The Brussels Post, 1913-10-30, Page 3CRUST OF BREAD AND
CHUNK OF CHEESE.
"It's shameful!" exclaimed the
lean to his wife as he oonelnded his
Saturday luncheon, for which be
always name home on that day.
"This high cost of food will ruin the
country. It takes every cent I can
rake and scrape to buy enough for
you and ono and things are getting
higher all the time, Here I've—"
'Who's that?" called the wife, as
slue heard a knock on the outer
door of the kitchen. Receiving no
reply, she arose from the table and
went to see the cause of the knock.
"Come here, Fred," she called
back to her husband fzom the kit-
chen door a few moments later,
Fred, following her, found a hun-
gry -looking tramp atanding on the
threshold.
"He says he's out of work and
hungry and Hasn't any means to
got any food, dear," said the wife,
"What shall we do ?"
"Well, give him something, but
nothing we can use, grub's too
high," growled the man. "Let's
see what we've gob in the pantry."
They both started to investigate.
"Here's nearly a pound of cheese
left over from that welsh rarebit
party we had last Saturday night,"
said the man at length. He pulled
out a great chunk of half -dried
cheese. "It's too old te be of any
use now."
"And here's almost a whole loaf
of etale bread," exclaimed the wife,
"Mary got it last Wednesday when
2 expected Mrs, Dart and her
daughter to drop in and take
luncheon. I only used two slices
from it, but it's all dried up now."
The wife wrapped up the bread
and cheese in en old newspaper and
handed them to the tramp, who,
mumbling thanks, quickly disap-
peared,
"I think lie was a fraud," com-
mented the husband as he put on
las hat for a stroll in the nearby
park, "but that grub wasn't any
-use for anything anyhow," and
thus, commenting, he loft the
house.
As he took a comfortable seat on
a park bench, where he could en-
joy both his Saturday afternoon's
half holiday and his after -luncheon
cigar, ho was aware of a dirty, un-
kempt fellow who had a moment be-
fore taken a eeat on a bench a short
distance dowel the gravel walk, - In
his lap was a, bundle rolled in old
newspaper.
As the dirty fellow unwrapped.
the bundle and took forth a chunk
of choose and o. generous piece of
bread, the man recognized the man
he had helped a few minutes be-
fore, acrd watched him to see if he
had been reallysincere in his beg-
ging, A few seconds showed, for
the fellow wolfed the food like a
ehi,pwrecked sailor, gulping it down
In hug s mouthfuls .that evidenced a
.stomach empty to the last .degree.
11 did not take long to satisfy even
the hftngry man at small voracious
rate.
Soon he was taking small nibbles,
as one desiring to eat to repletion.
But whether from long abstinence
from food or that there was more
than even a hungry man could eat,
when at last the fellow ceased there
still remained in bis hand o. large
piece of bread and a considerable
chunk of cheese.
s Flinging these to a homeloss cur
that had been enviously watching
every mouthful, the unkempt fellow
arose and stretching himself in
that manner that is the unmistak-
able sign of a well satisfied hunger
made his way to the fountain for a
drink.
As the pieces of food fell scatter-
ing the dog pounced on a large
lump: of cheese and gulped ib with.
one effort; then, snatching a ehunk
of bread in his jaws, he fled alter
the manner of. ;the homeless brute
that knows every moisel he gebs is
begrudged him by an envious
wand.
A stray oat, lean and ash -cover-
ed, that had been vainly stalking
the sparrows fluttering about the
;lrinking-trough of the fountaili,
• bighted or scented the fragments of
eheose, Gingerly approaching, she
snatched a morsel sufficient for a
generous uaeaI and fled with it as
swiftly as the cur—both poor,
holneless Ishmaelitee among man
and beast, ,
A dozen English •bparrewa, flit-
ting abnnb'dn •vaiii•Ineet of worms
that had gone weeks Were spied
the remaining porbions of the food,
and descended upon them, ever
hungry, after the manner of their
kind. Falling voraciously upon the
fragments both of bread and
cheese, they swiftly gorged their
little bodies and forgetting even to
quarrel in the satisfaction of full
stomachs, flew off to doze comfor-
tably in the neighboring maples.
