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BIIIKILA.IIIoUS ENTRY,
A Iraliee OOHI Utssiatter's Advent
fur'e lir Lmtulnn.
Not only to r'e4dera of the
aeliiavernonts a the. marvelous
Mt', Sherlock Holmes, but to all
who know anything of the useful
S)rt'y'tyars U"Ile Tight IMP"' loss .sensational performances of
the London, police detectives in
;Mine on tiOth Anniver'sar'y of their oonstent warfare with crime,
Balaeleva. Scotland Yard has longestood as a
nameof terror to criminals. It
On the 25th of October, 1854, oc- is cast' to understand, therefore,
curred the mese important and gal- the mieehievuus 'glee with which
dant feat of alms of modern times Sit' Robert Anderson, long assist
when the :British Light cavalry ant Police commissioner, confesses
Brigade, 670 men of an ranks, after long silence his share in it
charged General Liprantll's 12,000 mysterious °ese of burglarious en-
I$ussiens, .aecl left more than two- II° was living at the time with
thirds on sh
f their numbers oe g
C
field. In tide minute analysis of
that
the Novelist, and
that awful yet glorious event, the ern reaching home one night very
l� p �1 GREEN
hiaturieal Kinglake rafts Lord Car-
FROM
'ar- late, found that he had forgotten
CD M ERIN'S CS1 l�4 ][OW l'() 4P0It, A. BROOM. die in, cumtnancicr of the. "Light his latch-ke,,.
1 H tri i. to A, _ Iirgcidc," a what in present, teat' "Unable to rouse the inmates,,, THINGS
p
if`rre l o i 'i clan would be termed "bo .c- lice relates, "I decided to enter THINGS PEOPLF LAT worm after silk is unwound
d ) nd alms )fou' to t'se It I g t n bur lariousl M experiences wori the er the. silk
ore wow }n
to Ilcst Aitt'ttrita};e. Teles." et would seem as if he put g, y yof trotter, with rho yoke 1 am, egg
"hone -
NEWS ItY ' �1 AlI, FltO:L' IR& the most improbable inter rets-
criminal courts had, t,*tven me a
i '• ,- ' P g P theoretical knowledge of the bnsi- Zl OR11S ^ t 1 r added, and are said to be very line.
LA.I'U'E SHORES. "It males me sad," a'• a brnun: Lion on tl,e runbi uuws verbal or -BAMBOO SHOOTS,
Maker, "to see the way people us.. dere curried to him by the unfortu nerss, and it was with a light 1leart >1 ll�ies IY'00»
-- brnums. The life of a broom could nate aide, C'apta111 Nolan, irom that T dropped in o.the area and CRI CJs, A?t13. GRASS- 1,Lany vegeiabl:es are eaten by
be twice prolonged ay eropr>r usage, Lard Leet, cuutmaeder of all esti- attacked the kitchen window. Of HOPPERS. 'Many
races that seem Beaten to
Happenings In the Eanemild lsia of and used ru eel it would be vest 6
P P y fish mounted troops., Yet, can m • course had no fear of. tare police.
lutereet to Irish• ly easier tt, use. 1 )us, Bamboo shoots taste like as-
nuliiark• entre explain what .it wss1TteiticerhaE1 1 any goose to dread a paragus; aurins Inc lime nuts are
moa. "You've 10 seen ;,00 310 rtccc}_ing the iuientian to tlo with C'ardigan's
pistol -shot in entering the Tense.:
Devil Fish, Sea Weeds and 3c,► made into flour and meal; cattail
ahead of them, pusllrne rtutf with little furor, er tall it was drawn a But the kitchen window refits
Out f '7 ci i " broom r + , Y P , pollen is used in cake malting by
u v es glia submitted fur the 110 m 1 \thy, 1.n la et beim within range of the Russian batter -led to yield, and mid -ewes the effect Shells—BMW Nests and Californian Indians; water lel
additions to the d'nieersit build- that ever was made, el' the beet. and Of spendin twenty' minutes in that '
Y les, for mmec was killed 3t' a shell j g y Sharks' FIns, . pads are harem:ted m the Upper
hags, Belfast, that .,f Mr. W. Id„ host frerfeetle seasoned brU.n,.r elb alai �st ilmnediately after he had!
