CURIOUS CURRENCY. MANY OUT-OF-THE-WAY © THINGS TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS. he World Ransacked for the Fads and Fancles of all Sorts and Conditions of People in the Various Nations--An In- teresting Column. Whales are never found in the Gulf Thackeray's signature to his sketch- pair of spectacles. Patrons of the ring say that pug? years old. Theseus in- Bombay can now be reached by fast er from London ol thirteen aays @md' the Cape in tag The correspondenc buitget of tne Bondon Times in Getestun alone is near- B $150,000 per annum. At the Transvaal! gold flelds wnisxey S $15.50 a bottle, champagne 50 and beer $1 a bottle London contains a quarter of a mil- @ion working single women, whose in- @vidual earnings do not average more Wren twenty-five cents a ween. If pure milk only was sold in Lon- n it is estimated that from 20,000 to ,000 more cows would be wanted to Reep up the supply. It is announced that a French/natu- n insyfument which he terms "a glossometer," for Measuring the tongues of beds. The gifts to colleges, ches, li- brarics and een char in this country last vear amounted to $28,- 943,549, against $19,967,116 in 1894 Horseshoes are not known to date back further than the sixth century, They are found in the tombs of that "age throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. ~- Paris' fantastic fashion has now de- veloped itself in the direction of lamp- shades They are made like ball dresses, of lace and ribbons, with trails of flow 5 = i] =] ~ Fs r) n Cc wers. While England's sea fisheries are worth nearly six and a half millions, _ those of Canada fall below four mil- 'lions, and those of France are less than three and a half millions. All the inhabitants of the Glacian village of Zazdrosz, near Trembowla, numbering 200 families in all, left there a fortnight ago for Br azil. Each family is providéd with 1000 florins. The cycling schools of London are charges to 3s. 6d, per hour, or one fuinea a course, owing to the rush of pupils. The most extraordinary costum ever seen on a lady cyclist appeared in Hyde Park, London, the other day. A widow's bonnet and crape-covered coat was worn with black satin knick- erbockers and no overskirt. When a grave is to be made in St. Paul's bed of solid concrete six feet in depth, on which the cathedral rests, has first to be bored through. Beneath earth," below which again is. a subsoil of yellow gravel. Spring flowers are blooming early in England no year owing to the mild eady carnations, prem- Lainie and red ponica have trees are also bursting into leaf. man jn Bourges is still wearing d on when the Prus- e' sa kept his oath. francs for it for the town museum. A fierce duel with knives was fought near Pisen, Bohemia, by young gipsies, who were rivals for the hand of an attractive girl. She witnessed the contest, and when one had stab- bed the other to the heart she drew a pistol and fatally shot the other. It is not generatly known that «at one time the vergers were instructed to shoot the pigeons at St. Paul's to keep down their numbers. They werte » shot from the steps at the western front of the Cathedral, when the area before these steps was inclosea. But this was put a_ stop to thirty years azo. The tomb of Prince Henry of Bat- tenberg in Whippingham Church is eventually to be covered by a recum- bent statue of the Prince, somewhat similar to that of the Prince Consort in the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windeor, and a window in the church is to filled with appropriate stain- ed cla The eeath of Lord Lelgnion~whowe peerage was a New Year's honor--he- fore he had taken the oath and hts the House of Lords, has its parallel in the death of Sir Erskins May, K.B.C., the learned clerk of PJarliament, Lo Farnborough when in his last illness Ifa Chinaman dies while being tried for murder the fact of his dying Is taken as evidence of kis guilt. He has departed, but somebody must sufrer, and his eldest son, if he has one, is therefore sent to prison for a year. If he has no son, then his father or brothn- er gets a flogging. It's all in the fam- ly, and somebody 'has to pay for it. British jewelers have cleverly con- 'trived not only to overcome in large i part the ancient fupersitition as to tne i bad luck attending the opal, but even to give It some reputation as a lucky stone. The result is that opals are more popular now than ever hefore, and their price has risen, especially it: the case of those that are aan e] for brilliant flame Rats, according to a showman who exhibits a tame*troupe of the Htue beasts, are more easily taught than dogs; they have a more 'retentive