The Brussels Post, 1909-1-28, Page 7'NOTES ES AND) COMMENTS
'The attention of Mr. Carnegie,
the fornclt,r of the American and
:British institutions for honoring
heroism or bravely as exhibited in
emergencies, ought to be called tQ
the Montyon virtue prizes annual-
ly awarded ley the Freugh academy
of literary "immortals," This
singular and excellent foundation
is eighty years old, but it is not
well ;cnown outside of France. Tho
idea of the foundation, in one
-word, is to honor, encourage and
reward the quiet, unostentatious
moral courage of daily life, the
.courage that is often unconscious-
ly shown in perseverance, in cheer-
fulness wider trying conditions, in
fortitude, sweetness of nature,
helpfulness and activesympathy in
humble spheres. As a rule, the re-
•cipfents of the Montyon prizes
know little, if anything, of the
. great, wide world, They do not
read the newspapers; they never
bear of the academy, and the prizes
astonish them as would manna from
the heavens,' .The academy learns
of their existence and goodness
through priests, enlightened neigh-
bors, charity workers or investiga-
tors.
This years'' prize winners cumber
over a hundred,- and the address
by the academician in their praise
sets forth in detail the stories of
six of .the "crowned" persons, One
is a seamstress who employs some
ten assistants and who has for
years treated then as members of
her family—helping them when
work isslack,' nursing them when
they are ill, and making life as
pleasant as possible for them. In
addition she visite the sick of the
neighborhood and aids the unfor-
tunate out of her own limited earn.
ings, Another is a poor sewing
girl who has supported a blind mo-
ther and feeble brother by her' in-
dustry gid self-denial, andwho has
had to eke out a livelihood by car-
rying papers early in the morning
to 'the kiosques and also by putting
in some extra hours at night, after
the long day in the workshop. A
,third is an old farmer's servant, a
woman who, on a salary of $12 a
year, has brought up the farmer's
family, prevented him from wast-
ing his money on drink and con-
verted the household into a model
establishment. There is no doubt
whatever that such virtue as this
is its own reward. The prizes do
nothing, savein a .financial way,
for such heroines of peace and pro-
saic existence, but it is good for
society to appreciate such qualities
and to induce emulation of good
ALS WJU BE WEJLL WITII us
Forget the Past and Work for the Prize
of the Future.
This one thing I do, forgetting ledge and the infinite power. of God
those things which are behind, and are forever working together for
reaching forth unto those things our good. Always, day, and night,
which are before, I press toward night and clay, every moment of
the mark for the prize of the high every hour,, emery hour of every
calling' of God in Christ Jesus,— day. As it is written, "Be iveth
Philippians iii, 13, 1.4,. lila beloved in' sleep,"' that lgeeven
The past is, It cannot he brought whilst they sleep, If then we are
back, cannot be undone. It may 'workers together with Him all will
be a matter of great regret, and, be well with, us.
alas, of great sorrow as well, and We should therefore fearlessly
yet the past is and always will be. face the future, knowing that God
You may call for it, but it will not can turn even the follies and the
Dome back to you; failure of the past into a certain
It is gone—gone forever. Let us sort of good to its. In His wisdom
see that it is so and act according- $e can overrule' even our errors,
ly, For the many mistakes of the and in His mercy EIe is not extreme
past we must have sincere' regret, to mark what is done amiss. But
and for our sins, sorrow, but if they let us be glad that He makes our
have caused "a repentance not to evayweadness wearisome. To know
be repented of" they have been our weakness is a lesson
mercifully forgiven us of God for WELLWORTH LEAIINING
Jesus Christ's salts, As for the ,
past, then, let us say of it, with St. even though at the cost of many a
Paul, "forgetting those things, humbling experience, and, perhaps,
which are behind, and reaching of much sorrow. Co we see that
forth unto those things which aro even through our waywardness and
before, I press toward the marls for wilfulness God is seeking us and
the prize of the high calling of God bringing us back to Him. And so,
in Christ." dark as sometimes the day has been,
OUR HELP IS IN HTM, let us go bravely on in our appoint-
ed way, knowing we are on our way
Therefore let us look to Hint, and home and that '!at evening time it
be of a good courage, believing He shall be light,"
can and will deliver us "from the As a saint said : "Sometimes our
bonds of those sins which by our path in life may seem like a Iane
frailty wes have committed." full of weary windings, where the
He wants to help us, and is even 'steep banks shut out the light and
now helping us. A real desire to air and all we can do is to trudge
follow Him will keep us from deadly steadily on through the thick mire,
sin. Ile came to save .us from our but if we look high ftp in front of
sins, to take them away and free us we shall see, as Israel saw,
us, from them. A true Christian faint blue hills of the Land of P
purpose should keep us from seri- mise rising up: against the sky.
