HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-11-26, Page 7The Name "Quebec" is of India Derivation .'
Xis treeing up tbe Origin et Ole
names in the Dominion the investiga-
tions of tie geographic Beard of Can-
ada Have brought to light the interest -
Ing facts given bele?' concerning the
nalne Quebec. The first known ap-
pearance of the name Quebec is on a
MAP made by Guillaume Levacseur of
.Dieppe Ia 1601, If Hoer/ 11arrieee. to
not mistaken in the date. The spell-
ing is Quebecq, The drat appearance
of the name in book la in Lesear-
bot's l•Iietcry of New France publisb-
ed in Parte, In 1609, a copy of which
is in the Library of Parliament at Ot.
taws. Lescarbot'e spelling Is Xebec,
without any accent, and he used it in
describing Champlain's voyage of 1608,
of which he had learned orally from
the explorer. Quebecq is the spelling
used by Champlain in his own aceount
of his voyages published in 1613.
,The first white man to visit the site
of the present city of Qeeboo was
Jacques Cartier, in 1636, and there he
found the Indian town of Stadacone,
Cartier notes that there is a narrows
of the river here. Seventy-three years
after, in 1608, came Champlain. Be.
found no settlement of any kind. Stad-
acone and the Huron-Iroquoie People
dwelling there had disappeared. Cham-
plain writes "Quebeeq, which is a
strait of the river" and in the account
of ,;hie voyages, published in 1013,
states that, he sought a place for a
Where St. Lawrance NarraWe,
The striking feature of Ibe Peeve -
late of Quebec, noted both by Cartier
ancl, Champlain, le that the river St,
Lawrence le "shut in,' "obstructed" or
"narrow" here, Indeed 'where the
Cenacliau National Railways bridge
crosses the river, .five miles above the
citadel et Quebec, 1s the narrowest
part of the St, Lawrence between
Montreal' and the gulf. The breadth
of the river here between High water
1111es is 2,440 feet. From the Indien
Appellation for this narrowing et the
river has been derived the name now
borne by the pretence and pity of
Quebec, Such authorities on Algon-
quin Indian languages as Fathers Al-
bert':
l-
bert Lacombe and Georges Lemolpe,
wbose Cree and Moutagnaie Indian dic-
tionaries are well known, are agreed
that this is the meaning of the name,
The Rev, Silas T. Rand, a missionary
among the Miomacs of the Maritime
Provinces for forty years mentions
two places in Nova Scotia called Que-
bec by the Indians, the Narrows above
Halifax and a narrow -place in the
Liverpool river below Milton,,
,Some have vaguely surmised that
Quebec is a French name because in
certain parte of France tongues of
land formed.by the junction of two
river; have names ending in "bee" as
Bolbec, Caudebec, Garbed,
In this connection the Abbe Gosse-
lin remarks that if the word were
French, pure and simple, it would have
had a definite spelling In the early
house and found' none better than "the days. This it apparently never bad ae
Point of Quebecq, so called by the In- some 17th. Century writers followed
diens," In the 1.632 edition of his voy- Lescarbot's spelling and others that
ages he reaffirms that Quebecq is so of Champlain, with or without the
called by the Indians. final one,
Futility.
Now she who never lived is dead.
Toll, bells, toll! •
The pigeons on the roof -tops saw
A small, pale -soul
That went out aimlessly
To an unknown goal,
The pigeons fluttered their blue wings
And clung with coral feet,
"She goes to Heaven in thesame way
She went along the street,
Blind to any loveliness
That she may meet!"
A pigeon preened his purple throat
He said, "She's going out
Slowly, like a little cloud
Winds blow about,"
And still the bells were tolling
Their requiem devout,
'The pigeons spread their painted
wings,.
Emerald and gray,
"It was such.a small soul
Went out today,
The first wind that it met
Melted 1t away."
—Louise Irlscoll.
Indian Summer.
