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KELLY, tlarence and Ontario Streets o's Rutlding. aa ini CUT FLOWERS. HYACINTHS, NARCISSUS, SYCLAMEN. ARAUCARIES. PRIMROSKS, FERNS, Ete. Design Work Promptly Attend- ed to, 10N. Watts. soseecsnosssssnsennnns < t Flowers... i For Christmas Trade | : REGENT STRET. 'Phone 1137. PIPPI IIIVIIIV III POT PLANTS, Best' C PIGIIIIIIIIIIIITIIIII Fav i exelude whis $ xX 7 10 Upright adjustabls mirror in in oval heavy bevel! plate mirray. highly polished J Seen. Arame, 'Bup- ported by highly wed nickel rod resting on heavy nickel, base has swivels on top and bottom of rod, so that mirror may be adjusted to any position or angle des! red From Best's Gift Store. i Best by Test Plano. { about four to one | ten" of them have | ties | three-qu rhe steaks. 1 yoar--for the 'Bitds fo KNG'S AGED. SUBECTS LONGEVITY TO BE ON THE INCREASE. ; Old-Age Pensions Act Has Brought tg Light Many Remarkable Centenar- | a Hundred of Whom Have! ians, IN ENGLAND SEEMS | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. KNIGHTS BACHELOR. They Are Those M Men Whe" Belong to No Knig htly Orde is indeed mw ! to the i { of simg tof "Sir" to t thou i without memi cific orders orders of th Been Entered on the Official Re | cords -- Most Are Watks of Life--Irish Meads List It is ¢ 2 paradox that theses incide with throughout the Isles reveals the fact that 100 of the mslands total them over 30.000 years; ire than hundre aiready been it cannot be Eritish inhabitants tween m have and Is, Many rt been brought to of the of the Old land, of long people 1% in remote country through the work Age Pens Ac¢t. In ts 'pre-eminently the , & Mrs. Cranley, of Clon- brin, Monasterevan, claims to be 124 A mother of eight, of whom the young: est daughter is seventy, she foubt- less King George's oldest subject, for she is twelve ahead of male centenarians--two in Ireland at 112 and 110, and one in Scotland (110) --each of whom has thought hiwmse { entitled to bomst of that distinelivn If a woman looks oll sooner than a man--which open to doubt-ihe lives longer. The so-called weaker sox ins ie years 8 i would be in a majority at any repre- sentative meeting of centenanans by fact remarkahic | These old people have in few cases had easy days shielded from the stres and storm of life Nine out of been of humbl wo kK hard h Y One further is gin: and had te thei 80. On an anal ¥s the social scale' the no further~#evation than sented by one man of clergyman, and a réired colonel regard to people who were born in or before 1810 modern works about the peerage dre singularly silent. Mrs. Cranley, of whose life known, was born, correctly, before Byron, Shelley, Carlyle, and must have been thirteen at the time of the Irish rebellion, which 150,000 Irish and 20,000 English lives before it was surpress- ed. She is a link with a period when Ireland had its independent Paris. ment. She was nineteen in the ye of Trafalgar! : No Irichwoman has lived so loug since Mrs. Meighan, of Donoughmor? who died .in 1813 aged 130 Charles Kelly, Y.of Inver, Donegal, who is 112, must not be confused with a namesake, Thomas Kelly, of Six- mile Cross, Tyrone, whose death at 110 was reported recently, The Done gal Kelly 1s still active, and his sight and FKediring but slightly impeir ed. He produces documentary evi- dence of she date of his birth. lest looking at him oné should be sceptical con the subject. = Kelly has never lived more than three mile: from the spot where he was born in 1798. The house ich he lives he built himself, stones an his back from the adjoin: ing moor because in. his young rts in Ireland were unknown *ason he carried flour rteen miles from Done- ittle Kh y I on the finds the i men ascend to science, n iI little i if her age is given cost are moun re ms is of Government relief hips sai into Inver Buy every week to deliver Indian mea! during the famin: of 1847. There are men in Ulster wlio, whos they want to refer to old days, talk wot of a time before rai Iways? but of epoch. Patrick Me- 2 Tyrone, "has" 110 O'Donnel) of Mount. 