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day Dentistâ€"But, madame, those ATC §00° teeth ; I must protest. Mrs. B-peed':l don‘t care. Pull ‘em out, I ain‘t goin® to let old Hoyseed git the start o°" me that aâ€"way. Old Hayseed gets without his wife‘s k ors is and decides to even with nim. A largely used by gardens, It con to fit over the e« the lips from t protector is pliat to a glass of any enough to be rex When a mag of ; When a m picce is re replaces it by t been Bricks Outlast Stone. Many persons think that bricks are not so durable as other building materials, This impression is the very reverse of the truth. No material is so durable as well made bricks. Bricks in the museum in London, taken from buildings in Nineveh and BEabylon, show no signs of decay or disinâ€" tegration, although the sncients did not burn or bake them, but dried them in the wun. The baths of Caracalla, the baths of Titus, and the shermae of Diocletian,have, withstood the injuries of time far better than the stone of the Coliseum or the marâ€" ble of the Forum. The bricks of the baths of Caracalia did not very favorably im{rou the mind of an heiress from the great West who exclaimed when she beheld them. * Good gracious, oid bricks, and ali fulling down, too ! Why. J thought it would be as fine as any marble building in Chicago, + this is the buths of Caracaila, I don‘t care to see it. Let‘s go look at something the bitter days of benumbing cold and gnawing hunger, the solemn and empty nights when all that was left them was the privilege to pray. In repeated instances they were saved by strokes of chance that were as miracies.. . On at leagt gne occasion starvation was averted by a report to the expedient of cannibalism. These things are a part of the literature of heroism and unfinching pursuit of a chosen object, and the numes of those who thus invaded the Arctic solitudes are held in tender rememâ€" brance. But, after all, was it worth while? Wasit not a waste of energy and a misdirection of endeavor that might have been turned to Letter account * * kind of fame tha benetit to the world Johnny, don‘t you remember your moth« : told you rot to do that? Johnnyâ€"I‘m not remembering that toâ€" The return of Lieut, Peary from his Arctic expedition, with a confession . of failure and a story of severe privation and narrow escape from death, adds another to the long list of such attempts and disappointmonts. Taking them all in all, it may well be doubtea if their results are worth the suffering they have cost. It is true that they have added something to the stock of geographical knowledge, but it is of little or no practical value, and if it had remained concealed in the icy fastnesses it would have been just as werviceable to the CDud4 0 Where ie a certan aratification of stock of geegraphical knowledge, but it is of little or no practical value, and if it had remained concealed in the icy fastnesses it would have been just as serviceable to the world. There is a certain gratification of cvriosity in the tales told by these intrepid waventurers with regard to distant and mysterious regions, but the information is not such as can be said to represent an adequate compensation for the associated Iwbors. perils and sactifices. It is profiviess y, what‘s er time ? (t you see that clock up there ? " eroentien snM + bact rs, pe The Drinking Cup. ttle device to prevent the transferral ase germ« from one person to another s medium of the drinking cup has ovceived by a Bavarian, where it is ; used by the frequenters of the beer s. â€" It consists of a piece of celluloid ver the edge of the glass to preven o« from touching the gluss. Tne or is pliable enough to adjust itself ass of any size or shape, and small : to be readily carried in the pocket. 2 mug or glass is omptied the mouth ; removed and fitted to the one that Her Sole Ambition. His Grave Problem. CURRENT NOTES, A SETTLEMENT. II1â€"Timed. madame, those ts m set of false tecth knowledge. She discovâ€" o have here pulled to get at stunds for practica ; but is it now, sddro-infitho bench of magistrates, said : *Your Honors, pardon me, I have little more to say. We have in common been tr,in&t.o fathom a crime «lmost inâ€" credible. I have been dreading vaguely «* The clerk will read," the counselâ€"went on, *‘the last line of this witness‘ anawer to my cro--oxamins)zion."u o s . Aninbynnnth inhmpiaisinaniietanyde mss L on‘, ol Rpdip m,"l‘;_cl:;:;;:{;";‘ Has your husband ever been in the habit of walking in his ** Both nights *" “YGL” The counsel dismissed both witnesses, and turned to the presiding magistrate. ""I now wish, your Homor, to recall a witness who has already testified." The three subordinate magistrates here juterposed angry objections. The presiding maginâ€" trate, though himself showing signs of impatience, gave the desired permission. The counsel again whispered to the clerk, who called out «« xa.n "What made you call out *" "I saw a man on the gallows again, and i couldn‘t help yelling out. But then I remembered the whipping I got, and preâ€" tended to be asleep." 8. "How could you see the gallows at night * ""There was a little moon both nights."