NO DEMAND FOR THERMO- METERS.
Can I sell you a thermomster today? inquired a young man at the back door of
Hozan farmhouse
What's them 7' demanded a boarso volos from the ocholag corridors of a large kitchen, and the manipulator of the voice losmed sp
in his shirt slaavet. Thermometers, suswered the yeath. What are they good for?" They indicate the temperature.*
What temperaturo ?"
The temperature of the atmosphere where they are located.'
4
Regaleto the weather, eh?
"No, they don't exactly regulate the weather, but they indicate its other words, they tell you just how hot or cold it la by easy reference to a graduated male running from 40deg. below zero to fur aboro boiling point.
Say, confound your picter, don't you s'pose no know when we're cold and when we're overheating creolves?
Certainly
but then
What io thazdor do we want of thermometer? Dot't you s'pose if I was cold new f'd put on my coa? Even if I hadn't got a cost couldn't I sell a two-year- old and git me ona?'
of conversational style. Apparently nothing can save us but a Dake whe decides for grammar and sonno. Soon the only sand. traditions of the language will have to le sanght in the Board schools-Landon Daily News.
AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. There are some truths that ought to be blown through a million sponking trampóto ovary hour; that ought to be printed in big type on the front page of overy newspaper; that cagbi to`lo printed on every signboard at the crossroads; that ought to be taught in every school.
And this is one of them: Phere is no such thing, on earth ar a toxic medicine.
People talk of 'tanics and doctors talk of tools. Peluw When a country is discovered in which no food stuffs are over raised or im ported, and in which the men, women, and children are all well and hearty, wo may conclude
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Mr Thomas Foster, af 15, Chathas Place,
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Suppoas we have in whole story, which is
Yos, certainly; bat that is not the iden. You know some seasons are bolter or colder than others, and oftentimes it is a satisfac-ebort, and make our comments ou it afterwards.
But then there are other ce for
He says: Up to the month of June, 1891, A ne strong and healthy. At that time I fell into
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"Well, darn your hide, if I'm too worm or any of us to too warm-cans we feelow, weak condition. folt langaid and benvy, for curseires; can't we sbuck off erery last and was always tired. I had a foul taste in the mouth, and a dreadful pain in the chest and rag and go in switamin
Cons, Dow, aides after rating, whilket my stomach was like what do yer say to that, ah?'
| burning fire. I was much trochied with wi
which seemed to roll alt averne, and 1 bada reliable thermoracter. You make hatlar, constant lalching and rising in my throat. Ioui
was in agony day and night, and for hours 1 walked about the row rubbing my ulses in the offort to attain relief. I lost a deal of steep, Burl felt worse tired in the morning than when i wont to bed. Orailually I bone wesker and anaker until I had hard work to follow my en- ployment, for, I was in misery all the tire.
do you not?'
Yes, sir; wo chara onct a day, rog'ier, We've made butter afore you was voavod.'
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I went to a doctor, who sended toe and gave ne medicines, but pot pe rollef, and after taking his macines for a mouth, left of going *And let Bob stand around the room. bit. 1 then fried stomach fonies and other in idling away time waiting for the seam to
suedieines but wathing did me muy gooil hoat up. No, sir, it won't go down, that this state I anntinued week after week, growing kind
of argument won't. Bob's hired to more feeble all the while. I felt that if I did scientific rattletrap, not soon and a remedy I shan'd he done for work, not in watch a and when the butter don't come I I may to altogether. Bob, "You keep on charving," and he In October. 1891, a bank was left at my Louno telling of a medicine called Mother Seigel's shakes her up for oil that's out. Ro, we don't want none of yer thermometara. Wo Corative Syrup, and describing a case like cine As I had often heard Bain't
You'd better that had been mural by it. got no nee for 'em.
this mediting well spoken of, I made up my ham ond go
work, young man, store you you git too eranky for this world. I mind to try, and got a bottle from My Cousins, in Ainby Road. After I had taken two doses, abouldn't be a bit surprised to вы you
I felt grateful rohief, and before I bat enits around here bait summer with me kind finished the bottle I was completely cared, and of a narapsion to tell us to go in wha it raine. Sure you haven't got welting to tell go when it's sundown 2 ore the farmor become so excited that the metheu in my grave before now. I will answer embarking at San Francies for China or eorological young man scooted away liko note who may write the concerning the facts Japan (or wie eers) within one year, will
This le set forth. mmer cloud-MAtings.
