The Goderich Star, 1906-07-27, Page 71
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Sold, last yeAr 04 the Clydes tor
hreakingqop pUrpOsee,' * *hip that
Went thirty yesrs in Muting. lino
danger, in co1,1404 twie0,: hint 00 Igo
4Keit Ptit out to Jor lour lietra rttn*Ing,
tertatined Ole perpetUal joy of Insurance
gehiperiles. and yet notuAg could
bar, 14 011 these disaster*** 4rareellf
1114. herselt anY aild 104 ts
known tar and Wide # a ship with a
*tieritte„4 ,
Her Pante Was. tne- tifirdecre, 404
steamer, built in the late aeifentiee, and,
on her th'01, Meg* thatingtitlihed
fiereelf ruining. aintick through the
Channel 'Flik0 nbidtt, WW1 both her
side-lights,oUt, ter theY Wonid, hot hurl.).
Ana wet nineteen. steel "warahiPSt
cludlog distroyers, tratfelling at Nil
seeed elOse fornuition; and Nifitt ,
Closely shaved that one chIPped #et"
fall.
She Jim* one ' tor1iede:h04‘. ginieed
two others to collide, end came out
of me, °Mounter having:One ,gia,Q00
worth of damage,,bUt having beret? g26
herself. Three months later she "fent
ashore on Eningelleas in* storm, htlt
was towed off OntnIria Okatrnan
barque rau jute her and. Mink. Itself the
year felleWing, Withoet doing much
darnege to the Hardecre, becartie
known ae
THE "HABINTOOOLL."
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flatidtiald,„ trio gni elten4h
lies in the michha of the Moat, forms
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ate '1,1* telem, eQUatill TOG, in Swh.
SOME IEGAL ETIOUET
the e101tde, atmi residents
Lord Starthattne's *date terming rerely DI*0 the ArtuAle to atuAy therm °I°4tett ta KhQ°1 1040.0. Tho tom,
bow 0..014 Nimg. -41; the sevontototh; ; To ono 000dtKoto, iiky tow look the Mall WO •court, but coUld not
ve"Ir3"419".4ts'thel rAvOttjOtterlt 144d vegitow ioNt mast deceptlie.: ter Whet ,altgr so the mous went to tha Swiss.
of Slencoan. tn ' 'the oict terds.inn ' of .seems 'at fltst, atgutiTa vary hrtelookiiiik v0Ver11,0414
LPrns Willel4A9rrni0c1 410 alibject et 4 .sky. oltert tO this hp The willa et meti who Samar. after
grant y fume r .
,Stewart et Ard411041 talt,5. mot Wee,
then Veld itt' Id*. of Os Earl of -Argyll::
4,,,08.6' Stewart of • Anisheal
part of it to:Macdonald. ot Mittritiehtan.
and m faod another part to Macdonald
:Olencoe, and he rdso seem to lave 11bovit ...rising SIM YOU IneY be
After 'delving" asliera".' Beat Vareriouth
in a log, anti sinking .1,4 VOW ROME
oe the .Newfounolland Babite MA Ions
afterwards, she broke down the
Channel, and Was driven to tite
Freud), coast In a gee,:"Iter Oreer'beleg
taken on. by We rocket apparatus.
Though posted at (lilt' as a tatel wreck,
elle wee towed otiosatebeittIP.'and Wait
on a voyage to the Argentine, whe/e her
pilot "piled her up" on a dapgerges reef
fit bad weather. Still Abe refused to die
for ale was relleMed and docked, aent
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M,174E%- 101tat NYMITIM,
4.00,
Ike Pr*** 01 * lit*d *Os
Moo Sow** by- liattiot
, 044000,
A curious el/rtellineitt Ibe 1140
prerogative tifectial by an Mt et
Para:orient passel la the alga of
Oecirgo Ht. which 4estl* with, :Seblaktiv
trealcinz thiii .Ack dlathielly
stated that 'the ttlentireli shall not nog
Alio newer pardOn eny preens etnh.
Of certain term of -StIOOothe
bro4tclog, Yot itto Moltoti coo. At
course, pardon nincty.Mne out ot
everg hundred prisoners in the lend.
A WOO ot yeaa'a tt, Wee per.
hiat,4 paanta,siele,, and„ 111 feet, mate.
ter of tablet etlinaltte, for VIelter wha
01401 Obtatin el/41010e With UM
Suiten ot Turkey to bow and litss the
hand of that Oriental potentate. Anar.
0340, however, took adyentege ot thei
PrivileP, and OR no Illenterable weer
SUM a treaciterOtta etideeeir$ drove 4
dagger Into the heart Of late SaVereign,
and from that, time tortli the
THE PRIVILEGE HAS BEEN PIS.
ALLOWEIX
Meted Of bad tl,tther; while sonietimee their 4o4th to wreak their lin %Anon,
ROL flarvey ott, Whet died, in Cangla
dtakaoOldoti is proPheey of a the liVird‘calwaye cops mow, see.
011,04 telt room trent 0,0 clouds fat hated MS heirs so direeted eXitett:
eanris* and. PIM% think et any ether Ora to billet 14,000 hantanotee, But
hours.. IV you, aee entail, light amide the few sap That * ninka 'who hurna
beak -notes Is &Ay . et maon. nos low
miters reillsed 'to comply with the COW
ditiati, and So render utemselves
to preSeeution, &tied all epee Or legel
complications are the -latinalte
A year Or ac, ago ths SUM Of 025,000
wee left, by en Miele Who reskte0
GerneelY, W. a young EdipbUrgh Plan,
but the CenditiOna Melte the WSW a
diftletilt one to win. ',The legatee Mat,
travel round the world, visaing War,
teen different, eau/Arias specified, and
after two years return blame and wiite
boek %Men what he hits seen, Thie
book Is to be submitted to certain
authorities epecilled by name, and
these, am to give their opinion upon It.
If this Is favorable, well and good;
fetled other parts. In .1701 ao
renteinder tei Hebert, Stewart of AMIN
Subsequently the hulk of the property
teued to Macdonald et Aehtritiolitanws0
ocquild by the proprietor of the Wife
of eip In, and Um proprietor of. OM eia
tate a se acqUired trona the Date tit
Argyll the superority of the old Wen-
ty Merk land.
TWENTW taws.