area that the aUlll:d of a constable's a Mississippi '••alley, and clover',
stock that ever Crus ;tread in the garden made me re- '
re-
Lynn,
Cr. Belfast, was accepted, par, into a delitered the ozdtr• l treat' to tin Few people are aware that musk.' grape nerds and sunliower see
z 11 , owner e•f the town broom weuldn't stand smell neat- a coal er.11ar'. T felt thou• are used fn the same wa
of Mellinger, has signified to the meat an tlutt. SURVIVORS 0i1 THAT DAY, (that my case was desperate: There rats aro good to oat, and still moreY•
town tenants that 110 is not at pre- "With such handling ep'inis telll t being rio steps to the area, escape rate is filo man who eats skunk,, In many parts of the Amerie:
soffit in a position to sell th • U • break off. The splinter rrmaiain Of the people who walked this was im impossible, and a new belt on Yet both of these animals are ex tropics the natives gather the ]e
property. 1 c t an J1nSccl once unevail, hear unever, j earth GG yours ago Perhaps 15,000 the W111 ow baffled rue, Thee was eellent if properly eooketl, bud of the royal palm and th
in tar, nu ion are alive 10 -da Pork is an important article' <1 great, white, smooth, cylindric
The Rue -al Mail Steam Packet on the surface. Yon never can of the Su population of Canada a yt !nothing for it --I was driven to food 'i Pmass Is sold as mountain cabby
Company has placed ordure with sweep clean with it titer that, P 1 s break the glass. It is estraordin with Anglo-Saxon and Teu-
tonic peoples, and yet there are and is evoked in u variety of'way
Harland ck Wolff. Belfast, for fire "Then ,1, -on know t're majority of my \drat a noise it makes to smash Stewed.
man and Sebastapal reached ]tete, whole races which regard it as ab_ fried or roasted it is epler
cargo passenger steamers for the sweepers always sweep n all the a pane of glass when one does itdid, and Baton raw it tastes -hi
,
South American trade. same side ut the blounr to the front, it is i• mpossible there are still 600 cdeaberat es r solntely unfit for unman consume
At a temperance and in this way th. son ,rtther.itrria•rng,• and c.f the 200 troops of "Tomy horror it s iron. The American Indians eat fresh, crisp celery. 1'ut' each ht
tp ice lel 1 n opened } y o g the Light Brigade who came 1 was -So so dee y manythins which seem strange gathered a magnificent tree is de
recenily. at St. Michaels parish in linen 1 lei:sided, so tient they can't *•back from the mouth of hell," 27 that end. Lu were attracted by the it g gr to troyed and in many places on
Limerick b • the Ca ncehin fathers, use it any other way. Tnerc couldn't the sound, Luckily for me the white man; among thorn being r Y 1
y f be a worst; way. or es old lime broken men, surae had no bull's-eye lantern to flash snakes, lizards and grasshoppers, may see dozens of the tome••)
the pledge was administc red to over T erippl0c}, paralyzed or bedridden, ,Snakes are not at all bad once dead trunks that once bore er, w
dS,000 women. Let} in this manner the points Y' into the area, anti as I had again of glossy green ]eaves, hitt whin
A motor fatality occurred it1 of the. splints get bent a)1. one way remain to celebrate in one wet' urj'taken refuge in the coal cellar, people -can overcome their natured
have Leen saorificed for a et
Dame street, Dublin, when a-- main. and their they meet together at became
the day on tV"llieh ihey I they could. see nothing t0 account prejudice, and lizards are Oaten In
became famous. I many parts of the world, Grass cents worth of the metnrints ca
named Paul Boland, aged about 50, their ends. They don't bite, they The Saturday before the anni- for the noise, As soon as they hoppers are said to make excellent bage
while ceresin the street etas don't take holt) of dust as they me were one, it was the work of a SHARK'S FINS.
