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CURRENT TOPICS
When Rojeslvensicy was acquitted by
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as
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the come -martial that tried hint for 1
defeat In the Sea of Japan there w
general ecrltsfaclion, Rojestvcnsky's e
P•odllion had been ono of small 110
item the start, and the causes of 11
ennihilallon of the fleet went back
behind the time when lie was give
Command. That Lite torpedo beat 0
which, he was fleeing surrendered apo
demand from the Japanese was a me
incident In the battle, and as Rojeslve
sicy himself was so badly wounded
the time ro that 1 Ulf 'r
1c could l l L properly
no p 1 Y
coo; li
� lcred
as in command the boa
c 1 ud o[ t h
even the responsibilityfur that inoidar
could not be placed upon frim.
The case of Stoessel is dlllercnt. Th
commission that has been Jnvesllgalln
the 'surrender of Port Arthur has recon
mended that ire be,,.smissed from th
fumy and shot. The penalty accord
with Russian military law. The weigh
of opinion will probably hold that Sloes
so! deserves the penalty of lite law
whatever it might be. General Need, i
Js true, praised tine heroic defence of lb
city, and Stoessel hinhselt was a sort o
popular hero all around the world du
ing the siege. 1t is true also that th
defence was hopeless, and that the J
Panese sapping and mining would hay
brought victory before many mor
months had passed—perhaps even with
in a few weeks.
OLD STREET THIEVES' CLEVER DODGES QUEBEC MARKET SCENES OF MERRIMENT
London in the Middle of the Fifteenth
Century.
Somewhere about a Seor'o of years ago
there was published in London a tiny
volume of most unusual interest to site
Pe dents of old-time men/lees ad customs
le 11 is called "Old London Street Cries,"
tar and contained several hundred familial.
n calls, beginning with the middle of the
fifteenth century, In which, as in a mire
n rot•, ono eon see reflected the life of the
n
common people through the years—what
re they ate and drank and wore, their fur -
m
at
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ltiltu•e and amusements, the toys their
children played with, and thele luxur•
led
long since become
commonest. nc
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essihrs,
A
walk h •
t to
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Londonstreets In
6
those days must have been a wettable
running of the gantlet. A few specimens
of the calls which besieged the travel -
lees ears will suffice.
"Buy my dish of great ailed" "Buy
a line singing-birdl" "Buy my wax or
waters!" 'Iiot Inked wantons (stewed
e pears)I" "Knives oe scissors to grind,'
Buy my four ropes of onions!" "Buy
s a I'oole•sloolel" "Ribbons a groat a
yardl" "Buy a horn books" "Songs,
three yards a penny!" "Roily and
mistletoe!"London's Gazette here!"
"Buy my nice drops, twenty aepemny,
peppermint drops," "beep every one
(toy hobby -horses)!" "Three rows a pore
ny pins, short whiles and middle—
lugs!"
Nor were the eager merchants content*
with verbal solicitation. The bewilder-
ed wayfarer was often so "pull -hauled"
by one after another that resistance
must have been well-nigh impossible.
But times change, and street life with
them. A generation ago a few lineal
descendants of the ofd London hucksters
called up and down the streets, Now
the rags and bottle men have disappear. TURNED ON A FLOOD OF LIGHT
ed, the "Assam -grinder" merely rings
e hell, venders of fruit and vegetables
have been silenced by law in many
cities, end, save for the sidewalk toys
and the holly and mistletoe of Christ-
mas -lime, the newsboys is sole inheritor
of all the street cries.
Less picturesque? Possibly. But one
has only to spend an hour among the
fakers of a country tale to realize that
even the strenuous life of the twentieth
century has Its advantages.
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But when the Russian prisoners
marched out, triple the strength that the
world had believed, and when It was
seen that they were in comparatively
good physical condition and had not
been lacking food or other supplies, It
was hard to recognize the military jus-
tification of the surrender, except upon
the argument that Russia no longer pro-
fited by the siege—and that was not for
Stoessel to decide, Beyond that, it ap-
peared that Stoessel bad not been the
real hero of the defence, but had played
a weak second to one or two of his own
subordinates. Whether he is given the
extreme punlsiunett or is pardoned, the
world will not bother much about
him, for himself alone.
But then there Is also Admiral Alexi-
elf, the viceroy, the pet of the grand du-
cal clique, the blind, ignorant represen-
tative, of the czar in the far East, the
marl who had so much to do with irri-
tating Japan before the war and who
=ringed Russia's affairs so incompet-
ently during the early stages of the war.
