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Dogs In Harness In Belgium.
Dogs that work in Belgium are
bought and sold in the open market
like norses, and if strong and well
broken they bring from $20 to $25
each. In manufacturing towns there
is the usual number of horses, but for
every horse you will see two dogs in
harness on the streets. Early in the
morning market women drive them |
_ hitched to carts loaded down with veg-
etables. The grocer, the expressman,
the butcher and baker, all employ
dogs to do the work of horses. They
are much quicker than the horse, and
size for size they can draw a heavier
load.
will go twice as far as the horse with-
in the same time. They are driven in
wagons, single, double, treble and four-
fn-hand. ‘They are often kept in liv-
ery barns like horses, are fed generally
on black bread and horseflesh and cost |
in board from 5 to 6 cents per day.
They are sleek and well kept and ap-
pear to enjoy their work.— Louisville
Courier-lournal.
A Drop of Water.
Figures are sometimes impressive
simply by being so stupendous that
the human mind grasps them with
difficulty. An instance in point is af-
forded by the illustration once offered
to his hearers by an eminent scientist,
who. in order to bring to their com-
prehension the idea of ultimate parti-
cles of water, stated that if he was to
empty a tumbler containing half a
i Eddystone Lighthouse.
! The Eddystone lighthouse, fourteen
miles off Plymouth, England, and ex-
posed to the full fury of the south-
western seas, was built by Winstanley
in four seasons. Begun in 1006 and
finished in 1700. it was destroyed in
the dreadful storm of 1703. The sec-
ond structure was completed in 1709
and destroyed In 1755, after it had
faced the wind and the waves for
something over forty-six years. The
third tower, finished in 1750 and con-
demned in 1878. was followed by the
present wonderful structure. which
since 1882 has been def ‘ve the ele-
ments while It flashed oot over the
terrible waters its saving h=ht. Since
the brave Winstanley bhuint the first
| Bddystone lighthouse <imiinr safe-
guards have sprung up like magic sen-
| tinels along all the coasts of all the
great deeps of the earth are forewarn-
ed and forearmed against the dangers
them.—New York
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It is said the dog in harness | ocenns, and those who sail upon the
which threaten
American.
An Effective Prayer.
“Years ago.” says a well known ac-
tor. “1 appeared in an amateur per-
formance of a play that had a distinct
religious flavor. The leading player
had studied for the ministry and bad
a deep and sonorous voice. In one of
the scenes the lights were supposed to
be turned down and a raging storm
simulated. The accompanying lines
were:
“+0 Lord, deliver us from the pow-
ers of darkness.’
“The leading man spoke the lines,
but darkness didn't follow. He spoke
them again, snd still the stage was
distressingly light. Finally he roared:
pint of water, letting out each second
+0 Lord, deliver us from the pow-
a number equal to 1,000 times the | or of darkness and also give that fool
population of the earth. it would re- | gas man sense enough to turn down
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and 47.000,000 years to empty the tum-
bler. Lord Kelvin has assured us that |
if a drop of water was magnified to |
the size of the earth the particles |
would be between the size of cricket |
balls and footballs. If that statement
is correct the drops of water in all the
oceans are not many times so numer-
ous as the particles, or molecules, in a |
single drop.—St. Louis Republic.
When Baronets Were Bold.
somewhere between 7,000,000 | 0 lights.’
“The gas lights went down, and the
nrudience roured.” —Pittsburg Chronicle-
Telegraph.
The Bible as a Detective.
I'he Bible was used until quite re-
| cent years for the detection of thieves.
Dr. Jessopp told in 1882 how there
were still persons living who had wit-
. nessed the ordeal to which an East
Anglican parson subjected his servants
French Foreign Legion a Unique
Military Body.
CRIMINALS FILL ITS RANKS.
It Gathers Recruits From the Social
Outcasts of All Grades of All Other
Countries—Iron Discipline and Bru-
tal Punishments.
The French Foreign Legion is
unique. There is no other military
organization like it on earth. It was
then newly conquered colony of Al-
geria. The officers are French officers,
of course, but the ranks are made up
of outcasts of all social ranks of all
other countries. It is understood that
recruits are simply seeking refuge
from the arm of the civil law. The
corps has done excellent work against
the Arabs and Is always placed in the
forefront of the fight.
