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il overladen wlth chocolate bitinties,
colored eggs and other scasonable gifts
for thc little ones!
Hoiv ihe children hunt, brcathlcss, cager
eyed, cxpectant, pnUing thc furniture out of
place, looking under the bed, under chairs and
tables; pulling down boxes in thc yard, peep
ing under porches, digging into obscure cor
ners! ' .
They knoiv it is somcvchcvc?that ncsl of
red or greeji straiv fillcd with eggs of de
TO TRACE tho custom of brcnklng'oggs to Its blrth
and learn tlie reason of tho assoeiation bf the
hare wlth tho dny, ono must go away bnck to tho
days when Osirls wns worshlped along the Nilo
end tho Phoonlclans knelt to the goddess of the moon.
Tho anclenta looked upon tbe egg as reprcsenting tho
gcrminal principle of life, and in tlie spring of tlie year
eclcbrated the resurrectlon of natural llfo by coloring
eggs. From them, Chrlstlaiilty" lnberitcd tho custom of
glvlng eggs to children on thelr great festlval of tho
resurrectlon of tho Savlour.
Nothlng ls moro fascinatlng thnn tracing a mytli to
Its source?if nny source can be found. Through dusty,
worm-eaten volumes ono is taken through tfic centurlca
on a long backward journey; ho lenrns the customs nnd
rcllglons of anclent pooples who havo long perlshed and
whose great cities huvo been lald in ruins or buried ln
sands.
From north to south, from enst lo west, across wasto
plains and occans, tho lnvestigalor vlslts allen nations,
primal trlbes, and In varylng forms flnds tho myth
fllttlng about liko,tho embodiment of somo eluslve Ideal.
Thus wlth the Easter rabbit nnd the Easter ogg.
ThiB mornlng, as you watch the little tots danclng
tlp-toe -wlth ccstasy over their nest, you probably havo
no deepor thought than ln enjpylng thelr pleasure.
Yet there ls a signiflcance in both the rabbit and the
egg? a world of mythology and romance and folklore
whlch has survlved the centuries.
Why ls tho rabbit associatcd wlth Easter? T;n to
one you do not know.
Of tho wonderful life of Buddha? "tho Enllghtened
One"?roany tales of noble and kmdly deeds oro told;
hls life has been investod wlth fables slgnlfylng tho
goodness of tho man. Yet perhaps one of the most
beautlful storles told llttlo Hlndu children by their
parenta is that Buddha, while on a journey, came across
a starvlng traveler.
Of food he had none, so of sheer klndness he changed
hlmself into a hare and threw hlmself into a flre. whero
he was roasted. For thls ho was translated in tlie form
of the hnro to tho moon, whero hc abldes. As they look
, at the moon, tho starry-eyed llttlo Indians belleve thoy
can see the form of the couchant hare on the brlght face
yot thc lunar disc.
Many other Hlndu myths ond myths of other nations
connect the haro wlth the mooti', and as the moon was'
//of Cross 3vns Popu/c/r
long assoclnttd Avlth Enster, lt Avas only natural, per?
haps, that us Christlanlty spread over the earth Uio
anlmals should hnve become connectod Avlth the fostlval.
To dlscover why the moon played nn Important part
ln formlng tho prqsent-day celebrutlons of tho XeBtival
one must tako a journey into the archaoologlcal loro of
Egypt.
Becauso tho Western churches object ed to tho slmul
taneoua celebration of Easter by tho Chriatlans wlth the
celebration of tho passover by ihe Jews, the Council ol
Nlce decreed ln 323 A. D, that in future tho fostlval
should be observed the iirst Sundny nfter ihe flrat ful!
moon upon or afier th'; veinnl oqulnpx.
Thls full moon AViis the Imaglnary moon of tho cai
enJar and not the moon of the nsuonomer. Iu thls wnj
thc- moon became assoclated wlth llio febtival. Both th
Egyptians and the Hebrt-wa culculatcd time by the pUtnet
The Btory of the Besurreotlon Itself had a couhterpar
ln the old mythology of Egypt.
