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Exeter Advocate, 1901-6-6, Page 7404.0$440foteeite*********-04.404tee 11. 9 • n • A Ilait s Ileroism 43. dab di • story of *he exesetie of seal mann 40 * ,Cr4 Lot Mao Ice radt. GO 44 040,041#440.40.0.•••v•0••••••• When we nate cogale to anehor Trinity bay and all the sails were, eafely stetwed the eapain of our yacht prondeed that gre should go ashare and eee the celebrated Com- eau file,. • Bob, my coMpanion aelted, "Cele- brated for what ?" • • "Oh! for aeveral thinner replied the captain. "He in a most extraardinary 'Man in.hie many acquirement'sand lenewledge. 13orn and, brought up on thie coat, he hag ,passed all his life here, with the exception of the three years his father wae able to send him to echo'olbut those three yore be s • Made u'so of to lay the foundation of a wonderful store of practical knowl- edge. Hie scheoling, ae I have' said, wa.e but ;the emenclateen; by reading and obeervation he had added to; it in • mervelleus wa.y. Frorn.his early training and the life of every one an the coast, it; would go without saying that heltnows how to shoot, but he is more than a good. shot he ie a 'deadly" shot. Anything he aims his gun at that in within shoot- . ing &Stance is dead. Ae a salmon fisher, no crackangler who visite these rivers can nope to compete with/am "As a linguist he can speak, read .end Tewrite in Trench, English., Latin and Indian; besides thie, he can talk rapidly in the dance) alphabet.- He holds the position of telegraph oper- ator at Trinity, aleo of postmaster and fishery overseer, and besides, nvhen anYthing goes wrong with the lines for COO miles east or west, the department immediately. wires hiin to go and fix them up. 'He has mare than' a fair knowl- edge of medicine for one ;who derived all hie insight fron reading alone. Last summer ther,e note no epidemic of measles all along the coast among both wlaites and Indiarts. Here with a `population of 15q, two-thirds of whom were dawn, Comeau, who attended them, did not lose one patient, while at Bersimis, where the department gent a. full-fledged M. D., there were 39 burials out of a population of 450. ''You May be sure the poor people all along the coat love him." So the boat was lowered away, and the captain, Bob and 1 rewed ashore to see this paragon. Evora thee outside look of the place I could .see the man was one of good. testa and orderly. The ketonic at the door was answered by Comeau himself. The captain was Pereonally acquainted with hitn and introduced ue before we entered. I must say I was -disappointed. One abways is when he ha a pictured a person in his mind's' eye and finds that in reality he 4 quite a differ- ent kind of person. I had looked for -Comeau to be a large man and a boisterous one from his position of superiority over others. On the contreree rfound him below the medium, a quiet, low - voiced man, reserved almost to shy- neiss. I saae at once he was a great abserver, One levho woubd make de- ductions from specks invisible to ordi- nary people; .ter, . 'in 'other words, be could put tw-o and two together and dovetail them better than most Men. • We were uiirefed into alai ge, clean, airy room, in the middle oe which sat a very good-looking lady in a roomy rocker, with a child on each knee. If. Comeau himself is reserved and not inclined to talk, his wife can do en- ough for' beith. She excused herself for non rising when her husband in- troduced un • Nodding down' at her babies, she eaid: You see, I an fix- ed." One coaled eee she is a proud mother—they were twins; this she told us beforeove were seated, and she further nefarrnIed ue that they were the only t;WialS' on the Labrador. So she is celebrated also. When we got -fairly settled ineCom- eau's den, the conversation naturally drifted into hunting and fishing. Bob made some inquiries,abaut the pools on the Trinity. To make his explana- tiene clear, Comeau pulled out a drawer of photographic Viel,V5 of the 'river. In rummaging thee aver,. he east aside a gold medal. "Excuee me," I said, reaching ever and taking up the medal, On it I read engraved: "Presented to