Lord Strathcona acquired the lands
which were feUed oUt in 1693 to Mac-
donald of Glencoe and also parts of the
Twenty Merk land 01 Gleneoan Which
formed pert of the Appin estate, Mehl&
Mg the superiority, So that Lord Strath..
cone betas the whole property of the
Crewn. His territory stretches twenty
rilileS from east to. west; from north to
south the breadth varies from two to
six miles. The large mansion erected
by Lord Stratheona was designed by
Sir Rowand Anderson, and is under-
stood 1Q have cost nearly R50,000, in-
cluding the layine out of the grounds.
It is lighted by electricity and built on
the old and historical property of Glen-
coe. overlooking Loch Leven, with Loch
Ltrinhe In the distance, and the Morven,
and Kingairloch In the background.
MADE THREE LAKES.
to sea once more, and was rUn into by
a'cattle beat on the way home, but by
amazing good luck,'Wae,,not sunk. Her
repairs, teem beginning to ,end, cost
A11,00O-on ratber Mere than twice her
value. She ,cantinned tInIcillable. until
she wore out with old age, and was -con-
demned by the Board of Trade,
One of the most astonishing records
held by any ship was that of the Brit-
ish barque Emerald, whieh becoming
tutmanageable off Cape Horn, was driv-
en by wind and tide through the ter-
rible Magellan Straits, and_eame out un-
scathed at We other end though she
made a good part of the voyage side-
ways, or stern first, between the terrible
walls of rock and tide-ratees, only tfie
finest full -powered steamers under thor-
ough control attempt to face.
Her performance Is unique, and not
likely ever to he beaten, fOr the odds
against-her-were-about-the-same--a.t,o
would give a. -runaway foue-in-hand
coach gallopittg from end to end- of
London
WITHOUT COMING TO GRIEF.
Her rival in that performance, strange-
ly enough, was a ship that had a le -
cord of escapades hardly short of the
miraculous. This• was the Diomede, a
small cargo -steamer, that was sunk no
Iese• than Ts1X-timessirr-twelve-years end
raised each time, which constitutes a
record among all the ships of the world.
She was sunk first in the year she wai
ullt by striking some floating wreck-
age in the Downs, and "total loss" was
paid over her. A salvage company
bought the wreck cheap from the un-
derwriters, and raised her at no great
cost. -In her third year she was sunk
again, In the Hudson -River, and raised,
and It was on the voyage f011owing this
thin, glit was wrecked on Sable Island
but saved from total toes. She finally
enjoyed the distinctiori of having been
sunk in every one of the five oceans of
the world, except the Antarctic, but al-
ways in watO just shallow enough to
allow her to be raised. At last she was
condemned as too old and unflt for sea,
and is now a quarentine hulk In tbe
West Indies.
It would lierdly seem worth even a
Pwreeker's" while to have tried to sink
the tramp -steamer Vandal, which till
lately held a world's record for having
been in ten collisions at sea in seven
years. Unlike the last-mentioned ves-
sel, she- has never been sunk at all.
though she sank six out of the ten ships
She collided with.
THE STILL MORE CURIOUS FACT
practleatlY certain Mgt the day go ng
de he -fine. .94 the Ogler; hen& the sky
titiOrlee Ma), be abeelately
yet, if the teet tang the eastern herltell
tt re4 orange, or yelkeiv, it to More
than probable that there Will be rain
befom night. The harder the color the
more likelihaod there is ^ol a storm.
Lord Stratboona formed three lakes
near the house, and has made a special
feature of autumn flowering shrubs and
plants, as well as autumn flowers, vege-
tables and fruit. There Is also a nur-
sery of trees from which extensive
planting is made every year. The
landiag pier for yachts is within a few
hundred yards of the house. There are
two shooting boxes, wip at the Coalisn-
acoan further up Loch Leven, and an-
other in the middle of the Blackcorries
was afforested early in last century, but
'inteelibelfrGqpiLsaeoan and Strang weer.
cleared comParatively recently, and
only after it was found absolutely un-
prItable to graze sheep.
THE WORsT SIGN -
A green sky fa a Still Worse sign, and
a greenlah cloud DI the seutireast is the
Meet =Mona sign of all. It mean.S
wind as Well as rain,
After a wet day Watch the clouds at
sunset, If they break at all and begin
to tre'Vel more slowly the weather will
probably moderate. It their edges- turn
red or golden you inky be almost cer-
tain that you are in for a couple of
days, at least, of fine warm weather,
Sometimes, after a perfect day, the
blue sky suddenly becomes speckled
over with little, curly, pale -colored
clouds which grtay in number and size,
and eventually cover the sky. These in-
dicate a chenge of weather, and ..you
can tell how soon it will come be, tne
height of these clonds, and at the Itngth
of time they take to form. The longer
they take the longer, as a rule, will be
the interval before the weather changes.
One more certain sign of bad weather
is leaden -hued clouds moving out of the
northwest.
There are four common forms of
clouds, watch are known as cirrus,
stratus, cumulus, and nimbus. Cirrus
is what we usually call mare's tails. It
Iles higher than any other form of cloud,
rising sometimes to ten miles above
the earth's surface. It tells you a great
deal about wind.
WATCH CUMULUS.
LAND LIES HIGH.
The ground is high lying, GlencolD be-
ing one of the most mountainous dis-
tricts in the west. On the south side
Bldean nam Blan (3,756 feet) Is the high -
_pet; on the north Aonach Eagach (3,168
feet), both favorite ascents among
mountaineers. An outstanding member
of the western group Is Sgor an Ciche,
the Pap of Glencoe, which lies behind
Glencoe house and from the top of which
there is a most wonderful view. Glen-
coe is entered from the west at Bridge
of cot, the village of Carnoch on the
left bank of the river was the ohlef eta-
chan of the Macdonalds. The massa-
cre took place on the 13th of February,
1692. "The Devil's Staircase" Is a rough
track across the forest from the Coe At
Alltnafeadh to the head of Loch Leven.
The Coe is the Cone of Ossian, on whose
banks, according to tradition, the poe
wee born: Ossian's Cave is on the soinh
side of the glen on a spur of Bidean
nam Bien.
At great heights the air currents are
!Urea from those nem- the surface,
but the wind abcive will morifi5Iterillti
not eventually descend. So 1f a storm
from the west has been blowing, and
clears sufficiently for you to see cirrus
oloud, you can tell what is going to
happen. If the ends of tne wind clouds
are curled back from the east One wea-
ther is coming. 11 not, a second storm
is approaching. When cirrus lies in
long, straight wisps from west to east,
be sure that rain is coming.
