'the Hawiians built on a reef at the entrance of a shark-pen. In the | one entrance to this there were four feet of water at high tide, but at low tide it was impossible for a shark to get out or in. The na- 'tives would take goats and old horses, lead them into the pen from é "hs shore nie: kill them, and an- ; : {chor them. After a day or two the How the Men-Eater Is Caught and) narks would be attracted by the 'Crucified'? in Central odor of the carcasses, and they America. could make out the long black fin P _ GROWING SUGAR BEETS. of a shark. The monster headed at S fonce for him, and as 'the was about to dive to escape its clutch -- ANOTHER SHARK DASHED IN. As the first shark turned over on its back in order to bite, Clark dived below the surface, then up. under the shark and drove the knife time after time into its vitals, and it sank to the bottom. As he came to the surface, gasping for breath, a yawl-boat, manned by excited sailors from the mnavy-yard, ran ) SOME YARNS ABOUT SHARKS ADVENTURES OF DIVERS IN SOUTHERN SEAS. ele 5 'Pngland May Hecome a Sugar- __ Producing Country. $ es Sener 4 x: z "s Ss ee _ A serious attempt is now in pro-| NEWS BY MAIL FROM -- TRE. gress to make England a sugar-pro- LAND'S SHORES. ducing country. When the question : of home-grown sugar beets was first brought up seriously some fourteen | years ago the sugar bounties were undoubtedly one of the chief rea- sons that discouraged the idea. The British farmer, moreover, is very conservative, and.in late years financiers have been more wary than before of home industries, es- pecially if of an experimental na- ture. : But now both farmers and finan- ciers have decided to give the in- dustry a thorough trial. This Happenings in the Emerald Isle of _ Interest to Irish- Se ; men, Useful Hints for the Tiller of the Soll | would follow the wall until they ycame to the opening. By the time they had had a good meal the tide | sai would have fallen, and the natives| alongside, and he was pulled would then go in and kill them. | aboard just in time to escape the The man-eaters are not worth|second shark. Clark saved his life much except for the skins, which|by powerful swimming and diving, can be made into shagreen; but it|as it was necessary for the man- is a satisfaction to the Hawaiians to| eating shark to turn over to grasp kill them merely out of revenge. its prey. ee ' : The waters about the Sandwich| In many parts of the West Indies VALUE OF RED CLOVER. oo SSH centuries red ¢] way to leave it, after a few f clover has eon-| in a condition worse than if ver had been grown, Tt is important that considerable ca i me be taken in choosing the seed Sown. If poor seed i the expec oF is used ted crop may | : or total failure P may be a partial Red clover se The freedom of Dublin has been conferred up Dr. Kuno Meyer and -- The eailor says that the most fer- ocious creature that swims in the sea is the shark, By that he does not mean every shark, but what is called the "man-eater,'? just as a certain species of tiger in India is called the "man-eater" because it hunts human beings for its prey, 8 years, no clo- the Rev. Canon O'Leary. Belfast corporation decided to elect Hon.. Whitelaw Reid, the U. S. ambassador, a freeman of th city. acne A commission appointed to in- in the In this country it has SH pd 2 more and more importa 4 ant conserving the natural re- of the soil, thereby tending preferring Inaintain the profitable yields of staple agricultural products Mr. J. M. Westgate. tiover is utilized both and as a pasture crop and eae soiling crop. It is sometimes 'a8 a green-manure cro wed under if the ground oe mus. Even where it is cut for ay and only the root and stubble ned under, it has a marked in- ce in increasing the yields of cing crops. It makes an ideal or cattle and in the clover sec- should constitute from one- to two-thirds of the roughage ion of milk cows. Sheep and mg stock of all kinds make ex- ht gains on either the pasture hay. In addition to its use- 8s as a food for animals it has ost important effect upon the ad in Maintaining the supply of igen in the soil. By means of nitrogen-fixing organism on its & the red clover plant is able to er large quantities of nitrogen the air and leave it in the soil a form which can readily be util- | by growing crops. Tt not in- quently happens that the yield -# grain crop can be doubled by growme and plowing under of op of clover. Most serious problem at pre- confronting the farmer in many E the clover sections is the increas- difficulty of successfully main- ng stands of clover upon the and onsequent depletion of the soil f humus and plant food the difficul- growing red clover is greatly ased. This condition must be 4 