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The Liberal, 12 Nov 1885, p. 2

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The air of a. sleeping-room should be con- stantly renewed from without, yet it should not be icy cold. It is amazing to see in oth- erwise well-informed people the lingering prejudice to niu t air which makeu them willing to breath vitiated air all night long. Attention to the airing of beds and bedding can not: be too great, and it ought to he gin- sieted upon in every house. The hurry to have rooms in order early causes beds to be made before they have been thoroughly per- meated by air and sunlight, and gives them that close, utulfy smell, which is 9. sure inch of deficient cleanliness. During the night the body throws off, through the invisible pores of the skin, much impurity, and to make up a bed while the mattress, sheets and blmkete are still weltering with animal heat is a thing no neat, intelligent house- keeper should ever do under any pressure 01 hurry. The rest of the room can be dusted and set to rights, and the bed clot-hen spread over chairs, with Windows open till a late hour, and nobody will he hurt. When a bed- room is the common sitting or sewing apart- ment ofu family, it should be thoroughly aired for helf-an-hour before dark, every- body vacating it tor the purpose, and again before the occupants retire, EXERCISE. The errors that prevail with regard to early morning exercises are simply mon- strous. Even the strong and athletic are lia- ble to injure themselves by exercising long and vigorously in the early morning on an empty stomach, while the delicate, the dys- peptic, and the nervous should not allow themselves to indulge in any sustained activ- ity of brain or muscles until the system has been fortified by at least a preliminary breakfast. Farmers sometimes injure them- selves by working too hard and too long be- fore breakfast. Moderate exercise, such as Walking, lighter forms of gymnastics and my games, can be taken indiscriminately, just before or after meals, without injury ; but the severer taskswrowin , active gamesâ€" should usually be reserve for the middle of the forenoon or afternoon, or for the even- ing. It is not well for us to go to our meals in a condition of exhaustion, either of the brain or of the muscles. It is not well to be over-fastidious ab out exercising just after meals, for our own feelings will usually guide us right. After a hearty meal we do not care to plunge into the severest work. imsing her faith had a large share in the re- lief, I would not allow myself to think that the medicine had anything to do with the cure any more than so much hot water would have had. But when I arrived at my office, two other patients were awaiting me with the same affliction, and I determined, by way cf experiment, to use the same re- medy. To my agrieable surprise both patients declared themselves immediately relieved, and begged a vial of the tincture for future use. During the winter a number of similar cases applied, and were instantly relieved by the same treatment, all express- ing much satisfaction with the remedy. In December I told my druggist of the discov- ery, and recommended him to sell it to any {arson applying for ‘toothaohe drops.’ This, 8 reports, he has done, and that every one seems delighted with the medicine.” Dr. T. C, Osborn. in the Medical Brief, states that his cook came to him with a swollen cheek, anking for something to re- lieve the toothache, with which she had been suffering all the night. He was on the point of sending her to a dentist, when it occurred to him that there was in the house a vial of compound tincture of benzoin. “ After clensing the decayed tooth,” he lays, “ I saturated a pledget of cotton lint with the tincture, and packed it well into the cavity, hoping this would suffice for the time, and told her to come back in two or three hours if she was not relieved. I was turning away, when she said it might not be necessary, perhaps, as the pain was already gone. Sup- The greatest mistakes of all are over-eat- ing and eating too often. So long as a. per- son is growing, the system needs extra nour- ishment to enable nature to build up the framework of the body. But adults have need of food only to supply the materials for new blood to make up for the waste of tissue. This waste of tissue is constantly going on, to he sure, but only in direct rstie to the work we do, Whether mental or bed- ily. If a. greater quantity of food is taken into the system than can be used up, it is more deleterious than if we had swallowed so much sand. The