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NEWS BY MAIL' ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HUS PEOPLE.
Occurrences hi the Land That
ReignsSupreme in the Coin-
mereial World.
The Post Office makes • £10,000 a
year on issued postal orders that
are not cashed,
Liverpool, with 99 people to the
sore, is the moat thickly populated
city in England.
Ten persons are on anaverage
run" over and ; killed in the •streets
of London. every week.
The longest word of usual occur-
rences in the English language is
t'incomp rehensibilities,"
The Royal Navy loses 2,5 per
1,000 men drowned yearly, while
the merchant service loses 10 per
1,000.
No fewer than 14,000 claims for
old -age pensions have been rejected
by the London Pensions Committee.
A memorial drinking -fountain is
to be erected in Ballahouston Park
to the memory of the late Lady
Primrose.
God has so made' the British Em-
pire that 'it'cannot be destroyed ex-
cept by ourselves.—Mr, Norman
Angell.
Since 1900 the production of beef
in the United ingdpm haus been de-
creasing, and is now about 33,000,-
000 standards barrels annually.
Threadneedle Street, in London,
is supposed to have gained its name
from the .'Three Needles used as the
sign of the Needlemakers' Com-
pany.
It is calculated that in large
. ocean steamers like the Campania
mere than 3,000 articles of glass
and china are broken on every voy-
age, ,
During last year the tramways of
Great Britain carried over 3,127,-
000;000 passengers, or about seven-
iy, times the estimated population
►' of the count yry .
It is much harder, says the
Bishop of Carlisle, for arich man
to to be good than it is for a poor
man, to be good.' Some of our rich-
est men are amongst the very worst
of men.
The new trains that are now run-
ning on the Great Western Railway
between Paddington and Windsor
are claimed to be fireproof. The.
carriages are built of steel, the only
wood being the footboard, and this
has .been specially treated to make
it non iniiammyabie. The flooring is
of asbestos.
WIFE WON.
Husband Finally Convinced.
Some people are wise enough to
try new foods and beverages and
the gelnerous ,enough to give oth-
ers the benefit of their experience.
A wife writes :
"No slave in chains, it seemed to
me, ' was more helpless than I, a
'coffee captive. Yet there were in-
numerable warnings—waking from
a troubled sleep with afeeling of suf-
focation, at•times dizzy and out of
breath, attacks of palpitation: of the
heart thatfrightened me.
(Teaeis just ass injurious as coffee
because it contains caffeine, the
same drug found in coffee.)'
"At last my nervous system was
so disarranged that my physician
ordered no more coffee.' I capi-
tulated.
'(Determined to give Posture a
fair trial, I prepared it according
to directions on the pkg., obtaining
Clark brown liquid with a rich
snappy flavour similar to coffee,
When cream and asugar were added,
it was not only good but delicious.
``Noting its beneficial effects in
Me the rest of the family adopted
tit—all except my husband', who
would not :admit that coffee hurt
Several weeks elapsed during
which I drank' Pestunn two or three
times a day, when, to my sitrpr'iSe,
my husband said: `I have decided
to drink Poston;, Your improve -
trent is so°apparent—you have -such
flue color—•that I propose to give
credit where credit is due:' And
now ; we are coffee -slaves no
;cheer,"
N,anxe given by Canadian Post=
CEo., Windsor, Ont. Read "'.[the
'toad to Weilville,'' in pkgs,
Postural now conloe in twe farms:
Regular .Postine,-•mu,st be boiled.
Instant ?ostum is asoluble pow-
der, A teaspoonful dissolves quick-
ly in e,. cap of hot water and with
Cream and ,sugar, snakes Ii de1ieiaus
teverage instantly, Gro +ers ' sell
ot1i kinds,
"There's a Reason" for Postuill,
SUM ON D10EilHFi '1'Y3 lifE1 Ll I ANAltiA :CA.NAI:
ICU. •OFltTI SLIDES.:,
One of a Fleet of Dredges With a Useful Duty to Perform.
