---- --- a ' : THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1911. A DEAL IN STAM MAN INSISTED ON HIS RIGHIS| AND GOT LEVY, | . ' { thete ix no nore famous regiment in Ey : i the British service, performed a fine He Wanted the Guusay Side Up, asd | four at the battle of Aliwal, fn the He Got Thew, Bui They Were of | Punjab, Ia January, 1846. the Wrong Benomination. | PS TURNED THE BATTLE. | A FRENCH CALENDAR | The One That Was Adopted During cers at Aliwal, | the Revolution. The Niziecuth lancers. than whom | In the French revolution the na- | tional convention adopted a pew cal endar containing. tweive months of thirty days each. The five day in the | year thus left were disposed of by | making them "festivals." The mouths | were named not January, February, i |ete., but Vendemaire, Brumaire, Fri- | malre, Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Ger | i minal, Floreal, Prairial, Messidor, | ! Thermidor and Fructidor. : {| Each of these names had a meaning. | | Instead of naming a month weaning | lessly after a heathen god, as we name | January after Janus snd March after | Mars, the names represented the spe. { cial characteristics of the. month. | Fruetidor, for instance, which Includes evough lo deliver their thrusts thelr | part of what we call September, means | impulse That Moved the British Lan- TET A Dorel Bo A5) LIPTON'S TE OVER 2 MILLION PAL be ziilant Sikhs had thrown them . | selves inte squares aod in this forma The man who keeps a watchful eye | tion for a time resisted the desperate | on the federal governmeat bought five { charges of the iKnglish cavalry just | postage stamps. Tbe drug store cash- | «5 stubbornly us the British infantry | fer laid them down, picture side up, | hud resisted the French curalssiers at { Fhereupon the customer confounded | \\aterfoo { her with his knowledge of the govern- | Azuin ned sgoin did the Sixteenth | ment. He unfolded a pewspaper and | lancers strive 1g break through the peinted to a headline: masses of the Sikhs, and again and | "Stamps must be delivered gummy | again scores of saddles were emptied, | side wp." amd the British were beaten back with | "See that? said he. "By laying | slaughter. As the lancers got close Two Minute Talks About ANDORA RANGE Jor Goal or Wood HE Pandora is the range of many conveniences. It has a special Flue Construction which enables you to cook over every pot hole and bake in the oven at the same time. It has a Steel Oven which reaches baking heat faster than a cast iron oven. It has an absolutely Level Oven Bottom which prevents pies from running over. It has a tested, reliable Thermometer with easy-to-read figures. The Pandora also has an Infer- changeable Cooking Top. You can { Its Many Handy on the stove. You can remove the Fire Box Linings instantly with your hands. You can change the Crates frem coal to wood in a few seconds. You can sharpen your knives on the Emery Section of the Patented Towel Bar. Still other conveniencés are the Larger Ash Pan---the easily-cleaned Enamelled Steel Reservoir---the smooth as glass Burnished Surface i which only requires polishing once a i week--the Perfect SpringiHigh Closet | Door which provides room for four- teen more dinner or dessert plates in the Polished Steel Warming Closet, Several other conveniences des- cribed in our Pandora Booklet Send for a copy. -M<Clarys Stands for Guaranteed Quality To reno. foe For Sale by J. B. BUNT & Co., Kingston. | | ol | | { | | THE PERFECT COOKING BUTTER Made from Crushed cocoanut meats. This pure vegetable butter makes your cooking more tasty -- more digestible, more wholesome than either butter or lard. You will find Ko-Ko-But more economical because 1b. goes as far as 1% Ibs. of butter or any other shortening. Ask your grocer for KoKoBut--he sells it Et i i } | i | | The Held Aviation Takes on These | | Flying | | set a boiler lengthwise or crosswise ! | ulty of judgment. | very best a' man of the best type can | bring to it, ; better the aviation sportsman. t liveryman. | and showers of rice. | Thi J are to may something a down stamps the way you did you are | loading me up with germs. This win- dow sill may be alive with germs. | { They will stick to the gum om the | stamps, and I shal] carry them home | and Nek them off and maybe be laid | | Up with a spell of sickness." | The girl gave the stamps another little push, and he shoved them back. "What do you want me to do?" she asked. , "Take these stamps back," he said, | "and lay out five more gummy side up as the government directs." She obeyed. He folded the slip, still | Bum side up; ang put it in his pocket. ; He went home and wrote letters tn ! bedtime and prepared to stick on the stamps. - Then he said, "Hang that girl. The drug store cashier had given bim ome cent stamps.~New York Times. ---------------------- "A FASCINATING SPORT. Whe Have Ever Tried It. is a sport that truly exem: plifies one of the greatest Darwinian theories. Only the fittest suryive. It taxes ome's physical resources. makes tremendous demands upon | one's nmervous assets. It sharpens one's intellect. It develops one's fac- It demands the The better the man, the Fér this very reason the sport has attract- , ed men of the finest type that have | ever indulged in sport. | very reason that the world has been | amazed at the high intellectual type It 1s for this of human that has embarked in this activity. For this reason I call it the kingliest of sports. No one who has ever flown ar aero- plane can be induced to abandon it utterly. The craving to fly will sur- vive with the man who bis thrilled in response to the sensation of driving his own craft. The strange, wild, al- modt uncanny. exhilaration of rushing through the air like a bird cannot be put into words by a clumsy architect | of sentences like the present i i | i | y riter. It takes a poct like D'Annunzio to tell the story properly.