Norwalk Chronicler

Evening gazette, Monday, November 29, 1897 · page 7

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EWYORK.NEW HAVEN dz HARTFOl-D
RAILROAD.
—wa Yonx Drvzsrox .
October 3, 1897.

Trains-leave South Norwalk as follows:

FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
trains at 9.36 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07, 5.33,
6. 41, 8. 11, 10. 20 p. m. . Express trains
at 4.55 5.45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local).
7.13, (local), 7.56, (local), 8.17, 9.03 (local)
9. 58, 10. 35, 11. 37, (local) a. m. 12. 47'j
2.25, 5.05 5.55, 7.55 p. m. For Washing
ton via Harlem River 12.53 a. m. (daily)

SUNDAYS—Accommodation 9.15a. m.
5. 43, (local), 7. 23, (local) 9.28 p. m. Ex
7 press 4.,55 545a. m.

FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—
Accommodation trains at 6. 32, 7. 42,
8.46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.37, 2.42, (to B’p’t),
4.20, 5.27, 6.27, 7.28 (to B’p‘t), 8.41, 9.41
and 11.15 p. 111. Express trains at 1.11,
1.20, 9.,11 10.,05 11.08 a. m 12.,02 3.05,

504 (Naugatuck Express) 1.10 p.111

SUNDAYS—Accommodation7.42, 9.12
a. m. and7. 15p. m. Express 1.11 and
1.20 a.

C. T. HEMPSTEAD, Gen. Pass. Agent.

 

 

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. ""H.E KAFFIR \NHEN ON DUTY.

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_ Duty Expires.

Life on"a South African mining.
property can hardly be monotonous.
The report of a frat- eler fresh from the
Cape, gives a curious insight into one
phase .of labor on the Rand. it used
to be the custom of the Kaiiir, on re-
cei. 111g his salary, usually $5 per week
to sally fo1th and inV est all his earn
ings in bottles of brandy. He would
then retu1n to his hut, squa t down
and drink it like beer until he suc
cumbed This went on regularly
among the mining staff of all the large
companies until, in order to prevent a
weekly cess ation of labor, the compa
nies adopted the mathod of inclosing
all their native empIOyes inside a com
pound and shutting them in like pris
oners until their time of service had
elapsed. Visitors to the compounc
often take in apOund or so of the ma
tive tobacco, for a handful of which
the Kafl‘irs, under stress of their de-
privation of tobacco as well as liquor
will often gladly exchange fine old na
tive bracelets and knobkerries. Tht
method of smoking is. peculiar. After
the pipe is filled several long pulls are
taken and the smoke swallowed. The
bowl is then taken off; the stem is in-
serted in a bowl of water and the water
is sucked through it and swallowec
also. Then comes the tug of war. The
man who can hold out longest withOut
coughing is considered-a hero. After
a short time the smoker will convul,
sively cough for fifteen or twenty min-
utes, and one can quite understand
why the Kafiir is not allowed to buy
tobacco. In the case of the traveler
who gives these details, the mine man
agery asked-.him to cease bartering the
vile stuff for native trinkets, other-
wise the whole relay would be unfit to
go down when their time came.The
Kailir usually returns home after six
months or a year at the mines, and is
considered a rich man. He buys two
or more wives and takes his ease while
they do all the work—St. Louis Globe
Democrat.

 

Kept Li'.

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BRAVE NEGROES.

Dozen Volunteer-ed to Rescue Genera
Payne and but Two Returned.

“The most daredevil piece of heroism
I ever saw was by some negroes before
Fort Pillow, when I was a prisoner
inside the fort', and Gen. Payne was
lying in front of it with his leg shot
off,” was the way Charles Cotton, 01
Company C, of the lb‘lst New York In
fantry, began a story of valiant res-
cue that he =told to some negro veterv
ans. A

“.Gen. Payne’s leg had been shot ch
in the first charge,” he continued, “and
he was lying hidden behind ,some rocks
in front of the Sort when his troops
were forming plans to rescue him. The
scathing fire from the fort swept that
spot, and no oflicer dared to command
any of his men to'go to certain death
in what looked like a vain attempt tt
rescue their chief.

