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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-10-21, Page 3OCT, 21,1898 TUE BRUSSELS POST, ROJND THE V HOLE ORLD. WHAT IS GOING ON IN T 1E FOUR CORNERS OP THE GLOBE, Old and New World events of Interest Cbron,. toted Briefly—interesting happenings 01 Recent Date, Tim Japanese language Is made up of 00,000 worde, Great Britain rules 21 of every 100 square miles of the earth's surface, Farinelll eould sing 300 notes with- out drawing breath, while 50 exhaust most singers, Ireland and Scotland aro stated to bave the largest proportion of unmar- ried persons. The law court records show that the defendant wins his case out of every 100 cases tried. In the Bank of England there are silver bars that have lain there un- touched for 200 years. Tea is cheap in China. In one pre- view of the empire tea is cold at two and a half cents a pound. The total number of chemical works regieterod in all parts of Germany is 0,144, with 125,4.10 employes. Selenosis say that the orange was formerly a berry, and that it has been developed for over 7,000 years. A hundred and thirty-six autograph letters written by Charles Dickens, sold in London the. other day for $745. Tho longest span of telegraph wire in the world is in India over the river Kistna. It is over 6,000 feet in length, China has an arsenal at Teinanfu at which 800 workmen are employed making arms and ammunition, besides repairing. R. Fernandez de Castro, oivil Gover- nor of the City 00 Havana, has organ- ized forty tree kitchens, feeding 855,- 000 Cubans, One of the last bits of work done by the Dutch sculptor Wortman, who died last weedy, was a bust of Queen Wilhelmina. A daughter of Professor Lambroso, the eminent orinniuologist, was recent- ly acquitted by a Turin court on the citarge of being a contributor to a condemned Socialistic newspaper. A record price for old silver was es- tablished in London recently by the sale of an Elizabethean seal top silver spoon, weighing an ounce and a half, for 6150—that is, for 3100 per ounce. The name of Mme. Addle Maria Juana Patti Nicolini of Craig -y -Nos Castle appears in a recent London Gazette among the aliens to whom certificates of British naturalization have been granted. Queen Victoria seat a magnificent Indian shawl and a ring as a wedding present to Princess Dorothea of Saxe- Cobourg-Gotha while her gifts to the Duke of Augustenburg were a ring and handsome silver epergne. In Europe bags and wrappings for enclosing grain, etc„ are protected from vermin and from damp or dry rot by. coating the coverings with a mixture of gas and tar grease combined with chloride of lime or alum and saltpetre. Pneumatic cushions of rectangular forms are placed beneath the floor, seats and seat banks of a new English rail- way carriage, to lessen the shocks and ;jars of the road, the framee support- ing the seats being loosely mounted to have free movement on the cush- ions. Professor Agar Beet, a distinguished theologian of the English Wesleyan Methodist church, recently wrote a book in which it was asserted that the souls of the wicked were annihilated at death. His church has made him promise not to teach or preach the doc- trine. Colglier, Ireland, has appointed a woman rate collector and insists on her having the place in spite of the objections of the Dublin officials. She is a Miss Magill, and had done the work of the office for five years, owing to the illness of her father, who held the. place previously, Prince Philip of Hohendobe-Schi1- lingsfurst, nephew of the German Chancellor and son of the late Lord High Chamberlain at the Austrian court, has become al3enediotino monk, after serving a two years' novitiate, Ile is 34 years of age, and was formerly an officer of dragoons. English oapilalists are already pre- paring to buy the railroad which Sir Herbert Kitchener has built in the wake' of his army practically as far as Omdurman, The gauge is the same as that of the fine from Cape Town to Bulawayo, which before long will be extended to Lake Taganyika. The coincident deaths of Eugene Bou- din, the marine painter, and Merles Garnier, the architect of the opera house, in Paris, roaall the fact that both men started life as poor boys. The former was originally a tailor, and the son of a llontleur pilot; the mother of the latter was a vendor of vegetables. Jnles Verne, the indefatigable French author has achieved the probably uni- que feat of having written six more books than the number of years he has lived. Perhaps Miss Braddon, among English writers, with fifty-five nov- els to her name in 87 years, most near- ly epproaebes this marvellous