--Clifford B. Har mon In Country Life In America, "Horses For Weddings. An old fashioned man who wished to hire a team for the afternoon saw a nice pair of bays which he thought he would like to drive. "Can't let you have them," said the "They are wedding horses." "What's that?" asked the innocent pleasure seeker, * "Horses that won't shy at old shoes Some horses Seem prejudiced against matrimony. Anyhow, they lose their temper If they happen to be hit by any of the good luck emblems that are fired dfter a bridal ¢Guple and run away if they get half a chance. Every livery sta- ble, however, keeps two or more horses who take a more cheerful view of the wedded state. Those bays are that kind. They are slated to head a wedding procession -for tonight and are resting up for the Job"New York Times. ! - -------- Lest Worse Befall, Mrs. Jones came downstairs one 'evening after dinner and displayed herself to her husband, embellished with the result of her all day skirmish- ing in the milliners' shops. "John," she asked, "how do you like this bat on me?' "Oh, 1 don't know," he answered. "Have you bought it?" "No, not exactly. I brought it home on approval. 1 intend to take either this or another one, which is $5 more than this, but 1 thought"-- "Say, Florence" he interrupted, "thit's the most becoming hat I ever Saw you have on. Telephone to them | first thing in tbe morning that youll take it; 80 as to make sure they'll not sell it to anybody else."--Youth's Com- pauion, " on Didn't Want to Impose. An Irishman was walking along » dusty road with a bag on his back wheti he was overtaken by a cart the driver of which offered him a lft. "Thanks," said the Irishman. He got In, but did not take the bag off his back. "Won't you put dowd your bag, sir?" asked the driver. "Well," sald the Irishman. "1 don't like to impose on your geod nature. You are giving | me a ride, bat | will carry the bag." Out Strong at the End. 3--1 was vot at all up to the ark last night: tried to S4y some thing = ble, but couldn't 'do It someholv. wo nt last 1 bade them Eoodby. Jones--Ah, ther you did man- greeable after sil!~Lordon Siray ' Boring Wells. 'The art of boring wells wag practiced nthe east mors than 4.000 years ago. Abrahani's servant encountered Re | SWRIh BE a will in 1809 RQ It | weupons would splinter like match- woud upon the stout shields of thelr wariby foes. Suddenly an inspiration cauie to the troopers. Without receiving any orders to that | effect, but as if controlled by a unani- woos impulse, they shifted their lances to the bridle band and charged in ouce more. The Sikhs, entirely unpre- pared for this sudden and masterly maveuver, received in their bodies in- stead of on their targets the spear points of the horsemen. ! Into and through the squares swept the Sixteenth. with lances as crimson as their tuelcs. Even so, it Is record- ed that the resistance was so desper- ate and sustaived that the Sikh square had to be ridden through again and Tek again befyre it was finally over- come. ~Exchange. ---- ions: WON 5 BY A SONG. a 8 { Incident That Hastened the Success of i Telephones In England. i Following the establishment on a | solid basis of the Ameérican telephone system, work for European exploitation } was early begui, The results were bardly encouraging. Fiveeightbs of the British rights were purchased for $5600 by a Provi- dence man, says the National Maga- zine. After working in London four months he could not find any one who would put a shilling in the telephone. An English review sald of it: "The telephone is little better than a toy. It amuses the English, but is inferior fo the well established system. of alr tabes." The victory was won at last by Kate Field, who sang "Kathleen Mavour neea" over the telephone to Queen Victoria. Tbe queen was delighted, asked Bell if she might buy two tele phones, and it was not long before all England 'was Interested. An ex- cliange with ten wires was opened in London, and in April, 1879, Theodore Vail sent an order to the factory In Boston in his terse, characteristic way, "Please make 100 hand telephones for export trade as early as possible." In the Italian Alps, on the peak' of Monto Rosa, is the highest telephone In the world. Strung at the order of Queen Margherita, it took six Years to complete the connection between the top of the mountain and the queen's apartments in Rome. tn: Thackeray's Mistakes. Thackeray probably wrote the pretti- est and most legible hand of any dis- tinguished author. But the master of the easfest and most flexible style in English fiction occasionally made care- less and irritating slips. He wrote "different to," which is a common and Guile unaccountable mistake, and 'compared to," which Is as bad. No one would think of saying or writing "compare this to that," yet you find "compared to" fn print every day in the week. And he also fell into the "common error of making the surname plural instead of the prefis--the "Miss Potters," for instance, In "The New- comes," instead of the "Misses Potter." Would anybody write the "Mr. Pot- ters? Why should the ladies be so mishandled ?