Daily Colonist (1888-02-26) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1888-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

BARQUE

"ABERNYTE."

i 1,1. (W.-wv^ Ai!'. lysi'i' THIS ■VfiSSKL IV niiist beseiii 111 the iinderalifiiud, by luion on Wednesday llio tiind iiiat.

WELCH, KITHKT & CO., Victoria, B.C., Consignees, •-tlth Feb., 1888. • fo2l-2t

SCHOONER

Transcontiriental Route

«OVKKN.ltGKT XOTI<?HH.

INSDRAirOE AND FINAIfOIAI..

TERESA"

f J1AKE NOTICE, that I havo tlite day sold all • my Intorost in tho Schooner "TKnicsA."

Uatod 17tli February, 1888.

H. R. TROUP. fol84it

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.-\i:(l \'.-itli a look of iioigmint despair I he old lady held out her trembling hand.

She blew her nose several times, dried !ier eyes and coiilitiued: "I broke off my inai-i-iage—-without saying why. .\ud I-! ha\e ever reuuilned—the—the widow of ih;;t child l;j years old." Then, dropping her head, she sobbed aloud anil wept bit terly for a long wlUlb,

.■\s we \vent up to our rooms to rest, a burly litmier, who.se peace of mind her niirriiiivo .--.eemed to have unsettled, whispered to his neighbor:

'•iBu't it unfurtminto that a person should be so confoundedly sentimental as thai.-"—Translated for The Times-Demo-C1-&D from the French ot Guy de Mau-liu.-JSiint. •

(icoKraphii's In En-or. There used to he a place called Pnta-i:oni;i. It appears on our gcngrapbles i-.ow as "a drear and uiilnliaiiil ;ible waste, ii;:o:i whit-li herds of wild Lorses and ciillle M'.'ixe, that ate hunleil for their lltsh by !v few h.'uids of savage Iniliaus of iOiUieuse sUitiu-c." I am quoting from a ichiiol hook published in l.SS'i.'aiul in I' liii'ioji ii,-i' in this cnuniry. The siuuo I-'' \ gi\ es similar iiifiirination about

'•lie .'\ ;-,iiii iiie Cotifeileration."' It makes tlio .'ii-gi 11'iiies roar with rage tocall their ci.iiiiiiy - tho Argentine ('onfcileratiou." It iV'ii .il I;;' just ;;s polite ami proper to call liiis the •■('oiiiVdcralc.'-tates of .\iuer-i'-.i. " A hitter, bloody war w;is fou;;lit, to w pc that name olf the map, but our imb-lishi rs .' till Insist upon keeping it there.— William Kleroy Curtis In Harper's Maga-

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XoMilng r.Iko i:.\i)('ri<'iic«'.

"Ycz .see, (ioctlior. I g|v the uiild iiuin a do.sc iv the liniMcnl in-tld iv ml bin' him v.-i'l i'. an' ;.ooilne.-. kiiow. it's die I tiioligot he Would, he grew that jnit plc iu t!i" face: hut liavin' bin a niii-.-e in ii piili-1 c asylum. 1 kiiowcd e.Km-'ly what lo du, an' I opened one iv his veins wid an ovster kiiite that \vu7. biiudy, an', praised bo the l.onl. he's rallied a bit, 1 think."—The \v'ati'i-hiiry. ^

-V li.irlier shop sign iu Xew Vork reads; "Hair trimmed to liarinoiiizc with iho feiitiires."

The mental state iiroiluccd by massagu Is now called neurlzation.

About Flfly Cent CiKurs.

••This talk ;ihoiit liflycent cigars makes me red," remarked a dealer the other day. ••[ 1 a\-c been in Havana, ami 1 kuaw what 1 am talking .-ilinnt when I say the vi.>i-y linest cigar made can lie .'■-old for !M-ciity cents at a i<rulit. To make it cost lli'iy cents vmi may wi-ap It in gold leaf, tie it with silk or perfume the bo.v, but yon c;iif t smoke the leaf, the silk or the i)o.

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