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SHE STILL WANTS STOCK.
SHE STILL WANTS STOCK. Plashing with silk and satin and sparkling with diamonds she swept into the broker's office, a creature of fashion and society, patrician from the tip of her ostrich feather hat to the sole of her French shoe. "I'd like to buy some stock, she said, sweetly, as the broker came forward. "My husband, Mr. is your customer "Yes, to be sure," said the broker. "What stock do you wish." "Why, just stock," she answered, vaguely. "I know," he responded, patiently, "but there are I many stocks "Oh, are there? Of course," she asked and answered in a breath. "Why, let me see," and she bit thy end of her glove pensively. I think it was some sort of metal." "Steel?" he ventured. "Yes, that's it," she exclaimed, delightedly. "Get me some." "Well, there is common and preferred: which do you wish ? I should suggest the common." "Mr. N the idea!" she burst forth, angrily. I have always been accustomed to th? best and I' still want it. I wish no common stock, and I am astonished that you should even hint at such an idea "But he began, helplessly. "I want the very best stock there is. I care wiiat it costs, and if you care to insult mo by offer- ing to buy poor stock I shall go elsewhere. Common Ugh And in a fit of virtuous indigna- tion she blazed out of th? office. -lr. ren c.nu, of the Chinese Embassv in p.r's, in a letter to the Tiwes, says that his fath'-r, some two years ago. translated Mr. Herbert Spacer's "Study of Sociology" into Chinese. This is the only work of the late philosopher Í1,t can V read by the Chinaman in his own lanyuavjc. Captain W. T. i'ortcr, of the British .ste;;mor Indrawadi, has disappeared in York, arid the vessel has sail, d fOr" the wi'hout him. The marriage of Prir.eess Alice of Ail -n Prince Alexander of Teck will take place", U is: iv, at a date early in Fr-fcruarv. in t. George's Windsor. .y." Demonstrates of a riotous ch-iract' r ha^o <•••• held at VaHacl.did bv th,. im.mi/- Mounted guards charged the r":ot's Le$'or<- .J v was reslorpi).
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BITS FROM BOOKPR -¿ DR. CONN DOYLE. Major Pond, in "Eccentricities of Genius," {jivfl# the following sketch of Dr. Conan Doyle: Dr. A. Conan Doyle went to America in October, 1894, and gave forty public readings. There was something about his personality that attracted people, and still he was not what I would say tlw most satisfactory reader of his writings. There was tometbing about him that fairly charmed] hiu audiences, and many of his great admirers wert seriously disappointed when they found that as soon as the lecture was over the Doctor had made his escape from the stage-door, so that those friendy who had rushed to meet him and congratulate hint could not do so. I remember that I made a promise to a group of very prominent New York ladies, who had made a special request to meet the Doctor after his reading, thct they could have the privilege of being introduced to him. While in the wings as he was stepping on the stage I told the Doctor what I bad done and asked him to please wait and meet them. He replied: "Oh, Major, I cannot, I cannot. What do they want of me ? Let me get away. I haven't the courage to look anybody in the face." He was a pessimist in regard to the satisfactoriness of his entertainment. He is a gentleman with very hot blood. Ho meldom wears an overcoat, even in the coldest weather. He seemed to like everybody he met and everything he saw in America excepting our heated hotel lobbies, public halls, and railway cars. When he had a matinee lecture he removed his vest and buttoned his Prince Albert coat close to his body. This he could not very well do in his evening dress. Dr. Doyle comes of a family of artists and literary men, his grandfather having been a famous caricaturist, and one of his uncles the famous Richard Doyle of the early days of London Punch, and another, James Doyle, the historian. Ho studied medicine, and at nineteen went to the Arctic regions as medical officer to a whaler. On his return to Edinburgh he continued his medical studies, and there met Dr. James Bell, the eminent surgeon, the man who suggested "Sherlock Hoirnes, his most famous character. HYPNOTISM AND MENTAL EDUCATION. In "Hypnotism and Suggestion," an American student of the phenomena of hypnotism—Dr. R. Osgood Mason—asks Has it been definitely established, by experiments thoroughly carried out, that the mind can control physical, physiological processes in the body—the process, for instance, of digestion or lactation ? Can it cause a bli-ter to be raised upm sound and healthy skin without the application of any irritant or any medicinal substance whatever? Thesa are test examples, and have all been .-fu'lv carried out undr the supervision of perfectly honest and competent witnesses, many of them under my own observation and treatment. A principle, t.