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M WINCH W Diana! Hm W Than H. on on Wuhan. Mr. 8.1mm Penn. 0! the famous “than." had rattle-r more than his than of human “unknown and trail. tin. hm had he been a better man I! la vertaln that Ms "lllnry" would have been a duller hunk. it in. for example. an undoubted fact that Mr. Pepya was something of a gonnandâ€"wna rather {under of the table and oi‘ the delighta thereof than a really wine man ought to have been. it is to this trait in his character and to his curious habit of jotting down rough noten of what he had had for dinner that we owe a thousand little details regarding the table of well to do Englishmen in the reign of hia majesty King Charlea ll.. of hilarlooa memory. Men Who Walked on All Fours. in the kingdom of Poland there was formerly a law according to which any person found guilty of slander was compelled to walk on all tours through the streets of the town where he lived accompanied by the beadle. as a sign that he was disgraced and unworthy of the name of man. At the next pub- lic festival the delinquent was forced to appear crawling upon hands and knees underneath the banqueting ta- ble and barking like a dog. Every guest was at liberty to give him as nany kicks as he chose. and he who ad been slandered must toward the Id of the banquet throw a picked us at the culprit. who. picking it up th his mouth. would leave the room all fours. What will be thought of the follow in; for a nice, dainty little meal? It is the menu of a little "feast." n he calls It. which the diarist gave every year in commemoration of his being operated on successfully for a dangerâ€" on: disease. He proudly chronicles that the dishes on this occasion includ- ed "a fricasseeof rabbits and chickens, a leg of mntton boiled. three curve in a dish. a great dish of a side of lambs a dish 0! roasted pigeons. a dish of four lobsters. three tarts. a lamprey ple"-n most rare pieâ€""n dish of an chnries and good wine of several sorta. And all things mighty and noble and to my mat content." he adds com- piacentiy. No doubt the poor man was thankful enough to get that. for one gathers from the "Dlnry" that he generally had cold ment on washing days. In those days. look you. washing day was â€"washlng day. Mrs Pepys and her “people”â€"two or three mnlds and a cook mnldâ€"dld ll. themselves-no washerwomeu. end the good lady and her helpers were generally up at 4 o'clock In the morning In summer. The number of guests on this occa- aion is not given. but at another time. with aia guests. be has "after oyatera a hash of rabbits and lamb and a rare china of beef: next a great dish of mated fowlâ€"coat me about 30 abil- iings-and a tart. and than fruit and rbeeae.” About 10 o'clock at night be send: his guests away "after a com! net posse" and cold meat." The wholo will coin hlm. he observes. about £5â€" aay £20 of prom-M day Engllsb money. These In what the dlnrlst calla "feasts." On nrdlnnry occasions the (are In. of com-aw. much more modest -fnr Instance: “DIM-d at home with my wife. It being wnnblnz day. we had a good ple baked n! n log of muttnn." \n Easy Way to Stretch Shoes. wage a tlght boot or shoe take a shears-the longer the betterâ€" hludee with cloth and insert ' ~ the toe of the shoe: the blades. That "1 the handles at ”we presses un- ‘t place the the polnt 'rxosen rep PEPYS’ LITTLE F EAST. if this turns out to be the case the few winning offside pitchers that will be with the majors next year will prob ably be carefully nursed. But should the left handed dinger become practi- cally extinct it will prove a great re lief to the batters. only a comparative- ly few of whom can learn to beequaliy expert hitting the ball from either side of the plate. it is a pretty safe wager that if a few years hence the his leagues were practically without left handed beavers and all the boys were .battiug right handed nearly all of the time the batting would increase at least one-third over the present gait.