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Sir Walter Scott has supplied an fllustration of this. When at school he could never succeed in getting above a certain boy in the class until he discovered that this boy, while re- peating his lessons, continually fid- geted with a button on his waistcoat. At the first opportunity that offered, Scott cut the button away, and his object was gained. When the boy was called upon to construe, his hand instinctively sought the button, and, being unable to find it, his mem- ory completely failed him and he went in disgrace to the bottom. Mrs. Cowden Clarke, the compiler of the well known concordance to Shakespeare, has told of a similar peculiarity on the part of Madame de Stael, who had a habit when talking of taking a scrap of paper and snip- ping it into bits with a pair of scis- sors. The idiosyncrasy of Gibbon, the historian, was to take a pinch of snuff between his fingers when he recounted an- anecdote, and invaria- bly drop it at the point of the story. A Mystery Explained. One of the strangest of stories of false {imprisonment comes from France. A woman was sentenced wo imprisonment. for Iiife for buving caused the death of her husband and brother. The three had lived to- gether at Malaunay, near Roeun, in a cottage, the lower part of which was used as a wineshop. When the woman was sent to prison other peo- ple took the wineshop, but the new tenants suffered, the man from faint- ing fits, his wife from nausea, from which she died. Another couple tried their fortune, but they too were overcome by the ‘‘spell of the ac- cursed place,” as they thought it. They were subject to fainting and loss of memory. At last a scien- tific examination of the premises was made. Then it was found that a lime kiln adjoined the inn. In the wall dividing it from the cottage were many fissures, so that whenever lime was burnt monoxide of carbon es- caped into the inn. This was the secret of the deaths for which the woman was suffering. She was brought out of prison after six years of servitude. The Quality of a Mirror. In the mirrors of to-day tthe light is reflected by a layer of silver or an amalgam of tin, but a proportion of light is lost in the process of reflec- tion and the image is less luminous than the original. The value of a looking glass is usually estimated by the thicknessof the glass, becausethe thicker it is the stronger it must be. But, speaking scientifically, thick glasses are defective because the outlines of the image reflected are less clearly defined. Habits of Domesticated Animals. The dog is the most widely dis- tributed of the domestic animals. He lives in the lowly hut of the African savage and is the companion of the Greenland Esquimaux, the most northern {inhabitants of the wrold. Ie is, in fact, the inseparable com- panion of man and is found where- ever the human race exists. His hab- itat is thus extended further north and further south than that of any other domestic animal. Uses of Cocoanut. Oriental coals not being well suit- ed for the production of large quan- tities of illuminating gas, and gaso- line not being readily obtainable, the government laboratories in the Phil- ippines have adopted a method of preparing ga from cocoanut oil. The oil is slowly poured into red-hot -iron retorts, and a gas of a high quality is given off, with the produc- tion of very little tar. Medical Value of Flowers. It is now established that flowers and the perfumes distilled from them have a salutary influence and consti- tute a thearapeutic agency of high value, and that residence in a per- fumed atmosphere forms a protec- tion from pulmonary affections and arrests phthisis. In the town of La (Grasse, France, where the making of nerfumes is ‘largely carried on, phthisis is unknown. Passing of the Glacier. According to experts who have been studying the question, the death and total extinction of the pre- historic glaciers is only a matter of time. In the Dauphine Alps seven- teen main glaciers have been under close observation since 1890, and all have shrunk steadily during the pe- riod, some of them as much as fifty feet a day. ih Zone of the Silkworm. The silkworm girdles the earth be- tween the fiftieth parallel of north latitude and the Tropic of Cancer, being found further seuth only in Siam and Cochin China. In other words, it lives wherever the mul- berry and other trees on which it feeds are found in perfection. Selling Snow in Italy. Snow is sold ir the north of Sicily, and it fetches about a cent a pound, It is a government monopoly, and the Prince of Palermo derives the greater part of his income from it. The snow is gathered on the moun- tains in felt-covered baskets, and is sold in the eftfes for refriger VARIOUS RADIUM RAYS. Beyond the Scope of the Strongest Microscope to Determine. For the sake of distinction the ra- dium rays are known as the alpha beta and gamma rays. Two of