<en, is here established. The mind can be so concen- trated upon a physiological process as to stimui.its that process to unusual activity, so as to produce curative effocts, and even to superabundant activity, so as to produce pathological t.i'e.jis or disease. Dr. Mason gives some cases in which he has pro- duced a truly wonderful result by the use of hypnotic suggestion. Here is one instance: A little hoy, seven years of age, was a most unhappy coward—afraid of the slightest pain, and a coward and cry-baby among his playmates. He bad some slight, disease of the scaip, which it wail necessary to treat, but he would cry and run away the moment I entered the room. After one or two unhappy and only partially successful attempt at treatment, I decided to try suggestion. Placing him in a chair opposite me, I too!: his face and hMd. firmly between my hands, and putting my face r.cn his I commanded him to look steadily in my eyes. It was very difficult to secure his attention, hut having succeeded I soothed him with pr.sses and light touches until his eyelids drooped; he was perfectly quiet, subjective, and sleepy, but not asleep. I then suggested that he would no longer be a crying, whimpering coward, but a sijvng, brave boy; that he would take his treatment with- out fear, and that he would stand up sturcii Iy for his rights among his playfellows. This was repeated over and over, gently, hut firmly; he all the while remaining passive and sleepy, and apparently taking no notice whatever of my suggestions. The next time called he was shy, hut not troublesome, and with two or three repetitions of the suggestions he came pl.0111ptly and bravely to rds treatment. I was also informed that the change in his manner amoug his plavmates was equally marked; certainly all cringing and cowardly maimer had disappeared, and He seemed self-reliant and happy. A DAINTY FRAGMENT OF VERSE. When, in what other life, -¡- Where in what old, spent star, Systems ago, dead vastitudes afar, Were we two bird and bough, or man and wife ? Or wave and spar ? Or I the beating sea. and you the bar On which it bleaks ? I know not, I! But this. 0 this, my very dear, I know: Your voice awakens old echoes in my heart; And things I say to you now are said once more; And, sweet, when we two part, I feel I have seen you falter and linger so, So hesitate, and turn, and cling—yet go, As onco in some immemorable Before, Once on some fortunate yet thrice-blasted shore. Was it for good ? 0, these poor eyes are wet; And yet, 0, yet, Now that we know, I would not, if I could, Forget. —"Hawthorn and Lavender; by W. E. Henley. A RECIPE FOR A GARDEN. This is Dean Holo's recipe for a garden, as given In his volume of reminiscences "Then and Now" I I have seen elaborate designs, drawn and coloured "ù the autumn in order to secure the preparation of the plants required to bloom when summer came. How far more worthily would thought and time be disposed on selec'ions from our abundant and beautiful hardy plants to bo placed in groups with broad surroundings of grass in our gardens The combinations and contrasts—e-{/ Primus Pisardi with the double flowering cherry—would be inexhaustible; the taller trees in the centre with the climbing roses and clematis of all colours, tho gold and silver hollies, the junipers, euonymus, Japanese maples, reeds and grasses, surrounded by shrubs 01 lower growth and lovely perennials, bordered by dwarf and creeping plants, ivies and Alpines nestling- among small fragments of grey stone, so that no bare ground .sho-uId be scon. Some pre-vision of the effect might be had from the collections which we see at our Sornl exhibitions of "plants staged for effect," but alfresco groups, when experience has corrected mistakes, would he infinitely more real and I trac- tive. There would be something to be specially idmired in every season of the yoar, and a few of chase beds on a large scale, irregularly placed at intervals, so as "to surprise, to vary, and conceal the bounde." would by themselves make a beautiful garden. Other beds restricted to particular varieties might be added in accordance with the ambitions of the owner and with his balance at the bank. RUSSIAN JEWS AT HOME. The Jews plays a largo part in Russian life. Mr. F. H. E. Palmer devotes two interesting chapters in "Russian Life in Town and Country" to "Jewish Town Life" and "The Jewish Trader. Here j., his picture of a town in the Russian pale: A visit to a rural town in the Russian Jewish pale gives us quite a new insight into the conditions of rural life. Most of these towns are very small, many with less than five or six thousand inhabitants. The houses are low, built generally of brick, though sometimes partly of timber. Though there is con- siderable variety in their architecture, there is one feature that they almost all possess in common- the extreme of squalid dilapidation. The sanitary condition is, if possible, worse than in the very poorest of the Rus'jian country towns. Household ¡ refuiP of every kind is simply thrown into the streets. Tlw" liquid portion slowly percolates dotvil- waids, while the solid stamped into the sand, forms a crust in dry Wcai.hcr, ar.d a swamp that is simr.ly indescribable after a few hours' rain. The large open space tk,t serves for the market-place is reserved for the peasants, who bring their produce here on market day. Fur live days in the week the visitor would suppose that the inhabitants of the town consisted mainly of dogs, grey-backed crows, and pigs; for whilo the Russian Jews observe all the ordinances of their religion far too rigorously to touch pork, thev ore not inser.siblo to the pecuniary value of r,he living pig. Oil the Jewish Sabbath the streets are t hvoiHTi'd"with the human inhabitants standing in groups discussing their