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WATCHMAKBS' OIL, WHERE AND HOW THE DELICATE LUBRICATOR IS OBTAINED. en Take Their Urea in Their Man*!* I* <|M II The Oil <>!. fr.m the <*>w r the r.rpoi..- IM. i Wne Have L*.i Ans*. Md. *.<t " U hat .1 . you tuppoM thi* oil I am uing come* trom ?" aekad the watchmaker. " Thi oil comet from the jaw of th por- f oise they catch in the Bay of Fundy. I lay they catch the porpoises, but that ian't exactly the, faot, cot they don't oatcb them aoy nor* than the hunter catchet the deer he goei our to bag. They hunt the por pones and ahoot them, and immen** fellow* they are, sometimes weighing S-V> poundi. Hunting porpoise* in the Bay of Fundy I know from experience i* a decidedly danger- cm business, but a great man; people get their living by it along the ooait. The meet expert porpoise hunters are the rem- nant* of that ancient tribe of Indiana the Passamaq noddies. They nraally camp on Indian Beach, bordering on the Bay of Fundy, and there 11 a good sprinkling of whitei among them, too. I took a winter trip one* along the coast, and at Indian gunwale of the boat and let it fall on the bottom. The Indiana told me that thia happened to be one of the time* when the iharka, (or tome rnaaon, did not appear. "Nest time better look ! aaid they. " All thia lime itidf nor'eaiier waa com- ing up, and by the time the hunter* had picked oat another porpoiae and wsre (teal - ing upon it the wind waa a ale. The higher t.ie wave* rolled the more the per poises a*emed to enjoy themselves, and the gale didn't Mem to worry the Indiana a biv. A big porpoiae raiaed on th creat of a wave a ihort distance away, and once more that tremendous report ahook the bosk Tbe wave brought the porpoiss and a crimaon tide almost againat the boat, and here and there, all around it, long black blade* darted to and fro above the surface. They didn't need to tell me what they were, for I knew. They were the back fine of aharka, a dozen at leaat of which were plajrirg about in that porpoise's blood and drinkia, it. Tbe Indiana, apparently paying no more attention to the shark* than if they had been bite of floating wood, proceeded to land their prize. The one Indian had reached out for the doraal fin, when I aaw A n.A*H IN THE WATER on the other tide. With a iharp cry the Indian jerked back hi* hand, and blood' trickled from a gash on iti back. " ' Shark clooe !' he aaid, with no more ign of emotion than a weodeo Indian, and he wiped the blood on hi* blouse. Waiting for a favorable roll of the wave*, which were rolling alarmingly high now, the In- dian unconcernedly reached for the fin again, got it, and the porpoise waa raited Beach I soon noticed that there were a great in the boat and dropped on the first one. many men, old and young, both among the Indiana and the white men, who had bat one arm or one arm and a half, while hand* and parts of hands and fingers were mining on other*. I finally asked a native what waa the cause of the lack or loss of the** musing members. ' Sharks " was his grim reply. " By farther questioning I learned that very frequently when a porpoiae is ihot on the hunting ground* off the ooast its death struggles will not be over before the water all around the hunter'* boat will bristle with the bayonet-like back fins ot sharks that have saddenly come from the depths to OT/LP IS THE BLOOD that flows copiously from the stricken porpoise. It is seldom that sharks will bite at the carcaas of a por aoise, but they will follow it to the boat as the hunters poll it in, and if the latter are not wary will with one snap of their terrible jaws take off an arm at the elbow, or at least a hand. "I was not anxious to *eo any one hare an arm taken off, but I did want to see a porpoise killed, and watch the array of shark* that they said waa almuet ic variably in at the death. I hired a oouple of big Indian* to take me with them on a day i hunt. Sometimes these Indians will not go oat for day*, no matter how fine the weather is, but loaf and lay around like lazy pig*. But when they do make up their minds to go out there is no weather too rough to *top 4 them. They launch their boats at all risks and make a start for the hunting grounds whether they ever reach them or not. It is by no mean* an unheard-of thing tor a beat to start oat in tempestuous weather, and tor neither boat or hunters to be heard of again, unless by chance the waves wash them ashore. There is another peculiar custom theee Indian* have. Say a boat starts out at a certain