Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Pit Brow Women. The pit brow women wor'e at t2 mouths of English coal mines la sheds open to the weather at the sides. The work which they perform has to do with the sorting of the coal according to size and quality and the freeing of it from stones. There is some liing to be done and soine pushing. There is some risk, but not a great deal. Wo men have been hurt by the catching of their clothing in the belting and machinery, but of late there has been more care than formerly in covering the parts of the machinery which proved dangerous. At the -.rcsent time accidents are rare and coniaed for the most part to the crushing of fingers. There is dust cnstantris Ing. and this makes the work untidy. Women working in coa get 1ack faces as well as men. but they wear cloths on their heads, which keep the dust out of tWeir hair, and the fact that they are In the open air. together with the constant muscular exertin: required. is on the whole bedeticial v, thoir health. Many of tl; girls are fiLe agures and all have good color. They prefer the occupation to domes tic labor or employment in factories The wages they earn range from a shilling to 2s. 3d. a day. In thce vari ous colliery towns there are upward of 5.000 women thus employed.-Er change. An Elastic Appetite. The American black bear has an ap petite that may be appropriately teru ed elastic. He will ki!! a thousa' pound steer and captnre the- triy ielI mouse for a meal with equal indieLcr ence. If a pig or sheep is not bandy to his reach be will dine on a co:onyo ants or a nest of wood grubs. lie will feast on dainty birds' eggs or svceet stores of wild honey and on the foue-t carrion with like gusto. He will tAsh for the savory trout, but at the same: time snap a2y warty toad or slimy lizard that may happen along that way. He will seek the luscious wild plum when it has ripened or the -i0d grape among the branches where the vine clambers and bears its fruit, but will not miss the opertunity to make food of any snake that may lie in ambush there for birds that come to peck at the plums or grapes. Tae bear has a comprehensive palate. 1here is scarcely a thing in the animal or vege table kingdom that will not tickle it. The Strength o1 Rings. Some elaborate calculations, backed by experiments, have been made to de termine the "breaking strength" of rings. It appears that a ring of ductile material like malleable iron will be pulled out into the form of a long link before it breaks and that the ultimate strength of the ring is virtually inde pendent of its diameter. -Fracture finally occurs as the result of almost pure tension, and the resistance to breaking is a little less than twice that of a rod of the same cross section sub jected to a straight pull. As the ring increases in diameter there appears to be a slight- approach toward equality, vith double the strength of a bar. Thus a three inch ring made of three quarter inch iron broke at nineteen and one-half tons: a four inch ring at nineteen and nine-tenths tons and a si inch ring at twenty tons, the strength of a bar of the same metal being ten and one-half tons. A King Full. When a mn" charged with disorder ly conduct was arraigned by Patrol man Queen before a chief magistrate in the Adams street coun t. Brooklyn, the court asked, "What's your namey' "Thomas King," was the answer. "Ah," said the magistrate, "a queen captures a king." -"Yes, but it wasn't a straight deal," retorted lling. "Snre it was," interrupted Queen. "This man is a fourfiuser-." "'What's yo'ur busi * nessy' "I dig for a living, answer ed King. "So you are a king of spades;' laughed the magistrate. "Yes. but beaten by a club." answered King. "Can you come across with S2?-" "A * deuce of a fine." spoke up King. "ba 211 see you." He. handed over the nioney. and Cierk Hesterberg raked in the pot. ''I see a joker's no good in thiis game," said King as he was leav ing court.-Exchange. -New Ways of Serving Old Dishes. The clever hostess can always show her ingenuity by a touch of novelty in the seintg of some of the time hon ored courses at her dinner. Raw oys ters, for instance, produce a very crig Inal effect when served with maple syrup or whipped cream. A very palatable fish pudding may be prepared by miiing the finely chopped fish with sugar, raisins and a bit of vanilla extract, serving cold with a custard sauce. A delicious dessert is onion jelly wIth caviar sandwiches and maraschino cherries. Try it.