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Italy's eensur4 avihiolo Allows U31t
Oust oeurltry EEra6. 59;000,000 inhabit-
hits et the preitok $ time, suggests a
eentleerison with the Latin petioli
man the oilier stoke of the ;lids 'When
i3xetternioh at the Congress Of hien.•
na coxitemptuouely Tefeered to Italy
as neeeely a geograp' teal expression
Gone of the magnates at that gath-
Wing ventured to say that the term
was not descriptive, Ill the general
ellotuteet of the scraps .of rho pan-
lnsule at that congress£ the country
wlhich is melee the sway of Victor
Emanuel 11f,, to -day was divided up
into 'mare parts than the Gaul of
Caesar's day's or the Poland of the
time of the pal'titian by the great'In-
ternational robbers Fredlirielc the
Great of Prussia, Maria Theresa of
Austria, and Catherine II, of Russia.
Austria in that division got the larg-
er part of Italy, some of it 'wont to
the little state of Sardinia, s'hieh
formed the nucleusof the present
kingdom of Italy under Sardinia's
(royal house of Savoy, and the rest of
the fragments `mere returned to the
Pope and to the petty princelings who,
were driven out during: Bonaparte's
cyclonic days in Use first decade and
a 'half of the nineteenth century.:
at the beginning of the nineteenth
century Franco, in Spar present"ter-
ritorial limits, had 06,000,000. inhabi-
tants. To -day, 100 years later, her
pbpalution is only 38,500,000, and, re-
mains almost stationary from decade
to decade. YTS century ago France led
all the countries of Europe in pope._
dation except. Russia, and it waS far
more homogeneous and powerful than
Russia. At that time Sardinia, with
the sections
c mere vn.der Aus-
trian rule, tbo states which wore
under the Pope, and those which were
governed by dukes and kinglets or
were out up into Bonaparte's toy
republics, Dead, a population in the
aggregate of less than 12,000,000. Dur-
ing the treaded times 'when the
boundaries of Sardinia and the rest
of the states which now cotnyprise the
kingdom of Italy were changed every
few years by rebellions in which petty
despots were driven oat, by conquests
by other little despots or by some
of thelr bigger neighbors, or by con-
claves of the Holy Alliance,, the
growth of the territory comprising
the present Italy was naturally slow.
But all this condition of uncertain-
ty and stagnation gave way to ex-
pansion when, as a result of the ac-
cretions between 1859 and 1070, the
little kingdom' of. Sardinia spread out
until it covered the entire Italian
peninsula and the adjacent islands,
with 'Rome as the capital.
W,ATOHks i NOUN .AND BAKED.
Sow They are Tested iu knglaud'$ NAllonal
1'hysieai I.abel'alery,
I``OW QilserYatory, '.sear IWsdon,
wbieh is being kept before the pub-
leo mind because of the threatened
dcaaagereent of i•ts delicately -made
instruments by the .installation of
electrictramwa s at Hammer
y smith,
some mikes distant, 18 snore than a
Mune of magnetics mystery. Many
waWhsa construotee for scientific, and
other special purposes; aro here subs
jeetod tc tests whioh tax their cape,
bieities to the utmost,
The branch of the observatory
where this interesting operation i5'
carried on, is known as the rating de-.
partment of the National Physical
Laboratory„ The observer, Mr. E.
G. Constable., statett that about 500
watches are tested. yearly and that
10,100 have passed, through their hands
since the deportment, was opened,
An. ambitious watch in pursuit of a
first-elasl certificate cemmeuces its
ca'resr at Kew by standing upright for
five days in an ordinary safe. It
1 Sp -awls a aimilar period in three oth-
er positions and. i1 then placed on its
bunk in a refrigerator. After five
days of that ley abode it is removed
to an oven kept at a temperature of
90 degrees Fahrenheit, and is at last
restored to a normal temperature. All
this tune the watchful eye of the ob-
sea'ver has been upon it, and the
watch's behaveor duly noted in books.
Every variation of a second. the
watch makes in the different posi-
tions arae temperatures 13 carefully
entered, and certain marks for and
against are given it. What this
means will be the better appreciated
when it is explained that Kew pos-
sesses instruments capable, of indi-
cating the hundredth part of a seo-
omd.
The highest marks awarded to a
watch aro l0 and. if it gains s evcr 80
the words "espedely good„ axe writ-
ten nal its eertifeeste when the watch
leaves the observatory, Last year
the lowest marks received by a watch
were 44 and the highest 91.1. The
latter was English made.