For him to be passed over with no-
thing more serious than a recommenda-
tion that he be reprimanded is to make
the whole liusslan investigation of the
war look like a farce. Compared with
Atexieif, Stoessel deserves to be given
the greatest honors. Stoessel In the
highest rank of the nobility and Alexi-
eft in the meanest malefactor's cell
would present the equines as between the
two. The showing of the war invese-
dation thus far certainly makes It rape.
ed little or nothing.
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WAR ON GAMBLING.
Editor of Australian Magazine in a
Relentless Crusade.
A tremendous struggle has been pro-
ceeding in Australia for weeks between
the gambling gang centering round
Jack \Veen. the wealthy proprietor of
the illegal totalisator, and numerous
race courses, and the Puritan party,
whose champion is Mr. Judkins, editor
of Lhe Australasian edition of the Re-
view of Reviews. The latter has con-
ducted such a relentless campaign that
organized bands of roughs break up
his meetings, necessitating police pro-
tection to prevent physical violence.
The struggle Inas forced the Bent
Government to promise drastic legis•
lotion and has rallied the forces of good
Government to the side of Mt Judlctns.
1,1r. \\h'en recently adopted Tameny
ladles by distributing money among
tine tinemployed and giving a number
work on the race courses,
The general opinion is that the gang
Is making its flirt stand against the
otlrngod community, which realizes
.that the line has come when Austra-
lia's national vice must be extirpated.
ONE WAY TO GET IT.
"Yost sly Mabel is in the habit of
walking for her complexion 7"
"Yes, To the nearest drug store,"
Miss Elder—"Well, 1 maintain that
women can doanything Mat men can."
Ah'. Gazzam= Oh, no. The auctioneer's
business Is ono a woman c
oath
ofg q
in.
to."] •
Miss i1
Al1:<et , o
� ns -
ct;,e. She'd
he rl
make every bit as good an auctioneer
us a man." Mr, Gazzan—"Jost Imagine
an unmarried woman getting up be(oee
a crewel and exclaiming: Now, gentle-.
met, all I want is en offerie"
Peckham ; "But, my dear, I'm sorry
to say you lack the courage of your
convictions." Mrs. Peckham 1 "Now,
what in the world 'do you mean by
that, Henry?" Peckham : "You say
there is no use talking, and then you
go right' ahead and talk some more.'
"Good," replied the president. "That
removes a weight frena ray mind, I
was beginning to be afraid his accounts
Might, he 10 such shape that he
wotlldn'1 chore to go away,"
Perot ie sotnettiin r we eel
mistakes of .our ,(Honda. fe foo the
iJOW BRAINY BURGLARS CARRY
OCT THEM PROJECT'S.
Derine Robberies Are Committee
Under the Very Eyes of
the Police.
That the successful burglar is "born,
not made," may bo judged Item the re-
port of a case which recently calve be-
fore the Berlin courts. The assistants
at alar6ehaicd
rassel's .shop, ,on mile
nig early one morning, found, placard
� a
on 111111
s esterse •
b ¢tin r
•ri
6 the inscription,
1nli
on,
Closed on aceeuul of sudden death"
Tlrinlcing that lire proprietor, dere Jas-
kowLak, had died hr llie night, 1110 as-
sistants returned home, but later in the
day some of them went back to the
shop, They 'then found, to their aston-
ishment, their master soiled at his desk
making a list of goods stolen from his
store. Knowing that the assistants
ar'r'ived early, the burglars, three in
number, put up the placard in order
that they might not be disturbed.
Somewhat stthllar, though oven more bevelling
r nineteen hours inland by rat
daring, was the ruse of a clever gang of he finds here a city 000 mills from lb
internathieves thieves which, a few years coast which is a seaport, where the tide
6 bb cl a firm of London gold- rise eighteen feet.
smiths of goods worth $60,000, Aware
that a watchman was not kept on the
premises, and that the principal and
employees of the firm lived in outlying
suburbs, the burglnrs wafted until nine
o'clockof an evening which was both
wet and dark, The strop had then been
closed about an hour, and the thieves,
carefully made up to resemble the men
whose premises they were about to ran.
sack, deliberately
Op» THINGS THAT THE FAIta1ER
WIVES BRING IN,
S'
Neely be the Morning On'.y Then Ca
the View J10 Seen in All
71s Gfory,
One who would see the open air ma
Rd of Quebec in Its fun glory ritual ri
ore Saturday morning at 5 o'clo
when lazy tourists are 81111 four hour
front brealifasL Terra
From Dutferul
the sight well repays the sucullce
the morning t m, ern
nap. Last eight the to
s It h
ti n
race was cwwded with home folAs an
,vistlurs promenading, to the taus!)
the military bend, Now it Is empt
and the upper town lies in eilen0e a
around, writes a cor'responderlt of th
New York Sunt
Within a stone'," throw sand some
the oldest houses In Canada. Down b
low beyond the edge of the mighty pre
elpice lies a panorama of river and rol
Mg country, yet with huge ocean liner
lying quietly at dock. It Is a curiou
inieee,sion to the New Yorker that elle
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IN MERRY OLD
and atlixed notices to the windoevs :
"Great stock -taking sale I Twenty per
cent. off all marked ,"rices. Goods sac-
rificed to make room for new season's
stock t"
Policemen on the beat, thinking they
saw the proprietor and his assistants
apparently hard at, work checking their
goods, suspected nothing, and the bur-
glars safely escaped with titefr booty
to the Continent.