MOON TYPIFIED NEW LIFE
When full, tho moon typllied tho Lord o? Light, Oslris
thc sign of new llfe. The wuulng moon typllied dark
neas and death, Typhon, or tho Evll Prlnclplo, avIio rulu'
for fourteen duys and tore Oslris luto fourteen piecos,
But Oairls came back to llfe wlth the new moon, an
ln celebration of bls victory a black plg npresontln
Typhon Avas sacrlficed tu tha riidlunt god. ln eertai
partK of England a leg of i-ig ls sun euton on E:is;t>:
Monday?no doubt a survival of thc old socrluce,
In Egyptlan }il$roglyphlca the hlnd leg of u hure !
represtntative of Typhon, ihe loft leg particularly iilgn
t'ying tho vanqulshinent of the Evll One.
Tbe Buperstition tliat tho left hlnd foot of a grayi
yard rabblt warded off evll among the negroes of u
> fcouth found Its orlgln no doubt ln tho Egyptlan myt
Tho Egyptlan word "un"' meant boiu "hure" ai
"open," and thus the hart- became tho typo of the ope
' ln& of the now year ln nature?sprlnff?und, of court
was readlly Incorporate/J Into the celebration of t!
rfisurrectlcr/ ot Chrlst,
ffbe rabblt aa a. feature at Easter was probably ii
Jicious cream chocolate and real eggs mot tled
witli 'wonderful htics. Then there are crics of
dclight as they find il?the Easter ucst of
which they have been drcaming for weeks.
To the child J^astcr is a day when can
died rabbits nnd eggs loom large. To the cld
crs it is csscntially a religious feast.
Then how did the custom originate , of:
prcparing nests ou this day for the little ones?
In what corner of thc earth and in what re-"
mole time did a child first crack a colored
egg? And what signifjeance has the rabbit or
hare? No doubt you have often wondered.
ported Into Amcrica from Gcrmany. Thero it has been
for a long tlmo-the custom to glvo tho little ones.'of a
fumlly colored hen eggs at thc Easter festtval.
"But from whero do these eggs como? They are not
Uko thoso ot the barnyard chlckens." Thls wns not an
unnntural question of tho chlldron.
Parehts, years and years ngo, were accustonicd.to ex
plnin thnt the eggs had been lald by rabbits ln thc flelds.
So overy Easter morning, the children clumored to be led
Into the nelds to search for tho wonderful rabbit nests.
It wns really tho hare and not tho rabbit whlch tra?
dltlon nssoclated wlth: tho sprlng fcstlval, but then not
too fine zoolcgical dlstlnctions have been drawn.
In tho ceremonles abtendlng many Christian f .ptlvals
are remnants of tho customs of the nnclents, who, when
Ger/njr? <C6//Ora?<??*f?MBR
*5e<?rc/7//7a/or Jmw/m
:hey wero converted, unconsclously translated thelr bo
Uefs and regulated thelr feasts to ihe new faith.
The name of Easter has been traced to the sprlng
festival of the Saxons in honor of Eostre, the personlfi
cation of spring. The Saxon goddcss was identlcal wlth
the Phoeniciao goddess of the moon, Astarte.
In honor of Eostre the early Saxons wero accustomed
to eatlng buns on her festival. When they wero con?
verted to Christlartity they observed Enster in memory
of the Resurrectlon instead of a celebration in honor of
thelr old goddess,. but tho hablt of eatlng hot buns re-"
malned. To tako' away the talnt of Paganlsm, the
Christian priests marked the slgn. of the cross on tho
buns. Since then tho custom- has travelod down the
centurics?hence tho present-day! hot cross buns, whlch
are so popular across the wnter. ln England on Easter
one always hoars the cry:
One a ponny buiia. - . .
Two a ponny Uinn.
Ono a penny, two a pennr.