timi. Whether it i* fair or stormy, the whole camp, men, women, and children, gather on the beach to *ee it of. After it is well oat to sea the people return to their respective quar- ter*. If, ten minute* later, another boat ihoulJ he made ready to start, the whole * settlement turns out in the same way to see tnat one off, and *o on, no matter how many boat* might be launched, one ofter another. But usually the day's hunt star is in a body early in the morning. Two men go in a boat, but as the boats are made Urge enough to fetch back two or three porpoises, weighing trom 'MO to .'100 pound*, there is room enough for a third person, if he is anxious to take the risk and share the hardship*. "The morning I made the third occupant of the boat I speak of was sonny and calm; bat it was March, and the Indians told me squarely that it 10 BT BLOW OKIAT OCS9 before we could kcpe to get back. Bat I was resolved to go, and go I did. No one will ever know how I prayed a few boors latsr to be safe back on the beach. "On the way oat to the porpoise grounds the Indian* told me that it took years to snake an expert porpoise hunter out of a besrinner, and that they pot their boy* to the tak as soon as they were large enough and strong enough. Each Indian had a heavy gun, With a barrel at least a foot longer than an ordinary gun. The bore was imooth and very large. They put in ohargee of powder that it seemed to me were heavy enough to load a cannon, and rammed on top of them a handfql of double B. shot ! "\V wsnt oat two miles,and long before we got to the place we were headed for we could hear the porpoiee* blowing like steam whistles. On clear days the sound iseuily heard on the beach. By and by I saw the big fish turning and tossing their huge bod:ei on the surface, and our boat pulled straight for the biggeet ot the school. Hs seemed to pay no attention to the boat, but one of the Indians assured me that he had his eye on us all the while. I was convinced of thi* when, as we got within four or five rods of the porpoise, he railed right up and tuined, plain enough to take a header. The moment be did that I heard a report like a thunder clap close to my ear, and the very boat careened under it. One of the Indian* had shot off hi* gun, and there lay the porpoi*e on the surface, which was already REP -VITH HIS BLOOD. The boat was quickly rowed up to the dead rish, for the big charge of *hot had cut hi* throat, a* 1 might *ay, from ear to ear. What I wa* most interested in now was to see the sharks appear, but none hove in ight, much to my disappointment. One Indian grabbed the porpoise by the dorsal fin and the other shored one hand in the fih'i blowhole in the head, and with a sud " The excitement of all this, and especial- ly the narrow escape of the Indian from losing his hand to the shark, bad taken my attention from the weather, and when I came to myself I found that mow had been added to the gale. For two mortal hour* we toesed and rolled. The snow was so thick that nothing could he aaen a rod in any direction. Tbe Indiana were stiU un- concerned, but they would hare been the same if they had known for a certain' y that the next ware would swamp them. But the storm eased down at last,and some tune in the afternoon we got back to the beach. I Uarnei next day that two boats that went out with us had not got in, and they never did get in. " The Indians taks all inis risk the year round to get the oil the porpoiaes yield, the average yield being three gallons of blab- ber oil to a porpoiae, which they sell for !M) cent* a gallon. It is tried out in the old- fashioned aoap kettles on the beach. The jaw oil is obtained by hanging the jaw in the son, the heat of which trie* it out. A good rich jaw will yield half a pint of oil, but that half pint i* worth more than a gallon of th> blubber oiL It is the very beet of oil for watches and delicate meShan ism, as the merest mite of it will oil a watch for months, and it never corrode*." OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. la Phil.pkv as Msvrleeesl In mi. Writ- Build thee more stately mansions. Oh my soul, As the swift season* rolL Leare thy low-raulted past, f<et each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from hearen with a dome more ra*t. Till thon at length art free, Learing thine outgrown shell by life's un- resting sea. Travellers change their guineas, not their characters. Sin ha* many tools, bat a tie is a handle which fits them all . Put not your trust m money, but put your money in trust. With most men lifs is like backgammon half skill and half loos:. Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. The scientific itudy of man i* the most difficult of all branches of knowledge. Controversy equalizes food and wiae men in the same way and the fool* know it. A person is always startled when be bears himself called old for th* firs*, time. You may set it down as a truth which adm.ts of few exceptions that those who ask your opinion really want your praise. When a strong brain i* weighed with a true heart, it teems liks balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. There are a great many real mi aerie* in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are imilea that make wrinklee aad not dii AN A WOMAN S RESCUE INTERESTING STORY FROM PARIS STATION. Baby's Elastic Vocabulary. The proud mother had come to pay her first vtait, accompanied by the infant heir and his nur*e. " I don't wish to appear in any way partial," aaid she, ' but. really, for a child of 18 months, I consider Algernon a marvel of intelligence. He understand*) every word that is aaid and joins in the conver- sation with a sagacity that almost alarm* me at times. Speak to the lady, Alger- non." " Boo-boo," said Algernon. " Listen to t'.at," cried the delighted mo* her. " He m-ann, ' How do you do ? Iin't it wonderful * Now, Algernon, ask the lady to play for you. He adores the piano. Now, Algie, dear," (very coax- ingly). ' Boo-boo," said Algernon. " He means 'music' by that. Isn't he too mart for anything ? Now, love, tell the lady mamma'* name." " Boo-boo," aaid Algernon. " That 1 * right, Boo-boo Louise. " My name'* Louise, you know. Blecs his little darling heart. Isn't he a wonder V No Room for Doubt. " Yon aver," said the black browed bandit, " that you are the celebrated can tatnoe, Mme. Sqnalkina ? Prove it and yon are free. Never shall it be said that a Cuttaweezanda would offer indignity to an opera soprano. It is against all the tenets of the profession." "How snail I prove my identity !" asked the captive. " By singing, of coarse." "What ' Sing m this cave ' No bouquets? No steam heat ? And not a eeat in the DOE office ? Never 1" "Gentlemen." said the bandit, "it to evident that the lady is what she claims to be. Escort her to the nearest village and set her free." Not Insured. Mrs. Da Style" Marie ! Is the dog chained r Servant " Yes' m." " An 1 the cat put out V "Yee'm." " And the children tied to the bedpost in the nursery ?" " Yss'm." " Very well. Then you may light the piano lamp." Love and Arithmetic. Sweet Girl" Papa says you are getting only foOO a year." Young Slimpaon " That is true, bat I am to have twice that next year." Sweet Girl "Let me *ee. That will be f 1,000, won't it? That isn t much, but the next year it will be ftt.OUO.and the next $4.000, and the next $S,'M), and then $16,- (XX), and then $.12,000, and the next year $64.000. Why, my love, we'll soon be rich." Don't Want Old Maids. When an Armenian maiden attains her 17th year and is not engaged to be married she must undergo a strange punishment. She i* forced to fast three days, then for twenty-tour hours her food is salt fish and she is not permitted to quench her thirst. In Siam, when a funeral it passing, the women take down their hair and unfasten their beads, and ths men fumble around in their pockets for a little piece of metal to Everybody likes and respect* self-made men. It is a great deal belter to be made in that way than not to be made at alL Don't let your heart grow cold, and you may carry cheerfulness and lovs with you into the teen* of your second century, if you can last so long. Ter**! fertlx Yean frees 9rrves ffJead. ache*. Mular*aaae)earral sVbllllr Phrilrlan* ! Masif BeaaeeUea Falleel l Urlp Hrr Hov, 011,-r ...I , ur , a< !< ruva.L From the Part* lOnt.i Review. So many remarkable stories are pub- liabed of people who have been almost brought back back to life, that the public might almost be excused if they were a '.rifle skeptical. Ho far, however, a* tboae relating to cure* brought about by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are concerned there appears to be n> reason to doubt their entire truthfulness. The cases re- ported are carefully investigated aad vouched for by newspapers that would discredit themselves were they to distort facts that can be easily investigated by any of their readers. Beejides, there are but few localities in the Dominion where this grand healer of the sick has not mads itself felr, and the people baring