Gray sky, and hazy lake,
And shadowy land,
And quiet waves, that break,
Upon the quiet sand.
A 'eat falls here and there,
A bird cries in the pines•,
The goldenrod is sear,
The crimson sumach shines,
The low winds lower fall,
Smoke from a bulb fire lifts,
And sadly over all,
A sad cloud drifts.
Gray sky and grayer lake,
And mist that falls to rain,
•
And lnemerle9 that wake,
The dreams of youth again.
—Susanna M. Smyth.
Strange Garden Products.
Little Johnny, who was of school
age, was on his way home from the
week -night prayer meeting, wbere he
had fallen asleep. Ilia father, who had
had great'dtfficulty In waking him at
the close of the service, was walking;
by his side, holding his hand. Fearing
that the boy -could go to sleep again
and that he should have to carry hint,
tbe father quickenedhis pace and,
twitching the little fellow'shand vig-
prously, asked him briskly where he
had been that day.
"Over to Mr. (Meal's," was the
drowsy reply.
"And' what were they doing at Mr.
O'NeaVa 1"
"Makin' garden," Johnny replied
listlessly,
"And what did they plant?"
Johnny yawned, "Planted lett's an'
onions an'—" he stumbled, and his
tongue grew thick,—"an rad'shes an'
peas—an' q's—an' is—an' s's—"
At that point the father picked him
up and carried him.
Hunter, in Vigil Over Corpse,
Slays Tiger.
One of the most ferocloua man-eat-
ing tigers that ever has troubled Bur-
ma bas been killed by Hatim Tal,
divisional forest officer of Magwe, saya
a Calcutta dispatch,
Mr. Tai kept vigil in a cachan erect-
ed above the corpse of a young Bur-
mese woman who had just been killed
by the tiger. At night the tiger re-
turned for the corpse. Wben torches
were flashed the animal became be-
wildered and was shot dead.
it was established that the beast had
killed thirteen men and women in the
Magwe dlstrict, besides mauling five.
In the Yamethin district there have
been almost as many tiger casualties
reported, all believed due to the same
animal, Cattle and dogs killed num-
ber hundreds.
Three villages had been abandoned,
as- the tiger had begun to carry off
men at work in daylight, In one case
dragging a Burman away, withthe
whole village pelting: behind.
The governmentreward of 100 ru-
pees for killing the beast has been di-
vided among Mr. Tal, the relatives of
the dead girl and those who aided in
the kill.
The Power of Expression.
The power of artistic expression In
musts also lodges in large parts In
varioua peronal powers quite outside
music, such as equable temperament,
healthy mindedness, comeliness of
body and physical health. Gteat
achievements on the intellectual side
tend to balance a man, whereas great
achievement within narrow emotional
performance tends to distort perspec-
tive, an emotion being relatively a
severe drbin on the,nervous energy
weakens the power of self control and
produces abnormal sensitiveness,
Many successful artists have been
notorious for the violation of these
homely virtues. But we may well
meditate on how much greater their
charm would have been if they had not
been sick soulea sufferers from aber-
rations. The principle remains that a
musician who is well phyically, moral-
! ly and mentally, who has a good dis-
(position and who is socially attractive,'
reasonable and well balanced, lies the. 1
advantage over the warped personality
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Beyond the Night.
The city light are bright with flame
where up and down the street
The city's gleam flares up the way fo
countless drifting, feet;
And yet, I often turn away, where
through a window Pane
A dim, old-fashioned candle ligh
shines down a country lane.
The. Firefly's Secret.
s A number of scientists have con-
ducted
onducted quite elaborate experiments
r on lightning -bugs, attempting to ex-
plain the nature and action of their
, light. What Dr. E. F. Bigelow said
several years ago is still true—there
t has not been much success to the ex -
;
xi periments.