affairs. On market day the" population is more than doubled by the peasantry, who pour in from all the country round, bringing their farm products or home-made wares The debris when tii market is over, added '(1) the garbage thrown daily mio fhe streets, forms no small part of the pigs' daily faio. Their battles with the dogs, that seem to belong to nobody in particular, are almost incessant. The arey-backed crows take life more philosophically. As tame as pigeons, they go about as if the whole place belonged to them, and, whenever a q-urrel arises between dogs and pigs, are always ready to intervene and snap up the savoury morsel that led to the dispute. Tne r,ari tn iwu^ioia s wnucan tenancry nave decided by a large majority to accept his lordship's terms for the sale of the tenants' interests therein at fcwenty-three years' purchase. Alarming floods are reported from many parts of Italy, and traffic has been interrupted in Venice. There have botu serious storms, too, all over Spain/"
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LITERARY NOTICES. THE SUNDAY COAIPA:Tl JNT. London Th Rjii/i :us Cra^.t .Society "—The annual 11 J'ùme for 1903 appears in 3t,tr^ctiv» •» Ilui.,e as ever. T- th M'Usf7 m'\mt,i, >t- on-* nf th. verr bes" m -j.sMziue-* for Suad-v? re*oiu<-?. It e.o< t*io8 sacfa a hr^e number of article-t wiveh are bright, intete"ting and edifying. David Lyall's story, 4 The Intervening Sea,' combine* with the interest fiction the higher interests of religion, and another seriil comes from the pen of E. Boyd Baylsy. Hesb-i Sretton has t series of papers on the Parables, I written with her characteristic charm, and Professor MacEwen, Dem Lefror and Dr. Monro Gibson unite in contributing 'Thoughts for the Day of C True:! to be kindred poiuts of lieaveu and home' is the charming mutio of this family magazine, and nothing is better and brighter than its reading for the youtig. Bishop Welldon is admirably cho-en to give 'Talks to Boys'; th ,t favourite children's preacher. Rev. T. Reid Howatt, has a monthly pnge 'For the Youn# in connection with the Crutch and Kindness League; and besides a capital children's serial by Mary Ralph there are many short stories. Biographical sketches of men and women eminent in the religious and philanthropic world, and interesting papers on miscellaneous subjects, ars also among the contents of this excellent volume. "The Quiver" vo.ume. Loudon: Cassell and Company. The "Quiver" needs no letters of recommendation. It combines according to its traditions a liberal supply of fiction with many articles of general interest. No more readable volume cannot be h It contains ovar l,20) and about 800 illustrations, including two fine photogravures, and fourteen 6olonied The literarv contents include no less than four complete novaltj—'he most important being Mr. Joseph Hocking's fine story of the Inquisition and tha Araiada Flatne uf Fire." A notable feature of the Quiver has always been its svin- p-sthetie attitude towards religious work — of ail denominations, and or none. Characteri.^tia articles are the Webb-Poploe and the well-written piper by Hugh B. Pbilpotf "Men who Uncage Mian ins," with its many poi ti u£ JXl ..0.j\(.J.t., iu-,t.i.}6 —. F. W. Macdouald. Of general interest are such papers as that on "Gip-ies in their Winter Quartern," and "Å Day at the Blind School, Leather*&nd." And the ta-tea of tha young f JISS are c itered for, too, in the most liberal fashion Altogether, Wti name very few, if any, cheaper ssvon and sixpenny books than this annua of Messrs Caswell's. lol
THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF…
THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS. LOCAL FRICTICUL EXAMINATIONS. The following is a list of the c.ndid ites who were awarded certificate at the examination held at Llandudno, ou Decemb-r 14th and loth, 1903. The examinations we'o. rhom-u Hutchinson, Eq, Mas. D. Oxon., of L>*rIiogt >n, and Walter Porter, E«q F.R.C.O., of Hud Grade Four. advaucec (Pass): Ciements, Winifred E. M. (Pi) (air S, Ortnindy) Reel-!i £ fe (Mi L. Cie»neats, P.A.). OWQD, Jennie (Pf) (Mr J. L. Owen, I S M.). Grade Three (Pa.) C'eaient. Dorothy SI. (íf) (llr S. Ormandr), Redcli'Je (Miss L. Clements, B. A.), Elias, Marsli (2f), (Mis- N'ixon), Thomas, Mage's (Pf) (Mr J. L. Owen, 1.S M). Grade Two (Pass) Lewis, Ellen (Pf) (Mr J. L. Owen, I.S.M.), Park. inson, Margires [Pi) (Mr Llew. Jones, l.S.M ), N areUan College M. Ellis Jones), Roberts, Elizabeth E. (?f) (Mr J. L. Owen. I.S.M.). Wil- liams, Nancy ("vli-'S KinD). Grade One (Honours) Bate, Geltrude (Vu) (Mr B. Warhurst) Rencliffs (Miss L. Cements, B.A.), Davits, Margar-t ID. (PI) plrii H. W. Powlaon). Grade One (Pa): Astl^y, Sophie D. (ft) (Miss E. Rogers) Plaa Iaaf (Miss Everett), Bate, Margaret (Sg) (Mr B. Warhurst) Re:icl tie (Miss L. Clemeatai, B. A.), Edward?, Rosioa I. (Pi) (Mr J. E. Pierce), Ellis, Nesta M (Pf) Mr Llnw. Jones, 1. "1.), Hughes, "iie (Pf) (Miss Redstone), Lev/i«, £ iorah (Pfj is Nixon), Parry, Blodwen (Pf) (Mr J. E. eel, Pierce, Edward A. (Pi) (Mr J. J3. Pierce), laratory Grade (Honour-): Elba, Charlotte A. (Mr Llewelyn Jo;:fis, 1.S .If.), Evaas, Giadys (Miss Red.tooe), Jaui.s, Maurice J. (Pf) (Mrs SOL) Trinity Honse School (Rev. J. H. ey), Lewi-, Lh-welyn (Pf) (Mr Bickueli), inas, .hira (Pf) (Miss Nixon), Thowa. Miley (Mis Biskneil). -000-
CORRESPONDENCE.
