The evening times., 1895-08-06
a FEW rANc1Es.

Tho duke OF York, afterwards James H.,
once visited Milton. They talked together
| for some time and in the course of their con-
| versation the duke asked Milton whether
he did not think the loss Of his sight was q
| judgment upon him for what he had written
against Charles l., the DUKES father. Nil
toms reply was to this effect: IF your
highness thinks that the calamities which
befall us here are indications OF the wrath
OF heaven in what manner are we to ac-
| count for tho fate of the late king himself?
The displeasure OF heaven must, upon this
suppoeition have been much greater against
him than against me. for have only lost
my eyes but he lost his head"
Afew yearssince a number of high Chinese
officials united In petition to the throne
asking that o stop be put to mining coal and
iron at . point near the imperial tombs,
upon the plea that this mining would disturb
the bones % the empress, who mad recently
been buried. Afew years. earlier the vceroy
at Foo Chow formally reported to the en-
peror that permission ought not to be
granted to certain foreigners to erect build
ings upon the slope of a hill within the walls
OF the city. He based his objection upon
the asserted fact that great dragon rested
uuufIucdtu IOO SUO W dnu buppOTttu tuC
foundations of the city; that at the spot
named the veins and arteries OF the dragon
came near to the surface and hence that
the weight Of the buildings, II constructed,
would impede his circulation.
"A regular pigeon letter-carrier service
is now carried on between Los Angeles,
Avalon. summer resort On Catalina Is
land about fifty miles distant. Catalina
is visited only once day by the steamer,
and is Isolated as II in midocean. The time
to Los Angeles by steamer and railway Is
from three to four hours, the pigeons take
but fifty minutes. The service now num-
bers 1 90 birds. and covers private messages,
business orders and press Intelligence.
By cable connection word can be sent to
any part of the world. There are several
ways OF attaching the message to the
bird. Two methods, however, are most in
vogue. One is to fold the slips Of tissue
paper on which the communication is
written length wise. wrap 1t snugly about
the birds leg and tie securely with q
bit OF twine- The other way is tn roll the
paper up into drum-shaped pellet.
Pin-money" is an expression that came
into common usage at a time when a dozen
or perhaps two dozen OF these articles
were considered an almost perilously ex-
travagant annual allowance. This guam
tity was considered luxurious supply for
any lady, and quite capable of sustaining
and upholding all those attachable ard
detaiDable antagonistic elements of ap-
parel that made our granddames both
picturesQuely beautiful and inexpressibIy
uncomfortable. Pins were costly articles
in those days. and 1t is scarcely possible
that the happy possessor of two dozen pins
year ever gave sufficient range to her
Imagination to picture the happy time when
her descendant should strew the earth with
a thousand or more pins a year and not
remember that they cost anything at all.
pin was not always an unconsidered
trifie by any means, as the want Of one
when II is beyond reach proves to US even
in this era OF their abundance