OHN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATU.
Governor.Silas Holcomb
Lieutenant Governor. .1. 1'. -Harris
; eerelary of State.Wm. F. Porter
ftttuo Treasurer.Jolut B. Mosorve
M.ato Auditor.lohu F. Cornell
Attorney General.O. ;!• binythu
Com. Lands and Buildings.I- V. \Volfe
t-upc. Public Instruction ....... W. K. Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Thus Rawlins, Wakefetld; ChM Weston,
llay Springs; H. I, Goold, Ogala; Cims H.
Morrill, Lincoln; K. Van Ferrlll, Kearney;
Geo F. lvmowcr, Wisner
Representatives First District, J. B. Strode
Second, it. D. Jtiercor, Third, S. Maxwell,
Fourth. W, L. Stark, Fifth, It. i>. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Green.
V OH G It ESS1 ON A L.
Senators— W. V. Allen, of Madison1; John
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice.A. M. Post
Associates.. .T.O. liurrison and T. L.Norvidl
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge .M. F. Kinkaid, of O'Neill
Reporter... J- J- King of O'Noill
Judge.W. H. Westover, oi Rushvllle
Reporter.• obn Maher, of Rushvllle.
LAND OFFICES.
O’NEILC.
Register.. .
Jtooeiver.
... .8. J. Weekes.
.K. H. Jeuness.
COUNTY.
JU,i„e .Clarence Selah
Ciork of the District Court.John Skirving
Deputy
Treasurer.•».*.H. B. Henry
Deputy.U. \. Mullen
Clerk .. ■ J • M. Lels
Deputy.Casper Engelhaupt
Sheriff .John M. Slewar
Deputy.W. H. Blackmer
Supt. of Schools.J. C. Morrow
Assistant.Miss Annie Lowrle
Coroner. L. SJ. Cline
Surveyor.Loll
..tturney. W -R. Butler
SUPER VISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Clevelaud, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
llock Fulls and Fleasantvlew :J. A. Robertson
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, l’addock, Scott, Steel Creek, WU
,iiwdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
uiatluu and O'Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris andDeloit—L. C. Combs.
FIFTH DISTRICT,
Chambers, Conlev, Lake, iiioClure and
luman—8. L. Conger_
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan. Wyoming, Fairview, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—Wm. Hayes
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
' G11Y OF (yNEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, K. ii.
Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
OOUNUILMBN—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one
'year—C. W. Hagensick.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J. Mack.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin;
Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer
johu llorrisky; Police Judge, Ii. Kautzman;
chief of Police, P. J. Bigliu; Attorney,
Tlios. Oarlou; Woighmaster, D. Stannard.
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GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney
McGreevy; Clerk, J. oullivan; Assessor Ben
.rohring: Justices, M. Castelio and Chas.
Wilcox; Constables, John Horrisky and Ed.
MoBride; Road overseer dist. T*i, Allen Brown
uist. No. 4 John Enright.
.OLLIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION.
Regular meeting Urst Monday in Febru
ary of each year, aud at sucn otuer times as
.a ueeiued necessary. Ro!)t. Gallagher. Page,
chiurmun; >vm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
11.11. Clark Atkinson.
w,’!’. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
O Services every Sabbath at 10 :SU o’clock.
Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sehool
immediately following services.
Methodist church. Sunday
serviced—Preaching IU:.1U a. m. and b:0U
p. m. Class No. I 9:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7;U0 p. M. Class No. 3 (Child
rens) 3:00 p. m. Mind-week services—General
prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. Ail will
tie made welcome, especially strangers.
E. T. GEORGE, Pastor.
i 'i A. R. TOST, NO. 80. The Gen. John
VT* O'Neill Post, No. 8t), Department of Ne
braska G. A. U., will meet the first and third
Saturday evening of each month in Masonio
hall O'Neill S. J. Smith, Com.
EDKHOltN valley DODGE, 1. o. o.
F. Meets every Wednesday evening in
Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordially
invited to attend.