record of industry, i1udyard Kipling recently received a polite note asking if his story "The Man Who Would be King," ie founded an fact. Mr. Kipling conceived the in- quiry to be an attempt to eeouro his autograph;, so he out our from the note the three words, "It is not," and, piloting them neatly on a blank sheet of paper, mailed it to tbe inquirer, without his signature, Marion Crawford says of himself:... "::last of my boyhood was spent under tt French governess, Not only ,did I h learn that language from her, but all g ca' my studies—geography, arithmotte, ort,— r and we oh rain me Fronds, I learned to write 11 with great readi- ness as a mere boy bemuse It was the language of my daily laslw. Phe con- sequence is that to this day I write French with the once of English." I9ngiand has now reinstated nearly all the flaiprite in the Junmeon raid, Co!. Frank Rhodes, who was wounded at Omdurman while teeing us cert•e- spnndenl. for the London Timen hes been restored to his formal position ill betarmy, and Sir Graham Bowers, who, ss Colonial Secretary, at the Cape, came out. barely from the investigation, lies raceii'nd an equally luerati•IO exist at Mauritius, INTERES'T'ING ITEMS, A Few BPlarela01001 A hru•n„raphe 5Y0It'II Will be. Pound worm Reading. There are 750,000 cats in London. The tongue of a full-grown whale measures twenty feet in length. In all et Europe there are 154,825 miles of railroad. In the United States there are 180,891 miles. Married women, will not be permit- ted, hereafter, to eat es teachers In the public schools of Milwaukee. Tn New York City there are private charitable institutions which repro- sent a real estate valuation of 340,- 000,000. Most of the family washing in Jap- an is done by getting into a moving boat, and letting the shirts, sheets, etc., trail astern from a long rape. It is not at all sirangefor an aged person in Chine, to scours, as a neat and appropriate present, a coffin of suitable size. The gift is considered quite i.hnely if the recipient is in bad health. The turkey was first discovered in America, and was brought to England in the early part of the sixteenth (len- tory, Since then it has been acclim- ated in nearly all parts of the world. The longest courtship on record was that of Robert Taylor, postmaster ee Searva, Ireland. Ile courted hes lady- love for fifty years, and married her in 1872, when hie age was 108. He re- cently died, in his 134th year. A wonderful shawl is possessed by the Duchess of Northumberland. It once belonged to Charles X., of France, and was made entirely from the fur of Persian oats. Although the shawl is eight feet square, it is of sunh fine texture that it can be compressed into an ordinary coffee cup, Each member of the Chinese oavntry receives about four dollars a month, and out of this he is required to furn- ish fodder for ]lis horse. In case of the death or disability of the tnlmaI he must supply a new one at bis own expense, The Chinese cavalier is thee - fore careful of his horse. A new remedy for rheumatism has been successfully tested in the Coun- ty Hospital, Chicago: The treatment consists in the application of intense dry heat. This is effected by means of a machine into which the leg, arm, hand, or even the entire body is plac- ed, lan ed, and isolated from the outer air. A chicken with a comb weighing ov- er a pound is owned by John D.Rey- nolds, of Newark, N. J. At night the fowl rests on a perch four Inches from the ground, with Its head bent for- ward, so that the comb can repose on the earth. Otherwise, the weight of the comb would cause the chicken to topple over. A Chinese editor soothed the author of a rejected contribution by suavely stating that if he printed it the Em- peror of China would insist on every- thing in the paper being maintained at the same high standard, "This,” the cunning editor added, "is mani- festly impossible in the present state of literary ability." QDDITiES IN JEWELS. One of the link cuff buttons, is a blue sapphire and a light topaz or yellow sapphire. The other set is a combina- tion of beryl and pink sapphire. Each stone is of the first water, and a more brilliant set of jewels it would be hard to find. Tboss combinations of various tints of sapphires and delicate shaded clear stones are used quite freely now in combination with diamonds, which serve to bring out the lights 'of the colored stones, while the latter in turn make the diamonds seem far more bril- lia,nb. An all diamond design looks flue when placed, beside one in which the design is faintly traced with a colored. stone. The olivine, which is a very light tint of emerald found in the Ural