The Dog amd the Lamb. |, : A certain lady had once a valuable Bt. In the matter of tolerating poe = Bernard of excellent pedigree, carefully se: -- but what trained, and in ali respects of well nigh sa ee modes always ideal excellence save for one fault: he ever their own Pasi a cithae would kili lambs. -He was beaten, he be ready war Pen Set ee Mtory wae thiprisoned.-the-bedy of the latest sevaruioh. mes fone Pnelat a ina lamb Which had fallen a victim: to his = mr aie fury was fastened around 'his neck as a railway a sak * -- middie aged badge of shame, but allto to avail. His lady, a 1 aris tookine oy Sine mistress concluded that it was im possi- awry om (a fationsa y: _ -- ble to break him of his fault and that At one of the stations a young man Ge she must sell him. «| in, holding. & lighted cigarette in his ay matters were tilithin etate 'a hand, and ss the -- curled in the friendly farmer who had upon some oc- lady > face, she pate Sn cin casion got into his head the fact that the "This is nota smoking carriage. dog's mistress was fond of pets sent her j the » youth, , 'i ve vy 2 SHOWY COsset, all gay with ribbons and "Pm not ja ing." retorte ' val wit Bre if us innocent as innocence itself, 'eet i ma ;: oy rd pd =i srr Ww! The lady was in despair... She expected cep wo get to sates cabal \ tl, that her dog would fall upon the lamb "Tobacco smoke makes my mother i 1, and teur it limb from limb;. but having and I must ask you to put out your cig: j,, 1,. past lad much experience with rett P if H pets she said to herself that if this catas "Pr m not émoking, and I shall not do irophe was to happen she did not pro- poss to. have it postponed until she be- came deeply attached to the newcomer, and so Galthetatety led the lamb up to - Semmary Punish said " "Then I'll' make. you!" said the iad. His face had grown pale, and as he rose the other put out a formidable fist which - . ie doy, said to him that it was her would proba have crippled his-oppo- lainb, a directed him to watch it. nent. the dog looked at her rather wistfully, And now Ps strange thing happened. The burly squire had hitherto remaine | quite passive; but he now produced some thing which glittered in the sunlight; there was a Click, and the young man with the cigarette was eecwrely hand- sulted. evidently requesting permission to tear the pretty innocent, ut she sternly shook her head and departing left the pair together on the lawn. Sheis willing to admit, now that the trmil proved successful, that she had no idea that it would, and that she expected to find the lawn strewn with the dis- membered fragments of the lamb. When eanie "who proved. to be a detective | bo. hours inter she returned, however, weed for edie important work. he dog was found to have taken the "The cigarette waa clumsily picked up lim into his especial favor and under 'with both hands and dropped out of the : his eapecia pretec tion, He lay down window. Just then the train rolled into with it, he followed jt about, and seemed Pa station, and the SOnee SOAR, mutter hava becowe uncomn 1only fond of it ing. Very sorry--won' t do it ceeete A au Way not at all allied to carnivorous had no idea"" wae. aizen.his, lips nstinetay:di1-etrort ¢retam bard the cog) which = terre on "ag 7 Eee became the closest of friends, and aslong panes out of the carriage.-- Yout as the two did live they continued to 2 dwell together in peace and affection, Killing His Stomach. And the remarkable part of the tale is "Give me a great double barreled, "that from that day the dog no more mo- center fire, back action drink 'of soda lested any lambs whatsoever. It was a |and phosphate," ordered a jolly customer plain case of similia similibus curantur. at Keeshan's drug store last night. "Do The dog was at once and forever cured you know what this favorite of yours is of his vice, and his fond mistress relates doing for you?" asked the venerable this story to admiring frie nds with ming- d t,as the customer drained his led pride and aifection.