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PERSONA POINTER8.
Interesting Gossip About Some of the
World'e Prominent People.
Dia KRUM AND. TIjL THEASURIED 14r4 Tweenaeoutla, Fient Lord of th
Admiealty, Le° an assiduome collector o
olL china.
The new Queen ot Denmark is a pas-
alonete adearer of Charlea Dieltene, land
laioeve nainy ef his hooks by 'heart.
Mr. • WhItelaw tz. American
Arribaseador to 'Great Britain, diets him-
self with the ntmest care. He consurites
quantities "et milk Kai oattaeal, but
neither tea nor coffee, eind very little
mat., • • "
This year will see th fret etatue a
Queen Alexandra ereeteain England.:
It is to bq placed outside the London
Hospital by the Governoreeof that insti-
tuttori as a recognition of Her Majesty's
care for the pooa and suffering. • Thc
only other statue of the Queeri is at
Copenhagen, where it was erected
'discovery. Before Da. Perion's tune shortly after her marriage.
coal tar was an almost worthles.s by- Earl Cromer is one of the most %or -
Product of the proeess of making Mum- (nigh students of the Bible among13ra
inating gas. 'Since his investigations tain's public men. Probably the Old
were made public not only are all the Testament has a special interest for
-Colors- of the speotrum made from coal him, seeing that he has such a wide
tar, but in addition it has .become the knowledge of Egypt. Thirtyefour. years
Solaro() of numberless drUgs and ch.erate ago lie became private secretary to the
cats, of artiffeally prepared perfumes, 01 late Earl. of Northbrook, who was also
saccharine, the sweetener, with 300 a deep student of the ,Bible.
Unita the strength of sugar; of photo- M. Fellipres, the new French Prost -
graphic developers, of powerful explosn dent, gets up between Ryon and eight,
Ives. Besides these (lir* benefits from 1 and does his hardest work directly after
the discovery all synthetic chemistry has his morning walk. He never =mites,.
been revolutionized by the new Method and he reads a great deal. In his own
made possible through Dr. Perkin's, words: "I devour all manner of books-
. worle • historical, philosophical, and literary.
. William. Henry Perkin left the City of Tolstoi and Vigny are my favorite au
London School in his fifteenth year •-to thors, and I am a great lover of hand -
enter the Royal ,College of, Cheintstry in sorne books. My morning walk often
Oxford street. Tvvo years leter he be -I takes 7 me to the old book -dealers' stalls
came a private assistant to Prof. Hoff- on the Quay. Book -hunting is, indeed;
men..one of my hobbies. My other hobby is
During his Easter vacation in 185G playing billiards."
Perldn showed his enthusiasm for his . Mr. Welter Vaughan Morgan, the Lord•
work by staying at hertie trying to pro- Mayor of London, at the receht prize
duce quinine artificially: In, this work distribution of the City of London Police
he was led to oxidize aniline, and the Athletic Club, remarked that he was
dyestuff known as mauve resulted, "known .to the .police." Forty years ago
HE WAS ABThn
OUT 18' AT is mE., he stayed late at his business premises,
and, on. leaving he was arrested by a
He resolved to enter upon the mama.: couple' of stalwart constables, aaken to
facture of the product. Having patent-. the police -station., and 'there charged
ed his discovery on August 26, 1856; 4e, with burglariously breaking out of his
began building works at 'Greetifera own establishment. But the inquiries
Creen, neer Harrow, in the following that'iollowed resulted in his 'being dis-
June. • in this he, was aided ' by nts charged "without a stain on his chore°,
father and brother. By the end of the ter."
Year the' new dye was on the market. One can hardly imagine that dignified
,
The second dyestuff 'to. receive PO-, and zealous temperance advecate, Lady
'kin's, attention was madder red, or alie Henry Scifnerset, as a practical joker.
sarin. Graebe and, Liebermann, the and yet it is a fact that site, together
German chemists, announced a method with her • cousin, Lady Dudley, once
et artificially producing this color .:n dressed up as a pair of French tourist,
11168: Perkin immediately set about per- ' and in this guise and „ heavily veiled
fecting a process for making it in large visited her place at E'astnor Castle and
quantities and was successful within a 'went an over it. But apparently she was
year. Tha Germans were not In a POgi- not sufficiently Impressed by the beauties
don to comPeis With him in the menu- of her own residence, for afterwards
facture of this, their own discoveryrun- , her housekeeper confided to her that
til four years later, . I eteeet Deebesse' de' Montmorenci"-the
The founding of the arailcial per-: name which Lady Henry had given her -
fume industrYellAY, also be attributed tolself-"was. a. disagreeable, creature."
