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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1913-12-18, Page 66 1'VINiiliA31 TIMES, i) COBER 18 1913 THE PASSPORT AND TRAVEL. Official Credentials Necessary To Cross Frontiers. The passport will disappear as a condition of international travel orly with toe coming of the millennium. It wool ii d , easierto drivee a camel through the eye of a needle than to tenug;;le a foreigner into Russia with- out a passport. Whether he cro=s the Czar's frontier from the sea, by the gateway of Ilatottm, or be land, w here the Nord 1•,xpress runs through the ; ..11• n tree h t tr • a 1 will be called nema to steed and deliver his pass- port a.lmo• t before he has filled his lungs with Russian air. It is a case of passport firet art customs after, for if the traveler: credentials are not in order his lu ;'gage need not be opened. It might be thought that in- spection at the former would suffice; but there is another examination to undergo at Tiflis or St. Petersburg, es the case may tie; anti, indeed, dur- ing a stay of' some weeks in the capi- tal the doeunlert is usually retained by the manage? of :he hotel, and must be endor-ed again by the police before the holder leaves the country. The one redeeming feature of this otherwise irritating surveillance is that it mete. n 'thing, since the Rus- s:sen att.heri<te's t'ndertake all the ne- reeerre fns.^a'lt`o; without enacting • !11";.11 •' r•:^l,le fur their trouble. 3t i; ill" t: ':i:,n to resent, as well I' i' t'r:ir.ule of the 'us- • ,1 • •!•3 • r.vrists who are im- •e t k.• r- ?'1.11. scrutiny are free to and he methods of Mus- covy •'f+•^r all, not more prying or j '.' ' rein 't' than those of Mont- rt:sa, i ':ill .;Tian immigration bn- . n': "c1•4 from sell arrival an tt,at he is not an Anarchist, a p=:_ : ;e:•;ter, cripple, or hereditary e' e!,ih,. It insists on knowing whe- • l .; oval nut""age. It •1, .1k,ut his parents: anti :d in fart displays an �'�• tt•tt �e:i tihna•it k tut3$ian efii- ., , .te - t, .t.er dream. '.'--!•• in Turkey, where th I. :: ry :•:; or; of other countries a 4 re: e.a' '•i i.c the taske"re, is, on the of continual p;•1•-: • ?.d•Lie,'t < �i!7 few piraSters here anti a f•'w .'!.:cress there, not only (in the •lar.; oa A1•41-ul-Hamid) on entering•., but actually endearing the country as ! '•n^ vela ys, how ,• vt'r, utas rule of inspectiag the teskere of anyone quitting Ottoman territory, which were merely an excuse for a last backsheesle has wisely been done away with. The object of the passport has al- tered during the past two centuries. The "license to travel" of Elizabeth- an times represented in effect an export duty on tourists, and was in- sisted on In the hope of discouraging foreign travel, which the authorities regarded, in post -reformation days, as subversive of Protestantism and likely also to undermine the patrio- tic sentiment of English youth. Ed- ward VI. and Elizabeth both gave letters, which may virtually be re- garded as passports, to commercial adventurers trading in Russia and Persia. Nowadays, on the other hand, a passport is simply a certificate of citizenship, in which the foreign sec- retary for the time being calls upon all those "whom it may concern" to pass the bearer 'Pret ly, without let or hindrance," and to afford all ne- cessarily assistance and protection. The modern passport is a coldly im- personal and official document, with none of the glamor of these old let- ters from princes; but something analogous to them survived until re- cently in Morocco, where the grand vizier used to give his sign manual to favored travelers In the atlas or other wild regions of the :thereefiten empire. whereby they were sure of the ass!;tante of country kaids and of immunity from attack. or imposi- tion. The priceless letter used 10 cost nothing beyond thanks at an audi- ence and the only oblitattiona which it entailed cn the holder was that l.' .should at 1'3:= u':tt include a couple of Moorish soldiers in hi.; retinue. The ;Ir=,tory of the=se at::or;' as :;o :e'::';ta c,l.'ob't», 1.'1; they wt,, h:tor;7 'nun in l,itrhin;• a tont or - tit:.; a c.;:lp fire and ware• generall. v -girth .ars th•iii t olr vel; l'c•ec 1''t'iciy. The treat baseball player's wife Lad nee'•v " en ,: ;,outs, but he fleetly portent:i ' 1 her t,e view one in which he teas to play. tit' was doing his C..1;> F;a'ii:e had been called on hien, and, t usual in base- ball ate," -dotes, t.,o men were out and the bast:; full. Our hero was gather- ing uta,. ,..14•ttg,,l seer the swat he was going to gi:•e the ball. And the ball calve. He knew it was his as the ball started, and