A clever burglar's ruse, showing care-
ful study of the habits of the victim,
was recently reported to the police.
ENGLAND It is the custom of a business man who
resides at Brixton, and has his office in
Queen Victoria Street, London, to leave
hone every morning and not return
until dinner. Recently his wife re-
ceived an anonymous letter, which in-
formed iter that her husband, instead of
working in his office, frequently went
to a Charing Cross tea-shop a0corn- great lumps which resemble chunks cf
panted by a young lady. 13y the same quartz and in sticks, which tools not
post the husband received a letter which ltnlfke sticks o1 home-made molasses
gave the iuformaliontthat, while he was c¢ndy. Bunches of herbs and roots
at his office, his wife spent her tune ut . ,
fresh and dried, also are offered for sale
a certain Lea -shop in the neighborhood
of Charing Cross. by the market woman and if the tour-
of
Crd wife, bent on catching ist can understand her language she
each other red-handed, hastened to whl explain volubly and
politely ssh tld•
Charing Cross, and proceeded to the what each is good and how it should
be taken ,
tea-shop indicated in the anonymous These markCt woman sit knntling,
letters. Judge of their surprise when many 01 them—socks of a weight and
.trey came face to facie 1 There was solifilly which speak volumes of the
A MUTUAL EXPLANATION. winter to come. Their wares lie spread
Husband and . wife then came to the on a box before them; and atnong them
conclusion that someone had been play- there is sure to be
ing a joke on them. They thought no A BUNCH OF COUNTRY POSIES,
more of the matter, and decided to end
the day by a cosy dimer before return- But not only things that grow are of-
ing home. When they did return to feted for sale. A gentle "Chapeau, mae
their house they found the place ran- dame?" will call attention to the straw
sacked and the most valuable articles hats for men, peaked hi crown, broad
missing. The husband rushed away to In brim, Later in the season there will
his office, only to find the ,same confit- bs tuques for winter wear, conical caps
sion there. The burglars had made knit of wool, with a long point to Rap
good hauls, both at the house and the behind, ending int hate 1515551 and with
Alice.thick rolled edges to pulled dawn over
Last summer a series of very aud0- ear's and forehead.
cions burglaries occurred at the Nomas T'he•e are hanks of homespun wool,
of Now York's "Smart Set." Perhaps In its natural colors or dyed in all the
the most remarkable instance was the
hues of the rainbow by home-made dyes.
looting of the residence of Afr. e There is toweling spun in the winter
Aymar, a millionaire lawyer. ThJosree from home-grown flax; ra.g carpeting
burglars lived a whole week in the home woven of close, fine strands, socks
house, freely helping themselves to the and mittens, of course, and table covers
old wines in the cellar, and removing and bedspreads, woven of linen in blue
the valuable household effects nightly, and white.. One may buy, too, brooms
Jewels and .paintings to the value A manta by tying green willies to a sten-
over $125,000 were 101150 sway, der, round sapling or bars of home-
made
Aymar and his family had been nada hard soap and pets of soft soap.
spending tine summer in Canada, trust -
where
ie dome-wovan baskets conte from
Ing to the vigilance of the ponce to pro- the ]iltle village of Indian Lorene,
tent their The burglars whore a small colony of Hurons dwell.
possessions.They are guile as French as the French
effected an enhance around them now, yet the Indian fea-
THROUGLI THE FRONT BASEMENT. tures show out sta'tlingly at. tines.
After taping an Iron door oft its hinges They make baskets of sweet grass to
by means of a crowbar, they estab• sell and . moCEtsnnS and birch bntitt
Relied themselves In a beclee,bedroon on amens for summer, enough the nine.
the second floor. Sleeping during the mina are quite wearable for winter
day, they used an alarm clock to bedroom slippers.
awoken them at seven o'clock every There ern honked roes, also, in this
evening, and then commenced their medley of home products, honked Ants,
work of plunder , The caretaker of the eomnnnlmts in memory with horsehair
adjoining house heard the Glenn clock furrlitltrk anti ‘0‘,;(1-x fruit unclor ar, bass
several limns, but thought that some rf globe. There ae briskets full of little
Mr. Aynarr's servants hall returned slnmprd nets. rnmin;v hailer. each
wrapped in a wet lettuce 1enf, But meet
hams. reysle'imrs 01 all ere ooileriions net ob.
