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--THE LITTLE DROPS' RIDE.,-i
THE LITTLE DROPS' RIDE. i Som» littl# drops of water, Whose home was in the sea, To go upon a journey Once happened to agree. A cloud they had for carriage, 1-0- They drove a playful breeze, And over town and country I They rode along at ease. But, oh there were so many. At last the carriage broke. And to the ground came tumbling These frightened little folk And through the moss and grasses They were compelled to roam, Until a brooklet found them, And carried them all home. GROWING A FAIRY OAK. Thi. is a very pretty experiment for young folks. Take an acorn and tie a string round it so that the blunt end, where the cup was, is downward. Suipend it in a bottle or hyacinth glass containing a small quantity of water. Wrap the bottle in flannel, and put it in a warm, dark place. In a month or less the acorn will swell, burst its coat, and throw out a tiny white shoot. This is the root, and when half an inch long the water may he allowed to rise higher, but must not touch it until the neck of the root begins to turn upward. As loon as the stem commences to shoot, the baby oak will require small doses of light every day, and the root can now extend into the water. In a week or so it will be ready to be moved to a window, where you can watch the develop men4;. At first the tiny trunk that is to be will look like a whitish tliread covered with scales. Then the scales will expand and the end become green, little leaves will appear, and so on until your young oak is large enough to be planted out of doors. ARABIC MULTIPLICATION. A gentleman who, in his youth, lived in Constan- inople, and who was familiu with the methode of the schools there as they were in his time, •ecently employed the hours of a rainy afternoon In teaching his son the Arabic method of multiplication. The rule was to take the two numbers to be multiplied together, and first to add them. The right hand digit of their sum was taken for the left hand digit of the product. Each number was then subtracted from ten. and the remaindera multiplied together for the right hand digit. Suppose 7 and 8 were to be multiplied; 7 and 8 = 15; hence the left hand digit of product would be 5. Then subtracting 7 ar.d'8 from 10, and multiply- ing the remainders; 2 times 15=6. the right hand digit, making the answer 56. There are about twenty subsidiary rules, by which this clumsy method was made to cover all cases, and it is a wonder that the small boys of I Constant i nop] t., of the last generation learnt to multiply at all. The American hoy to whom all this was explained was much interested, but he grew more and more perplexed as the talk went on. Papa," he said at last, with a sigh of sympathy for the Turkish schoolboys, "do you suppose they were given that kind of a multiplication to punish them for being heathen?" DOLLS. A writer in Science, speaking of the antiquity of dolls, says that those which were in use among the children of the ancient Egyptians were made of wood, and might he mistaken for modern fabrics. Undoubtedly they were dressed by the Egyptian girls, as our girls "nowadays enjoy dressing their doll". There were even some the hands and feet of which couid be movnd by means of strings. Others, made of painted wood. were very imperfect in fomi and li-id strings of beads instead of hair. In the museum of Leyden there is an ancient toy that looks as though it had been bought at a Christmas fair. There were figures of animals with movablo mouths, and balls of leather. Among Greek and Roman antiquities, dolls are found made of wood or clay, and others of wax and ivory. Dolls' houses with lead furniture; the saving-box with a slit on the top; toy cows, hordes and hogs— all these were known to the children of ancient Rome, as they are to our own. The women of Bagdad believe that a doll may eventually come to life and harm their children, and therefore they prevent their use. The girls, however, play with cushions and pieces of wood instead. In Siberia and Arctic America ivory dolls, clothed in furs of beautiful workmanship, are found; in Peruvian graves, dressed dolls of clay; and in Africa. the girls play with wooden or clay figures. SOME CURIOUS MEANINGS. A Canterbury teacher once gave a boy a number of words to define. These are some of them "Salt, fan, sob, and I beariti,- false witness.' The following were the boy's definitions: "Salt. What makes potatoes nasty when there isn't any in. "Fan."—Something to brush the warm off with. "Sob."