Cumulus is the cloud you see lying 'n
heavy, conical heaps. It Is more com-
mon in summer than in winter. Watch
it in the evening. If the heaps decrease
fine weather is coming; if they harden or
increase, and their bases are flat, look
out for rain and poesibly thunder.
Stratus is the flat bands of oloud syhich
forms at sunset on a fine day.' ft rises
from the earth, and is distinctly a fine
weather cloud. It is also the fog cloud.
As for nimbus, that is a mixture of
all the ather three, and Is purely and
simply a rain cloud. It forms the grey
ass with which we are unhappily tbo
familiar IR mil. moist, sea -grit island.
The more rapidly nimbus forms the
sooner, as a rule, will the rain be over.
*ay "Ik ION*** Militt
Wordo *vont*
009406
StirelY ne MOre laconic. onier could
to given tor ow matter ot
magnitude Mat which we* given,
to Sttitley when Mr„ t
Hie uNew York iterald." despetched 'hint
on Ma famous gueet With Iti0 stniti10
Notwithstanding the derneeratio
atitUtlons of -the United States, the
social relations Of Pre.sident Roottevelt
with the eutsIde world are Iiiovern91,„bY
Strict etiqaette. An invitation te milli-
ner at the President's caliche residence
-the White House -is a command luat
as nautili as a. Royal invitation woutd
be. Many dinner -party intongst the
Senators and Golernment officiate has
had to be cancelled because of the
Presidenes habit of inviting the lead.
ing members of the Senate to dine
with him simply to dLscuss political
affairs.
In passing into the grand State
room to dinner the President's wife al.
ways hes to wulk last -the President
himself taking in the wile of the doyen
or head of the diplomatic corps.
Another very oUrlous etiquette law is
that which prevents the President front
ever accepting an invitation from the.
Ambassador of a foreign country. The
reason for this is that the President is
supposed never to leave MS country,
and, as every embassy is regarded as
the territory of the particular country it
represents, the President would be
deemed to have left his own country
by stepping over the
THE MONEY WILL BE PAID OVER.
If not, the unfortimate legatee must
again start off on Ms travels,eand make
a second attempt to attain the necessary
standard of excellence.
Wills which forbid heirs to marry
certain people or to marry at till before
a certain age ere prodUcUve of endless
trouble. And those which make a par-
tioular marriage the condition of a
legacy are still worse. Nearly fifteen
Years ago a Manchester banker died,
leaving all his fortune to his adopted
son on condition that the latter found
and married the banker's griuni.
daughter.
Tins lady' was the daughter of the
dead men's eldest son, with whom he
had quarrelled many yeans before, and
who had emigrated W New South
Wales. The heir obediently set oU for
Australia, and succeeded atter great
difficulty in finding the granddaughter,
only to discover that, as the result of an
accident, she was a hopeless paralytic.
Of course, merriage was out of the
question, but tie promptly offered to
share the. --money. with her, WI and
halt. Her mother, however, who was
still alive, refused hls compromise,
and declared that her daughter was
rightful heir to the whole amount. The
case went into court, and alter two
years' litigation, during which nearly
half the entire fortune was spent in
costs, the 6
GRANDDAUGHTER WON THE SUIT.
SILK ,,FROM_GUNCOTTON.
Frenchmen Threaten to Put the Silk-
worm Oat of Business.
Science threatens to put the silkworm
out of business. French chemists have
discovered at least three distinct me-
thods of competing with the old reliable
hut extremely deliberate silkworm.
Perhaps the most interesting of tnese
is the manufacture of silk from guncot-
ton, which'also serves as a base for he
most powerful of modern explosves.
'rhe viscous fluid from which the silk
worm spins his thread is chemically
duplicated by a process described in the
Techniral World. The fabric thus pro-
duced is inflammable, and in order to
remedy this defect it is treated with an
alkali suipnide solution.
The founders of. the new industry have
kept in view not so much the exact re-
production of natural silk as the pro-
duction of a substance which embraces
its valuable properties.
Natural etlk possesses to a large de-
gree quallties of brilliancy, elasticity,
strength, affinity for coloring and bleach-
ing materials. and when handled a pe-
culiar rustling sound. known as scropp.
Perhaps the brilliancy and scroop cf
silk are the best known of its qualities.
Gnd It N in these two respects that ar-
tificial silk most closely resembles na-
tural, Its brilliancy being greater and
its scoop slightly. less.
Is that orily one of these ten collisions
was she In the wrong, and in the other
nine cases the owners of the vessels that
collided with her had to pay for her
damages as well as their own -the for -
met amounting in all to over 46,100.
It was often marvellous how she escaped
sinking, as all the collisions but one
took place on the high seas, and she
had the luck never to be struck in ;he
vital spot. Apart from her own little
bill for repairs, she did X43,000 worth
of damage by her "little affairs," and
yet she never came to grief by any
hazard of the seas, being at present a
store ship of the Spanish Navy.
The magnificent liner Paris, well
known by all who cross to the United
States, holds *see record which, if she
had no other, would prove her to bear
a chfirmed life up to (tete. She is the
only vessel of any size that ever esoaped
with her life from. the tetrible Manacles
Rocks. off the Cornish Mast. It is sev-
eral years ago noes since she struck
upon that dreaded reef, but many people
may remember the stir it Caused, and the
agitation for a lighthouse on the Man-
ac.tes that followed.
She had four hundred and fifteen peg.
sengers aboard, besides her crew, but
did not lose one of thetn, all being land-
ed safely. A large part of her under-
body wap tern deem awfly. and it was
thought unlikely that she would ever
float again, In spite of that, she was
eventually rescued from the emits to'
clever engineering. at esitcst et 414.000
ahd tOWes1 tnto Falmouth. The weather
luckily held fine dtfring the operations.
WOrdgi "Find tottAgsonov, •Tberit
really foto to he geld bY the Me.
ter to his sereant, whets the two so ther.
mighty understood each other. Thti
emestiena; ot Meltey, equipment) prePare.
lion, Woe, ete„ were all lett Withinit
dlIKUSatett, Sttinlep Order* were dear,
"Fltid Litingatonel He set out, and bet
peturned, not 'Until tie had foUnd the Ce.
lebrated explorer who had been losti
civilization tor so long. ,
*Me Of US rentereher the 'despatch ot
Sir Harry lialinstett--who Is happily Sall
With Useewhtch he forwarded to Lord
EaltabUry. This is certainly the record
eine Of our own Utiles in Bach matters.
