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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-4-24, Page 6Pere '-a•ass- Select a Responsible Investment House and you will have no difficUlty in Selecting Desirable Securities Bonds wisely purchased comprise the essentials of sound investment. This house invests in entire issues of Municipal, Railroad, Public See- vice and Industrial Bonds, purchas. ing only after thorough investigation and aiming to satisfy its clients as to Safety, Marketability and Income. A selected list of bonds will be sent on application. . f'll` ..EC ME COI' ORATION -LIMITED TORONTO ._ MONTREAL, . LONDON,EliG. We have Compiled a Special Folder dealing fully with — "An Attractive Profit Sharing Bond Yielding 7 Copy mailed or, Request NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION, Limited CONFEDERATION LIFE BLDG., TORONTO, ONT. 1 A. Sp'-end`d 10 oent Household. Specialty being Introduced 031 over Canada. It is ap. predated by the. Thrifty Hea9ewife who want. thine "Just a little Better." Bend Yon Cord today. 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Both of these companies have been particularly successful ever since their forma- tion,and for the last few years have operated under the handicap of only being able to take caro of about 60 per cent. of the business available, although working at full capacity. The present bond issue is for the purpose of enlarging these plants so that they may handle all orders, and to enable them to acquire timber limits now iindler option, and which. will doubtless largely increase in value fn the next few years. VALUE Not h Thoueands of non o e god wn, after several eonsecutive reverses, he- * cs etae they Mee heart. They decide that puck or fate is against them, and that it is no use to try further, Yoe will notice time the man who does not lose Ms courage or his de- termiinaatiolt when he loses: his pro party gets on his feet again infinite- ly quicker than the man who loses heart; in fact, there is not immix chanes for the lean whose mirage fails. When he loses his grip, se e, rule, he levee his climbing qualities, and simply drifts. ` A dead fish will float with the stream, but it takes a very lively one to swims against a strong current. If wo could arse VA. E OF SELF• ONS'% N ' " c Dr� cl+,. No lllell Chance for the Man Whose Courage 19 ails. Iyse the cause of all the failures in the world we should find that loss of eanfidenoe had more to do with these failures than the Ioss of pro- perty. Outside of character itself, there is no loss so great as that of self-confidence; for, when this is gone, there is nothing to build upon. It is impossible for a man to stand erect without a backbone, especially when he has much weight to carry. Nothing can keep a man down when he has grit and determination. It is as impossible to imprison energies as it would be to bottle up steam. Self-confidence makes men Bode, whose wills must be obeyed. THE CURSE OF MAR. Every Part of It Was Fulfilled in Conrse of 800 Years. Curses do sometimes come home to roost. One of the best known is "ilio Curse of Mar." The Earl of Mar was cursed prior to 1671, when he was elevated to the pensition of Regent of Scotland. "Thy lands 18h1111 be given to the stranger and thy titles shall lie among the dead. The branch than springs from thee shall see his 'dwelling burnt in. which a King was nursed—his wife a sacrifice to that sante .name, his children numerous, but of little honor, and three horn and grown who shall never see the light. Horses shall be stabled in thy hall and a weaver shall throw his shut- tle in the chamber' of state, Thine ancient tower shall be a ruin and a beat a, :real en ash sapling shall ejer re, from t:; topmost stone. Then xhall slime honors be resitored; the kiss of pears shall .be given to the countess though e1ie seek it not, and the days of peace shall return to thy line." 111 the course of 300 years every part of the curse was ftvlfilled, Then m 1820 the ash eapplang duly apipoax- ed, Two years later George IV., festered the earldom and later Queen Victoria kissed the coitnbesa, FROM ERIN'S GREE '1 ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FRO ill Inlr. LAND'S SHORES, w—+ Happenings in the i.Gnlerale Isle of Interest to Irish- men, Mrs. Scott, the widow of the ill- fated' explorer, is a member of a well-known Ulster faniily. The death has oecurred of Mr. Richard Parr, a very well-known officer of the Dublin Corporation, in his 77th year. After an absence of nearly two months fronn Ireland, the Right Hon. Sir Horace , ,Plunkett has re- turned from New York. John Mullen was fined es. and 10d. costs at Mullingar Petty Ses- sions, for having failed to report two cases of sheep scab. It has been officially announced in Dublin