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THE QUEEN'S HOUSEHOLD
WOMEN WHO OCCUPY POSTS
OF HONOR IN IT.
• Ditties of the Eight Ladies Who
]gill the High and Honorable
Positions.
The ladies of Queen Mary's
household aro divided into four
classes. First come the mistress
of the robes, then the lathes of the
bedchamber, usually styled ladies
in waiting, women of the bedcham-
ber and maids of honor. Queen
Victoria as a • reigning sovereign
had eight ladies of each class in
her household, says the Gentlewo-
mean.
The number retained by a queen
consort„ however, varies according
to ber pleasure and convenience.
Queen Mary has at present in her
service one lady in waiting, three
etxra ladies in waiting and four
women of the bedchamber. Maids
of honor had not been appointed
at the time of writing.
The office of mistress of the robes
to a queen regnant is a political
one'and changes with the Govern-
ment but that of a queen consort
is in her own gift and may be held
for an indefinite period. The mis-
tress of the robes must always be a
duchess, whereas in case of a queen
consort a widowed duchess may be
appointed if more convenient.
MISTRESS OF THE ROBES.
The duties of a mistress of the
robes are limited to State teem
-
ion. This high official is in the
royal suite at courts, palace balls
and at the meeting of Parliament.
At such times she stands behind
the Queen, and she walk behind
her royal mistress in any state pro-
cession. Also when a procession
drives through the streets the car-
riage in which she is seated follows
next after the state carriage of the
sovereigns.
Her duties are many at the time
of a coronation, and during the
ceremony she is in close attendance
on her royal lady:. When. their Ma-
jesties aro in London a mistress of
the robes resides in her own house
and is conveyed to and from the
steno of her duties in ono of the
royal carriages. But if the court
is at Windsor she remains under
the roof of Windsor Castle.
The Duchess of .Devonshire, who
has been chosen to fill this high
post, is the elder daughter of Lord
and Lady Lansdowne. She is tall
and fair and .dignified, fond of
home life and a devoted mother to
her seven children. She has the
grand manner antiedill no doubt be
one of our leading hostesses; but on
account of mourning Devonshire
House has not as yet under her
reign been the scene of any soci-
ety entertainments.
A LADY OF THE BEDCHAMBER
to either a Queen Regent or a
Queen Consort must be a peeress.
Her "waiti" varies from three
weeks to emonth, according to the
Queen's convenience. And whether
she is at her own home in London
er staying at Windsor Castle she
must always hold herself in readi-
ness and consider her time as en-
tirely at her royal lady's disposal.
She would be in attendance on the
Queen at halls, dinners, weddings
or, any other -formal entertainment
and of course at all state ceremon-
ials,
Extra ladies of the bedchamber
are appointed according to the
royal pleasure, but they have .no
salary and no fixed "waits" in at-
etendance. Ladies who take office
as women of the bedchamber must
' have rank, but they need not be
peeresses. Their "waits" are ar-
ranged in the same way as those of
ladies in waiting,
Maids of honor are usually the
ladies youngest in age in the
Queen's household, They must be
eithei the daughters of viscounts.
er barons, or else the granddaugh-
ters of peers. The daughters of.
dukes, marquises and earls are of
too high rank for the position.
Maids of honor do duty in con -
pies, The time ofwaiting is four.
weeks, and each maid is in attend-
ance for that period about three
times. in the course of twelve
months, When the Court is in Lon-
don the maids of honor reside in
thole own homes, and not at Buck-
ingham Palace, but ars in the naso
of the other court ladies, a royal
carriage is sent to convey them to
and from the scene of action.