1 That familiar flash we see in summer
- evenings, says Dr. Bigelow, is prob-
ably the.most efficient light known in
t nature. The flash of an able-bodied
The city has a thousand songs—a mal
titude to sing;
A thousand voices sweep the nigh
where dint cathedrals ring;
And yet, I often turn away, where, al
the morning through
A'mockit
the silver dew.
•
firefly is just 1-400 as bright as -a
1 candle, while the glow is much weak-
, er, or about 1,60000 of a candle power.
ength of We light is very de-
ceptive; most et us would judge It to
be -much stronger. Considering the
apparatus the firefly bas for product
ing its light however, It is really mar-
t' vetoes power. To supply an'equal
amount of light in the laboratory
would require a temperature of 2,000
I degrees 'Fahrenheit while tbe firefly
generates no heat that can be mea-
sured.
ea
sured.
In spite of all experiments, no one
has discovered just how the firefly
„turns its peculiar illumination on and
off. The materials it works with are
probably moisture, oxygen and some
unknown substance, possibly some
kind of fat. The firefly continues to
keep its secret, although it has been
watched beneath the most powerful
microscopes as it operates its tiny
batery. All the scientists can tell us
about it is that the light is some form
of oxidation, and it is hoped that by
!studying the. firefly we,emay discover I
. some new method of producing light
which may revolutionize our great gas
works and electric power plants.
I One -point on which the investigators
bare puzzled particularly is the inter-
mittence of the glow -why does the
light "come on" and "go off," like an
electric bulb that is being played with
by a mischievous child?
While this bas not been altogether
answered, it has been discovered that
the, shutting off apparatus must be in
the third thoracic ganglion (a nerve
eentre between the third pair of lege).
When through some accident a firefly
receives an injury In which this gang-
lion is punctured, its light glows• con-
tinuously t111 the creature dies. These
nerves control the flaps which cover
the entrance to the breathing tubes,
-and when they are injured the tubes
(visually, the insect's lungs,) remain
1 open to the air. With the air tut off,
the light goes out—,showing that its
composition is partly oxygen.
Submerged .Ancient City,
French divers hav
ij o discovered eared the
ruins of an ancient city, submerged 30
feet beneath the waters of the Medi-
terranean Sea, off the coast of Tunis.
The city has a mighty voice—a siren
voice that calls
Where tame is pleading night and da
within her star -crowned walls;
And yet I often. turn away, where, in
the fading light
A waiting mother used to call her boy
in from the night.
Grantiand Rice
Priceless Limbs.
Pavlova, the famous dancer, is said
to have Insured her arms end legs, for
upwards of $160,000. The loss of a
single toe would in her case cost the
Insurance company. $26,000, while the
loss of an arm would involve a pay-
ment of 560,000. •
For several years Paderewski, the
great pianist, paid $4000 a year in pre-
miums against hand injuries, each of
his hands being insured for $60,000. In
addition; he had separate policies for
his toes, eyes, and ears. A damaged
linger nail, which on one occasion pre-
vented lilt from fulfilling' an engage-
ment east the Insurance company
$6,000.
Kubelik, the violinist, insures his'
right hand and arm for $10,000 against
injury, and for $60,000 against per-
manent disablement.
The first man to insure his eyesight
was the late Professor Huxley, who
would have received $26,000 in the
event of his going blind. It is said
that the hands of Slr Herbert Barker,
the manipulative surgeon, are insured
for a very large sum.
— Or 99 94-100% Pure."
A little girl who is just learning to
read short words takes great Interest
n the big letters she sees in the news-
paper. The other evening after she had
kept her mother awake half the night
ceding advertisements to ber she
knelt down to say her prayers:
"Dear Lord," she alsped, "make me
ure." Then she hesitated and went
n with added fervor, "Make me abso-
lutely pure like' baking powder!"
A Brave Man,
"Jack is a bravo fellow."
""holy so?"