CORRESPONDENCE. MR. SAMUEL SMITH, LP. the Editor of the RECORD ASD ADVERTISER. Dear Sir,—One of the speakers on the plat- form at the recent Liberal meeting in Rhyl fctated, whilst speaking of our present member for the county, that i:f Samuel Smith had a fault, it was that of being altogether too kind. And after reading- that admirable letter which appeared in the British Weekly' of last week, bearing the signature of Samuel Smith, one could not help feeling that the members of the f Liberal Council of Flintshire cannot be com- plimented on possessing, or having any measure of the sin of kindness, and of being too kind, which has been the text charged against Mr. Smith, after the rush and unceremonious desire to be settled with a candidate for the next election. The whole matter of dispensing with the services of Mr. Smith, to say the least, lacks that tenderness and kindness that ought to be extended to Mr. Smith, after he has bestowed so much of his strength, ability, and means to the county. The letter referred to in the 'British Weekly' displays a majesty of mind, thought, and rea- son. To think that our member even in his declining years is prepared to call in question the theology of one of the most brilliant men of the nineteenth century! His whole letter breathes the spirit and mind of a master and a genius. It makes me feel ready to say with the old sexton of the Church of Sir Robert Peel, do not always die when we look as if we would.' Mr. Samuel Smith at any rate dis- plays his lofty mind afresh, and compels us to feel we have indeed been honoured by being represented by such a true man. We cannot offer himl the freedom of the coun- ty, but surely something could be done to ex- press our high appreciation of his past services. Let us place on historic record, both for Mr. Smith's family and for our own county, that we appreciate nobleness of character and boldness to stand up at all times for the rights and exaltation of the people and the honour of the nation. Ore of the greatest privileges and honour the writer ever had was to witness in St. George's Hall, Liverpool, the Grand Old Man, Mr. W. K. Gladstone, sign the Burgess Roll of that city. Cannot anything be done of a similar charac- ter to honour the Grand Old Man who has represented Flintshire as it na, never been represented in its historv ?—Yours faithfullv, T.H.R
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SOMETHING FOB YOtPAG FOI;1t ] FRANKIE'S COURAGE. ( One evening, late in the autumn, when the ] fell almost as soon as tea. was over, i mother found that she had run short of bread, fc& the unexpected arrival of an aunt and coasin M spend the day had upset the calculations, and usual daily supply for the family bad proved insufficient. Frarkie boy," said Mrs. Spiers, "put on your cap and scarf, and run down to Mr. White's for me. I must have a loaf of bread, or we shall not have enough for breakfast. If you make haste you will be able to jo down and back before dark." Mr. White, the baker, lived at the very first shop in the street proper, and Frankie could easily do the errand in ten minutes; but for a moment he stood dismayed—there was that dreadful churchyard and the grinning to pass, with the treed rustling and shaking, and ':he shadows growing so long and grey as the daylight faded. If only that little friendly bit of red In the siy would last until he had got back past the church on his wav home again he would not mind, he thought. In a few minutes he had obtained his loaf, and was on the return journey, with bis eyes resolutely set on that. bit of rosy cloud and in the opposite diivcMcn to the church, Iut with his ears unusually alert for every little sound. There was not a soul in the road, and most of the houses he passed had their blinds drawn and the lamps lit. Far up the road he could see his mother's light twinkle out between the trees. Just as he neare-d the church Fra.nkie's heart stood still, for lie heard an unmistakable cry of "Help!" come over the churchyard wall, He stood still on the opposite path, gazing with wide-open eyes across at the shadowy church. Again came that cry—"Help!" Oh, dear, what should he do! I must confess that his first impulse was to run borne to his mother; but then he was just seven years old, so you must not think him too much of a baby. iiut Frankie, down ir. his heart, was a sturdy little English boy after all, and, in spite of his shakhig limbs, b; found his feet carrying him across the road, through the churchyard gate, and— yes, round the side of the church itself to the belfry door, from which the cry had seemed to proceed. Once there all his fears vanished, for in the dim twilight he made out the form of a very particular friend of his own—old Mr. Davies, the sexton. Eh, Frankie boy, is that you ? said he, when he saw wfeo it was standing over him. "I be main glad you heard me call. for I'm mighty feared I've got a broken bone. I stir, and I might ha' laid here till mornin' afore any tody come round. My foot slipped as I was down the stairs— it's a nasty turn round the crrnerup here when it's getting dark, and, afore I could save myself, here I lay. all of a heap." "Oh, dear, dear!" said Frankie. "I'll run home as quick as I can and father; I won't be many minutes, Mr. Davies." And without even a thought of the hideous stone faces above him ho ran round the church again, ami soon arrived at home, all out of breath. As soon as he could speak he told his story, and betor'> v< ry long Mr. Spieis and one or two of hiE aeighbonr.* moved the poor old sexton carefully tl tih- e ;ttago, whore the doctor, who was quickly Sutmmued, attended to him. Frankie was not 'righu-ued of the dark after this. UNFORTUNATE CASES.c. < It's bad to he an elephant And suffer from catarrh. For when yo> sneeze you shake your kneel And gi vei» yoar nerves a. jar. It's WfWP to Iw a tall giraffe Ai:,1 have a throat that's sore; It aches so .-strong aud aches so long— Three feot or even more. It's bad to be a pe'iicui, As tny bird win vouch, And slop in wet until you g .1':¡r¡;jgill in your poucii. It's worse to be & crocodile And iri.i a man o nw. And find his legs are wooden pegs Which lock YOl1r upper jaw. It's bad to hn a clnmpar.is?