with a *nighty (:rack he lifted it ii:t:, epee, . Itropping leis bat, he sited for ;lest, and ere the roar of applauee buret out a plight woman in the •rind steted rn-ic' end called: rulirr' beek hero and put that bat v,•:it r'e it be:ong. "_� The Sneezing Prayer. The rustonl of following a sneer,' with a prayer goes so far back into the past it is next to impossible to say when it actually began. According to Strada the custom originated among the Assyrians, who, through an opin- ion of the danger that attended it, after the net of sneezing made a sboz t prayer to the gods, The Romans af- ter sneezing cried out, "Jupiter, he?t1 lie!" The custom i:; mentioned by Homer, the early Jewish writers and others, and ii found among many son - ave tribes. t fir's.+ :tie Own. "What's the baby crying fur r'.c:••""" "1It', d t':' !tea•' of the bouts> fret + •o.ntil ,: is paper. "F!:• :'rets his own way," answer- ed ,k;:' ..'t:l h:.. nll:d on the I:„t., b' u• • p; „n ; rt►ii Tttibby replied: "tv••:a icetris, t• sy don't you let .o• • 1.'• 4ot:wily Admonition. ,-re a•, Ani:•., how often have I told g' ;n at ::ts;; to cast your eye.; down a , in the otre3et? It uzalt" Ca and. ba Uidt•n, you nt> =,t '11r►d a pocketbook that 11-,t;. u;.,Tei •tied Wafer. I.' t,.,! til.:e o (!; 1te:1Vy tan leaf; for bulk, and gold nine- I teen tin; :u us heavy. •••••4:4.404s....•••••••••••••• Hco.4►c.......•a.....♦.• Making the I LitUeFarm Fau 1 • Z BD C. C. BOWSFIELD • 0OM.O.O..O......N.....0. ECALLING the costly • experience • r • • • f e e t a m s e e ll n it of last seasul farmers and gat deners are peeper ing to make wit on the cutwor and other pests o the kind. Caterpillars, iu their vas' nus forms, were unusually destructiv last summer in all parts of the coun try. They seemed to be getting th start of land owners in corn and co ton fields as well as in orchards all gardens. The diculty in fighting the cutwor lies chiefly in the fact that it operate exteusively In fields and hides in th ground. Its operations cover such It wide territory and its migrations ar so rapid that ordinary spraying proc esses are not effective. This catetpil lar is identical with the army wort and probably the same as the cotta worm. In habits and formation it is identleal, though ratherlarger it tam southern localities s in the worihel'u cake region. When a farmer knows in the spring that there are cutworms or army worms in his fields he sl•et'.l 3111•.p' vic...rous l.t;-u-t: t':'.. '1'::t' t•xt r„ Wo:•. invoh•c't 1,4 a 110:1!,i.'1' i:..,:1 1.01':t1,,,nt hl: (.Pupa. A se•rr,ul• I,!05:ing tit the :u 1 Is i;, pial, the I.i:4 t0 he 31.: 11,::1 seeding tiro.' as pussiu!,•. A:1 i' ,•:. .'f sii&'I'it,4 1110 reel .1.'. summer 11 :fru;: !, cum's on are k gyri:vial. The 1':11 a• to::rs np tht• nesting. pares. tl::'e:,,. the insert. 0111 where bird:. 111:11 :n•i st them ,nil ereatist a .,•neral t:;s 1 nl'bantt. This extra tillage is scud fey ti. !awl awl will go a lung nay Im;,r,; s'ers::lnatlug the per::s In (onuce'lt,:u tvt'h the work of plotvteg and 11;;.: t Ittinc it will pay to use a prep:int:1 ,n Made on the basis of nue p0lnt tit Paris green. thirty pounds of bran :u; i two quarts 11f la"I'teste. t1":;att'u hr;111 with stater bt' ore mixing. 'I': is t:tats 1,; Igliuufa('tnrrd in l.•u•^-t'r , if needed. It i •; to be spread 1 11:10; :allnnt the fiel;l. if placed around n garden. orchard or field it may serve to exclude 1111 caterpillars. hero:;';e.• emulsion is also recommended. \Vhere any crop has been dant. ;ta :1 by the caterpillar pest it is a g•,o:1 pnli(v to sow ;Ilsike. This is a pt'olit- able product, almost equal to cotton or corn, Whoa cost is considered. and It i-greatr•1 a of ,lac to thesoil. Another good plat is to sots part of the affected ground to rape and allow a drove of hogs to forage on it. A rotation of crops. with an occasional applieatiol' of the preparation descent. ed, will rid ;t farm of' cutworms and similar creeping pests. • The cankerworm is best known as a pest of apple and cherry orchards, but It is et;en more destructive to elms. Modern methods require frequent spraying with arsenical poisons as a protection of fruit against the codling moth, and this has the incidental ef- fect of killing. canker worms. The San Jose settle can be destroyed by the use of one of the Bine and sul- phur mixtures. which may be purchas- ed ready made or brought into solution by boiling the raw materials together as follows: Fifteen pounds of lime, fif- teen pounds of sulphur and fifty gal- lons of soft water. • For fifty gallons of the spray heat twelve gallons of wa- ter in a four gallon Iron kettle, mixing in a separate