~ (UEEN VICTORIA
Queer and Interesting Facts About
Enzland’'s Ruler.
22 Physicians, and
Income,
She has 600 Houses,
$2,000,000 Yearly
{,0CO Persons in
Owns Four Yachts.
The queen is barely 5 feet tall, but
she wears a No. in the
style of the ordinary congress gaiter,
The heels are less than one-half
in height, and the gaiters are flat
broad. Their only
tips of patent leather
faney for new
5 shoe, made
and
ornamentation are
She
Wears a pair
has no
shoes, and
of gatters until they are
ont
literally worn
shillings a pair
8 than 85.
She pays but 20
a trifle les
inns are employed
health
vearly retaining
for them, or
Twenty-two physic
by the queen to look after her
Most of them 1
{pe of 25,000
eceiIve an
These include physi
dentists o®ulists,
None of these act singly
peared upon one of
ajesty’s toes it would result in a
CIANS, Surgeons, and
{ iropodists,
I all corn ap
nltation of ropodist, surgeons
brain of one man
to
1CIANS
deeme i sient evolve Bs
the tiniest ill afflicting Vie
houses, not
rent-vielding
repre sent a portion
pre )
leave to her
trice of Battenberg
home to the Duk
and
tained by the
but the
Oshorne
her expense
crown a great num
ber of royal her dt a con
siderable vear Some
1.2 x
bodies and
skin and
WAS INeOons:s
The
parted, and Cove
bon
monrning
evele
Britain,
Four yachts
exclusive nse of the
and
Fy TI8es
ft] or three
newest for two
To maintain it the
argwn pavs 865,000 annually
Jne t
in the ye
housand functionaries are em
ploy wl in the household.
Whenever she moves from one palace
to another many of them accompany
her. The nominal { this army
Lu son's
head of
ig the lord steward, who receives a sal-
ary of 810,000 a vear. His office is a
sinecure, as he does nothing but ap-
pear at court on state
gorgeous uniform.
The real chief is the
household, who
annum. All disputes arising among
the army employed in the royal pal-
fices are settled by
called (he board
court of the Marshalsea, The green
eloth court attends to matters con-
cerning Buckingham palace, and the
Marshalsea to disputes in all other
royal palaces. In both cases the pre-
mding officers are the lord steward,
dreasurer, controller and master of
the household. Originally this body
had the pe to try all criminal
cases, like rder,
bery, as well as civil matters, provid-
ing they happened within a certain
oocasions in a
master of the
receives 85.790 per
has been cirenmseribed. All questions
by them and occasionally they render
[ decisions under the wofty advice of the
attorney general,
Part of the household is made up of
{ @ state band, consisting of a master, a
{ conductor, twenty-five instrumental-
i8t8, nn sergent trumpeter, nine house
| hold trumpeters and a number of
| household drummers, These worthies
all bask in the sunlight of
New Orleans Picayune,
sinecures,
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DUELS ABROAD:.
More are Fought in Germany than in Any
Other Country.
More duels are fought
than in other
them, however,
in
country
fudent
nothing
Germany
Most of
are duels,
which culminate in
rious
Hi wip Be.
more se
or torn
iy
than
Hnivers
tiie 1k and tingen
towns li are
most
One day aeveral Yen
‘iit in Croet
In J
one day in recent tim
Fully 4,000 student
were ou
four hour
f the mea:
Ing «
\ people wl
A Diamond Candle,
have heen ¢
ced in a dark room
n a vaeunm and exposed
of
diamonds phosphoresce, or shine, with
ferent colors. Most Sonth African
diamonds, under these cire tances,
xhibit a bluish
current electricity,
di
fHms
light, while diamonds
rom other parts of the world shine
ad , Ap
ricot, pale blue, red, yellowish green,
orange and pale green.” After reciting
the preceding ats, in a recent
lecture in Prof. William
Crookes interesting
ment: ‘One beautiful green diamond
in my collection, w hen phosphorescing
©
¢
i
with sueh colors “bright bine
Lont o iy
made th a state-
in a good vacuum, gives almost as much
light as a candle; the light is pale
green, almost wifite.”