ous sins and by. God's grace it will. path will come out at. length in
Let it then comfort us to know that view of the Celestial City, and
God is for us, not against us; that last we shall be at home."
the infinite love, the infinite know- A, W. SNYDER
AN AGIrI;I;ADI,E.TIANGEK
HOW A 1)11141'1'411Y "C.A.P'l'AIN"
SECt"+IttIO SOME JEWELS.
Was Allowed to Stay in Vial
ton 7ia11 — Disappeared
1i'ltlr Valuables.
I'IIUII• HOURS OF SLEEP
FAMOUS MEN TELL OF 'THE
AMOUNT TJJEY NEED,
'legs Sir IY.' Itatmae Finds 'i'leree or
Emir Enough When in
Good Health,
Pulitieiaus, artists, men of let-
tees, and actors reply in The Be -
view of Reviews to bar. Stead's in -
tquite, as to the amount of sleep
0 find necessary. to maintain
their mental oweryat the highasn
pitch. p gest
Sir W. Ramsay finds three or
four flours' sleep abundant when
in good health and with mild nlen-
tal exertion. When engaged in
higber intollcetual work he can do
justsloops. as' many hours' work as tie
Lord Onslow always wakes of his
own accord after his seven hours'
sleep, and begins work in bed be-
fore getting up.
Sir Charles li'yndiiam has made
a rule that he is never to be called,
leaving nature to decide
THE LENGTH OF SLEEP.
Sir Theodore Martin used to go
to bed at 1 o'clock, but now, in his
eightieth year, he does not stop up
later than eleven. Lord :Ripon re-
tires at 10.30.
Sir. Oliver Lodge, Sir G. Lewis,
Sir E. R. Lankester, Dr. Clifford,
Lord Esher, M. E. Grose and Mr,
F. Harrison al] require eight hours
daily. Bernard Shaw takes seven
or eight, Miss Ellen Terry gets
along with four to six.
Mann suggestions are made for
the conquest of insomnia. Sir
Frederick Treves puts his faith in
"a simple diet, fresh air at night,
and outdoor exercise in the day."
Lord Esher recommends reading,
Sir Francis Burnaud both walking
and reading, Mr. Alfred Sutro a
gaine of billiards or golf, while Mr.
H. W. Ma.ssingham favors count-
ing numbers and "telling stories to
oneself, generally some kind of im-
aginative picture."
SIR HIRAhI MAXIM
belives in the cold bath, and Dr.
Clifford's prescription is:—(1)
Shut out the light. (2) Relax the
muscles of the face. (3) Let the
last meal be at least one or two
hours before retiring. (4) Dismiss
the work of the day, and leave the
morrow to eare for itself. Never
worry. (5) If something very im-
portant has to be done on the next
day, fix your plan of action defi-
nitely; write it down, and cease to
think about it.
A. daring robbery by an accom-
plished and gentlemanly swindler is
engeging'the attention of the Pet-
erborough, F,nglance police,
The story opens on the morning
of a recent Saturday, when a well-
groomed nasi weli-sct-up man of
military appearance drove tip to
Werrington Hall, near Peterbor-
ough, and asked for the lady owner,
who had advertisedthe houers and
estate for'sryle. He stated that he
was in search of a hunting -box, and
he thought Werrington Hall would
.suit him. Ile was shown over the
place, expressed himself as very
well pleased with it, and announc•
ed that he had decided to purchase
it, The references he produced`
were satisfactory, and appeared
quite authentic,
HIRED A MOTOR CAR.
