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l “a r mgf S A P; or: HAS BEEN romm oven FIVE MILES DEEP. What Kind of Fish Live Here ?â€"-Selcntlsu Lek If They Are Ryder. and Whelher a Row fauna and Horn Mn)“ be found. The deepest spot in the’ocean has been found. More than five miles of wire ran out without the bottom be- ing reached. Then the wire broke. This spot was recently discovered by the surveying ship Penguin. near the Friendly Islands. in the South Pacific. Commander Balfour. of that ship, re- ports that this remarkable discovery was made in latitude 23.40 south, long- itude 175.10 west. \Vhen he first dis- covered this extraordinary hole, which so far as we know now is 'bottomless. Capt. Balfour attempted to take the depth and the sounding line was run out. After 4.300 fathoms had run out over the side of the ship, the wire broke. and a rising sea and wind prevented any further attempt of the kind being made. Upon the second attempt he managed to pass 4,900 fathoms, or 29,- 400 feet of the wire over the ship's side, before the wire broke, and put an end to the experiment. The deepest spot in the ocean prev- iously known was close to the coast of Iapan, where a sounding had been made of 4,655 fathoms. This is 245 fathoms, or more than 1,400 feet shal- lower than the deep hole which has now been discovered. How much deeper it goes than 4,900 fathoms no man can know. It is a piece of water more than FIVE LHLES DEEP. What the pressure must be at the bot- tom no scientist has yet been bold enough to conjecture. There is no glass instrument. that could resist this pressure. it would be impossible with the most improved scientific appliances to take the tem- perature at this enormous depth. No livin thing that 13 known to science cou d exist at a depth so great as this. where the pressure must be equal to many hundred or thousand foot tons, sufficient to squeeze the_life out of any fish. Even brass and iron instruments lowered to this enormous depth would be. twisted and distorted. Th emost painstaking work in low- The most painstaking work in lowâ€" such as this will not. suffice to keep it from breaking. This is because of the friction of the water against the w1re. In spite of every appliance. of bal- ance and spring in the machinery on deck, designed to counteract. the mo- tion of the vessel, the increase and deâ€" crease of pressure caused by rising and falling on a wave. will snap the strong- est. “fire when it has been lowered to so rent a distance. ATl of the water at the bottom must support the weight of the. water on -top of it. The consequence_is that the water in the lowest. depths is compress- ed under enormous pressure. The theory has been advanced that some strange UNKNOWN CREATURES may live in this highly . water. There may be fish of a kind so peculiar that they cannot crust clos- er to the surface, where the water is thinner and the pressure less.“ _ Through countless ages of livmg in the. darkest, deepest de ths of ocean these fish may have evo ved forms and natures unknown to men of science,be- cause hitherto such vast depths have been unexplored. \Vhat the bottom of such a place may be like is only amat- ter of conjecture. It may support a fauna and flora of its own. It may have its own plant and animal life, which some daring sci- cnlist will bring to light to astonish and amaze the scientific world._ Here. where there can be no light. the fish. if fish there be. must be eyeless, like that queer breed of fish which Darwin cited existing in the rivers of the Mammoth Cave, but still, under the. scalpel of the scientist disclosing what is known in biology as a “rudimentary eye." The fishers of these deepest depths may have rudimentary eyes and rudimentary lungs. Thc' may have been pressed hard and flat like a pancake by the enorm- ous weight of the water above them and may indeed move about by a meth- od as strange and curious as was that. of the kangaroo when first brought to the attention of Europe. These are questions for the scientific world to solve. They have. been brought to the front by the discovery of the Penguin of a. spot in the ocean decper than any that has been known hitherto. Sala's Eventful Life. '5 DEEPEST SPOT. " compressed NOW IT’S FALSE EYELASHES. False Eyebrows. Too. Arc Produced by a Needle and a Thread of Ilalr. discover the imposture. At present the employment of this new discovery is limited to a small number of lyric and dramatic artistes in London and Parisâ€"for the pain is considerable,the process slow and costâ€" it will lyâ€"but, like everything else. doubtless spread and in due time find. its way across the Atlantic to these shores. It was a Parisian ooiffeur. it is said. who discovered the method by which hairs can be planted. one by one, where they grow thin upon the eyebrows and in the places where eyelashes are miss- ing'or short. It is said that. when shaded by these long