that a Royal servant marries any- one not in some Royal employ. When two servants at the English | yREH | -EUREDAMe Ty COAL mIvES. PILAR | Worst : When Barometer. Is Low not wa nN Z nce That a Royal Ser- arries Out of Royal Employ. frequent result of tne visit of | personage to England is a e between a servant in the t the Royal visitor and a int in our Sovereign's service. ig the last reign three of the ale servants each found a and one of Queen Alexandra's ds a husband, in the retinue of Royalties, says the London rs, he present reign none of King e's servants has married, but of the German Emperor at e of King Edward's death > in a marriage between a id in the service of H.R.H. the servants in the King's sehold during the visit of a for- } SRC REnAN 'informs the house-keeper fact, who reports the matter to the Royalty to are of course thrown a good into contact with the servants 'retinue of the Royal visitor. male and female attendants 'their meals apart, but they in their spare time in the large ant's hall, where frequently im- promptu dances are got up in in the | Palace housekeeper acts as ) nh to the maids on such oc- asions, and it is then that the 'grooms, valets, and pages of Royal personages have an opportunity of paying their court to the maids in King's Household. Asa general rule, where a maid- | Servant in the employ of a Royal rsonage marries a man in the vice of another Royalty, she ent- S service in the Royal Household t Court marr the outskirts of OUTSIDE ESTABLISHMENT. That is to say, they are allowed to live outside Buckingham Palace, ard a very large number of the Royal servants do so. : = Some of the upper servants, who occupy paaponeite positions and are in receipt of exceptionally good wages, have ver ondon. Their at- tendance is only required at the Palace from noon, and except on the occasion of a State entertainment they are allowed off duty after eight o'clock in the evening. And when the Court is not in residence at Buckingham Palace their presence is often not required. : A few of the married servants live in the Palace in the married servants' quarters. These are eld- erly servants who have been a con- siderable time in the employ of Royalty, whose families, if they have any, are either in the employ of Royalty or doing otherwise for themselves: but no servants with young children are allowed to re- side in the Palace. When a maid- servant at the Palace becomes en- gaged to be married, she at once of . the Queen, and the maid and her hus- band are sure of handsome gift from their Majesties. é FAVORITE SPOTS. Often a maidservant in the em- ploy of their Majesties marries an employee on one of the Royal es- tates, and in such a case she al. ways leaves service at Buckingham Palace and goes to live on the Royal estate with her husband. When a couple of the Royal ser- vants marry, they are given a fort- night's holiday for their honey- moon, and during that period they are not liable under any circuts- stances to be summoned to be in at- tendance at Buckingham Palace, or any of the Royal rseidences, as which her husband is employed. | 'or example, if a manservant in King George's service married a maid in theservice of, say, the King of Italy, she would enter the service of the latter monarch, and "oe versa. In this way, in nearly Royal Households, maidservants ho have been formerly employed n other Royal Households may be _ Oceasionally, however, the man- 'geryant changes his service on marrying a girl in the employ of on- other Royalty. For example, a footman in the employ of the rman Emperor married a maid- ervant in the Household of the late King, and the man subsequently en- tered the service of King Edward, and is still in the Royal employ. Sometimes, when a maid in Royal employ becomes engaged to a man in service in a foreign Royal House- hold, is very loth to enter the latte ae : AN ARDENT WOOER. ~ One of the Queen of Spain's dres- gers, who was formerly in_ ser 'vice in the English Royal House- hold, could with great difficulty b+ persuaded to leave her employment at Buckingham Palace when she be- came engaged to the King of Spain's valet. The pair met when King Alfonso came to this country in 1905, and the valet scon after- wards proposed, but the maid at first absolutely declined to leave service at Buckingham Palace. It was out of the question for the valet o leavé the service of his Royal aster, who probably would have jected to his doing so, and in such case the valet could not have ob- ained employment at the English urt. But the valet was a per- . | Z| | | | are all the Royal servants when on their ordinary holiday, though of course a Royal servant when on his (or her) ordinary holiday is only summoned to be in attendance under urgent and unsxpected cir- cumstances: Few marriages between the Royal servants have, by the way, been celebrated in London. The major- ity of marriages between them have taken place at Windsor, Sandring- ham, or Balmoral. asc Ae IF I KNEW. If I knew the box where the smiles are kept, No matter how large the key, Or strong the bolt, I would try so hard 'Twould open, I know, for me. Then, over the land and the sea broadcast, I'd scatter the smiles to-play, That the children's