-- Boston Couricr? glass. "Killing the nausea in my stom-| ach," was the reply. "Yes, and it's Chopin's Mathed. -- your "stomach, too." Some of Sand has given us a vivid days you'll want it copper sketch of Chopin's conscientiousness as plated, and you 'li want in: vain, Phos- acomposer, 'He shut himself up in his "You will pick up your cigarette and throw it out of the window," said the nies 4% 1's Com- The Posthoy in the East. © There he stands, the guide, or postbo sober, 760d natured! charpa boy is the guide, philosopher and friend of the traveler whorides post in the east, He is ready toamuse his a master, to tell him the local gossip quote ty to him, and do his dary 'ol the traveler and to the horses under his! mpaiae on best of his ability. Nat-| _urally _tha..Persian. postboy. pre:, ith aoctety of the natire- servant to? that of the foreigner, his master. shel - traveler who is not iu a hurry a his. ity |atter light, but if the man who posts is anxious to travel quickly, the tue rises to the occasion and honestly does! his best. He doesn't look much like the! Courier of Lyons, the gentleman in the) jack boots, the beribboned hat, the red| waistcoat and the laced jacket. To tell! the truth our postboy is not ornamental. | He is shod with great brown leather! d his legs are swathed 'in' goat's hair strings; in lieu of the tradi tional buckskins he wears a loose pair of blue cotton peijamas; a jerkin of gayly | colored but time worn and dirty chintz, | cam asleeveless sheepskin jacket, hair side! inward, and a Siatecharical felt ay A cap complete his costume. His wais girded by a bit of cotton cloth which | forms his girdle, and contains his frugal -- a 'flap jack" or loaf of un! room for entire days," she says, "weep- except after a fall meal. Why? Well, ing, walking about, breaking his pen, re- I will explain. You wouldn't think that peating and changing a bar a hundred the inflammable ends of matches were a times, and beginning again next day proper thing to eat, would you?" Bat With titrate andd phosphite is derived from phosphorous,'He spent six weeks over a single page-y and if use it to excess it will burn Only to go back and write that which he out your stomach just as alcohol would had traced at the first essay." (Oh, mod- if used in excess. You feel benefited by €™2 composers, read and Jearn!) As re- it now, but if you keep on the time wil] gards his creativeness, George Sand says jcome when you will wish that you had hat 'it descended upon hia piano sud- never heard of phosphate, Of course, denly, -- sublimely, or it sang we sell it because there is a foolish craze itvelf in his head during his walks, and }for it; bat badvise no ons to ise "much he-made-haste~to~hear it/by-rushing-to of the fiery substance." "Should one use the instrument." T have already men- itatall'"' "In quan uantities just. toned the fact that. when be wrote his a full nea! it-will not hurt any one; last-mazurka he was: too weak to try it but beware.of using it in excess or on an 0D the piano. In one of his letters he empty stomach, for if you do that organ *peaks of a polonaise being ready in his will need half soling and heeling some head. : time."--Cincinnati Times-Star. Tliese facts indicate that he composed vvaibtiniainteeitesuiphamatogity mentally, although, no doubt, during Horses in Scotland, 1208. the improvisations many themes _oc- The original roll, which is said to have curred to him which he remembered and') | been Mere at the herald's office, -- utilized. Some times the pictures in"hia and the earlier existing cop ind became so vivid as to' form. real | only of the Sixteenth, and the settee oe hallucinations.. Thus, it is related that |the beginning of the Seventeenth cen- one evening when he was alone in the tury. The rolls of tho horses illustrate dark trying over the A major Polonaise, the custom of recording the descri which