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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-03-21, Page 3;4h 214h, 1912 ralr Atm Ra S Aii* Well ta2fhe ' th't WI, the Watt 80 Whore ' ,Retl,Cif Iitlitg Wati la' ., I. Dane. . , alit the French ,Revolution women 'x1 led tilre' bands of neasan (.5. wh° 70SO , apt1i4t Om arietoorats.At Troyes''ihllar 'slight Wan seea .eharinstl'illia Champagne Hats 'Mitch :.edgvii'leed law ., Atibe DePartaent 'of rthc •At •the heed 'a the detachment valelt one distriet sent to ' join the 'Iron. .6attaliOn" marched a splendid- 1(k1ng young woman, wearing a W,,hitc--knitted cap, Ivan the Revolu- • tionary red rthboa twined around it. ' ;Her efarting-point forty mace from, Tarikas, this gisa tramped every " step the distance betweert dawa and• , 'dank, She Was cheered by the crowds Viten $he arrived In Troyes,• , at Was a girl, too, who headed the -skreld .no -rent strike, in New •York, three yeare ago. Nearly ail the big tenements In the Bowery, the most crowded *sec- eattlett of .darkest New York, are let to atagents, who -sub -let them in rooms or 'small flats to the poor. The rents .are &safe'. • A man will have to pay • eveenty-ttee dollars a mortaafor three emall rooms on a fifth floor. It will be remembered that at the •:Mut of 1007 Eastern America euffered art:teethe worst times whiele had been ' Itnbwa in the States tor very many ;Years. and the result was that evic- Ilona or non-payment of rent became more and more frequent. .A REDUCTION IN RENTS • t/t. was Ceollie Arkin, a nineteen - year -old girl, who devised the ,pb.ut a campaign, aud.bancied together no -fewer than thirty thousaucl families, who all Yawed to Oay no more rent • nulese ;t general reduction of twenty per etnit, was granted. Each family • Pledged itself to shelter as many an eimeible of the OVIOtod 0110s. , The struggle was a long and bitter ,one. Hundreds of faattliee were turn - 'ed oria but in the end Ceeille Arkin • won a vaitory; for the agents corn - premised, and a goaoral reduction of . 'len ear cent. was the (mutation on which, the strike was settled. 'The last Omelet rising In Spain was beaded by a woman. This was In 1901, and the insurrection broke out td Berge, In the turbulent. province' of Cabalonia. The identity of the .lady Ites never leaked out, She was tali, beautifully deesseti, arid rode magnificently. aai It was rnmoured at the time that ehe was Donna Biattea, Duchess of Bremaza, and wilay et Don Alfonso, Mealier of Don Carlos. But this sur - mime was proved to be false, and to this day her 1(10021 17 15 a mystery, •• There bee alivityta been ri. deal of ealruggliaa along the western end of the boundary lino between the United •:$tatep end Mexico. ' TIM most notorious of all thes ae arugglers was a ilifexicart woman Arnown as Lelia, Queen a the Smug- giers. She was quito young, and ex- tremely good-looking, and bY her ex- ' danorclittary talents rose to be head "ot a blind or most daring. sumgglers. , A QUEEN BETRAYED For uearly four years she reigned altercate, and then one. day, as her ,...._ _ ,iong train of "burros". .(donkeys), ,...,...,osering contraband goods, was creas- ing . the Rio Graude, she was Bar- er/8ml by a sudden shower of rifle- • hullete. She had • been betrayed, and At Wrong force of Mexican "Iterates" had been ambushed among the rocks. One of he arms was broken by a „bullet, but with splendid courage she • leathered her men and rode straight eftthe troops. A soldiea seized hor bridle. She •,aut him clown, and for some mlnetes .a furious tight raged. Then numbers 'Prevailed, and she and her surviving ..companions were pulled down. She died In hospital a few days later. • There is, no part of the world and no race which does not produce its fighting women. Quite lately our Orown Colony of Soethera Nigeria , has been plagued by a lady of colour known as the "Onitt." , Among her tribe she is reckoned oEficially as a man, and cannot leave a husband. After causing endless trouble to the authorities sbe made peace, and ,ahen coolly densanded a seat npon the legislative •Couacil. So tar this Bas not been granted, but it is pos- sible we May heartmore of this coal- ' 'black Suffragette. 