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STRUGGLES FOUGHT AGAINST
HIGH 111 1AT PRICES. '
Battles IIa3o Beeu Viaged
end. . Won Against Many
y
Monopolies.
Ages aga, in the early dawn oY
clvlhzatran, whop one. changed a
suit of skins fora bronze dagger,
the man who considered he hed
been cheated in a deal procured
the biggest club he could find and
waited behind a tree for the unjust,
trader, Ie. these enlightened days
wo find it more profitable and marc
convenient ter refuse to pure -hese
p
se who do
e 'goods. of
our ideas of fair tradin .not meet
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•CAESAR
Atradarobtains his livelihood by
selling goods to other people, so
his position becomes Precarious if
no one will buy, Only a, few years
ago large,firm3 and combinations
thought they lead the consumer at
their mercy, but the purchaser has
now discovered his power, and by
combining with other purchasers
is able to inflict defeat on the big-
gest of manufacturers” if he is nit
treated fairly. ,
THE MEAT TRUST.
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1Vlueh has been beard of the Meat
Trust' and its methods of obtaining
control cif the food supply so that
it can charge what prices it likes.
Even Britain has suffered • from its
greed, but fortunately we are not
Yet under its domplete control as
are the people of the United States,
says Pearson's Weekly,
Only a few years ago the packing
suffered severely from the
horrible revelations concerning the
meat-tinningndustry of ' Chi :a r
and other 1ea
paces, and it. seem.
strange that they would willingly
face a second similar of
theirgoods.-
T teonl P i
£ e p ear determ .ermined not
even the strongest ring of produc-
ers can ignore them for any length
of time. Itis.. only a year.or two
since one of the fiercest trade wars
-
was waged. in Great Britain. Everysatisfactor
one remembers the attempt to form
combine of soap manufaet=
eters which was frustrated by the
Public refusing to buy the goods of
the amalgamating houses. •
American methods seldom sue-
ceed in Great' Britain, as' a well-'
known library discovered. to- its
cost. The booksellers said they
would not buybooks if the ?essay'
were able to undersell them oy put-
ting almost new copies on the ser:-
ond-hand market within a` few
�,meets'
weeks publication. The pub-
fishers therefore refused to supply
the library, which capitulated after
several months warfare,
TOBACCO Ifi.A it.
Pretty mush the same thing hapI.
pened when the American Tobacco,
Manufacturers bought Ogden s and
tried to obtain control of the trade
Britain, The British makers
combined and fought the Americans
with their own weapons, so that a
very large number of shops refused
to stock the tobacco and cigarettes
of Messrs. Ogden and _their allies,
In the cad victory rested with the
home firms, who purcbasea Ogden s
and obtained almost complete con-
of the British market.
It will ba remenxhcred that:quite
recent] the butchers an man arts
es , Y t Y e
t country proclaimed them in-
tendon of boycotting those farmers
who ~could not give a. warranty with
their meat. The farmers would not
give the required warranty, and,.
although many butchers refused -to.
a tin
t d their sales, {,]acre was not
sufficient agreement among the re-
tellers to force the farmers to
agree to their terms.
Then the confectioners were al-.
so up in arms at, one bane and hint-
ed darkly 4' boycot+,.ing rho !ug
chocolate makers who supphecl
stores and bag firms selling confee
tionery at what was liraeticall�
whirrnic rates.
One `'ne reconfectionersuit.
hadaoho t
pass a ' rocer who as ell P
Pveets at ridiculous »/:res se lig .roads
lin the 'trade of the l ' i. ] :t .:the
g eg t ma,c
dealer•. Th grocer aatul i afford to
rlo this, as what he lost en has -en
factionery he made up on his gro•
aeries. The coatfoctirner retaliated
byselling ^tea -'am and other _
6i 1 h - b.
aeries, enc, attracts i sa much trade
tixat the grocer waseatchin
GLAD TO COME TO 'TERMS.
A suggests:en has just been made
by one of two licensed Victuallers'
Associations to boycott'Irish whits
k' should Mr. Redmondrefuse
y dto
oppose the passing of the present
Budget, • Germany has also had
trouble with her budgets, of recent
g
,veers; for the'. tales on' beer have
bean iinereased. The brewers were
obliged to put up their prices, but
increased them out of all proper.
tion to the tart • This was too much :Lasa
Oren for. the beer-laviYtg: Germans,
and those firma whi 'raised - their
pprice, to eta outrageoue level were
boycotted until :they reduced their
charges, ', .