Alter about a week her suspicions jeers which leek like bh•telchnts and are
were aroused and she notified lite of about the same consistency—
authorities. The burglars, however,
decamped before the arrival of the THE "BLACK PUDDING"
police, talchng nearly everything 01 of the habitants Is matte of pigs' blood,
venue which they could carry away. Even the wildest desire for "local color"
They Mut twenty pictures out of their evill scarcely lead the tourist to simple
frames, and many of the household one.
error were removed in wagons. This One wonders how some of these mar-
ls by no lmoane 50 isolated hntance of ken women eat afford to come to MI 1`.. burglars making titefr home for Icer and pay the ion cents required for
clays in the houses of anter people, the privfleg0 of a box In the nhnrttol
During a round al inspeetfon the place, s0 smolt is thele nto011. One tons
proprietor of an hotel situated on the only a little pail 1ull of fife blood pad•
linas- dings Grimsel Pass,Switio h d, was c s before her—nothingcls
g
e, another
thrashed to see smoke isaning from has only a Armen
bars
of
home-made
one of the chhnmcls of the hotel, which soap end—most orrtous of commodities
he had carefully locked up endeft --•a sheep s boort. But if she only pays
FOR THE WIN't'CR r\1ON'CI1S, her expenses eta is glad, for t1 ii:
n
11e !attacked a door, entered, and at, lutiene' clays ranting. She sees and fo lies
treated by the sounds of a piano, went with so niany people, ncquohttnnces,
into one of the best bed -sitting rooms, even relatives from other Alleges whom
There he found a young men, decked she ares hal selrlom; fellow villagers
out in borrowed clothes, playing and tubo have Olhntt5 to Quchoo l0 work +n
singhtg, The slave was ligl tcrl, end on the shoo reentries, village girls who are
rho tables were bottles of his heal wafting on tables in Quebec hotels, pos.
vet m
champagnes and Other de/rears.a'ho stbly n Yonng priest, Jawyer
piano end a large book -case had also a dnctc , o wsin c used to he one of iha
been dregged into the room. boys of her awn vtkinge..
"For the last month," sold the ,youth. T'hn 111011101 pknce resounds with cries
fat 11urglnr, on seehtg the prnprlclol', et nnimnis. Clens and gorse slroleh
"1 hava been thorotaghiy enjoytn + htny. 1nrlh hairs Iran slnflyd 0009:1 and lir)-
self. I nnevcr had such a good litre In lest sll'ennnuily, .. Anned naives add no
Ilhn din, hale ❑bolo nil is the squeaking
my life. I.do 0101 notncl going to prison of lute pigs, The proprietor, rotor t0
now, and 1 1109(1 70)1 will. forgive me, r oke n sn)o, -rues inn11'1Y1
,
'1'he jovia) 1)019101' pal on a Boni Hurl n 1 v lis mrel 9n-
ner tall. hnfds jt nil lit tie rusfnmrr's
lint, 10011 n. last glass bt citnmpngnc, iVIM inehrlel
r,.,,-. r..Yt,,,.,.,A 11,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,ner ,_ ,,... and p 5 Its retells;
'vhilc .118-5 eS
kr exnfnirs no its manila, while its cries
rise to Lhe limper town,
A rope used by Berry, the hangman,
during excursions has been sold for
5s.
The lcodig London hotels are full of
American millionteres and multi -mil-
lionaires.
No man whe refuses to be vaccinated
or re -vaccinated can enlist in the Brit-
ish army.
The state apartments at Windsor Cas-
te aro now closed to the public until
further orders,
The London Corporation has voted
:0105 to the Lord Mayor's fund for a
gift to Queen Maud of Norway.
A serious lire occurred on the 16th
ult., at the extensive wire factory el
\V, 13. Brown & Coe Benkioall, Liver-
pool.
According to a return presented lo
the London County Council, there is
ono public for every 68 residents in that
oily.
A well-known Essex Landmark—Rey-
neigh Windmill—is about to be torn
down. R was Mule in the reign of
George II.
The Annual Movable Council of tlhe
Manchester Unity of Oddfellows et
Barrow last month, voted £1,000 to )od;l-
ee in San Francisco.
The late Sir Wilfrid Lawson rejoiced
over the fact that 150 of the new mem,
bens of the House of Commons aro to-
tal abstainers.
