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,
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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