- Ed A. (:oewey in Leslie's. lleully the mevlmnival violin consist. of three instruments. The bow in a circular boon or horsehair. which trav- els around continually. Standing on end inside the hoop are three viollnl. Tbe hardest tunes to play present no dlmcultles to thls marvelous fiddle. It 1:: not llkely to replace the bumap play- Like most machines. however. it lacks one thing. it cannot tune itself. When any of the notes get flat the strings have to be tightened by a mere man in almost the same way as an or- dinary violinâ€"Pearson's Weekly. Artistic Mending. London has adopted a French in- dustry which aims at neatness. It is that of the “stoppeur.” The word re- fers to the art or mending ciothes. in Paris the “stoppeur” is well and fa vorahly known. Supposing a gentle man tears his coat or burns a hole with his cigarette In his trousers. the garment is conveyed to the “stoppeur.' who in some mysterious way recon Itructs the material. in some way they seem to weave in the stuff. join ing up threads of a bit of cloth ‘ I from another part. ‘ The, Oct lame Ivory You and In, Soon I. Intact. For some time past there has been I rumor going the baseball round: that the left handed pill-her is rapidly be coming on extinct wet-les- Every eiut in baseball is anxious to have on It! payroll at least one and it wnslble two “left pawn." but hundreds of teams have none. Left handed twitter: are so greatly valued in the major league: It present that the scouts sent out to look over talent in the minors If: in- structed to try to dig up as mun: promising ofl‘side twiriers as possible The searchers proved that but little could be accomplished in the desired direction. One of the best known scouts in the business is Arthur lrwin. the veteran talent hunter of the New York Ameri- cans. and to quote what he said recent Iy seems to sum up the situation in s nutshell. "I‘ve combed the husr‘ leagues this year as never before." quoth he. "and never did i see such s‘ scarcity of southpaws. They are noi to he had. My experience is the same as that of other scouts with whom I have talked. i cannot account for it except that left handed persons are set- ting scarcer in all walks of lite in my travels this season i saw very few twiriers of this kind. and Hi venture the prediction that 1918 will see fewer new southpaws in the big leagues than in any season in twenty-tire years.” It In an Instrument In TrIpIIcato. and It Plays III-If. The Intent Inventlon Is a vIoIIn that plays Itself. People who have heard It any (but It possesses the deIIcncy of touch and sweetness of tone or a On- lubed player. Along the necks of the instrument- stretch a row of uncanny fingers that run up and down the string: Jult like real fingers. The violins stand back about an inch from the moving hoop of horsehair, against which they are push- ed at the right moment when the note is struck. or In the brchestra for some time It least, as the cheapest kind costs £400. Driven by the Sun. Sun heat has been successfully used to raise steam in an engine in Egypt. The sunpower plant and engine are the invention of Frank Shaman of Philadelphia. The heating apparatus consists of 572 boxes of sheet iron. each three feet square. framed in stout‘ wood and covered with two sheets of glass, separated by an air space of one inch. All these are mounted on trestles, facing due south. with a sur- face of 5.000 square feet exposed to the sun's rays. Further heat from the same source is concentrated on the lthN by six foot mirrors. and a tem- nerature of 450 degrees F.. more than ble boiling point. can be obtained his way. The sun power engine is apted for use in tropical climates. here the cost of fuel is considerable. LEFF HANDED PITCHERS. THE LATEST IN VIOLINS. lwmi 3‘.“ s The first. whisky or inboxicant of inferior quality was distilled in Eng- land and brought to Canada in large barrels, but in transporting it over- la1.1 it was found more convenient to digide it into small kegs. “Your lordship," answered Mr. Cowen, “that is easily answered. I am an Ease: boy. born and raised on the farm. The 'urymen were nearly all farmers who ave known me from my youth upward, and they were all aware that m chief iailin waa an excessive mod’esty which one pre- vented me from asking all that. I was entitled to." A ten-dollar counterfeit Bank of Toronto note. which experts say mua‘ have taken a month to make, reached the headquarters of that concern re- oeptly. When the Hudson Bay Trading Co. began its trading among the Indians it was found that by selling the In- dians liquor they could more easily be_1:ndueed to_t_ra_de v’txheir peltries. It is by a new process. Water- colors and brush and pen were used in its production. according to the bank’s experts, who say its discrepan- cies only showed up to any extent under a magnifying glass. The note is a brand new one. The man who does this work must be an expert in water-colors and drawing, said an export. speaking of the samples of his work turned out in the form of counterfeit bank notes. The traders soon beEame aware of 1" * fact that hv diluting the whisky with water r r8 could be ob- tainpd. " cticed for some _ learned that n a fire would hereas had the 2_‘ fire would be .