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Arriving at the cross roods, just east of Gordonsville Station, she directed Showers to get out and wait, as she wanted to drive on a short distance and have a confidential talk with Tanner. The accommodating driver did so. She drove with Tanner over a hill to the east and returned in twenty minutes, when they all went to Gordons- ville Station. Tanner took the train that soon came along and returned to Glenville, and Showers was hired by the woman to take her to Northwood, where he left her. She doubtless took the train there, and has lived in clover ever since. During the ride Showers had his suspicion aroused, and asked the woman what caused the beard on her face, as it had begun to slightly show through the paint. She answered, “Oh, I have not shaved to-day; it’s all right.“ The pretended woman was in truth a man in disguise, and While over the hill he had robbed Tanner of 820,000 in certificates of deposit of banks of Albert Lea, Austin and St. Paul, and $1,400 in cash. He had threatened Tanner with death if he exposed him, and thus easily Worked his bold and successful robbery. As soon as Tanner returned to Glenville he telegraphed to the banks directing them not to pay money on the certificates, and during the past week they were all re- turned to him in an envelope postmarked at St. Paul, containing also the words: h Lost and found Jan. 17,” but Tanner has not again seen the woman who so affec- tionately held him in her lap,nor the $1,400 which she carried away. A Few Facts of Importance to Travellers. terious woman stopped. She then directed Shovvere to drive 'back to Bennett’s and tell Sanford Tanner that a. lady at Mrs. Buchanan’s wanted to see 'him. Showers did so, and soon returned with Tanner. The strange woman came out and got into the sleigh, took Tanner on her lap and instructed the man to drive further on, as she wanted to talk over some business matters with Tan- ner. In Glenville she had pretended to some that she was a detective working up the robbery of Tanner at Austin, and she thus partly explained her object to Tanner and Showers. He had been boarding fora month or more with the family of J. P. Bennett, within gunshot of Glenville, nine miles south of this city. One day during the week pre- ceding Christmas a young, well-informed, stylishly-dressed, and self-possessed woman drove up to Fred. Morrison’s horel in Glen- ville with a horse and cutter, and inquired about Tanner, as to where he boarded, where he was generally to be found, and other particulars. She drove around for a time and finally returned to Albert Lea. The next day she alighted from the cars at the Glenville'depot and engaged John Showers, a stranger in that section, to drive her into the country. They drove four miles south to the house of Mrs. Ann Buchanan, where the mys- Abouta month since an advertisement appeared in a Toronto paper offering for sale a ticket from St. ri‘homas to Calgary on the C. P. B. As the Act Respecting the Sale 0‘ Railway Tickets passed by the Dominion Government in 1886 provides that no person shall sell or ofler for sale a ticket except such person is licensed to do so by the railway company interested, Mr. Dransfield, representing the C. P. R. 00., investigated, and found that box 808, St. Thomas, the address to which any designing purchaser was requested 'to communicate, was rented by Mr. L. H. Tarrant, merchant tailor. It appears that Mrs. Kerr, daughter ; of Mr. Tarrant, came home on a visit from ‘ Calgary, purchasing beforeleaving a limited return ticket. After arriving here her parents persuaded her to remain longer than she originally intended, and as the ticket would expire before the time of her departure, it was offered for sale, the holder not being aware that it was against the law. The ticket was not sold, however. It is now reported that Mr. Tarrant is to be summoned before the magistrate on a charge of misdemeanor. He states, how- ever, :that he courts inquiry; that the ticket aid not belong to him; that he did not see it, nd that he did not advertise or ofief it for sale, although he wrote to Dransfield itatln at what figure it could be pur- chase . The same Act which makes it a misdemeanor to sell a ticket compels the agent of a railroad company to redeem such portion ofaticket as has not been used, so that people who almost daily offer for sale unused tickets at the city ticket offices have a right to do so, and the agents are compelled to redeem them if they are for 'onrneys over the line of which they are agents: All that was necessary for the holder of the Calgar "ticket to‘ do was to take itrto 'One of the .P.R:_Bgénts' and she A Rich 01d Bachelor in Minnesota Takes a Ride on Invitation of a Womanâ€"She Proves to be a Man in Disguise, and Be is Forced to Give Up His Money. An Albert Lea,Minn.,despa.tch says: San- ford Tannerhas been a Well-kt. own character for twenty years in this county; is He is s bachelor, and seems to have no relatives or confidential friend. He stays but a. few months in a place, being most of the time at Mona and St. Ansgar, Iowa. and at Austin. Glenville and Albert Lee, in this State, looking after his loans and collecting his interest. He is very eccentric. He is worth probably $100,000, and generally carries on his person his cer- tificates of deposit and other papers and a' considerable sum in cash. It is said he has been robbed several times, last spring hav. ing been relieved of $1.900 at Austin, Minn. The particulars of a recent exciting experi- ence have just been learned. wo’uld have received the £911 Emount of its ifalqe in'bash.