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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-9-14, Page 6r ^ tigueSC. Indeed, none of the ser- WOOING R SERVANTS vents et theEngllsh,Qourt Could 40 6`���� so except• the late King's valet, WHEN CUPID PIi.VVS 1IiS 1':1.RT BELOW PALA CI..STA.IRS. Iltlrr, Oeeurrence `hirer a Royal Sere vent Marries Out of Royal Employ. Mr. Chandler, who was a remark- ably good linguist, call • So the love-sick page had to upon a brother -page who could speak English to act as interpreter, and for -several days the enamored page continued to make love to the Court housemaid through the medium of a third party. But at the conclusion of the Royal visit the interpreter proposed to the, maid' One frequent result of the visit of himself, and was duly accepted, and a Royal personage to .England .is a' so, mortified was the other page that marriage between a servant in the he left the Royal service, o al servant in our Sovereign's suite of the Royal visitor' and a Of course, the majority of Ry service. servants find mates in the House - During During the last reign three of the hold of the Sovereign in whiehthey :Royal male servants each found el are employed, and it is, by the way, ' wife, and one of Queen Alexandra's !a matter of very rare occurrence maids a husband, in the retinue of 'that a Royal servant marries any. foreign Royalties, says the London Answers. In the present reign none of King George's servants has married, but the t isit of the German Emperor at the time of King war ' s ea Ed d' death THE SCOHCNMAN iN CANADA W.JIAT JU IIA -S ACCOMPLISHED IIT THE DOMINION. Adopts Ilfmsel4 to Any Circu'n$t- A.depts Ilituself to •.A.uy Oiretque stances Is the Secret of Ilia. According to the Census figures, Scotland' is being depopulated, or, at all events, it is ceasing to grow at the "rate it should, says the Lon- don Answers; But this depopulation is no new thing. And there is another sideto the question, a side which is far from unpleasant; for what is Britain's loss is the Empire'sgain. In the making.of every British colony the Scot has played a part, and a bock which has been recent- ly published, -shows how much. our great Dominion beyond the seas owes to the pluck, energy, and colon ising instinct of the roan from the North, EARLY HARDSHIPS. one not in some Royal employ. When two servants at the English Court marry, they are put on what is called the OUTSIDE ESTABLISHMENT. resulted in a: marriage between a that is to say, they are allowed to maid in the service of H.R.H. the live outside Buckingham Palace, Duke of Cennaught and a 'servant and a very large number of the in the retinue of his Imperial I Royal servants do so. , • ,• 1 Some of the upper servants, who The servants in the Ring's Household during the visit of a for- ,eign Royalty to Buckingham a Palace are of course thrown g deal into contact with the servants the except Palace from noon, and exexon in the retinue of the Royal visitor. ( The mane and female attendants 1 occasion of a State entertainment eptn they are allowed off duty after eight o'clock in the evening. And when the Court is not in residence et Buckingham Palace their presence is often not required. A few of the married servants live in the Palace in the mamried servants' quarters. These are eld- erly servants who have been a con- siderable time in the employ of Royalty, whose families, if they have any, are either in the employ of Royalty or doing otherwise for themselves: but no servants with young children are allowed to re- side in the Palace. When a maid- servant at the Palace becomes en- gaged to be married, she at once informs the house -keeper of the fact, who reports the matter to the Queen, and the maid and her hus- band are sure of handsome gift from their Majesties. FAVORITE SPOTS. occupy responsible positions and are in receipt of exceptionally good wages, have very good houses on the outskirts of London. Their at- tendance is- only required at the Dace their meals .apart, but they meet in their spare time in the large seri ant's hall, where frequently im- promptu dances are gut up in in the evening. PAYING THEIR COURT. The Palace housekeeper acts as chaperon to the maids on such oc- casiotis, and it is then that the grooms, varlets, and pages of Royal personages have an opportunity of paying their court to the maids in the Ring's