lashes, ordinarily good-looking eyes take on a. soft lan- guor that is irresistible, and that fine eyes have their beauty much enhanced by this device. THE OPERATION by which new eyelashes are put in is as follows: Armed with a fine needle. in which is threaded a. hair of the same shade as those which it is to replaceâ€"a hair plucked from the head of the victim is generally used-â€" the operator attacks the extreme edge of the eyelid, between the epidermis and the light, fatty hem which borders it. The needle passes in and out along the edge of the lid, leaving its hair thread in loops of carefully graded length. \Vhen this is done the ends of these loops are cut off and trimmed, and the result is a. fine, thick, long set of eye- lashes. It is the finishing touch. how- ever, which is to come which makes them seem like {nature’s own. \Vhen they are first out they stick out in the most. singular fashion, giving the per- son a peculiarly weird and uncanny look, like a. wax figure. To remedy this the operator’s next step is to take a pair of tiny silver curling tongs. no larger than knitting needles, and give them the exact curve which is essential to perfect beauty. The lower lid is operated upon in the same way. Then the patient’s eyes are carefully bandaged for.ten hours, and the following day there is no trace of the operation. It is claimed that these false lashes will stay in, and with fre- _ with the tiny curl- ing tongs Will loo extremely well for Six months. Then the process has to be gone through with again. Eyebrows are doctored in practically the same way, though if the customer prefers he may avoid the pain and hours of enforced seclusion by having the place where his new superciliary a-dronemrit is to be. treated with some chemical which it is dangerous to use on the lids, and which makes the oper- ation on the eye brows painless. The composition of this lotion is a secret, and its inventor, knowing he has a. good thing, does not neglect to char e asmuch as he can get, and many peop ptrefgr to suffer the physical pain m- 5 ea . guent touch ings u A OUT OF THE ORDINARY. The University press at Oxford has appliances for printing 150 different lan- guages. |_ Postmen mounted on bicycles collect- ling letters from the pillar boxes may be seen in the \Vest End; of London. There is a professional woman diver I in Gravesend, England, who often makes as much as $35 a day in her strange calling. Five .Mormon missionaries left Salt Lake City a few days ago bound for New Zealand to establish a mission among the Maoris. Corn is being used as fuel in central Iowa. the farmers claiming that the Lprevailing price would not repay the cost of husking and marketing. Ten years a 0 there were 7,000 lakes and ponds in ilinnesota. Oneâ€"third of these are now dry, and‘ the others are largely shrunken in area. A Chesterville, Me., couple recently celebrated their golden wedding in the very house into which they moved on their wedding day, fifty years before. A Kansas district has written a con- tract with a teacher to teach the school. lchop the wood, make the fire, sweep and find the matches for $35 a. month. The teacher is a woman. 01' the 4,914 sealskins brought into Port Townsend. “'ashington. during the {season just closed, 3,650 were of female "seals. an indication of the rate at which the seal herds are being destroyed. The Bank of England has 1,160 offi- cials on its payroll, which amounts to about $1,500,000 a year. and 1.000 clerks. The late George Augustus Sala waséIf a clerk is late three times he re- patted on the head by board Malibran sing and Paganini play: saw the coronation of Queen Victoria. and lived to celebrate her jllblâ€". iest forms of the sword. lee: saw Louis Philippe while he was still king of the French; witnessed the second funeral of Napoleon: gazed on three revolutions in the French capital: saw old Czar Nicholas at the Ascot races; attended the funeral of the assas- sinated Alexander II. and lived in Rus- sia when there were millions of white serfs there; followed Garibaldi in his campaign in Tyml; was in the Franco- Mexican war. and at the storming of Pueblo: heard the first Turkish constiâ€" tution proclaimed in Constantino le ' {mm the steps of the old Seraglio; is- . (cued to Daniel O'Connell in the London Tavern: spent thirteen years in Ameri- ca during the civil war and met. Lincoln. Seward. Summer, Greeley. and Grant, as well as Jefferson Davis, and was a friend of Dickens and Thackeray. . ,. .._._. -‘ ..._-... Right in Style. Mrs. De Styleâ€"My dear. your hair needs trimming a little. ' Mr. Dc Styleâ€"Too Cold ! Phew ! Everyâ€" thing is frozen solid this morning. Where's my fur mufflcrf Mrs. Dc Styleâ€"Where are you go- Mr. \Vcllington ;l 'ceivcs a warning, the fourth time he is gdischarged at once. I The weapon of the swordfish probably fiservedas the model for one of the earl- Many early swords, particularly among1 the mar- :ine nations, were edged w1t the teeth iof sharks. é Three times as many American horses Ihave been sold in England this year as_ lwere called for in 1894, and their aver- ‘age price at the ports of shipment has ibeen $155. They are used chiefly 'for .draught in London. 