Moreover, the agreeable stran-
ger stated that he was prepared to
pay over a subetantial sum as a
deposit In the course of a few days.
In the meantime he begged that be
might be allowed to stay at the
hall, as he desired to instal himself
at the earliest possible moment
with his servants and hunters, and
wished to personally supervise the
painting, papering, etc., which he
desired to have done,
The request was readily acceded
to. The "captain" took up his
quarters at the hall, proceeding at
once to hire a motor -car in Peter -
the borough, and to give extensive or-
ro- 1 dens to local tradesmen,
The How well the "captain" played
full his part may be judged from the
at fact that not the slightest suepi-
cion of his bona fides was aroused,
On Monday morning, however, a
significant incident occurred. One
of the daughters of the house, pass-
ing a bedroom, saw the captain on
the threshold. He excused himself
politely, explaining that lie had
est class of young men and gives
them a .personal interest in the
success of their flag. Unquestion-
ably the more democratic method
of the french in officering their
army is superior to that of the Brit-
ish.' Only a small proportion of the
men who are commissioned as offi-
cers in the British army have a real
taste for their profession, and
work as hard as the officers of
France and Germany- to equip
themselves for it. The most of
tbeni want merely to have a few
years' experience in the armyand
then go home to some other pur-
suit and hang up their swords as
mementos of younger and more
glorious days.
YELLOW POR BATE.
Blue Causes a Peaceful emit Rest-
ful Feeling.
examples. "The effect of colors upon the
temperament • of human beings is
enormous," remh,rkod an eye speci-
alist who has made a study of the
subject.
"Speaking •generally, I should
say that green induces joy; white,
activity; red, anger; blue, peace;
and yellow, hate.
"The last-named color will bring
out all a man's malign passions;
and, in confirmation of this theory
I may mention that the Chinese
regard yellow es an emblem of
evil. This explains their adoption
of it as the eign of mourning, for
death, they believe, is duo to the
evil spirits.
"The effects of blue are parka
culaily noticeable on ocean pas-
sengers. With blue skies above
and blue seas beneath, they experi-
ence a peaceful, restful feeling, not
altogether to be accounted for by
the invigorating air and the life
on board ship in general.
"Have you ever noticed how rest-
less a man becomes if he remain
inactive in a red -papered room?
The color seems to make bum angry
with himself and everyone round
him.
"Green appears to have all the
advantages of blue, but, containing
as it does rays of red and yellow,
a more . joyous, full -of -life feeling
is the result. And white? Where
can you find more active people
than those who dwell in the lands
of snow and ice, in spite of the fact
that the extreme cold has a ten
clency to'deaden the body?
"Yes; colors play a bigger part
in life than many imagine,"
CHARACTER 1N FINGER: NAILS
A white mark means misfortune,
Palo or lead -colored nails indi-
cate melancholy,
Broad nails indicate a gentle,
timid, .bashful nature.
People with narrow nails
are am-
bitious and quarrelsome.
Lovers of knowledge and broad-
minded people Have round nails,
Small nails indicate smallness of
mind, oh:Ain:Ley, and commit,
People with very pate nails .are
stihfc,^t in infirmity cif flesh.
lied an d spotted nailsarcgon-
g
l'CIe cltiim of moi nl sir cr]c .elial.l,v found me time hands of nol
]t t p uitr ,.l wile Ixpi„
the French army is. well-beeed,
however, since LI groWir:g lilte.ihe hese at the.
e I1 . the cit annual Yl
llal
Ca
IPCVi -'
points i
s crSides
trdl
c;itc luxuriousl
I
ms
lion leenge 1 to the arnuy (bushigh- tseres,
The French papers are disposed
to disparage the British army, be-
cause, they say, it is drawn from
the' lowest ranks of society,where
the French army is more national,
since service is compulsory upon
all ranks in life. The British army,
they say, continues to be a highly
aristocratic institution, where the
officers are gentlemen and the pri-
vates mere things. While the Brit-
ish soldier . is a robust, vigorous
man, he requires enormous feeding
to keep him up to blue standard.
and he is not likely to go through
the hardships of acainpaign as well
as the more meagerly fed French
or German soldiers. This may sat-
isfy theory, but it is against his-
tory. .In the past the British sol-
dier has shown himself capable of
enduring the greatest -hardships
and privations in every climate and
under all conditions. He has
shown himself more enduring than
either the Garinan or the French,
although the Germans• have not had
his trials in tropical and desert
countries.
