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Show THE SUNDAY 3I0HXIXG EXAMINED, .IUXE 1, 1903. AES F l.N. IK CURIOUS STUDY Bicycling English Nickname BOTAKY, fashionables have a ENGLISH odd nickname, and few of the smart set escape thin odd labelling. The Princess Victoria known to her McliU of -iniiinaie as Ducky." while the Princess und the ll.ilierlohe Is called "Baby Princess Henry of Plesa Is "Dain.to though there I nothing In her name suggest the origin of tbs Idea.Hncdeuch u Thr itutrly iMii'hesH of 'nicknamed "Tiny." a most unsuitable P-I -' pellztion. Tba Duchess of Westmiiiater "SiieUgii. while the Jiuchess of Newcastle Is Tatters" and the Ductless of Dev- a onshire. w.w has twire been wedded to duke, Is railed "The Double Duchess." Isirty K1 irenca Hastings is generally called Ladybird, two Isdles of tills are railed "Bin! is." and "Quecnie la the sobriquet of no lnsa than a dozen. Lady Windsor Is called flay." though her baptismal name Is Alberta, and the Hon. Charlotte Knollyn Is known as "Chatty" to the court circle. There are half a hundred Tottlea," several Thus," but score of "Pussies. nnd almost ever y 'only one "Kittens annum has some diminutive by which she Is better known to her friends than by her legal title. The ramous "Society of Souls has been for a diminution In the use of responsible In pet names through its practice of calling year. la aa ccaslotmlllha grow-t- of several hundred cacman old In th 'the gigantic specimen of each member by Ills or her Christian NjokSLnM la offound trowing America a.: tua". tb term Void? la quit tba most ?- - name, but the habit is ton flrmly estabtha of title, botanists to part aaocus preprints known to be easily overcome. species of one that has been lished aa FUocereus adJlla or tha 'Old 'man! WkJla tha tide plant Ivy the while men. the otMua" Tharrata'in this ptaat a wonder- - lven tha who Inhabit the desert region have covered a human band resemblance Sapid Travelling'. , Tp.. of not bean slow to discover the rcaemliUn.-- r with gray hairs. RANCH is soon to have one of the jand to make SHnllar application. In the caus of one aged member of one of the fastest rallrond trains on schedule. plant ls oov- -- deaert tribes they have noted, not the The Orleans company Is now hnvlng a SdNriuTlon VbutT which comorSSSi of the plant, wunhlane. of the cactus to tha man. but of special engine built embodying several liide .he the man to the caotiia. jnew features which It Is eapecte-- l will en- of veteran tha locked sandy Ths gray abIe trlp Mwr,n pari and Bordeaux whose portrait accompanies lt'.s ll ,,, itl about six hours, frowsv head of ansld man. Plant known plain the title n know Is sketch significance j a by few are between the two placrs Is distance but ta bo twentyjwars old Old Man, because hi ,372yje whlifli "Cactus Is are found of ,,,1 alul thi wm necessitate a rule inches in height, y specimens fumiles an hour for feet tall and a foot; tousled poll so much resemlfle the Which ere twenty-flaning time of sixty-twsix hours. A there will tie a number of In diameter, reprerenring. It is hollared, j miliar white haired plant of the desert. etnps made the speed between certain point will he In excess of the average, but i It I declared thut if th new locomotive on Kile. Boats BirdEMarkst. Boat all that Is expected of It a EflIDKS ths unique craft used by accomplishes Mired of seventy mile an hour may be atthan ons hundred thousand sees weather on Nile, ths good natives tha Into tained under favorable conditions. Ueds am knportsd MnitH Mates hundreds of graceful white winged than ecli year, mors Great Hume-timover Its surface. boat flitting by twice the there sre so many salltiuat that It Is Students at Japanese universities and After Britain, ths next heaviwt importer. are by almost Impassible to steer a safe course c.imincrclal schools are not obliged to these ths South Amerknui countries though one through the niase. The effect nf seeing serve In the army. In Uerinnny It haa hr the largest puiuiussers. tropical modern pleasure eraft silhouetted against often happened that the unlversitin were might naturally suppose that Ilia of ancient temples la one nf closed bri'HUse nil the students and pro. a song Muds would supplrsvery want.Indus- thebackground attractive features of a journey up the feasors had joined the army. The centre of the canary breeding Harts Mountains. Nile. try Is no longer the With ths increasing demand for the little tersongsters the peasantry of the Haris CHINESE DBAOOK AT SHORT RANGE. In ths breeding ritory oonflna themselvsa which their lung Of the finer singers, for The craper