and solved, since the loss of lover or its equivalent from the ro- m leads rapidly to a run-down and unprofitable crop yields. should be emphasized, howev- hat the mere introduction of clover into the farm rotation hot in itself a sufficient procedure Maintain indefinitely the pro- vity of the farm. The clover adds only the nitrates to the and removes large quantities tash, phosphorus and lime the soil, especially when cut ay and the manure resulting lerefrom is not returned to the The increased supply of nit- en may in fact stimulate the soil Imereased yields temporarily, undesirable mony Be Boor 'and : m several points of Hae Such seed is constantly being old to farmers and should be re_ cognized and rejected. ; Poorly developed, pas Bod tae shriveled and dull brown in color Such seeds will not produce plants. Often red clover is adulterated by tl € use of yellow trefoil, dead clo- ver seed, cheap imported seed or weedy screenings" Each of these constituents reduces the stand of ealthy plants and makes the pur- chaser pay for what he does not get, transportation included. . He is likely to get an undesired crop of Weeds, some of which may become a decided menace to his locality. . Some of the weed seeds appeari in red clover seed can be fC, by the farmer by the use of a wire- cloth sieve containing twenty mesh- es to the linear inch. Most. of the clover seeds of medium size are held back by such a sieve and practi- cally all the smaller weed seeds pass through. The true clover dod- der, which is a very noxious pest in clover fields, is quite effectively removed in this way. Most of the Seeds of the field dodder are also removed. Seed of buckhorn, wild carrot, wild chicory, thistles and others of similar size, are mostly held back by the sieve. The small grained clover seed imported from Europe largely passes through such a sieve. An easy method of separ- ating buckhorn seed from clover has been devised. This method consists of mixing with the seed eontaining the buckhorn thorough- ly wetted sawdust. The buckhorn seed becomes sticky on being wet and readilv attaches itself to the sawdust. The entire mass is then immediately screened, when the larger particles of sawdust, with the buckhorn attached, are readily separated from the clover seed. This work should be done immedi- ately before sowing the clover seed, which, with the small particles of sawdust that pass the screen, need to be dried only sufficiently to en- able the seeding to take place read- ily. This is an effective means of Temoying practically all buekhorn seeds and is easily accomplished |by the farmer who handles a com- | paratively small quantity of seed i which is not necessarily bulked jm- j mediately after the somewhat damp seed has been screened out. IS OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. at is Going on in The Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. he death rate in Troon. last ter was 10.4 per 1,000. labor exchange is about to be blished in Wick. rles Faleoner, provision mer- -Gorbals, was fined $100 for Ing margarine as butter. t 3,000 quarters of oats were ged from Macduff the other] death has occurred in Edin- of Alex. Kerr, a Crimean and jan Mutiny veteran. A recovering £67 10s. 6d. an Ed- 'gh man recently expended £72 Sd. in legal expenses. : W possesses 14 Gaelic g citizens who do not know nguage of the tax collector. New steamer, Queen Alexan- has been built for the Clyde se of the Turbine Steamers, the Armadale Iron Company at Bathville, Armadale, which recent- ly ceased operations, have been purchased by Mr. James Wood, of Wallhouse. : Wide-spread regret was express- ed in Alloa when it became known that Robert Millar, engineer, North Street, Alloa, was on the engineer- ing staff of the ill-fated Titanic, and was lost. There was unearthed in an old garden in Jedburgh the other day sculptured stones which had been earried off from Jedburgh Abbey in the days when its loose masonry was frequently "looted" by needy burghers. % GIPSTIES LEAVE ENGLAND. They Objected to the Visits of Sani- tary Authorities. About a seore of Galician Tsig-- ganes, or, as they are generally known, Continental gypsies, left England the other day for South America, where they hope to found a camp where they will not be in- terfered with by County Councils and sanitary authorities. They formed a picturesque mob at the Charing Cross station, Lon- don, the women wearing purple, scarlet or orange-hued headdresses them to ani@®ls, says Chambers's Journal. The man-eating shark is not the largest. of this species of fish, but is noted for its strength, also the ra- pidity with which it swims. It goes through the water so rapidly that few fish exceed it in swiftness, and