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The Wingham Times, 1895-04-19, Page 7ANY MIMS NOTES. ROMANCE OF A sur..t..ET. 1 it Reenlist the aftventfel Paye of the Siege NATURAL HISTORY TALKS. of Poets. INTERESTING THINGS WHICH ARE I filt7 ' ES, AP IL 1911895, WELL WORTH KNOWING. *on t Things of the 'World -Witches and Plants -Lord's Prayer In Thirty -Two Languagett-and other Natters of Cons siderome loterest. , The largest nugget of gold ever found Was -taken out of the Byer te Holtman Mine at 11111 End, New South Wales, on May 10, 1372. It weighed an (sauce or two lever IW pounds. It was Ii111,11-Iillhped, 4 feet 0 invites long and about 3 feet e hwheH in thickness. The finder sold it, for $1.43,- ,000. The largest allVertisement, in the world is in the hape of immense flower beds on the elite of a hill near Ardenlee, Scotland, The Lytle are emit gigantic letters, 40 fcket in length, the whole forming the words "Giese:ow News." The total tenetb of the line is 123 feet; area coveted by the letter& 1.4,815 feet, The letters caa be diet•inetly seen from a distance of four and one-half The organ in the old llornuin Temple at Salt lake City is one of the largest, if not the very largest, ever constructed in this •country. It has 2.704 pipee, each ha feet long and large eetnesii t') hnit the body •of a, man of ordinary size. It also has two towers at either side which rise to a height • of 42 feet. The largest painting ever produced (not including penoramie views) is now in the Grand Salon. of the Doges at Venice. It is by the renowned Jacopo Robuste and is tia feet long and al feet wide. panoramic view, called the "Frost Ring," now in Westminster, London, cenTr8 20,000 square feet of etuwas. The largest hammer and anvil in the world are in use at the Rrapp Gun:Works, AFTER DIVES HAS DINED. Essen, Germany. • The hammer, which Timmy vreeeilwimout comets Enough was made in 1880, weighs 150 tons, and the • ee es,,,,,Ise Hee ilonnit,,g- Toth, .anvil and block 101 1-2 tons. In lealf, before being reduced to its pres- ent proportions, Custer County, ;Montana, was tho largest county in the United State& Its area at that time was 30,000 • square miles, being greater than the com- bined areas of New Hampshire, hiassachu- setts. Connecticut, 'Delaware and Rhode The three tallest trees in the world are believed to be a sequoia near Stockton, Cal., (335 feet) and two eucalypti itt Aus- , morning, that the garbage cans sent out tallies estimated at 4135 and 450 feet, re- • from the areawitaa of fine houses betrayed spectwely. it lamentable wastage of good food. She Witches atm). Plants. ' was visited by a great idea and acted upon In all countries in which the witchcraft it by hating interviews with the cooks of delusiou now exists, or in which it pre- 1 several uptown mansions. The result was smiled in former times, we find folk lore that for a small consideration these cooks stories connecting those mysterious bogies consented to permit, her the privilege of with the.plants of those particular regions. making what selections she wished from Even the great Shakespeare causes his the plates and dishes returned ta the kit - witches to discourse learnedly on the dia- then, from the mistress' table, afte: the boliea] properties of "hemlock diggld i' cook had made certain reservations Here dark" and of "slips of yew silvered in the wasa wealth of material beyondthe dreams moon's eelipse." They are supposed to of any boarding-house gourmand. The have mid their favorite flowers ait well as little French woman rarely goes to the plants, and in England at the present time regular market, but once it. day makes her foxglove is spoken of as "witch bells" and rounds to the kitchens. She carries a bas- herebelle a "witches' thimbles." The com- ket heed with zine and divided into com- mon ragwort is well • knowm as the partments, and a fork. Iter selections "w tches horse," the tradition being that from the plates and dishes itre Made with th mounted rank growths of that species the utmost discretion,and in her own ofweed and "rode the skies," just as the - dame with the painted hat rides the broom in the familiar picture. In Germany and. throughont Northern Europeit is the belief that witches float from place to place on beds of low, composed largely of witohes' This advertieement was printed its one of thenewspapers recentlyi "IseST-On