experience qualifies them. of Eleiie-folbirds sre raised In tlie Here In the province nf Hanover. more than two hundred thousand turds are reared annually by the peasants, every home giving accommodation to g few of . ths little singer. In th fall and winter months the peasants obtain from the factories ths material the for making the familiar rage inma--which un at hlrda are Imported. These nr odd moments by members of tb family, n4 un ready for th spring whan tua young bird are produced. After the bird have grown sufficiently where thy they are taken to tha fkeiory, number are sufficient are stored until sent out In are ready for shipment. They an of cars tha under one lots of thousand, and attendant, who looks after their food water during th voyage. Those attendants whs go to the gouih American countries return with Mexican and Cuban p afro la for ths European market. Fet Trust Towns. 1 Baxe-c'obu- a corner on natural anti-fa- t. Just what la th cause la not known, but persons living In that town loss weight without treatment of any sort. A one hundred and fifty pound ns live Is regarded aa a curioalty there, tha average weight running from 100 to 12S pounds. Quito, the capital of Ecuador, boasts that consumption Is not known there, and Mexico Is trying to gain attention from tha tact that heart disease la comparatively rare there. Perhaps the oddest bid by a city fa the proposition of Liverpool to corner the shipping of all England by building a dock, or. more properly, a river wall, a thousand feet wide and seven miles long. Premier Parliamentary Reporter. ln-r- oi o1, thlUw'nTh h2. rl o w ) e) ed number-purchas- y puffer fish la on of the oddest of Ihas It practical usefulness. For when it curiosities at ths New York Is pursued by enemies In the sea it rise) but visitor rarely have an to tha surface and, quickly Inflating ltseii opportunity to oee It In th act of is blown by th wind' along the wavren performing, which consist In blowing it- - escaping. On might taka this for a aelf up lilts a balloon. It Is only when! story, suitable tor narration to those Mo sre. tha flsh is annoyed or agitated that it1 verblally credulous persons the marines, does this trick. But take it out of water.Jbut the reader may be assured that It lit in your hand or In a t. and at once It fact, indorsed by tha natural hlstarr will proceed to inflate Itself until. In less books. ' than half a minute. It t almost perfect sphere. Btlrk a pin In It the Injury will The Catholics of Belgium have derided t) not hurt and tha flsh will collapse ex- present to the Pope s new church in Rsog , actly Ilka a punctured balloon. It will be built In the San Lorenso quart Now. this peculiarity of th puffer Ash and designed by the Pope himself. THE many of tho duties of th Brlllsh Prime la to report to th King, U10 sitting of Parliament, tha occurrence of each day. It differs from most stats documents In that, while written In tho third person, th King is addressed In tho second, the letter invariably commencing "Mr. Balfour presents his humble duty to Your Majesty. The letter Is a purely formal one, reciting the happenings in tha houses of Parliament, without making comment nr draining the report with description. No detail 'RICK cycle riding has met with re- is , 1 Th Deadly Cigarette. . considered too slight to ho reported upon, Advanced Cannibals. markable success abroad, where Mr. and each the him before haa blow morning at KOTHKR etruok has bera the King AWNfBAL tribe are not always ree been lias Robbins, a New Turk man, 7X a complete report of all that hag hapMr. cigarette. Now comes a medical auresent atlvrs of the lowest grade of dr giving some unique exhibition IllsHtioa. Ths Batts, of North 8u thority to declare that leeches applied Robbins rides tandems, triplets and quods, pened. to Inveterate matre. have a postal system, organ cigarette smoker die of esetese one after ths other, and balanced at every nicotine On wheel a time. lied short after .government, representation by th conceivable angle. On an ordinary On Adelina Patti has been conferred the the otherpoisoning hand they cling to habitual pipe people and a written civil and cod he performs amailng feat in which the rank of knighthood ta th French Legion amoknrs without experiencing any appar- in spita of their adherence to thpenal In air. Itself th seems auapend to bicycle practic of Honor. ent discomfort, from which it Is argued of eating human flesh. In New York Mr. Kobrin had tha repuTheir post offices are lneated In hollos tation of being one of our best nil round A house lease produced in a Montreal that tha cigarette amoker