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tu ------ STORES OF THE PARISH WITTY ARCHBISHOP GLENNON WAS OUTWITTED. And Had to Puy an Frish Laborer a New ; Hat--A Story Concerning the Opposite Lide-of the Road--A Instinct Which Was Asked Rev. Father Stanton. At unportan tickets were issued to persons of high rank, admitting them to that part of the hall served for the royal family and their special friends. Less distinguished guests were given white tickets, Through Some mistake, an im- portant public man received a blue card while his wife received a white one. When the couple reached the audience chamber, there began to be trouble; the lady firmly declined tobe separated from her husband. An aide endeavored to reason with her, pointing out the dreadful consequences that would follow 4 mingling of blue and white. "How absurd?' exclaimed the, lady. "What do you take us for--a Seidlitz powder?" She was permitted to enter with her band another sped behind Th upon which the wheelbarrow reposed--causing the deepest amazement among the peasants in the villages through. which they passed Upon the ar- rival of the prisoner in SS. Petér and Paul he wis ofite again chained to the barrow, and ofily after he had been six weeks in the Schluesselbdry wa: he finally detached from it ard given ireedom of movement within the [arrow confines of hic cell When they unchained me subsequently, 'I could not get enough move- ment. Fwanted to run and run, and it seemed to me that 1 could never stop. How strange it is that men who can enjoy perfect freedom of movement never realize the wonderful hap- piness that is theirs!" 'said Schedrin, an function m London, blue re~ Birth of Verdi's "Miserere." Men ot genius are confesiedly creatures of mood. Grief and adversity have often been a real help to them, rather than hindrance. Poe produced "The Raven" while sitting at the bedside of his sleeping but dying wife. When Verdi was engaged on his well-known opera, "Il Trovatore," he stopped short at the pas- sage of the "Miserere," being at a loss to combine notes of sufficient sadness and pathos to. express the grief of the prisoner, Manrico. Sitting at bis piano in the deep stiliness of the winter night, his imagination wandered back to the stormy days of his youth, en- deavoring to extract a plaint, a groan, like those which escaped from his breast when he saw himself forsaken by the world. AN in vain! . = One day, at Milan, he was unexpectedly huos- "Any new religions, madam?' The Boston vender bowed politely to the lady of the house, who looked somewhat doubtfully. "What have you to-day?" she asked at last. "A fresh line of utilitarian principles, just PERSTITION. The Silly Things Saner Generations Have Escaped. and "cold iron" has always been a notable charm, against evil 'in Scotland. Dean Ram- fay, referring to an anti-pig superstition in Fifechire, teils A clergyman of one of the fishing villages, having mentioned this super- stition to a clerical friend, who was incredu- lous, arranged that he should read to the com- gregation the chapter relating to the herd of swine into which the evil spirits were cast When the unclean beast was mentioned a slight commotion was observable, each wor- shipper putting his or her hand on 'any near piece of iron--a nail on the seat or book- board or to the nails in their shoes. At the repetition of the word, again and again, more commotion was visible, and the words, "Cauld airn," the antidote to this baneful spell, were heard from various corners of the church. And, finally, on his coming' over the hated word again, when the whole herd ran violent- ly down the bank into the sea, the parishion- ers, irritated beyond bounds, rose and left the church in bodies. / Scatch sailors used to say, "Cold iron," when any forbidden word was mentioned. It was common after an exchange had been effected, for the one who thought he had the best of the bargain to clasp the nearest piece of "cold iron," exclaiming, "Touch cold iron, can't change it" Perhaps the custom had some thing to do with the touching of hot iron in us: over from Germany. A complete and well rounded Brother of Man, guaranteed for one y#ar. A nice line pf altruistic specialties, one of them something new, entitled 'Christianity With the Sting Removed" Some Nirvana novelties. A job lat of Buddhist dogmas. And Eliot's patent unadulterated free-for-al! working hypothesis." "That all?" * "I canlet you have.any number of the, old, orthodox kind--used by some folks. Done up in new packages, with the old labels, however." "Xo, thanks." called to the bedside of a dying friend, one of j the few who had remained faithful to him in) adversity and