& a GOST OF RUNNINGLONDON TABILITIES OF THE GREAT L a BIG CITY. ieee ~ Run of Generous Principles--Cost of Departments of Government Immense. In spite of the fact that the city of London is universally regarded us one of the richest of the cities nf the world, and certainly as the 'wealthiest and most important square mile on, the face of the globe, lt is not generally appreciated how numerous and how costly are the activities of the ancient: corpora- tion which governs that city and to what an extent the people of the London outside the city--the Great- er London--is indebted to the city fathers. re London Express of a rece date contained the following inter- esting article. Before attempting a summary of the work of the city and of the great vost of it, let me cite two instances of what might well be called its dis- interested generosity. I find those in the new "Old Bailey" and in the open space outside the city boun- daries, but maintained by the cor- poration. Only a very small part of the work of the "Old Bailey"' is provided by the city. Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Hertford all bring their criminals to its bar ; but the entire cost, which amounts to nearly $60,000 a year, is borne by the city. So, too, with the open space Epping Forest, Burnham Beeches, Highgate Woods, West Wickharo and Coulsdon Commons, and West Ham Park have been preserved to the public largely by city funds, and now form an annual charge upon them of about $70,000.; Ep- ping Forest alone costs the city $23,500 a year. KEEPING LAW AND OREDR. But the cost of running the city is not to be estimated by such com- paratively small sums as these. Take, for example, what the city spends on the preservation of law and order and the prevention of crime. One item alone--the main- |}whose work is so diverse and dif- stitution as the city corporation, whose credits in its balance sheet exceed seven million pounds, and fuse (doesn't it, by the way, risk an annual liability of $125,000 for) its School of Music)? it may be ex- pected that ene would find some curious items both of expenditure and receipt. Space will not permit, of an account of these, but it will probably interest our readers to hear that, while the city has to pay $1,600 a year to keep up the Monu- ment, it recovers from the publie no less than $3,800 in fees and $100 for the guide book to that familiar column; that the average cost ofa royal luncheon in the city 1s $10,- 000; that the supply of gas and wa- ter at the Temple ar Memorial amounts tc $100; that the city ¢x- pended last year $1,700 on landing dead bodies found in the Thames; and that the lord mayor--happicst of all British taxpayers--has the enviable privilege of not paying income tax én his mayoral $50,000 a year. One final item. At the last roy reception at the Guildhall, in on crowded hour of glorious life, the Guard of Honor contrived to con- 1 ali r | { | | of-door occupation he KING EDWARD IS FOND OF OPEN AIR LIFE. -- Abundant Exercise and Fresh Air Keeps His Majesty's Health Good. No European sovereign is so much a man of the open air as the King, and since he came to the throne he has seemed to live even more and more out of doors, writes-a Londen correspondent. His ma- jesty's health is execllent evidence of the goed results which fellow abundant exercise and much fregh air. creasing years he retains his sur- prising vigor of mind and body. He is singularly energetic, though not active in the sense of one who walks vapidly and far. When there is nothing better available for an out- dods not espise the gentle game of croquet, though he has never fallen a vietim vy ID OF sume $100 worth of "'light refresh- ments !" Te OVERBOARD AT SEA. . « Terrible Experienee of a Young Scotch Sailor. '% To be lost overboard on a dark night, hundreds of miles south the Cane of Good Hope, with strong wind blowing, tell the tale, does not happen many sailors. Gallo» of the crew of the British ship W:i- brannan, had such an several years ago, story to a reporter of 2 cisco newspaper of th» ¢ the s§ and told his San Fran- from ount ae which taken. Galloway is'a browi-faced Scotch laddie who 'anither"- for mother, and everything about him. from the frayed buttons of his jean trousers to the wiry-looking tults of hair which peep from beneath the front peak of his little fore-and- aft cap, betoken the rollicking, happy-go-lucky deep-sea sailor boy. Of his adventure, First Mate Wil- liam Coalfleet said: a following a 1 says | | ' i \ eEAperis ice | t) golf. He is not afraid of rain, and my bservation leads to the bel} | 1 He is 68 years old, but with! SQUIRE OF SANDRINGHAM DESCRIPTION OF chCAGoO mens HORRIBLE AFTER DARK, SAYS MRS. ATHERTON. -- --_-- No Other Place on Earth Compar- ahle to the Windy City in its Wickedness: The only twe bright spets in Chi- cago, which she calls gloomy, ugly, frightful, dirty and money mad, are the Lincoln monument in Lincoln Park and the Hull House, accord- ing to Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, of San Francisco, novelist, writer, en@ world veller. Hull House, ibelieves Mrs. Atherton, does much | to redeem Chicago, and she asserts | Miss Jane Addams is the most won- derful woman in ~ settlement work in the world. "FF I had to Hye in Chicago I as any placetelse, L ehoice. '"'T think the dams is wonderful. word. And she is an institution than ino greater in the wo sec + i ¢ tn he actually revels in the brisk fresh- ness of a heavy shower. He hardl; ever uses an umbrella, or, at least I can not remember haying seen him do so. FOR LIFE OUT OF DOORS of he prefers clothes which will resis a| the rain, but he does not seem to and to live to| like a mackintosh. to | cloth vy, this other clothes, he scorns to take| Clad in cape, which completely covers shelter from even a tropical down- pour. He likes the sea not only in its fairer moods, as when he is yachting in pleasant weather on th Solent, but when he can watch it in storm. Often I have se n him out on a-small terrace overlooking the Bay of Biseay when the waves were rolling savagely in towards the shore. The rocks threw up the spray in fine clouds as the King stood watching the sunset béyond the Cote des Bas- ques, and enjoying the salt wind that came in from the stormy At- lantic. On his tour abroad this year the King was perpetually out also } " of doors, in the royal yacht, or . long | '""F am afraid to go out here lnight. If it is mecessary to lture out after sundown I Jeave every cent of money behind. | place 'hicago in its after d iness, and therefore I say that any one who has done the great good here that Miss Addams has de- ves more credit than those milar work in other cities. Ss The } 81 jc h heart. bad in so- ically it } spot ave appalled a fainter "Chicago is not only cial conditions, but phys ugly. The y beau t ihave seen the Lincoln monu- lment. 1 did get a glimpse through ithe clouds of | facade on a downtown building, but it was so begrimed and in sucl artistic environs that the marred." "But our feebly offered ir 0 was Ty at e residence districts," 28 » defence. '"HIDEOUS HOUSES OF RIC This stirred only new words Ww of [THIS HERO CAUSED PANIC EF cohol lamp. AFRAID TO GO OUT AT NIGHT. | at | vyen- No} in the world can compare to} ark wicked-| in} enditions she has had to face must | : : : isheet, began to shout in their na-| | noke of a beautiful | sh im- | ffect was | j AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE OF THE STR. PANN@NIA. ---- Brave Steward Was Threatened by Foreigners Who Didn't Understand. Hervism on the part of a young steward caused a panic at sea among the 1,441 steerage passen- gers of the Cunard liner \Panno- nia, during a recent voyage from Mediterranean ports. When the immigrants were released many of them sought to kiss the man they had threatened three weeks ago. "Girl overboard!' '"Ihere she i goes!' shouted a score of steerage passengers, when a steward rushed to the rail and threw a lighted lamp covered with a long, white sheet, into the ocean. SEEING IS BELIEVING. after the Pannonia jhad left e one of the passen- 'gers was heating water over an al- A sudden lurch of the ;yessel tipped over the lamp, which |was resting on the edge of the wo- man's berth, and the sheet took ifire. Tmmediately there was a cry \ si steerage passen- would just as soon live in the slums | little | A tew ss tess aaa | gers began to pick up Bibles and 'heads. Some of them rushed to --e upper decks and commenced to pray. The ery of "Fire" had. been heard by a young steward, who seized the isheet, wrapped it about the lamp, land, running on deck, threw 1b overboard. Several score of other isteerage passengers, who knew nothing of the fire, seeing the white ot re 'tive language: 'Girl overboard!" SAW THEIR MisTAKE. : of excited foreigners sthered around the steward vegan to threaten him. jand shouts reached Captain Irvine, who on the bridge. He tried his best to calm the fi ae lors and twe junior officers, he sent 2m out in lifebeats and also threw