Mr. Robert Haddon, for many years
a proprietor of the Liverpool Courier,
died on the 16th ult., at his residence,
Waterloo, near Liverpool.
Mr. J. Every, a driver on the Brigh-
ton Railway, who is retiring on a pen-
sion at the age of 67 years,ewas the
driver of the Royal trains to Epsom tor
Twenty years. hn all that lime there
has never been the slightest suspicion
of an accident. ,
Mr. Henry Overton Wills, of the to-
bacco firm, Lord \Vinlerstroke and Mr,
J. Storrs Fry have each ,promised con-
trlbutions of £70,000 towards the for-
mation of a university at Bristol, end
Sir lererlerick Wills and Mr, Francis 3.
Fry £5,000 each.
Mr. William Ankers, chief engineer
of the London and North-western Com-
pany's fleet of, steamships,' is about le
Aire after fluty ,years' service. Ile had
rossect the Irish Sea 13,000 times, and
has travelled about seven hundred and
ixi,y thousand miles,
Rev. S, Baring Gould, the English
Alter, is by no moots the first man
n England to read his own obituary.
When. G. 13. Burgin had a similar ex-
erience, two years ago, he could not
mist, the temptation to follow Mark
rivoin's famous example by declaring
hat "the rumor of my death is greatly
xaggernted."
Harcourt house, originally known as
()nand House, and immortalized hy
ihaoiccrny in "Vanity Fair," es the home
1 Inc.Marquis of Slevne, and the scene
of many of 130011y Sharp's intrigues, to
ow to be pulled clown to make room
[or•a block of high-class flats. its Inst
oeupant' was tate Marquis of Breadal-
ane.
Making n miste1(0 between two peek-
s es sweep's vlfe net -Bur
a v s t ton made a
r. n
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ev h tot (anew instead Iran
a of ,
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d gave it to Arthur Wood, nnn , a carter,
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REMEDY FOR NOSE -BLEEDING,
if prolonged, a tittle powdered alum
may be planed within the nostrils. As
a rule nose -bleeding is a natural means
ler getting rid of excess of blood in
the head. Between .the thirteenth and
sixteenth peers children have the blood
cireufati0n tindergein9 certain changes.
Nose -bleeding often prevents Ityslorical
symptoms and bad 'headaches,
UNCERTAINTY'S Cf -ARA!.
to
hr
Briggs—Don't yell think a men Might
fool demi sure about too girl fro Js
levo tvlllnf
Crlggs—No, If he Act lie Wouldn't be
helel•pollce=station in the volley.
h1.101/e with 110',
The early riser turns eastward on
Budde street, and, lo, it ends in a stat r
case. It is a cotmnnn ending for street
in Quebec, which wander up and dow
slates as unconcernedly as other street
turn a corner.
Down the long stairs she phages in
to the lower town, and there finds th
people all astir. She has only to fol
low the first housewife she sees with it
basket on her arm to be led eventually
to the great gray stone
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CHAPLAIN MARKET HOUSE.
It is the market square wlthout which
Is the attraction for the tourist. There
is the sunshine sll hie French-Canadian
farmers and their wives, who have corse
in before daylight from those ribbon
forms stretched back trona the river in
long, narrow strips. -
Perhaps they left home at 3 o'clock in
Ilia morning to drive Into town In the
bouncing two -wheeled Quebec arctic:.
Perhaps they came in the market bottle,
catching what sleep they could on the
hard wooden benches.
Here they are sitting now, ready for
the thrifty housewives of Quebec, each
salesman or saleswoman with such pro-
duce hetero ltim as his farm at tihat time
affords.
Aside from the ordinary market vege-
tables there are many quaint articles
for sale—spruce gum, for instance, in
r-.-.
PITS OP LAUGHTER MAT IIAVE
Lth",IUS,lANDS.
Occasions on Wilke Untimely Merl
meal Iles Parted Engaged
Couples.
LOST
About slx weelcs ago a young ma
was wullthng with his bride to the vi
lege church of Simnrentlial, Switse
land,
whenthe
former slipped
In 11
Anew u d
n .felt
A6 this mishap the gi
buts l.
11110 such an uncontrollable fit
laughter that the bridegroom, on ria
ing, broke off the engagement i
vehement terms, and lett the. unsymp
thane bride to coetinue her way to it
church alone, there to explain to th
expectant crowd of relatives and friend
the reason of her lover's absence, say
Loudon Tit -Bits,
This Is by no means the only oeca
sign on which untimely merriment ha
parted an engaged couple almost at 111
steps of the altar. A short while ag
an Mist -end couple were, with lb
hridegr000nh's father and mother, drI
hug Io church in a tour -wheeler r
mate/molly bent. The old couple wee
dressed in their beat; indeed, thci
smartness bordered on the grotesque
which so tickled the bride's sense o
humor that she was unable to centre
her mirth, the objects whereof were s
angered that they stopped and alighted
(heir example being promptly followed
by their son, who declared that he
would never marry a girl who could
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o Several of the largest firms, with
✓ suJlielent foresight and capital, have
I for the last Iwo years been steadily
1 buying as many diamonds as they
ONLY RICHEST OF RICA
WILL 511; ABLE TO WEAR A DIA.