Perkin, since he discovered a method of
Sir Charles. Wyndham tells et good
producLng .in the labaratory npumarm.' story Against himself. One (lay he was '
.hitherto obtained from the tatika been', in tlae 'Garrick Club-"Dayid Garrick,"
and sweet • clover. This odoriferous by the, way, was being played at •bis
compound is used in the flavoring of theatre -and the famous ector eat down
*beam, His *work along this, lien also_ the corridor; under4Garriclers por-
elleitied Materially later' in the inanttface tient, and in Garrick's chair, which jq
ture of indigo- arthlekally.i one of the treasures of the club. Harry,
Following Pokin's successful weric, Hamilton, the dramatigtename in, gazed
chemists in France and GermanYC.Pe.tr- at Wyndham, then at the portrait, at
bout the task of obtaining other colors. Garrick, then at, Wandham. "Charles,"
The resulting., industry has become nf he slid, finally, "do you know, you. are
vast irtinorta.nce, especially in Germany, ereeeng more like Garrick every day?"
weber it is often spoken of as the one ere, von think so r returned the acter,
which maybest be tailed . pleased with the cemoliment ; "I an
THE NATIONAL INDUSTRY. very glad." "Yes, indeed" the friend
replied, "and less like hi -in every night."
Some ler Britain's 'best-known and
most popular duchesses have net them-
selves sprung from titled families. .The
Duchess of Bedford is an instance of
HE
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NEGROES AS SOLDIERS
e 441tIVAAT IBISES OECOUITIKO IZ UM
riOUSE
Industrie* Based Upon the Diseovery
Fiftieth Annivereary?
' This Year."
The fiftieth auniversary o ;he discov-
try by William Henry Perian of the firet
coal tar Color,-mauvet ,occurnetnis year.
Plans' are on foot, in England, Germany
-11.11t1 the United State.s for a celebration
ot the event.
) The importance of Dr., Perkin's
ar achievement , lies not in the production
of the one color, mauve, from coal tar,
but in the successive steps in chemical
development which were built upon that
Statistics show that five of the largest
firms engaged in color manufacturing
in Germany have a combined capital of
aboat $24,000,000. -
Dr. Perkin has devoted 'himself .of
Jate years almost entirely to research this, and her Grace of Sutherland
" work, leaving besiness details in the another, The latter lady is a daughter
hands ok, yonnger men. . of Major 'Robert Poore, and sister of
Prior to Perkia's time no one ilea the famous cricketer of the same name.
beeo able to Manufacture dye stuffs ar. The latter Married Lady Flora Hernil.
tificially in large quantities. Dyers ae, ton, the Duke's sister, and in• 1901 the
*pended entirely upon the natural color- Duke fell in love with.and married MTas
ings furnished by plants and antreate; Nina Poore. The Duchess is a beauty -
tall, with blue eyes and gold -
Hofmann, Perkin's mas.ter, taught the very fair,
production of aniline Nora coal tar ben- en hair. She is -much more fond of
ea, but It was left for Perkin to realize -country than of town life, and especially
the. calor 'possibilities which lay in coal of, -her, , husband's beautiful place al
ter.. • . Scotiartd-Hamitton Palace. The Duke
'The develanment of the industry thus is Premier Peer of Scotland and heredi.
• founded by Perkin is shown in the large tarY keeper of flolyrood Palace. ,
establishments now devoted to the man- 1 --
ufecture of coal ter products. ..0.00...ef HAUNT111 -BY IIOGS.
these factories employs 4,500 workmen, " --
Including 145 graduate chemists, en Sailors Reported Weird Things About
having received their doctor's degree, t Bermuda.
