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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-3-17, Page 61 F1IS�� LASE GAE R ED OY FLY "TUEORT OE SAVANT iN1'ESTI- cl tanNG PELLAGRA. First Assumption Was That it 11'a Can8ed by Flitting of Moldy Corte. 'Spousored by a representative committee' of Europe's foremost medical and scientific experts, a determined effort is to be merle to trace the real origin of pellagra, a disease which recently created Wide discussion owing to the initial assumption that one of its pidme ceases was to bo found in the con- sumption of corn, especially when the grain was in a damaged condi- tiun. Under: the auspices of this central organization Dr. L. W. Sambon, of London, who now con- tends that the disease is eonimun - cated to man probably by sand flies, just as the "sleeping sickness" is ;carried by the tsetse fly, and his assistants will proceed to a, pel- lagrous area in order to carefully and extensively investigate every phase of the dread disease and seek - to find its cure. SCOURGE WIDELY PREVALENT , Fora considerable time past, it is stated, pellagra, • has prevailed one afternoon when in a little cave Lough Swilly. • extensively in Lombardy and other just ahead he saw two wild fowls, Musselburgh has voted against the Libraries' Act. parts of northern Italy, in h one standing on the edge of the ice adapting the Public "Asturias, in Gascony, Roumania and the other swimming near by in The question cannot be raised again the water. fat three years. It being close season he carried Large flockmasters and' their 00 gun with him. He rowed up to shepherds report the recent wea- a point very near the birds before ther as having been as severe as the one in the water took wing and any within living memory. flew off. He was surprised to see Clydebank Distress Committee the other remain where it was upon have paid the unemployed over the iee, and even more surprised t $?•1,005 for doing work which a con - when the flying duck returned and' tractor offered to do for $9,710. lit in the current just out of gun -The total number of deaths regis- shot, , tered in Edinburgh (luring a recent His curiosity aroused, he rowed week was 89, equal to an annual up to the duck upon the ice. It • mortality of 12.83 per 1,000. remained motionless. Perceiving, Salmon fishing in the Dee, Don, ing as in other. things. On at least two occasions be has bestowed the M V', O. (Member of the Victorian Order) on his .host's chef in ac• lcnowledgment of the satisfactory nature of his cooking'. This order was originated by King Ednvard and has frequently done duty. ii)oubtiesa it has made its recipi- ents extremely happy, but it has ranee' to be regar'docl'with much amusement by the King's intimates. On one occasion it was bestowed an the Mayor of some little foreign town where hie Majesty had been detained in order to listen to some tedious though complimentary speechifying. Speaking of the iu- cidentthat same evening, the King said of the Mayor: "I didu',t know what to do with him, so I gave hint the M. V. 0." And served him well right!i, ex- claimed one of the listeners, at which his Majesty laughed as heart- ily as anybody. lfli~, WILD ILD DUCK AND MATE. Faithful Companion of a Canvass back Caught in the Ice. An incident showing the fidelity existing between a mated pair of canvasback ducks came recently to the notice of an old riverman who anis 'fishermen have abandoned it plc He is now an old ma If comets could ever have done fishes and hunts for a living on the altogether. (yearn of age and rarely leaves his: earth any n have clone it long ago, abet you and harm theywould waters of the St. Lawrence. He Large catches of herring were study. And not only docs he hide' they was rowing back to his cabin just landed at Campbeltown recently by outside the edge of the shore ice trawlers. They were caught in so g F'R{l l-�r O`NI'l SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST /IRON HER BANES AND BRAES. What Is Going On in the IIighitivale and Lowlands of Auld' Scotia. During the month there were no beer than three maiden Courts in Leith. During the year' 14,272 lodgers made use of Elgin Corporation Ledging -house, During the past quarter 186 lbs. of meat wore destroyed in Elgin lie being' unfit• for. food, An enterprising Dundee burglar has managed to get a haul of $300 from a local