g rrr,sary this year, twenty-one sur- moment fol, me to shoot the bolt, soup, to be good fried or roasted,
knocked down and killed, meant to do, they don't sweep vivors were resent at a benefit and manyIndian tribes dr them Of 'course there are shard(&' 11
A barrel containinga large c man- clean; and when a r,r rune has come P open the window, and scramble in- 3'
4ity of butter ir. t.rixcellen1 state to this cunclition the stveau+ r is less matinee at the Anambra, when to- the house. and grind them into hour, soup, "edible birds' nests and trthr
of preservation has been dugout careful of it, for then .i i.. lot se !our ryas �uismtl. 0n the day itself, "The next: morning the pollee DRIED CRICKETS. Chinese luxuries; and no doubt yo
fourteen of them dined at the Hol- seem' sent fo•, and the detectives nifty have read of eating morn
of a County Derry bug, where it go'd a broom. Such a bre( the burn Restaurant in 1471(1 On, Lord, in , Crickets are also dried and eys in South America, .3,madillu
was burred at the depth of six feet, sweeper feels that he may }, an Cardigan. nephew of the man wise!
!investigated the crime. The bio round into meal bybaked in'their own shells, s ,
Dr. McDonnell, who ryas recent) ahead of }ism and when hr t ,es this „ • ken glass and the finger marks g Oregon ande } , that
elected by the Dingle Guardians with it the broom cs t :tarty arid ir- lees them right through the guns,`' gave proof of a felonious entry; Californian Indians, and ants are asr¢l. Porpoise steaks and ailigatu
medical officer for the Vrntr dis- retrievably' ruined. presided once retool the following hitt nothing was disturbed and no- used to a large extent as food by tache aro well known once t:rteer
Y Royal message:• thingstolen. The case was most Indians and African tribes. The ed tropical viands, but it ie one
trict, has cabled from Kimberley, "Of crease the correct way 1.1 use 'The Ding and Queen thank the Samoan Islanders are ver fond of in a few localities that one ma
South Africa, refusing the position, a broom is with the handle, in its survivors of the 13alaelava Light mysterious, and it passed into the a s ecims f e •, y sem le flying fish
A burning accident with fatal re- )nidal position, held 3111.11(111 sire g statistics as an undetected bur- P o m lane worm which P o- g s l cutlets and et
sults recently Occurred in Protest -that all the splints in the fate „f and itrdusbthat 1ithose who are c mess1£, glary'' appears periodically at their is- eggs.
1 need hardly add that when. I lands, and the natives lease all Barbadors and the neig}iburi
ant street, Lboy, ag y, the victim be- the broom Win take held at. the seine 1 ill tg that event of undying fame afterward rw and told Charles c other occupations to gather the Antilles aro the heat/gem-tees f=
Mg a little boy aged one year and time and evenly, In s,v:ep,ng rise will en'o a had res Readm, the
nine months, the only child of Mr, brown should be strung hark incl 1 Y happy anniversary.'' novelist's delight utas unbounded:" harvest of worms, both of three delicac and tt ilii
and Mrs. James CaIaghan. forth from a point hack of the TWO OF THE HEROES, a
In Japan ferns of several kinds elle former is nue of the finest •
g e of
edible fish, as much ea, met be sai
Thomas Conroy, of Moate, now sweeper to a point at an equal Clic- The veteran of the party, ' Ser- of the latter. The sea egg is ,
residing near Manchester, England, tante in front- That is the proper geant-Major Hughes, of the 13th th t b Y reality a large species u- m ea .n
is described as a comingIrish tenor, way to use a broom and then ever o s, a tl tea Y g p r
Y Light Dragoons, a spare man, with (11111 once is used for .the 1 dile vies
He has recently passed the singing day the sweeper enould turn the upright carriage, who looked well filled with roe or immature eggs
and pianuforte examination of the broom around, so as to sweep with under his eighty years, had travel- erican coast there are numerous
They are mushy, unappetizing ,.1
London College of Nfusic, a different side daily. ITsed in this led all the way from Blackpool in 6 g edible Bea weeds but f people jeers anti taste much I:ee, sancd
The now famous "form IV- is manner and turned daily the bream order to be present, ,.His cheek c a one h h soup flavored wi 111 fish,
being circulated in Ireland, The wealr lidow n evenly: �l { still bears the deep scar of a sword
form is slightly different from that " a seen—a d. ight to ,he elft received in the mad, onward
in England, as several of the clauses professional eye and a comfort to rush, "1 was lucky to get nothing
have been found to be unnecessary everybody who likes to see any im- worse," he said, "my horse• w•as
in view of information already pos- plement used to the best advantage shot under me .and rolled Over,
—I have seen brooms that hail been crushing my left leg. But that was
so tisecl that lead worn down almost: nothing. It was not bad enough
to the binding threads but that still for hospital, anyway. In those)
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Jl.li SJ;'I.'S A•'r REST' A DELUSION•
LANG II1;Ll3.r
Sttys sitar (ho Idolt that Otasits and
l3 a orfs are Itubeoilel t
is silly
".You know," seid the old circus
man, "there's a lot of people think
that giants and dwarfs and thatIti,/
sort ,of thing, . freaks, haven't,' much
mind;.th11110 they may beivonder•-
fel, all right, in some ways; but shy
of brains.