"Admits he knows nothing about
Mall Jong,"
The Best He Could Do.
nattier O'Flynn-•--"But why did you
plek a quarrel and fight with this man
--a total atranget'?"
riarriete--"Sore, Yee reverence, all
Jae Mende wor' away."
g0a1.
A Poem You Ought to Know.
Love's Philosophy,
Percy Bysahe Shelley was n con• P
temporary of Byron and Keats, three °
poets who all died young. His lyrics
are one of the glories -of English litera-
ture.
Add i
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in tbe world is single;
All things by a law divine
Inone spirit meet and -mingle:
Why not I with tltlue?
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister -flower would.. be forgiven
It it disdained its brother;
And the sttnlight clasps the earth,
And the monbeems kiss the sea;
What h4 all this sweet, work worth,
1f thou kiss not me?
1'
Clock in a Sidewalk.
Tboitsands walk over the northeast
corner of Maiden Lane and Broadway
in New York and never know that they
are stepping' on the face of a clock.
This clock, measuring about two feet
across, 18 imbedded in the sidewalk
and le covered with glees an inch thick,
The hour and minute hands aro paint-
ed a jet black. Because of the dust
and 6111 the aloek 18 scarcely discern*
thio daring do daylight hours, but at The latest on the continent is ostrich races, This pttotegraell,.
night It is Illuminated and is a 'ectal .Prague,. Czecho-Slovakia, shows "Great Sport," one of the birds,
teller of tinge. , had won the main race of .the card,
The fountains mingle with the river
n e r vers with the ocean,
Stories About, Well.Known People
Taking the Terrier's Title.
An amusing story concerning his
title is related. by Lord Airedale, Whop
)iia father, the great Ironmaster, ap'
peered in the .honors list and an.,
nouneed the title he intended to adopt,
be received a communication from the
Airedale Terrier Society intimating
that, ae he ,seemed to have selected
Ills title from their club, they would
be glad if be could present theta with
a prize cup.
IGreat Poet's Adventurea,
When he was fourteen, Mr. John
Masefield, the great Meet and author,
whose latest novel, "Sard'Hasker," is
the fleet he has written for fourteen
• years, ran away to .sea "to get the
nonsense Itnceked out of him,"
He gave up the sailor's life and
landed in America,' where on One 00.
Gaston he joined two tramps. inan at-
tempt to earn a little money by sing-
ing at street corners, Obtaining a job
in a hotel as "bandy -man," he bad to
work sixteen hours a day, cleaning bar
taps, washing the glasses, and so on,
his,wage being ten shillings a weak.
In his new novel the hero might
have been Mr. Masefield himself, for
he goes to sea as a boy and has many,
adventurei; abroad,
The Guardian of Ng, 1Q,
No one can have islet mere of the
famoue people of the day than Mr:'
Robert Lloyd, who for many years hag
been the porter at No, 10 Dgwning
Street. He has opened the door to
Royalty, to the world's statesmen, to
great soldiers and sailors --•not to men -
then erenke cf all descriptions.
One of his many amusing stories
concerns the visit of Signor Mussolini
to the home of Britains Chief Miele -
ter. He burst into the vestibule and
eliook the porter warmly by the hand.
"I am delighted to meet IOnglaied's
Prime Minister," he said. Tt was tact-
fully pointed out that he had made a
mistake
No Knitibthood Wanted!
Captain Round, the research engin-
eer of the Marconi Company, dis4lkes
publicity, and oe that apgount be be-
came known during the war as the
mysterious "Captain X; the wireless
wizard."
Somebody once said to him, "Would
you accept a knighthood if it were
offered, Round?" And he replied
promptly, "No. I don't want people
calling me Circumference!"
The Interview.
The resourceful newspaper reporter
will never admit himself beaten. If
his man won'•t talk, he must be made
to.talk—fn print at. least. Punch thus
describes the way the thing is done:
The reporter from the Daily Wire
cam° down the back garden between
the washing line and the gooseberry
bushes, "You were In the motor
coach that collided with another at the
root or veneer
The young man who was mend,
a puncture in the back tire of a bicyc
stood up. "That's right" he said.