-Judge's Library. Coerning FresiLme~n, Jamnes, aged five. and. Sarai. rtged seven, were the children of a profess or and took a great interest at the be ginning of the college year in the class collisions which, they daily witnessed on the campus. They discussed the merits of the case from every side. James usually preferred the freshmen, while Sarah always sided with their enemies. One afternoon James was trotting across the campus, holding tightly to his father's hand. His little face wvas quite serious, and he k-ept loing be hind him more or less fearfully. is father, deep in meditation, was not no ticing until finally a small voice said: "Father, they wouldn't mistake a ist tie boy for a freshman, would thev? Womanm's Home Companion. Antimilitarismn In Germany. At Strassburg I saw a general leave barracks. The sentries stood at atten tion, then when he had p~ssed on they both at the same instant aimicked ius gait, which v-as peculiar, tnehind his back-sentries, mind you! i hare also seen street boys in Germany mock thre paradeschritt of troopers when an cffi cer passed by, and the troopers grin ned broadly and the oficer saw, but said naught. Such antimilitarismn Is unthinkable in France.-Londonl Globe The Bloody Hand. The noted English family of the Holtes has for its badge a bloody hand. and this sinister badge commemorates a wager that ended in a crime- Sir Thomas Holte one -lay in 1(112 was hunting. Hie invited his comad~ es home with him to ditnner. and as he rode along he made a heavy bet or hris cook's punctuality- Dut the cook fail-. ed him for once. When he not h:ec -dinner was not ready- Ther jriers of his companions at 'his failure, together -with his huge loss in the matter of the wager. enraged him so that ihe :-ra n the kitchen, seized a cleaver and split the cook's head open with it. After ward his family. to keep this crime alive, adopted for its crest the N-~oody hand of the cook killer. THE SUPERI( AS A SOURCE OF IS BROADLY A The Board of Fertili olina gives Imported Gr . ation 0 C per u 4 c Pottc - c er u. D .Driec Imported Ground F 1 25/ Ammonia and 14 t< Lime-equivalent to 6 1 As a plant food, Impi is a steady feeder, the kii furnishing food, as neede It is ideal for Cotton For prices, etc., writ THE COE-MC Special I NEW YORK. Fcal Ar.e of Death. Most of us are familiar with the beautiful and artistic conception of French wherein a young sculptor who is plying his mie chisel upoa a block of stone and summoning from the snowy depths of the mar,-e the dream face of his soul's ideal is gently touch ed by the wistfu! eyed angel of dcatlh nd the skillful arm forever stayed. The whoe creation is marvelously beautiful, and the world is better for its birth. Nevertheless it i- allegorical and misleading. The real ange, of death in the case of the thin faced slptor was not a sad visaged maiden of classical pronte. In all probability t was a minute, rodlike organism float ing amid motes of dust and known to scientists as the "bacillus tuberculo sis." The writer does not want to be a shatterer of ideals, but the sooner such poetic notions of death are done away with and the mass of t-he people ducated in a common sense way to the dangers of dust and bacteria the better it will be for humanity in gen Tral.-J. G. Ogden in Popular Medhan ecs. A Wonderful Machin~e. The machine by which~ ratilway tick ts are printea gires an exhibition of nelligernee or what looks very like it. tiiway tizhets are~ not. as mighit be stpposed. printed in large sheets and titerward cut up. The cardboard is ct into tiekets first and printed one -~ one afterward. The little blank ordls are put in a pile in a kind of erpendicular spout, and the machine clps a bit of metal underneath the bttom of the spoixt and pushes out he lowest ticket in the pile to be rinted and c-or.secutitvely numbered. t is of no use trtying to- print a bad tiket. The :nachine fi-nas out an Ima >erfcet lank in an instant and flatly efuses to have anything to do with it. ear o'f the corner of one of the bits f card and puat it into the spout with he others in order to see what will appen and it refuses td budge again util somebody comes and removes, he impostor.' Pull out the damaged tiket and the mechanism will. set riskly to work again.-Philadelphia When Women oaevee. In George L.'s reign it was the bound en duty of the mistress of a country ouse to carve fen her guests. Eti uette demarnded it of her, and no one ight relieve her of her arduous task. et even thze.master. To the latter was omly assigned the easy labor of passing tie. bottle and looking on while each oint was placed in turn before his; ife-or daughter. as the ease might be ad by her rapidly manipulated. Carv ~ng became one of the branches of a. ood feminine education. and there ere professional carving masters who tught the young iadies. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu took lessons in the rt three times a week and on her ather's public days made a practice c- having her own dinner an hour or to beforehand. A guest who did not eceive his portion from his hostess' wn fair hands wvould have consider d himself much ugrie ved.--Londe. pectator. _______ Shricl German Discipline "German discipline In the army I3 the strictest of any nation in the ord," said a man who has c~vpe ienced it. -Erery German boy must erve a definite period in the army. =o can bny his way out in six months i' he has money, but the riehest must ere that period. The first thing told recruit when he enters the barracks s that he does not know how to wall:. [ht information startles him, because mturally he believes he had learned o walk years before. A drillmaster ets imf in a courtyard. and for a :eek, often a month, the poor recruit s drilled in walking alone. Then he teis another course. and the longest pratire marches of a regiment are al ic:t erjual to the sn-ess of actual war. It makes thorou:h soldiers of the boys."-New York Tribune. The VirtueO of Vanity. What a hideous piace to live in thc. world would be if women took it ur'os hemselves to he too superior for the use of the powder iYf:-London .Ma diae. Thought Reading. "Can I see you apart for a rzt~nen t?" "You mean alone, don't you?' "Exactly: I want the leanx Gf a liv er." -London Bystander. 'When China Was Good. During the reigns of Y'ao and 'himn in Zf00 P,. C'. vIrtue pervaded C2hina ad crime was unknow, while pros perity abo~undedl. Ue who is most slow in. '21aking a promise is the most faithfin.-in its per )R VALUE OF th Imported ound Fish Guano sit su DRGANIC AMMONIA gr bu CKNOWLEDGED. Is sil zer Control of South Car- ti fel >und Fish Guano a valu- so, 11( inj nit more than ro n Seed Meal. bi a n nit more than re( Blood or Tankage. ti sh Guano contains zo to > 2of Bone Phosphate of p e :o i of Phosphoric Acid. tic Ciu arted Ground Fish Guano pr id that stays by the crop, CI d, throughout growth. and Corn. Inc Cal uS. th ~RTIMER CO., Love mporters, aS th< CHARLESTON, S. C. t . dif th: Fate an' il- i ,r!ked some pec- e lar prlui - m~ "e-' c hdys. Sir Wal- th: ter R lt-I . .: th sentence h.n i;:ht!e years, f'iling' in i. :e voy-:.or (iscovery. re'red :( .-;: went cheer f.lI.y t. !i : g: Tower withOut he rColli'p.lin 1l15 T!: O tul adventurous bu -i oined man su had receire -'::i:: to make an other .s. ~ nrica. ! of should he sue out come of his vent- e E.:;:,.: ' v he iD" t mercy w ni i r:mted h:m. en, t th last epeit.:O. !ral:e::with s th a vital -int; rest 7 :p ak fvligh' Su wa-s nmfc:::nutte in all its, reets. in an At San T(enas. on: :ho (::yn'me river 11: Guiana. his men man"i -i lsrile ittc-Ca upon a S-anisI ttec~aeni. A ?"_ 1g I . .1. As of land was then at i:ece with spain. this act of war a-inst t1 people of ' friendly nation vras n mest ;riero-s offense against the king. On Oct. '. re ]IS, he suffered death by theax. Har ng fngered the edge. he returned t re. and said, smiling to the sheriff. "This is a sharp !ediine, but it is a sound oi cure for-all diseases." !-lrad Fun With the Fo:-eigr.ers- u A passage in E. S. Bates' "Tourzig - an In 1GO00" makes the "bleeding" whiich th< Americans tn Europe must expet at seem a great improvezment over other times: t "'The two worst towns for birutality toadforeigners were by genera.' te: consent London and Toulouse. In the ed former. .according to Glordano Brmo. u the shop people and artisans on seein~t u a stranmger make tees, grn. laugh,.I hoot. cal3 him dog. traitor. foreIgner. the last name being the rudest theyv can think of. qualifying him for an:.f other insult. Should he take the of fensive <r put his hand to his weapon ani army o~f ruttians seems to sprin out of the ground. tlourishing a forest B of sticks. poles. halberds and pri sans. 'In a more playful pmort, An will pretend to run away behind a booth and come out charging on the s stranger like an angry bull. If an arm gets broken, as happened to one Ital- u~ in, the bystanders shout with 1augh- -l ter, and the magistrate sees nothin i reprehensible in the affair." I Pa acocks' Feathers. 