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Lake County Press, Issue 903, 22 March 1900, Page 7

A Tall Prince. Prince Albert of Prussia, the second Cousin of the German Emperor, has been made chief of the regiment of dragoons bearing his name. The Prince is, with one or two exceptions, the tallest man in the German army, being 6ft. Gin. in height, and finely proportioned. He is by all means, since the death of Emperor Frederick, the handsomest member of the Hohenzollern family. He has been Regent of Brunswick for a number of years. Miniature PaintintT. The smallest piece of painting In the world has been executed by a Flemish artist. It is painted on the smooth side of a grain of common -white corn, and pictures a mill, and a miller mounting a stairs with a sack of grain on his back. The mill is represented as standing on a. terrace, and near it is a horse and cart, while a group of several peasants are shown in the road near by. The picture is beautifully distinct, yet by *" careful measurement the whole painting does not cover a surface of half-an-inch square. A New BeYeragff. -Two douce North-Country dames were recently journeying to the " canny toon" by the Riverside Line, and seemed, for a while, to be much interested in the numerous advertisements so prominently displayed at the stations on the way. At length, however, one of the two, becoming tired of seeing certain of these advertisements repeated at each successive stations, broke forth in complaining tones: —"Tea! tea! tea! it's nowt but tea an' soap whorivvor ye gan !" Her friend, who evidently took i more philosophical view of the matter, reprovingly remarked : " Weel, the yen's good for cleanin' yor body, an' t'other's clivvor for cheerin' yor heart. Thor byeth grand, halesome bevoridees 1" Capital. A glamour lies in starry eyes, In azure, black, and brown ; A mystic tie unites the sky With home of prince or clown. There's wonder in a little rill—< A charm in golden youth ; There's virtue in a rhubarb pill As well as in the truth. There's magic in a lover's themeThe tale so often told ; But there's a spell that reigns supreme— The witchery of gold.—" Fun." Yawning. "Not only is it very healthy to yawn," says a French physician, " but artificial yawning should be resorted to in cases of sore throat, buzzing of the cars, cataTrh, 'and like troubles." It is said to be as efficacious in its way as gargHng the throat, with which process it should be combined. The reason stated is that during 'the act of yawning there is considerable stretching of the muscles of the pharynx and soft palate, which are In this way put through a sort of massage ; besides this, in the act of yawning the throat tubes contract and drive into 'the pharynx the mucus that has accumulated. Military Marching. Experiments by some Berlin medical students have shown that the full service equipment of the German infantry soldier, averaging 701b., cannot be carried on a day's ma/ch of twenty-five miles, when the temperature is 70deg. Fah., without such fatigue that a day's rest should follow. The effort could not be repeated day after day without injury to health, the greatest weight that could be safely carried twenty-five miles daily for a considerable time, in ordinary summer weather, being 601b. Knick«?6 and the Wheel. Mrs. Sherard, who Is now in London, says she is much disappointed that the fashion of wearing knickerbockers by wheelwomen, universal now in France, should not have been adopted in England, Where lady cyclists still cling to the skirt. "No speed," she says, " can be attained except on a man's bicycle, and it is impossible to ride a man's bicycle in a skirt. In France the manufacturers have.given up making special bicycles for ladies, who have now totally abandoned the skirt." Gallant Work. Five days on fire, a race round the Horn to Port Stanley, sunk to the scuppers, in order tb drown a fire, and 2000 tons of smoldering coal thrown into the bay before all danger was past, is the record of a recent voyage of the British barque Brunei, from Newcastle, New South "Wales', to Valparaiso. "SYi-en h* reached <ean Francisco, Captain Frampton, of the Brunei, found a letter from the underwriters containing a thousand dollars, to he- divided among the crew and officers for their gallant work in fighting the fire when all hope seemed fane- _ - Piano Pressure. A /German has calculated that a minimum pressuie of the finger of a-quarter of a pound is needed to sound a note on the piano, and that at ♦toes a force of 6tb. U thrown on a single Scley to produce a single effect. Chefrfn's last study in C minor has a passage, taking 2min. ssec. to play, thai requires a total prtseure estimated at three full tons. It is »iot strange that piaatets develop wonderful strength oC the fingers. Stub Ends of Thought. Opportunity is not th* kind of thing that stands around waiting to be embraced. A woman can't be In lave and in politics at the same time. The waters of oblivion sometimes quench the thirst for g-l/iry. A woman thinks her heart is empty until she gets In it what she wants there. A man knows he is odd long before he confesses it. "Very few men can m/<ke money and friends at the same t'.n*. Reason is instinct endowed with the pdwer of speech. „ An ounce of Kfiughti may prevent a ton of regret. Tbere are some people who float away on a srnjle and are drowned in a tear. A Sweetheart's Photograph. A Boston photographer tells a story of a. young man who ctame into the studio and asked nervously if he might have a little conversation with him. The "vfsitor was painfully ugly, and after some awkward blushing and indefinite alhKßons he asked the artist if he supposed lie had sucnong his samples a pictare of any young man who looked Uke him, but was rather hetter-lookinfr ""What do you mean, >oimp man ?" asked the photographer. " "Well," replied he, making a clean breast of it, "I am Just en gag ed to be married. The young lives out Wrvt. She is going home to-morrow. She says she thinks I'm so good she dofsn't mind my behig homely, but she wants a goodlooking picture to take home with/her to show the girls." The Sick Man. It was the Czar Nicholas who first hit upon the phrase " The Sick Man" to describe the Turkish Empire. He made use of it in his confidential communications with Sir Hamilton Seymour, the British Ambassador 'at St. Petersburg, when he sought to ascertain through him whether Great Britain would interfere to prevent the dissolution of the invalid being hastened. This was in the early nart of 1553.