The Oddity

Cutting off the hands and feet is a punisnment was practiced In every country in Evrope uut Euglaud two oenturies ago. A Germán jeweler has introduced a grewsome "charm" for the watch chain ín the form of a tiny receptacle for a portiou of the ashes of cremared friends. On a French tombstone - could it have been found onanyother? - is the inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Mlle. ; died April 3 in her eighty-ftrst year. She never looked her age." An old European custom was to give a clock to any one who could take an oath that he had strictly minded bis own business and not rneddled with his neighbors' affairs for a year and a day. Dr. O. Hildebraud of Goettiugen reports in The Medical Record the case of a boy of 15 who, since the age of 12 years, had had 150 to :0ü teeth of various sizes removed. Á year and u half later 17 more were ie ojoved, with evklences of otheï's coming.