that Mr. Chas. Drom- gools, K.C., has been appointed to the vacant County Court Judge- ship of Kerry. Clonmel workhouse is still lighted by candle light at a cost of £80 a year, and the guardians are consid- ering the question of better light- ing. The annual distribution of prizes to the children of intermediate and secondary schools in Dublin, was held in the Synod Hall, Christ Church Place, James Treaey, Dublin, was seri- ously injured when the fly -wheel of a gas -engine at the London and N. W. Ry. Co.'s premises, Dublin, gave way. Thomas Rossiter, a porter on the Great Southern and Western Rail- way, was crushed to death at Tra- lee station. He had only been mar- ried 12 months. The death occurred at his resi- dence, Faithlegg House, Co. Water- ford, of Mr. Patrick Joseph Mahon Power, the richest conunoner in Ireland, in his eighty-seventh year. There were exciting scenes at a public meeting of the ratepayers of Bellinlough for the purpose of pro- testing against public charges un- der the Roscommon County Coun- cil. CEYLON'S NEW SEA PORT. Will Bo Ranked Among Greatest in the World. A deep-sea port has recently been laid out at Colombo, Ceylon, and it is to be ranked among the great ports of the world. The work start, ed in 1896, and the area included within the projecting jetties is no less than 685 acres, which is some- what more than for the port of Do- ver; England. A vast area had to be filled in so as to obtain ground for erecting the storehouses, quays, repair basins and coal docks. The jetties which protect the port in an almost continuous belt represent a total of two miles in length. Good provision for the future is seen in the great size of the repair basin, this having a length of about seven hundred feet. The port has a depth corresponding to that of the Suez Canal, but it is planned to deepen it to thirty-six feet upon the three-quarters of the area, As to the cost, it is counted that the work involved an expense of $15,- 000,000, which is not high consider- ing the scope of the enterprise. The present tonnage of the Colombo port is 10,000,000.—Scientific Amer- ican. FRIENDS HELP. • St. Paul Park Incident. "After drinking coffee for break- fast I always felt languid and dull, having no ambition to get to my morning duties. The in about an hour or so a weak, nervous derange- ment of the heart and stomach would come over me with such force 1 would frequently have to lie down," Tea is just as harmful, because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee. ",At other times I had severe headaches; stomach finally became affected and digestion so impaired that I had seriouschronic dyspep- sia and constipation, A lady, for many years State President of the W. 0 T, U. told m. h had been greatly, benefited by quitting coffee and using Posture; she was trou- bled for years with asthma. She said it was no cross to quit at;ffce When she found she could have ae delicious an article 48 Peskin, "Another lady, who had b'en troubled with. Chronic dyspepsia for years, found immediate etelief on ceaah. g coffee and using Postelm. Still another friend told me that Posture 'wet a Godsend, her heart trouble having been relieved after leaving off coffee end taking on Postuln. "So man such casts came to In Y y notice that I concluded coffee was the cause of my trouble and I quit and took up Postum, ' I am more f than pleased to say that my days ti of trouble have disappeared. 1 and well and happy," Look in pkgge for the famous little book, 'Che hood to Wollvillo," Ever read the above penal A, nee ere appears from Ise t0 tuna, `Any ars (aniline, irVd1 and fall 61 human intdro09, i OUR LETTER FRO 1 TOROATO WHAT IS INTERESTING THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY AT THE PRESENT TIME. Thq Suffragettes are Disappointed—A Real Militant—Quint in the Legislature -- The Wall Street of Canada. Local suffragettes are frankly dishp- poiated at the results of their efforts to obtain coaoe sione from the Provincial Legislature at this session. ''Riley had hoped at least that the franchise now granted in municipal elf airs would be ea - fended to a wider sphere of polities, - and on more than one occasion, mese there wan a possibility of -a discussion on the subject in the La felaturc. they have at- tended the House in hull Lorca, 'filling the Public galleries and ovoraowing Jute the mere 01118te palate of the Legislative Chamber. bloat of the loaders of the Canadian 0ua'rage movement protests to be in ab- solute Sympathy with the tactics of the militant leaders is England, even when they go to the length of bomb throwing and other serious destruetieu of property. Almost unanimously. however, Canadian suffragette, declare that militant. methods are not required in Canada. Pressed as to whore the distinction