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v Or, A Mysterious Affair.
CJIAPTER 1. I rnand anywhere for the only mental
7; James Iruthergi}1 'West, student. I w'tt s which he hall to dispose of,
of law le the 1.•niyersity of St. An_ we should have bee 1 forcer!. to, re-
drews, have endeavored in the en- tire into genteel poverty, e n5-'1-
suing pastes t.0 lay my statement be- Mg ourselves with the aphorisms
fore the public in a 1. n_ise :11(1 aril precepts ;f 1'nal,nai, ()mar
business -like fas;lti'-,n. 1t is nmt ev rhittnt, andother of his Eastern
wish to achieve lici•ary success; mixfavorites, had it nut been for the
have I any desire by the grace' of tulexpeeted kindness and liberality
hay- style, or by the •tris ti.• order. of his half•bruther, Wiuliaru Farin-
a tush, the Laird of Bratnks,:lux:, in-
lugcleeper shadow over the strange pas_ 11"lgt.iwnsilire,
sages of wh}rh I shall have t., This William Farintush was the
speak. My highest anlilitlo:1 is Proprietor of a landed estate the
ilial those who know ; umethi t; „f acreage of whish bore, uniurtu:cate-
the matter should. t d , m lv, a most disprupertienal relation
uu at et. tea 1;,
t:, its y•1hte, for it formed the bleak-
The Choicest Product
of the finest Tea -Pro-
ducing Country in the
World
its `r lav'ourr and strength
are preserved tanirso-
paired arra the sealed
rad paeize'ta
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MASK., GEM= award L'ir:taCF:D.
our household needs, aid bright-
ened accuu;lt, oe ab.e to e,ms, gnu- ene'd the dark old huildi.lg. Such
otisly indorse it without finding a est and must barren tract uf-la:1(1 was our simple uneventful exist fall all others are kept 1t yet
v. in the whole of a bleak and barren ence until the summer night ellen 1 s p out,
single paragraph in wiu:il I have Mire. .As a baehelur, however, his an unlooked-for mcid"it occurred those in the Pen may ge int when
either added to or detrae rel from ,\Peu.;e:; #ltcl been :mall, and hl wh :h prover! t, be the herald „f through eating,
the troth, Slt•:akl I attain this 1e ha:! _0113.3p1 from the realty •,d his the c strange ck,hrgs which 1 have
This style. of -gate is idso conveni-
sult, I shall rest amp!: sat .frxl{ 1 ant for the lamb lot where one uses
lit -
with the outcome of my first, and
scattered cottages, and the sale u. taken up my pen to describe.
t, the Galloway nags, which he bred !t had been my habit to pull out a creep. The gate should ho just
probably my last, venture in .t- upon the moors,nut only t•, lire as of an evening in file laird's skiff :tad large enough to admit a good-sized
erature, a laird should. but to put by a eon- to catch a few whiting \which might lamb•
It was my intention to write out sicleral�le sum in the beak. We had serve for our supper. On this well-
tlhe sequruce of events 1.1 due heard '.rale fr;tnl aur kinsman cl.lr- rembere:l e�ceesion my sister ca ale, Dairy t 0 OS.
der, depending opus tru'twurtlI 1 r comparative _ sitting
hearsay when 1 was de tihi.lg that rug the days of %;n. c gin- tive with me, tting with her book in A scientific education combined
rt i )ttv but jus=t LIS wo were at the a0t•o seers of the boat, Whilewith common sense and a natural
which was bel ,nd my . NV 1 11risha] ..o: wav,: 3d, ;there eane a`letter 1111th„ guy lines ore2.the bows. The love for the cote is the foundation
knutvieelge, 1 have now, h,,1 ver. like a ministering„,.c••.angel, gut 'ag us sun had sunk snk down hehi,tcl the rug -,1f success in dairying and getting
t. ruttgh the kind cu , rt '11 o 1assurance of sympathy. and say or. god Irish :mast, but a leis bank of
friends, tut upon a plait -lues t 1 ^ >; together a choice herd of cattle.