Na" A. COmteau by the , R. E. S. for Bravery in/ Saving Life." -Upon ran asking Idea to recount the circumstances, he blushed and looked quite confused, and said : "Oh! it wa.s nothing worth speaking of, but I suppose people talked. so much about it that they gave nee that tok- en, It was nothing more than any man would have done," and this was all we could get from bine welesn we ,Ca,rrited Persitstextcy to an ungentle- raaney degree, , ' After having spent a very pleasant hour we returned on board, and the eaptaiia told us the ettera that the hero himself would note , • Two years before, one day in Jan- uary, Comeau" arrived home from the beah country to find that two men had that day While seal hunting off shore been' driven off the coe,st to- ward the ice Pack in the gull' °4° of the men Tw,as Comeau's own broth- er -in -hew and Ithe 'other a half-breed. In spite of the supplicate:me' of his WItO and the persuasio'ne:of the other individuals of the place, Comeau set about preparations to follow them out to sea. He asked no one to accom- pany him. The wind all the afternoon had been eteaclily off shore and evag now mod- erately calm,. He took with him some resteretines, provisions, a lantern, a eouple of blenkete, his rifle and • ammunition and what elsie useful he croncl think of in bis hurry. The en, pack w -as 'then about 10 ranee reef the land; and he reasoned the men muet be an item ice, if -large and strong enough, or (in among it if in email sakes; the latter being much more,' de ge rou • From Telnity Materie in a direct line the elistance is 45 miles, and to Push out in a fraie, wooden canoo alone and (the darkness coining on in tlae black , gulf in midwinter requir- ed a brave man weth extraordinary nerve to dare it, and this Comeau did. Three Mimi:tee after pushing lout from the beach, canoe and man were swallowed sap in the darlegesn The !text the people of Trinity heard of him was a telegraphic message oo t -he veecencl. day after. It read: "leta- tune. All thee alive. Joseph, halide frozen; Simon, both feet 'froz- en badly." This mesgalge was to his family, but the Malan° people sent a much longer cine ,to the government giv- ing the fent, describing the hard- ships these Men had come through, and a special train was stint down ‘with /the beet surgeen ercen Quebec. On the eurgeon's arrival. at Matane a consultation was h•elcl with the country practitioner, when it 'was de- cided that the Mao, Joseph, weuld have to las,e two fingers on each hand and Simon both feet. The amputation was ' successfully carried out next day, and shortly after, ewheri Comeau caw bath man -.wele on to recovery, he started for Ina home, not, however, by the way he had conaleT, btute up to Quebec by the eolith shore and doyen the north share from QUObee, distaoce of nearly 700 miles. The lase 100 he m,ade on puotivehoesi • The oaptain teed ug that the de- geription cie this very ventureeome trip he had heard from Ceeneau'st own brother as the elder one had describ- ed it in the he.art Oft his family. He had reached the ice pack, to the best of hes judgment, about 15 miles from the band, and had remained on his ones and hallooed once or eivice with- out receiving san answer. Ile sud- denly bethought himself of the lane neen. • Thee hi, lit and lashed tOir the blade on one of th.e oare, and erected It aloft. Immediately a faint cry was late.ard to the eastward, and he lowered his light and pulled away in the direction whence the call appear- ed to come. After reeving for a' ethert time the lantern was waved again abave and thee time an ans- wering ehout came from close at hand. The tiwo poor fellows were some distance in the pack, and had 'got on the largest cake they Cauld find. They Were ration the,re helpless, hold - log an each by one hand to the rough surfac,e ou th.e ice, an& with the other to their .canos to keep it from beiog washed off. By (the aid f the lantern held aloft, Comeau riew there was a raucb larger cake of ice same (Instance far- ther in the pack. To this they made ,their way with laborious trou- ble. Pushing one canoe as fare ahead among the ice as possible, they would all