Suction Dredge No, 85, one of the fleet of dredges which is to keep the canal free from any possible
deposit of earth on the bottom, left there by slides, passing out of Pedro Miguel Locks. This is the firstheavy vessel to pass out of the locks since the linking of the two oceans by the blowing out, October, 10, of
the Gamboa Dike. Thousands of spectators gathered on the walls of the chamber to wet -eh the monster
dredge go through the locks.
EXECUTIONER OF DIEPPE
THE FOLLY OF A • YOUNG
FRENCH LIEUTENANT,
Failing In Love With. Headsman's
Daughter Cost Him a.id His
D esoendants D early.
The moat trifling incident may
affect your own destiny and the
destiny of those who come after
you. History is full of stories illus-
trating this fact, and none of them.
is more remarkable than the story
of Charles Sanson de Longval, who
sacrificed everything for love. One
day, in the year 1662, he was
thrown from his horse, and as a
direct result of this accident he and
seven of his descendants, for a per-
iod of 200 years, were tshunned' of
men, bearing upon them. the word
unclean.
Charles was the descendant of a
once illustrious house. His fore-
bears were knights and soldiers un-
der the Dukes of Normandy, and
had distinguished themiseleee for.
valor upon divers fields. They took
part in William the Conqueror's
little basket picnic in England, and
might have remained there in opu-
lence, but returned to their own
country.
Who the fatal accident happen-
ed Charles was a lieutenant in the
army, his regiment being stationed
at Dieppe. He was about 30 years
of age, and handsome and prosper-
ous.. His life had been full of ad-
venture, for he had spent several
years in the wilderness of America.
He was of a buoyant spirit and ex-
tremely witty, and, "therefore, a
great favorite with his regiment,
and a pet of his commanding officer,
the Marquis de Laboissiere. He
also seemed the pet of Fortune,
and it was agreed by his comrades
that he had a future.
Then one day, he; went for a horse-
back ride, and, just as he left the
town, was thrown to the ground be-
cause of
A Broken Saddle Girth.
He was unconscious for a time, and
when he recovered his senses " he
was being carried into a little dark
cottage by a man of giant strength.
He was placed upon a rude couch
and remained there several days
before he was able to leave. .He
was waited .upon by the man who
had carried him in andhis daugh-
ter.
The pian seemed bent beneath
some crushing sorrow. His face
was haggard and lined and his eyes
full of trouble. He was silent most
of the time, but naw and then he
talked to himself in a wild way, and
for hours together he would pace
the floor of his little home and
moan. and sob like a man in agony.
The daughter was beautiful, but as
sad' as her father. She never
smiled, and spoke only when an-
swering . questions. She : was so
beautiful and Bo gentle and appar-
ently 'so afflicted, that the young
soldier began pitying her, anal end-
ed by loving her passionately. All
this time he didn't know who his
host was, and when he • asked the
girl, she only replied, "You will
know Boon enough."
At last he was able • to depart
from the house, anal the sombre
host escorted him to the gate and
••r o
have done for you what
said , "Wo h
v
we could, Never a ome to this cot-
tage again, if you have any friendly
feeling foie Me. I have seen yott
gaze admiringly•, at ray daughter.
Forgot that she lives I would sea
her in her ooffl,n rather than flee her
in love," '
Charles .returaed to his regiment
and tried to devote all :his xin d to
his duties, but he could not forget
the sad girl in the cottage, So he
went back there and had a few.
words with her; this was followed
by other visits, and
His Loge Increased Every Day.
People must have seen him going
and coming, and they told his rela-
tives, ,4 cousin of high estate hunt-
ed hien up and said:
"You surely know . whom the girl
is you are visiting?" '
"I don't' know her name," said
Charles, "but I love het with all
my heart."
"Come with me," said the cou-
sin, and Charles accoallpanied: him
to a large public square where two
criminals were about to be exe-
cuted.
"Look at the executioner," said
the cousin.
Charles looked as directed, and
of a sudden felt so weak he had to
lean on his cousin's shoulder. His
host of the little dark cottage was
the executioner of Dieppe. Had the
cousin been wise he'd have said no
more, but would have let the lesson
sink in. But he felt it his duty to
preach a, while, and in the course
of his words he made some slighting
remarks concerning 'Marguerite
Jouanne, the executioner's daugh-
ter. Charles's strength came back
as promptly as it had deserted him.
