The Progress., 1893-04-22
QUEER LAWS, AND CUSTOMS.


in Russian theaters.
The world is full OF lion fighters. but
it is hard to find "A man who wont run
from hornet.
Street cars at Wheeling. w. Va. are
not run after o'clock in the evening
as the mayor of that town deems it
dangerous to do 50.
Once it was a great honor and privi-
-ege to walk under an umbrella. In
some countries 1t constituted part of
the insignia of royalty.
In Denmark it is the law that all
drunken persons shall be taken to their
homes in carriages provided at the
expense IF the publican who sold them
the last glass.
few years ago derby hats We're
unknown in the west, while worn by
everybody in the East. Now that felt
hats are the rage in the East they have
disappeared from the West.
st. Valentines day has almost gone
out of fashion in England. 1t used 10
be that many thousands of valentines
passed through the mails on that day,
but this year the number was very
small.
A tax of ten francs year is to be
levied on pianos in France, those used
by professional players being ex-
empted. The measure imposing the
tax passed the chamber by a vote of
307 to AS.
Parliament is not over particular
about Sunday observance when it
suits its purpose to be otherwise. The
house of commons has met on Sunday
eleven times, on various occasions
when urgency demanded it, The first
time was in the reign of Edward I'LL,
the last at the death of George ii.
Bolivia is not printed on any English
maps and no representative is sent
there from Great Britain. The cause
of this is that, some thirty years ago
at dinner in that country. the Boliv-
ian ruler forced the English minister
to kiss the foot of an actress who had
been invited to the dinner. The min
lister returned home and reported the
case with the above result.
When a New Yorker bought the
other day little household Buddhist
shrine the Oriental vender caressed
the lacquered case with its tiny hinged
doors, showed the bencficent little
god standing upon the sacred lotus,
and said: ''On holy days and at prayer
times you have it open, thus, SO that
you may see the god and he may look
round but in business hours you shut
up the doors and hook them, thus.
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The Camp brothers, who built the
Indiana, and who have s32, 200. 900 in
naval contracts to perform, are con-
spicuous for their diminutive physique.
Miss Julia Bryant. daughter of
William Cullen Bryant. the poet, has
given 900 volumes from her fathers
library to the trustees of the Tilden
trust.
Princess Margaret of Prussia re-
ceived from her godmother, the queen
of Italy, as a wedding gift, tiara of
diamonds said to be worth not less
than 5000
1t is good thing TO be asked to
play for the queen. Miss Nora Clench,
a young violirist, played at Osborne
and was presented by her majesty
with a diamond and ruby brooch as a
souvenir of the event
1t is reaclled that the late General
Beauregard built the first cable rail-
road in this country. The road was
constructed just after the war. and ex-
tended from the city of New Orleans
to the suburb of Carrollton.
John Lowrie, who by successful
deals in grain had at one time ac-
cumulated fortune of s., 900, 900, died
penriless in New York hospital the
other day. Unfortunate ventures of
late years swept away all his property.
After an existence of twenty-four
years Mr.. Blackmore's Lorna Doone,"
has been republished in London in the
original three-volume form This
event is said to be entirely unprece-
dented in the history of novels in
England.