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Trade boycotts are even used DA
a method of waging international
war. During the rrceut high -hand-
' NNorway
ed artaon in the _�en,r East, Aus-
trig'. 1''•.1 hundr cis of thcusa:nde of
r:.,r:.;:- 'Iv tee refusal 'et Turkey„wishing
Sere -MI and Mentonegxo to buy her
ip'oods,
Americo is said to .have ]oat intli•
lions by the boycott teat China
placed en her exports a few years
ago, enol Britain has ,more meetly
suffered in a similar way, while in
Oeleutte ;the disaffeotted 13engkilas
refused to purchase British mane-
factures when median ones could bo
procured,
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INEBRIATE ACT
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The iScotland
i0Institutionsn _axe of
Giem Vniu �
' In a repast to the Secretary of
Scotland the Inspector for Scotland
under the Inebriates' Act says that
during the year ended Dee• 31, 1909,
there were: •in all nine institatioes
under inspection, including three
lrcen ed retreats,five e rti ed n-
8 a ii �
ebnate and oue
Stateeformatory r' The, total num-
berofperaonsdealt .wdthduring the
year was 239, of whom 121 were re-
treat patients and .118 reformatory
inmates, Compared with the re-
turns of the previous year the insti-
tutions numbered one more, a new
retreat 'having during the year re-
oeived a license, but the patients
dealt with are 24 fewer, retreat' pa-
tints being one less and reforms-
tory inmates 33 fewer. These fig-
uses, says the report, show that li-
censed retreats continue to be pat-
•
ionized by those seeking treatment
in thereto about the same extent as
formerly, but that the reformatory
treatment of the Police Court
drunkard is now being less seldom
used,
The report goes en so remark:
Experience gamed in Scotland has
shown that these • institutions for
the care and treatment of inebri-
ares can fulfil useful functions• Be-
treats have been found to be of cal-
00 as curative institutions for the
treatment of Habitual inebriety,
and reformatories have been found
to be of value as places for the se-'
gregation and control of drunken
pests, tosome extent as cure-
e The recovery
rate' in well-conducted retreats is
found to approach 50 per cent., and
that, of reformatories to be about 7'
per cent. The former `figure is ' a
one,and sufficiently
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good to enable an inebriate to en-
ter such an institution with' areas-
enable hope of recovery, but theist-
:ter figure. is small• It could not
well be otherwis because the eon-
'
ditions required for conviction un-
der .the Inebriates' Ant are so sec-
ere that the more hopeful class of
inmate isexcluded:"
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NEWSPAPERS CAUSE FLOODS.
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Cause is the Large. Amount- of
Wood Used in Their Production.
• At fryer glance there, is not.much
connection between newspapers
and floods, but it is a. feet that the
growth;' of the number of newapa-
pets is direct reason for some' re-
cent disastrous' inundations.
Nowadays paper is almost credo-
nivel made ofthousand:
3 pulp wood, and so
tremendous is the demand for pulp
that whole tracts of countryin dif-
ferent arts of the world ea Dein
denuded- of timber to furiifsh the
au l
The roots of trees bind the soil
together and recent it from beingThe
washed tiwa .p A heav rainfall i
y y
also broken up by the foliage, and
a certain' amount of the water ±a
afterwards evaporated by 'the sun
or dried by the wind, : while; " af
course, the trees themselves draw
u great quantities of ' of u
frothe soil rel at "ro
But when a mountain side is. de-
nudedof its forests the heavyrang
fall penetrates at once intthe
earth and quickly carries away the
top soil` until the rock. is laid bare,
Instead of soaking the ground the
wet quiettly runs off the surface,
gathering in volume as is descends,
until it reaches the rivers, and eon-
verts them into rushing.torrents
that rise eo flood level : n a few
hours,
In the same manner the settle-,
meet of 'land tends to the same re-
Before the country was so
carefullydrained and laid out. with
the water soaked deep into
earth ;and only; -gradually
reached the lower levels anti rivers,
Now i es are laid ,ever where ere,
p p Y ,
all roads are drained by gullies
and culverts,
Therefore, these . drains quickly
carry off the flood water to the
rivers and streams, which are thus
swollen far above their normal vim-
yt within a vary short time.