mountains, and which in the smaller stones is more expensive than the em- erald, le the favorite In combination with the diamond, where there are but two colors used, This olivine is a com- paratively new stone and is used mere- ly to heighten the effete; of the diamond designs. The larger stones are eom- paratively oheapet' than the emerald of the deep grass green shade, which is ponsidored the '(neat. Another setting which is compara- tively new is the turquoise quartz with the brown tracings. Large pieces of this quartz have sometimes been thrown aside as comparatively worth- less because there was so small epee - tion of the deter, blue stone in them. These stapes are now considered very beautiful when cut In the same way es the clear bine turquoise—te smooth carbunole. The pattern traced by the brown in the quartz is often most beautiful and many prefer it to the plain turquoise, The carbuncle oat is very popular at present in any gem, but especially in opeque stones, Be (Marin' ob advice, said Uncle Ebe en. Ef a man takes it an' goes wrong, a blames yer. A n' of he takes it an' oea right, its thinks he knolvod 1t all de time,' I free0teese..O00000000004600, 4b About the House, • A'34000400,0040®Gi0®d0r9000000 bMOTIIERHOOD, Oh, whet so true, so pure, so good, As love and pride of motherhood? The tender watching and the care, Pilat have no likeness t,nywiiere What man, most bold, would fear to do A mother's heart will carry through; Love 18 too strong to think on death, A' child Is more than living breath, A mother's love is fond and wise, leer soul is In her baby's eyes; To her the laugh that shakes Its throat re Sweeter than the throstle's note. Her life is in the child she bears, Nor withers with the waste of yeara; Though promise may in failure die, 'Tie love that makes her vieep and sigh. Har love, Indeed, outlives her days, Her children treasure up her praise; And though no more they see ber face, Her name retains its native grace. SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. Mushrooms have often been styled "vegetable breakfasts" because of their supposed high nutritive value. But despite a recent bulletin from the department of agriculture commend- ing this class of fungi as "highly nut- ritious food," certain foreign investi- gators, notably Morner, of the Univ- ersity of Upside io Sweden, declare them of no great importance in this regard, their chief value being to im- part a piquant relish to other foods, or to tickle the palate when served alone. A recipe for canning tomatoes whole is given by an exchange and vouched for as excellent by the housekeeper who furnishes lt. She says peel the tomatoes without breaking them. Sprinkle sugar on them and let; them stand a few hours, Bien cook, very. gently and carefully, 1n their own juice, for about ten minutes. Lift them carefully into the can, fill up with the juice and seal. Eat with sugar and vinegar. A housekeeper tells us how she dries string beans for winter use. Pick them while tender and string them. Put them into boiling water and let the water boil up again, take them out into cold water and then drain, then dry in the oven, 7'o cook, soak in water over night, drain„ and cook in fresh nvater. . Season generously with butter and cream. Peas can be dried in the same way. Paraffin wax is growing in favor with housekeepers as a covering for jelly glasses owing to its simplicity, economy and good results. The jelly keeps as soft and, fresh at the top of the glass as at the bottom. HOLES AT THE KNEE. "The way to darn the stocking, knees neatly is to run the first set of strands on the wrong side and cross them on the right, letting the wool come double each way across the cen- ter," writes a housewife. "Then on the wrong side of the stocking run a few strands of single wool from one corner of the darn to another. This does not show, and the whole thing gives better to the gpressuee of the knee, "A capital way of reducing tbe amount of darning requisite. and es- pecially of postponing the day of darning when the stockings are new, is to save the nice pieces from the backs and insides of one's kid and suede gloves and just herring -bone them inside the knees of the stockings. They must be taken out for washing and put back again afterward and not only do they save a vast amount of mending, but the life of the stock- ing is wonderfully lengthened." JIOUSE ANTS. The most successful method of get- ting rid of these pests, where nests can be found, is to make several holes in each nest by means of a pointed stick. Pour into each hole an ounce or two of bisulphide of carbon and close with the foot. The bisulphide