prosperity. - Verdi, at the sight! of his dying friend, felt a lamp rise in his throat; he wanted to weep, but so intense was his grief that not a tear flowed to the relief of his anguish. In an adjoining room stood a piano. . Verdi, under ones of those sudden im- pulses to which men of genius are sometimes subjéct, sat down at the instrument, and there and then improvised the sublime "Miserere" of the "Trovatore." The musician had given utterance: to his grief > same Easy Prison Life in Japan. A prison punished for Japan, where Witty Archbishop Glennon, of St. Louis, has been outwitte® An Irish labarer was placing paving at a crossing; the b of the gang was an Italian. The prelate, who dearly loves his joke, hantered the son of Erin. "Well, iy man," said. he, "how do like Italian boss? s," retorted the man with ' how do you like havin' is a place where malefactors are their crimes. It not so 'n a convict may earn money enough while in jail to maintain his family, has the best food and. lodging is taught a trade, and cin" study foreign languages. At Sugamo a qualified teacher instrucis the young prisoners in reading, writing and arithmetic. Prisoners of twenty years and upward in se- clusion for the first time are taught geography and history. If, on entering the prison, a man has a knowledge of English, he is carefully examined by a linguist and allowed to pursue his studies, the necessary books being supplied by the authorities. When there are several in together a teacher obtained from outside and lessons are given regularly. In the offices a record of each prisoner shows whether he 1s prompt to obey the officials; whether he shows affection for his parents and relatives; whether he writes letters home; and whether he makes progress in scholastie studies. It was natural that, after parading this 'paradise, to doubt # Japan's treatment of her criminals led to decrease in crime re officials con- fessed 'that of. robbers, burglars, thieves and swindlers, twice imprisoned, sixty per cent returned; of first offenders, forty per cent found their way back. boss 18 food ah "Faith, your gr the wood-blacks, one yourself?" No one was more delighted than the Arch- bishop, who went to the nearest hat store, and fitted the muddy Irishman with the finest hat he had ever worn you Father Stanton, of London, was returning Jate from a sick parishioner's bedside, when a gentleman, intoxicated, but still upright, ac costed hime with "I can see you are a gentle- man, sir. Could you kindly tell'me which is the opposite side of the road?" "Over there," said the good-natured cleric, glancing appre- hensively at the trafic. "That's a mast sin- gular thing," said the gentleman; "I was over there only a short while ago, and 1 asked a most pleasant young man the same question 1 to you, sir, and he assured me that the road! hive this was put opposi of the A minister, frequently away from home, was the old trial by ordeal. There was also an ancient custom of sacri- ficing to a sea-god, called Spony, in the island of Lewis every Hallowtide. The inhabitants went to the Church of St. Mulray, each family bringing a peck of malt; this was brewed into ale. One of their number would wade into the sea, and empty a cup of ale, and cry with a loud Voice, "I give to you this cup of ale, hoping that you'll be so kind as to send us plenty of sea-ware for enriching our ground the ensuing year." . This was performed in the night time. They then went to church. It was the custom in Scotland, as elsewhere, for farmers to leave a part of their ground untilled as a gift to the devil. It seems, how- ever, that they often cheated the devil by giving him a worthless bit. In 1594, the El- ders of the Scottish Church exerted their in- fluence to abolish the irrational custom. This untilled spot, supposed to be dedicated to Satan, was styled "the Good Man's Croft," viz,, the Landlord's Acre. It seems probable that some pagan ceremony had given rise to SO strange a superstition An even more curious method of defeating evil chance consisted in turning some article of dress inside out. "At certain places," we read, "the devil exerts a stronger influence than at others, that is, in narrow and difficult ways. A village a favorite place of the adversary, and women deliberately' turn their gowns before crossing." z Cheating the devil was attempted in many different ways in the world. In some places it used to be thought that the farmer who made his ridges crooked prevented the devil from following the crop with his eye. Among Armemans, wher any person in the family is taken ill, every kind of religious book is removed: out of the house to propitiate the evil spirit. During