1 PERSIAA IYEDOINfiS Tying the matrimonial knot Is a tory prolonged and serious affair in Persia. In feet, a wedding may ex- • tend for a week. On the last day of the wedding the bride, who has been areated as a sort of outcast, is con- ducted by a near relative to a room, where she undergoes further and *re elaborate decoration. • She then returns to the guest -room, .and her dowry le laid beaore her I11 trays. the dowry often comprises iamh queer things as cheap end high- • lyecoloured oleograplm, gently wises, •birdeagee, and many useful house- hold articlee. • Having kiesed the lmarthetone of her home, she is then given bread, salt, and, a piece of gold, and thus equipped and cloeely veiled she is hoisted on to a gaily -adorned donkey and, accornpanied by a circus- aike proeession of friends. goes to her future home, where her husband .awaits her. "Are you a friend. at William Bhata gins? That ne'er-do-well?" "I should think net, indeed!" "Then you'll hardly be Interested 'to bear .that. he has Inherited a hun- dred thousand pomade." "What? Dear aid Bain" • Askert "How do Ton, excuse those' Mother-in-law jolreci of yoUrs to coto, •. Funitinan 100 b000' refer to her mother-in-law, and She ;says tbeyi ape not hall bad enough,' 42 Mow • 'a' ii;.1441.014'141.4.46AOs ,:ah twee Lan age' Has • phe difficuitiesof making,00 a font Of Chinese tYPee PaYe' the Anterlean Consul at 'Shanghai, althettaii cane aiderablea are net relativelY, eia great PUO titeve iMigine; fbattvhalo Kiang diettonary ; the standard, arra tneet Oompaelemelae Werk of thst kind In , the 'attaguage, contains %Mlle '40,-890 ,charactere. it ,nae been 20u11 Mat fel' atlpracticahile purposes a foaa'need' coatarin about 1,000. Of aCiarae, a font of ,thie Mae the ansineee printer; ,the cottrse ef setting up a ,boo,k wIll krecittaerbly eked. that Ile lacks a dozen ' ao unusual eharactere, a ,dilfMultY isatich he readily meets by boxing Sthese nieashig Syr:11)01s hand cut 'On ' Monk, Yee by kli1ed ngravers, who, thanks AO the old ,Wood-alock sastorn axe to be famed in practically every brown In Chine'. -Although neaCticallY, all Chinese newsPaimas, and hooka on Modern topics, are now printed teem Movable metal type, books perbalia- Ing to oldChina, suet' as the Confu- cian 'claissleA and their commentaries, rare WU produced by the time-honor- ed method of printing from wooden blocks. Among the reasons why the Chinese peeaerahts books of IbIs nat- ere printed In the old way ore his diattu•adly strong conaervaaism, the peoutiar charm and arettatic softness uf the pages painted from alooka, Which the moderh books from naetal preaees 'do not have, and the fact that the new style volumes lack, that pe - bullar odour iimpa.rted la the older method by the lampblack tattle ink, with witch they are printed, an odour which, although extremely di,sagree- Male to ocoidental nostrils, is hasegar- ably associated in the Chinese mind ivith good 'literature. • TII0b$ERS OLD COATS Mho' Chinese never waste anYthhig. A ehopman puts up parcels with half the paper and string used by Euro- peans. Servants collet • itua sell mateh-Ixams and things whach seem, to us to be useless. In the country you will see a boy up in a tree beat- ing down a single leaf ',vete a tick for fuel. Women, wheri too old for any ether worit, coneet dry grass for the same purpose. A man collects Ills' fowls anti then beats old, damn mots or matting; cock-rofrohes and other vermin jump out, atal the •fowls have a meal that costs nothing. Von give a cootie an old coat that yen are ashamed to wear, and he will probably get t1 to transform it for thirty or flirty cents into two pairs of excealent trOutsers for him- self. One has only to watch their story- tellers in the streets te see that the Chinese aro natural orators. They are also very clever conjurers. Rich Chinese are very ;heritable. They dietribute free rice end tea` inatime ot exceptional distress ;they subscrIbe to hospitals' and to asylums for tbe blind, for the old, for lepers, and for orphans they even support aseocia- Bons for supplying tree °Mins to the „poen THAT WONDERFUL DOG One evening at a tavern the topic was about dogs, "Oh!" said ,Toby, "I had a dog and was taking a near cot across some flelds when 0 missed the animal, and on going back f found leim staring at a notice -board bearing the word, 'All dogs found here wit! be.ehota And come be would Trott' "Yes, yes, that's good, but what about aohnsou's retriever? One night his libuse caught fire, aid was con- fusion; old Johnson and hie wee Slew for the children and bundled them out sharp. 