A MAID OF HONOR
does not drive with the Queen or
attend her Majesty at dinners, but
she is often en duty at the opera,
and on all state occasions she
forms part of the suite or takes
her place in the royal procession,
When the court is at Windsor a
maid of honor i'ecides at the castle
and is in rather close attendance,
One graceful duty is to hand a
bouquet of flowers to her royal
mistress when the state procession
passes on its way to the dining
room. •
Maids of honor receive much
kindness from their royal lady, but
a few wise rules are made which
needless to say, are carefully re-
spected. "Pieture" hats and an
outre style of dress is not allow-
ed, and a maid of honor while on
duty may not play cards for money
or go out alone on foot in the
streets of London. She must ei-
ther be accompanied by a friend or
by some sort of duenna,
A maid of honor is expected to
be clever and accomplished. She.
must be a good linguist, talk well
and be a practised reader aloud.
Also she should be bright, quick
and obliging> -and possess that po-
liteness of kings—punctuality. It
is also assumed that her lips will
be sealed as regards the private -af-
fairs of royalty and the ways and
manners of the household.
If a maid of honor chances to be
a peer's daughter she of course
bears the courtesy title of "hon-
orable,"
hon-orable _' but if not she is invested
with that style and title immedi-
ately after her appointment. And
this she bears for life, whether
single or married. And she receives
a badge of office, which takes the
form of a miniature of the
• QUEEN SET IN DIAMONDS.
In everyday life this can be worn
as wished, but whenits owner is
in waiting it must be attached to
the left side of the bodice and used
as a decoration. And the badge
is retained for life and not given
up on marriage or when leaving
the royal service. The office if maid
of honor is highly esteemed, as it
gives much social status and in the
end often leads to a successful mar-
riage.
Queen Mary has
appointed Lady
Shaftesbury as her lady of the bed-
chamber. Lady Shaftesbury has
many charms and graces and as
Lady Grosvenor's daughter it may
be guessed that she is clever and
cultured beyond the average. She
likes hooks and rending, is fond of
music and when in town may often
be seen at the opera and at con-
certs both public and private. She
is a good hostess and receives many
parties at St. Gi]es's House, in
Dorset.
To write of jewels sounds hack-
neyed, but it may be said that Lady
Shaftesbury has one most cherish-
ed- ornament. This is the brooch
given her by Sir Thomas Lipton
when she christened his yacht
Shamrock III. It shows the Sham-
rock's flag in emeralds end the flag
of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club in
enamel and sapphires, while be-
tween these are a shamrock and
the figure III. in large diamonds.
Lacly Shaftesbury has two little
girls and a son and heir, Lord Ash-
ley.
Queen Mary has chosen Lady
Airlie, Lady Bradford and Lady
Lamington as her extra ladies in
waiting. Lady Airlie is sister to
Lord Arran, Lady Esther Smith and
Lady Salisbury. She suffered a sad
bereavement in the death of her.
husband, who was killed in the
Boer war, and she now resides with
her youthful son, the present Lord
Airlie, at Cortachy Castle in Scot-
land. Her still young and beauti-
ful face is framed in a cloud of
soft gray hair and oho has a gentle
and most attractive personality.
Some time ago she went to South
Africa to - visit the grave of her
husband,. as he was by his own will
buried where be fell on Diamond
Hill. Lady Airlie is fond of flow-
ers and at her Scotch borne has
made a garden'of friendship, where
every flower has been planted by
a personal friend or a visitor of
distinction.
Lasting fame means doing things
so often that the world doesn't get
a chance to forget,
MODERN FOOD SUPPLIES
CHANGES IN OUR INDUSTRIAL
CUSTOMS.
Disappearance of . the Millstone—.
Mennen/3 Brcal•Malring Menne Oho
Sante,
The remarkable changes of the
latter half of the nineteenth cen-
tury in the means of communica-
tion and transport have enormously
altered commercialand industrial
relations. Improvements inna-
chinery and vastly increased com-
petition have also made a lasting
impression, The appearance of
railways, the post office, tele-
phones, sounded the knell of small
and local enterprises and prepared
the way for gigantic combined in-
dustries.
A review of these changes as they
affect the preparation of feeds and
food -stuffs has recently been made
by Prof. Lindet of the National
Agronomic Institute of France.