absorb th nicriders nnd athletes. At that time he was court recently had a clause prohibiting th otine while tho pipe smoker does not. trees at crons roads, and into the recep tenant Is from Tb tsetes later silent gave np sre slipped tha letters, written upoi but him to relatives visit Investigator cigars. having regarding instructor, a gymnasium perfecting and also forbidding dancing. The Judge palm iMvea, Tha script Is elementary ir the work to devote his time toline. refused to grant an ejectment for breach Stockholm has slot machines which for form and 1 written in vertical lines, com himself In n more spectacular of such a contract. mencing at tho lower left hand comer a copper yield a glass of .warm milk. The vocabulary Is not extensive, but 1 amply sufficient tor all needs Accident Wealth Through Long before the tribe cams under tha oh REXARXABLE SHELL. A one serration of tha whites tha system o' ha more than mortal sums favored to government by hereditary rulers, advise" rORTl'NE ha at first appeared to by a council of the psnpla, wai In effeel and Ihelr code of laws Is as skllfoUy de he calamity. One of the oddest of such ' : vised so though tho product of a oooitl the experience of an hnglkh ,v.- -' V 1 Incident w ; stress of tutlonkl expert. wayfarer who was driven by tho Their religion la a crude worship of a storm to take refuge In a barn at tha top p! . trinity composed by n creator, preset of a hill. and destroyer, and their eannlballstle Once inside he found the floor covered servnnees are Intimately connected wit place by the by wild duck blown Into the the he door, their religious belief. violent gale, and. shutting hi afterward selling They are skilled artisans, metal wort wrung their neck, him enablo um to eufflclent a fur ing. pottery and weaving being their eMei estrh and liv stock Is plentiful is thi to make a freeh dart. Industry, k A email break In a eea wall on the eomrnunltles, their houses (which marked, but const Inundated adjacent Held, ly resemble Rwlss chalet) being prarid ONE dip-ne- - n - eo Fur-fol- the wreckage crops, found a school of through the sale Of the the of breach. The proceed fish more thnn made good their loss, 13,001 being realised. One nf the moat profitable oil fields In the Russian Caucasus wa discovered through the death of a herd of cattle put tn graze upon the rich grass. Inquiry developed the tact that the grok was poisoned by tho oil products forced up through th soil, nnd " were developed. rRING ths Chines celebration of theiturn out In large number. Of the Chinese ,:h,, new year, which takes place In Feb- procession the dragon ta the great feature.! A wounded seal . pursued upon the bfhfh one ,lt are shown herewith whm tisod In Ibn the order nf the The fsp" Nome tore up the eanrta In Its ruary, vroKreninns day. ISlen clad In plcturcequ anil procession which took pine on the ooea- - l,vln anon'" ' "y'al1.th" ""J ,one ot ,he rtr',',,t1 "fr0 bright enliued garments bear slung the emu of the vieit nf the Ule ITealdcnt Me- the ax. h'' uk,1n w"" streets a huge dragon, from two hundred Klnlcy tn California. When tho dragon kirks of a mule, to three hundred fi'et long, with a terrible came near to the I'rcsident'a aland It hiring heed. These dragons are Imported form nodded ll head three times in recognition China tn ths 1nlted Htatea nnd are very of the head of the nation. Military charts the aloe of a man's palm. 'from lednerd photographs of ordnanre elaborate. At any unusually Important 1,1 b' P"wrru1 While woman sre scarce n Hie German public event, such sa s vtslfof the Irssl-denf the 1nlted Hlstes, ths Chinese colonics. There sre only 354 In Bast Africa lenses, to officers of the German 23 form fur ths moat Interesting and pict- and in the German Islands In the Iaclllc ,armJ' uresque port of the street parades. They Gran. Be markable Dog. ACTIOK. toothpick factories, nnd now 2S. 000, Out) quills n year are turned out. Bakoum, a town on the Caspian Sea. baa - ba XH pb-k- s , Kth BUFFER FISH are made In two towns their principal revenue TOOl derivesource. this Harbor Springs. Mich., b the IxsiAfiurten for wooden toothpicks and 7.0uOjM) are turned out dally. The town does little else, and most of tho inhabitants are occupied In making veneers of ths birch lags from which the are cut by a machine. Quill picks are made In greater number near Paris than In any other part of the world. Jolnvilla la Pont Is the town, nnd at on time it was tha centre of tha penmaking Industry. When the steel pen displaced ths qulH It looked bad for th place until it was derided to turn the plants into the farmers, who aw only of their