11o Peacocks' feathers have been handed ru down to us fromi the ancient dIays of at mythology as emablemnatical of treach- be ry. evil and misfortune. The origin fic of this strenge superstition is founded ca unon the following class'cal story: wi Osiris. khug of Egypt. upon statrtng onl ra hs TIndi . expeditionl left his queen, in Isis.fet, with Argus. bis minister, p1 s her cief adviser. Argus. with his to huded eyes, or. rather, his spies, soon L< mad~e himself so formidablo and power ful that he seized the queen reca shut her up . in a strong castle and pro elme hmself king of Egypt. Mer-a; .'r was sent against hinm with a C3 s.ron~ ary too him captive and cut a o his head. whereupon Jluno meta- ne morph'iose( him into a pteacock and set cc hi nies in his tail. From this legend 3c and the sairiouis additious made to it m frm time -to time the belief has artsen fi: that it i' uniueky to have peacocks' a featers bhside a hiouse. If B~ue Blood. b Two queens of England hadi a "bar- h< rad'' for grandmother. Thie story bI rus thus: A Westminster larmaid a inarried her master, a publican. After iii his deaith she found a second 1m~sband se inMr. IHde. a lawIyer. who in later L yearsb became lord chancellor and IC Ear'l of' Clareudon. A daughter of -this it uion mnarried the Duke of Yorkl and si was the mother~ of Mary and Anne. iH queens of England.---.Londonl Tit-Bits. Our Lumberin~g Language. "By Jove."~ said Dubts. "what's the D :natter with Tommy Rtoeks? He lo- w 'ed to me an if he were just pining S: taa. ti "Think so?" said Wiggles. "Why. I etc sa him last night. and he didn't look th ey spruce to mie."-Judge. o re -'ow the Engagement 'Was Broken. 31 "I can't make you out at all," he je( said angrily. "You're so iGekie and ;se dangeable. You're just a riddle to 'vt Yes? replied his fiancee. "Since is y'r e so stupid peiaps you'd better el gve' me up."--Philadielphial Ledger. , t Naturally So. "la the parts in tihis play are fat s "Thtey have to be 'when the play it s if is laid in Greece." - Baltimore a merican. i -Some people think they are entitled~ ta lot of credit for doing as they please.-Chicago News. The st Saive In The World. T'ne Vzc-2:' Life. Pe~ople writh1ou :; !rmi -f reli.-Ten, thout supersti. devoid of any ought of the future stite, !A:,ve been nd in the interior forests of Suma t, according to 'r. WiiheiM Volz. the ologist of the 1nivLri.ty of Breslau, o made extensi- jo:urneys though ishmld. There he found the Kubus. he named them. who are sca:rvely be distinguished from the small ;like ape of the Indo-Malayan intries. They are wanderers through forest seeking food. They have no -perty. They are not hunters, but uply colleetora. They seek merely licient nuts, fruits and other edible >wths to keep them alive. The Ku s wa e very little warfare upon the iall amount of animal life in their .nt and somber land. The only no a lie ecuI get from them of a dif -ence between a live and a dead per I was that the dead do not breathe. infers that they are immeasurably erior to the poleolithic man of Eu' e who fashioned tools and hunted rgane winh his flint tipped arrow ii knife. Intellcect::l atrophy is the mlit of the Kubus' environment. The rds they know are almost as few as ideas they try to express.-Chicago ws. Golf and a Prince. Golf has its humors." said a cham n player. "And this struck me par nrly in a conversation at a golf b that I once had with a Persian nec. The prince, as he sat on the h piizza watching the various impions drive off, drawled: 'I don't see very much in golf. No iect is to be gained by the deposit of a white ball in a subterranean ty. and if any object were to be ned the shortest and surest method uld surely he to carry the ball in hand from cavity to cavity.' 'But, prince.' I said. 'the difliculty getting the ball into the cavities. you call them. i3 what constitutes attraction of the game.' 'The difficulty constitutes the at etion. ehy The prince frowned. ell.' he went on. 