Hot ciobb buns. -
Among th" Moxienns lt is a custom at Easter tima
to mako tortilliis, or oblong cakes, especlally for tho
senson. That thls practlce had its origln ln tho old
Saxon custom scems without doubt.
Many curlous Easter customs and tradltions stlll pre
vail ln different parts of the world.
ln tho parlsh of Blddenden, Kent, England, Is an
old endowment provldlng for tho dlstrlbutlon of COO cakes
nmong tho poor upon the afternoon of Easter Sunday.
The endowment ls of an unknown dato.
Those cakes bear a curloua representntlon of two fo
mnle figures Jolnedl at tho shoul.Jers und tho hips. A
legend ls extant that two women who wero thus Jolnod
made the endowment nges ngo.
Among iho Egyptlans, PerslanH. Greeks and Romani
Do Your Brain Work at 1 A. M. Say f hysicians
HOW" would you liko to nci up nt 1 o'clock in
the rribrriiiig and ko to work'<
Professor Ilnllopcon, on cminont brain
specinlist of Europo, at tlio recent food
coijgross in Poris, dcolarcd that tho best intci
/ /' I fHBRE ia no doubt, to my mlnd," sald Dr.
I Albert Bernholrn, a Avill-known Phlladelphia.
JL physician, "tliat better Avork cnn bo dono at 1
o'clock iu the mornlng thnn at 1 ln the after?
noon.
"Of course, many perBons could not do lt. OthorH
would llnd tlio hours.agrco wondorfully Avell wlth thom.
"Tho reason ls slmple. At thls hour cverythlng ls
qulet. Tlie vlbratlons whlch asHitll one durlng tho day,
alsconpertlng tho mlnd, unconsclously dlstructlng us,
hnve become qulet.
"Tho muh up early wlth his raitdlo has all tho world
to himself; ho ean conccntrato ? hln mlnd, or lot IiIh
Inuiglnutloii woar. Ho ean dovoto hlniBolf entirely to
thu work in hnnd.
"As soon un iho nun comoH up tho thousandH of
peppjo ruHh into tho Btreets, trolloy cara bugln dronlng,
wlieels rumble, thi%>. aro hldaouH Bhrlokii Utld nolBOB.
"Tho man who avub a monarch at nlubt ls now u
more gruln of Bnnd. Hln mlnd becomcs trammolod,
ineiitiUly nnd physlcully ho goon on wlth thd ox'owd.
He can cpnccntrato hls mlnd only by oxtru effort.
"Kuturnlly, tho'inaii could do bottor Avork at Jlljsht
or early ln tho mornlng, when cverythlng l? qillet.
"1 do not thlnk ono could mako a yunoral stato
Jiu-nt, und, tuy. tuat, lt would. bo beufc fop vvaiy. pne W
for centuries beforo Chrlst the egg was the'tymbol of
cternlty and Ufc.
At tho sprlng feasts tho boys of Rome and Athens
knocked colored eggs together Just.as boys do in Bchool
today. Tho Perslans, at a festival correspondlng to our
Easter, have boen accustomed for oges to present to
each other nests of dellcately tinted eggs.
Accordlng-to Chinese mythology, "everythlng springs
from.tho egg?it ls the world's cradle." Pon-Koo-Wong,
' accordlng to a myth, came from an egg, whleh !broko ln
two, of the upper part of whlch he mado the heavens
and tho lower.part tho earth.
Tho Hawallans belleve that their island was produced
by the burstlng of an egg which was dropped on tho
ocean by a great blrd. - , ? ?
It ls clear, when ono conslders tho ancient assoeia?
tion of the rabbit wlth the moon,' upon.which the date
of Easter fesUval deponded. and tho uso of tho egg ln
the sprlng celobratlons of the Pagans, why both should
have bocomo connectcd wlth Easter.
( EGGS SOUGHT FOR LONG AGO
On "Pash Sunday" it was an early custom'in Scotland
for young persons to rlse early ln tho morning and go
out on tho moor to aearch for wild fowls' eggs. If .a
nest Was found, thls was conslderod a lucky omen.
