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which once belonged to Diana of Poit-
tiers, the favorite of Henry II. The
chateau is one of the most pictures
que in France. 1t is situated near
Montelimar and has waterfall, three
ponds filed with trout and large park
with plenty of game. The price paid
was 10000 francs. From his tower the
President can now see his birthplace,
Marsanne, where his mother still lives.
Judge Andcnreid of Philadelphia
was hearing a case, the proceeding in
which brought to the front man nam
ed Gesler. A German lawyer repre-
sented one of the litigants and he per-
sisted in rnispronounclg Gesler's name,
calling him jester. Finally the jurge
said: The gentlemans name is Ges-
ler's, not jester. You surely remem-
her the tyrant at whose order Will
liam Tell shot the apple from his own
sons head?" Sure / do" said the
German, heartily rs dis de MANI"
One of the most picturesque charac-
ters in Europe is the Countess Schim-
melmann of Denmark. She devotes
her life to missionary work For eight
years she has Travelled extensively in
heather lands. She sold nearly all her
properly ptlu Will the DIOCS6uS DOuSnl
the Pigeon, a vessel with which she
visited fifty-seven cities in fifteen
countries, preaching the gospel to sail
ors and the poor. She has founded re-
ligious journals in England ana Amer
lea. A German publisher give her So
600 marks for her memoirs. She is
not on good terms with her relatives,
who do not share her views, but she
has adopted three children and given
them her name.
Clarence E. Douglas, editor of the
Moskogee Phoenix. the only morning
newspaper published in the Indian Ter
ritory, has had remarkable career
Besides being journal he is lawyer
and poet. He has an abundance of
nerve as may be imagined from this
combination of accomplishments. His
courage has been put to the test more
than once, and he demonstrated that
he was game all the way through. At
Ardmore several years ago he was
forced to kill a man and his trial was
a cause celebre. Fourteen of the best
lawyers of the Indian Territory and
of Texas were employed to help prose-
cute him. He had three separate trails
before a jury was unanimous in its
findings that he should be set at liberty.
b. Earl Roberts. the commander in
chief of the British army, is a man of
indomitable energy and tireless indus
try. During his tour of Scotland,
which began on Aug 9 and ended on
the 22d, he had nearly thirty inSpec
lions to make. After travelling all
night to Edinburg he started work an
hour and a half afret arrival, having
three engagements for the Sunday. He
included among his engagements d visit
to the new naval base at st. Margarets
Hope and landed on Inchkeith, the
guardian fortress of the Forth. His
verness, and eighteen cities and towns
were included in his tour. A short stay
at Stobs camp, where about 10000 men
were under canvas, concluded his ardu-
GUS fortnight.
Souvenir hunters have made so free
with trif1es found on tables and stands
in the White House that some action
became necessary. One party of young
women visitors recently made away
with about everything movable except
the furniture. -Fhey carried off pens,
pencils, pads of paper, blotters and the
tops of every ink bottle in sight. They
would have taken the ink bottles, but
ing room has always been kept pre-
pared for souvinir hunters. One of the
tables on Which writing materials were
kept has been removed, and the other
has nothing on it but an ink bottle
and a few plain cards. When a caller
wants to fill out card he is given a
pen by an attendant, who takes it
again as soon as he is through.
+ What knowledge is of most
worth?'' is the momentous y question
with which Herbert Spencer startled
the pedagogic world over forty years
ago, says American Medicine, and IN
his famous Essay on Education he
answers it as follows: LAS vigorous
health and it's accompanying high spir-
its are larger elements of happiness
than any other things whatsoever, the
teaching how to maintain them is a
teaching that should yield in moment
to no other whatever" But so tardy
has been the acknowledgment of this
great truth that to-day on all sides
we find chronic complaint, physical
weakness and overwhelming depres-
sion that proper instruction might
have prevented. Recently in editorial
comment on the belated but none the
less worthy intention of the new teach
ers' college in New York to- prepare
properly its matriculants to embody the
plain teachings of health in their life
work, well-known magazine re-
marks that it may not be extraVagant
to say that this movement is of larger
possible benefit than anything that
has hitherto been done in education.
1t is not merely the rules of hygiene
that are needed, nor the ordinary
course in school physiology, but a
proper understanding of certain ele-
mental truths of human physiology
must be acquired before they can be
applied knowledge of the normal
functions of the body and the simple
methods of keeping them in healthy
action is the one thinS that no edu-
Gated persons should be excused from
possessing; yet most of our children
reach maturity without parental or
scholastic instruction in the most ele-
mental matter of health.
However smart a man may be,
however deep of brain, there is yet a
trace of superstition in his makeup"
said a thoughtful man to a reporter
of the New Orleans Times Democrat.
land often it exists and controls him
anything about it, If you should tell
him that he was superstitious he would
resent it, and in no uncertain way. But
all men are suDerstitious in some way
just the same There are little things
about which men are a bit cranky,
and they develop into well rounded SUI
perstitions. There is Opie Reed, who
has a queer little notion that if he
gets up Thursday morning without