permeates the underground tunnels and kills the ants in great numbers. If applied with sufficient liberality a whole colony will be exterminated. When the nests cannot be located, the only method is to destroy them wher- ever they menu, in the House. Small bits of sponge moistened with sweet- ened water will attract great num- bers, If these are collected several times a day and immersed in hot wa- ter the numbers can be greatly reduc- ed. It is reported also that a syrup made by dissolving borax and sugar in boiling water wi11 kill the ants readi- ly. The removal of substances which attract the ants in the house should always be the first step. USES 10013, GREEN TOMATOES. There are other usPS for green tom- atoes, says a writer in an exchange, than for sweet pickles and chow -chow. She names them as follows: Cooked as you took ripe tomatoes the green ones are very good. They may be failed with onions and served with beefsteak. • Sliced across, rolled in flour and fled on a griddle, like apples or pota- toes, they are appetizing. They make very fair "pie -timber," made up with two crusts, a bit Ofbut tor, a sprinkle of flour and sugar and apices to taste. They may be tanned, green, for pies and to serve as e vegetable, just as ripe tomatoes are canned. CARE OP BABY'S BYES. The eye has wondrous powers of en- durance If humanely treated and in- telligently oared for. The cause nine times out of tan for d'efeotivo eyesight can bo traced either directly or indir- eatly to carelessness Or abuse, and of- tentimes both. It is in babyhood and early childhood in too many instances that the seeds of defective eyesight are sown by careless parents, ignorant of the necessity—and the knowledge re- quisite—of protecting those delicate or- gans whose tissues are yet tender and undeveloped, It. is at this early period that the foundation for future notice sightedness Is laid, Didl mothers give as muoli time and attention to the . study of how to protect mud aid baby's eyesight as they do to studying the fashion books for designs with which i0 decorate baby's garments, there would he less liability of baby's vveur- lug spectacles later on, as So many of. them rio. With the present kindergarten sys- tem, children begin their similes at an extraordinarily young age compared with the commencement period of the past, thus the necessity of double care- fulness should be impressed upon the parent, that the child's eyes may be physically in condition to beer the strain about to lie imposed upon them. blothers should remember that all sight is obtained by the reflection of light from luminous bodies upon the retina of the eye, therefore any exces- sively luminous body only naz015s the eye, resulting usually in pain and very frequently causing a positive injury to the structure of the eye. Therefore, the greatest precautions should be tak- en that the nursery or living room where the infant is most confined should not be too brilliantly lighted•' that the wall paper be of subdued color that will not reflect the rays of light; that the windows be curtained in shades of green and light browns, not in lace and muslin; and that pic- tures with broad white mats be remov- ed to another room, .in Mot, any con- spicuously large object that might re- flect brilliant rays of light In baby's eyes ought to he placed elsewhere. The windows should be so curtained that whatever the position of the infant the. gleaming white sky or snow-covered roof can be completely shaded from view. Also observe care that the glare of the gas, or lamp, or whatever the illuminating medium, does not shine in babys eyes. Sudden changes from dark or dusk to the dazzle of daylight or artificial light, should be most as- siduously guarded against, When baby is asleep, it is a good plan to either darken the room or shade the eyes much in the same way that the earrings hoed does. When baby is in its carriage, or in the garden, or on the prpmenarle, never allow the sun or the white sky to glare in the eyes. Mothers should see to this in particu- lar, and where nurse girls are employ- ed, special attention is required until ane can rest assured that the girl is e trustworthy in this respect as well as all otheae in connection with the nurs- ling's, Dare, m Tight clothing should never be allow- i ed about the neck and when the little f one is in a reclining or sitting position care should be observed that rays of p light do not reflect from the white gown or cradle never -lid into the eyes. The angles or reflection vary accord- t ing to the position of the light casting m the ray reflected. It shoud be remem- bered that reflected light rays are the mast. dangerous in effect. Further pre- cautions will be outlined in another article, THREE GOOD RECIPES. 