His sword flashed in the sun.
"Defend yourself 1" he cried ;
"you are speaking of the lady I
love !"
Then there was quite a duel.
Charles was a great swordsman,
and the cousin was in parlous case,
when a friend came ,to his rescue..
Charles wounded both of them, and
Gent them away bieedin'g and
writhing.
The next day when he appeared
on duty all his old friends of the
regiment met him with averted
faces. His fellow officers looked all
around and past him, and couldn't
see him. Nobody responded to his
greetings and people were silent
when he asked questions. He un-
derstood it all well enough. His
comrades knew that he was in love
with the executioner's daughter,
And He Was a Pariah.
For many days lie endured this
ostracism, and he began to realize
what such a love as his would cost
him.
Then the commanding offieer
sunlmoned him to a conference.
The commanding officer began by
telling hien how everybody was
afflicted and humiliated' by his pre-
sent course.
"Give u pthis girl, crush dowh
this insane infatuation," said the
marquis, "and you'll have all your
friends again. As it is, you are dis-
gracing the regiment."
Charles ddrew hisowore. d broke
it over his knee.
"Then I belong to the regiment
no longer," answered he. "I'll tear
up my commission ,at dnee."
And he did. ' That night he went
out to the cottage to ask Marguer-
ite to inarry him and go to the new
world, where they might begin a
new life. All the visits he had paid
were without .the knowledge of time
father, And now he went to the
door on tiptoe, and knocked gently
—a knock she .undenatood. There
was no answer, and he stood listen-
ing. He heard a moaning sound
that came from the direction of an
old shed bad in the garden. Ile'
stole there quietly and saw that.
• e a light in the lie r'
there, was h s d. The
g"
moaning continued, anon rising to
a shriek. Ho looked in, through it
crack And saw 1Vfarguerite strap-
ped on a 'leather eolith. Her fa
ther, hire, eyes glowing insanely,
was subjecting her to the torture
of the boob. He held aloft a halt -
mar, ready to drive deeper the
wedgewhich was crushing her, limb.
"Confess that you lave him!" he
was saying.
Then the door flew in as though
struck by a thunderbolt, and
Charles was in the- room. He
knocked the old ,man into a. •corner
and then tore the engine of torture.
awiiy from the girl. The father,
half crazed with
His Mental Sufferings,
had heard that the girl was plan-
ning to elope with an officer. For
the sake of her lover the girl de-
nied'everything, and he was trying
to force the truth from her.
Then Charles outlined his plan,
but the girl would not leave her
father, who was worsethan alone in
the world. And the father would
not consent to her marriage unless
Charles agreed to adopt the old
man's grewsome profession.
Charles did not hesitate; and un-
der such strange conditions he and
the girl becam engaged and were
married a few days later.
Alas that such devotion at that
of Charles should have so poor a
reward! His young wife died in
leas than a year; leaving hien a.' son
destined for his . bloody trade.
Charles 'thus established the San-
son family of executioners, who
were, the official headsmen of
France for two centuries. The lash
of the line *as dismissed from office
in 1847, when he changed his name
and disappeared, and no man
knows what become of him.
1 NOTES OF SCIENCE I
China now has 34 electric light
plants and plans to add to the list.
Beeswax and turpentine, mixed
into a paste, effectively clean
bronze, •
Holland's production of potato
flour is increasing rapidly from
year-. to year.
The German village of Remborn
has a linden tree ` which is said. to
be more than 1,200 years old.
By the addition of magnets and
an oxide an extremely elastic glass
has been brought out in France.
X-ray apparatus has been invent-
ed for killing the tiny parasites that
eat small holes in leaf tobacco.
There are 80 •plants in the United
Kingdom for the conversion of
municipalities' garbage into electric
power,
A complete cooking outfit for
campers, folding compactly enough
to be carried in a coat pocket, has
been invented.
An Australian has been granted
a United States patent for a pro-
cess for transplanting living hair
upon bald heads.