three get into this, shove the oth- er in advance in the same way, and so repeating the process till they reached the eeled field. Once safely on this, for the meantime, secure place, food was partaken of and day- ligbot waited tor. Seen, however, 'the intense cold be- gan to make its[ele felt, and drowsi- ness was first taking hold of the two men, and their great evieli was to be left a.lotee and allowed to sleep. This Comeau knew if indulged meant death, and it triode all his efforts to keep them awake and moving about. -Once, whule a.ttencling, •to • the half- breed; hie brother-in-law dropped down and was fast asleep in an in- stant. Comeau boxed him, kicked him, .without having the desired ef- f.ect of rousing him from his stupor. At laat he bethought him on what an •okl Indian had done to him under somewhat ,similar circumstances. He caught ;the mann nose between the thumb and linger end tweaked it severely. This brought hien to his feet and mad to fight. Day was taw bneaking and they could nee the south shore at a Com- puted distance of 10 miles. Comeau alseosaw. that the ice pack was drift- ing steadily east, and tide, if they' re- mained an the ice, would carry them past Cap Chat, the most northern poliatt of the south coast, and thin meant death to a certainty., A. rapid train a thought Went through Comeau's brain. • He decided that if saved they were tabe, it must be by paesing over that 10 ranee of m.aving, grinding ice. He forced Some food on the others. They abandoned the roll of blatakete, which had been of no use to them, and started, using the canoes sea-saev fashion, as they had done the night before. They left the cake of ice upon which they had passed the ;night at 8 a.m., and only got atehare at. the extrenae point of 'Cap Chat at daylight next morning. At times they would came across nar- emen lanes of waterebut thesa lanes al- ways ran at right anaees to the di- rection in twhich they were going. Several times, when stopping upon what was eansiclered a strong piece of ice, one of the party would be immersed in tbe cold, cruel water, and be reseued ,with great trauble and danger to the others. What a picture at heart -felt pray- er offering it must have beentto have seeo thnse men kneeling on the ice- bound shore, pouring out their thanks to th,e ever -watchful Almighty who had brought them safely, through such danger. Bob, who, heid taken dawn the cap- tain's narrative in shorthand, gave me his ootes and Igive the story of adveoture and heraiem to the public. 0I3SE1WANT LITTLE CHARLES. Charles is a very observant boy. Yesterday one of mananaa's friende came Ito the house to call. Manama was lout am' Cherles opened the doer. Alumnaa is net at home, he said. • Will yen' please give her my card when she comes? inquired the caller. Yeth, Raid Charles. n The caller °peeled het., card caee, and as she withdrew •tha eingeaved paste- board a bit of tissue paper fluttered down an the steps. Very, grandly Charles .picked it up and handed it to her, seicing; You dropped OW of yeue cigarette peperel , MALIGNED; • Hungry Higgins—aVot lea you think A woman called inc a animated mare - crow •I hie mon/line ' Weary Watkins ---I've knowed you sence the early eighties, but 1 ne- er geen no animation about you yet. WHY GROW. BACON- HOGS? Because it will give hogwith bone. Good bone.is vvanted. to enable swine to paenere %Vele to neap them on their feet under the heavy pressure of famed feeding, and to keep at bay such teoublee as rheumatism and gout moan eepecially in heavy brood sows and ahree. You cannot make a bacon pig without giving him good bone. the food :that ig essential to Make good bacon cannot do otherwise than to produce good bone. , It will give un nogg with good breeding properties', by whieh is meant the pxoperty of .breeding regularly, fecundity or tbe power to produce many at a litter, and good milking and nursing properties. With good breeding qualitiee as with good bone, You cannot grow good bacon, with- out eecuring both, for the food that pxoduces good bacon Le conducive to production of good breeding and good nutraing qualities. The behavior of the. Reproved