175 engineers and 500 clerks. This firm afte, money is the name by which'
alone owns 1,a00 German and 1,400 the brass money which began to be
other patents.
struck in Bermuda in 1650 came to he
The possibilties still lying dorrhant
known, On one face of it was a liog,
' coal ter fire the imaginations of ehem. on the other a ship of that period. These
ists. One chemist poncluded a paper old- Olds are very tare, and highly
read before a bodyaof cifernists in Feb- prized by collectors. '
ruara' follaws:
The, history of this device is curious
"What these. Taw materials Obtained
throteili the distillation of' coal tar will and inter4st'ingi ' A Spanish vessel,
commanded by Juan Bermudez andori
furnish in the future is a matter of eon. ,
. lecture. but if you will permit me to its waY to Cuba with a'4earg° h°g8's
prophesy think we will surely find was ewrecked there. This was in 1515.
Later in the same century, when the
remedies whieh
• e English discovered this land, they
CURE CONSUMPTiON,
., found a country inhabited by hogs.
and -other diseases caused by bacterial It is also interesting to note that the
infection. We will have perfumes which English .discovered it in the same way
will he stronger and more beetaitifully as the .Spaniards. An English ship was
scented than anythiag which natare can wreeked there. Is It any wonder that the
produce. . treacherous coast got from the Span -
"We shall find explosiaes lards and English alike the name of
will not endanger lemma lives in the "Devil's Lahd"? Yet it Is orie ot the
handling,. but which will be more, et. most beautiful coasts the world, and
, featly° than nitro-glyeerine and all it has been claimed that In brilliancy
others known et present. We shall ise Mediterraneare effeets ate not at all
able to presoree materials' of food for
any length of time without injury to
Hie health of the consumer."
It is in honer Of the. man whose re.
Parches have made po,saible these, re -
tulle that the jubilee this fall will be
tr.ield. Those in charge Of the arrange-
r aments In thie eountry hope tO bait° Dr.
Perkin prenent at a banquet to be °held
In New York on October 0, At thie time
a personal taken will be presented to
Dr. Perkirp
In England, the eugested honors! in.
elude the presentation to Br. Perkin oe
en oil perlealt of himself, the portrait
to beeotne the property of the nation at
Dr. Perkin's detith, the exettition of a
• bilst of the thernist to be Pieced
the Monte of the ChatnIcal SodietY 4n
London, and the establiehment Of 4 Per-
kin research fund for the promotion of
aloemieal, investigation.*
aunitely but feta fnen say what
really Mean- otherwise blateked
evie would ht. rweloinit1W
Equ
BOITISO MOM
Potent a.nd Disetplino of Bla,ek Nihau
riot* for Avot African
Warfare.
It mil le safely eaid Most Of the
Weet African tribes recruited in the Brits!
isle service that they are a splendid body
of enen, who take fighting lie they take
their birtchi (Hausa for food). In fact the
cnly time they are ever known to 'real.
ly zrumble,is when provisions are hard,
to obtain,. The ration allowance on sera
vice is one or two yame per diem, 'c
cording to size. This dietary is, how-
ever, regulated by circurnstances,
LONDON EXTRAVAGANcETALGOHOL AID TO BACILLIIIN CITIES OF BLOODSHED
14/m414.st/its sport, orw PRIVATS. TAW PIIOBLIAI WHIM gcsitzsmsTri',CWU AirtaX TOM RatairefaMi ,y4)
114VO lagrOatif MU, counson,
Weadthr Londoner! Dine at $1511 Per Drinkers Offer Leese Reeieteinee lo
Bout Green "Peas at 11,8*
Vadine ,V#erini Than Abeteinie
Spoonful
There eeeres to be no falling off- 1
the practice of spending enornious ,sure
in private eoeiety entertainments
London, England, '
The manager of one of the largest cat -
cling houses has remarkablo extre,van-
ces to cite.
"The cost of ball and 'at herne suppers
varies a,ccording to the season pi the
year," a represezitative of the. firm
and said.
not infrequently they are left to their
owh resources to find food when it is not
possible to obtain supplies at frieridlY
villages. The native will never admit wine, a
"A leader of society gave a small din-
ner party last winter which. cost her
thirty guineas per head„ exclusive nit
having eaten sufficient, and will, when "Yeting green peas were valued at 7s
questioned after a hearty meal, inverie 6d, a spoonful, and aspargus 5s a
ably place his hand on a hugely ex
stick. Peach -fed Virginian hams, with
tended stomach, and, with a smile on his brandy and champagne sauce, cost half
face, say, "13abu binchi" talo food/. a anklet a plate. New potatoes were
The bases from which the expeditione le each. The strawberries and peaches
,are fitted out and start are at Sierra worked out at three guineas per head."
