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pans ee LE ta ae te a = — me Rig ts a aa i, iE es Ze a Stee ray rN y q ¥ 7 oo ~ ¥ PEE DAILY EXAMINER - ‘ . MONDAY, ioe oe » : CMs <3 ea me : HOW HE MADE IT, is ad i De : " Gh [ bg ‘ i : , By Ze : pe? he YELLS Cocupted a a rE ri ry ii ELLS | Leurned seat: i , if ‘ l half make ; r é aly | Bread to eat! (] s } ei ocks, Silverware, Spectacles, &e. | i"? Wrote © CS3aAyVS-< | aa | Pollehed wells | ) ’ x a-lond,O rhyming Xmas | Not a simul . A sand villages, the valleys and | Hook would selly | (x) } r . . \ ‘idings of blessedness and every Desperation The subseriber has the largest stock of the above Seized him then } 5 by tl lhimney to the Struck an idea— ' Seized his pen, 7 i ¢ Heppiness, and tol! be a : goods ever offered by him, and at greatly reduced prices rote a song callec x n E } s, upon the frosty “Sweethearts Dear,® : tb Gk eel aie aos A Special Cash Discount of from 10 to SO per cent. _a h $ - ~« | ‘ s the spices, and the} £ TACITLY UNDERSTOOD, De ‘ : ‘ es S| ; | will be made on some lines during the next two wecks. Ss M-Fruceaing with & But the Officer Knew How It Came About | ™ 4 \ : s they {f fll ; That He Sat There. } : : — aie el — A policeman saw a man the other | As it would take too much space to describe the € : night fussing away at the front door of | i ¥ a ¢ r without a a house in what seemed to be a suspici- | 5 4 ar er ae ous manner, and he felt it his duty to | Low Prices, Quality and Brilliancy of the goods, the pub- | ‘ t whispering; and the pop- - ee approach and demand: | | The 1 ‘ t bundles and the tying of " * fleas w, br rhe » you trying | - . . ° ° me oe bo denne te What are you sy"S lic are respectfully invited to call and inspect them. Aci the eraning of the children’s necks, mry , i 0 Go ther : OT tian ae ATURDAY will be the day that the | Tm came down to the sidewalk - == - : . and took a squint at the officer and re- 4 ving of the dolls and drums Hed i pried j saitie : : a atk as _* : B 1° ‘ ? : . e . ‘ olicen an +h? Si , you are doubt | iE BAR. : ra sigieeee te © | buying public shall receive a surprise at} ,.7°iccms,ch! Sree Ww . AT. 7 LUN | sk j : P| ry » ; ud on and then you leave your | Charlottetown, December 17, 1894. , 3. w) or 1 < j 3 . ‘ : 2. 5 an Seer ee oe vial " - 7 : yea as : iO Ws Si BROS e (41 at store, fireside and go out to take a walk? ee : ae Tere a cer ee ge * str ict ; e t! " f beauty Anithe hours pass so swiftly by y are h t v ty > ee { yeryv » t 2 } ‘ i : , | that before you realize it the bells are ; res ithe life we all .f dub CV¢ ryoOne Oo come ant OT 6 sin. stn hee od kta ma th ’ . = — That's the way of ‘it lve been s a f { » chil ’ Thre 1 .c y ; ‘ ae at caugut that way a score of times. li's sencinaigcesned PU icicle i 1 ring a O « ing | \\ hat 1 Og, N QO one shall be disappointed funny how it comes midnight s0 soon | * . A A hter on your un- after 10 o'clock.” . Pics tee ueckin , . cv osoet che cition os ne TOYS Dolls, Games, Fancy Goods, Xmas Cards, etc. Epon i wottow ut Crys UNG many shall be made happy. — It’s to} reached vit toshake hands, “some wives a So 1 . a ‘ ir a-loud, you merry sano ot es cul ’ — ee ee eee For n shy at 8 land man your glori your mn { erest to eome. ; my wi fe is one. At half-past ten Two Cups and Sa-cers, beautiful ones, for 25 cents; a pair of Vases, beautiful Duvva Moroan-Suitu . she locked this door and went upstairs, | Jocorations. for 15 cents. We have Bees from I5e. to$l0 each. Give us a call—we

SANTA CLAUS INTERVIEWED.