faces might hold them fast For many and many a day. If I knew a box that was large en- ough To hold all the frowns I meet, I would like to gather them, every one, From nursery, school, and strect. Then, folding and holding, I'd pack them in, And, turning the monster key, I'd hire a giant to drop the box To the depths of the deep, deep sea. ie Sake Sea HOW TO JUDGE DISTANCES. At thirty yards, assuming that your sight is of average strength, the white of a man's eye is plainly seen, and the eyes themselves up to eighty yards. At 100 yards all parts of the body are seen distinctly, As ee . fi . sistent wooer, and after a couple | slight movements are perceptible, f years' time id to marry him, when she was ypointed a dresser to the Queen of pain. A SHATTERED ROMANCE. Most servants in the employ. alties, of whatever nationality, ( | yeak English and French. so that | there is no difficulty regarding con- rsation between them. But oc- sasionally the services of an inter- preter are required. Once this led to an unexpected ending to a ro- me that is still talked of in the™ervants' hall at Windsor tle. happened when the late King of Portugal was visiting Windsor Castle in 1904. One of the visiting monarch's pages fell violently in love with one of the assistant house- : ds on the Castle staff. The page could not speak a word of English or French, and, of course, the maid rould not speak a word of Port- Pa » Indeed. none of the ser- ts at the English Court could do , exeept the late King's valet, r. Chandler, who was a remark- ly good linguist. the love-sick page had t 9 brother-page who could glish to act as interpreter, ry several days the enamored age continued to make love to the 4 housemnid through -- the im of a third party. But. at conclusion of the Royal visit the preter proposed to the maid if ond was July accepted, ond rtifiled was the other page that the Roval service. mires, the majority cf Royal : find mates in the Honse- hold of the Sovereien in which they re emvloved, and it is, bv the way, of very rare occurrence © call | | | i your head." he persuaded the! and the details of the dress can be distinguished. At 200 yards the outlines of the face are confused, and rows of buttons look like stripes. At 400 yards the face is a of | mere dot, but all the movements of the arms and legs are still distinct. At 600 yards details can no longer be distinguish. At 800 yards, men in a crowd cannot be counted, nor their individual movements dis- tinguish. At 1,000 yards a line of soldiers resembles a broad belt. At 1,200 yards cavalry can be dis tinguish from infantry, and at 2,000 a mounted man usually ap- pears a mere peck. | Saeki eee WOMAN DENTISTS ABROAD. The woman dentist is hardly as common in England as she is in Germany, Russia and Holland. At The Hague two women monopolize the two most fashionable practices, one of them being dentist to Queen Wilhelmenia herself. In England there are now between 40 and 50 registered woman dentists of whom perhaps a dozen have taken di- plomas. The profession is in truth an ancient one for the sex, and the advertisement of a woman dentist appears in a newspaper published in the reign of Queen Anne. HAD SIZED HIM UP. "What's that you have in your hand?' asked Mrs. Gimlet, of her husband as he brought home a roll of manuscript. "Brains, madam,' retorted Mr. Gimlet pompously. "Are you sur: prised at the fact ?" 'Not in the least," she replied. . "T knaw ~on didn 't carry them in a y, they are put on what] 'is called the. a good houses on} THE SCOTMAN CAMA WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE DOMINION, Adopts Himselt to Any Circumst- Adopts Himself to Any Cireum- stances Is the Secret of His According to the Census figures, Scotland is being depopulated, or, at all events, it 1s ceasing to grow at the rate it should, says the Lon- don Answers. But this depopulation is no new thing. And there is another side to from unpleasant; for what is In the making of every British colony the Scot has played a part, and a book which has been recent- ly published, shows how much our great Dominion beyond the seas ising instinct of the man from the North. EARLY HARDSHIPS. There were Scots in Canada so long ago as 1621, when Sir Wiliam Alexander secured a charter grat- ing him the territory, roughly cov- ered now by Nova ~ Scotia and. New Brunswick. But it was the exodus following the rebellion of 1745 that was the start- ing point in Canada's history. 'then a Greenock merchant, John Pagan, obtained a grant of land at Pictou, and he offered, as an in- ducement to come to Canada, a free passage, a farm lot, and a year's provisions. "He owned an old Dutch brig, which he called the Hector, and in the Hector he shipped out in July, 1773, his first colonists from the Highlands, 189 souls in all. . The ground was still uncleared, b they struggled through the first hard later they were joined by other Scots from Prince Edward Island, but had been eaten out by locusts." After this the Scots stream was constant, whole families arriving. When the first hardships were over, these early pioneers wrote to their relatives in Scotland to come out and join them. The so-called High- land Clearances brought others--no fewer than 1,309 arriving in a single seas6n in 1803. Fresh settlements sprang up; some cast in their lot with the fur traders; others struck out and fought their way to un- cleared but fertile parts. THE INEVITABLE SANDY. Hearing the story of these strenuous times from one of the veterans, a Scots officer expressed his admiration, saying: "The only instance I know that I can compare it to is that of Moses leading the Children of Israel into their Promised Land." Up jumped the old man. 