cornea in between Canada and Britain, they are not always clear in their answole. The supreme con- tention of Mrs. Nankliurat and the other suffrage loaders ie that the vote is a right of eitizenehip for a woman ae much as it Is for a luau. On this statement the euf- fragettee ate content to base their plea for what they describe as Justice. And the fast is that Oanadfan women are lust as much without the franchise ae are women in Britain, Canadian Women Havo Advantages. There aro, however, reasons why mili- tant methods have not been introduced into Canada. Canadian lawe are in sev- eral instances ninah more favorable to wo- men than are the lave of Great Britain. For example, in. the matter of 'divorce, Canadian women are on equal footing with men, that is. a reason which will eutltle a man to a divorce is o,lllicient for a woman. This le not the case in Eng- land. Furthermore, certain lalITO with TO' gard to property are in Canada more fav- orable to women than in England. But yet the filet is that the suffrage is denied to Canadian ivom0a. 08 r000lutoly ee it is to English women. And the situ- ation rooms to bo that the Canadian suf- frage leaders have an antipathy to pub - Betty and going to jail, which their Eng- lish sisters have overcome. Canada's Militant Suffragette. Toronto has one real militant aulfra- gette in the person of Mies Olivia Smith. She is an English woman, who, until quite recently. wan foremost in all the agita- tion there. She 11aa spent three forme In taking hold ofor flthe reins ofdalpolicemans horse to prevent hint riding down woman, and thus interfering with an officer of the law on duty, and the third time for ohaiu- hie herself to the railing in front of Pre- mier Asggith's oafee. Mise Smith is a mild-mannered lady of about 45 or 60 yearn of ago" She le grey- haired and not at all Amazonian in type. By profession she is a trained nurse. Since living in Toronto she has been assietlug iu one of the local tea rooms, Canadian Man Less Brutal. Sho has bean active In the local suffrage organizations. As one reason why tant methods have not been introduced in. te Canada she gives a very curious illus- tration. Sho says that Canadian men are much loss brutal to their wives and els- ters and daughters than are English men. This is a somewhat radical statement,. which is sure to create controversy, at. least wherever it 1s put up to an. English man. Rumors In Legislature. The Legislature le pursuing the even tenor of its way to the end of a session which has not been particularly event- ful. While there have been plenty of de- bates on various subjects closely affecting the lives of the peonlo, there have been few o00a010n9 when the parties have real- ly come to grips In any 0pa,ltaoular man. ner which would command the attention of the country. Just before the close of the cession there wore rumors of sensations circulating on both aides. Liberals hoard a report that the Government had something to conceal in the Public Accounts Committee or elsewhere, and that they were therefore about to attempt to close up the ses0lan In a hurry. Government eupporters, on the other hand, heard that the Liberals were concocting some deep plot for the Purpose of prolonging the eeesion beyond what seemed to be reasonable. Once again Allan Studholmo, the labor member, or third party, as he likes to call himself, has taken more than his share of the time of the Shouse. Ile., presents a unique Rguro. Talking with him comes easy. Ho has had a long training in the labor movement and has apparently ac- quired the habit of thinking aloud, which enables ]rim to deliver a speech of several hours with a minimum of preparation. When Studholmo Speaks. To drop into the House on an afternoon when Mr. Studholmo is on the floor reveals an unusual and interesting sight. Per- haps one-third of the members will be in their seats. Thoao who are will be read- ing newspapers and writing bettors for the most part. Here and there a member will bo doing nothing but listening to the speaker, but not doing that very atten. timely, This apparent inattention does not bother Mr. Studholme.in the least. He moves the chairs in the immediate vi01n- Itv of his desk out of the way and then Proceeds to walk utt and down the epaeo Provided, membetalking the Cabiinetsanxiono to get along with bueinote, used to show im- natienee at -Mr, Studholme's loquacity, but now they know What to expect, and as in any ease it is useless to try to head him off they have to lot him have his east with as good grace as possible. Mr. Studholmo's specialties are, of course labor subjects, and on many of these he hes views to which, in theory, little .029000 io11 can be taken. 