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)NLYONE MAU ESCAPED
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tE11 AREABLE INCIDENTS OF
GB]iAJ„ DISASTERS,
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tole Survivors of Shipwreck, Vol-
cattle Eruption and Colliery
Explosion.
There is something intensely
xamatic in the escape of a single
xdividuel from a catastrophe
has overwhelmed x
ever os e
lee. a case happened, it will'
a . Suchen ea in oottnection with
Se loss of French
the
teamer, General Chanzy, in the
The huge liner struck at the dead
E night on a reef near the Balearic
and went down almost the
,ediately, carrying with her to the
ottom of the sea somo 170 persons.
ne only, a man named Marcel
adei�; was hurled forth again in
welter of froth and spume, and
GO, bleeding and unconscious, but
ice, on a projecting fragment of
ick.
Even more thrilling. was the es -he
we of the sole survivor of the
readful volcanic eruption, which,
I May 8th,: 1902, destroyed St.
vette, the capital of . Martinique,
a island in the French West In-
es. About fortythousand people
ere killed .thesu osed entire
Pp
no -elation of the city,
THE ONLY MAN NOT EATEN
Three days afterwards however
a exploring party foetid a negro
ice in a dungeon beneath the
awn hall. Be thought he had been
are three weeks, and - swooned on
sing brought put into the fresh air,
it he soon recovered: History has
1 record of any catastrophe of the
nd so terrible as this one, nor of
ay escape so remarkable.
To be the only survivor of the big-
1st cannibal feast on record eons
notes in itself a claim to notor-
tyr: Which is why every stranger
Shanghai has his attention
awn to Ali Walt Sin, a grey, bent
el Chinaman who keens a small
curio" shop: in the European
meter. Fifty years ago 911, then
lite a youth, embarked with 326
his fellow -countrymen in the St.
aul, .Captain Pennard, bound
om 7lon- Kong to Sydney. Short-
afterwards the vessel was wreck-
l on Rosso] Island„trod
Several weeks elapsed before
ew� of the disaster filtered
native channels to civilizes
on, and yet. other weeks passed
the cruiser St • anchored off
m island end landed an. armed
arty. They found alive and
roughtaway -with them one man—
li Walt Sin. All the rest had been
stud devoured by the.
head-hunting natives.
On January 16th, 1862, at Hartley
ell cry, Northumberlandshire, an
on beam weighing over twenty
snapped and fell down the yen-
dating shaft, completely- blocking
Six men were ascending in a
at the moment the accident
appened,' and of these, five were
on the spot. The sixth es-
byleaping or. to a projecting
ist,
Ifo proved to be the solo surviv-
for the whole of the men and
iys below, 202 in number, were
owly suffocated, and not until
�me weeks afterwards was the first
the bodies recovered, One re,
It of this dreadful occurrence was
,e substitution of malleable, in the
of east iron beams for collier y
mines, and the: provision of doub-.lover
shafts in all British coal mines.
WHY TEE KAPFIR TSCAPED•
Another famous colliery accident
one which onlyn 'k
one workman was
sowed, occurred at Ponictaik pit,
idlotbian, some years later, when
xt -three lives were lost owing to
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sudden outbreak of fire. On May
1901, again, a solitary miner
as rescued alive from the llniveh:e-
Colliery, near Caerph.11y, . after
i explosion which killed'; all • his
etas, eighty-three in nitmber•
On lehrunry 19th, 1896, the big-
st expdosron on record occurred
Vredenderp,.`e, suburb of So-
,nnesburg, owing to a trainload
dyhamite being shunted too for-
ply into a siding. Every building
id tree within a radius of a couple
thousand arils of the spot was
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celled to the ground, and where
o trucks of dynamite lead stood'
was an immense trough -shaped
"crater," 300 feet long, 65 feet
wide, and 30 feet deep.