'Was: one was /eat behina, but up jumped the dog, rueheal In, sand aeon reappeared with the child, depositing it on the lawn. All were out now, but in rushed the dog again. What he was after no one knew. Presently the noble animal reappeared, scorch- ed and Mirnt, with what do you think?" "Give i4, up," came trom the listen - "Why, with the flarapoiley wrapped up in a damp thwel, gentlemen." A NEWSPAPER BLUNDER A year or tee, ago, Sig Bea (the wela-known Westmineter parliament clock) was fitted with new hands. A repenter M the London orifice of a Mancileater paper saw hia chance and wrote: ,"A well-known cbaracter, who has lived in 1,Vestmlaster alltbie and is tandalarly knhan to Lon- doners as "Ben," underwent a eemlaus operatic,n lade Morning. As Weet- minster liespital was too full to allow of aim halting a bed, the 0001011011 was earnied out by two doctors in the open air, and in the preseace of a large erowd. Both of Ben's bands were taken off - succesfully and rapidly. A new pair will be provided for ham." The subterlitar in MaTt- cfrester read through the paragraph, and added the l'ierisllines: 'Operation in the Open Air. Big London Otowd Itratehes Man' Hands 'Patron Off.' And so at duly appeared in next morn- ing's paper." . Entertaining Up To Date A' now form of ontertalaing.started by film. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, is being taken up by Ite*port hostesses: It de a dinner, and dance. With the dancing between the courses. Ae soon as one course in finished the or- clueetra straltee up, ahd the guests leave their places and begirt to dattca The dance finished, another °vibe 'is served. Eating and dan,clutg go on ie this way until the dinner 'is Kaiak - ed, By 'the time .coffecae served the dinner -tall has lasted two hours. Duel Up To Bate •' A contest in the air, between viva! • evisitors 'tor • it glare hand wee the 'feature of ft" 00O-4aY aviation meet arranged eareat Lima, Oilde, Two of the aviators, .Taelt Be,eatetea anti Hale Chambers, had been laying eloge to .the heart of M106/ Dorothy Dale, of 'raffia, Cato, • alias Dale refueed to ehoose between them, atal le 0 reeent heat lin that city made' a hap into the elorals wIth both. She pranttsed make her decision, and inliabateti that, ,$0.1,e 180111,11 accept the One lina made the htgiteat altitude taeord during the day, ^ -1•- miton News-Reqord :EXPENSIVE, •ALBUM . , ,..i.„„,,o(!o,oi• Au . Autogriipk AlbOuL 1408 Saanattlrer 44 WO • • , Ileimmeed 'Cek3brities' end ' • Their Remarks Seven YeaN, age Donneilior „Louis, Barth, of A0Eu4 '111 Hungary, cam- , mentied to Collect .autographs, tand't0-. day ,oan boatit of possessing One of ' the tinestt collections in, the world.. Indeed ',he recently 'refused an 'offer, of no lees than $200,000 for bye fahunt, .11111th contains' the. 'names of 853 world-renowned celebrities, whose st- tna1as 'have been ' written ak forty, 'three languages., .AlteadY 114110tY- three 'of them , are ' 'llecontlY he Vatted Marlborough • House ' to obtain the signature of Queen AlleXandra, and cot Ber Maes- tht 7 e' € reretqt;iire:\tveleitqty-'hitatrlYrihio"jeriess,Inv4olrutiter • that the might , examine at leisure ' hia wonderful array of signatures of Kings, ,Queens, Dmperors, Ministers, aelelltletS, artists, and writers. Herr, Barth has gone all over the world to add to Ills book, and has spent be- tween $45,000 and $50,000 in travelling expenses. The .10mpertor Francis Jo- eeeh, 'who favoured hini •with an au- tagraph, t'old him he Was the OmlY person, not a Minister, who had ever /received .1110 signature. "I'Wes at Biarritz one year," says Herr Ilartla "at the some time as King Edward. I showed lam toy volume, and, in giving me his sign- ature, he Geld: You book is an ex- traordinary treaeure, 42 hag onty one defect - it is not mine.'" Herr 13art1) to preparing o history of how his autographs have been oh - Antrim]. This book wild 1101* (5411 ln facsimile every O11tograpi ae pos- seeses. It le to be issued in an edi- tion of 100,000 copies, and the pro- ceede Of its saie wilt be deviated to International cha,rities. WONDERFUL GOWNS Dresses Rich • and Wonderful That Make Women Gasp and Mon SA Up and Wonder if D. Ts Worth the Candle. One of the moat beautiful costumes, ever turned out was that worn by Queen Mary at the Coronation Dur - bar, and there are no fewer than 5,250,000 stitches in the train, which Is of Irish point: lace. The train had been presented as a gift by the ladies of Belfast to her Majesty, and was Made by the Pre- 'sendation Sisters or Youghtel. It has been estimated that It would have taken over a quarter of a century for a single lace worker to complete the train, but sixty workers, working regularly, finisbed,it in 08,020 hours. This reminds one that at the Plan-, tagenet Ball, held at Buckingham Palace in 1842, tee late Queen Vie - torte, impersonated (anew Philippa, in a silken dress mule entirely in Spitaltelds. 