The Foreign Legion exists but to
march. To this one end its whole
training is devoted. Tv fall out on
the march is the one unpardonable
sin in a legionnaire. The system of
marches is brutal. No matter what
the distance, it has to be completed in
one stage. Forty miles, fifty, sixty—
no matter—it is done straight off the
reel, with, of course, brief halts for
rest. But there is no general halt
until the whole distance is completed.
If a legionnsire faints on the march
he is tied to a baggage cart which
rolls on. He then either has to march
or he is dragged along. “Seeing this
done for the first time, I thought it
stand the reason for it.” sald one who
had served in its ranks.
The legionnaire who straggles in the
desert is lost. Hundreds of men have
died a dreadful death in this way. The
Arab women pounce upon them, lying
helpless in the sand, and, with shrieks
of fiendish delight, proceed to torture
and mutilate them before killing them
outright.
A leglonnaire’s pay Is only a balf-
| when his cash box was missing. He | penny a day. True, wine In Algeria
It ye in the reign of good KINg grgered them all into bis bedroom and | costs only a penny a quart, and tobac-
James t nt Sardnsis Seat came into | rapgeq them around the walls. From | co threepence to fourpence a pound.
existence. ay you could hardly tell | ¢p0 canter of the celling bung the rope | But—a halfpenny a day!
a baronet from a banker. But in the
year 1611, when James 1. needed ready
money and created 200 “little barons” |
to supply him with cash, they swag- |
gered about in their baldrics and sash- i spinning round, and the one at whom i
es and behaved In the courtliest of |
fashion. Each baronet in order to!
justify his title had to maintain a
small army of thirty soldiers for three
years. In thix way tne crafty king
not only increased his revenue, but
actually lightened his expenses.
It is not generally known that the
title of “baronetess” has twice been
bestowed on women. One of these was
the mother of a Dutch general. The
other was a Nottingham lady named
Dame Maria Bolles, who won her way
dnto the good graces of Charles I. and
received the title from his hands.—
London Tit-Bits.
When He Was Bad.
It has been said that you never know
a mau till you travel with him, and
certainly traveling has a tendency to
bring out ail the depravity innate in
human nature. Out of this test, how-
ever, Benjamin Disraeli emerged with
flying colors. This is what was said
of him by Mrs. Austen, who with her
husband traveled with bim when he
was quite a young man, as related in
Mr. Monypenny's biography:
“Your brother,” she says tthe letter
was addressed to Disraeli’'s sister), “is
80 easily pleased, so accommodating,
so amusing and so actively kind that
I shall always reflect upon the domes-
tic part ot our journey with the great-
est pleasure. Your brother has be-
haved excellently, except when there
is a button, or, rather, buttons, to be
put on his shirt: then he is violently
bad. and this happens almost daily.”
Whales In Nets.
Just south of the Bay of Islands,
New Zealand. where in a landlocked
harbor beautiful Wangamumu nestles
in the shadow of Cape Brett. there is |
established a whaling station, and here
is carried on the unique business of
catching whales by means of nets set
fn a narrow channel! between rugged
rocks. The cetaceans frequent this
passage, it is said. to rub off the ac-
cumulation of sea growing parasites
gained in long journeys through deep
water.
The Word Vaudeville.
The word “vaudeville” sprang from
Vaux de Vire, the name of a hamlet
in the picturesque town of Vire, in
Switzerland. In the fifteenth century
this town was the home of Oliver
Basselin, the author of witty drinking
songs. One of the best known of these
songs was a merry dissertation on the
author's red nose.
He Didn't.
The wife of a clergyman warned him
as he went off to officiate at a funeral
one rainy day:
“Now, John, don't stand with your
bare head on the damp ground; you'll
catch cold.”
The Reason.
“Why Is that man always grunting
so about his business?"
“1 don't know, unless it is the force
of association. You see, he deals in
pig iron.” —Baltimore American.
He Was Immune.
Morrow—It makes me very uneasy
if I owe a dollar to any one. Borrow—
Great Scott! If I felt that way about
it I'd have St. Vitus' dance.~Boston
Transcript.
used to lower coffins into the church-
yard graves, wound round a Bible,
from the leaves of which projected
the church door key. This was sent
the key pointed when it stopped was
proclaimed as the thief. Happily the
man thus marked out was able to
prove an alibi. But this did not con-
vince the servants that the test was a
bad one. They only concluded that the
thief was not there.— [Loudon Chron-
cle.
