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The British revenue for the fiscal year which ended lsst year was $520, €00,000, or $17,000,000 more than was estimated. The Postmasterâ€"General has decided to permit printing on the address side of private post cards passing between one place and another in Canada. No ebjsction will be made to printing designs etc. provided ample epsce is left for the address and there be a perfectly clear space free from border lefs for the postage stamp. Father Murphy, of gold cure fame, died suddenly at Montreal from pnesâ€" monia last Saturday, aged 423 years. THURSDAY, APRIL 8 h, 1897 TQO AuVERTISER Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than Saturday noon. _ The copy tor changes must be left not later thau"Tuesday noon. Casual Advertiseâ€" ments accepted up to noon Wednesday of each week. 4 all its branches. _ _ _ _ dvertising Rates roasor .&o known onR:: gucation .i'mmihb 'cfii Pain«‘, Celgy Compound 2,. Clnjo‘&n-}:‘l&. illiam‘s Phuk . Musy n‘ Remedics %Js Kidaey Pills a L wt C noe. Scokt‘s Â¥mulâ€"ion Kvotenay Uu e tu light No«p Vimnags d Dy«s Waterioe County Uhronigle. AAVID BEAN, Proprietor, Week‘y Newspaper Published every Thure &;m;‘;‘?‘é i‘-nn"f“v;' ciche! & %o~ x wb igâ€" 3 dlu.-& Gents‘ Warerproof:â€"The Bochm HDITORIAL NOTES. tion $1.0¢ per «unum is advance An Aged Pioneer priuting, Knglish and German, To Co ;flllfl?&finfllfl | Beotween the Tuwn ard the Water | _ loo Elecotric Light Company. The street lighting are ltmr to be supplied by the Company ah«ll be the latest improved lamps4 of 1500 nominal candle power. Said lampe to te fully equipped and mdi for lighting the atreets of the town in two manths after the execution of this contract, and are to be teated before being used, by an electrical engineer or otgcr competent person to be uamed by the Fire, Light aud Water Committee, and found to cowmply with the requirements men: tioned. IF at .u{ time it shall appear that the street lamps do not comply with vhe requirements of the contract (excepting gccidents or other unforeâ€" veen circumstences) the Company shall be dosked 15 cents per lamp per night until said lamps are made to eomply with the requirements of this contract. And if after two weekse‘ notice in writâ€" ing to the Company, the said lamps are not made to oomm with the requireâ€" ments of the contract, the contract is to be voidahle at the option of the Town, and the Company is not entitled to pay for the current month‘s lighting or to any compensation for demeges eto. ete. The Company agree to furnish, equip and supp‘y 15 are lamps for street l.i{htiu" «ad auy extra lamp or lamps which :he 'l:;;n waey t::m ime to ume require, atb 80 wmp per anoauu, payable monthly. 'T\u Oslnp;au will a‘so furnish and supply if required, iuâ€" candescent lamps far atreet lightiog at $32.16$ per lamp per aunum, payable mouthiy, said incandescent lamps to he the latest improved lamps rated at 235 nominal cautrlo power and to be far nished with suitable mirror reflectors. The poles, including those bearing lawps for s§reet lighti be put up in such places «s the in re, %‘ght wud Water Committge way select, aod the poles beariug th!aup- for atreet lightâ€" 10y shall be not less than 40 feey nor more thay 50 feet high, and other poles uot to exceed 40 feey in length. The folowing is a sqmmmariagd stateâ€" ment of the mwain provizions of the agrocment made bet ween the Town of Waterlco and the Watsrig® Kiectric Cv-myons;o-rdul L H. Reesor, St. Marys; J. A Skinnper, Mitcbeli ; K. 8 Eimondson, Qshawa ; R Mcâ€" Gowan, Oakville, aad W. A. Johas>n, Toronto : The Company is authorized aad agree to put up, ereck and establhsh in the Town of Waterign, the