‘ ""Was the man you say you saw standing up MAN ON THE GALLOWS. 1 thought it was only his imagination after seeing the hanging so often, and whipped him and told him not to look at any hangâ€" ing :gain." ** Was that the only thing that occurâ€" red * «* No. On the night of the murder, just miter dark. I was reading the newspaper in the front room, when %hurd Jobonie give a kind of scream from the sleeping room. I ran in, but he was sound asleep,. I thought he must have called out in his sleep." Tfie clerk now called out " Johnnie Jenâ€" kins." A slight, sicklyâ€"looking boy rose up. ‘Lhe counsel turned towards him. *‘ You have heard the testimony of your father. Was it in your sieep that you called out on the night of the murder?" _ "*On the 10th of last month, en the night after a hanging, my boy Johnnie called to me from the sleeping room that he saw a The hour for the verdict at laat arrived, delayed by various ciroumstarces until near midnigbt. Amid intense silence the preâ€" siding magistrate rose to make known the result of the investigation, Befere he had begun to speak, however, a high voice inâ€" terrupted him from a corner of the room. Ail eyss were turned in that direction. The examining counsel, a man of tall, slender figure, with a dark complexion and piercing eye, had risen to his feet, and was now about to speak. _ *‘Your Honor," he said, "I desite the permission of the magistrates to call two new witnessea before the invesâ€" tigation be closed." The permission was reluctantly given, . The counsel whispered to the clerk, who rose and called out Joseph Jenkine." A short and stout workman of the lower class rose, left a seat at the side of the room, and came forward. The questioning thea proceeded. ""Where do you live *‘ " In the two garret rooms of Noâ€"â€"â€" street." * Are the gallows visible from either of your rooms * . ce e * "*The roomin which I and my children sleep looks out upon the jail yard." * Was your attention ever attracted to anything particalar about the gailows scaf. folding*" _ _ f wore quickly confirmed. The Governor of the jail had teen hanged during the night on his own gallows. An officer of the prison making his rounds just before dawn, as he passed beneath the scaffold bad run against the dangling corpse of his superior The dawning day threw additional light on this horrible crime. Clearly no being had ever beiore been transferred to eternity Tilk HANGMAN MARWOOD and his wife, while the second was taken up completely by one large room for the use of the prison officers, ‘The gallows stood ut an opposite corner of the old structure. Two pair of steps led to itâ€" one immediately from the lower corridor of the jail, the other by a more public approach from the quarters of the Governor, Only a few days of the investignation passed before ail hope to trace the criminal disappeared, The closest enguiries were made by the sitting magistrate who had been sent to preside over their deliberâ€" ations, but to no avail. The magistrates‘ meetings, which naturally teok E:ce in the large secondflcor room, were & ut to be discontinued. The detectives were the first to despair. (One who stops to consider the character of the ordinuiy: detectives has already foreseen this. he vocation, as practised, demands a mind of no usual power. The detective learns to track crime as the machini¢t learas to become a master of his tools, by experience. Here experience deserted them at the outset. A murder occurs. One must look for footprints for the pussible whereabout of the assassin before and after the deed, But one can only look for traces where a natural life flows, around the site in which men shudder, suspect not within the methodical domain« of justice itself. One must drag struggling witnesses to the ordeal . of examination. In this case the investigators were baffled by testimony voluntarily given, Witnesses flocked to give their depositions. The prison guard, a body of men paid to carry out the decree of law, swore that the cells were left doubleâ€"locked, as the coroner found them upon his arrival. Moreover, it was absurd to suspect a prisâ€" cner, a manacled wretch in a cell, awaiting his death, to calmly execute his jailer on the gallows which gaped upon himself. On June 16 it was asunounced that the inveâ€"tigating magistrates would Lold their final session, â€" The general belief that A VZERDICT OF DEATH by an unknown hand would be rendered turned out well founded. The superior magistrate had assured a friend that such was the decision of himself apd. his profesâ€" sionul brethren. â€" The detectives,ill at ease, awaited their exoneration. Meanwhile, Marwood showad little interest in the con tinual excitement around him. If the hangman felt the blow upon his reputation, he showed no signs of it. All could see that he was naturaily a grave man, . What would one expect?