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'more grievous trials that the peo- ple encountered. = ; 3. When we eat afflictions, 'had enjoyed in m led to hit on his method of giving oxygen injections as & pos gible cure for dementia by observ- 'ing that madness generally arose in a period of great exhaustion of body and nerves caused by over- work, "strong emotion, griel, eto, As the action of oxygen was to stimulate immensely the vigor of the system he resolved to try it on a certain number of cases, with the results already known. He announced that during the coming winter he will' carry out with Dr, Charles Richet, the well- known epecialist, a number of fur- ther experiments in quite a differ- ent direction, which will, perhaps, put into their hands the key to in- sanity. - -- i MAKING PETS OF REPTILES, Japanese Women Cultivating a Fancy for Pet Snakes. To make: pets of snakes is the latest hobby of Japanese society. Fashionable wonien are cultivating a fancy for small and live serpents. They have about them the harmless spotted = keel-backs and striped snakes, which are easily tamed. -- The mian who has done more than anybody 'elseo establish this hobby is ~ Kinjiro = Nakamura, who has p | been engaged in the snake business were|for more than twenty years, and o{'who hag & wonderful assortment of reptiles, - The most productive dis- tricts: for snakes in Japan are. cer al- [tain mountain sections near Tokio s |and Nikko. Here they are caught in large numbers. Japanese snake s | catchers drink sako before starting out to hunt large serpents, so that they will not be stupified by the 'poisonous breath" of the reptile. A real combat occurred recently between three men and a serpent twenty feet long, The snake poised its' head about six feet above ground, knooked two men down with-its tail, rendered another un- |; o [conscious - by = its "poisonous o | breath," and then escaped. But Mr. Nakamura has found other uses for snakes. He says they are popular as tonics for the digestive organs, and that some are used successfully as a remedy for pulmonary consumption. Theres is the food question, too. Nakamura says that the Japanese viper is splendid as a stimulant, "either in powdered form or eaten with Japa- nese soy. In the districts around Nikko: rics. with 'snake-fricasee is considered a most royal dish, The viper is also good as a cure for stomach trouble, if taken soaked in Japanese sake. BE a STRANGE BLUNDER. Governor Signs Lotter: Deolaring He Is Unfit for the Post. The Governor of 'the province of Kostroma, - Russia, has just. been relieved of his post in consequence of an extraordinary blunder he or. 4.3 ai appears that for a long time' the Governor looked i =| with '| than 4. Bread from njored ar: HE f not bread in our sensg of the : "(Compare note on verse 14, below.) The people shall . . . gather & day's portion every day--A severe test of obedience and faith, especi- ally 'when the supply each day was ample for a larger period. 7, 8. The glory of Jehovah-- Quite evidently the reference here is not to the glory of the cloud, mentioned in verse 10 below, but to the miracle of providing food. The next verse seems to require this interpretation, This shall be, when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full. 9. And Moses said unto Aaron-- Aaron is still the spokesman for Moses, who had a physical dif- fioulty of speech which he apparent- ly never overcame: "And Moses said unto Jehovah, O, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; for I'am slow of speech, and of a dlow tongue' (Exod. 4, 10). 18. At. even--Literally, between the two evenings,.that is, in the late afternoon. . ; 14. A small, round thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground-- The word translated = "round i ,, ay also bed, rendered 16. What is it +--Or, Is it manna; Hebrew, man hu. For a descrip~ tion of the manna, compare Num. 11, 79, In looking for 'a natural explanation of the. feeding of the Israelites in the desert, 'some com- mentators have 'assumed that the manna was a natural desert pro- duct, the exudation of a desert tree still common and formerly much more abundant throughout the Arabian peninsula. The exudation referred to is described by travel- lers as a glutinous, waxlike sub- stance which in the morning after its first appearance is white, chang- ing rapidly to a dirty yellow color; it melts quickly in the sun, and be- fore the day is over is absorbed in the ground; it appears each morn ing during certain mouths af the year and is sweet to the taste, he- ing used for food in tim2s cf fam- e. A more recent suggestion identifiee the manna with dasert lichen, grayish-yellow in ~olor, which grows in great abundance on rocks and stones of tha desert. When fully matured, the leaves curl up, the plant loosens from the reek and is blown about by the wind, béing gathered ultimately in heaps in the ravines and sheltered places not unlike the leaves of au~ tumn, though of course very much smaller, This plant is a not un- common substitute for corn amon the natives in the steppe région o southwestern - Asia, beifig: ground and baked like corn. The first of these suggested explanations would harmonize with the description in Numbers so far as the size and gen-. eral appearance of the manna is concerned, but the narrative here clearly implies a supernatural pro- vision, on account of the large quantity which was needed. EE a QUEEN FORBIDS "AD." Objects to Label on Perfumes Made by Princess Christian, : n Mary seems fated to have Quee his and trouble with the oecupants of the royal gift residences.. The latest of these to be brought into a dispute the Queen is no less a person. Princess | Christian, aunt of * | King: who. with. her h Fes Roorges r hus.