W. U. Mason. N. G. . 0. L. Bklqht, Sec.
G1AKFIELD CHAPTER, R. A. M
f Meets on first and third Thursday of each
month in Masonic hall.
W. J. Dobbs Sho J. C. Habnish. H. P
KOFP.—HELMET DODGE, U. D.
, Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p.
m. in Odd Fellows' nail. Visiting brelhern
cordially invited.
ABIHUH COYKENDALL..C. C.
E. J. Mack. K. of K. and S.
O’NEIDL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1.
O. O. F. meets every socond and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows’ Mall.
Chas. Bright, H. P. M. M, Tttlky, Scribe
Eden dodge no. 4i, daughters
OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Agnes T. Bentley, N. G.
Dora Davidson, Sec.
GARF1EDD DODGE, NO.»5,P.<&A.M.
Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. .1. King, W. M.
Hahby Dowling, Sec.
HODTH1AMP NO. 1710. M. W. OF A.
Meets on the first and third Tuesday in
each month in the Musontd hall.
Neil Brennan. V. C. D. H. Cronin, Clerk
AO, U. W. NO. 153, Meets second
• and fourth Tudsduy of each month in
Masonic hall.
C. Bright, itec. S. B. Howard, M. W.
A Clever Trick.
It certainly looks like it, but there is
really no trick about it. Anybody can
try it who has lame back and weak
kidneys, malaria or nervous troubles.
We mean he can cure himself rigtit
away by taking Electric Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system,
acts as a stimulent to the liver and kid
neys, is a blood puriiier and uerve tonic.
It cures constipation, headache, fainting
spells, sleeplessness and melancholy.
It is purely vegetable, a tnild laxative,
and restores the system to its natural
vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be con
vinced that they are a miracle worker.
Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents
a bottle at P. C. Corrigau’s drug store.
FOR SALE—Thirty head of white
face Hereford young bulls.
17tf Jacob Kraft, Stuart, Neb.
WAYS OF THE WANKONDE9.
On® of the Race* Inlinkltln^ the Central
I'art of Africa.
In a new book of African adventure
L. M. Fothoringhan tolls of a two
year’s struggle with Arab slave-dealers
in Africa. In speaking; of tho Wakon
des he says: You could see the people
in their element any forenoon you
chose to walk among tho bananas. You
would be greeted on all sides with
•‘Sawkire, uguniii?” “Good morning,
have you slept well?” Possibly some
of the natives might bo at their toilet,
some washing, and others shaving.
Both women and men shave off their |
eyebrows and pull out their eyelashes
—a practice which does not enhance
their appearance. They also shave
the head. A bit of iron with a good
edge does duty as a razor.
The men love to sit and smoke their
morning pipes under the cool shade of
the bananas. The pipe is simply a
gourd with a little hole near the bot
tom, into which tho head or cup with
the tobacco is put. Water is poured
into the gourd. A hole at the top,
about one inch in diameter, is the
mouth-piece. The native puts his lips
over this hole and takes a good pull,
and then passes it on to his neighbor.
Then they puff the smoke in the air
and watch it, with their dreamy eyes,
dissolve among the leaves. They
know both how to grow tobacco and
how to smoke it, as the luxury of the
native'pipe is uncommonly refreshing.
The Wankondes yield to none in hos
pitality. Whenever you enter a village
you are presented to the chief and re
ceive a present of a bullock or its
equivalent in fruit, etc. There are
only two regular meals in the day (J
shall not say how many snacks they
have in the interval), and theso occur
at mid-day and between G and 7 o’clock
at night. Native etiquette prevents
the men dining along with the women.
The staple food is usima, a porridge
made out of the flour of Indianvcorn,
mpemba, or cassava. By way of relish
they have vegetables or stewed fowl or
fish. On the wh'le the Wankondes, as
I found them, were a particularly pros
perous and happy people, inoffensive
and contented. I could not help
thinking how much better they were
than certain products of civilization.
Cruel Neglect of Congress.