JOHNSTON'S MESSAGE
of auppression of slavery was in
eight words, as followat "Advanced
against Tmose, defeated, captured,
hanged him.--Johnaton." It 1,y111 tette
a great deal to beat this. But then,
Johneton was always one of those men
who did the work first, end then satd
as little as possible about lt afterwarde.
It has often been satta that Sir Charles
Napier, after the capture of Wilde,
wrote one of the tnost laconic end most
elightful despatches that the world
has known, when he telegraphed honte
to the Government the simple Letin
5vord, "Peccavit"-Le., "1 have sinned
4Seinde11" But here gossip has plaoed
the foundation of the laconic remark
on the wrong preson, for, as a matter
of tact, it, was not Sir Cherles Napier
who composed that famous despetch,
but Mr. "Punch," who wrote es a lest.
Nevertheless, it rernains as an extremely
clever and telling piece of work of the
kind we are deeding with.
In this category, too, we must in-
clude Thomas Carlyle's notable reply to
e devoted admirer, who wrote asking If
Some
TO TEST DIAMONDS.
Shnple Tests by Water,
and Ink Spot.
The expert of diamonds can detect an
imitation as a rule at a glance, but not
so the ordinary individual. An imita-
tion diamond is never so brilliant as a
genuine stone, and a very simple test
is to plaee it under water. The inn-
tation stone is prectically extinguished,
While a genullie diamond will continua
to sparkle. When possible a genuine
stone should be placed beside the imi-
tation one under water, and the con-
trast, will at once be apparent.
Another vertr simple? and efficient test
19 to place a drop of water on the stone
and carefully observe the res The
stone should first be very carefully
cleansd. On an imitation diamond the
drop. however small. will delinquesee.
hut on a true stone the drop will retain
its original shape.
Perhaps the simplest method of all,
however. is to examine an ink -spot on
n sheet of white paper through a den
mond by holding the under surfnce
against the eye. If the stone be court -
leder' the bInck spot Will appear greatly
maanilled. or At least doubled. Trie
nu7s will, moreover, appear blurred
and shdistinel. By using a magnifying
itle.4 the test can readily be made els-
Solute.
If a real diamond he put in the mouth
Ile fey toldnese will be notieeable et
once; not ect that of an itnitation gem.
WHY LS A NEGRO SLAW
The Sun's Rays of One Particular Lati-
tude Is the Cause of It.
Taste
THRESHOLD OF ANY EMBASSY.
When the youthful 1(Ing of Spain
a es twelve years of age he one day
lied the misfortune to slip and fall down
a flight of the palace steps. The fall
would very probably have been attend-
ed with fatal results had it not been
for a servant who extended a kindly
hand and saved las young master, by
breaking the fall. But,ley a stringent
rule of Spanish etiquette no servant
may dare touch the sncred person of
Me King, and for this very "grave"
offence the servant was at once dis-
missed from his position.
By a remarkable law of Royal eti-
quette, which olio existed for a number
of years past at the Court of Siam, no
Person is permitted to sleep in an
apartment situated above that occupied
by the King, A deliberate breach cf
this rule has on more than One occur
sion been punished by death. Recently,
waen the King of Slam paid a visit to
Paiii; nuinber ofsbedroems were res
served directly above that in which the
King was to have slept, for the dusky
followers of the Royal visitors. The
blunder caused great consternation
among
Tho unfortunate adopted son, after
wasting three yeans of his life, was left
penniless. s
Of the $3,000,000 left by the late Mr.
Nicholas Keene, of Lendon and San
Francisco, not one penny has been left
to his heira at law. The whole of this
great fortune has been left in trust for
a little girl named Dorothy sBarford,
who is no relation to the deceased. But
the legacy has a cruel condition. The
cddicil reads, "If she lead a proper end
perfect life." That is to say, the poor
child has to be something nearly ap-
proaching a prodie, if she is to win
this money. She is now but ten iears
old, and the life of her mother is made
a misery by the spying of jealous rela-
tives of the dead man ; and more than
once she has said that the money is not
worth the constant worry it has
brought into her life.
Almost equally miserable is the ease
of the heir of a well-known vegetarian
lecturer. He left some $3,000 a year to
a nephew on condition that the letter
never touched meat, that he wrote and
had published at least three articles a
year, and gave six lectures on
The origin of color in anything has
always provided scientists with art inter-
esting study -the origin of color in hu-
man skin in particular.
There are between the cuticles of the
skin certain pigments which, when act-
ed upon by light rays, produce different
tints. What those tints will be depends
upon the angle at which the rays of the
sun fall upon the pigments. At the
equator the rays are about vertical; at
the poles they slant at an angle un-
known in the tropics, and the chemical
effects of the different kinds of rays up-
on the pigments of the skin vary con-
siderably. Thus we get a large number
of tints of the skin, from the white to
the yellow, yellow to red, and red to
black, many intermediate shades being
peculiar to certain latitudes.
The pigments themselves change
through generations of exposure to the
sun -rays of one particular latitude, so
that the skin of a child assumes the col-
or, slightly modified of its ancestors.
even wherape child has been borne and
reared in -a strange part of the world.
Thus. if a colony of Legroes and ne-
gresses settled in Britain, their descen-
dants would become paler with each
generation. until evenleially there wuuld
be no trace whatever of the orivinal
color. Whites settling in the tropics
would be affected in a similar way, the
color gradually deepening with each ge.i-
eration.
ONE OF THE LUCKIEST,
and at the same, time unlecklest, vessels
that ever floated, is a humble Thames
coasting -barge called the Ada. which
has survived the seafs for tifty-three
years, and has been sunk, cut down,
blown up (by a practice torpedp-mine),
cast adrift in the Chanilel in a gale,
driven over the Op of the Goodwin
Sands at high water unhUtt, sunk two
yacnts, and yet has never caused .tie
loss of a life, either of her own crew,
oi any other vesset's. This paesing pro-
gramme was achieved at %onions times,
of course, not all at once.
The strange part of it is that gust a
comparatively inexpensive craft Omit'
be worth saving and patching ap eo of-
ten; yet she hes carried in her Mae half
a million tons of merchandise about our
coasts, weathered some Of the worst
storms that blew, and her hull remains
so sound that she now Mints the role ef
store-hUlk to a floating small-polc hos-
pital.