Leone, Accra, Axim, Gold Coast, with its .
military headquarters at Coomassie; La- $1,915, FOR FLOWERS.
Os and northern and. southern Nigeria, "We have just sent in a bill for ?..3.33
with their respective' bases at Lokone to a hostess who gave a dinner party,'
and Calabar the whole comprising tb° said the manager of a West End firm
West African Frontier Force, under .the ca florists the other day. "That ennt
Colonial Office„ and officered by, officers represents only the " floral decorations,
seconded from.. their respective real- which consisted of pale pink 'roses and
ments from all parts of the British FM- lilies of the valley. The roses cost 2s
pire. ed for each bloom, and they were used
ACTIVE SERVICE KIT. not only on the table, but for massed
The fitting up of an expedition is by' effects °envetnhieng's,staiTsusical ptogramme
e and rooms."
no means such a long and difficult lute may east anything from £200 to £800.
derailing as the uninitiated would sup- -
"Many hostesses pay a first-class Art;
ist frarrentana to 300 guineas," saki the
repeeplitive of a well-known agency.
-"Ttre se ices of other performers must
also be engaged, so you can readily see
that music is a very expensive Hemet
.It is suggested that entertainments can
be made considerably* cheaper, and, yet
be seemingly extravagant.
WHO LUCULLUS WAS.
„ .
For instance, a talking machine. ma
be hired for two guineas a night, and
concealed in a bank of greenery. None
of ethe guests would suspect its presence
until from a bower of roses aliir,s voice
stiddenly rang out in "Vol stipete,"
or Melba" trilled the valse aria from
"Romeo. and Juliet," or Caruso Pealed
out in 131 simile pint."
"Why should not hostesses invest in
the finest artificial flowers, which can
be used again?" the 'superintendent of
a charitable school of artificial flower -
93'4V caastrapr.aduCe'.mo-st perfeet scseci_
pese, for the active service kit of the
West African native soldier is by no
means a large or luxurious one. , It
Consists of: -
1 blanket and, Cloak (a waterproof sheet
is, now often. carried instead of one or
both of the articles). •
1 khaki shirt.
1 pair of athaki knickers.
1. pair sandals.
pair -puttees.
Rifle and bayonet, belt, haversack,
etc.
The officer himself is at the most al -
•lowed ,only seven carriers; the load end
each carries may not exceed sixty
pounds. This total of 420 pounds em-
braces provisions -for perhaps two
months camp .equipment, such as bed,
Fath, cooking utensils, etc., and does
not permit, as can be readily imagined,
of the inclusion of any unnecessary ar-
ticles. No more oda spectacle can lie
imagined than to see a column of these
fine swarths negroes marching..along
in Indian file, as. most of the paths are -wens or the 'Caroline Testout, page, P?I:
not bfbad enough for any other way, which florists are charging ?s 6d, at ed
each carrying, in most cases,' his rifle .each.
"It is impossible to detect theie ado
nettle flowers unless they are handled,.
elpecially. if arranged with real. foliage.
We scent the blossoms with rose per-
fume.
"We decorated a dinner table last
month with mignenette. and, yellow roe
-
es, with trails of real -smilax and maid -
can only be undertaken between the -enhair fern. The hostess was asked
months of Dee,ember and May, which IS how she had obtained mignonette .‘o
the dry 'season. .. • ° early in the year. The flowers cost 15e,
TRIBES CHIEFLY ENLISTED. and can be used on many occasions."
Lecullus was a rich Roman soldier -
So many tribes are recrtated from, 16 and gourmet noted for his ,significetce
and self-indulgence.
It is recorded. that he spent more than
e1,700 on, a- single meal. To, a quea-
tiener who aeiced him Who were to be
his guests ,et a particularly splendid
supper, he answered, "Lucullus will sun
to -night with .Lucullus."
and perhaps a yam or two balanced on
his heath •It matters not, whether the
load be of sixty pounds or, a box cf
matches; for preference he will carry
It on his head.
