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his pint bottles made to hold just over a
pint, so as to be on the safe side of
English law. His caution met with poor
reward when some of these bottles ar
rived in Canada, where the law provides
that any measure holding more than a
pint must pay duty as a quart.
One of New York's most fashionable
dealers in footgear has the word boot
maker" on his window in large letters in
approved British style. In England only
the low-cut article is called a shoe, the
ordinary laced, buttoned or gaiter varie-
ties being known as boots. Hence the
Gotham anglomaniac's window sign.
The British House of Commons has
its story teller in chief in the person of
Mr.. Tully. His latest yarn is of a Scotch
innkeeper who for years got tipsy every
Sunday afternoon. One Thursday he got
drunk by mistake, thinking it was Sun
day, and found a couple of his guests
playing billiards. He insisted that they
STOP saying that he could not allow any
one TO play billiards in his house ION the
Sabbath"
The most durable paper is made by
a guild near Marking, China, which sup
plies the government of that empire the
leaves of its official documents. Some of
these are over a thousand years old. Fire
proof paper made of asbestos is another
kind of greater dura bility. The drawback
to them, however, for printing purposes,
is that although they will pass through
fire unscathed, they come out snow white,
without trace of the printed letters or
writing that was on them.
Sir John Sawyer was one of England's
greatest physicians. He believed that ii
was possible for any man with a good
constitution, and a determination TO live
right to reach the age of 100 years, and
so he laid out this set of rules for long
evity: Eight hours sleep on your right
side. Keep your bedroom window open
all night, and do not have your bedstead
against the wall, because walls hold
dampness and cold. Take a warm bath
in the morning Chat is not expensive),
exercise before breakfast, eat little meat,
and see that it is well cooked. Eat plen.
tY OF fat to feed the cells which destroy
disease germs, and avoid intoxicants
which destroy those cells. Watch the
drinking water, damp and drains Take
frequent and short holidays. Limit your
ambition and keep your temper Few
people live by rule, for we are all crea-
lures of impulse, but if you are in search
OF health and mental and bodily peace,
Sawyer's prescription.
Tanning an ant would seem to be an
almost impossible feat says the New
York World. but it has been lately ac-
complished by the Jesuit father, Was
mann, who is, after the English natural
list Lubback, the man who knows most
about these interesting insects. Was
mann keeps many different tribes of
ants in artificial nests. To these is con-
nected feeding tube terminating in
glass bulb closed by a cork Into this
tube, he remarked, one of the insects
came regularly. 1t was easy to recog-
nize it to be always the same as it was
particularly small and otherwise different
from its companions. The creature lick
ed up the honey or sugar placed in the
bulb, and, having gathered a supply, re-
turned to share it with it's companions
in the nest. Wasmann then removed the
cork upon which the insect came out
and sought around for food. He then APP
preached it with the point of needle
dipped in honey The ant at first shrank
back, as If frightened; then gradually
drew nearer, feeling about with its an
tenae, till at last it came up to the nee
die and licked off the money. Later he
accustomed it to take the honey directly
from the tip of his finger, a surprising
AoSN hiitAi we ItLl6iIlDeT IndL Lne least
unusual odor or the slightest movement
outside their nest is either repulsive or
terrifying to ants and drives them either
to flight or to demonstrations of disgust
Wasman succeeding in tanning the insect
so completely that at last it quilted the
bulb Immediately the cork was removed
came in quest of the honey on his finger,
and at the conclusion of its rtpast, with
out any attempt at resistance or flight.
and carried back to the nest.
in recent number of a German jour-
mai devoted TO bacterioiogy an interest
ing summary is presented of certain re-
suits attained by DR.. Klein in the course
of a long series of experiments made late
ly, in which DR.. Klein endeavored to sue
cessfuly ascertain what becomes of dis
ease germs after the death of their vic
tim. These experiments had decidedly
practical value, as the conditions which
they proved to exist dispose effectually
of one Of the arguments which have been
often used by advocates of cremation.
These latter have held that disease
germs could retain their vitality for an
indefinitely long period in the buried body,
and that therefore cemeteries in addition
to being harmful because of the decaying
organic matter which they contained,
were positively dangerous because they
acted as immense storage reservoirs for
the bacteria of the different diseases. DR..
Klein's results correct this mistaken idea
In order to carry out his experiments sat
isfactorily he buried animals which had
died from certain known diseases, dis
inferred the bodies at the end of varying
periods and examined the organs for bac-
terra. The bacillus of Asiatic cholera was
still living at the end of 10 days, but af-
ter being buried for % no living speci-
men could be found. The typhoid fever
bacillus was able to exist for about the
same length of time. while the germ
which causes the bubonic plague was able
to survive an interment of II days, but
was never found living at the end of three
weeks. The bacillus of consumption lives
for but a short time after the death of
its victim. Dr. Klein always found it
without difficulty in the organs, but was
never able to obtain a successful culture
What is perhaps of even greater impor-
lance, he was never able to cause tuber-
culoss by injecting the bacteria thus
found into the system of a healthy ami
NAL.
Mr. H Hadinge Cunynghame deliver
ed an interesting lecture in the theater
of the Royal Institution on enamels, says
the London Standard. He had, he said
no new facts to bring forward; and all
he could do would be TO give a brief
sketch of the process of enameling, and
to show how 1t was carried out. for that
process was practically the same, wheth-
er aDplied to art decoration or 70 the