food so partaken of leaves the stomach in an undigested form, and never fails to work all kinds of mischief. and, instead of doing good, it does injury and weakens the body that it wus intended to strengthen. How Vaccine is obtained. A Greenwich, Conn., despstch says: In a cowhouse at the side of the old turn ike road, in the quaint village of the Gas ob, two calves can be seen on almost any dsy strapped to a bench, their feet sticki up in the air and lots of quills protruding rem their bodies. Around the room are razors, knives, bundles of quills and ropes. A man is usually in attendance. This is the vac- cine factory, one of the first established in this country. The quills remain for a short time in the flesh of the calves. As soon as they become filled with mucusâ€"vaccine, as it is calledâ€"they are pulled out, sealed up air tight and in time do duty all over the world, finding their way to Germany and Australia. Some people imagine that the when are killed by the process, or are injured IO M to be unfit for use, but it is claimed that they are made more healthy by having these sores, for that is all the harm done to them. They seem to suffer very little. and after a. few days (risk about an lively as ever. Calves of two colors are preferred at the fac- toryâ€"whim and redâ€"45nd only Itrong and healthy ones are Ielected. “ Oftentimes people come to the factory to be vaccinated.” said the attendant to the reporter. “ They are so afraid thev won’t get the right stuff A pure calf vaccinel I am not a doctor, and the doctors don‘t'like it very well. I just take this knife that I cut the calves with ; so I cut the arm as I cut the calf. I pull out a. quill from the calf and put it in the cut or scratch, They smile, take a. look at the calf and go home, sure that it‘s took.” There in more demand for vaccine at the present time than at any previous petipo during the five years past. A PLEASANT R EDY FOR T001 HACHE HOV? THE END IS HASTENED- AIB YOUR HOUSE. HEALTH. From the led to the Bow River. Regina. may be considered one of the mat central points of our prairie province, and in at present close to this western limit of the wide belt of Northwestern settlement. From the city weatwnrd the nettled country taken us but anmrow bait “long the C P R. main land, and tapers to very limited \il/ mansions before reaching the Smkatchewan. Them am. however, some settlements away frnm this C.P.R. belt, and Darth. of Regina, in the Long Lake coun‘ry. quite an impor- tant on!) is to be found. A branch railway from Regina is now bsing rapidly construct- ed thiough this di:trict, and a ilk-n town or two must; spring up, an the partially settled state of the surrounding country will de. mand such as soon as railway communica- tion is an accomplished fact. As the belt N“ settlement taper: off, no the towns alor s1 aha ORR. main line get fewer and in .mer spurt. There is there- fore no point west of Regina that could be called a village, until the forty-two mile: to Mcomjaw is travalled. Hue we find a town of abonl 250 populaiion, and nearly twenty business institutions. It in the terminus of 8. C RR. division, and has consequently some Prom Moosejaw weltWard the country is very sparsely settled, and although there are at least a dozen stations stopped at be- fore Swift Current is reached, the trsveller does not see at any of them enough evidence of trade or traffic to warrant the stoppages, unless where water has to be taken in by the engine. There is thus one hundred and twelve miles between these two towns, with nothing intervening which could he dignifi- ed into a village. Swift Current is the point at which traders leave the railway for the far north settlements of Edmonton and Bet- tleford, and the business done is almost on- tirely with such traders. The quantity of goods sold, and the stocks carried by the few merchants in 15)“: small town of a little over one hundred people, would astonish an eastern business men, as might the fact that the town has trade connections extending over one hundred miles in any direction, and towards the north over two hundred miles. There are no farmers or farms around the town,egrioulture in that district being still a thing of the future. railway opulafion, mostly of in uniettled clasa. here are quite a. few settlers on 17110 clasa. ' There are quite a. few settlers on tho lands around the town, and there is more buninsso done in it than the vlnitor would think, while the location is really a pretty one, and quite pleasing to the eye, after leaving Regina with its flit monotonous surroundings. Like Regina. it has sugared from