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i0ee1gh botes cerainy last year irrprted g2c0o howea tiutiffel tower i now 582 feet high tie remaining 400 will be completed in jabeary lie electric lurht wmh tho dicheta of marlborough has put i blrihe pilace has own eompieted and the use of the lasso were in vain then the huntsmen snt three hounds into trie pond to attack her the poor beast made a good fight aven against such odds and held her own swing this the whole pack were set upon her as if with one bold united tffjrt to dislodge the enemy they attacked her in the most savage manner and her fearful agony was intensely painful to wit ness still she made a desperate effort for military budget contains an t item of 9000 for the breeding and training opcarrier pigeons toe prince of wales who has been visiting toe courts of europe a till wears the solitaire stud in his shirt front it is said now that england gave to the cltrmans a copy of her new rine in return for sarecipe for making melinite j jrry sullivan who is lying very ill in viiti brighton has entirely lost his reason he recognizes not even his wife the london hans m is at last to be intro duced in paris lord shrewsbury the great est cab owner in london is at the head of the company the new italian penal code provides that such an assertion hi tje the pope has a 1 right to rime as his sett of government is punishable as a crime and exhaustion she yielded to her assail ants and snecunbed then the creature was dragged ashore still breathing and stuck and upon examination was fonnd in places to be literally perforated with the teeth of the hounds 8he wanted a fair of specs a woman who looked as if she had been a long time in the vale of tears went into an establishment the other day and said i want a pair of specs this way said the obliging clerk with his hair parted in the middle and he led her up a night of stairs into a long room where a space was reserved for optical purp ises a small nervous m in at once surrounded i her sit here he said plaoins a chair for her and hanging up an abo card in front of her fix your eyes oa that ma- a brother of mr rider ilaggird cpt a darn c p haggard now serving in meerut his j l aint going to have my pictur taken written a book said to be in the same style 81 the woman tartly as his brothers works certainly not mvclwn vou wish to in order to v id iffnding any political renew your eyesight juifc tell mo what party in spain no qieen regent has got a i you can sea on that card 9 7 10 dj you young irish wu n miss georgina dven- follow me 1 port asa govevsos for the king 1 jist let me have my umbrella and ill the teetimo ipjsme nted to sir biche pvvu didn come h to b made cunard in laic itire for having managed ken ad nd write as well as you one of the countv hunts for many years was ken couat too i waqt a p of bpecs exactly but i should recommend eye glasses with such a nose as yours madam whats the matter with my nose hey a solid silver fi v w ighing 519 ounces sarah bernlarat still carries her coffin around with r on her theatrical tours it was observe in her recent journey to g it mtiob of a nose you aintoing to vienna encased lu its regular travelling p f a it i it is a beautiful nose said the optician alfred stevens and a frenchman named firmly ani would adorn a handsome piir gervex are paintidg an immense panorama j of eyeglasses will you kindly look at this for the paris exposition next year it will circle of lines do they appsar to be of the represent the frencn celebrities of the past same size century pear to be the crown princo of germany- now six and a half years old is drilled every day tor half an hour by a sergeant major of the first regiment of the guards he is an extremely handsome little fellow it has hitherto been thought that buenos ayrea was one ofthe most expensive cities to live in a medium sized house renting there for 2500 a year it islearned though that an eight- room house in the sydney brings 1750 a year the frenoh have a custom of visiting the graveyards wherein their relatives are buried on the 1st of november last year there were 270000 visitors of that sort and this year there were 190000 in the face of the most terrific downfall of rain france has now a national league for the promotion of physicil education designed to fit her citizens to ba soldiers the program me which hasbeer completed includes out door games throughout the land for which the local authorities will set apart a green whereon the children shall regularly play dr eisenmann of brlin has invented a piano which by the aid of electromagnet ism can sustain increase and diminish sound i this has been attempted by other experts notably boehm the inventor of the metal flute another novelty will be that by moving the electromagnets the timbre of the tone is changed for example from hat of a violoncello to a piccolo the masonic grand lodge of scotland at their last quarterly meeting considered the expulsion of two brothers for admitting a couple of ladies to a lodge meeting last may where they could seu aud hear a considerable portion of the proceedings while the lodge was tyled in the third degree they were let into the organ loft the committee re commended that one of the brothers be ex pelled a new field for french painters who have been rather impecunious of late is painting panels in the sections of the exhibition for example the argentine republic will have one of the richest exhibits and the walls of its seotion are to be adorned with decorative panels which will be taken back to that country doubtless when the exposi tion is over thus the great millionaires of the river plata will have the address of an artist in case he should wish to send an order to paris in the hope of reaching this new market artists of the very first class are offering to paint panels twenty feet long for such sums as a thousand francs the estimate of the average yearly pro duce of wine in the vaiious wineproducing countries of europe is as follows the figures i representing hectolitres of 22 gallons each i france 45 000000 italy 27538000 i spain 25000000 austriahungary 14 i x0000 j portugal 4000000 greece 2 500000 germany 5130000 j soutoern i russia 2 000 000 switzerland 1280000 j servia7000 0 j european turkey 600000 j roumanis 335335 thus the total wine j produced in europe fairly may bo estimated jj at 125084335 hectolitres equal to about 2- s 752 million gallons which at six bottles to i the gallon is 16 512 million bottles or j about four dozsn bottles