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Full Moon, Sth, 12h. 41.9m., midnight. Last Quarter, 16th, 12h. 9.<m., midnight, Kew Moon, 23rd. 3h. 42.7m.. p. m

First Quarter. 30th, 3h. 14.2m, vp. m.

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Day of Week Sun Sun Rises | Seta

bom ,h. m. 1 Wednesday j . Sj Thursday 7 Ss Friday : 4} Saturday = 5 | Sunday ; e | Monday 7 Tuesday 8 8 | Wednesday . @ | Thursday : xO | ‘Friday : 1 | ‘Saturday : 2 Sunday : 12 | Monday . 4} Tuesday : 15 | Wednesiay 43 o 16 } Thursday 43 : 17 | Friday 4 > 18 | Saturday 45 : 19 |} Sunday 46 = BD) | Monday 468 It Fi. Tuesday 47 it 22 | Wednesdav a} 22 23 | Thursday 47 8 24 =" . 14 f 48 Io ieee ws 48 15

4 Tuesda > 4s

2 | Wednesday 49 30 | Thursday @i >

Si | Friday 49

P &. Island Railway

On and afier MONDAY, 27th Dec., 1897, trains of this Railway will run daily, (>un days excepted,) as under.

; ‘ Trains In — STATIONS. (ward. Read down. up.

a ae a 3 10 vr 0 . Charlottetown ..., 5%) 10 00 3 30) 6 35|--Royalty Junction./ 5 4g 9 40 4171712 .. North Wiltshire. '1 40 8 55 4 21) 7 24]. - Hunter River... | 1 9g) 8 4] & 0 7 dl .. Bradalbane...... i 8 07 5 13 7 58 ees... os eu 12 53 7 53 5 27) 8 00 .. Freetown ...----/)9 49 7 29 6 471 8; ..Kensington....- |y9 94) 7 18 6 * 8 501A.) 8 j Lv. 19 og, 8 45 P. M./P. M. S'Side ; |A. M. 12 50) Lv. } | Ar. 19 30 ] ll .. Miscoache éoesee j10 10 L 37). - Wellington ...... 2 47) 2 19}. - Port Hill ...++++/ 9 09) 3 34|--O’Leary..... -+-+l 8 OO 3 58 ..Bloomtield ...... q 34 4 34 . Alberton Aileen 6 55) 5 30 .- Tignish seen ween 6 00 A ee __\As Mt. > M {A, M. "2 30 | Charlottetown ... 110 30 2 50 }.. Royalty Junction 10 10 32 OEINOE .ctces + | : - 5 . iv ) iol at Mt Stewart ts 8 50 » 22) . Cardigan. ....++. | 7 35 45 . Georgetown |; 710 Yr. M. jA. M. eke. a 4051 .Mt. Stewart ....; 8 35 4 43) .Morell......-.-- 8 17 6 121 St. Peters ...0--, ¢ 48 5 Sil... Bear River ......) 7 08 © Oe Ot. cbc sh eees 6 20 Pp. M. a we. a a G I. Mmemid~ .. cite | 7 DO 6 05|..Cape Traverse . 70) Pp. M. lA. M. Traineare run by Eastern Standard ‘Time. G A SHARP, D.POTTINGEK, te ut, Bb Govt. Rys, Gharlotietow- = eee B.

Railway Office, Dec, 27 1897

FOR SALE.

RARE CHANCE

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The property occupied by J. J, Gay and son situate in the village Of Pownai, 7 miles from _hariottetown, is offered for sale. The pre-

rietors have carried on a large market gar-

en nursery, and seed business for thirty years, and the purchaser wil! no doubt retain a large share of the \ocal trade. The prem- ‘ses comprise a large dwelling house. s ore warehouse, barn, shed, orchard, aad about } acres of the most ferti:e land on the Isiand

This land hasbeen manured year after

that as an vid man said the other day.; “It isall abed of manure and could be hauled for topdressing.” This would be an ideal spot for a country merch- ant. or it would be admirabie fora summer resort, The situation is one of the most beautiful on the Island. Good bathing, fishing. boating. shooting and within easy distance; churches, post office school telephone and shops all at the door, For terms and furthe: particul-ra, apply to Vou Clure Gay, J J Gay 4& +on or to, JOHN T MELLISH Solicitor Char lottetov-n

year, for so lon

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Printing in all its branches at the Exam- INER Office, one cf the best equip-

ped Job Printing Establishment, on P, E. Island.

Wants, Lost, Found &¢

Generac <0.

FOR SAL&.—A double seat family sleigh, hiigh-turned ranners and dasher. JOHN GATES, St Peter’s Road,

WANTED—To borrow, $20 at5 per cent. ou 28 acres on Lot 22, worth $5000 cash. Write A A, Box 335, Charlottetown. dee23lipd

TO LET.—Honse op lower Spring Park Poad(with or without barn) ‘conlaletos eight iarge and well finished :coms, Frost froof eellar. Pessession Ist of bec. Apply t@ 8JG rhorne Revere Hotel, nova? - ti

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 30, 1897

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Lecture and Entertainment Course

SEASON 1897—1898.