As an example ,pf the strangely ilf.
ferent luck which two similar vessels
May have, a pair of aistershipc,- .he
Catlike% and the Celt es both steamers.
and Melt in the same yard, worts
lannehed on WM succeeding dog. On
ofzihem Wee run doefit lb the Channel
and badly damaged MI her minden
voyage, causing ,the foss of three lives;
she hes thiee three ilftlea oft Ore,
once mink. and NW agaiii..0nee
colliggion, Wire asitorei and finally
frdift 010 two years ago, and
hag never been heard Of Office. The
other bug never had Mk ginalMAt rata,
ham An old fact ig that the fanner on.
%thy oeggei WAS Winched .oft way,
0 dettl .whiett Many atillora 10111 tegitril
itia#040.
wtoliberatel)* hying tha teee
AND THE TAX WAS RAISED.
"Nice hotel you've got here," said
affable etranger.
"I'M glad you lik t ,sie," said
landlord.
itt -.Nemo/fivers' t"
"O' 1.'"Ontario
"M inepector of
geason endi
"1 ,ernment derld
fAro.. siding °filet a 1.3
A appointme \t.;
nseordnnee Witt a t
:vet recent depute
era , wailed on tbe
wil be este
rut Prof. Dater
upon his Wade tit
the
the
THE SAGE OF CHELSEA
had any objection to sending on his au-
tograph as a present to the said admit,
er. Carlyle was equal to the occasion.
He just wrote down on a sheet of note-
paper the words, "Yes! Yours truly, T.
Carlyle." It was left for the admirer to
decipher the meaning at his will, but
doubtless he was salislied when he saw
the signature, whatever the writer meant
him to understand.
To describe a great naval battle In
about a score of words Is surely given to
few famous combatants. Yet this Is
what Captain Walton did when he had
scattered the Spanish fleet near the
Straits of Messine. His despatch to the
British Government was as follows:
"Have taken or destroyed all Spantah
vassals width were upon the roast; num-
ber and description as per marl:stn.-G.
Walton."
There is n whole pnae of naval war-
fare sometimes In n daily newspaper, af-
ter a battle such as that which Togo
recently fought, whirh, notwithstanding.
Sunlight Soup is bettor
then other soap., but is
beet When used in the
Sunlight we.y. •
ltgraksar good with hoard or soft water*
Liagree Illaetkers Lisattirod. Tsonamilm
+a"
CRIME WE CAN'T CONQUER
INSIDE TDB. PRSON WALLeS IS
, PREVENTIVE.
Some at Me Most Daring Crimes Are
Planned mod Hatched
Tient.
if, armed with an order from the
Home 0111ce, you walk us a writer 01
recently, through the workshops u
great ehnviet prisuu, yuu notice with
ourprise that u large room, such, kr
Instance, as the tailors' shop, there aro
only two or three warders tu leek utter
sumo fifty or eixty cunvicts, says Lon-
don Answers.
Now, us all are aware, the rule ot
convict prison is ubsolute ellence,
men may, on uccusion, speak to the
warders, and they may chat wile tee
cluipluitis, but among themselve they
must not converse. One warder, how-
ever, watchful us he may be, canaut
possibly keep his eye upon twenty hr
thirty men at once, and tile result is
that the lull of silence Is more honored
in the breaoh than Me observunce.
Besides, old "lags" invariably have
learnt how to talk without moving their
lips, and coneequently they constantly
converse among themselves without fear.
11 is a fact, as any old convict will tell
you if you gain his confidence that some
of
GAN YOU INVENT THIS1
NO GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR F011
TUNEWENTERS.
•
THE FEARFUL COURTIERS,
until the matter was explained to the
management and duly rectilled.
It is a traditionary etiquette custorn
in the Marlborough family tur each
Duke to present a Blenheim spaniel to
the Duchess when she enters Blenheim
Palace tor the arst lime as its mistress.
Tho story from which this custoni has
Its origin Is that during the Battle uf
Blenheim a spaniel followed at the heels
of the great Duke throughout the day,
never leaving him until victory was as-
sured.
When the ,Emperor or Empress bt
China appears in public, no other per-
son is allowed to occupy a higher place
than they do. Therefore, on such occa-
sions the shutters of all buildings are
drawn, and the upper parts of the
houses past which the Royal procesr
sion is expected to move are deserted,
the inhabitants swarming teethe ground
floors in order to shoe; due delerence
to their yulers.
THE VEGETARIAN CAUSE.
Ills heir prefers a cut of roast beet and
a pint of bitter to any vegetables,
ever perfectly cooked, and finds him-
self cundemned to a diet which dis-
likes and which does not suit him. The
articles and lecturee are also trying to
a man who cares nothing for literary
work and has no gilt for public &peak-
ing.
The most dreadful legacy of recent
times was received by the uncle of a
German soldier named Van 1.indo,
who was hung last year for a brutal
murder. The condemned man left an
order with a photographer to make a
photograph of his body as it swung
from the gallows, and send it to the
uncle who had brought him up. The
request was complied with, and the
shuck to the uncle was so terrible that
it completely unhinged hts mind, and a
few weeks later he died.
Paris
--f--
The Dreams of To -Day are the Realities
ot To -morrow - Din Fortunes
Are Waiting.
Why cun't a balloon, properly filled,
stay up forever? Because it Wake. The
only known material titrollgn which gas
cannot percolate ls gold -beater's skin,
and this Is a great deal too expensive
for cutumun use. Invent a perieut var.
nish tor melting silk or other inuterlui
gas-tight, und the problem is solved.
It has not been done yet.
There Is nothing like leather for shoes
and boots. The brown -paper und leather
scree which are used to fill the Was of
cheep foolawear tire nothing more or
less than spunges tu suck up water and
vie the wearers pneumonia. Teo else.,
er inventor may yet find a CillnIn n:11
ellicient subsUttite for leather. Why tot
try?
We have got smokeless powder, Nut,
thanks to the Hellen general Gillitta's
acoustic telemeter, the location Df guns
firing smokeless powder cent be acme,
unity determined by the opposing iorce.
What we want is
A SOUNDLESS POWDER.
THE MOST DARING CRIMES
are planned and hatched in prison.
To give one instance In point. The
murder of a notorious "fence" in White-
chapel by the burglar Seaman, who was
doee not tell one -belt so much of whn cringed tor the CHM°, Wus planned by
was the tietual result of the fight ns this that man in the Southern convict es-
Inconie stateinent nf Contain Walton' ja tablistiment In which he served five
does tibout the bailie off Messina.
