Little Things

France is the greatest wheat-growing country in Europe, not excepting even Russia. "Crocodile tears" are alluded to by several Latin and Greek authors, It being a superstltion amonjr the ancients that the crocodile after killing a man ate all hls body but hls head, and shed tears over that before eating it also. Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer royal for Ireland, is said to believe that the time is approaching when posterity wlll he able to construct maohinery that will be operated by means of glasses, with heat obtained by the direct action of the sun's rays. The love of display, apart from the irt of self-adornment, is nothing but: a survival of the patrlarcha.1 days, when the v.-omen were compelled to make thelr dress or their ornaments an exponent of the wealth of the mau whose orivate property they were.