About eighty people' were blown
to atoms, fragments of some of the
bodies being afterwards picked up
on the veldt: a mile er more drs-
tont from the actual scene of the
catastrophe. Yet, marvellous to
relate, a, single Kaffir laborer was
found alive on the very edge of the
crater itself. It transpired that he
had been lying flat on his back on
elle ground at the time; sunning
himself after the manner of natives,
and, watching the shunting opera,.
tion that was destined to result so
disastrously. , It was to this fact
that he owed his escape, the fiery
blast passing over him and leaving
him comparatively unharmed,
while instantaneously killing the
others, all of whom happened to be
in erect posttirea.
Undoubtedly, thehouses
dramatic of Ysin le -man escaoes
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that ever occurred was that im-
moria]ized:by.Lady Butler's famous
picture, The Last of 'an Army,
It represents an officer in undressboycott
tt>cvl'form, all torn .and bloodstained,
firing a jaded horse up to the gates
of the Indian .frontier fortress of
Jella]abad,
The officer in question was Dr.P
Brydone• The date was January
1st 1842. And he was . le sole
' .
survivor of a mixed British and
-
native force, numbering with campagreat
folloyvers 16,000 men, which had
left Kabul only a week Previously.
All the others had been' butchered
by the fanatical Ghazis while en-
tangled in. the' terrible defiles of the
justly -dreaded Khyber Pass.-
Pearson's Weekly.:
to the
sjtowingthat
the Hurts
ting
Germany
practical
men
stead.
a continuous
this
the family
that
arrested
he leaves
on .until
mortal
Thus
served
sentence.
which
the
his eernin
wife.
In.
premium
lowing
votes
the -single
car one
for the
married
25 he
$3.75
and
ed single
taxed
In
upon
tar
the stage.
fumes
-will find
nation
correct
button.
OFFICIAL
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Two
John
Der of
would
we include
Government
sons,
number
These
British
in' The
services
liberal
quarters.
world
abili
their
bags,
helon
menta.
All
ish Government
each
cents,a.vveak.
fall•ill
to which
liberty
-bark,
charge
services.
, In
joking
is constantly
He suffers
lively
don's
of age
every
much
he still
a record
a single
Joe
of Education.
have
is an
rats,
oral
Ile
newspapers
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Pigeons,
awaiting
an• unwar
p-
i eon
an hour.
The
of the
- grant
meet
of earriders
friends
ages
o
hours
an
mors
thousands
until
ed there,'
And
mune
authorities a certificate
she is competent
of cooking, sewing,
end embroidery,
has an intelligent
method of dealing
who ill-treat their: wivea,
of sending them to jail
period, as is done
country, and thus depriving
of the man's wages
time the German offender
on Saturday afternoon
his work and heid in
time for work on
g'
plan is followed until
the nuxhber of days
During the period
the German offender
week ends awn from his
-to
s are handed overhis
Belgium theymaster
g place
on marriage .
. a married man
aan 1
t e s enc., as
man's one. In Madagas•
must be a father or
default. If a man.
or childless at the age
must contribute annual'
to the support of the
each woman who has remain
or is childless at
$1.80 ter ear,
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Austria a heav fine is im
Y
any actor who wears a
or ecclesiastical costame
In Germany such
may be worn; bat the
themselves in a see.
it theyare not abi•,slutely
down to the last docs
in
knit-
and.
. with
Ins
for
in
fol.+s
is
as
P ris-
Monday
he has
of his,
in
spends
home
a
by a1-
two
against
Pay
is ' nn-
of
is
State,
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24 is
p osocl
midi
en
cos
a•^«ars,.
ris Sit-
and
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num-
'it
but: of
pri-
the
of two
for the
writer
their
With a
coney
of the:
under
grainP
.goods
P.
Brit-
rnie 25
them
is 'at
and.
his
re
who
hands.
pass-
Lon-
years
with
so
has
in
Boded
only
yet, lie
mice,
. In
aey>
thus
seize-
for
e but
two in
miles
n is
a d
POT
cor-
chases
the
wh ch
steal.
NATION'S IDEAL
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NoW WATCIILS OVER . EX-
QUEEN ALEXANDRA.
Sad .little Dag Who Won English
People's Hearts at King's
Funeral.
Many stories are told about the
a s r the late Ktn
affection of . e. e a , . , e
J;dwaxd'o terrier for his royal mae-
' thisa-
ter• Some have speared in p
per, says:the New Herald.