5 A novel document was filed in the of- ifice of the county recorder at Sedalia. 3M0. a few days ago. It is a paper iwherein Mrs. Belle Asher apprentices i’ber daughter, Letha Ashewr. 9 years sold to Mary Jane Love. "to learn the ltradc and art of dressmaking." l J. L. Allen, a telegraph o rator at lLoretto. in Marion county. hy., has in- vented a railroad clock that is a mar- vel of ingenuity. {t ‘registers each train as_it passes._and an' accompanying device gives wnrmng to incoming trains if anot er train has passed the station within fifteen minutes. * Joel Connors. an old resident of Darke County. Ind.. who died recently. instead lof being very pouches he said he was, lbzi‘d nearly 810.000 in gold. did not know he had accumulated the to tell them to send a man around to describe its hiding place. and what. has clip our horses. been found was widely scattered. Value of Crop Rotation. The very latest false thing in the The farmer of today who Wishes to way of feminine adornment is false eye~ succeed must keep up the fertility of hrows and false eyelashes. which are his land or failure is inevitable. The put iiiâ€"not onâ€"with such cunning art benefits to be derived from a, specific that even the closest scrutiny “"1” 110"- rotation of crops is too little under- His wife . . alone n until ust before-he died. when ‘ De subâ€"4‘0 53,111 3; Emma, be. to (1 her 0 it. He did not definitely THE FARM.“ x \-\\. . stood by the average farmer. The imâ€" portance of adopting a specific rotation is more apparent when we become fa- miliar with. certain relations that our soils sustain to the animal kingdom. Different crops extract from the soil different elements of fertility. “’6 have all seen practical examples that substantiate correctness of this theory; for instance, we have seen farms given up to the production of a single crop until they no longer gave profitable yields. But when a different. crop was planted, or a rotation of dissimilar crops commenced these lands produced abun- dantly. The average productiveness of our soils is diminishing. They are in bad mechanical condition, and are lack- ing in fertility. A full knowledge of this should lead to a search for me- thods by which not only our present standard of fertility may be maintained. but a higher standard secured and in- definitely held, in which clover (that life-giving and healing balm for old worn-out soils) should always be given the first place. By constant cropping we long since exhausted the fertility of our soils. It was calculated by na- ture to not only furnish a. vast store of fertility to our soils, but to put them in such mechanical condition that. they might be easily reduced to‘a fine tilth, amd at the same time assist in liberat- ing the latent stores of fertility. Plant growthis the transformation of in or- ganic into_ organic substances. All plants require certain elements for their growth, but not all in the same propor- tion. The.combustible parts of all plants contain nitrogen. oxygen. hydro- gen and carbon; all these except the nitrogen of some plants are received directly from the atmosphere. life can- not add the exact amount of necessary elements and be sure the plants will extract them, for we cannot know the power of the plant, and the effect upon the required chemical action of the heat. moisture, etc.,_ which are beyond our control. Nitrogen is the element most likely to be absent in‘sterile soils. and if it can be supplied the fertility of the soil is renewed. Hence we should have in our rotation a crop that is able to supply a vast quantity of humus, in order to change soils from their pres- ent obstinate tendency to a more till- ablc character. Clover is wellcalcu- lated to do this. and because of its being an excellent and safe antecedent of any rain or vegetable crop, it. should be ound first in order of every rotation, whatever the further order may be. Clover is a. nitrogenâ€"storing plant, and I would advise a four or five years' rotation. By this, if our clover is so fostered as to develop an abundant growth of both roots and foliage, and the plant allowed to return humus to the soil in vast quantities by plowing all, _or nearly all, of the crop down, and in addition to this, if all the barn- yard manure (carefully saved) that it is possible to manufacture by feeding all the coarse products of the farm to stock is applied, we should not only be able to maintain, but. to constantly in- crease the productiveness of our soils, which is the only safe basis on which we may build, even hope for continued success in the business of farming. lj‘or if we keep on taking away and