“While the men were deliberating
a negio stepped up and said, ‘We might
as well run our chances now as any
other timeuand I, for one, will make
the attempt.’ He was a handsome fel.
low, and the spirit he diSplayed was, at
once equalled by that of eleven othei
negroes who stepped out and volun-
teered their services. A stretcher was
brought, and four of them started
but had only gone a few yards when
one of them was shot dead. A mo-
ment after four others of the volun-
teers rushed out, and picking up the
stretcher, carried it a few yards fur-
ther, when they, too, Were killed. The
four who were left went ahead as ’i1
nothing had happened, and two 01
them came back alive with the General
while the other two were left dead at
the pile of rocks where Gen. Payne hao
been lying. Gen Payne is still living
and, I am told, the two noble fellow:
who ,rescued him have wanted for

’nothing ever since.”-—-—Buffalo Express

Cold Air for Consumptives.

There, are now six sanitariums in
Germany» at which consumptives are
treated by constant exposure to air a1
a low temperature. Currents of colc
air are allowed to pass through the
bedroom at night, and during the day
as much of the time is spent in the
open air as p0§sible. The pure colc
air quiets cough, lessens temperature
arrests night sweats, improves appetite
and modifies or arrests "the course 0.
the disease. Observations made it
these sanitariums have developed the
interesting fact that it is exceedingly

rare, indeed, that infection of healthy

persons by contact with consumptive
inmates is observed.

The Reply Courteous.
Gentleman (to tramp who has been
begging)—-Look here, there’s a frienc
of mine lives down that road ha.
some work he wants doing, and he i:
looking for some one to do it. '

Tramp—Thanks, awfully, sir! That’:

a narrow escape. I might easily ’av.
gone down there if you hadn’t told me
—Boston ‘ Globe.

The Irony of a Name.

“Yes,” said Musicus, sadly, ‘ “I’ve
written over ‘a hundred popular songs,
but there’s one great drawback to tin
business”,

“What’s that?” asked Hardpan.

“I can’t get anybody to sing ’em ”_
New York Journal.

A peasant who regularly attendec
the market in the neighboring town
on seeing the children of the orphan
age walking by in procession, wa.
heard to remark: “How strange!
have now been coming to town for 1111.
last twenty years, and those brat:
never get any bigger. They‘re just th.
father
al‘iv e."—L‘okal ,Anzeiger.

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“ IN Goowe TRUST.”

£141qu of the Legend on (Join- of the
United States.

Director Preston of the mint has
been asked so often about the origin of
the legend (in the coins of this country,
‘In God We Trust,” that he has made
a statement of the result of his re—
searches.

So far ass the department records
show, the first suggestion for the rec-
)gnition of thewDeity on the coins of
:he United States was made by M. R.
Watkinson,’ of Ridleyville, Pa., who
signed himself “Minister of the Gospel”
in a letter, dated November 13, 1861. He
Wrote to Secretary Chase somewhat as
follows: “Yop are probably a Chris—
‘zian. What if our republic were new
shattered beyond reconstruction?
Would not the antiquaries of succeed-
.ng centuries rightly reason from our
pat that we were a heathen Nation?
What I propose is, that instead of the
Goddess of Liberty we shall have next
inside the thirteen stars a ring in-
scribed with the words ‘perpetual
'1nion;’ within this ring the all-seeing
eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this
eye the American flag, bearing in its
field stars equal to the number of
states united; in the folds of the bars
the words, ‘God, Liberty, Law.’ This
would make a beautiful coin to which
no possible citizen could object. This
would relieve us from the ignominy of
heathenism. This would place us
openly under the divine protection we
have personally claimed. From my
heart I have felt our national shame
in disowning God as not the least of
our present national disasters. To you
first I address a subject that must be
agitated.”

Secretary Chase was impressed with
the suggestion, and moved in the mat—
ter, so that “An act was passed April
22, 1864, changing the composition of
the 1—cent piece and authorizing the
coinage of the 2-cent piece, the de-
vices of which were to be fixed by the
director of the mint, with the approv val
of the Secretary of the Treasury; and
it is upon the 2-cent bronze piece that
the motto, ‘In God we Trust,’ first ap-
peared.” The legend was ordered on
other coins by subsequent acts, and
finally, in 1873, it was ordered to be in-

Chicago Inter-Ocean.

 

LAUGHTER AND INSANl TY.

Doctors bread to Have aPatient Laugh
After an Operation.