verboard iNuminated bnoy { fully twenty minutes a search | was made a round the vessel for the [he crowd Vas hten-: ied passeng 4 uwo OF, 1 i In an instant a panic followed. and | The noise } wen | Calling to six sail- | s. } '"GASITES"" AND 5 "OELITES" TAKE DECIDED STAND. cae \ Village of Cobham is Strong on the Controversy, But Weak on Spending. The march of modern civilization is penetrating one by one the re- mote and inaccessible corners of ine earth where the old conditions of life have hitherto managed to sur- vive. Damascus has telephone, Mecca, with a railway coming its way, knows that it cannot hold out much lenger against modern influence, and the village of Cobham, in Sur- rey, England, is debating whether to light its streets by oil lamps or to adopt the new-fangled illumin- ant of coal gas. The parish council favors the AND THIS 1S IN ENGLAND] THEIR BATTLES IN TH - REPRODUCED. © - Truly Rem arkable_ Combination Snapshots by Microscope = and Cinematograph. A wonderful combination of the microscope and the cinematograph _ was shown at the French Academy _ of Science by Professor Dastre on behalf of M. Comandon, the inven- tor. : BRAS. The apparatus takes thirty-two pictures a second, and enlarges the © objects to 20,000 times their na--- tural size. A flea enlarged in this way would be as large as a six- storey house. SLEEPING SICKNESS. One of the series of pictures tried and trusty oil lamp, Jt pro- poses to light the strets during the | winter mont lfive and twenty oil lamps. 'This i proposal the majority of the rate- payers approve, but there is an in- ifiuential and adventurous minority i which is energetically agitating for ithe new and comparatively untried coal-gas method. PRUDENT VILLAGERS. lt is only fair to the parish coun- 'cil to say that its policy is not dic- 'tated by mere old-fashioned preju- | dice against the new iuminant, but iby prudent considerations of eco- inomy. The revolutionaries disdain oil, however cheap it may be, and maintain that the blaze of light vhich twenty-five incandescent uurmers would shed upon the parish justifies whatever expense may be avolved. GETTING WARM. Not since King John conceded agna Charta at Runnymede, near vy, has the parish been involved in so fierce a controversy. The illage hall is the scene of crowd- fed and angry meetings, at which ithe "oilites' and "gasites" assail jone another with argument and in- | vective. The "oilites'? complain, not with- out reason, that they are the vic- ltims of wilful misrepresentations. a | | | | i | | } shown was a drop of blood taken \from a rabbit into which sleeping hs with no fewer than | sickness microbes had been inject- 'ed. It was very curious to see the 'microbes--which looked about. @ foot long--separating the red and_ white corpuscles of the blood. One | microbe entered into a red corpus- cle, and remained there. A member of the academy who was present explained the working of the ultra-microscope, as it is called, by means of which micro-or- ganisms which are only the fifty- thousandth part of an inch in dia- meter, can, be seen in the blood of -- a mouse, A STARTLING PICTURE. M. Comandon sueceeded in taking cinematograph pictures of fatty globules 125-thousandth part of an inch in diameter. It was extraordinary to see these tiny organisms fighting wi. their enemies in the blood, and it was a-- little startling. M. Comandon showed pictures of fever microbes and the microbes of other diseases struggling with the corpuscles of the blood, and showed how these microbes forced their way into our organisms. Tt was in little a picture as ter- rible as that with which the micro- scope has made us familiar of the 'Tt was eight o'clock in the eve ning. We were fifty-five days ou from Philadelphia, bound for Hi- ogo, Japan, and near latitude Lattle of the microbes in a drop of | water. At present the invention is only stage, but it will ashore in motor-cars or carriages. He picknicked wherever he could, even at Girgenti and Pompeii, Mal- ta was entirely traversed in the oe : 81 ppe eG gi Rose had been thrown} Cartoons publicly displayed in the ' a cae ity : See Timabhiss oy Senin gone eeannd. = % Ye : hose hideous houses of | your loverboard. Finally at interpre ter| village represent the parish coun- lrich along the lake ruin all|was secured, who told the steerage |cjllors as being in favor of rash H - < oS ee Se 2 Ses . 