Monkton Times, 21 Jan 1910, p. 4

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Se al 2. Oe a ee Pe en ae THE MINDS OF GRILDREN AMUSING STATEMENTS EN PU- PIL'S ANSWERS. _ Column of Peculiarities Gleaned in the Schools of Providence, Rhode Island. Teachers in Providence, R. I., have been getting together the say- ings of school children there. Some of them, printed in the Journal of that city, are both amusing and il- lustrative of the workings of the young mind. One of the gymnastic teachers met a gentleman with his little boy on the street one day and spoke to the little fellow, who responded with a broad smile of delight at being noticed. The father asked who the lady was, and the boy astonished him by replying: "Oh, she's the in heli and ex hell woman," mean'ng inhale and exhale, terms used in teaching children to take deep breaths. : In a school not far from' Provi- dence a teacher the other day gave her bright young scholars an ex- ercise in spelling, and to fasten the form of the words in her hopeful charges' minds, had them write short sentences in which the words occurred. Among other selections for the lesson were these: "Whose,"? "prove," and "'egs. One promising and ambitious ten- year-old, after struggling with the task a while, looked up with a con- fident smile and handed in this fear- ful and wonderful production : "J have a whose in my back ard."' "Ethel is very prove." "T always have the toothegg."' WHOOPING COUGH, "A MIBS- TAKE.'? One little embryo Christian Sci- entist asserted that he "had a mis- take" when he was ill with whoop- ing cough. "¥ou comb yourself like a lady," they say to the girl who has her hair put up. And one youngster was heard to remark that "Sara was small for her size."' In one school the teacher had been telling the story of Jack and Jill, and how Jack fell down and broke his crown. "What was it asked. "The whole of his tooth,' was the reply of one who had evidently broke ?" she he had some experience in the dentist' s | chair. On another occasion a little girl had been sent to bring the ink bot- tle which had been found leakig the day before. "This ink bottle isn't well yet," she exclaimed. "Ts she married!" a little fellow was asked concerning his teacher. "Naw, she's a lady," he replied. "Who knows all the bones in the body and knows how to put them back?' a teacher asked her class to which she was giving a lesson in physiology. "God,"' exclaimed a little fellow, and it was not an easy matter to explain that a doctor knew as much as the Almighty about it. One child who had been out to Roger Williams Park, was asked to describe the peacock he saw there. And this was his conception of the beautiful bird: 'I saw a big chick- en and he lifted a thing on his ba:k as big as two umbrellas." A PUZZLED BOY. The physical culture teacher 15 also indirectly responsible for the following bon mot. It is the cus- tom in the city schools to tell she children to "sit at ease," meaning a relazed position. And when an upright attitude is desired the tea- cher says, "Sit erect.'? One small youth pondered this in his mind, it is evident, for one day he announe- ed to his mother that he did not see why his teacher said "'cigaret- te" so 'often when she had told him that cigarettes were naughty and harmful. : In an examination m a private school the pupils were asked to name the different angles, and one wrote; 'There are four different kinds of angles, the right, the left, the cute and the obtoose. : A question as to the productions of France brought out this answer i French from a girl: "Grapes, .styles, modest and tailor-made ha- bits."' When asked how Robinson Cru- soe finally left the island, one little girl replied: 'In a hearse, I' suip- pose." A little gling with ed the teacher, deaf?" "No, why do you ask such a ques- tion?' said the teacher. : «7Gause my history says the King gave him a hearing." AMAZING AND AMUSING. A number of amazing and amus- nts are gleaned from ex- the poy, who had been strug- his history lesson, ask- "Was Columbus ing stateme amination papers received in Public Schools. | oh One pupil replied to & pastes 28 "A biography 18 the story of @ man's life." The teacher, anxious to make an " . «¢ extra impression, asked: "Now, vhat. i