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"Vthl, let me see. I, 011, yes, when I was a. girlâ€"” “Oh, I don't like that kid.” “\Vhat kini T ' “Stories about ancient history.” A Cincinnati school boy thus began and ended Patrick Henry’s famous speech: "Mr. Presidmt. it is natural for 3 mm to indulge â€"to indulgeâ€"t)â€"â€". Mr. President, it is natural for man toâ€"to indulge. *vfincéâ€"ehgl} B70~élofi1o weututo the Window again, and, looking into the street, called out: ' "Papx? asked Josie, “what makes pcogle sea-sick ?" “Way, dot, riding over water.” “Then why dossn't the man who drives the street 5;» inklar get sea sick 1’" Papa. gave 1t up. Little Jackâ€""Tel! ma a story, auntip.” Old Maid Auntâ€""\Vnac kind of a. 5'21 ry ?" "Oh. just astorv wnhour. any moral to it, and without any inatrucfiion either. I don'_t_ll_ke the kind my gnvtrnass tells}; ‘?Well, my child, a shining isâ€"is a. gath- ering._" “doier away {£13m the window, darling,” said mamma; "the scissors are steel and you ma_y get. a‘trufil‘l by lightning.” .1 - 3,; “Oh, mamma. here is Lottie Steale in the ntreet; won't she get struck by the light- n'mg I” "61), yes, mamma; I had a. shining in my ear last winter. Amending the Verdict. The train was just entering Erin, Tenn” when we heard the sharp toot l toot l toot ! of a whistle, and such passengers as looked from the windows saw an aged African with a. bundle on his shoulder, straight ahead on During the thunder storm of last mek, Blosvm, with her mother’s scisagrs in her hnerl. wandered to the window. ii‘iMamma,” said Dot, “what is a. shir‘ xvi-1.8L" n ... .. . . . VAL The dressmaker recommended that a. shir- ring be put upon some portion of Dot’ new dress. Special line of black silk broche, suita- ble for polonaise, waists, etc., 24 inch wide, only 750 a. yard. The 5c muslins are making a. stir, they open up beautifully. We are clearing out our 12§c muslin at 7&0 a yd. Every lady should see these goods. Fifty cent hats reduced to 25c. Girls‘ and Miaaes' [Hats reduced, Boya’ Hats reduced. Ladies’ Bonnets reduced. All wool beige in colours, 15, 20, 25c a yd. up. Bargains in black kid gloves. Bargains in coloured kid gloves. Bargains in black lace mitts. Bargains in coloured liale gloves. Bargains in mousquetaire gloves. Bargains in Jersey gloves. Clearing pricesâ€"whole lines being cleared out by the single pair at sale prices. Some special bargains tomorrow morn- ing in the dres department. Reductions in Millinery Department. T. EATON & 00.9 EATON’S CLEARING July Sale. Pure black gross grain silk, 650 a yd 190 TO 196 YONGE STREET, SMALL SHAVERS. EATON’S CASH SALE. T. EATON &. CO- T- EATON 8!. CO. TO RONTO, IVI u We n- turned to the room and amended by adding that the engineer was blameless in the case, and the CJFUDCI‘ received us with :â€" _ VVe returned to the room for another tus- sle, and were Just congratulating ours Ives on having everything ship shape, when the Coroner put his head into the doorway and called out 2â€"â€" “Gentléfimn, amend your verdict! The confounded nigger hgs _comt_a tp life I" the track. Tue whistle was blown and the bell rung, but he paid no attention. and all of 3 Mid Kn the co v-catuner picked him up and flung him fifty feet to one side. A gang of men brought the body 10 the depot, and ammg the dtzen of uv who stopped off at the v l|age a. coroner's jury was selected. It seemed a pl-Lin enough case. The man came to his death hy be‘ng struck by a. locomotive 01 the L. & N, Road. S 10h was the verdict rand red. but no sooner was it announced than the Coroner observed : " “Very good, gentlemen. as far as it goes, but the man was probably deaf, and it would be as well to amend the verdict: ao- omfimgly.” “You haven‘t got; the name of the county in your report, and you don’t say whether it was a. freight or a passenger train,” observed the Coroner. '"KfiéuéfiSnâ€"QQSIu'shed out to the freight house he was sitting up on end and asking if anybody had seen his bundle. Plantation Philosophy. De pusson what doan’ talk nothin’ but slang, doan’ think nothin'_bu_t_ alapg. along, uunu vulun “van-n- .._- _._ Folks sometimes growls ’boutâ€"uae very source 0’ dar fortune. De farmer often com- plainspj de hgat. Feathers. ‘ Gentlemefinrreturn and amend your ver- dict. You haven't said anything about care- lex sness. ” uvn....b., . We went back and