vessel fifteen pounds of sulphur with enough water to form a thin paste. Auld this sulphur to the water in the kettle and bring the mix- ture to a temperature just below boil- ing. Then add fifteen pounds of best lump lime, keeping cold water at hand to use as the mixture threatens to boil over. After the lime is fully sluic- ed, boil for forty minutes with almost constant :inertia 'Then strain- into a fifty gallon tack wed fill with warm water. Codling tenth, attacking apple and other fruit trees, should be treated wi'h ,lie hordcanx mixture, which can 1 * 1.i.vcI:iscd ready for use or matte up as follows: Copper sulphate (blue vitri'.,it, four pounds; quicklime (not air slaked), four pounds; water to make fifty gallons. Dissolve the cop- per sulphate by butting it in a bag of eileveseeloth and hanging this in a ves- sel holding lit least four gallons, so that it is just eot•ered by water. Use 11, wlrtben ur wooden vessel. Slake the lime by tulditiun of a small quan- tity of wat:'r and when slaked cover t';•e•13' With \tater and stir. Strain the milk of lime thus made into the e('p' ..••4. sulphate. four more water over ., • tom:mull):, lime and stir the strain into the ether until all lithe but stone ,:t. '1'{114 1>y'1*ae;tun uistin•e is effective in troe; ing as;'su•;tgua t•tist, cabbage mildew. rot and parasites on .Mees, early h!°:bt, scab and Colorado .4.1 le on p tato:•.. loaf blight and in- •• 1s "n tune' e,':,,11s a:'i Watertuefons, •.i':a:, on tomatoes. ac.leberries and 1.:c1:Lurrie: , 1:11:u.4 011.1 lt::f 1. ,,lit on ;:t;~..leaf spilt 011 4!r.ae:l,;'r:le , rot on ' trees *WI ne.l:•ly all h,,;(.0 pests i Cr,'ong.;on3 cl, msee. eeeletteeee eeete eoeoeoeeeaeee • O 'd .; til::nnfe. but • '11:1;1!.e•11 71c3 • in the barn 10t "I 000e•••••••••••••••e•eetele see CONFIDENCE Merchants Spend Money to Gain itait; d Hold It By HOLLAND. V OUR confidence is an as- ' set that every manufac- turer of reputable goods seeks. He spends money to gain it and will take all nec- essary pains to retain it. Your confidence in the integrity of a manufacturer, your belief that goods bearing a certain brand are always up to stand- ard, is one of the Intangible assets known as "good will" and which is regarded by a business man as essential to his success. Manufacturers spend mil- lions telling you about their goods. They cannot hope to bet this money back by the first transactions. They must make you a customer and keep you a customer. To do this they must make honest goods at an honest Brice. This accounts for the fact that advertised goods are al - rays of high class. It would not pay to advertise goods that will not bear rigid test. The ADVERTISING CREATES CONFIDENCE. Then the manufacturer de- pends on the quality of his product to still further adver- tise it and still further in- crease the customer's confi- dence. Market the Waste. Many items on the farm, such as cull fruit, small potatoes, wastes fry'n the kitchen and other things which will not sell, find a good market through the hog.—Farm dila Fireside. THE HUM OF THE HIVE. See that all colonies have queens be- fore it is too late. If the bees are to be wintered out- doors use chaff or double walled hives. A hive of bet's will supply all the honey the family needs and, besides, pollentze the fruit. Nothing pays bet- ter in a small way. A queen bee lives from two to five years, workers from forty-five days to sir months, and drones seldom more than five weeks. There seems to be abundant evi- dence that the Italian bees do work more upon red clover than the black bees, and therefore that they do have longer tongues. If }tees are to be wintered in cellar put several pieces of carpet or similar uiaterial over brood frames. No cover Is needed. Light should be excluded from cellar. Damp cellar's can be kept dry by aid of lime. An oil lamp will provide heat if needed and n window or door opened in the evening will sup- ply ventilation to reduce sb high tem- perature. WHAT DAIRYING DOES. An Object Lesson in the Value of Feeding Crops on the Farm. A few days ago a striking object les- son came to ate while out on one of the trips I like to take when work slacks l:p It little, writes E. L. Vincent in Atnerican Cultivator. For some time I land Leen riding though a neighborhood where the grass was about the poorest 1 ever saw. I remarked to my wife, who Was with me, that it did not seem as if le would pay to cut that grass at alt this year so very short and titin on the ground was it. And really it would seem almost like robbery to do it. The soil would be the better for It if ev- ery spear of grass and other stuff growing ou the land could just go