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mmmfim 34.71. mmwmm wwmmm 2E ends: Dd condi- Pal-tin heir apo- due no- aiming E TEA CUP [MO 1200 M012“ (ӣ07m CE. c. 0 km In may RKB, LAT DUNE. FEED 3100 AN INTELLIGENT BOA CONSTRICTOR AND ITS PREY. SOUTH AFRIBAN MARVELS Before he had time to think twice the snake. relieved of its load of mut- ton, was upon him, and it seized his head in it! mouth and in three minutes the native had taken the place of the buck, only he was all inside; there was nothing left out to pull on, even if a rescuer had come along. Having swal- lowed the boy the boa deliberately swung its head around and grabbing its tail swallowed eight feet of it, then closing the mouth and throat, down which the native had disappeared, and making escape. ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE. The Transvaal vouc-hes of the story. Besides snakes of this ferocious and ingenious charaoter, they have lions a- plenty in South Africa, as the follow- ing from the Cape Timas of Cape Town shows : “The following is an extract from the letter of a young Colonist now in Mashonazland, sent to the Queen's Town Free Press. The letter is written from 3 Belengwa, a place 110 miles southeast ii of Bulawayo: i “\Vriting to Bâ€"â€"â€" last week, I gave an account of a rather exciting exper- i ience I had with lions, but since then; I have been within two yards of them, hearing the brutes roar, and seeing them devouring cows. I went down to Fynn’s, a son of Mr. Fynn of Kreli ‘ fame; he is a Native Commissioner of; the district and a very smart fellow in- 3 deed, to dinner. I was walking, as it is ' only three miles from here. I forgot to take my rifle with me. I stayed at ; Fynn’s until 9 o’olcok, and then walked I I over to the local store to post my let- l ters, leaving there shortly after 10 to; return to my camp. We had been spinâ€" 3 Ding yarns of different lion experiences 1 all the evening. Consequently when 11 left I was full of lions and their dar- I .. _.--..â€"~â€". c... '... .._. .. the walk home alone without a gun, minutes, and got home safely. Veryl early next morning I got a note from i Fynn, saying that within half an hour of my leaving the store the lions had come down and taken four donkeys be- longing to a prospector, and three , calves out of the store kraal, all with I in fifteen yards of the store. A hunt! was organized and we scoured thei neighborhood without result, return- ing at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, when we found out that the brutes had also taken and partly eaten TW'O COWS AND A CALF belonging to Fynn. Fynn, myself, and Orpen, nephew of the Treasurer, de- cided to build a scherm, a small hut made of poles and tied with green hide, and sit up all nig t and see if. they returned. Well, as il luck would have it, the night turned up bitterly eold. with a drizzling rain, and as dark 3 as pitch. We decided to do relief for two hours, and keep watch. The cows' carcasses were only within two yards of the scherm. “During my watch, from 2 to 3 o’clock, the lions turned up, and an- nounced their presence with a roar. I do not think I shall forget it. They appeared to be very hungry, as they promptly started to eat the dead cows. Fynn got first shot. and hit his lion badly; in fact, we thought it was goâ€" ing to attack the scherm. However., it thought better of it and cleared off. By this time 1t was so dark that we could not see the 110118, and could only shoot by guess work.. I got a shot at the next one and missed; in fact, it simply went on eating. I fired again and hit. By Jove! He roared and growled, gnashed his teeth, and tried to make for the scherm. Fynn fired and hit him again, and we felt sure of havingdsecured‘ one at last. __-J V‘- “w Ago v-â€" ' --_ _ “Presently another came up, andl Fynn fired again, but missed. This one ‘ cleared. Another came up, Fynn fired, and this one cleared also. At this time we could hear my lion moaning and growling, and felt sure we could find him there in the morning, but, to our disappointment, when we got out the brute had gone. Although great pools of blood could be traced where he had rested, we could not follow his spoor for more than a mile. the rain having. washed out all trace of him. \Ve spent two days in trying to find the bodies without success. I am sorry, as I made so sure of having hit and killed my one. I daresay someone would be for- tunate enough .to find his skin before destroyed by birds. The whole exper- ience was novel and exciting. Orpen did not get a shot as the lions came up from the lee Side and we dare not for the truth rica paper: * . Queen’s Town, Jan. 2.