—When a fellow don't mean to crv, and it bursts out all by itself. "Bearing False Witness." —When nobody ain't done nothing, and someone Zoes and tells. WHERE MONTH COMES FROM. The word" month" is descended from the Saxon, and simply means the time when it "mooneth." "January" is from the Latin word "Janus," a two- faced god looking both ways. "February" is from the Latin word "Februarius," and means the month of expiation, because the Roman festival of purification occurred in February. "March" is from Mars, the "god of war," and was the first month in the Roman calendar. The Jews began their year at the same time. "May" and "June" were named in honour of the goddesses Maia and Juno. "July" was il Quin, ilius," or iifth month after March, but its name was changed to July in honour of Julius Ctesar. "August" was "Sextilis," or sixth month after March. In honour of Emperor Augustus its name was changed to August. Septem. octo, noveni, decein-sex-ejitli, eighth ninth and tenth months-g-ive names to September, October, November and December. FOR GIRLS. Baauty of face is only outward, and is never long admired unless there is found with it beauty of soul. That is a homely but none the less true proverb which says, "Pretty is that pretty does." A woman greatly admired for beauty and loneli- ness of character tells this story of her early life. While at school she was in a class of bright and pretty girls, while she herself was homely and awkward and dull. This preyed upon her spirits until she became sullen and morose. One day her French teacher, an old woman, said to her: "What ails you, my child ? "I am so ugly and stupid," she replied, "that it puts me in perfect despair." Upon this the teacher put in her hand the bulb of a plant. It was coarse and scaly and stained with earth. "That is YOII," said the teacher. "Plant it and take care of it." She took the bulb and put it in the earth and faithfully watered it, until at last there emerged from the unsightly shell an exquisite Japanese lily —bright omen, as it proved, of the unfolding of her own character. A SHREWD MOTHER PLOVER. One day some men came to the part of the beach iaear Cape Lookout where the plover family lived. The little ones were much frightened, so they sat very close to the sand and the men did not see them. Father and Mother Plover were quite uneasy, however. They flew near the men and cried, and tried to got the intruders to follow them away. The mother bird even pretended to be lame. When the men saw this, one of them said "Look at that bird; she has a nest of young ones near here, or she would not act so. I have seen partridges on the mainland act in the same manner when I was near their young." Then they began to search among the shells. This alarmed the parents so much that they determined to try their last and best trick. The little mother ran up close to the men, fell on her side, and fluttered and cried as if she were dying. The father bird and two other plovers, who had a nest farther up the shore, ran to her and rubbed her with their bills as if they were very anxious and so sorry about her sickness. "Look there," said the man who had spoken before, "that bird really must be hurt. I have seen many kinds of birds pretend to be injured, but have never seen two play different parts in the same trick." So they started to catch her. But Mrs. Plover seemed to get better, and ran on for fifteen or twenty yards, and then appeared to fall ill again. The other plovers gathered about as before, and put their bills under her as if to raise and help the sick one. The men went hurrying on; but the lady bird again recovered enough to run for a little distance. The young plovers saw the group pass off among the dunes, the four birds in front and the men following after. Twenty minutes later the shrewd old birds were back with their children, and the men, entirely outwitted, were far down the beach toward their boat. Pretence of injury or lameness is a common habit with many species of birds to attract a supposed •cerny from the vicinity of their nests. -I woundert a tnrKey ouc-e, said the unsuspected l:ar, "so big (hat it tock five men to hold him. After the usual expressions had been passed round, he continued: "I meant, to hold him after he was cooked." "Yon see I'm familiar with your music," remarked the ;»initeur pianist, after his performance at the inusicale. It seems so," replied the popular com- poser; "at any rite,you take a great many liberties with it." "I congratulate you, my dear sir, on the marriage of your daughter. I see you are gradually getting all the girls off your hands." "Off my liands-y-as But the worst of it is, I have to keep their husbands A VISION OF AN ENGLISH SUNDAY. In "The Plea of Pan," Mr. H. W. Nevinson has produced a most delightfully poetical book, full of striking and imaginative passages. Here is a sample cf his style: In the midst of all the pain and wretchedness there came to me the smell of an evening in early spring, and instead of the crowded and ghostly track between the bare rock and starveling houses 8r p-ared a great gravelly road, guided by chopped hedgerows, through plough and pasture from which a god could have scraped the fatted soil as a thrifty nurse scrapes off the children's butter. The horses waiting with the Squire's carriage were like the lad. their shining quarters all coated over with laps and folds of fatness. So were the congregation, who, having sung "A few more years shall roll," and prayed to be led through the desert here, came out of the church, well clothed, well washed, well fed. Like the Ancient Mariner watching the water- snakes at play, I blessed them unawares. All had come to the service warmed and enlivened by their tea, and were now returning to supper with Sunday night's exhilaration of duty performed and tongues released from religious silence, whilst the col- lection-plate tinkled at the door. Issuing into the blue air from the bright orange of the porch, lover signalled to lover under the silver star. So the ghostly procession passed out into a land of hread and flesh and milk and drinkable water, secure of the morrow, and rooted in a past of uninterrupted days. As I watched them move comfortably down the poignant ways of memory, I knew that an exactly similar procession would be crossing that ancient porch to-night (for it was Sunday) lovers would signal their meetings in the darkened lanes, the smell of violets would swim like drones through the air, and from the fields the lambs cry sleepily. I wondered how it was pos- sible for those people ever to be unhappy in their nesting homes. No misery seemed to count beside the wretchedness of war, and a longing for peace and all that peace means came over me. I longed for the tranquillity of the lanes and the purple woods of spring; I longed for the spacious and quiet homes—for the silver smiling 1m the table- cloth and on the darkly gleaming sideboards; for the soft stir of women in the room, and the faint smell of their hair and dresses for the talking and quick laughter; for the clean sheets on wholesome beds, and the glad calling of the rooks when morn- ing came above the elms.
JULIAN THE APOSTATE.
JULIAN THE APOSTATE. The eternal conflict between will and faith is depicted in Dmitri Merejkowski's romance "The Peath cf the Gods." The story covers the period of Julian the Apostate, and follows the main out- lines of history. Julian's gradual falling away from the Christian faith is described, until at last, on the day which crowns him Augustus Julian, he is initiated into the mysteries of Apollo. "From this day," cries Maxinms, "I will cleanse you from this Galilean corruption-slay the shadow of Golgotha in the radiance of Mithra—warm afresh your body, frozen at baptism, in the hot blood of the sun-god Then follows an impressive scene, in which Julian, before his assembled army, renounces the faith of Christ: "Comrades, our work is finished. Now we will .Zo to Constantinople! Give thanks to the Olympians who have given us the victory These words were only heard by the first ranks, but there were numerous Christians among them. These were roused by the last startling expression. But the more distant ranks who had not heard Julian's words, cried: "Glory to Augustus Julian! Glory! Glory!" and louder and louder yet, from outskirts of the hill, as far as they were covered by the legions, aro<\) a cry repeated by thousands of voices— "Glory! Glory! "Look. look," murmured the dismayed Christians, "The Labarum is being lowered!" And, in fact, the hoJ" banner was being veiled before the Emperor. A military blacksmith came down front the wood with a brazier and red-hot pincers. Julian, whose face, in spite of the ruddy gleams of the purple and the sun, was dark with strong emotion, wrenched the golden cross, v.'ith it monogram of precious stones, from the staff of the La hut-urn. Pearls, emeralds and rubies were scattered on the ground, and the glittering cross burifd in the earth stamped under the sandal of the Roman Ca?sar. From a casket Maximus immediately drew forth a little silver statue of the Sun-god, Mitlira-Helios; and the smith in a few instants soldered it to the stittt of the Labarum. Julian knelt before the standard, and, stretching out his arms to the little. silver image, exclaimed: "Glnry to the invincible Sun, king of all gods Angus;us worships the eternal Helios, god of light, gud of reason, god of the glad- ness and joy upon Olympus The last rays of sunset lighted the bold beauty of the od of Delphi, and rayed his head. The legionaries stood in silence, save that in the wood the dry leaves could be heard falling. The conflagra- tion of the sunset, the purple of the sacrificial king, the withered woods, all these breathed a magnificence as of sumptuous obsequies. One of the men in the front rank muttered a single word so distinctly that it reached Julian's ear, and thrilled him—" Anti-Christ"