A moment later a little grey
squirrel Dame tripping lightly
across the greensward, fearless,
through long protection, of the
passing small boys. Picking up a
small piece of bread in his fore-
paws, lee lifted himself upon his
haunches and nibbled it as daintily
as a girl graduate toying with her
luncheon salad. Having made a
satisfying meal, ho selected a good-
ly morsel of bread, and, clamping
it between his jaws, tiptoed across
the grass until, twenty feet away,
he found a suitable place for a
cache or hiding place. Then swiftly
scooping out a little hollow in the
greensward, he buried his prize
and with his skilful paws covered
it up and patted it down so artfully
that the man, watching the opera-
tion intently, was unable to locate
where this to -morrow's 'breakfast
had been concealed. The squirrel
knew, however, and, skipping to
the branch of a tall tree nearby,
proceeded to make a dainty toilet—
his mind being new at rest sines the
all-pervading question of food had
been satisfactorily settled.
The man, having finished his ci-
gar, returned home in thought.
Two hours later he came back to
see what had become of the small
crumbs left. A dozen big beetles
were busy gorging themselves upon
the minute fragments of cheese,
while from some anthills located a
few feet sway several columns of
these Iittle creatures were busily
engaged in transferring the last
crumbs of bread to their winter
storehouses.
ILOW ESKIMOS HUNT SEAL.
Spear So Arranged That Animal's
Stiraggle Does Not Break It.
When once he has gone to the
trouble of splicing a fine spear
handle the Eskimo does not wish to
break it, so the point is put on
with a taggle or joint, says the
Southern Workman. When a seal
or walrus is harpooned the sudden
struggle of the animal does not
break the spear, but merely un -
joints the joint, and the more the
animal struggles the more the point
turns cross wise in the wound and
tits firme the barbs take holti. But
the animal cannot escape, for with
thongs of skin the point is connect-
ed with the. spear shaft. The ani-
mal merely swims or dives deep in-
to the sea, carrying with him the.
spear. The long leather thong
which is attached to it uncoils from
the deck of the kyaok'and plays out.
It carries with it a drag like a kite,
which h c1i retardst t 1
o animal and ex-
.hausts him but does not pull hard
enough to break the line. Even this
drag is made of skin stretched over
a spliced framework. When the
line is all played out it .is seen to
be attached to afloat, which is also
carried on the deck of the boat.
This is made of an ire be,)i skin,
It has plugs and attachntehbs cle-
verly carved from ivory, for wood
is far too precious to be used in this
land of ivory so far from the for -
este. The :float servesas a buoy, so
that the Eskimo can follow the 'ani-
mal and find it after it gives up its
struggle and dies, Then, too, the
fleat keeps the catch from sinking,
and being dost in. the ocean's
de pth s.
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Mr. Daniel F. Fraser, of Bridgeville,
N. 5., says about (IIS PILLS, "For
twenty%years,, I have been troubled
with Ifidney and Bladder Disease, and
have been treated by many doctors
but found little relief. I had given
up all hofie of getting oared when I
tried GIN PILLS. Now, I can say
with a happy heart, that I am cured
after using only four boxes of GIN.
PILLS."
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Simple,
Aunt A1sua••-"So yoti, took our
firet dancing lesson to -day, Was it
difficuiel"
Small Louisa --"No, all I had to
do wag keep turning' round ':and
wiping my eset,"
Commanding Position .of the LI.S,
Tie United States is the world's
largest oil producer, its yearly out -
Put being shoat 220,000,000 barrels,
or 70 per cent, of he entire yield.
]his dominant position ensures to
the American navy at least a re-
markable national reserve, If Rus-
sia had a fleet worthy of the Hama
it would also be in a position of
peculiar vantage, but the Czar's
Ministers have not yet succeeded in
making good the lessee sustained in
the Japanese War, The chief na-
tfonal use of the famous Baku oil
area, adjoining the Caspian Sea,
has boon to bring about the exclu-
sive use of oil as fuel upon the mer-
chant vessels plying in that body of
water. If Mexico wore rid of its
political troubles long enough to
undergo thorough commercial de-
velopment it would probably take
the place of Russia as the world's
second oil producer, The opening
of the Panama Canal is expected to
lead to an immense development of
Mexico in this respect, Some en-
thusiastic American experts have
figured that as the Monroe doctrine
would be sufficient to preserve
American priority of light to Mexi-
can petroleum, their country would
control four-fifths of the fuel which
will, they say, be the exclusive war-
ship fuel five or ton years hence.