Kie Gives a Suceinct History ef Himself and His Work.

HAD a talk with that phil

* antnroy Saint of Christ raid mas time wt > other dav, ~ 5 | : 4 : Ys ta 4 ic is oN} <4 “Well.” said Santa after aes V had lighted our meer <"F-“~ schanms, “‘this is a funny wi er ; > i+ Y indeed,” said L “I suppose you rtunity tosee a gre: s. I don't like to app “ I ventured, ‘“‘but there are if readers who w ould lke to ) ur history. Would you objec e the saithaes of it?’ t mm four thousand years ego yesterday, on an iceberg in the Arctic ocean. I don’t look like it, but I was My parents were in excellent cirenm stunces—imy father was in the ice busi ness. I presume th ul something to do with the subsequ coolness that sprang up later between the old gent nan and mysel or W I was twenty years old | left the roof of my father’s ice house, but how unprepar ad to earn my own living! I was an icicle, the peo ple said, and they w uld have nothing to do with me. Sociai ostracism was more than I could bear, =a so, after hanging around some eavestroughs for two or three years, and heariag that my paternal ancestor was melting towar Is me, I hastened back to hishouse. / ‘as! }° was too inte for when ‘iI rrived I found that he was dead. He had left a will, carefully

done up and laid awayin a first-class burglar-pr roof Arctic chill, which was found to contain a provision that I was toexpend his vast fortune—gained in furnishing ice-bergs to ocean steamship compani s—for the benefit of humanity 1 thought of a thousand and one wars in whi “h humanity might be benefiied by the vast fortune at my disposal, anu finally settled on the plan that I have been carrving out ever since. As you doubtless well know, I have had no compe tition to fight against. This ha; made me lose heart of late years, and now that most of the Claus fortune has gone I have come to the conclusion that cali i stop pretty soon my name will be Dcenis—and death would be far pre- ferable to that. Don't you think so yours if?

I almitted that the sting of death wom! in’t be haif so hard to bear as the namie of Denis.

“To tell the truth,” he continued, “I don't see how I could have stood it so long as Ihave. I look jolly and round and fat, but my philanthropic work has

made a perfect wreck of my nerves Why, I can't go down the chimney of a Roval City house and cram a piano into one of those Wellington girls’ stockin as that i is only large enough for a No.1 Faber leadpencil, without ia attack of che horrors. Ten just thins of the years and years I have been lug ging succulent hams to the Hamilion girls and ear-muffs to the Toronto damsels, not to mention the thousand and one things that Ihave had to cart around to the rest of the females of thi: glorious country. The strain has been enough to wear out the ironclad pon s of Dickson’s boy. I think I've done my duty, andif you hear f a fine let o: reindeer being offered for sale soon after the 25th of December you may know that I have concluded to get what Ican out of the ontht and leave tlie country. Of course, I may change my mind if I find this year that every cue of the five and odd millions people of

this country don't ask for the earta; but Im afr aid itis too much to hope for Are you going down-town? Well, I've got to get my beard trimmed. and I guess I'll step down on the street with you 2 And thus ended the only authentic juterview ever had with St. Nichouas. Geo. S. CRITTENDEN.

Didn’t Want to See the Point.

“Oh, gracious!’ exclaimed the ancient Miss Prue, cottoning to the only disen- gaged young man in the ballr oun. “Do you know we are standing under that

horrid mistletoe?’ and she pretended to

be dr ully nervous “In that case, ma’am,” he replied, “allow me to lead you to a seat; you

seem rather faint Christmas Propriety. When the wooden-legged man got a pair of skates he was mad; but what was his anger in comparison with that of the » van Wi! .out aris Who got 2 pair of gloves?

Slaughter Sale all woo! Suits will be effer- ed utthe Auction Room, Queen street this Evening

56 Mens

Without reserve—C€ I Morri son, Actuioncer

We think, without exception, that Messre. W. A. Weeks & Co’s. store is the most striking and artistically trimmed store of any this Xmas. The entrance is particularly wttractive,a large arch cov- ered with silk handkerchiefs of every calor eatching the eve. Iaside the arch are iwo incanlescent electric lights. and ald greatly to the beapty of the color-

when lighted,

Perlumes —Our stock is ’

the larges!.— Watson's Brug Store.