Friday evening, in 23d st., near itlt ave., it lady's gold watch •anti chain, with it bullet set in silver, a small glass cross and a medal; the finder will be rewarded at Priest's drag store, 23i1 se and itis ave. There is nothing remarkable about the watela eluthe e11,54 nii,ttla, but the bul- let, has it romance which the leset or the triukets told to it Sun reporter. It, beeline away batik In: the time of the Evacuee Pruesian war. At that t-ime the person in question was studying art in Paris. In her own words the romance of the bullet , is as follows: "When the siege of Pule begen, I, like a Tambov of other American wemen, offered my sort ices as a nurse. Thcsre • were enough of us, 1 tun proud to say, to maintain a hospital of our own.. About the last of October or the first of Novelle Th'r, 2-1 Years; ago, (iu!' anibulanee drove up one day to the tent over whit+ I had charge, and they lifteda handsome young • Zonave out of it. He had been shot in the calf in ties leg. The se us:stone hanueliately laid him upon the operating cot and began Probing for the bullet. I wits bathing I& head !Mil r' tr; to retie ee bus petit When Hoy timilly etathe ballet out 1 look it, washed it, and. as is eustomary, handed it to the \vomitus' luau. With a cheerful :smile he said: • " 'Won't you keep it, mademoiselle? , As soon as I get well I can go out, awl get another,' • -"I theaked him, mid promised that I would keep it and wear it. 1 bud a silver bancl placed around_ it, with three little silver chains, so that 1 eould wear iton my watch chain.."-ew York sun. An illustration or keen Frouch thrift, beside which ynnkee b oik.resentble al- most oriental extravagance, is the catering clone by a little French boarding-house keeper, says the New York Evening Sun. She supplies small rooms and two meals e day to lodgers of modest means, who boast of her table. It is, indeed, quite. royally spread, and literally from the kitcheu of millionaires. A year ago it occurred to her, «.s she went to market in the early kitchen every scrap is. turned to the most tempting and wonderful accounts Fier expenses have been greatly reduced, and her boarders look 'forward to her meals with great anticipatioie. Oneer Little Animal With Very .010We " little RyCer There is a q neer little animal mike), teatmeleon Naha has so many odd thaeo about tlitrt that 11, would take it lona Ftory to telt them all. First there are I, is eye& They are eery large and roiled and !stick out like hig Wade from the side of his. head. And he has the ability to tusti then1 in all sorts of difrort•ilt ways, so 115 to se0. till about him. Ile can turn one lel) and the other down, or otie forward and the other look, and so see the smallest iuseet in any direction, It ettenot nscape those wonderful, eyes when the chameleon is 100hiled Moat for a dinner. Tliecleittskin of the i'l swell it out into quer -,etees, and, chameleon ie loose and he has some peeuliar property of this skin whereby 1(5 eau (thme. it from one Cohn' to another, geuerally becoming the color of the tree or ground. mem which be is walking. Thett his feet are of such ppm - liar shape that be can easily hold ou to the branches of the trees upon which he is walking. And in this business.of eltntb- 110t and walking trees he is nitwit assieted, by hie tale whieli le long and prehensile like a monkey's miabling Mtn i,.. llold on blossoms and "devil spikes," this last being Worry. a species of dwarfed slough grass. St. Worry is killing.It is bad management sTohn's welt, which is now so popular for that kills people. Nature will let no num overwork hin melt unless he plays her false, shot:IV:lei and button -hole bouquets on St. John's Eve, was formerly •worn for the unless he takes stimulants at irregular express purpose of averting the crafts and tithes, smokes much or- takes Opium. If he is regular and obeys the laws.of health subtleties of the witches, bogies, ghosts and spirits; which the Ertropean peasantry, and walks in tlie way qt otysiological righteousness, nature will neverailow him believed walked abroad on "that night of 1 1 or any person to work too hard, I have witching mysteries." . i never yet seen a case of breaking down I Lorda; Prayer in 32 Languages. • from overwork alone, but I admit that it The Russians now have possession of is necessary -above all things to 'cultivate the Mount of Olives, the