Naturally, in e countty such as this,
Where the rainy season is of zilch long
duration, exPeditions -ink) the interipr
would be too great a tesk to enumerate
the various types fully. Ire northern Ni-
geria, the Haase Is chiefly:enlisted. tie
is a Mohammedan and is a born fighter
The battalion at Lagos is also mainly,.
composed of Mesas, who come down
trading from Kano, 'Sokoto, Zarla and
other up -country places. Then there is
FUlani, who is--theugh not so ar-
dent a soldier as the Hausa, tieing usu-
ally engaged in cattle/ raising -in fea-
tures and color guile different from the
Hausa. °
The Yornbai who comes from the La-
gos Hinterland, is inclined to be of a
more cheerful dsposition than the Hausa,
and is a much cleaner soldier, enjoying
when possible a daily wash-, to which
the Hausa, like most other natives, has
usually no great affinity. . Though it
cannot be said. that the Yornba. is a bet-
ter tighter than the Hausa, he has the
very :desirable qualifIcation of remain-
ing•steadier under fire, so that it is best
when possible to Operate with a mixed
body of Hansas and Yombas. The
'maintenance of order and disoipline
difftcult task with such bodies, of men,
arid it needs one possessing a good
temper, Oatience and tact at the head of
affairs. '
'Dohs . NOT BEAR MALICE.
Ode strong point, in favor. of the 'West
African soldier is that he doe not bear
Malice for. any punishment initiated up-
on him. Hie confidence in the justness
and iMpartiality of the Baturi (white the fireplaee and back. The lad burst
man) is so 8trong as to quite obliterate
eny feeling,.s of resentment. The usual into teats end declared he could not do
answer/ given to the question, "Are- you it. The point was insisted upon end the
a 1 patient staggered pathetically to the
'fit' to do" a certain thing, pat tO
soldier, is, itSwposint you tel mo make" fireplace, and started to come back when
i he fell. .Unfortunately for the short leg
I go ^de 89,, I go do so." ' ' I • ', i
Takitig into coneideration tee mama 1 theory, he fell on the wrong s de, and
the,- West African soldier receives the the bogus." nature of his alleged defect
nate pay as the British imperial spldie was, made even more apparent than be-
er, I. e., 1 shilling per diem, with I shit- '1"°' ' , ,e, '. . e , • tee ,..,.
ling per diem geed Cotiduct. pay, anti Ile ssaplaal • relOsea to use ilib leg
Is really more generously treated in the naturaiLY1
evak Of kit, his lot is by , no means a arc- however, in spite of ,eXpo-
'II?
poor one, since, he can support himself -X-Fellow of the toyal College of Sur -
and his family on about 3 pence er geons said ,the other day e --"This as-
sumption ot bodily defects is not alto-
gether unusual, and is'ef form of bye -
thrice. A• contraction of the muscles tend
a tilting of the pelvis, and the thing is
done. It is due to a Illorbid desire to
excite eytripethy and attract attention.
I. have' known ofSaeees where Seritnia
SHORT LEG MANIA.
Novel Form of Hysteraa-Patienta Desire
to Excite Sympathy.
A curlew case of "hysterical short
leg" -to use a doctor's descriptive &ape
-has recently been admitted into a
special hospital in Central Lohdon.
The patient, a lad of fifteen, appeared
to have one leg a couple of inches short-
er than the other After some mortals'
treatment, on the south coast he was
brought to a London orthopaedic hospi-
tal. Leg splints were used with the
idea of extending the limb, but when the
patient was placed under chloroform
his leg suddenly assumed a normal posi-
tion.
The only explanation was that the
lad, who was mentally defficient, had,
by contracting the muscles of the leg,
caused the appearance, of a shortened
limb, lie was reinoved to a 'hospital
which treats .merital cases. In the ward
he was told to leave his bed and run to
equal to those of Bermuda, a
Bermuda is said to be the island of u
Shakespeare's "Tempest." The Strange a
noises which mariners beard coming 0
from this ialand, and which they did in
not then !mow were produced by begs, le
caused thorn to eel that it WOS haUtItedi. ti
and to report weird 'hinge of it. ter 10 get nertnisalOn, should one de8ire emends. have been inflicted by Patients
0 -------er"
it, to remain a short while overtime A
TREASURE TROVE IN SAND PIT. enedleal examination is held and It re'sts. ethipAt
SUffering frotri hysteria watt' 111.? Sante
o, Soverg mensive.gold 'braeelets, each entirely with the doctors as to ,wheilker -,niti;.'in-untee "jacinnety mingled with
the 'applicent 'is permitted to do so or
weighing mono than three pounds, end
said to be of Roman Workmanship hese
been diseovered in a sandpit on the bor-
ders of Dartford, Heath, England, a
short distance from the htetorie 110thati-
road through Kent known am; Watling
et Tho wOrkers in the pit did not rte.
lize the nature of the articien and a
boy reineaked their brightnesS,1 land re-
mit ed. that tenimon metal Would not
fit
tie. e lain under the , noil Untarnished.