Japan's rice crop this year is esti-
mated at nearly 263,934,000 bushels,
a 12,000,000 -bushel increase over
last year.
leecently• deciphered inscriptions
on Egyptian monuments indicate
that artesian wels were bored as
far beak as 1400 B.C. '
A curious tree of the tropics, the
matapalo, grows only with the aid.
of another tree, which it gradually
envelops and kills.
The Khedive of Egypt is an en-
thusiastic electrician anduses elec-
trical appliances wherever possible
in his palaces and yachts.
Motor lifeboats carried by one of
the newer trans-Atlantic liners ,a.re
equipped with wireless apparatus
having200l
miles radius
A11 previous
shipbuilding records
en the Clyde were excieeded in the
nine months ending' with Septem•
ber, 193 vessels having been' launch..
ed.
Experiments on the Philippine
island of Mindanao seem to iedicats
that the finest qualities of rubber
can be produced there profitably.
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Doings in Europe.
Poincaro Visits Naturalist and Poet,
• President Poinoare, of I'ranoe, returning
from Spain, visited j enri Fabre at Serie-
nan. The. aged naturalist sat in his 'gar.'
den. The President, standing, called him
beloved and great master, and said:
"You have given so passionate attention
to the study of the humblest creatures
that in the smallest things you have
ehown us very great ons, and at 'every
page of your work we feel a sensation of
locking into the infinite."
for h
Pabreim. was so moved that he could not
reply. lice nephew thanked the President
M. Poineare oleo plaited Frederic biie.
ural, the famous poet of Provence, living
at the village of Maillane. The poet read
Om ''
an addreee . to tresident, who in re-
plying quoted Lamartine, who fifty Years
ago acclaimed Mistral as mother Romer,
Both Mistral and his wife wept, and whets
the Preeident finished Mistral threw him.
self into M. Poincare'e arms and embraced
him.
Portuguese Royalist Killed,
A grim incident of the rising in Portu-
gal
aris pawas naprrateder. by a French sculptor to
a P
A peasant's cart ;filed with straw drew
up at the Spanish -Portuguese frontiers The
ofHoiale glanced into: it; ono, to satisfy
himself, thrust hie sword several times
among the bundles. "Pries on,' he Baia
oareleesly, An instant later lie uttered
an exclamation of horror. Blood was
trickling from the straw.
The driver.sprang from the cart and
fled, followed by revolver spats from the
0118t0111€ officials. Overturning the cart,
the omciale found beneath the etraw a
dead man. The sword hod passed through
his heart as he lay hidden. Ile was a
Royalist leader, trying to smuggle him.
self into Portugal for the rising.
You Live Longer In Bulgaria,
Official statistics just issued show that
despite her small population Bulgaria
possesses' by far the greatest number of
centenarians of all the countries of
Europe.
Among ber 4,500.000 people there are 3 833
persons of at least 100 years of age Other
countries return the following figures•.
Roumania, 1,074 centenarian; Servia, 573;
Spain, 410; France, 213; Italy, 197; Eng-
land, 92; Russia. -89; Germany, 76; .hTor•
way, 23; Belgium, 6; Denmark, 2, and
Switzerland, 0.
The longevity of the Bulgarians is sup-
posed to be associated with the eating of
"jaunt," a sort of solidified sour milk or
card, obtained by, fermentation.
Test for Farm Machinery.
M. Olementel, the French minister of
Agriculture, has decided to institute a
monster agricultural competition lasting
three years, which is todetermine the
merits of the various French agricultural
machines run by steam, `oil, or other en-
gines.
The competition will take' place at the
agricultural school at Grignon and will be
judged by a Jury of agricultural experts
from the French' agricultural sooietiee. A
detailed report will be drawn up from the
point of view of economy, as well ae.re-
srrlte, which is likely to give impetus to
the movement in favor of motor agricul-
tural in "France.
The use of motor machines is especially
marked in the neighborhood of Meaux and
Soissons, where • fourteen sections of the
distaiot are using motor machines on the
co-operative. eyetem.
Losing Weight by Science.