ear for language and greater adaptability than any other animal. Loulse Michel, who |s also fond of rats, has discovered ™many virtues in them. They have r spect for the aged, family -- and compassion for the unfortun Russia, whose calendar, ': twelve jg behind ours, proposes to adopr eorgian system after the begin- ie of the new century. The au- thorities have not yet decided whether of the century. It would then require forty-eight years to-bring about the ehange. : THE BICYCLE. Ale oclatiuu Ww eusia wa the « Aah Ake Ke Redan edhe Yhe greatest danger o: vicyciing, in Common Wilh Olner sported teOm the SOMin WiiGn aClive cacrudu heces- Sully brings upon we "art. Luet uii- /Tuportant Organ tends, ise other Uius- wits, 10 lose meri under the sécea- sary condition o: readily becomes combarrassed if a.:.eu to perform an unusual work, as any ne who is not in training can assure fulimseif by climbing a flight of staws tapidly, or attemptng to run a few djiundred yards. Under such conditions the heart often doubles the frequency of its beat in attempting to dispose of ihe increased flood of blood that is driven into it by muscuiar contraction. With a diseased heart the strain thus imposed may be hazardous. Several a person with such a heart hus fallen dead While riding a bicycle. But then thou- sands of other cases are recurded where Persons have similarly fallen dead while riding in carriages, or while sit- ting in easy-chairs at home. I. does not follow, I presume, that we must all eschew easy-chairs, carriages, ana bicycles, but it does follow that any may wisely consult 2 physician before deciding to uncer- take any active exertion, bicycilng in- ehutted. Even the perfectly normal heart may suffer permanent injury if subjectec to prolonged and This fact should be borne in mind by every novice in bicycling, for it Is pecullarly easy overdo under the exhilarating influence of this pastime. Presently the heart gains tone and strength, and is able to adapt itselt to the new conditions; but until time has been given for this it is the part of wisdom to proceed carefully, "'tratn- ing on" gradually. Furthermore, the person who is wise will use reasonable discretion as to the amount of exertion he will undertake even when thorough- ly trained. As we have Inherent dif- ferences of strength, each one of us he shall ride, keeping well. within ne limits of his ow strength and endur- ance, and remembefing that healthful faticue fs one thing, complete exhaus- tion auite another. The person wno rides for pleasure and health and uses reasonable judgment will not feet ebliged to cover ten miles In » half- hour, or to pedal up everv hill that rome one else has managed to climb. "Above all. he will eschew such Inane and harmful] nerformancee as "cen- tury rons." ané similar attempts to cover distance for the mere sake of covering It, recardiers of consequences --Harper"s Weekly. Kitt an the Paia, What a week it has been with that perambulating eovirrager enggerenl Pade- rewski and I That young Pole, with bes wierd head and Burne-Jones face, . has known much of sorrow At nineteen he haa tasted much of the bitterness of Iifec. His wife had died In _a poverty that this music-genius, players, was powerless Now he has everything gold ca: How must he feel facing those brilliant audiences, those be-jewelled women, one of whose ornaments might, in the day of need, have saved for him his heart's love! The magnetism of -the setting of wild red hair affects one profoundly. All genius is lonely. It thrives best in solitude. But this man might mix forever with the crowd and yet hold aloof. He has learned loneli- ness of soul. He has the Immense power of being able to walk alone anda with dignity through the crowded places of the world, cut off from it dy the great sorrow of his youth, by fronical reflections on sports with her sweet ones, them with creat rocks to-day. lifting them to heaven on the rosv cloud of fame to-morrow Perhaps it was the rmeda him prreat, neriens reeetanate care tith tht} thine «op eoll chanese te thean- that wine dumb unon his lins, reaches tkrench his music.--Kit. in Toronto Mall. in Cnet nnn Ten meennl A penny of the Tansvaal Repubiic is well worth the study of people other than numismatists for more reasons than one. lt possesses one remarkable peculiarity over all other coins of re publics in that the head of its Presi- dent appears upon its face, as is the custom of monarchies the world over. President Kruger has not an imperial countenance, but rather that ofr uo shrewd man of affairs. It is not the character of e head, however, that is of {mportance, but the fact of i:s being there. In the Greek cities, it ts interesting to note that even when Iiberty had become a mere name this symbol of persona] rule Was stlil absent. The Dionysii, father and son, were as ab- solute In Syracuse as was the great King in Sasa, but they did not ven- ture to put thelr heads on Syracusan coins. Around the medallion of t-res.