“It is a very curious fact,” said a
celebrated asylum doctor recently,
“that, taken as a general rule, all luna-
tics laugh about twice as much as sane
people.

“One of my worst patients at the
present moment exhibited the first
signs of insanity by laughing continu-
ously and without stopping forever 3.
week. . ‘

“It was just after a severe illness,
which had been accompanied by much
mental depression; and his friends
were so delighted with the apparent im-
provement in his spirits that they had
no idea of the real state of affairs un—
til a doctor was called in, and pro-
nounced the man completely mad.
Laughter after a surgical operation is
a symptom always greatly dreaded by
doctors and nurses. \

"That queer impulse to laugh which
some people experience in,the first mo-
ment of a sudden calamity is in real-
ity one of the sharpest warnings of in-
sanity that any one could receive.

“Some peeple fall into a habit of
laughing at their own thoughts when
alone; this should be always strictly
checked, as it is an unhealthy sign,
and may lead to brain trouble later
on.”——-London Answers.

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A JAPAN ESE DUEL.

In Order to Appease His Anger He Stab-
bed Himself.

)- The following story will show how
duelling is conducted in Japan:-—Tw_o
officers of the Emperor’s staff happened
to meet on the imperial staircase and
as they passed each other their swords
became entangled and a. war of words
arose. “It is only an acciden ,” said
one, coolly, "and at best it is only a
quarrel between the two swords.” “We
will see about that!” cried the other
excitedly, and with these words he
drew his weapon and plunged it into
his breast. The other, eager to obtain
the same advantage, hurried away on
some imperative piece of business and
on returning to his antagonist, found
him already at the point of death.
Thereupon he drew his asword and
plunged it into his own body, saying
to the dying mam—“You would not
have had the start of me if you had not
found me engaged in the service of the
Prince. I die contented, however, since
I have had the glory of convincing you
that my sword is as good as yours.”

’ The Book Salesman.
A customer dropped into a' booksell-
er’s the other day and asked for a copy
of “The'Lady of the Aroostook.” The

tation with another salesman he came
forward and said, blandly: “So sorry
we hven’t got ‘The Lady or the' Roos-
ter,’ but we can give you ‘The Lady
or the Tiger.’ ”—Bookman.

 

Bank of England notes are made
from new white linen cuttings—never
from anything that has been worn. So
carefully is‘t'he paper prepared that
even the number of dips into the pulp
made by each workman is registered
on a dial by machinery.-—Tit-"Bits.

“Opporchunities,” said Uncle Eben,
“is pretty sho’ ter come ter ebry man
But‘it’s a. mighty good idee, -~,jes‘ dc
1ame. foh him ter hustle roun’ an’ send

wt a few invitations.”+Washington

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Due in _lee,in the German Amy—Better
Than Capt! q Balloons.

The military-authorities of Germany
are concealing their operations with
the greatestcare, and without the in-
discretion of one or the other of the

intimate friends of some of the 0111-,

aers, nothing would ever be heard of
what is going on in the inner circles.
Thus it was possible quite recently for
Eire German army to surprise the
world with the fact of its adding with-
In two years past more than 1,000 rap-
id-firing field guns, none ofitlré‘ other
muntries having the slightest idea of
the contemplated move and it was ful-
.y effected. Now the Revista Artilerei,
1. military paper published in Buchar-
est, Roumania, is informed that the
German . army adopted eighteen
non-tbs ago a very ingenious system of

field observatory,-in1tended to replace,

:he captive balloons when the latter
ire not convenient. This field obser-
vatory is a comparatively simple ap-
paratus. It resembles very much the
folding ladders used by the fire de-
oartments and consists of a. long lad-
i-er in three sections, with a platform
:onveniently erected at the top. The
adder is light, takes but little space,
is easy to handle, and in short is
thoroughly practical. While two army,
balloons are provided for each German
1rmy corps, each regiment of infan-
Pry will have its field observatory. At
the present time, when information as
to the surrounding country is wanted,
1nd captive balloons are not within.
tall, men are detailed to climb a high
tree or some other favorable point of
vantage, which at any rate is a slow
1nd unreliable method. In the new
abservatory-an ofiicer steps up on the
alatform and is then slowly raised
until the full extension has been at-
tained. It is evident that this simple
tontrivance can be of great utility in
1ctive service—Philadelphia Record.