Tho equipping of solve of the latest
British and American battleships
with oil -burners, only, ensuring the
discarding of coal, seems to point
to the conclusion that the predic-
tion is not far wide of the mark.
Maurice Prevost,
The French aviator who won the
Gordon Bennett Cup at Rheims,
France, travelling 200 kilometres
(124.27 miles) at an average s1peed
of 125 miles an hour, the fastest
prolonged. flight; in the history of
aviation.
OLD SAWS STILL. REPT SHARP.
Many Symbols Whiolr Date Beek
to Far -back Times.
Every nation has its own beliefs
and superstitions in regard to wed-
dings. It' is considered unlucky to
be married in May. The ancient
Romans believed May to be under
the influence of spirits adverse to
happy households. On the etcher
hand, June was held be be the most
propitious time of the year fur
weddings.
In medieval tdmes, says the De-
troit Free Press, superstitions in
regard to weddings were rife, and
people had recourse to all kinds
of love philbres, magical invoca-
tions and other follies which were
supposed to bring luck to bride and
bridegroom. Some o4 the super-
stdtions of the Middle Ages were
very crious. It was thought that
ill -luck w ' d dog the union of the
mat ie
x d
a
ir if the bridalparty
in
going to ch ch met
o monk, a
priest, a hare, a dog, a cat, lizard
or serpent. On the other hand, it
was considered very lucky to meet
a wolf, a spider or a toad,
"Marry in Lent and sou will live
to repent," is a superstition which
holds to this day. A11 penitential
days throughout the year were con-
sidered unsuitable for wedding fes-
tivities. "If it rains on her wed-
ding day the bride will weep all her
married life," is a saying thab is
etill•believed in. It's also consider-
ed unlucky for the bride to try on
the wedding gown before the care.
moray. "Three times a bridesmaid,
never a (bride," is another well-
known saw, and one seldom finds a
girl nowadays willing to be a
bridesmaid more than twice. It is
considered unlucky for bride and
bridegroom to have the samein-
itials. "To change the name and
not the letbel' is a. change for the
worse and not for the better,"
In Sweden the bridegroom has a
great fear of trolls and apirite, and
as an antidote against their power
he sows into his clothes varlets
titreng-smelling herbs, such as gar.
lie, and rosemary. It to customary
to fill the bride's pocket with bread,
whicee she gives to the poor she
meets on the way to the church,
and so averts misfortune with the
customary for marriage rings to
be worn by both sexes, and this
ouatara is largely followed on the
continent today. Our anneettors
put the ring en the left hand be-
cause they found it mare conveni-
ent, and they chose the fourth fin-
ger because it is less used than the
rest, and more capalble of preserv-
ing the ring from damage.
It is hard to determine the origin
Cif the idea that a shed string
bringe bed luck, but it is reminis-
cent of the time when a woman was
practically sold to her husband, 'In
olden .times Jews oonfrrmed a sale
by giving •a sandal to their cus-
tomers.
PAST TRAVELLING.
high Railway Speeds of Seventy
' Years Ago.
It is generally agreed that we live
in an age of hustle, yet in some re-
spects the pace of the present gen-
oration is more dawdling than the
pace of our grandfathers. This is
evident from a comparison of the
different lengths of time taken by
trains in 1823 and in 1913 to com-
plete the same journeys. In many
instances tha trains of 60 years ago
proved to be faster than those of
to-clay..Even in earlier days the
rate of railway travelling ,was far
more rapid than most people rea-
lize. The Illustrated London News
of August 10th, 1844, records that
four days previously "some won-
ders of railway travelling were per-
formed. The journey from Slough
to the 'Paddington terminus was etc
com,plished in less time than the dis-
tance had ever been traversed in.
The 18 miles and a quarter only
occupied 15 minutes and 10 sec-
onds." So early as 1841 it was an-
nounced that Brune], for a wager
of a thousand pounds, was about to
run a train fram Bristol to London
within two hours. This feat dogs
not appear to have been accom-
plished, but five years later, during
a trial of the atmospheric system
of traction between Exeter and
Stareross, Brunell performed the
journey at se speed of over 70 miles
an hour.
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BIG HERD OF WOOD BUFFALO.
Resemble Prairie Bison, But Are
Much Wilder.
"There are fully 500 head of wood
buffalo west and north of Fort
Smith, on the Peace . and Great
Slave Rivers, in the extreme north-
eastern part of Alberta, at the 60th
parallel of latitude," said A. J.