Some epe ial ter’= Book-ture

What can be better for present than a pair of them at Gotf Bros.

Xmas pre+t fare, etu., ete. Monday at he pe ples Weeks & Co. dee

Xmas cakes—898 !ba dark and light fruit, fig. ctirun, plain aud sheet cake from 15 per Jb upward-, at Quirk’s Steam Bak ery. Prince Street

bargains to night at Car- a Christina overshoes. Get

ats in gloves, handkerchief > Low prices Saturday and store. —W. A.

a) D;

«5 «i.

“uslish

Phe Wonderful Chea

Chaslottetowr. December 19

p Mien.

, 1894—tts

Useiul Holiday Presents,

q Hall Lamps with Red Globes from $2 s OP; Library Lamps feore $2.98 to $14:

a sts of Carvers from 50 cents up; Pocket

F wh OB Kniv es from ‘sae to $5; Genuine Acme

; i | ‘

i oa Skates from 70 cents: ai from 1l5e. a

Pig yy pair up; Razors, Table Kvives and Forks,

ig 4 Hl Coal Vases, China fteel Ware, Silverware,

$ ae | j } ‘ 7 *

i 3 it | Clothes Wringers, ete.

(ogi 4

7 a 1 -

j z } > i i ' jj | Lowest Prices! Largest ‘tock! x i

7 ; x 4 — ts . if : j *300D & ROGERS t » Decemi-er ie, 1894 tu thu eat

Charlottetow

ae eee ee ee

Price Cutting Again |

Since some of our competitors have come down to our old prices, we have decided »ke-p them chasing us. Dar.ng the month of December we will rell 5 punts New Raisins, 282 | 3 pounes Pure Mixed Candy, 20¢ 5 © Valencia Layers, 382! 19 bars Electric Soap, 234 > © New Currants, 28:.10 “ Glasgow “ 20¢ 10 « Raw sugar, adc} 1 (5 Ib.) bar ” 18 > = Hawa ra, 85e 5 pounds 24 cent Tea, $1.00 We invite yonr personal inspection. Look where yon will, but don’t decide until

> #¢@n or g wis.

' 1 ay -ithninyg,

We are — lent you will be glad you came. If you buy aal you are not satisfied, return the goods and ; get your money back,

WILLIAM GRANT & CO.,

Queen Street.

Connolly’s Old Stand,

Dec. 18, 1894—eoa & wy 5m

II

LN

Ch irlottetown,

CONSISTING PART OF

PICKLES—Crosse & Blackwell’s and Morton’s, in Quarts and Pints; West India Pickles, Capt. White’s, ete.

SAUCEK3—Lea & Perrin’s Worcestershire, Lazenby’s, Ilarvey’s, Essence of Anchovies, ete.

Spanish Olives, Capers, Preserved Ginger, Figs, Im-

perial Prunes, Candied Peel, ete.

Arso—Peek, Freen & Co's. BISCUITS. in Macaroon s

Ratafia, Oswego, Thin Captain, ete.

J.D MacL¥OD & CO,

Rogers’ Building, Queen Street.

Goail Goal

- . ‘ o i ‘ ‘“ ve BS Winter has set in, and if you have not your W inter

Supply of Coal in,

NOW IS THE Trik as Town and Country alike are taking advantage of our reduced prices.

PEAKE BROS. & CO.

Charlottetown, December 12, 1894,

Charlottetowr, Dec. 18, 1€94--t ts

saying to herself that I might roost on

the steps or go to a hotel.”

‘And that’s my wite to a dot,” sighed the officer.

“T have been home for half an hour.

doors and windows. callei the name of my I have thrown pebbles at her

{ have tried all the [I have softly Maria. window.

“And you are still on the ontside?”

Zam, and it may be tacitly between the two of us that Tll have to remain on the outside until the hired girl gets up in the morning if this but ton-hook won't work the lock. Officer, good night.

“Good-night, sir.”

“Tacitly understood, and you needn't worry over burglars and skeleton keys. I may want you in the morning to swear that we stood talking on the corner

when the bells struck ten, but until then farewell.”