Bob Ingersoll told somebody once
that he left Washington for New York
‘ ‘because I got tired of supporting my
clients.” Most of his clients, like many
•f the clients of most Washington law
yers, were claimants—people who
thought the government owed them
money, and were trying to get it.out of
the clutches of the worst debtor,-' with
I out exception, in the world. Most of
these claimants have no other property
in the world than the more or less sub
stantial claim in which there may be
millions or nothing. They, therefore,
live on it till it is settled one way or
the other, and their lawyer has to ad
vance the money, as a rule, not only
for this living, but for all the expenses
of collection.- Some lawyers have
made a great deal of money in collect
ing claims, usually of the more ambi
tious character, though most of them
aro *e my friend who told me once
that he had sunk $5,000 a year for six
years in the attempt to collect some
French spoliation claims, and very few
are like ex-Oongressman Paine, of
Wisconsin, who is said to have gotten
a 10 per cent, fee out of the Indian
claims, allowed to the amount of
$3,000,000 by the late Congress.
To Go As Freight.
Those were hustling days on the
western rivers, fifty years ago, when
emigrants from the east flocked to the
prairies of the west. Some of the
emigrants being poor paid in part for
their passage by helping to • ‘wood the
boat;” that is, by carrying wood down
the bank at tho wood landings and
throwing it on the boat. A writer
tells of an impecunious Irishman who
did not wish to pay full fare nor carry
wood. He boarded a western steamer
at a landing and asked the fare to St.
Louis. Being tola ho then asked:
“What do you charge for one hun
dred and fifty pounds of freight.”
Upon learning the price, a small
amount, he said:
“I’ll go as freight.”
“All right,” replied the captain;
■ ‘put him down in the hold and lay
some flour barrels on him so that he
won’t roll about if we have heavy
weather.”
A Great Poker Player.
“Charley Farwell is the best poker
player in the United States, ' and that
means in the world,” so said one of his
colleagues in the national senate,
who knew the Chicago statesman well.
“He is not only the best poker player
—a distinction which any man might
be proud to wear, sinco poker tests the
metal of a man as nothing else will—
but he is a likable, lovable fellow.
He was as popular a man as there was
in the senate, one who in the senate
could get as much done simply by
making a request of his friends as any
member of that body. Farwell leaves
Washington sincerely mourned by a
large number of senators. Democrats
and Republicans. His chief fault was
frankness, and that did him more harm
than anyone else.
Wanted Justice.
Ono of our Sunday-school superin
tendents recently found the following
chalked on his blackboard: Piees,
Mr. Superintendent, don't fire off
stories every Sunday at us boys with
an awful example of a bad bov in each
of them. Give us a rest. Give the
girls a turn.—Washington Hatchet.
A Prohibition Crocodile.
A crocodile which had “taken the
pledge” was recently shot on the
Paintree river, ' Queensland. The
creature’s stomach contained a Father
Mathew temperance modal, dated 1880.
A WHISKY DJ6QOVERY.
Netr rrocc** of Manufacturing; Whisky
nml fleer.
Tiio Tnkamino Ferment company is
■x j,,.-jition organized with a eapit- |
at ot tea millions to cheapen the pro
duction of whisky and malt liquors.
The salient points in the process
Mr. Takamino has discovered in the
selection of a microbo or ferment cell
of superior power. This microbo of
single cell organism is produced from
a fungus growth on rice and is termed
rn masse “moyashi.” Moyushi con
tains a seed which will grow on any
st arch substance in air or Water. The
•germs of air growth are called ••koji”
and will convert starch into sugar and
act as diatiso in the place of malt. The
same plant raised on starch matter
under water acts ns yeast, with the
exception that the fermentation is
three times as strong as yeast. It is
anlo to live in a solution which is from
IS- to 20 per cent alcohol as against
the usual 4 per cent, making a ferment
termed “moto,” which completes fer
mentation within a period of forty
eight hours as against seventy-two by
previous motliods.
