The sun., 1909-02-28

silted earth II throws up makes a good
top dressing
By way Of cure some farmers are start.
ing q fashion in moleskin waistcoats
and slippers, and they hope that spread
Of the fashion will induce trappers 10
fnd Il worth while TO kill moles and sell
their skins az they did in days gone by.
+ The published statement that the
chimpanZee now performing at the Lon
don Hippodrome draws a salary Of $500
q week for eating his meals and smoking
cigarettes twice a day In public has
surprised many but managers explain
that turns are paid for according TO
their power to attract money TO the box
Office, irrespective Of whether they are
artistic dancers or trained chimpanzees,
There Is a monkey. called Peter Consul,
who Is at present filing engagements
in Germany and for whom 81 800 q week
for an American engagement has just
been refused.
Trizic, the clever old gray mare who
Is we'll known at the Palace Theatre in
London, can earn 500 a week for her
owner and Emir, the musical horse.
draws $3.50.
A troupe OF three or four elephants
will appear on a salary at from $500 to
$500 Q week. and two tiny parrots now
going the rounds Of the music halls are
good for some $3.50.
Pilu. the thought reading dog, Is earn
ing $50 a week for his master, and the
boxing kangaroo draws $3.50.
One OF the most expensive animal
turns Is Seeth's troupe Of lions, which
get 81 800 a week. \Henricksons tigers
get half that sum. Leopards are also
good salary earners, but snakes have
small value nowadays.
Good dog turns always command
high pay. Merion's dogs. on their repu-
tation as sabot dancers. are getting $500
week in Paris. and Barnolds dog panto-
mime, on the fame OF terrier who acts
the part Of drunken man, Is drawing
81 900 in the American music halls.
Cats when well trained are a great
attraction, but they are rare. One Of
the best known and highest paid troupes
Of cats disappeared with their mistress,
Claire Beassy, on the night Of December
2s In the earthquake at Messina.
By the recent death Of Cardinal Cretoni.
who was an executor Of Leo Kills last
will. the College of Cardinals, which
| ought to comprise seventy members, has
been reduced to ffty-four. Pope Plus X.
at his accession found sixty-three mem-
bers and therefore had an opportunity
at once to all up seven vacancies. He
seems averse to holding consistories, as
in the Ave and a half years Of his pom
tifcate only four Of these elective assem-
blies have been held.
In his first year the Pope created Car
dinals Merry del Val and Callegsri. the
latter dying shortly after. The second
consistory took place two years later.
which resulted in the red hat being con-
ferred upon four prelates Samsssa, Aze-
vedo. Spinols and Arcoverde. Another
period Of sixteen months and seven
more Cardinals were crested-Cavsllari.
Agiirre. Rinaidini. Lorenzelli. Mercier.
Nam and Llaldi. Eight months later fol-
lowed the creation OF four more Gas
parri. De Lai. Luoon and Andrieu.
Altogether seventeen new Cardinals
have been created by Plus X. while twenty
six have died. During the last year alone
death has claimed seven Cardinals
Casale, Portanova, Nocelia, Richard.
Matthew, Casanas and Iecot.
or the fifty-four survivors eighteen re-
side in Rome. They belong to the Cura.
This number is thought to he quite in
su fficient to carry on the work Of the
Church. and the necessity Of a new con-
sistory is admitted by the Pope to be
imperative.
At the present moment there are six
cardinal bishops, forty-tbree cardinal
priests and five ardinal-deacons. The
doyen is Cardinal Gruscha. Archbishop
Of Vienna. who is ss. He Is followed by
Cardinals di Pfctro. Samassa and Greg
lia, who are so. and the young gest is Merry
del Val. who is 43.
In all probability the next appoint
ments will include Mgr. Bisleti, the Papal
Majordomo; Mgr. Annette, Archbishop OF
Paris, and Mgr. Granite di Belmonte.
Papal Nuncio in Vienna
To enable the blind to tell the time by
specially constructed watch various
devices have been invented. The latest,
Of German origin. is a watch which in
stead OF the twelve figures on its face
has twelve knobs.
By an ingenious mechanism each knob
in succession sinks for an hour into the
dial. The usual watch ring being at the
Xf1., the blind person feels along the face
Of the watch until he comes to the space
where the knob has disappeared. This
indicates the hour. The ordinary minute
hand is represented by a shorter and
stronger indicator. which is raised 80 as
to clear the hour knobs, and by which
the minutes can be told. or rather felt,
with surprising exaottude.
A remarkable operation on a dog was
made the subject Of a scientific demon
stration at a meeting Of the Berlin Medi-
cal Society last week. DR.. Unger. Berlin
surgeon, showed bow ten days before
he had removed the dogs kidneys. sub
stituting those Of another dog. The dog
seemed to have completely recovered.
IT, as the demonstrator believes. the
operation may be undertaken with equal
success on humans suffering from dis
eased kidneys a further important step
In modern surgery will have been made.
The sudden abandonment OF King
proposed automobile trip during !
his visit at Berlin TO pay homage to the
dead in the Potsdam mauso-
ia,r,, 10 tha suhiact of all sorta of spacuIa- |