runuses to less ominous to ux, In A the Laird m4 Brunk>,•ne t'': flushed c utk:ls still marked the sr1'.'t, There is no better system of feed-
•nncl more to beactury to the reader.
us that one of his lungs had beset and east a glory up+,�1 the Haters• ing for milk than to give each cow
Phis is nuthin less. than t+., make growing; weaker for - rue ti'l't clad The whole broad ocean was seamed a ration according to the work she
g that Dr. Easterling, of Str.sere!•, alyd ,.curbed with crimsa 1 streaks, 1 is .,ling” and pruperly to nourish
use of the carious manuscripts had tel advised !him t�: spend 111ad ri..en in the h:,at, and was her body.
which I have ba me be ring up the few years whie't 3cern lett to Fa%nhg round
fn delight at tlhe Opposition to a few reasonable
the subject, and to add to 'dimlulu in some more genial climate. broad panorama of shore and sea reforms by a few crooked dairymen
- first -h contributed 1
®. the Farm
A, Useful Gate,
In feeding the little pigs with
older hogs, it is necessary to have
some sort of a separate feeding pin
for the pigs.
The older ones can be kept out
and the pigs prevented from enter-
ing the pen while the troughs are
being filled by means of a swinging
gate,
This gate swings outward Duly, It
is held up while the little pigs en-
ter the feeding pen, and being
light, they can push it forward and
go out at will.
It may be used to advantage in
fattening hogs that run with the
stock lugs. After putting out the
feed the feeder raises the gate and
lets in those to fatten, then lets it.
and evidence cental ntte[ b•y He had determined, therefore, to aucl sky, when my sister plucked not only brings the dairy industry
tnole who batt the best uputnutr set out f.,r the South of Italy. and at my sleeve with a little sharp cry
ties of knowing 3laj ,r•( eneral J. he begged that we sltiuld take up of slrprPse.
B. Heatherstune, In pursuance of
our residence in .Braaksonle in his "See. John," site cried; "there
this design I shall lay before the absence, and that my father should is n light in Cloomber Tower!"
public the testimony of Israel a:t as his land steward and agent I turned my head and stared back
Stakes, formerly coachman attat a salary which pla•.ed no ahuve at the tall white turret which
Clooinber Hall, and of John Fest- all fear of want. Our meths hail peeped out above the belt of trees,
erling, F.R.C'.P. I:clin., now Tete- been dead fur some years, ••eu th.'tt As I gazed I :istnetIv saw at one
tieing at Siranraer, in Wigluwn- there were unly myself, my father, of the willows the glint of a light,
shire. To these I shall adda ver- 411(1 ltty- sister Esther to eimsult; which suddenly vanished!, and thena
batim account extracted from the nti it may readily be imagined that shone out once more frum another
journal of the late John Berthier 1 it /lid not take us long to dec:•.le up- higher up. There it flickered fur
Heatherstone, of the events which ort the acceptance of the laird's some time, and finally flashed past
occurred in the Thul Valley in the generous offer. My father started ton: successive. windows under -
autumn of '41. toward the end of for R iatuwn Ova very night, while neath befuie the trees obscured our
the first Afghan war, with a de Esther and I followed a fee' clays view of it. It was :•scar that some
9cription of rhe skirmish in the afterward, bearing with us two pu- one bearing a lamp •er candle- had
Terda 'defile, and of the death of tato-sacks full of learned books, climbed up tine tower stairs and
the elan Gholab Shah. To myself and such other of our household ef- had then returned into the body of
7 reserve the duty of filling up the pests as were worth the trouble and the house.
exnenee ,t tier sport. • "Who in the world can it by !" I
exclaimed, speaking rather to my -
CHAPTER II• self than to Esther, for I could see
t
piles, belt en the other ]land my Branksonte Might have appeared
si i hacle sno solution rise to offer.
"Mae y -
work has ceased to be a story and a peer' dwelling -place when Com be some of the folk prom Beanl\z-
]has ekpanded into a series of afro i pared to the house of an English elms -Bene have wanted to look oyer
davits, squire; but to us, after our long
residence in stuffy a artments, it the place."