Household. - As a general rule where a maid- servant in the employ of a Royal parsonage marries a man in the service of another Royalty, she ent- • ers 5errice in the Royal Household in which her husband is employed. For example, if a manservant in King George's service married a maid in the service of, say, the King of ]taly, she would enter the sere ice of the latter monarch, and vice versa. In this way, in nearly all Id 'ye] Households, maidservants who !tate been formerly employed in other Royal Households may be found. Occasionally, however, the man - seri ant changes his service en rmai r; :ng a girl in the employ of an- other Royalty. For example, a fuutniau in the employ of the German Emperor married a maid- servant in the Household of the late ]Zing, and the man subsequently en- tered the service of Ring Edward, and l stiff in the Royal employ. Sometimes, when a maid in Royal employ ireeoines engaged to a man in service in a fureigu'Royal House - latter. verythe AN ARDENT WOOER. One of the Queen of Spain's dres- CONSTABLE OR MILKMAN GUARDIA °S OP 'UUi I,i1V rUSTLOOIf. SHARP. Many Disguises Doefie4 by Delete Dem to Capture Clever. Criminals. Street betting is, as we'all know, Prohibited by law. But the dif- ficulty is to obtain odnviotions, fox street boolciee are very wary, and the sight of a blue uniform sends them seuttliiig to cover as quickly es a blackbird when a sparrow- hawk's shadow swoops across the grass, says London Answers, At Rochdale, the police had been aware that s lot of this kind of gambling load' been going oil at a spot on the banks of 4L canal. The bookies in this (aee had protected themselves by posting scouts on all sides to give warning of the ap- proach of police. But at last the police outwitted them. Two constables got them- selves up as golfers ie tweed suits and stookings, -and armed them selves with powerful field -glasses. In this guise they got near enough to identify a number pf the offend- ers, and later these were arrested and fined. e Recently a party a': deetives ar- rested two .noted jewel thieves by dieguising themselves as milkmen, Wearing smocks and carrying calla. Some few years ago a merchant in Wormwood Street went to the police, and told them how he was being --orried be, an old school -fel- low, who was trying to blackmail him. The police suggested that , he should pretend to fall in with the BLAOKMAILER'S SCHEME, There were Scots in Canada so long ago as 1621, when Sir William Alexander secured a ,charter grat- ing him the territory, roughly cov- ered new by • Nova Scotia and " New Brunswick. But it was the exodus following the rebellion of 1745 that was the start- ing point in Canada's history, Then a Greenock merchant, John Pagan, obtained a grant of land at Pictou, ,and he offered, as an in- ducement to' come to Canada, a free passage, a farm lot, and a year's provisions. "He owned an old Dutch brig, which he called the Hector; and in the Hector' he •shipped out in July, 1773, his first colonists from the Highlands, 189 souls in all . The ground was still uncleared, but. they struggled through the first hard years, and prospered. Three yeaee later they were joined by other Scots from Prince Edward Island, who had emigrated from Dumfries, but had been oaten out by locusts." After this the Soots stream was constant, whole families arriving. When the first hardships were over, Often a maidservant in the em- ploy of their Majesties marries an employee on one of the Royal es- tates, and in such a case she al ways leaves service at Buckingham Palace and goes to live on the Royal estate with her husband. When a couple of the Royal ser- vants marry, they are given a fort• night's holiday for their honey- moon, and during that period they are not liable under any circum- stances to be summoned to -be in at, tendance at Buckingham -Palace, or any of the Royal rseidences, as are all the Royal servants when on their ordinary holiday, though- of couree a Royal servant when on his � (or her) ordinary holiday is only' summoned to be in attendance under urgent and unexpected cir- cumstances. Few marriages between the Royal sirs; who was formerly- in ser servants have, by the way, been, vice. in the English Royal House celebrated in London, The major - hold, could with great difficulty hs! , ity of marriages': between them have persuaded to leave her employment taken place at Windsor, Sandring- at Buckingham Palace when she be- ham, or Balmoral. 