- dent Kruger's head is the inscription, "Zuid Afrik. Republick." On the other side of the coin, in the centre, is a Hon, standing, presum- ably. for African savagery, which the Boer at his right has vanquished, whlte below is shown his primitive "trex wagon," In the exact centre of the desien fs an anohor, while In the circle about the edge, in English are tne words, "1 Penny," and the date. Canndian and Faropenn Oveters, 'The Canadian oyster has 1, Sexes separate, 2. ee eggs shed by parent. je] met in tne open ses. and sertaueursen is accomplishec. 4. The swimming embryo is nakea and has for a time no sh 5. Number of eggs enormous, prob- ably 50 to150 millions each female oyster. The European oyster 1. Sexes combined in the same m- dividual. . 2. Eggs never shed before fertiliza~ tion. 3.Eggs fertilized and retained with- in the mther-oyster's shell. . Embryos protected ped = thin shell and emitted as "black ; do not eaeien: See tn two millions, Le. one egg for ever one mdred eggs produced by the Cana- dian oyster. produced by i the average lic, aud. most expensive way is allowing th to suck its mother or someother till it is about nine months old, or older: The second way cua removing the calf and feeding it milk by hand, and the third is to iton skim-milk, enriched with or other fattening food, or, where-no milk can be obtained, feeding it on some other substitute such as hay tea, or linseed tea, The first method is that "generally |- followed by breeders of purebred catile, especially of beef cattle, and, more 8- pecially, when the calves are intendéd for the show ring. The breeders of purebred dairy cattle also followed the same method till a few years ago, when it was found out that the practice -was detrimeutal to the milking qualities of the cows, and so, in the majority of cases, the breeders of those cattle have discontinued it, and now rear the calves by hand. It is conceded by most people that finer calves can be reared by allowing calves to suck than in any other way ; but, undoubtedly, in addition to' its be- ing injurious to the milking qualities of the cows, it isalso the most expen- sive way. Insome parts of Scotland, the cowsarealways milked after the calves have sucked for some time, and before they have got their fill, and, as the last milk is the richest, this plan obviates some of the objections to the system of allowing calves to suck, The second and third methods ne- cersitate weaning the calfjeither immedi- ately after birth, orin two or three days after. If weaning is left longer than that time, there 1s proportionately more difficulty i in teaching the calf tp. drink. In my opinion, -weaning im- mediately after birth is the best way, involving least trouble with both cow and calf. I have found that calves which were taken directly from the cow, without being allowed to suck, would drink without any trouble, while everyone who has had to teach calves to drink, which had been allowed to remain with the cows fora few days, knows what a troublesome and weary- ing processthat sometimes is.--From Farming for April. HEADACHE. A Simple Cure. As a sure cure for headache, whi caused by liver; stomach, kidney tronbie, Burdock Blood Bitters is the most' effective medicine known. It removes the cause of headache by restoring all the organs of the system to proper action and health. Doubts disappear in view of proofs like this: In thé spring of 1891 I got a bottle of B. B. B. for my mother who had been troubl- ed for twenty-years with sick headache, I getit from Mr. W. Paxton Baird, of Wood- stock, N. B., who gave me two other medi- cines to take home and let my mother take her choice. Fortunately she chose the Bur- dock Blood Bitters, and I returned the other bottles. he used it for three months, and has had no headache since. We are sure that it was B. B. B. cured her, as she tovk no other medicine. a Chicago has 15 women dentists and there are others in various parts of the country. This peculiarly nervous and delicate work seems to be especially adapted to women. Nothing can compare with rotten stone and o1] asa polish for brasses, ete. The vital spot of every artist's art is something he can teach no man, and no man him, because that is the artist F you can keep plump you are almost safe. comes from not being able to get what you should from your or- dinary food. 4 x o is for you; even if you are only'a little thin. Reott & Bowne, es Belleville, Ons, Ca you see the Latin quarter She--Did while in Paris? He--No; several lead, francs passed on mc.