In England eggs woro boiled hard, colored and glven
by ono friend to another as remembrances. Formerly
they woro consecrated.
For many centuries eggs wero used for ball playlng
on the Monday followlng Easter. Perhaps this was how
tho practico of boiling thom hard orlglnated. Afterward
lt becamo ciiBtomary for varloua towns to engago in ball
games wlth each.other after Easter Sunday wlth gayly
colored egg-sliapod balls. Tho games wero aceompanled
by great nomp.
lectual work cnn bc dono nt this hour of tlio morn
Go to bod after tlio noon lunch wns lns ndvico;
get up, ent n hearty dinner, tako anothor naj>, get
up an hour after midnight, and tako up your work.
got up and work. Supposing wo dld that; aupposlng
nll men got up at 1 o'clock Instoad ot 6 or 8 and startod
to work; supposo tho trolloy cars started golng, tho
nowsboys aoroamlng. Why, nlght would bo tufnod Into
day and condltlons would bo as bad aa boforo.
"Persona doing Intolleotual work. ,1 ,thlnk, should
bo ablo to do' tho boat early in tho morning or lato
at nlght. ln tranalatlng from the German I havo
workod all nlght, slopt a fow hours and folt rofroahod
tho followlng day. Thero ls not tho samo wear and
tettr on tho nervos when you work at nlght as thoro
la durlng daytlme. I thlnk you could work for many
nlghts and fool llttlo fatlguo, ospecially lf tho work is
Interesting.
- "But thoro ls a dlfforenco In brains. Somo porsonrs
would bo poworless to work ao early. I know lltorary
people who can writo only aftor a llght breakfast in
tho morning, Bulzao, so lt is aaid, could wrlto only
aftor ho hud gorgod hlmsolf wlth a blg dlnner.
"In tho country I do not thlnk it inuttera tf lt ls
night or day. It la always qulet. ln the clty lt would
probably bo benoficlal to sleop after lunch, tako a
dono aftor dlnnor, smoko a cigar, and about 0 o'clock
tako a pup until 1. Thon got up and work."
That ono oan do tho best w.ork late at nlght, when
tU? auJL'H PUUHfttJK O8CH?f?tl0?9 MS PY4JV: SVftS M?
C/;urc//.
It has long beon a custom ln .Vienna for frlenda
exchange glfts of eggs mado of 6llver, mother-of-pea
or bronze, Ulled with jcwels, money or trinkets.
In r.ussia, beautlful eggs of crystal, decorated wl
flowers, aro presented by tho Czar and Czarina to th<
courtlers. Russian peasants cplor eggs red at Eastor
memory of the blood of Chrlst: On Easter they oft
open tho cagcs.of blrds and glve them frecdom.
The hure, in Rusala, is an nnimal^t'hich figures lart
ly ln suporsUtlonjj. If a bridal couple meet a' haro
thelr way to church, It ls consldered a bad omen; lf t
carrlago runs over tho anlmal, lt ls looked upon ns
slnlster sign for tho entlre world.
TRADITIONS OF PEASANTS
The peasants of Gallcla tell a legend about a hap
land, callod Rakhmano, beyond the scas, whero tho p'
ple lead puro and slnless Uvea, and refrain from eati
meat on all days of the year cxceptlng Easter. On t
day they belleA'o the shell of a conseoratcd Easter (
flonts, across th3 seas from tho happy land to th
shorcs.
Among tho Italians lt hus bccn a custom for 1
heads of famllles to send a chargor tllled with egg
somotlmes. as many os tsventy dozen?to the church
be blessed. Aftor tho ceremony tho charger ls tal
back of tho houso and placed pn a great tablo strc
with llowers. About lt aro piaced a dozon dlshes
meat. ? Wealthy famllles display all thelr silver ln
room. Durlng Easter week guosts ure led Into
chamber and each ls given an egg.