* He knew nothing, he did nothing but his professional duty ; that he did that well with Marwood went without saying. WAS A STRANGE CAREEER, In June, 1878, nowever, it became evident he could no longer claim the first place among hangmen. Early on the morning of the second of that month there pervaded in the vicinity of the London Jail, Marwood‘s headquarters, rumors of an appaling occarrence which had just been discovered within its walls, The rumors STORY OF THE LIFE OF MARWOOD THE ENGLISH HANGMAN. We Was a Somnmambaulistâ€"Served Twenty Years as the Taker of Maman Livesâ€" Hanged the Covernor of the Prison by Misake While Walking in HMis Sleer. Marwood, the executioner of England, who died not long ago, anjoyed the repuâ€" tation which none of his craft enjoyod beâ€" fore him. He had 20 years‘ experience at his death, and had even delved into the science to improve the method of vocation in which he more than prided himself he felt secure from rivalry, and the English people agreed with him. Witnens : ** Yes." ‘The counsel dismissed the witness, ie, I have been dreading vaguely the beginning the possible rehearsal "ANNIE MARWOOD." i1. The knot, the noose, the victim, all showed a master ood no longef® stood alone. the London jail is sufficiently s original building had been ow, but its boundaries were to allow room for a single was built later st one eand of of the prison. Of the addiâ€" t floor was occupied by the ments of the Governor, & the gallows at 1 pever think he is quiteready for another world who is altogether weary of this.â€"H. A. Hamilton, There are fabrics, too, that are little better than explosive. Not to speak of the light, casily inflammable stufls that abound, there is a sort of cheap flannel called pilou, largely used for women‘s garâ€" ments, u'Focislly wrappers and nightâ€" dresses. ‘The surface is of variegated hue and covered with long, silky hairs forming a eort of down, and taking fire like fulâ€" minating cotton when brought near a lamp, candle or open fire. The flame lprems- rapidly over the whole surface, generally going out of itself, but often taking hold of the body of the fabric, giving rise to very serious burns. In December, 13$9, a servant was burned in this way, and the French sanitary authorities condemned pilou as a dangerous fabric for use in making garments with flowing skirts. Less serious burns have resulted from wearing the long double celluloid hairpins with which women so often transfix their bair, When they bend over a lamp, or even & candle, the projecting part often comes in contact with the flame and takes fire like a match, but it is usually easy to extinguish it before it reaches the hair, MOST SERIONUS ACCIDENT of this kind, or, at all ovents, the one that made the greatest impression on the public, was one that occurred in France. . A little girl on her return from school was set to work at ironing near m stove. During her work she leaned constantly towards the hot stove so that her head was almost directly over it, and after she had been in this attitude for about an hour her imitation tortoiseâ€"shell comb, made of cellaloid, caught fire all at once and her head was in an instant enveloped in flames. Her mother hastened to her aid and put out the fire as soon as she could, but not before a large part of the child‘s hair had been burned off and ber scalp had sustained a serious burn about four inches square which was long in healing. * es But the unfortunate modern woman not only runs risk of poisoning herself with every article of clothing she dons, she may also be seriously burned by the explosives that she uses daily in the toilec First, there are the articles made of cellaloidâ€" now found on every toilet table, though often masquerading as horn or ivory, Celluloid is a compound of camphor and gun cotton, and is highly inflammable, but, in wpite of this, its cheapness and the ease with which it may be shaped have made it a favorite material for combs, hairpins and wll sorts of small fancy toilet urticles, ever for artificial teeth, whose wearers probably do not realize that they are transforming their mouths into animated bombs charged wishnguncosson,) T 90â€" SA s gouion _ Among all thesoe celluloid toilet articles, however, combs are the only ones that have hitherto caused accidents, The NORK OR LESS POISON, The observations of French physicians have shown that articles of clothing colored with this substance and placed in contact with the skin cause not only local eruptions but ;ympwmu of disease throughout the system. ‘or instance,cases of arythema and serious inflammation of the skin have been caused by wearing red merino stockings colored by the markers with rosanilin containing arsenic as an impurity. : * This is only one of many examples of products, barmless in themselves, that beâ€" come actively poisonous by reason of impurities due to some process of preparaâ€" tion. Cellulo!d is a Compound of Camphor and &an Cotton, and is Highly Inflam mableâ€"Lurking Dangers 10 Which the Woman of Fashion is Nowadays Subjected. The microbs has been taking up so much of the public attention recently that people are beginning to forget that there are other poisons besides those manufactured in the private laboratory of this ingenious little worker. Yet arsenic can kill as woll as tuberculosis, and lead is as fatal as diphâ€" theria ; and if we pat the former on our clothes and rub the latter on