4— HOW TO JUDGE DISTANCES. In 1905, and the valet soon after- At thirty yards, assuming that wards proposed, but the maid at your sight is of average strength, first absolutely declined to leave the white of •a man's eye is plainly and negotiations were carried out, through the "Agony" column of a Londondaily, by which the merch- ant agreed to pay 2300, which was to be buried at the foot of te certain tree in a briokfield near Honor Oak Park Railway Station. police prepared a' Cigar -heir, Then P P g weighted with lead, which was duly buried under the tree, Then sev' tl 1 pioneers wrote to their oral detectives hid near by, and, lase early the relatives in Scotland to come ou't after wafting all night, spotted and and join them. The so-called High blackmailed poking in the grog land Clearances brought others—no with his umbrella. fewer than 1,309 arriving in a single He quickly dug up the box, and season in 1803. Fresh settlements was carrying it away, when. one of sprang up; some cast in their lot detectives, disguised as a labour with the fur traders; others struck er, and apparently intoxicated, a out and fought their way to un-: lurched up, asking him what he cleared but fertile parts. ,got there. This gave the others the signal, and the fellow was THE INEVITABLE SANDY. caught without a chance of resis- FOR MARKING sOAP, SOFTENING 'WATER, REMiDV! NG PAR N T,; DISINFECTING SINES. CLOSETS , ®RAI N5 t E.TC. SOLD EVERYWHERE. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS • ,mks of this sort wiliob they supply to 011' customers• Indeed, in bond selling, in many 'eases, "YIELD" ON BONDS DEPENDS ON TIME BOND HAS TO RUN BEFORE MATURITY. Explanation of This Important Point cf Creat • Importanco—Not - Like Stooks Whichare Never Repaid and Therefore Time Not Considered In Reckoning • 110 - turn -Some Interesting IUustratlons. (By 'Investor") cairn, engaged to the King o Spain's valet. The pair met wben King Alfonse came to this country service at Buckingham Palace, was out of the quest on for the valet to leave the service of his Royal ' master', who probably would have ebjectcdto his doing so, and in such a case the valet could not have ob- tained employment: at the English Court. But the valet was a :per- sistent wooer, and after a couple of years' ' time be persuaded the maid, to marry him, when she was appointed a dresser to the Queen of Spain, A SHATTERED ROMANCE. Most servants' in the employ of Royalties, of whatever patfonality, speak l nglielt and French, so that there is no difficulty regarding con- versation between "them, But cc - of an 'iuter- l; h services . oasiouul y the prefer are required. Once this led I,f an unexpeeted ending to a see mance, that 00 still tallied el in the servants' hall at Windsor cal': it happened when the late Ring{},.itsband as ho brought home a cull e Purtn al wan visiting 'Windsor I f g the visiting ' of manuscript. manic in 190.1, One of ' '' retorted Mr. violently fn 'Brains, ma(htm, ret< tenant aces fell t y „ n p t house- .Gimlet podnpoaaly. "Are you sur? o , f the assistant. with m lore a1 1 1 maid" ,m the Castle staff. Tho glielle i llrf ed at the the leoosh" 'sire replied`. 's- :word ofT,ni`1th Vet n or Fri not Friend), aria, 1. n : <,:- ; v vim didn't ear them in or i''rr'iii:h, and, of course, the ntaicl I knew ry could not eneaic , a word, of Port- veer head," seon, and the eyes themselves up to eighty yards. At 100 yards all parts of the body are seen distinctly,' slight movements are perceptible, and the details of the dress can be distinguished. At 200 yardsthe outlines of the face are confused, and. rows of buttons look'like stripes. At 400. yards the face is a more dot, but all the movements of the arms and legs are still distinct. At, 000 yards details can no longer be distinguish. At 800 yards, men. in a crowd cannot he counted, nor their individual movements dis- tinguish. At 1,000 yards a, line of soldiers resembles a broad belt, At• 1,200 yards cavalry can be dis tinguisli from infantry, and at 2,000 , a mounted man usually ap' r a: mere peck. as Ip e . HAD SIZED BIM UP, "What's that you have ilr your hand?" asked. Mrs. Gimlet, of her Hearing the story of these) Lance- - in Goswell bonds aro sold on the basis of their "yield," and the, price not figured out until the' transaction is completed There. ,. engine in oonnectlon with a dynamo torn, it is necessary. to uudeistand Trow is within: comparatively essay reach this is figured out' before buying, or 000 Of the prosperous fernier who dig - ,may be disappointed. Nor instance, a covers that to keep his boys qn the man might buy.