'Moses!' said he. "Compare me to Moses! Moses be hanged! He lost half his army in the Red Sea, and I brought my party through without losing one man !" It was men of this spirit who founded the great North-West Com- pany, which, by the end of the 18th century, had an annual turnover of £120,000, employed 50 clerks, 71 interpreters and clerks, 1,120 canoe- men, and 35 guides. Practically all the proprietors were Scots. And the Hudson Bay Company gradually became Scotch. From the time when the inevitable Scot appears upon the scene to the pres- ent day, the chief proportion of the Hudson Bay officials have been drawn from the Orkneys and the Highlands. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. Why the country still makes it call to the Scot is shown in the story of the farmer who said that 'St made a chap's eyes glad to look at wheat 70in. high with such a head on it. And ye dinna grow tatties like you in Banchory-Deve- nick. If they saw me owning soil like you in Aberdeen they'd a' tak' their hats aff to me." What is the secret of the Scots' success in Canada? The author explains .t thus: "They were able to adapt them- selves to any circumstances; they had faith in themselves, and stuck together. In Canada to-day there are close upon a million citizens of Scots' descent or birth. They are only one-eighth of the total popula- tion, but they hold among them more than one half of the positions worth having. The best passport for any immigrant into Canada is to speak with a Scots accent. One occasionally sees the notice in con- nection with some situation--"No English need apply." Tf any Canadian had the temerity to say '(No Seots need apply,"? he would not only advertise himself a fool, but he would also probably be lynched." Within another twenty years, it is prophesied, there will be double the number of Scots in Canada. And in going to Canada the Scot is sure, not only of finding honest work, but also of meeting so many Scots that to make his home there is an easy matter. He can still be a Scot in Canada! --k. There are times when a silent witness is an unspeakable nuisance. the question, a side which is far | Britain's loss is the Empire's gain. | owes tothe pluck, energy, and colon! ut j years, and prospered. Three years | who had emigrated from Dumfries, | GUARDIANS OF THE LAW MUST LOOK SHARP. Many Disgatses Donned by Detee- tives to Capture Clever Criminals. -- Street betting is, as we all know, prohibited by law. But the dif- ficulty is to obtain convictions, for street bookies are very wary, and the sight of a blue uniform sends them scuttling te cover as quickly as a blackbird when a sparrow- hawk's shadow swoops across the grass, says London Answers, At Rochdale, the police had long been aware that a lot of this kind of gambling had been going on at a spot on the banks of # canal. The bookies in this case had protected themselves by posting scouts on all sides to give warning of the ap- proach of police. But at last the police outwitted them. Two constables got them- selves up as golfers in tweed suits and stockings, and armed them- selves with powerful field-glasses. In this guise they got near enough to identify a number of the offend- ers, and later these were arrested and fined. : Recently a party of dectives ar- rested two noted jewel thieves by disguising themselves as milkmen, wearing smocks and carrying cans. Some few years ago a merchant in Wormwood Street went to the police, and told them how he was being worried by an old school-fel- low, who was trying to blackmail him. The police suggested that he should pretend to fall in with the BLACKMAILER'S SCHEME, _ and negotiations were carried out, 'through the "Agony" column of a London daily, by which the merch- ant agreed to pay £300, which was to be buried at the foot of a certain tree in a brickfield near Honor Oak Park Railway Station. The police prepared a cigar-box, weighted with lead, which was duly buried under the tree. (eral detectives hid near by, and, after waiting all night, spotted the blackmailed poking in the ground with his umbrella. He quickly dug up the box, and was carrying it away, when one of detectives, disguised as a labour- er, and apparently intoxicated, lurched up, asking him what he had got there. This gave the others! the signal, and the fellow was caught without a chance of resis- tance. A shop was found in Goswell Road, Clerkenwell, which the police discovered to be run by re- ceivers of stolen property. Early one evening they arrested the two principals, and then a _ detective got himself up to look excctly like one of the arrested pair, and stood behind the counter. Presently a man came in, and of- fered for sale goods which were evidently stolen. He