these kinds are actual matter. The first seem to be about the size of atoms, they travel enormously fast, but are easily stopped by a thin sheet of metal. The second are atoms a thou- sond times smaller than anything else known, and they go right through most metals. Both sorts are electrified. The third class of radia- tions are apparently the Roentgen rays. It would seem as if this waste of substance and power could con- tinue for thousands of years, and yet the radium show no sign of growing less. All these rays are far beyond the scope of the most powerful mi- croscope, but are caught and shown by the Crookes screen. Difficult Horseback Feat. There are no better horsemen in the world than the cavalry officers of the Italian army, yet even among them there are very few who could perform the feat recently achieved by one of them. : To run an ordinary foot race is easy enough, but to run at full speed for several hundred yards holding in one had a spoon on which rests an egg and to reach the goal without dropping the egg is a feat. which raust be practiced carefully a long time before it can be performed suc- cessfully, and as a result there are not many who can be sure of accom- plishing it whenever they try. Great, was the surprise when an Italian officer mounted on horseback per- formed this difficult feat. Moreover, he selected a course in which there were two or three high fences, and these he cleared at full gallop with- out losing the egg. Fat Mcn and Marriage. It is remarkable how seldom one finds a fat man unmarried. It is the thin men as a rule who run to bache- lorhood. It may be urged, going back on a previous sentence, which spoke of matrimony as a weight increaser in men, that this is putting the cart before the horse. It is true, never- theless, that where you find a fleshy man his tendency is to marry. In matters of color the fair man may be said to have it as against the dark man, and if there be a dash of red in his composition matrimonial proba- bilities are thereby increased. The little man has, in this respect, as in some others, pre-eminence over the long man. Women, as a rule, are readier to marry tall men—they ad- mire length—but long men are not always ready to be married. Strange Coincidence. There is a mysterious coffin- shaped grave in the churchyard at Montgomery, England, on which the grass refuses to grow. According to the local legend, a young man of Montgomery was hanged for mur- dering his sweetheart. He asserted to the last that he was not guilty, and on the scaffold, declared that no grass would grow over his grave un- til his innocence was proved. The prophecy, it is alleged, has been ful- filled to the present day. An Illusive Plant. There is a plant in Chile and a similar one in Japan, called the “flower of the air.” It is so called because it appears to have no root, ond is never fixed to the earth. It twines round a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily—white, transparent and odoriferous. It is capable of being transported six to seven hundred miles and vegetates as it travels suspended on a twig. Toilet of the Ant. A naturalist has been making ob- servations on the toilets of certain ants, and has discovered each insect goes through most elaborate ablu- tions. ‘They are not only performed by herself, but by another, who acts for the time as lady’s maid. The as- sistant starts by washing the face of her companion, and then goes over the whole body. The attitude of the ant that is being washed is one of in- tense satisfaction. Solving the Tramp Question. The city of Colby, Kan., had 1,000 meal tickets printed and distributed among the housewives of the place. The tickets are good for one meal when countersigned by the city mar- shal. When a hobo appears at the back door and asks for a handout he is given one of these tickets, which the marshal will redeem for two hours’ work on the streets. Unless the tramp follows this procedure he goes hungry in Colby. Sale of Asses’ Milk in London. This has been a good year for the gale of asses’ milk, the consumption of | which varies according to the amount of illness prevailing. Two or three asses’ dairies still held their own in London, one being within a couple of hundred yards of the Marble Arch, where ‘‘milch asses’ are kept on the premises. From this establishment the milk is sent all over the country in sealed bottles, the price being 6s. per quart, “Singing Insects” of Japan. More than three thousand persons in Japan make a good living by breeding, training, and selling what are known as ‘‘ singing insects.” The insects somewhat resemble our crickets, being known in Japan by the name of kusa-hibari. The music which they make resembles that of a silver bell, and, though rather mo- notonous, is very clear and sweet. Execution of Spies. The ceremony of disposing of a eondemned spy in the English army always follows a definite precedent. The unfortunate