adding nothing to the soil. we will soon have not enough left to let our friends know where we are. A man witha limited capital has as good a chance of drawing indefinitely on his bank account, as the farmer has of reaping an indefinite number of grain crops from his land. without the certainty of getting both his land and himself in bankruptcy. Summer fallowing, which. has usually been looked upon as a first-rate way of adding to the fertility, is, in the main at its best, only a means of ren- dering more quickly available the dor- mant stock of undeveloped fertility which nature has slowly accumulated. A moderate application of barnyard manure is frequently found equal to fallow as a stimulant to the produc- tion of a paying crop of wheat. But the underlying secret of success of both methods is that the capital account in the shape of fertilizing material is being worked off, and nothing put back to replace the per etual drafts made upon it. The rapi exhaustion of decayed and decaying vegetable matter, tends to alter very much the mechanical con- dition of the soil, and the alteration is always in the wrong direction. Rota- tion, the best way by which crops can be had with the smallest waste of fer- tility, is not only the, best course for preventing soil exhaustion, but the best means for preventing the multiplication of weeds and insects. My rotation is clover, corn. oats, wheat. It is hardly safe to lay down a. single rule or mode for every body, or for all kinds of soil. Care should be exercised in adopting a. rotation to know that the crops grown are of such a character that your soils are well calculated to produce. It will be the wisdom of a practical farmer, if he gives heed to the truths which science demonstrates, and realizes the results deduced by the scientific inves- tigator alike from science and observa4 tion. And it is of the highest import- ance that we should look far enough ahead to avoid shipwreck. A Week or two of severe drought in the growing season means failure more or less dis- astrous, for every farmer _who under- takes to produce a successwn of grain crops, even with the help_of occasional summer fallows. This is the age of specialties and specialists. The most successful business men are they who attend strictly to their own particular business instead of venturing into nnm- -- erous outside enterprises. or specula- tions. So in the agricultural world, we must make our work a business. and conduct it on business rinciples if we would make it pay. or to Succeed now-a-days we must be' complete mas. ters of what we undertake. and unless we devote our entire time to it cannot achieve the necessary mastery. Cow: ‘Chokmg. Occasivnnllx‘ qtfcbclghéz'odmg perhaps from cattle accidentally bbtain- ing access to the whole roots or tubers, or in a case where, from disease of the oesophagus. other food material may cause choking, but for the most part among breeders who do 'not use. a pulp- er, and who either give their roots whole or roughly cut up with a hatchet. The lat-mentioned plan is perhaps the. worst of all systems. of feeding roots. as they are cut into .1: ularly-n sha d chunks, providedwvith p enty 9f ang cs. that tend to their impaction in the gullet. Cattle biting a mouthful out of a big root have to chew it. and it is generally small roots and tubers, and irregularly-cut pieces, that cause choking. If you have had much trou- ble with cows choking it argues a bad system of management, for where or- dinary care is taken choking is pistac- tically unknown; unless,.as we ve said, from accident or disease of the oesophagus. causing dilation or stricâ€" ture of the gullet. It is not customary to feed potatoes whole, nor is it destrâ€" able, for of all food material the class of potatoes fed to stock are the most liable to cause obstruction. _ Potatoes given to cattle should be fairly_ clean as a quantity of sail or stones 13 cal- culated to cause digestive derangement. If they are clean enough to feed they are clean enough to gulp. In the air sencc of a pulper, an where they are being fed raw on a small scale to any class of farm stock, they may be renâ€" dered safe by smashin them. How best to proceed when (irhoked depends not a little on the_position of the unâ€" pacting body and its nature. An inâ€" strument is by no means always essen- tial in a. case of choking, but it. is as well to have one and to know how to use it in case of emergency, or when the symptoms are urgent. Horses and Sheep. Most farmers and stockmen will adâ€" mit, we suppose. that the prospects of breeding the above two classes of live stock are not now, and have not been for some time past, especially roseate; yet let us venture the prophecy that any intelligent persistent breeder who keeps right steadily at his business, will make a. fair thing out of the venture in the years to come. It is folly to leave one branch of live stock business for