Bell, who has charge of the North-
ern Indian agencies, on returning
to Edmonton from,the silent North,
where he is guardian of Indians of
the Yellow Knife, Dog Rib, Chi-
pewyan and Cariboo .Eaters tribes.
"Same time age I: mads a pro-
posal to the Dominion Government
that the buffalo -in the Fort Smith
district be confined by a fence in
the peninsula between the Peace
and the Great Slave Rivers," Mr.
Bell said. "This would afford bet-
ter protection to the animals. The
fence, 126 miles in length, would
cast about $103,000,
"The buffalo in the northern dis-
trict have every mark of resem-
blance to bison of the plains, but
constant living in the heavy tim-
bered country has made thorn much
wilder than the prairie • buffalo.
They are almost unapproachable.
As theseanimals are protected,
there should bee, rapid increase in
their numbers."
BUILT RIGHT
Stomach, Nerves and Thinker Ite-
stored by
Food.
The number of persons whose ail-
ments were such that no other food
could be retained at all, is large,
and roperts are on the increase.
"For • 12 years I suffered from
dyspepsia, finding no food that did
not distress me," writes a '1'is.
Iady, "I was reduced from 145 to
90 lbs., gradually growing weaker
until r could leave my bed only a
short while at a time, and became
unable to speak aloud.
"Three years ago I was attracted
by an article on Grape -Nuts and
decided to try it.
"My stomach was so weak I could
not take Dream, but I used Grape -
Nuts with milk and lime water, It
helped me from
tothe first, bniIding
up my system in a manner most as-
tonishing to the friends who had
thought my recovery impossible.
"Semi I Was able to take Grape-
uts and Dream for breakfast and
noh at ,night, with an egg and
rape-Nntafor dinner.
I am now able to eat fruit, neat
d . nearly all vegetables for din-
e, but fondly continue Grape -
wee for breakfast and supper.
"At the time of beginning Grape-
tats I could ecteroely speak a sen-
nee without changing words
ound or 'talking crooked' in some
y, but I have become so.
rongthened that I no longer have
it trouble, Name given by
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alms she bestows. On their return et
from the chnreli : the' bride and tli
bridegroom viaib their cow house C_
and farrne that the cattle may
thrive and multiply.
The wedding ring as a symbol
also dates ..to far -back times pro-
bably its ori" n in' p
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of Tubal Cain. It was ab one tim
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THE MORED IN REVIEW
Twenty Years After,
Aooerding to a prominent French en -
Rimer the Panama Canal looks will be
obsolete to twenty years, and a water
level canal will be necessary, 'Linder ttli9
oireumstaaoes perha2e rzer, Bryyn i?'el?
well advieed when heejt&'at,,r'ed to 150 -
guide Coo r?e to ;,see his Nlearagua bill
P7 ' '' 1, toe United States was to have
the sole right to build a eansl through
Nicaragua wherever it chose, in return
for three million dollars. Some other
concessions were to be made, but this
was one of the moat important. As the
United States has built the Panama Canal
it ie obvious that any other canal through
from the Atlantic to the Pacific must be
controlled by her or else the enormous
expenditure on Panama might be deem.
ed wasted. But In the next twonty years
trade will have increased to such an ex-
tent,
the Panama Canals with site lrecke
will be unable to handle it. In that ease
another canal through Nicaragua might
become a necessity. Considering the ire-
mondoue peenib111ties of the wee tern
coasts of North and South America, the
millions of people they are able to sup-
port, and the comparatively. few which
they maintain at present, If seems quite
likely that to due coarse two canals will
not, be ono too many. To look ahead
twenty you're in these modern days takes
some imagination and daring. Mostof
tie aro satisfied with trying to make cer-
tain of looking mused a day or two. There
Is no knowing what may cannel, twenty
yoare after the canal le opened. If New
York is to become the China of the Milted
Staten, and all the ]vest coast to to take
the place of Europe, one wonders what
nation will be in control of the canal.
Vacuum -cleaning the Blood.