poorhouse. A scheme is to be formulated for the medical inspection of the schools in the County of Morayshire. Southwick School bas been closed owing to influenza, which has • af- fected nearly every house in the parish. The Firth of Forth herring fish- ing has proved a complete failure, SOME NOTED RECLUSESiNO FEAR OF COLLISION tiENIDSES ,• WIJO SELDOM LEAVE PIEIiIIZ HOMES. Kermit Life of the Cheisen• Sage,— Great Painter hives in Strict Seeiasion; Carlyle came remarked when a friend chided him for being enols a r•eelnse that social life was work's greatest enemy. The,Chelsea•Sage considered that 'a man must shun acquaintances and friends if he wished to give the world his best work, and a, study of the .lives 01 some present-day geniuses shotvs that it is total absorption in their work which causes them to hide from the public gaze, says London Tit -Bits. Take the case of Matthew Maris, for instance, the well known pain- ter, whose picture, "four Mit?e's tail of a, comet, and no ono knew fetched 3,300 guineas at Chris antthin about it at the time. a few days ago. Maris dives in g strict seclusion in London lodgings; "For, a hundred million years the whereabouts of which is only life has bean oontinuoue on this kuowu to about' half a dozen pro- earth, though we have been visited n of 70 by at least five comete every year, BRITISH ASTRONOMI'.il, RIDI- CULES THE COMET SCARE, Sir Robert Buil Says Etnth May be in Tail • About May 120, and Ropes It Will, Sir Robert Bali, professor of. astronomy at Cambridge Univer- sity, dons not share the alarmist views of Camille Flammarion, the French astronomer, Glad others with regar'1 tothe result of re collision between the earth and Halley's comet. He has received multitudes of letters on the subject, and this is the reply he• bas sent to one anxi- ens enquirer:— "A rhinoceresin full charge ttyould not' fear collision with a cobweb, and the earth'need not fear collision with a comet. "In 1801 we passed through the himself from the public, but he al - and Corfu. It is common in lower Egypt, where in certain'vllages Dr. Sandwith found as much as 36 per cent. of the inhabitants to be affected, Dr. Lavinder found it still more common in upper Egypt. Drs. Cuthbert Brown and G. C. Loev'have recognized it in Barba - does, and several other authors have mentioned its occurrence among`the Zulus and Basutos of TSouth Africa, while Dr. U. Ray observed several -oases during a brief stay in north Behar, in In- dia. now for the first time that it was and Spey has opened under favor - An exchange of views by those a canvasback, and realizing that' able auspices. Fish is abundant, of gentlemen who form the investi- gation committee tended to the con - this species of wildfowl is seldom excellent quality, and free from � elusion that the malady is essential- the. fall months, his wonder in-, Mr. Skinner, General Inspector ly of a chronic character and chiefly creased. As the nose of his punt; of Fisheries, says Scottish herring affects cultivators of the soil. A rap upon the ice the duck began! exporters risk losing their Contin - large number of pellagrous pea- to flap its wings frantically, and .ental trade through bad quality sants end their days in lunatic asy- it was then that the man realized! anti bad packing. lutes, while many more drag out a why it had not taken wing whist Tho Duke of Buccleuch has pre - miserable existence in their native .the other. Its feet were frozen in seated Dalkeith with a site for an villages. The changes discovered the ice. infectious diseases hospital, and has after death have been of such a With some difficulty he chopped promised a donation towards the er al .character as to indicate a gen away the ice from the imprisoned erection.of the building. bird's feet, and took the bird in Lord Provost M'Innes Shaw of is arms. It scarcelyweighed Glasgow suggests the amalgams h � g gg mere than the bones and feathers tine of the three infirmaries in the which composed it. He saw also I city, with a view to greater eco - found on the St. Lawrence aftertraces of disease. tissue degeneration, more especi- ally of the brain and nervous sys- tem. The tendency to melancholy, im- becility or mania and the curiously that the bird's eyes were sealed nomy of management and efficiency mummified state of the body are with blindness. of administration. quite peculiar to the