'it would be more Licult to shave with a coal shovel t a razor. but I don't think many n are tempted on that account to nove their beards each morning in tt way.' "-Exchange. Undertakers. n England in 1014 undertakers were n of influence who undertook for a isideration to get such persons re *ned to parliament as would prove )missive to the royal will of King mes I. The three chief undertakers 1014 were Lords Bacon, Somerset a Neville. They undertook to bribe chief speakers and men of influ ee in parliament that year over to side of the king, with but partial ycess. Then there were undertakers Ireland in 160S. They were English Scotch colonists sent to north Ire d and were each allotted 2,000 acres land. They were men of capital d underteek 1o pay a mark a year every si- acres and to admit no fusant for tenants: hence the name applied to them. But neither the toiies nor the dictionaries give any son for calling the men who bury r dead undertakers. Ocean Currents. There are twenty-seven permanenti rents in the oceans of the world, d there are nearly as many more o1 a semi-permanent variety existinla one time. Several causes tend t( ginate and maintain these drifts. tiformly directed winds have the atest influence, and differences of nperatures, storms, polar ice and dies have each some effect, creating~ cally the currents of semni-permna nt variety. A Queensland Waterfall. Lo most people the idea of water [Is in Australia is quite unfamiliar I Australia. however, in the winta ne (May to September) mnaies ' piu image to Australia's beauty spot. th' trron river falls. North Queensland surveyor who visited the Barrol er falls thus records his impres The noise of the falls has been witi since the early morning-- now hum :ng through the jungle, now rushin; :e a mighty wind up the gorges, non' boing with astounding clearness or e ridges. A few hundred yards be y' our halting place the turbid strean shed among the bluish gray rocks d along its well worn channet. an( yond this gauzy clouds of spray ated up from the brink of the falls ught the sunlight and were glomrifled t ever forming. ever vanishin; inbow tints. The water does not fal a sheer leap into the gorge. bu anges along its rocky and precipi as bed in a series of cataracts." >don Standard. Fury of Sunstorms. ow can we. who are bewildered ani palled by the fury of our planet': lones and volcanic eruptions. forn cnception of the terrible energy 01 ural operations of the sun?' New mb suggested that if we call the lar chromosphere ali ocean of fire we ust remember that it is an ocean in ]itely hotter than the fiercest furnact Ld as deep as the Atlantic is broad we call its movements hurricane e must remember that our hurricanet ow only about a hundred miles m; mr. while those of the chromospher< ow as far in a single second. Ther' e such hurricanes as. coming dow >on us from the north. would in thirt.; conds after they had crossed the St arence river be in the gulf of 3Iex a,. carrying with them the vwhole sn: tce of the continent in a mass no cnply of ruin, but of glowing vapor arper's Weekly. A Dignifiecd Duchess. When Marshal Lefebvre was mad< ake of Dantzic the new duchess ho was the original of Sardou's Mmec ms-Gene, went to the Tuileries te ak the Empress Josephine. Unae somed to call her b~y her new title e usher entered to take the order: the chamberlain in waiting. Et turned and addressed her, "Mine. h archale may enter." The ilady look l askance at him. but entered ths 1on, and the empress. rIsing, ad Lncedl a few stops to meet her, say ,, with engaging graciousness. "iHv the Duchess of Dantzie? " La Mare ale instead of answering winked in Iligently, and thea. turning towart e usher who wao in the act of shut ag the door. "ihey, my boy." saiP e.. "what do you think of that?' Nishici ous. Belle-Edgar has such tact ina choos gn engagement ring! Nell-Yes xI such knack in getting It back fron eryy girl he gives it to. Every man's tas~k Is his life pre 'ever. E merson. LETLECT R IC THEBEsTsFOE -BIT TRS AND EDNEYS. RI ST) - :.j HE - TSTHE I T, ri X c&44 Relia ale: NorfolkVa. Tar Baltimore Md. MonU Macon Cra. RIasons Obvious. We will sing 'Awake. Ye Saints.,' i mediately before the sermon tomo row." anuounced the minister at Cho practice on Saturday afternoon. "Don't you think," inquired the 6 servant tenor, "that it would be mol appropriate to sing it immediately af er the sermon?" Wasn't at Home Much. Mrs. Hoyle--How much did her hu band leave her when he died? Mr Doyle-One more evening a week thv .when he was alive.-.Tudge. Behind the Scenes. "The people who had the covete 'privilege of the stage' in the days < our parents used to tell about tt chorus women killing time betwee 'calls' with knitting and sewing. The would open their eyes wide if the could get a peep behind the scenes j one of the great vaudeville houses London tocny." says a letter from th< city. "where the managers have pr< vided foi the spare time of the ente tainers. There are tea rooms for ti women. where comfortable furnitui and rurs take the places of the riel ety chairs and bare floors of long a. For the men there are Club room where between 'turns' one may s( 'artists' In all the various branches < the profession at billiards, pool. brid; or r'hess. A trained nurse and a ph; sician are always within call, and ti management provides a school. whe! the stage children are cducated whi mamma dances and sings and par does his share rowar'd the entertal men."