1 Corn Fritters—One pint corn, two eggs, one-half sup milk, three-quart- ers cup flour and ono teaspoonful bak- ing powder, 11 1 MYRA'S VACATION. "Pm So glad 'tis vacation,' murmur- ed Myra Blaine, reaching her plump white urge lazily above her head, as she swung In the hammock out on the breezy lawn, "What a blessing sobools cannot keep in session forever!" Then with a sigh of contentment she re- arranged her pillows, and nestled down Lor s1 nap, Myra was a primsry ?etcher in the graded snhool of a neighboring town and was of course elite le weary; "al- most tired to death," she told lien mo- ther, and the latter, fully believing it, petier her and bade her "try to get rester!,." "But I must help with the work," Myra said dutifully, and her mother called ber "dear daughter' and let her wipe the dishes and rearrange some parlor brit -a -brae, This dune the young woman took off her apron, shook out her puffs, pinked up an un - out magazine and repairer. to the hammock, while her mother mopped the kitchen, pantry and back stoop floors, made pies, tended her wood fire, shelled !seas, cleaned new potatoes end got dinner. Myra came in with a fine appetite, a pretty color in her cheeks and an abundance of good hum- or. Mrs. Blaine smiled on her, al - albeit it was a weary smile, and sat down—when she could get time—to eat almost; nothing, It was fifteen -year-old Fred who no- ticed this last and remarked: "Why mother, I reckoned when Sis got home you wouldn't alters be ae tired you couldn't eat." Myra flushed but looked searchingly at her mother. "She is the tired ono," said the latter hastily, "and I made ber rest." "Wasn't hard to make, I reckon," blurted the boy, with an aggravating grin. :lyra flushed still rosier at this and the grave glance bent on her by her father. "I mean to help mother when I get a little rested," she said, "but the last weeks of school are so trying, it seems one must have alittle vaca- tion," Young Jf-+ "blether never has none," was Fred's stout reply. When dinner was done the girl pin- ed up her sleeves and donned a huge apron, Now, mother," she began, when a. erry voice calling from the gateway nterrupted bier, It wa-s her bosom riend, Kittle Nye, driving a pretty ony phaeton, "I'm going over to Mollies; come, o I" said Kittle. "Too had, mother: All right; I'll be hero in a minute. Guess I'll wear y blue lawn. Why can't Fred help with the dishes?" were some of Myra's rather disjointed remixes as she threw her apron on a chair, put her head out the doorway for a moment and then ran upstairs. I will do better to -morrow, mom - Mite" she said gaily, kissing her hand to her mother from the phaeton as they wheeled away. "I do feel awfully guil- ty," she explain�'ed to her friend, but it is such bard work to settle down to business just when one's vacation be- gins, but mother is all tired out" And then the conversation drifted to more congenial subjeots, and a merry afternoon was spent with K'ittie's mar- ried sister. It was late when they returned, Mrs. Blaine was just completing prepara- tions for breakfast. The Blames were early risers at this season, as morning is the best time to pick berries, and Mr. Blaine was a small fruit grower. Breakfast was long over when Myra opened her eyes, The eldest son was gone "to town" where he bold a clerkship, and the two young- er ones were in the harry field, The father had milked their five cows and returned from carrying the milk to the creamery„ Why bow smart you all are!" said Myra, as she looked about the kitchen. Churning—they churned their own butter—was done and the dishes almost finished, is to be done, mommie? Please talk to me as you would to a hired girl, Any ironing left over?" "Yes, dear, Someway I am all be- hind with the work. 00 late one week seems to drag over into the next, It ntuet be I am getting old or else lazy," Myra kissed her and then went sing- ing out into tb'e shad to get the basket of clothes, "My but this is a hot morn- ing to iron I I don't see how mother stands it, She ought to have a gaso- line. It seems to ane father might get her more conveniences, but I suppose it is as meets her fault as his, It takes so muoh to live, keep up life insurance, pay taxes, and all the rest, Hum, when I marry I shall marry rich," you will, hey 5" ? Myra's singing had changed (:o a soliloquy and the last words name out emphatically just as a shadow, fol- loeewrledlexl, by a young man, came round the "Why, Willis, how you frighten one!" but pretty Myra did not look one bit glttone d, and the next hour was nt