another, when other men 'are doing the same thing, so that prices are utterly demoralized. Nothing but loss can be _the result of such a. procedure. The’time to buy is when every man wants to sell, the time to sell iswhen every one wants to buy. A short time ago, stockmen. were tumbling over one another trying. to dispose of sheep, practically givmg them away. f course any sane man could see. that the outcome of such a practice must sooner or later make sheep paying pro crty. So Just hold on to your sheep, t at. is. all the best of them. the sooner the culls go the bet- ter ; but the good ones feed up and breed u and be ready to take the reward. lVFutton sells well even if wool is too low for profit. . So with horses, the market for poor, medium and common stock is not worth much; but a good roundrbodied, cobby, short-legged, sound animal is wanted even now at a fair price. So also with large draft annuals, well 'put to ether. ’ _ n conclusion let the. pomt. be emâ€" phasized. Give the market what _it wants and horses and sheep Will still be found of value. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Some of the French railroads trans- port wine in bulk in tank cars. I Four-fifths of the cotton crop of the world is produced in the United States. OThe Sultan of Turkey has just .been presented with a sumptuously-equipped horseless carriage. I Miniature Indian corn grows in Brazd. The cars are about the size of‘alittle finger, and the grains are as little" as mustard seed. A fat man in Paris, named M. Canon Berg, consumes about five times as much food as an ordinary person. His weight is 560 pounds. . George F. McQuillan, of .Portland, Me., has a cherry tree. on which apear grew this year. A pear tree stands close to the cherry tree. The highest. liquor licenses in this coun- try are paid in Massachusetts. In Great Barrington the license fee is $2,300; in Haverhill, $2,000; in Pittsfield, $2,000. Something unusual occurred not_long_ a o in Copenhagen. A retired. military 0 ficer, aged 82, celebrated his second silver wedding. His second Wife is 52 years of age. _ A bright boy in a. Boston school was asked to name six animals of the Arc- tic zone. With the confidence ofacol- lege professor, hepromptly answered. "Three polar bears and three seals." Bears are this year more numerous and rapacious than usual in Okefenokee Swamp, Ga. One farmer. who dwells near the swam . recently had-sixteen hogs killed by are in one week. A safety purse. for ladies' use, has been invented. It has two straps. one to be connected with a. ring on the fin- ger, and the other to be attached to the waist. It cannot be dropped or wrenched away. ___â€"..â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"- The Neighbors. Mrs. Bricktop (bursting with pride)â€" How dy'e like my new carpet, Mrs. Crosseer _ . . . Mrss Crosseye (bursting With envy)â€" It'sâ€"erâ€"very nice indeed; Mrs. Bnck- ' top. ferâ€"fer Brussels. By the way, lnearly for at whatI came for. lwisb you would end me your lawn-mower a few moments. v Lawn-mower? Why. certainly. But what on earth can you want of "a lawn-mower this time of the year? I desire to thin down our velvet car- pet in the nursery a little, the children are always losingtheir marbles in it. Didn’t Get a Key. Mr. Slimpursejâ€"Iiaee the kitchen clock is not going. Didn’t you get a key to- day I! . -Irs. Slimpurseâ€"No. ; . I left you as you were gomg into a jeweler's. I . - .- . Yes, but Mrs. Stuckupp’ happened to be there lookin at some pearls. You don't suppose 'd ask for a five-cent kitchen c ock key those circum- stances, do fin? 7" '3, What didiyouflof 3 :. ' I asked showdnng-it twould take to clean a diamond necklace, and came out. INFAKY OF THE GOLDEN BORN. ‘ ‘ â€" 1’ Interesting Intel-motion Regarding the ' 1» . Capital or'rnrkey. Now that thegfiumic attention is so keenlyidrawn' toithc almost anarchic state the following particu- lars ._of=the'oapital of the Ottoman em- pire Ibo orbiter-est: Byzantium. Islamboixt. for" Constantinople as the place has been vafiously called. is situâ€" ated at the junction of the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmora. and may be said to be composed of three distinct towns. viz: Stamboul, Peraâ€"Galata and Scutari. _ v. ' The two first named are on the Euro- pean shore, and are divided by the creek called the Golden Horn, while Scutarl lies on the Asiatic side. and is separat- cd from them by the Bosphorus. Stain- boul. or Constantinople proper, occupie- the site'of ancient Byzantium. and, like ancient Rome, is built on seven hills. On the first of these are the Old Seraglio and the famous mosque of Santa. Sophia. Stamboul lies on a trian- gular promontory washed by the waters of the Golden Horn of the North, and by the limpid Sea. of Marmara on the south. while the swift current of the Bosphorous flows past its eastern front. Scutari. although a suburb of Con- stantinople, is practically a separate town. the distance across the‘ water being about two miles. It lar ely re- sembles Stamboul. both externa ly and internally, with its ~ . NUMEROUS MOSQUES. its bazaars, public baths and manufac- tories. by E lish readers on account of :its hospita havmg been used by the Anglo- h‘renc-h army in the winter of 1854-5 and by reason of its beautiful English cemetery with its monument to the heroes of the Crimean campaign. It.