"1' 'o etown you in many ways
hew Out• giant, the 'greatest of all
giants, knocked that idea silly and
what a sensible .level heae2ec chap
he really was as well as being good
hurneeed, human, ready witted like.
other folks. I w•as just thinking of
a little thing that showed all this
that made us all laugh when it hap-
pened,
Tho giant had always worn, sus-
ponders, as most folks did in those
clays, and then 11e got a'notion that.
he'd litre to have some trousers to
wear with a belt, and we 'roved to
get him always whatever he want-
ed anti' so we had some trousers•
built far 11im to wear with It belt,
and they fitted Lim something elm•
ter; gant reel he likesd them immense,
ar-d then something came. to us•
ter that nobody, not even 'the g}anti
of himself, had thought of till that r
ir. minute, and that wasthat he had
al no belt.
ge 1';'e were still in' winter guar -
t1 tens at this time, but just getting
i_ ready to take the road, and tvlien.
.r this want struck us the giant and
rn 1 went to town to get him a belt
s- without either of ns realizing what
e a difficult thing to do that was go-
ng ing to be, because neither he nor •
cs any' of es kept his . great size in
h mind, we were so accustomed to' it.
v But in this case, as happened every
b.. now and then, we were reminded
of it sharply.
"When we got to the furnishing-
" goods store there where the whole•
show traded the giant stood out in
uthe street, as he always did when
c_ w'e went about, and I went in and
s got the biggest belt they had and
brought it out and handed it up to
e irim and he started reeving it
ur through the belt straps just as if it
was going to do, but, by gracious,
Y it didn't take more than half a min -
u ute to discover that it wouldn't go
anywhere near rot:nd him 1 He
was not a fat man, you under -
°g stand; he was a man of good pro -
✓ portions, but even at that the belt-
,f wouldn't begin to go around him,
l to say nothing of buckling, and we
n boor had to smile when bo looked
l,• at it on him; but the giant. was dis-
,l appointed for all that, because he
wanted a belt and he wanted it
h_ then,
The storekeeper said he'd order
Y a belt made right away and have it
there ready for ds in a week sure,
but that wouldn't do because the
show was going to start •in four.
days, and so there we were with the
e giant fixed out beautifully with the'
trousers he wanted, but no• belt;,
f and really when we started back
f home he was quite put out. But.
- ire got what eve -wanted after all.
o "Going down the street we pas-.
e sed, ea we always did, the store•
e where they selcl trunks a.nd I never
t thought anything of that. but .this
.y morning when we passed the trunk
store the iant'tou h I 1e
e g coo me ontl
w
_ shoulder and yvlren I looked up he '
> .was smiling down, and also he wase
s pointing at the trunk store window.
✓ "There, with their buckles on•
- nails at the window's top ixtd hang
ing down by the glass in front and
- with their other ends trailing off
y somewhere back on the floor of tele
window. we saw displayed a. lot' of
trunk straps, some tan and some
e black, The giant said' he'd rather
f have a tan one and I went 'in .and
bought tete longest one .they'd got
, and brought it out. '.Phe giant
h started reeving this belt through '
his belt straps and it was plenty
long enough; it went around him
all right and buckled easily in
front, with a length of four or five
holes to spare. And then we went
on; the giant with a belt that fittest
him nicely and both of es pleased
aticl happy
"It makes me laugh: when hear
people say t11at giants have n.o �, J
minds, for I know of :one, a ywey,
that had just its good brains as
anybody."