Yorkahlre and the Tam- wartheieustainn the views just given. Thee() are at preeent pre-erainentin the bacon 'breeds', and they are pre- TenaLnently dietinguiehed by their good breeding and nursing qualities. Another reason in that it will give hoga with all round stamina, that is to say, an animal that is active on hie feet, always ready for his food and able to Ptit it to a good use, one that will stand forced feeding with out beeeking down, that does not readily fall a prey to disease, sires that are active and useful to a good old age, and dams that will gladden the •heart of their ownere by the abundance of their production and by the handeome way in which they nou.rieh them. . But are hot pig e of the bacon type harder feederg than those of other types ? I believe they axe, - says a • Writer. The experience of all the pant has tended to show the close relations between ;the compact form, that in to say, the form of the lard hog and easy keeping qualities. The inference, therefore, is legitimate, that the more dietant the remove from thia type the linore food relative-. ly that will be used in malting a pound of park. So far as known to the writ- er et ban not been dem.onetrated by experience that the bacon pig is a harder feeder than the lard hog. But in the 'absence of tench demonstration it will be fair to 'concede this. We must not leap to the tonclusion, ,how- ever, that bacon eatene are hard feed - ere. Good digestion is matter ' of transmiesion as well as form, thence ehe feeding qualities of the baron pig have, been Improved by generations of careful breeding. The most that cart bn eaid, therefore, ie that the bacon peg though' probably not so easy a keeper or feeder as the lard pig is not a hated feedere r The comparison, therefore, stands thus: The bacon pig is away ahead of the lard hag in etrength of bone and in the, capacity to graz& well, a quality which atrength of bone brings with it, in goad breeding and nursing qualities, and in all round stamina and vigor. And the lard pig is probably 'eomewhat ahead in the quality of cane, feeding. Is it not true, therefore, that the swine grow - ere will he compelled in the, light of &elf interest to grow the bacon pig? But they will alao be compelled to do so to meet the growing tate in flay - or' of leaner meat. Evideocee of this growing' taste are found' in the dis- crimination no pronouncedly shown against the ponderous steer and the heavy lamb. And en the' higher price that dealers' pay even now for pork Of the bacon type, we Can legitimate- ly expect th'at that diffexence will be increaaed. Is it not evident that our growers of ewine will be compelled to grow the bacon pig, at least in the modified form? --- PRACTICAL DAIRY NOTES. ! The cow is the one safe foundation for mixed farming. leruite, grains,hay and field crops in general, when sold off the farm, exhaust the soil rapid- ly, and the longer each crops are grown, the greater must be the ex- hauation of the soil, or the greater muet be the yearly outlay for com- mercial fertilizer,s. With a dairy properly managed, the farm cannot be "worn out." Dairy countriee, like Holland and Denmark, bav-e kept up and even inereaeed their fertility through the ecenturies of dairy fa.rnaing, simply because the peo- ple in` thase countrieen have studied and practised intensive farming, with the dee** tee the basis of their agri- cultural work. The creamery that received milk :froth a number of daieleS must gauge it product, ;whether it lie cheese or butter, by the, milk of the poorest dairy twimee milk it accepte. Ono dairy of bad, Poor, thin, dirty milk will re - dune, the huality of all the mink with which it milk is mixed. ; Every producer of milk should strive to produce ete good a grade of milk, to handle it en carefully, and to be en SUM Of its quality and ite condition that he well never fear to have the inepectors exaMine it any- Wieetee. , A SUGGESTION. •Young Mather—I really don't know why he oriel- so. Bachelor Friend—Perhape it is his beeth coming through. Young filifother—No, he esn't teeth- Banheacer Friend—Maybe its his hair coming through that hurts