# Where swarms of prevail No rest, no pause, JIHl get because You haven't got a tail. It's worse to be a kangaroo. With tail upon the Which thoughtless folic in haste or jdh. May shut inside a door. ONLY SALUTED CLEAN PRINCES. When Prince Henry of Prussia was a very little ooy he was apt sometimes to be wilful, and to insist upon his Royal right to have his own way. One cold morning he rose in open revolt against his nurse, and sternly and absolutely refused to submit to his regular sponge-bath. His father heard of it, and adopted an ingenious method of treatment. Sending for the sentries from the palace gates, he instructed them not to present arms to Prince Henry if he passed them that morning, and to teU I him that their orders were "not to salute any little princes who would not take their morning baths." After a while little Prince Henry came running towards the gates, and the Guards took not the slightest notice of him. "Why do you not present arms to me ?" said the little boy indignantly. The sentry halted, and, from the height of hit 6ft. 4in., delivered his instructions. The littlo Prince spluttered with wrath, and tied to his nurse, demanding instantly to be bathed. When the ablutions were completed he marched out upon the sentry. The soldier, whose instructions had not been countermanded, pretended not to see him; but the young Prince planted himself firmly before him and said Look at my r eck The sentry's hand bremght his rifle across to the "present" with a. clash that made the bands rattle as he saluted his now well-washed Prince, who satisfied, passed onward. ARE YOU A WAIT-A-LITTLE BUSH ? A devoted mother was dressing her boy. It was early morning, and he was fidgety and yearning to play with a new toy. Not yet! Not yet he murmured, plucking himself away from the gar- ment she wished to put on him. "You are a i-ackt an beifje," said the mothet, making him stand still. "What did you say ?" asked the listener. Wait-a-little- bu»h.' That is what he is." "I don't under.tand." "011, in Soucb Africa there's a bush, a prickly thing that cat*_bf*. holds, and tears you, and th< 1)0"1'5 call it ten beitje,' wait-a-little-bush.' The listener nodded thought of the "wait-a- little-bushcs" 'v.isn y to delay everybody that passes them. ,ls, too, should remember to take care '<t[, the namo vyait-a-little-bush" may nev.,r be applied to them. THE FL Y' PROTEST. One rainy day, when Tommy was looking out. of the window, he saw a fly buzzing against the pane. "I'll catch that fly," said he; and his iittlt-fat finger went pattering over the glass until at last he chased the 11y down into a. corner and caught it. "Let me go said the fly. "I won't," answered Tommy. "Do let me go; You hurt me; you pinch my tnd break my wings." don't care if I do. You're only a iJy-a not worth anything." I "Yes, I am worth something, and I can do g wonderful things. 1. can do something you can't i don't believe it," said Tommy. "WhatcSffl you do r" "I can walk up the wall." "Let me see you do it," ar.i Tommy's fingers opened so that the fly could get off. The fly flew across the roam and walked up tfe0 wall and then down again. "My I" said Tommy. "What else can you do? "I can walk across the ceiling," said the fly; and hI; did so." "My I" said Tommy again. "How do you dID "I have little suckers on my feet that help hold on. I can walk anywhere, o.nd l:y, too; I &QK smarter than a boy," said tiie fly. "Well, you're not good for anything, and boy# hold on. I can walk anywhere, &nd Hy, too; I &QK smarter than a boy," said tiie ny. W,>.11, you're not good for anything, and bcyt &?e," answered Tommy, stoutly, Indeed. I am good for something. I helped te ave you from getting ill when the days were hot. Flies eat up the poison in the air, ar.d if we ih had not been around in the summer to keep the W pure, you and baby and mamma woui'.d have bceB m'v ill." Is that true ? asked Tommy, in great "Y cs, it is true; and now I will tell you sorEC" SJsing else. You are a bad, bad boy." "I am not," cried Tommy, growing very red Ds fche face. "I don't steal or say bad words, or What is not true." "Well, you are a bad boy, anyhow. It id bad te feurt flies. It is bad to pull off their legs and wings. It is bad to hurt anything that lives. Flies can Ceel, and it is bad to hurt them. Yesterday ycu gulled off my brother's wings." "I never thought of that," answered Tommy, Iob3y. "1 won't do it again. I'll never hurt a Sy as long as I live, and be sure that I'll never hurt you." "You won't got a chance," answered the By, ai tm valued acre&z the ceiling, COUSiN Ie Well, in a manner OT speaking, nur, that waS about the way ov ut." "Precisely. And then none if them had the courage, to approach me, so they got you to bo thiir mouthpiece ? "Indade, sur, I've faced the guns before, an there's itobody but mesilf at fault if what J. say is offensive to ye, If none of vees like to. I'll CHEAP GLOVES. I So-called cheap gloves are generally dear at any price. You may get a bargain once, but nine times )ut of ten you will prc)ba bJ y nnd you have thrown rour money away. Far better pay a fair price and 5d a reliable article. TO TAKR OFF WAX-CAXDLK ffREASE. Have an iron made very hot; put a piece. f clean blotting-paper over the grease spot, and hold the iron close to it, but do not let it touch the paper. The grease will be drawn into the paper and re- moved from the material. THE XI.:RSEny IsIiE'vKF.VST. For children from three years old and upwards the following is given, by an authority, as a fair sample of what, a nursery breakfast should consist of: Porridge and bacon on alternate days, with a lightly boiied egg as an occasional variation. Bread and butter, milk or cocoa, but never tea or coffee. Bread and milk may be substituted for, or varied with, bread and butter. Brown bread is very good for children. MANKERS. It is vulgar to make remarks about the food at dinner. To talk about things which only interest yourself. To contradict your friends when they are speaking. To grumble about your home and relations to outsiders. To say clever things which may hurt someone's feelings. To dress shabbily in the mornings because no one will see you. To bo rude to those who serve you, either in shops or at home. To think first of your own pleasure when you are giving a party. To refuse ungraciously when someone wishes to do you a favour. To behave in an omnibus or train as if no ouo else had a right to be there. — A
,SEIZED HIS OPPORTUNITY.