"You were among talose who es-
caped with bruises?"
"That's right."
You actually
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Romance of Silver Fox.
At all.times in the fur business, a
silver -fox pelt was worth a hundred
times as much as• a red -fox pelt. There
was an old trapper:saying in Canada
during the days when a dollar was as
big as a cartwheel, "A red -fox pelt
will buy a whip, a erose -fox pelt will
buy a cutter, but a silver fox will buy
horse and cutter and all,"
The pelt of a prime silver fox is ad-
mittedly the warmeat, deepest, richest
ng and lightest In .the world's. output. Ids
le one fault is lack of durability.
It was the established imperial fur
of the Russian court. Every noble-
woman was supposed to wear a silver -
fox robe when she appeared at winter
receptions.
The wild supply was limited and
lessening; the demand ever increas-
ing; for these two laws underlie all
nd fur prices. Blank is a becoming fur; it
Id makes the plain woman interesting
at and the pretty woman beautiful.
Therefore, it is always in fashion. Sec-
ond, the general trend of fur prices,
without exception, has always been
upward.
The silverfox pelt went the Ivey of
the rest. One hundred dollars was a
fair price a hundred years ago. The
same pelt today brings $1,000, while
pelts of exceptional beauty go up to
$1,600 and $2,000.
The Inevitable result was the fox
ranch. There certainly were hun-
dreds of attempts made—made only
e, to end in failure—until the problem
was finally solved by two enterprising
Canadians on Prince Edward Island -
e Other ranches sprang up. For some
ac h., unknown reason, the climate or soil of
r. ( Prince Edward Island has proved or
2 appears to have proved more 'conduc-
e. ive
onduce.ive to success than that of any other
r region.
Fur prices continued to climb and
t about the time of the war they went
d through a crazy boom, $10,000 and $12,-
000 a pair were paid for choice ranch -
raised silver foxes as breeders, The
record price is said to have been $34,-
000
for one pair,
Since the boom, things have become
- normal again. Prices of other tugs
e have dropped a little in the last two
yearn; but they are still near the peak.
saw the. other coach
• burst into flames before it fell over
the bridge into the river?"
"That's right
I The reporter, who was young e.
. hopeful, produced a notebook. "Con
' you give me your impressions of wh
occurred?"
Silence.
The reporter tried another leading
question. "You assisted in rescuing
Ithe survivors?"
( "That's right"
"It -was towards five o'clock, wasn't
it?"
"That's right," replied the other
added with a sudden burst of
and
elo-
quence, "Getting on for tea time."
The reporter closed his notebook.
"Thank you very much," he said.
Extract from the Dalry Wire of th
following day:
THE VENDER HILL TRAGEDY
Vivid Description of the Scene by On
of the Passengers on the Green Co
"It was a glorious evening," el
William Blow, an engine litter, of 3
Laburnum Vissas, BalIhom, told ou
correspondent, "and I was just admi
ing the glow of the setting sun across
the peaceful valley of the Vender who
the 111 -fated blue coach appeared roue
the curve. I realized instantly tha
the driver had lost control. My heart
seemed to miss a beat, but I kept cool;
and so, I believe, did my fellow passen-
gers. It was a tensely dramatic mo-
ment, as you may suppose, and I sin
cerely hope I shall never experienc
such another. With the crash I
thought my last moment had come,
but as a matter of fact I got off with
a few bruises. I shall never forget
seeing a pillar of fire going up from
the other coach. It was a magnificent
and awe-inspiring spectacle. Then a
crash of falling masonry as the wall
of the bridge gave way under the ter
-
rifle impact, and the doomed vehicle
fell down, down, down into the sullen
waters beneath."