- population is now about 60,000, that of the whole capital being about one mil- lion and a half. Slaniboul is the native city, and con- tains most of the government and pub- lic buildings. Here are situated-“for instance, the Sublime Porto (a gatewa? of ustice, from which the government of . ‘urkey takes its name), the war office, the seraglio, the law courts, the railway station, the custom house, the mosques of Santa. Sophia and countless others; the mint and museums, the Han Yeni, and the Egyptian bazaars. The landward side of the city of Stamboul is bounded b the walls of Theodosius, rebuilt in 44 A. D., and now in aruin- ous state. _ Peraâ€"Galata is the European or Chris- tian town, and the center of business, the imperial, Ottoman and other banks. the Exchange. and steamship and merchants' offices being in Galata. Most of the embassies are situate on the hill of Pera. The principal street of Constantinople, where all Euro can shops are, is the Grande Rue. de - era, and the next in importance is 'the'ltue Tepe .Bachi, along whichthe Para-Ga.- lata trams run, and where the best ho- tels. the British embassy and the Petits Champs IMuniciqility Gardens are Situated. The Yildiz 'iosh, where at present the sultan resides, is practically in the country, about four miles . from the sublime porte. The palace is 'sur- rounded by barracks, where a large force of Imperial Guards is quartered; and no strangers are allowed to enter the gates. THE GOL‘DEN HORN ‘ _â€"La Corne d'Or, Chryso Kerasâ€"_â€"calln it what you will, the name of the classic waterway is. one with which to con- Jurc. _That. its greatest glory is now gone _is not to be disputed; that it still remains the most interesting strip of water in the world is as little to be de- nied. On one side of it rises a 16rd1y line of mOSques, those of Santa Sophia, Bajazet, ol‘ Sultan Mahamond, conquer- or of the Christiansâ€"who shall say how many more? llp‘thc heights on the furt_ er shore climb the palaces of the foreign anbassadors, that of Britain, as isllmeet and right, standingabove them a . -. - ' Crouching down by the water's edge are the arsenal and the admiralty, bar- racks and custom houses, prisons’. and powder magazine ; every one who wishes to pile up a block of government build- ings seeks a. Site for it on the shores of the. Golden Horn. Until sixty years ago, those who wished to cross the Horn called up a kaik or waited for a ferry- boat; then it occurrcd‘to the sultan Mahmoud II. that a permanent" way might be an advantage. Accordingly be summoned the rrand admiralâ€"no less important an o ficial is custodian of the Golden Horn-4am] bade 'him see the. thing should be 'done,-=the1 stiltan adding Significantly that he meant to survey the undertaking in person at a specific date. Georgi, a Greek, took the work in hand and did it well. as his lord attested, when the way was baptized in the name “Nomsrclya” (the benefac, tion). From sunset to sunrise through- out thaycar it was declared that' this bridge. ould femain open. while dur- ing the feast o Ilhamazan free passage is allowed throughout the night, that the followers of Allah may visit the mosques at their own times. ' OLGA'S BAPTISM. 'â€" The Cat's Wee linuulllcr “an to Under go it FnlIgulng Ceremony. Though provisional baptism was at once performed by the Metropolitan of the Holy Russian Church and the name of Olga, one of the most revered patron saints of the empire, was bestowed on the little Grand Duchess of Russia, the state ceremony will be postponed for some weeks. Indeed. this would be too trying an affair for a new-born baby, 'for it. involves a triple immersion in the font and a. somewhat rotractcd ritual, and confirmation fol owa immediately upon christening. This last ceremony consists of the anointing of eyes. ears. mouth. hands and feet with consecrated oil. A crass enriched with precious stones. the gift of the godfather, is then hung about the child's neck. and should never be removed during life. and an Eikon, or holy picture, is placed on its breast, while its name. written on a. sheet of paper. is laid thereon. All those proceedings are accompanied by prayers and exorcism, while the godmother he the baby in her arms in the mi of a gorgeous group. of rnyulaud official wwnages, each holdingulight- ed taper. l .21 .9“..- u. .w.-~ . (“<mâ€"N..." mm m...__.- -_. It Will be remembered chiefly Sultan Mahmoud, Sultan Selim, Sultan‘ .. .4 -~v - s. ,, ~v~ ., A . ‘A’ ‘A4-\_.