disease, and - point to some special cause the for — -.group of symptoms with which they are associated. BASIS FOR MAIZE THEORY. For many years it was assumed thatthis cause was to be found in the extensive use of maize, often of Around the place where the duck Saltcoats Town Council have de - was imprisoned were remnants of. cided to removes large quantity of shellfish and other food, showing I sand which hadaccnmulated at the that the bird's mate had endeavor -I .pest Esplanade wall to the ladies' ed to keep it alive by carrying I bathing ground, and deposit it on nourishment to it. The man cons- the rocks there. puted from the ice formations about in an Edinburgh,,arbitration case it and from the emaciation of the under the Workmen's Compensa- da.maged maize, as a staple article duck that it must have been un- tion Act, the widow of a compose. of diet among the populations chief prisoned there for at least two torr has been awarded the $1,380 ly affected, and this view derived weeks. He liberated the bird in craved, with expenses, for the plausibility from the conditions ex- the water, but it was so weak that death of her luisbaud through lead isting in Lombardy, where the food it died .a few minutes afterward. poisoning. • of the peasantry has consisted The mate doubtless proceeded on To the disappointment m of some largely of the more worthless varies its way south, for he never saw it 80.000 miners throughout Scotland none of the candidates who were put up for Parliament in Lanairk- shire, Ayrshire and Fifeshire was successful. ENGLISH JUSTICE. Bishop of London's Magnanimous . Act. The reader will find in Dr. Cam- den Hake's "Memoirs of Eighty ties of this grain of their uwn grow- ing, sown late, harvested before maturity, stored carelessly in its again. MR TEAT WALK. —we, —are -testate, ' and either made into a _ sere of porridge or into loaves, glove on Land By 'Using Their Sido which were baked hastily on the and Small Fins as Feet. surface and left wet within, large enough for a week's consumption, It may seem absurd to speak of ante rapt to turn sour and mouldy fishes as walking. The flying fish is well known, but its flight looks the week had expired. much like swimming in the air. We ROYAL GUEST AT DINNER.naturally think of fishes as living ales lays in water, as being incapable Years" an anecdote related of Lord Nt) Fenger Bowls on the Table in fact, of living anywhere else. Bloomfield, Bishop of London about But Nature maintains no hard and a hundred years ago, in which is Rows for the Bost, s Chef. fast lines of distinction between to be seen a striking trait of the, Dinner is the only meal at which animal life which belongs to the British character. Imprisonment the royal guests are expected to land and that which belongs to the for debt was not in accordance with .appear, when the King sits in the water. If we can believe the ac- the bishop's sense of right. He centre of one side of the table, as counts of naturalists, there are fish- would not yield his principles even is his custom at home. Etiquette es that traverse dry land. when he was in Italy, where he used to demand that only the royal- It is reported that Dr. Francis could not be held responsible for tips should be provided with menus, Day, of India, has collected several the laws. bus this custom is not invariably instances of the migration of fish- I was told by one of the family a observed at the present time, says es by land from one piece of water singular anecdote of the bishop, a. London correspondent of the to another. writes Doctor Hake. 'then ho was New Orleans Times -Democrat, It .' party of English officers were at home he was invited to a ban- upon one occasion encamped in a poet by the cardinals, and while certain part of India when their at the company gathered he learned tention was attracted by a riesling accidentally 'that the dining -hall was over the debtor's prison. His anger at once burst forth and knew no bounds, He, a prelate of the Church of England, was insult- ed He had been asked to dine aver, the heads of those wretched prisoners, who, during the feast, would beprig in their eir narrow cells? Bis hosts naturally ,explained that such an affront was not inten• clod b,y them ; but he was not to be pacified, At last his course was determined on. Re would remain where he was until a full list of all •theprisoners' debts was brought to him. For this lip waited sulkily, and, when it arrived he wrote a cheque for the entire amount.Normandy at a ruined abbey, which The prison doors were opened, I he has made his home. Now and and he sat delve. again he gives the world scone new masterpiece, but people seldom r she ever .married steel Clair fact three you cannel; t;c1;' have an ttppc;rtunety cif seating the Y "lea ought to be. • She did ung nivrrse does nett caning whit bee ,undo for himself once.... S g along. with this some niee gout of 4. good hus- that you are ordained to is Immo esu ort. et the greatest of s girl rrtdicrate you .or Weal 1 � rola in acct{let•. llama Wawa, is still "doti.geur" that there should be no finger bowls on the table, a custom dating from Jaco- bite (lays, when the partisans of the sound in the grass and leaves. Tie .Stuarts used to pass their glasses vestigation showed it to be caused across the finger bowis before by myriads of little fishes that were drinking, which was their way of making for one direction and were toasting "the King over the passing slowly on. There were hint watcr." dreds of them moving by using their i . Shciesld. the royal guests be in side small fins las feet; now upright, ,.'» nwurning overs other guest must now falling down, squirming, bend - , swear ar in rn0treing of the same e do - rg, rolling g over, regainingalIIlng thew r 'tree, and of course- no one must finny feet and again pressing on. dream of leaving before the royal- These fishes were ,the famous Lice have retired. When the King climbing perch, about which so is aceompanied by the Queen the much has been said and wri;tej, inert must wear knee breeches and an'I they were passing over the silk stockings, bet not so when the Country to avoid aa drought. `fleen Cie is alone. Another curious the stream in which they have been itemi of etiquette is that neither speeding the season dries up, they. the Queen nor the Princess ofscale the hanks, and, directed by Pelee meat ever be entertained be some marvellous instinct, crawl to u bachelor. I have never heard another, whether it is ,permissible Lor the . King ;or tire, Prince to be entertain- Greta --"Belle tells me she's gar- s) by a maiden lady: The King,' though not liking long tlirnrcra, has a keen appreciation of irthat its good iii eating and drink - HIDES HIS PICTURES. Ho has not sold a painting for years, although dealers are willing as I can learn we may be in the to pay thousands of pounds -for tail of Halsey about May 12, and them, as is evident from the prices' T sincerely hope we shall fetched by those which are occa I think Sir John Herschel. said sionally put up for auction. somewhere that the whole comet Maris reminds one of the great could be squeezed into a postman- Italian sculptor, Vincenzo Gemito, tease" who twenty years ago shut himself ANTED COMET REMOVED. in his study and refused to leave Nov to the story of the Italian it. To a certain extent Gemito's village crowd who hissed the comet reason has become unsettled owing 1910 A because it obstinately to overwork and distressing mental fused to appear Y re Bufferin and one of the reasons pP from behind a why he would not leave his study.acrid bank, and who clapped their was that he feared the attacks of hands vigorously when at last it fantastic foes, who were the fig became visible, must be placed on ments of his disordered brain, but record a formal written complaint his malady in no way interfered Handed in by a night watchman at with his work. For twenty years Geedello, Hungary, to the local Gemito has been working hard at magistrate. The man's grievance the production of statuettes, real was that the comet interfered with masterpieces, which he modelled the proper cliseharge of his duty as anda. watchman at night. In his own remodelled time after time, bringing them to rho highest de- gree of perfection. Is was repotted a few days ago, however,';that Gemito had been in- consternation, and the people, drev- dueed to leave his study by no less en mad, run abort the streets all a personage than the Duchess of night. Therefore 1 must request. Aosta, who frequently visited him. l the, Minister of the Interior to be the sunny streets of Naples. At" so kind as to ask the Meteorologi- the palace he was cheerfully greet- I cal Bureau to have the goodness ed by the Duke and Duchess of to