The next-door neighbor left bis rab-
bits and came to speak to Mrs. Blow
over the wall, "I see your 'usband's
given the Daily Wire a flint -'and ac-
count,"
'kl told 'em what 'e could," said
Mrs. Blow, "but 'e says they've left
out agood bit" See rat
b sed her voice,
"They didn't put in all you said, did
they, Bill?"
"That's right"sald Dir, Blow.
The World's est Statue.
The world's most ancient statue is
to be found outside, not inside, the
British Museum.
It is said that it took two hundred
men from the crew of H.M.S. Topaz,
and three hundred natives, to drag
the statue from its original site, al-
though it weighs only tour tons It is
the work of a raoe of huge'dlullders
and was ono of many similar colossal
statues, seine of them wetghieit as.
much as a hundred tons, scattered
over Easter Island, in the Pacific.
These hideous images were original -
supplied with hats, in sone cases
eiglting another five or six tens., which
were red because they were made of
tufa or volcanic rock. All the hats
ave fallen off now and are found ly
g around the huge statues as though.
ere bad been a high wind.
Ti115 race of ancien't builders left
aces in the shape of immense stone
ointments right across' the Pacific,,
d many archaeologists thhlk that the
lands On which these monuments are
to
ore the last remnants left above
e surface of a vast submerged eon -
lent. There is nothing which fixes
e exact period of this achievement,
tit it is possible that thestatues are
Med ae' old as the Pyratnids of
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Sockeye Salmon Runs Heavy.
The prospects for a bumper collec-
tion of Sockeye salmon eggs for the
hatcheries operated in Britieh Colum-
bia by the Department of Marine and
Fisheries are unusually good. Most
encouraging reports have been re-
ceived at Ottawa indicating that the
runs of sockeye are considerably in
excess of other years. In the Fraser
river all precious collections of sock
eye eggs have been exceeded with a
take of 6,000,000 in the Pitt Lake area,
and the run of sockeye to the Birken-
head river in the Harrison-Lillooet
Lakes area is greater than any pre-
vious run In the memory of the hatch-
ery employees. The collection of eggs
amounting to 31,200,000 is the largest
that bas been made to date in this por-
tion of the Fraser.
Often Followed by the Wolf.
Tourist—The stork would seem to
be the only animal that ever visits
this •community."
Native -"Wrong, stranger, it's flre-
qu•ently followed by the wolf when it
makes its calls "
it Made a Difference.
A truant olflcer made a call of the
hone of u pupil whose absence had
extended for over a week.
"Mikey is now past his thirteenth
year," said the boy's mother, "an' me
and his father' think he's atter havin'
sa11oo110' time enough."
Men AQ the Real Kings DI'
the Kitchen,
Tba ,late Maltriee Frannie Bgaee.
former ininietor to Denmark. Pyr the
Vatted Staten, tolls woman of her pees.
tine as queep Pt the .kitchen in a de,
lighttnlly hutalsrl piss essay in the Cen-
tury, Mr. Mgen having pointed put
Wily men are better souks than Ivo,
men, 'Aye:
The women cook le now in fair nom•
petitieu with the pien OR her avoca.
tion in this matte'. Now that all
winos and liquors, domestic and for.
eign, are taboo, sal, 15 on equal
grouude with these men co0lts Who he
creased the charms of food by what is
now considered the meretrielous aid
of diluted alcohol. . Beeldes, the come,
petition is leeeene6 by the fact that
the very great chafe will not remain
in a eoun.try, deprived of one of the
moat important appliances of their
art.
T1teae departing chefs tricked for
men, and that is what thewoman cook
seldom does, There ie always 10 her
mind An imaginary man who ought to
like what elle cooks. And I must make
the frank and startling admission that
he pretends to. He knows very well,
in his heart, that when a cook in his
family offers him a dish, supposed to
have been made to please Ilse, elle is
really endeavoring to please a creature
of her fancy; or, In some cases, rather
rare, to please herself.
