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T. EATON & (30., 190, 192, 194, 196 YONGE STREET ‘1 E: Special prices in Dolls, Vases, F: for Xmas. A Wax Doll, 22 inches long fo Eaton’s Xmas Sale Eaton’s Xmas Sale ADIE’S CASHMERE JERSEY GLOVES IN BLK. A J“ Kid Mits, Fur Tops, with Spring Cufi‘ - “ 3 Button Kid Gloves in Black Colors and Tan: “ Wool Mlts, - - Children’s Wool Mite Eaton’s Xmas Sale. Ea. tan’s Xmas Sale. Our customers have the advantage this month of a GRAND XMAS SALE, in- cluding every department. We give below a few special items and prices as an 'in- dex to the general sale prices. Samples will be forwarded to any post-office in the Dominion on application. Goods can be sent by Express or Parcel post. A toy shop of to-day must seem like a Lveritable fairyland to the children. The old styles have been put away to make room for new marvels of invention and skill. Heretofore most toys have been dumb and inanimate. But this season the human figures all walk and make nes- tures. and the animals utter their accus- tomed sounds, use their limbs and move so naturally that one imagines himself tranrported to the farmyard, the jungle, or the recesses of the forest. The birds sing from their perches or flit about the room. The vehicles are fitted automati- cally with electric or steam motors. and require no string or handle to propel them. An afternoon in a toy shop now means hours in a museum of moving, noise-making and quasi animate cres- tures. Some articles, classed as musical toys, are enumerated with an interroga- tion point. For instance, the first thing one is shown is a cigar case. A spring is touched and an interior music box plays the latest popular air, while a revolving cylinder turns inside out, exposing an ar- ray of cigars. N ext is a vase with a bal- let dancer who keeps time to an interior air, and finally kisses her hand to the audience and retires. A negro in a musi- cal vase dances a clog. A ship in the next vase rides on the waves to a tune, while on a cliff near by a lighthouse flashes and a windmill spins. You are invited to be seated in a cane-bottomed chair, which responds with music as the cane is pressed. A beer glass evolves a tune when the amber-colored beverage is introduced. Decanters have airs to emit as well as liquids. The wax angel hang- ing from the ceiling plays a. harpdike air when requested, or, if 9. Gabriel, blows a trumpet. One may have a. tune from the bottom of soup with tea. or cofiee, or with a snlfl‘ of flowers from a vase. Comic toys are of endless variety. Thé figures which suddenly spring from a. box when the lid is removed are comic in the Our customers have the advantage this ‘I I‘ Twelve Dollar Cloth Mantles Selling at Sixteen Dollar Dolmana selling at; W All twenty, thirty and forty Fifty ONE HUNDRED LADIES' CLOTH REDUCTIONS IN DRESS GOODS. I90 TU I96 YONGE STREET. Toys for the Children. Kid Mite 15 35 Cent Brocade: selling at 17 § cents per yard‘ 30 “ Dress Goods “ 15 “ “ 25 H H 6‘ H H REDUCTION S IN GLOVES REDUCTIONS IN MANTLES‘ }LOVES IN BLK. AND COLORS 15c. CLOTH JACKETS AT 3 1.50 EACH. “ “ “ $ 3.00 “ “ “ “ 35 5.00 “ Selling at - - $ 8.00 “ g at; - 4 - $12.00 “ and forty dollar Dolmana reduced. for $1.00. ‘ancies, Notions, and swell ’ “Are you going to Miss Fussanfeather‘s party '1” asked a young lady of a friend as they met on the street. “No!” was the response. “And why not. pray? It is to be very ,, n n extreme. There are noisy fellows who play cymbals and turn somersaults. There are acrobats who perform any feat of the ring ; old couples who doze in chairs only to wake and wag their heads. The whistling figures whistle vociferoust either as birds, sticks or boys. Punch and Judy have voices for several sounds. Santa Claus has a huge pack on his back and leads away a bad boy who cries loud- ly. The cat says “Meow,” the dog “Bow wow,” the monkeys squeal, the rabbits move their long ears, the roosters crow, and the parrots mimic sounds. The model bird in the cage sings the canary’s song or the red bird’s cry, and requires no food or water. Wind up the bird at the bottom of the cage and he will sing as often as you care to turn the key. Any kind of an eating animal may be had which automatically opens its mouth and receives food or swallows a mouse. The donkeys move their heads, wag their long ears, kick viciously, and finally utter a bray. Elephants are of enormous size and contain a whole N oah’s family. They switch their tails, flap their ears, and give out a shrill scream. Horses are sad- dled ready to trot or whinny. The sheep walk and bleat. The cows move their heads. give milk, and in a deep bass voice say “m-o~o.” The lion lashes his tail and roars. All of these animals are also made of leather, which is both more durable and more expensive. “Yes, I know wear. " 12g 715 Full Dress. but I haven’t anything other things suitable 650‘ 500. 