Spray.

Lake County Press, Issue 905, 5 April 1900, Page 2

Spray.

A Want of Deference.

- Woman’s Signal" gives a apnallimr instance of the want of deteience in which the Edinburgh students ho the ladies who compete withi the* 1 their study of geometry. The titm bench in Professor Tail’s class to which the Professor was lectuung on • geometry, is assigned to eightHi - of the fair s-x. "An octahol m>. .„ a tlemen.” said the Professor. ’ 1 , with eight Plain faces. Fo exum . he was going on—when a stud nt * ■ behind interrupted him by K*' l " I example that seemed to him Urn - at hand, “Front bench. Cheap Wine. Certain brands of European wiiw the European cellais, as tin ; large vineyard near Bordeaux has nt show that this offer means th.-t «•' • deaux can bo purchased fm - 0.1 cents a bottle. When tins is there will bo small reason fn I. nun to import American w>« e t0 with the native product.— ARW nui T>. ibune.” Eccentric Ghosts. A story was recently related by a cm- , , fi,r, 14 Realm’ savonnn.; respondent of the Keaim ( ,f the ghostly description . _ but w J the difference that his ghostship UR more than seen. The story, as telaled. is altogether a most extraoubrun V i . and runs as follows: — A fi un 1 , mine was recently staying in a country house in Cheshire, where there ate wine of the largest and finest portiait, n England. One evening, finding hmistl, unusually late for dinner, my frieiul proceeded to run down the central Haiicase the walls of which were hung with large portraits. Suddenly two strong arms wore laid on his shoulders and held him back. He turned round indignant, to find no one anywhere near At that moment a life-sized porti ait two 'stens from where he stood fell with a crash to the ground, breaking me balustrade and the stair to atoms. Had he not been detained he would have been killed.” Bullet-proof Vests. An excellent bullet-proof shield can, it seems, be manipulated by wearing silk floss underneath the uniform. A correspondent writing from Yokohama says that the Japanese, to keep out tne cold, wore a quantity of this mab-ria under their clothes, ‘with the result that in many oases it acted as a bullet-pi on! vest. Many must have remarked and wondered why it was that, although the fights in Manchuria were said to have been so severe, the Japanese losses weiv invariably very few, and those of tim Chinese extremely heavy. Much of •L■ disparity in the losses of the two ( bat ants was due to bad marksmans. up on the part of the Chinese, but a grot, part of the immunity of the Japanese from the bullets of their antagonists was due to their wearing floss silk. Noblesse Oblige. ’Tls wisdom’s law, the perfect code By love inspired— Of him on whom much is bestowed Is much required. The tuneful throat is bid to sing, The oak must reign the forest's king ; The rushing stream the wheel must move. The tempered steel its strength mua. prove ; ’Tls given with the eagle’s eyes To face the midday skies. If I am weak and you are strong, Why, then—why. then, To you the braver deeds belong ! And so. again. If you have gifts and I have none, If I have shade and you have sun, ’Tls yours with freer hand to give, ’Tis yours with truer grace to live Than I, who, giftless, ..sunless, stand With barren life and band. uareful of Their Teeth. There is a large manufacturing establishment In Chicago which employs a dentist to examine the teeth of all applicants for work If a tooth has a cavity it must be filled, or. If it is too far gone, it must be pulled The dental work is, in most cases, done at the expense of the factory, and has proved to be wise economy. Little time is lost on account of toothaches. Teeth of employees are examined at regular intervals, whether they are giving their owners any trouble or not. The Death of Hercules. At Lempriere we will not rail With contumelious brea'th ; But still he wrongly tells the tale Of Hercules, his death. For when that man of stalwart limb Had twelve long labours finished, Eurystheus gave one more to him With rancour undiminished. "Go, find a maid whose heart is steeled ’Gainst fashion’s latest style !’’ And the hero squalled, “ 1 yield ! I yield !” And built his funoraJ pile ! —“Fun.” Carlyle as a School Teacher. There are not many of Thomas Carlyle's former pupils living at the present day. One of them, Jonathan Duncan Gleig Findlar, has just died at Montreal, and he did not give a very favourable account of the Sage of Chelsea in the capacity of school teacher. “ Carlyle,’’ he used to say to his friends, “ was downright cruel. He would help us very little, and chastise us very much. His' attention was not upon us at all, but upon what he was constantly writing at his desk. I think lie hated teaching.” A French Law. Escroquerie is a crime which has no distinct counterpart in England, and is best illustrated by two examples. An 1 English lady was recently sentenced to ! twelve months’ imprisonment for order- ; ! ing a costume she was not able to pay i for, and an English governess was senI tenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for | taking a cab without being able to pay the fare. The French are an eminently practical people, and see no great dif--1 I ference between running off with an : article and getting it without paying ! for it. It often happens that the EngI lish fall under the law with regard to escroquerie. Comparisons. At the recent Anthropological Con- | gress, held in Cassel, Professor Walde- , i yer, of Berlin, in an address before that | body, said that European boys at birth ! are from one-half to ope centimetre longer j that girls, but when fully grown the men | are ten centimetres longer than the ■ women. The average weight at birth ' I of boys is 333."! grammes, and of girls I :om grammes. The muscles of the longue, he said, are much more highly developed in the women than in the men, which is an unkind statement on the part of the scientist. An Examination Paper. It is just 340 years since Ridley and Latimer were burnt at the stake, and in connection with their last memorable colloquy it is not inopportune to recall the feat of the schoolboy who was called upon to indite all he knew of Sir Waller Raleigh. The essay finished thus This hero also discovered tobacco, and on the first occasion that lie smoked a ! pipe in this country he remarked to a j friend who was also trying his hand, j • Master Ridley, we have this day lit such a fire in England as will not soon i be put out.’ ”