Reference is chiefly to French in
dustries, but some of the points,
says the British Medical Journal,
are of general interest, In the
manufacture of bread the old mill-
stons, which had done duty, for
centuries, hoe since 1884 rapidly
been replaeed by more efficacious
and economical machinery. This
has caused the disappearance of the
old country 'nri\lls and has ,insured
the production of
A MUCH FINER FLOUR.
In the actual baking of bread
there has not been 00011a note-
worthy change; the necessity for
the early delivery of fresh bread
every morning still enables the lo-
cal baker to maintain his place.
Attempts at wider organization and
co-operation have only been to a
certain extent successful, but great-
erprogress in this direction may
be expected with the cheapening of
motor conveyance,•
In the wine industry similar
changes have been effected. Keen
competition, bad years, the ravages
of vine pests and the introduction
of many chemical novelties have
gendered the old family vintages,
famous for 'centuries in many cases,
unable to keep abreast of the times
with the usual result that they
have been bought up to form part
of larger concerns. With large oa-.
pital these have been able to meet
successfully various emergencies
and to apply scientific methods to
what has become a national indus-
try.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Of more interest to us are the
facts with regard to milk, butter
and cheese. The growth of towns
has necessitated bringing the larger
part of their milk supply from a
considerable_ distance and has led
to +he great increase in milk traffic
on railways. Two-thirds of the
milk supply of Paris is brought in
by rail. This has called for elab-
orate methods of keeping the milk
fresh and pure. The establishment
of large milk companies has tend-
ed largely toward the standardiz-
ation of the milk supply for instead
of receiving the milk from one or
two cows the customer obtains a
.uniform mixture from thousands of
cows, and he has the assurance that
it will always he pretty mucic of
the same strength and quality.
Private butter making is giving
place to commercial enterprises on
a large scale. Butter making has
become such a fine art, involving
so many 'complicated processes,
that the individual has been unable
to afford the latest improvements
in machinery. Much the same ap-
plies to the making of cheese, al-
though in both cases certain cir-
cumscribed localities and small
dairies with a well established re-
putation are able to maintain their
place on the market,
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES.
The manufacturers of margarine,
and other substitutes for butter,
has had an important effect on the
butter trade and has led to much
legislation with the object of pre-
serving agricultural interests. In
France in 1908 the amount of but-
ter substitutes manufactured was
more than one-fifth of the amount
of butter. The production of su-
gar, unlike that of butter and
cheese, has never been an indivi-
dual business. It has always in-
volved costly plants and a large
number of hands. Even; here,
however, the tendency for business
to grow and for smaller ones to
be merged in them is very marked.
In 1870 there were' in France 620 manufactories, each prnc-
ing an average of 770 tons. To -day
there are only half that number,
but their average production is
four times as great.
Such is the movement --gradual,
it is true, but none the less cer-
tain—which is creeping into our in-
dustrial customs, and which owes
its initiation to the demand for bet-
ter and oheaper production. Its
future developments will be inter-
esting to witness, and perhaps we
may live to see the realization of
E, bida's facetious scheme for lay-
ing in food supplies by means of a
tubo from a groat eentrnl kitchen.
A man known but little if he tells
the ;nissur li3l he knows.
SOIENOEE NOTES,
What dile Scientists el the World
are heing,
The word "caloriculture" has
been coined to designate the riew
system of horticulture which is de-
signed to replace the old French
style of intensive fruit and veget-
able forcing'by soil cultivation.
Within the last • two centuries
about fifty metals have been discov-
ered by chemist explorers, but use
has been found for only a few of
them.
Only about one out of every fif-
teen persons has both eyes in per.
feet condition.
A rapid growth of the finger nails
is considered to indicate good
health.
Paper may be made a good elec-
trical conductor by impregnating it
with carbon:
A school devoted exclusively to
the study of motor boats has been
started at New York.