proof of its virtue* neavi at home, are quite prepared to accept the statements ma<ie ae to the results following the use of Pink P: is mother localities. The Renew has heard of much good accomplished by the timely use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills in this locality, but has recently learoed of a case at Paris Station which is of sufficient importance to give the full details for the beuetil it may prove to others. The case alluded to i* tha: of Mr*. E. H. Skinner, who is esteemed by a wide circle of acquaintance*. To a representative ol the Review Mrs. Skinner said she had been for a long lime a great sufferer. Her blood had become thin and watery, bringing about a weakness amounting \lmoet to a collapse. There were numer- ous distressing symptom*, inch as dim- ness, severe headaches, palpitation of the heart, etc. "I hare been ill, "aaid Mrs. Skinner to th* Review, "for about six years, and you can form an idea of what I I suffered during that time. I bad the ad- den marsmtnt slid the big carcass over the hold between their teeth belong, to eternity; and ot that r monotonous songs forever and ever. Memory is a net. One finds it full of fi*h when he takes it from the brook, bat a dozen miles of water hare run through it without sticking. Talking is like playing on the harp; there isa* much in playing ths hand on the string* to stop their vibration ai in twanging them to bring oat the music. I look upon a library as a sort of mental chemist'* shop, filled with the crystals of all forms and hues which bars come from the union of individual thought with local circonatsnce or universal principles. What a comfort a dull but kindly man is, to be sure, at times ! A groundglass shade over a gas-light does not bring more solace to oar dazzled syes than saoh a one to our minds. was treated by four dirterent dociors in Brantford and one in Paris, bat they seem- ed not to be able to do anything fcr me. When the physicians failed I tried many different widely-advertised remedies, bat with no better results. All this, you will readily understand, cost a great deal of I money, and a* I derived no benefit, it is not I to be wondered that I wa* completely dis- couraged. I found myself continually grow- ing weaker, and hardly abh to go about, and had almost given up all hope of becjm ing better. And yet one never wholly despair*, for seeing Dr. Williams' Pink Pill* *o strongly reoommeuded in the press I determined to try them, and yea can by my condition to-day how much I barn to be thankful that 1 did so. I had not been taking Pink Pill* long when for the first time in *iz yean, I found myseli improving. Uradually the trouble* that Tbe great thing in this world is not so ha d made my life miserable disappeared. much where we stand as m what direction we are moving. To reach the port of hearen we must sail sometimes with th* wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor. We must bars a wtak spot or two in a MW D iood appeared to be coursing through my reins, and I am again a healthy woman, ^,',1 n . v ao hesitation in laying that I he- Ueve I owe not only my recovery but my i,f, & >,. William*' Pink Pills." Mrs. Skinner said her hnvband was also much character before we can love it much. Pee- | run down with hard work, but after using pie that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admir- able subjects for biographies. But we don't care most for thoee flat pattern (lowers that prses be*t in the herbarium. There are three wicks to ths lamp of a man's life ; brain, blood and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the other.. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and present- ly the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, oold and darkness. I have written many verses, but the best poem* that I hare produced are the trees that I hare planted on the hillsile which overlook* the broad meadows acalloped and rounded at their edge* by loops of the sinuous Housatonic. Nature finds rhymes for them in ths recurring measures ol the seasons. Winter strips them of their orna- ments, and gives them, as it were, in prose, translation, and summer reelothe* them in all the splendid phrases of their lesfy lauguagw. The trees may outlive the memory ot more than one of thoee in whose bonor they were planted. If it is something to make two blades of grass to grow where only one was growing, it is much more to hare been the occasion ol the planting of an oak which shall defy twenty aoores of winters, or of an elm