spot where the tranquility of mind. Lord's Prayer was first uttered. The apex Tey to exercise your wills in regard to of the mount is nearly 200 feet above the this -for will eounts for something in hill upon which Jerusalem is built, 2,700 , securing tranquility -to accept things as feet above the level of the Mediterra,uean . they are and not tobother about yesterday, and about 3,000 feet above the sluggish which is gone forever; o ot to bother about waters of the Dead lea. On this elevation, to -morrow, which is not ours; but to take upon the exact spot which tradition says the present day and make the hest of it. the Prayer was first spoken, the Carmelite Those women who will continually peer Sisters have, through the kindness of Mine. into what lies beyond never lia,ve any pre - de la Tour d'Auvergne, who furnished the sent life at all -they are always grizzling necessary funds, built a large convent. over the past or prying into the future, The exact, or what is dolma to be the and this blessed to -day, which is all that exaet, spot preesed by our Saviour's feet on we are sure of, they never have. -Sir that celebrated, occnsion, is marked by a Aacirew Clark. pure white polished inarbel ems& and the : 'nave Another Prayer or re -op' Scribed upon them in 32 different langu- A good story of poor Villiers', the war s,ges. In some instances, the letters form- ° corresponden , whose death be the war in -Mg the prayer are engraved in marble the East is reported this week.. was told panels; in others, they aro letters of wood, I'SCaptain Chories,'Reade, It. N., a glued to backgrounds suitable to their me ' nephew of the novelist of that name. Cap - colors The Russianportion of tine \t 011- Reittle hanpened to be in it certain derfel collection of inscriptions is said to town in England one evening and found be hi letters of pure gold, each capital that Villiers' was to lecture there on his Atm being Aix and a fourth inches long °XI/000100S MS it war correspondeat. The and four-fifths of an inch in width. Among lecture was nutlet the auspices of the the languages 'which one would. hardly ex - Young 'Alen's Cheistian Association.. The walls of the convent have the Prayer in- • while climbing 'from branch to ineutch. The ehameleon bus also a cower tongue. It is ilearly iN lows ns his body, thin and icky. Witenever perceives it good fly or bug he darts out, this long, funny tongue :and captures his dinner without turning from the spot where he stands. 'I'his strange little animal lives in Africa. For many years little was known about ' INCLUDING ' Rooks, Ninplitets, Polters, 111, him, but on account of his odd traits and Heeds, circulars, ae., Ate, extsmted in the hes* queer habits very curious stories were told style of the art, at moderate prices, and on shore about him in the Olden times. And the lit- notice. Apply or address It ELLIOTT, tle fellow himself was regarded with au Toms_ Office, Wingham. absurd awe, 'just because nobody under- stood him. . • DR. CMSE'S_, 0 ORIGINAL KIDNEY RILL klIDNEV= LIVER .THE ONLY PILLS set pILLS 1. wenn. Manager Standard Rank, Brad. ferii4),,, says. Chasea Kidney -Liver Pills arc a s• ,iteateeites for the Kidneys and Liver. '0, P. CARRIER, x$ MCCEA, Si., Toronto, re. ,o4.,e,,tinif Montreal SMr, says, Chase's Pills act , 4.- for the relief of headecheelsiikess attack •1 s sada-scion, Sold everywhere, or by malt 011 .t erce, to En-MANSON, BATES /et CO. 41 ustaatili eT. mum. ONT. JIM PENITEIG) The eneetee Rath in mailagasear, Since the great African island has lately caused a great deal of talk it; will uot 150 uninteresting to give some account of the strange ceremony`practised at the Mala- gasy national festival every year, as relat- ed by nearly all the travelers who have visited the land of theHovas, The "Fara droana," or royal bath, was first institnte ed by RingRabamho, and 18110(1mA-1u:illy, by royal proclamation, from the 2,2c1 of November to the 10th of January. During this time no business is allowed to pro- ceed. The people of the kingdom meet the Queen in the Silver Palace on the first day of the festival, and a rad cock is then brought by the head priest or sacrificer of the Genera Its neck is wrung, and its blood, being caught in a banana leaf, is carried to the Sovereign, who touches with it her forehead, neck stomach, armpit, finger nails and toe nails. The rest of the