remove this dangerous comet Aosta, who entertained him for a from the neighborhood of Hun- gary." I would. not be discussing comets or anything else. "I hope this letter will give you the assurance yeti want. So far words;— "The news of the, appearance of the comet has plunged everybody in the neighborhood intogreat g considerable time. THE EFFECT WAS MAGICAL. Throwing off the depressing gloom of years the aged sculptor returned Unity of aim is more than ideu- home full of joy, declaring that he tity of- appearance. would come out again and enjoy Saints seldom suffer from a sense life,. ea. superiority. . For the first time for some years You can never pray for another Tolstoy left his home at the begin- with your lips alone. ning of October to pay a visit to A good man is never blind to the a friend in Moscow. The famous good in other men. Russian has for many years led a The best pride of ancestry :s t•i be peaceful and quiet life on his es- a light to posterity. in connection with he recent_riut Institution, London. tate at Yasuaya Polyana, which Faith does more than defend old Decipherment at first met with a is situated about 130 miles south facts; it makes new ones. of Moscow, amid forests and sur- He can never know men who will rounded by beautiful hilly country, not stop to know children. devoting his time between writing) Some men coma near proving the and outdoor labor, clad in the devil when they argue on their yc d. 1 picturesque blue smock of the Res- No man gets far in the business Sian peasant. Tolstoy, however, of. living who lives only for busi- while refusing to mix with the ness. ' world, is ever ready to receive visi- Anxiety tries to see the mounted Is tors, The consequence is that al- in the way and trips us up ovs ra though Yasnaya Polyana ie by no pebble. means easy of access, many pilgrims He who sets his sails to the winds find their way thither to pay their of applause steers with his back to respects to the preacher of obedi- Use future. ems to Christian principles. A present annoyance will try out Iii a little cottage of the simplest sainthood much better than a pro kind at Bromley, Kent, lives Prince speetive martyrdom. Kropotkin, the famous Russian ex- One is not necessarily en route to ile, whose revolutionary teachings glory because he has turned his led to several terms of imprison- back on other sinners. went, while serving one of which Characteris what you are when he escaped to England. The Prince it seems that the conductor will not rarely leaves his Bromley home, look for.your fare. where he writes his books and in-, You cannot tell much about a dulges in his favorite .hobbies of man's hank account in heaven by book -binding and carpentry. He his ability to coin pious phrases. is a man who has suffered even Many seem to think that the mark more than Tolstoy for his ideas, and of a level headed man is that he still seeks by his writings to ameli- has 'thrown away his heart. orate the conditions under which Manv inen would bo religious if the Russian peasant lives. Their friends were cat so anxious TOLSTOY AND KROPOTKIN to make it seem petty and ridecu- SENTENCE SERMONS. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY Malt FROM UIE. LAND'S SIiOKES, Happenings in the Erneifiid Isle of Iulerest to Ir'ish- won. A giff. of $3,000 was presented to the technical school at ]'Banbridge, County Down, for the erection of a one-story annex. The Hamburg-Ainos'ika Line have ordered three steamships, eecir of 12,000 tons, from the firm of Har- land and Wolff, Belfast, A cattle -drive took place remit- ly at Cloondroon, Miltown, on the kends of M. J. D, Blake, who re- sides at Woodlawn, Oastlegrove. One man was killed and three. seriously injured by the fall of the scaffolding, while working on the Convent of St. Louis buildings, Mcnoghan, Mr. Alexander' Campbell, senior Assistant -Inspector -General, Royal Irish Constabulary, at headquar- ters, Dublin Castle, is retiring after a service of 42 years. Several of the old thatched houses at Chapel Lane, Navan, collapsed recently, the occupants in each case having left the houses an hour or two previously. The historic residence of the Rev, Chas. Goldsmith at Lisso,y, the home of the childhood and boyhood of Oliver Goldsmith is to be Nestor - ed by the Westmeath Co. Council. The number of emigrants (natives of, Ireland) who left Irish