booming, but has now reached a abate from which it mutt start on a steady period of hoalthy growth. Going westward from Swift Current we strike into the valley of the S :uth Sas- katchewan, and proceed to Maple Creek, a distance of nearly nines? miles before any trading point is reach . Here we have another little town which draws trade from long distances around it. The place has about a dozen business institutions, all of which are doing a. prosperous business. There are a few circumstances which point to this place having a. healthy if not rapid growth. In the first place it is the point oi shipment for the lumber mills of the Cy- press Hiils district, and is also the receiving point of the C. P. R. for the Montana cat- tle shipping trade, and these two facts add greatly to the trade importance of the place. Besides there are some peculiarities in con- nection with the soil, the timber dotted state of the surrounding country, and other mat- ters which seem to have allowed this dil- trict considerable immunity from 1he ir- regularities oi climate so peculiar to all un- broken prairie oountries. At Maple Creek farming operationl have been more success- ful than at any point for over a hundred and fifty miles east or west of it, and a1- I'eady agricultural settlers are taking ad- vantage of this. From Maple Creek a ride of sixty-four miles brings us to the crossing of the Sas- katchewan at the town of Medicine Hat. Here we have decidedly the most impor- tant trading point between Regina and Col- gary, and a. town which must in time be one of the great citin of the Northwest. It has at present a population of about 500, and has about twenty-five business institutions of all kinds. It is not uncommon for mer- chants here to carry stocks of $40,000 to $50,000 in value, and the trade done with buyers from the surrounding country de- mands'that stocks both heavy _and varied be carried. About a hundred miles or so south is the town of Lethbrldge, at the Galt coal mines, and from that place and Fort McLeod, the demands of ranchmen and others, swell the trade of Medicine Hat, while away to the north an equally large tract of country is tributary to it. It is the key to the South Saskatchewan, and when the day of competition between Atlantic and Hudson Bay routes comes. there will be an important competing polnt somewhere near Medicine Hat. From the Saskatchewan crossing to Cel- gary, a distance of 178 miles, there is no trade point of note, and at this town we have crossed the Bow and Elbow Rivers, and are under the shadow of the peaks of the Rockies. The town itself is in the mid- dle of a natural amphitheatre scooped out in bygone centuries by the wash of the two rivers mentioned. The bluffs around it rise like wells, and for a background we have the distant peaks of the great moun- tains. It is a lovely spot, and made by nature for a town location. Calgary has now nearly one thousand of a population, and has over sixty pieces of business, many of which are large mercantile concerns car- rying huge stocks of general merchandise, such as could not be found in eastern towns of 5,000 population. The town must ever remain the key to the whole surrounding mountain country, and as the cattle trade, mining industries and other resources of this great upland district develop, Calgary must increase in commercial importance. That it must rapidly develop into an im- portant trade centre cannot be doubted, as it seems impossible to locate a town which would be in a position to compete with it, for this mountain country trade. It is in reality the last point on this side of the Rockies Where a city can he built and is, in short, the gateway of ingress and egress to and from the Mountains and the Pacific Slope beyond.w Winniprg Commercial. It is a well ascertained {act that bees he- come irritable and excitable on the approach of thunder-storms, and Emmerig, a German scientist, claims that their conduct may be taken an a reliable indication of fair weather or the reverse. Trial ol'Ihe llayers of Tr non: Ild Pun“; The Saskatchewul Hernld gives the fol- lowing account of the 1ria1 of Mun-With» ontrBlnod, and 1km, for: the murder of Bar- nm’d Tremouk and James Payne, Indian 111- truntol' zâ€"Anked what he had ta say, Manâ€" VVithoufi-Blood mick-I met the white man [Tremom] on the rnafl new hi: home ; ‘11» Mm with the Black Blanket to“ me '13 kill him. ; I said I would; saw him leanifig on a Waggon ; two Indians weve coming towards him ; was going 10 White man’s hnuse ; tnere “11-3 four In iians standing there; I Walked up beside him and the Indiana nakâ€" ed who $11M; white 1mm