-i:leotrical Development i'in—or. even to make certain that . Domliaay Bonds at 87'.'06 the 4501 .market }lis hi red 'help `1111. stay with.. him under the ,:impression that as they through the season—it is up to him "yield', 6 per' -cont., Itis income win bo to:lighten those olcl drudgeries of 6x$87, or 652,29 a year,. whereas ae thSy twenty: years sago aro 5 Der sent., bonds. he gets but f,52 06 JOY P011 FARMER'S WIFE. each thousand, as he. will harm to wait In the home of the farmer, the till the bonds mature, 22 years -hence,- first aheptation of the. farmer, cute fax the $130, expels expected and adds- rent Would be - n telectric the tional $2,20100 sxpected and didn't get. The kerosene lamp,. A (Replacing in the... $130, of course, is tiro profit derived from basement and a pomp and tank her buying the bonds for $870 and having them the - o:utside would • effect e a system. redeemed at $2,000. - - of. waterworks for the house. In Don't forgot, therefore; when •reckon• the dairy the cream separator, ing the rate of income on a se0m•11 to .churn, washingmachineryfor dairy find out—if it ie•a bond—how long it has necessities •cam be operated. Laurie to run.:. - - dry work that bugbear • of the farmer's wife—is simplified and • lightened to the last degree. Even ELECTRICITY ON TIIF FARM LABOR WILL BE 'rrlll''L4Nta WILE ti "1'1 f11'i (!0111i'`a 4 F�• Bleed Man W'1)1 Dwell ill 1118'1.1113'. i'iu'atlise--.ii 1st '1'ns'n on The Current. Iu these days wvhenthhe tneiropoli tan city may be deseribed as a g`l'oat electrical laboratory and commixes ing station, :it should Put be over, - looked that 'the fern itself is tome ing in for its shar'oof this universal source of power, Where are many ways through which the farm that can afford the nee of .the electric Current may have it for the trouble of installation..' ' Some near -by inter -urban eleetrio Lee may have its. surplus. current for sale; . some stream close at hand shay have 'a gravity waterfall 40 develop electricity •sufficient' for half a dozen fat'mers ; or the gasoline In the drat of this aeries it was shown that ''distribution of risk". 15 an import- ant principle of investment. It is a very simple - 011e, however', involving no very confused ideas.. There' is another princi- ple to be borne in mind when making in- vestmente' which 15 of no lees importance, but it is, however, considerably lessob- vlous t0 those wheal.' investment exporj-. once is small—and ' even to many who should understand its actions thoroughly, 'Phis is the principle of investment ''1n accordance with aatful. requirements.' Not long agd'•a financial paper stated,t quite oorreatly, that a.` high return on an investment should always bs looked. upon with suspicion, This, however must not be taken to moan that such a stock es Dominion Bank, which pays 12 per cent, per annum. in decidedly past the danger 'mark and should be avoided. 'Of course, the person who figures this out in this way suite misses the point. "Phe rate of income". or "return" on an' in- vestment depends on the rate of dive dens, to be sure, but it Is quite a dif- ferent if feren t thing altogether. ,FOP example, take the ease of a stock. paying 12 per cent. The investor will have to •pay at least $200. a share.for. this stook. But the dividend is figured on the par --or. face—value of'the shares,' which Is ens. Therefore the return on the 8200. invest- ment is $12 per year, or $6 'on . every hundred invested—that is, 6 per cent, that the dark once left men de - This is what was referred to in a pre- fenceless from the ' attack or ani - view' article, when "rate of. income" was mals that could see in. the.dark given as one of the pointe -thee second better that he. could, and the mem in importance—to be considered; in pluming ory Of these days is in 'Our bones an investment.