ports dur- ing last month was (according to the Registrar -General's return) 615 (3' 6 males and 239 females). The annual ploughing match hold ]RICE Al WEDDINGS. Tlu'owing It is the Cause of,1liapl Sariarae Aeeldents. People often talk about the dam ger of `throwing rice Or weddings, Occasionally a bride or bridegroom will aslc that the custom shall not bo observed, Bet in Germany they. have gone farther. The reigning, Duke Lao. gold Frederick of. Anhalt, noticing that in his capital of Dessau sever- al serious accidents—some of them with fatal results bappened through rice being thrown, .issued a decree entirely prohibiting the oastom from being observed any- where in his dominions. People say that leis example, will very likely be followed by the rul err of other German States. And the Kaiser Himself has written to Duke Leepoid, warmly approsting his action. There may even be an Imperial decree prohibiting the throwing of rice at weddings all over the german empire—unless this would be regarded as an indis- cretion on the Kaiser's part! Of course, the custom has been the cause of many serious accidents at weddings. • Tn England, not long since, a bride and bridegroom •were just stepping into their carriage, amid a shower of rice, when some of the sharp, stinging grains caught. the ear of one of the horses. The ani- mal bolted, and his fellow promptly followed his example. The bridegroom was' hall in the carriage and half out. He fell'as the vehicle started off and was dragged along the ground for sev- eral yards. The bride was thrown out of the open door. The coach= man leaped from his box and was seriously injured, and the mad- dened horses finished up by dashing int.) a wall, smashing the carriage by the Co. Tyrone Farming Society to pieces and injuring themselves was held recently and was one of so severely that they had to be the most successful events of the shat. ' But even' without serious affairs - of this ,sort rice is not the most pleasant thing in the world to.havo flung at one. If. the grains strike the face they sting like—like any- thing.. If they work down into one's garments—and they usually do — thcy are extremely uncomfortable. . And when a honeymoon couple are trying to pass themselves off as married folk of long standing, and flans ever held in the Omagh dis- trict. Mrs. Colvin, an . inmate of the Dromore West Union Hospital, Sligo, recently received a telegram from. King Edward congratulating her on her attainment of the hun- dredth birthday. Mrs. A. D. Comyn, of Bellinder- ry County Galway,_wife of Mr. A. D. Comyn, Land Commissioner, and granddaughter of Daneol a shower of tell-tale rice, descend- O'ConnelI, rho Irish Liberator, died ing from a pocket or a suddenly - suddenly recently. opened umbrella, gives the whole . The Newry No. 1 (Co: Down) show away, the result is'embarras- Rural District Council have just sing. formulated a scheme for' the pro- Nor are its drawbacks appreci- vision of 26 laborers' cottages at an. ably less when, as with the lady in -estimated cost of $23,000. This is,the well-known joke, the rice is the third scheme for the district. boiled before use, especially when The Congested Districts Board people forget. as she did, to take have completed negotiations for the it out of the: basin before throwing purchase of the. Windsor Estate, it. But that's frivolous. Rice as near Castlebar, Co. Mayo, on which there is a large number of grazing land farms containing 500 acres. At the City Commission in Dub- lin recently, Thomas Doyle was ._ found guilty of the manslaughter Words Deciphered After. Long of his sister Josephine, and sen- Study of Signs. tercel to 15 years' penal servitude. Tha prisoner served in the Boer An interesting explanation of sitar the decipherment of cuneiform in - At Arva (County Cavan) petty scriptions, each as -ha:d been found sessions recently, a number of pec- at Babylon, has been given by the le were brought a on summons Rev. C. H. R . Johns at the Royal ie wedding luck -bringer is a very doubtful bless'i:ng. MYSTERIES OF BABYLON. • at Arva. A posse pf over 60 police were drafted into the elistriet:for. the occasion. At Cavan Quarter Sessions, Judge Drummond, K. C., awarded $600 compensation t r t' n levied o b e 1 off leis.. remind one very much of Bjornson, Much religions speculation is like the: famous Norwegian poet, who trying to