An Unbeliever.
“This here paper says as how they've
just discovered the remains of a thirty-
five foot saurian in Nevada.”
“What in thunder's a saurian?”
“Blamed If | know. i s'pose mebbe
it's somethin’ like a sardine.”
“Huh' You Iign'rant chump, they
ain't ne thirty-five foot sardines.”
“Well, there could be the remains of
one, couldn't they?"
“Haw-haw! Who'd ever buy a box
of them things?"
“Darn you, you're just like all the
rest of these here smart guys that are
upsettin® religion. | think they is re-
mains of thirty-five foot sardines In
Nevada. | got faith to suppose that
they is also remains of men big enough
to buy 'em by the box an’ eat ‘em
on crackers. You know what you are?
You are one of these here atheists!"—
New York Journal.
Pyramid of the Sun.
The most colossal structure of pre-
historic man in America, known as the
pyramid of the sun, is at Teotihuacan,
Mexico. not far from the capital
Close to the great pyramid stands the
| pyramid of the moon, which the build-
ers regarded as the wife of the sun,
and surrounding them are nearly 200
mounds of greater or lesser magni
' tude, which tradition says were crown-
ed by temples and public buildings.
| Two hundred and sixty-eight steps
lead to the summit of the pyramid of
the sun. which is 210 feet high. Tt is
761 feet square at the base, and the |
summit Is 59 by 105 feet.—National
Geographic Magazine.
A Real One.
| His rations, too, are of the scantlest.
| Two meals a day only are served—
, breakfast at 10 o'clock in the morning
| and supper at 4 in the afternoon.
Each meal is exactly alike, consisting
| of a thick soup made up of meat and
| vegetables, with bread, and every oth-
er day a small quantity of wine.
The discipline is ruthless in its sever-
ity; the punishments are cruel in the
extreme. For grave offenses, like de-
sertion, insubordination or striking a
superior officer, death Is frequently in-
flicted, or, failing that, the offender is
sent to serve in the penal battalion on
the edge of the Sahara desert. This
nearly always means a slow and pain-
ful death in place of a quick and com-
paratively painless one.
CORPS OF ROGUES
first raised in 1831 for service in the
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Minor offenses are punished with |
from twenty to a hundred days in
prison or with “cellule,” which is soll-
tary confinement in the dark plus star
vation. 1 have seen strong, robust
men so reduced after doing thirty days
cellule that they have hardly been able
to stand, yet they had to resume their
ordinary duties nevertheless.
Not long since two other dreadful
forms of punishment were in vogue—
the “silo” and the “crapaudine.” The
silo was just a deep hole in the ground
' shaped like a funnel, into which the
victim was cast. He was given no
' blanket or other protection from the
weather.
The sun beat upon him by day; the
. cold night mists penetrated to the mar-
row of his bones. He could not lie
down, for the bottom of the silo sloped
| to a point. He just crouched, a hud-
| dled heap, until not infrequently death
| mercifully relleved him from his suf:
ferings.
The crapaudine consisted in trussing
a man as a fowl is trussed, his hands
and feet being tied together on his
back in such a manner that they form-
ed a sort of semicircle.
This resulted in such frightful
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march an offender is still punished by
being “spreadeagled” and bound
four stakes driven into the ground.
To escape from these tortures men
mutilate themselves, usually by -
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The Feminine of It.
Teacher—Tommy, what is the fem-
inine of the masculize “steg?’ Tom-
my (whose mother is a soclety leader)
—Afternoon tea, ma'am.—Sphinx.
“Thoughts are mightier than the
strenzth of hand.—Sophocles.
Medical.
Doubt Disappears
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Bringing Up?
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RUBBERS.
This is what appeared in a recent
number of the American Journal or
Health:
The family doctor should din it into
the mother's head all the time, that
the health of their children lies in the
feet. Keep the feet dry. Never let
them get wet. No child should be al-
lowed to go out in snow or rain, or
when walking is wet, without Rubbers.
REMEMBER, Yeager's Rubbers are
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cheaper than the other fellows.
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