-â€"-Mr. Cohn \Vhite, of Richmond, sent in some lo- custs to-day that he met near there, travelling east. They are a new kind, and have large bodies and long prick- les, on their legs. They eat leaves, P643011. quince, apple, fig, and willow. Port Elizabeth, Jan 4.â€"â€"The upâ€"coun- try train this morning passed through swarms o! locusts of greater or less density. for 150 miles. It has also been now appearing, the swarms of hOppers having hatched in Durban and Victoria counties, where the screen system will be brought into operation. Last but not 1east they have in South Africa the world famous three-card mon'te game. But the Judges down there don’t seem to be very familiar with it yet, or. can’t see that there IS any cheating in it, as their story Shows. 9 Stewart was charged before the Ma- gistrate with fraud by means of a cer- tain threeâ€"card game. John Hendrik van Heerden, and we travelled second class. Prisoner and another man, whose name I do not know, joined the train at Middelur-g Road on Sunday morning. After the train left Middle- burg the prisoner said he should like a ta"k with us and he introduced a. subject in connection with a game of. cards 1n whlchl ONLY THREE CARDS l were required. He said he had been. playing a game of. cards with a man. Prisoner’s friend said: “Show us how to play that game." He agreed to do so, and took three cards out of an ordinary visiting card case. He show- ed the other man how to play withl three cards. The prisoner and hisi companiOn, after the latter had the: game explained to him, started to play for money. The companionâ€"or con- federateâ€"firsrt won, then ‘lost. Both; of them then asked me to play. I said: No. It is Sunday, and we should not play cards on Sunday. They then asked Mr. Van Heerden to play. At first he Would not, but being pressed very much he agreed to stake half a soyjereign, and Van Heerden won. for £5. He drew out a £5 note, and seeing that, prisoner said, “Oh, make it £10." Van Heerden did so; he put down another £5 note. He lost that £10. Prisoner asked him to continue playin , so he put down another £5. E\Vell. thought I would try and get jmy friend’s money back for him, so ;I put in £10, making our joint put gin £15. \Ve lost it all. Prisoner’s friend urged me to play again. He said, f‘Try and regain your money.’ I did gso after much persuasion, and the reâ€" ;sult was I lost £10 more. I would not "play any more, although they begged gme to continue. I spoke to the guard ; about my loss, and asked himhis opin- “The farmers lost between them £35, and then told the guard. Stewart of- fered to compromise the affair by giving them £22 103. to tell the guard that the affair was settled. The guard gave Stewart in charge for gambling on the line, but found little money upâ€" on him. The confederate had disap- peared by that time. .___- 1.- o n J L-1.‘I LLAL “A #wnrnt‘ V“ gnu-“-0-“â€" South Atmca, it Will be great place. A Simple “'ay of Telling When a Time Piece Runs Accurately. Some very did paintings that was brought to light the other day con- tains curious suggestions for making man 3 people. Ali easy method of correetly regulat- ing a timepiece “by the stars is as fol- lows: As the motion of the earth with: re- gard to the fixed stars (those that twinkle) is uniform, timepieces can in a most simple manner be correctly reg- ullated by the stars with greater facil- ity than by the sun. Choose a south window from which any fixed point, such as a chimney side of a building, etc., may be seen. To the side of the window attach a piece of cardboard having a small hole in it in such a manner that by looking through the hole to“ ard the edge of the elevated object, some fixed star may be seen. The progress of the star must be watched and the instant it vanishes behind the fixed point the observer minutes and fifty-six seconds sooner. If a timepiece mark 9o’clock when the fifty-six seconds less than 9. If the atimepiece be faster or slower than the indication of the star, then it has gained or lost the indicated dif- ference. If several cloudy nig‘hts fol- low the first observation of the star it is only necessary to multiply three minutes fifty-six seconds by the num- ber of days that have elapsed since the observat ion, and the product deducted from the hour of the clodk indicates the first night clear enough for the sec- ond observation