explain the. world's an hides himself from the world in a theins by the ether 'waves that carry little house in Christiania. Bjorn- them. son was an intimate friend of Tb- When u thing gets intolerably ran and never cared for the social bend we usually eliminate it from world, He has a great contempt the laitgtiage of decency and leave for a man who seeks social triumphs it in active existence. and since Ibsen's death has become '1 even more strict in his seclusion,FE DING WARM MASH. Ho seldom leaves his study or' aa- i1 serious mistake, made by many ceives friends. poultrymen is the feeding of warm Maurice Maeterlinck, who has crash the first thing in t:ho morning. been called the "Belgian Shakes- :It is natural fir a hat to garge her- pcare," has immured himself , in self on warm mash, when she will dump, in, the corner of the house all the rest of the clay. Feed Whole „ HOW To N Oto PEOPLE.grain in a litter for the morning rho strauajor, "That, . replied the feed,' If you think that you must native, '"is Mr. Point s'." "Onby f "now well de Yon know the very serious obstacle, for, although many inscriptions had been discov- ereci, they were' in an unknown tongue and anunknown script. Fora long timethere•was nothing the County Leitrim at large, a to do but to guess. It was soon ok- claim for the alleged malicious served that a certain group of signs horning of aquantity of hay and :occurred somewhat frequently,and farming implements. A. man named Canavon and his wile,•both aged about 50 years, to- gether with their son, aged 9 years, were found suffocated in a. small room in their house at Admoro, Kilkerrin, recently. A pot of fire stood in the centre of the floor, ,E. _--.-- STORY OF AN INK STAIN. Pens and furniture used in she signing of famous treaties and do.• cements recall Archibald Forbes'; experience alter Sedan, says ti i1 London Chronicle. After witness- ing Napoleon's interview witil. Bis- marnkat a wayside cottage and his subsequent surrender, 'Forbes ,and a fellow war correspondent slept at the chateari which the fallen Em- peror had occupied the night he- roic. The bedroom was just.as Na- poloon had left it and by the bed the open book with which he had read himself to sleep.- It was T t't ton's '`Last of the Barons," Sit- ting at the adjoining writing taste, Forbes 'wrote his despatch'' while his companion :gnawed at a hang bone. their sale remainder of food, Irate at the little eating it fur,tish ed, he flung ib across the room and upset the inkstand . ieto' . which Forbes was clipping. , When Forbes revisited the, chateau a month or so later the ink stain was pointed out as caused by Napole- on's rage on learning the German terms of peace. _ "Who is that big man " naked the for' s nate guess was made that they meant "king." Mr. Johns went on to shote hots the names of the ki'ngs referred to ` were next guessed at, and in this way' alt the different characters were eventually discovered. He showed on the screen the ears liest inscriptions which it had yeti, been possible to read with certain- ty. One of the signs, he pointed out, was an are, or bosv, with short vertical lines underneath. That might be intended to represent the sky, with drops of rain falling, but, in any ease, it was the ancient cu- neiform character for sky. He gave a number of instances showing how the drawings of objects originally used in inscriptions gradually be- came distorted until' they develop- ed into the signs used in cuneiform ineeriptions. 1 INGENIOUS SWINDLE. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Swiss wine merchant who has trade a'fortune by sending wine to dead men mutt (misspelling of the fere sal! a the relatives c a .tap ,v the bilis. The merchant received. every day' dozens of newspapers from all parts of Switzerland, .and .. kepta hook in which he noted the names and addresses of the men wh'B had )'econtly died. IIco Weald then write to the (lend roan stetting °that, mounting to the letter's or- iter, he had forwaidcd the barrdl of wine, and enclosed his bill. feed a warm mush feed it .et noon, plain (.mister'? 11'lty, hr has iha Brt.t1'ns 't ' but in small quantities, '.rhe warm bearing of a malar gee ernI ' I "1'ery Ives!,- 1 'iverl in the same meals is goingout of ,. favor with ayes, err*I the oeer be.'c •t'i q f a hours with therm Inc almost; a practical feedrs. , lautceiant," Neck• •