PERSIAN SERVANTS.
PERSIAN SERVANTS. England is not the only country where servants give trouble: even in Persia the ways of the native servants are far from being acceptable, as Miss Ella C. Sykes found in her journey through the country. In "Through Persia on a Side Saddle" she tells us #on;etl,ing about her troubles with her cook, Seyid Abu To fine Abu ten Shahis (2^.) for each dirty 4 vessel was the only way of appealing to his feelings, although it was an unpleasant method to resort to, as it made him sulky and cov, rtly insolent to boot. Je would tell me lie after lie with such admirable self-po.-se-ion, looking me straight in the face with zi,icti ss eyes the while, iliat he often fairly staggered nie. However, his perversions of the truth were not consistent, and this betrayed him. There- upon I would say: "That is not true," and when he perceived that he was found out he would answer cheerfully, and without a trace of shame:" Yes, Kiuimnn, it was a lie." In Persian houses the servants are fed, and are paid little, if anything, in coin but Eurrpeans give good wages, and expect their dependenis to cater for themselves. Abu was a thorough thief, rapacious to a degree, and I confess I w as by no mealls a match for him at first. Hut I soon got into the habit of considering that I was phiying a yame with my cook and the other servants. At first they won all round, but after a while I began to score myself, and felt con- sider;1.! !v eiated when Saltan Sukru informed me oil, tliztt all the servants were blaming him, saying that he had told the Khaium so much that they couid hardiy cheat at all now. On the whole i had a harassing six months with Seyid Abu, and was only too thankful when I was at last (Itiil. of ti,i, of the Prophet, and enraged two sma.l boys in his stead, who made c .jr al cooks. THE GRAND TRUNK ROAD OF INDIA. nerc is one of a number of vivid word pictures which abound in Mr. Rudyard Kipling's most inter- esting Indian story It is part of the description of the great trunk road of India: Here and there they met or were overtaken by the gaily dressed crowds of whole villages turning out to some local fair: the women, with their babes on their hips, walking behind the men, the older boys prancing on sticks of sugar-cane, dragging rude brass models of locomotives such as they sell for a halfpenny, or flashing the tun into the eyes of their betters from cheap toy mirrors. One could see at a glance what each had bought; and if there were any doubt it needed only to watch the wives comparing, brown arm against brcwn arm, the newly-purchased dull glass bracelets that come from the These iiierry-makers stepped slowly, calling one to the other and stopping to haggle rtith sweetmeat-sellers or to make a prayer before one of the wayside shrines—sometimes Hindu, sometimes Mussulman—which the low caste of both creeds share with beautiful impartiality. A solid line of blue, rising and falling like the back of a caterpillar in haste, would swing up through the quivering dust and trot past to a chorus of quick cackling. That was a gang of chanr/ars—the women who have taken all the embankments of all the Northern railways under their charge—a flat-footed, big-bosomed, strong-limbed, biue-petticoated clan of earth-carriers, hurrying north on news of a job, and wasting no time by the road. They belong tet the caste whose men do not count, and they walked with squared elbows, swinging hips, and heads on high, as suits women who carry heavy weights. A little later a marriage procession would strike into the Grand Trunk with music and shoutings, and a smell of marigold and jasmine stronger even than the reek of the dust. One could see the bride's 3itter, a blur of red and tinsel, swaggering through the haze, frhile the bridegroom's bevvreathed pony turned aside to snatch a mouthful from a passing fodder-cart. Then Kim would join the Kentish-fire ( of good wishes and bad jokes, wishing the couple a hundred sons and no daughters, as the saying is. Still more interesting and more to be shouted over