Yours truly (Sigħad), Thomas | 1o allowed a discount of 10 per cent. Foster, Is, Chatham Pace, Adefuse St-vuilerance does not apply to through fares Eul, Mar 24th, 1892"
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I thank God that this medicine was rert made houn to me. Otherwise I should have
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Now let us stc. The symptoms of Mr Foster's complaint ara ensily recognisable. Il neffared from indigestion and Ayspepsia. The mechcines administered by his physician or purchased by taimselt paved assless because they were not
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The stomach tonics which Mr Roster hoped
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d-his guida to polite talk in covart and application of whip and spar wakes up a cited country house. The young shooter is horse, not to giving Lita strength, but by roas taught how to pay for his welcom by ex- Tug is reservedl nervous force, with a deeper raaction to follow. That's how 1 ever was and travagant adulation of his hust's gun, and
will be. how, "at the eight
Great Woodcock Bagut, to bring in the
The great truth that buret upon mo is this, that if you want to restore good tem per to a haltored party, you must start talking shant woodocoke. If you saw a woodoosk in the morning, talk about that onu. If
not, begin about the woodcock you saw last week, or the woodcock mums. budy else missed the week befura. Bat whatever you do, always keep a woodcock for a (metaphorically) rainy day. Bring him out at lunch next time you skoot, aud watch, the effect, →Another good topic for all weathers is the cigarette.
Very often you can work up quite a nice little
Conversation on cigarettes Every man belloves, as is well-known, that he potests the only decent cigarettes in the country. He either-(1) imports the bioself fean Cuica; or (2) be gate his tobacco straight from a firm af growers somewhere in Syria and makes it into cigarettes himself: or (5) he thinks Egyptian cigarettes are an abomination, and only smokes Russians or Americans; or (4) he knows a man, Backaatopoule by nema, comoviero in the Ratcliffe Highway, who has the very best cigarettes you over tastod.' -The typical figures of the shooting party are bit off just a happily as the typical talk. Here is Thu Dressy Shot:"
Wonderful in the boot, arooling, and gaiter department. Very tasteful, too, in the matter of saps and ties. May be Battered by 40 inquiry as to where he got his gaitere, and if they are an ides of hie
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wears gloves, and a fair moustache."
of
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Mother Seigel's Curetive Syrup restored in gentleman to real and geanive health by clean- ing his system of the poison of disanse, by rem moving the abstacles and ubting the sch retain and digest food. A very sloupin thing, you how hard to accomplish, oh my tasters.
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pany,
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occupy a position, as regards China and the FACIFIO, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER
Consular Invoices of Goods for United neighbouring countries, some what similar and RIU GRANDE and NORTHERN
to that which has been filled in India by the PACIFIC RAILWAYS, wise the CANA. States Points should be in quadruplicate DONE BATU VALLA t puscat and one copy must be sent forward by the Caletta Keries. The great degres of at of $10.00 Gold in addition to the regular steamer to the care of The Freight Ageot tention that is been bestowed of inte years Wast Point Bailding Co., Lasmitau..12, boUS
ese literature, Chinese Northern Pacific Railroad, Tacoma, Wash, upon the investigation of
seat to our Office with antiquities, and social developments, to say led to the Iras accumulation of importaut day previous to sailing.
wton, rendering some ation. For further information as to Passage or a
sach channel of pub. Leity as is now provided extremely desir Panjo Minug Co., Ld....60, GO Freight, apply to
able; and contributions of much interest Société Francais des Charbon- may fairly be looked or from the mombers nages du Ton
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MINING
Student's Reading Room and Library- AND CITIES in the United States have, oddions marked in full by p.a., un the nothing of linguistic stores of informi- Jelebu Mining & Trading Co., Ld. (£5,000
an example of the lamentable drift of our DESIDENTS in the Colony would familiar talk into slang. What will become materially aid the SENATE of the the language in a few years, at this sale 1 COLLEGE by forwarding to the ALICE The grandisonianism of Sir Charles Grandi- MENOXIAL HOSECIAL Boa was, after all, valgarities
of
of the smart set. That, at least, had grammar, and point, and a certain style. This has nothing but the locutions of the gutter and the taprooms, It is the vilest of affectation,
of course, for, these people do not think in that manner. They have deliberately to unmake their thought, in the forms of speech to which it naturally presents itself to the mind, aud to render it again in this dreary jargon. When they seem mest free and easy, they ara really most Jabonred. This the kind of stuff they talk at lunch.
*
Third Sportsman (choking with laughter at the recollection)--I saw you go down, old cock. First go off, I thought you were bat, when you got that old face of hit; yours up, and began to holler, Worgans !" as if you meant to burst, why I jolly soon know there wasn't much the matter with you. Just look at him, you chaps. Dá you think an ordinary charge of shot weald go through that? Not likely.
And this is on the inconvenience of her. ing & host who objects to smeking in the abooting drason, or, as one of them puts it,
what he's got a shoot on
*Reggie'
aid it was awful. Ho had to lock his bedroom door, shove the chest-of- drawers against it, and smoke with his head stuck right up the chimney. He got a peck of sout, ona night, right on the top of kin mut. Now, I call that simple rot.
Modern shooting in a highly artificial form of sport. If it were not ss, the fields and the fresh air might supply naturel corrective to those abominable affectations. As it it, one has an uneasy suspicion that dullard of the set has his phrase hook
every
of slang in his luggage, and works at it when he is supposed to have gone to bed. Mr Lehmann no doubt has a pupose in the laboured fidelity with which he has ronder.
Address to
JOHN O. TROMSON,
tion. Bec. to the College. Hongkong, February 23 1891.
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