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THE HOG AND THE HEN. Regions Where Horses Can' --Great Range of Cattle. Tins dog is the most widely distributed of tlie domestic animals. Ho lives in the lowly hut of the African savage and is the companion ol the Gremiland Esquimaux, the most northern inhabitants of fho world. He is in fact the inseparable companion of man and is found where-ever tho human race exists. His habilat is thus extended further lorth and further south than that' of any other donuestic animal. The horse also has a very habitat. He lives north o Arctic circle only in the nor them parts of Norway and Sweden northern half of North America and tho northern third of Asia never Mm. The miost northern part his habitat in Asia is around north shores of the Sea of Ohkotsk and ir tho neighborhood of Yak on the Lena River. South of latitude he is found nearly everywhere except in very moist and hot regions, like the Amazon basin and equatorial Africa and the southern part of India. Hie ' thrives in the dry heat of the Sahara Desert in many of the oases, but he would be Bought for in vain in tropical Africa betlween the latitude of the Cape Verde Islands and the Tropic of Capricorn. When explorers pushed northward from the Congo their native dcr-vants were greatly surprised on readhing a region near Lake Chad to find tho horse in abundance. Their astonishment was unbounded when they saw the horsemen of the Soudan on the fleetest of riding animals that had EVER MET THEIR GAZE. The mule is more generally distributed over South America than any other of the continents, being found there everywhere excepting along a part of the hot, damp coast be- and ho is also practically unknown in the Guianas, the Amazon basin and Terra del Fnego. His covers perhaps a fifth as much as that of the horse. There few iwdes around our Great Lakes excepting along their southern shores, but from the lakes the mal extends southward to Straits of Magellan. Hiis hon all temperate and hot countric: practically coextensive with that of the horse, but it does not extend nearly as far north as the horse's range, and he is not found in the deserts. The rang©, of the Icurge as that of th lives in Asia, far i of the mule's habit; Vtat stretches acre as far as Irkutsk on Lake Baikal. ___The range of the tame reindeer has been widely extended in northern Asia by the tribes that number him aanong their valuable assets; and now he is in process of being widely Introduced into Alaska. Civilization, therefore, has done much to extend the habitat of this animal to the south, but the domesticated reindeer has not been inti-oduced into most of the great regions of the Arctic, where the wild animal roams at will THE RANGE OF CATTLE is practically coextensive with that of the horse. Cattle, however, are found more extensively in very hot, damp climates than the horse and are entirely absent from dry desert regions where the horse is found in considerable numbers. Cattle, for example, are wholly lacking in the desert of Sahara, but ti.ey graze in the southern part of India, where no horses are found. They are grown wherever grass thrives, except in some hot regions Amazon basin, in most of which the tee is not found. The bee," therefore, is distributed all over our country, though very sjparsely In the dry and unforested regions the West. It is wholly absent the cold and most of the desert parts of the world. The silk worm girdles the earth between the fiftieth parallel of north latitude and the Tropic of Cancer, being found further south only in Siam and Cochin China. In other words, it lives wherever the mulberry and other trees on which it feeds are found in perfection. It belongs distinctively to the northern hemisphere, but may yet be introduced into parts of the southern hemisphere that are favorable for the mulberry. In the the entire the Rocky gray hair, form, the vigo; dauntless eye SAW THE LIGHT BRI&1DE Served Through the Crimean Campaign With Sir Colin Campbell. A parade of Grand Army of the Republic veterans and civic societies was held in Denver, Colorado, recently, after which the usual exercises took place at the Sterling Cemetery. Mr. Thompson was Mountain News. The erect, soldier-like of an aged but noted and wonder-by all. This old soldier was born at Linlithgow, Scotland, during the last hour of tho last day in the year 1819. In 1852 he enlisted in the Seventy-ninth Cameron Highlanders while at Edinburgh Castle. He served through the Crimean campaign, being with Sir Colin Campbell's brigade. He recounts with vivid distinctness the bloody field of battle at Alma, the rush and roa of that heroic charge of the Ligh Brigade at Balaklava, the mos ruthless sacrifice of life at Inkerman, and the tedious long drawn-out siege of 'Sebastopol.. Mr. Thompson enlisted in the Forty-first Ohio Volunteers, serving throughout the civil war to its close. Mr. Thompson came to the United States in 