GREAT BRITAN -SECURE.
—
Newspapers Glve High Praise to
Der Naval Manoeuvres,
GOOD NEWS FOR JACK TARS. first half of the British navel Inu noel'.
The Paris TemPs declares that the
Do British warships breed ronsump- test of efficiency ever applied to a fleet
vres, which it describes as "the greatest
tion? The popular delusion is that the hi peace time," has been entirely sure
sailor, spending his Ille. Just ivhere the
world to develop lung trouble. Strange, Greet Britain has proved that she ran
ceseful.
air Is purest, Is the ILA person in the 1
to say, the average warship is une of concentrate "in an incredibly short
the deadliest of places to live in. for the space of time" 400 warships splendidly
air between the decks quickly becmos manned. in home waters and that her
foul, and remains so. The newest nay- I poTrthse akr,eirnseticaullitye aagrealinpartaiLudrprfoisre.admir.
hi ship-buildin plans show, however,' able distribution of the fleet, and the
DR. ABERNETIIY.
was another fatnous man who never
wasted words. A woman Of title once
came to see hlin, Who prided herself up-
on her blunt \speech to so deemed In-
feriors. She tegarded• the (bailor with
some hauteur becauee he dfd nnt rise
and make a great fuss of her when she
entered his surgery. She was so dis-
gusted that she just held nut her scalded
hand, and said. "Burnt It!" The great
surgeon was quite equal to the occasion.
Ile looked her In ihe face and answered
"Poilltice It!" -then at once reformed 1)18
writing.
One nf the eleverest of all sneh replies rount of a prison crime will take a goo
I deal of beating. Under the guise u
made leronlently. howiver. wrie r
solicitor's clerk, a criminal. whu had
the celebrated Tallevrend. »tio wee
asked, tie he left a certain French Com. I served many senteneee. but was teenpor-
cll, fri-ett whleh Intioh had been exnect• mil), at iib„ty, °blamed admission 10
ed, but \\ hirh had epent most of its Holloway Gant to see a prisoner amused
time in talk. what had passed during id luggage stealing. The too trustful
its sitting. His quiet smile end hie thief told the sham eierk where the
plunder was hidden, whereupon the lat-
two worde. "Three hours!" sold he.-
hopelese were as_signifiennt as his
London Answers. ter wont off. and at lee lald hands on
and disposed of the stolen goods, leaving
his victim to regret his confidence at
leiLirete.r on, when arreeted, the swind-
HEROES OF THE BATTLEFIELD.
ler was found to have done the same
trick many Mime befure. But hii put his
Men Who Suffered From Painful Dire
no8e into the lions' den once too often,
ease Did Their Best Work.
and received a lung and weli-merited
Finsen's life he stuttered from
For the last twenty years of Proptaeisnefrtilri
Prison crime tine esen lie amusing
sentence of hard Weir.
cilseoees, against which. however, he
years.
reeently, no longer ago then
November lust, a case came to light of
ri robbery planned in prison, Upon a
man charged at the Mansion House with
stealing watches', in FenchurCh Street
was found a fetter written by a "pal"
doing time in Pentonville, and'arnuggled
out by one of the discharges. In it oc-
curs the following -significant passage:
"What price --'s window in Fen
Court, City, the jeweller's? It Would not
be a bad night's job for two amateurs.
Have a peep round—"
THIEVES "HONOR."
For cool impudence the following tic•
Such an invention. Is not out of toe reg-
ions of the possible; and would to far
towards making war absolutely imp, es
sible. Its inventor would confer a big
benefit upon humanity at large.
Pearls are bringing fabulous prices.
Why? Not because there are not es
good pearls in the sea as ever 1'nm° out
of It. No; the only reason is. says Mr.
Streeter, the well-known expert, that
even in the best diving dresses inen can-
not descend to much ater depths then
fifteen fathoms lc
sure is too great,
depth they come p
and mouth. The pea
this depth have been p
out, but there are plenty more at great-
er depths. Devise settle means hy
which the pearl fisherman can descen1
thirty or forty fathoms under water,
and there would be a colossal fortune in
it The submarine boat won't work for
this purpose, for pear oysters cannot be
grappled for. Thoy mUst be
SPOILED THE STORY.
The Man Who Would Not Allow the
Prisoner to Escape.
A good listener never interrupts, ex-
cept to applaud, but a pour listener 13
preferable to the one who spolle a good
story by discovering its flaws, whicii
great many good stories have. There
was a social party gathered in a pleas-
ant country house, and one of the gen-
Berner) had Just told the stury of the
'criminal condemned to death be mine'
t ruler He scas tu be behereled,
that lock's hea th is in the future hi
have more consideration. Electrieally -
driven fans and other contrivancee ere
tc be fitted to new vessels to ensure a
proper circulation of alr through even
the most reinote of alley -ways. An-
other boon to the Jack Tars Is the adop-
tion on board ship of approved appli-
ances tor cooking and baking. so fled
the men In the new vessels will be able
to get fresh bread as regularly as the
German and French navhl crewe aireinly
gel it. In short, the Admiralty is et
last wolfing up to the reasonable .e -
quests for reforms made tor years past
by the British Jack Tar.
--....-4,--
KITE-FLYER TO THE KING.
General Baden-Powell's faith in kite -
flying for military purposes seems nt
lost to nave infected the British Wnr
Office, which haa shown ite appreciation
of the poesibilities of the kite on a bat-
tlefield by dediding to create a new post
in the litriny-lnernely, the position (1
"Instrue or In Kitestlying for Man -lifting
purpogee." The salary attached to the
appointment is 89,000. The neW develop-
ment embrates extended Manatee for
Milltary ballooning. The War Depart-
_ ment Le at preeent constructing a new
Sne type of airehin, the details of which are
1
being rigidly kept secret. Colonel
..6"Ice,d, °,"" Templer la In Charge Of the "cruiner,"
nwrctits.1 Ira' whteh he hopes to havo ready for ;area.
gentleman Mal Manotioding experimenta In the
coming autumn. 850.000 Ilan been set
"he's the aside for this year's ballooning equip.
merit.
erfert order with which the mobiliza-
tion was carried out.