biography ?"' what is an autoblography ie "That's the story of man's life ts " 7 . that runs with an auto, Was the ' , reply after @ moment 8 thought. A High School pupil gave as an excuse for absence: "TY couldn't come to school yeaterday because . : } . Bs grandma had athletic. fits. : Arithmetic is the process of shortening things you ean't do in your head," was the lucid reply to another question. "Nemo the . parts brought out the astonishing reply: ov breath, of 'speech,' "Mouth, teeth, tongue, manne, -% ot ynaiate ane heen. ynap + ~4 } 4 - 1? thial tubcs. <3 os } (Tg the reign of Dioclotian marry: ing ceased," declared a girl in the history class to whom the word hus- bandry could have but one signi- ficance. When asked to write about the climate near the Amazon River, one boy wrote: "The climate around the Amazon is so unhealthy that the inhabitants have to move away."' Excuses also often bring out the most ridiculous sentences; one re- cently ,received by a_ teacher: "Please Excuse George this morn- ing, he had an earake all night from his ma."' -----4.----_--_ DUTCH DINNERS. Maid Receives Her First and Retires. Bach Portion The Dutch, when they invite one --and they are not a guest-sveking nation--are extremely hospitable, says a writer in Harper's Bazar. They make one at once welcome. Sometimes, however, when it comes to dinner, their active hospitality demands an energetic recognition. The table is laid with piles of plates before each chair. On one's first, visit the spoons and forks are of heavy silver, the knives of the finest steel and ivory. Neverthe- less, one never eats with them again. When one has been shown that a family possesses them, that ends it. One eats thereafter from every-day ware. "What would the silver be like for our children if we used it often?' an old lady asked. "What should we possess if our ancestors had been careless?" In this house of which I am speak- ing the maids came in as we took our places. The host carved the great veal roast,--veal is the com- pany meat,--and gave each maid her huge portion. They then were served with vegetables, and with- drew. The soup, of course, came first, and the maids received their por- tion of that also, but in the kitchen. The door shut &@ehind them, the un- the guests. The first course claimed the top plate, the second the next. Words are absolutely inadequate te, do justice to the variety and ex- collence of the small cakes, or tart- jies, of Holland. Each city has its own, and each baker guards jealously the receipts which have come down through the ages from father to son. This hostess, in particular, set married daughter rose and served | --- HERE ARE STATISTICS OF THE GREAT METROPOLIS. Some Figures Concerning the Gov- ernment of the "Hub of the World."' Facts more amazing than any- thing in the "Arabian Nights" are included in London statistics for 1908-9, which were published rec- ently by the London County Coun- eu 'They show how overwhelming the vastness of Greater London is be- coming, how enormous its wealth is, and how its millions of inhabi- tants work, travel, marry, amuse themselves, and govern themselves. POPULATION OVER 7,500,000. The present population of Great- of whom-- 4,889 are councillors or guardians. 18,000 are policemen. 551 are magistrates. 664,294 are parliamentary elec- tors. es 43,698 are old-age-pensioners. 148,644 are paupers. NEARLY 1,000,000 HOUSES. Its area is 443,419 acres, and it possesses : : 991,383 houses. 2,151 miles of streets. 127 miles of tramways. 700 miles of omnibus routes. 15,848 acres of open spaces and parks. IMMENSE WEALTH. Its wealth, of which the follow- ing figures give some idea, is al- most past computation : Rateable value ..