our faces we shall one day repent it. Some persons are apt to think that the quantity of poison in a wall paper or a fabric is, after all, very small, but this is by no means the case. Certain stufls conâ€" tain more thin two grammes of arsenious acid to the yari â€"particularly the gauzy green fabrics, Many accidents are caused by aniline colors, and above all by fuchsin and coralin, which are made by treating rosalic acid with ammonis. | Fuchsin is not poisonous in itself, but rosanilin, of which this and many other coloring matters are salts, are obtained by treating anilins with oxidizers, of which two are as dangerous as they are commonâ€"namely, nitrate of mercury and arsenic acid ; and it is rare to find fuchsin that does not contain said, "I have pointed out the murderer. Although the testimony of the prisoner‘s wife gave me my first clue. 1 do not now believe the murderer was asleep, either wher he committed the crime or just now. As to the question of moral responmibility, there can be but one voice ; the murderer is not morally guilty. _ But to me both the prisoner‘s attitude and the records of sleepâ€" \ulkiné‘ reject the latter theory in the case, â€" The verdict lies with you." In the decision which followed,the views of the young counsel were not supported. He was right, however. _ Marwood‘s trainâ€" ing had made him a machine, . He was acâ€" customed to spend the night on the gallows and not as a sleepâ€"walker, but with the noose and death cap in his hand, to wait for a victim. On the night of the 1st of June, 1878, the Governor happened in his rounds to atep out from the prisoner‘s corrider upon the scaffolding,and Marwood executed him as mechanically as a carpenter saw his board. According to a Parisian physician who has been taking a census of the dangers that lurk in the boudoir of a fashionable woman,zhe is fortunate if she cscapes being poisoned, and even if she does she runs great risk of being burned to death. In the first place, a great number of coloured fwbrics are more or less poisonous, . Many dyes are toxic. As is well known, arsenic is chiefly to be blamed for this fact, though the law forbids the use of arsenical salts in dyes. POISONS IN DRY G00DS. DEADLY DYES BY WHICH MANY FABRICS ARE COLOURED. before us of that ghastly midnight sceneâ€" the ghontly light, the dim moon, the devilâ€" ish murderer, calmly looking to the nicest arrangement of his weapon, that helpless old man changed in an instant to aswaying corpse, with distended eyes and distorted feacures." The counsel approached the presidiag magistrate and whispered in his ear ; then returning to his former tonit,ion in front of the great window, he as ed that the lights in the room be put out for a few minutes. The Judge instantly waved his arm to an attendant, and the room was plunged in darkness. â€" The counsel went on in a lower tone : "I said, your Honor, that I dreaded the recalling of that awful scene, but my duty now makes me bid you see it. Look, then." He pointed out of the window and left the room. _ The turning of all eyes in the direction indicated covered the action of the presiding magistrate, who followed the counsel from the room on the inztant, The gallows was now plainly visible before the magistrate bathed in the misty moonâ€" light, â€" Was it possible that that was Marâ€" wood standing on the seatlold. If he slept, hisattention atleast was one of expectation, Remuining immovable just to the left of tha steps leading from the lower corridor, he seemed to And in his handâ€"was that a noose and death cap, or were they the creations of the wavering lights ? He waits no longer ; the _ wellâ€"known figure of the exâ€" amining counsel comes up the prison stairs and passes him, _ The noose ! The death cap ! Did the counsel expect such strengtb, such quickness, in so much smaller w man. The counsel‘s cries are muffled and the noose binds his throat, another minute the strap will be sprung. But a vigorous form rushes on the gallows, Marwood is thrown down and the presiding magistrate has freed the counsel. Five minutes later, the counsel, with pale face and disheveled clothes, again stands before the magistrate, this time conâ€" fronting Marwood. .‘ Your Honor," he WAIT FOR A VICTIM. enc O Tiicaee has been in remarkable contrast with tho extravagance of its dealings with contractâ€" ors. It costs a trifle less for a steamship to come from Madagascar by way of{ the Suez Canal than by the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope, ‘The passage through the Red Sea at this season is an cxperience to be dreaded even on board the best equipped passenger steamship, for the heat of the sun is intense and the air is that of m furnace. Even the British military authorities, who are not sentimental, but who do observe the laws of health, make it a rule pnot to send war ships through the Suez Canal and the Red Seu between June and September. Yet to save the slight dilerence in cost involved, the French govomuunc subjected the sick soldiers, urning with fever, to the horrors of a soLDIERS PERISII BY SCoXrs, The waste of life seems to be as great as the waste of money, and it is