was at once arrested, and by the end of the evening no fewer than eleven ar- rests had been made, STRANGER IN THE STALLS. Two years ago King Manoel of Portugal came to London, and on the night before he left visited Drury Lane Theatre. Near the end of the performance a gentle- man in the stalls was quietly asked to give up his place to someone who had an important duty to perform. The person in question was a tall, broad-shouldered man, in perfect evening-dress, and of most disting- uished appearance. A few mom- ents before the curtain fell, the per- son next him--a little, beady-eyed foreigner--jumped up, evidently in a hurry to leave. But his neigh- bor just then dropped his stick, and, in stopping to get it, knocked down his hat, and then his gloves. His deliberation in recovering them eaused a delay which considerably ; annoyed the foreigner. | Meanwhile King Manoel left the | theatre, and then the gentleman in evening-dress, who was reslly a well-known detective, announced that he proposed *o see him out of England at onec. Lites FAOT AND FANCY. Tt is both paradoxical and un- pleasant to wade through a dry book. It is easier to live within an in- come than without one. The crocodile likes its meat high, and, after killing it, keeps it hidden for days among the reeds. Throughout the world there are 672 known voleanoes, 270 of which are active. If love is blind it must be admit- ted that marriage is a first-class oculist. As an argument in favor of mat-. rimony it is stated that among every 1,000 bachelors there are 38 criminals, while among married men the ratio is only eighteen per 1,000. Toads are sold for $1 a dozen in Paris, being bought by gardners to be used as insect-destroyers. Tf you want aman's candid opinion of vou, make him angry and you'll get it. You can generally tell from a 'man's neckties whether he is mar- ried or not. Then sev- }- -lwhen we are looking at someone and ~Thermometer High. 5 Probably the chief danger to be contended with in coal mining is firedamp, or what is commonly call- | ed gas. This firedamp continually escapes from the faces of the coal when in its natural position under- ground. : This is due to the gas being pent up in the strata, says Cassier's Magazine, the pressure having been known to be as high as 450 pounds to the square inch. _ When it issues at high pressure it is known as a "blower," its issue being accompanied by a hissing sound, but usually the escape of gas from the coal is imperceptible to ordinary observation. t Firedamp, also called methane, is carburetted hydrogen, and is not greatly different in composition from ordinary lighting gas. Its specific gravity is half the weight of alr; therefore it is found near the roof in mines. In its pure. state it is not explo- sive, but when mixed in certain pro- portions with air it is violently ex- plosive: 94% per cent. of gas in the atmosphere forms the most explo- Sive mixture. i : As has been said, this gas is being constantly emitted from the expos- ed surfaces of the coal in the mine, and from this face comes the term. "fercy mine." In some mines it is not found, but these cases are gen- reauy where the seam is not far from th surface, and all the gas has probably drained away through cracks or faults in the strata. The flow of firedamp is particular- ly sensitive to varying atmospheric~ pressures. A quick fall in the. barometer accompained by a sud- den rise in the thermometer is the most dangerous time; the drop in exterior pressure causes more gas to be given off. P In England before the colliets go down the pit in the morning an of- ficial called a fireman goes around to see that the working places are' all safe, that the ventilation is in perfect order and that no gas has accumulated. This examination must be made, according to the special rules in force in the Man- chester district, nct more than three hours immediately preceding the time the men go to their work. It is proposed to alter this time to two hours. The name fireman 4 originated! in its primitive stages and at a period when there was no system- atic method of ventilation in mines. Firedamp would collect, and it was the duty of the fireman to go and fire the gas. He would have a damp cloth tied round his head, covering his face as much as pos- sible, and with a torch at the end of a long stick would ignite the gas. By falling fiat on his face he would endeavor to avoid the effect of the flame. It will be evident that there were many risks connected with such dangerous practices. At a still later period, but be- fore the use of gunpowder was pro- hibited in fiery mines as a means of | bringing down the coal, the ignition of the gas was a common enough occurrence. Some of the older col- liers living to-day, speaking of their experiences thirty to , forty years ago, say that they have seen gas ignited in coal mines many a time, and they have "'batted" the flames out with their coats or caps. By the use of explosives which are calculated to give no flames or by using mechanical substitutes for) blasting miners do not get such ex- periences nowadays. Also naked lights are not allowed on the work- ing "face" in fiery mines, though | they are used in mines not far) from the surface which are not! 