back , into the ground. Then all at once we came to a farm where the conditions were so different that it appeared as if we had suddenly stepped into a uew world. Here the grass stood rank and of the beautiful deep green we farmers love so well to see in our meadows. Those fields 'would no doubt turn two tons of tiny to tho acre. Now, this last mentioned farm was not a bit better land naturally than those we had already passed through. In fact, of the two I think I would rather choose some of the land which now lies so barren. What is the dif- ference? Largely dairy • farming. Of course there are other things involved in getting a crop of hay like that than keeping cows. Good farming involves a lot of things, but in great measure the fact that the owner of this good grass farm owes his success to the cows lie keeps. About the time I was along there ,the manager of a farm bureau was at 'the farm where dairying is a specialty and stopped to snake some inquiries about the methods of the young farmer tvlio is making sueh a good thing of it there. Among other things he asked was whit crops had been turned off the previous year, and the answer prov- ed that no hay, corn or other rough fodder was sold; all had been fed out on the place. In short, the farm Is being; starved i not s ft t ed amt robbed year after year Now, here are some pointers for ev. ery man who has a mind to take them. Ilow can anybody who reads and keeps his eyes open help putting things to- gether and ',yoking by them? MOLECULES ARE INVISIBLE,' ASTHENIC PERSONS. Yet Their Tracks Through Space Can Bt, Discerned. It came to be evident about t u k bu the mid- dle of the last century that, in order to explain certuie filets connected with the relative weights of b gases. gas's matter musttic. , of in > 'Iv 'o u consist i. t of atoms, but that these atoms roust have the power of uniting in sunlit ;;soups. In form- ing a compound, indeed, this Must be so, For iustanee, eurbonle avid gas must consist or one ti 10111 of carbon, which, along with two atoms of oxy- gen, fortes a small group or three atoms. The novelty of the c•nneetdou 11,118 lu the 11011011 that oxygen Itself. in the state of g:1s, las It gists, 1'o1' example, In the Or, consists of small groups of atoms; in this ruse, two. To such small groups of atoms was given the name molecules. A malevule is that portion of a substance which can exist in the free state. as oxygen does in air. An atom generally exists in combination, but atoms may and sometiutes do ex- ist separately. ht whish case they also 'aro termed molecules, Now, can Molecules be seen? Is their existence a mere assumption? The an- swer to that question is, No, they can- not be seen, but artificial molecules can be made which correspond so closely In their behavior to real mole- cules that the existence of real mole- cules is practically certain. Moreover, although no one huts ever seen a mole- cule, still the track of a molecule mov- ing througb space has been seen, and, just as Robinson Crusoe was right in inferring the existence of man Friday from bis footstep Imprinted in the sand, so the real existence of a mole- cule may just as certainly be inferred from the track it leaves.-- Sir William Ilamsay in IIarper's. COLD COMFORT. It Came After the Little Faker Had Got His Punishment. The east end small boy had sadly misbehaved and was locked in his room. Pretty soon his mother beard him calling. "Mnvver," said tate shrill voice, "I'm goin' to bust the window and fall out!" The mother made no reply. Again the shrill voice arose: "Muvver. I've found some matches, an' I'm goin' to set fire to the cur- tains." The mother remained indifferent. Once more the voice hailed her: •'Musser, dbu't you smell sumiin• burnin'?" Even this drew no re- sponse. "If you don't smell nothin'," the valve went on, "It's 'cause I pulled off all th' match heads an' swallowed 'em, an' I'm goin' to die. 1)o you hear that, muvver; I'm goin' to die." By this time the mother was thor- oughly incensed, and hastily preparing a cup of mustard and bot water, she hurried upstairs. "If you're swallowed match heads," she announced, "you'll have to swal- low this to keep them company." And then she poured the nauseating stuff down his throat, A tittle later the aggravating young- ster, sadder, wiser and much humbled, concluded to take the balance of his punishment in silence. "1 didn't really swallow the matches, mnvvor," he contritely explained. "I knew you didn't, sonny," replied the mother.