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KNOCKERS FOR BEDROOM DOORS.
No late comers to breakfast will be
able to make excuse that “they did not
hear themselves called” in the future,
.and housemaids’ knuckles will escape
a sore trial at the hands of unwilling
risers, for door knockers are now fas
tened to up to date bedroom doors,
says the London Daily Mail.
They are not only exceedingly use
ful, but very quaint and ornamental,
being exact replicas in brass in a
smailer size of the famous Durliam
Sanctuary knocker,
This knocker with its gargoyle head
dates from the Norman times, when
it was the privilege of the church to
protect fugitives at her portals. The
fugitive had only to knock, and at any
hour of the day or might the door
would be opened to him by the porter
who dwelt in rooms above.
A Bird Friendship.
The rector of Woolstone, Mr. Gil
bert Coventry, told me of a wild rock
dove which one of his stable boys had
reared from the nest. It slept in the
open, however, and had full liberty.
Soon the good things on the rector’s
table attracted it, and it would appear
through the open window at meal
times, take hot soup with much zest
and even sip sherry from a wineglass.
At night it often slipped in and slept
in the rector’s bed on its hack under
the coverlet. On Sunday morning,
during the reading of the '2sson, the
dove flew swiftly through an open
SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT.
“My dear,” asked the eminent com
poser, “do you know where that postal
_card is that came yesterday?”
v “Why, no; I hadn’t npeticed-it,"-ra«
plied-hig Wife; “was it anything im
portant?”’
' “Well, yes. It had the libretto of
my new comic opera on it.”—Pitts
burg Post.
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License is paid in London on 7000 auto
mobiles.
It is not so much what you pay for, but
what you get that needs close attention
when buying funeral supplies, and so
strongly impressed with this fact are those
who know what they are doing that they
ingist on laying their friends away in
“NATIONAL" caskets.
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‘ NOTES AND COMMENTS. ;
i It has been decided in aa lilinois
- city that the occupant of a flat may
| chop Kkindling wood in the Kkitchen,
. states the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
| This is a free country, and the other
family in the flat may amuse them-
I selves by rehearsing a railroad colli
. sion. Probably a better plan would be
| to arrange a modus viveadi,
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| That was a notable voyage of the
~American battleship Missouri from
| Cape Henry across the ocean to Capv
- St. Vincent, Portugal, a distance of
' 3,140 nautical miles, in ten days and
{ eight hours. This formidable vessel
. combines exceptional speed with im
! posing “strength in a marvellous de
gree. In attack or defence the Mis
! souri would find not many equals, and
perhaps few, or any, superiors among
| the naval craft of the world.
‘ Even the most skillful of the hand
lers of automobiles are not immune
from accident. Here, for instance, is
Thery, the winner of the international
cup—a much coveted trophy—at Hom
burg. He was on his way homeward
in his machine, and near the border
befween Germany and France Te ran
into a ditch and broke a leg. When
men of Thery’s capacity and experi
ence fail to avoid serious accidents
the chances of comparative novices do
not appear to be encouraging.
Among the books just issued is the
abstract of the latest census published
by Uncle Sam. It is only once in ten
yvears that these complete statistics
are collected throughout the United
“States, and they form significant
milestones marking the road of the
country’s progress. Leaving out of
count the non-contiguous territories
acqliired in the period from 1890 to
1900, our continental population in
creased from 62 1-2 millions to 75 1-2
~millions, the total wealth of the coun
try from 77 billions to 94 billions of
dollars, the value of farm property
alone growiang from 16 billion dollars
to 20 1-2 billions.
Professor Loeb, in Berlin, is experi
menting with rattlesnake venom as a
cure for leprosy, and he thinks he has
hit upon the specific for one of the
’ most loathsome diseases that human
flesh is heir to. Should he succeed it
demoastrating that the snake poison
i will cure the plague, rattlesnakes
- would at once ‘become commercially
‘ valuable. The market value of the
| poison is about $l5 a dram. Proiessor
Loeb gets his rattlesnake venom from
a man in Colorado, who keeps snakes
as pets.