The Temps thinks that the promiee
of the Admiralty to give full publicity
tr the results of the second phase of the
manueuvres---the attack on Britain's sea-
borne trade-ls made either because the
naVs is confident of the result or because
It le deemed lo show the danger uf a
reduction of armaments.
herocielly struggled until he dlecovered
Out precious light rime fur lupus. Pro-
fessor . Green. the F,nglish hietorlan
who wrote the famous "Short HIstory uf
the English People," was on his death-
bed before he started the book. 1115
doctors told him that he could nut hope
to live more than six months, but he
set to work upon his eherished history,
and penned every line of it in ceaseless
pain, General Grant, onee President ef
the United Stales, was made bankrupt
through the failure of a bank. Fearful
of dying and lenvIng his wideik peeni.
less, he at nnre began the writing of the
iiitery of his own stirring roreer. While
and, as the executioner stood beside inin , doing this he was siripken w1111 uri
with drawn sword, the culprit was giv• ther mlefortime rencer formed at the
eti a goblet of wine to drink. He turriod root of Me tnngue. Day after day, how-
to the King and asked, as a last (tour. ever, the gallent general stuck to hie
that the executioner be directed to hold t k and eompleted the book within a
nis hand until the goblet of vorie had
been drained. "You have ire. Ruyal
word,'' said the King. "You shall nut
die until you have drained the cup."
Thereupon the ingenious criminal
dashed the goblet to the stone flour, spil-
ling its contents, and thus deferring hie
death sentence Indefinitely. The story
happened to be new to some of the party
and was greeted with so much (+Ivor
tch4titzmother gentleman endeavored 1,
"An ancient Persian King"' said he
"had brought before bun a traitor
the throne, who, after a brief hearing
was condemned to be etrangTs1
"'Mercy. 0 Kingr cried the itotiepp
man.
"'No,' responded the KIN/ sternly
'You have conspired [learns' rric end
you must pay the penalty with iifi•.
The elock is now trembling en the stroke
of twelve; when II sound. the hem',
must bid farewell to earth.'
"Quick act thoeght the prisoner l'irreel
to the clock, wrilett etood hy the Ifirsiie Imo. "how troublesome he he wants
and with a might
.v push. three it !ism iss heers suppoee. esme upsteers
t I d It fell si,1111 rrnsh to 1111,1 V.111 11 ,,ce vital lesaim I'll give
s isiiiir acemepunied his friend to
the riffle tti0111 111 the siiiiire's !wilt -hem -
ter end heard rum ndilrese hie master
iii eller c Line. "W Mil the demi, do
seii nosy) ttie et my meal?
1 telt lint iy 1 III nut going to etlind
that sorl of thing. and if it greet en yeti
and I will part. I have brought you
4.,inelittilu In eat, which ie more than
you deserve."
The old eenileman did nol reply, and
tee visitor thought Is a marvellous p;•
nmple diecipline, an when he returne 1
Mime he tried minder treatment with
his eld ',meter. who. however, 'Weal
,,r meekly animating. Oared at the man
in emneement for awry Minutes ant
then rang the hell.
"1st thie iw ." fond to the ger
vont who anewered the stirrininns, "he
eiripped nf my livery and kicked out rif
he Abell have no choleric/re
ftlrenh'm"le"Unlesia f %stile one on his back
with n ireewh p ."
The diernleeed valet niched In his
friend end cornnleined fled hls exper•
merit hnd net worked ealleinctorIlv.
"Ah," eaid the eigiceeeful dieetpliner
Inn "perhape I forget to mention to you
that my finagler le stonedeaf."
WI ICIIE TI IF, BEST HAIR COMES FROM
Alltiouga China is the chief market for
false has Me finest tresses rome-friiin
South Liirope. Southern France, Italy.
and Italian Switzerland are the quarry
of the hate agent. the convents of Spain
and Italy providing a large amnia of the
long roils and 'emcee v:hich find their
way into British marketn. When n
takeg the veil she porta with all her hair
nt once, coneiderable Income tieing
frequently nee:lured thi; wnv to itio
convent authorities In the South hair
grows fast, and many peasant wntrien
make quite a goad addition sfo their
yearly earninga by disposing of it at
intervals, parting. perhaps, with all hut
one long piece, which, coiled round !lie
heed, diegulees the feet that they nre
dentided of their long teens -es. It la In
arranging and elralghtening the treaseis
that the chief diMcullien are encolinfor-
ed. eaeh hair having to he neverally fas-
tened by Its root end to a band of gilk
Or cord. the ends being allowed to hang
looeely In order to preserve the natunli
wevo and curl.
feet). The pros -
even from thet
eding at nose
I yster beds et
y web worked'
GATHERED BY HAND.
Smoky chlinneys are an intolerable
nuimunce, and there are plenty ut speci-
mens which np known form of cowl
9111 01111e. Won't someone Invent a
gouti smoke -preventing device? Titer°
wuuid be money in it.
IL is said that an American, Dr. Her.-
bert Franklin by name,. actually suc-
ceeded in producing colored photographs
and submitted them to a leading Ant-
erican scientific association, with the re-
sult that lie received great encourage-
ment. But he died suddenly, without
resealing his secret. In spite of many
attempts by other inventors, the secret
is a ifecret still.
Bullet-proof garments have been an-
nounced by the dozen, but the inventor
has yet to be found who will attire him.
self in ras 1nvenUon, and stand up at
side. Ten men ronfineil In thi. Weal gaol puint-blank range before a modern high -
at Neudorfe In Hungary were 'found by 1 wdomr,
y small-bore rifle. There would
their looter one rreirning all the worse a big sale for a really bullet -pro
for liquor• but how thee got if. no one 1 waist -coat If another was startod.
eould tell, Next dav the case wag nee
same, but it was not for a week that It
was dlertovered that they had made a
hole In the flooring of their prison, and
tunnelled Into an ridloining wine -mer.
chant s cellar, where they had consumed
Trude than
ONE HUNDRED CALLOW; OF WINE.