Paris has thirty-two miles of ue-
derground railways and the con-
atruction of twenty-three more
miles has been authorized,
The safest way to destroy black
gunpowder is to throw it into water
thereby dissolving the saltpetre.
The average annual death rate
of the armies of the world in time
of peace is leas than -one per hun-
dred..
A species of stiff grass, which
grows abundantly in India, is used
for sticks in the manufacture of
matches in that country.
The use of wall paper containing
designs in vertical lines will make'
a room in which it is used look
both larger and higher.
An .experiment ozone plant will
be established at St. Petersburg to
purify the city's water supply,
drawn from the River Neva.
One of the most ingenious avia-
tors is trying out ,a combined dirig-
ible.balloon and aeroplane, a cigar
shaped gas bag helping to raise and
support the machine,
Tests made by army officers indi-
cate that projectiles fired from the
heaviest guns when they penetrate
concrete do socleanly, without
splintering or scattering it.
In connection with the celebra-
tion of the centennial of the inde-
pendence of Venezuela this year
therewill bo established national
military, nautical, and normal
schools.
.TiRUPPS MAKE AWFUL BOMB.
New Destroyer Which Scatters Poi-
sonous Gases.
The Krupps have invented and
are making for the German Gov-
ernment a new kind of siege gun
said to be more terrible in its pos-
sibilities of destruction than any-
thing hitherto in use. The new
type of : ordinance is called a
"bomb -cannon," and is intended
for use by besiegers during the fin-
al storming of fortresses, when the
besiegers' own guns cannot bo fired
owing to the danger of hitting their
own men.
The bomb will supplant the hand
grenade so much used during the
storming of the forts at Port Ar-
thur. In addition to the damage
it causes by explosion it will spread
poisonous gases.
Krupp's daughter who is his sole
heir and who is responsible for the
management of the works, is said
to have protested at first against the
"bomb -gun," especially the ar-
rangement by which poisonous gas-
es are spread. She is understood
to have become an ardent secret
friendof the Carnegie propaganda
for peace by arbitration. The
experts in the gun works represent-
ed to her, it is reported, that the
"bomb -guns" are mainly to be
made as seige deterrents.
—�5•
SCOTCH BARONET A SAINT.
Gives Yip Estates and Labors as
Missionary Monk Until Blind.
Although British baronets have
the reputation of being wicked,
probably owing to the fact that the
villain of almost every melodrama
is "a bald, bad baronet," there
are some of them who are almost
saints, To the latter category be-
longs Sir David Hunter Blair, a
barefoot monk of the Order of St.
Benedict, who, after. spending a
number of years laboring in the
swamp districts of the Amazon
River to convert the natives to
Christianity, has now returned
home to Europe perfectly blind, in
the faint hope that some miracle
may be accomplished toward the re-
storing of his eyesight by the world
fanned ooculist, Professor Pagen-
stecher at Weisbaden.
The baronet graduated from Ox-
ford and married. Upon his wife's
death he obtained special permis-
sion from the Pope to take orders
and fawned over the family's Ayr.
shire estate to his brother, a naval
captain.
Sir ])avid, who is the fifth bar-
onet of his line, has also done'mis-
sionary world in Patagonia. He is
the only monk on reeord who be-
longs to any clubs, having retain.
cd his membership in the Caledom-
ian, in Edinburgh, and of the Con-
servative, !d, London.
