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The Brussels Post, 1908-12-24, Page 3NOTES ,SNI) COMMENTS A university sociologist has sounded several notes or measures of warning against the tendency of the modern man to over feminize woman. Not satiaed with the dif- foreneee nature has provided, we are told man, las he advances in civilization "Domes to have less and loss desire for a helpmeet," Most men, it seems, prefer ignor- ant, irrational, eapraeious, help- less women, women who cannot stand alone et do thole own think- ing and planning. The only chance for poor woman is bound up with the possible victory of a new type of man. For thia gleam of hope, this r." of light, the modern woman wi doubtless bo duly grateful. 13u descending from sociologica heights to 'Isere facts of lowlan life, is it true that most men o oven a 'majority of men avoid o dislike high-spirited, self-reliant well -poised, sensible and intelligen women? What sort of women d the millions of farmers and the oth er millions of wage workers prefe' to marry'? And is the typical wif of the professional man irrationa and cowardly, hysterical and silly Is anis the testimony of th womon's clubs and federations, o the 'growing suffragist move rnen of the societies of women organize for philanthrophy, for civic prog for cultural pursuits'? Ar the women in the industry kelpies and too effeminate? Has coeduca tion emphasized the weakness o woman? What has been the effe of athletics, of outdoor life, of the widening of opportunities in every direction for educated women? ;The sociologist is about half a century behind the time even as re- gards the exclusive sets and air - cis. The tendencies are the other way, and in a perfectly healthy sense. Man, it is true, even when a philosopher and scholar, will pre- fer charm and beauty and sweetness in womau to mere learning and cul- ture, but there is nothing in culti- vation, in proper training of mind and body, in attention to character building to rob woman of her es sential charm. TEMPLE TO LI BUNG CHANG. To Afford Chance for Adoration of Statesman's Spirit. A singular incident has happen- ed at the pity of Lu Chou Eu, •a famous spot 140 miles up the Yang- tze from Nanking. This important city was the home of the celebrated Li Hung Chang, whose visit to Eu- rope and then to America created such great interest a few years slice, says the Pall Mall Gazette. Within its walls is a fine school, to which is attached a great hospital, both built with funds left by him for the purpose, By the side of these two establishments now stands a new and splendid temple, one of the finest ever erected in China. It has been built in accordance with the universal custom of ances- tor worship, but further in order to afford opportunity for the adora- tion of the spirit of the great states- man, not only by his own 'relatives, but by the public generally, Li Bung Chang has been proclaimed e deity, and the one more has been added to the countless gods in the Chinese pantheon. This temple is 400. feet long and 75 foot wide. A series of open courts, surrounded,by columns, lead back to the sanctuary. The post of the structure was :840,000: But the t'onib of Li Hung Chang is not here, for he was buried five Milos away from the city, and close by the sepulchre is another fine an- - matted temple. A few miles still further on is yet another Large tem- ple belonging to another breech of the acme immensely wealthy fam- ily. It is said that the several branch- es of the family have at least a quarter of a million sterling in- vested in ancestral temples. They own two-thirds of the land twenty- five miles east of the city, . y M 'S LOSING rHn USE ,, tJsl, or OUR u iTR 7 L Gs A French ench journal gloomily grog- if nosticates that we shall' have lost the use of •our legs in a .genen•ation.. or two. The tendency of the age is to im'cnt means by which human beings are conveyed from place to place as quickly and cheaply as • possible, People certainly walk far less now than they did twenty, -five years ago; they, will walk still less it, fifty years time, When a cen- tut;y has passed, perhaps, as our French contemporary suggests, we Lila1I pltogetilor iitwo forggtton.how to walk, and our descendants will hop Hire. lairds when they are on the level rind fly whenever they get the chance. But whet will become of their livers? Aral how are the peer ihiugs ever to enioy the delights 0f looking at the shops 1 ay 11 t 1 d r r t 0 r e 1 e t, d g.. e s et A6 UNPARDONABLE CRIME Preacher Wants Cynics and Pessimists Sent to Sanitarium. Because an excellent spirit was in him.