My father, John Hunter �j'est, ,was of regal magrtificenee. The . My sister shook her head, "There
•is not one of them would dare to
gaps and chinks whichmay be left
in the narrative. By this arrange-
ment I have sunk from the posi-
tion of an author to that of a cum.
was a well-known Oriental and
Sanacrit scholar. and his name is:lnulding was broad -spread and low,
still of weight with those who are with
in roo. red-tiledinea reef,
di m of clp» np
aned
interested in such matters. He ftp P a
•as who first after Sir Williem rooms with smoke -blackened ceit-
set foot within the avenue gates,"
the said. "Besides, John, the keys
are kept by the house -agent at Wig -
Jones called attention to the great ings and oaken wauzscuts. 11) 110:20 town, Were they over so curious,
value of early Persian literature, was a small lawn. girt round with clone of our people c old find their
and his translations from both Ha-
fiz and from Ferideddin :Aar have
earned the warmest commendations
from the Baron Vor. Hammer-
Purgstall, of Vienna, and other dis-
tinguished Continental critics. In
the issue of the Orientalishehes
Selene -Matt for January. • reel, he
is described as "Der heruhmte and
sehr gelehrnte Hunter West. von
Edinburgh'"—a passage which I
well remember that he cut out and
stowed away, with a pardonable
-vanity, among the most revered
family archives.
He had been brought up to be a
solicitor, or Writer to the Signet,
as it is termed in Seutla.nd, but his
learned hobby absorbed so much of
his time that he had little to -devote
to the pursuit of his profession.
When his clients were seeking !him
at his chambers in George street he
was buried in the recesses of the
Advocates' Library, or poring over 1145 nu sign u wu1 s u each steams a great pot of sou
some moldy manuscript at the save only where t110 high. white
over a glorying razier. In eael
Philosophical Institution, with his tower of Member Hall shot up, pot Stands glowing
a ladle as ancient as the
1 k 1, h -a 1 t• of sumo giant
a thin fringe of !laggard and ill -
grown beeches, all gnarled anti
withered from the blighting effects
of the sett spray. Behind lav• the
scattered hamlet of Brankso'ne-
\ray in."
(To be continued.)
REAL MEANING' OF POTLUCK.
Bere—a dozen cottages at must—in-
One Plunge of the Ladle and Take
habited by rtide fisher -folk who
looked upon the lair:! as their na-
tural protector. To the west was The real origin of the word "pot
the bread yellow beach and the luck" is unknown to most of the
Irish sea; while it all other dtrec- people who use it. In Limoges,
tions the desolate moors, gray;sh France, however, one runs into pot
green in the foreground and purple luck itself. In a certain corner of
in the distance., stretched a\Vay in that quaint city of jostling roofs
tang low curves to the horizon. there is still segregated, much as if
Very bleak and lonely it was up in a ghetto, a Saracen population,
un this Wigtown coast. A man probably a remnant of the wave of
might walk many' a weary mile and Saracens that swept over Europe
never see a Living thing except the ]hundreds of years ago. Here they
white heavy --flapping kittiwakes, lite in their:_ crooked, narrow
which streamed and cried to each streets, following old customs hand -
other with their shrill sad voices..
lonely and very bleak! Once ed down from generation to genera-
Veryout of sight of Branksouhe and there tion, There .are many Y butcher
f the k f man shops in the quarter, and outside of
brain more exercised over the code 1 i e i 1e e
which Menu propounded six hun- grave' from amici the tits and larch-
dred years before the birth of es which girt it round. This great
Christ than over the knotty prob..house, a mile or more from sur
lems of Scottish law in the nine-
teenth century. Hence it can hard-
ly be wondered at that as his learn-
ing, accumulated his practice dis-
solved, until at the very nhontent
when he had attained the zenith of
is celebrity he lied else reached
dwelling, lead been built by a weal-
thy Glasgow mer•:11ant of strange
tastes and Purely habits; hut at the
time of our arrivel it hard been un-
tenanted for many years, and stood
with weather-bicenhad walls and va-
t cant staring window. 1 ,,king blank-
the midis' of his fortunes, • There be. ly out ever the. lenls..l .. }empty and
ng no chair of Sanecrit in any of mildewed, it served! only as a land,
native universities, and no de. mark to the fishermen, for they
had found by experience that by
keeping the lau'd's chimney and the
white tower of Cloomber in a line
they could steer their way through
the ugly reef :Welt raises its jagged
back, tike that of some sleeping
monster, a,ve 1r tr, 1lcd waters
x
of the wield -swept bay.