him, LEARNING TO LOVE THE PIPES. eutton leelpe say& tie ont to Lilo the OM MCAT peeleape gain with difficul- ty noince underetandeng of a Scot - Lash P/Per'e appeal to his CCIalltrYloen. Julian Reline in "An American with Lord Itob,erts;" says that whea he was- en cerrip upon ehe veld, hei Wale awakened every morreing by the opening- gemen of a bagpipe, the re- veille of one of tete 'Highland botta- ,.. — Boas. The piping eourtinueel for at Leant riexteen hones at a stretch. ' At fent this queer =isle came as a noveltn. Next it reused neY clad- osiey tie to a piper's having either the win ow Etre.agIA for sixteen hours on end, wetnno lon•ge-r pause than the minute it enquiend to change fromowe tune, to another. Than the enceastne noise began to madden me, and 1 eineed the, pines; as ao instru- ment of tortuie. Mee p:per walked to and elm the length of tile( regi- ment's Lines, and the ate was full of. zi.z-ziz-ziz, Nice t,hc note of a demon bee., -while the nearer it came, the more its initial 'chords, mastered the • neiglaborhacal aucl Quivered, in my very, bonen At Last, I cannot tell haw, it ca.nan about, I igiree . to like. the sound, aad to mese the melody W112111 the piper was afar and only the buzzing came to sny eare. When ne wan near he played upon my body and my senses' My pea raced with, the PurPle nansie •of Tthe seele, my blood warmed under the 'defiant ohallenge of the battle - songs. A pleasaot sadness possessed me when the Ttunen were pleentine and ,Witleaut a drop of Seetch blood ill MI5, 1 yet beig.an t.oi love- the Scotch, and to take an interest in all 1 cm -La see toe learn of theme In, teme I ueed to leave ray camp and cross the enar- row lane to the Heehlanders, to wa.Lch a piper a•t his work. Tiaten I diecavered that there was oat one sole piper; a marc elf men shared tlie Madam They stooden lens, petiennly watching as the rauei- aien of the me,naenti wellted jauntily up and doevn, inset touching his toes to the reed, like a man praetising5to walk an eggs. As he halte,c1 thefly7 keg ribbons would fa,11 beside the drones, a.ad the pipe ;would lan passed tie another man. Than Off strode the fresh player, with the eteeanters floating, his hips swaying, his -bead held high, alisi his tees but touching the ground.. Once I heard a man say: me the nieces, Sandy. I can tell ye w.hat naebotdy has said." FAMOUS GENERALS. Anal eiao nave won. Thetr Way firuaia ort Ilisi inutus. nelthough tem modem records of the British Army contain only one not- able inetance of a General who bas won hie way upward from the ranks -en) wit, the fan -1011e and gallant; Hec- tor Maoduaiald—in foreign armies it IS by no meang xare to emounter such promotions. t General Murat, Whose name will ale waye be nesociated With the menu- , mental figure .of Napoleon L, began life as a ehop-boy to a learielan haber- dasher. Joining the array as a prir- ate soldier, he distinguished himself by various deedof gallantry- and finally roe to be Marshal of Iiirance, whilet at a eubsequent date bis master conferred upon him the title of King Of Naples. Again, General 13eena.notte, anoth- er etriktng figure of the Napoleonic age, made his first appearance as a :metier ae a private in one of the Gee - man xegimente raleea ,by the British Eget India Company. In xecegnition ofints area lt,ancit abiding eeevices Na- poleon not only promoted bim to t.he grade of generalehip, but later on gave hian the kingdoni of Sweden, The present ruler at that country is a descendant of the besoic commauder, Pexhape, however, one of the most extraordinary military careers of the Fleet Empire ware that of , GENERAL IA.IIGEREATJ, Previous to the Revolution :or 1789 this famene soldier was merely a seri- geant in the French army. Owing to a quarrel- with a superior he fled the country and attached huneelf to a elneeian legion, 'but on the 'rise of Napoleon he "earned to hie native hand and fought under the latter's victo.rieue banner. Step by step he roee from nes lowly position, and in the fulneee of time anceived the bat- on which is the insignia of a Marshal of France. It wan of Augereau that /3uoneparte was thinking when he