——— a
Lost Frigate Found.
Dredging in Breat Roads has led to
the discovery off Grande Riviere, half
a mile from the coastand at a depth of
40 feet, of a frigate 150 feet long,
pierced by numerous cannon balls,
The vessel is believed to have been
sunk by the English nearly 300 vears
ago. Diving operations are to be ¢
In 1894 Costa Rica exported 1,576,-
bunch being shipped at a cost of about
25 cents, A single acre of this incredi-
bly rich soil may yield 200 excellent
bunches, One Costa Riea banana
plantation covers 2471 acres.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
}v the birth of the Duchess of
York's little girl the number of Queen
Victoria's descendants rises to eighty,
seventy of whom are alive,
had nine children-—four sons and five
daughters; forty-one grandchildren,
and thirty great-grandehildren., Two
of her children and eight grandehil
dren have died.
She has
Tur Red Cross Cycle Corps, of Chi
cago, was organized to furnish prompt
medical treatment to persons injured
The plan is for
the corps to be in-
pre
in bicyele accidents,
member of
structed the
gery, 80 as ta be ready to
each
Of
relieve
in liminaries sur
nf
fering wherever found Fac
organization will
f trapped
h member
of the be required to
CRIry,
wilcine CRANE
eptic dre
iedinte
Ries ade
vt ntmoer,
means, and these are
the wives of
vomen of
ve? in number by
medical up 10 per
of the List It is said that there
are entire villages in Germany whose
men, who make
yey db
ns
inhabitants are all addicted to the use
of the drug, but the general belief that
the morphine habit is more extensive-
ly practiced in Paris than in any other
city is contradicted. Morphinomania
occurs with the greatest frequency be-
the and
forty years.
tween ages of twentv-five
Tur Cleveland (0.) Plain Dealer
gives the following outline of the plan
of Australian federation, “The
era, privileges and territory of the va-
rious will remain intact
Each will have, ag now, its governor
appointed by the crown and its legis-
lature of two houses elected by the
people and the loeal affairs of each
colony will be administered by its own
government. The federation will
have as its executive a governor-gen-
eral appointed by the crown. The
federal parliament is to consist of a
senate and house of representatives
etected by the people and to this par-
filament will be given the exclusive
power of imposing and collecting ens-
toms and excise duties and it will also
have full control of military and naval
affairs. Trade between the federal
colonies ix to be absolutely free, At’
present each colony has its own tariff,
operative against each other as well as
the rest of the world, and many com-
pow
¥
colonies
{
| plications have arisen on this account,
{ A supreme federal to be the
high court of App fl the colonies,
conrt,
of
ach of the colonies
ul force, the
under
is provided for
now has a small nas con
sgolidation of which one control
torpedo and gunboats, with a cruiser
and an armor-plated turret ship
Silver Coin Being Counterfeited.
of
the
1 reps
frac
nterfeited,
the
filver
gecret gervice division
ury I) partment that
tional coins being con
1t 18 f¢
The low pr
ure
nnd ared to a very large extent
bullion
the de
Iarge qual §
ey
the presen
Observed by a Skeptic.
I once saw a cov boy $ 3 to
doubted
Af
ostriches
ostrich, and ever sino. figyve
the stories tol
rica and Aus
He had vanquished every pony
ever undertaken to
was only after an
13 s Tiative 19
* nasives In
riaing y
he had
break in, but 1%
hard work
ing the bir
Dam «
These
hour's
he succeeded in mount
which at ied to
then to g
Bend be
£33 8% 43
él awe
tactics, of course, h 10 effect upon
5 . y
the cowboys #1 ite of all
i« the ostrich suceeed-
the man could do,
ed in getting its head around and seiz-
ing him by one leg. | doubled his
feet under him and the ostrich reached
over its wings and got a hold upon his
back, throwing him heavily to the
ground and tramping on him. It took
three of us to chase the infuriated
bird, and we accomplised it barely in
time to save the man’s life, I don’t
believe the native Australians ride
ostriches,
ie
Among the 121,574 emigrants who
left Europe by German harbors last
year, only 25,771 were Germans, Of
the total number 105,430 went to the
United States, 7,353 to Brazil, 2,280
to Canada, 3,024 to Afriea, eto,
HST.