an eclipse of the sun the Hindus threw out of their windows all the food in the house, by which the evil one is stile Iron is used as a charm in many countries, 909. THE WORLD'S PECULIA ies; | ; a ! A Remarkable Instance of the Irony of! Fate. The oft-reported sea of oil in the Gulf.ofi Mexico has been observed recently by the! masters of two steamers. That a thin coat of 0il has existed in this region for several years was welt known, but some extraordinary oc- currence is responsible for the present great Aowing. The depth of water is 5400 feet The oil zone is a mile and a half wide and five miles long. In many places near to the jets the oil is four inches deep and a dead calm prevails, while the sea is turbulent beyond This oil lake is due south from the oil fields of East Texas and experts believe that the subterranean eruption has severed the big vein of oil feeding the Texas fields. Vessels canght im a gulf hurricane can take refuge in these oil covered waters and ride out the storm in safety. - . A remarkable instance of the irony of fate is revealed in legal news 'rom Australia. The late Baron von Mueller, govermment bctanist of Victoria, made the study of the plants and flowers of Australia his life-work. He pub- lished forty books on the subject, was made a German baron and a British kright, and wis otherwise decorated by most of the sovereigns of Europe. He spent $100,000 in the interests of Australian botanical science, with the re- sult that he died worth only a few hundreds of pounds. By his ,will he ordered that this money be devoted to a memoir and the care of his grave, specifying the flowers to be planted over his remains. But a Melbourne court has decided that the money cannot be applied to these purposes, but must be handed over to relatives. Every year in Cambridge, England, is given SMIID 4] '000'0Z Se Auevw se Quads fnoad AY) ydoem 0) jdoad yum papmosd ie au we) Yj jo syURQ YL SIaMoy IY} JO deq ve of the twenty-one colleges of the university come rowing up the stream. Just beyond the bridge; back of King's college, the boats stop They are close together and are decorated) with roses, wreaths and flags. The leader| gives the signal, the students cheer, and the| battle begins. 'The flowers are thrown from, boat to boat and the air is full of them. It is; a beautiful sight x | Of sanctuary or asylum for the eighteenth century debtor the theatre must not be over- locked. So as the actor was in the bounds of the playhouse he was safe. John Palmer, for instance, who lived in his dress- ing room, at Drury Lane for months. But engagements--even at long Drury Lane--come to an end, and Palmer was required at the Hay- market. The journey was dangerous, Ne- cessity, however, fosters invention. They packed him in a cabinet, put the cabinet in a cart, and called him "scenery." No Japanese ever sleeps with his head to the north, because the dead in Japan are buried with their heads in that direction. Conse- quently, in the sleeping rooms of many of the private-houses of Japan, not to speak of hotels in larger cities, a diagram of the points of the compass is conspicuously posted on the ceiling for the information of guests Each week is pasted in the little blank book that every serving maid in Germany must pos-} S€ss a Three jets, 300 feet apart, are bubbling ail.' 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Some of the Hindus explained the eclipse as an attempt of a hungry demon to swallow the san The Franconian peasant, wrote: Moncure Conway in 1872, still believes the devil to be a poor lean pauper, whom can be rendered guite harmless by throwing him a mouthful; the baker will three of his loaves into the fire with words: 'Here, devil, here are yours." in the habit of getting some one to stay with postage stamp his wife and small daughter in his absence Once, however, he had no time to. make such provision. The wife was brave until night came After exhausting every reasonable ex- cuse for staying up, she put the ch'ld to bed with the injunction to pray especially for God's protection © during. father's "Yes, mother, wé: will do that to-night," said the little girl, "but the next time we will make better. arrangements." ] A Tuberculosis Preventorium. A noteworthy step in the fight against-the great white plague has been the organization in New-York of a tuberculosis preventorium-- to take affected children from the congested districts, and by treatment in suitable sur- roundings arrest the progress of the disease and restore thei to normal Stite. This pro- ject was made possible by a gift of half a million dollars from Nathan Straus, already widely known for his efforts in behalf of the