'Phe dreas, which was on view tor several days at Hanover Square, cost, in 'materials elone, nearly $1250 while the gems that decorated tt, exolusive ot the Royal pearl -necklace, head- dt•esa, and other jevvele, were valued at pain $300,000. The fur that trininted her outer t robe was mduevez, the skin bf the Siberian squirrel, the same kind of fur that Queen Pailippa wore on her Court coetumes In the days ot 'Meg ago. Perhaps the most exempla() decal; ever worn by Queen Alexandra Watt that in which ehe appeared at the famous ball at Devonshire House In honour of the late Queen Victoria's iDamond Jubilee. She took the char- acter of Marguerite de Valois, corn- menly called La Rehm Maraca, ber train being 'carried by the daughter of air Francis Knotty's. Her Majesty's costumes is seld to have cost $1250 to make. It was of riCh white satin, embroidered in gold mid sliver, with a high collar from whieb hung the train - a glorious affair of cloth-oftgold lined with silver brocade, The Dowager Empress of Russia has always dressed exquistiely, end in the richest end moat expeastve materials. She received on the occa- sion of her silver wedding an ermine mantle w•hieb cost $00,000, It was presented to her by the liability of the proviace of Kherson. Gold -and -silver dresses are by no means uncommon. 'the metals, alter being formed into very fine wire, are woven Into cloth, and afterwards made into dresses. The women of SUIllatra were the first to attire thorn- selees in this expensive 'material. Countess Palovolovetsch wore a firefly dress at a garden -party given Benares eame years ago, This entquci gown ,had the appearance of being conetructed of tongues of blue flame resting on a bed of light liguld. The material of the dress its.elf wile Weil' brocaded silk, 'and attached to the -gown were exruotly aa fireflies. These little creatures . glowed until the 'countess lett the ground, and doffed the strangest gown ever worn att a "society gathering In Inclia or eleewhere. The Countess de Vitleneuve once had a drese made from beetle backs, and wore it on several occasions. Wlien attired in this strange costume she Wore a bertatiful searabaeus beetle on her peck a:Melted to a collar by' a slender gold chain, which allow- ed It to i'eani about the lady's chest and shoulders, • A wedding eerentony 'had came to o clase. 'rile mother stalled •eon, vulaively, and elte briele ,dabbed her pretty oyes with handkerchief. 1 011e .02 the 'bridesmaitle was also affected 10 (5015. "ashy <lo you weep?" • asited a groomeniari of •tile britleetetticl;' "It's not youx • iveddine" 'late girl looked at* tarn ecortifully. "That's the reason, you stapld," And elle sighed.. There la many tt man who isn'1 worth what it costs him to live ,What 0011 111.,4,1,g,4igngel.tinkes uf •' . .ehlht. 7aP01esi:t 'rhn ,0t:1 4nto4fL4 l504rn0yea,t4f:eqt1ngpe7;odb 1 1 ne3.tas4c;4oere,, us/Luridly peaceful, we think that tee facture Sthihga '''°14°11:Pr 11)012 °4' rhe petit 'is that China 01114Yellow Peril 15 a cernmercial num. topmasts eau met dietaries us from 011ie trade 02 (1)0 Fair' FlaSk.. i1d3v con' wd, With, oar high ,atiendaed of ocanfoat, Strikes, rend purest generally, tiete with the Chinese, combining, as they ,t1o;'' the. ecthre industry of the most canlized2peolele With the' passive , Iraltienee Of the* North,. Aalleeicau ;na Man:, Par more 4111011 01' do the Dlitnege believe' in • the' poWer ,of •character and'• inte/leet ,' With offs, rather, than with arniies fltid' navies, they connuer,, A Chinese Isitemly ivraysa pe.rsot af resouree. A young man was' the - cased of knocking oat his ,fnAllor's Leath and was in of being itait to death. A friend visited him and Whispered in iris .ear, "It's a bad case." Suddenly seizing the ear betweeit 5(5 19011). coyet be gay: e 01 aanT"skeraeblettl'' the toung man, rasing his fast. "I mean," *as the answer, "that rem are sated; Yen have only to show the Marks of my teeth and say that they were made by your rather,"whase teeth, being shaky, dropped out," Business Before Sentiment. Two small thiags impress foreign - ars with the 01)1)1 .of the Chinese. One le the way they carve ivory bells, one within the other, to the number of seven or eight; and the other the Inscription of minute characters in- side note or crysta stuff -bottles. " A Chinamaa always appears le be looking rouna the corners of leis eyes at you, and to have a meeting that you cannot get at He gives you tlte impreselon bl.tat somebody. when he was born, sat on his nose, and that he has been lamenting the caleanaty ever since. And yet, though he peace lays aside this expression of resigned wretchedness, the average Chinese Is hot fat 11 more miserable thaa the average Britieher. Speaking of Britisher', we MY say that they and Chinamen have emelt in common. Both have a great capa- city for making and enjoying' money. Both have business aptitude and in- tegrity, do their work welt, and ap- preciate a good dinaute Equally with Englishmen, Celestials bave common sease and respect for law, and do not allow sentiment to Interfere