—Daniel vi, 3. An excellent spirit in n man is of more importance than anything else. The men of spirit are the men who do things. It is an old story, but it will al- ways be true, that the honest - hearted with sling and pebbles will slay the giant where strong men in ponderous armor quail and flee. An excellent spirit is the best ar- mor. Even the golden rule avails little unless it is applied in the "golden spirits, The spirit may become diseased as well ea the body. The cynic and pessimist, unlike the poet, are made, not born. The sweet spirit. of the child is twisted and warped and knotted until at length he is turned loose among men, LIKE SAMSON'S FOXES, with brands at their tails, doing harm wherever they go. This is nothing less than an unpardonable crime. We haveinstitutions for the criminal and the insane and the sick; why not have them for the men' of gloom and despondency and sourness? Let such be -sub- jected to forcible though kindly treatment until the maladies of the spirit are corrected, The euro of the spirit is possible. The thoughts we dwell upon are the food and medicine of the spirit. Dwell on the failings, injustices and infelicities of life and you will have a despondent, critical and sour spirit. Dwell on the noble, the good, the true, and your spirit will take on buoyancy and elasticity o these things and the "joy of ole vated thoughts" will be yours "say mind to me a kingdom is" wil not only pass for good rhetoric, bu it constitutes a splendid ,practice working heels for every ambitiou spirit. When the farmer's fields d not yield 'satisfactorily he plow deeper and releases the pent -u powers of the soil. Then the bar vests come in fulness. We need tome mighty thought t go down deep into thesubsoil o our spirit and release the impris oned powers of our being. Th multitude of ordinary thoughts on ly serape the surface, and THE YIELD IS SCANT. Thegreateet thought ever present ed to the mind of man is the though of the Father working out throug sacrifice the redemption of huma spirits. This thought comes see ing entrance to the human mind "Behold I stand at the door an knock," it says. - It is the king o all thoughts, yet it comes as quiet ly as a peasant might come. One granted admittance to the mind the; true kingliness of it appear and all other thoughts declar themselves its subjects. Then net thoughts and energies make them selves felt, Such a man reaches out a.restfnl, kindly hand to the world, and when an explanation is sought for the beneficent influence of his life men cast up the accounts and say, "be- cause an excellent spirit was in him.'' . Rev. A. MacDonald Reoeh. THE LORD MAI'OIt'S POSITION. Surrounded With the Most Elabor- ate Ceremonies. Perhaps no office to which a man is elected by the people has more attendant glories than that of'Lord MayorofLondon. It is also sur rounded with the most elaborat formalities. He has gowns of scar let, violet and black for various oc- casions, and a train bearer. The Lady Mayoress has maids of honor and her train Is borne by pages in costume. In the city the Mayor takes precedence immediately after the sovereign. A quaint feudal ceremony, which was strictly ob- served in the late Queen's Jubilee in 1897,, is that of handing the sword of state to the sovereign at the Temple Bar. The Lord Mayor bas a choice of four swords --the sword of state, forsupreme occa- sions; .the peearl •sword, for cer- emonial occasions, and the black sword, carried when there is death in the royal family and when at- tending funeral ceremonies. The fourth sword is held above.the Lord Mayor's chair in the Criminal Court. Then there are other em- blems of office—the diamond scep- tre, the seal; the purse and the mace- They play an important part in tho inaugural ceremonies of the Mayor. The City Chamberlain, with three obeissances, presents the sceptre to the retiring Mayor. He, in turn, delivers it to hie successor, who lays iton the table' in front of him. The chamberlain retires with three, more bows, toreturn with a seal—and three more reverences. The purse is .similarly presented. Further ceremonies follow from the sword bearer, who renders up the sword. 