Te this wild spot it was that fate
hast! !nought my father, my sister,
and myself, Fur us its loneltne:3
hall no terrors. After the hubbub
and bustle of a great city, and the
weary tush of ui!hulcling appear -
envie upon a slender interne., there
was a grand soul -soothing serenity
in the long sky -line and the eager
air Here at least there was no
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knots w4 -t (1NO of Cloth your Gooch are made
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neighbor to pry and chatter, The
laird had left his phaeton and two
ponies behind him, with the aid of
which ray father and 1 would go
f estate dol
srlci
u
Cllr, rrnrnd .nthe p,s c
light ditties as fell to vin agent;
while our gentle Esther looked t,
put.
When a customer carnes with a
penny, in goes the ladle and comes
tip full of savory broth and chunks
of meat, odds and ends, that the
butcher has had left over. And
what comes up the customer has to
take. One can imagine how anx-
iously the hungry urchin or the
mother of seven must eye the inex-
orable ladle and how a pretty girl
might get another draw from the
buec]lar's boy.
At any rate "to take potluck"
means to take what yen get and say
nothing whether the pct is in Li-
moges or in the flat of the man who
eagerly invites a Friend of his
yoctth to dinner.
When a mean gets engaged to a
girl all the other fair maids of hie
acquaintance begin to talk about
his poor taste.
"Look here, now, Harold," said
a father to itis little soil, who was
naughty, "if ,you don't say year
prayers you won't .go to heaven."
cI don't want to go to heaven,"
sobbed the boy ; "I want to go with
YOU 011(1 mother,"
et
1
,
into bad repute, but turns people
from the use of dairy products.
In connection with the feeding
problem, do not underestimate the
A new effect in spring millinery—
the girl with the Bulgarian turban
hat and sailor collar.
necessity of inducing the cow to
drink large quantities of water.
Balty Horses.
Whenever you see a balky horse
you may be sure that the fault lies
with the man who trained him, or
who over -loaded him, or beat him,
or in some way robbed him of part
of his senses, No horse balks -from
pare meanness, much as we may
sometimes think so, and we have
never yet discovered anything that
will cure a balky animal, Occasion-
ally a fine tempered beast may be
coaxed and petted until his fear or
anger is allayed and be taught to
do his share of the work, but as a,
rale the horse that balks in the
harness should never be used ex-
cept under the saddle.
Snecessfr,l Farming.
There is one thing about farming,
which is not true of some other in-
dustries, and that is that each far-
mer is really benefited by the suc-
cess of his neighbors. It1 a pro-
gr.eseive neighborhood, where good
stock is kept and them farming is
generally profitable, roads and'
schools are better; the price of farm.
land is higher; and, owing to 'tile.
fact that a great quantity, of ,feria
products in offered for sale, mar-
kets are bettev'; •:so boost youtr
neighbors, and by so doing help
yourself,
The Compost. Iieiip,
A few old fence rails, built to-
gether in a square in the garden,
will hold all the rubbish that is fit
for decomposing. Add to it the
weeds from the garden and mason:
and all ashes Prem the house, Pour
the wash water over it end allow it
i beef
1h1 It will pack thoroughly. to
g 5
value for next spring while it eon.
Of This Compound Will feu' e r .fs r of DISTE
LPIrOQ'1''O EIi
t.
o1w
Catarrhal Fever and Influonsn, under the miero1capo.
