<â€" Opposition and was called upon to form %'amtvua&rflmolym ï¬f:-mmonwmmn. â€" He.was Premier and Minister of Rail _ ways aad Agriculture and Public _« Works until he resigned to enter the l‘( Dominion Government. He was sworn ‘of the Privy Council and. appointed / Becretary of State of Canada in successâ€" éâ€b&fla. J, A. Moussean, who ==tilthe dismissal of the government by _« Letellier De St. Just in 1878. He beâ€" ;J‘hhdco( the Couservative Chief Justice Sir Wm. Raiph Mere ob the Opporitice in the Ontaris Legir the & in the Ontario i lnture, was born in Westminster townâ€" ship, Middlesex Coanty, on March 31st 1840. His parents were Jobn C. and hn:.(&hr) Meredith. o!ntli:o ll;:bc wus for many Clerk ivie hacunbrml-x County. W. R. Meredith was educated at the UGtammar School, London and Toronto University. He was called to the Bar im 1861 and soon establisbed an imâ€" Bir J Adol ‘s ancesâ€" "Yort Sune oo iPriace mody macy ie lers in the Seigniory of Terreboune. He was borne at Ste Therese de Blainâ€" ville, Terreboune, Que., on Nov. 9th, 1840, and was educated at the College _ of Terrebonne and at St. Hyacinthe. _ He was married on Nov. 25th, 1874.to , of Sherbrooke. s l?n“h&&rdbwmm hl“l::d.Q.%th‘lS..ean)â€" ::«.lulagu of the Order 1881. He was a directorâ€"general c)i railways, and has been a professor of and _ Registrar, on Jan S".hl. 1_3_ 6, which position he held un ed at each nhor-' ‘election and ereated a Q.C. in 1876, In 1872 he was elected for London to the Ontario lqflnhl\nndhnb.’nn;medd:: every general election since. he is staunch LibenlOoo-er;’?;in. Mr. Meredith‘s private and public ability sphere. is M mntogd. In rnligion ho in mo faoy sound, and be is regarded as the leading UOhancery lawyer in Western Ontario. He was solicitor for the city of London was elected as bencher of the Law Bociety in 1871, and has been reâ€"electâ€" 1862, to Miss Mary Holmes, of London ward Hesneage, formerly Liberalâ€" Unionist member of P-rlinut for Great Grimsby, and Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, of the British army, retires. Upon the same occasion Chief Justice Mesedith, of OUntario, will be created a knight. The Hon. Heary 8. Berkeley, Chief Justice of the Fiji Isâ€" lands, and William Jobn Anderson, Chief Justice of British Honduras, will be knighted. Mr. Henry Nevill Derâ€" ing, Minister to Mexico, will be creatâ€" eia Companion of the Order of the Bath, Sir Donald Smith, Canadian E‘hOo.nHourinGmt Britain, will be a x-mom Cross of the Order of 8t. ael and St. Gcorge(be is already a Commander of the same orâ€" der) and the Hon. J. A. Chapleau, a Lieutenantâ€"Governor of . Quebec, a Kunight Commander of the same order. London, May 19th â€"It is announeâ€" ed that at sbeydinribuï¬on of honors upon the occasion of the Queen‘s Birthâ€" day, May 24th the following gentlemen 'iï¬â€˜bo elevated to the peerage: The Marquis of Granby, eldest son of the Duke of Rutland ; the Rt. Hon. Edâ€" fims been endorsed by the medical profess Te Link jom doitens)" Lh h ieome hi iinats s e P PP e E:.Lm Smnitine, Wt Fuin e ot of Codâ€"liver Oil is for you, even if you are only a litâ€" There is ease for those far gone in consumptionâ€"not recoveryâ€"ease. There is ewre for those not far gone. There is prevention for those who are threatened. BIRTHDAY HONORS Vercheres for the House of in 1872, and was first reâ€" the Legisiative Assembly for him as Premier of Quebec on time be has teen prominentâ€" Announced. on June . His m dvecacty she . ‘I am sorry, lr.flh?,’lboldd.‘but I cannot marry you. Iam wedded to art. ‘Well, if that‘s the case,‘ he replied acidly. I hope you‘ll treat your hus band better in the future than you have in the past. ‘I know hbow Columbus made that ;\mmv‘m early stages, may be chocked by the use of Ayer‘s Cherry Pectoral, It stops the distressing cough,s0othes frritation of the throat and lungs, and induces muchâ€"needed repose. Hundreds have testified to the remarkable virtues of this preparation. , That New Yotk City consumes nine hundred and sixty million eggs in ons year; nearly three bundred thousand pounds of butter every day; and as many gallons of milk; that it eats three hn:ndaullnnilliopponnd.dhod in-yurnl.