Tho new ferment having done away
with the use of malt and small grain
in the preparation of tho mash pro
ceeds directly to complete tho process
of fermentation without the u.o of
vinous yeast or any other fermenting
agent. It dispenses with the use of
malt, substituting corn, which is not
only a cheaper material, but contains a
greater proportion of starch. This
gain by substitution amounts to from 7
to 10 cents. When the starch is con
verted into sugar by means of this fer
ment the solution shows by actual test
twenty pounds of sugar to a bushel of
corn, as against fourteen pounds by
the former methods. There is also a
resultant production of 21.06 quarts of
spirits to the bushel against nineteen
quarts, tho maximum quantity oblain
ible by the old methods.
The now method requires little or
no change in tho mechanical workings
of breweries and distilleries. A calcu
lation based on the output of malt
sters, brewers, distillers, manufactur
ers of vinegar, and others using fer
ments makes the yearly value of the
Fakamine discovery equivalent to $23,
100,000.
The British Miners' hot.
The discussion of the Miners’ Eight
Hour bill in England has brought forth
t long and critical letter of opposition
'rom C. M. Percy, one of the best
enow British mining engineers.
In the course of this letter, which
ippears in several of the English tech
nical journals, Mr. Percy draws this
picture of the miners’ condition, past
md present.
“Half a century ago, when mines
were badly worked and badly ventilat
ed, and men and women and children
worked like beasts of burden twelve
md fourteen hours every day, the
.national sentiment was aroused, but
now all is different.
‘ ‘No female can be employed under
ground. and no boy can be employed
for more than a limited number of
nours per day and per week. Perfect
ventilation and every provision for
safety is compulsory by law. Inspec
tors of mines devote their time to see
ing that everything that tends to safety
is provided, and they have power to
anter mines prosecute owners and man
agers for sins of omission and commis
sion. The average hours of labor of
Trown-up men in all the collieries of
the United Kingdom do not exceed
forty-eight per week, including time
for meals.”
The Doctor Did Not Get HU Fees.
Defendant—“Now, doctor, by var
tue of your oath, didn’t I say ‘Kill or
cure, docthor, I’ll give you a guinea?
and didn’t you say ‘Kill or cure, IU
tako it?’” Doctor—“You did; and I
agreed to the bargain, and I want the
guinea accordingly.” Defendant—
“Now, doctor, by vartue of your oath,
answer this: ‘Did you cure my
wife?’ ” Doctor.—“No; she’s dead.
You know that.” Defendant—“Then,
doctor, by vartue of your oath, answer
this: ‘Did you kill my wife?’ ” Doctor
— “No; she died of her illness.” De
fendant (triumphantly to the bench)—
“Your worship, you see this. You
heard him tell our bargain; it was to
kill or cure. By vartue of his oath he
has done neither, and then axes his
fee!”
Enormous meteorites.
In an account of Mexican meteorites,
Mr. L. Fletcher, an English mineralog
ist, describes fourteen huge masses of
iron which have been found within a
small section of country. The largest
has the form of a bee-hive, rises four
feet above the ground, and is five feet
in diameter at the surface of the soil,
beneath which it extends to unknown
depths. The second mass, estimated
to weigh 4000 pounds, is now in the
National Museum at Washington. The
Butcher masses number eight pieces,
weighing from 290 pounds to 650
pounds, and having a total weight of
4000 pounds. The Sanchez estate
mass weighs 252 pounds, and the Fort
Duncan mass 97 J pounds. The great
est dispersion is sixty-six miles.
Wholesale Punishment.
It is not generally known that Hen
ry VIII. hanged no fewer than 72,000
robbers, thieves and vagabonds, and |
that 1 'flood Queen Bess, ’’ doubtless j
affected by her royal father’s ferocious
example, was in the latter part of her I
reign responsible for the slaughter of !
300 or 400 criminals yearly. Turning j
to the year 1596, for example, wo find
that in the county of Somerset alone 40
persons were executed, 35 burned in
the hand and 37 severely whipped.
A Spelling Genius.
A little boy at Gordon, Ga., was re
cently promoted to the head of ids
class by.the teacher for his originality
in spelling the word cat—q-u-a-Ut-e.
MORE WOMEN, LESS MEN.