it is thus able to catch food of that kind. This is especially true in the waters--such as the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans, the Pacific Ocean, and the waters tributary to them--that are deep enough for the shark to swim in. Strange to say, this fact has ob- structed such works as the forma- tion of harbors, 'the building of piers, and other operations where it is necessary for men who are divers to go beneath the surface. Many are the adventures which they have had, and not a few have been the victims of the sharks in spite of the fact that the divers are arm- ed with knives and other weapons to protect themselves while under water. The American Government is building a harbor on the island of Hawaii for warships. It is ne- cessary to remove a large quantity of coral rock, and this can only be done by blowing up the formation with POWERFUL: EXPLOSIVES such as dynamite and giant powder. The charge of explosive must be laid upon the rock formation sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet below the surface of the wa- ter, and is connected by copper wires with an electric battery. The spark from the battery sent through the wires, igniting the dynamite or giant powder, causes it to explode. To set these charges in place re- quires sometimes several hours, since the diver has to make holes in the rock to receive them, and then connect the electric wires. After the work is done he gives the signal to be pulled up by the rope which reaches to the boat on the surface, and after he has been hauled up and is out of danger the blasting is performed. Since the work on the harbor at Hawaii was begun sharks have caused much trouble, as divers have to be employed, and at-times opera- tions are stopped for several weeks because the sharks are so numer- ous that they cannot be killed or driven away. In order to get the men who are brave enough to go down into the sea it is necessary for the company to pay very large sal- aries, as the divers literally take their lives in their hands. One of these divers is a Swede named Martin Lund, who does not know what fear is. He works in connec- tion with a native crew of the Sand- wich Islands, and is noted as an expert swimmer and diver. Physi: cally he is a giant, and in his div- ing-suit must weigh nearly six hun- dred pounds. Lund works eight hours a day, and sets off about eigh- teen blasts in that time. Some- times he carries on 'his work with sharks all about him. He often has to fight them. The blasts kill large numbers of small fish, and every day as soon as the blasting begins the sharks come around LOOKING FOR FOOD. Sometimes as many as twenty of them will be seen 'at a time. The whole outer section harbor has been Jaid out like a checker-board. Lund, or Olepan, the Hawaiian, lays the explosive on a ledge and fixes the electric connections. When there are only two or three feet of water above it is blown up from four hundred to five hundred feet in the air; but at thirty feet there is hardly a lift of the surface of the water. When Lund had his first battle with the sharks he was armed only of the with a knife. piece of meat. husband. Diamond Head. fish. the swimmers. A Islands probably contain the larg- est specimens. Japanese fisherman other fish off the harbor of Hono- lulu, caught one. tough rope, with two or three feet of steel-wire rope attached to a huge hook which was baited with a His comrades came to his aid, as the weight was so great that the catch could not be hauled in by one man. When it was brought to the surface it was found to be a monstrous man-eater mea- suring nearly few yars ago a looking for His line was a 20 FEET IN LENGTH. Another man On the stomach being opened a portion of the body of a man was found. The next day a native wo- man, by means of certain identified the body as that of her He had mysteriously disappeared a day or two before while bathing inside the reef off Some ducks, tin cans, and two blocks of woed were also found in the stomach of the -eater caught a few days later was fourteen feet long and four and a half feet in cir- cumference at the widest part. The mouth measured twenty-two inches from top to bottom, and twenty- eight inches across, and the jaw, weighing one hundred and fifty. pounds, when dried could be slip- ped over the head of a man. scars, Sailors in the American navy have many adventures with man-eaters, and when a warship is in water fre- quented by sharks the men are usually prevented from bathing or exposing themselves unless accom- panied by a boat's crew, with guns, to watch for the sharks and protect While one of these lighters or small barges are used to | take cargo off vessels and carry it ashore. An English