-m-diï¬g. Aui"'; these figures are, in reality,very moderâ€" ate calculations which Mr. John Gilmer Bpeed has reached upon exhaustive inâ€" vestigation, and embodied in an article on "Feeding a City Like New York," which he has written for The Ladies Home Journal. o‘ yer sillver, ma leddy. Eh'onouooudouuflnbouo of a nobleman he happened to repeat the anecsdote, whereupon the host, in a not overâ€"well pleased tone, sajd: Are you aware, Dr. Chalmers, that Lady Betty is a relative of mine i I was not aware, my lord, replied the doctor; but, with your permission, I shall uot mention the fact the next time 1 tell the story. Dr. Chalmers, the eminent divine, was fond of telling the following story: Lady Betty Cunningham,baving bad some difference of opinion with the parâ€" &M,deuu:flber usâ€" mal contribution in the g plate, merely gave a stately bow. This hayâ€" ing occurred several Sundays in succesâ€" sion, the elder in charge of the plate at last lost patience,and bursted out: ‘‘We ead dae wi‘ less o‘ yer manners,an‘ mair _ A lady was showing the visitor the family potraits in the picture gallery. NMMhzi!om"geuid. ‘was my great grandfather. He was as brave as a lion, but one of the most unfortunate of men. He uever fougbht a battle in which be did not have an arm or a leg carried away." â€" Then she added proudiy, ‘He took part in 24 enâ€" â€"â€"‘My son,‘ said a fond father a man whose early und late education bad been somewhat neglected, but whose great success qualiied him to fvo advice, ‘take this for your motto in life, ‘K., K.â€"Keep kool.‘" A clergyman ba left his sermon at home, old his :_;“rqnm that he would read them a few chapters of the book of Job. Enough sight better, Another clergyman under similar cirâ€" cumstances told his regation that lortbowni.‘bwmhsvotom in Providence, but that in the afterâ€" noon he would endeavour to be better you know what a miracle ‘is?‘ Jennie â€"Yes‘m, ma says if don‘t marry our new minister it wm.bo s miracle.‘ â€"‘Have you felt slippers? inquired an old lady in a shoe store. ‘The clerk, who was new at the business and young, answered, ‘Yes ma‘am, many a time.‘ â€"â€""You are as full of airs as a hand :n’ said a young man to a girl who ï¬thimmhrhoozm'l‘bu may be,‘ was the reply, ‘but I don‘t go with a crank.‘ ï¬':t’ldu his band, among them . the Victoria College for the ; Higher Education of Women. Sir Donald Smith, K. C.M. G., is of Scottish origin, having been born in Morayshire ,;in 1821. He came to Cauada when quite a youth and enterâ€" ed the employment of the Hudson‘s Bay Company with which he has been closely allied ever since. Hebas taken & prominent part in the work of colonâ€" izing Manitoba and the Northâ€"West Territories and in 1876 was appointed executive councilior of that country. In 1871 be was elected to represent Winnipeg in the Manitoba Legislature and resigned in 1874 in order to devote his attention to the House or Commons to which he had been elected. In tha last two parlisments be represented Montreal West. For some years past he has been prominently connected with the Canadiano Pacific Railway, of which he is a director and a large shareholder, He was one of the most energetic proâ€" moters of the road and for his services in the connection was made a K.C.M.G. He is also interested in a large numter of financial concerns, is a large shareâ€" bolder in the Bank of Montreal and its present president. Sir Donald is, bowâ€" ever, best known as a philantbropist. m he who in o;:il::d&m with ountâ€"Stephen to Monâ€" treal the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1887. McGill University has also been the recipient of several munificent ‘ party, in prominent positions, and was made Lieut.â€"Governor of Quebec, when the Hon, A. R. Angers resigned. â€"SundsySchool Teacherâ€"‘Jennie,do His Retor Courteous. 1 am going away from you to a better ï¬:s. Ihnb’uudLitobo chapâ€" of the Stillwater Ponitentiary. Where I go ye cannot come, ‘but.I go to prepare a place for you. Goodâ€"by,‘ God loves this church very much, beâ€" cause none of you ever die. I don‘t think you love each other, because none of you ever gst married. 1 don‘t think you love me, because you never raise my salary, and your donations are mouldy fruits and wormy apples, and by their fruits ye sball know them. Brothers, I am going away from you to a better An Irishman having toiled up four flights of steps to see the foreman was given a job at once and told to comâ€" mence work the next morning. Elated at his snccess, Pat turned to go, downâ€" stairs but unfortunately stepped into the elevator shaft nv( reached the ground fioor in no time. Picking himâ€" seit up hesaid to a bystander, ‘Oi‘ve only twintyâ€"foive cents left, but T‘ll give it to yez if ye‘ll show me the mon that tuck away thim steps.