An hour later the officer returned, and throngh the frosty eurtain veiling

the night he made out a figure humpex up against the front door. He made no halt and uttered no word. He tacitly understood that the button-hook hadn't worked, and the man who took a walk was still on the outside.

A Baaly Mixed Up War Policy, “Did you have a pleasant evening?” she asked, with just a little tinge of sarcasin in her voice as he appeared in

the breakfast room looking weary and uncoinfortable.

“Fair, fair,” he sighed, “But we made one mistake.”

“Only one!” she exclaimed. ‘‘Usually

when you go out to renew old associa- tions with your college friends you make a dozen or more. What did you do?”

“Oh, we had a little champagne spread, early, you know, so that we could go te the theatre, and after the theatre, of course, we were hungry again-—”

‘And thirsty,” she suggested.

“Of course,” he acquiesced, ‘both hungry and thirsty. Then we hunted upa good restaurant and had a little more champagne and—and——”

“Yes. What else?”

“It slips my mind for a minute,” he said, wearily. ‘It was something in the nature of a Chinese war policy.”

‘Chinese war policy!” she exclaimed. “Are you crazy? You're usually foolish enough to eat Welsh rarebit about mid- night and suffer for it all——’”

‘That was it,” he interrupted. "That was what we had.”

‘But what has that got todo with the Chinese war policy?” she asked.

“It creates internal dissensions and disturbances,” he replied soitly.—Chi- cago Post.

——»

Had Learned Better.

Missionary- human beings and eat them.

-I hope you never roast

Cannibal King—No, sir, we do The last missionary who was taught us how to make a fricassee, and itis much more palatable, especially with the meagre culinaly arrangements we have.

not. here

A New Water Nymph,

In public places the person least fitted to point ort and explain points of inter- est is often the one who raises his voice above all the rest.

Some visiters were strolling through an art gallery and had paused between the long rows of statuary.

‘*This,” said the leader, with a wave of his hand toward a creation in plaster, “this is Apoilo and that one over there is his wife — Apollinaris.’’— Youth's Com panion. .

silk hand- Chinas and fast—W. A.

dec 222 a.

Largest display of elegant kerchiefs in town. Cream, Surahs are selling very Weeks & Co.

Before you buy Christmas presents see the window of

Watson’s Drug Store.

Stow shoe moccasins at Goff Bros. Buy your presents at Goff Bros. If not suitable will be exchao: ged.

The finest cake, pastry, etc., in cheese cakes, eccles ¢ akes, Scotch cake and sinall

cakes at Quirk’s Steam Bakery, Prince Street. Silk handkerchiefs, finest stock in

Charlottetown.—Moore & McLeod.

Ladies kid gloves, lined and unlined.— Moore & McLeod.

Don’t forget to call at Prowse morrow (Saturday). You will get bargains, and more than bargains. Tell your friends to come.— Prowse ‘Bros.

Misses and childrens kid splendid assortment.—Moore «&

3ros. to-

gloves—a McLeod. Gentlemen’s gloves, ties, collars, cuffs, shirts —best value in the city—Moore & McLeod.

Perfumes—Our prices are the lowest,—Watson’s Drug Slore.

understood

In Gift Books we have a better assortment than ever, in-

Boy’ and Girls’ Annual+, Chatterbox, Sun-

have evero'h ng to please. cluding Ballantyne’s and all late works.

day at Home, Leisure Hour. Toy Books from 1 cent to $2.00 each; prices reduced away down. New lines in Purses, Card Cases, Pocket Books, ete. All the Poets in

beautiful bindings. Call and see them: we have everything in excellent biading. See mur 5c. and 10e. Tables; they are loaded down with beautiful goods. ment of Bibles, Prayer Books, Hy mn B: voks, ete. Dickens, Dumas: Seott or Lytton; we have them ata bargain. Dres sing Cases,

ing Cases, Manicure Sets, Photo Albums, etc., all at slaughter prices.

Shav-

Remember we are doing the Xmas trade on account of the slaughter prices of our goods, and also having the grandest display in tue city. Come one, come all.

BAZAAR COMPANY.

1894—dy PRICE CUTTERS.

Charlottetown, December 22,

(LD COUNTRY GOS

FOR CHRISTMAS.

It Will Pay You!