The egg llgure3 ln the superstlUons of many.counti
where ? Christlanlty ls not tho prevdlllng rellgloh.
dellveting'four eggs to the flrst stranger she moets
wldow in Trlpoll:. bolloves sho can transfer her troub
In Gulnea a negro.often senda un egg to an onemy. '
egg slgnlflcs, - "chooso tho kind of death whlch wlll
easiest for you;-othcrwlse I shall chooso for you."
course, tho recelpt of tho egg is usually followed b
personal encounter of tho tAvo foes.
In oarly times slaves recolved thelr freedom on Eas
Thls cuBtom survlves ln the lettlng loose of caged b
ln Russla. ln England it Avas tho custom for mc
to glvo dramatlc plays concernlng tho Besurrection
the churches. Tho scenery usually represented the t<
of Chrlst. On Enster Duy thero was danclng and g
rejoictng.
On the Contlncnt games of ball Avero playod ln
A numbor of American physicians coincido
with Professor Hallopean's viows, although, ns thoy
say, tho advice would not hold good in'ah onses. lt
is, after all, a question of tempernment. . Howover,
their advico is?try it.
oplnlon expressed by a prominent braln 'spociallst.
Aftor being ongagod throughout tho 'day a porson,
accordlng to tho doctor, is, so to speak, "wound np,"
and usually eun do better work thun that dono durlng
tho day.
"For somo porBons tho cuBtom of gettlng up at 1
o'clock mlght work admlrably, With others it would
bo a failure. Gonerally spoaklng. however, I am of tho
oplnlon that a man, aftor his day's work, can stlll do
bottor at nlght. i,
"Tako a-physlcian who has studled and worrled
hlmself ovor pattonts nll, dny, over aomo distresslng
caso; hls nervos are ao wrought up at nlght and wound
to such a pltch that to wrlto or study Ib an absoluto
rcllof. At tho aamo tlmo lila oondltlon usually tonds
to brlghton hls inlnd, and ho thlnks much moro
cloarly.
"A etudent, 1 believo, could probably get better
rosults from study at. nlght aftor tho nolsos have
cousod. I know men who cannot work durlng tho day.
Thore aro others agaln who find lt imposslblo to do
nny amount of work requiring aorlous thought lato at
night."
Tp ascertain whother ono *.pan do tho bost work
at im uncanny hour of tho morning, all physlolana
whoso opinions woro sought sald: "Try lt," As dooi
tora Und. UO two caaea -ai'o axaotlx {UlkA<
ehtircliofl on .Enntnr Sundny. Whllo.nn anttphono Avas
suiiR tho donn nnd Isls reprosonlatlvos tlnneod, tho denn
In tiio contro nnd tho othors nbout hlm in a clrclo. Whllo
thoy sang thoy hnndlad n bnll to ono nnolhor.
It Is an old bolief thnt It aviib unlucky for a person to
Avcnr nothlng now on. Eastor, mul ln nll countrlcs It
liccnmo' tho custom for ovory one to Avcnr aomo now
pleco of nltlro. In tho old verso tho custom ls humor
ously descrlbed: |
lolnto Enster I put nn my bluo frock coat,
Tho vlrnt timo, vlor noAv;
AVI' ynllor buttonB nul o' brnsa,
Tlmt Rllttnrod ln tho zun llko gldaii;
Iii'luilzo 'tAVcr Kanter Xundny.
Some Curious Facts and
Fan.cics
GERMANY/ carrlcs on a lnrgo trade ln tho oxport ot
ounnrlcB. Evory your she aonda no feAvor thnn
130,000 of theso blrds to America, 3000 to England,
nnd abcut 2000 to Russla. The great nurscry for tho
hrecdlng ot canarlcs Is tho .Ilar/. JAIountnlnH. Mnny of tho
pensnnta nro engnged In tho work of rcarlng tho blrds,
and rocolvo wnges of from $50 to $125 a yoar for tholr
trouble?nn. important' addltlon to thelr earnlngB.