Given ou the horse's Tongue, It unites with the golds of
the alimentary renal, throivtt into the B1, -,d, »asses 5111011511
the Glands and ecpe)e the Germs or Disease, Abeolutel,v nuts
alto sure for Brood Mares, Baby Cola and all others. bo no's
depond on any,UnwYder in this class of D:seasre, Give it to
brood mares in times of D)atomper. Booklet, "Distemper, Causes, Cure ,and
Prevention," true, Druggists non hpohn'u Curs,
SPOFIN MEOIOAL Co„ 0aeterloloCtsts, Goshen, Ind.
and prevents the hens from broad- nifts1 that they are from members
casting it again. of the Royal Family, and the King
opens then!. One is from the
Farm Notes. Queen, who left Landon that morn -
One way to supply forage is to ing for Sandringham, and announc-
save all forage front the corn field es her safe arrival. The other is
by cutting the tops of the stalks off fru:» the Duchess 02 Fife on a pri-
jtlst. above the ears, Of course this vate family matter: .
should be -dune before the fodder Guests of Oistinc'tion,
becomes quite dry,I- Whilst the Ring is -reading these
r
Oat straw is - a pretty good messages, the equerry has pressed
stitute and makes very good rough -
the
h- alto electric button on the King's
age when fed with plenty of grain. desk, which 51)30300118 a clerk on
A feeder may have his bin full of night -duty in the private secre-
grain, but unless he has sufficient tary's department. The equerry
roughage to balance up the ration hands him the letters and tele -
hp will be shy on his profit at the grams, and they will be sorted,
end u£ the season, opened, and got ready for the
oThe feed cutter,the
should shredderin use King's inspection on Itis return to
15 anevery farm, his corn ynt the Palace, and, if necessary, any
is texcellent thing, but why not that require immediate 'attention
asst all esft the corn crap in to silo will then be answered; otherwise
as the pound of a valug-out osttof.get the. replies will go into • the morn-
every of littleumere than ing's correspondence,
It takes a n more two Twentyminutes later the King is
per cent. o£ an animal's weight to
keep it up to normal condition seater] at a round dinner -table,
without making any gains and if beautifully decorated with crimson
exposure to cold and rain and 1.0ses and white carnations. The
storms is to be counted against it room is filled with an exquisitely
the feeder can easily see where his soft light, thrown from a myriad of
e
profit goes glimmering, - little rose -shaded electric lamps
with which the beautifully -painted!
''' ceiling is studded, -
The butler of the King's host
stands behind his Majesty's chair,
and it is he who attends on the
King during the meal, To the right
of the Ring sits his host, and on
his Majesty's left the Russian Am-
bassador. The other guests, who
number but six, include a well-
known figure in the political world,
a distinguished French artist, a
peer who is a famous shot, and two
members of the Royal Household.
Tho conversation is bright, amus-
ing, and very "anecdotal." The
King tells a kindly but amusing
story of a famous diplomatist which
makes the Ru•e.sian' Antbas(ader
laugh very heartily; and his Excel-
lency replies with an equally witty
anecdote concerning his early clays
in the diplomatic service. The
French artist later on greatly
amuses the company by some light-
ning sketches which he makes on
Ute back of the menu -cards, at the
King's request—good-natured, but
exceedingly clever caricatures of
present-day •celebrities—and the
Xing honors the artist by asking
him to present him with one of
them.
Direct From the Premier.
ITIS MAJESTY INVITED OUT
PEN PICTURE OF AN EVENING
IN 01 R RULER'S LIFE.
!tow He Is Guarded From the Time
Ile Leaves the Palace Until
He Returns.
His Majesty dines out's to -night.
Not at a great dinner -party, but at
the house of an ole] friend. It is to.
be quite a quiet, informal enter-
tainment, as is evident from the
fact that the King is not wearing
Court dress, but an ordinary dress -
suit and white waistcoat.
It is 7.30, and his Majesty is go-
ing through his short toilet in his
dressing -room. The chief valet un-
locks a very heavy, solid old gold
jewel -case, selects from a treble
row of sleeve -links a ,pair of old
purple enamels, gold framed. These
are perhaps"the most valuable links
his Majesty possesses. They were a
present from the Tsar. The enam-
els are, many hundreds of years old,
of the rarest quality, and are worth
several thousand pounds.
Instraeting the Guardian.