it was when a strolling juggler, with some trained monkeys, or a panting, feeble bear, or a woman who tied goats' horns to her feet, and with these danced on a slack rope, set the horses to shying and the women to shrill, long-drawn quavers of amazement. the woman's club?" Mrs. Dorcas: "She made » motion that instead of engaging a professor 01 Hindu philosophy we should hire someone to teach us how to step off a "bus, how to sharpen a pencil, and how to carry an umbrella in a crowd." "There is always room at the top, young man," said tho coal merchant to the lad who wanted to know if there was a place for him in the offics. Yes; I've noticed that whenever I've seen the sacks in your waggons go by," said the youth. But for ail this evidence of his baing close observer "J did not get the berth, Sir F. W. Borden, who has returned to Ottawa from England, announces that, as the result of a suggestion of Mr. Ariiol,I-Fors-t-r, the Minister for War, he will make arrangements to send a regiment of Canadian Militia to India to receive practical military training. "hile carrying. home a dinner that had been given to him, an aged inmate of Paddington workhouse, who left the institution on Christmas Eve to spend "he next dav with his v.-i. tvil dead. Don't forget to remember that there are a grea" many things which should be forgotten. Charles: "Did the tailor take your measure?" Algy "I think he did. He said I'd have to pay in advance." Traveller (at Enston Station): "I want to take the next train to Liverpool." The booking-clerk: "Sorry, sir, but we can't spare it." She (threatening breach of promise suit: "Do you intend to deny, sir, that you proposed to me?" He: "No; I intend to plead insanity." Don't ignore a man because he is in the light- weight class. It is easier to throw a cannon ball a mile than it is to throw a feather ten feet. "Our telephone girl has a lovely voice." "Has she?" "Yes. She can say 'Line's busy' so sweetly that I don't care whether it is or not." She: "I fear you will find me full of faults." He: "Darling, it shall be the dearest office of my life to correct tLcll1." She: "Indeed you shan' t He: "Ethel, what can it mean? Last night I dreamed that I proposed to you." She: "I should say that you are more sensible asleep than awake." Mrs. A. Is it true that your son holds the appoint- ment of warder in a gr.cl?" Mrs. IJ. "Yes; but only criminals of good family are imprisoned there." "Woman's mission exclaimed an old bachelor. "I'll tell you what woman's mission is, sir, or what it ought to be, anyhow. It ia submission, sir!" A sergeant in a volunteer corps, being doubtful whether he had distributed rifles to all the men, called out: "All you that are without arms hold up your hands." Lawyer: "Have you ever seen the prisoner at the bar?" Witness: "No, sir; but I have seen him several times when I strongly suspected that he had been at it." Mrs. Oldstyle: "I don't think that a college education amounts to much." Mr. Sparerod: "Don't you ? Well, you ought to pay my boy's bills and see." It is hard to say which is the bigger fool—the man who always gets fooled by a woman or the woman who always fools herself into believing that she fools the man. Jablin: "Jaggins called you a monkey. How can you stand that?" Dilbey "What would you advise me to do about it?" Jablir.: "Make him prove it, of course." Visitor: "And are you the eldest?" Daughter of the house: "No, I'm the eldest but two." Visitor: "Who are the other two?" Daughter of the house: "Father and mother." Customer (in barber's chair: "So you haven't? heard Ihrr van Thumper, the world-famed pianist ? German barber "Nein.dose bianists neffer batronise me, and so I nelfer batronise dem." Mrs. Unnizi "John, I think there's a burglar down in the hall." Mr. Unnizi: "Let him stay there. There's nothing he can take except the umbrella I borrowed from Jones." Mr. P. (10 p.m.): "My dear, the doctor says a brisk walk before going to bed will ensure sleep to insomnia sufferers like myself." Mrs. P. "Well, dear, please walk here and carry the baby." "Your wife is a great woman to worry, isn't she?" "Yes, she is lonesome without it. and I am thinking of putting fret-work all over the house, just to make the surroundings consistent." "Had a nice trip?" "Yes, rather." "Been doing the Continent?" "Well, yes if you put it that way; but when I look at my exocrines it rather seems as if the Continent, had been 'loing me." Papa: "So, Bobby, you're tho president of your bicycle club. That's very nice. How did they happen to chooie you?" Bobby:" Well, you see, papa, I'm the only boy that's got a bicycle." Tess: "He is a very intellectual man." Jess: "What led you to think that?" Tess: "I judged so from his talk." Jess: "What does he talk ahuut ?" Tess "He alwaj s talks about how intellectual lie is." "See here, waiter; I can't chew this steak." "I am not exactly surprised to hear it, sir." Wha do you mean by "iit "I mean that you are the fifth gentleman who has said the same thing about it." "Ah, pe^ious. infamous Albion!" exclaimed the excited rrench waiting-maid upon receiving noticj of dismissal. "You bum Joan of Arc, you kill ze great Emperor Napoleon, and now you dis- miss ni,- IVP,irv Willie Ah, lady, I Ire )n;en eaten jes' such pie as (lis in my dreams."