-___es.
are eaten to a rent ext nt
HOLDING TWO LIONS AT BAY. burdock is raised extensive) for
e u erous ro t' n
A . Music -hall Singers l;xciting weeds of various kinds form an im
Experience. porant article of diet. On the Am-
Sta�•e fri ht of the sort that af-
flitted "Whit" Cenliff , 13 are aware that they are edible and
time ,a, prominent singer in English Y
music -halls, is not avoidable. For- nutritious. In fact the -value is
tenet*, also, it is not common sea a knows and plants as food is
At a place where be was engaged male known, and many a white
in Birmingham, says a writer in man would starve to death where
Serape, one of the attractions was an Asiatic abundant
South Sea Islander
a lion show, some of the beasts be- would find cais food if east
Mg really wild and untamed. away on an oceanic island.
Nearly: the whole stage was taken • SEA CUCUMBERS.
up with the "setting"—the animal Crabs, shrimps sea shells in fact
show-. nearly every marine creature is
"Just as I was going on," said edible, while . the gigantic hole -
Cunliffe, in telling the incident, thurians or "sea cucumbers," so
"1 heard a hurried rush and con- abundant in many tropical seas,
fused shouting, and 00me0,we slam are considered a great delicacy by
mod an iron gate. I heard a voice many races, and the'industry of
say, 'Jest in time; he was nearly gathering, drying and shipping
out. My music was starting, so I these is very important in Male -
had no time to inquire. I went on elan and Australian waters,
the stage. Dried unci prepared for market
"In a moment •I heard ominous these creatures are known as
growls and savage snarls mixed beehe-de-mer and bring a good.
with much • whip -cracking and price is the Japanese, Chinese,
strenuous breathing. I am never Greek and Southern European
fond of a wild animal show, and I markets, The octopus or devil
felt distinctly nervous that night. fteh is also eaten extensively in.
The cloth behind me sagged and China, Japan, Greece and the West
swayed—and then, to my horror-, Indies, and when this repulsive
sr.'cldenly in the wings 1 saw the looking creature is pounded into a
huge head and front of a lion! pulp and made into soup it is re
-
"1 was singing a song called "1 ally excellent.
Would," which had a lot of short 1n the West Indies the natives
verses. As I sang them, my blood aro very fond of the great tree Bz-
rnnning cold, I watched the lion. ards, known as iguanas. These
It seemed slowly to advance, and creatures often grow to five or' six
Its baneful eyes glittered in a feet in length and the meat is
truly horrible way. I cont) not go white, tender and flavored 11Y:eh
off that side without passing it, like a, chicken, In the West Li-
ao I prepared to cart' with haste, dies there is a native land frog
"Turning, I was doubly horri- which is considered a delicacy
fzed to see another lion ()tithe other by
natives and European visitoi;s
side 1 alike, These big tropical frogs are
"1 was caught like a mouse in a eaten whole sand are either fried,
trap. I dared not go off the stage; broiled or stewed, and taste so
I dance not show my discomfiture much like chicken or quail they ai•o
to the audience, There was only comm0n1y called mountain chicken
one thing for me to do—sing. So when served on hotel tables,
I sang in desperation, ]roping that SleAILS AND SLOGS.
someone would come and take
those lions away, They.. told The French and Italians . eon -
me afterward that I sang nnety- sider snails and slugs as dainties of
eight verses! But I' thine that was the highest order, while pickerel
unkind, earth worms aro a common relish
e`I wondered how long it would in Southern. Europe and Asia:
take those two brutes to make up In New Zealand' there occurs a
their minds to come into the frill grub which lives in the earth and
glare, of the footlights, and I had w:hiclr is of ton affected by a fun -
just prepared to leap into the goes growth that springs from the
stalls, regardless of the consogtien- grubs neck and pushes upward to
ccs, when I ,hoard the hoarse .the surface of . the cattle These
voice of one of the stage -hands say: worm -grown mllsllro0ms are ga-
:, "Ere, Bill, these two chaps; are, thered and eaten, and are said to
two far fot'ward Give a. 'and 331111 bo very derliciotte when properly
diem, will yet V And coming up cooked.
between .the two lions they lifted Doubtless many other insects are
diem bodily, They were paper edible, and tete Chinese even de-.
rimeh0.u.
sensed by the Vataation Office.