charged that the government has resorted to extraordiâ€" nary devices to conceal the facts. it is stated that the climate of the island of Reunion,not a great way from Madagascar, is emineutly suited for the feverâ€"stricken victims ofthe expedition. Instead of esâ€" tablishing & eanitarium there, the governâ€" ment has tollowed the policy of sending sick soldiers back to France. If all the wick were concentrated at one point it mi.ht make too great an impression, #o their number has been concealed by disâ€" tributing them among the various military hospitals. The mortality on the voyuges of the troop ships returning to Europe can be compared only with the accounts of the mortality on a slave ship. _ On some vessels the number of bodies thrown overboard has reached three or four a day. Once landed in â€" French possessions, the invalided soldiers have been treated not as pationts, but as pri¢oners, and have been cat off from the public in order to prevent them from describing their sufferings and those of their dsad comrades. Thus several hunâ€" dreds who were sent to a military hospital in Algeria are guarded with the utmost strictuess,and are notallowed to go outsside: the walls for air and exercise, nhgough the ‘ building is so crowded that many of them are compelied to sleep on straw laid on the floor, Such nre the precautions taken by the government to prevent the secrets of the expedition becoming known, '”The'pnrsimony exhibited by the governâ€" ment toward Another feature of the campaign about which more is heard is the coast, Henri Rochefort, of the Intringigeant,in his bitter opposition to the Government, thinks that it may amount to $100,000,000. The first appropriation of $15,000,000, bas been spent, and there is talk of an application for $10,000,000 more when the chamber of deputies meets. . The drain is so great that the Governmentis increasing taxes where they are least feltand cutting down expenses in every way in order to make a good showâ€" ing. Itis cortainthat individua!sare making fortunes in furnishing supplies to the exâ€" pedition. The correspondent of & paper not suspected of hostility to the government writes that one contracter has made $160,â€" 000 by selling mules at an enormous profit to vhe army. For days and for weeks in some to the cases, a flaet of merchant steamships chartered by the government has lain at anchor at the port of Majunga waiting an opportunity to unload,and all the while the demurrage has been growing at the rate of $10,000 a day. These are among the small expenses of the expedition ; from them an idea of the amouot of money waste may be obtained. very great, just as it was on the isthmus, Theroad is nearly completed now. . When it is finished the French may be expected to take Antananarivo, the capital, without forther ado, and the campaign will be ended. The track of the French will be marked by two things, a civilized road and a desolate and ravaged country. That is a summary of the French operations in Madugascar according to the latest private wccounts. The official dispatches continue to bulletin victories and other pleasing events, Eallors and Marines Are Accused of Shockâ€" Ing â€" Afrocitiesâ€" They â€" Pillage â€" and Slaughterâ€"Worst Acts _ of Indians Emulated by ®oâ€"Called Soidiers of Modern Civilization. Private advices from Madagascar bring unpleasant revelations . concerning the French expedition engaged in the conquest of the islend, says m recent letter from Paris. Up to this time the shameful secrets have been kept fairly well, owing to the rigid censorship exercised over mail matter sent out of the Fronch lines. Allcommuniâ€" cations sent out by mail are opened and examined, just as in Russia when a nibilisâ€" tic conspiracy is on, and severe penalties are imposed for attempts to smuggle letters out of the country. Private soldiers are not allowed to carry writing materiale with them, lest they make known to relatives and friends in Europe things that the govâ€" ernment desires to suppress. . Only half a dozen newspaper correspondents are perâ€" mitted to follow the operations of the expedition, and they represent newspapers who will support the ministry through thick and thin. â€" Probably there never wa® a military campaign hedged in with greater secrecy, and it seems that there is good reason tor this secrecy. . If we may believe the stories that are whispered here civilizâ€" ation owes an apology to the Apaches and other soâ€"called savages that have been held The difficulties of the expedition have been precisely the same as attended the construction of the Panama Railroad. It was necessary to build a road upon which to transport supplies through tropical swamps and forests. The mortality from fever and sunstroke and disease has been The latter are not accused of torturing their prisoners for the sake of the pleasur® piven by the spectacle of intense suffering, the torture is merely a necessary incident of the indulgence of their passions. Th soldiers accused of barbarities are not the savages and semisavages from Dahomey? Algeria and other fierce nations conquered by the French. These are comparatively well