—Mrs. Handout "In your dreams?" Weary Willie: "Yes, lady; an' den woke up an' found I wuz bitin' a car-truck or sutliiuV Little boy (from next door) "Mamma said would you please lend her a few of your fiat irons ? Mrs. Kinde: "Certainly! Mamma going to iron to-day?" Little boy :"No'm: she wants them to throw at your cats to-nii'lit!" Doctor: "What! your dyspepsia no better? Did you follow my advice and drink hot water an hour bf"on breald"r.st?" Patient: "I tried to, doctor; but; I was unable to keep it up for more than five minutes at a time." The master was asking questions. Masters aro aD.t to ask questions, and they sometimes receive curious answers. "Now, bovs, how many months have twenty-eight days?" "All of them, &ir," re- plied the oy in the front. The teacher was giving little Tommy a grammar lesson the ether day. "An abstract noun," she said, "is the name of something which you can think of but not touch. Can you give me an exaiiiple Tommy: "A red-hot poker!" "I will follow you to the uttermost ends of tho earth!" hissed the villain. "No, you won't," remarked the heroine, calmly. "Why won't I?" queried the villain, aghast at her coolness. "Because I'm not going there," she replied. Tess: "Delia Mode wants mo to try her dress- maker. I wonder if she'd suit me." Jess: "Oh,yes, indeed she's just the one for you." Tess "Why ?" Jess: "Yes, shesa wonder. Why. she can make I the plainest hind of people look nice." First passenger: "Would yon—lend me your .spectacles a moment, please?" Second passenger: Fii--t passenger "Ati-tliaiik you. Now, as you cannot, see to read your paper, would yoli illiliti ii)(- h;tv,t it. too, ple:tst-?" "I never heard of but one perfect boy," said Johnnie, pensively, as he jj £ t in the corner doing penance. "And who liat ? asked mamma. "Papa—when he was was the answer. And silence icr the space of live minutes. Miss Peciiis: "Mr. Slocmn called on me last evening." Mr. Wn veil -'Iluh! he's slow. Didn't he make you tired? Talked and talked about some- thing iiid uninteresting, I'll bet." Miss Peciii, he talked about you a great deal." Mrs. Jones: "Are you aware, Mrs. Skinbone, that vour do" has bitten niv little Willie. Mrs. Skinbone: "What, your iit.tie Willie who only just got over scarlet fever? Oh, Mrs. Jones, if any- thing should happen to Fido, I'd never forgive you." First crow "Come o!i that's only a scarecrow. Second crow (a. little older): "What makes you think so?" First crow: "I've been watching it j closely for twenty minutes and it hasn't moved a muscle." Second crow: "Huh! It's quite evident you've never had any experience with filled farm- hands." Young man, if you see your girl gazing intently at your feet, don't shift them about uneasily or draw them up and sit upon them, under the impres- sion that she is overwhelmed by their immense size. She is merely taking their measure mentally for a pair of slippers, on the toe of which she intends to work a blue dragon with a green tail and scarlet ears. "My aim," said the confidence man, "is to give happiness. In one way I may claim to he a philan- thropist." "A philallthropist" exclaimed the listener. "Certainly," was the answer. "If you have followed the various fakes and swindles of the pre- sent day, you surely must hive noticed that some people are happy only when they are being properly humbugged." "I am not expecting any package," said the lady of the house. "This is the number, persisted the driver of the delivery waggon, looking at his book again. "Xame's Iliggins, ain't, it. "Yes." "No. 74?" "That's our number. "Then it's for vou." "I think not, it must be a case of mistaken idetitity." mum. It's a case of beer." At the Petty Sessions at Yorkstown. the other day, a great amount of laughter was created during the hearing of one of the ca M. One of the JustIces of the Peace rather pompoiVy exclaimed: Let us have decorum in the couft, please." An official rushed at once to the dooi, calling out: "Richard Orum Richard Ornm Needess to say "decorum" was st'ill wanting for a brief period in that court. Drummer: "It is pretty hard to get a drink in thi3 town, isn't it?" Landlord (Kansas Hotel): "You bet; Why, you can't, even work the snake bite racket any more unless you carry the snake to the drug store and let him bite you in the presence of a committee "Katie, avick, come here," cried Con Darragh, the blacksmith, to his daughter; "this gentleman" (pointing to an aristocratic young fellow) "has given me a sovereign for fixing t shoe on his horse, and sure Oi've no change,while his honour is in a hurry for the hunt. Run, Katie, asthore, into Molly Lannigan's at Killeen :or some silver.