Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 23, 1906, Page 3

X £ O T Read the Daily Pioneer, C. S. Cox of Akeley reglstered‘ at the Brinkman last night. Pat McLaughlin of Northome spent last night in the city. W. H. Roberts left last evening on a business trip to Blackduck. Mrs. Frank Bataman of Cass Lake visited in the city last night. Elmer Olson of Cass Lake underwent an operation for ap- pendicitis, at St. Anthony’s hos- R pital, today. Lew Gibson of Nebish came down from the up-county village this morning and spent the day Last chance tor peaches at $1.15 per crate Oysters - Oysters - Oysters ———ee We have just received from Baltimore, at our store, a shipment of these select oysters which can be had at the right price. If you are in need of any- thing in the bakery line or fruit line, call up Phone 118 and it will be delivered promptly from the HOME MADE CANDY DELICIOUS AND CHEAP Eat one of our CREAM CARAMELS and you will buy no other. Our assortment of Cakes and pastry is always the finest. Ices, Ice Cream & Sweet Cream. Party orders solici- LakesidrBakerL THEJBEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1608, ' in the city on business. The singing and ' dancing by Mr. Nicholson in the third act 2 " of Old Arkansaw will win your home at Nary this morning. favor. Opera House Oct. 23. W. H. Slack of Pine River was Torkel Hoiland of Lengby re- BVis:lth‘ in the city yesterday turned this morning from Big evenng, Falls, having spent a week at| The M. & I. north-bound his claim, about five miles from |Passenger was twenty minutes the “Falls.” late last evening. Typewriter ribbons of allf The comed_y quartette in Old standard makes, either record, Arkansaw will be one of the copying or indelible, can be pro features Tuesday Oct. 23. cured in thé color you wish at| John W. Stewart was among the Pioneer office. the Cass Lakers who attended W. B. Stewart and L. G.|the rallylastevening. Crothers left this morning for| The musical numbers in Old Mr. Stewart’s claim, east of|Arkansaw are new and up-to- Blackduck, where they will rec-|date. Opera House Oct. 23. reate and Lunt a few days, Dwight Miller left last evening Old Arkansaw is like a beacon |for points along the north line, light in a desert, to a weary|in the interest of an insurance traveler. It is refreshing to see|company. a real good company and a real| Charles Kikele, the mayor of good play. Opera HouseOct. 23. | Walker, came over from his town J. J. Morse and wife, father|last evening and attended the and mother of Mrs. Wade Welker | rally at the opera house. and Mrs. Asher, left this morn-| The songs sung by Mr. Joe ing for their home at Morris-|Vitts in the second act of Old town, Minn. They have been|Arkansaw are of the latest up- visiting in the city for six months | to-date parodies. At the Opera past. house Tuesday Oct. 23. Dr. Dunlop, the Crookston| August Wilm, who has charge physician and surgeon, came in |of the Shevlin Advocate, reburned last evening from the west and |to Shevin yesterday aftermoon, left this morning for his claim |after visiting in the city over 'near Turtle river. He was ac-|Sunday. companied by Art Satre of| Miss Mabel Olson of Cass Lake Crookston. " |is a guest at the home of G. A. E. R. Sundberg, publisher of;Canterbury and will remain here the Cass Lake Voice, came over | until her brother, Elmer Olson, from the “Lake” yesterday after- | recovers from the shock of an Read the Daily Pioneer. Peter Slough returned to his 315 Minnesota Ave. Phone 125 The howe of Snowflake Bread. " THE CITY. M. & M. Read the Daily Pioneer. Edward Fandrie was at North- ome last night. David Gill returned this morn- ing from a business trip to Kelli- her. Edison Bereman and Lillie Bereman of Houpt were in the city yesterday. Bemidji Elevator Co.. jobbers for Cremo Flour, also Gold Medal, Mascot and Barlow’s Best. EYES— Drs. Larson & Larson, specialists in fitting glasses, Office in Swedback Block. Harry Brummond, the Walker merchant, was in the city last evening and attended the rally. The firemen will give a dance at the opera house Wednesday night, October 30, “Hallowe’en.”’ G. A, Krealz went to Walker this morning to look after some building jobs which he has at that place. J. M. Price went to Tenstrike last evening to complete a bridge which he is building near that place for the county. P. J. Keating, ex-sheriff of Read the Daily Pioneer. Ants as Guests of Plants, l fon 5 .