A Condition or Afftitra Uxlstlnf Through*
out tho CivllUcd World*
Ono of tho curiosities disclosed by
recent census statistics is tho fact that
as a rule, and barring exceptional cir
cumstances. the male population is
falling farther and farther behind tho
female. Thus in the last British cen
sus, says the Providence Journal, the
excess of women and girls over men
and boys in Great Britain was found
to be about 900,000, or 900,000
more than ten years ago. Tho Ger
man census places the number
of females about 600,000 above
that, of males in tho Kingdom of Prus
sia, which is noarly throe tiroes the
excess of twenty years aga In the
whole Gorman empire there are 1,000, -
000 more females than males. In
Sweden and Norway the • ‘weaker” sex
is in the majority by 250,000, in Aus
tria-Hungary by about 600,000, in
Denmark by 60,000, and in fact in
every European country women and
girls outnumber men and boys. The
conspicuous exceptions elsewhero are
the United States, Canada and Aus
tralia, in each of which the males
are in the majority, though, com
paratively speaking, not largely so.
These exceptions, however, are evi
dently owing to immigration, which
naturally brings more men than
women. Had there been no immigra
tion, it is probable that each of these
three countries would have shown the
same excess of women which is found
everywhere else in the civilized world.
Thus, although in the United States
as a whole the excesB Of males is about
1,200,000 by estimate, in New Eng
land, whither the tide of immigration
has not flowed strongly in recent
years, there is a large preponderance
Of women. In less civilized countries,
however, where women are lightly
esteemed, it is quite otherwise. In
India there are 6,000,000 more men
than women, and in China, too, the
males largely preponderate. So we
may conclude that as a rule the higher
civilization is the more favorable to
the increase of the female sex, but we
may well question whether this result
is a wholesome one. An excess of
women in a country must have an un
favorable influence on the marriage rate
and so, of course, on the birth rate; and,
besides it may lead to moral conse
quences of a grave nature. Yet it
seems natural for women to multiply
faster than men; and the means that
are taken to produce a contrary result
in the less civilized countries are such
as civilization could not countenance.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT.
His Sale of 830,000,000 Kali road Stock
for William II, Vanderbilt.
In business matters Mr. Scott was
quick in his conclusions, sound in
judgment, and inexhaustible in re
sources, says the Louisville Courier
Journal. The public remembers yet
the sale by William H. Vanderbilt of
$20,000,000 worth of stock in the New
York Central at 120. This sale was
made by William L. Scott.
Vanderbilt, harassed and worried in
the management of the property,
vexed by public criticism and uncer
tain about his health, expressed in the
presence of Scott a wish to bo rid of
the property.
••You are notin earnest,” said Scott,
“I was never more in earndlst in my
life,” was the reply.
“Why not sell it then?” the Penn
sylvanian asked.
• ‘Sell it?” exclaimed Vanderbilt;
“where can I find a purchaser for
$20,000,000 of the stock?"
“I can find such a purchaser,” said
Scott, “at a fair commission.”
“Do it," was the response, “and I
will pay you $500,000.”
In a few days Scott hadorganized a
syndicate among the bankers of Now
York to purchase the Vanderbilt
stock at 120, and without any difficulty
the transaction was concluded.
Then came Mr. Scott’s demand for
his commission of $500,000. Vander
bilt demurred; $500,000 was a big
sum of money for such work. Mr.
Scott insisted that it was a bargain
made openly and seriously, and car
ried to a conclusion. Still Vanderbilt
objected that it was too big a commis
sion.
“What was it worth?” askod Mr.
Scott.
“Oh,” said Mr. Vanderbilt, “$200,
000. ”
..‘ •Very well, then, let me have the
$200,000,” said the gentleman from
Pennsylvania and the matter was
settled. Had Mr. Scott insisted there
is little doubt the $500,000 would have
been forthcoming. As it was, the
commission was as easily earned as
any money Mr. Scott ever made.
A Perfumed Caravan.
Every one knows how subtle, pene
trating, and permanent is the rich per
fume of attar of roses. The larger
part of the world’s supply of this de
licious scent is made in Persia, where
there are many hundreds of acres de
voted to the cultivation of roses for
this purpose.