in merry sociability, for Willis ey and the .Blaine young people were best friends imoginehlc, When be went away a little picnie. Inv been planned for the afternoon of day following, and then Myra re- mbered that the dress she would t to wear was soiled and must be one up," with the extra balling, took not y all her time, but added an extra rain en the mother, unclasp Myra attended church and day snhool in the forenoon, sing- rehoaesal, Y. P. 0. ls, and preaah- services in the afternoon and even, Monday morning I w111 turn over ew leaf," slip said, and She did, ?rut vvas rather unexpected to her after t four o'clock her father called her; Mather could not get Up, Sponge Cake—Two cups of sugar, one cup of warm water, a little salt, four eggs, the yolks beaten separately from the whites, two cups of, flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add lemon flavoring and then the whites 00 eggs last. Potato Salad Slice a quart of cold potatoes, then add salt and pepper to taste. Chop or slice one onion. Put half a oup of vinegar and a teaspoon- ful of butter on the stove to heat. Beat the yolks of two eggs in a cup and fill up with sweet (ream. Beat well together and stir in the hot vine- gar. Stir constantly till it thickens, but do nob let it curdle; remove from the fire. Stir in the onion and pour over the sliced potatoes. Let it stand an hour. Garnisb with sliced boiled eggs and tresses. ANCIENT WOMEN DOCTORS. The first qualified woman physician in Europe, 50 far as is known, was a young Athenian woman named Agno- dice. In the year 300 B. C. she disguis- ed herself as a man and began to at- tend the medical schools at Athens, whi0h it was against the law for a woman to do. She afterward practised among the women of Athens with extraordinary succuss- But her secret become known, she was prosecuted for studying and practising medicine i1 - legally. The Athenian women, how- ever, raised. so furious an agitation in consequence that the ease was drop- ped and the law repealed. Coming to latex times, we find several women who obtain the degree of doctor of medicine, and practised In Europe before 1492, f especially in the Moorish universities see of Spain. Trotulo., of Rugiero, in the the eleventh century bad a European re- putation, and practised as a doctor in 1in. Salerno. At the beginning of the she fourteenth century Dorothea Bonchi man not only received the degree of doctor, "d but was professor of medicine in the T famous Universityof Bologna, Since one then two other woman have boon pro• str of medical subjects in the same S university Anna Mtengalini (anatomy) Sun and Dr. Maria della Donne (obstetric ing medicine), the latter being epeointed ing in 1799. In tho year 1811 an edlot was ing issued in France forbidding surgeons' and female surgeons from practising a 11 until( they had passed a satisfactory it exam net on before the proper en- all. tho.rlties, These female surgeons aro A again referred 10 in an edlet in 1852. her • It was only the legitimate outcome of a long, severe strain, but it was in her delirium that it all carni out. liow liit.len' wale Myra's tears as over (Inti ever again the 00(05, Rome• hJores feble, and sometimes pitched high, ti'Olr14 Roy: It I can only hold out till Myra comes home, she Is such a good daugh- ter, Rhe will seem 10 step in =Claim the burden as no one else can." "I1. will be such acomfort when Myra cwillbomets e hon440105e; I can hardlyhelp ma wait.th'3biand+re one Loen 011, I'm so tired," And again: "But I won't let the child work; she shall en- joy her vacation. Vacation, how Hiro it would be 10 11205 a vitiation! Dear girl, 1 won't let her know about these Dumb spells or this queer pain in my head, 1'11 get lu:tter toard fall when the weather gate 000ler:"w She did get better "toward fall," though she drifted out as long way tp- ward the unknown; but: Myra bad learned a lesson more of our girls ought to Tarn withouther dearly bought experience. In all the wide world 1110(5 is nous dearer to thru- e girlish heart thm'n (bat same p tient, indulgent mother of whom she takes t:lro most unfair advantage. 