& 44,323,704 Imports for the year.. 209,672,562 Exports for the year 74,768,238 These imports amounted to 32.4 lper cent. of the total imports of the United Kangdom, and were brought to the Thames in no fewer than 22,531 ships. SOME FOOD. The bill of fare of London's in- habitants for the year included: 409,730 tons of dead meat. 193,820 tons of fish. 534,691 cattle and sheep. AND THEN SOME. In addition there were imported about introducing me to all varie- 'ties, and on one occasion, to amuse me, had twenty-four kinds of de- as feathers, whipped cream, pre- served fruits, almonds, "sugar, spice, and all things nice."' The hour for dinner that is most in favor is about half past five in the afternoon. BA TRAINING A FOOTMAN. Method Used by Impeeunious Lady of Fashion in England. Lady Ailesbury, the subject of some of the reminiscences with which several titled English women are now flooding the reading pub- lic, was by no means rich, but her house of Mayfair was charming of its kind and she always drove about in a brougham admirably turned ont at all points. "Maria Marchioness" was most particular as to the manners and appearance of her footmen, but even in those less luxurious days a perfectly trained six foot flunky could command immense wages. So Lady Ailesbury chose her footmen for their possible rather than their actual attainments and trained them to a great extent herself, hav- ing a wonderful aptitude for know- ing how things ought to be done. There was a story, says the Gen- tlewoman, of a large wardrobe in Hertford street, into which Maria Lady Ailesbury would climb, clos- ing the door after her. Then the new and imperfectly trained foot- man was made to open the cup- board door to allow "her lady- ship" to alight until he could do so with the properly approved flour- ish, being by this means taught to open and shut a carriage door pro- perly when she paid visits. ---- FACT AND FANCY. We pray to be good, but we work to get rich. Rich and poor alike try to dodge their taxes: The only difference is that the rich know how to do i yoo t Old motor tires, melted down, are exported to Germany, and re- turned as rubber dolls. Some good men seem to think that the commandment about lov- ing one's neighbor applies exclusi- vely to the fair sex. All up-to-date chicken work with chloroform. To break a man. of borrowing your snow shovel, send round, every time he does it, and borrow his automobile. A good golfer should be able to drive 211 yards off a gold watch without hurting the timepiece. --_------w thieves EASY. Lumps--"When a man says he can manage his wife, what does he mean ?" Humps--"He means he can make her do anything she wants."' SAFE. Bertha--"Vll tell you something in eonfidence, which you must keep a secret, I'm engaged to Mr. De Riche."' Daisy----"All right. T'll seo that the report is spread thoroughly."' ---- licious confections of pastry, light! for their consumption: Bitter: Cwte 3 i ee 1,350,807 | Wheat, cwts. Ges oc 17,844,600 Eggs, great hundreds 5,647 ,882 ee otal i 2: eeu arene arg re eae 429,980 Condensed milk, ewts. 433,870 Bananas, bunches .. 943,421 Oranges, cwts.. ..:. --. 7,854,964 Onions, bushels .. 1,623,803 Potatoes, Cwts. <i .¢ +s 1,183,567 Wine: CWhs. ocr te 2,888,287 Currants, cwts. 417,196 | Dates, cwts. 805,136 Grapes, cwts. ..... .. -- 281,757 Gi URe Coca caer besa 810,224,187 Wine, gals. 7,434,789 Raisins, cwts. ©... «+ ees 358,282 Lemons, ewts. 451,314 Lard, cwts 353,360 Pickles, gals. .... 1,430,363 Tomatoes, cwts. 465,557 Cheese, ewts. 1,093,958 ALSO ON WATER. In their houses, shops and fac- tories they consumed 219,040,000 igallons of water daily, and their }consumption of fuel and light for the year amounted to: i Coal, tons ae 6,572,857 | Gas, thousand cub. feet 43,000,060 Electricity, units .. . 85,615,474 FAVORITE AGES. Some of the most interesting sta- tisties relate to the ages at which Londoners marry. The favorite ages are: 3achelors Spinsters ee WiKOWE okies me Taking all classes, by far the most popwar ages for marriage are twenty-one and twenty-five, only 383 persons of less than twenty years of age being married in Lon- don during the year POOR HAVE THE CHILDREN. Another striking fact made clear by the statistics is that the birth rate is highest in the poorest dis- tricts. The following rates per thousand persons give some com- parisons: Hampstead .... «coe cess Marylebone .. «2 + ++ +: Kensington ...¢ «++ e+e++- 19.0 Hammersmith .... -. .--- 19.0 Bermondsey ..-3 «+ +s e+ 817 .. 25 and 21 . 21 and 25 3 15.1 18.0 Bethnal. Green <. ve re os ale? Popular. ...< sess se eeses 31.0 Shoreditch ..... «+ . 33.0 33.6 Stepney ...