English alarmists support the
Freneh i'iew, however, by point-
ing out how the virility of Britons
is deteriorating on account of fac-
tory life. The stamina of the Brit -
lash army has largely been that of
the Walsh, 3rish and Scotch con-
tingents, and who preserve the old
race vigor, In Lnglane proper the
physical stanclard, they say, is be-
ing constantly lowered by the • ha
bits of the people, and though the
standard for reorriits is not at all
high, ono -third to ono -half of those
who offer :themselves f.or enlistment
are rejected . on . account of physi-
cal cveaktieas.
HORSEFLESH AS MEDICINE.
Valuable to People in a Delicate
State of Health.
Horseflesh, -which is largely used
by Parisian doetors in -she feeding
of invalids, is now being recom-
mended. by a number of prominent
English medical men.
Up to the present, however, it
has rarely, or never, been pre-
scribed in England, owing to the
strong prejudice which exists
against it; but this feeling will be
overcome when once the public rea-
lize how valuable it might be to
people in a delicate state of health.
"No animal that had been used
as a beast of burden would, how-
ever, be suitable for the purpose
of food," a physician said. "It
would be so tough that no man
could get bis teeth through it.
What I advocate are horse -farms,
like those in parts of the South of
France. Ilere the animals are
specially prepared for market. They
live absolutely sedentary lives, and
are fed with thhe greatest care on
special fodder.
"The flesh of a horse contains
more carbohydrates than that ofan
ox, and will consequently help to
a greater extent in the formation
of sound fate and muscle. And,
after all, what is it that our :awn -
dwellers lack but sound muscle and
fat?
"Again, the flesh of the hor.,e is
vastly •;more tender than telt r f
other animals. Therefore, it is of
the greatest value to people of
weak digestion. Sun -dry the flesh,
and grind it up to a powder, and
you will find that even the, niost
delicate people can enjoy it with-
out fear of the consequences, As
a food for invalids it stands alone."
SORT DIAMONDS WITH SIEVE.
Primitive Method of Hunting for
Them in Southwest Africa.
Probably no diamonds in the
world are obtained so cheaply, as
those .from the recently discover-
ed fields near Luderitz Bay, in Ger-
man Southwest Africa. The pro-
cess of recovering the stones is so
simple as to be almost ludicrous,
says the Cape Times.
The Ovambo boys, with blue gog-
gles on, kneel down on the sand
searching for the diamonds.. 'They
are furnished with spades, and
with these they proceed to fill an
ordinary sieve with a fairly fine
mesh, A man will then take the
sieve,
iev ,ogi e ib a
shako and plunge
it galvanized iron 'bath of
sea water, which has the effect of
hardening the contents, while at
the same time owing to the specific
gra ityr if the diamonds the latter
Fallto the bottom.
The man then picks alp the sieve
and turns it over onto an ordin-
ary deal table aecl the diamonds
arc then, of course, on the top,
Ire will " then take an ordinary
table knife, pick up the diamonds
with this and carefully place .them
in a pickle bottle, which stands by
lli side,
Prom bit primitive simplicity, of
this rncilicd of working it will be
seen that the diamonds do nob give
much trouble t tt (ogle to find, The
cost of
getting them averages, in fact,
from Is, to Is, ed. per carat.
MADE A MISTAKE,
not knowing the house very well,
and nothing more was thoughtof
the matter.
A little Inter the "captain"
called his motor -car, entered it,
anddrove off, stating that he would
return in the course of the day.
When some distance along the road
to Peterborough he stopped the car,
got out, told the chauffeur he had
some calls to snake, and ordered
him to meet him at Boston. The
chauffeur was at the appointed
place, but no captain appeared,
and after waiting some time he re-
turned to the house,
In the meantime the startling
discovery had been made that a
quantity of jewellery had been
stolen from the bedroom in which
the guest was seen.
TWO -POWER STANDARD.
Erftaia's Navy is Now Fourteen
Ships Behind.