and gives the time the clock or watch ought to show. The Esame star can only be observed during ”w“- â€"vvâ€" ,____ vâ€"_“ a. few weeks, for as it gains nearly an hour in a. fortnight, it will in a, short time come to the meridian in broad day light _ .and _-becqme inxisible. _-_ __ __ -1. “w in marking the observation care must be taken that a planet is not chosen in- stead of a star. Additional to the fact that the light of fixed stars twinkles, while that of planets is steady because reflected, a sure means of distinguish- ing between them is .to first watch a certain star attentively for a. few nights. If It changes its place with re- gard to the other stars, it is a planet, _ __j--__ ““A- ‘A *A-‘ e’sumce'w “ 'tvhe' Tiltâ€"ed stars abpeqr. to “main; tain the same mlntlve DOSltIOIBS with regard to web other. ( REGULATED BY A STAR. rifle or not}: seen, is a ASTONISHING RESULTS OF A NEW PROCESS 1N SURGERY. WALKING DEE BROKEN LEGS “3" it Patients Are Able to lie lip and About. “’ithin Twenty-Four flours After Sustaining a Fractured Limbâ€"A Praw- tical Test. of u“- Amhulatory Bandage. Thataman is unlucky enough to fall and break a leg doesn’t any longer have to Spend weeks imprisoned in bed waiting for the fractured limb to mend but may be up and about seme- times within twenty-four hours after the accident, was made plain to the doc- tors assembded the other night in the surgicafl section of the New York Aca- demy of Medicine. A workman who had fallen off a scaffold a fortnight beâ€" fore walked about the room Without the aid of crutches and with only the slightest perceptible limp. filth-011311 his left leg, which had been broken, was still done up in plaster paris. He was one of two patients intro- duced to the surgeons as visible proof tem of setting broken legs, which sys- etm of setting broken legs, which sys- tem was presented as a vast advance on the old method of treating such fractures by keeping the unfortunate victim in bed until the fractured bones reunited. The subject of the up-to-date treatment was presented in a paper by Dr. James Porter Fiske of the staff of attending physicians of. Roosevelt Hos-1 pitad. He gave the result of 250 op- erations in which THE AMBULATORY SPLINT had been used successfully in the hos- pitals. The problem that confronted the surgeon in such cases, he said, was to get injured patients up and about their business just as soon as possible. and by the new method flattering re- sults had been attained, articularly in the case of disabled pro essional men. Its efficacy in the case of laboring! men was a little less apparent. In the nae tzure of their occupation the full use of fractured Limbs was not so readi- ly attained. If the injury was treat- ; ed promptly the recovery was very rap- -. LA ‘1’“ 1’- vâ€": -â€"J Ld, excepting in the case of. alcoholic pa- tlents, in which the danger of delirium tremens setting in after the fracture was the obstacle. In healthy persons. male or female, the method had secur- ed admirable results. The ambulatory system has besn in} use in Berlin for some time. It is quite! simple. In the case of the fracture of? either of the bones of the lower leg the patient is placed in arecu-mbent position and the injured bones are set in place and bound securely with an ordinary muslin roller bandage. No cotâ€" ton is used in the binding. Out- side of this roller a plaster of Paris gauze bandage is wound. This “shard- ems and leaves the limb incased in a plaster cast which generally extends from the toe tip to the knee joint. It hosbds the broken parts of the limb' im- movable, and hardens rapidly. The best quality of cast and bandage is al- ways employed, and the patient is en- couraged to walk without crutches after TVVENTY-FO UR HOURS. Care is taken, 01f course, to avoid all possibility of inflammation settng in. The reason the patient can“ walk so soon is that the weight of the body is support- ed wpon the upper part 01f the ambuâ€" 1a§ory_east, .thich acts {is a crutch. .. . J Wm, ”m- _ _- Dr. Fisk cited a case where a patient 72 years old had been able to walk with- in eight days after the application of the ambulatory splint. The healing of the bones goes on While the patient is walking about fjust as if he were lying suiltilng from the old method of keeping a patient in bed and quiet is greatly reduced. \VitLin six weeks, often soon- er, the bones will have united, and then the limb is subjected to hot and cold douche baths and to brisk massage to‘ restore it to its normal