~Loudon Chronicle. -------------- The Fruit Cuckoe. The Indian fruit cuckoo, which, like all mewbers of the cuckoo family, lays its eggs In the nests of other birds and thus avolds tbe trouble of hatching them, is said to exhibit a great deal of strategy In dealing with crows, its nat- ural euvemles. Whereas the hen, an faconspicuous, speckled gray bird, con- cenls herself in (he follage, the cock, remarkable for bis brilliant black plumage aud crimson eyes, places him- =eif on a perch near a crow's nest and 08 ub a great racket. The crows im- mediately rush out to attack him, find he takes to fight with them In pursuit, The hen meanwhile slips foto the nest and deposits an egg. Sometimes the crows return before the egg™is laid, and {hen the intruder gets a trouncing. A Link With Primitive Times. All ceremonial maces at court, In parliament, of learned societies and municipal bodies, field marshals' ba- tone. gold end sliver sticks, ete. are descended from the heavy fighting leks and clubs of primitive savages, The chiefs altvays had the best carved sighs. which were the symbols of prowess and authority. The Austra- Han boomerang and ihe Irish shillalah sre both tuices --Loundon Standard, --------ri. Also the Whale. A Ransas fisherman declares that a catfish will pur like a tomcat when i$ is stroked the right way. Did he ever try ®troking a German carp snd hear ing it sing "fli le. Ul lo?"--Kansas City Siar. And did he ever stroke a whale and hear it spout®~Cleveland Plain Erers. rian has a fair turn to be as Tell as ke pleases -- Collier, ar : - So -------------- be hot air comes from fur- naces. go ~ alk right. You will certainly be Not all 4 | | "the fruity month;" Germinal, the first |; of the spring months, running from the i last of March to the middle of April, means "the month of buds," and Flo- | real, which follows it, the "Sowery" or | "fSoweral" month. $ Thermidor, which means the "hot | month," is the month which under the | republican calendar included part of | July and part of August.® The political significance, of the word arises from | the fact that the revolution which overthrew Robesplerre and ended the reign of terror urred on the Sth of the month of , OF, a8 We should say, July 27, 1794. It was call ed "the revolution of Thermidor" as We speak of "the September massa. cres," and the revolutionists were nick- named "Thermidorians." The inventor of the calendar was Romme.~New York Times. THE SOUTHERN STATES. Thele History Rish In Events of Con- sequence to the Nation. |" The south is especially rich in points of historic consequence, remarks a | writer in Leslie's Weekly, At the out- . | set Virginia was the most populous as | well as the most powerful of all the states. As "the mother of presidents" she practically gave the law to the country from the accéssion of Wash. ington in 1780 to the retirement of Monroe in 1825, except during the four Years of John Adams in the presiden-y, In the mext third of a century, with its Hayne, Calhoun, MeDuflle and oth- er statesmen of large influence, South Carolina was the center of events in the nation. Texas, with its boundary dispute with Mexico, precipitated the War between the latter and the United States, in which by conquest and pur chase we obtained Arizona, New Mex- ico, Utah, Nevada, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The neces: sity for the control of the mouth of the Mississippi incited the negotiation with France which resulted in the an- nexation of the province of Louisiana, by whch the area of the United States Was doubled and all subsequent acces. |slons of territory were rendered ine evitable. Florida saw the earifest |white settlements which were' planted anywhere in the present United States. In the Wautauga colony in Tennessee self government made its advent west = of the Alleghanies. -------- i Right Handed Parrets. Ta Past the parrot cages walked the bird fancier, poking an inguiditive finger at the birds. "I am looking for a right handed parrot, he said, "but there doesn't seem to-be one in this lot. Most parrots are left handed. raining, mot nature, | made them so. "Their owners are right handed and | when putting out a finger for the bird to stand on it is most convenient for him to step up with the left foot. In a little while that left handed action becomes second nature and he doesn't know how to use his t foot first. "The only right handed parrots have belonged to left banded persons. In their training the order was reversed. The left finger was extended for a perch and the bird naturally grasped it with his right foot,"~New York Sun) ¥ The Sign on the Bottle. Maggie 1s a willing but rather stupid | domestic fn a Chicago family. She suffered from toothache for some time, and, the creosote that had been pre scribbed proving ineffectual, her mis- tress procul another remedy at the drug store. Thinking to impress the girl with the necessity of being careful in the use of it, she said: "Now, Mag- gle, do you see the skull and cross- bones on this label? Do jou know what they mean?" ! 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