MOND NECKLACE,
In Tivenfe-five Yrars Stones Will
Command Fabulous Prices—
Mines Lase Productive.
It is no exaggeration to say that in
twenty-five years here will be es much
locked -up capital in a diamond neck.
lace
as there re, •
is in'
the average ai,o tractus-.
trial concer'n of to -da an these d L s
h..stones
Y,
will e
h al such a fabulous >ulqu • , •'rr
s ler.. as to
be beyond the reach of any but the
richest' of the rieh, says the London
Daily Mali.
During the past two years the price
of diamonds has Jumped up 25 per
cent.; during the past six months Lite
price has risen 10 per cent., and in
another two years diamonds will be
ANOTHER 20 PER CENT, DEARER.
Two years ago 2 -grain (%-carat)
stones could be purchased for d/15 a
carat. Now they are £22 IOs, while 4 -
carat stones have gone up from $21 a
carat to £32 of £33.
0
IvMAKE FUN AT 11IS PARENTS.
Equally detrimental to a young
couple's happiness was the presence of
the bridegroom's father-in-law among
a Birmingham wedding-parly that were
accompanying the principals to church.
On the way the cid gentleman waxed
exceedingly jocose, and so amused the
bride with his conlicallUes that she
could no longer restrain her mirth, and
despite the prolestatiols of her fiancee
literally shook well laughter. Unable
to endure such inordinate levity, the
young fellow took hlmself oft there and
then, leaving the girl to the care of his
father, who, being a widower, subse-
quently displaced his sedate son in her
aflections, and, ere a year elapsed,
made her his wife.
Rufus E. I•Iacket, of Philadelphia,
being himself of austere temperament,
disapproved of gaiety in others. His
fiances high spirits especially grieved
him, and ire declared that unless she
could refrain from merriment until
their wedding -day, fixed three months
thence, she should never be a wife of his.
For three months was her conduct
irreproachable, but on the very morn-
ing of the day whereon the ceremony
was to take place she, forgetful of her
lover's prohibition, gave vent to a
merry peal of laughter,
SHE NEVER BECAME MRS. HACKET.
At the altar of a I-Ionpstead Road
church a couple presented themselves
to he married. The bride was exces-
sively nervous, and scarcely had the
ceremony commenced than her ner-
vousness found expression in a succes-
sion of giggles that grew so. loud and
disconcerting that the clergyman
closed his book and refused to continue
the service. The bridegroom thereupon
remonstrated with his bride, and as he
put her behavior down, not to the true
cause, but to levity of conduct, his re-
proof was so forcible as to throw the
girl into hysterics. On her recovery the
couple departed unmarried. Nor were
they even' united, for, thinking her as
frivolous as she considered him heart-
less, the young man refused to place
Ills future happiness in her keeping.
In 1887 e. young Edinburgh doctor
WAS on the eve of being married when
the trial of Medeline Smith—when he
had 01101on one or two occasions—for
poisoning Emile L'Angelier tools place
at Glasgow. Being in his fiancee's
company, he chanced to make some
humorous remark, at which the young
lady burst out into a hearty laugh --
A FATAL LAUGH,
or to her lover 11 sounded strangely
Ike a laugh he had heard a few weeks
previously—the laugh of the accused
woman; and so Horrified was ire at the
triking resemblance that he broke off
is engagement.
A tragic incident occurred a year or
o since at Brussels on the morning of
young couple's marriage, The wed-
ding -party were on the point of setting
ul when one of them made a joke at
Inich the bride laughed so unrestrain-
clty that she broke a blood -vessel.
bledicel, aid was promptly summoned,
tit without avail, for the girl, who was
Aurally of a most delicate constitu-
on, succumbed, and these who had
eon bidden to the wedding were, a
ew days later, constrained le enact the
ad role of mourners.
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LONG SKIRTS BARRED,
ilesian Authorities Try to Regulate
Fashions,
The campaign against (railing skirts
egun some weeps ago by the Nordhau-
n (Germany) Town Council, is being
ra hely continued by the municipal au-
nties at several Silesian summer o s m stet
110.