condition. The: avarage time the ambulatory splint- was worn in the 250 cases quoted was from twenty-eight to thirty-five days, and many of the patients were able to go about much the same as usual during this period. Dr. J ohm M. \Voodbrury of Roosevelt Hospital said that in none of the cases cited by Dr. Fiske had any patient re- turned to the hospital for treatment for malformation of the limb. Even in the case of serious double oblique fracture, where the weight of the body is liable to dislocate the set limb and drive the bone through the flesh, the process had worked successfully. This was import~ ant from a medico-â€"'legal standpoint, for it protected the surgeon from the I‘LSk of damage suits for faulty surgery GREAT ICE AVALANCHE. A mass of ice comprising 4,000,000 cub- ic feet broke away on the 11th oft Sep- tember, 1896, from the lower part of the Altels Glacier on the Gemmi Pass, in Switzerland. 'With the velocity ac- quired in its descent this river of ice rushed across the pasturage and up the western slope of the valley to a height of 1,300 feet along the rocky wall of the \Veissflugrat. Not being able to completely surmount this barrier, the main mass came surging backâ€"like a vast seawave recoilimg from the cliffs â€"-with such force that some of it re- turned to a height of 100 feet up the eastern side. Isolated blocks of ice were hurled clear over the ridge Into the ad- joining valley. The avalanche was pre- ceded by a- terrific blast of wind, which swept away chalets, trees, men and cattle, as though they had been feath- ers. These sudden avalanches of ice or snow form meat the spemal dangers of Alpine climbmg. [Does your Wife ever tie a string around your finger to make you re- member things? ’ Yes, often. ~ How does it work? . . Well, when I get into the clty it reminds me toutelegu'agh to her and -â€"__-‘_-J n- SERVES THE PURPOSEJ Elie wanted me HOW TO SLEEP \VELL. Sleeplessness is a most distressing complaint, and one which ages a woman quickly; therefore “insomnia,” as it is called, should be attended to at once. \Vhen night after night, aperson lies awake for hours together, serious re- sults are.sure to follow. It may arise from varlous causes. Disordered liver will often cause Jleeplessness. \Vihen this is the case. the patient feels :heavy and drowsy after meals. and may fall asleep at once on gomg to hed, onfly to awaken soon after and Lie awake for hours, perhaps just dropping off for a few minutes be- fore morning, and waking again, feel- ing tired and irritabie. In such. a case, treat yourseli mudh as you would for a bilious attack, Take some aperient medicine; be very careful in your diet, take gentile exercise in the open air, and avoid all worry and excitement__ _ w'Iv1:17eg7li.larifit'y:_i:n tlhe hour of retiring will cause restlessness, and should be avoided if possible. Regular ‘hours are much the best. An afternoon nap is not aLWays a desirable fining to indulge in, but if late hours have been kept the night before, and tube requisite number of hours of sleep been curtailed, it is well to take a short rest during the day. The corsets and shoes should be taken off before lying down. WAS HE A RENEGADE? Two Irishmen, differing in political opinions, were discussing in an impas- sioned way their respective creeds. At last, ardor overcoming good nature, one accused the other of being a. renegade to party and family tradit‘io'n. __ __ -J.--_4L UV :w- 'd -v.___ __ This accusation the second man stout- ly denied, averring that his political views were based upon‘ his own con- victions rather than on an accident of birth. Still his accuser insisted that he was a turncoat. -A â€"‘ Q I ‘ . ‘ You call yourself Daly! he cried, scornfully. You call yourself Daly, and everybody knows that when you first struck this country you had an 0 on your name big enough for a. life-pre-~ éerverl This is he cradle in which there grew That. thought of a philanthropic brain; A remedy that would make life new For the multitudes that were racktd with pain. "Twas sarsaparilla, as made, you know By Ayer, some 50 years ago. Ayefs Sarsaparifla was in its infancy half a cen- tury agoo To-day it doth “be~ stride the narrow World like a colossus.” What“ is the secret of its power? Its Cures! The number of them! The wonder of them! Imitators have fol- lowed. it from the beginning of its success. They are still be- hind it. Wearing the only medal granted to sarsaparilla in the World’s Fair of 1893, it points proudly to its record. Others imitate the remedy; they can’t imitate the record: “ My daughter Polly, has for more than a. year been troubled with severe symptoms of kidney disease. She had constant and acute pains in her back. The pain in her head was fearful and almost uneudursble. It frequently pre- ented her from attending school, and she found study at home practically impossible. She had no appetite, and did not sleep well. The pain was very severe around her heart and she was much troubled with fluttering and palpitation. She was completely worn out in body and was tired and drowsy all the time. Her mother and myself became seriously alarmed as she was constantly getting worse. “ l-__'l.