Wu: ; mid I did nor know ; did not liazen to what thuy said ; one of my brothers had a bow and arrow anti the other had gun : my brother asked, why don’t you go and kkll him? I got his gun and loaded is and “‘ALKED OVER AND KILLED THI \R'HITE MAX. .lkta said-I wide Payne for some shot and flour ; he would not give me any ; my son wanted to go shaming; then my hetrt got bad and Payne got \exed and I 1:011 him not to get vexed ; he laid he woul’i not give me flour for ten days ; I went away and gat my gun and came back ; then the instruct )r took hold of my arms, sad I said he had bet- tex'looae me (1* I would kill him; I got my arms free and shot Payne, The Courtâ€"Yon have both confessed to have committed the most grievous crime than can commit, namely, that of taking anothn‘man’s life. The law makes no dis- tinction as to color or tribes. You, Ikta, have confessed to having killed a. connection of your own, the late farming instructor on your reserve. If the instructor had done you any wrong, you could have come tome and I would have given you redress, I am here for that purpose. You had NO RIGHT TO TAKE THE LAW INTO YOUR OWN HANDS. The other prisoner killed a most harmless, inoflensive man, merely because another man told him to do it. Perhaps he thought he could do it with impunity ; but this was a mistakeâ€"the law has a long um and will reach far. You were foolish enough to re- bel against the Governmentâ€"foolish, be- cause the Government could send soldiers here until they were as numerous as mos- quitoes. My duty is to pass sentence upon you, and that sentence is, thst you be tek- en back to jail till 27th of November, and than hanged. P. C. Pambrun, aworn~â€" Exnmlned by Mr Sharpâ€"About the end of March the Indiana broke out around Battleford ; I was not aware that the Indiana wished to break out at that time ; they said they Wished to see the Indian Agent to make cerhin de- mands on him, and asked me to request him to come over and speak with them ; I new Oopinswoywln (Cut Lip) amongst the In- dians when I overtook them ; there wu A LARGE NUMBER OF ARMED INDIAIS ; left the Indium and waited at the river for Mr. Rae to come ; when I saw he would not come I left the Indiana and went home ; the Indians were then scattered amongst the hounl, but as yet had done no damlge ; when I came to the barrackl next dny 1 found that the fines and houses south of Battle Biver had. been alreedy pillaged dur- ing the night ; did not see Muslims there. OopinziWaywin and Massinas, charged with gregloq-felony were Eext Put_o_n trial. 'The Emu Old Woman, warmedâ€"Know the prison?” by night ; was at Battle!on when the stores were plundered ; do not re- member 01 seeing the priloneri Amongst the Indians. When asked why she had previously said so, she replied that she said she saw Poem}fl ehoo there. One That Slta Still, Iffirmad~1 wan here when the Indians pillaged the stores ;know Malainns ; did not I98 him at Battleford the day saw him start with otherlndimnfrom Swat Grass” reserve to go to Battlefotd ; the ln- dignq did g_o _to Battleford. Robert J eflerson, swornâ€"I was farming instructor on Poundmaker's reserve at the iime of the outbreak ; towards the end of March the Indims left that reerve ; about the lot of April I was taken prisnner in the camp ; at one time, about the 10th of April, Cut Lip superintended the digging of a. grave ; saw the prisoners in the camp ; ssw most of the Indians armed; as the young men go armed always, but the older men only occasionally, and I can’t say I saw the prisoners armed ; both prisoners were in the cam both before and after the bottle of Cut 'niie ; Cut Lip went away once during the whole time of the outbreak, but I have no doubt that with that exception BOTH I’BISONERS ACCOMPANIED Tlill BIBILS ; Cut Lip wished his brother to join him there, and expected to find him a day’s trav- el from the camp, and he went there and brought him to camp ; his object we: to have Fulling-through-the-Ioe, Mhe would join with Ponndmuker and his brother Yel- low-Mud in giving advice to the rebels. Shown a letter from Poundmlker to Riel, witness aid : I know that letter ; it is in my hand-wriflng : an Indian named Peoha- win came tell me I was wanted : went with him to stint in the middle of the comp ; there were six or eight men in the tent, amongst them the prisoners and Peyschoo ; when I went in Poundmsker said he wanted me to write a letter ; they got s pencil and a piece of paper and began to dictste ; they dictnted in turns, a piece each ; Cut L p die- tated the principal part of it, and Maesinss also took part ; the letter is the joint