The valet selects these links be-
cause he knows -that the Russian
Ambassador is to be one of the
King's- fellow -guests to -night, and
1110 Majesty, when putting on his
shirt, catches sight of the links,
and nods his approval of his valet's
selection,
At 7:45 the King leaves his dress-
ing -room and pe.sses into the King's
I.toom, where the equerry who is to
be in attendance on his Majesty for
the evening is engaged in conversa-
tion with a slightly -built man of
medium height, dressed in a dark -
grey suit. His eyes are keen, and
the mouth firm and well -out. He is
listening attentively to the equerry,
and occasionally jots down a few
notes in a pocket -book. When the
King enters the room the man in
a grey suit salutes, and retires to
the ante -roc -i., He is the chief de-
tective at Buckingham Palace, and
is engaged in comp seting his ar-
rangements for the 'i,;
In a few moments the equerry
follows him to the ante -room, and
informs the detective that the King
will leave the Pelage at a quarter -
past eight, and tel.'s him of the
route he will tale s,siO.±g to and com-
ing from the house where he is din-
ing.
Our Sovereign's Safeguards.
"'Thank you, sir !" says the detec-
tive, shutting up his notebook, and
then rushes off. He is et the tele.
phone in another couple of minutes,
and ere the King leaven the, Palace
every policeman on duty in the
streets through which the King will
drive that night has been notified
to expect his Majesty ; and e min-
ute after the King leaves•the''Palace
the chief detective himself will fol.
low the Royal carriage on a, bicycle,
and will enter the house
of the
King's host a minute or so after his
Majesty, and will not leave it until
the departure of the Royal guest.
Whilst these arrangements for
safeguarding the sovereign aro be-
ing unobtrusively carried out, let
us return to the ;[Zing's Rooms,
where his Majesty is being helped
on with his overcoat by the equer-
ry. A servant enters the room with
a pile of !otters and telegt,ams,
whtoh are ,placed on the Xing's
deep, The equerry ruins through
. � two of
r
the telegrams, and takes tip
the latter, the envelopes of which
"The ramity Friend for dtl ye�arn: A nevatow &]i the •Wau40 refttso
faits..°, ralir: far Croup and ,�Cough'., - ' 'tt tire marked with an "ll." This
Sig•
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After coffee and a cigarette, the
King rises. A servant at the same
moment comes up to the King's
host, who at once approaches his
Majesty and informs his Royal
guest that a messenger has arrived
from Buckingham Palace with a let-
ter for his Majesty, and he conducts
the King and the equerry in atten-
dance to his own library, where a
Palace servant is standing with a
long white envelope, which he
hands to the equerry, who opens it.
The white sheet of paper is from
the Prime Minister, seeking for an
interview with the King the follow-
ing morning. His Majesty sits
down to write a short note to Lord
Knollys at Bueikinghanl Palace to
inform the Premier at once that the
interview will be granted the follow-
ing morning a,t eleven. The ser-
vant from Buckingham Palace then
departs.
The Silent Rider.
A few minutes later the King is
playing a_ game of bridge with hie
Host and two of the other guests.
After the rubber lds Majesty in-
spects his host's collection of
stamps, in which he is much inter-
ested, and 'gives his Host quite a
usof111 and interesting little bit of
information about a very rare class
of Spanish stamp.
Ab 11.15 the King takes his depar-
ture, incl, as the Royal carriage
bowls rapidly along Berkeley
Square., there comes stealing swift-
ly after it the grey -clad figure of a
man on a bicycle, who has appear-
ed suddenly apparently from: no-
where, He passes with the Royal
carriage through the gates of Buck-
ingham Palace unchallenged, and
speedsaway to the back entrance
of the Palace, He is the chief de-
tective, and when he gets his report
from the night detective on duty
his day's work will be over, --Lon-
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Ai argil rrt. 11a3es of 1,11,1141 (an'llgrr-
tt}nn Hi Doti Jiell'atit, 11101 duce! from.
the effects of It burning Ireeialent
Patrick McNamara, for 43 years
e member of the post -office staff in
tthcnry, has just retired.