^ Then, turniirg to the gentleman, he said: "Shure, thin, she wen't ho long; Katie is a smart girl, an' it it only a matter of ,eu mi>es." The gentleman diciu't wai t. In a l,t of new magistrates appointed for Norwich labour chrims have been recognised by the appointment ot Mr. George (.leverley, one of the most intelligellt worbng men in th city. Harry Sleeman, a clerk of works, employed by Messrs" Jay's, llegem-street, has been charged at Marlborough-street Police-court, London, with defrauding his employers of Z148 Os. 3id. by jdc ara of falsifying accounts. He was remandeq. NOT STRONG ENOUGH. At one of the clubs the other day two members were arguing about will power. The conceited man, who was in t' e habit of boring all present with his pointless tale. said that his will was stronger than his friends'. You are wrong there," said "r.r.r: I will provf it in this way. You go and stand in that cortici*, aii(I I -,N-ill will NOII it. You will against me, and 1 bet you thai I w ill h;iv- you from tiiit a second time." The smart one took the bet and put himself in fhe corner. The quiet man said in a commanding voice: "Come out of that cortivi The other grinned and shook his head. The q. m. sat down and looked at him steadily. Five minutes passed, and then the man of will said,with a sneer: "Hadn't you better give it up ? I don't feel any in.'li-ence at all. and lean'tatand here all the evening." "There is no hurry," said the q. lrit', "and I have a verv comfortable seat. There is no time limit, except-that you are to come out before I ask you twice, and as I don't intend to ask you again uiltil this day week 1 think you will feel tli(! itl!,U(Iflce before then." The smart one came out, looking very foolish. BATAHIAN railways oil locomotives with "graphiol," ft mixture of thick oil with a twentieth of its weight of powdered graphite, and report effective lubrication at 1 per cent. of the cost with oil alone. From changes that may have taken place in the Orbits of comets, Professor G. Forbes finds evidence of the existence beyond Neptune, about one hundred times as far from the sun as the earth, of a planet larger than Jupiter. IN a paper to the Acadimie des Sciences, Paris, MM. Broca and Sulzer siiew that the human eye is a good deal slower in observing form than colour. Much more energy is required to give the eye a notion of a form than of mere light. A COLOUR-CHANGING PAINT. A colour-changing paint, especially adapted for making visible hot boxes in machinery, is prepared by a German chemist by carefully rubbing up equal parts of mercuric iodide and cupric iodide with enough distilled water to form a thin paste. At ordinary temperature this mixture is red. but it turns black at about 60deg. C., becoming red again On cooling. ACTION OF AMMONIA ON METALS. At temperatures of 600deg. to 900deg., ammonia has been found to act on platinum, gold, silver, copper, iron, nickel and cobalt. In every case the metal was disintegrated completely and quickly, while much of the ammonia was resolved into its elements. Copper and iron rods of jin. wero penetrated to the centre in thirty minutes. INVISIBLE PICTURES. Invisible pictures are a novelty due to a German. Salts of cobalt are used for the printing of such pictures; this ink shews faintly pink, so pink paper is used, thus hiding the design and giving the appearance of blank paper. On being warmed, the ink shews a deep blue, and the picture is plainly revealed. Apart frcm other and more serious uses, these invisible pictures will make good amusement for children. & LABOUE-DETKCTION CLOCK. A labour detection clock is in use in some American factories. It has three hands, and is attached to the machine tool at which an employé is working. One hand tells exactly when the machine was set going or stopped; another indicates the speed at which the machine runs and the third shews whether the tool has been cut! in, or whether the workman has allowed the machine to run with- out