Tit Workinerk eoneidered that they
would make . excellent quoit', but the
Inane& ' of the ,eandpits trt once retort-
Iiized the value or the artielen, whit"))
are now In tite pOteetation Of the tr
41171°
tem. . Nothing could better illustrte
le unhealthifiese of the climate In these
arts than the granting by the ColOnial
Mee of four months leave, neVeounte
g the voyage to and fro, niter every
velve months residential' servlee but
ken. on full Tay. And *is a hard mat -
riot. persuasion is the best treatment"
RUBBER HEELED TENANTS.
A New York landlord, Who Mils it
hn her of flat buildings, now ibtludos
in is v lea.ses elause coMpelling ten-
antd end their eervants to wear rubber
lieele, for which the Landlord Pays.
Ifere,ofore Many flee have been vacant
caving to the inemeant poise made in the
tiled eneritiore And elairwaYe. Now the
tenant:ft ere noleelecs. all the refs' are,.
lea anti the, lanillora teiye. rubber ,boota
.belitle by Ute hutidecd, '
i
CHAIN -MAKING MACIfINZ.
Lelong, a Belgian inventor, bets e de-
vised4what ie said to be iht ftrst eu ` 's.
11
fill apparatut With whiM. by the of
but one format and one maehirte, a
continuous chitin May be Made ' d
eortkpletely finished. The Iran IS 'ffid in.
tO the ntitChille in the .stuipe of titertight
rode and notifies Out * eiattplete chain.
iChtkint lef any *fa mar Um bet MO,
\km the arntilleat °tett Isp to, *
WOO tilsittko tlited in 4b. vs.
llsolneind Peoploa Were Kined
011,6 1Pet$0104 ,. ' ' thir Result of Seunerre
. Med.
“n has• ' beceirie gerieralleteaeknetvledg- S';:r, Jan. Boger, the Governor a the
ed lately that, a man may be the , nest Gold Coast le. made a remarliable tour
of diphtheria baeilli, cholera, vibrionee,,into Me interiote lasting. over three old
or other . pathogenic baeteria without a halt mouths, says 'neuter,
neeessarily developing the correspened-i At Kuinonsi a large nttmber of chiefs
ing dizeaees," Professor Eli Medina- enroe ilk to pay their respects to the Gov- .
leaf, of Paris, 'declared in theiirst of ernor, and there were many impoteing _
the Harben leetures, " delivered an late disptayeewnen, Ilia native rtniere, in gor-
lee,ture theatre of King's College, Lone geous raiment, attended by immense
Jen, England. , 4 fellowings, arrived front the surround -
Professor MetchinkofVe subject was ing country. All appeared to be coo, -
"The hyglerke of the tissue," that is to tented and peaceful,
.say, the problem whictt scientiste now , At Bolo there were appalling evidences
Lave before them of how to rid the body of tie fornater ravages of Sammy: Illin-
of the mierobes which infest it. He deaddreds of skeletons still ;strewed the
particularly with the typhoid bacillus. ground. One old chief told the Gover-
"Until a short time ago . we were eon, nor that he had lost between five and
vinced that the principal, if not the six thousand people as it result of Sae
sole, cause of outbreaks of typhoid fev. retary's raids. In another part of .he
et' lay in drinking, Witter," he said, Northern Territoriee the chief of a tribe ,
"yet it has been shown that persons have said that formerly he had had, to render
acquired the disease who never drank three hundred slaves annually to '. Ash.
water, or drank only boiled water, and anti.
who never ate raw food, Between Gambaga and Xintexripo the
expedition visited Wa, where over
SEVENTY MOUNTED CHIEFS,
ettended by at least 5,000 people,, came
le to the Governor. Here, again, as •ine
deed througbout the Northern Territories
the people expressed their keen recog-
nition of the valup of British protection,
and compared, theire'present favorable
position with the old danger they had,
sidered as important sources of hale°. ers. '
both from the Ashentis and othereraids„
"The 'typhoid bacilli can remain kit a Whl the Governor was at Wit, the '
tion for this disease. 1 i e e
virulent state for many .years in a.body
• eLobi Dajarti, one of the wildest tribes,
unaffected by their pathogenic action, 1 against Whom .several punitive expieli-
"What reason can be given for this t tions` had been sent, tendered their
e.emarkable and prolonged inMilMiLV submission voluntarily.