Among the many remarkable addressee
and demonstrations given at the recent
International Medical Congress 1n Lon-
don, there was nothing more promising
of future results of great valise to human
kind than Professor Abbe account of hie
artificial kidney. ne Spens one of the
largo blood vessels of an .anaesthetized
animal, inserts a glass tube, and conveys
the blood to a series of small tubes mads
of celloidin. From these the blood passed
through another glace tube back Into the
animal and re-enter the letter's cirou-.
latfon. The celloidin tubes are porous to
all diffusible substances In the blood. and
bofng placed in a saline solution act as a
sort of filter. Asthe bloodpasses
through Shia little set of artiflcial capii-
larics, it ie, so to speak, washed or filter-
ed, and a portion of the diffusible sub-
ataneee remain in the saline solution in
which the celloidin tubes lie. Oneis,
Perhaps, hardly inetiflcd in concluding
from these experiments that we can
switch a sick m'an's blood out of his body
through a celloidin filter. and then hand
it back to him freed of all impurities, but
thisle the possibility suggested by Pro-
fessor Abel's address. The inunonse value
of such a method fu many dioceses is so
obvious as to require no insistence.
Supposedly Harmless Medicines.
The numerous fatalities among chil-
dren, and even grown-ups, sauced by par-
taking in undue quantities ofpalatable
medical preparations is alarming, The
necessity of placing ampposedly harmless
medicines where they will not be mew.
Able to children has been •frequently em-
phasized. The custom of throwing sam-
ples of drugs into yards and doorways 1e
ono that ehould be abolished. Legisla-
tion is proposed which provides that all
liquid medicines containing poisonous
dregs be put up in bottlee of different
shape from the ordinary vials whereby
they eau be readily recognized by the
sense of tomb.
Another Antarctic Expedition,
J Foster Stackhouse, the leader of a
party of Englishmen who will s.t an early
date sail for the Antarctic. says hieAur-
pose. 1s to determine the extent of Xing
Edward Land and snake temperature end
magnetic observations. and adds, "1 oleo
want to explore land which uo English-
man has trod.' The latter le his real
reason for eetting out on this perilous
leeruay.. Sotoutiffo reeenroh is but an in-
cident of the undertaking; The lure of
thenkno t
u wt agrinned
L s hi a it grin"
dt e
P
ed Columbne' i gripped B•
P as t 'Liv Iona
g dpIns
and Pearyand a Aso andAmundsen
Lt a outand
oountleee others who have sot. out to go
where man never was before, and ne it
will grip others until there) is no spot on
the globe untrod br man.
Effects of tho Balkan War.
There win be bitter suffering In mil.
]tone of fatuities of Europe this. winter.
Confirm food will glvo place to ooareer,.helts
will be tightened in place of mcale, ra-
tions will be shortened,and every public
and private agony of elief will bo taxed
to capacity to keep hardship from be.
coming disaster. For more than a thous-
and million dollars- of Europe's liquid
capital hos been burned up in the Bahian
war, or has gone fete unproductive in.
crease of armies already too great fortax.
payers to support. Tho coming hardships
will prose most heavily upon Inds which
felt the devastation of war—Turkey and
Bulgaria and the fought•over regions. of
Throne and Macedonia. In the first.
named countries defeat hes added bitter.
neee to privation, and in ,Turkey the in-
choate aharaoter of society will inoreaso
the ills of poverty, But, while these binds
suffer worst, no part of Europe is wholly
exempt. Fifteen thousand men are al.
ready out of work in Berlin, and the au-
thorities of that city are expecting a re•
petition of the bread .riots of loot .year.
Martial law prevails over large dietriote
of Austria and ]trots, Workers in Italy
are striking for a living wage, and scan
in prosperous France and Holland the
pinch le felt.
The Power of Publicity,
Advortfeing not only pays, but its value
es news fa coming tono more and more
appreciated. There Is not an enterprising
corporation or shrewd business firm that
to not now informing the intblic through
the mediuin of advortieements What kind
of now business ouch is engaged 111 ,and
what are yyreepeoto for the future.
Tito oldtime methods of o]lence-on tee
part of .ptt'blto utility corporations have
boon abandoned, No one ta adverttelug
to a greaterextent than the hehds of big
tranoportatlon companies and those 601'
porato bodies engaged In theqdiss&minm
tion of intelligence by telegraph, tele.
phone and •Wireleee...'lhese are eeneible
moves,
The public ie intelligent enough to ap-
troolate all -publicity based on the truth:
The truthful advertisersucceeds all the
time, and he is deserving of all the in•,
ore,aed patronage he is sire to receive,
When there 15 a Intl tit btteineeeifrom any
estate ehrowd men of affairs' get busy and
advettese.