seaman named Thomas was working on one of these lighters in the harbor of Aux Cayes, when he slipped on a coil of rope and fell overboard. The sharks at once made a rush for him, and it would have been all over wth the sailor had not the first- mate rushed to the near-by galley, grabbed a large piece of beef, and, turning to the side, hurled it into ihe water. This fell in the midst of the sharks; and while they were fighting over it Thomas swam to the side of the lighter, grasped a line, and was hauled on board. The danger of the shark at bath- ing resorts is shown by the experi- ence of a man named Wright, who went to the greatest summer re- sort in America, Atlantic City, to spend his holiday in fishing and bathing. With a number of friends Wright went out to the fishing banks in a naphtha launch for a day's fishing. After they had made a good catch the captain was about to weigh anchor and start for home, when Wright insisted upan having a swim. Being an expert the young man dived boldly off the craft and SWAM AWAY LIKE A FISH. Shortly afterwards the captain sig- nalled for Wright te return. The swimmer, by long, powerful strokes, immediately turned, when those in the launch were horrified to see, less than a hundred yards away, and directly in the path of the swimmer, a school of man-eat- ing sharks. The captain at once started his engine and headed the boat for the scene of action. Mean- Sarat Dv. Seta RNS SS holt. vessels was lying in a harbor of the Philippines a few years ago one of the mates, while bathing from the side of the ship, was bitten on the foot by a shark. very badly torn and crushed; but the man recovered, only a slight stiffness of the foot remaining. An official report on file in the Navy Department states that as one of the boats belonging to the little gunboat Eleano was being rowed gut to the ship the plug in the bat- tom of the boat came out. vent it from being swamped a sai- lor, J. J. Dunlap, belonging to the Elkano, thrust his finger into the The finger was immediately bitten off as if it were amputated by a surgeon, though the amputa- tion was . BY A SHARK The foot was To pre- *S TEETH. On the American coast the man- The New Parasols This season has brought out many new and charming creations in 'women's parasols. There is a profusion of color combinations un usually pleasing and at- tractive. The handles, too, have a wide breadth of design, odd and fas- cinating in their various shapes. The parasol illustrated has a pretty covering of Beauty Rose silk, with narrow black velvet ribbon and cream applique, and a border of black and white vertical stripes. The handle is beautifully carved, and of the long Directoire design. <A really effec- tive parasol] for the pre- sent s@ason. while he had seized a loaded shot- gun which he always carried on board. By this time Wright had awakened to his danger, for he was seen swiftly swimming back to the boat. In less time than it takes to tell the captain had fired and killed the foremost shark. When the launch reached Wright, who was almost exhausted, he was lifted aboard and immediately swooned. Three of the toes of his right foot had been nipped off by a shark. The hatred of the man-eater is such in Central America, that the people of Panama have a way of catching and killing sharks which would seem indeed cruel if it were not for the ferocity of the fish. The shark will bite savagely at any- thing that is flesh, and advantage is taken of this fact to place hunks of meat on large hooks which are attached to ropes thrown out from spring about 3,500 acres between Yarmouth and Norwich have been planted with sugar beets. A fac- tory for the manufacture of sugar is being erected near Cantley sta- tion, Norfolk, in the middle of the district, and preliminary ehgage- ments have been made for the building of two other factories. Experiments in sugar beet grow- ing were carried out last year un- der the auspices of the Board of Agriculture in seven centres in England. The Board's report has now been issued, and is decidedly encouraging for those concerned in the experiment in East Anglia mentioned above. The conclusion of the Board of Agriculture says definitely : "There is no question that beets with high sugar content can be grown in this country. and give yields equalling if not exceeding thoge obtained on the Continent." The report points out that '"'in no case did the crops receive more at- tention than would be given to growing mangolds or swedes by a farmer of ordinary skill. In no case was subsoiling carried out, a practice which on the Continent is regarded as indispensable. It is therefore significant to learn that the average yield of sugar beets in Prussia did not exceed