!

Read This!

OTHING OLD! Ladies’ and Gentle- | Whist Markers, Card Cases, Meer-| These goods were bonght in

A BRIGHT, NEW STOCK —-N men’s Toilet Cases, Playing Cards, schaum Pipes and Xmas Gifts at all prices.

RRY CHRISTWAS

TMVAA AMIN AddVit V

tp sthe first markets for cash. A pleasure to show you through when out |) mam | Shopping. | REDDIN BROS. |

7 < N. B—Our usual elegant assortment of SATCHETS and PER-

FUMES, 15 per cent. off. Ubiaitsttibenia: December 1, 1894.

<—OPTRIgGNHN T-: 3+

Neat and Pretty

Designs and Novelties both in Jewelry, Silver Goods and Timepieces make our Store well worthy of a visit just at the present time. Gold Rings, set with small diamonds, at $1.25 and $2 00, are just little gems for the children. stone tops, only 75c. One lot Solid Silver Thimbles, only 25 cents—a snap! Trinket Trays, with wish bone and motto engraved on. Collar Stud Boxes, Silver Mounted Purses and Combs. Pins from 10c; “Brooches, 35c; Lockets andl Chains, 50c. up. Our $5.75 and $10 Diamond Rings are extra good value. As we Lave no space to enumerate a hundredth part of our regular stock of Watches, Chains, Brooches, etc., we trust our customers will give us achance to show them that it is as new and attractive as any prev ious year. tal Brooches and Gold Bro. ches expected Saturday.

E. W. TAYLOR,

CAMERON BLOCK.

Charlottetown. Dee. 18, 1894.

Qn Great Disslation Sal

STILL CONTINUES.

75 Ulsters

A few Reefers,

Cords of the best Cloths imported to this country,

Underclothing, Coats,

Everything in Stock Has to be Sold.

Hundreds from all parts of the country have taken advantage of our Great Sale. The goods must be sold.

JOHN McLEOD & CO..,

Merchant Tailors, Upper Qneen Street.

and Overcoats on hand,

Hats, Fur Caps, Fur

Charlotictown, December 11, 1894,

See our assort- A nic» Xmas present is @ set of |

DECEMBER

24,

LONDON'S PURITY WAR,

5 METROPOLIS MOVING FOR MORAL REFORM

THE EMPIRE

The Pance Malls Are An Evil of Giant

Proportions—Night Scenes on the Prom- enades at the Alhambra and Empire

Theatres

Mrs. Grundy is abroad with her broom and certain sections of the British public are undergoing one of those periodical fits of morality which Ma cauley found so ridiculous.

The struggle, which commenced in the Licensing Committee of the County Council, over the application for re- newal of their licenses by those theatri

cal establishments which admit the

demimondaines to the part ot their audience rooms known as the ‘‘prome bades,” is very stern an uncompromis

ing on both sides. Unless the Council Yields the dispute is likely to be taken into Parliament

This quarrel of the Council with the: tres is like the Alhambra and the En- pire is of long standing. The Conncil lors are constantly besieged by the representatives of ‘‘purity leagues,” among the members of which are their own mothers, wives and daughters. The unhappy Councillors are well-nigh frantic over this vexed question. They are trying to follow out their declared policy of declining to renew the license of the theatres where the notorious promenades are maintained, and where the sale of liquor is permitted in the auditorium.

But the managers and their hundreds in some cases thousands) of employ-

es set up such a clamor against the

proposed restriction that the protests of the ane leagues” are faint by com-

son. Men of prominence in the te hid world, like Sir Augustus Harris, who has vast sums invested in the inaterial and management of the ‘Palace’ Music Hall, are in a position to make their remonstrances heard

The thousands of fashionable young men about town who would feel as if life were no longer worth living were the attractions of the Empire and the Alhambra abolished, leaving Leicester Square enshrouded in its primitive dark- ness and fog, all join in the outery against the reforming councillors.

If this is what you intend to do when you get ‘Greater London,” they say, “we will take good care that your con solidation project comes to naught ”

This outcry is not without marked effect on the councillors, who are very much in love with their project of creat- ing a compact and centralized London, and who would not like to see their scheme opposed in Parliament by the aristocratic Sybarites who like to loll at evening upon the soft cushions of the Empire “promenade,” drinking cham pagne or ‘“‘b. and s.” with famous An- onymas.