The local commissioners responsible
r the administration of Alain/ at Sa1z-
unht issnmd a public, appeal to lady
niters el this favorite health resort to
bslntn !rem wearing long skirls, or,(
wearing long dresses, to prevent then
em trailing nn the ground.
Phis appeal being disregarded, the
eat oonnmissionors have now passed
;lam inflicting penalties for the
caring of !railing ekirts,
Ile local Commissioners at Waren.
tem, also in Rilesihl, have followed
stein from wearing long shirts, rr,
ed an 119penl, weieh produced no
eel 011 kinetic o(fendars, they hair
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intim h'nning skirts, and introducing
007 pen0111es as punishment for )b.
Il ate Iran gressel's.
e long ego 05 A.11 i07R ihr vow!.
ns used a watcr-w'heel ()vitenn by
al pewee.
could get to safeguard themselves
against this rise.
'Our stock of diamonds is worth
new between £350,000 and £400,000,"
said her. H. Smith of the Association of
Diamond Merchants, Jewellers and
Silversmiths, Limited, to a Daily Mail
representative, "and we are still buy-
ing."
But It is exceedingly difficult to buy
diamonds at all. First of all, an intro-
duction has to be got to the syndicate
that controls the South African dia-
mond market, and when this difficult
matter is arranged the buyer awaits his
turn—generally he bas to wait
ABOUT SIX MONTHS.
On the appointed day he goes to the
offices of the syndicate and is shown a
parcel of diamonds. There is no bar-
gaining; the buyer can either tutee the
diamonds 'or leave them. One buyer
asked for half an hour to consult his
partner before taking a lot worth £100,-
000. When ire came back they had been
sold.
Men have been offered £1,000 for
their "turn," and have refused it. The
reason for the rise In the price of dia-
monds is that the mines are becoming
less productive, although producing
finer stones whiter and more brilliant.
Emeralds have gone up 50 per cent.,
and there has also been a big increase
in the price of pearls and rubies.
MANCE TO MAKE A FORTUNE.
Find a Way of Making Fogs Sklddoo at
Your Behest.
The inventor who will devise an em-
cient method of dispelling fog or of
Counteracting fns effect will reap a
great fortune.
It is said that a week of the fog so
common in London, especially in the
latter part of December, costs the rail.
way companies there $1,000,000 and the
Cabmen $5,000 a day, while the loss to
merchants is beyond calculalion. Ac-
cording to the Technical World, the
excess of gas used on a foggy day
would supply a Lown of 40,000 people
an entire }ren'.
It is erslinnated that in consequence of
10111 annosphere the people of the Bri-
tish capital are put to en unnecessary
expense of from $15,000,000 to $25,000,-
000 annually ; and in winter enjoy sun-
shine only one-fourth of the time to
which they are entitled. The effect of the
fog Is aggravated by the outpourings of
smoke -laden chimneys, which infect the
air, bringing periodically an alarming
Increase in the death rata through acci-
dent and from diseases of the respira-
tory organs.
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MORE .ABOUT APPENDICITIS.
What British Surgeons Think of
French Theory.
The important thesis advanced by
releasor Blanchard, of Paris, that ap-
Andtents is caused by intestinal worms
—does not commend itself to distin-
uished British authorities on the dis-
use,
One of the foremost English physi-
lens, in tin interview with a represetta-
•e o1 the London Daily Mail, said that
Norms were rarely fotmel in appendi-
tis cases, and the theory that they
ere a frequent cause of the disease
as mere conjecture, and had in no
ay been demonstrated. •
When Professor Metchnikoff was in
olden recently to deliver his 1•im'ben
enure be dealt with the causes of ap-
endlettis, but made no such statement
let.
Itis h•ue that the eggs of the itu'ead-
voirm are sometimes found on vege-
bles manured by sewage, anti these
may be ggs Y developed if taken into
le body, 11111 those found on cabbages
1turnips would id s � be destroyed est o
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nein in water which is contaminated
1111 sew090.
11 is a gr'nss exaggeration to say
A, n surgical operation is absolutely
nn000550ry, and should never be per -
ruled unless s
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td;—"l totally distigree with the pro-
w about, the operations, When the
ppenclix has shown signs of getting
o o bad condition, it is tesentfal for
ore safety that it should be removed,.
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notion of appendicitis being al-
ee caused by the wallowing of some
rd irritant, such ae a cherry stone, Is
ong, Not ❑lore than 5 per cent. of
se arise h•nrn This rein, i think
article in the Deily etnii'will servo
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MAT 7.O D0,
First Restore Rreatltinp--.01 Next
penance fs t0 Gaston Bodily
Heal,
Many a person has been saved from
death by drowning after tile was op -
prettily extinguished because some-
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Samuel C. Dixon tells simply and
drowbrieflyning. Ithe prolecesssays of; resuscitation from
"Restore breathing and restore and
maintain body heat. These are two es-
sential things to do at once, and, of
course, the breathing comes' first.