-_his simple ex- " “fire water” mMr. Langlois says that people will suppose that Abbe Drioux history 0! England is an Li'ition sixt years old. but nothing of t o kind t is sold in this country and special edition for Canada was printed by J. E. Mercier 00.. Levis. authorised by the coun- oil of public instruction on the 19th May. 1909. a report being made to {2:90 Legislature during the session 0! ed affections. So ably did Mr. Cowan present her woes that the sympathetic jurynien awarded the plaintifl not only the lull amount of damages asked. but 3500 more. This of course gave the defendant. a valid reason (or appeal. The case was brought to Osgoode Hall. and Mr. Cowan ap- peared to argue his client's side of the action. After counsel for both parties had been heard. the senior judge. knowing that it was Mr. 00- wan'a first appearance before the aug- uat tribunal of appeal. took occasion to compliment the young lawyer on hi: table effort. and then halt-jokingly as e : A banker. who described the work of the oounterfeiter as “remarkable," said four other banks besides the Bank of Toronto had their issues of five and tens imitated only recently. Because water-colors were used in each instance, the bankers are con- vinced that a clever gang of counter- feiters are at work somewhere not far from Toronto. cities of U per Canada. whlle Quebec. the cap ital) of the whole of Canada. is the place where the governor ro- aidea. New Wales and New Caledonla are little known and chiefly noted (or their fur trade." Le Pays calls upon the superinten- dent 0! education to explain why such stupid errors are allowed. Hia Excessive Modury. The story goes that one of the first cases accepted by Mahlon K. Cowan. the well-known Ontario counsei. when he started his career as a young law- yer in Windsor was a breach of pro- mise case in which a fair daughter 0! Essex County claimed the moderate sum of 82100 as balm (or her [trund- “How do you account. Mr. Cowan. for the jury's generosity in awarding your client more than the damages you claiqu?’_’ _ "cranium. Hlmry 0' 933'an '0‘. "Wed i-r , aebec In IL). Godfrey Lane! I- M. P. P. Wh'v ha- been flehtimz i r II long Iime for bet. ier Commvn arhr mi: in Quebec has found a real flew in the ahnpe nf an finalish hisinrv auih wired by the Quehev come” «I‘ public in.a tructinn in 1909. a special edition for Canada having been puhii hed by J. I) Mer- cier of Levis. (In pace 272 of this bonk the iollnwinu is to be lound: "The English pmnseione in North America. are called New Britain. and are divided intn lebrndnr. Nave Sco- til. New Brunswick on the Northeast. Cnnedn in the centre. New Wnlesto the west of Hudson Bay. New Cale- donie to the west of the great lakes. whiie the shores of New! Cniedonie m called New Cornwall or New Han- over. "Lnbndor is very mid. inhabited by Esquimaux; Nova Scotia is nine“ 3n island in the Gui! of St. Lawrenoo. its capital being Halifax. doing 8 km trod; ip‘ furs. _Canad| 39th. ifo'rTb {afifie 'finiiéé' 8th}; is" d'i'vidod into two paths. upper and lower Can- ada. York and Rims-ton are the chief A Mtg-HA D‘AJLE VOLUiF-‘O Origin of “Fire Water." Water Color Bllh. I‘HE PORCUPINE ADVANCE : have learn- ‘et, sent out Elapital, that ier a million :3 that. city; Qrtion of a ‘5! West. St. 9,000, will «ghat there 9 estab- i great. plant. \npletâ€" a: WI“ “bar- John. among In- for the Subscribe Advancc ; OOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOCOOOOOOOOOCOCOGOO Or any two partners, the Suggestion is made that theyg ope n a JOINT ACCOUNTPe with The Bank of Toronto. Having a Joint Account either of the partners may withdraw money. and in the event of the death of one. the money belongs to the survivor. If interested, talk the mat- ter over with any Manager of the Bank of Toronto To Husband and Wife J. M. 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