The fact is that the London man- about-town would give up almost any other cherisheu institution quicker than he would relinquish the freedom, the ease and the genteel abandon of these famous resorts.

The man-about-town had become too

fizy to ‘“dawnce;’ besides, it was no longer “good form.” He preferred to

sit luxuriously ensconced among the cushions, watching the evolutions of beautiful dancers brought from every climate under the sun.

Presently it dawned upon him that he missed something, and that it was the society of the ladies whom he had met of yore at the dancing hails. So the **promenades” in the new monster the- atres were invented to meet his require- ments.

In the top story of the Alhambra was the original ‘‘promenade’—relegated to those lofty regions because London was then more Puritanical than it is new.

In this attic circle the Anonyma roamed at her own wild will, generally contenting herself with adjuring ‘‘Ducky’’—as she called each gentleman whom she met—to buy her a drink. Sometimes the ignoring of. this modest and trivial request was followed by rude language and by a sudden upward kick from the fairy’s foot, which sent the refuser’s glossy silk tile spinning along the passage.

But such incidents were comparative- ly rare save or holiday nights; and dames of high degree, who would not have entered a restaurant or the com- partment of a railroad carriage had they known that an Anonyma was seated in it, viewed, as they still view, the colos- sal ballets of the Alhambra from the ten shilling seats, without troubling

Clocks and Silver Goods received to-day. New Crys |

themseives concerning the‘ ‘promenade, ” | Which is “out of sight, outof mind.” If with the progress of years the sirens i | have encroached on the public space at the Alhambra, they have also toned down their conduct, and are most care- fulto avoid the scandal which would forever close the doors against them. By and by came the Empire, with its sumptuous decorations, floods of electric light and miraculous ballets and oper- ettes, outdazzling those of similar Pari- sian resorts; and still later ‘“Gus” Har- ris—the only **Gus”—took the field with the transformation of the deserted Na- tional Opera House, on the Thames Em bankment, intoa Palace Varieties. Then

Silver Thimbles, with real | j¢ was that Mrs. Grundy became greatly

agitated.

The Empire “promenade” is the typi-

eal one. It is so near to the auditorium thet with a step you are there, yet per- fectly screened against observation from | the audience. Here, while exquisite music sweeps in | floods through the vast hall, London célebrities of Parliament or press or peerage loll at ease on the soft cushions in the recesses of the promenades, and drink fiery wines poured by the white hands of stately Hebes, who vie in love- liness with the Marguerite Gautiers and Nell Gwynnes, elaborately dressed, swarming in by hundreds.

said a celebrated Turk, when he was | ae for the first time to the ‘Empire | promenade. .

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vemmeotenanesciceniensemcmpnnrremtil lsd.

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SQUADRONS OF HORSE FLIES.

A Freneliman’s Scheme for Carryiny Dis- ease Into the Camp of the Fuemy

Some amusing particulars of the ia

ventions that have been offered to the French war office since 1671 have re-

cently been published in a French news

paper, the majority of which, according to the London Court Journal, are about equal to the Laputan scheme for plow- ing fields, namely, by sowing acorns in rows and then turning in pigs to rest them up. One genius sought a paient for the trainiag of squadrons of horse flies. These auxiliaries were to be fed exclusively on blood served up beneat! iae delicate epidermis of mechanic:! figures clothed in the uniforms of mei

bers of the triple alance, so that whea political relations in Europe were strain

ed the flies might be given daily a litti« of the juice of certain poisonous plants and on actual declaration of war be turned out in the path of the enemy. Another ingenious person propored a scheme for educating war dogs. In times of peace he would train French dogs to bite lay fignres wearing Prussian helmets, in or der that on the outbreak of war the kennels of the whole count: v might be mobilized, and let loose on ti: enemy. Then there are numerous prev posals for bridging rivers by means of ropes attached to cannon balls, and a photographer suggests a novel kind of captive shell, which, breaking over the fortified position of an enemy, would disclose a small camera attached to a parachute. The enemy's fortifications would be instantaneously photographed and the apparatus hauled back by the string and the negatives developed at leisure. Two ideas are very inhunian. One is a scheme for sending large quan- tities of poisoned necdles, as ifin charity