- eres eeee cess There was a noticeable decrease in the infant death-rate during the year. A RAILWAY SERVICE. On an ordinary week day 8,556 trains run into London, and in one month 9,743,669 persons travelled to inner London from suburban stations. The passengers carried during the year by the railways, tramways, and omnibuses number- ed 1,221,453,458. AN OCCASIONAL LETTER. Londoners despatched 922,800,000 letters and 24,947,000 telegrams during the year. The attendance at the public swimming baths reach- ed 3,782,833, and 251,608 persons borrowed 6,934,097 books from the public libraries. CHARITABLE WITH IT ALL, The public charities for the year amounted to the enormous sum of £12,000,000, and, in addition, #3,- 7h4,220 was spent in maintaining } come Wt : et self. Rod paupers. EVEN=THE WEATHER BACELS. Evon as regards its weather Lon- WHEN LONDONERS MARRY | er London is estimated at 7,537,186,, don excels other English towns, 28 the following figures for the year prove: : : Birming- Man- London. ham.chester. Hours of sunshine 1,349 1,105 894 Inches of rainfall 23.1 28.9 33.9 oa 1-1,000 INCH IN DIAMETER. Four Inch Spuare Bar of Metal Drawn to Wonderful Fineness. The drawing of wire is an inter- esting operation. Bars of metal four inches square are heated and passed while hot and_ plastic, through rapidly revolving roils, re- ducing them to wire rods which, vary from one-quarter of an inch ot more in diameter, according to the size of finished wire wanted. These reds, which are formed into coils as they pass through the rolls, are dipped in acid baths to remove loose scales and provide a lubricant for drawing. The drawing consists of pulling rods while cold through holes of gradually decreasing diameter drilled in steel plate. By this pro- cess. the particles of metal become elongated and strained, making the wire harder and more brittle. It is necessary to heat or anneal it to restore it to a proper temper. When a fine diameter is required there must be repeated annealings and drawings. This may be done until the bar, which originally was four inches square and about four feet long, becomes reduced to about one one-thousand of an inch in dia- meter and extends 1,300 miles in length. Before so fine a size is reached the wire will cut into the steel of the die plate, so the usual die plates must be discarded and the drawing continued through holes drilled in diamonds. : The diameter of the holes in these dismond dies decrease by fraction- al parts of a thousandth of an inch. From the time the bar of metal en- ters the furnace nothing is added to it. The wire is made from an ex- tva high grade of steel, worth in the bar about six cents a pound, which is much above the price of the greater bulk of steel. In the fin- ished product the value varies from six cents to $50 a pound. * eS CHILDREN IN SLAVERY. Ttalian Authorities Arouse to Fight Odious Traffic. The Italian Government is en- forcing stringent measures for the suppression of the traffic in chil- dren under age by the glass-work- ing industry in France. The Min- ister of the Interior states that of- ficial inquiry has shown appalling conditions. Agents of this ;system tour Ttalian itricts, bargaining ents andguardians for their chil- dren for a térm of years. If successful, the children are packed off to the glass foundries, especially in Southern France, -- of their captors. ed to a life of heart-rending slav- er; and ill treatment. The ministerial decree severely censures the Mayors or local au- or culpable negligence, it says, such acts on the part of parents could not have been sible. pcs- -_--~_------ DIRE FATE THREATENS. Something Terrible Prophesied to Happen John Bull. That the New Year holds some terrible fate in store for John Bull is predicted, although in more or less vague terms, by the majority of those who profess ability to lift a corner of the veil of the future. The latest ?!1 omen to scare super- Friday occurs on March 25, Lady Day, and that is supposed to fore- bode great evil. When Good Friday falls in Our Lady's lap s England shall meet with grave mis- hap says an old saw. Strangely enough, when Good Friday and Lady Day have coincided there have been an unusual number of disasters. The events of 1864, for instance, include the Fenian outbreak, the killing of 250 persons by the bursting of a res- ervoir in Sheffield, 200 killed and wounded