behaved under military discipline. The worst of‘enders are said to be the sailors und marines, though the infantry is bad enough, The conduct of which they are acâ€" cused toward the native women and childâ€" ren may be described by two wordsâ€"utter license, but these words do not convey to the imagination an idem of the barbarity of the conduct that is described in detail by persons who claim to have been eye witnessâ€" es of it. a ; LOOKS BAD FOR FRANCE. The Turkish atrocities in Armenia are matched by French atrocities in Madagasâ€" car, if one may accept the statements of ersons trustworthy in ordinary matters. Y& is not likely that the truth will ever be known about this side of the French conâ€" quest of Madagascar, Even Frenchmen who are shocked by the spectacle of violaâ€" tion and murder arerestrained by patriotism from holding their nation up to shame, SHAMEFUL EXCESSES, The excesses of the French soldier« are the more shameful because they are not the #cts of soldiers maddened by the fury of war. There is no war in Madagascar, properly speakinc. The French army, equipped with the finest deathâ€"dealing machines, have encountered about as much opposition from the Hovas as they would from a flock of sheep. â€" The enemy has fled whenever they have appeared, and the number of Hovas killed and wounded has been merely a question of how long it was before they could get in:o hiding places ; a question of how many birds the sportsmen could bring down before the covey got away. â€" The losses inflicted by the Hovas have been insignificant, _ After cach such fluxhing of game that has marked the advance of the French they have thrown themselves upon the undefended villages and towns and have pillaged, burned and violated. That is the story of the expediâ€" tion as it is told by impartial observers. DARK DOINGS OF TROOPS NOW RAVAGING MADAGASCAR. up is boâ€"ror for their fiendishness in warfare. Except in the matter of deliberate ingenuity in inflicting physical torture there seems little to choose between them and the French. Al LOSING MILLIONS IN TREASURE. HARBAROUS PRACTICES THE SIOK SOLDIERS es o e ran s tap t stt o MX S Cc Wetrom Atreiai i s cata‘ meat each week. There are 13,440 meals in a ton of horseflesh. Cats‘ meat is always handed to the customer on a akewer. lt is only a little piece of meat, but it takes a ton of wood cut up into skewers to provide for a single day‘s consumption of cats‘ mont. No fewer than 182% tons of wood are used every year in making cats‘ meat skewers. The borseflesh trade of London olg&l’oya 30 wholesale saiesmen and over 1,000 retailers, Horseflesh for Cat Meat. here is a big butcher‘s shop in London where they kill on an average 26,000 horsce a year, or 500 a week,. These 500 horses are killed and cooked to make London cats COLONIAL CORRESPONXDENCE has been used as an argument in favor of Imp{rial penny postage, and there is no doubt that this would result in & large inâ€" crease; but it is not altogether a matrter of the ditference between five cents and two. A Canadian hardly thinks more or five cents than sn Englishmau does of a penny; it is the writing of the letter and not the postage that is the real trouble. The Engâ€" lish settlers in Canada have come to stay, and after s while they fiad their corresâ€" pondence with the old country drags heavily. _ The English people in India inâ€" tend to go back home, and it is therefore worth their while to keep up their old country interests, but the Englishâ€"Canaâ€" dian soon finds thut his affairs here deâ€" mand all his attention. A few are tenaâ€" cious enough of family ties to keep i corâ€" respondence going at long intervals, but with the next generation the connection is forgotton. Itis in the nature of things that it should be so, for while modern science has greatly improved means of communication, it has also greatly inâ€" creased the demands of one‘s time and atâ€" tention. The postâ€"card, increasing in use at the rate of 26 per cent., is driving the old fashioned epistle out of the field, _ We have no time to write letters nowadays. A commnnication the length of a postâ€"card must serve our turn, although for the sake of privacy cr for the look of things we may put it in an envelope. _ To send such short notes across the Atlantic would be absurd, and so most of us send nothing at all. Ooly a few still keep to the delightful old fashion of maintaining old country currespondence. happy. The firm owning this immense slaughter house of horses turns out 70 tons people‘s houses for *‘ five cents to pay.‘ There wasa falling off in thenumber ofletter delivered ofover 2 per cent., which islargely rccounted for by the tremendous increaseâ€" 6 per cent.