'fhe ideal vacation Is the one in which one has a change by giving come One else a charere; and many another, be. aide Myra migilt insure a pleasant restful time all around by promptly relieving the over -burdened homemak- er, for, as Fred was heard to grumble on one menden: "It does seem's if everybody bus va- cations but. mothers," PUT TO QUEER USE. Prow the linieily I1111c Serves In ManyTinges. Big family Bibles are frequently re- ceptacles for all manner of valuables. Indeed, the holy book is a sort of a sale, and old Bibles picked up at aur tions reveal Curious treasures of ev- ery imaginable sort. One dusty tome testified to the sav- ing tendencies of a former owner, no fever than fifty sovereigns being se- curely fastened between its pages. The miser had gone to work in an original manner to make his hoard as secure as possible. Cutting out a big hole in the centre of the hook, he deposited his wealth therein, pasted the leaves one over the other, above and below, the cotes, until they were completely enveloped in a bard mass of pasted paper. The book when closed appeared very ordinary, and as only the middle was a solid block front and back leaves could be turned without excit- ing suspicion. According to an insurance agent whose round is in a squalid locality of a large city, money frequently is kept in Bibles by peer people. A laun- dress, blessed with an intemperate hus- band showed the eolleetor her little treasury, which she kept between the leather of the hack of a colossal volume. Aocess was gained to this sav- ings bank by means of a slit cut near the edge of the cover, the coins resting safely between the board and its outer covering. She declared that this secret place had container) 1 he hidden wealth of mother, grandfather, and great- grandmother, and that her eldest daughter was to possess the Bible and share the mystery as soon as she mar- ried. The heavy cover of another big Bible was a sort of jewel case, a pair of old-fashioned earrings, a string of coral beads, and a wedding ring being securely packed under the leather, which, well padded, admitted them without bulging. This collection was disoovered by a purchaser of odds and ends at a miscellaneous sale. Willa have been found within the pages of discarded Bibles, and a valu- able lane collar was tanked firmly be- tween two leaves of a very old book put up by auction recently. A most curious use for a Bible was discover- ed by an old dame many years ago. Besides the notices of births and deaths of members of the family, there were recipes for sauce and cough mix- tures as well as cookery and house- hold hints, written in a crude hand, wherever a blank strip of paper per- mitted. THE MARRIAGEABLE AGE. The "marriageable age" differs greatly. In Austria a "man," and "woman," of fouxteen are supposed to be capable of conduoting a home of their own. In Germany the man must be at least eighteen years of age. In France and Belgium the man must be sixteen and the woman fifteen. In Spain the intended hnsband must have pass- ed lets fourteenth year and the woman hoe twelfth. The law in Hungary for Roman Catholics is that the man must be fourteen years old and the woman twelve; for Protestants the man must be eighteen and the woman fifteen. In Greene the man must have seen at least fourteen summon and rho wo- man c-lean twelve, In Russia and Saxony they are more sensible and a youth must refrain from matrimony till he can count fourteen years, and a wom- an until she Dan count sixteen. In Swit- zerland men from the age of fourteen and women from the age of twelve are allowed to marry: The Turkish law provides Il1at any .youth and maid who can walk proper- ly and can understand the necessary religious service aro allowed to be unit- ed for life, MARRIAGE IN SWEDEN, It is said that there is no place in the world where the oxisteneo of civil - teethe is recognized that the maidens 1'UNNIC RAMS. X' don't sae as rnuoll of Fleshleigh as I used to. Ilad any trouble with flim? Oh, no, but he's lost over forty pounds, li'11nt a lovely new coiffure Miss Gllhimer has. Whorl did 44115 get Cho sdylo? That comes with the Bail'. Wily do poets wear long hair. ? They feel more picturesque than otbe eth1' peir eople, poetry,and. can't always prove it by Ella—Where does Bolla gel her good looks from—hex father or her mother? Si elle—From• her father, He keeps (1 drug slurs. Rural Rsggee—Say, Tales, do you think it's rigbt to raise the prion of beer? Tramping Tatters—I've been try- ing 10 raise the price of one for a week. A Mitigating Thought. --you must have been awfully homesick, John. I wasonu, If ft stood ithadn't. been for thinking oftaps. lbs lawn -mower I don't believe I kl have I understand you won the blue rib" bon, so to speak, in the examination for the civil service. I—ab—woul4 hardly call it that, answered the mildyoung man. Let US Say I won the red Mrs. Riley—And what trade doe your husband follow? Mrs. O'Shea—, Sure, an' ha fellers a barrcr at prlsint. When 1 married him he said he was a ery brass-finisbit' brhera,ss anb Idd esaved, soon finished eve o' Force of Habit,—Poor Alice had td give up her bicycle -riding.' She just could not learn. And why not? She all10451605, s0 used to driving a horse thatshe kept jerking at the handle bars the time as if they were a pair of 11,05:055.50 What did your wife say to you when! you got home from the club at such a0 unearthly hour this morning? 