'The macebearer also gives up the mace in a similar way, The' retiring Lord Mayor then surrend- ers the keys of the coffer in whieh the seal is kept. There are three keys; of the other two one is' held by the Chamberlain, the second by the chairman of the Lands'Com- mittee. To unlock the coffer all three must be, produced. This cere- monial has ere-nionial'has great historic interest. It implies the sovereignpower and authority in ancient times of .the chief magistrate of the city, The sceptre, sword and mace are em- blems of royalty. Tho Lord Mayor was a .merchant prince in fact as well as in name. He is still, by virtue of his office, admiral of the port of (London, guager of wine and oil and other gaugable articles; "meter" of coal, grain, salt and fruit, and inspector of hops and but- ter, soap, cheeseand other articles t of London. corrin m o the port Of g performed these' duties are er course, p od by deputy. Other dignified ogees which ht holds are governor of four hospitals, trustee of St. Paul's Cathedral and magistrate in sev- eral places. • HOW IT HAPPENED, Niggles --I lost a ten -dollar um- brella this morning. Wiggles—So 1 Leave it on a car 1 Niggles ---No; I met the owner on the street and he recognized it. AN AOCOMPLISHMENT, "They tens me Grimle that ; Y, you daughter sings with great expression," "Greatest ^ expression you ever saw, Her ours mother can't them - laze her face when she's singing,"g KINGDOMS FOR SALE. !Tow a Millionaire Might Become a Monarch. For ,some time past, writers in the serious Dutch monthly reviews have been discussing the value to _ Holland of her colonial possessions. e These possessions comprise Java, _ parts of Sumatra, Celebes and Borneo, Bali, Lombok, part of the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), Cura- coa, Dutch Guiana (Surinam), and many other islands in the. East and West Indies. They cover an area sixty-four times as large as Hol- land oiland itself. The question is : Are these colon- ies, or most of them, more trouble than they are worth 1 Of course, opinion is divided on this question as it is on all others, but there ap- pears to be a growing feeling that the majority of the colonies are doubtful blessings to Holland, draining her of resource's which she cannot afford. Further, the government of some of those places leaves something to be desired. Therefore, the sugges- tion is made that they should be sold., The idea is that one of the Great Powers would buy them, but this is. doubtful, and the probability is that a good price offeredby a mil- lionaire would purchase enough territory to make a fine kingdom, and that the whole of the colonial possessions of the Netherlands. could be disposed of in lots. Here is a magnificent opportunity for the man overburdened with wealth; he could create a dynasty with very little trouble. The territories mentioned are; as a rule, fertile, and would produce a huge revenue if properly looked after. The cost of government would be greatly ieduced if matters, were taken in hand in a business -like fashion by a man who intended to look after things on the spot. The native neighboring races would be friendly, 'while the subjects of the new, king would understand well enough the advantage ofproper government under a white man,. At first, he fright be regarded as ti crank, but. he could go steadily on with his scheme, and in the ooiirse of ten years the countries of the world would, awaken to the fact that they must take the new king and his kingdom very serious- ly indeed.. Who'll buy? e_ GERMAN DOMESTICS. - It OMESTICS.It, is difficult in Germany for a professional rogue to enter a fam- ily as a domestic servant. There every servant as a char • b deter book in which the mistress must enter the dates of the coming and leav- ing of the servant, with her char- acter, while in the servile, This the girl is obliged to take .to the near- est police -station and have it dated with the official stamp, thus pre- venting the manufacture of bogus recommendations. A NEW STREET TERROR,' Parisian cyclists have invented a hew signal. The device consists of a small tambourine attached to the front fork of the bicycle. As the wheel gots round it sets a little wooden mallet in motion) and it beats rapidly against the tambour. ine with an irrating staccato wound. SPOOK SCARES HUNTER, An Attempt to Shoot At It 11145 a Failure. A greet story of a