Still more come- was an. occurrence
al Bathurst, New Brunswink. A youth 'i crystal. Truly, It would be one of the
named Thibodeau wae ronelcted of sev• 1 biggest Industrial revolutions ever seen,
cral liurglariee and confined hi the local , and the lueky inventor would reap an
gaol. But the lairgturles slat continued. 1 enormous reward. Remember, it is not
and the whule town was aroused. Every impossible, for tne art wuks once known
poeeible means Wftg listed to discover , in old Venice.
the culprit, but In vain, At last one 1 But the list ot badly needed Inventions
b t t a bloodhound and after le almost endless. There is 110 machine
welshing for several nightie succeeded i fur papering walls; an envelope which
year. He Weil airnoet Immediately af-
1 In getting on the track of the marauder. i cannot be opened without detection te
tere vide. Mit hie widow tens not left
deetittile. Her r h u q h o 1 1 rr q book renlizgeirl
mon non. much of the Iiest work of 1
issniter seen R. 1 steiensen. Edna 1 was caught
, Imagine hie amazement when the fugh . greatly wanted; an ull-csn which won't
1 tIce rnade straight fur the geol. and explode wuuid save many lives; there Is
getting into It over a well!, nii gutel device fur turning music, anti
I' yell. Clark Bua.4011 rirel ,:h• Arthltr I It %Ana Thibedeati himself! This enter- the man who could produce a perfect
days' prising renewer of Jack Shepperti hod substitute tor Para rubber would rapidly
elittiven wee nko produced during
discovered a means of getaing out, Awl
of aguny of body or of mind
---4---_. I had been making nide nightly. His
Think what , malleable gless wou
mean to the whole woridl With a glass
hammer you could pound a glass nail
INTO A GLASS BOARD.
Yuu could cut a hole in a pane of glass,
and patch it with another piece. Our
houses wuuld be built ot daintily tinted
glass bricks, and we should walk on
tough and unbreakable pavements of
W111' HE W asi. I NsIOLEN F. plunder was found carefitety hidden un-
cle! the floor of Ins cell,
Reason a Footruan Could Address ills
Master In an Angry Tone,
the desirability of ascertaining • ery
dried bettaie imitating the mai Use" even
',1 intimate friends is 111,14tru,10.1 tee
the fullueing -dory. sshich 11•>1.4.1 30 1' e
1111,1 HMI tom li enjoyment t,) Ken
I !Wien
A footmen retit on visit to 1R1-
1.1,1 •ler4 ant in the country, and wnile
1hr 1 45.) et luruti the rtatetrt a
eepturieeriaritin /011111 rang impatiently.
hem" win.1 the major -do -
Its petles a • an
the floor.
"'I how to your will 1) King!' hP snlii
calmly, 'When thig (-kirk etrikes I
die. and not before '
"A's n tribute to hie
the King epared the prisoryir's 111, end,
tinfhteerriya.„brief imprisonment. he,
"011fIP As rig the other"
eselatmed n Indy, when the nerrotor
hnd finighed.
"Shows that there la nnthine new lin
der the nen," ehimoil In enertirr.
"Ifumpts- veg." anel 11 5311/1 11.
mnn In the eorner, after the eel -To -emir.
had run their °mime; "very 000(1
and I hole In small ft, eel rh0S1
"What?" exclaimed the eieee.ren,
"Yee: must dn it. There were nn Merl's
lb ancient Pereln. go the prisoner could
not have mashed one"
"1 think that friend rif yriure prette
forword on mut ehort
MIT1Plalnrs1 MM. Nugget. "I nverhenrd
him remark that 1 wng (lessen '"
"Well," replied Mr. Nugget, "s 011 can't
hfaine him. Ile couldn't be expected to
IctiOw you Cackle at llintn."
acquire a collossul fortune.
FOR BACHELORS ONI.Y.
The man who avoids niatrimony sn
account of the cares of wedded life riv-
als the wiseacre who secured himself
TAKING HEN PHOTO egainet corns by having his legs am -
"I hese Corm- to get my wife pled,- rItitiki'll'n (Jilt 11;yinv,l.rIfyii as11451ht isunttith sit k:itase;
graphed." said the detterridned-louking
a string tying It down. Anil so the man
man en entering a photographer S
iituill. fulluwed by a meek -looking R.. 1
who is tied duwn by half a dozen respon.
lb lilies and their mother will make a
actions higher and Stronger flight than nu
"Neu ran make aisyunti louk htind•
baohelor who, having nothing to ke.. )
sortie, ran't you 1" him steady, 1,1 alwava floundering in th
"i eirainly. sle." replied the pliutei- mud. Many men think themselves self-
graptier "that is part i, f the business, made w ho ore really inertia ge-niade.
you Wium," „ Napoleon won hie great victorieg while
"Well. 11i) wile m''''' fill 'It of "le i Josephine was his wife, and while he
window lest pew arid broke Mr nom-. I loved her. Blemarck and Disraeli, who
Yeu ran slruighlen 11 i,ut In the photo- for HUH/ yeare were the controlling
graph, I suppose?'
reialnly, xtr."
"Ami you can peeh k her eti
that atie %ail lout. ao 11151'11
rabbit ?"
"Oti. I think eo I'
"And what catcall the cast in
eye ?"
"Oh. I ran touch it up with
ink I"
"Ai.e the freek les ?"
"They won't appear In the piet
"
"And will the hair be red ""
"Oli, no I '
"Weil, you may preceed. sit
there, Maria, and try to took pie
IN, 50
like a
er left
Ind ia
uro at
down
agent."
"May 1 ask what in going on in the
village?" Inquired the observant
alrenger "We're celebrating the birth-
day of itie °idea inhabitant, sir," re-
plied the native. "She'a 101 toalay,
air." "And tell me. pray, who Is that
little mran with the drearifielly end
rounterranee who %aerie by the old
lady'fi alder "That's her con -in-law
sir. He's been keeping up her Ilk
InGurance for tho last thirty yleara."
speessee
powere in European politica both ownetl
that thee roved their Filrel.44 lo their
svivee Don't merry for beauty alime
Soerelea beauty "a short-liveit
I yrn " end Theophreslua pronounced
it "ri ellent cheat." The man who mar-
ries for beauty alone le as silly as the
man who would buy a house because it
had fine Gowen In the front garden.
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WWI:I-SPOKEN LANGUAGES.
The mesbnpoken language is cht.
nese hut es there are so many dialeetn
in the language, nnd as Mese differ so
green% in the confinea of Mongolia and
Tibet from those around Pekin, it is
seemly correct to say that the 382,-
000,000 Celestials ell speak one lan-
guage. Putting. therefore, China aside.
the Mostopoken languages in the
world aro RR followe. in millions :
F.nglish. 120: German. 70 ; Russian. CA
Spanish. 44 ; Portugue.se, 32. 11 wo
were 40 4nP3SIIM theee in ratio on fl
two.foot rine, we should get the 101-
iowing results Portuguese. 41n t;
Swinish, 51S1n.; Russian, ilMin.; Ger-
man, Min.; English, 114 Sin.
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