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tips For Tennis Players. One of the faults of the inexperi- enced doubles player which is most persistent is standing still. This is one of those necessities in doubles that are often overlooked. But no partner can do justice to bis team unless he moves after every shot to the cen- ter of the angle of the return. In other words, both men must constantly cha nge their positions, moving back and forth toward one side or the other, according to where they have sent the ball. If the net man has volleyed deep into the right hand corner both play- ers move across to the right. The right hand player thereby protects the shot down his own side line, and the left hand player protects the cross court shot down the central diagonal of the court.—Outing, Lubricant For Aluminium, Many machinists, especially those employed in the motor engineering in- dustry, are frequently called upon to work in aluminium. To satisfactorily do this work various lubricants have been tried, which, however, owing to their volatility, are of little use. A suitable lubricant is tallow or cob - bier's wax. This latter does not dis- solve quickly and consequently does not flow as freely as the volatile oils.— American Machinist. Going On. A terrible noise of thumping and starnping came from Bob's room early one morning. "Bobby, Robby;" called his mother from downstairs, "what Is going on up there?" t'My shoes," replied Bob. Love's Paradox. "Love results in many paradoxical situations." remarked the professor. "Whet is one?" ••T" keep the love of another one mutt return It "—Buffalo Ii xpreae. Alik•, but Different. Mrs. Nubride—My dear Jack to handsome; he resembles a Greek gb, 11irs. Longwedd—So does my husband •-Racehus.—Boston Transcript. He Seeds beat that can feast.'-'Dantjb Pm`4grbl. 'tea" Coelsen'vation of Their Vital Forces In Their Only Hope. "Asthenia" means "without strength," and it describes a condi- tion of general debility. Nerve weak- less is neurasthenia," and museu- lar 'weakness ss is "myasthenia," but the word without any prefix whatever means a general weakness of the sys- te •t that the sufferer brings into life Atli him. In infancy a child with asthenia is incapable of prolonged muscular effort. The normal baby screams lustily and kicks vigorously, I but the asthenic baby cries feebly as it fatigued and nurses with slow send feeble movements. Such children cut their first teeth late, with a good deal of digestive disturbance; they catch disease eas- ily and are slow to stand and walk. i The motor apparatus — that is, the nerves and muscles used in moving the body—is not and probably never will be capable of much hard work. In later years, es^ ecially during adolescence, life goes more hardly wit's the asthenic person. I-Iis lack of stamina may show itself in any one of a number of ways—among others backache, chorea, weak eyes, weak heart, slowness of wit, poor digestion or undue fatigue a:.er ordinary exer- tion. These symptoms all indicate that the asthenic person cannot work or play like other people, but must arrange his life with regard to his constitutional weakness. Many asthenics are persons of su- perior intelligence and moral force, and they often offset their physical limitations by an exercise of will. The ability thus to exert the will and to 1 triumph over fatigue marks the dif- ference between them and the neuras- thenic or the simply indolent. The greatest mistake a person of the asthenic type can make is to use his will power in an effort to keep up with normal people in their work and play. He can often hold his own in the battle of life surprisingly we%I, but he cannot do it by "burning the candle at both ends." Success in life for the asthenic means a careful con- servation of all the vital forces from hour to hour. Had Them Breathless For a Moment. A regular customer at a certain restaurant was a confirmed non - tipper. Not only so, but he loudly ad- vised his friends not to tip. At Iast, says The Manchester Guardian, the waitresses resolved to give him a les- son. One brought him his change be- fore his friends. It was is. 5d., all in coppers, neatly spread on a tray. The mean man looked at it, and his friends thought that this time he would have to give something. "There's a penny," said the non - tipper. For a moment it was thought that he had swerved from his principles, but he added, "Now young woman, take all that away' and get me a •shilling and a six- pence." The Peoples of Italy. There is a marked difference in stature and temperament between the people of north Italy and those of south Italy. The Longobards, or Lombards, who about 568 took os - session onorther" Italy and per- manently established themselves in the rich valley watered by the Po and its