The scene at the fort -*hen hordes of
scientists- everywhere have been clevot-
------e, • th6e nativp savages, armed with bows
This was a question to which leading
ing their attention. and arrow, .came in to Palaver with i he
An .extensive series of experiments Governor, was striking. These people
carried out in the last few years has/ had never seen a white man. before this
many different languages '
wimmhiehunlite.y, . trw° occasion. So I, 0 sSeon . ,
The training -ship lads were onlbe
ashnod7. tni,latthiatt isthtehe7phseangcoecyteosf
Hes, in the living elements of the body, Lc' employ six Interpreters eto translate
ted that it was necessary
liver us from our enemies. - 1 the Governor's address to the assembled
broadcast in their surroundings with,.
i The. tour showed that tranquility and
prosperity prevail throughout the Gold
' "If bacilli carriers can sow diseases
that their' riving cells re -act efficiently e-. • e
Coast, the , Northern Territories, and
out themeelves falling ill, . the reason is Asharite
against pathogenic microbes, and can .
these microbes." . I e.o.....o...o.•••••.+.rm...w•w•owo,
.„ .
rapidly produce substances injurious to '.. WORTHY SONS OF SEA DOGS.
. —
,
Professor Metehrilkoff, declared,- In Warspite Boys Manifest Courage Like
closing, that persons who indulge, • total
freely in alcohol Show far less resist-
anceof ' to infectious diseases, especially to. The Stirring incialent.s which attended
croupous pneumonia, than abstemious the loss of the Birkenhead many years
persons, ago are recalled ia a striking manner by
the splendid.' discipline recently shown
by a hundred Warspite boys in the face
of danger of the gravest character.
CARRY THE DISEASE'. ..
"The fact is that perfectly nealthyeper-
sons, especially snole as have come In
contact with typhoid fever patients, or
with persons who have suffered from
enteric at a more or lees remote period,
often harbor the bacillus typhous in
consderable quantitiesein 'their anneal-
tary canals. Such persona have been.
termed bacilli carriers,, and naust be con-
.
•
PLANT KNEW ITS FittlEND.-
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,
Traveller's Story of a Sensitive Plant of fourmasted.vessel, •Port eJeckson, and,
• It
Ceylon: . were being taken . on a erulse to Mis-
s) tralia, with a view to giving them a
_..
.... •
:the splendid and floutishing sensitive
"is practical training for the mereanhle'
e, , -
This plant causes you, marine. The Porte Jackson had been
, , '
plant of Ceylon.
. • . ' i , tOR'd round from London to the Chan
to wonder if planet, like us, can't feel and cast off the tug after passing
pain, and think and grievehel
linen through the Straits of Dover. When
"We were seatedM white
garden beyond Colombe. We had -just op
ed
Head, a, sudden fog .devet.
clothes, under the palms of our host's
breakfasted, and the native servants with great eaution .clOwn. .channel.
and the _eailing'sleip proceeded
were handing -about cpflee and liqueurs . wardsproveda big steancier' 'which after -
"'What plant is that?' said I. • proved to be the Hamburg
steamer Pyrgose of the German Levant
littl d ght : Line, loomed up .righte in front of the
e. , •
host answered, and added, turning to his Port JalcsonThe fog hadprevented
"Go, dear, and kiss the mimosa.'
"The child obeyed. ' Then she came
back to us gleefully. The plant had not
shrunk from her fresh young touch. Not
,a leaf had quivered. . .
"'Now, you go and kiss it,' said our
host to me. ,
"I advanced. I put out my hand. And
my hand, no sooner touched the mimosa
than it Shivered, and the leaves wilted
as though frost bitten.
"The plant knows my daughter,' our
host explained, 'but you are a stranger
to it.'"
SAUSAGES FROM CORPSES.