- and blood. Now, in the ease of stooks, as the see. Scientists -trace stage -fright back above, this is a very simple matter to to., the days when to. be conspicuous understand.. When' we consider bonds, meant.to invite .attack from more however, there: is .considerably more to powerful animals. And the shyness. be taken into account. many people have about crossing a - -Anyone who has ever bought bonds may large room when outer people are sfnhetimee wonder why two different is- present is another inheritance from sues of the bonds of some particular city. our. primitive ancestors. In the sell at. quite- different prices, The' se. forests it was only. the biggest and ourity is exactly the same; tho rate of strongest animals, such. as. the bear,, interest 'Identical; the only difference, the elephant, • and the mastodon, who dared to walk' straight .across the wide, open space. The others pereferred, for safety's sake, to sidle or slink round the edges. Have you ever thought over the. curious instinct that we all have, when we are looking at someone and the •someone turns round, to -look .away, and pretend We were not watching? Similar isthe impulse talion we meet in- street'is'ome- one We 'know only slightly, to pre- tend we do not see him:, These impulses are - usually overcome im- mediately, but there are few people who have not felt them at times The explanation lies in the old, animal hatred of meeting anuther, animal's eye. Watch a dog, or the animals in a menagerie. Even the lion will blink when it chances. to catch your eye, and: leek past you. Scientists declare that the para- lysis that a suddelt fright is apt to Cause.' is a trick we. learnt In 00r wilder days, and exactly corre- sponds to the death -shamming that some animals are so adopt in. The. weaker animals learnt aeons ago that a moving object is 'much, less likely' to escape the notice of a prowling enemy than one that 'stays motionless. Do you like shaking hands? Many people do not, and avoid the cere- mony as much as possible, alt js the old, animal 'dislike of being touched, The ordinary house -dog is so. civilized that it likes being petted,` but take any -Wild or half. wild aniinal, such as an Eskimo. dog. • A touch will make it spring yards away, or bury its fangs into the intruding hand, All of its overcome this dislike in the ease of our intimate friends, but there are many people who, if re reached accidental- ly their hands a in a crowd by a strangck, stealth- ily n wipe them. The dream that everybody has had—that of falling, and being brought u.p with s jerk -is a dream that always brings the dreamer awake with a start, 'Psychological seleec de lance it is peabahl,y the strenuous times from one of the. A shop was found veterans a Scots officer expressed Road, coveClerenwell,' which the adnairatfon •saying: police discovered' to be run by re- lies "The only instncI know that ceivers ofd stolen property. Early I can compare it to is that of Moses one evening they arrested the two leadingthe Children of Israel into prineipala, and then a detective their romised Land., • got himself up to look excetly like Up jumped the old man. one of the arrested pair, and stood "Moses !" said he. "Compare me behind the counter. to Moses ! Moses be hanged l He Presently a man came in, and of - lost half his army in the Red Sea,- feted for sale goods, which were, and I brought my party through evidently stolen. Be was at once without losing one man!' arrested, and by the end of the It was men of this spirit who evening no' fewer than eleven ar- founded the great North-West Com- rests had been made. pang, which, by the end of the 18th STRANGER IN THE STALLS century, had an annual turnover of £120,000, employed 50 clerks, 71 interpreters and clerks, 1,120 canoe - men, and 35 guides. Practically all the proprietors were Scots. end: of the performance a gentle And the Hudson Bay Oompany man in the stalls was quietly asked Sdo teh. _From call becameo rtte who. dti yhislace to sn neon i g give1 the time when the inevitable Scot had an' important. duty to perform. appears upon the scene' to the pros -p chief proportion of the The person in question was a tall, ent day, theP p broad -shouldered man, in perfect Hudson Bay officials have been evening -dress, and of most (listing - drawn from the Orkneys and the Highlands. :SECRET OF SUCCESS. THE Why the country still makes it call to the Scot is shown in the bor just then dropped his stick, and,.. story: of the farmer who said that in stopping to get it, knocked down "it made a chap's eyes 'glad to his hat, and then his gloves. His look at wheat 7016, high with suchdeliberation in recovering them a head on it. And ye dlnna grow ',caused a delay which considerably tatties like you in Banchory-Deve- annoys e• 0111± LITTLE WAYS. ins" is to receive an impetus at the the longesought "milking mach; ]tlaaty habits Which 0" Aneestors hands of Yankee ingenuity, and, if .Have Left Us. - it shall bo perfected, the electric It is from out remotest ancestors current•muet drive it. that we get many of our habits, WILL .BE GENERAL BOON. Mankind's dislike of darkness' is as In the cow barns and horse old as lie -is hinrself.