 

MENNONITE COURTSHIP.

l‘he Minister is the Negotiant for the 1311- '

gagement of the Suitor.

“Did you ever hear how the youth-
'ul brethren and sisters of the Men-
ionite faith carry on their court-
.hips?” asked an old resident of Ger-
man-town, whose ancestors worshipped
4n the Mennonite Church on Main
:treet, above Herman, built in 1770.
"When a brother in the church wants
.0 marry a sister he does not make
11S wishes known directly to her, but
goes to the minister and tells him'his
recret. The minister, if pleased with
“he match, carries the lover’s mes-sage.
I‘he-sister is usually surprised, as this
-s supposed to be her first intimation
of the young man’s love. If the pro~
oosal is received with favor, the ne-
gotiations are carried on by the min-
ister. The ceremony always takes
place in a church'.’ 'No invitations are
'ssued, ’ but the bans are proclaimed

mm the pulpit two weeks beforehand. .

During this period the groom is per-
mitted to visit his intended without
the intervention of a third party. After
‘he wedding a dinner is always served,
1fter which bride-and groom go to
their respective, homes and remain
“part for several days. The marriages
'n the church are generally happy ones
1nd there is no record (if any of the
members ever suing for divorce.—
Philadelphia Record.

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IHow Big Your Feet Should Be.

It is quite easy to tell if your feet
ll‘e the proper size. Every person
inless deformed, has a bone of the ex-
tct normal length of the foot, and, by
:omparison, the largeness or small-
iess of the fact can be seen.

The foot in length should be the
’en-gth of the ulna, a bone in the fore-
mm which extends from a lump in
he outer portion of the wrist to the
elbow. Of course, the ulna is longer
'n tall people, and so to be graceful the
bot should be also.

Most people would be Surprised to
war that the foot should be as long
is the forearm, and would be inclined
.o dispute the fact unless proved by
experience. -—Golden Days.

CURREN T HUMOR.

Little Girl—Mrs. Brown, ma. wants
.0 know ifshe could borrow a dozen of
.ggs. She wants to put ’em under a.
ren.

Neighbor—So you’ve got a hen set-
ting, have you? I didn’t know you
rep-t hens?

Little Girl—No, ma’am, we don’t;
mt Mrs. Smith’s going to lend us a.
rep that’s going to set, an’ ma thought
1f you’d lend .us some eggs we’d find
1 ‘nest ourselves—Household Words.

 

“You think your son would make us
1 “satisfactory errand boy, do you?”
inquired the merchant.

“Whatever he 'does, sor, he does
very, quick,” replied Mrs. Moriari-ty.

“James,” replied
:urning to the boy, “take this note up
'0 the center of the football ground
1nd be back in twenty minutes.”

“Niver moind, Jimmy! 000m on
iome! It’s not a bye they re wan-ting;
t’s an angel.”

Swayback—This uncle you speak
it as having lent you money is he

your father’s brother, or your moth-
er’s brother?

Snooper—He belongs to a collateral
oranch of the family.

 

‘Mrs. Jones—Why, Mrs. Brown,
rou’re'not ’going. so econ? I thought
you were to be here all summer?

Mrs Brown—I did intend to; but my
Husband has just sent me acheCk
for two bundled dollars—without a
1n .1rmurE—Puck.

 

Dr. Pellets—How did your Wife
“.0718 to hit you? -
Uncle HEnrcoet—Wnal ye see, she

get the club fiist. ——New York Journal ‘

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the merchant, .

NEW BlSMAROK STORIES.
[us Affection for His Dog—A Threat Cur-
ried Out.

Henry von Poschinger, who has pub-
, lished ten or twelve volumes regarding
Prince Bismarck’s political career, has
written a. magazine article containing
several new Bismarck stories. As new
Bismarck stories are rare pieces of lit-
erature nowadays, it may be worth
while to relate one or two of them.
Told in Penscbinger's language they
are: . .

“In 1877, when Bismarck’s favorit'é
dog, Sultan, was dying, the Chancellor
watched over the poor creature with
such keen distress that Count Herbert
at last interférred and sought to léad
his father away. The Prince took a few
steps toward the'door. Then, as he

 

turned, he met the eyes of his old
friend. . -
“,‘No, no; leave me alone,’ be ex-

claimed, as he went back to Sultan.
iWhen the dog was dead, he looked up
at a. friend near by and Said:

,I «10m. Old German ancestors had a

beautiful religious belief. They be-
lieved that after death they would meet
in the heavenly hunting grounds all
the good dogs which were their com-
panions in life.
believe the same.’