ut- tered the famous dictum that every soldier carried a "Marehans baton iu hiatehl"leagPk.reaactc"onarnander Andre Mas - sena was originally a simple private en the Sardinian army. By his heroic behavior during the siege of Genoa lie preserved Exalt:ice from invasion by the Auetriane, and gave Buonaparte time to defeat them at Marengo. In renognition of this mighty aid Na- poleon pxoraoted the humble Sardin- ian to the higbest rank in hie army, end conferred upon him the title of •Duke of RIvoli. '' Again, Genexal Lannes, a prominent figthre in the latter part of the Na- pole.cmic ca,reer, wan the son of a journeyman dyer in Gaecony. Mar- shal Nay, mho carried out the not- able retreat of the starving army from Berodino, was a cooper's son,and rose from the rankto be his great master's best -loved General. UNDEVELOPED WEALTH.. xertievectst Canada to Solve tho Food aad • Fuel Problem. A bleak of territory e thousand miles square; Gete,000,000 consecutive acres asi the richest paSture lands i3:1 tbe world, which yield on cultivatian the strongest and beat grain ever put en any maelnet, says the Landon Ex- • uentiguous Lo, and underlying; this immense. area, are the largest coal- field:a that have. ener yet been dis- °fevered; large enough to solve the fuel problem for an indefinite period; gold, silver, and copper, are in abun- dance, and, abeve all, there is any quantity of water power. Such is North-West Canada, as cies- cribed at the Royal Colonial Institute by the Rev. John alc‘Dangall; and all this recia catenary is in touch with the home markets through British ioutee, no foreign newer lying in between. 'Let the. British Gtavernment," urged Mr. McDougall, ''take a practi- cal interest in this great portion of our Empire; Ileum the trend of emi- gration that way, people these im- neenep areas, multiply the producing newer of tile nation, and thus secure to the home country a sure arid cer- tain fated eupply, as also an ever-ine- creaning field for commercial anter - prise and investment of capital.' BLIND SIAN'S BUFF. Dr: nticharcle is engaged to ani anal. able young lady, whena. he is permit- ted to visit three times a week. Her mother, a.persoca with a strict 'sense of propriety, disapproves of much familiarity, especially kissbag, be- tween the parties. UnfortunateIn her domestic dutiee peeve/it .her frora exercising so elone a supervision over the couple as she could wish, wherefore, she hag arrang- ed to h.ave a little niece with heron visiiirog days to -mount guard in' the drawing room, feeling aseured that the presence of the eland '-will suf- fice to keep the young lover a within the bounds of de.corualt One day Mentraa basi senaething of im,Portance to communicate to her daughter, and, going straight into the room, elle was horrified tense° her seated on the young man's knee with her arme round his neck, -while little BUY was groping about the furni- ture ;with her eyes blittdfolded. Doctor! she angrily e.eclainied, ate Elly, apparently vexed at tha in- eerruption, said Oh, auntie, we are playing "Blind Man's ,Butf" again so nicety. FEEDING M.I'.'S. 1 It may not be generally known that, besidne an unlimited supply of free stationery, the taxpayer ale° providee for members of the British Parliament a grant in aid itwards their refreshment. 'Dile used to be $5,000 a year, but 'in the lest decade it wae incireased to n10,000, as the Kitchen COnamitLes found they could not make both ends /elect with the entailer sum. With this assistance the prices charged aro about the aaMe as thawe of a large Club. The food and tooking are good, arta the svince excellent ; the only subject for criticism, ie the (ia....rit.ing ,Which has al- waya been a difficult pro em at Weeteninster. 