-â€"St. Thomas Times. pagan Gas Ezrplosi'oii in a Wilkesbgrre Flt. A Wilkesharre, 3a., despatch says; A terrific explosion of gas occurred in the Lottingham mine at Plymouth yesterday afternoon, by which five men, who were en- gaged in repairing the timbering, were seriously if not fatally burned. It was an idle day at the mine, but before the work- men entered the pit the fire boss made an examina‘ti‘on and'reported everything safe, ‘ but owing to eome‘defective‘ventilation {gas ‘ liad in some way accumulated. Not know: ing this; the repair men walked into the Ea: wiyli in _ed lamps, setting fire to it. The explosnonw ieh followed was tremendous _'nd the men were hurled in every direction. hey were not alone burned, but were geriOuely bruised, As the whole party is badly injured and unable to speak, further details are unobtainable. The names of the unfortunatee are: Daniel Reese, married, aged 98; Ludwig Bose, married, aged 32; John McElwee, married, aged 35; David L. Lloyd, married, aged 40, and a Polack Whose name is not known. - The telephone wires in Buffalo are being put under ground. _ Heavy winds have driven the ice from New York harbor out'to sea. What we call underwriters were not originally .80 classed, Formerly all the marine ' insurance in England was taken by (frivate individuals. A con- tract woul be arawn up insuring & Vessel and cargo about to sail on a voyage. Under this contract it was cus- tomary for different capitalists to write their names for a specified amount till the full‘ insurance required was taken. The‘se .ergon‘q were called» underwriters. Custom fias’bxtended the term till it is now ex- tended’to all who engage in the insurance business. ROBBED OP ABOUT $20,000. Qfi‘qrgpg mfin DISASTER. ’l‘lUlflLT HUALI’ING. One hundred years ago what a man dis- covered in the arts and mechanics he con- cealed. Workmen were put on oath never to reveal the process used by their em- ployers. Doors were kept closed, artisans going out were searched, visitors were rigorously excluded from admission, and false operations blinded the workmen them- selves. The mysteries of every craft were hedged in by quickest fences of empirical pretension and . judicial affirmation. There used to be, close by Temple Bar, in London, an old Chemist’s shop. The proprietor of it in days gone by enjoyed the monopoly of making citric acid. More favorably circumstanced than other secret manufacturers, his was a pro- cess that required no assistance. He em- ployed no workmen. Experts came to sample and assort and bottle his products. They never entered the laboratory. The mystic operations by which he grew rich were confined to himself. One day, having locked the doors and blinded the windows, sure, as usual, of the safety of his secret, our chemist went home to his dinner. A chimney-sweep, or a boy disguised as such, wide awake in chemistry, was on the watch. Following the secret-keeper so far on his way to Charing Cross as to be sure he would not return that day,the sooty philosopher hied rapidly back to TempleBar, ascended the low building, dropped dawn the flue, saw all he wanted and returned, carrying with him the mystery of making citric acid. The monopoly of the inventor was gone. A few months after and the price was reduced by four-fifths. The poor man was heart-broken, and died shortly afterwards, ignorant of the trick by which he had been victimised. Like Miss Tabitha Bramble, when informed that the thunder had spoiled two barrels of beer in her cel- lar, he might have said, “ How the thunder should get there when the cellar was double-locked I can’t comprehend.” The manufacture of tinware in England originated in a stolen secret. Few readers need to be informed that tinware is simply thin sheet iron, plated with tin by being dipped into the molten metal. In theory it is an easy matter to clean the surface of iron. Dip it into a bath of bailing tin, and remove it, enveloped with the silvery metal, to a place of cooling. In practice, however. the process is one of the most difficult of the arts. It was discovered in Holland, and guarded from publicity with the utmOst vigilance for nearly ha f a century. Eng- land tried in vain to discover the secret, until James Sherman, a Cornish miner, crossed the Channel, insinuated himself surreptitiously into a tin plate manufac- tory, made himself master of the secret, and brought it home. The history of cast steel presents a curious instance of a manufacturing secret stealthily obtained under the cloak of an appeal to philan- thropy. The main distinction between iron and steel, as many people know, is that the latter contains carbon. The one is converted into the other by being heated for a considerable time in contact with powdered charcoal in an iron box. Now, steel thus made is unequal. The middle of a bar is more carbonized than the ends, and the surface more than the centre. It is, therefore, unreliable. Nevertheless, before the invention of cast steel there was nothing better. In 1760 there lived at At- tercliffe, near Sheffield, a watchmaker named Huntsman. He became dissatisfied with the watch springs in use and set him. self to the task of making them homogene- ous. “If,” thought he, “I can melt a piece of steel and cast it into an ingot, its composition should be the same throughout.” He suc- ceeded. His steel becamefamous. Hunts- man’s ingots for fine work were in univer- sal‘demand. He did not call them cast steel. That was his secret. About 1770 a large manufactory of this peculiar steel was established at Attercliffe. The process was wrapped in secrecy by every one within reachâ€"true and faithful men hired, the work divided and subdivided, la'rg‘e wages paid, and stringentioaths administered. It did not avail. ' one inidwin‘ter night, as the tall chimneys'of the Atterclifle steel works belched forth their smoke, a tra- veller knocked at the gate. It was bitterly cold, the snow fell fast, and the wind howled across the moat. The stranger, apparently a ploughman or agricultural laborer, seeking shelter from the storm, awakened no suspicion. Scanning the wayfarer closely, and moved by motives of humanity, the foreman granted his request , and let him in. Feigning to be worn out with cold and fatigue, the poor fellow sank upon the floor; and soon appeared to be aslee ,. That, hGWever‘,‘ wa’s’ far. from his i tention.