200‘ 35c. 100. A PAIR Cremation in Scandinavia. Cremation is making way even in Scandinavia. The Swedes have long favored cremation, but hitherto their efl'orts to obtain from their authorities the sanction for building a. crematorium at Stockholm have been unsuccessful. At the last meeting of the Swedish Cre- mation Society. however, the President, Lisut-Gen. Klingenstierna, announcd that arrzngements had been made with the Stockhoim authorities fwr erecting a. crematorium in one of the suburbs. The place chosen is a. high rocky plain to the north of the city, where a wide View :5 obtained of the surroundings. A large plot of ground round the crematorium is to be laid out as a public park at the expense of the town. It is hardly likely to be a po_ ular promenade when a cre- mation in progress. My old friend, the late Thomas Wright was a victim of this terrible folly. He undertook the translation of the life of Julius Caesar.” by Napoleon 111., and to do it in acruelly short time. He fulfilled his contract by sitting up several nights successively by the aid 'of strong tea. or coffee (I forget which). I saw him short- ly afterward. In a. few weeks he had aged alarmingly, and became quite bald, his brain gaVe way and he never recover- ed. There was but little difference between his age and mine, and but for this dread- ful cerebral strain, rendered possible only by the alkaloid (for otherwise he would have fallen asleep over his work, and thereby saved his life), he might still be amusing and instructing thousands of readers by fresh volumes. I frequently hear of promising students who have thus failed ;and, on inquiry, have learnedâ€"in almost every instanceâ€" that the victim had previously drugged himself with tea. or coffee. Sleep is the rest of the brain ; to rob the hard-Worked brain of its necesary rest is cerebral sui- cide. Fighting Sleep With Tea. The practice of taking tea. or coffee by students, in order to work at) night; is downright madness, especially when pre- paring for an examination. More than half of the cases of break-down. loss of memory, fainting. etc, which occur dur- ing severe examinations, and far more frequently than is commonly snown,1s due to this. INTERMARRIAGE or COUSINS. â€" The prevalent idea that the offspring of the intermarriage of first cousins are specially liable to be below the average intellectu- ally and physically is not found to be sustained by good evidence. Mr. G. H. Darwin, in a very carefully prepared paper, read before the Statistical Society, comes to the conclusion, as the result of close comparison of all the records avail- able, that evidence will not “ enable any- one to say positively that the marriage of first cousins has any effort in the pro- duction of insanity or idiocy . . . . With respect to deaf mutes, there is no evidence whatever of any ill results accruing to the ofl'spring in consequence of the cousinship of their parents." And again, “ It tends to invalidate the high death-rate among the ofl'spring of cousins.” And once more, “ the safeat verdict seems to be that the charge against consanguineous marriages on this head is not proven." land mutton, and it is largely supplied even by the West-end butchers, without the knowledge of their customers. The quality is excellent. The freezing ar- rangements are so far perfected that the London butcher can send to the large cold store rooms at the docks for as many carcasea as he rt quires, with the certainty of being able in a couple of hours to fur- nish hh customers with joints which they will be unable to distinguish from home- fed mutton. Buying these at fivepence per pound and retailing them at eleven- pence. his motives for preferring them to animals bought at lslington at even sevenpence per pound are sufficiently ob- vious. NEW ZEALAND MUTTON takes an immense quantity ( land mutton, and it in larg even by the West-end butc] the knowledge of their cust quality is excellent. The E to 122 ° 13)., couering it its w course a distance of some three th¢ miles, of which two thousand mi] navigable. The main stream is i by three branches having their con! in 94 o E, 34 ° 50: N., where its b in the dry weather is seven hundre fifty feet. and in the summer rains mile. Its level here is thirteen thc feet above the sea. The oldest and largest tree in the world. so far as known, is a chestnut at the foot of Mount Etna. It it hollow and large enough to admit two carriages driving abreast; through it. The circum- farence of the main trunk is two hundred and twelve feet. The American Grizz‘y Giant, monarch of the Mariposa Grove, measures ninety-two feet. The YangstezKiang, or Biue River, of China, usually called the Ta-kiang, or Great River, rises in the high central plateau on leet. It extends from 88° F. tn 1990 11‘. [mum-inn. .‘c- H. ....'...1:.._ Some interesting particulars have been given before the Social Science angress concerning the extent. to which excessive railway-rates are driving business from the Midlands to the ports. No fewer than six important firms are said to be removing their manufacturiea from Bir- mingham to the sea-coast. The Church of the Holy Ghost at Hei- delberg is divided by a partition running lengthwise through it. On the one side the service is Protestant and on the other Roman Catholic. The Elector Palatine in 1719, undertook to annex the Probes. tan: part of the church ; but the attempt was a. failure. At the Poultry Show tecent‘y held at Amsterdam occurrently with the Agricul- tural exhibition one of tha female birds in a pen of Toulouse geese sent from Eng- land weighed thirty-four pounds. There