“In 1851—a year still in the shadow
of the revolution—when the tide of po-
litical passion was still running very
high, Bismarck entered a restaurant
one day to get a’glass of beer. A man
who sat near him, and evidently was
inspired by the admiration of several
friends, began to abuse a member of
the royal family. Bismarck looked at
him coldly, and then said:

“ ‘If you do not leave the room be-
fore I finish this beer I will break the
glass over your head,“

. The man did not go. Bismarck emp-
tied his glass slowly, sip by sip. He
arose, walked. deliberately over to the
man who had spoken insultingly of the
royal family, and smashed the glass on
his head. The man fell howling to
Lhe floor. Bismarck turned to the wait-

the bill, and walked slowly to the
street. Yet at this time he was a man
of political position and the recognized
leader of the Conservative party.
to his principles, however, he took the
offensive, attacking his opponent with
the first weapon that came to hand.”

ALUMINUM MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

\Iandolins and Guitars, Banjos :uul ‘i'iblins
Made Out of the “(hire Metal.

Various musical instruments are
made of’ aluminum, including mando-
“lins, guitars, banjos, and violins, and
drums. The advantages claimed :1 re
Pesistan-ce to climatic influences and.
superiority of tone. Some of the man-
dolins are made with the body, ingludu
ing the top, entirely 0f aluminum, oth»
ers with the top of spruce, the neck of
wood, and the other fittings of the usu-
al kind; Such a. mandolin is sold at
from $25 to $200. The prices of all
aluminum mandolins range somewhat
lower.

Guitars with a. spruce top and the
back and sides of aluminum in a single
piece are sold at from $25 to 3200.135111-
ios are made with aluminum rims, fit-
ted with heads of the usual kind, and
they are also made with aluminum
treads. Such a banjo, with wire strings
:ould be played in the rain.

The aluminum violin that is now up-
on the market is, in its body, all alu~
minum, while the neck and other fit-
tings are of wood. All the aluminum
instruments are handsome, and the
aluminum violin, with its silver-gray
body, and finger-board and tail-piece or
ebony, is of great beauty. It is a cost-
ly instrument. The makers of the
aluminum mandolins and guitars with
spruce tops are now engaged upon a
violin whose back and sides will be of
aluminum in a single piece, the top of
the instrument to be of spruce. —New
York 81111.. .

 

Nutritive Value of Sugar.

Experiments of an interesting na—
une have lately been made at the in-
stigation of the Prussian war office, to
endeavor to decide the question as to
whether the consumption of small
juantities of sugar renders the tired
'nuscles capable of renewed exertion.
rn .Vorde'r'to obtain a. practical result',
he person who was made the subject
1f the experiment was kept totally ig-
lorant of the object of the experiment-
ers. On one day a sweet liquid was ad—
ninistered, containing thirty grams of
agar; on the next daya similar liquid,
containing a. sufficient amount of sac-
:harine to render it indistinguishable
"rom the other as regarded taste. After
1 very large amount of muscular work
rad been performed, it Was found that

,. setter results could be obtained 011 the

lays when the sugar was given than on

\lew York Medical Record.

Tlie'~‘:111ie the World Over.
Ontbebumbey—"All Ali! whyhaven’t
feet like a centipede?”

The f '1ard Vizier--—“Wl1at for,
ultan'. 'ih p?”

L‘nthebumbey—‘ My wives have
iveu me embroidered slippers
irthday presents.”—-Judge.

your

all
101‘

I only wish I could

er and asked what the glass cost, paid

True "

.he days when saccharine was given. (

 

ANTS USED TO SEW'WQUNDs.
Remarkable Surgical Methods Practisod
by the Native: of Brazil. .

The method of securing a wound,
which is still prevalent aiming the Bra-
zilian Indians, can be looked upon as -
at least strictly antiseptic.

The materials required for perform-
ing the operation are found handy al-
most any where in a. Brazilian forest.
These are a speciesof a very'large ant,
which has mandibles which can bite
through almost any substance. The
mouth is furnished with. transversely'
movable jaws and" does not possess a
sting. A bite from one of these ants
is. perfectly harmless, and is followed
ty no swelling or other evil results.