‘ 116 closed his eyes appa- rently only. He saw workmen cut bars of steel into bits, lace them in crucibles, and thrust the cru 1bles into a furnance. The fire was urged to its eatreme power until the steel was melted. clothed in wet rags to protect themselves from the heat, the workmen drew out the glowing crucibles, and cured‘their contents into a mould. Mr. , .untsman’s factory had nothing more to disclose. The secret ‘of making cast steel had been discoveredâ€"English Mechanic. CLEVBR TRICKS PLAYED 0N MEN OF GENIUS. How Great Inventions Were Got Hold of by Determined Men. Mrs. Langtry’e private car, which is ‘ being built for her at Wilmlngton, 1361,, 1 will be pile of the meet goigebqe’paléces on wheels ever constructed. The cost will be about $60,000. ‘It will be equipped with ofiiee, dressingâ€"room, bath and bed-room. The bed-room will be padded in every part, so that in case of railroad accident Mrs. Lnngtry will fall gently. Mrs. Langtry Will undoubtedly recover the money thus spent in the curiosity to which the car will give rise, in the same way that W. S. Eden, proprietor of “The Arabian Nights,” re- covered the 1,000 silver dollars with which he paved his barber shop in the Palmer House, Chicago. â€"“ How can you afford to give a 5-eent 1 cigar and a. shave for 8 cents ‘2” was asked of a. down town barber. “ Oh, I give ’em the cigar first and they go away without the shave, or I shave ’em first an’ they skip without the cigar.” Smith and Kifnin fought a fight, And Went to fight {mother ; They take the boodle half and half And thus they $3 each other. â€"â€"“Didn’t I order molasses?” she shouted to the grocer through the telephone yester- day. “ Yes’m.” “ And you sent me vine- gar ‘2” “ Yes’m, so I did. We are out of molasses and won’t have any until Thurs- day. Try and make the vinegar answer for a. few days?“ And‘ as he hung up the trumpet he gyowled to himSelf : “The people of Detroit are getting so particular that nothing will suit ’em I" VOL THE YORK HERALD. Mrs. Langtry’s'Private Car. STOLEN SECRETS. With them might be seen women decked out in the richest and brightest of silks and satins, below which not unfrequently peeped bare, red feet, while long, tawny locks hung uneombed over their shoulders. The utter incongruity of their conduct with their appearance defies description ; they seemed uneasy till all their quickly won wealth he‘d been dissipated. No materials, however elegant, won their favor unless it had the additional merit of being most costly; and the shop-keepers, finding that articles of a moderate price were almost unsalable, prcfited by such folly and raised their wares to extravagant prices to suit the taste of the purchasers. With this prodigality was connected an unthinking lavishness ; they gave to others as foolishly as they spent on themselves. He immediately purchased the shawl, and advancing toward her with.his prize in hand he held it out condescendingly to her and said: “ Here, my pretty lass, ye shan’t be disappointed of your shawl ; Ican afford to pay for it and ye can’t, bless you I” The young lady, who loved finery beyond the limits of her purse, and who was not troubled with samples of delicacy or pro- priety, smiled, bowed, thanked him, and accepted the handsome gift. I heve an acquaintance who takes snuff. The other day, when the wind was blowing from the west, he started out in that direc- tion. He was in p. hurry, tooâ€"important business. By and by he wanted some snuff. He took out his box, stopped, turned his back to the Wind to keep the snuff from blowing away, took a pinch and walked on. Yes, sir ; walked on in the very direction he had comeâ€"didn’t know he had turned around. A goose hasn't much brain, but you never saw a. goose do such a thing as that. Among the well-authenticated anecdotes of such liberality is one of which the daugh- ter of an English gentleman of rank in one of the colonies was the object. This young lady entered a shop and asked the price of a valuable shawl, which. on being informed of the cost, she regretted to find beyond her means. A stalwart digger was standing near and overheard the colloquy between the young lady and the ehopman. Every conceivable folly was perpetrated by the rough men with unwashed faces, who paraded the streets arrayed in the finest of broadcloth and with huge rings glittering on their dingy, toil-worn hands. I am glad I live in this age, there are so many people to hate. I like to hate people, anyway ; but I prefer to have them deserve to be hated. Most of them, nowadays, thank heaven, do deserve to he hated. Now, there is that fellow with the moccasins on his feet. Comes up behind you noiselessly, the sneak. You don’t know there‘s any- body within a. mile of you. Suddenly you see him from the corner of your eye, right beside you, close up, and your blood jumps and stops. There ought to be a. law to make men in moccasins wear sleigh-bells. l‘hey frighten decent folks half out of their Wits. A season of reckless extravagance ensued, and the gold of the diggers was scattered with wild profusion, and was spent even more quickly than it had been amassed. Then there is that fellow with the left- over expression, as somebody in the Atlantic Monthh once called itâ€"the' fellow who meets 9. fr end in front of you on the street and Pokes in'tq your face the ex- pression he intended for him. How am I sup- posed to know when I meet the man who is grinning the grin of recognition â€"how am