trial bueiness. The Chinese are the British of the Far Mist, and the Japanese are the Preach. • Fond of Sport. The Chinese are not late con- servative than the English. They dread any obange that may eauee trouble Or disorder, and this is why they have put up so long with their wretched government. "Better be a dog In peace," they say, "than a man 1)1 anarchy." The "dog in peace" has now risen to war; let us' 'tope that the splendid em.plae of China witi not remain in anntaity. Like the Brills:la alse, tae Chinese are fond of sport, though their idea a sport is peculiar. They train quails, thrushes, antreven fish to, fight, and they bet on these, and ou almost every other event. The Chinese contrivauees, for the management and capture of beast, bird, and fish are as ingenious as they are simple. If, for inetance, a donkey dieturbs by braying in the Meth a big stone is tied to hie tail, and that harniliates him into silence. When n Chinaman wiebes to catch wad ducks he mixes an intoxioating spirit made of rice with corn and leaves the mixture for the birde. They tmoome intoxicated, and are taIcea In theta cups, so to speak. Another waY is to put a gourd on hie heed and swim gently among the thicket TheY are not frightoned, beeause they only see the gourd end are accastomed to that, and the artful teen pulls one duck after another by the legs into a bag attached to him. Everyone knows that John Chinaman trains eorneor- ants to catch fah, not for themselves, but for him. Atter cold water, there ie nothing the Cbinese so much fear as ridicule EllItl diagrace, or the "loss of face." A rem,gistrate who was to be .bobeaded asked that, as a speci•al favour, he might Wear Ids robes of office in order to save ete face? The Chinese axe great at or- ganizing. The trade guilds which are establisbed in every town lithe quite as powerful es our trade. unions. Eve,n beggars and thieve$ have guilds. Every morning tie king of the beg- gars eentis a detachment of his sack- cloth -clad or nearly uneled subJeots to oolliect poor -rates in the districts a,sisgned to them. Owners of pro- perty pay so meat a year to "the bonourable guild of thieves" in Oder not to be robbed. SHAM BATTLE SHAMS The military manocuares were in a muddle. The "Purples" were sup- poSed to ire invading the territory of the "Greene," but why they were or what they` were theY didn't exactly A large detachment of the 'Purples' began to cross the river by a wooden ,bridg6 to attack a small detachment of 'Greens: "HA!" roared the 'Greens.' "HI! Yon Mustn't cross here! Can't you soe the ,notice? This bridge ia sup- pesed to Ite-clestroyed," ' "Ilan!19 tt?" responded the can- tairt of the 'purples,' grimly. "Welt, then, we're supposed to be swimming acroes." Crstly 21.'allaJna Ilats Even in rnodern tintes there have been uten's bobs Whieh cost far more than anyth,ing wont, by the ladies. That, for •itance, preseathd to General Grant wiban he was in atettaa cost $1500, and justly giants te be the finest sotribrero 'ever made. The admi,rere ea Mr. Steward, a member of 'Teresa:lent .Littooln's Cabinet, too, ease alnet fir the Pallitilltt With which they p450eted hlsn 4(1 OXFO Sento Queer Words Us4d •by Under.. , , graduates Which Itie• , 'lug le the Prealonfin WItint ' First "Oaes rfi jargon, or 15 own,, Whieh la Partly' culled frote the same, kind 'of thing need in the ptibile, schools ,f' pigiand: Some 02 the expressiona are rather 00001(157'- I lag :to the fr(1shman' when,' lie first fagoes up" to, the, ThaVersitya ' StUrIYa, amstal i12, and,.sPori „ono) have their peculiar expreaslans. • The first examina.tion to be passed is. RespOnslons, called "Steidle." ,.The examinations are called ,"Seliools" 'because they take place in the Ex- amination , Schools. After "Smalls" • Comes the • Divinity' examination, which ail must pass, The under- graduate calls it ,"divveril." Inch conies' Moderations --- called "Mods" and the final, examinatiOn for the p.A., degree called "areas." Lectures .n Preparation for these examinations ere called "lekkers," If ,at the end of anY term a student' is not taking th.Public 'examination he hos a' college examination, Collections, or "Col - letters." ' A Mall 0110 is reading Chemistry a "Stinks" man. If he is at- „entliug Mathematics lectures he will ue a "Maths" man. The tutors are ailed "Pons." In ilia soCial Ilfe, too, the Oxford Ilan has his pet expression,s. Break - a11 ia a favourite meat 'for the ills- , nay of hospitality, ."Come to 'brek- aer' with me," a "second year" man alti say to the "fresher.". The .ratnee,rvent wha briags up the break- _ ast, makes the bale, oleans out the :00105, etc., is called a "ecout." Zreektast, lunch, and tea are