Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-10-30
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Dresden has an odd institution, a
municipal newspaper, not like New
iork's City Record, but real journal
printing the news of the day. 1t was
bequeathed to Dresden by DR.. Cunt.
1t has large circulation and is the
chief advertising medium of the neigh
borhoOd. Its profits are applied to
identifying the city and to charity.
Upon the southern slope of ridge
of hills not far from London an old
man makes slender living catching
and feeding snails, which he sends to
Continental markets. He has besides
Il standing order for all the humble
bees he can collect in autumn for ex-
portation to New Zealand. They fer
tilize the clover blossoms in that
South Sea island
The Canadians are said to be more
British than the English themselves.
SO they are doubtless in political SEN
tlment, but in matters of business
that feeling is never allowed to inter
fere. A correspondent of the London
Mail writes that mo English need ap-
ply" Is a common addendum to adver-
tisements in Canada. He attributes
it to the Yankee leaven" in the Ca
madam population. Probably the rea.
son is certain lack of adaptability in
the English character, as compared
with the colonial or the American.
The first electric tramway built in
Japan was the line, eight miles III
length, which was opened in Kioto in
1895. Since then other cities of i'm.
portance have built electric tramways,
aud there are now seventeen compa-
MES with an aggregate capital of 49,
100000 gen $1S,O0O,000 whose lines
already opened aggregate 100 miles
! with eighty-five miles more building
a very profitable business, but that
the profits will be large Is indicated
by the fact that the electric tramways
Of Toxic already pay annual dividends
Of not less than 10 per cent.
A rather curious explanation Of the
Irish names among the negroes Of the
West Irdies does exist. Some years
ago vessel with Irish sailors on
board put into West Indian port
and boatload of negroes came out tc
meet 1t. The sailors were amazed tC
hear the negroes talking to each other
In the ancient Gaelic tongue. Where
did they acquire the language? The
natural conjecture, Of course, was that
| the Irish language was taken to the
West Indies by the thousands Of Irish
men and Irish women who were ban
ished to the West Indies by Cromwell
and sold as slaves to the planters
there. These were sent chiefly from
Connaught, where Irish was the Ian
guage of the people ut the time. That
the exiles left their names and Ian
guage in the West India islands In
which they We're settled is a probable
theory enough.
In some parts of Europe and Asia
there Is a peculiar custom OF sailing
new born babies, according to the Dun
dee Advertiser. When baby is borr
among the Armenians Of Russia the
nurse takes the infant and covers the
entire skin with very fine salt. This
salt is left on the baby for three hours
or more, and then the child is washed
with warm water. In Asia Minor
there is tribe Of people living in the
mountains who do even worse thar
this. They salt their newborn babies
and leave the salt on them for twenty
four hours. The modern Greeks sprin
kle salt on their babies. This practice
of sailing babies is an ancient custom
1t has its rise in superstitution, OF
course. The mothers think that salt
ing insures their children's health an(
strength, and that it will keep evi
spirits away from them. Even ii
some parts Of Germany salt is still
used on the child at birth.