â€"in the use of post cards, A new regulation permits anyone to stick a haifpenny stamp on a card and post it, and this privilege has been extensively used Over 2,000 million letters and post cards were dolivered in the United Kingdom, while only 50 millions were zent out of the country,. Of these nearly hali went to France, Germany and the United States ; only eight millions were sent to the colonies wnd the colonies sent still fewer back. In the division of the eight millions India ranks kefore Canada, and Australia comes close on the heels of the Dominion, ‘The small amount of passage through the Rod Soa, instead (f allowing them to benefit by the cool, bealthâ€" restoring broezes of the Atlantic, & The inhumanity of this course is so patent that the minister of war has made repeated promises that no more soldiers should be brought bome via Suez, but has not kept them. Seuator Ranc has given notice of an interpellation on the subject, and it is unlikely to be the cause of the downfall of the ministry. Another econâ€" omy that has excited indignation by reason of ita pettiness, is the rule adopted by the war office that families of dead soldiers Large Namber of Letiers Posted Last Year Without Any Address on Them, There are some careless people living in the old country, if one is to judge from the last report of the English Postmasterâ€"Genâ€" eral. No less than 30,691 letter» were posted last year without any address on them, and 1,742 of them contained remit tances, amounting to over $25,000 in all. By way of offset 32,632 stamps were found loose in the post, which may explain why the letter carrier so often calls at some must pay a lot of small fees upon the effects brought back trom â€" Madngascar, _ The amount involved is so small in the aggregâ€" ate that the government might Lave been expected to waive its right in order to sho w a little generosity toward the relations of those whose lives have been sacrificed for France, and its action in extorting its dues, even from goor families,has produced au extremely bad effect. A few days ago, says m dispatch from Valcomannica, & chamois hunter shot a buck on the Pizgana Glacier, and the body of the animal happened to fall into a deep crevice, The ard of some herdsmen was invoked to recover it and one of them let himself down into the crevice on ropes. He found the carcass at the bottom of the rent «t the side of what appeared to be a hrman skeleton. Some remuants of clothing he gathered up and brought to light. The head had been well preserved in its icy inclosure rnd was recognized as that of Ruth, the likeness being reinforced by the identity of the clothing which he was known to have worn. ; Alp climbing had been a mania with him for years and he had the reputation of a fenrless and wellâ€"experienced tourist. The supposition is that the tourist lost his way in the fog cnd happened to strike the dangerous paths of Lagoscuro, leading to the ice fields of Pizgana, instead of the pass of Presena. From there he was preâ€" cipitated into the deadly depths below, He started in fine weather, but soon afterwards it became fogey. As he had not arrived at} Ponté di iegno two days later, many _ of the expert guides of the district went out in search of him, dead or alive. | They were unsuccessful, and the probable fate of the man, who was well fiked among the people, was discussed, not only in the neighborhood where he was supposed to have died, but later Fourtcen Lives Lost Last Summer in the Trencherous Ice Fields. Aipine mountain climbing is likely to be prohibited on account of its dangers, the severity of which has recently _ been emphasized by the finding of the body of W. Ruth, who was lost in the summer of 1893. PH UR o iy‘ It wuhrepoxawd from the Tyrol town of Valcomannica that parts of the body of Ruth, who two summers ago failed to return from a tour over the %’relenn pass in the Adamello Alps, South Tyrol, had been recovered in a mountain crevice at the feot of the Pizgana Glacier. Ruth bad been a wellâ€"known character among the Alp climbers in that neighborhood. He was last seen in August, 1893, aty the vilâ€" lage of Pinzola, He then informed the innkeeper that be meant to travel to Ponte di Legoo, the mountain mentioned above. Several guides offered their services, but Mr. Ruth declined on the plea that he hnew the way, as indeed he did, being fumiliar with every pass and precipice in South Tyrol. DANGEROUS SPORT which counts among its enthusinstic supporters many distinguished persons, notably the Empress of Austria, the Queen of Italy, the Crown Princess Stephany and her young daughter, 7 T 2k eBlaen o W en o in on l ogule The finding of Ruth‘s body brings the known Alp distasters of 1893 to the number of fiity, The yearly average of persons who lose their lives in Europe because of a reckless passion for the climbing sport is thirtyâ€"three,. _ The last season fourteen tourists died in the Alps by falling o% precipices, an unusually large number, for violent tumbles are among the leas frequent accidents peculiar to Alp climbing, the devotees of which are moreoften threatened by lightning, wvalanches, rain of stones, hbigh winds, snowâ€"storms, intense cold and exbaustion followed by deathly sleep and famine . R 4 The relatives of these fourtcen unfortunâ€" ates are clambering for special laws prohibiting or at least restricting this NO MORE ALPINE CLIMBING QLD COUNTRY LETIERS. ALTL OVER EUROPE m:;' s For Sale by McFARLANE & CO,, s Wholesale Agents for Durham and Vicinity Having Completed our New Factory we are now preparc to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. We