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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 7

Horses have all boon.banished from tho -street'tramways in Berlin.

The Age of Romantic. . Vows and their fulfilment is not altogether past: Oil every November 18, for two score years or more, Mr. : Van Biene, the famous aotor-iinusician, played ' his : 'collo in the' sti^eets of London, 'and gave his earnings to charity, because on. that day, long ago, Sir Michael Costa "discovered" him and rescued him from the poverty and privation of •a-street musician's life. Mr Van Bioae, in his^ gratitude, vowed to go back to ; the old life and P-«y ~ior ■<>thcT l y on uv&ry anniversary of his rescue, and he faithfully adhered.to his oath.

Animals might .as well not have eyes, accordingly-tactile results of researches (quoted by the "Express") made by some professors at the Johns--Hopkins University, Baltimore. They state that dogs born blind or become blind by accident aro able to'-smell and paw their way into the' most accessible and out-of-the-way places. It is practically impossible tg starve them, lose them, or trap them. Ruts, if they u-se their eyes at all —which the professors think is doubtful—can, see 'little or nothing of the world. Tho retina of these creatures has np point o^ perfect vision'such- as. is found in the higher animals and' man. Touch, and;.-bearing gives ! thcni' information 'aboutI'the ■world-they'live in.' ' / -. ; '.-