Birmlngham, England, boasts of tho largcat pln foc
tory ln tho world, whoro 37,000,000 plr.s aro mniiufncturcd
ovory working day.
By Avuy of exporimont, nn Amorlcan mndo a wngcr
ln Vicntia wlth nn nthloto thut tho latter could not enduro
the talllng of a plnt of wntor on hls hand, drop by
drop, ln ono spot, from a helght of only threo feot. Tho
nthleto had an enormous hand, lined Avlth skln almost na
thlck nnd tough as cowhide. But when about 300 dropB
hnd fallen thoro avus a chango of oplnlon, nnd at tho
420th drop ho gavo up, declurlng that ho could no longer
enduro tho torture. ?
j Rcsldonts of England hnvo $550,000,000 Invested In
mortgagfls ln forolgn countrlcs.
Ope of tho greatest drug stores In tho world cxists ln
MoscoaV, and is 203 yoars old. Sinco 1833 lt has boen ln tho
family of tho present proprlelors. It Is n bulldlng of lm
' poslng dlmenslons, wlth many departments, Includlng ono '
of professional education for the staff, Avhlch numbers 700
persons. Thoy mnko up about 2000 prescriptlons a day.
Tho nut trees of tho Avorld could, It-is calculated, pro
? vldo food nll tho year round for tho populatlon of tho
globe. Brnzll nuts grow ln such profuslon that thousanda
of tons of thom aro A\-nsted overy year.
?? .
STRANGE MILITARY BODY
A strnngo mllltary body Is a band of cavalry at Salnt
do Moorvay, a provlnco on tho East Coast of Afrlca,
whlch Is undor thc rulo of tho French Qovcrnor-General
at Madagascar. Theso soldlcrs go about thelr mllltary
operations on oxen. Tho nnlmols nro lean crpatures, and
lt is sald thoy movo v/lth surprlslng rapldlty.
Slxty years ago thero wero 150,000 children at school
in Indla. Noav thero aro ovor 4,000,000.
A Hebrew Blblo ln tho Vatican weight S20 pounds, and
ls the lnrgest Biblo ln tho world. It is all ln manuscrlpt.
In Russla au unmnrried woman remains under tho
absoluto sway of hor parents until her death, regardlc38
of her ago.
As many aa S000 gallons of fresh water aro used ln a
largo battleshlp dally, snys an English authorlty. About
two-thlrds of thls ls takon up by the bollors, and tho re
malnder is used for drinklng. washlng. cooking, etc.
"When tho storo whlch sho has takon out wlth her from
port has beon usod up, a vessel has to depend upon hor
condensors for furthor'supplles. Every modern warship
ls fitted with ovaporatlng machlnery to" distil the salt
sea-water.
Madrld has the roputatlon of being tho most unhealthy
of European capltals.
Russla's Cross of St. Andrew bas a remarkablo pecull
arlty attachlng to lt. All who are decorated wlth lt haA-e
the rlght onco to demand a pardon for a Russian subject
condenmed to death. ,
Bondon's net municlpal debt amounts to OA-er $220,-.
000,000.
Tho Kolscr'a yearly blll <for travellng by rall from ona
part of hla Emplro to another ? amounts to 1500,000. Hls
Majesty hns special trains, and pays ,'tho ordlnary rat-s on
0 all rallways. Ho travels almost conUnuously. Recently
rl the Emperor has adopted tho motor-car, but for all core
monlal vislls he still conslders it necessary to travel by
h ra?
lr Tho golden-crcsted wren, the smallest British blrd,
in ? Ie so Uny thnt it would tako seventy-two of these feath
,n ercd atoms to weigh a pound. Tho blrd ls threo and
one-half lnches long.
e. German silver contalns no silver, but ls an alloy of
m copper, nlckol and zlnc. It ls harder than Ellver. Tho
,0 ? best proportlor.s of tho alloy are fifty copper, twenty
a nlckol, thirty zhic.