Patrick McGovern, baker, Willi -
alit street, Belturbet, who has al-
ready rscelved a testinr.nriial from bit bea nt:fully. I ant perfectly well dayseone codlel not get there unless
the Boyal Humane Society for ars- aware that brooms carelessly used, one had at least a leg off!" -
cuing William Doherty from drown- as commonly they are, wear out Another notable hero present
ing at Castle Der'g, Tyrone, has faster, with a corresponding bene- was 11r. W. H. Pennington, of the
been forwarded $25 by the Carne- fit to broom manufacture; but still 11th Hussars, famous an being the
gie Hero Fund. I do really hate to see anybody mis- central figure in Lady Butler's
The remains of Mr. George Short, use a brown. well-known picture "The Cheese
aged 88, were accorded a military of the Light Brigade." "1 at,
^»-"funeral at Belfast. Six of deceased's BUTTER AND THE SOIL. or rather stood, to her fuer or 1131
s0n5 are serving tinier the Crown, Expert bttttcr a r times. I had to look dazed and
Jive of them in the navy and one in 1 t ste s In France stunned by what I had been
the Constabulary. Their total ser- maintain that a flavus of the soil through, so she made me keep my
on which the cattle browse `is al -
vice, including that of their late mouth open. I told her :hay ryas
father, amounts to 1.12 years. ways distinctly perceptible in but- not how I really felt, for T. re -
distinctly r, aro matter who, the special race member distinctly shuttingm
of the cows producing it may be. 1'
l�turmand cows , • teeth very hard as I made up my
y sent into P 1 MI mind not to bring discredit era n,y
show a change in the flavor of their family, and get ihiv'tgh it if I
1.r.0greSsivr :NM Buildings in sub- butter approaching that clraraetei'- could."
tubs of imndon• isti0 of the butter produced in that 1'
II(011I5 'W1:1'g0FT 11I'rcllTEN`i.
region, although the resemblance }s
Homes without kitchens- progres-!never complete. Thus they say' that
sive homes—are tzi built in the 'dust •as there are different crus of
• London suburbs. The idea c f the wine, depending on peculiarities of
architect is to foam a co-operative's/el and climate, so there are corre-
sponding crus of butter arising from
peculiarities of nourishment and
pasturage. The immediate influence
of the soil is shown by the fact that
in winter, when the cows are nour-
ished on concentrated food, not tak-
en directly from the land, the char-
acteristic flavors ascribed to the
soil vanish.
aystrm, so that more 11114111•e will
be given to hunsekaeper;s for more
mental and pliysica] rcrrcu1(001
and for the better care rend train-
ing of children. Hoesch riders,
though living separately in their
own houses, will be enabled to a-
void much household tit-edger;v and
cooking, and the expense and trou-
ble of nirvan't.e by getting such'
meals as they require sent into
their houses from the central loth,
or ley taking their meals in the
common dining room there. Teta
tenants will also have daily or
]sourly domestic service lmuvlded
in the houses Y
tfr rm the staff of
maids to be kept in the central
PERFORATED STAMPS,
We are 001v so accustomed to
perforated sheets of stamps that it
is hard to realize that the process
of perforation wa8 unknown sixty
years ago: ITntil Jantiavy, 180.1, pos-
tage stamps were issued in sheets,
TO THE SCRAP IIT1)11'.
British Admiralty 11as Condemned
Six llattleships.
The British Admiralty has order-
ed that six battleships of the Noyal
Sovereign class, the first: batch of
armored strips laic) down ander the
naval defence act of 1889, are to
he partly dismantled and removed
to the11fothorbank, Spithead, other-
wise known as "Rotten Row."
They are all at present in the
Fourth Division of the Home Fleet
at Devonport, manned with one-
fifth of their full complements. Their
names and cost as originally given
Aro 1
Launched. Cost.
Royal Sovereign., . 1891 £ 839,130
)tall, and In the grounds tennis which the purchaser had to cut up Royal Oak ........ 1892 1,011,884
mele1, bowling greens, and play- in any way Ile found convenient•. Repulse ,.., .,. 189. 007,843
ing fields are to be provided. The perforating maefaine was in.