amended to make the victim as deaf as a hitching post, but we were not through ye§._ p” A" run... - - __-__ Sudden; plesdres is always de keenes'. Dar ain’t no apple so sweet as de one we ac- ciden§’ly flq'gin file grasg. Some beautiful goods in feathers sell- ing at sale prices. Ladies wanting a feath- er for fall should not miss this opportuni- ty of securing a. beautiful Feather at little money. "iii Eelâ€"daié;tionuin de worl’ won’t make some men wise. All de co‘u in de crib won’t atten de stump-auckin’ boas. J ust upened. We can sell you an All Wool Mattress for $3.90, (three dollars and ninety cents.) The ordinary price of these goods is $6. 00 our sale price $3.90â€"Send for one. A fine lot of prints, fast colors, and new patterns at 50 and 7§c a yardâ€"Sale price. Mattresses. Trunks, Valises, Hand Satchels, Hand Bags, Jewelry, Belts, Stocking Support- ers, Bustles, Laces, Collars, Ties, Fichus, Nets, Embroideries, Insertions, all re- duced to sale prices. Nothing moves like their 250 Washing Silks. Regular price 40c in all season- able colors: Send for samples. Eaton’s Big July Sale. Move. T. EATON & CO " Cooking your goose. According to Notes and Queries "cooking your goose " is thus explained: “The King of Sweden’s Gooseâ€"The King of Sweden. coming to a. town of his enemy's, with very little com- pany, his enemy. to slight his forces, did hang cut a goose for him to shoote: but per- ceiving before night that these few soldiers had invaded and set their chiefe houlds on fire, they demanded of him what. his intent was. To whom he replied: ‘ To roast your goosel' ” “ Scot free." Scot, according to Cowel (Law Dictionary), signifies a celtain custi m or tollage. Tne right of voting in the boroughs in England was formerly in thcs: who paid no! and lot. “ Soot-free,” there- fore, is free from such custom or tollage. “I‘ll 0 through fire and water to serve you." he Bishops of Rochester possessed the manor of Southfleet. in Kent, before the conquest. and, as not unusual in ancient times, bad a power of trying and executing felons. The jurisdiction extended not only to acts of felony done in the village, but also over criminals apprehended in another country. An instance of this kind in the year L200 is mentioned by T. Blount in his “ Ancient Tenures.” It was of two women who had stolen some clothes in Croindene (supposed to be Croydon), and the men of that place, having pursued them to Suth- l'et, they were imprisoned and tried by the Lord Henry de Cobham, and other discreet men of the country, who adjuiged them to undergo the fire ordeal, or examination of the hot iron. By this foolish test one of them was exculpated and the other con- demned. The two chief species of trial by ordeal were those of fire and water. Both these modes might be performed by deputy; but the principal was to answer for the suc- cess of the trial, the deputy only venturing some corporeal pain for hire, or. perhaps, for friendship. “This” says Blackttnne, "is still expressed in that common form of speech of going through fire and water to serve another." Hale tells us “ In the time 'of King John, the purgation per ignem et aquam, or the trial by ordeal continued; but it ended with this king." ” Walk your chalks.” A very simple explanation of this expression may be givrn English ale-house frtquenters, when they have been drinking long enough to make a. boost of being Iober, and to dispute a paint with each other, will chalk a. long line in the ground and then endeavor one after the other to walk upon it without awerving to right or left. Tacsa who succeed are adjudg- ed to be soberâ€"i. e.. to have “walked their chalks.” “ Strain at a. gmt." The Moorish soldier when he drinks unfolds the end of his tur- ban and places it over the mouth of his bots, drinking through the muslin to strain out the gusts. whose larva swarm in the water of tllat country “ Not worth a. rap. The want of small monev in Ireland had grown to such a. height in 1721 2 that. counterfeit coins called raps were in cmlmon use, made of such bad metal that who}, pISSZd {or a. halfpenny was not wo:t‘w a, farthing. Hence the cant plume, “ Not worth a. rap." The. name in all probability, is derived lrcm rappm, a. small Swim coin, value about half a tax-th- ing. Joaquin Miller is a. terrifying iconoclast. He says in the Philadelphia. Press that the ancient