011. ask me something easy. What would you call something easy? '1S"e11, your might ask nee what she failed to say. Take it away! shouted the King of Bkploo. What on earth is the matter with the meat? ire you trying to poi- son me ? It must have been, the chief e humbly explained, that the gentleman I cooked this afternoon was a bitter. sectarian. Has your Majesty heard anything more about the partition of China? in- quired Li Hung Chang. No, answered the Chinese Emperor absent-mindedly. But I guess we may as well sell that historic wail of ours to some building contractor. So fur as keeping these foreigners out is concerned, it doesn't amount to any more than a lath and plaster partition. Diggs—Do you know whether Alder- ': man Blank still has his office on the second floor of the Cloudland building or not ? Biggs—No ; he is now located on this nineteenth floor of the same building. Diggs—Indeed I What was bis idea of making the change? Biggs—I guess he discovered that he had no show of being elected to e higher of., floe, so he concluded to rent roe. DUKE AND PRESIDENT. "Play Great IPdloln alert. Brenta Neve11 110et as Enenllet." At the close of the military manoeu- vres at Gennettngs, near Moulins, France, the President of Fiance en- tertained the Duke of Connaught and other foreign officers at luncheon. The President occupied the central sent at the table of honour, having the Duke of Connaught on his right and Gener- al Jacquemin on his left. M. Faure, in the course or the pro-, readings, proposed the toast of the fore eign officers who have been attend- ing the manoeuvres. Turning first tet the Duke of Connaught, he said: " Monseigneur, we have been pleased to see your Royal Highness present at the manoeuvres which have just ter- minated, and we beg you to be good enough to transmit to Her ]Iajesty the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India the very cordial wishes of the Royal family." The British and Russian hymns were performed as the toast was honoured:, In reply the Duke of Connaught said; "I rise to thank the chief of the State for the kindness which he bas shown us. I shall always retain a charming recollection of the stay which I made in France on (be (sweeten of the 1898 manoeuvres, Allow mo to say, M. 1e President, that Great Britain likes the French army. I say this as no, of- ficer of the British army, as a member of the Royal family, and as a member of the army which accompanied France lu several campaigns. I trust our ar- miee will never meet as enemies, and that comradeship will always exist be» hewn us. In the name of the foreign officers, permit me to express our gra- titude for the kindness which you have shown us—a kindness whinh will form their most agreeable reoolleciion on their return home." A BUZZSAW OF DIAMONDS, The most wonderful of buzzsaws has just been devised by M. Felix From, holt, an engineer of Paris, for use in preparing the stone foundations for the xhibition buildings. It is more than seven feet in diameter and is open- tad by n ten -horse power engine, The ower edge is nearly four feet: Above he ground. The block of stone width to be sawed is placed on a truok and Un under the saw, which splits it at he rate of ten inches per minute. And o wonder, It is literally a diamond, cothod SW, the largest in existence. L cuts its way through the hnedest tone by the aid of 200 email dia- mide, fattened to its ofrenmferenee, base are the so -cell crystalized iia, ondd,worth about 32 or 33 per. care 1. Of course the prieciple of the cute la-datinond is old, M, Pro/that claims: f fastening the diamonds to the stye! 'edit bitty for his ingenious mall nd for experimenting with them at' gh temperatures, E of the land enjoy so much innocent a freedom ns do the girls of Sweden, 1 On the other hand the wives are pent- t tasty devoted and sedate, and it is is often a source of wonder to travelers r how the young woman, who is brim- t ening full of mischief and tossing while n unheated, settles down to the duties t of her home with such ease and quick- I nese, Among the Iower classes ono of s the most• cherished =stoma is that of m the betrothed girl making with her T Own fingers the snowy shirt in which m her husband ie married, This garment a is &tenity kept, and not infrequent- in ly dons the aged wile robe her dead e husband in the old yellowed shirt a Width she made tor hem half a century a before. . "w