66,000 To Shy Flve Feet Square. Another ]sigh figure lute been recorded for down -town real estate. Tho Canadian Bank of Commerce line purchased the pro- perty on which the McConkey restaurant, long a land mark on Bing 88., is situ- ated. The 1911108 paid was. 811,060 a foot frontage. While this is the second high• est price ever paid for property in To. ronto, as far -ae frontage ie concerned, there has really been several 811an81ere where the price pPer. square' foot was high er. The McConkey property runs clear through from Xing to Melinda St, and has, therefore, a depth above the average. The record Por high fi ores in Taranto fe held by the MPolite plgperty at 6 Icing street 18006, which w,ie sold to the Do- minion Bank at 8110 tromendoue price of 5205 per . Banare Poot. un many parte of Ontario a hundred note farm may be b0ugbt for 55,000, In elle vicinity of the corner of King and on etronte 1t would buy a plot of land Ave 9080 040010. The price of 9.209 per square foot is abo9lt 31.50 her egnare'ine11. And it can be ens - fly seen that the lob of 8911907Or8 Who Mane to t verlfp lot measurements i0' to be dorso with 8110 nicety of a drnftaman, The Wall Street of Canada. Other high prices which have been re- corded Include the north-west corner of Kin and Yong�e, which was recently cold to the Dominion Bond 00, at a' rate of 5140,16 per c0nal's foot. The Porth-ca0t 00rd0r of Icing and Yongo, which 8905 ro- oontly ao1d to lntorolte 91101308e4 to bo ataliatod with iiia Rorie Bank brousht a Ravre' of 5126,90 per equate �Oot, On a sga01'e foot baeia'the recent purohaao by the Bauk of Commoroo Rgures out at 566.20• '911 remove] of Arch landmarlte as Ho- Cmlkey`s 191 tanrsnt 0bd tfir"lite`s groa2Yc' tare from Ring street 010rk0 Sho death knell of this seeticn of tint thoroughfare ria a retail diatriat, In 89811211 c01)80193'it mrnfyrly osceliod, Siam arc now Meek - fees, banes Ana other 010900iit in0Mtu ops, and'I'c0Ontc likes t0 Havo it desarib- od 00 the Well Street of Canada. CURES COUGHS GOLDS teisculL f'f IOICTIONe. TNI5 8Ar"1RePOWOta 19 2 0 0111111 11 911] 119.0rtl01101et11. PX011Nh 910W11 glanO11111ea10 STAR0N To guard against alum in Baking Powder see that all iinglre. clients are plainly printed on the label. The words "No Alum", without the ingredients is not sufficient. Magic Baking Powder costs no more than the ordinary kinds. Full weight one pound cans 25c. E:W.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT.' WINNIPEG S q �y M'ONTREAL 1 ' �1 EZe7 3t �1y y -* ` N,Sae �1 , ISSl IN GE'THSEMANE GARDEN. Its Olive 01I Considered Sacred by Franciscan plonks. One of the nasi interesting spots, in the environs of Jerusalem is the Garden of Gethsemane, on the southern elopes of the Mount of Olives, sage a writer in the Chris- tian Herald. It is an enclosed spaco of about one-third of an acre surrounded by a high wall, and be- longs to the Franciscan monks. One. cannot say with the exact precision demanded by the scientific explorer whether this is the actual spot where our Lord was betrayed, but at all events it is hallowed With a continuous tradition tad tion of six- teen some s e teen ri centu es. As you enter you pass the tradi- tional spot of the betrayal and the place where the disciples slept while Christ was at prayer. `.there are well -arranged flower beds, and around the inside of the walls aro representations done in relief in colors of the fourteen stations of, the cross. An object of interest in the gar- den is an old olive tree. This, with siome other trees is said to elate from the time of Christ, and is known from historical records to be of great age—at Ieast nine hundred years. Rosaries are made from the olive stones and the oil yielded by the berries is considered sacred and is sold ata high price, Your Bad Taste In The Morning Is Due To Catarrh Destroy This Poisonous Disease Wore Your Health is Seriously Injured, Perhaps Sou haven't thought of calling those unpleasant symptoms that affected Your nose and throat by any particular name—but it's Catarrh just the same. When the attack is severe, your ogee are watery and look week. Your breath Is offensive, duo to inflammation in the nose and throat. At last science has discovered a real remedy, a now aoiontiac marvel which acts like no other Catarrh remedy on earth. "Catarrhozone" operates on a now plan; it Is a -direct romody, goes instantly to the source of the trouble. Ito rich, fra- grant .essences and healing balsams are breathed in vapor form through a special inhaler and. give instant relief. Catarrhoroue doesn't atop at the relief stage—it gone further—keepa on going till It sure is effected. Bad cases are cured, ae you can ,fudge from the following let- tor:—"Every morning for six months last winter I awoke with a bad tneto, and awful breath and etulfed up feeling in my nostrils," writes Bob E. Rutland, of Re- gina. "It was