Lack of nerve keep lots c s f us out
of jail.
ENGLISH PAUPERISM.
Prosperity and Old Age Pensions
Reduce Rate.
Thanks to the present industrial
prosperity and old age pensions,
pauperism is at a lower ebb in
Great Britain to -day than it has
beenor some pap. Early this
year the total number oT pati era
in England and Waleg was less theg
800,000, as oompared with $60,000
four years • ago. The number of
paupers per thousand of the popu-
lation, which was 27 'four years
ago, now is less than 22.
J. Herbert Lewis, parliamentary
secretary to the local government
boatel, who gave these figures in his
presidential .addreas to the poor law
conference, said many influences
had brought about the reduction,
but he gave first place to old age
pensions, which had reduced old-
age pauperism among the outdoor
poor to a small figure.
One of the great aims as present
was that children should be re-
moved from the poorhouses. Some-
thing has been done in this direc-
tion, and in England and Wales for
every two children in these institu-
tions there are about five children
receiving relief from the municipal-
ity while boarded out in families,
Old Follies' Coughs
Permanently Cured
'The Public is Loud in Its Praise of the.
Modern Direct Breathing Cure.
Elderly people take cold easily. Un-
like young folks, they recover slowly,
if ever. That is why so many people
past middle life die of pneumonia.
Even though pneumonia does not de-
velop and kill, Coughs certainly weak-
en
eaken all elderly people.
Cough Syrups seldom do much good
because they upset digestion. Any
druggist or doctor knows that a much
more effective treatment is "CA-
TARRHOZONE," which heals and
soothes the irritated Surfaces of the
throat.
In using Catarrhozone you do not
take medicine into the stomach—you
simply breathe into the throat, nose,
and lungs rich piney balsamic vapor,
so full of healing power that colds,
catarrh and bronchitis disappear al-
most inatantly.
"At sixty --eight years of age I can
testily that 1 am never troubled with
coughs or colds," writes J. E. PIlgrim,
of Eingston. "They used to be the
bain of my life, and that was before.
I used Catarrhozone, which was re-
commended to me by C. L. Prouse,
druggist, To use Catarrhozone is Just
like being in an immense pine woods.
The balsamic vapor of Catarrhozone
is like a tonic, It is so stimulating to
the breathing organs, so soothing to
sore spots, so full of power to drive
out colds and congestion. I will al.
ways use and recommend Catarrh -
ozone as a preventive and cure' tor
coughs, colds, bronchitis, throat irrita-
tion and catarrh.
(Signed) ".7. D. PILGRIM,"
A
Catarrhozone
o na Inhaler in your Bos•
et or purse enables you to stop a cold
with the first sneeze. Large size costs
$1.00 and supplies treatment for two
months; small size,' 60c.; trial size
260.; all storekeepers and druggists, or
The Catarrhozone Co„ Buffalo, N,Y„
and 1cingston, Canada.
Taney
works till
e launched
eke her
his.
os 30
skins annually.
A man is never so willing to do
the square thing as when he gets
in a hole.
In Southwestern Persia the'Sep-
tember temperature 'often mounts
to 128 degrees in the shade,
A smooth bore isn't necessarily a
big gun.
Some ohegnes are like prophets-
without honor in their own country.
By beating water in a pail with a
wooden paddle, it can be made to
boil lit six hours.. If you don't be- fl
Bove this •try it yourself, b
t[+ — e
LIQUID SULP:�'UR.
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Fact and
The elephant 8 .
P0
Chinese ships ar side-
ways.
Woman must m x .way, in
the world; man has
Tho fur trade us 3,000,000 eat
FROM MERRY OLD ENGLANL •
NEW ff BY 'MATE 4 norr :JOO N'
EUI,L AND )IIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences In Tice Land Thai
Reigns Supreme in the Com-
, menial World.
There are 16 oables across title
North Atlentie Ocean.
There are 1,000 vessels Whioli
masa the Atlantic Ocean every
month,
Some Manchester picture half
are admitting children ab two for,
a penny.
The present strength of the Ter-
ritorial forces is 9,385 officers and
259,092 men,
Over £10,000,000 has been spent'
on new hotels in London during
the past ten years.
Silver is not legal tender for
sums over £2, nor pence or half-
pence
alfponce for sums over le.