The annual Josses by fire in ihe
United States, which have averaged as
high as $100,000,000 a year at certain
periods, says Harper’s Weekly, were
attributed during a single year to the
following causes, the number of fires
from each cause being given: Incen
diarism, 1,927; defective flues, 1,309;
sparks (not from locomotives), 715;
matches, 636; explosions (of lamp,
etc.), 430; stoves, 429; lightning, 369;
spontaneous combustion, 326; prairie
and forest fires, 280; lamp and lantern
accidents (other than explosions),
238; locomotive sparks, 211; cigar
stubs and pipes, 203; friction, 179; gas
jets, 176; engines and boilers, 100;
furnaces, 135; and firecrackers, 105.
Anatole France is generally lockad
upon as steeped in classic lore and
as an exceptional master of details.
Nevertheless, in a recent sketch of
his he described the fruit aud vege
table dealers of ancient Corinth as
selling tomatoes in the streat, 1t is
generally supposed that tobacco, to
‘matoes, potatoes and Indian corn were
unknown in the old World urti! after
the discovery of this hemispaere, and
that tomatoes originated in Soutk Am
erico. M. France may, perzhance, be
able to throw new light upon this in
tesesting subject. Possibiv he has
found reason to believe that the Cor
inthians in St. Paul's time smoked
pipes, cigars and cigarettes, ate boiled
potatoes in profusion, and were ex
tremely fond of “corn pone,” hoe cakes
and “’possum.”
Walter H. Page in the World’s Work
says that the industrial era has made
more men cultivated. Before the dif
fusion of well-being, The proportion
of men of culture to the whole popula
tion was very small in any country.
With the growth of industry and the
coming of physical comfort, this pro
portion has grown beyond calculatioa,
We are within sight of a timeg when
a majority of weli-to-do persons will
become, to some exfent, cuitivated.
It has brought physical comfert, for
the fArst time, to a larzge class of man
kind; and tbere is much cuitivation in
sheer physical comfort. The most
pathetic chapter in human experieace
is that long chapter which tells of
men’s try:ng tc thank God because
He had deprived them cof ease, and
had made life nard and insanitary. It
was equivalent to thanking God for
bad food and dyspepsia, for bad beds
and Theumatism, for foul air and
tuberculosis. When we first got run
ning water in our houses a great im
pulse was given to culture.
Telephone Manners.
What skou:a our code of manners
be when we converse over the wire?
In the first place, we ‘should avoid
the violence that accompanies undue
haste, says Gocod Housekeeping. We
would not think of ringing the dcor
beil of a friend otherwise than gent
ly; we would allow a reasonable
length of time to ciapss before riag
ing again, if our summons were not
promptiy answeread. Why, then,
should we rattle away at the tele
phone bell, or move the receiver up
and down in a slashing, slam-bang
styie, which we should never think
of using elsewhere? Truly, a sum
moans of this sort must be very irri
tating to “cemtral,” and is not “cen:
tral” in many cases a ycung woman
of refinement? Occasionally we
know “central” is an inattentive boy
whose slowness is ‘exasperating to
the summoner. Even in this case is it
not possible to be brisk and business
like without being aggressive?
We must never forget that we are
dealing with pecple—not with a ma
chine alone. Why should the fact
of their invisibility make a differ
ence in our behavier? Should we be
less polite than the blind man, who
can never see those with whom he
converses?
Queer Fee for Docter’s Service.
“The queerest fee I ever had offered
to me was by an old farmer up in
Monroe County,” said a prominent
physician who is aiso something of
‘a sportsman. “I was up there last |
year for trout fishing, and ciie eveu
§ing I was surmmamoned from the hotel
where I was stopping to atfend an
old woman in the neighborhood who
had suddenly been taken ill. After
I had fixed 'her up her husband said
' to me: ‘Doc, I don’t know what your
charge is, but I ain’t got no ready
| cash about me. I'll tell you what I'll
do, though. See that well over there?
There’s one o’ the finest trcut you
ever see in that there well, an’ if
} you can ketch him he’s yourn.” I had
'no tackle with me, and as I had to
return to the city the next:morning, I
missed the opportunity to collect my
fee.”—Philadelphia Record.
A New Phonograph.
A phonograph in which the sound
is reinforced by a flame has been
devised by Rev. T. C. Porter of Eng
land. His experiments were based
on the fact that the sound of a vi-'
brating tuning fork is put into a!
flame. A detailed description of the |
invention is not given, but the flame
takes the places of the trumpet or
dinarily used. When the sound
waves fall on it its combustion i 3
changed from a continuous to an in
termittent form and the burning gas
l is thrown into a series of waves that
- are more powerful than the original
; sound waves, thus rainforcing the lat
ter and magnifying the sound.
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