Ever since that day last May w il-
Caesar walked' a pathetic, dfseo
sedate figure behind the gun earl
ria o which carried the body of his
g
ha has had a place in the
hearts of the. people. `Those who
know Caesar saythat he has be -
a
come a very sad and sober dog, ex-•
sept for one daily dash about the
Sandrin ham lawns, because ha
naw feels that Queen Alexandra is
r
his s civil char- .
p
Caesar has been a means, too, of
-
showin that the memory of. I�iug
Edward, is still. held in affectionate
regard by has people. In all the toy
and fancy .stores the model of the
dog,' with the medallion round iris
neck,"1 am . Caesar, the King's
do " has been in immense demand
g,
far Ohristutas and New Year's
gifts.
CAESAR S PUBLIC) FIGURE.
Ono who knows Caesar well and
who met trim ,on friendly terms in
London, in Paris, in the south of
France, Biarritz, even at Lourdes
in Naples, Peanpcid and elsewhere,
says i-
Caesar was always a reserved
dog and carried the habit into pri-
vats life. His master, indeed, is
credited with saying that Caesar
was one of the greatest obstacles to
the entente cordiale,' He certainly
showed no l.for dogs who were
not wholly English. He imide few
friends, and .profoundly 'despises
those - who had been tauges tricks,
KING'S' COMPANION.
"Duringhis several visits
to Biaritz those' who were
promenading on the piazza
could always tell by the doings
of Caesar ' when his 'Majesty
was about to join the throng:
Should the King motor Caesar first
inspected the car to see that all
was in order.
Forno
ce t royall as: one existed ex-
hisn to When the
King was ill at Biarritz never was
beingmore miserable than Caesar•
Wherever his Majesty ins -lit be, a1
home or abroad Oaesar ./hared his
rodin: His Majesty kept indoors
himself, .but saw to it that his dog
was not without e±_oraise, and to
meet Caesar en a leash in charge of
a servant on those occasions was a
painful, experience. He did not
-
but bared a nut of magnificent
teeth in a silence ;that was deeply.
Bagel cane•
SANK WITH IMMORTAL DOGS.
"Caesar •has become immortal anti
takes his pdace in histor with the
Sir t
dogs of Walter Scott end of
Burns; with those, that Landseer
Coved to paint, Now he remains
with ,Queen Alexandra and ccs
where she goes. They say he knows
all about it; that in the wise eq,;are
head with the steadfast eyes peer-
sin through tangled hair -there is
g - g
full •realization that his master has
gone from this world • For daye af-
ter the King died ho was so i11 that
but for the care of Queen, AIexan-
dra he to might have died,"
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BARBA -WIFE IN OVEN. "
Auger,r Intoxicated Mnn
In Fit of Burned
Htuue4 ile Alive.
-
'A baker named Moritrn I]vfn at
Ploesti, Roumania has inurdereci
,
s baking lure evening, earn,
wifeby•
name mtoiiacated in the evening,.
away his appratitices, whom
he declared wore a
spoiling the
bread, and tried. to finis], the bale-
lug ylimael£:
His wife scolded him fiercely tar
being too drunk to work, and tried
to take the bread Ott of the oven
herself. Moraru seized the oppor-
trinity to l5ttsh his wife bodily into
the oven and close the door on her,
The .v setae's slarfoka brought the
apprentices back, but the balcar.at-
tacked them with a paler mid drove
them out of tlic house. When they
with tf,r, silver„ the ice-
anon was dead rind lsor hudy charred.
beyond recognition -
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BRITISH .CATS.
Thousand Employed in Depart-
of the uovernment.
. Bull employs a large
cats—exactly how many
be =Possible .to say,
those in the various
offices, barracks,
clocks and workshops
cannot fall far short
•
animals work solely
Government. says a
World, To -Day, and for
are duly rewarded
supply.of food and
principal governments
acknowledge the business,
of cats b lacin
ourveillance bys
g +
army stores and other.
n to the various depart-
gtrough
cats in the service of the
ala en the piiyroll;
receiving as a general
Should. any of
the head of the departanent.