affluents, were of Teutonic stock, their original home having been the region on the left bank of the Elbe, round about Madgeburg and Lune- burg, Germany, while the Italians south of Lombardy are of the old Latin stock. This fact explains the physical and other differences be- tween the people from the north and the people from the south of Italy. Cistern Filters. Cisterns that are propei'ly con- structed and receive rain water from roofs generally afford water of good sanitary quality, but if water of doubtful quality is stored in cisterns the supply is of course not safe for domest'c use. Filters used in con- nection with cisterns are of value in making the water clear, but are gen- erally of no value in removing disease germs. Many cisterns are divided in- to two parts by a brick wall, the water being admitted into one compartment and drawn from the other. In such cisterns the water passes through the brick and in that way is improved in clearness and color, uut not generally in sanitary quality. Broke Up the Show. A man in Paris made a good deal of money exhibiting a curious ani- mal. The most interesting feature of the show was the fact that no one could tell to what species the animal belonged. The showman professed that he didn't know, and the specta- tors hazarded many guesses. One day a visitor entered, accompanied by a dog. Immediately the wondrous ani- mal humped its back like a diminu- tive camel and began to hiss and spit. The mystery was solved --it was a shaved cat! The show closed up that very day, but no one denies that a man who could shave a cat deserved to make money. The Only Effective Way. "There are a lot of evils in this country." "That's true." "Then why don't you protest against them?" "I do." "I never have heard you say a word." "No? I can't see that conversa- tion does ranch good. I protest in a iaore effective w'ty." "What do you do?" "I vote." • He Farmed In Canada. Cyril Maude, the, great English comedian, came to Canada at the age of twenty and worked on afarm for one year. The farmer he worked for is now tate keeper of cemetery iD Toronto. Thet Las '° . "Your w fe ,likkes the last word, doesn't she?" "I don't think so," answered Mr. Meektton. "Anyway, she'd mighty re' luetant about reaching it." Stern Theist- . Garbage and love letters should be burned before they Create trouble Irritations and Eruptions of the Skin Besides that annoying and tor- turing itching of eczema, you can- not forget that, left to itself, it becomes chronic and spreads over the body. It is wonderful how quickly Dr. Chase's Ointment affords relief from the itching and sets the heal- ing process in action. Gradually the sores disappear and new, smooth skin takes their place. Mrs. Nettie Massey, Consocon, Ont., writes;—"For five years I suffered with what three doctors called psoriasis or chronic eczema. They could not help me, and one of them told me if anyone offered to guarantee a cure for $50,00 to keep my money, as I could not be cured. The disease spread all over me, even on my face and head, and the itching and burning was hard to bear. I used eight boxes of Dr. Chase's Ointment, and I am glad to say I am entirely cured, not a sign of a sore to be seen. I can hardly praise this ointment enough." Dr. Chase's Ointment owes its wonderful success to the fact that it positively cures eczema. Put it to the test. 60c, a box, all dealers. Sample box free, if you mention this paper. Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. J _ -Ayr etee v q 1 • 1 J,Y American forest officers have found that high power telescopes are not al- ways satisfactory in fare lookout work. In some localities heat vibrations in the atmosphere are so magnified by the glass that clearer vision can be had with unaided eyes. The smallest conscript in France is probably Eugene Espagnol, of Louines, near Tours. He stands three feet in stockingsand turns the scales at forty- two pounds. Because a page in a hotel brought him a telegram which did not belong to him, F. (d. Waldman, of Sidney, Australia, looked upon the man whose name re- sembled his. He found that it belong- ed to his brother, who had been given up as dead many years before. Children Cry t FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO 6-`©e A.A roe PRINTINQ AND STATION ERY We have put in our office Stationery and can WRITING PADS ENVELOPES LEAD PENCILS BUTTER PAPER PAPETERIES, We will keep the best and sell at a complete stock of Staple supply your wants inj!t, WRITING PAPER BLANK BOOKS PENS AND INK TOILET PAPER PLAYIT; G CARDS, etc stock in the respective lines reasonable prices. 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