In 1881 the kingdom of Italy had
68,000,000 people. It has thus added
7,000,000 to its population in twenty
years. In that time, it is estimated,
at least 5,000,000 porsonq hare emi-
grated from Italy. .Adding these 5,-
000,000 to the increase at home, there
has been almost as great an absolute
growth amtong the Italians in the
past twenty years as there has been
among the French in a century, for
the number of the French who emi-
grate is oomparativoly small. at
the present rate of growth Italy
twill be abreast of French. in popula-
tion by 1910. 11 will be up with
Great Britain by 1930 or 1935. Its
birth rate is greater oven 'than Ger-
many's. Industrially and finan-
cially' Italy is,' immeasurably pooircr
than Frances Its taxation boars
with a crushing weight en its people.
Fore many years past it has been re-
presented to be oln the verge, of na,
tional bankruptcy, largely through
the drain on its resources which mem-
bership in the triple alliance entails,
This is probably the ehiet cans°•of
the great extent to which atnarohism
is diffused among its people. Never-
theless there ha$ been a growth in
Wealth as well as in population. in
Italy in the pabt two decades. That
country, from 1870 to' the present
time, *hes been ruled with a fair de -
give of wisdom, which, if continued
Ifor another third of a century, prom-
ises to make Italy one of the most
Irotsperous of European states. ,
1 0
I ! A GUILTY CONSCI.PNOE,
In an Ohio town a saloon keeper
was seen by a friend walking back
and forth before his Saloon, as if in
deep thought. The friend asked flim
lvhat was the. matter. He answered:
O nothing.
The next day the friend saw him
;IA's. /king the same way, and again
asked hien what was the matter.
ileus the crusaders been after you?
No; but there received a postal,.
signed by three ladies, The husband.
of the firetl,is one of my customers,
and is rapidly beoclning a drunkard,
A son of the swond,'istone df mycus-
tomers, and le just started on a
'drunkard's egtrse. The husband of
the thtcd was one of my customers,'
and died a drunkard. It cuts close,
tied I can't stas,±T• it. .
\'Von Mite hint slut givoth his neigh -
t01' Oink, that
tinttest
thy beta
tie Ps hini, belt ntakost .:.1m drunken
tr41.0. 1. 'wt 7rrM0.,•:, ;Y,
NOT WHOLLY FREE.
T nee that the young widow Erskine
has just put asa.de her mourning hab-
iliments, but she isn't going out any ?
.Hasn't time. 1Sbe has gene into exe-
cutive session to examine the various
proposals of marriage she -las receiv-
ed within a month.
Extreme Weakness
RF1SULTING FROM POOR WAT-
ERY BLOOD.
Heart Palpitation, Dizziness and Weak
sass in the Legs Followed Until the
Sufferer Felt That His Case Was Al
most Hopeless.
From the Mirror, Meaford, Ont.
No man in Meaford is better known
or metre highly respected than Mr.
Patrick Delaney, who has been a re-
sident of the town for nearly forty
years. Mk, Delaney is a stone masen.
by trade, and -las helped construct
many at the buildings which go to
make up Meaford's chief business
structures. Hearing that be bad re-
ceised great benefit from the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, a reporter e0
the Mirror tailed to obtain. partiou-
lars of the cure, and Mr. Delaney
cheerfully gave biro: the following
statement. "Last March," said 110,
"my health became eo poor that'I
Was compelled to quit work. The
chief symptoms of my illness were
extreme weakness in the legs', _loss of
appetite, and palpitation of the heart.
The least exertion would cause My
heart to pa)pliate violently, and if 1
stooped to pick up anything I would
be overcome with dizziness. My lege
were so weak that' I was compeiled
to sit down to put my clothes on.
MI* doctor I consulted said I bad a
bad case of anaemia. He prescribed
for me and I took three bottles of
medicine, but all the while I actually
grew worse until I became ea weak
and emaciated that It seemed impos-
sible that I could recover. Having
mead of the sures effected by Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills I determined to give
them a trial. From the first box I
rooted an improvement in my condi-
tion. My legs became stronger, my
appetite improved, and by the time I
bad used four boxes I felt better than
I had don;' for months. That the
pills are a wonderful remedy there is
not the least doubt. I can do light
work about home without experiene
lag any of the unpleasant sensations
that I once underwent. I feel an al-
together different Iran despite the
fact that I am now sixty-seven years
of age. 'All I can say is that Iattri-
lnite my present good health to Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills and Iwould ad-
vise any other similar sufferer to
try them."
To those who aro weak, easily
tired,'nervous, or whose blood is out
of condition, Dr. 'Williams Pinar Pills
come fig a bles$ing, curing when all
other medicines' foil and ,restoring
Hoose who give them a fair trial to a
full measure of health and strength,
The pills are sold only iu boxes bear-
ing on the wrapper thefullnaine Dr,
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
Tf yolue deafer doos net keep them
they will be. ,seat Post paid at 50
Omits a box dr ie bo for 2 50
n o s rod $ , by
eddrressing the Ur, ltrillia,sne' Medicine
tk1., Brookville. Ont. ! r
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