he had just completed, he saw and value of every horse employed in a the door open, and in marched a proces- campaign in order that, if it was killed, sion of Polish knights and ladies in |the owner might claim its. price. The mediwval costumes--the same, no doubt, | horses entered in the rolls are described that his imagination had pictured while 18 either as chargers, or hackneys, or as he was composing. He was so alarmed i being of a Welsh breed, or else are dis- t this vision that he fled through the tinguished simply by color. The highest once door and did not venture to bread, and perhaps a couple of onions. The postboy always takes his food with him, for as often as not at the next gage nothing is to be got but water, at times even not that.--Good Words. } The House of Percy. | The house of Percy, though it has kept) tire Norman name, should twice,. with! all intents, have changed it. The males the old Normai line had died out in 1168, when the daugmers ¢f the last of and ever 30 marks aro entered as the blood of Pads ag the bride com- .pelled him to choose between taking her. name or her arms. He preferred tho' former alternative, declining to part with; of the Percys, and was one of the uacat| familiar features of central London be- melanchol Sir Smithson, head of a respectable Y: family, | who received his dukedom price at rn.--Another illustration of the re- to 0 be 70 marks, which, considering the istic between genius and insanity.-- purchasing power of money with-respect Chopin. and Other Musical Essays-- to other articles, was certainly a large Henry T. Finek. rss Baa de Ferrers, who followed rd h le Despenser, h: charge gs <A a that = bat the An Egy ptian ae that on one ave! value of a ¢ mn 2 man had pre a very to " been lag atta: tex esr savory pot of herbs, which a wall will- hackneys were valued as low as 5 marks, fully broke. The unfortunate animal though 10 and 12 marks were the more ¥* oe wee for wpe idea usual prices; baaee ence, but when the man went pine Rowever, 24 the fragments of his prepared Selioasy be he found a venomous serpent concealed p ns them. ue very similar story, in all probability ising out of the same fable, tells how a vst falcon saved a king fromswal- lowi ing a live serpent. His majesty had raised a drinking vessel, presumably one of the old style earthenware pots, to his lips, when the faithful bird flew sudden- 3 ly down, and throwing its full weight the vessel, upset it. The king, ill 1 the riders are given, jand wlien a Sree was slain the place and date of the loss were recorded in a marginal note.--The Saturday Review. What Are the Thoughts of the Dying? iat a Suing person in his last moments be-|thinks of the ness by ether injections to utter their " t liberated an eagle from the though acknowledge clutches of a dragon. The latter out oe cabo ne om revenge some water which the afterward. Now, we believe, the North-' pee Repent ton Is osiclet with bert han onfons. ee AS SSI "epbrian rent roll is nearly £100,000, or' revives ade uch," Herald the purponcs of Fv Protection amounts Sleestomaa tus os Feu, vat, i 98, peasant was about _ eagle showed its gratitude by upectting " the vessel and spilling its contents. --Ss, lof their life, Such an ether injection more the normal Detroit Free Presa. ts yearly by the destruc- a " +» : """Bunias ones | rt MITCHELL era snow. Notwithstandin x + the unyeually wet and cold weather there was a pei atten- dance at the Spring Fair here cn Wednes- _ The judges. were W. N.. Mill Mason-and J. W. Rot Following is the prize list ; HORSE Heavy draught import et Caran station, --1, Thos Colquhoun, "* lege yg Chas Brocka, '* McMas "™ 3, Skinner, "Kuight of peli draught imported' Clyde, 3. years under--1, Wa Colquhoun, ' Prince of Twinholen ; " 2, Thes Colyuhoun, * Me ex." Agricultural stallion, standard pedigree bo Chas Werner, " oung Decedee ;"' Mark Kelly, " Decedee ; 3, John ite flareye ad Young Milk W hite Darnley," vars