man is surround- ed by a detachment of infantry, and, | after he is provided with a pick and shovel, he is marched off to a select- | ed spot and ordered to dig his own grave. ken from him and his eyes are ban- daged. The attending chaplain reads portions selected from the burial service and from the ranks of the es- | cort twelve men are selected at ran- dom by the officer in charge. These men, having stacked their own rifles are led to where twelve other rifles are awaiting them, six of which are loaded with blank cartridges. One of these is handed to each man, so that no one knows whether the rifie he holds contains a bullet or not and none can say for certain that the shot fired by him killed the prisoner. The firing party then marches to an appointed position. The commands “Present!” “Fire!” are given and almost before the last word rings out the volley is fired and the spy falls into the grave he has dug. Nearly every man is more or less affected on belng selected to form one of the fir- ing party and many men have been known to faint away on being sin- gled out, while others are sc over- come as to be scarcely able to pull the triggers of their rifles. A Vase Worth £15,000. Another family treasure of great value which has since passed into the keeping of the nation is the Portland vase, now exhibited in the British Museum. This vase comes from Italy, and what its age is no man knows, though it has been proved that in 235 A.D. it was deposited in a sepulchre under the Monte del Grano, three miles from Rome, and is believed to have contained the ashes of the Emperor Severus. But, whether or no, Pope Urban VIII. had it dug up; and for more than two centuries it reposed in the Barberini Palace at Rome. In 1786 the Duke of Portland purchased {it from Sir William Hamilton for 1,029 guineas, and deposited it in the British Mu- seum fifteen years later. The vase is only ten inches high. In 1845 a man named Lloyd, employed at the mu- gseum, picked up a stone and hurled it, in a fit of frenzy, at the case which contained the precious relic. The vase was smashed into hundreds of pieces, but with great ingenuity they were all put together again, and as it now stands is sald to be worth at the very least £15,000.—West- minster Gazette. Trout Fishing in a Street. At Winchester it is quite a com- mon thing to see men fishing through the street gratings. Under the High Street there flow several streams, which ultimately discharge into the River Itchen—a noted trout stream. These streams receive the storm and surface water from the street by means of the ordinary gtreet grating. The line is dropped through and fastened to the end of a stick small enough to go through the grate. When the fish is hooked the line and stick are dropped through the grating and the fisherman rushes to the point where the stream emerges from under the street, anl is there able to recover his line and .land his fish.—London Tit-Bits. Brain Wearing Professions. A scientist has gathered from sta- tistics that the military and naval professions most quickly wear out the brains. Out of 100,000 soldiers and sailors 199 were confirmed luna- tics. Next came the liberal profes- gions, artists heading the list, fol- lowed closely by lawyers, and more distantly by doctors, clergymen, lit- ary men, and civil servants. In 100,- 000 about 177 of these go mad. Of domestic servants and laborers 155 out of 100,000 go to the asylum, and of mechanics only sixty-six. The sanest people, apparently, are com- mercial men, of whom forty-two in 100,000 zo mad.—Exchange. His Means of Wealth. In some parts of Ireland it is the custom cof the farmers to deposit money in the bank in the joint names of husband and wife, so that when one dies the survivor can draw out the money without the legal for- malities. To a farmer who made ap- plication for money deposited for himself and wife, the manager of the bank asked: ‘Why, Pat, how can this be? It is not much more than a year since you came with an applica- tion on the death of your wife.” “Well, your honor,” was the reply, “I’m a bit lucky wid wimmen.” Valuable Gold Beetles. In Central America the most re- markable gold beetles in the world are found. The head and wing cases are brilliantly polished with a lustre as of gold itself. To sight and touch they have all the seeming of metal. Oddly enough, another species from the same region has the appearance of being wrought in solid silver, freshly burnished. These gold and silver beetles have a market value. They are worth from twenty-five to fifty dollars each. Swedish Postal Custom. In certain parts of Sweden, where | the most absolute confidence is re- posed in the honesty of the people, a very informal postal system ig in vogue. As the mall steamer reaches a landing-place a man goes ashore with the letters, which he places in an unlocked box on the pier. 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