in Belfast riots, the loss of a warship in the China Sea and the burning of a steamer in the In- dian Ocean, when ninety-one lives were lost. In 1853, 1842 and as far back as 1796, also years on which Good Friday fell on Lady Day, an un- usual number of grave disasters were recorded. eel ---- UP AND DOWN. A story is told of a Frenchman who was very anxious to see an American business man at his home. The first morning when he called at the house the maid replied to his query: "The master is mot down yet," meaning downstairs. The following morning he called again, and was met with: "The master is not up yet," meaning that he had not yet aris- en from his bed. The Frenchman, looking at her with doubtful eye, paused for a few seconds. "Ret: ees very deef-cult, but eef ze mademoiselle will tell me when ze master will be neither up nor down, but in ze middle, zen T vil call at zat time."' -- Ti'?s easy to have a good opinion 'of people you don't know very well. odious sweating | country dis-} with poor par-; where they are utterly at the mercy | They are subject-| thorities, but for whose convenience | 's the inhuman | stitious people is that in 1910 Good } RUSSIA'S CREDIT GOGD. Resources of the Nation are Stead- ily Increasing. In no period of Russia's history has her credit suffered prolonged impairment and not once has she failed to meet her obligations to the full satisfaction of her creditors. As a consequence of so honorable a record, and by reason of the un- told resources of the empire in for- ests, minerals, and agricultural produce, Russian securities com- nand a ready market to-day at good prices in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and England. Even the diplomatic defeat whieh the imperial government suffered in the recent Balkan settlement had no adverse effect upon the market estimate of the empire's credit. Such confidence would unquestion- ably be misplaced but for one fun- damental consideration,--namely, that despite the lingering economic backwardness of the Russian state and people the resources of the na- tion as a whole,--not alone in the gross output of agriculture, indus- try and trade, but in the tax-pay- ing abilities of the people,--are steadily increasing. A thing that most of us do not realize is that the population of Russia is actually growing at a rate (1% per cent. a year) not equaled in any important country on the globe. Another thing is that not even in France does so large a pro- portion of the population belong to ihe land-owning class, providing a necessary condition for the agricul- tural prosperity of the coming gen- erations. Since 1877 the amount of arable land held by the nobility has diminished by a third; yet the price of land has risen in every part of the empire. In 1888 the total of savings-bank deposits was 60,000,000 rubles; at the beginning of' 1908 it wa; 1,090,000,000. In fifteen years the consumption of tea, tobacco, brandy, petroleum and cottons has increased by from 20 to 30 per cent., and the per capita consumption of sugar has been exactly doubled. These are a few casual consid¢ra- tions which tend to relieve the blackness of the picture ied by Russia's financial condition to-day, because they mdicate, that slowly, painfully, the great Rus- sian people is coming to its own. With increased ability to pay taxes and with ultimate control over the public purse, these same Russian people may yet be able to solve the vexing problem cf the balance- sheet with. which the bureaucrats have so vainly wrestied.--Frederic Austin Ogg, in the American Re- view of Reviews. ny er | LOW BIRTH RATE OF Lt | But. the Cify is Healihics Other Large Cities. ON. Than / that com- and valuable the health the faets in pendium of statistics information cont cf old London--the annual. report of the London County Council Health Committee--issued recently, are striking. It st that, in 1808, there were 38 .eS, an an- nual rate of } per 1,000 persons | living, and t ; tne lowest rate 'yecorded since statistics had been t available. A satisfactory feature the gradual decrease in child- 'marriages. Marriages of minors were 8.2 per cent, in the case of males and 11.8 in the case of fe- males, compared with 3.5 and 12.9 in 107. The birth-rate continued