is now no establfshed religion Japan, and missionaries are regarded harmless curiosities. l mutton, ‘ 1 by the V‘ knowledge VARIETIES. It extends from 88° couering it. its winding 2 of some three thousand two thousand miles are main stream is formed as having their confluence 0' N., where its breadth King way even in Swedes have long but hitherto their In their authorities 3 OVBI‘ a 40ndo an m We beg to call Special Attention to display of MILLI N E RY,Whioh is very C] and Attractive. and worthy of the atte] of the most fastidious. PETLEY & PETLEY Brecaded Cloth Mantles", Jersey Cloth Mantles, Jersey Cloth Ulsters, Jersey Cloth Jackets Rich Mantle Velvets, Rich Dress Velvets, Rich Mantle Plushes, Rich Dress Flushes, Rich Black Silks, Rich Colored Silks, Rich Dress Satins, Rich Dress Goods, Also a Magnificent Stock of Elegant MANTLES from the Best Manufacturers of London, Paris and Berlin- Silk Plush Mantles, Silk Seal Mantles. At the Antwerp Universal Exhibition Van Rysselberghe gave h practical solu- tion of the possibility of sending a tele- graphic and a telephonic message over the same wire at the same time. The trans- mission and receipt of the messages were effected by the usual instruments over or- dinary telegraph wire. Safl'rons from the South of France are said to contain a very small quantity of alumina, not by way of an adulterant,but naturally. The alumina is present only in the proportion of 0.115 to 0.123 per cent. Certain lycopods and Rebus Arti- cus are the only plants in which alumina has hitherto been discovered. N ow that the cold weather is approaih ing, or with us. it ought to be remember- ed that a covering of felt nicely put on pipes prevents th: water from freezing in them and all thetraiu ofswil nnnnnnnnnnn- It is said that the largest organ in the world has been built by VValck, of Lud- wigaburg, and placed in the Cathedral of Riga. It measures 36 feet in width, 32 feet from back to front. and 65 feet in height. It has not less than 6,826 pipes, distributed among 114 sounding stops. NEW FALL GOODS The coal mines in the Nord district of France produced 3,789,000 tons of coal last year, an increase of 3 per cent. on the quantity of the preceding year. To raise this total 19‘880 men were employ- ed, and of these there were about 15,510 engaged under ground. On some occasions M. Colladon has ob- served that two or three seconds after hailstones had fallen to the ground they sprang into the air again to a heightof from eight inches to more than eleven Inches, as If they had been struck upward by the earth. A Swiss naturalist maintains that there is only one coloring substance in plants, and the various colors of flowers are only due to the modifications produced in this substance by the acids or alkalies contain- ed in the plants. INSPECTION SCIENTIFIC GUSSII’. [(1 weather is appromh ought to be remember- of felt nicely put on water from freezing in ain ofevil consequences Broom (OPPOSITETHE M 1R K ‘rfl [‘ s and Rebus Ai‘ti. in which alumina vvered. Bathe; is appromh Brocaded Velvet Mantles ded Silk Mantles, scribed as embracing a length of 3,698.72 kilometers, thus bringing up up the total length of Prussian State railroads to 18,- 924 43 kilometers, and leaving 1,700 kilometers in the hands of private corpor- ations. Altona-Kiel ~line, and the Shah pe portion of the Hanover-M way. The extent of the new scribed as embracing a length kilometers, thus bringing uo ‘ m 1824. Some other substances besides platinum are always contained in the min- eral. Thus a. sample from NischneLTaz- ilsk yielded 75.1 platinum, 1.1 palladium, 3.5 rhodium, 2 6 iridium, .6 osmiridium, 2 3 osmium, .4 gold, 1 copper. and 8.1. Platinum must be refined before it: can be worked up into manufactured ar- tlcles. From the Prussian budget for 1884-5 it appears that since Jan. 1, 1884, the rail- roads acquired by the State were the Up- per SJesian line, the Breslau-Schweid- nitz Freihurg line, the Posen-Creuzberg line, the Right Bank of the Oder line,the aims, are the Rus'sian'sources of aupplifidf plabmum. j'he deppsits were discovered Near Bogoslowak, Miak, Newj znsk, apd N ischpei-jagflsk, in the Ural Mount- The topaz occurs frtqueutly in New South Wales. A portion of a large, blu- ish green crystal found at Mudges, and now placed in a. colonial museum, weighs several pounds. Other specimens weighing several ounces are by no means rare. They are sometimes 2 inches to 3 inches long, and broad in proportion. The pale bluish green tint is the most prevalent, though crystals are occasional- ly found of a. slightly yellow color. An establishment for the manufacture of pharmaceutical chemicals on a large sale has been set up in Tokio by an in- uurporatrd company with a capital of $200,000. of which amount; the J apanee Goverment contributed one half, free of interest, for a. period of 20 years, besides making a. free grant. of land and erecting the necessary buildings. which frozen water pipes entail, unless the cold is unusually severe or the spell of frost: unusually protracted. INVITEfi is very Choice the attention and the Sfiziupberg;LiP- [mover-M‘nden Rail- 3f the new lines is de- 1g 9. length of 3,698.72 inging up up the total State railroads to 18,- , and leaving 1,700