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Day
25
Month
March
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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-All Must Pay.- Il a Turk should sell off eveiything1 in order toescape taza tlon hi' would yet bc taxed on what he expected to hold in the future. Nothing but death or leaving the country oan stop taxes in Turkey. - Can you give me the address of Dr. R ?" was asked of Robinet. "Certainly; Waram avenue." "What munter?" "Well, that I can not g-ive you," answered Robinet, "but you'll find it over the door without the least difficulty." - The phenomenon of latent heat was first inquired into by Dr. Black, of Bcotland, ne rly 180 years ago. II is attention was directed to the subject by observinpr that a mixture of ico and ■water though absorbing1 a measurable amount of heat did not rise in tcmperature until all the ice had disappeared. - William was T(nder. - A stranfyer at Port Scott, Kan., pot into a dispute with William Davis about the wcathcr and pulled his nose. Five minutes later William was dead of hcart failure. The doctors said that if his wif had picked up the roliinfj-pin and threatened him at any time for years back the result would have been the same. -Detroit Pree Press. - Justified by the cireumstances. - "Shay, p'leecem'n," mumbled Mr. Rambo, "give y' dollar 'f you'll show me th' way t' my oftish. Doan' wan' 'sturb Mrs. Rambo thish time o' nicht." The officer complied, and as he piloted him along the street Mr. Rambo obBerred apologetically. "Wen th' offlsh wron't sheek man, y' know, p'leecem'n, man got t' sheek th' offish. Shee?" - The latest invention in haberdashery is the buttonless shirt. It is the idea of a Canadian. It is not designed to take the place of the full-dress shirt, but is llkely to be a strong every-day favorite with the short-around fat man, who feels life's emptiness when he tries to reach the button at the back of his neck. It is said that it fits well and is the easiest garment to g-et in and out of that was ever invented. - The Anxious Mother. - "It is really hard now to know what to do with one's chiMren. I think we will send little Emile to the Polyteehnic and let him go into the railroad business." "Well, I should be very careful before deeiding on that. You see. he might get to be station-master and have to live in the station, and then suppose that his wife could not bear the sound of the enginewhistle! That would be very bad." - Fliegende Matter. - A great traffie is beinpr carried on this season over the road between the Caucasus and Odessa. From the Caucasian dixtricts larpe quantities of eotton, rice, kishmish (vitis apyrena, seedless raisins), and almonds are shipped from Odessa, sugar, iron, flour and fine groeeries. During the sumraer and the autumn large stores of Persian kishmish of a superior quality were accumulated in Batoom, and the article is now in demand in the foreign market. - Oharterhouse, Thackeray's old school, and the scène of the immortal Colonel Newcome's death, has for a long time been the possessor of the original Mti. of The Newcomes, the gift of Thackeray's daughter. There is also preserved there the bedstead on which the novelist slept during the last years of his life. Most of the school sketches and MSS. by him, which were recently old in London, have also found their way back to Ch&rterhouse. - At the beginning of King1 Phillip's War, in Colonial times, King Philip had a coat or cape made of bits of shells or wampum. This was considered of gTeat value among the Indians all over New England, because each little shell-bead ín it was in their eyes a piece of money. Indeed, if a man of our day should have a coat made entirely of gold dollars strung upon threads and woven tofether, it would have the same value to us that Phillip's shell coat did to the Indians. But when the war began he bravely cut his precious garment in pieces and used the wampum to hire warriors of other tribes to fight for him. - The Hamburg Board of Trade, in its report for 1890, takes sides with the American pig thus: "We have always regarded as insufficie'nt the testimony as to the umvholesomeness of American pork. We have been confirmed in this opinión recently by the resulte of the iérestigation of experts to the effect that the English laborer, with his diet of cheaper American pork, has numerous economie advantages over the German laborer, with his diet of more exjensive Continental pork. We have ;herefore willlngly done as requested and have affixed our ñames to a petition 'or the of the prohibition of American pork." - The chrysanthemum has a long hisrtry, back, in Europe, to the rear 1640, when it was brought into 3olland from China, under the supposiion, afterward disproved, that it had valuable medical properties. The plant s native to China, Japan and Northern ndia, and the flower is the seal of Jajan. Henee it is often called "The Vlikado Flower." The Japanese annually observe November 15 as "The Teast Qf Chrysanthemums," and in America nearly every city has a day for a chrysanthemum display. The high avor in which the flower is held is due not only to its beauty of form and variety of color, but to its cheery readiness to proloog the summer and make jrilliant the later days of autumn.

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