six tons an acre, a figure only 'slightly in ex- cess of the yields obtained at the Devon or Essex stations, which have been characterized as failures in view of the better results ob- tained at the other stations." The venture of course has still to he regarded as experimental. It has been proved beyond question that sugar beets will grow in Eng- land as well as on the continent. {t may be taken as beyond contro- versy that the crop is generally suitable to English soil. More than soil, however, has to be considered, and great field ex- periments on the scale now being attempted in East Anglia differ from trials on small] plots. The difficulties in the way of this new industry-are, however, well worth facing. Great Britain pays annually to the Continent for beet sugar no less a sum than $90,000,- 000. To grow-at home crops worth even a moderate percentage of that amount would be a huge boon for the English agriculturist. iA SPAIN'S PREMIER TOREADOR. Madrid Welcomed Return of Bombita to the Ring. Bombita, the darling of Spain, has recovered from the dangerous wound he had received in a bull fight, and last Sunday all Madrid went to the Plaza de Toros to wel- come the greatest of all toreadors to the seene of former triumphs, writes a correspondent of the Lon- don Standard. The sun was beating down on the tiers of seats opposite me, where a thousand fluttering fans looked like brilliant butterflies. King Al- fonso and the Queen were in the royal box surrounded by the flower of the Spanish aristocracy. Al] the women wore the graceful mantilla and the Queen had red roses in her hair. Charmed as the people were to see the youthful King and Queen, their chief thoughts were for Bom- bita, the dashing Bombita, whose photograph appears in dozens of newspapers every week. He is as daring and as expert a toreador as the men of the old school, but he is not in ordinary life the toreador with a little pigtail, happier in the cafe than in the drawing-room. The fabulous fees he receives for his dangerous work permit of his keeping a motor car and enables How quire into the alleged scarcity of -- the Irish milk supply, met recently -- in Limerick. ; o. Two men were killed and four -- others seriously injured by an ex- plosion at the Muspratt* Chemical works of the United Alkali Com- pany at Widnes. ; The King has appointed Sir John William Moore, M.D., to be one of the Physicians-in-Ordinary to Hie Majesty in Ireland, in room of Sir _ Francis Richard Cruise, deceased. Charged with assaulting the po- lice during a disturbance after a "wake," two men were sentenced to three and one month's imprison- ment at Enniskillen, County Fer: managh. There was held recently in the Theatre of the Royal Dublin Society a conversazione of the Dublin Sec- tion of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, at which about 300 guests were present. A man's skeleton was unearthed recently at Stillorgan and beside i? were copper coins, pennies and half- pence of the reign of George III., which would indicate that the re- mains are those of a person whe died about 100 years ago. Silver medals to two, bronze me- dals to seven, and certificates and commendations to over fifty other Royal Trish constables were granted recently by the Dublin Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The new Rose urban council has decided to build twenty new arti- sans' dwellings at 140 pounds each, which will enable them to be set at 2s. 3d. a week rent. The local Gov- ernment Board have sanctioned a loan of 3,000 pounds. While a party of military were carrying on bridging operations on the Liffney near Island Bridge on Saturday last, about a dozen men were precipitated into the water, and some exciting scenes and ef- forts at life-saving followed. The death has occurred of Mr. Frank Marnane, for many years a traveller in connection with big drapery firms in Dublin and Lon- don. Deceased was a native of Tip- erary, and started business life ir Cork, where he was very popular. Richard Dalton, fowl dealer, Maryboro', is the proud possessor of a chicken with three legs. The third limb is fully jointed, but ri- gid, and is only furnished with two toes. It has grown out at right an- gles from the left leg and parallel with the tail. Drogheda Guardians have decid- ed to try to withdraw their support from the Trim Industrial Sehool consequent on the recent tragedy there which resulted in the death of the assistant master. The Drog- heda Union has paid 700 pounds per year to the upkeep of the school. ke NEW FRENCH BATTLESHIPS. British Models Followed -- England to Store Oil Fuel. French battleship designers ap- pear to be following the general lines of British constructors i their 1912 building