| 'The ants which are really ‘protective Bmil Lilligreen left for Minne t6 plants ara not thoke Hnlah’ obAIn apolis today. shelr fogd, Indlrectly for the most part ! through the aphides, from the vegeta- ble kingdowm, but those which are real- ly carnivorous, These are numerous in temperate climates, and their useful- oess to agriculture and sylviculture is Incontestable. Thus the fleld ant is a great Insect destroyer. A nest of this species Is capable of destroying. as many as twenty-elght caterpillars and Theodore Gullickson went to Cuass Lake this noon on husiness. George Tanner was a pass- enger to Duluth on this noon’s train. J. O, Harris and wife left this 1. The most compact noou on & visit with friends at|grasshoppers a minute, or 1,600 an Duluth. bour, and such a colox;y Is at work keybo"d' day and night during the' pleasant vlgh L. E. Hunter of Akeley was|yeason. In the arid plains of Amerled 2. The 51’9’!"—” k" transacting business in the city | the beneficent work of ants s revealed ng‘m’n, In the Isles of verdure around thelr bills. There are plants hospitable to ants, which furnish them shelter and often food, within the cavities of which the Instinets of the ants prompt them to take thelr abode. This Is the case with several ferns, among them the Polypodium nectariferum, the sterlle fronds of which bear nectarles on thelr lower face and are, moreover, of a shape favorable to sheltering the In- sect. last night. : Mrs. H. Gamenthaler of Cass Lake was a guest at the Mark- hamlast night. George Kaelble left this noon for Hibbing, where he is en- gaged in business. Harry Mills, roadmaster on the M. & I., returned this morn iug from an official visit to Big Falls, A. B. Clair of Grand Rapids came in this morning from points along the north line of the M. &. I. Mrs. A. L. Cole came up from Walker with Mr. Cole last even- ing and spent the night in the city. W. L. Brooks, cashier of the Lumbermen’s bank, left this morning on a business trip to Wadena. Mrs. Frances Charles of Butte, Mont., arrived in the city last night for a visit with the family of P. M. Dicaire. T. W. Bailey and wife returned this noon to their claim, in Town 148-28, Itasca county, where they will spend the winter, Mrs. B. Bechtel left this morn- ing for her home at Morristown, Minn., after having visited here for several weeks with relatives. A. L. Crocker, the Minneapolis land man, spent yesterday in the city and left this morning for points south along the li..e of the M. &I . A. A. White, the townsite pro- prietor, left this morning for his home in St. Paul, He willspend aday in Brainerd before going to the Saintly city. 3. The lightest and most even touch. . These. are three reasons why p REMINGTONS are pre- ferred: by all operators SIgn of & Trained Nurse. “I used to wonder why it was that I noticed so many young women lugging sult cases all over town,” said the man AR O Mexs BN : on the street corner. “At first I thought | The state’ historian of New York in perhaps they were independent young cv_mplllng soinie records brought to light persons who were on their way to the | Some amendments to laws coufirmed at Grand Central station or to the ferry- | “Ye General Court of assizes held in boats to take trains, but then I no- | New Yorke, begiuning on ye 5th & end- | ticed them in parts of the town where | 18 on ye Sth day of October, 1670.” they couldn’t possibly be making for | The following catches the eye: a railroad station, since they were go- | ‘“Whereas, divers Complaints have ing in the wrong directions. have learned who these women are. to attend a case they pack their uni- sult cases, which they carry with | tends much to ye disreputacon of that them. So when you see a young wom- | ‘Commodity when set abroud; and'ye an carrying a suit case and bound in a | Merchants who Export it into Warmer direction away from & boat or railroad | Climates. for ye reasons aforesgid it is station it’s very likely she’s a trained nurse and is either starting out to at- tend a case or is returning from one.” —New York Press. place either for sale or payment of Salted & Packt according to ye Law, otherwise smoak’t or dryed of which Colors of the Bluebird. Of the male bluebird Thoreau said, “He carrles the sky on his back.” To | Wlll answer ye contrary at their Per- this John Burroughs added, “and the | rills.” earth on his breast” The bird’s back, wings and tail, chin and throat are a vivid blue, while his breast and flanks are a chestnut brown and his abdomen a dirty white. The female is very much duller in coloring, often having a red- dish tone that extends from the middle of the back over the shoulder. The Seminole Indlans sgy that the male bluebird once flew so high that his back rubbed against the sky, which imparted to him its own azure tint. Returning to eatth, his wife so admired his new coat that she determined to have a like one for herself and the next morning flew away to get it, but the day proving somewhat cloudy the col- or given to her dress was not so bril- liant