18-58, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved from there to this place ir 1899. After the breaking out of the Cri-his company was hurried each other. "The most .thrilling moment of my life," said the old soldier to-day, "was when lying behind tho embankment during the siege of Sebastopol. I had previously received training in heavy artillery and was familiar in every particular with cannon, mortars, shot and shell. We were lying at rest, at ease behind our works, when suddenly a shell from the enemy's guns fell in our squad's midst. There was a general scamper for shelter, a pell-mell rush to get out of harm's way. I looked at the shell, and seeing that the hissing and sputtering fuse was of sufficient size to warrant my attempt to get rid of the unwelcome visitor, I quickly grabbed the shell and threw it over the wall, where it immediately exploded without harm to any one." Mr. Thompson said to the News correspondent again at parting that he hoped he would yet bo able to ' - Bugler Sutherland, Bern , the i the ( and s Mr. Thompson's first battle wi participated in on the Alma rive He received a slight wound in th engagement. The next conflict b tween armed men, and where they fought like tigers to the death, i at Balaklava, where tho brave hundred rode through the "VALLEY OF DEATH." Mr. Thompsc 1, "that his bri-battle line across a great plain between the Russians and the Light Brigade. When Lord Cardigan obeyed the order brought him by Nolan and gave the command to advance. Sir Colin Campbell's brigade swung into fours, clearing gaps through which the brave '60CT rode on its way to death. "I saw Lord Cardigan with the bugler near his side ride through the gap of fours adjacent to mine. "I saw the remnant of the '600' when they returned, but did not see the bugler. I supposed he was killed in that bloody charge. Yet I seo by a recent copy of the Denver News that the bugler, Sutherland, of the Light Brigade, still liVes and rc-sidos in Denver. ""I hope to live to meet him," said the old hero, "and talk with him of that trying hour." At the battle of Inkerman Mr. Thompson said his company lay upon the ground iff a line reaching ____ across the field. The commanding horse is important only in regions officers told the soldiers to hold their where grain supplements grass as a fire until they could part of his food. Qf the enemies' eyes. The hen embraces nearly all the was oheyed, and then can!e a hand-world, and its range would bo as to-hand conflict, where soldier tossed great as that of the dog if it ex- soldier like a game of shuttlecock, tended farther north and south; but literally strewing tho Held with the it is found north of the Artie Circle dead, equai more in number than tho only in Norway and Sweden, and is survivors. After the .battle one of yet lacking in the southern part ,English generals saw a Russian .where the ,jdjng on a white horse at a great Patagonia. distance. jje asked the soldiers to of South America, Scotch have sett Travellers throughout the Africa and India and in many little-known parts of the world can usually add chickens to their food resources without difficulty; but there are some large islands, like New Guinea, where the hon is not found, and more than .half of Australia is destitute of this animal. NEARLY ALL OUR CATS arc found to the south of southern Iceland, and New Zealand is the most southern country in which tfhey live. They are almost wholly-lacking among tlhe islands of the I 0f Pacific Ocean, excepting the Hlawai-] ian group. There arc plenty of them in the Philippines, but they are practically unknown in the myriad islands to the east of that archipelago. Tho cat has been in-trodluced into the Danish settlements of southwest Greenland, but as a rule it is not a domestic animal among barbarous peoples, result is that the animal is known in about one-third of America, including nearly the bring the fired conti out the di Thompson and comrades d< They both fired. fled The soldier? , but with try i 'The keen eye i the steady nerve of tho Scot t the kev to it all. and ever will b he said, "as long as tho glen i crags of old Scotland give birth i brawn to the human kind." It i Russian pr Mr. Thompsc regiment The at least two-thirds of Africa. It lives in Morocco, Algeria, along the Nile and among the whites on the east and west coasts; but the vast expanses of the Sahara and of the tropical interior of Africa do not know this animal. The domesticated ostrich is not found in any of tho haunts of the wild biid, but is confined in Africa! to the north and the south parts of' the oontinen-his furthers A MEDAL FOR THE DEED. At one time this brave old soldier did guard before General Grant's tent. One afternoon the general noticed the military bearing of the guard and asked him where he had served and received his training. Upon learning that he had served through the Crimea, General Grant walked back and forth with him for a long time listening to his