Morblcs are chlcfly mado In Germany. Rough frag
ments of marble or agate are ground between two mlll
stones, and flnlshed between hard-stono cylihders in a
wooden cask.
?y Gypslos aro usually supposed to be of Egyptlan origln;
?* but, as a matter of fact, they probably camo orlglnally
*B from Indla, and reached Europe about tho beglnning of
ll3 tho flfteonth century.
SB Tho hlghest waterfall ln the AA-orld Is ln thc Tcsomlto
!lr Valley, MJariposa county, Cai. Tho Yosemlto river drops
over pre'clplces 2C00 foot hlgh ln three separate plungos, of
n0 whlch tho flrst ls a sheor drop of 1500 feot.
*~" Spaln possesses tho rlchest sllvor mlnea ln Europe.
t0 For many years sho has produced annually about 120,000
en pounds of silver. But tho oldest silver mlnes belong to
yn Germany, and are tho Erzo Gebirgo, botween Saxony and
oi Bohomla.
n0 Tho polka was orlglnally a Scrvlan war-dance.
no A horso has forty teeth, twonty-four belng grlnders,
foUr tuskB and twolvo front teeth.
iea
By ENGLISH SPEAKERS LEAD
a
Great Brltaln and her colonk-s nnd the Unltod States
'ho represent together the total of 111,000,000 Engllsh-speaklng
bo persons, figures whloh leavo all competltora hopelessly
Ot ln' tho rear. Germany and Russla occupy second placo,
, a wlth 75,000,000 aplece, and Frunco. Spnin, Italy and Portu
gal follow, v/ith 51,000,000, 43,000,000, 33,000,000 and 13,
000,000 respecUveiy, accordlng to tho Atlas of tho World's
rda Commerce. ??
ika Tho Duko of Bucclouch holds tho odd record of pos
jn sessing,moro'resldences than any other Brltlsh noblemun.
mb He has eloven ln. all.
10at Tho carlie3t'known dlrectory ia that of London, pub?
lished in' 1077.
the Coylon is tho hottest and Northwest Canada tho
coldest possesslon that tho British flag floats over.
Tho Russian Emplro holds tho record of having under ,
Its sway slxty-flve aeparato and dlstlnct racial groups.
About 20,000 pooplo Uvo ln tho crater of an oxtlnct
volcano ln~Japan. Thoy dwell in thls pltrllko town, sur
UUJ1UUU uy n yoi n^w* ?..*.? ..n...j ?~... ...(_.., .?.--. .a
i journey Into tho outor world, and practically formlng
i little community by themselves.
Tho announoemont comes from Parls that tlio French
/.nademy hopes to comploto tho lottor "C" of tho olghth ?
.dltlon of its dlctlonary by the end of next year. Tho
jdltlon was begun ln 1877, so that, at tlio preaent rato of
progrosB, tho entlro work wlll not bo completed for 250
years.
- Thoro aro 430 manufaotorles of artiflolal flowors, loavea
plants and frults in the district of Dresdon. The largent
manufaotorles employ from 250 to 1000 persons, and tho
total number of persons engaged ln tho trado ls estlmated
at 10,000, tha largest proportlon being women nnd glrlB.
Clever Ruse of an Evangelist
IT IS stated that at a reeent religious revlvnl ln Kan?
sas the evangollst ln charge notlcod tho remarkably
largo number of ponnlcs ln the contrlbutlon baaket at
each servlco.
One nlght tho proachor held up a silver dollar and a
copper ponny and gave a conversatlon hold by tho two
colns, , ,
"You poor llttlo red cont, you; yod (Jon't amount to
anythlng. I'd hato to bo you," said tho blg dollar.
"I know I'm not vory blg," ropllod tho cont, "but the
(.hlldrep Uko me, and I can buy a good pia-ny thlngB."
"Hyhl you can't buy anythlng at all," sald the dol?
lar. "iuBt look at mo; blg and brlght and shlny. I oan
buy a wholo lot moro than you can,"
"May bo so," sald tho llttlo red cent, mcekly, "but I
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