Mme. Emmy Deetinn, the opera singer,
of Berlin, has been reducing her weight
by the potato cure, by means of which a
friend of hers Inst • fifteen pounds in a
month without injury. Their diet is the
following;
Tea or coffee without sugar, one dry roll
and fruitad lib. in the morning; for
luncheon no soup, light fish,, five large.
potatoes in their skims, no butter, but sar-
dines or anchovies and whatever vege-
tables you like, fresh but uncooked fruit
and no dessert.; at 6 o'clock, fruit the same
as at noon and two potatoes instead of
five. After keeping this up for eight days
drop it for three and then take it up
again.
Giant Aqueduct for Italy.
Rapid progress le being made with the
gigantic Apulian aqueduct which. will
carry the water from the springs of the
River Bele in the province of Avelline
right through the Appenninee to • the
southern end of Italy, distributing it over
a territory of nearly 12,000 square miles,
with about 2,500,000 inhabitants'.
The quantity of water available at the
springs ie stated to be about 1,200 gallone
per second, or over 100,000,000 gallons every
twenty-four hours. The cost of the work
is estimated at $25,000,000. The length of
the main pipe line will be 125 miles, in ad-
dition to which there will be several hun-
dred miles of side lines.
Saw Army of Napoleon.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, of Berlin, has
Unearthed at the village of Dormowc, in
the district of Meeeritz, Pr•ssian ,Poland,
an old woman who can 'prove by undeni-
able
ndeniable official papere that she was 120 years.
old on October 16. She is doubtless the
only living person in Germany who ac-
tually saw Napoleon's army march
through on its was to Moscow. Later she
Saw the Russian Ooasaelre cross the front-
ier chasing the French back. Hedvig
Stavne was born at Pleschen, on the Rus-
sian frontier, on October 15, 1704, the
daughter of a email innkeeper. iiedwig
remembers, therefore, the passing of
rerome'e right wing of the Grand Army.
She says the troops behaved very well, but
"the beggars wouldn't eat black bread,"
and her mother killed geese and ehiokens
for them. On the other hand, she remem.
bers with terror the passing of Cossacks.
Fier father fled with all his cattle into a
neighboring forest to escape them, . and
for clays IIedwig carried food to her father
there.
Lisa Of Alcohalln France
The Freneh minietryeof finance has just
puLlished some interesting statistics con-
eerniug the preduetion and neo of alcohol
to France. The. total production In 1912
was 87,440,420 gallons, as compared with
63,797,165 gallone in 1911.., In spite of this
m
enorous production, France reoelved
from foreign countries 4,913,071 gallons of
Pare a oohol and liquors. On the other
hand, there was a total export trade of 8r
321,370 gallone.
Wedding Cifts In Mlnlature..
A pretty ouetoxp hae been introduced all
recent weddings in Paris. Miniature re,
productions of the presents that are too
big to be'shown . at the reception are
placed among the other gifts. Thus at a
recent reception there was a tiny motor'
car, an emirate .model of a villa which
had been presented to the bride and bride,
groom, and a delicate reproduction of &
grand piano,
RAKIN Gk A WILL.;
Have you made your will? It
not, why not do it now. If yogi
delay, in the event of your 'death
your property might not be disc
tribute as you would desire. The.
advantages .ra of making a will a -
clearly and briefly explained in n+
pamphlet recently, issued by the
Union Trust Company, Limited,
Toronto, who 'ill send it free to
anyone on request. Our readers are
advised to secure a copy at once.
Amsterdam is considering tho
conversion of the 140,000'ton of
combustible street refuse :that iy
gathered' every year into fuel bri-
quets for boilers.
Chinchillas, valuable fur -bearings
animals which inhabit high mounts
acus in Chili, have been imported
into England for breeding experie
meets on a farm.
English figures give the world's
consumption of cotton an the year
ending with August ab 20,277,389
running bales, of which 13,760,261
were American.
The granite statue of King Ed-
ward
VII. recently dedicatee) at
Aberdeen is believed to be the first
granite statue of a ruler erected
since the days of the Pharoahs.
Dried corn at 20 cents a pound
goes much further than canned
corn, and is much more wholesome
and better in flavor.
When.beating the white of eggs
be sure; that there is no grease on
the beater, as it will prevent the
eggsfrom frothing.
If water tastes fiat after boiling,
pour it from one pitcher to another.
This will aerate the water and over-
come the flatness.
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