simply an awful case of obronie Catarrh. Relief first came from .Catarrhozone. I used that inhaler 8went7 times a day and took it to bed with me at night. I alu .cured, and by the use of Catorrhorone stay well. Now 8 ant free from irritable throat trouble, coughs, colds, headaehs, or catarrh," No medicine on earth is so certain to cure every form of Catarrh or throat trouble as "Oatarrhoeona." Get the largo 51.00 size, lasts two menthe , and i0 guar- anteed; medium size 60c; sample size 26p,; all storekeepers and druggists, or The Oatarrhozene Co., Buffalo, N Y. and Icingeton, Canada. BIRD MIGRATION. Sense Extraordinary 11tstanees of Their Travels, The ornithologists tell us that birds are not so Invariable in their migratory habits as most pensons suppose. If, for instance, the sea- son ,s warm, or there is sufficient food for them in the north, tie birds- are late in starting south. Novertholess, the month of Octo- ber is a sent of "et-Ft/lig-point" ill the records of the ernithologi.oal societies. But it ill not infrequent- ly the case that birds that migrate in large numbers on October 31et one year, have either not arrived, or have passed south earlier on the corresponding date of previous years. "Tho Accidental Visitors' List, kept by the London Zoological Soci- ety, is a record of all birds observed in Great Britain and on the :British coasts that are not indigenous to the British Isles, btth- have flown thither from the Coutinellt. In England, naturalises, ornitholo» gists, lighthouse -keepers, 'maato% f vessels, coast guardsmen, - ferns - re, and country gentlemen gladly report strange birds 'which they may observe, and give the date and Cif0nmgt0Stcet of the obeerva- time An examination of "The Ac- cidental Visitors' List" reveals many curious happenings. Bird" native to eastern Siberia and China, North Africa and the arctic regions have thus been ob- served inn Great Britain, but, of course, at rare intervals. There are, however, a good inany record- ed instances of American birds crossing the Atlantic, and being seeu or shut in Great Britain. An extraordinary instance was that of a Canada owl that alighted in an exhausted condition on boned a ves- sel off the coast of Cornwall in 1830. The bird was so fatigued with its long flight across the Atlantic that it offered not the slightest resist- ance when handl edb i sailors. the A Carolina cuckoo was shot in Wales in February, 1833, by Lead Cawdor, In 1831 an American wood -cluck was killed. at Dorking, England. In 1872 three specimens of Cassin's snow -goose, a native of Labrador, were seen on the west coast of Ireland. The American societies have also a record of five individuals of this species shot in Chesapeake Bay in 1871, The Lon- don Zoological Society also main- tains an accidental visitors' list of fishes, as well as of birds, and the same thing is done at the Fish Com- mission laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These curious wanderers into an- other continent are doubtless the young of some migratory flock. Such s, flock is led by an old and ex- perienced bird, which knows the route north and south. Occasional- ly birds that have never before been over the aerial road may get sepa- rated from the flock. They become bewildered, and fly about, quite at a loss until they reach land; where that may be is entirely a matter of oliance, Now and then birds that are not strictly migratory gather in enor- mous flocks, and sweep over several huedred miles of country. The cause that impels them to such ac- tion is still a raysbery. Many years ago Turkey and Bulgaria were in- vaded by enormous flocks of the rose-colored pastor. These birds proved destructive to vineyards and gr',wing crops, and the peasants had -to turn out in force and kill them by the hundreds. A fleck of these birds would strip a true. of fruit in less time than it takes to tell of it, and there were public re- joicings in places after the vast flocks had passed. So Iittle is known of the cause of such migration that the bird -societies everywhere are constantly on the :alert to note any unusual happenings of this sort. Not Like Most Mothers. "I wonder if she really loves her son 1" "Why do you doubt it?" "I wont over there to -day to com- plain about his breaking our win- dow and she actually admitted that he might have done such a thing." The other fellow isn't the only one in need of reform, ee „w9w4Y rn On the Cob et Shelled, Imp. Learning, or white Cap Y. hunt 31.35 per buull0l" Loegfellow 51:50; Oomnton's -81.69. Freight paid in Ontario on 10 bug/101s or more, Bags free. Write for catalogue, CEO. KEITH & SONS, Toronto, Sood morobauta since 1066. Any tante chi can do the churning with Wavuic:te Churn. f imakbthe smoothest,richest, mw: delicious butter you aver aslcd, The