taken n a 01011'8 rooms, dinner is talten in Hall." The bill for rlinners Is called battels," An average matts. day put into Oxford Jargon would run something eke this:- . Get up and "keep a chapel," ser- vices being held every morning .and evening. Aftea "brekkor" go to "Mk- aers,a In the afternoon go and he anbbed' or take part in a football "squash.' lie will. perhaps, take tea in the college Junior Common Room, or, familiarly, ".T. C. R." At seven "Hall," after Which tee will read, having first, perhaps, "sported bls oak" or closed his outer door to ke..p %way intruders. COSTLY SPITE The most expensive act of damage ever committed 1»* a railway worker was that of an Italian navvy em- ployed In the construction of a tun- nel through °Ire or the mountainIn the- Bleak Forest. Having a grudge against his foreman, he succeeded one night In altering the position of the stakes watch marked the course of the work. The excavators were work- ing upon the tunne.1 in twe sections, one from the north and one from the south. Owing to the el -lifting of the stakes the seetious, Instead of being dIrected to the same point, were found to be twentyesix feet apart when they reached the middle of the mountain. 'the northern half of the tuanel had, therefore., to be entirety reconstructed, at u cost of 5875,000. KING A FARMER Ring George Is a menarch who does , not scorn to make money by side- lines. From his model farms at Wind-. sor, Balmoral, and Sendringhatn he derives a handsome re yen tree and *maintains a herd of several Itundrecl superb cattle, witleh take prizes rut agricultural shows all over Lae coun- try. His Majesty is 080 keeping up the late King lialwarra$ horse -breed - ng establiehment of Sandringham, where, In addition to raeeitorses, he raised hackneys, coaelt-horses car-, riage-horses, and hunters, MONEY FROM INVENTIONS Many of tee seions of Europe's reigning houses are In receipt of big sums from inventionfor which they have been responsible. The reigning Grand Duke of Olden- burg, tor example, has invented a form of propeller whieh most a the German warships and liners• use. A colar-stud, which Is Belling in hun- dreds of thousands, has been invent- ed by the German Crown Prince. And one of the moat up-to-date 5080 - planes Is the Invention or the Orand Duke of Hesse. • FORWARD! CANADA Sir Thomas Lipton at a dinner In Chicago praised Canada's bigness, "I once heard," he said, "a Saskat- chewan fa.rmer talk about the big farms they have up there. ''We leave some siza,ble ferneS,' he said, thoughtfully. 'Yes, sir; pretty sizable, 'I've seen a man on one of aux big farms Start out in the spring and plow a straight furrow till fall, rhen he turned around and harveeted back.' "'Wonderful,' saki I. ''On our Saskatchewan farms,' he went ma 'It's the usual thing to send ..oung married couples out to milk lie cows. Their children bring home he milk.' ''Wonderful,' I repeated. "'Onee,' he said, 'I saw a Saskat- thewan fanner's family prostrated oath. grief. 'Me WOITLOTI were weep - ng, the dogs were barking, the hildren were squalling, and the tears etreamed down the emu's face as be got into his twenty -mule Jame and drove oft" "'Where was be gaing?' said 1. "Ho was going hale way across the farm to feed the pigs,' eai(1 the Saidattehewan termer. 2)/(1 he, ,ever get back? I asked. "'It ain't time for lira yet,' was the reply.'" "TINT'LlIHNZ.A" 'h.0;EIgYttlil's,1111AT;;34°AfabeSsn.5reet6)311,6-1, ' It'Then Crumbles: ' A. curious illestraticon .Ot the., airs- • ceptildlity of metal to ,heat, arid cod' Is pretided,1)7 the effect *hied& winter 'Intati5le'elsP?tInn ed!ego!Cfrintetit-' '4111'Inaet ftW1X1Alelst. t'd4es°41'1,ibeti ((3' "ititafanahatie"' In the Words, m'eta11.°a'teho.Sa l'e/'Y aefore cold, the thee to arey; powders The :1,111<0aymptoras or leaden 110011001Y, Ittaa Of 116trO, 4111,3 1116Itllg Of (19 15 110t a cheiniced;onm. for ,LIte grey Powder is Mal tin, and the extraordie' trereals011*')',bfaycai;tshlat4011 00 tgorhi.t ginally, healthy ednelition. ' • The purer the.'tin NM more sus- , ceptible it, is to cold, and eitasequently defr e raa4 altaai'ealrlY00,i and,againiitti I'aSt, 11 Ina ease by alloying, it With other rm,.tale. The (1 15050,1 lo a cense of comdderuble ,Gt.oeinzfe„,3;taanrese at:tel dpiastipspointwthnoten,z,Tii.t)csi%ct,1;: 'minable tat $110Otillells% in tilIcAr <aide neto Even tin buitche have been latowte it,oipescrummabdi: oicu otalri4elallrve.aybe,a;nndroto.nrgdanto- decay ,aater severe winter. The rot tie evenAtifeetioue, for cle- haying tin, in contact with healthy, luttrous tilt, soon spoils It, and re- duce.s it to its OWII state, MOTOLCYCLISTS AMAZING FEAT. • A sthilting ialuatintion or the capa- city