NEW 'TERROR FOR FORGER
Crime Can be Deteetdi1 by Ibis
Pulse Beats;
A new means of deteeting forg-
ery is promised by Dr, Lindsay
Johnson, a London ophthalmic
surgeon and author of many amen.
tine works, who has just elaborated
a new theory with regard to
viduality in writing,
Ile maintains that in certain dis-
eases a person's pulse beats are
individual and that no one suffer-
ing' from any such diseases can
control even for a brief space of
time the frequency or peculiar ir-
regularities of his heart's action as
shown by a chart recording his pul-
satlon. Such a chart is obtained
for medical purposes by means of a
sphygmograph, an instrument fitted
to the patient's wrist and supplied
with a needle which automatically
records on a prepared sheet of pa-
per,the peculiarforce and fre-
quency of the pulsation,
Dr. Lindsay Johnson holcls the
opinion that the pen in the band
of a writer serves in a medified do-
gree the Caine end as the sphygmo-
graph and that in a person's hand-
writing one can see by projecting
the letters, greatly magnified,on a
screen the scarcely perceptible
turns and quivers made in the lines
by the sppntaneous action of that
person's peculiar pulsation.
To prove this the doctor carried
out an experiment at, Charing Oross
Hospital. At his request' a number
of patients differing from heart and
kidney diseases wrote the Lord's
Prayer in their ordinary handwrit
ing, The different manuscripts
were then taken and examined mi-
croseopieally. By throwing them,
highly magnified, on a screen, the
jerks or involuntary motions dole to
the patient's peculiar pulsations
were distinctly visible.
The handwriting of •persons in
normal health, says Dr. Lindsey
Johnson, does not always show their
pulse beats, What one can say,'
however, is that when a document
purporting to be written by a ter-
taie person contains traces of pulse
beats and the normal handwriting
of that person does not show them,
then clearly the document is a for-
gery.
HOME RULE FOR SCOTT AND.
The Movement is Steadily Gaining
Strength.
The movement in favor of home
rule for Scotland with regard to its
purely local affairs is steadily gain-
ing strength. , The Scottish Nation-
al Committee, which is composed of
a number of the leading Scottish
M. P.'s, has issued a striping man-
ifesto, in which it says :—
The settlement of the constitu-
tional question will offer an oppor-
tunity for reorganizing Parlia-
mentary business on a basis of de-
volution. Ireland's claim to self-
government is not likely to be over-
looked; that of Scotland is, in its
own way, no less urgent.
A policy of devolution for Scot-
tish affairs involves a break with
the antiquated procedure of two
centuries. This procedure was im-
posed upon us at the union, when
Scotland was practically delivered
into the hands of bureaucracy.
Scotland is frequently legislated
for as an afterthought. Clauses
dealing with her affairs aro unex-
pectedly tacked on to bills intended
to deal with purely English ques-
tions. Such Scottish legislation as
is introduced is initiated by the
permanent officials of the different
boards, is prepared in London, and
becomes a Government bill before
Scottish members have had a
chance of discussing their views be-
fore those responsible' for its in-
troduction, This has been the fate
of Scotland under all Governments.
The problem before lis is to devise
some system of representative con-
trol over Scottish affairs in Scot-
land, a principle which, if applied
to the different parts of the United
Kingdom, would provide for a true
expression af.its own affairs, leav-
ing the Imperial Parliament free
to transact the business of the Em-
pire,
ANCIENT BRITISH SHIPS.
One is 122 Years Old and Another
Ten Years Younger.
Some ancient ships that rival
even the celebrated American
schooner Polly must be placed to
the credit of Great Britain. First
in order of age is the Jenny of Car-
narvon, 122 years old. Tho next
is the May, of Whitelraven, some-
times called the Molly Ashcroft to
distinguish her from other ]days,
The May was built at Cowes in
1798, so that she is 112 years old,
ten years older than the Polly.
Her present owner regularly fish-
es in her with a crew of three or
ker. She is a jigger smack. She
was dismasted in a gale last w5nter
but she is in first-class trim to -day
and her owners sPeek highly of her
seagoing qualities.
Eighteen years ago the May was
practically rebuilt, but a boat mast
be essentially sound to stand exten
sive repairs, and the fact therefore
does not really detract so much as
one might think from the wonder
of her immense age.