He will not admit the truth pf thie.
He 1s bound by tradition to swear by
the curious compounds his mother
used to matte. If he does not, he is
ruined domestically, and he deprive&
himself of die use of a comparison
which may help him sometime to se-
cure
ecure almost what he wants to eat. As
women were born without any real
taste for food—they, when alone,
absorb anything at hand—chocolate ec-
lairs and barbaric salads by prefer-
ence—they must learn, now that they
are legally' declared to be the equals
of man, to discover why he has al-
ways been superior in that art which
for centuries they have uurighteously
proclaimed as entirely their own.
Poems by Unexpected People.
On the bookshelf of nearly every
writer stands Dr. Brewer's famous
and invaluable "Dictionary of Phrase
and Fable," and possibly also the same°
compiler's "Reader's Handbook of
Allusions, References, Plots and
Stories,"
But no one thinks of Ebenezer Cob-
ham Brewer_ as a poet, although he
wrote a poem which everybody can re-
peat. Dr, Brewer's one immortal
Peen' Is "Little Drops of Water,"
Another unexpected poet is Dr. Jen-
nee,
enner, the discoverer of vaccination as a
specific against the infection of small-
pox. He was, of course, a doctor of
medicine and a great scientist, and
no one would suspect him of being a
Poet. Yet his poem entitled "Signs of
Rain" still eurvives, and is one of the
very best weather -guides in the lang-
uage.
The case of Samuel Rogers is a
strange one, He was a wealthy bank-
er who was very much at home in all
financial questions. He lived to a
greatage, and spent most of his time
in London, where his entertainments
were famous, for he always lived In a
fine mansion splendidly furnished; Yet
perhaps his best known poem begins
with the words :"Mine be a cot beside
a 11121,"
Among unexpected poets must be
reckoned the Rev. Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson, a very learned mathemati-
clon, who published several valuable
treatises on that subject, and was a
lecturer on it in the University of Ox-
ford. Yet, under the Hanle of "Lewis
Carroll," he wrote "Alice in Wonder-
land" and other children's books which
contain some of the cleverest and fun-
niest parodies in our language,
Pays Rent in Old Horseshoes.
Property owned by the city of Lon-
don rents for hundreds of thousands
of pounds, but the city corporation
pays annually for that property only
two bundles of faggots and six horse-
shoes. With all due ceremony, the
city solicitor paid the year's rent to
the Crown. This tenure is rendered
even cheaper by the feet that new
horseshoes do not even have to be
provided each year, as the Crown of-
ficial, after receiving them, generously
returns them for next year's use,
Consequently, the horseshoe„ need
in recent ceremonies are the original
ones which were paid • to the Crown
by the City of London in the reign of
Henry III., nearly 600 years ago,
So Very Easy,
"It is surprising," ,^aid the learee6
profse,er to his wife one morning e1.
breakfast, "to think how ignorant we
all are. Nearly every man is a sporial•
1st in itis own particular line, and the
consequence is that we are all •as nar-
row minded as it is possible to 'be."
"Yes, dear," said his young wile, a0 -
sorbed in the perusal of the latest :Salo
announcement and not taking the
least notice of what her husband was
saying.
"I, tor instance," he continued, "am
ashamed of my failuee to keep abreast
of modern, science. Take electric light
for example. I baven't the least ilea
how it works."
His young wifegave him n patroniz-
ing smile,
"WIty, I ant ashamed of you, too,
ar, if that is so!" she said. "al's
ry shape& Yon just press a button,.
at's alit
do
"Schooling enough," repeated the ve
officer, "Why, I did not finish my edit. 111
cation until I was 23."
"Be that so?" said the woman In
amosenient, Then, reaseurlugly, after
a thoughtful pause: "'Well, sor, ye see re
that bey of ours has b-r•rains" th
it Flies Everywhere.
When you 10010 to think of it the
est practicable bird of'peace tufty b(,
e airplane,