saying that it is sweet to die for one’s country is a pagan lie. His first point is that it is not sweet to die at all. His next. that from personal observation on a dozen battle fields he knows that dying soldiers think and talk of wife. mother and babes, not of country, in the hour of death. But is not the grasping at the grass and other objects, showing that the last desire is to cling to this earth, but a. manifestation of the instinct of self-preservation, which overpowers the noblest sentiments? Some- times soldiers, Miller says, with their last breath, will curse the rulers anul men that brought them to such a barbarous, dog like deatE. The great epic yet to be writtuen is one that will amply depict the horrible, ghastly, beastly barbarism of war. “ By dock or by Urook.” The destruc- tion by the fire of London in 1666, during which some 13,800 houses, etc.. were burnt down, in very many cases obliterated all the boundary marks requisite to determine the extent of land, and the sites occupied by buildings previous to the fire. When the rubbish was removed disputes arose among persons as to the position and extent of their property, which promised not only inter- minable lawsuits, but created the serious evil of delaying the building of the citv until these disputes were settled. Impelled by the necessity of coming to a more speedy settlement, it was determined that the claims and interests of all persons concerned should be referred to the judgment and decision of two of the mo is experienced land surveyors of that day, and in order to escape from the evils which delay must oc- casion, the decision of these two arbitrators were to be final and binding. The surVPy- ors appointed were named Mr. Hook and Mr. Crook. Hence arose the saying above quoted. 1’s the thong by which seals are faafléned to legal documents. The seals are fastened in the cornor of the document. .“ There thou beholdest the walls of Spartaâ€"10 000 men, and every man a. brick!” "Q. in a corner." This is an expression denoting something not noticed at first, but seen afterwards; something partially hidden, as it were, in an out of-the~wa.y place or corner. In French law “queue” Accordingly, on the following morning, the King led his guset out upon the plain where his army was drawn up in full battle array. and pointing proudly to the sex-tied hosta. he said : "He's a. brick.” Plumrch. in his life of Ag- esilaus, King of Sparta, gives us the origin of the quaint and familiar saying. On a. certain occasion an ambassador from Epirus, on a diplomatic mission. was shown by the King over his capital. The ambassador knew of the monarch’s fumeâ€"knew that though only nominally King of Sparta. he was ruler of Greeceâ€"and he looked to see massive walls rearing aloft their embattled towers for the defense of the town ; but found nothing of the kind. He marvelled much at this, and spoke of it to the king. "Indeed. Sir Ambassador, replied Ages- ilans, "thou camt not have looked caretully. Come with me to-morrow morning and I wil} show you the walls _of_b‘pa_.rba..” - “ Sire,” he said, “I have visited most of the principal‘towns, and I find no walls reargdforrdqfrense. 7 Why is this‘li’ _ Origin of Some Curious Sayinss. ‘ ‘ Glorious ” War. Mra. Warner summoned the daughter of the r1 1 man whose ghost was alleged to be making all the fuse, and together they made an investigation. They found the wash- stand tipped over. Before upsetting it the ghoat kindly remaved from it the bowl and pitcher, to that no crockery was broken. The ladies left the room, but returning lattr they found the articles on the floor changed in poaition and a. towel laid neatly across the pitcher. A committee of Spiritualiats rat in the haunted room in a circle, with Mrs. Warner and the ghogt's daughter in the evening. Several hundred pzople watched the house from the outside. About 10 o'clock a. great white figura was seen walkl ing across,the rrn‘ of the house and disap- pearing somewhew in the next building. When this had been repeated several t mes Mrs. \Varnsr‘s vexation gave place 10 amazement. and she told her neighbours about it. They promptly decided that some ghosth agency was at work. Mrs. Warner scoffed at the idea, but the neighbours went on to evolve the spirit of a long dead old gentleman which had a grievance about the present oczupaucy of