-New York Tribune. The Fifteenth Century Gamblsr. In. the time of King Henry IV.< England the "smart set" managedi play bridge or its equivalent withoi shocking the susceptibilities of thos who think It wrong to play for mone; The fifteenth century gambler, acc'or< ing to one historian. "played at cart for counters, nails and points in ever house more for pastime than for gain "Everie scholar or petyte little on that plaies for money Is to be e: peled." ordains a grammar scho charter of the period. One of the di ties of hospital sisters was "to mali dilygentt searche amonge the pooi for cards or dice." LON Si actually wear longer money-they are th< glove and comfortal them on. We are I and guarantee to ple can supply you in a size and any last, wl1 more conservative s R. .p Whie roTVSto %IMP SPOT~ ERYTIMEu t PI 1 I aa al 6 3 V V rtest cre and UA 0boCr's , eh .~ealers Everjywhere ER~ GANO CO. Ofnices oro NC. Columbit S.C. omeryAla. 5prtanbaxrg . Colmbu5 6a. I f Perfumery is A Luxury1 and when ou buy a luxury you J wanflt your money's worth. If you buy.a perfume tbat is weakI l /and does not exude the essence of the real no'wer, you are mak inga poor bargian.Our exquisite perfums cost but little more-than it- cheap productions, and the ad- 1 ed satisfaction is tenfold. One ounce costs you 40c. Now try an ounce. ZEiG LER'S At Mianning, S. C. y + Have You Any Wearing Apparel That You Would Like 0 04 DRY CLEANED OR DYED? t -4 0 OUR EQUIPM.ENT GUARANTEES RESULTS EQUAL TO THAT OF ANY ESTABLISHMENT 1N THE COUNTRY. and the reputation of our concern in.sures satisfaction for any vork in trusted to us ir vou cannot reaeb any of our agents c.nveniently. write for our - free hooklet givinr imfrmnation as to prices and as to how to send your work to us. ,p 0I DEA'.1L LAUNDRY, DYERS--CLENERS K ~ing & Bun Ln. hrlso . S. C A %ts W0:at-Good Cof;mislonls. CVPRESS VS. PINE' Th unauimous verdie't of the world of buiders is in favor of+4 -Cy'press Doors. Sash. Blinds and Moulding~s. s b1-as It is easi.4r to h-indle. looks batt--. lasts longer a::d reduces 4 th w. 1 ear and tear of the balance of the~ b..ildmng; it iakes :ess paint ~ an rtaios it for a lozer period ;hin the other woud.4 IfU your dealet estanot supply you write us fur estimaLtes, we4 - u:h them cheerfully.+ L. WETHERHORN & SON, Mad;acturers, Charleston, S. C. Look for the _aite Red Bell On the Box stle~i iot all that necessary 1z a snoe e paag:z. aVe give outs saciiin either. 0ES than other shoes for the same latest wvord in style, fit like a I 1e from the day you first put ~edurters for sioe satisfaction ase you or there is no sale. Wie \ .ny leather you may wish, any tether the nobby, latter-day or hapes. NNING. Changing Money. Hlow many times can a coin be anged? That was the sober mathe atical topic of a lecture recently de -ered before the Mathematical soci y of Ulm by Professor Sauter. The ;ures which be gave proved that his atention was correct-that few peo e know the change possibilities. He owed that a two pfennig piece could, course, be rhanged but once and a -e pfennig piece only three times and ten pfennig only five times. The rise gins with the twenty-five pfennig tin. which can be changed sixty-four mes; the fifty pfennig piece 406 times id a mark-100 pfennigs-? 953 'imes. he big figures come with tLe two mark ece. or note. which can be changed L,9S4 times; the three mark note 391, 0 times and five marks 5,229,221 mes. "From this point the figures -ow to almost impossible. propor ons." said the lecturer. "A twenty ark piece can be divided or changed 33,230.248.752 ways. Allowing thir seconds for each change operation, would require 135 days 2 hours 17 inutes to make all the changes for a ree mark piece. and to- change and change as many times as possible a n mark piece and its fractions one ould have to live 31.611 years." 