nine -foot -hits "spook" that terrorizes Galway Ireland, is told by the Dublin cot respondent of the Central News, "It is saki," reports the .cure pendent, "that two young 'me corning into Galway from Nowoaatl made a short cut by the rail tva line, and when opposite a plae oallod Glanville they observe coming toward then on the lino dark object, which they both afire in relating: was of human form an about 9 feet in height. When th object came within a few yards o them they 'state that it vanished but they again saw it forty yard along the line, and this time i passed on toward Lough Corti and again disappeared, On coming into Galway Di young men told of the weird 06 currenco to their friends, and, ec cordingly a party was organized t visit the place the following even ing and lay the ghost. At a o'cloc the party started, armed wit sticks, shotguns and revel -vers. Arriving at the spot, they lay i ambhsh.for the'apcctre. They ha not long to wait, for, straight it front of them,' it suddenly appear ed, wheeeinpon one of the part raised his revolver. But heneve fired the shot. The weapon dropp ed from his hand, which becam powerless, and ho fell in a swoo into the arms of one of his com panions, while the 'ghost' vanish ed from view. "General terror prevailed anion the ghost bunters lest the case o their companion might become ser ions, and the hunt of the spectre was forgotten. The young man wa conveyed into Galway, where he had to be medically attended, bu it was some hours before he was brought hack to consciousness." "The affair only incited others to take up the hunt, and en Tuesday night a large party started for the purpose of encountering the appar- ition. But, although they remained hidden for some hours no ghost made its appearance. A year ago several' persons stated that they had seen a' spectre near the scene of the present apparition, and there is great terror in the district over its reappearance,'' PLAGUE FIGHTING CATS. Introduced Into India by the Sal - Mitten Army. A few months ago a small but de- termined attachment of British oats sailed for India to wage war against the rats Which are regarded as constituting one,of the most ser- ious features in the spreading of the plague in that. country. It was the Salvation Army that made the experiment, and now the first sat- isfactory results have become known. Colonel Kitching, of the army's headquarters states that although only a comparatively small number of cats have been sent out it cer- tainly looks as if the scheme would be a great success. Commissioner Bonth-Tucker re- ports that already every branch of the Salvation Army has been pro- vided with cats, and individual members have been instructed to distribute the animals among the native population. The inspector -general of hospit- als in the Punjab has stated that the Indian Government views the army's experiment with great sat- isfaction, thought he added: "We must not restrict ourselves to this: The rats must be fought by every means." It is worthyof remark that in Ceylon where the plague •is un- known, cats are to be found in practically every 'household. .The Salvation Army is now tak- ing .steps to form eat -breeding farms throughout India. ,p GAMES INVENTED BY SAVAGES Many Popular -Games from Non- Cieilized Countries. Most people are well aware that the popular Canadian game of la- crosse originated, goodness knows how many centuries ago, amongst the North American Indians. When you come to look into it, it is quite astonishing how many games were'invented and are .- to- day practiced by peoples that we are accustomed to thing of as sav- ages. Wallace tells us how in Bor- neo, one wet day, he thought to amuse his Dyak boys by showing them cat's -cradle, But he found that they not only knew it, but knew more intricate figures than he. The Maoris of New Zealand am - 'Welly have a sort of pictorial his- tory in cat's-eradle figures of twisted fibre. The Sandwich Islatlders play a kind of draughts; the South Sea peoples 'nearly all aro adepts at kite -flying. Polo comes from Per- sia., and is played magnificently by wild hill tribes from northern In- dia- Backgammon and parchese are both eastern games, flat tam- arind Leeds being used as "lots in the latter; AN OLD-TIME SEXTON, FROM MINER'S LOG CABIN Was the 1190racepe,y to Br'onghton Place Church, Edinburgh. Jeems was a geuine Christian, TO A. BALL 1N BUCKINGHAM