assembly follow the example. Next the people assemble again for the royal bath in the great palace. This the Queen takes in one of the sacred corners of the hall, iu a silver bath, Wing screened from view by "lambag," held by her at- tendants. • Amid the firing of cannon and the joy- ous shouts of her humble subjects, Her Majesty then passes along the balcony,and from a horn in her band sprinkles the crowd with the water she has just been using for her ablutions, exclaiming at the same time, "Mtesina, ahol" (I am piwified). This sprinkling is said to typify an abund- ance of rain dining the coming year. To be abeent from the ceremony would be to incur the royal displeasure, so that the French Plenipotentiary Minister him- self, M. le Myre do Vilers, who is now on his way to Madassascar, had to submit himself, in 1880, a this strange ordeal. • Every wife, also, must be with her hus- band at the time, or it is considered that she is as. good as divorced. The new year is then supposed. to have begno and for several weeks there is a great' deal of visiting and feasting, -Tit -Bits. Christmas Carols. The first Christmas carol, MS Milton and Jeremy Taylor have said, was sung by the angels ou the plains ot Bethlehem. This custom has prevailed in most Christian. countries and is perpetuated in England and on the continent. Calabrian minstrels still leave their mountains during the last days preceding Christmas for Naples or Rome, saluting with their wild music the shrines of the Virgin 'Mother, to cheer her 'until the birth hour of the infant Jesus, now near at band. The first Christmas enrols were hymnsin honorer the nativity. They afterward assumed a mom secular character, manY of them being songs of revelry accompanying the festivities of the season. The Win' Scare. Jimson, MeetingTheson the otherreorn- ing on the 'bus, coming to the eity, atter passing the urinal courtesies, comes out with the following: "Apropos of the war scare, I have arrita ed at the conelusion, after grave consider ation, that if a colored waiter should tiro/ a platter containing a roast turkey, tilt actwould be productive of a grand corn. plication of evils; namely, tile downfall ol pect to find tem esentt c ale tha proceedings were opened with prayer anti . Turkey, the overthrow of Greeee, the the Chinese, the Coptic, the Tartarian, anti then Villiere' began his address. When breaking -up of China, and the 'humiliation the japanese. The -Arabian, as it had been I ie had got half way through he said, 1, of Africa!" a task to relinquish Molutrameclism, ends 0 "Ladies Mid gentlemen, the most interest- I With '"(.1-Veat is Christ." ing portion of the evening's entertainment, I The highest bridge of any kind in the ittes. am going out for a, minute or two. I Why do most Rugby foot -ball players Spotting Spurts. Vera the Lois River vituluct, on the An- While 1 am away Yon chjoit YettreelVes: wear lona hair? ma how is it that barbers A Iltidge 1330 Vett has now arrived -an interval of five min- tofagasta Railway, in 13olrvia, South have another prayer or twat Americo. The place where this highest railway structure has been erected is overlenow When icebergs Are Near. the Melo rapids in the Upper Andes, and The captain of an ocean steamer in most between the two sides of a canon, which is cases finds out when his vessel is approach- replied to. Altuated 10,000 feet above the level of the ing an iceberg froni the hien flown in the "I want to give brother Tom some littlt , Paelfic. Counting from the surface of the ttettni to the level of the rails, this mile- engine-roona. That sounds queer, bnt it is gift before be leaves for college. 'Who brated latidge is exaetly 63612 feet in a fact, nevettheless. It appeats that, when would you get`t» 'li1loutncc-"I SW 801111- ei a steamship enters water considerably lovely hair brushet§ with silver monogram height. The length of the principal span colder than that through will& ithas been Anti—" "Von silly girl; don't you knov v 1s 80 feet, and the distance between abut- going its propeller runs faster. Snell he belongs to a football team," meats (total length of bridge) is 802 feet. whe largest eeimaa is 314 feet 2 ladies water usually surronnels the vicinity of The fast sportsmen's exposition eve i 2Cmg, end the batter of the pier, what is 1 bergs for nutty miles. 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