1 1 Of the 126 ProteStant bishoprics isa the British Enepire, 73 are Goiania) sees. •, THE PRINTS OF FINGERS. --- not Always ftellaVe. as Means of Idtatin • cancel. - The coinseancy of hum:an finger prints has chiefly been discussed in zorinection with tha identification of criminals. A.ssuraing that the evid- ence of finger prints is to be annals- eible in 'criminal proceedings, it will be Oat only' neceseary to prove that in the enact of the same man the fin- THE 11ORSELES3 UAIIRIAGE ONE OWNED EY THE KiNea WILL, itIAKS 50 I11ILES AN BOHR- , °lent at it Cost of $4,000—The Shah of Persia fla it illateilheent Slotor—Ono That Cali bc Driven lithe a ilisrse, The new rirotor-car 4kialebi 'has just been buten. foe the King will unnoulate •acely be one al. the finest automobiles( dui this country. It iS a nine hos-se', power double phaeton, .capable of ac- commodating lour persons. The -motor is a very powerful one, for it 40 capable of attaining a speed of fiety„ mass an hour. Tht:Is beautiful haneeieTss ca 7 1 g bug(lit in, Finance at a e, t of a.bou.t $4.000. nitearlle all the nail, 3,2,::•trt:tebtefl,"tahnecaritxisilabgo'n4yaroer. toh.fr3tliv•f40_cehci0 nee been painted red. Al:thou:eh it in really en °pull earaagLe, It is SOk signed that it can be cloz.Ted in bad, weather. The motor is driven by Penalffin. It is a. marvel of engineer.) :Wig skill, IfOr it is not only noise-, lens and orient:lees, but there is isa total. alesellOO Of. vibration. , But the King's Muter is by hal means the motet cest1;,n in the worldel as many seem td suppose. Irecleecni nearly a, score ef these harselees cana rLagos could .1ae deecribed diet ha.v oast ,•theitr ownere considerably o'er $5,000 eaeln Probably the most ex- pe-nistve motor in the world will tete car aaw, being built for the Kirin', of the Belgians. It ie virtually a, paiale,e on wheels, for It boaste of sleeping chamber, a tailoteroom, and a servant's' ocempartment. It has a 30 hiorss,pow,ar motor. and itg reservoir holds twenty-five galIonse-of g•asoline: When on the „roan, it aonsiencee twee dollars and a hall worth of oil every hone. Thee unique palace -car neater well • cost $50,000. • The Shah of Puree) °woe a Ten g1114 2irsantimOtOr. Its Onandlee are Made on Solid gold, and in SOnle PlaieeSio the car its studded with costly jewels. It was butte at a cost of n25,000,' and .isi. -without doubt the finest car in the Far East.. M. Marron, the famateet, Firemen neetarise hats a magniiicentl veneela, which is eaid. to have cent hen $7,500, It is one of the -fastesti motors in the world. Lent year its owner drove it in the great race troana Paris to Bordeaux at the rate of near- by 800 miles a day. After the fel:noun': xace he wen Offered 810,000 for his car 1 but refused . The Earl of ,Cannarvan has a beautiel fat mater -car, fOT which he paid emoct The Hon,, C. S. Roles, who takes an abel sorbing interest in all., (matters re,-( latin,g to self-propelled veniclen • also said to thane given a similar sii for hie oar. The vehicle owned byit Me. H. J. Laween,, president of the!, Motor -car Onub, Leaden-, which is al-, bided to by the members as the "Rotschild -ea.xi" 'cast t.housand guineas. , 01 curious' motors there is •no Akron, Olei,o, U.S.A., • has a rnator novelty en eta oelf-propelled van. In this up-toedete carnage priso.nere are conveyed to and fewer 1 the police station to the prison. Thct van is 10ft•, long anel 42t. 440. wide. The vehicle has it raa.ximum speed of twenty mites an •hOuX', 5,500t lb., and cent 53000. Then there Is the! electric necitm-man, a decidedly inn tge:ninue. novelty. Iti eonsists of a(, man Of Beoledingnagian proper-. tions, wthe pane a vehecle behind hime In the interriar of .this- life -like .fig-ure.,- whleh stands 721, 540. in height, ig the motor which' draws the car. Not Only as thin flexile a seef-peopelleta ane, but it e.Lso talks and rolls its eye* imitating to a nicety almost every action, of -the original on ;which it is founded. The mototeemanis capa.ble qf covering twenty miles an hour. ; A French engineer has designed an en,genioruis apparatus, a kind of motor wThich may be attached ,to the front( 'olfiany vehicle anci elriven Mee a borsei Itis provided withernins for steering and stopping; the reatehine. A pull on either 'rein' tunias the apparatus the corresponding- direction, while re steady pule an both treks slows down the nectar and applies the brake There ie aleo is secondary pair of rebtai for bringing the vehicle to g standstill. But the most extraordie nary motor in the worm is that