'fiery'? and are probably natural- ly damp. : PRS RME ELS BE a det oid OUR LITTLE WAYS. Many Habits Which Our Ancestors | Have Left Us. | It is from out remotest ancestors | that we get many of our habits. Mankind's dislike of darkness is as old as he is himself. All children fear the dark, and few grown-ups are quite at their ease in it. . Even in his own house, every inch of which he knows, a man will feel mildly uncomfortable till he has the lights on. Most people know what it is, when walking at night | along a lonely road, to glance un- easily over the shoulder. We do not expect to be stabbed in the back by a murderer ereep- ing up silently. No; the reason is that the dark once left men de- fenceless from the attack of ani- mals that could see in the dark better that he could, and the mem- ory of those days is in our bones and blood. Scientists trace stage-fright back to the days when to be conspicuous meant to invite attack from more powerful animals. And the shyness many people have about crossing a large room when other people are present is another inheritance from our primitive ancestors. In the forests it was only the biggest and strongest animals, such as the bear, the elephant, and the mastodon, who dared to walk straight across the wide, opta space. The others peroferred, for safety's sake, to sidle or slink round the edges. Have vou ever thought over the curious instinct that we all have, many years ago when mining was | '| there are' a great when we meet in ( one we know only slightly, tend we do not see him. | impulses are usually overcome mectavely, but there are few people who have not felt them at times. - The explanation lies i > animal hatred of meeting anoth -animal's eye. Watch a dog, or th animals in a menagerie. eatch your eye, and look past you. Scientists declare that the para- lysis that a sudden fright is apt to cause is a trick we learnt in our wilder days, and exactly corre- sponds to the death-shamming that some animals are so adept in, The weaker animals learnt aeons ago that 'a moving object is much less likely to escape the notice of a prowling enemy than one that stays motionless. Do you like shaking hands? Many people do not, and avoid the cere- mony as much as possible. It is the old, animal dislike of being touched. The ordinary house-dog is so civilized that it likes being petted, but take any wild or half- wild animal, such as an Eskimo dog. A touch will make it spring yards away, or bury its fangs inte 'the intruding hand. : All of us overcome this dislike in the case of our intimate friends, but there are many people who, if their hands are touched accidental- ly in a crowd by a stranger, stealth- ily wipe them. ' The dream that everybody has had--that of falling, and being brought up with a jerk--is a dream that always brings the dreamer awake with a start. Psychological science declares it is probably the very oldest memory of the human race, going back, indeed, to the days when our ape-like ancestors lived and slept in trees. WHY THE SEA IS SALT. Terrestrial Crust Disselyed by Hot Vapors Laden With Mineral. Nearly all the minerals are con- tained in the sea in a state of solu- | tion, says Harper's Weekly. In the beginning the earth was incandes- cent: then gradually, as it cooled, it acquired a solid covering or crust, which for a long time remain- fed at a high temperature. The different elements of which the chemical combinations are formed were at that time floating above vapor. When the temperature low- ered sufficiently these elements gra- dually combined; then when the temperature became still lower water fell:rippling in hot torrents over the terrestrial crust, dissolv- ing anything that it could dissolve and accumulating in the depre sir ns to form the first oceans. This is why the water of the ocean is salt and why it derives its saltness not only from common salt, butfrom many other substances. fourths of its salinity. The other marine substances are chloric of magnesium, bisulphate of magnesia, sulphate of lime, cholrate of potas- sium, bromide, bicarbonate of lime --in short, nearly everything used in modern pharmacy, not counting the salts of the rare metals; rubidium, caesium, silver and gold. The total salinity of the sea is thirty-four grams to a little overa quart. In other words, if a little over a quart of water drawn direct- ly from the ocean is evaporated, there will be a residue of thirty- four grams of a mixture of all the different salts of the sea combined, will be common salt. The enormous mass of salts held in solution in the sea would cover 361,090,000 square kilometers to a depth of sixty meters, and of that quantity forty- common salt. The total volume of the European continent above the level of the sea is only one-third as great as the block of salt produced would be, could it be laid out a solid. This prodigious wealth of saline elements is not uniformly divided among the different seas. of the globe. so salt as others. which receive little from rivers, are more those that receive floods that free from salt. The Red Sea holds the world's record for saltness, -- it contains nearly 42 grams of salt to every quart of water. The Black Sea