Ramifies .. 1882 852,550
, alrel 1 n 'labor-saving appliances vented h an Irishman named1P.mpress of India . 1891 902,788
Will be provided for the common cher. • When it was submitted to the Resolution .. , . , , 1892 929,267
111•e, English Government, the Treasury
The proposal is to. build 123 offered him £3300 for f Total cost ..,. „".." .£.x,546,5122
fo his pauent
hu terse and three small qurelran- rights. Al Archer had spent over They have a displacement of 14,-
tgles of Pats. It is statod that ap four years in perfecting his .mo,- 150 tons, their armament consists of
plies 143315 for most of the houses chine., this offer was indignantly re 103(1 13,154 and ten o -in, guns, but
r•., g Y
)l;a' a r d been received, 'e ;, from the main turrets ,: for-
'
to 1 ,.� y ,e J creel: I,vrntually rho intttter outs o sicker o
referred to a House of Comrnone ward and eft are not.atmored.
committee, and Archer was ,wax,: •
-
5'.he animiaat no to convince e eel :14,000 for what certainly i» one
' that you a ei•- • when rt man ftimbs u0 to role his
girl
t�z she is a� �g o 011 taste Is 10 -o£ the most u6,eJ'ul minor vpx$ntians srel;ghburs he often uses..a. ladder
kanl 1 r h g e4 a ing, over made, iwbeled yatriotism,
A TENANTS' STRIKE.
A Town in Italy This a Strik
Against high Rents.
Torre, Annunziatat, a town o
25,000 inhabitants at the foot o
Vesuvius, has proclaimed a genet
al strike ars a protest against tit
ex}torbitant rents charged by th
landlords. Twenty strikes hay
been declared there during the las
four yeare resulting in a victor
for the stri cera, but each time th
landlords have seized the ma
Sion to raise 'the wage-earners
rents, though the dwelling house
are unsurpassed in all Italy fo
their filthy and unsanitary eon
dition.
Now with a big rise in food pri
ccs, the townsfolk refuse to pa
the rent, and .have risen en masse
demanding thirty per cent, re-
duction. " Tliey have covered tli
dours, windows and balconies o
the holn8es with flaring posters, on
w1i300 aro inscribed the word,:
"Down with the bailiffs," "i)eat
to the landlords."
The situation is• serious, as the
bulk of those under notice to quit
are supplied with knives and fire-
arms, and are stubbornly resolv-
ed to resist attempts to evict them,
SENTENCE SERMONS.
'A truly good piece of wont is al-
ways a piece of good work.
Nothing enlarges the life lila let-
ting the heart go out to others.
The wise know better than to try
to live on the spice of life alone.
Many reformers would go 1,iit to
sheet gophers with a brass band.
When a man.seals up his hoarl ho
is apt to think he is holding the
fort.
Some sermons conte near being
demonstrations of eternal punish-
ment. •
it's no est; a 011311(11 advertising;
the bible when it is dodging its
bills,
Nothing chloroforms it church
quicker than a minister dosed with
dignity,
Every church preaches lender 1>.y
its. squame dealing than by it.8 high.
8hentiug.•
The man who 1111(1s fault with tiro
decaleg'' etas usually barked 'liis
shins on it.
If you really 1110 eroding ' voile
bread on the waters yen aro not
your the ehrysalids of the 83111- rising it as belt.
MAIiIE ARTIFICIAL i:AR:B3LE.
They aronow malting artificial.marble with much seneees in Sicily,
slOilihst
The manufactory is in the shadow
of Mount, Etna and them common'
blocks 'of sandstone are put en a
tonic containing, volcanic asphalt ,'
and coal tar and bo.: ocl for thirty-
six hours. 'Aie amen ere then tak-
en out and :'ealishcd and it is said
that it takes en expevt to tell them
teeth black marble.
PROs+E1UalTY..
I'resp11ity 1s gctlig t11011(y other
than neu.t13' fcr'Ido1 fa a pay enve-:
hips. .1'
If the inlet s�t
wer•z'i1 ,tnr fr.-
t» t ee
erne,
ile i11g lived fn it, is eitll lar laths
better after you i 1 )110 c 1 "