beg hag erected by a French doctor, i* wh,!eb he in.tends, with two studentse to make it tail, round the world. •It will contain twat sleeping apartmentse a latege w.ork-room, and rfour large tanks for storing oil. It will une questionably be the largest meter ever bumilt.' ger prints remain unaltered, but that no two persons have identical finger prints. Where is ;the evidence of this? 1 There are probably 1,500,000,000 men and women on tbe earth. • Can we euppoee that na ttwo of theee have identical finger Inuits? Nor, indeed, in this all. We may be.camparing 1 • the finger prints of aleving man with those of one who has been dead for Years pest, end the doctrine of here-, ate- Might load ue to expect to find j similar finger prints in the cane of parents and children and of differ- , ent 'children of the same parents. It is a,t all events, certain that if thee finger print system :were ance intro- duced into cur courts of justice' there would be any amounts of wrangling. as to( whether they were identical or only. eincilann• 'expe,rta Contradicting each ether and involving the whole •subject in cotafusime.„ Moreover, proleesional criminale; would probably eoon find some model of altering their finger prints. •Nol doubt if the person who committedi a crime—a murder, for example --has; left the imprint of his finger on any- thing it May prove an important clew; 1 but 'the slame thing may be said 1:41 the imprint oe hie barns or shoee.1 But a clue es one thing and, a proof is another ehing. Let nee paint out another difficulty. In a country where there are ttlarge number of criminals whose finger prints are collected the, number of these willSoma be eery lenge. How ,ong woulcl it "take to examine w'bether any ef them cerrespond this acellection in ord.er to find anti ac- curately with the finger prints of tbei man who ie now accused? The teen, would I thi,nk, be a hopeless one. That finger prints May be import- ant in ;the detection of OTi10:10 when- ever itA criminal has left the print ore his fingers, behind bine', 1 de not dispute, nut without much stronger evidence than we /new possess that no two persons aave unclistinguishable finger print e such • evidence aught never to he permitted to outweigh what appeared. ta be a tolerably sa it- . s,eactory alibi. r CAUGHT HIS TRAIN. The following anecdote ia elent by an officer eeeving in the Transvaal, wliere it ha e one the rounds of the camps. It nattrally lecke official canftrmation, but happily thie doe g not affect its mexite as a story. "They tell a envy ot Botha and Kitchener'e meeting about term's of peace recent- ly. At the end Botha eain, "Well, mut be oolong ' Kitchener replied 'No Iniagy, you haven't got to catch a train.' 'But thatee juet what got to non Said Botha, and two days afterwards a train was held up anti looted on the Delagoa line, not very fag from the planer ef Meeting.", 1 SUITS OF FISH -SKIN. I, . 14 How, would. eou like to be dreseea entirely, fr.ohn your nee to youi boote, in garments made of fish -eking There ere many races in the far Nort/f that wear these fish -skin clothes, foal the simple reasart that there is ne other Material available. Salmon( skin, when -made into clothes by the inhabitants of the nertherneboree oe Siberia, is, like kid in appearance and softness; but itis tougher—in efa.ct( ailinoS,t as tough 'as pa/Telmer:in( It ie dyed yellotty, anti red and indigo, andl s,once of the garments into which it ie made are highly ornamented. Thn ga•ratents are sewn together with fin( thread, also made oe fisb-skin. The outer edges are geoerally borde ered with a eifh-skin band .04 dark indigo blue, and a.bove this is a narrow strip of red. The, tribes live( entirely by fishing and leuntinte Salmon. /which ascend the rivers, arc( their etaple food, and the( skins, after being treated by the NVOIllell,r who are tidepts, provide the tenant dura131( clotheattycne could wish 'for. • 1 Yeast—Wb y do they tall e barber, an artist suppoke bacauSC bilerfsa.,k°1retmaa,:etd.a'tSemin7lelelitY, 1ahdiet" nenen maself a. present of thig musical -hoe' on my birthday Giving noenitelif ales, el a 4da4 iMbwiflrgen.