negessary poles, :;M“:whim. rp udw.l::w parpgas of supplying tric lizht, heat aud power in the Towu of Waserlog waw*ummm&fi\flâ€"w-c The store waes bflutiiw‘u'! draped with fancy silks in black m d:' !o::s hlack a‘ymd and dresden effects the dré€s gooda department is full to bverflowing with evorythu:r that is new and nobby in dreas fabrice. Fancy black lustras, Mohairs, serges, fancy The large establishment of Messre. Bricker & Dicbel of the Great Corner Store was the centre of attraction last Thureday, Friday and Saturday, when mauy handreds of the Iwin City‘s emartest society, thrauged the millinâ€" ery show rooms. â€" Here it was that woâ€" men examined and tried un hats to their heart‘a content aud it would have been difficult, nay, impossible far even the most literary inclined in the thrang to muster from all theâ€" corners of the Eua‘lhh veeabulary enough expletives to give oxtmuiou to the feelings that filled her hearst The show reom has been nestly papered since last season and the decorations were arbistic and elegant. The ccilings looked beautiful dreped in the new geranium shade of ailk and the doorways in huvy chenille ourtaing. _ One would like to give a pen picture of is all, bus three are !flhux which must be seen to he arpmiut The store was beautifully draped In the millinery 'drig:'r'tldlfifi _hawâ€" ever, was centred the most attraction, hblaeck lustres, Mohairs, serges, fancy French novelties, .ua"km,&m bba{ Instres beiu: in evidence, e %mu' farnighing e‘nrmom is atooked hear« ily with full lines of ties, callers, onffe, Dreaden shirts, braces, umbrelias, ete. At one time one had to suit o: eself ro the bonget‘s shape. Nowâ€"4â€"daysthe hats and bounets are suited to the wearer. The ar istio milliger farea or beads the l40« to form a brim, raises up the m«terial to m«ke a crown, or esnucludiog that a crown is uot neo s+ ary,permits the hair 1o be seen through bands of ribbono or strings of beads Buiting the bonnet to the woman and not the woman to the bonnet seemse now to be the univereal rule. If every wowan woure the fubjonâ€" able chaprauy theu the garden of gir‘s will be materialized for every bounet avud every hbat uthis season is fuil of Aowers and foliage The bats themâ€" seives are princip«lly of fine straw asd the fashjonable colors will be more genâ€"raliy seen thau the plain qnes, green», beliotrope, royal perple aud mocts boing mpstly in YOgUe. o The TwinCity‘s B1g Storeea kold Their Formal Spring Openings This is the ume of millinery opesâ€" ingsa wheu epring with her revivification of uatere and the springing forth of new hir, after a dull and dreary winter, is once wore upOA us. â€" 4& hat that was much admired warlarge and exceedingly stylish, of purple and glmn u.a:;"«’ni’. bell 3’»7.'.' ":5 meters of purple violete all aren hrim and tep ef ‘vrown trimmed with wice purple taffette rihban, bnwn of folinga and clover caught with brillient bmekles, relled at the left side with huge bunshes of yellow roses. _ _ _ $ oo w o ie ) _Anmother was a large hat, ralled at ride and back, manve ttraw under brim, TLil The large dresa goods House of Groff & Hymmen, Berlio, will readily at traot the abtention of the visiore to the Twin Caty by the magaificent deoâ€" orated wirdows in royal purple aud white, which are the admiration of all heholdetth‘ Awwwtimd_tum will soon be con vin t ‘pihl of the fineat and uolur;lii\ m goods to be seen on every hand, that the boast of this House of carrying the largeat stock of fine dress goods caunat he gaineaid. Here you G@ud in great variety of design silk and wool mixâ€" tures,shot effeets, checks, and goods in RQowered effeots; phwnot all cal areâ€"â€"black, luatreg aiciliana; plain and fancy waist silke and a large essortâ€" ment of shot ¢ffects with green, brown ard purple tints; here you alsa lm eattan fabrigs in great variety, musling, linene and erepons. Their millinery show rooms which were crowded from marning to night by the ladiea af m Twin t&w d\u!f“ the opeait:‘; days were tastefully deeâ€" :;md and the hase were marveles of the millinere‘ art: Space forhide us to notice mare than two or three. tables,of which “*fl [ Ar-.