of wine to each j inhabitant of europe hungarian gypsy music has rarely been heard in greater volume and perfection than it pesth at the unveiling of a marble obelisk iver tho grave of the zigeuner or gypsy primate bikes lajis who died in february 1885 at the ago of 48 there trere present in addition to a number of magnates tho entire choir of the peoples theatre and some four hundred zigeuners vith their instruments the ceremony rommenced with a funeral speech by an old ctor tho conclusion was a performance y tho four hundred zigeuners who played n their violins and other instruments the avorite melody of the deceased who was ho most celebrated conductor of their band tho title of primate whioh he bore denotes they are all of one size no nonsense young man 1 certainly not madam if the oiroles appear to be au ot one biz a your eyes are not deformed deformed goodness gracious i who said my eyes were deformed if ever i heard the like 1 yon see madam we are compelled to test the optic nerve and determine if the outsksxto j p has presbyonio- no sir im a baptist and i won t i stay here to be insulted you misunderstand me madam if you are afflicted aith hyprodinyopia in either eye look here young man said the woman fiercely i dare say you think youre mighty clever but i want a pair ot specs i aint as young as i used to be or id oh yes interrupted the rash optician i see you are getting old and then the feathers flew he never finished the sentence and it was some time before anything in the room could be discerned except an old umbrella and a pair of human arm revolving in the air like a pair of windmill sails when the woman came out of the shop she was trying to straighten out the ribs of her gingham and muttering to herself old indeed 1 ive ruined a fivedollar umbrella but i havent lived all these years to be insulted by such a puppie as that old the imperent scoundrel the ohuroh lottery the ecclesiastical grabhag and church lottery have been cordemned by religious and irreligious people time and oft but we have never seen tho immorality ot these and some other churctt institutions brought out in such bright light as it is by dr broadus in his commentary on the text my house shall be called the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thiees he says a place of worship becomes a den of robbers 1 when the worship is conduct ed by men who seek religious office for the money it yields 2 when the worship is supported or the house of worship erected by such measures as extortion in fairs or covert gambling 3 when persons join a certain church in hope of gaining custom or otherwise promoting their worldly inter ests 4 when men wrong others through the week and try to atone for it by worship ping god on the lords day didnt know her name said the license clerk xho other day an irishman came in and wanted a license whats her name i asked mary- miry what jisth oall her mary but there are 10000 marys in chios h0ti0h8 about mabei4qe qieer snpersutloas current la tarlons parts of the world there is curious custom in modern greece says the si louis globe speak ing of superstitions regarding marriage toe groom is shaved by a youog man whose parents are both living while the young girls and young men sing r zor silvered and gilt shave tenderly the young mans cheeks dont leave a hair lest the parents of his bride think him ngly in the vosgea mountain the young women who dress the bride strive as to who shall stick the first pin in the bridal robe as the successful one wil b- married the same year is was lucky for english bridesmaids to throw pins away the bride must not look into the mirror after she is dressed for the ceremony unless she put on some article of apparel afterward in russia the bride must avoid eating the wediiog cake on the eve of tho oere- mony or she ill lose her husbands love the aneizing of a cat on the eve of a mar riage was considered a good omen in the mid dle ages but tho howling of a dog then as now was especially ominous the bees are iuiormed of a wedding in djrbyshire ani their hives decorated in is deemed especially ominous in scot land for a lump of soot to fall down and spoil the breakfast on the cuy of tho wedding for a bird to die in its cage or for a bird to ait on the windowsill and chirp long tho bride must carefully avoid breaking a dish on that day in greece the groom is lightly sprink led with water on leaving tho home for the ceremony the bride must visit the oven in company with her father or a near relative to salute it and obtain leave to set out the romans deemed it an ill omen to iteet certain animals on the way to the ceremony a priest hare dog cat lizard or serpent was unlucky in themiddle ages a wolf toad or epider luck in scotland it is particularly ominous to meet a funeral bride or groom was certain to die soon as the sex of the parson buried was male or female in one part of york shire the groom on meeting a male acquaint ance rubbed his elbow for luck especially ominous are hitches or accident al hanpenings during the ceremony to lose the ring is at all times unfortunate bat particularly so before the ceremony in france during the middle ages a ring of straw or one made from a horseshoe nail was placed on the brides finger and me hd as many as five euch rings the couple also stood on a ring during the ceremony in brittany if the wife seeks to rule she must take care that the ring when placed on her finger shall slip at once to its place on her finger instead of allowing it to stop at the first joint the bride who lost her rinp lost her appetite and to break it portended death attention is also paid in the latter pro vince to the altar candles if they burn brightly throughout the mass the couple will live harmoniously the one whoso can dle burns with the brightest flame will live longest if one goes out then its donor will die that year the swedish bride tries to see the groom belore he sees her to gain the mastery she places her foot before his during the cere mony and sits in the bridal ohair first she must stand near the groom so that no one can come between them ro but to divil the wan o thim that i want me own mary whats her other name oh niver moicd that she wants change it for moine annyway 1 told him i couldnt give him a license until i had his girls name and he went away to find out what it was in three or four hours he came back with the name it frequently happens that the appli cant for alicenso is sent away to get the 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