and deraaellty of the motor -vele is furnished by the record recently set up by liar. Harry Long, the well- known Yorkshitre cytaing cliampion, who haz just completed a journey of 40,000 rallies on a xi -rotor -cycle in ten months, To accomplish his ride be went 'round .the whole of the coast- line of Greet Britain, in addition to other mileage; anal, carrying no head- light, he had necessarily to ride only between dawn and dusla What makes the trip all alai MOTE noteworthy is t,he fact that prior to setting out on his journey, which he anticipated would occupy . twelve mantas, Mr, Long had only s Week's tuition in looking atter his inbunt. e had only ten punctures during I1,4i ride, but hat the unpleasant ex- perience of having to sleep twice in the 'open and to ride through a tea - days' downpour of raln whiic itt Scot - 1011.!..„ &Ice, in the North of Scotland, Mr. Long almoet 041(1 has attempt brought . to a maiden end. Riding along a road skirted by a declivity or Several hundred feet, be experienced a dry skid, Gad was thrown !Uht off the saddle. Fortunately 110 fell on a ledge and was enabled to scramble back, remount aie maehine, /rad annalY falten on tee roaa and was uninjured, and continue his jeurneY. POLITICAL POLITENESS An in,cident in the life of Lord Beacoasflekl afford $ o.pi latistra- non of the charm whieli the spirit of ohivalry infuses Into everYdaY says the author of "Dow to be Happy Though Civil," Gladstone was , attacking le the nouse of Commons the Administra- tion of Disraeli, as he ems thentie bad begun ,senteace, "elle right 110001 '1(1(10 gcatternan and bis satel- lites," when some interruireine threw him out; he eantil (0 it 8101,, and seem- ed on the point of breaking clown. Dier,aeli leaned OPr011a 1110 table and repeated the word "satellites," where- upon his adversary tit once recollected himself and resumed his invective. Astd .Gladstone could be equally urbane. On the sane evening after Lord Randalph Churchill hail :made a fiery attack on Mtn, Lord Banded/Al and his wife were at the same dinner - party with Gladstone. "The fleet per- son," says Lady Randolph Churchill, "I met as 1 went in wee elr. Glad - atone, who et tame came up and saki: 'I hope Lord Randolph is not toe tired after Ws magnificent efforts:" TURN ABOUT For 'her •he Isati vowed he would go through the fiery furnace; tar lier would willingly brave the fury • of demons; 'for her lie would, In have done anything. Por these reit- sous, and also because hie socks want- ed darning bratty, he had taken the plunge and married her. Ile ems worth (a toast $58) a week to his em- eloyer, but he only got $5.0.0 and the Dirt week of theer wedded life, full of resolutione, ot' noble self-sacrifico, had given her 52, and kept the twenty cents to pay for taxicabs anti cigars ancl theatre stippere. ' The next week there was a slump In seir-seenialve. tie gave her the twenty eents and kept the golden slan- ted of ehintag bope fox himself. "Theopleilus," ahe rem:littera icily, "witi You kindly inform me how you ahtua going to manage tor 11 weelt oe this?" "Blessed if I know!" he replied. "I heel n paetty rongh time mysela last week. It's your turn this." The Itisk There's an old yarn abont a tat 01111 51 lean duelist. The fat ono cam- TYlained (11)1 110 offered e much Mager mark to bis entagonisaa bullet, where- upon the 101)7) 111111) proposed chalking ,-mtlinc on 1119 fat one's' body and no shot outside the 0110114 line woale be counted. We Were reminded of thie story by the rollo W1t1,1 (1(81105 7501.1011 all accident insitrence company has pliteed• in the elevators et' eavelat °trice builitatigat 'Inas elevator is Limited to fnarteen *memo. All over tile( number' ridIng 41.1 this ear do so et their own rt.k.- A 1Y4ln41erful Wateli A Genov,a wateh-making firm has ji barge t 01113' 0(11 , letti,tri its nice; nead'fol 50)11011, A, pearl, 0411011 weight; 'forty-five grain$ ond has a ammeter ot aboat half ne inch, coatalas ali the works It toot on enrdeve or the 200m fifteen mouths 110,10 Ont the pearl rend Ill :in the whores. The watch. 