I to know whether it is intended for me or for the man walking in front of me? Perhaps I grin in return. Then I feel like a. fool, and all on account of that fellow‘s left-over expression. Wild Extravagance in Melbourne During the Days of the Gold Fever. Melbourne dates its prosperity from 1851, the year of the gold discovery. That was a period of wild excitement ; everybody who could go went to the diggings; an un- wonted silence reigned in the well-nigh deserted streets ; the shops and public re- sorts Were almost empty, and the few way- farers who remained at home had a restless and excited appearance. Toward Christ- mas, however, the deserted city suddenly put on a gay and altered aspect, for the successful diggers abandoned their labors for a. time and swarmed in crowds to spend the festive season in the city. Everybody has met the dodgerâ€"the miserable,vacillating creature who never knows which way he is going to turn out for you. Down he comes toward you, walking like a personified hurricane. Firg‘t he thinks he will turn'to the Then he changee his mind qua darts a little to the left. ‘ Then he brings up square in front of you, and you stand there playing peek- a-boo With him till you feel that every- body on the street is looking at you and laughing at you. I meet this wretch every now and then, and I always leave him with a feeling that the law against carrying weapons is an injustice and an outrage._ -43 I Rant 3 vigilance committee organized to snufi out the man, who, in the street car in the evening. holds his newepnper by the Wye remoteat edges till he reads everything between. I have tried to read in the same car with this person and I know what Iam talking about. I want him shut up in a. dungeon till he learns to told his paper and give other people a. chance at the light. Dawny Campbell went to build a. small out-house of brick. After/the usual fashion of bricklayers he wrought from the inside, and having the material close beside him, the Walls were rising fast when dinner- time arrived, and with it his son Jock, who brought his father’s dinner. With honest pride in his eye Dawny looked at Jock over the wall on which he was engaged and asked, “ Hoo d’ye think I’m getting on ‘2 ” “Famous, {ether ; but hoo dae ye get oot ? Xe’ve forgot_the door.” One look aro‘find him showed Dawny that his son was right; but, looking kindly at him, he said : “ Man, Jack, you’ve got a. gran’ heid on ye ; ye’ll be an architect yet as share’s yer father’s a. mason." â€" Glasgow Evening Times. A certain doctor in this oity, says the Augusta, Me., Journal, was called upon the other day by a man who desired to get it prescription for alcohol. “ For what purl pose 7” asked the doctor. “_M'ech'a.nicat,’-’ said the man with a. oeuntena’nce honest enough to 160k any judge inthe country out bf countenance. After writing the prescip- tion and handing it to the man the doctor; éaid : ‘l‘ For What kind of mechanical put- poee do you intend to use the’ alcohol ’2” “ Sawing wood. Good day, air," was the reply. LOADED DOWN WITH GOLD. Would Make Him an Architect. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1888. A Hfi‘efl‘ll Set. Mr. Stratton, on rising to move the Address in reply to the Speech from the ‘ Throne, was received with loud applause. .He took occasion to extend hearty con- igratulations to Sir Alexander Campbell upon taking the oflice of Lieutenant- }Governor of this Province. It was true, he said, that the season’s operations among the agriculturists were not altogether satis- factory ; yet in some branches, notably in dairy farming, there had been marked and gratifying success. He referred tothe recent timber sales by the Provincial Government, and thought that the Province was to be congratulated upon the success which had attended this the ninth sale of timber lands in the Province. He quoted figures relating to the sales of timber limits in Ontario, proving an average of receipts of $360 per square mile of bonus. He quoted also the figures of nine sales during the same period in the Province of Quebec, showing average receipts of only $543 bonus per square mile. It was complained in some quarters that the tim- ber resources of the Province were being too quickly used up, but it was not to be forr gotten that the forests stood constantly in danger of being swept away by fire. Moreover it would be inimical to the general interests of the Province to arbitrarily prevent the employment of the great capital invested in Ontario’s lumbering intests. Referring to that part of the speech relating to Pro- vincial Lunatic Asylums, he said that it: had become evident that further accommo- dation was necessary for this most un- fortunate class. In the last sixteen years the Province had expended over $5,000,000 upon this most unfortunate class. Yet , there were 471 last year whose misfortune ‘ had been converted into a crime and 3 they had been left in the county jailsg In relation to the proposal to appoint a} Minister of Agriculture, he dwelt upon the , importance of the farming interest, show- 1 ing that the capital invested in the farms ‘ of the Province was $975,292,000, the field crops alone reaching the value of ‘ $105,579,000 a year. It was but just to this great interest that it should have‘ special representation in the Cabinet. While the Government showed this atten- 1 tion to the interest of the farming com- munity, the interests of labor were not‘ forgotten. ‘ Mr. McKay seconded the motion ina speech which was well delivered and well received. He was glad to know that in conformity with their policy of extending the franchise as rapidly as public senti- ment would justify it, the Government would this session propose that manhood suffrage should be established in the Pro- Vince. Mr. Meredith said he would postpone observations upon some points referred to by other speakers until alater period of the session. He heartily concurred in the con- gratulations extended_to the new Lieut.