197, and William Kiflater, Castledery, { Ulster had not s arians to talk about, th able t hear, and walk would be regarded as celebris Most of them have had hard M~Cart remembers days wh-n nd. mo were so scarce that he was raid for his work on the farm doles of cabbages leavés. Knight LUE wked hard and smoked lla. and his recipe for long lifs does O'Donnell does n« remember m about Napoleon, ba teil in. this yoar of 1910 how is 1 in the days of Napole: ttle with shillelaghs was fou between. the Inver and tt pari:h of Gloptd and how wt the won of th er nlace looked he de feated women of Gentics can f and 1 their kings a hail of ston r as made them Knig! Tyr ae teen « men about, ane ives ford a and ky parish of Totte on the men heat a retreat Old Bryan can éveak of a seafaring toon cok ef¥hiy vears ago. With four- Lteen cofnpanies he set seil in a small rter-decked from Inver Bay for America The little boat was well provisioned, and! tor seven weeks fought its way on the sea. At last land was sighted. But when the exnlorers disembarked they found that the "natives" snoke Trish, and that they were at Innescrane, on. the coast of Blige! With Ireland 0'Dofinell has been content ever since, though ho has two sens and two daughters in the United States. schooner a caller how Aberdeen, her native town, welcomed back the heroes of, Waterloo. Mrs. Jane Stewart is _her bright. She can remember the cele- brations at 'Queen Victoria's coronas tion as theugh they were last year. Even older than she is, a Mrs. Moore, of Killy. Nane, County Mono- ghan, edinits having seen 106 sama Tete. aud Shere are other aged la- with such biographies back to George 11's we ving i ------an. He Is No Hypocrite. Tom--Are vou zoing to wear mourn- daly 4 ae k- pocketbook, -------- 3 It you must bet, let the cook hold " Posember is the slowest mbuth in the folks. : sa the desire to he prosi- Wigh doit passion. =-+Khights of any have | Ir - ! land « three | repre. A silver-haired lady at a house in | Cemetery road, Londonderry, will tell | name, and at 105 her faculties remain | ing for you weulthy uncle? Jack-- ', in the Lower! . & Knights ording to tion of the old chevalier." or lower knight." ating: that the chevalier was of a wer grade of knighthood than those who were of the orders then ex the Garter and the d Thistle, in " Louis and the St and the Golden "¢, in Burgundy and afterward in Germany and in Spain : The "bas chevalier,' or Knight bachelor, was likewise inferior to the knight banneret, a dignity which. has pow gone out of existence, and which, though not hereditary, was only be- stowed for services in the field. The bannerets were usually already fy pos- sesgion of thé dignity of ordinary knigt } » ceremony of in- vestitt in the sovereign giving directions that their pointed pennant should be clipped in such a fashion as to covert it into a square banner, the value of this change being derived from the faet that no other person below the rank of a peer of the realm was allowed to display his armorial bearings on a square ban- ner. The last instance of the bestowal of the dignity of knight banneret was at a naval review at Portsmouth: in 1773, when George 111. conferred it upon Admirals Pye and Sprye and upon Captains Bickerton and Vernon. Other authorities, again, the term Knight Bachelor is derived from the Norman-French word batte:, lier. owing to the fact that knight- hood in olden times was bestowed for military services only, while still oth- ers argue that the word bachelor was ap plied to this degree of knighthood by King Henry III. in order to signify that the honor would die with the person to whom it was granted. The first civilian to receive the hon- or of ordinary knighthood was Bir William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London, who is remembered in his- tory as having struck down the rebel Wat Tyler, leader of an insurrection against Richard I1. The daring act of the Lord Mayor in thus killing Tyler at the head of the rebel forces so demoralized his followers that the ris ing came to ankand then and there, the King knighting the Lord Mayor on the yery spot. The Knights Bachelor have within the last few years enrolled themselves into a society. Col. Sir Henry Pel- latt, commander