St Peter's New Hall, Ch'town

Alternate Tuesdays as follows :-—

Dec, 14th aad 28th.

Jaoy. llih and 25th,

Feb. 8th and 22nd.

Particulars of each Entertainment will ‘given ip due course in our local colums sept] 3—

WARE - HOUSES

TO LET

PEAKE’S WHARF (WO 1)

Wharfage storage and yard- age, at reasonable rates.

Arthur G. Peake.

Nov. 4

LEGAL CARD WARBURTON & McKINNON

Barristers, Attorney’s, Notarys Public.

Commirsioners for State of Massack usetts, ac., & C,

OFFICES """™=,_. Cameron Block, Charlottetown

Brennan Building, Summerside 1 Kent Street, Georgetown.

A. B. WarsvrRToY, B, A., D,C. L., Q GC D. A. McKinnon, L. L. b. Ch’town Dec, 1, 1897—law & w3m

lialian Ware House

Cor. Grafton and Grt. Geo. ts North side Queen Squarre

De Kupyars and Herman Jansen Genuine Rotterdam

GIN.

JOY & DAVIES,

Wholesale Wine Merchants.

Decemb er

25th —~ Wilt soon be here.

ARE YOU READY FOR IT?

Weare ready with a large stock of eleg- ant Fancy avd Usetu! articles.

G. fh. TAYEOR

JEWELER. North Side Queen Square.

For New Year's

Nice Juicy Oranges, 20¢ a doz Northern Spy Apples, from 10 to 24e

New Dates, 10¢ Ib Mince Meat, 16c¢ Ib Pure Mixed Candy, 10¢ Ib Cream Mixture, l6e Ib No. 1 Chocolate Drops, 20¢ Ib Xmas Mixture (Large) lie Ib French Cream Mixture, 25e

Nuts, Figs, Layer Raisins, ete., at

BEER & GOFF

| 4 MODERN MIRACLE.

THOUSANDS OF LIVES SAVED BY COURAGE AND FORESIGHT.

How the British Authorities on the Fron- tier of India Prepared Fer a Tremen- dous Flood—A Wonderful Calculation Showing When a Dam Would Break,

On the northwestern frontier of India, in the flanks of the Himalayas, is a small stream, the Birahi Gunga, a tributary of the Ganges. High up on this stream is the little village of Gohna.

In September, 1893, an enormous bulk of rock and earth slid down the mountain side ipto the river, and in October of the same year was another great landslide. The mountain from which this material came down rises 4,000 feet above the bed of the stream. The dam which the ma- terial formed across the valley was about 900 feet high and 8,000 feet long as meas- ured across the gorge. Of course the for- mation of this dam would convert the stream above it into a lake, and it wascal- culated that when the water should reach the level of the top of the dam it would cover an area of about 1 1-3 square miles and would contain about 16,650,000,000 eubic feet of water, about as much water as could be carried in 500,000 of the big- gest freight trains.

All of this was apparent to every one, but back of all this the British officers, civil and military, who were in charge of the affairs of that region saw certain other truly awful facts. Some time the lake would fill and the water would begin to rise over the crest of thedam. But, there being no masonry protection, the water would begin at once to cut away the crest and the face of the dam, and, the breach started, it would increase by swift leaps, as greater and greater volumes of water were let loose, till the whole lake would be released, to sweep in one vast wave down the valley. This process of breaking down begun, the end would not be a matter of days, but of hours. Be- tween the first trickling overflow and the escape of the mass of the water probably less than a day would elapse, possibly only a very few hours. In fact, 17 hours after the first overflow did take place the great flood was let loose.

That all this would happen was not speculation. It was human experience. lt was exactly what happened at Johns- town, Pa., in 1589, when several towns were wrecked and 5,000 lives were los%, only the Gohna dam was 14 times as high and 3% times as long as the Johnstown dam, and the water held back was 26 times as much. From surveys they knew the area of the watershed from which the water would come to fill the lake, and from records they knew the ordinary rain- fall, and so in the autumn of 1893 they calculated that the overflow would begin Aug. 15, 1894. It actually began Aug. 25. No doubt the officers intended to make the error on the safe side and hardly expected the overflow to take place as early as Aug. 15. Having satisfied themselves when the flood would take place, they began to pre- pare for it. They built a telegraph line from Gohna down the river 150 miles and established stations at all important points. They put up pillars of masonry on the slepes of the valley in the upper part 200

_ feet above ordinary flood level and farther

down the valley 109 feet above floods. These pillars were established near al) vil- lages and camping grounds and at inter- vals of half a mile down theriver. ‘The people were cirected to retire above the line of pillars when they should receive warning of the flood.

The valley is not thickly peopled, but it contains several villages and one town, which has a population. cf 2,000. It is, however, a famous resort for pilgrims, and is studded with shrines, and streams of devotees pass back and forth.

When they had done all they could, the officers waited for the flood. At half past 6 on the morning of Aug. 25a little stream began to trickle over the dam. At2o’clock in the afternoon a message was sent down the valley, saying that the flood would come during the night. A thick mist over- hung the lake and the dam. At half past 11 at night a loud crash was heard, acloud of dust rose through the mist and rain and the flood roared down the valley.