the house it had ten nnted when a mortal, and was bent on driv- ing Mrs. Warner away. Tne manifesta- tions subsided after a day or two, and Mrs. Warner triumphed over her neighbours un- til rmently Shortly after noon she sent her seven-yearold boy to the haunted mm: for her slippers. In a few minutes he came running down stairs shrieking, "0h, mother, save me l'l and apparently nearly beside himself with fright. He had found the bed which he had watched his mother make up in the morning thrown into worse disorder than ever before. - anything remarkable about the place or the people until a. few days ago, whi n Mrs. Warner, on going into a bed-room 0 l the up- per flmr which nhe had put in o;der some hours before, found the bedclothes tumbled about. She made the bad again, and a short time afterward found it again disturbed and the furniture in the 103m also disordered. The house 562 Smbh Warren street. in Trenton, N. Y‘, is p'afin and quiet in ap- penance, and is in a quiet neighborhnod. Ir. was inhabited until rrcentlv by Mrs. Dwid Warner and her Emily. There never was Beautiful Summer Goods af 5, '10) 15, 20, 25, 35 and 50 cents, worth from fiftee_n_ to ginety cents per yarji. In order to clear out the balance ~of our stock of Spring and Summer DRESS GOODS we will offer remarkable value in this gepartment for the next thirty days. BIG SALE 0F DRESS 0.0008 ! Fine Frenéh Muslfns zit five and ten cents per yard, worth from fifteen to twenty-five cents. Boy’ Summer Suits at One Dollar, $1.50, Two Dollars, $2.50, Three Dollars, $3.50, Four Dollars, $4.50, and up. . Men’s Summer Suits in Halifax Tweeds, Serges and Worsteds at $7.50, $10, $12, $13.80, $15, am. up; In oilr Millinery and Mantle De- partments price is no object,a.s the goods must be sold, and buyers can have them at their own figures, as we will not take them into stock. We will also offer at the same time the contents of our large Silk Depart- ment at and below cost of manufacture, as we take stock on the first of August, and are anxious to clear out as many goodg as possiblerbefore that date. Ladies will save money by visiting during this month the stores of $2230, and up. BIG SALE OF CLOTHING Mén’s Fine _Suits to order in Tweeds, §§§g_e§ anq. Worsteds at $15, $16.50, $18. $20, PETLEY & PETLEY, & PETLEY A Ghost in Possession. 128 t0132 King street, East. 128 to 132 King S‘reet East, Toronto. Now the place is dark and deserted. and there has been no disturbance inside or crowd outside. People in the naizubornood shrug their shoulders when a. lad abOut the ghost, and remark that there is one small boy in Mrs. Warner’s family, and several more in the neighborhood. A thtle Girl’s Scheme to Build a Church. Hattie Snell is a 13-year-old girl living in St. Johnsville. N. Y. The Episcopal so. ciety was attempting to raise money to build a. new church. and Hattie took a great in'erest in the project. She conceived the plan of obtaining aid from the statesmen at VVashingto 1. and she wrote letters t) every- body wnosw names appear in the Canqres- sional directory, asking each to contribute a few bricks. Her plan was so novel and her letters were written in such childish in- genfiousness that the responses were large. Among the contributors were President Arthur. and all the members of the Cabl- net, Gen Sheridan, Vice-President Eri- m'mds, Speaker Carlisle, many of the Sena- tors. and a large number of Congressmen. Now she plopmea to sell the autographs which accompanied the contributions, and will be able thereby to more than duplicate the sum she received. Tue gpiiitualiats communicated with the ghoat, and learned a gozd many things. They tofd Mrs. Warner that the ghost was sent to were her to be careful 0: she would fall down stairs upon her baby and kill it. The ghost also tild them that there was t ouble over the title of the house, and that he would keep on mussing up the bedroom until Mrs. Warner moved away. Tuat lady took her family to a relatives for the rest of the night, and next day she vacated the house. Ladies fainted, chuflren screamed. and gas“: excitement; prevailed untilers. Ander- son, who lives next door, was heard 5 :olding her young son for wetting a. broon and spuiling a. sheet Generally the party who sings " I would not live always" the loudest, is the one who gets _betaveen the feather beds during a {nun ler storm.