oom- position of the men whose nsmes are signed to it : as to the signatures attoched, I said some one had better sign this letter; Cut Lip said to put Ponndmnker's name and Queen Victoria his not passed a night in London for fifteen months, and in the ex- ceedingly dept-cued state of trade in the metropliu her absence excites unusually in- dignant comment. ATory paper, the City Press. lately urged that the Trade Depres- sion Commission should make a special rep- resentation on the subject to the Queen, but they would not dare to do so. - Whether designed to do so or not, the marriage nf Prince Waldz-‘mar of Danmark and Prince Marie of Chartres; with the at- tendant concourse of crowned heads and priDcea, produced, though taking place in a. cnrner of France, a great impression on Frenchmen The Count of Paris ham avow- ed himself a Republican in sentiment, but, ready to takea thrnne if the people of France called him to it. THE INDIAN MURDEBERS. THE STORES \VEBE I’ILLAGED ; There are 2 400 stables of cows in Lew York, the milk of which is sold in the city ; and these cows from the time they enter the stable until no longer able to give milk never sea grass. ' At the present prica (.I’ potat'>es in Roches- ter, seventy five cents per bushel from farm- er’s waggou, the half crop which remains will sell for at. much as, or more: than, ‘khe whole wouEd have if not injured, and the rrop everywhere had bnt‘ne out its promise two mpnths ago. Take pasteboard boxes of any almpe and put in a layer of cotton, then a layer of grapes, and so on, ending with CthOD on the top. Put on the cover and psnte a sirin of paper on the joining of cover uni box. Keep in a cool place ; not a cellar, but whare there is a free circulation of air. I know they will keep nicely by this method until February. Wheat makes our bread and paya our taxes ; therefore every farmer grows some. But it is the most uncertain, the most liable to accidents and vicissitudes, the most ex» posed to perils during its long life of ten mcnths, of all our cereal crops. Hence it is the truest, the most delicate thermometer by which to test the farmer's skill. For the winter protection of many half tender garden plants, leaves from the woods prove valuable, and it is well therefore to secure a. good supply in time. For covering tender prostrated grape-vines or raspberry canes, they are less liable to produce rotting than an entire covering with earth. A lit- tle brush, or sprinkling of soil, will hold them in position. They are less suitable for covering strawberries, as they exclude air, and evergreen branches are better. Moss is one of the best materials in which to pack garden vegetables for Winter, being easy to handle and remove, and preserving the moisture and freshness of the roots, and preventing wilting. There are many places where it may be easily prcoured, from damp Woods, from rotting logs or the roots of trees, and in other places from swamps. If in large flakes these are to be torn to pieces, so as to makefine pecking» Placed in alternate layers with such roots as beets, parsnlps, turnips or carrots, it preserves their freshness, and it may be used for packing cabbage heads or celery. Ten thousand barrels of apples shipped from New York recently were sold in Liver- pool last week. King of Tompkins County apples brought 165. a barrel, Baldwins 141., and. Greenings 125. In many parts of this State, as in Pennsylvania and New England, the apple crop is so enormous this year that barrels are practically worth more empty than they are filled with the fruit. Don’t make all the small, unsalable apples into cider ; ju~t store a liberal supply away somewhere where they will not; freeze, and feed them to your hens next Winter. Boiled apples, mixed with bran and shorts enough to make a stiff dough, and seasoned with salt and pepper, make a capital breakfast for lay- ing hens ; apples are cheap feed, too. Timely attention will quite often bring a horse safely and comparatively comfortably through his autumn shedding, which, if neg- lected, will have quite a. miserable ,time of it, and really be quite unfit for Work. Every change of the temperature should be care- fully watched, und the blanket and vanilla.» tion systematically attended to. The food should be of the strongest nature po-ssible. Anything which will give warmth to the whole system should be fed in quantity cen- siitent with good judgment. STONES IN ROADS- To in: rove most of the roads in this coun- try it is rat necessary to remove every atone larger than an orange. Every fxst stone, large or small, should be taken out and the hole filled