Curious Cullings

Roman epioures kept oystors until they were putrid and then ate them with honcy. ' In some of the rural districtsof Holland smoking ie connnonly indulged in in the ohurchrs. It is n reroarkable fact that at Cape Hayes, in latitude 76 degrees, with the average tumperature at 4 degrees below zero, Colonel Feilden found a beautiful living butterfly. Snow falls in midsuinmor at Cape Hayes. It is said that the substituto for the marriage ring on the island of Aneityan, New Hebrides, was the marriage rope, put around the neck of the bride. ïhis rope she wore all her life, and when her husband died she was strangled with it by his nearest relatives.