health of babies and children by supplying wholesome milk. The building used for the preventorium the Cleveland cottage, at Lakewood. N.J., which Mr. Straus gave with some additional property. Other giits, value 200,000, have been contributed for the equip- ment of the institution. An endowment fund a million dollars will be needed to assure permanence to the work. The urgent neces- sity for a preventorium may readily be deduced from the estimate of Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, that there are 40,000 children in the tenements of New York affected with tuberculosis, most It is a real economy to buy is a "Peerless Peninsular", Being made of castiron, it will never rust through. absence toss the The "Peerless Peninsular" --as a cooker and baker--is without a saperior and has all Nautical almanacs, prepared with great la- bor and care, give calculations and tables for navigator and 'astronomer. They have been published in France since 1679; Germany since 1776. The British Nautical almanac was first issued by the Royal Astronomical society in 1767, and since 1834 has been under the super- vision of the admiralty. It is published sev- eral years advance. One has since 1853 been issued anually, three years ahead, by the United States navy department. A well-to-do Scottish lady one day sald to her gardener: "Man, Tammas, I wonder. you don't get mirried. You've a house, and all you want to complete it is a wife. You know, the first gardener that ever lived had a wife." "Quite right, missus, quite right," said Tammas, "but he didna keep his job long affer he got the wife." The Passing of Clifford's Inn. Clifford's Inn, London, doomed. * Its owner, William Willett, will erect modern offices upon the site. One of the oldest Inns of Chancery, it was founded about 1345, when a mansion formerly occupied by the fifth Bar- on Clifford was rented at £10 a year to "stud- ents of the law." In Elizabeth's feign the Inn (an independent school for the study of law) had 150 students, but a little later the property fell into the hands of the King, and the stud- ents were banished. From the close of the is is the conveniences of the nice best steel ranges. Lift Key Plate, for broiling -- Adjustable Damper, to exactly regulate the heat of the oven--Ovem Thermometer--. ¢ m of surprised and that your hus- the "iniddle "of Vicar (severely)--"I was sorry, Mrs. 'Smith, to observe band walked out church The first hospital in America was erected of in by the Spanish Cortez in Mexico City in 1524 my sermon last Sunday." Mrs. Smith--"Oh, really "im. sir: 'e's a- somnambulist, and walks in "1s you must excuse sleep, you see' Apropos to the political unrest in England, a Manchester reports that vecently a scholar:in his school wrote an essay Fawkes, in which this passage curred: "Guy Fawkes was a-brave and man. He tried: to blow up the House Lords!" present teacher on Guy oc wise of A minister, having walked through a village churchyard and observed the indiscriminate praise bestowed 'upon the dead, wrote upon the gate the following: "Here the dead, and here the living lie" lie post Mamma--I hope you mentioned what a very naughty girl you'd been in your prayers, ahd asked forgiveness? , Little Girl--No, mamma, I was too ashamed ta say anything outside of the family Menzies--Whaur's Bulgaria, An'nerson?" Anderson--"1t's awa' doon somewhere ahint the Eastern Question. Dye no' min', that's whaur anld Gledstone used to get his atrocities frae?" Vicar--"I ;have been hearing a sad account of yon Mrs. Jones." Mrs. Jones "Ah! Sir, this 's a shocking place for gossip!" Rigor of Russian Punishment. In writing of the Schuesselburg prison in MeClure's, David Soskice gives examples of Russian punishment, including this unique story: "Schedrin. had been condemned r the convict mines of Siberia, and for an attempt to escape from there had been sent enced to be chained to a heavy wheelbarrow When the order came f his transfer from to hard la- bor in for Siberia to St. Petersburg, no conveyance could be found large enough to contain him; the wheelbarrow and the convoy of gendarmes. Yet. as; the wheelbarrow had become a part of the prisoner, the gendarmes were afraid to jeave it béhind. It was therefore decided to place Schedrin with his convoy in one cart and the wheelbarrow behind in another For several months, day and night, Schedrin and the gendarmes galloped through Siberia upon a troika {a three-horsed cart or sledge), while of whom could be saved by open air life, pure; food, and proper supervision. This institution at 'Lakewood the first of its kind in the country, but it is hoped that it may soon be followed by similar institutions