‘ _ E1i Porkins got of the following at a lecture in Minneapolis.: ‘A Fond du Lac preacher, worn outwith trying to get a decent living, sâ€"nt in his resigâ€" nation. Said he, ‘Brotbers and sisters, I come to say good by. I don‘t think Why is it that a clergyman who onâ€" ly gets about $700 a year is able to work all through the sammer, while $10,000 parsons need absolute rest for three months 1 The temperature of dining rooms is frequently too high. It is a common thing for servants to neglect airing the room and attending to the temperature. Probably the mmm people would name seventy F t as the proper heat for the room, but this is much too bigh. An authority in this matter says that sixty is none too low, and the person who bas suffered from the disâ€" comfort of an overheated room is likely to agree with him after making a trial of different temperatures. the foating sand grains cause a depresâ€" sion of the water‘s surface, which indeed is quite as apparent in the case of isoâ€" lated grainse as in that of patches. I recall one instance where the depression of shotrt duration, po.iblLbue a fow seconds, was so great as to r‘o-ltivoly staitling, ~ As I was sprinkling some sand upon the river, for experiinental ‘It appears from these and other obâ€" servations that the weight of the. sand grains actually depresses the surface of the water; yet the elastic reaction of that surface is sufficiently great to preâ€" vent them from sinking, eepeciall when the, resistance offered by mfl angularity is taken into consideration. In the launching of grains the more rounded would tend to roll over in the water and thus become !lv:t, in oolal'r- quence of which they would sink, while those of an irregular shape would overâ€" come the tendency to roll and remain partially dry, the fulfilling thas condiâ€" san noasmonsuw Has Ana s tion necessary for floating. pnrï¬-u,' . a pebble almost as large as the end of my little finger fell into the centre of a floating patch, which, to my 5mo astonisbment and delight, was epressed like a funnel for say half an inch, before the cause of this unexpected phenomenon broke through the surface and sank to the bottom. sent it floating down the stream in such quantities that the sand rafts actually cast shadows on the bottom as they face, I gathered sand by handfuls, and of quartz. At this timeâ€"balfâ€"past nine or tenâ€"the water supported a large number of patcbes, which varied in area from less than a square inch up to several square inches, all uwept along by the current, . . . ‘A week later, when the river was well down and sandy stretches of its bed had become quite dry on their surâ€" "The morning after my arrival, the river was found to be rising, and, as I stood on the bank, at the point where we secured our water supply, I noticed & considerable froth and what apâ€" rnd to me at the time scum passing wn the stream. I spoke of the conâ€" dition of the river to my companion, Mr. Layrence D. Brooks, of Ausiin, who remarked thet what seemed to be scum was really sand. I thereupon went down to the water‘s edg», and, dipping up some of the floating materâ€" i-EF:L astonished to find that the patches were composed of sand, mainly In a recent number of tne American Geologist Mr.‘ Frederic W. Simonds gives some interesting observations on sand floating on water. It is quite well known that swall, dry particles of substences of greater specific gravity than water will float upon it, by reason of capillary action. The surface tenâ€" sion of the water enabling the water to form a depression somewhat larger than the particle, this bas the the same result as if the specific gravity of the particle had been decreased. The pheâ€" nomenon observed by Mr. Simends at Liano River is interesting, as the gran§ ite sand was larger and heavior than the dust which had usually been ohserved bheretofore. Hetried various kinds of sand and found that they all floated, withâ€" one exception. . Mr. Simonds says : ‘When shaded, it will be seen that Why Sand Floats on Water. BDou‘t @verheat the Dining Room. Waterloo County Chronicle Thuuday, May pledge. sls ‘Aâ€"I hear that your friend X. has E°°° to South America. Was it upon is physician‘s advice 1. Bâ€"No ; his lawyer‘s, Maudâ€"That stupid fellow proposed to me last night. He ougbt to have known beforehand that I should refuse Is especially true of Hood‘s Pills, for no mediâ€" eine ever contained so great curative power in so small space. They are a whole medisine chest, always ready, alâ€" a ways efficient, always satâ€" isfactory; prevent a cold Plll' or fever, cure all liver ills, sick headache, jaundice, constipation, ote. 2e The only Pills to take with Hood‘s Rarsapartila, Jonesâ€"I hear that you have a good organ in your lodgings.