• All ~children stables,the electitic bulb attacher to fear the dark,their se in it. . 5 wires in gaspipe housings not only are quite at their house, in it, will give the safety light for winter Even 10 his own house, every ineh mornings and evenings,. but already • of which he knows, a malt will feel the vacuum el -either has made: its mildly uncomfortable till • he has .appearance, adapted to the easiest the lights on. Most people know and most thorough currying and what it is, when walking at night cleaning of the coats of cows and along a lonely road, to glance un- 'horses. - - easily over the shoulder. Instead of the long .and laborious We do not expect to be stabbed process of ice cutting from. ponds, in the hat}r by a•. murderer creep- glia electric current will operate the ing up silently.- No, the reason is refrigerating room's ammonia( fluids, with automatic stoppage of the motor when the required degree •, of cold is reached. The power may bedireeted to the farm workshops, - where- lathes and grindstones and emery wheels May be run for the farm',s "jack-of-all-trades," saving not only the charges of the village blaohsmith in hundreds of troubles, but save the time of (hiving to and from the town, - - SAVE FRUIT FROM FROST. In some of the northern fruit' growing. •sections the electric warn- ing signal is set for arousing the whole farm population any time in the night when the "danger" tem- perature is reached out of doors. This means at the present time that every available worker turns otit and kindles fires in the mintage pots that are set in the orchards, pee - pared for the dangers of frost. But - as electricity is light, power and heat, all in one, may not the pres- ent smudge pots become electrical heaters, automatically turned on? To -day there is not • a practical electrical engineer who does net look upon the present state of • electricals service as in its infancy; 'We have,the electrical city. now long before the electrical farm? Probably, is that one bond may be pay- TwOyears ago Ring J14anool of able in tan years wad the other in. twea- Portugal Came to London, anty, It is this last feature that affects the night before he "left visitedthe price.. what difference could that Drury Lane Theatre. Near the make? you ask, wished appearance. •A few mom- ents before the curtain fell, the per- son next' him—a little, beady -eyed foreigner—jumped up, evidently in a hurry to leave. But his. neigh - d th foreigner, .Meanwhile King Manoel left the theatre, and then the gentleman in evening -dress, who wag really a, well-known detective, announced that he proposed ;o see him out of England at onec, nick, 1f they saw me owning soil= like you in Aberdeen they'd a' tak' their hats aff to me, What is the secret of the Scots' success in, Canada? The author explains .t thus: "They were able to adapt them- selves to any circumstances•; they had faith in themselves, and stuck together. In Canada to -day there are close upon a million citizens of Scots' descent or birth. They are only one-eighth of the total popii}a- tion, but they hold among them more than one half of the positions worth having, The best passport forany immigrant. into Canada is to'spoak with a Scots accent. One occasionally sees the notice in con- nection with some situation --"No English need apply. If any Canadian had the temerity tie say "No Snots need apply," he would not only advertise himself a fool, but he would also; probably be lynched." • Within another twenty years, it is prophesied, there will be double the number of Soots in Canada. And in going to Canada the Scot is' sure, not only of finding honest work, but also of meeting so many Scots that to make his home there is an easy matter. He can still be a Scot in Canada! Suppose a 6 per cent. $1,000 bond with ten years to run sells at 1051.4. • The