as was that received by her mate. History on a Waich Face, Almost the last work of the ‘Belgian astronomer Houzeau was an arti¢le in ‘which, while arguing in favor of.a dec- Imal division of time, he pointed out the origin of the double set of twelve hours represented on our watch jand clock faces.. The anclent inhabitants of Mesopotamia chose the numbep 12 ag an arithmetical base because it’his four divisors—viz, 2, 3, 4 and 6, while 10 has only two divisors—viz, 2 aid 5. They counted twelve hours in thé*day Typewriters ‘For Touch Writin Now' 1 | been made of the great abuse of bring- i that the rays seen by the left andright ing dead hoggs & Porke into this city |.eyes differ, and that if the® head be Most of them are trained nurses, When |& It not being discernible’ how ldng | turned the razs are rotated. in-a. corre- they leave the hospitals or their homes | they have been Kill'd by reason 'they | sponding manner. It is thus concluded are too often brought frozen. so not ca- | that the source of the rays is not in the forms and other necessarles In these | Pable’of being preserved by Salt which | stars, but in the eye itself, the middle Ordered, That henceforth no togg or | hoggs shall be brought dead to this ! that e once. borrowed a ' Winchester debts, except It shall be in cask well | days after to deliver the weapon to its all-persons are to take Notice, as they | warpath, and every one he met insisted ‘and twelve In‘the night, measuring the | to any appreciable extent. Excep- day by the progress of the sun and the | tions are sometimes the track of deer night by the progress of the stars ['that are heavy with fawns, during across’ the sky. This system, prevhil- { spring and early summer, and those of Ing over all others, has come down to | 0ld bucks during the rutting’ season. us, and so our watches bear on their | But even then the heels of their tracks Star Raya, What causes the rays or pencils of light that seem to be thirown out by every star when seen by the naked eye? A German scientist finds that all stars show precisely the same rays, but that in the case of the brighter ‘stars the rays are plainer and’ some- what longer. It is further remarked ‘of ‘the'retina being' not perfectly homo- 'geneous in its sensitiveness. at T The editor ‘of 'a Kansas paper stites rifle and started up the street a few owner. The delinquent subscribgrs. got it into their beads that he was, on the on paying what he owed bim. One man wiped out a debt of ten years® standing. On his return to his office he found a load of hay, fifteen bushels of " corn, ten bushels of potatoes, a load of wood and a barrel pf turnips that had ibeen brought in. We would like to borrow a Winchester for a day or two. —8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. i The Deer's Tracks. A deer if walking always places’¥s feet'firmly closed upon the ground, and consequently the track: is sharply drawn—that is, ‘the hoof i8 not spreda faces a souvenir' of ‘those ancient days |are considerably closer than ‘in-tracks ‘when' the sun served for a clock hand | made by.a hog ot a sheep. The hoofs half of the time and the stars the other | of ‘the latter two animals are always ‘half. rounder at the toe than those of deer, e making the tracks they-leave easfly dis- Bankes and His Horse. tinguishable, and if the difference Is Animal trainérs of the old days led {not discernible in frozen smow the adventurous'lives. In-1600 ail' London [fact that the trail made by hogs:-or :was talking of & man named-Bankes, [sheep does not register should settle all servant to the Earl of Essex, who had |doubts for:the tracker. A-deer:if-not taught his horse to count and’perform | -wounded will always step with® its a number of feats, including mounting [-hind foot in the track made by the to the top of St Paul's cathedral, while |front foot.—Fleld and Stream. “a number of asses,” as the historian Fuiminate of mercury. puts it, “brayed below.” Sir Walter | A peculiarity of fulminate of mer- Raleigh In his history says'of Bankes | eury is that it produces:a’ shock-te that he “would have shamed all the | which all other substances are gensi- enchanters of the world, for whatso- | tive, and its'supreme valile 88 ah ex- ever was most famous amongthem!