While fishing in Athy, Constable
Duane, of the 1tnyal Irish Constab-
ulary, looked a pike weighing 10
lbs,
While attending to a, erueher Tho-
mas Jones, Ballinglen, was caught
in the -machinery and severely,
trushed.
A liuk with, the Fenian movement
has been snapped by the death of
Thomas. Crewe, Blackhoy Pike,
Limoriek.
Lurgan rural council has secured
a loan of 951,000 for the erection of
laborers' oottages in the district,
The. Rev. !Robert Carroll, rector
of Goleon, County Cork, has died
as the result of injuries sustained ,in
a driving accident.
In eoneequenco of a severe ep!-
denue of measles in Newry, several
of the Public schools have been
closed for the present.
Mr. J. C. Ryder, chief clerk of
the Portadown post -office, has been
promoted to the position- of pest -
master at Wexford.
Cookstown rural council have de-
cides not to consider any tender for
building a laborer's cottage when
the price exceeded $750.
In taking a fence while out with
the Westmeath Hounds, Alfred
Curt,:s, the second whip, was
thrown front his horse and fatally
injured.
The stores owned by Mr. 1).
Jamieson, wholesale confectioner
and tobacconist, Conway Square,
Newtonnards, have been practical-
ly destroyed by fire,
At Cookstown rural council, Mr,
Bole mentioned that portion of the
Kildr•en old churchyard wall had
fallen and the ends of coffins were
exposed.
The death has occurred of Mr.
John Reilly, Red Bog, Belturbet,
at the age of 101, one of the hest -
known devotees of cock -fighting in
the north of Ireland.
Miss Anastasia Kelly, the Quay,
Emniscorthy:, hos been appointed
schm01 attendance officer for the-
portion
heportion ef the district at the west-
ern side of the Slaney-.
The Oughterard Board of Gna.r-
diens have adopted a resolution.
urging that all old -age pensioners.
in the workhouse artcl all entitled
to pensions be discharged.
Mr. John Redmond, M.P. for the
city of Waterford, opened the new
bridge, stated to be the largest of
its kind—a ferro-canerete.strueturo
—in the United Kingdom.
A well-known farmer of Castle -
town, near Thurles, Thomas Maher,
has died as the result of injuries;
sustained through his horse bolting
near the hill of Loughtugalla.
The reath is announced of the
Rev. I)r. P. J. Kain, a Protestant
minister, who was a member of the
Fenian organization and one of the,
Erin's Hope expedition in 1807.
The staff of the Dnngravan end-
dist•ict post -office have presented.
Me. R. E. Brennan with an illumi-
nated addiress in recognition of• his
50 -years' service as postmaster of
the town.
rp
TILE SMALLEST ENGINE.
W'bold '.rake 100 of Them to Weigh
One Ounce.
Weighing just four grains com-
plete.—the weight of an ordinary
match—made of gold and steel, and
so small that a. house -fly seems
large in comparison, such is "Tiny
Tien," the smallest engine in the
world. It tapes over 1.00 such en-
gines to weigh one ounce, almost
2,000 to weigh a pound, and more
than 3,000,000 to weigh a ton. The/
engine -bed and stand are of gold.
The shaft rims in hardened and
ground steel bearings inserted in
the gold bed. These bearings are
counter -bored from the, inside to
force a self -oiling bearing,' The fly-
wheel has a steel tentxe and arms,
with a gold rim, and the complete
wheel weighs one grain, The oylin-
der is of steel, with octagonal hasp,.
Jcighlypolished,
The stroke is 1.32 of an inch,.
bore 3 -106 -'of an inch, Seventeen
pieces are used in the construction
of the engine. The ;Teed of the on -
gine is 0,000 revolutions per mitt-
lite, When running 100 per second
no motion is visible to the eye, but
it, makes a noise like the noise of a
niesgtlite. The horse -power is 1-
,180,000 of one horse -power, Com-
pressecl air is used to run it, and it
may be of interest to netc'that the
a,tiount required to make. it hum.
can be borne an the eyeball without
winking,
Polite Man.
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"I inadvertently j1±h1eclmy ova
into your jewelled hatpin,"