but "like all complete risen" he had a gift of humor, kindly although uncouth, One day two strangers in the Broughton PlaceOhuroh made themselves over to J'eems to be fur- risked with seats. Motioning them to follow, he walked majestieally to the farthest corner, whore he bad decreed that they should sit. J.'he.couple, meantime, had found seats near the door, and stepped into them, leaving Joenis to march ahead alone, while the whole con- gregation watched him with some relish and alarm, Re gut to his destination, opened the pew door and stood aside; nobody appeared. He looked sharply around, and then gave a look of general wrath "at lairge." No one doubted his Newhouse, famous London hostess, victory. His keen, deep-set grey wearer of the finest and costliest string of pearls in existence, mis- tress of multi -millions, who lias lately returned to her native coun- try for a brief visit, There is one thing that sets this American woman quite apart from the majority of her countrywomen who have established themselves in in the best European society, ,She is not ashamed of her humble be- ginnings. SHE IFS A GREAT BEAUTY, slender, delicate, with the bearing of a duchess. Yet she seems to wel- come opportunities to recall to the minds of her aristocratic friends the fact that she has cooked her husband's dinners and washed his shirts. In telling her history, Mrs. New- house, said: PALACE, The Triumph of an Araerean Woman Stilt in the IlcyUoy of .Her Reau:ty.. From the pots and pans and washtub of a minor's log cabin in the Bock Mountains to the triumph of a specially invited guest at King Edward's state ball in Buckingham Palace seems a long road for an American girl to travel, reaching that royal destination, too, while still in the heydey of her beauty, Yet that is the outline of the ro- mantic history. of Mrs. Samuel. eyes fell, or seemed to fall, on the two culprits, pulled thein out in- stantly, and hurried them to their appointed place. Deems showed them slowly in, and gave them a Parting look they were not likely. to misunderstand or forget. On another occasion a parishion- er`put a crown piece into the plate instead of a penny, and starting at its white and precious face, asked to have it back; but was refused. "In once, in forever," said Teems. "Aweel, n'veei," grunted the par- ishioner, "1'11 get credit for it in heaven 1" "Na, na," said Jeems, "you'll got credit only for the penny!" At that time the crowds and the poor ventilation made fainting a common occurrence in Broughton Place, especially among the young "I was only sixteen, but we were servant girls. The young doctor had taught Jeems the philosophy of married, and off we went as gay fainting fits, and had instructed him as larks to the top of a Colorado ospecially as to the propriety of Mountain, where Sam thought his laying the sufferers quite ,flat on presence with a pick and shovel the floor of the lobby, with the head would do some good. as low as the rest of the body. As You see,' Sam Haid, "these many df these cases were owing to mountains don't shoot out rich ore what Joe= called "that bitter for you to pick out at your leisure. yerlcin' " of their bodices,—in other You've got to dig for'it, or watch words, tight lacing,—ha and the others dig. I've got to stay up i watching, till I fi there waiting and w tc 1 elector lost no time in relieving the , g g, victims by cutting their stayiaces, which ran before the knife, and "cracked like a . bowstring," as Jeems said. One day a young woman who had fainted was slowly coming to. Deems came round to the doctor with his open gully (knife) in his hand. "Wull'I riper up nool" he whis- pered. It happened not to, be a case for "ripping up" ; and thanks to an in- creasing knowledge of physiology, every year there were fewer oppor- tunities of administering the whole- some lesson. SETTING TUE BEAR. TRAP. lbw the Woodman Secures His Black Skin Uninjured. Black bears are rapidly going the find what I'm looking for.' "At first he wasn't keen about my going with him into such a wilderness, but T insisted. It was a two -days' ride on a burro from the last mining camp on the route. In this way we had to carry our clothing, camp outfit, provisions and mining tools up the mountain. "It was a rough journey, as you can imagine, but I was with my husband. I was as happy as a bird. When we reached the peak we two were alone in