SEIZED HIS OPPORTUNITY. An Interest' and pretty tale is told of the manner in which the celebrated sculptor, Antonio Canova, started on his career. In despair because the confectioner had spoilt the centrepiece for a celebrated banquet some years ago, the steward allowed a twelve-year-old lad, the grandson of a stone-cutter, to try. Calling for some butter, with nimble finge and the 3kill of practised sculptor, in an incredibly short spacfc of time the little scullion mouldd the figure of a crouching lion. So perfect in proportion, so spirited and full of life in every detail, this marvellous butter lion, that it elicited a chtrlls of admiration from the delighted guests, who were eager to know who the great sculptor was had deigned to expend his genius on such perishable material. The host, unable to gratify their curiosity. sent for his head servant, who gave them the history oi the centrepiece. The boy was immediately sum- moned to the banquetmg-hall, where he blushingly received the praises and congratulations or all present, and the promise of the noble Signor Flieri to become his patron, and thus enable hitn to achieve fame as a sculptor. Such, according to some biographers, was the turning-point in the career of Antonio Canova, who, from a peasant lad, born in the little Venetian village of Possagno, roso to be the most illustrious Sculptor of his age. AN ALPHABET OF SUCCESS. Attend carefully to details. Be prompt in all things. Consider well, then decide positively. Dare to do right, fear to do wrong. Endure trials patiently. 0 Fight life's ba.e5 bravely. Go not into the society of the vicious. Hold integrity sacred. Injure not another's reputation. Join hands only with the virtuous. Keep your mind free from evil thoughts. Lie not for any consideration. Make few special acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not. Observe good manners. Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drink. Use your leisure for improvement. Venture not upon the threshold of wrong. Watch carefully over your passions. 'Xtend to everyono a kindly greeting. Yield not to discouragement. Zealously labour for the right, and success is certain. THE OAK AND THE IVY. "Sir, will you allow me?" said the ivy to ai gnarled old oak. "I won't intrude without your) permission." The oak looked down at his feet, which the ivy was covering, but made no answer. "Do you tbinlc we shall' sell for much ?" said the ivy, as she grew up to the topmost boughs. "I see they have been marking us. I presume we are in the same lot. You are aware that you cwe all yonr beauty to.me." W The oak was felled, and the ivy lay withered and trailing on the ground. "Alas she cried, "how could I so forget my- self ? I knew I was but ivy when I was at the bottom of the tree, but when I got to the top I thought I was an oak!" KILL YOUR ENEMIES. "What shall I do to Harry, mother?" asked Joe. "He is my enemy." "Why don't you kill him?" asked his mother. Joe opened his mouth and stared. That didn't Bound like mother. "Oh, I don't mean kill Harry; I mean kill the enemy part," she said. "That would leave Harry your friend. Kindness will kill an enemy; did you never hear that ? "„ LEGEND OF THE PANSY. A pretty fable about the pansy is current among French and German children. The flower has five petals and five sepals. In most pansies, especially of the earlier and less highly-developed varieties, two of the petals are plain in colour and three aro gay. The two plain petals have a single sepal, two of the gay petals have a sepal each, and the third, which is the largest of all, has two sepals. The fable is that the pansy represents a family consisting of husband and wife and four daughters, two of the latter being step-children of the wife. The plain petals are the step-children, with only one chair; tho two small gay petals are tha daughters, with a chair each, and the large gay petal is the wife. with two chairs. To find the father one must strip away the petals until the stamens and pistils are bare. They have a fanciful resemblance to an old man with a flannel wrap about his neck, his shoulders upraised, and his feet in a bath tub. The story is probably of French origin, because the French call the pansy the stepmother. PERPLEXITY. A queer little boy who had been to school* And was up to all sorts of tricks, Discovered that 9, when upside down, Would pass for the figure 6. So. when ask'-i, his ago by a good old damoj The comical youngster said: "I'm 9 when I stand on my feet like this, But 6 when I stand on my head!" BOY CHARACTER. It is the greatest delusion in the world for a boy to get the idea that his life is of no consequence, and that the character of it will not be noticed. A manly, truthful boy will shine like a star in any community. A boy may possess as much of noble character as a man. He may so speak and live the truth that there shall be no discount on this word. And there are such noble Christian boys; and wider and deeper than they are apt to think is their influence. They are the king-boys among their fellows, having an immense influence for good, and loved and respected because of the simple fact of living the truth. A PIG IN A DAMSON TREE. In many of the Western and Midland counties of England the nineteenth century closed with the most terrible floods within living memory. Happily few lives were lost, but hundreds of folk—moatZy poor — were washed out. of hearth and home; farmers, small and great, lost cattle, sheep, and poultry; and immense damage was done to all kinds of property. One comic incident was remarked at Alcester, in Worcestershire. When the water fell the rector took his walks abroad to see what loss he had suffered. As he passed through an orchard he was greeted with the piercing squeals of a perplexed pig, which had got mixed up in the boughs of a damson tree. Probably it had been borne into the branches by the rising flood. When the waters went down it was left high, and possibly but terrified out of its wits. Tommy: "We have got a new baby at our house." Sally (with upturned nose) "We don't want one we've got a. piano." A gentleman went into a shop one day to buy something. It was early, and the shopkeeper and his little boy were alone in the house. The shop- keeper had to go upstairs to get his cashbox in order to procure some change, but before doing so he went into the little room next to the shop and whispered to the boy: "Watch the gentleman that he don't steal anything," and, bringing him out, seated him on the counter. As soon as the shop- keeper returned the child sang out: "Pa, he didn't Iteal anything; I -watched hi»»„" æ'J.L
--FACTS AND FANCIES.
FACTS AND FANCIES. Qa an average, 1,700,000 of the. world's popula- I tion are constantly afloat. GBBSUHT owns 742,000 acres in Central America, I with twenty million coffee-trees. I ONE hundred and fifty-four out of every 10,000 COfiTicts are constantly in hospital. I Toerb are in the United Kingdom over 122,750 places licensed to sell intoxicating liquor. As ABSEXT-MINDF.d PROFESSOR. The prize medal for absent-mindedness during lectures must be awarded to a German professor named Johannes Ames*, who formerly lived in Vienna. One of his pupils had a list of his remarkable sayings, among them the following: "Julius Cæsar, I disguised as a slave, swam naked across the Tiber." Alexander the Great was born in the absence of his parents." "The Swiss are a mountainous nation." In Scotland the climate does not begin till October." "Hogs were invented in Asia Minor." "Thus arose a general war on page 94." "The third Tunic war would have been out much sooner had it commenced a little earlier." "Covered with count- less wounds, Csesar fell dead near the statue of Pompey; with one hand he drew his toga across his face, while with the other he called for help."