programme for capital ships of the first class, ex- cept that the tonnage of the French ships will considerably exceed that of the British ships of the Orion class, the displacement of which is 22,680 tons. The French are placing ten 13.4 inch guns on the new ships as a pri- mary armament, mounted on five twin gun turrets, all placed on the centre line after the Orion model. These guns are of slightly less cali- bre than the British 18.5 inchers, though the French ships will be larger by over 1,000 tons. The new French ships will be 541 feet long and 88 feet 6 inches broad. Their speed will be 20 knots. The He had told some. of the diving crew that there were lots of sharks about, but they thought he was merely trying to make it appear that he had a particularly dangerous task. One day they felt a jerk at the line, and hauled quickly, and there was Lund slash- ing away at something near his feet. When they had hauled him in a dead shark also floated to the sur- face. After that Lund decided to arm. himself with something more deadly, and had a spear made' of steel. This was about eight feet long, and as sharks usually attack from below he could drive the sharp 'head of the spear into them, and thus ward them off. On one occa- sion, however, he was attacked from above by a man-eater. While laying a charge of powder and wir- ing it up for a blast something made a turn above him, and, leok- ing up, he saw a big white belly overhead. He picked up his spear and attacked it, and it rose to the surface. The crew in the boat were startled to see the shark appear near them, but they threw a looped line over its tail and HAULED IT ABOARD DEAD. Lind kad aimed at the right spot. The Kanakas of the Sandwich Islands have also been attacked by the man-eaters, and so many were killed while bathing or swimming that they have a fierce hatred of the sharks, and kill them when possible by using various kinds of devices. Pearl Harbor, where Lund is at Sint work, in the old days was a fishing-| Bocker-- Yes, an umbrella handle! ground; -- but. the sharks were a that vetains the finger prints. | €reat enemy to the edible fish, so time for building and completing is to be three years, compared with the two years of the British build- ers. g The secondary armament will re- main of the same calibre as in pre ~ vious ships, that is, 5.5 inches, while -- in future 'ships the British wil) carry six inch guns. The armor will not be quite so extensive in area, but will be thicker in parts than in previous types. Turbine engines will be used. ; The British Admiralty is making a considerable increase in oil fuel storage. This was determined upon sand as his second bull, snorting) when the coal™strike was by no with fury, rushed upon him. The; means regarded as a certainty. creature's horns seemed within an! Sti!l further extension has since inch-of his body when he rose, step-| been decided upon. i ped aside with the grace of Nijin-) At Portsmouth the amount of ex sky, and plunged his short sword | penditure in providing storage has into the animal's neck. i been raised from $65,000 to $250,- The dexterity, the amazing dar- 090; on the Humber from $210,000 ing of the man, filled the eritical to $800.000; ab the Invergordon audience with new wonder at the from $40,009 to $220,000; on the - prowess of the?r favorite. A great Medway from $210,000 te $650,000. shout went up. '"'The ear! The, A sum of $35,500 is to be spent to ear !?* The toreador who has! previde new accommodation for oil pleased the public by his skill is ac-;fuel at Hambowline Dockyard; ~ corded the right to keep the ear of| $125,000 for new works at Hong-, -- the bull he has killed-as a trophy. | kong and $66,500 at Pembroke, __ It is for the spectators to judge| ~ a 54 ' whether he deserves the supreme reward. : a 3 - On Sunday some were opposed to the award and for at least two min-| utes it hung in the balance whether Bombita would take home the F trophy and, as I suppose he does,| would be more of i nail it to the wall of his dining-| Sion So ee room. King Alfonso decided the| Of the 237,722 non-commi hh _ |mnatter by joining in the popular |officers and men in the Fixe men's strength is equivalent ery, and Bombita received his ro- | Army, 167,261 belong to th to that of one average horse: = |ward: == ot England, 3 eaters are not numerous, but some- times they will come near to sum- mer resorts where the water is deep enough to permit them to swim. They are seen along the coasts of Florida and New Jersey; and the life-guards at the summer resorts, who go out in boats'to look after the bathers, always keep a close watch for the shark-fins which show their presence by sticking out of the waters. Sometimes the