5 MCiuts : bes ' = | beauty that nature has| passengers the truth. lichts, and the "gasites" declare |!" the laboratory tenance of the police force--absorbs $900,000--add to this the $58,500 for the Central Criminal Court--a building, by the way, which has cost r b ront | | | the natura one south, the capital sum of $1,715,006; some $43,000 for the Mayor's Court, which deals out ready and admir- able justice in civic cases; $35,000 for the city of London and certain lesser courts; and no less a sum than $50,000 for magisterial deal- ings with minor crimes. I point out, however, that the ex- pense are considerably minimized by fees received from liti ga ors court in the Guildhall. A great liability is always facing the city in respect of the bridges which span the river and rest one end on the city shore. The Tower Bridge, for an annual charge 0 tates have been so admirably man- aged in the past they they now produce cess--some $400,000 in the expenditure under that head. COST OF MARKET. Again, the expenditure. Market alone have spent annually upon them, but in return the city and less the the than $690,000. expenditure amounts to $270,- 000, the receipts do not equal the expenditure. Billingsgate, on the other hand, after demanding an ex penditure of $25,000, nobly returns it with a profit of $285,000. PUBLIC HEALTH COSTLY. But the great cost of running the pparent when one considers its expenditure on the public health. Here there is a "lit- tle. bill" 950,090, which, in addition to 5,000 spent in direct salaries and wag no less 5,000 is required for sanitary ex- $185,000 for paving and re pairing paycmenis and $130,000 for cansing and watering. the th pay in salaries and a million iyone say that its salaries not form a living wage--whether the recorder, who re 0 a year, or the com- mon serjeant, with his $15,000 a year, or the city chamberlain, with a similar salary. On the other hand, the wages aré good, and the city holds a fine record in the length of service rendered by its employes and the generous pensions they re- ceive when thev are no longer fit for active work. INSANE EXPENSIVE. Then there is the city's asylum, which is run at the cost of $135,000 $85,000 comes back rm of payments of private the expense of the Guild- rary and Museum, amount- $40,000, d all of it "'out- Cieie: st of such schools ty of London's schools for uy city is perhaps more a of & oi Fes , pcuse c ] | city is a country employer, refactor to e@ must half s, and Va) a ye NOT 1 ao rari an: a eee of which } n as the Cj boys and girls and the Freeman's Orphan school, accounting for an- oth>r $145,000, with a net loss of about $70,000; nor must one forget that the $65,000 spent in connection with the Mansion House (including robes for the Lord Mayor and the upkeep of the famous coach and hatness) is an 'ite: to be regarded asia clear loss, from a financial po view: i CHEON $10,000. 1 + l ON FAN should s of the city of London court the nts, and the same remark would apply, but with less force, to the ancient may- instance, constitutes f no less than $68,500; but the Bridge House Es- an income greatly in ex- excess--of markets of the city spell money, both in revenue and The London Central over $560,000 by rents and tolls} sundry payments, receives no In the case of Foreign Cattle Market, where than | { at} | | } forty-four longitude fourteen forty-four east. easterly wind was blowing. dark and bitter cold, and the sea was running very high. " Galloway was half-way up the ratlines, unhooking a block from the main-sheet, when the ship gave a lurch and he fell into the sea. "The captain threw him a life- buoy. The ship was brought up ia the wind as quickly aspossible, and a boat lowered and manned. [ took command of her. were lowering the boat, but he had yelled himself hoarse, and we had nothing to guide us as we pulled aimlessly about in the heavy sea. '©We pulled round for over an the night thicker I search i0 ship several times, and was getting rougher and was about to give up the despair, when we heard a feeble moan, and straining our eyes, Saw Galloway clinging to the life-buoy almost under our bow. 