to the enemy's generals, who would. of course, distripute them to their forces, and so poison the unfortunate users: and the other to charge explosive ba!lets with pepper. Two objects are pursued by the inventor of the pepper—its dis

charge would blind the enemy andi the great demand for the condiment in time of war would stimulate the trade of the French colonies and increase the revenue of the country. There are also many other equally absurd proposals, such as suggestionsfor making soup by machin

ery, growing potatoes on barrack roofs in December and killing whole army corps of Prussians by post—bnt they are too numerous to be mentioned,

How Slate Pencils Are Mace.

In making slate pencils broken slate is put into a mortar ran by steain and pounded into small particles. Then it goes into a mill and runs into the ‘*bolt ing” machine, such as is used in flour- ing mills, where it is bolted, the fine, almost impalpable flour that results be- ing taken to a mixing tub, wherea smell quantity of steatite (soapstone) flour, similarly manufactured, is added, together with other materia!s,the whole waking a stiff dough. This dowzh is kneaded thoroughly by passing it ser- eral times between iron rollers. Thence itis conveyed to a table, where it is made into ‘‘charges,” or short cylinders, four or five inches thick, and contain- ing eight to twelve ponndseach. Four of these are placed in a strong iron chamber, or “retort,” with a changeable nozzle so as to regulate the size of the pencil, and subjected to tremendous hydraulic pressure, under which the composition is pushed throngh the noz- zlein the shape of a long cord, and passed over a sloping table slit at right angles with the cords to give passage to a knife which cuts them into lenzths.

They are then laid on boardsto dry. and, aftera few hours are removed to sheets of corrugated zinc, the corragat- ing serving to prevent the pencils from warping during the process of baking to which they are next subjected in a kiln into which superheated steam is intro- duced in pipes, the temperature being regulated according to the requirements of the article exposed to its influence. From the kiln the articles go to the finishing and packing room, where the ends are thrust for a second under rapidly revolving emery wheels, and withdrawn neatly and smoothly polish- ed. They are then packed in paste- board boxes, each containing 10% pen- cils, and these boxes are in turn packed for shipment in wooden boxes contain- ing 100 each, or 10,000 pencils in a ship- ping bex. Nearly all the work ia done bp boys, and the cost, therefore, is light. ~Eechange.

- G: ambler’s . Superstition.

They were playing a quiet rubber of whist and had called for a new deck of ecards. One of the players was an oid timer, a card player of years of exper- ience, and he took up the old worncxt pack and put them on the window sill.

“Throw them in the fire,” said the young man who was his partner.

“What!” said theelder, ‘throw a pac k of cards in the fire? Young man, you don’t know what you are talking about. I wouldn't do it for $1,600.”

“Why not?” “Superstition,” was the answer. ‘Barn a pack of cards, and they'll never give you another hand and will mock you to the last. They're bad enough at best, but you never saw « gambler curse the cards or abuse thers. He doesn’t dareto. Iknew a ‘succes card player who did it. He was dwel!- ing on velvet then. Ina year he waca beggar, and he never wona game worth metioning forever after. It’s a whirn, but the gentlemen of the cloth of green respect it. They won't burn a pack of cards.”

= A Firm Believer.

“The Bible, if I remember right.’ said Mr. Hungry Higgins, ‘says that six days a man shalt labor and do ali his work.”

“Gness you ere right,” assented Mr Weary Watkins, wondering what was coming next.

Well, I allow that I have dene as much as six days’ work in my life, and

esful’

“This is fue Englishman's harem,”

if I don’t read the text wrong, that is al; the work a man is permitted to do. 't says ‘do all thy work,’ don’t itv’—De trvit News. .

Skaters, Attention !

V¥e have a number of pairs of Laced

Boots, medium and heavy, good Boots, our own make.

Kating Will clear them out

at a big reduction for cash, Call early and

secure a pair,

Boots, Rubbers and Overshoes, all kinds

selling low.

Ordered work a specialty, Repairing of all kinds promptly done.

J: H. BELL,

Charlotierown, Dec. 12, 1894—dy

The Reliable Boot and Shoe Dealer,

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