in the metropolis, the official sta- tisties for the past six years being: Many of Per 1,000 1903440. Pe | Fi 1008 ios hia, ee Ce TOOK sis yo ve ep he ee Te TQ06 er ss say 26.5 LOGT "sions Berea 1905 a 5 ss A more pleasing fact is both the death-rate and the rate of infantile imcrtality show a decrease, In 1908 compared with 19.2 the average in the years 1891-1900. The medical officer of health computes that this represents a saving of 26,205 lives, or a gain to the community of 1,- 066,770 years of "life capital.". London is by far the healthiest af the great capitals, and with two exceptions--Bristol and Leicester-- the healthiest of the large towns of England. The death-rate of the ca- pitals per 1,000 are as follows .or 1808 :-- Tpondon 40 er ee 13.8 PATS A594 Ser he eee 17.5 Brussels 2c i ae TE Copenhagen .....+ +. «+. 16.4 Stockholtnsres os swe ele St. Poetersburg-.s. x= SB Berit cst eis oat sales 15.4 WiSDwE ei. sae ea peers 17.6 awe oe 18.5 Naw. York (ih sae re os 16.5 a es NO SURRENDER! The Stranger---"And who ave the Murphy's ancestors !"' Mr. Murphy -- "Ancestors! What's that?' The Stranger---"i mean, the Murphys spring from?' Mr. Murphy--"The spring from no; one. at thim !"' who do i 1 SUEY t They sprin A SIMPLE PLAN. "T ean always find much good in others," said Uncle Henry Butter- worth, "by lookin' fer the cussed- ness in myself." Jones--"Why on earth do*you offer such a large reward for the re- turn of that horrid, yapping, snap- ping cur? Brown--'"'To please my wife.' 'But such a large reward will be sure to bring him back." "Oh, no, if won't. He's dead.: I present- | to fall; the death-rate was 13.8 per 1,000, | BASHFUL STANLEY. His Response to a Speech of Eulogy at : a Banquet. William H. Rideing tells in Me Clure's Magazine of a dinner of the Papyrus club in Boston at which Hen- ry M. Stanley, the explorer, was the guest of honor: "Whether he (Stanley) sat or stood, he fidgeted and answered in monosy! lables--not because he was unamiable or unappreciative, but because he--this man of iron, God's instrument, whose word in the field brooked no contradic- TELLTALE PICTURES Paintings That Have Done the Work of Detectives. tnstances of Where the Canvas of an Artist Led to a Confession of Guilt. 'A Woman's Portrait and a Stolen tion or evasion, he who defied obsta- eles and danger and pierced the heart | of darkness--was bashful even in the company of fellow craftsmen. "His embarrassment grew when aft- er dinner the chairman eulogized him to the audience. He squirmed and -- averted his face as cheer after cheer confirmed the speaker's rhetorical ebul- lience of praise. 'Gentlemen, | intro- duce to you Mr. Stanley, who,' ete. The bero stood up slowly, painfully, reluctantly, and, with a gesture of dep- recation, fumbled in first one and then another of his pockets without finding what he sought. "It was supposed that be was 100k- ing for his notes, and more applause took the edge off the delay. His mouth twitched without speech for another awkward minute before, with a more erect bearing, he produced the object of his search and put it on his head. It was not paper, but a rag of a cap, and with that on he faced the com- pany as one whe by the act bad done all that could be expected of him and made further acknowledgment of the honors he had received superfiuous. It was a cap tbat Livingstone had worn and that Livingstone had given bim." ISLAND. COMES AND GOES. Rises In August and Disappears Regu- larly In February. One of Michigan's unsolved myste- ries is the island that every summer comes to the surface of Lake Orion and every winter goes back again to the depths from whence it arose, Its perieds of appearance and dis- appearance are nearly regular. It comes to the surface about the middle of August and goes down again about Feb, 15. What causes it to act thus strangely is a conundruin that none has been able to solve, but to keep it | above water or compel it to remain in | the depths have been alike without re- | suits, | Gn one oceasion a number of farm- ' ers and teamsters resolved to put the island out of moving business. In ' their efforts to do so they hauled many , londs of stone and deposited them on it during tbe early part of winter, be- i lieving that