which shall oanopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many genera- tions of mortal immoitalitiea. Oar thoughts are plants that never flour- ish in inhospitable soils or chilling atmos- pheres. They are all started under glass, o to speak ; that is, cherished and fostered in our own sunny consciousness. They must sxpect some rough treatment when we lift the aash from the frame and let the outside element* in upon them. They oan hear the rain and the breezes, and be all the better for them : but perpetual con- tradiction is as pelting hailstorm, which spoils the growth and lends to kill them out altogether. Be firm. One constant slsmentin luck I* genuine *oiid. old Teutonic pluck. See yon tall ihafc ? It felt the earthquake's thrill. Clung to its bass, and greet* the innriae still. Stick to your aim ; th* mongrel'* hold will slip, Butonly crowbars IOOM the bulldog's grip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the field*. Yet, in opinions look not always back- Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track; Leave what you've done for what yon have to do; Don't be "consistent," but be simply true. Landed, He (contritely) " Are yon angry !" She (firmly)" Yea, I am." " Because I kissed you ?" II Be- because yea stopped." [No card*, j Pink Pills feel* like a new nan. The state- ment* made by Mr*. Skinner prove the the unequaied merit of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and a* there are thousands ot women throughout the country similarly troubled, her itory of renewed health will point to them the remedy which will prove equally efficacious in their case*. Ur. Williams' Fink Pills are especially valuable to women. They build up th* >lood, restore the nerve*, and eradicate troublw which make the lives of so iy women, old and young a burden. Dizziness, palpitation of the heart, nerrnna leadache and nrrous prostration speedily Field to this wonderful medicine. They also a specific in cases of locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitas dance, sciatica, neuralKia. rheumatism, the after etfecte of la grippe, etc. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases srmng from men THi. e 300 OF GENIUS. Thlan Held and hear All Ver Their *)lem ach'* Stoke. Gray, the author of the Elegy, was food of apples. H* alwaya kept them in his room, and the fact thai they decayed and smelt badly seemed to be no objection. Claude Lorraine was food of walnuts, and would spend half a day cracking and eating them, laughing and joking with his friends a* he picked the meat from the .hells. Auber'* table was provided with every dainty that the Paris markets tfforded. He was a great eater, but so thin that he ouoe said, "All I eat seems '.o go to appe- tite. Correggio waa temperate aad abstention < A little fruit and a piece of black bread, such a* wa* eaten by th* working people), fully satiiried the demands of hi* appotitn. Horace, the Lc.tin poet, is extravagant, in hi* praises of sow'* udder baked in wine. He declares it to bean appropriate present for a lorer to make to hie mistress Heliogabalua liked a ragout made of the tongue* of various singing bird* and ost- tricSss brains. It is believed he valued thia duh principally from th* fact that it as costly. Veronese enjoyed any sort of sweetmeats. and candied preparation. Hi* physician once told him he would ruin hi* itomash with suchfood.and he coolly rejoined, "Let the iiomacli go." Hobbes was luxurious in his eating tastes. When told en one occasion that a philo- sopher should be abstemious, h* said he was not philosopher enough to deny hi* slomacn anything it v> anted. Cicero at* very little, and of ths plainest food. He bad a theory that any disaaae could be overoonu by fasting, and often abstained from food for days at a lima, drinking only water. Handel was a monstrous eater, particu- larly of beefsteak pie. One of these pies weighed from - to 3 pounds, and the com- poser of the "Messiah," would often con- same a whole pie at a sitting. Cssr Borgia wa* very particular in bis dist. He ate none but the choicest dainties) and when among stranger, always prepared his food with hi. own hamls for fear of poison. He was an excellent cook. Dr. Samuel Johnston was food of game. especially when made into pie, and the nearer the game approached a condition of putridity the better be liked it. He was known to drink twenty cups of tea at a sitting. Beethoven was very fond of a kind of meat pudding mad* m Vienna, closely ap- proximating the modern wienerwunt. With