The lower lip of the ant, instead of
being a. Simple cover for the mouth, is
:leve10ped into a. strange jointed organ,
which can be shot out much further

than the upper up Or, when at rest,
can be folded flat ofer the face and can ‘,

be rapidly protruded or withdrawn. It
is furnished at its extremity with a
pair of forceps, and is able to grasp ob- -
iects with the strength and firmness,
of a small pair of pincers. Nothing,
unless cased in metal, can resist those _
iaws.

What the Brazilian Indian does when

' he receives a gash is this: —He catches

some of these ants, and, holding them
to the wound, which he has previously
closed together, lets them bite. They
fix their mandibles on each‘side of the»
wound, and then he pinches off the rest
of the body, leaving the mandibles and
jaws to close up the wound. A row of
these ants’ heads keep a wound togetb- '
er quite as eflectively as the needle and
thread of a. surgeon, but the pain give-rt
to the victim of. this rude style of sur—
gery must be considerable.

Rude as this method may seem, 1.0.".—
ever, it has its advantages in being
strictly antiseptic and causing no evil
after effects. The jaws of the ants are
extracted with a. pair of forceps after
the wound has satisfactorily healed. —~
New York Herald.

 

A PROV]DENTIALJDELIVERY.

Thankful His Son \Vas Discovered and not.
Mixed with the Clay fora Chimney.
One of our exchanges had something
to say recently about “Georgia Clay
Eaters.” Here is a story, however,

*- which hasn’t gone the rounds yet:

In a certain Georgia neighborhood a
farmer had two boys who fairly flour-
ished on red clay. All" effort to break
them of the habit proved futile, and
they had been given over as hopeless
cases. '

One' night one of them was missed
from home, and search for him proved
unavailing. His brother.had left him
in the clay bank, where he had bur—
rowed a.hole.

Late next morning a farmer went to
that, identical clay bank for material
to build a chimney, and dug him out
while loading his wagon.

That night, after, giving the boy a
good whipping, his father went. to
prayer meeting, and in delivering his
experience said:

“I feel thankful to the Lord for the
providence he showed my little clay-'
eatin’ John this mornin’, for Brother
Jones was makin’ of a. chimbley,
and he loaded John up with the other
clay, an’ at it hadn't been fur provi-
dence, John might er been a. part of
that chimbley now-a-smokin’, an’
a-smokin’, fur from his friends an’ lov-
ed ones! I want a prayer er thanks-
givin’ ter be offered up in this here
meetin’ right now. Brother Johnson,
will you lead us?”—Atlanta Constitu-
lion.

 

Byron a Hero of Greece.

With the faults and foibles of Byron
Greece had nothin to do ; she knew
nothing of them; to her he was only,
“the great and noble.” CrosSing the
Gulf of Salamis one day in’ a. boat, with
a rougn mountain captain and his men,
[ pulled out a volume of Byron and was
reading. The wind blowing Open the
leaves, the captain caught a. glimpse of
the portrait and recognized it. He
begged to'take the‘ book, and looking
for a moment, with melancholy, at the
face of the noble lord, he kissed it and
passed it to his men, who did the same
saying: “Eeton megalos kai kalos”
(he was great and noble)——From “Lord
Byron ingthe Greek Revolution," ’by F.
B. SanbOrn in Scribner’s.

Insisteu'on Her iilglits ‘
The Duchess of Aosta, who is closely
related to the King of Italy, is a wo-
man with a distinct mind of her own.

.When she first began to cycle the King

gave orders that she should not be sa-
lute-d by a sentry as she rode by on her
wheel. Obedient to the royal command
the- first sentry she passed ignored her
presence, whereupon the Duchess qui-:
etly dimounted and boxed the mans
cycle rules the Court of Italy, just as it
ears. Now however, the omnipoteni.
does all the other courts in the world.
and the sentry salutes the royal famil-
as it goes wheeling past. —New Yori;

World.

A soft answer turneth away wrath,
but a soft tire filleth a. man's soul with
anger. .

 

 

 

 

THE ORIGINAL

Stamped I! .oss” ..
Always the Same

 
 

 
 

 

 

 

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