sharks will go up the rivers which enter the Gulf of Mexico -and the South Atlantic Ocean. <A professional swimmer. named Clark, who was giving an exhibition in the harbor of Pensa- cola, Florida, had a thrilling ex- perience. He had agreed to be sewn up in a hig sack, heavily weighted with sand, and be thrown] into the bay near the navy-yard. From the bag he was to escape by cutting his way out with a knife and swimming ashore. At the appoint- ed time a flat boat took him out some distance from shore, and af- ter being tied in the sack he was thrown overboard. He had hardly gone more than thirty feet below the surface when something bump- ed against the sack, and almost in- stantly the idea flashed through his |mind that it was a shark. Before he could do anything there was a bump from the other side of the| bag. In a moment or two he had cut his way out and was rising to the surface, still clutching his knife | in his hand. On reaching the sur- face he was greeted with cheers. He started to swim toward the nearest boat, when the water part- ed a few feet to one side, him to dine in the most fashionable restaurants. He is faultlessly dressed by a London tailor, and when I met him the other night at an eyening party I took him to be a diplomatist or a Spanish grandee, In the arena Bombita was radiant in rose color silk and gold lace, and he wore white silk stockings and dainty shoes--a charming costume for a masquerade, but inappropri- ate for the work of slaying ferocious bulls. But Bombita was superb. He played with death like a child with a tov. He knelt for a moment in the vessels. Several men are usually required to haul in an ordinary shark, owing to its strength; then it is killed by what is calléd "eru- cifying."' The shark is hooked and drawn on deck, care being taken that it cannot make use of its terri- ble teeth. It is laid down on boards and the fins securely nailed there in such a way that it cannot use them. The tail is then cut close off and the fish thrown over board. It cannot swim and it can- not steer itself. It is helpless, and the other members of its family at- tack and devour it. pigs ne : over raven tresses, which hung in two plaits, on which jingled a col- lection of medallions. The men were in a combination of the uniform of a member of the Hussars and an ordinary business suit, surmounted by green plush, with Homburg hats. Their travel- ling impediments included great sil- ver-mounted sticks and massive silver tea urns, while the women were adorned with many gold and silver ornaments. The gipsy crowd remained immo- bile until the arrival of a weird- looking hunchback, who was appar- ently the keeper of the purse. He handed the men much smoking money. after which a move was made for the Dovey train, Gray- 'beards and young men and women loaded" with baskets, tea urns and baggage of every description troop- ed off, glad to escane from the un- pleasant curiosity of the stolid. Bri- tish bystanders. E The Galicians camped around Tondon at first and then in the North of England. They have been making their living by selling cop- per articles. in which they are spe- cialists. They have met every- where with an embarrassing amount of attention both from the populace} jand the sanitary authorities, who "have forced the visitors to observe jrudimentary hygiene. 4 d. fe and West of Scotland com- being made that old or miners are not being re-em- population of the city of Ab- non the cemsus day was 163,- This is an increase of 10,388 and Dysart School sad for the accommodation of pupils. Duke of Buccleuch is to pre- e of about one and a half an infectious diseases hos- in Dalkeith. ince the Lanarkshire and shire foxhounds hunted in shire, has there heen such a f foxes as now. : Sloan, chief electrician on ic, was a Scotsman well- the shires of Wigtown, sht and Ayr. ndee several hundred POINTED PARAGRAPHS. And the louder a man talks the less it amounts to. How narrow minded most people are who argue with us! : Some people lie becanse they are too polite to tell the truth. It's surprising how many griev- ances most worthless men have. You can sometimes do a friend a favor by refusing to give him ad- vice. : aS Tt doesn't take a very clever wo- man to make a man make a fool of himse.. =] oe And many a woman has lost a good friend by leading him to the matrimonial altar. When the average man has a chance to say a good word for his neighbor he is apt to go lame. It's an easy thing for a married man to understand why, as a bache- lor, he didn't eb eps women. | VALUATION. "Politeness cost nothing,' said, the ready-made philosopher. * "Yes," replied Mr. Growricher. "Tf it had a market value ther GREAT SCHEME. er--So Jones has a great in- <& '