hope through lost on draining the land that mackerel had been swept with stables on th ground rooms above. Royalty on D ' T SO-- . Know BhoH. ERE Is a picture of a boy, eight serving lemonade from at a church fair, months old, standing heslds an oyster and now serve as an ornament on the ehelL from Iloilo, In ths Philippine front lawn, Inlands. The shells arc quite common there and are often used tof making fences. A company has been formed in Mexico Th on here shown weighs Z2H pounds for the extraction of oil from corn (maize) and measures three feet five Inches scram wiilhout thereby affecting the grain .for and la two feet three Indies high. In this purposes of distillation in tho process of country It hag served as a tureen for manufacturing spirits. ' nt door and llvli '"'i!' Canada's Woodlands. Football Expenditure. Everlasting Fires. tba destruction nf nnr forests the heavy demand for paper f.tinillcs lake pride In WHILE Blgng. asts. has been decried. It looks aa fires, which niiduru from genrro-t- o K the European countries Belgium In the Japani-vIn we should not suffer for pulp millions flvs is public echo More tlian though spent generation. Inis more money Invested abroad peri PriII.H tallest Great Dans la til give fnm- years in tin There is one fire near Cnntlrton railway fares alone, each big match draw- - making material while Canada has such 11,1,1 OYALTY has been photographed Tina Aa Hie of ENGLAND'S picture herewith. illtllun' English l.ingnagr, hill It which' iireiihiiriiTiig for ninro'tliiinhng some three thousand spectators from tracts as th newly opened district of han.,un' and I'1 '11 that eoinn of tlioni have Hire ci'iitarles, while ll has boon main-- . an average distance of ten miles. Half a dogs attain a tremendous evfrjr fashionable diversionIn fact, J apparent n"BJ1niJ1a 1,a, Mss and weight when compered with nu standing not lee than Hl.anO.UUl onnot profited largely by their Instruction, I sineil with lil :1 Interruption for more million or more Is epent on telegrams to Her there sre reported to be more than every pbsse of dally life. of rojral other species, but history does not record study hxva loned,for the Japanese sign designed to ntlracl than live huniln-would seem from inn.oon.oou cords of pulp wood alone, and If 'I,1UC1 M German There Is another newspapers and on private despatches, being ai their own laud. France ha lonnfd! the tourist trade Is a thing fearful und In the s.imc dtslrh-- tyears. another eurh animal as this one. Ills which lus been sl'glit the ttenn of admissions and salaries tn the this is not sufficient the Thunder Bay and Snapshots that these envied nw" weight exceeds that of thn average man outriders shout K.M00, but th tiulk of smnderfut In coiiKtruetiiui. for inure than two hundred and Are cam of (he professional teams mak Bil Rainy River districts can supply 200.00U.OUO one and all devoted to amusementsis n re less athlctta. Th picture abort Wlta and be measures nearly a many hands ns foreign lustra la taken up by the lsondun Perhaps the most truthful announce!:! nt h'it have liitriP'd without,year, far other large contribution. cords more, creation th a good sized pony. The dog B being ex- Inventor, about tl!,J0tl(M) being upon for- ls to he found over ths door of a leather from our iinmlrti! la one hundred and fifty Canadian territory 1m been developed of Prince Gustav of Bwedcn (on Margst loan Princes hibited In Leadeuliall Market. eign gn..ds shop In Tuklo, where the proprietor years are nut hi all nni.'iiiiunun. largely along the lines of the railroads and Who is engaged to thePrlnce ' l hown ta on nf rest' the. blandly declare himself in bu a "dkin! Peat Germany besoming the almost universal fuel, and. waterways, and she can furnish timber to of Connaught. The on ski In Christian-fire Is money lending nations and In the course leaker and Seller. never afternoon to j the allowed tho amateur the United State for centuries to com by Joying an The Japanese form bring easy for gel, forms and equipment Un- cut. but h nnintnlnel year In and i teams and all other Is tound in "Price- Bwordsmnnship In one or .other of Its of a few years it la probable that the ,,f "strictly one new country. expenses 111 nny way . forms is making marked progress in Eng- mmra invested will be more Gun doubled. - Q increaeo or price matter of pr.de as well as chargeable to the second 'national game" opening indbiri oul Diminish," while Trinidad has the largest sugar Mt k land. New sallea d'srmes are being ullluMigh the bulk of the national wealth ;(inrH nfrms thn onsscrhy (hat wilnin of the British West Indie. h MadeW1 Englislwnhn. tha