doing work. COSMIC DUST. I Nickel in dust has been looked upon as a safe evidence of cosmic origin. But Hartley and Ramago have shewn lately that nickel occurs in soot, and they have also pointed out that traces of gallium are widely disseminated in the dust of chimneys and smelting furnaces and in atmospheric dust generally. A dust that fell on a calm night of November, 1897, seems to have been quite surely from space. It was magnetic and very uniform in composition, and unlike volcanic or any known terrestrial dust. WHY WE FEEL HUNGRY. A German physician has a theory as to why and when we feel hungry. He tells us that we feel hungry when the blood-vessels of the stomach are completely empty. Many ansemic patients have no appetite, even when the stomach is empty, but the blood-vessels of the stomach are not ^npty in such cases, but, rather, congested. In healthy people, lack of blood in the stomach acts upon a special nerve, and all the characteristic symptoms of hunger follow. Now, this hunger nerve and the nerves of the mouth and tongue are branches of the same nerve-trunk. Hence, a stimulus applied to the tongue, by a spice, for example, creates or increases appetite. On the other hand, when the nerves of the tongue are affected by a diseased condition of the mucous membrane of the mouth, the patient has no appetite, though his stomach may be empty, and lie may be in actual need of food. OBSERVATIONS ON SEA-SICKNESS. J. R. Wortabet, who has travelled more than 100,000 nautical miles at sea as a ship's surgeon, believes that the symptoms of sea-sickness are generally referable to the abdominal rather than to the cerebral organs, though he admits that there are two types of the disease. Certain stomachic sedatives, notably potassium bromide, tend to prevent the disease, but there are no specifics. He had noticed that persons who went at once to sleep upon coming aboard, either from the effects of chloral or alcohol, often escape. The recumbent position renders one less liable to the ailment than the erect. With a head-sea and slight pitching more people are sick than with severe rolling. As to treatment, he recommends taking a saline purgative a day or two before embarking, and a hypodermic of morphin for the retching and per- sistent sickness. For the gastric symptoms he recommends winding a flannel roller bandage six inches wide and twelve feet long around the trunk,. throughout the whole width cf the abdomen. Thia prevents undue movement of the viscera. HEATING BY KT-KCTIMCITY. In dealing with heating by electricity, a writer in a contemporary touches upon the heating effects produced by the large incandescent lamps which are used for electro-therapeutical work, and which have also been adapted for heating private rooms. Each lamp is about 9 n. long, and absorbs about i horse-power, or 16.500 foot pounds, which again equals approximately 21 heat units, and this will heat, 55 cubic feer of air 21dejr. F. per minute, or 1,155 cubic feet Lteg. F. per minute, so that a stove containing one of the lamps should very comfortably warm a room having a cubical capacity of 1,000 cubic feet, provided that the ventilation was not excessive, while it the ventilation was bad the heat of the room would be oppressive. The electrical energy consumed by one of these lamps is approximately one-'lurd of a Hoard of Trade unit, so that at 2d. pel which is the rate now being charged for emrent for power and for heating by the leading corporations and supply companies, the cost would be 1". per hour, or at Id. per unit, which would b'i more nearly the present cost of generation on board ship, the cost of running the lamp should be only oI. per hour. For the same work, gas at 2s. 6d. per l.CCO cubic feet would cost id. per hour.
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A constant supply of meat always on hand, including Beef, Mutton, Lamb, Veal and Pork. JllWfl CYCLES THEFfvpY eEST. YRU l.l.DFq. fiLWI :I¡:H. 1 JL LADIFS .fiLM Vf-CN. I* fTE? S* WHhKLS. A— cask .v„N. £ f t I £ 7 153. 14 2) It ^8*5-U it X £ k U—-r': £ <> ,as- «7 » ,5 1:3 U.s.1 8 SST:1 '"v' one" '"r Nktv —-n" s 1 l-T. V:» mrt o.r>- .-s'h- t:Iustr» hon? \:g HT') "L' ■r<. hi"hnt'ot,"1r t{ [1-( +. ii.C.. ERNEST L. WILLIAMS, BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, UNDERTAKER, &c. V Estimates given for Alterations and Repairs Ail orders receive prompt personal attention", Residence— WELLINGTON ROAD, RHYL. _11\ The oldest-established butcher's shop in Tliyl. T. E. JONES WHOLESALE AND FAMILY BUTCHER, BRYNGWYN, RHYL. PORK SHOP. 151, WELLINGTON ROAD. ALWAYS A GRAND SELECTION OF PRIlf* MEAT IN STOCK. í.