story of that great campaign. Finally, Mr. Thompson told his commander of having seen McClellan as a student of war in the Crimea. The general became so interested that he paced up and down with Thompson over an hour. Mr. Thompson soon after was appointed a sergeant. Speaking of McClellan reminded the ^teran of the first time he ever saw im. It was in the Crimea, where where lie is raised for I McClellan and Beauregard were As is well known, ' studying engineering and the art of hero are a number of ostrich farms'w<tr. He says he had seen thorn t Arizona and southern California, j many a time in the tent of Sir Colin -here •ho animal is thriving. j Campbell exchanging notes like two Tho honey bee lives almjost all brothers, and then again in this ver the world where flowers stutpply country he saw them on opposing ic flerlaa' it requires, except in the fields of battle trying to outgeneral NEW VIEW OF THE HEDGE One of the chief drawbacks to rural England is the hedges, says an exchange. These envious barriers screen us from the whole loveliness of the landscape, the cool of meadows, the undulating vivid sweep of cornfields splashed with poppies, the thousand and one real charms of nature. The bane of towns and cities is that over and above the noise bustle, the range of vision is clipped on either side by a continuous series of barriers--the houses of the streets, To our minds the country hedgerows supply a similar bane. To walk or a dusty road between miles and miles of hedges, effectually shutting out views and all the beauties on the other side of them, affords no real pleasure, but small refreshment. Compare it with the joy of wandering over a heath or a wild common, you will find, by the immense difference in pleasure, all that is debarred us by these same vaunted British his BAD FOR THE EYES. Railway Official (traveling o own line)--"They say there has been some fault found with the lamps in these trains, owing to the dim light thoy give. Do you see anything wrong with them?" Fellow Passenger--"No, sir. . On tho contrary, they aro exactly the kind of lamp I suppose I ought to like to see used in the carriage." 'lway Official (highly pie "I presume you Passenger--"Yes, sit oculist, and this soi good for my professio . professional FIVE HUNDRED "V.C.'s" There are over five hundred heroes of all ranks in our regular Army have attained the distinction of the Victoria Cross, that simple de-tion "for valour" which is universally regarded as of incomparable value and significance. It is laimed for the 24th Regiment, mown as the South Wales Borders, that it stands at the head of tho entire British Army in the number inners of the Cros^ which it has produced. It has sixteen names on glory roll as against, to take next highest figures, fourteen of Rifle Brigade and thirteen of the King's Royal Rifles. IN THE FOEJM OFFICE WHERE IT IS LOCATED IN LONDON THE GREAT. During Great Occasions Many of the Clerks Are Employed on Sundays. To the ordinary man the Foreign Office is as much a mystery as the Temple of Isis, says the London Globe. It has always been closed, as it were, to the public, and until the first "Foreign office list" published in 1852 no record was kept even in tho office of the separate services rendered by each individual. Tho publication of the list was strongly objected to in certain quarters as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office which they thought it advisable it should not possess. Sir Edward Hertslet, whose "Recollections of the Old Foreign Office" have just been published by Mr. John Murray, cofBes of a race of Foreign Office officials, for his father, Mr. Lewis Hertslet, was appointed Sub-Libranan in 1801, and did not retire from the office of Librarian until 1857, and there have been four generations of Hertslets in the Foreign Office since 1795. The question is often asked: 'Where was the Foreign Office before it was first situated in Downing street?" The answer is that the Foreign Office was first the discontinuance of tho separate offices of the Secretaries of State for the Northern and Southern departments on March 27, 1872. Both these departments were at that in Cleveland Row, St. James. There the Foreign Office remained until September, 1786, when it was removed to the Cockpit, at Whitehall. It remained there until December, 1793, when it was transfer some private houses on Downing street. It was next transferred 1861 to Nos. 7 and 8 Whitehall Gi dens, while the new building IN DOWNING STREET was being erected, and on July '98, it went back to its present a permanent quarters street. The old offic easily imagined, affor for practical jokes oi the younger clerks th new building does. One of the in the attic, facing Downing was set apart for some of the young gentlemen of the office.' This i was called the "Nursery," and here they used to pass away any spare " which they might have on their Certain pretty dressniakers o pied rooms in one of the