in the vicinity of other large cities is As Green as the Grass. During Bishop Richardson's address before the school children of St. Luke's anniversary services, at St. John, a little incident occurred that illustrates the psychology of the child. His Lordship, in simple words and using il- lustrations that' appealed to young hearers, spoke on the parable of the Good Shepherd and His sheep, The address was listened to attentively and the Bishop questioned the chil- dren upon points to which he referred. After explaining how the flock was owned and cared for by the Good Shepherd, he came to the feeding of the sheep. "Now can anybody tell me how the Good Shepherd feeds his sheep?" he asked the at- tentive children. There was a moment's silence and then in childish treble heard all over the church a little girl replied, "with grass." Being Tired Getting Ready. Washington Irving told of a man who tried to jump over a hill. He went back so far to get his start, and ran so hard, that he was completely exhausted when he reached the hill, and had to lie dowrr and rest. Then he got up and walked over the hill A great many people exhaust themselves getting ready to do their work. They are always preparing. It is an excellent thing to keep improving oneself, to keep growing, but there must be a time te begin the great work of life Christians and Rifles. Ottawa Citizen A Brantford minister says that the Japs, having two rifles to every one in Canada, can easily invade British Columbia. And the only way "to. avoid the possibility of such invasion is 'to make Christians of the Japs. The re- has been continuously flagstone of the peaceful courtyard, every an- cient doorway and small-paned window, must be chancery, and of strange sixteenth century onwards, however, the law in possession . Every full old in the memories of queer cases examples of Law's delays Pitiful tales some of those memories would ntake, for the Inn had a famous connection at one time with the Mar- shalsea Court, a County court in the days when imprisonment for trifling debts was rigid and frequent. Many a heart must have come near to breaking in the.cohrtyard of Clifford's Inn. Many a reputation, too, was soiled by false evidence concocted in its precincts by the gotorious parasites who hung around the Marshalsea. It was in the Great Hall that of Good, Bad and Indifferent. A professor in Andover (Mass.) Theglogical Seminary met a man going to town meeting. Said the proféssor: "What are they going to ring up at the meeting to-day, Brown?" Brown replied, with a snarl: "I dunno, but whatever it is I'm going-to oppose it." The zeal of this citizen is a drag to his town. An Irish teamster in a New England town hires a man to drive for him whenever the license question is put to vote. He takes the whole day off, votes "no license" and gets as many others as he can to vote the same way. A gentleman asked why he took much trouble. He answered: "Me boy died of rum, an' I do what 1 can to keep other folks' boys from dying the same way." This ignorant teamster is a citizen of the highest type. A man of high stand in the ' community boasted that he never voted at local elections. "Why should I go through the farce of cast- ing my ballot? This town is run by a lot of low 'and corrupt politicians. My vote doesn't count. I've no time for sentimental shams." This scholarly gentleman is a citizen of the lowest type. He is stupidly selfish. Were he intelligently selfish, he would protect his in- terésts as a citizen just as he protects his professional interests. There is no golden rule to municipal reform; there is mo one panacea that will} solve the difficulties and complexities of tHe situation; sO verend gentleman is a little confused. If the Japs are 'male Christians they will 'be better qualified to get into the great Christian game of seeing which nation can secure the most rifles, The other form of national Christianity has gone out gf fashion long ago \ » the problem is too big, too perplexing, too complex, to yield to simple remedies. It re- jquires the constant thought and best attention of the public-spirited man, day in and day out, with an eye Single to the public good, to pro- duce even. a small measure of improvement It endowed out 'of revenues from the properties conferred on him by the Spanish crown for his services the conquest of Mexico. The endowment still exists and a supervisor is. named by the lineal descendant of Cortez. In this hospital women long ago occupied positions as nurse and physicians, | _ i was m To Open Englishmen's Mouths. It was in a railway-carriage between London and Bristol. 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