or -- impo rted stal. lion, pec dig Tee - has Ro k, * Bar one 11 hom as 'Balke ell, "y oung Brittan." Tro tting stallion, standard pedigree---1, Ford & Marphy, ' Thorn wood ;" 2, J. W Catheart, + ayaa 4, J. Millar, * Arcasth Wilke Car- riage 153 hands and over--1, "M, J Kliinkbammer, '© Barwoox 3" 2% «6G. Woodge:, " Benedict 2nd ; 3, James = ataon, '* Frocton;" recommended, Wm asey, '* Mazeppa." poor Aly Wm Honey, 'Salvator: COLTS, Thoroughbred 'blood Heavy draught - anadian bred stallion, 2 years and under--}, Wm Potts, "Alt Serene ;" 2,Thos Ke liy,** King Brittan ;" 3, Reid Broa, "Prince of Wales Ditto three years --Alex Darling, "Young Welcome " Agricultural ot general pur- pose stallion two jears and under---l, Thomas Fanson, * Prince of Gle ulee 3" 2 John Millar, ** Young G linn eid Bros, ** Fullerton Lad. Ditto " three years--Wm Roxburgh, '* Young Scots Wha Hac," Ls. Durham, calv she on te Januar 1, 1888 -- Wm White, 'Scotland "; Darham, calved since January 1, 15388,--1, J.P. Harris, aoe "2 Wm MeKen zie, "* Red Victor." Durham, calved in 1sk9- --I, v m Robinson, - * Coningshee ;" by eer rites Dr - The Worst Of All The isms. ** Don't talk to me about your political * iama,' said a facetious old valetudinarian. ** T tell you there's.no ism on earth so bad as Rheumatism ", The véneratte sufferer was right. St Lawrence's gridiron or Cuatimozin's pallet of fire was not more emphatically a bed of torment than the couch of themartyr to rheumatism, It is generally considered by the faculty one of the most obstinate as well as one of the most painful of maladies, and it certainly zane resist all ordinary remedies with ex pnd seas igs ot in this age of progress, seems master all oppovition ; and even this oie fal ee entrenched among the muscles, add interknit, as it sete, with the sinews tendons of our frames, is compelled to yield to the curatives they have provided. We have it on by: jonable oo + appt fentlpenes tilligence to thousands of sufferers, bed- ridden by the x or Ranging with stiffened joints along the pathway to the tomb. In a climate where the qu A sometimes aakes a leap of thirty degrees up or down, the cli -- _. of course a eye. great rivers, in the hemlock swamps of ag and in all low. jet damp joca- tions, few personé reach the age or ears witbout 5 aaa visitation. s clear, therefore, that a pre which will afford immediate tested statements ich have before ns, sustained as they are the d and philanthropist have confe mankind, this is certainly not the se important, ice an indurstious tiller of the soil, whose services the Imagine i with what joy there sufferers @ means ot immediate cure. Toall pase we feel ~--" im foes era ing this balaa of which, with he suber' a ie doses of Holloway' s Pilla to regulate the internal organs, would, we feel assured, restore them to' health and usefulness.-- Daily Argus, --NEW-- Lumber Yard FRONT STREET, Just East of the Old Port Dover Station. Strasf: Tavera). -- 'svolicants for' the Heenstng ot abso that the alu of the fata | : 'and the buildings devoted 'Duuiss'to papel wnly eneew ho is wot Crearated. ay undersigned have ned a Lamber Y: ge the above place Ste wi) sha order daa wee full of Pine on mber and Bill eee ae cataa ase wean, ae, 00 xxx Pine Shingles, Noe. 1 and 2 Lath. Those in he Trade wil} consult their own interests at the West, along the e alluvial borders of | ** After a varied «xperience with many socalled cathartic remedics, lam convinced that Ayer's Pills gives the most satisfac- tory resnits, Ireply exclusively on these Pills for the cure of liver and stomaeh complaints. "--John B. Bell, 88 Abilene et, : r - Left a Legacy} Last wititer left a legacy of im blood to many people, causing, tired feel- ings, lack of energy, indigestion, eqnstip- ation, billiontness, ete. 