owner will receive $50, a year 011 an in- vestment of - 81,081.50....In suolt .circum-- stances a stock—which is never repaid— would net the investor about 41-2 per cent.' -The bondis different, however. The investor pays 51,082.50 for the bond,' which in ten years is paid off at $1.000. So he - must save enough out of his in- come each year to replace the. 582,60 Of Ca- pital thus lost:' That is to say, he must lay away in each ,year 'of the ten which his bond has to run, thesum of 66:30, which, at nompound interest,' will :amount to the 582.60 by the time the bond ma,l turas. Therefore, the investor can only consider 543,30 of hisannual interest ot $50 as legitimate income, and, dividing $43,30 by 51,082.60 we find ,. that this. amounts to 4 per cent, on the sum ot $f.082.80.. invested.. Therefore, a 5 per cent.. Brine,; with tem ' years to run, selling at 108:1;4 'yields" 4 per cent. Remember, the itiiiount returned is, of course: great- er ,them,.4 per cent., but the half of 1 per cent,.. in exeese of that rate is really re- payfnent of apart. at the invested ea• pile, in installments On the other hand, where, a similar hoed sells below par, the pr05020 is re• versed, For -example, a 4 per emit," bond. selling at 90, , with tett years to run, "Yields" the investor 0.3 per cent., Whom as, a 4 per cent, nteekselling at 90, re- turns but 4.4 ou the investment. The reason, of. course, Is this: In hen Years the bond is repaid at par :of 51,000 and cost but5900, therefore, to every $40 of interest 051181 b0 added the part ot that $100 profit which w105 130 1•ee1iyed at thn time the bond,ie repaid, and of which, In the 'yield" 4ecoun t is thus taken. 80, in buying bonds or other forms -of mortgage or debentures w111010 ' aro PAY - able on a fixed date, the element of time is a.la0nt important One, In such a case the "rate et Memo' is not as simple to estimate as Is often supposed, as we 1100 fiat 80511. Slend dealers, of amuse, tin not have to bother working net there FACT AND FANCY.. It bothparadoxical aradoxical and un- pleasant to wade ,through a dry book. It is easier to lig$o within ,an in- come than without 3'1te, The crocodile likes its meat high, and, after killing it, keeps it hidden for days among the reeds. Throughout the wend there ,are 072 known :voletteoes, 270 of which are active. If love is blind itmust be admit- ted that marriage is a first-class ocAsan argumentn sa• i favor of mat - As rimony it is stated that among every 1,000 bachelors there aro 38 crinlinala, while 'among in or men the ratio 12 only eighteen per 1,000. Toads are sold for $1 a dozen in Paris, being.bought by gardnors to be used tie insect -destroyers. If yon want a man'•s candid opinion of you, make him angry and you'll get it, �.T. You can generally, tel] from a man's neckties whether he is mar 'Photo are times when s, silent witness is.an unspeakable nuisance,' TRITE SAYINGS. It is a poor rule that won't work always. What is it that ,corks white we sleep1 Your. The average tag collector doesn't rick in a taxi -cab; Extremes meet when the kitten plays with its tail: - - It is getting pretty hard to telly - one lie from another. • You will never ^'reach the right place on theweepy,road. The'harem skirt, is a hartune 'seaman rig to say the least of f.t. If you are on the downhill line make haste to get a transfer. May not a Marriage ceremony lie justly a transaction in bonds? - TAX. ON BACHF;LORDOMM, - Doring the period under William III. when hachelordom was taxed peers hail to pay more deafly tham. commoners' for the prfvile•fe of single bliss, says the London ('.1ron- idle. The yearly tux levied on bachelors ranged from 212 11s. in the case of dukes and archbishops down to 1 shilling in the cast those scheduled as "other per- sons." Furthermore a duke wan compelled to pay :950 when he mar- ried, :(!30 when his oldest got was born, £25 when every younger son was born, :220 when his eldest son was married, 250 when his wife was btteied and 230 when his eldest sea details, (or there •s1 -e books or 'obi".t-n •1•l"•il memory, of the llnillan was busied, And the otbee menu compitcd in wlileli the figures for hark, Indeed, to `tire Isere of„the -..peerage 3104 to pas relues, rates and (linen "00410 (monsters similar taxes' graduated acciorelinl west bond dealers have a ah, , -,• ,,, .,. •a l . _ ✓. 110 trees, . ( to their, "tame. !'fit ..