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disturbances are feared.
Mr.. HAZARD of Vancluse. r. l.. gave
lawn party to the spirits of his dead
relatives. He saws that among the
guests were his late wife and daughter
If you wanted to 90 from London to
Scotland you could do it for less than
$50, yet every one of Queen Victoria
journeys to Balmoral costs the nation
$4,000.
+. CROSBY of Milford, n. H., recently
came near losing his eysight by opening
bottle Of ammonia which had been
standing in the heat. He was sightless
for day.
A PICTURE-FRAME in a dealers win
dow in Paris, which is labeled at high
price, bears the following inscription I:
This superb frame has contained a
picture by Titian!"
A BROOKLYN man wants to whistle
for the championship, the tone produced
TO be that of a flute " stopped by the
musicians finger, each note to be loud,
clear, round and silvery."
In consequence of the growing repu-
diation of the fez by Bulgarians and
Roumelians the annual expectation of
this headgear from Austria has fallen
off 600, 900, and the trade is in despair
A BosToN druggist sold an ounce of
laudanum to boy who brought writ
ten order for tincture of rhubarb, and
the widow of the man killed by the
blunder has obtained verdict of So, POS
damages.
PROF. GRYGLEwSRI of the Cracow
Fine Arts Academy recently committed
suicide at Dantzic, where he had been
drawing historical pictures in the Rath-
haus, by throwing himself from the top
of that building.
A DRUGGIST in Savannah, Ga, has
young mOcking-bird that will 90 and
come as ordered, turn somersets, run
round in circle, march, fetch and car
~, hop on one foot, pick up coin, and
do other similar tricks.
PARTISAN theaters may now keep open
till II 80, instead of closing at y, and
cafes till ?. In London the sober can
get nothing to drink at a restaurant af-
ter L, because some people get DRINK
after that hour.
MANY coal-mine explosions which
have been thought mysterious probably
resulted from the sudden burning of dry
cOal-dust in the air. Cotton gins are
frequently set on fire by the ignition of
fine particles of cotton in the air
So great is the depression in Rutland
shire and North Leicester, England, that
not one tenant farmer in that neighbor-
hood can show shilling profit during
the last four years, and two of them
have committed suicide quite lately from
utter despair.
CABUL, the scene of the massacre of
British officers, is represented as a most
disagreeable place to live in. 1t is said
that more neglected and tumbled-
down collection of houses, without the
slightest pretense to any sanitary ar
rangements, could scarcely be found in
Asia.
As an instance of misnomer. The
Canada thistle is not native of Cana
da, but introduced there by the Hessians
during the Revolutionary war of the
United States. So the Jerusalem arti-
choke is not a native of Palestine, but of
Brazil, and it is said has never been no.
ticed in Palestine.
THE Globe of Paris says that an
American millionaire has ordered at
Rome copy of the statue of st. Peter
at the Vatican. That statue has often
been copied, though always in a minia-
ture size; but the copy ordered by the
American amateur is to be of the size of
the original and of bronze, costing 100,-
900 francs.
An excellent invisible ink for postal
cards can be made by diluting sulphuric
acid with fifty times tsvolume of water.
A slight acid fluid is the result, which
does not injure a quill pen. The mes
sage is developed by holding the card
over any convenient flame-that of gas
or spirits, for example, or by laying it
on a hot plate.
IT is well known that the exposure of
the limbs to cold is apt to chill them,
in children, and to throw the
blood back on the bowels or lungs, en-
life; yet even in cold weather
you viii see faShionably dressed chill
dren going with bare legs, while both
parents are carefully protected against
cold
DIR. PICKINs TAYLOR of Georgia gave
his little daughter quinine pills for inter-
mittent fever, telling her the pills were
birds eggs. When the drug
began to work she told her father with |
great glee that the little birds had /
Matched and were singing in her head. T.
All this means that you mustn't lie to /.
children in fun-only in earnest.
THE last party of tenant farmers sent |
to Canada, TO investigate the advantages /!
of settlement in the Dominion, repre- |
sent portions OF Scotland and the North |
east and West of England. Seventy 1
farmers from Sweden have sailed. in ]
tending to settle in Manitoba. If their
proves successful, they will .
be joined by 600 SwedeS next spring.
THE Island of New Guinea, which has
been frequently visited by French navi-
gators but never formally annexed to |
France, has been chosen for an eXclu-
sively Catholic colony. The devout emf |
grants have chartered a vessel, running |
up the Stars and Stripes to avoid the
French laws, and start Under the COM |
mand of the Marquis de Roya, who is to
be their first King.
A FOURTH Chinese theater is being
erected in San Francisco. 1t will be a
iron building, seating $500 /
persons. There used to be hot rivalry.
and the three theaters lost money. Then
the competing managers pooled their
issues in TIE Wing Ii Ping, or Company
of Eternal Peace; bnt the peace has
already been broken by the new prof
ect.
EIGHTY-FoUR political criminals were