a plentitnl supply of this, a hunk of pumper nickel and a glass of beer, hs was perfectly content. Byron was immoderately fond of ham and eggs, but could never partake of this dish without mdigestiso. Notwithstanding the con*e<)Ujnoes, he could not always pre- vail on himself to decline a dainty that ha so greatsly enjoyed. Pope liked stewed lamphrey*. Some- times when visiting he would lie abed for two or three days at a time, unless he heard t'.iat there were to be lamphrey* for dinner, when he would rise an 1 make hi* appear- ance at the table. Louis XVI. was nsver better pleased then when seated in front of a huge meat pie. Pork pie was his preference. When, imprisoned in the temple, hi* bitterest complaint* were with regard to food that waa furnished him. The Rmperer Charla* V. was a most abominable glutton, and was fond of any* hing he eould chew and swallow. He finally died of a surfeit caused by overeat- tal worry, overwork, or eiceeeoe of any | > It is believed by physician, that hi* nature. They are sold only in boxes, the trade mark and wrapper printed in red ink at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $*Z.50, and may be had of druggists 'or direct by mail 'rom Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Brookville. OnU, or Schenectady, N. Y. Beef-Eating in Japan. A Japanese writer *ay*. " When I was a young boy, ths custom of sating beef began to ipread. As blood was regarded as unclean, and also as Japan had been a strong agricultural country, there) was a deep-roote.l disinclination to eat boef. In this, o coarse, on* has also to recognize the influence of the vegetarian principle oi Buddhism . But to anybody who had ever tailed beef, it was so delicious that he could hardly control his natural appetite by his religious scruple. My fat heir was oos of those who knew its taste, so now and then we used to treat ourselvee to beef. But where did we eat it i We dul not eat it infide of the house. We cooked it and at* it in the open air, and in cooking and in eating we did not use th- ordinary uten- sils, but used th* special ones kept for ths purpose. Why all these things ? Because beel was unclean, and we did not like to pread its nncleanoes* into our house, wherein the 'god-shelf is kept, and into our ordinary utensils, which might be used in making offering* to the god*. The day hen we ate beef my father did not offer light* to the gods nor say evening prayer* to them, as he did usually, for he knew he s nnsUon and could not approach the gods." Who Was the Goose? If, before beginning a sentence, people would stop to see just how they are coming out, they would often put what they hare to say into different words. A lady had been looking for a friend {or a long time without success. Finally she came upon her in an unexpected place. " Well,' she exclaimed, " I've been on a perfect wild gooes chase all day long ; bat thank goodness, I've found y m at last, ' appetite was morbid and diseased. It is said that ths Emperor William i* a urea I admirer of what is oallext in Germany the) " Rsicheatar omosr" style of curling tha mustache, with points toward the cor* ner. of the eyes) . Having been told that Berlin hairdrewser had a special treat- ment for this sort of adornment, he sent for him and ordered him to dress the) imperial icuatache daily in the desired style. Ths event is the talk ot Berlin, and the) artist, Haby, who gets) S marks fur h visit, is delighted with the (fact of his treatment. A Necessary Delay. SL Peter A Toronto man, eh ? I'll *e about your oaa* after I read a few mm a tea. Applicant la it usual to keep people waiting while you read a few minutes ? Sb, Peter Only in jjp^oaaw. of Toronto I'm reading ths minutes of the alder- ic investigation. Scrofula in the Neck The following 1.1 from Mrs. J. W. Tlllbrook, w'feof the Mayor of MrKenport. IVnii " My little boy Wllltr. now six yrar* old, two yean ago hnd s bunch under one ear which tho doctor said was Scrof- ula. As it continued Us grow he finally lamvii ami It discharged tor some time. We then be- gan tfvintf him Hood's Willie Tlllhrwok. Saniiparllla and he Im- proved very rapidly until Uie -tore healed up. Last winter i: broke out ognin. followed by Brrviawlaa. We again Rave him Hood's SOT- saparllla with most rxcellent results and he bus had no further trouble. Ills cure Is due to Hood's Sarsaparilla Ho has never been very robust, but now seems healthy and sailr sjwwiag sis e*isji ~ HOOO'8 PlLLS *> > eak.-n. bat at elfeeiiun and tone the stomaoa. Try ta**s. ac.