the world, up among the clouds. We lived in a tiny but of logs, where I was THE ONLY WOMAN. "My husband was doing a man's work.. In a mining camp a man does that work with his hands. So I did a woman's work. I was housekeeper, cook, laundress—the whole establishment, I was only a way of the foxes, and to -day it costs slip of a girl, but that work didn't a woman $150 or more for a good hurt.me a bit. In fact, I was truly happy. "I wasn't the least bit lonely. Literally, there on top of the moun- tain, I had all the world at my feet, Sam and I were as jolly as two young persons could be any- where together. "I spent the days cooking, wash- ing, and ironing—in a very prim- itive way, too. Why my cools stove has so near the dining table that I could reach over for dishes with- out leaving my seat! "Then after the day's work was done, there was the big reward. Sam and I used to sit out in front of the cabin and watch the sun go down. In the twilight he would tell me about the mine and about all the beautiful things he was going to give me when he made his fortune. And I belive 1 was hap- pier in those anticipations than all the realizations have made Ire. ..U -`hover mind, dear,' he used to say, 'some day you shall have love- ly dresses, diamonds and everything you want.' And his words have come true." sot of black furs, while a few years back farmer's and woodmen hardly thought ib worth their time to skin the bears they shot, unless they wanted the hides for home use, Now the fortunate hunter who traps or shoots a black bear is in pocket anywhere from $75 to 0125, not counting the value of the meat. It is very common for sportsmen hunting in the north woods to stum- ble across the remains of old dead - falls made for the killing of bear. There are hundreds of them scat- tered through the woods, showing how relentlessly hunters are pur- suing the few bears that still re- main. Still there are few things more interesting than the setting of a big deadfall and many sports- men find more excitement and fun in catching a bear in this way than in shooting it. Somewhere in the depths of the forest, where the signs of the bear have been found, the hunter cuts down a tree and strips its butt of all branches for 20 or 30 feet, . In the work that follows he must have help. A strong sapling is bent over until its top reaches the ground, and there it is fastened. Then the butt of the tree is raised almost to the top of the bow formed by the sapling, and so fastened there that a slight movement, on the part of he other would send it crashing to the ground, And that is just what happens when a bear comes lumbering long, In his big head the brute Des not reason that there. it any- hin peculiar about. u the obstacles bst, ] t3 o ass which compel him imapproach to a b e i h ppp n certain way when he smells the resh meat ahead. This piece of neat is attached to the head of the apling, and when the bear gets ear enough to nose it, he it steeri- ng right where the heavy butt mild fall if loosened. Tho bear chews and tugs at the meat, and little by little the peg molding the 'end of the sapling is oosened. Then, with a sudden wish, the top shoots up, and, with Brash the heavier tree comes umbling down, here is the ceumch- ng of hones, a mailed roar of ag- ny, and another of the few wild ves in the woods has been extingu- shed. "But, landlord, this steak is readfully tough," "Waiter, bring sharper knife for m'siour', WOMEN CB:IMNEY-SWEEPS. The vocations to which our lat- ter-day women are devoting their energies are increasing in number, and realms trnthaught of before are being invaded. A guild or union of women chimney -sweeps bas been started in 5t. Petersburg and Mos- cow. Its founder is the widow of a sweep blessed with six daughters. .All seven belong to the guild and d are active members. No woman chimney -sweep is to be less than fourtee,5 years old or more than thirty-five, but girl assistants may be admitted at eight years. As WW1 a5 a sweep marries she must leave the guild, All must sign the temperance pledge and be members of the Orthodox ('Greek) Church. a. WONDERFUL AFRICA, In the Uganda protectorate, de- scribed by Sir Harry Johnston,. there aro the largest lake, the larg- est swamp, and the largest forest IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS 131' MAIL ABOUT Joao nVf,L Ail'11 11I8 PEOPLE, +Uecurrenees , in the Land 7,34a1 