when it went down in ; February it would go down for good, | weighted as it was with the stones. | But the following August saw it bob | up serenely from below--minus its load of stones. At another time an effort was made | to keep it on the surface, and it was | chained to the surrounding country with bkeavy log chains, When its | time for departure came it departed, and the log chains departed with it The log chains were never recovered, The island is composed of soft mud and rusbes, and there are some skep- tical souls who attribute its formation and appearance and disappearance to the gathering of vegetation in one spot by the currents of the lake and its sub- sequent deeay. { "Window Leaves." In Sonth Africa Dr. R. Marloth dis- covered six species of plants possess- ing what are styled "window leaves." They are all stemless succulents, and the egg shaped leaves are imbedded in the ground, only the apexes re- maining visible. This visible part of the leaves is flat or convex on the sur- | face and colorless, so that the light can penetrate it and reach the interior of the leaf below, which is green on the inside. With the exception of the | blunt apex, no part of the leaf is permeable to the light, being surround- | ed by the soil in which ft is buried. | The first of these plants discovered is | a species of bulbine.--London Graphic. | BE Eee ie TEENIE The Manly Man. "After you've been two weeks in the house with one of these terrible handy men that ask their wives to be sure to wipe between the tines of the forks and that know just how much raising brend ought to have and how to hang out a wash so each piece will get the best sun it's a real joy to get back to the oNnary kind of man. | Yes, 'tis so!" Mrs. Gregg finished with much emphasis. 'J want a man who | should have sense about the things | he's meant to have sense about, but j when it comes to keeping house I like | him real helpless, the way the Lord _ planned to have him!"--Youth's Com- ) panion. A Costly Funeral. 'he most costly state funeral which } has ever taken place was perhaps that | of Alexander the Great. A round mil- lien was spent in laying Alexander to his rest. The body. was placed Ip a cottin of gold filled with costly aro- matics, and a diadem was placed on the head, The funeral car was embel- Mshed with ornaments of pure gold, and its welght was so great that i took eighty-four mules more than a year to convey it from Babylon to Syria. The Main Thing. Chief of Detectives--Now give us a description of your in ensitter, How tal was he? Bu 3. Maul dort knew how tall be iss What worrles me is that he vas) $10,000 { short. ; ee ee ee : "T was sarry.to hear, Brown, that you have failed in business." 'Yes, 1 struggled hard, but' I lost every- thing save my honor, thank good. ness, and the property I was wise enough to settle on my wife when I found myself getting into trou- ble.' Father--"Yes, sir, I-began as an office-boy, and here I am at the top ef the tree. And what is my re- ward? Why, when I die my son will b: the greatest rascal in ths town.?? The Prdigal (evlmly)---'*Yos, pater. drowned him inyself." But not till you di Diamond Ornament. BROUGHT CRIMES TO LIGHT. | 33, An artist who had suddenly become almost famous by his production of _ painting exhibited at the Royal aca 'emy was one day called upon by a man whose visit was productive of the'\ _most extraordinary and undreamed of consequences. The picture represented a lonely stretch of beach, upon which the sea was beating in long, creamy rollers. In the foreground, bending over a dead body, was 4 man with a wild expres- gion on his face and with 'a naked knife in his hand. A ship's boat, evi- dently just beached, was also in the picture, and by the side of-the mur- dered man was a bag of gold. 'The pic- ture portrayed the advent of two cast- aways upon a friendly shore. 'Che one had murdered the other so that the treasure might be his, The painter's visitor was a gray hair- ed, wild eyed man. "In heaven's name, sir," he gasped out, "how did you learn the dreadful Story that you painted? 