The way in which Great Britain
has fallen below the two -Power
standard in regard to the Navy is
illustrated in figures supplied by
the First Lord of the Admiralty in
answer to a question put in the
House of Commons. .
The question asked for a return
of the battleships built, building,
and 'projected under the 1908 pre.
gramme for Great Britain, the
United States, and Germany, xhn
figures given in the answer were as
follows:—
Pro-
Built. Building. jected
Great Britain .54 6 1
Germany -. .36 4 3
United States .26 4 2
The totals therefore of the bat-
tleships built, building, and may m
pro-
jected y ! e set out as follon•s :-
Great Britain ,.. ..., ,. 61
Two Powers .... . ... ...... 73
Great Britain's shortage.. 1.1
If Britain is to attain the
strength of ten per mut, greater
than the two -Power standard, she
Must acid twenty-two more ships t;
her Navy.
Details of the age of the hat-
tleships owned by Germany and brie
United States given by Mr. s1::-
Renua show that forty-nine we
less than eighteen years old, forty
less than thirteen years old, and
twenty-three less than eight years
old.
The patient seldom knows any-
thing about the medicine the doctor
gives him — and neither does the.
doctor, once in a while,
Mother—"Oh, don't you think we
batt better send for the doctor i
Johnny says he :feels so bad." Fe-
tiler-- Oh, ho'R felt bad before this
and got over it. Mother (ansa-
usly)--"Yes, dear, but never on e
holiday."
"Yes," said the eminent physi-
cian, em are doing much to pro-
long Nyman life." "I'm glad to
hear its answered Mr, Sirius Bar-
ker.
"By
reign '
In life p g [?;you give
a filo • limn 'i
t e t
! time
and opportunity
tun'
to go5t together the amount of yonr
,
b
111,
SENTENCE SERMOX .
No man ever overshoots his own
moral aim.
All worthy education is training
of the will.
The dogmatic are always strong
on barking.
Counting your blessings discounts
your burdens.
No one was ever left sad by giv-
ing happiness away.
The ability to learn marks the
limits of actual living.
Too many men lay to is gentle
heart the faults or a soft head.
You cannot improve the breed by,
polishing the brass on the harness.
It's no use paying for plush in
the pews if you've got putty in the f
FROM DONNIE SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST PROM IiU±11
BARBS AND BRAES.
%that is Going on in the Ilighlen
and Lonlitlrrl3 of Auld
lSoote.
Leicester is suffering from a s
were epidemic of measles,
The King was a successful exl
sbiterhat the Ring's Lynn fat sto
ow,
Thirty-three of the heroic char
of the Light Brigade at Balaclae
aro still alive,
There were 2,804 admissions t
Dr. Barnardo's Humes last yea
and the total admissions to de
number 04,417.
Among the fish on show at t
wholesale fish market in Manche
ter two weeks ago was a shark ove
i0 feat long.
Messrs. Pearson & Son's tendo
has been accepted for widening th
Pier for the Dover M
rine Station. The widening wr
cost about $2,000,000,
A Midland engine -driver name
Humble, ran his engine into the to
comotive . shed ac Peterborougl
and then fell dead.
An anonymous gift of $0,000 ha
ben made towards the erection
a new organ for the restored cho
of Selby Abbey.
It is stated that the cotton str
has made the beer business rath
slack in some parts of England du
ing the past year.
At a recent vegetable show
Leamington a prize of 05 w
given for the best onion, and th
winning vegetable weighed
pounds.
A permanent wireless telegrap
station is being erected in Lee
for use by the military authoriti
as part of their defence scheme.
John Mills, who has just been i
valided from the Army, was se
tented to fourteen day's hard labo
for aiding a comrade to desert.
Alderman T. Marriott, of Co
entry, who has just oelebreated h
99th birthday is father of the tow
council, on which he has served fo
48 years,
The Bishop of Ripon says on
child in every five born in Man
chaster, -Liverpool and Birmingba
is killed before reaching the age o
12 months,
Middlesex Hospital received
Ohristmas gift of toys from th
of -orales, her Roya
Highness's children, and the chil
dren of Kew.