|-plosive rests In this fact and"in"the could never master or instruct any | known liability-of all explosives to be beast as he did his horse.” When'|-detonated by more or less distant ex- Bankes took his horse to Rome botb }:plosions. . There is a current of: sympa- M. D. Stoner left this noon for Cass Lake; where he' will consult the village authorities relative to plar:s for the putting in of a two- block extension to the Cass Lake sewer system, The World as It Ia. A world without mistakes and’ with- out suffering would be a world without real men and women, without litera- ture, without music, without painting or sculpture and without love, and even without history, for history Is a record of struggles toward better and higher things. Without obstatles to overcome and errors to correct inen and women would lapse to a level with beasts in mentality. Intellectual and spiritual development would cease and souls not refined by the fire of ordeals would die of something akin to fatty degeneration. The races would perish of ennui or inanity. After all, it's a pretty fair sort of world as it stands. —Louisville Courier-Journal. Cass Lake and now a member of the grain inspection corps at the “Lake”, spent last night in the city. Itis really oue of the most wonderful tonics for developing the figure and soothing the nerves ever offered to the Ameri. can people. Hollister’'s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Barker’s Drug Store. J. A. McDonald, general man- ager for the St. Hilaire Retail Lumber company, was a busi- mess visitor in the city yesterday. noon and remained in the city for | operation for appendicitis. the Cole-Clapp rally last evening.| P, H, McGarry, the urbane “Dick” says business is picking|owner of the “White City” sum- up in his town. mer resort at Walker, was in the The average young woman of | city last evening and participated today is busy. Beeuty is only |in the rally, to the extent of sit- another name for health, and it|ting with the speakers on the comes to 99 out of every 100 who | platform. take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain| Jjohn Meyer left last evening Tea. Tea or tablets, 36 cents. | for Northome, where he will be- Barker’s Drug Store. gin the work of cutting roads and getting ready to log a “fat” contract which he secured re; cently. The timber is about three miles east of Northome. Jumpers of the Sea. Many of the inhabitants of the ses are good jumpers and some have be- come famous. Among them should be mentioned the tarpon or silver kiag, a huge fish with scales that gleam like sllver. In the Paecific waters the tuna, an ally of the horse mackerel, is noted for its leaps. Sometimes a school sweeps uprthe coast, and the powerful fish, often weighing 800 pounds, are seen in the air in every direction. They John Larson, pathmaster and superintendent of the Crookston Lumber company’s branch of the Great Northern, returned to The Aleutian Islands. He secured the services of M. E. Smith as local manager of the lumber and coal business re- cently purchased from the Markham-Schisel company. Fowlds yesterday afternoon. He came down from Fowlds Satur- day evening for an over-Sunday visit with Mrs. Larson. Mr. Vietor Lambert, who is to appear here soon in the title role of “Old Arkansaw,” is consid- ered by the critics to be one of the leading character actors on the stage. Mr. made a study of the quaint old Arkansaw farmer. Some say that city girls are Frank Kline, the manager for Walker & Akeley, spent last night in the city, being a guest at the Brinkman. He left this morning for Akeley. “Men wanted” is the cry of his com- |poor, ignorant things. Some of pany, which is experiencing thi¢|them cannot tell a horse from a same difficulty as the other com-|cow, but they do know that panies operating in the north|Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea half of the state. is one of the greatest. beautifiers known. Tea or tablets 35 cents, Barker’s Drug Store. Oscar Omstead, who is em- ployed as drayman by Joe Me- Taggart, had the misfortune to run a rusty nail in his left hand, causing a painful wound that re- Catarrh Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the dis- ease. Catarrh is a blood or con- stitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di- rectly on the blocd and muacous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It wag prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular presecrip- tion. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting di- rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the Tue perfect combina o The'original e e v proauees) | AXATIVE cough remedy catarrh. Send for testimouials| For coughs, colds, throat asd ling free troubles. No opiat Non-alcoholic. i Good for everybody. Sold everywhere. F. J. CHENEY & CO., A Props., Teledo, O. LE “Iihénlz”\'f"m i rops., Teledo, O. FOLEY'S HO and TAR isin |}, Sold by Druggists, price 75c. aYellow package. Refuse subs! ltu:ai. HanES FUR SALE ! ’ s i 3 - repared only b; e Takfe Hall’s Family Pills for Foley & cgm"",_ydh{; s — e e coastipation. Barter’s Drug Stor UP-TO-DATE to .dress. No serious results along the line of blood poisoning are