__-:.. VV ‘ “Last July my daughter Sarah, 9, teacher in the Public School at Kingsville, Ont, cam. home to spend her vacation, and finding her sister in such a. distressing and dangeroul condition, said, I am taking Dean’s Kidney Pills and they are doing me much ood,I have a. box with me and will divide with olly, which she did. By the time Polly had finished the half box her_ imgrovemenq in heelth yes CONCLUSBVE PROOF. “D. "V.- â€"vâ€" Fraleigh’s drug store. Her full restoration to health and spirits was rapid and continuous. She has nosr none of her former dangerous, painful and distressing kidney troubles. She eats and sleeps well. and for more than a month has enjoyed the most vi orous health. She has not lost a day at 001 since she commenced taking the pills, and has so much faith in them since they restored her to full health that she wants me to keep six boxes in the house all the time, in case they should be needed and not available. Her cure has been so wonderful she thinks they will cure any complaint. If the pills had cost $10.00 a box, I would not have begrudged th‘e money. The restoration of my daughter to full health and strong girlhood, from her former serious sickness, etc., has made her mother. myself a_nd.ds.ughter a happy family. .“ _.:L‘- Ak‘ ‘0.“ w, DV“ uuu I-uouvv- â€" 'â€""L'J'J vâ€"wâ€"_'J “ make this sworn statement with the full approbation of my wife and daughter, volun- tarily and without any urging or inducement whatever, to show the gratitude my daughter, wife and myself feel for the wonderful care wrought by the Dean Kidney Pills. We have not the least doubt that her trying the pills just at the time she did saved us a large doctor’s bill, as she was all but sick abed at the time. I am sixty-two years of age, a car- gfiiter by trade. have been a resident of St. ry’s for forty years, and county constable same efleot as an oath, and according to the Act respecting egtra Judical Gags B1% g WILL WN. Taken and declared before me at the Town of St. Mary’s, in the County of Perth, this 5th day of March; Q; 1).. 196. mu nmn'n Onhrio. Froma Well Known Citizen. Fi ty Years Ago. \\ \\}.\§'\Ԥ"\\ \" \’\ \ ‘\ \ fanners FROST db WOOD, WILKINSON, MAXWELL, Buggies, Road Darts, Wagguns, Eaves, and Musical nstruments All kinds of Repairs kept. on hand [hailes McKinnIn, UPPER Town, -' 1n COXfiEnmmN and at: 7.2ch @ DISEASES, spurma 0F moan, .1» GEOEGH. L055 0'5“ APPETITE, u DEBIEKTY, the bcnnofitsof this . a article are mast manifest. . By the aid ofThe “D. L." Emuls'inn. I have. got 33: rid of a hacking cough whivh had Llullblc‘l me for over a. year. and have gamed (:nusldurably in g Weight. [liked this Emrkinn so wed I was glad *9 when the time came amuml w take it. 9 T. H. VINGiIAM» 2.15., Montreal o 500. an--. 31 nor 3- «5.8.35 ‘ The Pen pie County of Grey, including a valuable W'~f PoWey. Brick Qwelling. and many de§ib “£318 Also lot No. (30, Con. 2, W: G, ., Township 0 Bentinck. 100 acres, adjoining Town plo Mortazigeu taken for part purchase money Apply to JAMES EDGE, Oct 2nd. Edge Hill, P.0. The “ Chronicle ” is the only 12-Page Local Newspaper In Western Ontario. Watchmaker and J ewe as Do without implements. because they can’t sow or reap profitably Without them. But when they buy. they naturally want to do so as cheaply as possible. This In my somany dealwxm “my. buy tar cash: and sell at a modet profit. We keep in shock in on: Big Warerooma in Upper Town. all kinds of Farm Implements. in- cluding the makes of IN THE TOWN OF DURHAM, IMPLEMENT AG ENT, BE SURE AND CALL. EDGE PROPERTY When they go to buy an article is to find the price in accord- ance with the time. Our prices are always low All we ask is an honest profit Has your clock gone astray or is your Watch not keeping time? Bring them to us and we will set them right. and other wellâ€" known manufacturers. DURHAM