0 A Ghost Test. When you think you see a ghost, ow can you tell whether it really Is. ghost or not? A writer gives thel alowing scientific method: "We as-1 ame that a'person sees an apparition.I t may be objective-i. e., having ex-. ;tence outside the observer's mind-org erely a creature of a disordered., rain, subjective. The seer, while look-S ar at the vision with both his eyes.1 ently depresses one eyeball with his" orefinger from outside the top eyelid.1; o causing a squint. If objeetive rhether bogus or not, two outlines oft he 'ghost' will be seen, but one. of 4 ourse, if it be subjective.' One may" irove this by trial any time with any bject, near or far. I mention this be. ause of the many nervous and brain (earied people who see spooks and to vhom it would be better that they hould know that the trouble is with a themselves and so seek a capableg Loctor than continue to be haunted, as hey believe, by the supernatural. Curious Names. Curious Christian names are occa ionally to be encountered among the ypsies. Mrs. Brightwen, the natural-: st, tells in her autobiography of a ypsy woman she once met named rinity Smith, who had a family of laughters named respectively Levise.4 Dentina, Cinnaminti, Cinderella and 5iberenia. "These were rather out of he way names." writes Mrs. Bright-i ven, "but I was still more puzzled as, :o what could be the origin of. a little; gir being called Leviathan. I asked' the father one day how he came to give his child such a name. His reply was: 'Well, ye see, it were the name f the big ship (the G'reat Eastern was first called the Leviathan), and I thought it was a pretty name and* I would name my next boy after it;- but, however, it comed a gal, and I thought it didn't matter, so she were named so.' "-Pall Mall Gazette. Ancienit Puffs and:Switches. The Greek. Egyptiah. Carthuginian Ld Roman idies of twenty-flve cen uries ago made us of the most aston shing quantities of borrowed hair, and e Roman women ot the time of Au ustus were especially pleased when hey could outdo their social rivals by yllng upon their heads a greater tower >t additional tresses. They also ar-: anged c'uris formally around the head. n extensive commerce in human hair was carried on. and after the con' guest of Gaul blond hair such as ;rew originally on the heads of Ger nan girls along th, Rhine became very ashionable in Rome. Caesar did not :lisdain to mix a little commercialism with his military enterprises and col lected a vast amount of hair from the vanquishd Gauls, which he sent .to market at Rome. and in the Roman provinces a cropped bead was regard ed as a badge of slavery or at least of, subjection. The hairdressers of Rome were persons of real importance and harged exorbitant prices for forming he hair into fanciful devices, such as harps. wreaths and diadems.-- New York era id. The Prince's Majority. The famous "mad" king of Bavaria, Louis 1.. and Prince Otto, his brother, r'ere brought up with great strictness md simplicity. Their father, Maximil aan I1., an excellent constittional king. but In private life not particularly ;enia, allowed them no pocket money but what they earned by good marks at their lessons. on the modest scale of 1 pfenng per mark, and he would - Se them a thaler without compunc ion It they were reported idle. Their table was more frugal than that of the tons of most country gentlemen. When. Louis attained his majority at eight een he was provided with an establish mient of his own and sat down on the [irst day of his emancipation to his; asual dinner-one dish of meat and. tome cheese.-. "Am i now my own master?" he asked with a smile of his servants. "Yes, sir," was the answer. "Then." said the pririce gleefully. 'ou may bring me some chicken and a mehlspeisen (pudding)." The heart gets weary, but never gt nld.-Shenstone. A MisunUdrstandinigs A young lady who wished to pun :hase a bicycle entered a shop and, ording to the Christian Register, :>egan looking at the different wheels ind asking questions about their price ad quality. oung Lady-What is the name of his wheel? The Clerk-That's a Blelvidere. Young Lady (after a stony glare at the clerk)-Can you recommend the Sesquipedalian Words. Mark Twain is not the only person to Iind amusement in the German lan guage. A writer in the Paris Siecle accounts for the deliberation with which the negotiations over the Moroc ran difi~culty were carried on. "Our interlocutors cannot end their expanatiols," he says. "With the best will in the world they cannot pro nounce rapidly such words as this: comsinsesmlugildungs karten.' This little word means 'Invi tation cards for the meeting of the rommsion for verifying the accounts. if the expenses of printing the list of members of the anti-alcoholic con .he effect of the German tongue is thussseen to be the exact opposite of what it might be supposed to be. It is . a,.ernt to war Instad of a provo