Dteigns Supreme in the Con- nnercial World, Nearly 1,200 applications' for old age pensions have been receive'si in the Isle of Wight. A rough estimate of the number of visitors to the Franco -.British Exhibition is 13,000,000, Considerable alarm has been cre- ated in Liverpool by the announee- meat of a socoud death from plague, From four to ten years, Mr. As- quith states, is the length of a Cab- inet Minister's service to qualify for a pension. For the first time for several months there are signs of a revival in the shipbuilding trade at Steels - ton and Thornaby. Saving the British Museum, the House of Commons, London, bee the most complete political library in the country, A young married woman, a Mrs. Grist, living at East Finehley, strangled her baby boy sad then hanged herself. Last year a return shows as many as 104 new London streets, having. a total approximate length of 83 miles, were made. Sergeant Roff, Burton -on -Trent,. winner of a $15,000 lottery, has received nearly 1,000 applications for money from strangers. A fire caused the loss of over 0150,000 at the oorn mills and stores of Messrs. Henry Leethan a: Sons, West Bute Dock, Cardiff. Edmund Coxhead, farmer, of Ivy Fano, Bickerstaff, near Ormskirk, Lancashire, was recently found frozen to death in one of his fields, A Swede was fined $100 or three months, at Southampton, for stow- ing himself on the Kiidonan Cas- tle during the voyage from the Cape. After seven years evading arrest for poaching, Richard Dawson, of King's Lynn, was recently sen+, to prison for fourteen days in default of paying a fine. A milk dealer named Thomas, of Kingston, Herefordshire, was tossed and gored to death by a bull. His clothing was torn to rags and his body fearfully mangled. The Bishop of Manchester says the depressed trade and unemploy- ment had not greatly affected the collections in aid of church funds in the Manchester diocese. The custom of ringing the cur- few bell still survives in Hawarden parish, the bell being rung at eight o'clock each evening, excepting Sundays, from All Souls' Day to Candlemas. The head teacher of an Exeter school has invested in a small stock of boots and can supply a boy who has only one pair with the loan of a pair while his own are being mended. A man in the East End of Lon- don got out of bed to pacify his noisy children, struck his elbow on a latch of the door, cut the skin, and contracted blood -poisoning, from which he has died. Two children who were called as witnesses at Tower Bridge Court against their father, who was charged with neglecting to main- tain his family, were enable to identify him, it was so long since they had seen him. A. large fox which had strayed in- to a farmhouse garden near Cam - Mondale (North Yorkshire) was at- tacked by a tom -cat with such force as to bowl him over. After a few minutes the fox ran off, leaving the cat master of the situation. Mrs. Amelia Fidgett, of Nustley, Essex, celebrates her one hundred and third birthday this month. She has been photographed with a daughter aged 73, granddaughter aged 48, and several great and great -great -grand -grand -daughters. At a Clcrkenwell inquest on Jos- eph Menearini, a printer, it was stated that for six years he suffer- ed from mysterious complaint, causing dizziness. It was found that in the left frontal lobo of the brain there was a bole sufficiently large to hold a Tangerine orange, VODKA BANE OF RUSSIA. It is well known that the Russian people are extremelyslow i nall their movements, which has been attributed to many causes. The latest writer on the subject places the blame on the national irntox- cant, vodka, asserting that it pro- duces a lasting: and -ingrowing drunk; and, should the tippler be unfortunate enough to sober tip be- fore a week has passed, th0 slight- est rapid movement will reproduce en excellent duplicate of the .orig- inal. As aha ]ineeian government derives a large revenue from the sale of vocllca, there is a stringent law against hating twice drunk on oIie spree, .and a.s a consegnenee citizens must exercise caution, The in Attlee; alto the largest extinct famous Russian baths wore con - volcano in the world and the high- r strected at a great exper{sr botch est African mountain, with 100 fir punitive meaeurea and as a square miles of ime and snow right manna of putti :g Inc „ionatinree under the Equator, again in the ka.,ks. •