TR. FRIGATK BIRD.
TR. FRIGATK BIRD. The frigate bird far surpasses all others in its powers of flight, inasmuch as, except at the breed- ing season, it seldom visits the land, and is never I seen to swim or rest on the waters. A celebrated naturalist, Mr. Lancaster, who spent several years in studying the habits of this and other birds, states that the frigate bird can live in the air for a week at a time, night and day, without once perching or resting. He found these birds able, with ease, to go one hundred miles an hour. The albatross has followed the course of a ship for several days without being known to take any rest. The swift is another bird which is almost continually on the wing, and never settles on the ground or on trees.
THE MUSIC OF llmUNITY.
THE MUSIC OF llmUNITY. The rudest and the most advanced nations abound in songs, wrote Harriett Martineau. They are heard under the plantain throughout Africa, as ia the streets of Paris. The boatman on the Nile, and the children of Cairo on their way to school, cheer the time with chants, as do the Germans in their vineyards, and in the leisure hours of the university. The negro sings of what be sees and feels-the storm coming over the woods, the smile of his wife, and the coolness of the drink she gives him. The Frenchman sings the woes of the State prisoner, and the shrewd self-cautioning of the citizens. The songs of the Egyptian are amatory, and of the German varied as the accomplishments of the.nation —but in their meritl tone earnest and pure. The more this mode of expression is looked into, the more serviceable it will be found to the traveller's purposes of observation. «»>
AKMJ3THKTIC5 IN CHINA.
AKMJ3THKTIC5 IN CHINA. A Chinese manuscript in the Paris Library proves that anesthetics for surgical purposes were used in China 1,700 years ago. It states that when a surgeon conducted a serious operation he gave a decoction to the patient, who after a few moments became as insensible as if he were dead. Then, as the case required, the surgeon performed the operation— incision or amputation—and removed the cause of the malady; then he brought together and secured the tissues, and applied liniments. "After a certain number of days the patient recovered, without having experienced the slightest pain during the operation."
SCHOOL MUSEUM RELICS.
SCHOOL MUSEUM RELICS. School museums are rich in relics of famou3 old boys. At Eton and Winchester aro numbers of such mementoes of the great, says a writer in Chums; while the visitor to Charterhouse can feast his eyes on many similar treasures. Add-on, Steele, and Blackstone aro all represented by autographs; and numerous relics of John Leech, another Carthusian, are on view. Of these the most interesting are two drawings which hang side by side. One, in water colours, and the first he is known to have made-he was only six at the time—is of a coach drawn by four horses, more wonder- ful than schoolboys' horses usually are. This side of Charterhouse museum also includes a magnifi- cent collection of Thackerayana. Scores of drawings made by Thackeray while at school, and his Greek lexicon, full of pencillings and scribblings, are fittingly comprised in it, as is the manuscript of a "Holyday Song" which ho wrote as a boy. The gem of the collection, however, is the original manuscript of "The Newcomes," that great novel which has made Charterhouse known the wide world over. Of late vears the museum has received some important additions relating to old boys in the form of drawings by "B.-P. the hero of Mafeking.
BRITISH EARTHQUAKES.
BRITISH EARTHQUAKES. Earthquakes are not so uncommon in the British Isles as might be supposed. Out of the 6,831 earth- I quakes which had been recorded in the world from the earliest times up to 1350 the British Isles were responsible for no fewer than two hundred and fifty- five. The district of Comrie, in Perthshire, is the favourite resort of the earthquake, and in the winter of 1839 no fewer than one hundred and forty earth- quakes were experienced in this locality. Both in Sngland and Scothmcl the autumn is the commonest for earthquakes. There have been seventy- line in autumn, seventy-four in winter, forty-four i1 spring, and fifty-eight in summer.
How ROYALTY GUARD THEIR JEWELS.
How ROYALTY GUARD THEIR JEWELS. Royalties are much given to the accumulation of jeyels of great price, and they take especial care thit these baubles are not stolen. Many of the SO called Crown jewels" which aro shown to visitors to tho Tower of London aro "paste," the real jewels being secured in strong vaults in iron- boxes. The jewels of the Russian Imperial family form one of the most valuable collections in the world. This collection is guarded in a fortified castle watched over by a special detail of officers and soldiers. The Czar keeps a portion of his own private jewels in banks in London and paris. The treasures of the Royal Family of Ital)- are hidden away in deep vaults beneath a fort situated in a little island in the Tiber. Protected by the old and muddy stream overhead, and the military on the island, the jewels are beyond the dreavie of even the most daring and sanguine of burglars. The Prince of Bulgaria is possessed of precious stones to the value of £1,000,000. These he locked in a little castle on the banks of tho Danube. Some of the jewels belonging to the German Imperial family are kept in London banks, like those of the Czar.
LONDON'S Streams AND WELLS.
