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CURIOUS AIDS TO SPEECH.
Methods Adopted by Well Known
Speakers and Writers.
Readers may have noticed that
many persons while speaking—pub-
lic orators included—have a knack
of doing something which appears in
an unaccountable way to assist the
flow of words.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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watched or questioned by anyone.—
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