probable, and Oscar was per- forming his accustomed duties, yesterday, as usual. WE ARE OFFER- ING' FOR SALE A NUMBER OF HEAVY DRAFT HORSES. THE HORSES CAN BE SEEN AT THOS.. NEWBY’S BARN. GRO We are headquarters for fresh and up- to-date groceries and invite thé public to call on us for creamery. butter, fresh eggs, excellent canned ‘goods, the best brandsof tea and coffee. Our stock is always neat and fresh: Photie 207. Lambert has|’ quired the services of a physician | | once began‘to rail at-duels with pistols. | He could not bear even to speak of {| them. The fact ‘was that he had once dart like an arrow, turn gracefully five or six feet Im the air and come down, keeping the water! for acres in a foam, and, if not the greatest, they are cer- tainly the most graeeful of the jump- ers of the sea. Until the time of Peter the Great the Aleutian islands were unknown, The famous Russian monarch, consumed with curiosity as to the distance be- tween Asia and America, started, in 1725, the first of the expeditions that at last revealed those haunts of the [, were burned for witcheraft. A Possible Exception, the physiology class. Ra all v an asked. ters, Sallabouts and Larks, bear, the beaver, the ermine and the | e " ” i What is a rater, a sillabout, a lark, | seal, But Captain Cook told more :Chx!l‘;:. er—~1 .don’t . kuow,? .ieatd| about the Islands than'did all'the Rus- slan explorers before him, 18 a question commonly’ heard among those not familiar with* yachts and technical racing terms. A rater is thirty-eight feet long and garries the double sails—sloop rig and Jib. The half rater is thirty-two:feet long, car- ries the same style salls as the rater and usually gets a five minute handi- cap in rater races. The sailabout car- ries & single large sail and is built.on graceful lines, with rounded sides stnd ends, while the lark has square sides and ends and carries the single sail. Few larks are bullt now. Most of the yachts recently bullt have the double centerboard, The centerboard pre- [vents drifting sidewise, and the single board is often entirely out of water during heavy winds; hence the use of the.double board. “Didn’t the text books state?” he! ‘then gueried somewhat sharply. “Yes—oh, yes—of course, but, you The Price. ‘Hee, I'mi‘long waisted.” If one sets one’s heart on the ex- ceptional, the far off—on riches, on fame, on power—the chances are he will be disappointed. 'He will waste his time seeking a short cut to these things. There is no short cat. TFor a-ythlng}worth having one must pay the price,\and the price is always work, || patience, love, self siicrifice—no prom- ise to.pay, but the gold of real service. Ben' Butler's' Retort. An'old Iawyer I spedking abotit Gen- ‘eral Ben' Butler said: “Ben Butler was & tefror ahd a torment to the judges. On one occasion ‘Judge Sanger, having been' bullled' and ‘badgered out of all patience, pétdlantly asked, “What does the cotnsel stippose I'am’ on ‘this bénch i ‘Scratelilng ‘bis 'head a miniite, utler replied, ‘Well, I corifess your Hin Name. Ror e @oF spe ™ i An unpepular man who was refused | Yonocd got—melmei___ i membership in a certain aristocratic v i sos tlub had the»audacity to write to the | ' Well Upholatered Fi R ¢lub secretary’démanding the name ‘ot |, When Pargdise Corner .0'3."“_‘"" its the man whoj baekballed him. The sec. | Womun's clifh it wag determiredf hat) retary couldinot wesist ‘the chance ‘ot | €verything should be done in- sending the -following reply: “Sir, 1| businesslike way. ‘“My.husband ake Duels With Platols. Discussing ' pistols as dueling weap- ons, the Paris\ Figaro sought the views of:a manywhoihad the reputation of an expert on the field of honor. He at you. His name is Legion” Al Around 'the ‘Clock. ‘éhiir* or ‘the sécretary’— that " talns last summer did him Do good. | ime and ‘meéntion names instead, ‘but His room was right off the piazza;end | T'told him We'skouldn't, any of us. people made love under his window until all hours.” himself at an emeounter of that kind Tecelved a ball In' the shoulder. “Then you disapprove of them simply because you were defeated?” “Why, I' was not defeated.t” “What!” “No; I was a,second. Youimay well ‘believe that I promised mymelf never ‘to mix again in affairs of that sort. Howewer, one day I had to mecompany a friend on the field. He had asked it of me as a permonal favor. I'could not refuse. But I insisted upon one con- dition.” “What was: that?” “That 1 should climb|a tree during the firing.” “A good scheme.” “You think so? Well)I was wounded again. My friend fired/in the air!” #lcular that ‘when e had that 'extra “But couldn’t he sleep after the lov- éeting at ‘Miss Lowdlen’s, and it was ers went to bed?” | | 90°hot and Miss Ransom looked about “No; as soon as the lovers went to | baked in lier new 'coat,’ Miss ‘Eowden bed the children got up.” — Harper’s | feels Weekly. run to careless -ways of speech'that she 3 #a1d, ‘Wowldn’t it be wiser :for | eliair to remove its.coat, though'it ts:20 awfully becoming to it? And it really did sound a little queer: till you thought It 'over.”