REAL RULER 01 GERMANY
IS vomit' NEWSPAPERMAN,
WIIO WIEJJJ)S GREAT POWER
IPammann Controls Press 'Depart
ment of German Foreign
Office,
The assumption of his official
duties by the new German Secre-
tary of State for Foreign'. Affairs,
Herr von Kiderlen-Waeehter,
which lids just taken place, serves
to ennihasizn the fact, says the
Berlin correspondent of The Len -
doe Daily Express, that the real
controller of Germany's foreign
policy and the virtual "boss" of
the Imperial Government is an ex,
journalist ---Privy Oouncillor Ham-
mann—now the senior member of
the permanent staff of the Foreign
Office.
Herr Hammann, who is a•man of
academie education, and possesses
the degree of doctor of laws, was
a comparatively unknown newspa-
per writer when, souse seventeen
years ago, he attracted the atten-
tion of the Imperial Ohancellor of
that period, General Count Omp-
rivi, by writing a pamphlet on the
best methods of combating the
alarming growth of
THE SOOIALIST MOVEMENT
in the Kaiser's dominions. Count
Caprivi was so impressed by the
talent revealed in that essay that
he brought about Herr Hammann's
appointment to control the Press
Department of the German Foreign
Office.
The department exists to enable
the Germain Government to keep a
close grip both en the home and
foreign newspaper press. It ful-
ly recognized in Berlin that Press
inspiration is one of the most im-
portant adjuncts of government,
and that it is worth while maintain-
ing a separate department of the
Foreign Office simply and solely
for the purpose of influencing the
newspapers of the world in a way
calculated . to serve Germany's in-
terests.
This task has been under Privy
Councillor Hammann's manage-
ment for a decade and a half, and
in discharging his duties he has
made himself the most powerful
man in the German Empire, next
to the Kaiser, and there are good
reasons for believing,that William
II. himself stands somewhat in awe
of the
CONTROLLER OF THE PRESS.
Privy Councillor Hammann
wields more power behind the
scenes than the Imperial` Chancel-
lor himself, and it is an open sec-
ret that he ejected the last Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs,
Baron von Schoen, from office.
Having disposed of the last Sec-
retary of State, Privy Councillor
Hammann gave a fresh proof of his
power by creating the new Secre-
tary of State, Herr von Kiderlen-
Waechter.
Privy Councillor Hammann cre-
ated and maintains bis influence by
his grip on the newspaper press,
and thus indirectly supplies the
proof that even in the semi -abso-
lute monarchies of Continental Eu-
rope the newspaper is a potent in-
strument of government. There is
a certain irony of fate in the rise
to power of a penman in a. coun-
try in which the sword has always
been regarded as the supreme ar-
biter of the nation's destinies.
LONDON'S POVERTY.
In June Last There Were 116,010
Paupers in That City.
London does not hide its poverty,
and London's poverty makes no ef-
fort to hide itself. According to
official statistics there were in Lon-
don an June 25 last 116,016 pau-
pers, persons in receipt of relief
from public charities. This pro-
vides a ratio of pauperism of 24
per thousand of population.
The number of paupers in re-
ceipt of relief in England and Wales
on June 25 was 762,111; indoor pau-
pers totalled 260,449; outdoor, 501,-
662. The rate of pauperism to po-
pulation in England and Wales is
21.3 per thousand.
It is encouraging to observe that
the rate is slowly diminishing.
There ars various causes suggested
for the existenceof this vast num-
ber of paupers, but the economists
cannot agree upon any single cause
for it. That it •exists is fact enough
for the average Londoner.
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ONE MAN'S WISDOM.
Newed—"I inserted an advertise -
meet for a plain cook last week
and there wasn't a single applicant
showed up."
Oldwed—"How did you word ft?"
Newed - ' "'Wanted -- A plain
cook.' "
Oldwed—"Huh I No weeder your
advertisement didn't pull. Try
something like this : 'Wanted -- A
refined young lady to do plain
cooking, and you'll have a hue.
Bred applicants ler the job,"
['ROM DONNIE SGOT ,4ND
NOTES OF INTlREST FRO
ran BANKS AND BRAES.