houses Fludyer street, just opposite the windows of tho frivolous y< " mutual recognition generally took ry morning between some of them. In one of these rooms there used to be one gentleman with a round head, and another with red hair, and should the former first open his window, the young ladies opposite, who generally worked with their windows open, would call out: "Good morning, Turnips; how's Carrots?" And should the latter be the first to appear the salutation would '" id morning, Carrots; how's But it has never been all play, not fen so much play as some people suppose, at the Foreign Office. During the sitting of tho Belgian and Greek conferences in London, which lasted from 1831 till 1839, many of the clerks in the office were always PERSONAL POINTERS. Notes of Interest About Some Prominent People. For the first time in the history of Spain a working man has been elected a member of the Cortes. Hlis name is Jaime Anglos. He is a -cooper by trade, and he represents Barcelona. It is told of the Marquis Ito, the Premier of Japan, that when a youth he wandered about the streets of London penniless, ragged, and hungry, a starving alien in a strange land. Miss Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of the President, has broken down after an arduous year of social engagements. One calculation of fifteen months' work puts tho number of dinners she attended at 408, besides 680 teas and 271 receptions. She paid 1,643 calls, went hook hands Now, under confined with 32,000 persons, the doctor's orders, slhe to bed, and for tho first time for a year- will rest. Lord Mount Stephen, one of the two Canadian peers, has just celebrated his seventy-fourth -hirthday. Born in Scotland, his lordship, who received his title in 1891, began life1 as a draper's appretice in Aberdeen, j chateau 'which formerly belonged „„ Then he sailed for Canada and made;a dead aHd long-forgotten marquise. The rooms were absolutely rotting COSTLY WALL - PAPERS THEY ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN SILK BROCADE. Wall-paper Is Now Made to Imitate in the Minutest Detail Almost Everything. It may come as a surprise to those householders w'hio are accustomed to pay a few dollars a piece for their cJrawing-ioom papers to learn that in many of the wealthy houses the walls are covered with materials whiah cost considerably more than tho finest silk. "Here," said a wall-paper manufacturer the other day, "are examples of what we call tapes-try pap- . era. They are copied exactly from tlte finest Smyrna and Turkish rugs, tho colors and designs being reproduced as you can see for yoursolf, with startling fidelity. We have mton ransacking all Europe copying paintings and mural decorations of past centurie. Here is the pattern of a very beautiful design of tho time of Louis XVII., Which wo obtained in rather a curious way. "One of our customers happened to bo in Paris last sumlmer, and, being fond of inspecting old rnjansionsv entered a tunrble-dowti THE CHEERFUL IDIOT. Do you know," said ..the Cheerful Idiot, "that it is the easiest thing . the world to tell whether a man going out on a journey or return-g, by the way he carries his port-anteau?" "I never thought of that," said the rnple young man. "What is the difference?" The Cheerful Idiot settled himself little firmer in his chair and gloated for a moment before answering. "It is just this way,", he went on: When a man is going away he caries his portmanteu towards the ailway-station, and when he is com-rg back he carries it in the other CALL AGAIN! "New house, "Ah, then Call again." KNOW WHAT IS GOOD. English is tho language of tho Jap-nese Foreign Office, both in its intercourse with foreign diplomatists its telegraphic intercourse with own representatives abroad. All telegrams from Tokio to the foreign agents of Japan are written and iphercd in English, and the replies re in the same language. r South A DIVING CAT. A farmer at Ballina, No' Wales, trained a black cat t triever. The animal was also fond of diving in the sea for fish, anc1. itly it brought out a two-pound et. Its career was ended by be-swallowed by a shark. led more scope the part. in ATTENDANCE ON SUNDAYS, was also either the librarian or 8 sub-librarian. 