The Theatre Royal at Wolver-
hampton was completely gutted by
fire on the 19th nit,
The shipyards of Great Britain,
all working together, could turn
out a '(lig steamship every day.
The mo, t 4om-m14 .pa7114 far i4
place in England is Newton, which
ocouro not fewer than 72 times.
The exteneivo premiees of Wm.,
Canning, oil refiners, Liverpool,
were destroyed by fire on the 13th
tilt.
One of the big London drapery
firms sends out as many as two and
a half million catalogues and cir-
culars in a year.
The devil ds not, dead yet, though
many people forget this, says Rev..
Cyril Edwards, Mottisfent Rectory,
Romsey.
It is reported unofficially that the
new battle crueler Queen Mary in
her '‘recent full -power trial made a
record speed of 35.7 knots.
The United .Kingdom has 20 uni-
versities for a population of 45,000,-
000. Germany with a population
of 65,000,000 has 21 universities,
The death is announced of'Colo-
nel Francis Gordon Hibbert, late
of the 91st Regiment and the Royal
Canadian Mounted Rifles, aged 81
years.
There is a prolific growth of
mai:acorns in Devon. They are
beingegetailed at 2d. per IN., as
against 1s. 9d. at the commence-
ment of the season.
Telegraph wires will last for 40
Years near the seashore, but in the
manufacturing districts the same
wires will kat only 10 years, and
sometimes less,
Mary Bady (87) died suddenly
after placing flowers on the grave
of a former benefactress in Derby-
shire. Her body was found on the
grave beside the flowers.
Mr, Joseph George Joel, a. New-
castle solaeitor, on the 20th ult.,
celebrated his 91st birthday. He
is believed to be the oldest solicitor
still in practice in the country.
The death occurred on the ifibh
ult. at Dawlish, at the age of 88,
of Mr. P. P. Davies, who was
known throughout Devon as' the
"Grand Old Man of Swimming."
The wedding gifts of Prince Ar-
thur of Connaught and the Duchess
of Fife are worth about $500,000,
Pearls figure largely in the gifts
and they are unquestionably the
gems of the season.
A fierce fire raged for about au
hour on the 22nd ult. at Gannow
Shed, Burnley, belonging to Blake
ley and Nephew, cotton manufac-
turers and did damage amounting
to between £3,000 and £4,000.
Because the clergy do not include
women in their prayers a party of
suffragettes on Sunday interrupted
the morn , services 8 e mill
h v t W at
ng
ster Abbey, London, by ohanting.a
prayer for the women now in
prison.
Seafield House, Seaforth, Liver-
pool, which is being constructed for
imbeciles by the West DerbyBoard
of Guardians, was fired by suffra-
gettes on the 23rd ult. Suffragette
Literature was found lying about
the grounds. The damage is esti-
mated at £80,000.
Vice -Admiral Sir John Fellows
died" suddenly at Bostock Hall, Sb.
Albans, on the 22nd tilt. He was
born in 1843 and entered the navy
at an early age. For seven years
from 1860 Sir John served on the
East Coast of Africa in the suppres-
sion of the slave trade, and was
twice wounded in lint fights with
piratical slave dhows, and once
again in the attack on the Kalif
Forts, in the Persian Gulf.
miltetes readily with the blood..
LIQUID SULPHUR for that rea. u
son does what nature is not always C
able to do—Purify the Blood, Be-
oatrse LIQUID •SULPHUR ptiriflee
9v '
Umbrella Ribs.
As a test of our faculties of obese -
ate= as applied to common every -
ay things a correspondent eclat ''a
uestton. Flow many ribs has an um
relia? One handles them often
nough in this climate, but how many'
t us could say the number correctly
tlfliand? I have Just made a visit to
mhalistand, where theta are nine
mbrellea, kept for several use. -tech
t those has eight rubs. ft 10 a tel -
mph of Standardization—Londonhrontele, •
SULPHUR in a liquid form nasi. y
the blood it is a positive caro ler
eeC'LEMA, ItlECEUMA:CISM, or
troubles arising Prem impure blood.
Ask •your druggiet for LIQUID
'SULPHUR,
Price 60 Conte per bottle,
• 'A Hdmaf'Habit,
"There is one paradoxical tlai
Which .> we an do,"
"hat is tlrat2'�
"WWe "long for thbnga.:`ivhen we
are
short.''