4Pbat is Going On la the Highland
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia,
Glasgow Fair is perhaps the old-
est festival of its kind associated
with any British city.
Peter Jameson, farmer, Bourn-
hillwood, Nitabill,,was fined 550 for
selling weak. milk,
Contracts have been fixed to
erect the new Board school at Car
-
doeald. It is to cost 514,500,
About 100 Greenock women took
part in the fruit -packing at Blair-
gowrie and Auchterarder.
D. Wilson & Go, Paisley, are
about to make alterations and addi-
tions to their work . in Abereorn
street.
One of the most famous of Bor-
der sheep breeders, Mr. Rt he rt
Clark, Oldhamstoeks Mains, died
recently,
During the past year 62,400 free
midday meals were sefved to poor
scholars at the Leith schools.
Fifty medals and three challenge
trophies are offered as prizes for
piping at the annual Highland
games at ,Coeval.
Mary Hirshelwood, a shop girl,
was killed by a gun shot which was
fired at a shooting booth at Brodick '
Fair, but went wild.
A jury in the Court of Session
has awarded $10,090 damages to the
daughters of a Glasgow man killed
by a motor car here.
The Glasgow police dogs have
frightened away the suspicions
looking individuals who used to
haunt quiet suburban, nooks.
About 1,400 persons took in the
annual fete given by Mr. and. Mrs.
Carnegie at Skibo Castle grounds
to the children of their estates.
The grouse season on the Scot-
tish moors promises to he a record
breaker this year, as the weather
during nesting time has been 'fav-
orable.
The effects of the Lloyd George
budget with its tax on whiskey were
felt in Scotland last year in a de-
cline of 27 per cent. in drunken-
ness.
Principal George Adam Smith, of
Aberdeen University, has announc-
ed that Lord Stratheona, Chancel-
lor of the University, had given
£10,000 for the founding of a Chair
of. Agriculture in the university.
Saughton House, the fine old man-
sion which was a feature of the
last Exhibition at Edinburgh, is to
be put in a thorough state of re-
pair and improvements made in its
immediate neighborhood.
While workmen were engaged
digging in a. field in the neighbor-
hood of the Tower Braes, Clack-
mannan, recently, they came upon
about two pailfuls of pennies, prin-
cipally of George III., and some of
Queen Victoria.
An interesting addition has been
made to the valuable collection of
relics at Burns's Cottage. It is the
old stone trough which was in use
in the Tani o' Slianter Inn in the
time of Burns. The trough was re-
moved -.from the inn forty years
ago on the introduction of the new
water supply. It 'vas given to e
farmer, and subsequently passed
into the, hands of an Ayr contrac-
tor, from whom it has now been ac-
quired.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
A jellyfish has no collisions.
A loose tongue often indicates a
tight fist.
No man is old enough to be' an-
other man's conscience.
Character is seen in motives, but
it never stays there.
The see -me -suffer saint is a twist-
eded sign on the Zion road.
Many fail to do any great good
because they will not do liitle kind-
nesses.
Many preachers would reform if
sentenced to read their own ser-
mons.
No man is really trusting provi
flabby.
dente who is letting his muscles get
This world knows nothing real or
worth while without dreams and.
visions.
You cannot really love men un-
less you are making it possible to
live with them.
No man can long be content to
measure his possessions by the pov-
erty of other people,
The first thing some folks will
want to do in heaven will be to
elect a new set of officers.
Tt is far easier to praise the for-
giveness of enemies than to practice
the forgiveness of friends.
Many a conscience that works
well at the second person notch,
gets out of gear at the first person
singular.
The minister who speaks from a
-monk's experience would preach a
good deal better for .a'course as a
merchant.
It seems to make some folks won-
derfully comfortable to tell tle; Lord
just what they think of dile an-
other,
Tho saddest case in this world is
when one thinks the almighty has
destined him to be happy at the
prize of another's misery,
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