â€"..:u,u large daisicn, red and green 1-0!\04'.:.‘““':*‘ l-n.n-udhlapwfl foundation in green gold and black was ‘rummed with greeu velyot, steel orua ments and qepreys with tiee of black relvet. The mourning tatle and the infaute gable both coutained some very preity and becoming creations, C AT QRor® & uyaxey‘s ma-wm-nm‘u wings while bows of white restâ€" ed on brim, Aull-nq.fi hat was shown in vieiet green gold with satin sbraw rim and goiden crown trimmed with greec folinge, pale gree ribbon with violets aud belio uet neatr plumes and cepreys ; and cepreys ; the crown was d"i:"h.;ldi' :Mbm w!{"bnii\ih oach 1.-,3." ofi’n‘»mlu&m turben ) bee btraw on %flc&”wgm ::w':] the nl:;{- It wes some purple ribbon, | whgn'vmfl?: h:: Aoanten russels, Ont, space per patient can be dininished in :m”.t::a mt;":fl;m h:'m i nsie i To is in n Niikg in Yaih : 5_ MN"?MW CA8B _ Miss Mary Hissatt died from the absolutely uo danger to the consumer, aad a1 the handling of the dyxname hes become thoroughly understood, the danger to the aitendant is entirely done away with, even with high pree saure systems, there being no greater danger from a dypame than from any other kind of wachinery. Bilectricity toâ€"day is by far the safest way to a:: our homes and places of busiaces. oil and gas has its dangers both to life «ud ty, but there is noue whatâ€" ever ;: electric lights. As the modern i roma in weg nnbs un ing buaildings i so low is would uot hart a m even should it come in contact with the wires, bat the chanoes of this are improbable as the wires are W«TW nsulated and absolutely sate ta life and rwomy Rlectric lights are also the most healthy lights _A committee of docturs in charge of the kospital at Crews, Eagâ€" i poag c alape Jbuglal q the value tale In this m v\‘\\o number of beds in the varions wards was um‘- tioned in such a manner thet would be 2000 cubic feet of space for each “rm‘» thas ipsuring a suffici euey of frean _nt- The apportionment was made while gas lighting m Wwa hat paw on tha recom a the committee electric lighti has been m;ml and the mmtg further advise that the number a in the hoapital hfl:{:owva from 28 to 48 um:u that as electric lighting doea not vitiate the air like gas the cubic iwhiuaucrt ab u6Gestuum) iss uie Of al tadaot on dynamos generating curâ€" rents of high veltege wou‘d, wh»o gh careiecsaess, sometimes receive a shock thas woulg coss bum bis hfe ; but with the low voltege systems now gencrally mw-noâ€"- venlence as With Gan or Conk Oi, t wan a sad hlaw to har parents. JOY TURYED TO GBISF: Yeare ago when electricity EBLEOTRIQITY VA GAA iltmg "Phy Mahataly ‘vor t amsnn ovke i t Wie mm 1 o in DRESS GIODS, DRESS GOODS , . BRICKER & DIEBEL, MILLINERY QPENING . . . . GREAT . . CORNER STORE Everybedy gcome to The Great Corner Store, YOUR§ TRULY entyâ€"fAve pleces new can ynee Pony eemett euiantand t woeh on mt price ts Aavs, QOur Millinery Opening was a Grand Success. Hundreds of Hats were ‘ordered and sold. We beg also to advise the ladiesa of Waterloo and Berlin that we are almost daily receiving new novelties in Flowersa, Hatsa and Trimmingsa Every person can be accommodatâ€" ed with a atyliah and fashiqnable hat or bonnet. .ovgl'yaé:w I"fi ment we al ahow the f} f a ; uns oro @gtfiumni ltu% at a reaâ€" J /8