4. story is told that one Sunday morning, during church time, Lord entered one of the rooms of the office, accompanied by Lady Palmerston, and not finding the head of the department at his post, he inquired of one of the juniors whero he 3, and on being told that he was church, his Lordship expressed much surprise at his not being at his desk, and was beginning to wax rather warm on the subject, when he topped by Lady Palmerston's king: "But you see, my dear, people go to church on Sun-Lord Palmerston evidently felt that this was an awkward remark for her to make under the cir-he said no more, and quietly left the room. Some of Lord Palmerston's minutes ritten on the margin of despatches ere very amusing. For example, he roto on a letter from a South Ain--ican consul complaining of tho fleas i his consulate: "Living with his fleas cannot hardly be worse than reading his handwriting, which I cannot do." On another occasion he had been pricked somewhat sharply with a pin when unfolding a pa-hich caused him to write the following minute: "I desire that, all the pins in this office bt immediately made over to the female branch of tablishmcnt." Edward Hertslet is thus enter- nmg ; igh he has plenty of anecdotes to tell of the Foreign Office and of foreign ministers and the clerks, he ways gossips with the discretion and good taste inherent in the officials of that great public depart-ent. What caused the fire in the match factory?" "There was some friction, I believe, among the heads of the departments." Vienna has been called the birth-lace of trusts. ' The first was formed there in 1873. Trusts now control practically the whole trade of the city. TELEGRAPH POLES. The extension of the Uganda telegraph system has been pushed on ra-idly during tho last six months, and ow the line is open to Butiaba on the shore of the Albert Nyanza. The lines open for traffic now in Uganda amount to 1,034 miles. These telegraph lines are called "temporary," but as they are constructed of bark cloth tree (a species of fig tree), and as these have extraordinary powers of germination, all the telegraph poles are now living trees, and should bo almost equal in point of duration to iron poles, as tho fig tree is a long liver. It is a novel sight to the traveler to see a lino of telegraph poles in full During the past, few yca-s* ho has distributed nearly a million sterling for various charitable objects. His lord-ahip resides at Brocket Hall, near Hatfield, which has the distinction of having been the home of two Prime Ministers'---Melbourne and Palmerston. Mr. John Sharp, obc- and English horn maker, Pudsey, who has just died, was well known in tho musical wortd, and was a remarkable man in many ways. Bo was absolutely self-taught in his trade, ! but so proficient had he become that the market value of his instru- 11 (*>slt 11 monts ranged from £18 to £301 hut ho each. He carried on his business ', u"> it w single-handed for over thirty years, : diMVuMy never having an apprentice or any assistance whatever. Every part of "ava an instrument was made by his own kil'(1 hand, even to the shaping of the Uog»ny, 'ay, but in the salon tire wall-paper f1t.il! hung, though in ribhone. The pattern was flo etxquisite in design, places, so haranoniouis, that ho col-atnd the coloring, vivid sMll in many, lecttJd as many portions as he could and sent thorn to us with a recnuiast to reproduce as PERFECTLY AS POSSIBLE. "We succeeded beyond hi* boat liojres, and the actual paper is now hanging on the walls of a West-end. moneion. We only manufactured d cover the ball-room, and i a matter of $1.0 a yard, over gniimblod, and, after : not dear considering the e had. •< fHci.-nt "Wall-paper i ow made to ima-test detail every old, the finest grained mia-een ash, delicately veined keys, and heTeaveVbehind him many i maple, and, in fact, all thooe woods remarkable tools of his own inveoi- which are used for panelling. When tion for use in the making of oboes, i polhfhod it is inf ossible to tell the Sir Lewis Morris, whose poems! difference, and I defy anyone to die-are so well known to all lovers of tinguisJi m,r PaPer fro'n wood by verse Ts 'another instance o7 the! m^ly lacking at it. I have been close association of literature andj ™»y a > law of which tho history of letters "rh™ we have papers resomhhng offers so many examples. Sir Lewis ^.^f'a lnart,le Wel1 practised for a number of yea the famous embossed CocrIo<va the Chancery Bar, chiefly as a con-1 leathers. These latter are very ex-' , rA,. . .....*«s.. _i tnvikivp hpvrecr retailed at $7.'5K) a vuming counsel. The drafting' Pensive, being retailed and perusing of documents of title. «L M, however, pnactically lually esteemed ipation, although sr, to whom this marked that he o hilarru old conveyj once hinted, aicmally came across "a br deed." Uninteroseing though veyancing may in general be, not prevent Sir Lewis Morris vating his poetic muse with "The Aj^^--oJ^Chari name given to the Queei gal in Paris, so conspicuous is : for her good works. She has rev for conceal! rtdcistiructible, and can be washed tnd scoured like ordinary wo-cid-n-or'k. As imitation of these leatb-3is is also made which, of commse, costs considerably less, being sold "con- I at about $9 a roll of eight yards, it did but even this price is beyond the rris culti- purses of any but the really wealthy ith much' "We Pa:y laree suims for apeeial dc-| signs, and mia.ny of our artirts earn ' ine-eunies which the most liai'd-woi'k-~JiL tne!