LONDON'S Streams AND WELLS. Few people realise that London once possessed a secondjnavigable river. The Fleet, or river of wells, as it lras first called, which still exists in the debasec form of an underground sewer, was at one time a wide stream, Ludgate being in those early days a Vater-gate. Mediaeval London also boasted I of three other streams—the Old Bourne, from which Holborn gets its name, tho Lang, or Long Bourne, and the Wall Brook, which latter flowed under the east wal. of the City. Nor was it badly off for wells and springs of fresh water. Of these the Clerk's well and the well in Clement's Inn were the most famous, "hilst the pool in St. Giles's Churchyard added to its celebrity, if not its salubrity, by becoming the scene of the suicide of a forlorn Cripplegate maiden. A famous mediaeval spring is represented by the modem Aldgate pump.
NEGRO SUPERSTITION.
NEGRO SUPERSTITION. Many of the negro superstitions in Kentucky are quite interesting. A writer in the Journal of American Folk-Lore says: An old philosopher told me with gteat gravity: "If you want peppers to grow, vou must git mad. My old 'oman an me had a spat, and I went right out and planted my peppahs an' they come right up!" Still another saying is that peppers, to prosper, must be planted by a red-headed, or by a high-tempered, person. The neuro also says that one never sees a jay bird on Friday, for the bird visits his Satanic majesty to "pack kindling" on that day. The three signs in which the negroes place implicit trust are the well-known ones of the ground-hog's appearing above ground on February 2nd; that a hoe must not be" carried through a house or a, death will follow and that potatoes must be planted in the dark of the moon, as well as all vegetables that ripen in the ground (and that corn must be planted in the light of the mcon). A negro will not burn the wood of a tree that has been struck by light- nine, for fear that his house will burn, or be struck by lightning. If a bird flies into a house, it brings bad luck. If a crawfish or a turtle catches your toes, It will hold on till it thunders. When a child, I was told by a black nurse that if a. bat alighted on one's head it would stay till it thundered. This was so terrifyir.g that even now I have an unneces.. aary fear of beirg clutched by a bat. To make soap, atir it with a sassafras > the dark of the moon.
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It was reported to the- Metropolitan Asylums Board that the cost of providing a shipto accommodate 600 boys—to replace the training ship Exmouth would be £51,250. The consideration Of the matter was adjourned. New bells—one of which weighs 55cwt.—and a new organ have been given by the Duke of Bedford to St. Mary's Church, Woburn (Beds.). The Duke has also paid the cost of beautifying the chancel, which is now almost entirely of white marble.
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CARE OF THE FEET. Never wear a shoe that will not allow the great toe to lie in a straight line.. Never wear a shoe with a sole narrower than the < outline of the foot traced with a pencil close under the rounding edge. Never wear a shoe that pinches the heel. Never wear a shoe or boot, so large in the heel that the foot is not kept in place. Never wear a shoe or boot tight anywhere. Never wear a shoe with a sole turning up very much at the toea, as this causes the cords on the upper part of the foot to contract. Never come from high heels to low heels at ono jump. Never wfar one pair of shoes all the time unless obliged to do so. Two pairs of boots worn a day at a time alternately last longer and are much more healthful. CHILDREN'S QUKSTIONS. Children do ask the most inconvenient and appalling questions at, times. The why and the wherefore of things appeal to them immensely. In fact. the conversation of some children at one stage of their existence may best be typified as ono big WIIY? Be careful and distinguish between questions asked heedlessly, frcm the mere desire of saying something, and questions asked from a real desire to knew. The first are best dealt with by a gentle, "Think, dear, and you will be able to answer that for yourself." With questions of the second class, if possible, tell the child the truth if the matter is beyond its comprehension, don't invent a foolish answer, but say quite simply, "Mother can't explain that now, because you wouldn't understand if she did; but if younik her whoa you aro older she will try and tell GRAVY THE BEST SAUCE. Everyone has heard of the witty Frenchman's aphorism that the English have a hundred religions and only one aucc-namcly, the flour and butter sauce called "melted butter." This is entirely erroneous, says Cassell's Universal Cookery Book, as the English long ago possessed the best sauces, and possess them si ill; but they use their, only little, just because they rely upon the juice which runs from the roasting meat, v.hicii by being frequently poured over the Ilwat in the process of basting becomes concentrated and browned, and thus 11 has ? he character of gravy im- parted to it. Gravy is, in fact, the most tasty sauce there is; in comparison to it all other sauces, even those which contain gravv, must admit their inferiority. Gravy, as it must be liquid and thin, must also br. concentrated, and car: therefore not Le served ad liiiuim. But, as folks nowadays no longer eat butter with their potatoes, but want to have them st aked with they use a gravy diluted with broth; with this practice much of the beauty of roast meat and of gravy is at an end, and the products approach those of the boiling process. In the vicinity of Loddington, Redditch, several independent witnesses, says the Field, have seen a jet-black fox. Three hundred persons applied for the position of tramway advertisement manager to the London County Council at a salary of z2400 a-year. Several stack fires which have occurred in the neighbourhood of Welshpool are believed by the police to be the work of a gang of incendiarleg. J.C';¡ Oil • revolutionary lor.iVrs h;'v' expressing their dei p 'fro i'u<h- for u: .-yi-.e shewn to them in this country. Burglars who broke M-h-.n Church, Guildford, and forced the rU in th- ves ry, failed to secure the Communion plate, which fortunately is kept at the rectory. Left alone iij a room at 227, Mile End-road, London, on Christmas Eve, the cripple child of a musician named Dominico crawled to the fire and, securing a. box of matches, set her clothes alight, with fatal results. Eight hundred recruits have already been enrolled In th<' London division and 100 in the Bridtton division of tho itoyil Naval Volunteer force, whose first drill is being equipped at Shoerness. Mr. Beasley, the general manager of the TafE Vale Railway, who was mainly responsible for the successful action against the Amalgamated Society of Uait'.vav Servants, is to receive a testimonial of labour.
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