0/111011 14 g taranteed to keep good cline and 115 v be worn as a ring ell the finger, bi. for sale for 55,000, , ifve Stocic Show INGS IN TRADE Nest or, the Menarche, of littrope104)1,8 • •F • D e y 114/4#4 blitosiloass , Monegolat are met above makinx maneadt, etatt petite -es the' ,eltould be elven fill3f, Pla0O '001011e reigning Sovereigns for ,shretatt oom- meaciallem. lie makes aatreng Oatek ef teal Venting Ilool frienaship af , 20- 1101101111 magnates, not qnly in Ida owneliat ind other tiountrles is well, . The ,Itaiser has some >05i' 101'17s holdings M. the litirnburg-Americen Steamehip lahm, Ile is eatertiveta Interested ie the diathondtmine eater - Palatal Of Geenean West Africa. la cortnection with the titet forests '0010 - inked in the Crown domains and hie private este:tea, be carries on 0: targe lumber imaiimea. Hie horee-. breed ing es ta blishin en 1, 171 Western Prusairt :allege him in 0 handecane revertee, He .113 the principal staltea holder tu the inuaicipal lagerebeer brewery at Hanover, And he carriew on an extensive manufactory of pot- tery on his private estatee at Cadi- GaftUERTS0 GOLDEN GRA/N Guetavitts, the present ruler of Up) Sw&les, is 19 total atestainer. Ona eontiag to the Bantle, he disposed oe, hie Into father's extensive breaang interests. But Oto still retains Maur Mar prof 1 tabl e Maestri en ts. Ile haa meney in mills and mines, and he • seldom aeglects to extol 100 .virtuew of the Ceara! Motel at Stockholm, ha which he is by far the,largest eha.re-' holder. Ole is a secceseful speculative builder. In this 1007e When property In the slum distrlets of the Swedisb metropolis ie goitre; dirt cheap, along comes the King, and bays it. And. soon on the Rites of the dilapidated buildings rale handeome houses and thoroughfares which Increase the - value or the property many I./mei; over, Few monarchs have shown them- selves cleverer managers of a wite's property then the Ring of Denmark, 113" ehretvd investments lie haa al- Xearly multiplied its value umny 110105) In a large ember oi' his enterprises he is neosciatea with hie RoYalt brother, Ring George of Greece, who, possesse$ an immense fortune, which he owes in a great measure to trader- ' taking certain operations In Americatt grain about thirty-five years ago, which the (toeing of Chlessa and other Southern 1/118811111 seaports to the ex- port or grant. owing co the war with. l'urkey, rendered extremely profit- able. From the sale or beer, the Prince Regeut of Bavaria draw:: immense sunte. In mania ere arim, dirty taverns 411 which 111< Royal Court beer lias been sold for the /ast three nesturies. You never see a waiter or waitress, Von meet Patent' to your owit aquae, whetber you bn !mince or peasturt. 'indeed, Mien the Kaiser visited efunleb, he and the Baverieti Princes took their plaree1*8 lthe, and awaited their tern for a. stone mug, which they theniselvea /timed oat! 11 EASONA 111,E ItCQ VEST Tr wee a cold night. The aravNlere inquired at ale catty bete/ 111 the town if he weld be lodard for the night, hia AILS infOril1Vd that it was full 11p, "But you must give me 51)1110 sort, of accommodatlotk," saicl the stranger. "StitelY you don't want Inc to sleep. under the starry but chilly skiesg" "Well," said the proprietor, "Ile:, best we curt do 18 to make you up a. bed le the passage. kind curtain it oft for you." And so It, was arra»ged, In the dark watehee or the night the traveller awoke. .A freezing draught chilled him ;Ind Ole sheet • which had been hung up es parti- Men was blown: g , merrily in the breeze. The truvell,r roee and shout- ed for the Iruelloed. "What is It?" queried n voice from the etairhead ".Pleaase," eatl tee stranger, Unita- ly, "may I hue, a reaper 01 1118 at, lock my bedroom ,leor TOE SILENT The lapanese, alone of all races, utter zio sound when engaged in com- bat. From this national trait springa the curious regulation which pre- vents japaneen eegiments from pos-. S01151115 beside Migles, or drama. Orders lire given verbally, or by meaus of siguals with the hand ar sword. No trumpets sound the charge, no armee bent the tattoo, end na bugles truke the troops with their riegiug , A FAIII OFFER It wee a political 'meeting in the, Mast during the last recess, and the, el. It, an exceptionally popular memo we,$ addressing hie constituents. 'Plat politic:Mu In questa:et rah/Ices in a, luxu rlan t crop of hair. The audience, Wat; sympathetic for the most part; but there was one In511 in the trent row or 1110 audience who made numerous intetemptione, lie was a, coal -heaver, apparently, and brat alit recently boon heaving (male. 'Dot your tole en I " 11n sheeted during a most Nanette pasenge in the candidate's speech, The well-known catch phre.se seemed particularly ap- rateable, so a good many or the au-, dience 14, IlgllOd But the &LP, was equel le the oc- casket. "1 will make bergant 'with that geretlenum," tie said. "I wtbl get ma hate cut, 10 he will get his face, w,asited." There were no more interruptionsa terannage " What's the matter WiI11kln 2" Willakin: "Matter enough.. You. know eome time ago I assigned all my property to my Mae to -- 10 keep, it out, of tee bands of -- et people, I owe money, you .lueow?" i.pho's taken the money ari gone eff saye she won't 11v w. 1110 because 1 sivinaledtrny crectiters„'