The St. Johns herald., 1898-01-22

Remember that clear water Is not necessarily pure water any more than cold air is always pure air.
 The Shah of Persia has ordered that Jews hereafter shall have religious lib- erty. Mohammedan persecution of them must cease.
 < naval writer says that neither Casablanca nor his father perlshed on a burning ship. They were drowned while swimming for the boats.
 Tall persons are said to live longer than short ones, and those Jorn in the spring to have sounder constitutions than those born at other times.
 It Is said that some shepherds can foreteH the weather from the condition ofthe wool on tte backs of their sheep. An Increase iu curliDess Indicates bet ter weather
 -a -a e-auraE u.ll-,s made O. Ela The craze has reached Paris, and 1t is said that glass bonnels will soon be sold In London.
 With a piece Of string and a little sand and grease some Hindoo conVicts recently sawed through an iron bar two inches in diameter in five hours and escaped from jail.
 So-Mayou, who has just received his diploma from Cobb University School at Lewiston, Me-, is the first heir to an African throne who ever graduated from an American college.
 Mrs. Ollie Hamby, of Cobb County, Ga, is the twenty-sixth child born to her parents. Mrs. Hamby had seven brothers who were Baptist preachers, and has six nephews engaged in the same calling. Her descendants now number seventy-seven.
 The latest form of ultra-refined hospi- tality consists in perfume warming pans being used for the beds of guests. The favorite scent of each having been divined, the sheets are thus impregnat- ed with lily, rose, heliotrope, or new mown hay.
 Many members of the Russian nobil- ity profess that they can trace their de- scent direct from the line of King David. Four princely houses in partic- ular, with whom nearly all the aristo- cratic Russian families are connected by marriage, claim this honor.
 Servants seem to have the upper hand in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. They refuse to cook dinner later than o'clock, and insist on going home be- fore dark, so that not house has servant in 1t after eight, and mothers have to stay at home to look after their babies.
 Tn the sixteenth century the average length of a doctors life was thirty-six years five months, in the seventeenth century it was forty-fve years and eight months, and in the nineteenth century fifty-eight years and seven months.
 \ journal in Madrid tries to Increase ..s circulation by printing It's news Ro, on paper but on linen. Instead of ink, a composition is used which readily dissolves in a liberal water bath. After absorbing the news, the reader merely places the sheet under a public foun- tain, and there is a snowy handker- chief.
 An inmate of the Soldiers Home at Augusta, Me-, has been smuggling in bottles of whisky in hole he carved in his wooden leg. The last time he disap- peared they searched for him until they found him lying dead drunk in grave yard, with his wooden leg unstrapped and the empty flask in the hole in the leg.
 Parisian street musicians have bet ter check on the member of the party that takes up the collection than is fur nished by way-slips or bell-punches. The cashier goes around with a plate in one hand and five live flies In the other; when his accounts are audited he has to let the flies escape one by one In the presence of his associates.
 There are 1,5OO people upon the Ger man Emperor's list of employees, includ- ing $50 female servants, who are en- gagged in looking after the twenty-two royal palaces and castles that belong to the crown. Their wages are small. The women receive not more than SIP a month, and the men servants, who number over 300, from $15 to $25 a month.
 The "ten best short poems" discus sion resulted in six hundred lists being brought out. The following was made the prize list: "Elegy in Country | Churchyard," Gray; :.Thanatopsis," Bryant; "A Psalm of Life" Longfel- low: "The Raven" Poe; Charge of the Light Brigade" Tennyso=; The Sky lark" Shelley; '"The Chambered Nau- illus" Holmes; Maud Muller" Whit tier; "Tte Bridge os SisllS." F0a3: -,uu.ai of Sir John Moore. Wo-ra.
 What She Was Good For.
 A dreadful story comes from the l north of England by way of London Answers.
 An old Yorkshire collier, well known for his success in the coursing-field, re- gently surprised his mates by marry ing an unprepossessing pauper wom- an. He had been reckoned a confirm ed hater of the other sex.
 "Why has ta gone and got spliced, lad, of tbv Oa 2' Ono Of his friends oSEod