- Governor. There could Lem) hettertnihnte to the benefits of training in the Conserva- tive camp than the high praise given by gentlemen opposite to Sir Alexander Campbell, and this was also a complete answer to the statements which had been made for party purposes in the House and out‘of it by members of the Government which would have led one who believed them to regard the present Lieut.-Governor as a traitor to this Province and desirous of depriving her of over 100,000 square miles of territory. He was glad to know that the pessimistic views held by their leaders, the Minister of Education (Mr. Ross) being the first among them to voice the opposite view, were not held by the mover and seconder of the Address. The resolution for the address was car- ried, the customary form was gone through 2mg thq address adopted. _ Petitions were preEented from the County Councils of Weliqnd and Lennox and, Addingtori praying relief respecting the cOnfi‘neiment'ofi insane persona in the com- mori jails. th. Mr. Fraser preeentedaBill respect- ing the closing of shops and the hours of labOr of young children and persons therein. Hon. Mr. Mowat presented a Bill relat- ing to alimony in certain cases. He ex- plained that the object was to provide that the magistrates or police magistrate trying cases of non-support might decide the amount of alimony to be given where the amount claimed was not large,appeal being allowed to the judge of the Division Court. The Bill was read the first time. The estimates for expenditures to be made between the opening of the year and the voting of the regular Supply Bill of the session were presented and ‘voted in the usual way. ' The House adjourned at 3.45 o’clock. NOTICES or norms. Mr. Garsenâ€"On Tuesday nextâ€"Bill re- specting stationary engines and engineers. ‘ Mr. Watersâ€"On Wednesday nextâ€"Bill i to amend the Assessment Act. TORONTOâ€"The Speaker took the chair at 3 o’clock. Mr. McKayâ€"~01) Wednesday nextâ€"Bill for the prevention of accidents by fire in (hotels and other public buildings. Also, bill to enable Widows and unmar- ried women to vote for members of the ngjslalgive Assegnbly: Mr. Frenchâ€"On Monday nextâ€"Bill to authorize the appointment of fire guardians angthe better prAeveatiOA of push fires. _‘ A Lucky Trip. “ What have you been doing for a. living 19.15er ‘2” asked a. very tough-looking citizen of a. man who looked as if he might be a boon companion. “ Burglarizing.” “ What was your last job?" “ I tackled the residence of a. real estate agent last night." ” Have you any luck?” “ Yes; first-rate.” ” What did you get ‘2” “ I got away without buying a. hens: and lot." For Papa’s Sake. “ Give us this day our (1ain beer,” said Flossie as she was repeating her nightly prayer. “ What do you mean by that, Flossie ?”sharply demanded her mother. “ Iwas praying for papa. I didn’n care much for bread, anyhow.”-â€"Drake’s Travellers‘ Magazine. “ 0h, Maud, what do you think? My canugy bird_ has lai§_ap egg _b_” ‘ Virar'flxlat ain’t ndthin’lvni‘fi'ch ; my pa laid two stair carpets yesterday 1” If that; qrt rich, than show the greatness of thy fqrtunemr, whet is better, the great- ness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy action and thy conversation, sympathlze with men of low estate, aid the distressed find show consideration tothe neglected; be greatâ€"Laurence Sum. THE LOCAL LEGISLATURE. The Difl'erence. How the Virginia. Weed Helped to Support and Spread the Gospel. A later vestry-book extending from 1723 to 1771 is still carefully preserved, having been rescued from some old county records by Mr. Young. From this chronicle one can get a. glimpse of the state of society and its economic condition. Ecclesiastical cur- rency, as is well-known, was tobacco. For the service of the church, each “ tithnble” was assessed every year so many pounds. We find such entries as these : lbs. tobacco .............. To Rev. John Reid salary To ditto for board To ditto for clerk 1,000 “ To Mary Clurk,ae 400 ” Agreed with James Brlggs to keep Eliza. Mipet for one year and to find her in clothes for 1,260 lbs tobacco. . 5,9501bs. 16,000 “ 1,500 “ They Are Not Afraid to go to the Theatre and Opera. Alone. The question as to the propriety of ladies going out in this city to places of entertainments unattended by male escorts has ceased to be a question. They simply go when they Wish to and say nothing about whether it is proper or not, and that is exactly what they ought to do. Acivilization which does not insure safety and respect to women as well as men after night is in need of improvement. Not every woman who likes concerts and theatres has male relatives ready to escort her. New York is full of indepen- dent, self-snpporting women, who like to go when and where they please and ask no man’s leave or aid, since they belong to no man. They go in twos, threes and fours to whatever entertainment they wish to see, and nobody respects them any the less. In truth, it wouldl be a sorry day for theatrical man- agers when they made their theatres less than pleasant for unattended women. They know very well that the bulk of their patronage comes from the beauti-. £111 and emotional sex, and ladies who are in the habit of going accompanied only by other ladies pronounce in favor of that habit. Some times they say they “ don’t like the care of a man." Of course, when the man goes along and pays all the expenses and acts in the capacity of a conductor, it is necessary to make him feel repaid by the lady devoting herself to his eyes, ears and tongue, if not heart. This “ having to be agreeable ” becomes irksome unless she is much interested in the man. That is why she prefers a companion of her own sex.