'We soon had him on board, but it took some time slapping and rub- bing to put warmth into his rigid limbs." Galloway said to the reporter :"I am a good swimmer, and managed to ride the big seas that came along, but it was terribly cold, and my legs began to feel like lead. It was a good job for me that the water V black, or J never j could have seen the white life-buoy lag it came to me on the crest of a wave. ee stopped paddling. T shouted as long as I could, $0 ley my arms and I was tired out. but my voice grew husky. albatrosses : ooped down on me, ana | my arms, thinki that one beak thror 'The and molly : hawks su | kept | every would skull. waving moment drive its 3 mother and my sisters in G Then I saw the e hull mate's boat. They heard lhanled on | 7 jand with plenty land hot coff I I myself Sey Wile me, and I : \ ra. dO% TRE Cay ave me mea ] of warm blant soon began to A' WELL-SUPPLIED PULPIT. There are various morals to this l story of Doctor Clifford, the emin- | ent English clergyman. One Fina , ; . lthat it is wise for public speakers not to put off their appearance the meetings they are to addres: till the last moment. A Woman's Life tells the story. Doctor Clifford was once conduc ing a series of services in Birmi: ham. Arriving a few minut fore the recommencement, th tor was refused 'admission by policeman at the door. '©T want. to in; ;- said Clifford. "Ate you a seat-holder?' "No I am not." <"Then you can't go in." I think," remarked the i passive resister, " that ther be room for me in the pulpit.' "T am not so sure of it,"' ed the officer. 'But I am Doctor Cliffor T am due to preach in anotl ute and a half." "Oh, are you?" said the ulous policeman, " I have two Doctor Cliffords alread / | | writer i a go 6 a a u ove ave L your neighbor--hbut i the working of so great an in- your line fence well braced, A strong | It was} "We heard the boy shout as we| hour, and as we lost sight of the } | ivember usually "T lost all hope, and thought of | is |: ar |} | | } Duke of Connaught's motor-car. "SQUIRE OF SANDRINGH! 2 His Majesty indeed, at his best when he is at home in Nor- folk. Then he becomes as one of the Norfolk farmers, and the peo- ple of King's Lynn delight to name him "The Squire of Sandringham." Those of us who most highly appre- ciate his majesty for his great gifts » AN is, AT iN 7 ya t pesition among | for his power, as M. Delcasse put it, of doing the right thing in the right way at the right time in the right place, have only a slight idea of the deep affection which is en- tertained for the King as squire. He is the best of landlords, of course, but he is also a strict one. No public-house is allowed on his majesty's property. has provided clubhouses in every village on the estate. The King is not in the least sel- fish in the enjoyment of his Nor- folk estate. Even on days when big shoots are toward, with perhaps the famous Horseshoe covert to wind up the day, there are few restric- tions imposed. Not only is Sand- ringham one of the most perfectly managed properties in England, but it is one of the most open. Wide highways intersect it. Just now on fr i : by THE BEAUTIFUL GATES round then Prince and Princess of Wales by the city of Norwich--gates from which the King has not removed the arms ef the many titles he | when prinece--the graceful ants strut or leisurely lift fences into the wood. is in sight. finds a damp wind Wash, an unplea- the North sea, but the sturdy pines 1, even in winter, »ylesome selves over the VE a keey Ve aX i blowing from tl re fresh, Fr ax whe aroma to ym the end of t! vale: rm of aired. us not smpted to like his friend and Don Carlos or his| the King of Spain. likes to take off coat he gets in a hot cor- . the most of it. With [ faney, shooting is a end. He likes the rd two years of statesmanship, for his illustrious } iropean rulers, | Instead, he} the broad main road, which sweeps | presented on their marriage to the | yore | pheas- } | them- ee iN O- the} { {tried to:give to your city. They lare positive blots. And those | signs. "Why are they not torn |down? Beautify the town gener- lally ; don't spend all th time in the parks."' 'But Chicago women, su will say that they are beautiful ! HULL HOUSE ALL RIGHT. "Now, really, I can't s e { | 1 | | | women I have to dodge to keep out of l wav, let alone watching for beauty. automobiles their \In the carriages and lthey seem so afraid of the smoke | that they bundle up in yards and yards of veil. The streets? J. "have mountain trails in better condition. But you have Hull House, and that isends a great white light through ithe gloom. Its raj world, for the good accomplished here has had its effect elsewhere. seen eneircle we. SENTENCE SERMONS. A A | weeds. | Oily people make most of | friction. | The larger the soul, | the life. hoe is the simpier No city is greater than its char- |} acter ideals. A good many opinions rise inthe | stomach. Humanity gives in love what we | render in faith. My own faults are failings; my |neighbor's are vices. Many people mistake their won't | power for their will power. » toward a good habit airness is always based on faith in our lows. never believe ste Our unt la lack of fome men a lon € in | hand. Some never let their light sh: except through an arver ; | Most our tabi j from hunting 4} yy ad | | : of oD | for Tf your virtues are writ m heaver they will be on without a telescope. Much so-called religious effort is an attempt to make others feel as bad as we do. Tt is better to help one lame dog than to waste all your powers ta'k- ing about loving everybody. The thing that worries visible things without consult: 29, wn sake, but more him rong the; f field and wooed. | has made an al sh air mm eountry. eremonial of half by recognition open ' eae tles. OT stabl 1@. oe NATURAL RESULT. ron get out of that ipany ?' was nothing in it." are no broken engage- hina, and the groom e tho bride until he mar- > '"'T understand! Then : ' 9? Ss Lod late. Many a man thinks 1eaven because he is si sort + he he } ea with woat pes ne people a J f Many § rouble wrestlit he would get ou a ball for an hour v TOO CLEAR. "7 hope you came horse trade with science.' "Ves," answerea "but it hind o' worr conscience is that f ean't he'p feeli: got the v : the tr: out of that lagyp Cieayr Qs y ages sSimiIne,- My Qy S1 me, : must 0' i ¥ O° : Why are the sleeves of the shirte a man buys always too long? money and | ely you} Your} go along the streets so fast | the | 4} . , = ; { he best prayer against |. . : 7 | : eee Stig {poison alone contains half a dozen} life's which | To think a good thought twice 18 | a | square deal until they get a poor| 1] earth | i some | saints is that God seeins to be doing ;* con- | so unusually clear! The steward was thanked by the steerage passengers for his heroism land presented with trinkets which came from different world. p-- SELCIBE 6F RATTLESNAKES. Why the Scorpion Cannot Sting It- self to Death. fishes, | scorpions, centipedes, spiders, bees, lete., as well as the blood of the eel, owe their virulence to the presence lof toxins similar to those which are sted by bacteria. In . both fcases the toxins ¢ specific pro- | duets of the activity of living cells. They are very poisonous, non-crys- ital | mical {toxImNS The venoms. of serpents, | SC Cr 2zre constitution. The are very sensitive to tion of heat and light, are easily | dest royed by digestive ferments and ac -onsequentiy are There is these toxins. vallowed. variety. of a toxins, each of pecific action on the nerv- system, the red or the white oed corpuscles, ete, It le lanimal an artifici munity to the effects of any animal 1 pee } arstinct 2 }exerts a s }ous } } ik 1S possi oe oth epee cae aS yenon. his is ishec the repeated injection of the venom is i accomp lia doses, each of whicl lto cause death. smaller number of injections the animal acquires the power to resist lthe action of many times the quan- tity of venom that would suffice to | cause death if-it were injected into f a2 non-Immunized ant t ae OL U if e veins of 'he blood now j y | tre |mal. animal contains a new sub- Tpreperty oem, and this blood (or atery part, or serum) | the non- combat in ved to 2 a he venom reumon, the other animals romous serpents ordinary resistan of their bites. which exhibit a to the ef- The natural } rect | it hese animals. i n general it is almost impc le kill a venomous animal by inocu ting it with the venom of its own j species, of which it can lyery larges doses with impunity. These facts demonstrate the ab- of the stories of rattle and, scorpions committing hy means. of the iB asserted that. a seor- | { | j t ] I t | ¢ I 1 " l is' rattle ke impvtis t coals will sting | This a we think of Ireland's woes, 'our hearts go pity Pat! | well for man- |kind's needs." "T should say so } What could be more convenient than ears to hook spectacles over?' '""Nature plans "There were two! japples in the cupboard, Tommy, and now there is only one. How's that?' Tommy (whose of escape)--'" Well, ma dark in there [! didn't 80} the was see parts of the | venom | the | innocuous when | great | Snake | to produce in any | al condition of im- | by | too smal ; After a larger or | he immunized stance, an antitoxin which has the | so of neutralizing the toxin | hedgehog, } de- i nmunity is explained by the pre-| enee of antitoxine in the blood of| Serpents are also} ttle affected by their own venom. | | having two varieties, support } own ! es no way!