contains but 19 grams of salt per quart, the Baltic Sea five grams per quart. The seas contain from forty to fifty miligrams of gold per ton. This appears a very small amount, buf many tons of water in the ocean. and tae total amount of gold held in the water, if reduced to form a block and as The warm seas, sweet salt than divided equally among the world's known population, would give every individual a prevision of an ingot weighing approximately -- $0,000 pounds. © Se meads PARROTS AID MONKEYS. Tn Brazil monkeys and parrots not only roost in the same trees, but work for mutual benefit. The par- rots gnaw the bie nuts loose from the tree, let them fall in order to crack them, and the monkevs tear the husks asunder, vather the nuts and x diyide them with the parrots. nim: Even the lion will blink when it chances to. Common salt gives the sea three- | and three-fourths of that mixture | seven meters of the layer would be) by the evaporation of the oceans | There are seas that are not | water | are ' ing in for its share of this ur source of powers a a ee There are many ways through which the farm that ean afford the use of the electric current may have -- Some near-by inter-urban electrio _ line may have its surplus current may have a gravity waterfall ta develop electricity sufficient for half -- engine in connection with a dynamo is within comparatively easy reach of the prosperous farmer who dis- | covers that to keep his boys on the farm--or even to make certain that through the season--it is up to him: to lighten those old drudgeries of twenty yearsago; = ay JOY FOR FARMER'S WIFE. In the home of the farmer, the first adaptation of the electric cur- rent would be in displacing the- kerosene lamp. A motor in the basement and a pump and tank on the outside would etfect a system of water-works for the house. In_ the dairy the cream separator, chura, washing machinery for dairy necessities can be operated. Laun- dry work--that bugbear of the farmer's wife--is simplified and -- lightened to the last degree. Even the long-sought "milking mach- ine" is to receive an impetus at the hands of Yankee ingenuity, and, if it shall be perfected, the electric current must drive it. WILL BE GENERAL BOON. In the cow barns and_ horse stables the electric bulb attacher to wires in gaspipe housings not only will give the safety light for winter mornings and evenings, but already 'the vacuum cleuaer has made its 'appearance, adapted to the easiest 'and most thorough currying and 'cleaning of the coats of cows and | horses. | Instead of the long and laborious | process of ice cutting from ponds, 'the electric current will operate the | refrigerating room's ammonis 'fluids, with automatic stoppage of {the motor when the required degree 'of cold is reached. The power may 'be directed to the farm workshops, | where lathes and grindstones and 'emery wheels may be run for the |farm's "jack-of-all-trades," saving ; not only the charges of the village blachsmith in hundreds of troubles, but save the time of driving to and | from the town. SAVE FRUIT FROM FROST. In some of the northern fruit- -growing sections the electric warn- }ing signal is set for arousing the | whole farm population any time in 'the night when the "danger" tem- 'perature is reached out of doors. |'his means at the present time that every available worker turns out and kindles fires in the smudge pots. /that. are set in the orchards, pre- | pared for the dangers of frost. But 'as electricity is ght, power and heat, all in one, may not the pres- -ent smudge pots become electrical |heaters, automatically turned on? | To-day there is not a practical }electrical engincer who does not {look upon the present state ol 'electrical service as in its infancy. We have the electrical city. How 'long before the electrical farm? nV hs 2A ES TRITE SAYINGS. | It is a poor rule that won't work | always. What is it that. works while we sleep! Yeast. : : The average tax collector doesn't 'ride ina taxi-cab. | Extremes meet when plays with its tail. It is getting pretty 'one he from another. You will never reach the' right /plaee on the wrong road. Theharem skirt is a harumy searum rig to say the least of it, If you are on the downhill line -- make haste to get a transfer, May not a marriage ceremony be justly a transaction in bonds? IES SEES, Eh os TAX ON BACHELORDOM.. During the period under William Ill. when bachelordom was taxed peers had to pay more dearly than commoners fer the privilege of single bliss, says the London Chron-s icle. ©The yearly tax levied on bachelors ranged from £12 11s, in the case of dukes and archbishops down to 1 shilling in the case of those scheduled as "other --per- sons,' Furthermore a duke was compelled to pay £50 when he mar: the kitten 4 hard to tell born, £25 when every younger son was born, £30 when his eldest son was married, £50 when as wife wag buried and £30 when his eldest son was buried, And the other mem- bers of the peerage had to pay similar taxes, graduated according to their rank. oe ve \ it for the trouble of installation, for sale; some stream close athand a dozen farmers; or the gasoline -- ; his hired help will stay with him ae ried, #30 when his eldest son waa |