with earth precisely like that which is on both sides of it, and the earth well rammed down, so that a mudhole shall not be formed. A mudhole should never be filled with stones, or anything else. First remove the water by a ditch, or some other means, and all thin mud, and then let it dry. If the hole be caused by a springy place, dig a. ditch ; if by falling water, prevent the water from collecting there, and put in the hollow the same kind of earth thet there is on each side of it. Rem it down solid from Lhe very bottmnz Where the road has been Do not draw stone into the road promiscu- ously. If you have a surplus in the fields to dispose of, take a certain portion of theroad and macadamlze it in a proper manner. Re- move the earth a. foot deep and eight feet wide, draw the stones and deposit them by the side of the road, where you can break them as you desire, none larger than an inch and a half in its largest diameter, and than shovel them into the trench. mtsurnpiked up" for years, and finally worn down in the centre and holds the water, do not plough in the ditches and throw in turf or softer materiesl, but plough ofl’ the shoul- ders and throw them in the ditches. Make it convex by subtraction, not by addition. A neighbor made twenty rods 0! road like this in 1837, and it is a good, hard, dry, smooth road to this day. Another neighbor made about twenty-five rods of road in 1840, by drawing stone from a field, picked up pro- miscuously, and tumbled on top of an old roadbod. The top of these were broken with hammers. I helped to do this myself. This last piece is a solid, dry road, but is always rough, because the large stones are continu- ally coming to the surface. It Wears un- equally, and constantly needs repairr The first road spoken of has not had a day’s labor axpenéled on it in more than forty years. A White man from away down South in the Okeechobee Lake region came up to Gninesville, F111,, last week, on business at the United States Land Office. While here he saw the first ice he had- ever seen. He mamfested great intarest in the frigid sub- stance, and put a. half-pound lump in his pants pocket to take home to his family. He soon took it out of his pocket, however, and as he did 30 said: “I am afeered it will spile my terbackerg” “ No sir,” declared S., positively, “I don’t take any stock in all tnis talk about mind-reading Itiaa all bash, every hit of it. I’ll defy any man living to read my mind. It's an absolute impossibility, sir; an absolute impnasihilltw'.” “ But, dear,” gently interruptud Mrs. S., “ you ought not to be so positive. Science has been making wonderful strides, you know, In the last few years. Why, I was reading 0: ' ‘ xe other day of a wondu‘ful microscnpe » ‘ :h would show over 112000 line! draw '3 in VB space of an inch Wide.” GLEANIKGS. FARM. A Description of the flammable Sensations Experienced. The following accourt of the sensations of hanging is sent to the Pail Mull Gazette by a chrrespondent who is a member of a kind of suicide club, and my»; actually, he says, partly hung tho other (113' in the presence of several friends. THE PLEASURES 0F HANGING. “A good stout rope had been chained; This was securely fastened to 1he waters of th'w barn roof. I pulled at the vopc Wi‘all my hands to make sure that it would not break. Then I permitt-“d myself so be blindfolded and mounted on a chair. For the moment, I. ad mit, I was weak enough to turn pale and tremble. I soon, however, recovered my presence of mind. Putting my hand through the noose, I gave the signal. I felt the chair drawn from under me. There was a great jerk and I felt a. violent pain in my neck, as though my scarf had all ofn sudden become too tight. Now comes the moat curious part of my experience. After the first feeling of torture, which I admit was decidedly severe, I lost consciousâ€" ness. l seemed to be transported into a new world, more beautiful than anything imagined by the pools. I was swimming, methought, in a sea of oil. The feeling was exquisitely delicious. As I swam easily and without effort through the liquid mass I no- ticed afar ofl an island of the most glorious emerald green color. This it was my wish to reach. I swam lazily and contentedly on. The sea kept every instant changing its hue, though it remained the same substance throughout. At one instant it was a mass of gold, as though the sun were shining brilliantly on it. The next moment it was a vivid blood red ; but there was nothing terrible or disgusting in this new color. It kept changing, in iact, to all the hues of the rainbow, yellow and red being the pre~ dominant