â€" Do you know how many stops it has 1 â€" cba Boience is golden, especially when you cannot think of a good answer on“ the spur of the moment. Hood‘s Bheâ€"Only mbout three a day, and those are not long ones. Fatherâ€"Tommy, stop pulling that cat‘s tail, Tommyâ€"I‘m only bolding the tail ; the cat‘s pulling it. â€" Mr, COhas, Reed, No. 44 Oak 8t. Toronto, says :â€"I have used Dr. Laâ€" violette‘s Byrug‘:! Turpentine and conâ€" sider it the best remedy for severe coughs and colds and can highly recâ€" ommend it. I suffer very much with my bronchial tubes, and always find after taking two or three doses of the syrup that I am immediately relieved. Much in Little ‘Why is it,‘ asked the Manayunk philosopher, ‘that when a man is afflictâ€" ed with chills and fever, the chills alâ€" ways come on the cold days and fever on hot days ?‘ Btudent to professorâ€"Has it ever been dinoovendp who was the man ‘in the iron mask } Prof. Oldsportâ€"He was the original umpire. ‘Well,‘ muttered the collector, as he sank wearily into a chair and turned to his employer, ‘there is one thing I can vouch for.‘ ‘What is it T €00. The one that says, ‘You never find a man out till you trust bim.‘ Bad babits are as infectious by exâ€" ample as the plague itself by contact.â€" FhYding.- » There are no tyrants like custom,and no freedou where its edicts are not resisted.â€"Bovee. 2 Love is never so much ours as when we give it to others. Be more prompt to go to & friend in adversity than in prosperity.â€"Chilo. The true philosophyjof happiness is to be well fed and warmly clad and not to realize that there is anything»else to desire. We may indeed have dined well and be warmly dressed, without being contented, but we certainly can‘t be contented while we are bungry and cold. Life is a monotonous grind at best and we can only equip ourselves as comfortably as possible for the inevâ€" itable work, taking pleasure out of any new idea which .15. us in outwitting Dame Nature‘s frosty embraces. The interliningof winter clothing withFibre Chamois is a new and splendid idea for providing a completely wind and rain proof warmth at a very slight expense. _Dr. Chase‘s Catarrh Cure (s for sale bz any dealer, or hLEdmmon. Bates Co., Toronto. Price 25 cents including remility cured by the latest discorery, Chaer‘s Dinseed sad Turpentine. (Pleas» mnt and easy to take. 25 cents. | ent and easy to take. 25 cents . | Ome boxr cured William Kneeshaw and two bozes James T. Stoddard, both of West Gwillimbury. Division Court Clerk Joel Rogers, Robâ€" ert J. Hoover and Geo. Taylor, all of Beston, voluntarily urï¬&r:o the effiâ€" eacy of Chase‘s Catarrh Cure. _ J. W. Jennison, of Gilford, spent nearly §800 on dostors, but found no permanent relie! until he tried a 25â€"cent box of s f Allist t rid of Miss Dwyer, o on, & » e o. m * 6 ectory London, tried a box with excellent efâ€" a cold and often ends in conswmption and death The one effective mnnd'y so far discovered for it is Dr. Chase‘s Catarrh Cure. © Aorenie Eheger. Horand hoitep Toah â€"gate per, Ho g road. Chase‘s Catarrh Cure did iliu But One Sure Remedyâ€"Obtain It for 25 Cents, Blower Included, and be Cured. Catarrh is a disagreeable and ofâ€" fensive discase. 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WALKER, Generac The Old Reliable Specialists. 88 Yeare Experience in treatment of the Throst and Lus g:?-"'v%c-_-u ind e es INSURANCE COMPANY. WATERLOCO BRANCH HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. by The LONDON & LANCAIIHRI FIRE INS. ©CO, with Assets of $15,000,000, INCORPORATED 185. 1 ME YToung Men $xftering, * Ainanrmmeiirend g;ï¬y_gg,m cubnd rpentine| * Two Wantedâ€"An Idea V.M.Berlet poor, CUREs Oml:nfl.‘lml:llb.. the Mivi thful follies or in ‘â€";‘-n_. 'o.' “l ho,::ld with W:lnu.. Nervons A.-.-"Z:. to So:l‘uu Ei.." Te 2 Any disease of the ‘Genitelâ€"Urigary Of. WATERLOO, ONTARIO MERCHANT â€" TAILOR, eases of men and women. * * * $200,000;09 ® = 50,070 T6: nnest Memedy in the World for n.l{ Affec» tions of the T hroat & Erb St., â€" Waterloo. isease of the Genitalâ€"Urinary Can here find satfe and spesdy c H. J. GRASETT. Mawanee JOHN SHUH, Viceâ€"President, â€" . A, GALE, Inspector, in the