}i | that whatever saving there may be in oil illumination will be. more than eaten up by the cost of snuf- fers. SAVE ALMOST 81rA LIGHT. This, the "oilites'? argue, is un- |founded, because the kind of oil jlamp which will be employed will inot need snuffing. They point out 'soon be possible for all doctors t use it, and to profit by its lessons. -- HERE AND THERE. Yaragraphs About Everything. Little "Mast las an unanswerable argument that whereas the Cobham Gas Company | proposes to charge them £3 Os. 8d. for each lamp for six months, p- som can obtain an all-the-year- round service at the cost of £2 17s. a lamp. Pa oe ae ewer nh emer CAT AND RAT ARE CRONIES. Sleep and Play Together -- Pussy Defends Protege. at. | ; | { | | | | ! | | lizable colloids, of unknown che- } An intimate friendship between a i|pet white rat and a. big cat is re- jported by a correspondent of Bt. | Nicholas. When the white rat was | sbout 2 months old by 'accident a tray cat was allowed to enter the | room. It was immediately expect- ed that pussy would devour the rat. Bui there was great surprise | when the rat instead of showing | ifright and running away ran to ward the cat and nestled itself un- | der-the cat's warm breast. The | at is apparently fond of this | white rat be of her own kittens. When they are fed they are given pieces of meat cut in strings. Each lene gets hold of a string at either lend and they try to see which c: eat the most of it. The cat usua wins bec >is the stronger. If. the .white rat1 hunts first.in the in which they a $s as as she would ( ly | a missing the 'ee sleen together ] na wicker every nook ¢ es in the cellar or il she finds the rat. Pussy and the white rat have been together now for a little over a year, and the cat is thoroughly re sponsible for this, for when stray | cat around to the back] loor she jumps out-of her ecerner, d shows fight and 1 } L and attic un- | 1eé in corner } s come ) che soapeoh or ae BLACK AND GREEN Made 1! Kither Pi May he From of tea One, Thea bohen, they to be the souree of the black and the other, Thea viridis, of the te: tobert Fortune established tay t Early writers speak as supposed green | | | The t " 1 white ana Pie \ lest +} bridesmaids. Nelson's biggest gun had an ex- /treme range of one mile. Each time a shell is fired from & Dreadnought it costs $500. The Insurance upon St. Paul's Cathedral is about $475,000. The Pope has thirty-five secre- taries to answer his daily average of 22,000 letters. 3athing before breakfast is bad, according to a well-known London doctor. Torpedoes are impelled from ihe torpedo-tube at an initial speed of 49 knots an hour. Madame Sarah celebrated French Bernhardt, the actress, has @& i dress valued at $7,500. The Czar of Russia, with 90,006,- 090 acres, is the biggest landowner | ja the world. As a protection against heat the Berlin fireman wears a jacket filled vith water. : Paris has opened a store for the exclusive sale of accessories for aerial flight. This is the first of its kind in the world. If a Chinese sailor rescues % | drowning man, he is bound by Chi- nese law to keep him and feed him \for the rest of his life. Over 200,000 seamen, of whom 198.000 are British and the remain- i der lasears and foreigners, are em- ployed in British merchant vessels, Fach Dreadnought has a bakery, 'a barber's shop, a tailor's shop, 2 | boot ropairer's, a canteon, and a hospital holding about 60 patients, with two surgeons, HIRED BRIDES Latest Enterprise of Hendon partment Store. MAID, $5.25. De- The latest enterprise of a depart- ment store in London is to provide They are not Kopt as uw special department. Said the peer. "We are only. asked them xy three times'a year, Whea ar order comes we send one of ovr young women clerks or some other feminine employe. We charge $5.25 | if the parents of the bride provide outfit and ear: if, as generally happens, a runaway niarriage and the : felt the need of some wo- d by her at the last mo- for all expe for ( $ bridesmaid 0 riage it } ~ FE n H an & t ag oe | ies | and the (buds), a which hav earlier ning as late An almond-eyed Oriental, the earliest Ohinese writer, nounces this eulogium on tea: "Tt tempers the spirits and har- monizes the mind, dispels lassitude ; fa ye made by the e been stripped of this harvest July and last September or October. Lo Yi, pro Lt or relieves body facul- refreshes the pereeptive and the | { } other !'* : | iv friends a girl who twice before in this & convention-\ send eas be a good : red piti, sure ily and able for i world OOS CG pt rson.