'rom 1 to "4 hotties of Burdock Blood Bitters | never fails to cure any of the foregoing diseases by unlocking the secretions and remoying ail ee from the --_ CURES 5 DYSPE PSIA. CURES DYSPEPSIA. CURES DYSPEPSIA. IGESTION. t | ttle Iwas nan bre Marge mh dd, TB Cures CONSTIPATION Cures CONSTIPATIOA Cures CONSTIPATIOA . Rapid baeptinng Drak Staa--I_ have tried rour 1.5.1. wih great » lox constipation and pa in --~ head. The ACTS ON THE se done tr yade 1 @ over 80 Tt eh better mor per dd yd. WATRA ARG rE 415 1; ae 'Ste Toronto. | Cures BILIOUSNESS. Cures BILIOUSNESS W Cures BILIOUSNESS. Srna,--I wens promibie »l for fivé pore ewith + Comptaint used a grea' t deal of medicing which did me _ good 1 was gettin reo all the tim tI ~ a nae" the cur of Dy+pepsaia. any A. E. Dracox, Hawkstone, Ont Cures HEADACHE Cures HEADACHE EGULATES See and Cain ta rm . THE- | = vol could tom - en ter this, KIDNEYS. gotone more, Tam eh : end cai " Axxre Beneres, ~ Tilsouburg, Oxi Cures BAD BLOOD Cures BAD BLOOD | 2 Blood may *! PURIFIES oe action_of th nach Liver, Kidneys and Bowels B. BB, by regulati an THE toning these organe, the cause and makes new ric! blood, re: all es BLOOD. pocorn rApey from a pimple SEEDS This week we add to our business a fresh Stock of Field & Garden SEEDS: Ad Sele 28 oie Seek oabent fa Oe Nes, oat Ee is all NEW. Cali and get quotations f Turnip, Mangle,Carrot, etc. _--_-- J. H.Nasmyth & Co., DRUGGISTS & SEEDSMEN, 638 Ontario Street. Still-in the Field We are still in the field with the Best Goods & Lowest Prices of any house in ngville. We have received a lot of new goods and will continue to receive a great many more this month, -We have now a very complete stock of Dry Goods, Dress Goode, Prints, Ginghams, Flan- nelettes, Tweeds,&c., Gents' Furnishing Goods of |, all kinds-a specialty. KASTNER pulsations SONS Fs eth rr'ées pid for ail nts 2. Tse et "Cores HEADACHE| "Cures BAD BLOOD | BROS.| B* a timely use of Ayer's Hater Vigor. This preparation has no equal as'a dressing. It keeps the scalp clean, cool, and healthy, and preserves the color, fatiness; and beauty of the hair. "Tl was Palin 0 y becoming bald 'it vy; but after naing two ocr. three ttles "yg Ayer's Hair Vigér my hair ew thick and won? and the original | s restored."--Melvin Aldrich, Canaan Centre, Ge i. " Some time age I I Reni all my hair in consequencs 6 asibs. After due waiting, no new growth appeared. I then used Ayer's Hair Vigor and my ar grew Mania and Strong. apparently come to-stay. The vi or igre a pacer eg penn " --5' 3. liams, Floresville, Texas "T it used Ayer's Hair Vigor fer the t four or five years and find it a causing the hair to retain its color, -- outing but a amall qu rantityy to render the hair « "y to arrange.""-- irs. M. A Bailey, 9 Charlies street, Haverhi asa. "T have been -- Ayer's Hair A for several years, and believe that it has sed my ne 0 retain its natural caused ote, *--Mrs J. King, Dealer in Goods, Be Bishopy ille, Md. Ayer's Hair Vigor, Or. J. C. 'ele e re Lower, Mass. Bold by Drneaiotaand Perfumers. WAGONS] WAGONS! teat OLD RELIABLE "SHAKESPEARE WAGONS Still hold tire fort, and are almitted to he the Strongest and a eee Wagons Iron Axles, and the Celebrated Self- Oiling Steel Tubular Axles used on Farm and Spring Wagons when Ordered. Having on eal a pay of por pg oes of -- Wagors ta ality whic ee be 5d = ve jo. ue which 'can - celled and ow is: ie - BU COIES and DEMOCE RATS of superior quality always on hand. oP = WAGONS and the BEST TRACK SULKY made in Ontario, built to order on hort notice, -- GEO. MINCHIN, Bhakeopeare, March 11, 1500. 0-7 Large assortment of English Confectionery ; Combs and Brushes, of all kinds _ _E.J, JOHNS' DRUG STORE, Market Square. meuiaeh, Ped 30. 1%, 72s tf "DON'T DESPATR. the di out of : oe ihe MAGIC." DR. DORENWEND' 8 1? yore. nals. 18 2S OUT, wey AVNER FE rte: ue if cE EEer AH et i i E [ : 5e t Hi E fi: aU A POOR MAN'S. FRIEND, that will pare days of 'a Dollar in timeand Destor' Recene alms at hued. sooty oa call. This sich ARB i KEN INTERNALLY 1 cures Dyes the Stee pie coerce NEW GOODS Sexi ie aa i pee grey