Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-01

Slight them once and they seldom call
again
Some men are horn poor. some
achieve poverty and some marry ex-
trayaRant wives.
A man NAV have many good traits
and still lack the one necessary to
make use Of them.
A fool may ask more questions in
seven minutes than n wOse man can
answer in seven years.
Here and The
The Papal order Of st. Gregory the
Great with which Leslie Drummond
Of the Inner Temple of London, has
been invested by Bishop Brlndle. for
services in connection with the "Gui d
Of Ransom" is a snowy decoration in
stituted by Gregory XVI in 1881. 1t is a
fourpointed hammered" gold cross.
enamelled in red, and bearing the dust
Of ST. Gregory on a blue enamel
ground The reverse has the legend,
PRO Dec ct Principe"
Nine. Ristroi, the tragic actress, who
is now at Salsomaggiore with her son,
the Marchese Capranica del Grillo, and
his family, will shortly celebrate her
diamond wedding with the stage, on
which she has been one of the most
shining lights A diamond wedding
means rs years association, but Nine
Ristroi acquaintance with the foot
lights began when she was a baby in
arms at three months old Her parents
we're then in company Of travelling
players going from town to town in
Italy.
The following story is told Of a GER
tain actor who was fat and scant Of
breath. He was bad actor as well as
a fat one and the gallery guyed him a
little while he went through his part
in a military drama. He kept his TEN,
| per fairly well until toward the close
Of the last act, when he had to be shot
dead, His supposed corpse was
| stretched out on the stage but did what
no respectable corpse is expected to
do, painted heavily. Said one of the
| galleryile TO another on the opposite
side Of the house: 81 say, Bill, look
| how his bellows blows Thereupon
the wrathful corpse sat up and, with
angry looks, replied: Respect the
| dead"
Dr. r. j. Campbell, a celebrated
/ blind educator of England, once had an
/ amusing experience at a rough and
ready hotel in the backwOods of Amer
] rirsIe
| table with the doctor and one Of them
was touchingly sympathetic. Does
your blindness make any difference
to you when you eat?" she asked.
why, yes; ] know when my foods good
just as we'll as you do" And when
you drink?"" Why, it's just the same,
"And can you fall in love2' Dear me,
/ by, Of course | can" "Well, how can
! you say whether a girls pretty? Do
you mind telling me if I'm preIly?"
mot in the slightest Shall | put
your hand on my face% l know with
out that" said the man with closed
eyes; you are the prettest girl on the
| creek" my! That's truei" ex-
claimed the girl, as she rushed to her
| friend and asked How did he know?"
In Rhenish Westphalia a singular
custom prevails At stated intervals
| the veteran smokers In each district
| assemble In a large public hall and
| compete for prizes, which are awarded
| to those among them who can smoke
| the longest.
Each competitor is provided with a
/ long pipe, which has a colossal bowl.
! Exactly the same quantity Of tobacco
/ is put into each bowl, and, after this
/ operation is performed, matches are
lit and at a given signal the contest
| begins Each competitor Is allowed as
much tobacco as he con consume, and
the prize is awarded to the one who
continues smoking after all the others
have stopped
In order to guard against suffoca-
| tion all the windows in the hall are
opened yet even then the smoke Is
generally so dense that persons who
are not usd to tobacco are unable to
! endure 1t. Indeed, at a recent contest
the smoke issued from the open win.
dows In such volumes that the local fire
brigade thought the building was on
fire and promptly deluged it and the
unsuspecting smokers wi,d water
Eaton, Ohio, November 3O,-The
team Of a farmer named Luke Dillon
ran away this afternoon while his
daughter, 18 years Of age, was sitting
in the wagon and the father was in a
store making purchases. The young
lady lost her seat and fell from the
vehicle on her head, breaking her neck
Fall River Mass, November 3O.-A
man nabed Anson Moore was shot by
some unknown party here this evening
on the public street and his dead body
lay for over an hour In the shadow OF
the Methodist church before beine
discovered. There was no attempt BY
the assassins to rifle the victims pock
cts. II is the impression that the shot
was an accidental one or that some
secret enemy assassinated Moore az
he passed in the shadow OF the church
Nobody heard the shot that killed him