tints. I got nearer and nearer to the isle. As I approached it there sprung out suddenly from the ground a number of people strangely transfigured, whose faces seemed to be known to me. I at last reach- ed the land. A magnificent chorus of voices, human and those of birds burst forth. I closed my eyes in ecstasy. I floated calmly on to the shore, and lay as a child in its cradle, slightly weakened from, as I suppos- ed. the enervating efl‘ect of the oily matter in which I had been swimming. At last I opened my eyes, the magic charm was at once dispelled, The divine harmony ceased The faces were still peering at me with an expression of eager curiosity. but I perceiv~ ed that they belonged to the members of our society. The pain in my neck was great. I was now in entire possession of my senses. my friends had fortunately cut me down in time. I was still weakâ€"too weak to at once relieve my friends’ curiosity. When I was able to speak I told them my experience. Though I drew a charming picture of the bliss which I had felt, not one of them would consent to try my experiment. They all considered my conduct heroic, but abso- lutely refused to emulate me. They said I looked so ghastly l” An agricultural paper says : “Smilax won’t start from slips.” If this is reliable, no one need ever mistake smilnx for a. ferry~ boat. An enterprising reporter, writing of a wreck at spa, atated that no less than four- teen of the unfortunate crew and passengers bit the dust. When the livery man was asked why he painted “Excelsior” over the door 0’ his stable, he explained that “Hire” wa his motto. Ladies who mail their letters in their hus- band’s pockets will continue to lament the slowness of the mails, notwithstanding the immediate delivery system. An exchange says that a. folded newspaper, placed under the coat, in the small of the back, is an excellent substitute for an over~ coat. Now ia the time to subscribe. Sidney Smith said to his vestry, In refer- ence to a. block pavement proposed to be built around St. Paul’s : “AM you have to do, gentlemrn, is to put your heads together and the thing is done.” A new guide-book mentions that “ the city proper is surrounded by the suburbs." Guidebooks occasionally stumble on a great ‘0 uth; but we must insist on having the news broken gently, A sudden shock like this may be dangerous. “Dear me, it is raining, Mrs. Randall. You can’t go out in the wet. Won’t you stay to tea ‘3" “No, thanks ; I must be get- ting home.” “Well, anyway, you must Wear my rubbers.” "No, thank you, Mrs. Hopkins ; it isn't raining much, and besides I haven’t any strings to tie them on with.” After the door was closed Mrs. Hopkins said she Wished the mean old thing would catch her death of cold. It is now asserted that the dictionaries are all wrong as to the derivation of the word pioneer. The word is said to have originated in this way : In the mining camps in Cali- fornia, in ’49. the miners ate from tin plates which were fastened to the table. Someâ€" times, when one at these plates became emp- ty, a miner would call out : “Pie on here I pie on here i” From this the miners came to be known as pie on heres or pioneers. “ Gentlemen,” said a tattered tramp, as he approached a scttce in the park, which was entirelv occupied, “ I am very tired. Will one of you be kind enough to get up and give me a scat 7" No one moved ; but all gazed at the impudent nomad with a. stony stare. “ Gentlemen," pleaded the vagrant, “ you have. no idea how tired I am. I left Mont:eal”â€"Suddenly the seven men on the aettee with one accord jumped up and fled, without looking around. “Yes,” said the tramp, as he stretched himself out at full length on the bench, “ I left; Mon- treal when I was a boy.” A joke is a mystury to some people- In a: certain court; in Ontario, on a time, the proceedings were delayed by the failure of & witreaa named Sarah Mony to arrive. Af- tar waiting a. long time for Sarah the cou 1;- concludsd tn wait; no longer, and, Wishing its crack his little joke, remarked, “ This cou‘rt will adjourn Without Sarah»l\’[ony,” Every- body laughed, Except on!a man, who sat in solemn meditation for five mluuten, and then burst into n. hearty guffaw, exclaiming : “ 1 see it ! I fine it E” When he went home he tried to tell the joke to his Wiféw. “ There was a witness named Mary Many whc; didn’t come,” said he, “ and so the court mid : “ VVo’ll adjourn Without Mary Many.” “ I don’t; see any point to that,” said his; ‘Wife. “ I know it,” said he. “ I didn’t ‘ at first; but you will in about five minutes." SMILINGS.

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