of the Queen's Own Rifles, has recently béen made presi- dent of the society. i Bachelor, some, is a French we term, CITR 'bs and the acd Lhe Some Curious Taxes. From. time to time the exchequer of Great Britain has been replenished by singular taxes. Henry VIIL taxed beards, and graduated the tax accord- ing to the status of the wearer. The Sheriff of Canterbury was constrained. to pay the sum .of 3s. for the privilege of sporting his venerable whiskers. Queen Elizabeth fixed a similar tax on every beard over a fortnight's growth, and bent on mak- ing an example of people who did not attend church imposed a fine for ab- sence. In 1685 it was decided that the arrival of every child in the world should be greeted with a tax. The birth of a child to a duke cost the father $150, whilst the advent of a commoner's child was hailed by a tax of 50 cents. Moreover, it was an ex- pensive matter to die, as it is, In- deed, in this year'of grace 1910, with thy exacting of -death--dues.... Bache: lors and widows were compelled to pay for the privilege of single blessedness It was due to William Pitt that the window-tax was instituted, and in the reign of George 1. it was necessary to have a license in order to sell hats. Then thers was a tax-on-hair-pew der; and another was laid on watches and clocks, In the reign of George 111 a duty of 60 cents was imposed on bricks. At a later period in the same reign, bricks were divided for the pur- of taxation in common and dressea bricks, and the duty on each kind of brick was regulated according to its size. « 9 pose ¥ He Was a Kind King. The late ¥ "dward's good na- dure was © 0 d recently by a London cot Bei" at the Press k. aid the correspondent, fford Abbey, and one Club in Ne! apany with his host, "The King » "was visiti took a walk over the morngng, ¥ Lord Savi = preserves, £, "Budden ly man, shabby fa. protruding word Savile, a big, bur- ed. forward and seized a with a dead pheasant rom the "breast of his ir. die said to -the King, 'this fellow is a bad gk. This is the second time I've caught him poaching.' "But the King's handsome face beamed, and he laughed his gay and tolerant laugh. *"'Oh, let him go," he said. 'If he really were a bad egg, you know he wouldn' t poach'." Posted. King G V. is reported to be the hor of the following: "1 was at an informal tea the othér afternoon," said the King, "and was bidding my distinguished hostess good-bye when her little daughter, a child of seven or eight years, came 'forward timidly, looking as if she had something to say. beautiful child, and when her mother formally presented her she Saurtetied prettily and said in a loud, iy po " "Because," = 'mamma told me to." Lasaive | "ares Colin € Tan you ' that, asked. ny ny voice | - "1 think ih your, Majesty is a very 4 said » the little girl, MAP. argue that - She was a . SATURDAY, ! "LIKE A CHESSY CAT." Where Conan English Originated. Who first gave utterance to some of the popul ar phrases of to-day it is practically impo to. say, but it is not so difficult to' trace the origin of the sayings." Cheshire cats, for instance, are no different from those af other counties, but because Che- shire cheeses used to be made in the shape of pats with fixed, broad grins, the phrase, "Grinning like a Cheshire cat cating cheese, ™ arose. The phrase, 'He's a brick," ori gin- ated from an eastern rule; who, while visiting Sparta, asked his host to show him the fortifications. Waving his hands toward his troops, which were drawn up in soldierly array, the Lace- daimonian said to his guest: "Thése are my 'fortifications; every man is a brick.' The phrase, "Mad as a hatter," really means as venomous as a vip- er. "Mad as a hatter" is simply a corruption of an ancient form, *'Mad as an atter, or adder." case is generally synonymous poisonous The clause "It suits to a T, ing it familiar instrugent, T-rule (so call to the letter T), Phrases ie the T-square, used by mechanics DECEMBER 2 Mad in' this | with | ' mean- | fits, exactly, is as old as the or i from its resemblance | and draughtsmen for making angles { true and for obtaining perpendiculars. The expression was in common use | in the time of Dg Johnson, quoted by Boswell assaying of War- burton, loa T' who 18 | "You see thYy have fitted him | Many adsl are shocked when they | hear the expression so often used, don't care a dam." They think it is profane The word "dam," however, when used with "1 don't care," is not in the least profane, and is equivalent to saying, The dam is a two-cent piece current in India, and this phrase i= of Indian origin, and was originally used to con- vey the idea that the user was utterly | indifferent. "I don't care a brass but- to" or 'I «don't care a cent' equivalent expressions There are two accounts of the origin "Mind your P's and Q's." Aecording to one, it arose irom the early method used in public- houses of charging customers for the amount of beer they had consumed on credit. P stood for pint, and, as the scores were settled weekly, it was necessary for the toper to watch his P's and Q's. According to the other explanation, the phrase owes its origin to the difficulty printers have experienced from time immemor- ial in distinguishing between the low er-case p's and g's of the Roman type. The similarity between the two let- ters 1s great, particularly when they are reversed, as in the proc of distributing, that the printer's prentice is always warned by foreman to "mind his P's and Q's." of the expression 80 Comedy of a a Sham Right. A Birmingham, Eng., man, who is a most _#nthusiastic Territorial, had quite a remarkable adventure during the recent manoeuvres. He was sup- posed, writes Looker-Op, to be a wounded man, and had been posted at a spol where he was to be picked up later hy the ambulance men who followed the force, presumably in pur- suit of a de feated enemy. A label had been given to him for the infor- mation of the ambulance men, de- scribing his "serious injuries," which copsisted of a broken arm, fractured jaw, bullet wounds in both knees; in fact, he wad a "terrible case." The ambulance mén came along and dress- od his "wounds" so effectually that he could neither move legs nor arms; in nsequence of the "fractured jaw' his face and mouth were strapped and bandaged so tightly that only his eyes could be'seen. This done the men laid him carefully oh the roadsid for the waggons to pick up later, aud they pushed on to the next "case." Be- fore the arrival of the ambulance wagons a motor party passing caught of the fearsome object on the ! h-0eRSMINAS, he trussed up auite unable to tion. They unanimously decided it was the question ta leave him on the ro wd: gide, so he was carefully lifted into the car and driven the nearest pital some fifieen miles away. Ex. tion soon followed his arrival at titution, and it was with mixe i feilings that the motor party contin their interrupted journey, w tim of their mi splaced cone witli a large parcel of splints, band- ages, and other dressings, made their bas ck to camp fo explain his dis- . which had by then been Needless to say, that same explanation as the source ol con stant amusement in camp to I p! t @ the vi way Plans Bor Coronation. London lers have already oversd that the coronation will w to London five heirs to thrones. They have heard also that the Prin- css Royal and her daughters will winter in Egypt and return after Faster with Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria, who will have a long yachting Cruise in the Mediter- rancan The successor to Dr. Jos, Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster and adapter of the mediaeval coronation ceremony, may. be Archdeacon Wil. berfaree. who has remained a strong Liberal n \ Poiftics Westminster Ab bev will be closed for four mouths during toe coronation period. Neither. A little city-bred boy who had never seen a cow. while on a visit to his uncle's in the esuntry, walked out acrsss the fields with his grandpa. Seeing a cow, be wag greatly exeited, "and askad: "What is that, grandpa y. that is only a cow," was the chroni ara sry thos: things on her thead? "Horne." said the grandpa. The two walked on. Presently the , cow mood loud and long. The boy | vas amazed. Losking back he ex- dole grand. 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