Just below the dam the wave rose 260 feet above the ordinary flood level. If this wave hed swept down Broadway, it would have risen to the cornices of some of the recent 20 story buildings. Thirteen miles below the dam the wave was 160 feet high, and 72 miles below, at Srinagar, it was 42 feet above ordinary flood level, and at Hardwar,. 150 miles down the stream, at the mouth of the valley, the wave was still li feet high. The average speed of the flood going down the valley in the first 70 niles of its course was estimated at about 18 miles an hour, but in the upper 12 miies it must have moved at a rate of over 27 miles an hour. In 4% hours 10,- 000, 000,000,000 cubic feet of water, almost two-thirds of the whole contents of the lake, were discharged. This mass weighed more than 800, 000,000,000 tons.

Nothing could withstand that weight moving at suck a speed. Rocks were ground todust. The town of Srinagar was entirely destroyed, with the rajah’s palace and the public buildings, and a thick bed of stones, sand and mud was de- posited where the town had stood. All the villages of the valley were swept away. But, wonderful to relate, there was abso- Jutely no loss of life except the Gohna fakir and his family. This old fellow scorned the warning of the Christians, and he and his family were twice forcibly moved up the slope, but each time they re- turned, to be finally overwhelined in the flood.

The whole cost c? the protective work and the valne of bridges and public prop- erty destroyed amounted to 2,500,000 ru- pees. ‘The official value of the rupce in 1894 was 32 cents, and therefore this sum was equal to $800,000. This does not in- clude the destruction of private property, of which ‘no estimate has been made.—H. G, Prout in McClure’s.

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CWI-NAIN ANS OTHERS.

The Philologist With an Attack of Ma- laria and the Intellectual Drug Cierk. The philologist had an attack of malaria.

He went to tho intellectual drug clerk and

remarked:

“Will you kindly put me up ten five grain pills of ewi-nain?’’

The drug clerk, with the nonchalant confidence of his kind, answered:

‘Ten flve grain pills of ki-nin? Cer- tainly.”’

‘‘No; not ki-nin,"’ said the philologist, ‘*but cwai-neen.’’

‘*T thought you said cwi-nain.”’ ‘*No. You misunderstood me. ewin-in,’’ answered the philologist.

‘“‘Ah! I stand cerrected. We have been in the habit of calling it ki-nin among the profession.’’

‘‘Have you? When I went to school, the proper pronunciation was cwai-nain, or it may have been cwi-nine.”’

The intellectual drug clerk looked puz- zled. He apparently suspected that he was being guyed. He attempted to create a diversion by suggesting that the philolo- gist might -find the—ah—the—ki-nin— more effective in the form of capsules. The philologist said:

‘*T have been in the habit of taking my ewin-ain in the form of pills.”’

‘You may have it any way you like, professor, and you may call it whatever you please,’’ said the drug clerk as he bowed with an expression that indicated that he felt himself somewhat crushed.

“Well, I'll call it cwin-ain. But you can call it almost any old thing and you will be pretty sure to be right, according to somebody who has made a dictionary in the last 50 years. Ii it works in as many different ways as it is pronounced, I will either be killed or cured before morning.”’

Then the philologist laughed and said, “It’s a great word,’’ and the drug clerk murmured, ‘“‘And a great medcicine.’’ Later they were seen behind the prescrip- tion desk discussing something that ust- ally is absorbed with quinine and is gen- erally pronounced excellent.—New York Sun.

I said

Michigan's “Jag Act.”

“The laws tbat are passed by some of our state legislatures are absurd and puerile in the extreme,’’ said Mr. C. L. Milbous. ‘‘In Michigan there is a statute known in the cities as the ‘jag act,’ under the sweeping provisions of which an offi- cious policeman can bring almost anybody before the local courts. It mixes up all sorts of offenses in a way that would be ludicrous if it were not harmful. A man, for instance, who threatens to leave his wife and children is, by the act, a disor- derly person and subject te arrest; s0 also is an innocent exhibitor of a Punch and Judy show, ora rope or wire dance performer, or the giver of a drink to a friend who has already had perhaps a few smiles too many.

‘“*The trouble with a law like this, which the supreme court of the state has de- clared constitutional, is that it may easily become an instrument of persecution. It may be employed as a dragnet to enmesh respectable gitizens who thoughtlessly violate some of its provisions. Domestic infglicity might cause a man while in bad humor to threaten to abandon his home, though he really cherishes no such pur- pose. My theory is that legislation in- tcnded to regulate the morals of a people is out of place in the closing years of the nineteenth century.’’—Washington Post.

An Agreeable Arrangement.

When a certain general was camping on the lower Mississippi, his negro boy, Harry, was one day asked by a friend whether the general was not terribly an- noyed by mosquitoes. ‘‘No, sah!’ said Harry. ‘‘In the evenin Mars George is so *toxicated he don’t mind the skeeters, and in the mornin the skeeters is so ’toxicated they don’t mind Mars George.’’—~San Franisco Argonaut.

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Separator oil that will insure safer running at extreme speed than any other on the market.

Butter Boxes for storing and shipping butter in.

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