_ir>K R.A's would not detipise. There of T»6rt»«tV^Ts»-_ - -------- ■ ITrsr--1»--bc_atTT5WSEBrt--ir-«t«--em-- | delicate tints and floral designs. A i particularly effective paper is one , - i slit/wing lattices of cllmhiing rosea charity. It is that of sending gifts; bImyding into faintly-tintod sky-poor concealed in flowers. , liacg ]t nas tiu3 twcture of the of the finest silk, and costs nvurh. Another design which is y popular just now we imjpor'tojd m IBollandV-- SHIPS IN FULL SAIL, This custom had its origin in a Portuguese lady of long ago--a St.' , Isahella. Of the Orleans family, I Queen Amelie is one of the most i vigorous of European Queens. She ' a splendid swimmer, and not eo ! ry long ago rescued a drowning witflt glimpses of te-ees and the red ay at the risk of her own life. A of Dutch roofs in tire distance, great favorite of King Edward, she Tbi.% in th« flr.est materials, we ca» it was who induced him to pardon' retail at $1.25 a yard, the Due d'Oiieans, her younger; "Many of our wall-pa.r.'ers are de-brother so that he could again visit signed specially for a customer, and Otreat Britain. I when such is the case the price, of The veteran shipowner, Sir Donald c°««e. runs hi*f- A - °J urrie, although "a perfect Scotch- y«*'"s a^o a gentleman came in arw. *n, careful, cool, and calm in chose a very beauttiul design, arid -crvthing" was first educated in then informed us that he desired the Belfast. Even in his boyhood ahips f Paper to be copied directly on the attracted him, "and he confesses to ; wal s of hss draw irg-rooin in oils having then had a fleet of toy boats Of course, we fulfilled his order, but almost as numerous as his fleet of it eft him a small tortasw. Stt ners. At the age of fourteen he! months later he came and ttold us itored a shipping office at Greenock, | he was tired to death ot the design, nly to leave it four years 'ater for, arid ordered us to paint it out, the" Otrnnrd Company* in Liverpool. ! which we did, substituting a paper At the age of thirty-seven he with- this time for the paint, drew from his company and started; '"We have savers I customers on our for himeelf the Castle Lino to the' books who have the papers on their East Imlies. The development of! walls changed every two months. a led him to transfer his j They get weary of looking at tho this field, which has s-amo pattern day after day, and aa ritable gold-mine to him' they have plenty of money we don t many others in recent ] trauibio years. j them out One of the busiest of peers is the j In c"" 1 proved e Earl of Stamford san lay reader and preaches a great deal, but has lately had to refuse ■equests to officiate on Sunday be-;auise, he says, Sunday is litorally ,hc only day he is eble to spend in lis country house among his own children. His special suibject is that of missions to the native races, among whom he himself labored in j t South Africa for several yeai-s be- LONDON'S FIRE PROTECTION, fore be inherited .the family honors. | Tho total sircngth ol the Melr( e lionise in Park Lane c _ 'all-papers ran to over or the year , and this is uy neams an isolated case. Yes, ,t is i fairly paying buelne-ss, but ono liiust employ only the- best artist* to got the best results, and that, of •oui%e, brings the profits down, but, m the whole, we are very well sat-sfied."--London Tit-Bits. One afternoon, when giving drets at a mission church in a poor \ Ponti part of South-West London, he was »ossese< unwittingly the source of much die-1 engines appointment to a large congrega-. gmes, £ Tho children in tho district, ; engines, who had seen the posters annoumc-1 hoso, ing his appearance, persuaded their fill hers and mothers to coj church on the plea that thoy •ngth ' pide ; 1,285. It l fire real live earl" in the p<ulpit As the peaplo filed out after service ^ woman was heard to observe, "Hie lon't look a bit like a lord; he only ooks like a clergyman with nothing ■ound his neck." one fire boat, five n barges, 72 land steam en-d 17 six-inch manual fire It has also 42£ miles of long fire ladders, one motor four bicycles, 288 horses, 116^ telephone lines between five stations^ ould and 801 fire alarms. MOTOR POSTAL SERVICE. Experiments to connect Johannesburg and Mafeking by motor cars proved very successful. In the-trial run a French car started from PotchefstBoom at 7 a.m. and reached Mafeking at 4.20 p.m., a distance of 100 mite» In consequence, a regu-jervico to Mafeking has been established for carrying the mails, and a service for Krugersdorp, Rusten-burg and Zeerust has also been arranged. A GATEFUL COUNTRY. Country roads in Norway are barred at frequent intervals by gatea, which either mark the boundaries of farms or separate the cultivated fields from the waste lands. These gates, of which there are upwards ot 10,000 in tho whole country, constitute considerable nuisance to travelers, who have to stop their vehicles and alight to open them. NO DRUGGIST'S CHARGES. The toothbrush plant grows in Jamaica. By cutting a piece of the stem and fraying tTie ends the nar tivos make a toothbrush, and a dentifrice to use with it is produced by drying and pulverizing the dead stems.