For the purpose of experimenting
with full-sized flying machines the
Aeronautical Society of Great Bri-
tain has acquired a ground at Dag-
enham, near Barking.
While washing a dog in a bath
before the kitchen fire Mrs. Hamp-
shire, of Wheldale Lane, Castle-
ford, had a seizure and fell head
first into the bath and was
d owned.
The Home Secretary has inform-
ed a correspondent that persons
under the age of 21, and over the
age of 60, are entitled to claim ex-
elnption for serving on coroners'
jtu'res.
Fifty London firms have intimat-
ed their Iiilliugness to give their
employes three weeks' holiday on
uli pay, provided one fortnight is
spent in camp with. the Territorial
Army.
A new sect has been established
in Worksop tinder the title of
"The Watch Tower Society." The
nembers believe that the world is
o come to an end in 1914, and are
reparing accordingly.
Mr. John Rogers', a retired Tew-
esbury tradesman, who claims de-
cent from the Baron Rogers who
lived fn the time of the Crusaders.
has recently celebrated the 100th
anniversary of his birthday.
An experiment in penny dimers
fur the poor is being made at South
Shields, and the intention is to
rovide meals for 5,000 people. The
menu will include mutton broth,
rabbit pie, potato hot -pot, Irish
stew and hot pies.
THE $40 HORSE.
"That horse you sold me,- said
the angry buyer, `runs on to the
sidewalk every fame he sees a mo-
tor ear. -
"Well," `,'ell," said the dealer, "you
dont expeet a $40 horse to run up
a telegraph pole or climb a tree,
do you ?''
LONDON'S ANIMAL Q UESTS
I4.IlY STRANGE DIS1lrES AT
TELE ZOO,
tie Bill of Rare is a Vaz'ied Oae --
Testes of the Oslj'ielz
and Giraffe,
0- Not the restaurant at whieh the
clothed animals feed, but the res -
ii taurant .fn which the lions and the
ek lynxes, tate otters and the mana-
tees'finch and dine—a much more
go curious and interesting eating
a house, • The residents irl file Loo
have many tastes, and it would
o puzzle a cordon bleu to cater for
r, them. Some of them are easily
to satisfied, others are dainty and
finiricicy, and demand tate most
he careful consideration. It is difr-
6.
cult also, to provide suitable food
e for animals taken from a state of
nature in tropical : forests and
✓ frozen wastes; and yet the people
he who manage , the Zoo restaurant
a- find acceptable substitutes for near_
11 ly every natural diet, and tempt
the most delicate appetites, In
d 1909, the last year for which de-
- tailed statistics are available, the
1, catering at the Zoo -cost nearly
$26,000. Under the new system a
s considerable reelection will bo
of made, but our business is not with
it statistics, only with the meals pro-
vided. The raw materials which
ike furnish the commissariat include
er clover, hay—five thousand dollars
r- worth — meadow hay, corn and
seeds, oats, bran, maize, nuts,
at biscuit, milk, eggs, fish (sea and.
as fresh water), fruit, vegetables,
e goats, horses, and many minor
3' odds and ends for reptiles, insects
and talose on special diet.
ds VARIED TASTES.
es The giraffe is ono of the guests
who has a nice taste. Ile is strict-
n- ly vegetarian, and his chief dish
n- is a mess of oats, bran and chaff;
x but he is also very fond of clover,
and clover is so good for giraffes
v -that several bales of it were sent
is out to feed name's specimen some
n years ago on the voyage whieli mad-
e ed so disastrously. Some of the
onions go to the giraffes, es pick-
e ine-up, just as the oil -cake is given
- to the deer; but so dainty is the
m taste of these creatures that of one
f of them, it is said that though she
would enjoy an apple bestowed up-
s, on her by some gracious visitor, if
he the visitor were first to take is bite
1 out of it she would reject it with
- scorn.
Some of the guests have to be
deceived as to their food. The
worm -eating birds cannot always
be supplied with their favorite
dainties, and yet they must be fed.