the, animal belongs
to call in ., veterinary
the• Government with
the );Lome Office ,is a cat
in the name of Toby,
in the doctor's
from asthma, and
dreads the advent of
cold and fogs- He is 11
and is a great favorite
one. Although he suffers
in the region of his windpipe
is 'a -great hunter and
for killing sixteen mice
week:
is et the head of the
Two .summers
passed over hi•s hoed,
old hand at catching
pigeons and sparrows,
aeons he resorts to
g pigeons
ingenious devices:
has been detected carrying
pees' to a spot fie tuend
p
hiding beneath an
his opportunity to
bird. His record.
y , is sok
-
catehin is sixw
he has captured
importantsent
an f. member
War Office staff. She receives
ri i' klovexn-
from the B t sh
of 25 cents a week has
'
to roam over
of high person
with never
who: never tease her.,
she paces the colddark
the the minemhat and
vermin that attack
of olid documents
a few months ergo were
the political bee administers
a sties to proud ambition.
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QUEEN MARY'S CROWN.
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tier Majesty Has Not Yet Selected
it far the Coronation.
Queen Mary has not yet selected
the design for her crown for the
Coronation. As Queen Consort, a
crown has to be specially made for
her, as the State crown is worn
by the King.
Only a certain latitude of choice
is allowed the Queen.in
She may
decide on the shape with regard to
.the curving of the arches and their
number, that is all. The crown
must consist of a. circle of diamonds
resting on 5 narrow ermine border,
a cap of crimson velvet, four cross-
es and four diamond fleur-de-lys as
in the State crown. The diamonds
will be set in platinum, but the
pose of the hoops can be su.gest-
p
ed by any crown of any period the
sen, Stuart,prefers, whether Hanover-
van, STudorTor Plantagenet•
In the State crown there are four
arches surmounted b y a cross,
Queen Alexandra chose to have
eight hoops, after the fashion of
the crown of James I•, instead sof.o
four, and the arches were not so
raised•
The present State crown was
made from jewels taken from - old
crowns and other ornaments at the
command of Queen Victoria. It
has noir, in addition to one large
ruby, one large; broad -shaped
sapphire, sixteen sapphires, eleven.
emeralds, four rubies, 1,383 brills-
ant diamonds, 1,2'!3 rose diamonds,
147 table diamonds, four drop
shaped pearls and 273 pearls with
the smaller of the Cu]linan din-
monde inset.
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A 00111 WORTH 87,375,000
-• ,Somewhere iu the world—pos-
aibly among the relics kept by somo
of the great Napoleon—there
is a fortune, perhaps unsuspected•
Among the coins Napoleon had
'minted were some millions of five/
franc pieces, and he determined to
-e these in an extraord n
popularise extraordin-
p p
cry way, In one of the coins, ford-
ed to a tiny size, was enclosed a
nate signed by Na oleon, andpro-
g P
mining the sum of 5,000;000 francs
about $1,000,000—to the finder of
that particular coin, Naturally,
overybody who changed a large
piece, demanded the new fico -franc
coins in exchange, and; as a rale,
probed sued dug and sounded :the
metal in eager search; for ;:he'hid-
den note. But the years event on,
and yet the note slid not appear,
Napoleon's plighted word is a Slid.
red trust to the French nation, anal
tea -day the Government stanch;
read to pa the debt- which, /viii:,
Y Y,
interest, 15 now worth $7,375,000....
upon demand.
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SOME ECCENTRIC LAWS.
'We Ila/ Oen
v a Monopoly of Them
in Tai
lsu
Country.frequently
In Chicago recently an ordinance
're regulating the length of h
- g g atliins
created much outcry, though the
reason objection is not clear to
,
a mere man•
But. Chicago women would doubt-
start a revolution if they' lived
in Lucerne, when a law forbids'
women wearing hats of. more than`
b1-hteen inches diameter or the
wearing of foreign: feathers_ .and
artificial flowers. If one wishes to .away
wear ribbons of silk and gauze a
license, must be Procured :which
costs 80'nents a year.
not len' ,—..—re----,
y gaga gassed anreturned
Act: to the effect that ane woman
to wed must first present
irti MERRY OLD BRAN>
'NEWS 1I3' Ql_111. Al/ Olt]` ,lflli;l.
ITUL1. AND 11111 l'11OI'1+E,
1'its lrime roe lu the Iaiet' That
llclgus Supremo is. the Coity ,
anorcial World.