—Youth’s Companion. e W Famoun s oB ‘Whtdtler' Saved Him. : Og, the famous king of Bashan, men: | /A certafn/tamons English poet whose tioned in Deuteronomy, had a bedstend | wiame the readet must be left to fill in nine cubits long, or about sixteen and for hifmself ‘was once threatened with a half feet. It is'doubtful whether | expulsion from a swell ‘London -club Og himself was of the full length of | for dancing a fandango upon the silk his bedstead. Many bones of repu! bats-of‘other ‘hiembers. *Jame glants have been found in, diffe Nelll ‘Whistler, iowever] interposed aind countries of the world, and uninformed | saved ‘him ;with:‘his: eldquence. :One people hastily concluded that.the men | men of .genius, M.\ Whistler to whom_these bones wel Avas ‘worth ‘any nwmber of silk hats us. “] suppose you have found,” gald ‘the plain cltizen, “that every man has his price.” 3 “Yes,” replied 'the lobbyist, “extept the man who s’ worth' buying."—Phila. Melphia Press. In the Slade collection atithe Britisit ! museum in London the most ancient specimen of pure glass the date of which can be approximately fixed is a small lion’s head, bearing the name of an Egyptian king of the eleventh dy- ROE @ MARKUSEN nasty. That is to say, at a period which to have belonged must have been trom | seeing that: siikhats. could: beoreplaced may. be moderately placed at more 7 fitteen to thirty feet In helght. and -men fof: genlua-could::ngt,. : Then ‘than 2,000 years B. O, glass was made | yucy remains’ ha pved . and.mot: ti)]! thenshe cirate scominittes. ‘with a skill which shows that the art | ¢ o0 of the gigantic anim reconsidered Its decision and accepted ‘was.far from new. hndonw-nh.‘h.‘m““gm rofid’s bistory. | the upology which was tendered. A high schoolteacher was examining!| produce explosion:is the rapid-genefa. “How many ribs have you. Cunrles‘l": quantities of oxygen. In gunpowder, have recelved' yoir letter ‘demantiing | 80 much fun of women's inéétings,"! the name of the man who blackballed | Sald one of the youngest members.| “He says women never remember to say ‘Mrs. President’ or speak of ‘the ' he| “Grandpa says his stay ‘in ‘the jmoun: | 8ayg ‘théy are 1ldble ‘t¢ forgeét at any | “Why, as T'told him; ‘We are so'par | strongly that we mustn’t ever | :thetic: Influence in- these: terrible cheth- :leal compositions that s as strange as (it Is dangerous, -What is required ta tion of great heat along with- large for Instance, the nitrate of potash (saltpeter), which s the chlef ingre dient, is practically imprisoned oxygen, -and' when it is decomposed along:with charcoal an immense heat-is deveioped, . which causes the gases to expand-sud- Alenly: beace evnlosion. That “English soldlers satiors should' strike for more pay i a way such’'as weare-a e ‘sounds - impossible, but suci:ihings | have occurred, the'last-time' being in ! April, 1797, when the:sailors demandedl biglier wages and literally: struck, oth- erwise mutinying. = The - admiralty agreed to meet their'demands, ‘but, .nat doing so at once, the sallors aboard the ! London struck or mutinied sgaln, and for ordering the marines to fire, there- %y killing some men, Admiral Colpoys snd his captain were made prisoness by the sallors. On' May 10 a specisl mct-was passed granting the increassd ‘pay, ;aud' the: king pardoned ‘the :muth ‘meers.--London Telegraph. Diving For a Wife. _In many of the Greek islands dly +for ‘sponges' forms a considerable p of the occupation of the inhabitants. ‘The-natives inake it a trade fo gather these, and their ‘income from this source: 18 far :from .contemptible. : In one of the islands & girl is not:permit- ded to marry.until.she:has;brought up certaln. number of sponges and given proof-of : her skill by taking them : fram a certain depth. .But.in some..of the .islands this custam is reversed. /Ehe .father of a marriageable daughter :he- Mtows her.on the best diver among:her sultors. .He who .can stay longest:in the water and ‘bring_up_the :Diggeat ©argo of .sponges marries the maid. FWeIve nouUTS In Wiater ann:tobrisen i summer-was :a .fair sverage day’ wwork,-but 4n Lyons:in 1571 the :prin ars-worked from 2 o'clock:in the:moms ing £1il 8 or 9 in:the-evening. :In other trades the working hours: were:often from 4 in-the-morning-till-D at night or from 5:40:10.’;Workers:intheisame metier ;generally,lived together.inithe oD, eating