So pieces of meat have been carved
into the semblance of worms, and
the birds don't stay to question
them. In this way the apteryx, the
wingless bird, has been tricked
gine after timut eception has
its limitsfte. e. It ie hBpposdcible to nor-
suar:e an ostrich that a handful of
rusty nails is a good substitute for
a dinner. He is not omnivorous;
some of his race will only eat green
food; others wile swallow meat and
chip's biscuits. The flamingo,
however, has been induced to cul-
tivate quite a south -end passion
for shrimps, and the Polar bear,
who is partial to whale's blubber
and young seals when free to in-
dulge his tastes at home, will pla-
cidly munch a dish of dead horse,
and smack his lips over a venerable
flounder. The seals and the sea -
lions appear to prefer whiting, but
the fish -eaters are not dainty,
though they are voracious.
THE TORTOISES
great and small, get cabbage and
i•vegetable marrow. It is delight-
ful to see a tortoise, making pre-
tence to life, tear off a cabbage
leaf, and doze away into sleep
again, with the green stuff still re-
posing in his mouth. The eggs go
to some of the monkeys, and the
rest to the birds, who like them
bard -boiled; the cats, some of the
monkeys, and the young mammals
get the milk, and the cat houses
are filled with piercing shrieks of
gladness when the keeper appears
beating his can. The monkey will
eat many things, but he gets most
of the fruit and the nets, and some
of the rigs, The writer es heel a
eat which ate onions, butonhe was
a depraved beast, and camp to a
bad end. There are eats here,
however, who eat carrots; the birds
are fond of the melons and grapes;
and the parrots demand oranges.
The bears will cat lettuce greedily,
though the wolves will have none
of it; and the snakes have many
tastes, though the horrors of their
feast have been much exaggerated.
There aro many strange dishes in
the nook -shop at the Zoo ; and, as
in other walks of life, one animal's
,neat is another's poison.
pulpit.
No man is master of himself who
cannot control the guests in his
heart.
The worst failures are those -suc-
cesses that have come at the coat t
of the soul.
You do not secure a clean hill P
for yourself by indicting the rest
of humanity. k
There never can be sufficient pub- s
lie virtues in a life to balance pri-
vate vices.
Whether earth shall be like hea-
ven depends on whether heaven is
in our hearts.
There are many things we cannot
prafforicd to get for less than their full P
e.
Some men think the only way to
preserve the landmarks is to sit on
the fence
When a man gets to arguing with
his conscience you may be euro his
appetites are busy.
The minister who is thinking all
the time of the limelight cannot do
much for the lives of lien.
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B.IiITISH CAPITAL.
What is the capital of the Brit-
ish
ritisle station, as a commercial asset,
at the present Clay 1 it Fellow of
the Royal Statistical Society, who
publishes details of an elaborate
investigation, calculated that it is fee
416,000,000,00, Ono of the - Bud- in
get seatecuts as that the .in-
come of the part of the British na-
tion assessed for income-tax had
reached nearly 4:1,000,000,000 st-
ing per annum. Statisl{ciaris, in
ssessing the. total national capital,
4•
SAID UNCLE SILAS.
Some folks aro alms hollerin'
help and then demandin' an
t
mfres
l
a
usually found their caleul:utioes
upon the income-tax returns. In
doing so, they arrive at a little over
double the total for the income of
the whole population. 1'r,ut3 tills
it is C4crl that our total national in-
come 13 TIOW somewhere al,ont
000,0'00.000 per per anntn. The writer
al the article tjuotcs authorities to
show that tate tutal income conics
oat to about one-eighth of the
ca-
pital sum. By !,means Inc
ar-
rives
at the sum of C t
. l t , c OO, 000; 00n
adding that it is probably niore
than that,
'to their rescuer afore
they'll consent to Nein' pulled to
safety
"Yes," said the fair maid. "my
parents want Inc to marry Mr. Old -
gold, but I'ni not going to do it.
I shall marry whoever I please."
''Then Barite the day," rejoined the
young man, "for you certainly b
please me. '
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titnitli yu w, knevery to lis
1y well mine
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ulrineis to kiss nit+:'' hist it
asu't buaiuesr,; it was pleasure,'?
in scan; parts of Texas the leo
o to Inc eery old. An fel people
clman
of ninety, living t'nite a distance
from the nemesis town, requiring
Bullae` family gru✓ ries, sisnt his
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