Loosen 0r Cut apart all neck and wrist
bands so as to remove obstructions to
breathing. Don't bother witb taking off
any of the wet clothing at this 'point;
you might lose precious time, and a
moment's delay in restoring breathing
may prove fatal,
Turn the patient on his face, 011111
the head lower than the body ; grasping
the body around the middle raise it as
far as you can without lifting the head
off the ground. Give the booty a sharp
jerk to remove the mucous from the
throat and the water from the wind-
pipe. Hold the body suspended,
SLOWLY COUNT ONE, TWO, THREE,
and then repeat the jerk more gently
two or three times.
This getting rid of the water and
mucous is the first thing to be done
toward the restoration of breathing.
Now place the body on the ground
again, face downward, and, standing
astride the body and holding it by the
points of the shoulders, raise the chest
as high as you can without lifting the
head from the ground ; hold it there
long enough to slowly count one, two,
three. Replace the body on the
ground with the forehead resting on the
arm that has been bent at the elbow.
The nook should be straightened out
and the nose and mouth be free from
contact with the arm, eo as to take in
the air.
Placing your elbows against your
knees, so ns to gain a leverage, press
downward and inward with increasing
force against the sides of the victim's
chest and over the lower ribs long
enough to slowly count ane, two, then
let go suddenly Grasp the shoulders
as before and raise the chest, remen't-
bering to leave the forehead resting on
the ground, and press upon the ribs as
before. Replace the body on the
ground, press downward and inward
against the sides of the chest, let go
suddenly, and, grasping the shoulders,
raise the chest and press upon the ribs.
These alternate movements' should be
repealed for an hour at last at the rate
of ten to fifteen times a minute unless
breathing is restored sooner. These
movements should be accomplished
with regularity,
AS IN NATURAL BREATHING.
"Keep people from crowding around
the patient, as they exclude fresh air,
and don't give a stimulant before the
patient can swallow.
"\Vhen breathing has commenced
then the thing to do immediately after-
ward is to restore the body heat. Warm
blankets should be wrapped about the
body and beetles of hot water or loot
bricks applied. The head should be
warmed nearly as fast as the body, or
else convulsions nay result. Rubbing
the body vigorously with the hand 0r
warm cloths, or slapping, the fleshy '
parts may assist to restore warmth.
"As soon as the patient can swallow
give hot coffee, tea or milk. Beware of
giving too much spirits, lest depression
may result. Get. the patient in a warm
bed and have plenty of fresh air."
Dr, Dixon offers these as a few sug-
gestions which, he hopes, may save
some lives during the present vacation,
THE GARD OF_ANCIENT ROME.
The Quaint Dutch City of Utrecht is
Transformed.
Utrecht can congratulate herself upon
having at great pains and expense af-
forded the twentieth century avivid
representation of me in ancient Rome
when she was at the height of her civi-
lization and power.
The occasion was a student's gala,
and Wrechl quite outshone all its pre-
vious performances in this line, for,
having once conceived the project of
transforming a part of itself transiently
into a Roman city, it snared neither
cost nor energy to make the attempt a
SIC0055.
Gorgeous banners and flags festooned
the picturesque gables of lite principal
streets, varied here and there by tri-
umphal arches of a Riglmly elaborate
character, while a Roman flacons,
erected en true' historic lines, and suiii-
clently extensive to afford scope for
chariot races, formed a not unfitting
climax to the general magnificence 01
the whole.
Of course. the usual processional
masquerade was not wanting. It bore
somewhat the appearance of a Ronan
triumph, consisting as it did 01 persons
and equipages purely Roman, and was
everywhere received With manrlrs
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liens of delight. Certainly the stnd.e
nL
who represented the Emperor Gcrmant.'
MS in a suit of magnificent armor,
richly embossed and figured, is not
again likely . during his university
career to receive so ninny and suet:
full•tm'oated ovations.
The curage, races in thecrowded
arena, with its raised dais inthecentre
thronged with students clad fn the garb
of the Seven -hilted City, whore a source
of wonder and admiration to the nee
m00005 spectators.
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AWFUL.
Cecil (Sertthnentaliyy) : "Don't you feel
gloomy When the sky is overcast with
grey, when the r11y111rnic rain sounds a
dirge upon the roof, and the land-
scares beauties are hid by the weep,.
ing ,mist it"
litre' ' (weeny): "Yee 'its r dCe -
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fully annoying. It • does Melte tan's
hair come out Of Curl 40,11