Spain smoked $31,000,000 worth of
tobacco last year— $1.80 per capita.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
Items of Interest on Agricultural
Topics.
Posts
Beetle,
Value of Ensilage. What Makes
Decay. The Striped Cucumber
Etc. Etc.
OF ENBILAGE,
and COW?
il (ris
Linge
that are
better
Space,
raised in brooders will do much
with a
¢
attached to one end of
They need to get ont
11 /
SIA Tun, Redd
the brooders,
gave Epitomist
on the ground In
and harden them, and to keep then
order 10 1Invigorats
from growing up too much on the hot
house plan—w eak and delicate Th
rian, we term the hrood pen
CHEATY a8 1h
about as ned
order to attain he highes egree © i
aH, We have two Kinds of iy
18 Ke pti i
ont in the yard
come from the incubator, we put them
But, after the chicks
we move them to an
God
ors and the other
When the chicks first
in the former
are two weeks old,
out-door brooder, with a brood pen at-
tachment. Then, on bright days, we let
them out on the ground, where they
wallow in the sand and ashes, and
serateh among clover hulls and wheat
chaff for the small grain that is scat
tered among it. The brood-pen system
reduces the care and anxiety about the
chickens, especially when a storm ap-
proaches, to a minimum, because the
brooder is left open at the end and the
chéckens can run inside at the first ap-
proach of danger, and if they become
chilly they can go back into the hover
department, which is heated all the
time, by a lamp beneath. Even when
the chickens are with a hen the brood.
pen system is desirable. Many a chick-
en is yun to death while young and
weak, by an unreasonable
mother that keeps on the go all the
time, But if the brood should be eooped
within a small pen, about ten by twelve
and fligaty
feet, and kept within the enclosure un
feathered
and large enough to stand the wet grass
and to travel about with the hen, a
much larger per cent of
The Silver
til the chickens are all well
Haein
Knight,
may be
raised,
i
1
KILLING CABBAGE
H E. Weed, of the 3
W The §
who
the
ex-
und
d to
ipped
Tend hed
muttons
for the
Or more
a ve ar
he wool
keeping
ing even
De pas
ired weights.
plenty and cheap,
‘ ort of lamb, indeed,
pay a better price than
arket il afford It will not
feed ewes The lambs
Iw grain by themselves
a separate enci which can be
Wallace's Dairyman.
the
given
mn re,
easily made
Old Friends Reunited,
“When 1 pupil at Hebron,
Me.) Academy over forty vears ago.”
d Judge Hilborn of California, the
“there were two boys in
ym I was especially
attracted came Taner,
He was a bright, spirited little fellow,
best scholar in his classes, quick
to learn, and the sort of a boy every-
body said would ‘amount to something
by and by." His name was "Gene
Hale. The other came from Buckfield,
and wae a year or two younger. s little
chubby chap, whom everybody liked,
We all ealled him ‘Johnnie® Long. He
was the marvel of the school in Latin,
He had read Virgil through, and knew
a great deal of it by heart. He wasa
wonder, too, in Latin grammar. After
we left school I went West and lost
gight of them. Now I am here, a
member of the Naval Committee of
the House, ‘Gene Hale is at the head
of the Naval Committee in the Senate,
and ‘Johnnie’ Long is © of
the Navy."—Louisville Courier-Jour«
nal.
Was a
1
ther day,
the acade ny to wh
One from
the