-- Truth. Ignorance, bliss, knowledze, blister.-- She--When you married me you eaid you were well off. He--I was; but I did thi know it.--Vanity. Poe Fed--She (sentimentally)-- What, poetry there is i re! He (sadly)--Yes ; a great deal of my poetry has gone there.--Harper's Bazar. None too Cordial--The hostess--I suppose there is no use of asking you to stay to dinner? The caller--Not in that way.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Big words an' fine clothes," sald Unele Eben, 'is herry frequently alike in not kibberin' much dat re'ly 'mounts ter anything.""--Washington Star. The difference between a somnambu- ist and One walks in his sleep, and the other sleeps in his walk.--Philadelphia Press. Just the same. thing, Oem loan me $10 for about a week?" "Ca ; haven't got but $5." That'll Qomtent me the $5 for two weeks !""--Chicago Record, As the hurricane swept the deck and upset a few To it breezily re- marked: "I gue I can turn an oc- casional nisiaiae 'salt' myself.""--Rich- mond Gazette. Wizway--What is meant by a passing regard? Juzby--The regard in which you're held by people who bow to you but don't stop to speak.--Roxbury Ga- zette, How he found them.--Jimmy the Con --How are vou finding things these hard times? Mike, the Porchclimber--Easy Been usin' de X-ray.--Indianap. lis Journal. The long and the short of love.-- "Love me Iiltle, warbled. "Yes," said he. "But will you love when I am short?"--In- dianapolis Journal. "Got on your husband's cravat, haven't you 7" asked a neighbor of Mra. Bilkins, 'Yes,' replied Mrs. B. sadly, "and it's the only tie there is between us now."--Harlem Life. a he made his first close inspection of a -- ray machine has got rubbers eep its wheels oa getting wet !"--Harper's Round Tab Really Uujust.--'I have oe nothing but blush all day." Complained the rose, "and still that idiot of a poet on talking of the modest violat, k 'there were not others."--Cin- pintiatl Enquitrer. e--""We've bee married four months, dear, and I heer t given you a chance to try my cooking yet." He why, si you're not are tired of y, ?"--Yonkers Ee Statesman, "How large were the diamonds ?" asked the press agent, pausing in the writing of the account for publication, "About as large estnuts,"" con- fessed the actress, unwittingly.--Min- neapolis Times Winterbloom--"Don't you think $200 is rather high for a tailor-made gown ? Von Blumer tells me his wife paid only $150." Mrs. Winterbloom--"True, my dear, but she got ee before I got mine.""--Harlem fe "I don't believe you fonowr who I am," who you are, but | know who you was. I heard mamma tell Aunt Susan."-- Harper's Bazar. "Oh, Edith! there's that lovely - cort you had last summer, the Co de Lusk, selling ribbons at ~ goxthey counter!" "So it is. Don recognize him, dear. He sag prefer to remain incognito."--Port Jarvis Gaz- ette, "I have cured Bliggins of his horribie superstition at last," the philanthropist exclaimed, 'How did you manage it?" "I offered to lend him thirteen dollars." --Washi: gton Star. "Sing?" said the specialty artist to o beat the but I got love me~long," she- for Infants and Children. TY observation of Castoria with the of millions of persons, permit us to speak of it without gnessing. It is the best for Infants and Children the world has ever known. It is harmless. Children like it. It them health. It will save their lives. 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Where did you get on to all those new jokes? Interlocutor-- One of the end men t hold of a file of last year's English papers about @ year ago.--Somerville Journal. 'My dear," he said to his lady love. "I've been busy all day--not manual labor, you know, ear brain work, which fis the hardest kind." "Yes, indeed; I was a tender look of sympathy in her eyes which aroused him.--Philadelphia American. "he Sweetest Girl in the World "Have a good time vacation, Bob?" "Great. Met the sweetest girl in the world." "Why, oo didn't know you went to Wilkes- "Didn't. oer What's Wilkes-Barre got to do with it ?" where the sweetest girl in the world iiven.'--Earper's Not to Be Congratulated. Fuddy--So Gadby !s dead? Duddy--Yes, geste fellow, he has gone se how a fellow's 1) luck will follow him sometimes.--Bos- ton Transcript. wo ante tebe & I GURE FITS! a bebide of medicine sent Free to ox: orcs and Post Office address. a know about it, and mere ° ; OUR i LAE! 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