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work.
Don Juan Nero.Brummel Mansfield
is the way some of his admirers in
Boston speak of Richard.
One Sundays census of church at
tendants in Liverpool gave 63, 200 out
of population of 100000.
An unknown philanthropist has
offered to give $50, 900 toward a library
fund for the Colorado College.
Another syndicate has offered the
Grande Chartreuse $4,000. 900 forins
for the monopoly of the liqueur.
1t is reported that the wheat harvest
in the Argentine Republic this year is
likely to be the heaviest ever known.
Ernest Longfellow son of the poet,
is tall, slender. and has few streaks
of gray in his thick. dark hair. He is
an artist of rare promise.
Another monument is projected in
New York. This one is General Han
cocks and it is proposed to erect it
in Hancock Square, Harlem.
The head of the Choctaw Indian ma
tion, Governor Jones, wears store
clothes, plug hat, and a dazzling dia-
nond pin on a sky-blue cravat.
The fashionable point for grasping
sticks and umbrellas in London is
about six inches from the ferrule, the
handles being allowed to dangle down
ward.
An Arizona farmer has tame rattle
snake to guard his premises instead OF
a dog. The report does not say
whether the snake sleeps in the farm
~er's boots.
There is new element. a mineral
discovered in the Boleo mines. 1t is
composed of cubic crystals of fine
blue color and has been christened
''boleite.''
The Arkansas..city of Little Rock has
system of sidewalk and street paving
with vitrified brick, which is agreeable
to man and beast, and will do service
for ages.
The Tower bridge over the Thames
built on the Bascule principle, has
caused the underwriters of Lioyds to
refuse to insure vessels that have to
pass beneath it.
William Bayne. who was the first
South Carolinian to propose the name
of Wade Hampton for Governor, is
now destitute and partly insane at
Greenville, S. c.
The young duchess of Newcastle is
an enthusiastic lover of dogs in gen.
eral, but particularly of Russian wolf
hounds, of which she has made a
unique collection.
Mrs. Parnell will receive 5000, 600
under the will of her aunt, the late
Lady Wood. and will have an ample
fortune with which to alleviate the sor-
rows of her widowhood.
The late Baron Won Kutzleben, a
wealthy German landowner. left a son
and heir who is Salvation Army lieu
living on 40 cents day.
The French soldier is much agitated
by the news that in time of peace, as
in war. he must henceforth, when on
duty, carry his heavy knapsack and
other camp accoutrements.
An owl flew down one of the Circuit
Courtroom chimneys at Palmyra, Mo-.
recently perched himself in the unused
pipe-hole and listened as if he had
been admitted to the bar.
A French beekeeper has experiment.
ed with bees as carriers of dispatches.
One difficulty with the service is that
these insects will not return over a
distance of more than two or three
miles.
Rosegger nicknamed at his home
"Styria on Two Legs is described as
the Dickens of the East" He is the
son of an Albanian peasant and has
written novels and things to fill twenty
volumes.
Bilwroth has lectured in Vienna on
the probable effect of the small-bore
rifle. He thinks that future wars must
be short, owing to the fact that a
modern rifle bullet will 60 through
several men at time.
In Bortan they talk of a band of En-
glish crusaders who strayed away
from their leaders about 1150 A. D. and
settled in Kurdistan, mingling their
blood with the native stock. so that it
is dangerous for Britons to be too
severe about the faults of the Kurds.
Slavery still exists in Portuguese
India. A Brahmin, at Kalloda,
possesses village of thirty-two huts,
where every soul is as truly his slave
and property as in the olden days; and
recently Portuguese, travelling from
Goa, spoke openly of the slaves on his
estate.
The smallest man in the world" a
midget from Holland. "a years of age,
who calls himself Prince Mignon," is
exhibiting in Berlin. This little chap.
who is exactly two feet high, is a per-
fectly formed human being, and his
performances as an acrobat are really
wonderful.
Elias Palmer, of Frankfort, N. Y,
noted for his mechanical genius and
eccentricities. died aged 81. He never
married. and passed a lonely life. He
was a remarkably expert mechanic,
and constructed q fine piano and many
other notable things, useful and orna-
mental. with ordinary tools.
The japanese dislike the Russians
and the Chinese, but like the Ameri-
cans and the English. They are fear
full of the aggressions of the Russians in
Corea and of the Chinese in the islands
that lie south of Japan; but they do
not II * for any act of aggression by
the United States or by England.
There is movement in regular
army circles for the restoration of the
old army "field hat," which was super
seeded by the helmet, of which many
officials have complained. The old
style hat was picturesque, comfortable
and serviceable. while the helmet is
top-heavy and does not give proper
ventilation.
The wealthy firms of Kiev are en-
gagged exclusively in the shipment ot
clover seed to Germany. and they are
doing rushing business this year
The German farmers never allow
clover to ripen in their fields, for it ex
hausts the SOIL They NOW it before
the seed develops and import theil
seed from Russia every year.
The oldest living college graduate i:
said to be Andrew Parker, whose home
is in Fitzwilliam, N. H.. the town ir
which he was born. He is over Ion
years old, and was a companion o.
Lafayette during his fourth and las
visit to this country in 1924. He grad
uated from the University of Vernon
in 1918. standing second in his class.
The Georgia city of Macon is rejoic
ing over the fact that the Ocmulge'
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