roller bete-Ines—and 'hand and foot levers --make 08010110 an easy task, oven for o child - All dies from 96 to 30 gallons. ' Write for catalogue if your dealer docs cot handle tee churn lee Maxwell's 'Champion" Washer. I� z, David Maxwell veil &ion St. Mary's, Oat, ai 1p v""1utel 1 9 11 •+ � M HAT MODERN RULERS READ 'HOW 'I'Iil MONARCHS OF THE WORLD ARE REPT POSTED; Late .Queen Read "Tho Times"— King George Peruses the Pa- pers Carefully. That majesty which Items in a crown, slid forces the wearer to adopt a mode of :life quite apart from that of other men, affords, one may think, but little opportun- ity for Icings to comae- in oontaet with the problems which confront Choir subjects. This, However, is not really the ease. Modern, rulers, at any nate, do nob bury themselves in seolu- sion, but seek, as eagerly as does the man inthe street, to keep in touch with the doings of the world —and through the same medium, for it is only by moans of the newel- sevens ewel- s etpens that any man can become acquainted with happenings outside his own restricted sphere of life, The lata Queen Victoria,, it is true, very rarely looked at a news- paper personally. Nonetholess, she had "The Times" read aloud to her every day, amd all articles of per- sonal interest were cut out and pasted up in books for future refer - mice. With Expert Knowledge. Similarly, King Edward, though neverv fond reading, onlof r cad g, had all important foreign telegrams laid before him, also the Parliamentary reports; whilst, as behoved the first sportsman in Europe, he took a very real interest in the sporting pages of ,the newspapers. Icing George, however, being a monarch who believes in doing things for himself, reads the papers carefully, ,and, while doing so, jots down notes—usually in the form -of questions about matters upon which his secretaries are called upon to give fuller information later in tho clay. The Kaiser, too, is a greab reader, with a memory no Less retentive than that of his cousin, the Icing of England. What is more, so far from confining himself solely to pa- pers of general interest, the Kaiser is also an assiduous reader of tech- nical journals—those, that is to say, which deal 'with war -like subjects, upon..which the railer of Germany is really art authority, and able to oosiverse as such with experts, Good Mentories Needed. The King of Spain has a passion for everything English, and is kept always well supplied with London newspapers and magazines. For accounts of the happenings in his own dominions he relies mainly upon hie ,secretaries and the offi- cials of his court. This admiration for British jour- nalism was shared by the late Em- peror of Japan, who, although un- able to read a word of English, had all the principal articles from the London newspapers and reviews translated into the Japanese lan- guage for his special benefit. The, Icings of Italy and Denmark both are devoted readers of maga- zines; whilst even Abdul Hamid, the late Sultan of Turkey, who was commonly regarded as the most ex- clusive of Orientals, took good care to be well informed of what was go- ing on in the world. He relied tor his information for the most part upon French papers, and at the Royal palace two officials were permanently kept whose sola clnty it was to read through these papers and commit to memory such passages as they, deemed likely to prove interestiing, Cireulagon--'Two Copies! Having listened to it recitation of the 'news, the (Sultan would some- times cast doubts upon certain of the statements made. The, ofrieials then were called upon to substan- tiate them, and, woe betide them if they failed to produce sufficient evi. denoo. But in this respect the famous Dowager Empress of China was probably the most exacting of the world's rulers. All information of importance culled freli1-11e 1Dcws- pap6n's had to be copied one on sheets of very fine rice -paper, bound in sill:, and then rolled an ivory sticks. The news was then road to the Impress from these scions by an official of the Court; who, seeing that ire was not deemed worthy of gaging on the great 1,Ady'e' face, was compelled to per_ form his tinenviable task while ly- ing pro,9trate on ;1rd flb:er behind a' smelt. - Ct,rioualy enough, the monarch most outof touch with tine doings of the world is a European. The Car of Russia, in fact, has a ntivwplipee all Isis own, prinked specially' for him every morning, Two C2p iitev, only. aro Pttp lied --one for the azar hilmself, the, other his private > secretary. ;[hut, even wore a :larger cireitiation permitted, it is doubtful if :the paper would find one, fee this Wm -page sheet is of exceeding •(lits- ntaus. anything caloiilabcd in an.y wllry to disturb 311m Ozar'e p11ace ciil mincl being ceref011 excluded London Answers. - • •