A whale, 26 feet long aaicl 15 fent
in girth, has been, stranded at
Holum, near icing's Lynn it wast
found to be badly wounded,
Every elementary school under,
the London Couuty,t onneil is from
January 1 to be visited at least
once a terns by a doctor.
In lowering a boat from the erui.
ser Hogue at Chatham the gear
broke, and a bluejacket named
Henry Charles Sutton, of Dove;
was drowned
It was decided to increase the
pension of Dr, Cummings, the for-
mer principal of the Guildhall'
School of Music from $2,000 to
$2,500 a year.
Miss Rose, the nineteen year old
daughter of a Catford builder, has
been drowned in the River Ravens..
bourne. She was dressed only in
her nightdress.
Damage estimated OA $100,000:
was eaused the other day by a fire•
that burned out the shipbuilding
works at Messrs. A. Rutherford &:
Company, at Birkenhead:
Sir Frederick Young, who ir•
ninety-three years old, spoke at a
luncheon at the Hotel Metropole,
London, to celebrate the re -opening
of the Royal Colonial Institute;
Huddersfield Corporation paasedi
a resolution the other day calling.
upon the Government to grant the:
parliamentary franchise to women
on the same terms as men.
Several thousands of men started/
work in the shipyards on the Tyne,.
Tees, Clyde, and other places; fol-
lowing upon the settlement' of then
leek -out, which began on Septem-
ber 4th.
- Noah Woolf, 58, who was sentene.
cod to death for the murder of Ands
rests Simon, an inmate of the Home:
for Aged Christian Hebrews in Bels
loway road, was executed at Pen-
tonviilo Prison.
Among the exhibits of the twen-
ty-fifth show of the London and/
Provincial Ornithological Society,.
held in the Lambeth Batbs, was .e
pure white canary. ' Both of ,its•
parents were ordinary colored+
Yorkshires.
Mra. Louisa Elliott, wife of an
army musical instructor, wan•.
awarded $2,625 damages against
the Battersea Borough Couneil in
the law courts for injuries received/
in an explosion caused by a mishap
to the cable railway.
At the recent election in England.
Harold Francis, 4 years cid, of Big-
gleswade, Bedfordshire, cast his•
first ballot. )3y clerical error his
name appeared on the register, so
he was carried to the polling booth
and duly recorded his vote.
The managing director of a pet-
ticoat manufacturing company com-
plained at the London Bankruptcy
Court that his company had failed
owing to a change in fashion. "In
other words,” said the official re-
ceiver, •"ladies have given up
wearing petticoats."
Floods in the Lincolnshire fens
recently ea --tended for miles, owing
chiefly to the great breach in the,
bank of the River Glen.. At Chert-
sey Lock, en the Thames, there was
12 feet of water, against a summer
level of about 6 feet, •and great
tracts of land were still flooded.
The Rev. C. E. Few, vicar of
Seal, near Sevenoaks, . who, . al-
though almest totally blind, diseov-,
ored that by writing in white ink
on black paper he can read,states
that he will answer the numerous
letters he has received as seen as
possible. He is having some simple
instructions printed.
CZARINAIS PARALYZED..
The Whole Rnseinn Court fe.
Plunged in Gloom.
The New York World, through
its St. Petersburg correspondent,
learns, en the highest authority"
that the Czarina is' again critically •
ill and that. en; %nat .account all
court fetes have been postponed.
The improvement noticeable af-
ter she took the cure at Bad Nate
heim was followed by a selievs re-
lapse. Partial paralysis attacked,
the Czarina's feet and is extend-
ing to her legs and arms.
The doctors cantlet give any yea -
son for her condition, except mav-
en strain, nor can they, suggest- ~:
nny treatment.
The Czar, overcame with grief,
is in eonstaut attendance on the
Czarina, doing everything in his
power to rouse her from the state
of depressien into which she bag
permanently fallen. She shows 'in-
terest in nothing e.ccept the Czaro-
witch, fears for whose safety haunt
her day incl night, The boy has to
be taken to her room every hour
during the day so that site may sat-
isfy herself he is still alive.
The port is again plunged; into
gloom, while the life of the imper-
ial family is dull and sorrowful in
Ilse extreme.
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