At certain seasons of the year long
caravans of donkeys, laden with the
attar, and under guard of soldiers to
protect the rich booty from attack by
robbers, iourney from central Persia
to the little port of Bushire. whence it
is exported to Bombay. Other donkey
trains simlarly escorted proceed to
ports on the Caspian whence the
attar is conveyed to Turkey and Rus
sia, which, after Hindostan, are the
largest consumers of the costly luxury, j
When the wind is in tho right di- ■
rcetion the approach of one of these
caravans is announced by tho scent
long before it can be seen, and the lino
of its progress can bo traced by tho
odor for days after it has passed by._
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Wore to Follow.
Bounties were paid for 01 bears, SO
wolves, 49 lynxes, 6,015 foxes, 739 !
eagles and 4,539 hawks in Norway
last year. Tho supply is not ex
hausted
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THE CROCODILE.
A Few of Hie Feonller Ware of Trane
noting Buelneee.
There is little in the animal kingdom
that can look so dead and be so much
alive aa a crocodile, says the Pall Mall
Gazette. The number of unsuspect
ing persons who have mistaken him
for a log, and have failed to discover
their mistake until It was too late to
be of any benefit to them, will never
be known. In ancient times, several
years prior to the British occupation
of Egypt, some of the people of that
country worshipped the crocodile as a
god, there being nothing else like him.
The fed him on dainties and togged
him out with jewelry. In other parts
of Egypt, however, the natives looked
upon him as a devil. Having no fire
arms, they did not fill him with lead,
but they managed to immolate him
successfully with such weapons as
were fashionable at the time. The
crocodile is not so numerous in the
Nile as he was in the days of the
Rameses family. In fact, he rather
shuns the river now below the second
cataract on account of the annoyance
inseparable from tourist traffic. It
seems impossible for a tourist to see
a crocodile without trying to plug him
with a revolver, and to a reptile who
is fond of a quiet life this sort of thing
is simply insufferable. He will not mo
lest a man unless he can take him at
a disadvantage, and so long as man
does not unthinkingly step on him the
crocodile will go his own way and
calmly await his opportunity. He
feeds on fish, but for a course dinner
he would rather have humanity, black
preferred, which shows that there is no
accounting for taste even among rep
tiles. His methods for capturing large
game are plural as well as singular.
Sometimes he will lie on a river bank,
partly covered with sand or mud, until
an absent-minded native wanders
within reach. Having grabbed his
prey, he will waddle into the water,
and there drown the struggles He
will then drag his victim ashore and
bury him in sand or mud, and wait
for days before he gorges himself.
HISTORIC QUEBEC.
Parta of It Snggeitlve of Scenes In the
Old World.
From Quebec a correspondent writes
to the Paris Messenger: “Id on parle
francats” might be written on the por
tals of this quaint and picturesque old
city. Strolling in lower Quebec, you
might easily faney youisell in Amiens
or Dieppe. In the upper town there
is more English, but everywhere an
amusing mixture. On the same card
you will read "Maison a loner,” ‘*110086
to let:” on one side of the door “Pas
d’admission sans affaires” and on the
other “No admittance except on busi
ness.” This bilingual necessity causes
a little extra painting and printing.
Each railway crossing must he marked
likewise, “Traverse du chemln de fer”
and every official “notice" must be
printed also In full as an “Avis." The
blending Is often curious, as when two
adjoining shops have their announce
ments one in French and the other in
English. Along the Grande Alle, run
ning right across the Plains of Abra
ham, you might be in Brussels or
Paris, only that Clifton terrace seems
to recall you to Kensington. Ameri
can travelers for whom Europe is too
distant are advised to go to Quebec,
there to find a bit of the mediaeval old
world transplated to the new, but still
embalmed in its ancient religious sen
timentalism, upon which the rush and
roar of modern unrest produce as little
effect as the Atlantic breakers on the
cliffs of Cape Breton. French con
tinues uppermost until yo^ pea? JJon
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