â€" N. Y. Press. To Mr. Barlow for 17 sermons at 350 To Widow Lawrence being pore 500 lbs. to- bacco. The church expenses averaged about 70,- 000 pounds tobacco a. year, or in the neigh- borhood of £450. The price of tobacco varied ; but that there should not be an unâ€" limited currency, as it were, the parish was divided into districts, and each year ap- peared such records as : From an entry before the book closes, it appears that 16.000 pounds of tobacco sold for £101 11s. 11d. It was the business of these viewers, or tellers, as they were sometimes called, to estimate and restrict the number of young plants, that there might not be over-pro. duction, lest the church income suffer from too low prices.-â€"American Magazine. Samuel Davis and William Bridger are ap- pointed viewers 01' tobacco from the River to Blackwater. A Remedy Against Drummers. Friendâ€"Don’t you have a. great many drummers coming in and boring you with their samples and their talk ? Merchahtâ€"A good many drummers come in he_re, but_ they dpn’t bore nge. _ “ Doh’t they 'ask you to look at their samples ‘3” “No-n “Don’t they ask you to give them orders ‘3” ” No, they go right out without saying a word." ~ _ “ ng do you manage to get rid of them ‘2” “ It’s the simplest thing in the world. I put a. plug hat and an open gripsack on the counter every morning. When a. drummer sees these signs of another drummer being on the premises he goes off. Every ten minutes in the day a. drummer comes to the door, looks at the gripsack and goes away, and I am left in peace.” A Middletown (Conn.) reader of the Sun- day Republican hastens to write that the identity of the beautiful girl of whom Charles Dickens speaks in his “ American Notes ” as a. passenger on the steembost Massachusetts from Springfield to Hart- ford in 1842, is not a. mysteryâ€"st least in the mind of this correspondent. She was Miss Mather, of Middletown, now Mrs. Kent, of New York, who was with her sister, and both girls were considered among their friends very handsome. Now let some one tell who gave Mr. Dickens the arbutus on his second visit, in 1868, and both mysteries will be cleared away.â€" Springficld Republican. “ Times have changed. The public taste has changed," exclaimed the professor who was delivering the literary lecture, as he warmed up with his subject and brought his hand down emphatically on the desk. “Where is the man that reads Anthony Trollope to-day ?” .- . u q 1 “ Here he is,” said a. hollow-eyed, de- jected looking man, in the rear of the hall, as he rose up, “I am reading one of his books, but I’m doing it on 5. bet, and I can lick the ornery son of a gun that has given me away I” yog ? v Second Partyâ€"Oh, I’m enjoying very p031: healch How areYyou? v" -. n» ‘VFirst Partyâ€"We‘ll, f’m suffering very good health. Funny Man (of Chicago daily)â€"A sudden feeling of nausea has come over me. It must be Eogxething I’ve_ ea?en_._ A e fibrse Editor (syvmpathetically)â€"Possibly it’s something you have written. There is a. story of a pretty Kerry lady who had all her life a slight tendency to a. redness of the nose, which developed with years. One day, speaking to a. neighboring gentlemen, she said, simperingly : “ All my life I’ve been in dread of having a. red nose,” which elicited the following reply, in the broadest Kerry brog-ue :» “ And, good heavens, woman, now that you have a. red nose. will you tell me what harm it @065 you ‘2’.’ Idiomatic English. First Partyâ€"Hello, Charley I How are INDEPENDENT GOTHADI GIRLS. Dickens‘ Beautiful American. TOBACCO AND RELIGION. Times Have Changed. Sympathy for the Sick. WHOLE NO ] ,539 NO. 32. M Teefy AN interesting tariff contest is in pro- gress on the other side of the Atlantic. The high tarifl countries, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia, are struggling to protect their “ pauper labor ” against the better paid labor of free trade England l Yet England holds her own, and on the continent there are signs of reaction against the high tariff policies. THE Chicago News makes a comparison of the salaries received by judges in Great Britain and in the United States respec- tively. Thirtyiour judges in England, re- ceiving from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, aggregate $910,000, or nearly a million annually, while eighty judges in the United States draw from $3,500 to $10,500 annually, or $318,000 in the aggregate. “It is about time," says the News, “ that the American people recognized the wisdom and economy of paying judicial salaries adequate to secure the best talent for judges.” 4' FICTION hath in it a higher aim than fact” is not sustained by the recent ruling of the Iowa courts relative to the Glidden barb wire fence patent. It appears that in 1859 Alvin Morley, an insane man of Dela- ware county, who before and since that time resided in an asylum, twisted a barbed wire fence. sections of which were exhibited at an obscure county fair. Fifteen years later Joseph Glidden obtained letters patent for the barb Wire fencing that he subse- quently assigned to a large company, who have recently invoked the law to protect their rights. Readers of current fiction will recall Holland’s “ Seven Oaks,” the story of which turns on the wrongs of an insane patentee. WATERTOWN, N. Y., has enough pulp mills to consume all the spruce in the big woods inside of fifteen years. The amount of wood turned into paper in this country is enormous. The Rochester Paper Com- pany uses seven cords a. day for its pulp mill in this city, and as much more for its pulp mill it owns in Lockport. BEFORE the fisheries question is settled our Canadian neighbors will probably have reason to suspect that they are not the free and independent nation they fondly imagine themselves to be. Canada’s