keep in Stock a large quantity of Sash Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the differâ€" ent Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. Lumber, Shingles and Lath always Sash and Door Factory. are sic«, Lheto were tnc iéeciungs Of Mrs. Galbraith, wile of Mr. A. V. Calbraith, the wollâ€"known jeweller of Shelburne, Ont., before she had learnâ€" ed of the beneficent rosults to be gainâ€" ed by the vso of South American Nervine Tonic, In so many words sho sail: "Life was becoming unâ€" bearalle. I was so cranky I was really schamed of mysolf. Nothing that I ato would agree with mo; now it does rot matter what I eat. I take enjoyment out of all my meals." Here are Mrs. Galbraith‘s words of testiâ€" mony to South American Nervine, given over her own signature : «* Shelourne, Ont., March 27, 1894. "I was for considerable time a sufâ€". ferer from indigestion, experiencing sll the misery and annoyance so. A Common AYERS m With indigestion it is not only that one saffers all imaginable torments, physical and mental, but more, perâ€" baps, than anything eise, an impaired dizestion is the forerunner of countâ€" less ailments that in their course lead to the most serious consequences, Let tha stomzach got out of order and it may be caid the whole system is disâ€" eased. When the digestive organs fail in their importart functional drtics, head and heart, mivd and body are sick. â€" These were the {eclings of Ayer‘s Pills Clea» Ayer‘s oar Sarsaparilia Our Stock of DRY LUMRE is very La: can be filled. "I TELL ALL MY FRIEXDS.". A Lady of Shelburne, Ont., Perman Cured of Indigestion After Using U Bottles of South American Mervi: â€"Glad to Let Everyone Know It, ree from Eruptions ©I was afflicted for eight years Rheum. During that time, 1 tric many medicines which were hi ommended, but none gave me was at last advised to try Ai"cl parilia, by a friend who told n must purchase six bottles, and according to directions. 1 yicl {»erxunshm. bought the six bot ook the contents of three of t tles without noticlng any divec Before 1 had finished the four my hands were a$ as ever they were. My bus is that of a cabâ€"driver, req be out in cold and wet we without gloves, and the never returned."â€" Tioxas Stratford, Ont. /o < s eâ€"â€"cmxi uMV Art UGerd rirvry Anowce Ns .. $ }} es M n ngenaioing 2e SssmA [ /;.4 es e airtaien i o) cake . uty apssynal t Aeceatuoes 1. _ o) $y “'-’9.*&11’«,‘»‘\'\:‘\ es ~A NCezeffaensd o s.,.-Vu 7 \.J\L:;:Y. * _â€"~foyâ€"f q ~parf & & ~ s g P ps s § I e % \ o 5 Admitted at the World‘s Faiz Permanently Cured by Taking A CABâ€"DRIVER‘S STORY Thomas A. Johne. Affliction â€"THOMAS A. JOHN3 MRS. A. V. GALBRAITH esdiisaanies ( ; omm s w Sarsa Lowets. In Stocic. N., G & J. M:KECHHIE The testimony of this lady, given freely and voluntarily out of a full heart because of the benefits sho exâ€" perieneed in her own person, have an echo in thousands of hearts all over the country. South American Nervâ€" ine must cure, becauso it operates at ' once on the nerve contres. These nerve centres are the source from ‘wlxich emanates the life fluid that i keeps all organs of the body in proper repair. Keep these nerve centres sound and disceasois unknown. There is no trick in the business. Everyâ€" thing is very simple and common sense like. South American Nervine strongthens the digestive organs, tones up the liver, enriches the blood, is peculiarly efficacious in building up shattered and nervous constitutions. It never fails to give relief in one day. common to this complaint,. Sout\ American Nervine was recommend: d to ms as a safe and offective remedy for all such cases. I used only two bottles, and am pleased to testify that these fally cured me, and I have bad no indication of & return of the trouble sinco. â€" I never fail to recommend the Noervine to all my friends troubled with indigestion or nervousness. " MNrs, A. V. GacsRarm®." Tough fowis are rendered as tender as chickens by steaming them two hours or Crockery that has been grease may be cleaned by weuk Iye. For economy and evenness of heat, put only a little coal on the fire at a time. Taney is a preventive of moths, and if the leaves are *prinkled treely about woolens and furs,they will be @afe. Benzine rubbed on the edg*=s of carpets is apreventâ€" ve of moths. Household Hints. Always stir a cake one way, Prick potatocs before baking. Keep celery firm by setting in cold water till used. Let raw potatoes lie in salted water an hour before frying. If the cover is removed from soap dishes the somp will not get soit, KENDALLS SPAYIR CURE, «n Ooenlt mpny in keop a bottlc on ht n in its , Permanently bthe Joad pr so that Mervine * souked" with slow boiling in N all 0 3» heonkd a whdoe ds Mrs. Wixstow‘s Soormx@ Syrurhas been sued by millions of mothers for their children while teething. 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N $0 a. t Anr ECHANI( Hallâ€"open For Over FittyjÂ¥cars Had a Good Reason Easy W Third Wedneséay incach x Hours.â€"Distressing dder diseases relie{ in Great South American This new remedy is a H Office IXRECTCRYX each that‘s Ba ul O8 1 3 <h 6 § 0 eckse es