Chinese Sausage Makers Dig 'Up Recent-
ly Interred Bodies for Meat. 4
For many years least the wealthy in-
habitants -of the :little town of San
'Gemmel°, -near Valparaiso, Chili, have leckeon said it was a wonderful sight
been in the habit of supplying the needs. to see the lads coolly parading in the
of their breakfast table- from some Cbi- face of the possible disaster, as no one
nese sausage -makers famed for the ex- knew until an examination hadbeen
cellence of their good. . Irk their adver- made what was the extent of the •
all the .damage . that had been sustained in tthe
tisements the Chinese guara.nteed that
sausages were neanufsotured collisioit. Mr. West, of Our Navy, team
amid the Cleanest and most sa
surroundings, and 'from the choicest was on board, remarked that it vividly
° , nitatit
materfals. A ri,cfr spertIsh merchant„ recalled to his mind the famotis story
of the sinking of the Birkenhead. ,
while cutting open his, 'breakfast sau-
Sage recently, found in it, to his inde-
scribable horror, the tip of a human
finger, evidently that of a young wo-
man. As a result of the gruesome dis-
covery,. the merehant became Fiolently
111. The mett.ei was immediately re-
ported to thesanitary police, and. a -ter-
rible discovery was made. It appears
that the Chinese sausage -makers bed
several years bereft establishedtheir
factory on a plot of land adjoining the
local cemetery.In the ,night "they
entered the cemetery, opened graves,
and dug out recently interted corpses,
whieb were then made into sansagee.
In nearly every ease the. Sausages, were
coneumed unwittingly by the ,relatives
and friends of the dead.
the steamer being seen until 'ehe Was
practically in touch with the training
ship:' Every effort Was made to avoid a
collision, but the steamer crashed into •
the Port Jackson's. starboard bow.. The
•araptect. was tereifte,•snalcing the ship
fawn cnal to end, while the iron plates.
were ripped through as though they
were cardboard, •
The captain, with great coolness, weir°
orders for the Warspite boys to be mus-
tered on deck ire case of disaster, whilst
the ereva avere told offeto make arrange-
ments for lowering the boats and get-
ting out life-saving appliances, etc. The, .
hundred young lads were very promptly
mustered, and were formed up on the
officers' instructions, and stood to at-
tention awaiting the next orders of the
captain.- Happily; disaster was averted,'
and the sailing vessel was towed round
to Dover in safety.
- The chaplain. and doctor of the Port
COLORS AND CONSIIM1TI6N,
A French physician, Dr. Mangan 'd6t
Claree that the color of the clothes which
a consuraptiveshould wear is *cry int.
portant The clothing "should be of, a,
Ind veld& allows 'mast light to pane -
trate it, light heVing, a- favor
on conenneptives, Dr.. Ma
MONKEY HUNT IN 110SPITAL.
4
Cuts Capers Around Grounds, Then
Sumps Into Bed.
The patients of .the General Hoepital
in Vienna had an exciting 'experience
the other day. A large monkey that had
been sent to PeoL Finger, a surgeon tit-
taChed to the hospital, for experimental
Purnosea, escaped into trm garden.'
Chased unsuccessfullY for e time' by a
moll artily Of attendants, the animal's;
antics cattoed great extitement, until a
severe rainetorm drove him back into
the shelter of the beildings again. lIert
he rushed through several wards, ter.,
ribly frightening petiente and nurAea„
and finally jumped into en empty bed,
hiding himself -under the clothes, *here
the terror-etricken anitnet could be
tufty secured at last.
NEV KIND OF 'RACE.
It‘ltitt.i in the first groat athlotio ntotti
ing held ht China, whit* took plarA at
ble effecti eatoton, ‘tbre rittunetto rates. Pupils
at recom,T from collet& e flied Skate and pencils
mends white stuffs, 'as thev allow the; and in the, course of the, race) they erk.
latgest: number of theinical rays to countered ta blaekboard earitaining
poess. theotigh them, and absorb no eol-* sune ta be ,solved. The boys were lined
ore(' rays. White linen, *hitt velvet,' up, as they' rtaelted the and-Ahosis
*hitt 'cotton or clofiti„ but, not whitewhew, ealoulatiOns .toere wrong \verge,
silk', may be used. Next to white thei Ulm Tht first thrte lett tit
test eolora silblo, sin4 v1.1.1.1 thitIlas wets trow44.4 winners.
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