demands are so outrageously selfish and unjust that they would not be fora moment considered by the United States Congress, and the British Commissioners are now fully con- vinced of this fact. Under pressure from the home Government, Canada will doubt- less feel impelled to abate materially her unfair exactions. Great Britain is not going to get into a tangle with America on account of the few mackerel, more or less, and the Dominion grabbers will have to come down a peg or two, whether they like it or notâ€"Chicago Times. ANOTHER gas well has been struck on the shoreofLake Michigan at Chicagommd three big blazes at three widely-separated points are regarded as confirmatory proofs of the theory that a big deposit of natural gas underlies the city. We hope that the gas is there. Chicago without natural gas has been great, but Chicago with natural gas will be greater. Mns. LANGTRY’S hoard fence in front of her residence. No. 361 West Twenty-third street, New York, did not come down yes- terday as announced. Mrs. Langtry’s lawyer, Mr. Bowers, of Platt&Bowers, called on Deputy Commissioner of Public Works Smith yesterday morning and stated that the objectionable fence was only temporary, Mrs. Langtry intending to keep it only until some repairs and alterations are to be made to her house. It will then be taken down and re- placed by a neat iron structure, which, while it will not obstruct her neighbor’s lights, will be sufficient to screen her from the public gaze. Mr. Smith gallantly con- sented to allow the fence to remain. The first complaint made to the Public Works Department was from a Mr. McLean, Who is the owner of two flat houses almost adjoining Mrs. Langtry’s. Mrs. Livingston, who lives opposite, and Mrs. De Vivo, who resides at No. 359, have both cause of an- noyance, the letter alleging that she is damaged to the extent of $5,000, but neither has made any formal complaint. Mrs. Langtry is at present in Philadelphia. â€"N. Y. World. JOHN BRIGHT criticises Gladstone because of his silence regarding the disturbances in Ireland. Mr. Bright need not worry. GIadsténe is not in the habit of failing to express himself when time and occasion are ripe. He will be heard from, and the supporters of Balfour’s despotic policy are likely to regret that they were in any hurry to stir up the “old men.” THE other day a memorial slab was placed in the Church of Catshoge, Leicester shire, recording the death of Rev. Mr. Hagamore, a very singular character of the county, who died in January, 1886. He left property Behind him valued at £700 ($3,501) per annum and £1,000 in sovereigns, all of which went to a railroad porter, Mr. Hagamore‘s heir-at-law. The queer old man kept one servant of each sex, whom he locked up every night. His last employ- ment of an evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs, and fire his gun. He lost his life as follows: Going one morning to let out his servants, the dogs fawned upon him and threw him intoa pond, where he was found breast high. His servants heard him call for assistance, but, being looked up, could not assist him. He had 30 gowns and cassocks, 100 pairs of trousers, 100 pairs of boots, 400 pairs of shoes, 80 wigs, yet always wore his own hair; 58 dogs, 80 waggons and carts, 80 ploughs, and used none ; 50 sad- dles and furniture for the menage. 30 wheelbarrows, so many walking-sticks that atoy man offered £8 for them, 60 horses and mares, 200 pickaxes and shovels, and 249 razors. ' Dameâ€"Charley, I like light housekeep- ing, but this bed-room is too crowded to suit me. I’ve fillea every nook and corner in it, and now I've got to put that dirty linen under the bureau. Charleyâ€"Don’t you put anything under the bureau, my dear. “ Why not ‘2” “ Leave that place empty and I shall always know Where to find my collar button.” “Poor fellow, he died in poverty,” saia a man of a person lately deceased. “ That isn’t anything,” exclaimed a. seedy by. stander. “Dying in povertv is no hard- ship; it’s living in poverty that puts the thumb-screws on a. fellow.” Captain Haig, lecturing at the Royal United Service Institute in London last night, hopeé that the English Government would procure some of the new pneumatic avnnmite guns to experiment with, as their influence on a naval warfare will be very marked. CURRENT TOPICS. Experience Had Taught Him. A Pretty Corner. You can make a corner in washstands thus : Have an enameled board, with hole cut for the basin, fitted in at a convenient height ; above on one side put a small shelf for bottles and so on, on the other the towel-rail, and in the corner a basket for sponges ; then at about seven feet from the floor fix a brass rod, on which hang two cretonne curtainsthat will hide the fixtures when not in use. Above that, and it please you, can be a bracket of light wood hold- ing a clay statuette, and your corner becomes a thing of beauty as well as of use. The Philosophy of Good Clothes. It is curious what an influence good clothes have upon a man and especially a woman. A man with his Sunday-go-to- meeting clothes on won’t do questionable things that he would do in his everydayl. And as for a woman she is nobody if she is not dressed neat and clean. Just let her get sloven and her ears be dirty and she will go to abusing the neighbors right straight. I don’t allude to finery and frills and flowers and furs and tomfooleries, for all the women can’t afford them, but every woman can look neat. A snow White colea sets off a woman more than a whimadeedle hump in the background. We can see the one and admire its surroundings, but the other is a term in- cognita. Costumes got the Prégcess of Wales. A Birmingham firm has received. an order for tailor-made costumes, etc.