1 see you Know all. I murdered my mate Bill to get the money thut was his. I threw his body into the sea, 1 don't know. what impulse led me to the academy. -- The first thing I saw was your picture represcnting the scene that took place thirty years ago." Needless to say, the picture had been the outcome of imagination. Yet mur- der will out, and the guilty conscience of the man who had killed his comrade for lust of gold had econyineed him that the painting was no eoincidence, but was indeed the actual portrayal of a dastardly and unwitnessed crime. There is probably no picture better known in England than "The Doctor," by Luke Fildes, yet there are. proba- bly very few people aware of the. fact that that selfsame masterpiece was the means of bringing to light. the. per- petratton of a crime that would othe wise never have been known. : A certain doctor in a large town com- mitted suicide, and among his papers was a letter which ran as follows: "L have today seen Luke Fildes' 'Doctor.' The picture represents a medical man watching by the bedside of a child. It has so haunted me that Iam going fo take away my own worthless life and make a confession at the same time, When Arthur's'--his brother's--"boy died I came into money that my dead brother had settled on him, He died as all the world thought of acate pneu- monia, Yet bis life might have been saved had L acted, as Fildes' 'Doetor' is so evidently doing, with the use of all the skill that lay dn my power, I hastened thie boy's end and so got the money. I can bear it no more." A well known artist was commission- <1 to paint the portrait of a lady in ex- alted circles who boasted the posse sion of a most unique.jemel in, ih ; form of a pendant. The lady was ver anxious that this heirloom should be included in her portrait. The artist, of course, complied with her request. Shortly after the painting had been completed a daring burglary was per- petrated, witb the result at the lady lest her heirloom, and no trace of the thief or thieves was forthcoming. Years passed by, and the lady gave up all hope of ever seeing the precious heirloom again. Now, it so happened that the artist who had painted the portrait of the lady mentioned had occasion to travel in India, In the course of his wanderings he came to Bombay and, as every visitor to that place does, strolled through the native bazaar. Suddenly his attention, was riyeted by a piece of jewelry in a jeweler's shop that scemed familiar to him, It was a diamond and ruby pendant. Where had he seen it before? Ne ran- sacked bis brain, but could not remem- ber. He returned to his hotel and bhap- pened to take from his portfolla a sketch of the portrait Hé had made yeurs ago of the lady with the pendant, In a moment the enigma was solved, The piece of Jewelry he had seen was the peculiar pendant that his fair sit- ter had been so anxious he should tn- clude in his portralt, ' He hurried off to the chief of police and told that worthy what he suspect- ed--namely, that the bazaar he had visited contained the long lost Jewel of the Bngtish lady. Inquit .2 were ~ once set on foot with extraordinary Peet sults. The jeweler in the bazaar con-> fessed to having given years ago a quite insignificant sum for the Jewel, whieh he bad bought from a stable mun in the employ of a neighboring rajah, 'Che stablenmn was songht for and turned out to be none other than a famous Knglish cracksman who had apparently turned honest, but who, nevertheless, confessed to having been the thief of the jewel that had been so miraculously discovered, Pearson's Weekly, Money tn Moving Pictures, "Tam going to einbark In some sort of business and want to know whether you think there Is much money in moving pletures?" "Phere was for a fellow who moved n halt dozen of ours." pala the fat dweller, "Fe charged use B10" Genfia begins prent Works; mbor Alany finishes then, --Jénhort Numismatics. Nophoey (Gust returned from abro; --This frane piece, aunt, F got in Ruy Aunt Hepsy--1 wish, nephew, ye fetched home one of them Latin q ters they talk so much about.--Lo: ville CourierJournal. } ; A Braggart, "pa, what is a braggart?" "fe"s a man, my son, who ts not afinid to express lls real opinion of himself."--Boston Transeript. The great question fs not so much what money you have fin your pocke as what you will buy with aa Ps {= a es ar

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