‘, from, the Princess of Wales. Among these costumes is one of navy-blue faced cloth, the bodice being habit-shaped, with a waist- coat of tan Swede leather, elaborately em- broidered in blue and silver. An outdoor jacket of the same cloth is made to button diagonally with military but tons and loop, the edges being trimmed with black Astraehan fur. There is also a costume made plainly of faced cloth in a. new shade of bright red, specially dyed for the Princess. The outdoor jacket to this costume is trimmed with otter fur. A shooting-gown is made of soft long-wool Vienna cloth, in fawn and brown check, with alo‘ose fronted overjacket. Another gown is made of black-faced cloth, the skirt having revers of black corded silk; the bodice, of a Zouave shape, has a full waist- coat of striped grey silk, the collar and cuffs being trimmed to match the skirt. For outdoor wear a dolmanette of the black cloth, braided and trimmed with Astrachan fur, has been made. There is also a boating jacket, in navy blue, the edges being piped with red cloth. I am sorry to see that Mrs. Fawcett deprecates the engagement of ladies of education as dressmakers and milliners, and speaks of it as being detrimental to those who have fewer educational advan- tages. I myself would like to see dressâ€" making regarded not merely as a learned profession, but as a fine art. To construct a costume that will be at once rational and beautiful requires an accurate knowledge of the principles of proportion, a thorough sense of color and a quick appreciation of the proper use of materials, and the proper qualities of pattern and design. Thehealth of a nation depends very largelyon its mode of dress; the artistic feeling of a nation: should find expression in its costume quite as much as JLiththtectureh and just as the upholstering tradESnrian has had to give place to the decorative artist, so the- ordinary milliner, with her lack of taste and her lack of knowledge, her foolish fashions and her lack of inventions, will have to make way for the scientific and artistic dressdesigner. Indeed, so far from it being wise to discourage women of education from taking up the profession of dressmakers, it is exactly women of educa- tion who are needed, and I am glad to see in the new technical college for women at Bedford millinery and dressmaking are to be taught as part of the ordinary curricu- lum. There has also been a Society of Lady Dressmakers started in London, for the purpose oi teaching educated girls and women, and the Scientific Dress Associa- tion is, I hear, doing very good work in the same direction.â€"â€"Oscar Wilda, in the “ Woman’s World ” for February. Plain Talk fur Husbands. (From the Chicago Journal.) Then there is another thing, sir! Often and often have I marked you turning to watch a pretty face, or commenting with your men companions upon the outlines of a handsome form or slender foot. Have you any more business to do this than she has? What a rumpus there would be about the family hearthstone if you were to catch her flirting with a man or follow- ing a bearded face through the streets to see where its owner belonged! What par- ticular blazes would play about the walls of “ Home, Sweet Home,” if she indulged in such harmless foibles. Yet I say unto you, yea and verily, her latitude in that direction is just as wide as yours. ‘ Oscar Wilde on Drassmaking 95' a. Fine Art. Some Plain Talk to Husbandsâ€"Latest General Fashion Notes. What if the wife you married is getting faded, like a fabric that has been often washed ; what if thelines have come where the smile in its dimplement was. and the ugly crow tracks, like birds’ feet on the wet and shining sands, have traced the skin that once was softer than a rose leaf ; what if the graceful shoulders are bent a little and the laughter has left her eyes i If you have the chivalry of a true man in your son], you will revere and honor that wife with greater and increasing tender- ness as she grows old and wan and faded ; for what is it that has aged her ? What has stolen away her bloom and robbed her glance of its sunny light ‘2 What but min- istering to you. and toiling for you, and serving you ? Your children have stolen the rose tint from her cheeks and lips, and tending to their wants by night and day, ministering to them in sickness and health, if she be a fond mother, has de- prived her of the grace and bloom of youth. Something About “ Made” Dishes. “ It’s all very well to talk of ‘ made dishes,” broke out a woman one day in a council of housekeepers, “ but what is one going to do if her family won’t touch them 7 Now. there‘s my husband; he won’t eat hashes or stews or made-overs of any kind. He always wants steaks or chops or veal outlets for his breakfast, and the boys are just like him. If I were to put a scallop on 1 the table, he‘d call it baked hash or board- ; ing-house fare, and it would be just the ‘ same with croquettes or anything else of the kind. He says he wants something solid for his ineals.” Undoubtedly many women have to beta tie with this sort of opposition in their endeavors to raise the standard of cookery in their homes. Still there are many men who relish made dishes, and there are others who can be brought to do so by a. little innocent diplomacy. It is not worth while to advertise by blowing trumpets before it that the regent or plate that pre- sents such an attractive appearance is com- posed of scraps from yesterday’s roast, the gravy made of the bones and a little boiled rice or macaroni. It would be no gratificsa tion to most men to know that the whole dish cost just 371} cents. With the woman, on the other hand. the knowledge of the fact causes her to thrill with mild exultu- tion and imparts a flavor to the food that would be quite missing in a. meal three. times as expensive. PHILOSOPHY OF GOOD CLOTHES. THE LADIES’ COLUMN. Dressmakng as a Fine Art. (Cousin KMe's Weekly Budget.)