In homo and I lien Investment tons in and at formed club the luck fresh traditions tint good opened, year by Aa tho football season is not of long tl,0j!n h? luul "All Kinila of flupi.rliir Run'lriia "' It o:ie of Tho name of tho Empress of Japan is with capacity for crushing 17,000 ami four nnd year In London and the provinces, and oolenleA be th''e seen that this money O Haru (spring). The name of the Crown cans daily nnd producing ill) tons of suF1' lire, It will duration Appreciating llie difference hi iwmi the t l "i.i have w.ir.uci International matches have been arranged Ihciusclves has to change hands in lively fashion, but Prince la Yoshi Hito. Japanese and I'luroi.iu imuc lurnisl.lic-- ' l,v" It. In which the English teams havo at least m tin' s iuic, fire with.nu Fire ran be made to slug. Take s l.ghtcd:an. catering to Nun trades iK. the season there are recorded nut f11111 11 tn k'P during bam themselves wdL 'Vlil1 fi,r candid snd blow geirly against ths fiaiiic.iscls forth that Ids Is "The flhun f,.r the. h- es than three hundred matches weekly. S -; 11 Br 1,1 will You hear LARGEST BALLOON XK THE WORLD. a sound. :'inill,M';n" rbul 'Furniture or til Hnveral t'oun'.rics " niul fluttering t;i:i" America has never done much in the sup- When th steamship Hamburg, with the sound . hi lire's The first fluttering .T.V.'. lempts :l..thcr wrestler wlh Ihe s, rente liking German Emperor aboard, anchored off port of professional football, but in Eng-Instead ofj the unsteady i.MUrvu.nl. evolved as tils 'V.1"" otK,y fmuuu llianrt thn teams of paid player divide the: Tangier, the Siiltaq or Morocco followed at """.V' sign " piuui' the""' carefully m.ilnt.iincd as were honors with the best of the amuteurs, and blastjKInd of I'oibrcllji. Parasol nr Stick.' th Oriental custom of presenting ulirv. U".I!n!,,ll.'r ,'1 tamps In lue oil Grecian tempi,', in onn several weekly paper are devoted exon7?la two wlth2 and bantM, nn laden wuh avt tltrlcrrlHu: a randle of eeeeeeee light liir piirpoci of rdlmg tn th touriM.i fowl nnd othm with third clusively to football interests. of a ardent sc iii'.n.irios o and monasteries "I11 gl'ire rheniist'sror wilv the J.i vicnc-imp has h.is found that other provisions, rowed out to th Em-,rlAMien yon have a limp nnd liluw-ort- il n i llainp. illffcreiit will iiighci a representing sign bring perors vcsscL you can make lire slug in earnest. Is elro.lily increaa- Dental Gold Hines. the contents or ids store, hut others are lh' There are 139 convert, ninety-fou- r of genuine sml lepresr-n- t the etrugg' - he.,111than two million dollars worth I ween the devnte tlrainelvrs tu cducatlun un English words and the Jupanesc1 RABID TRANSIT IN INDIA gold Is annually hammered into idea hi the maker's mind. horpital duties. by dentists, and th uss nf gold Is so rapidly Increasing that in th a considerable sum will be time 'course nf Curious Freak Picture. Travelling in Comfort. thus tied up. (R or the clilrrt vehicles to lie seen Ton years ago only one man In four went on English road is u van tn the denttst to have a cavity filled. Then originally built for Lord Dinllei. but now extraction and the subsequent plata were Iisril to lion the travelling common. Now it is tha practice to save if whiskey firm. the natural tooth if poasible, or bridge dlvl,1'1 "Go room. Is, 1ill.l.Mrr?K'.jH gups with gold. with electrlc.ty and is provided Crown work, bridge work and fillings Willi a which. If u-- guy have grown so popular that, while the gold! ;tn run over a day. is sliachc.1 to used upon each patient is comparatively' local wire. Insignificant, the aggregate to enormous. Entirely apart from Its modern eouip-- 1 In the last ten years more than Sla.OW.nno ment the van pn-interest a one i.r, worth nf gold has been used for dental ,he largest wheeled hnusi In a purposes, and wlthlu five years more the' well as being the moat aiiinptunuuly fitted consumption of gold will probably be ln- .up, and many celebrated pereona. lncltid- creased by another 31,000,000 worth anIng the Prln re and Princes uf Wales, have' nually. visited the novel ennreyanre and Inspected Aa little of this gold is ever recovered it Its many Interesting features. will be seen that in the course of time a Kix horses arc required to drag it from supply of gold will lie lost to circulatarge vinh-sPlace to place, and the appearance of the some other dental metal la distion car In a town Is a heller ml vert I semen t covered. (or the firm sending It oul than would Iv a square mile of billboard spare. The saleaiiian la an old animal trainer.! Barrie Works Slowly. and between hla milquo home and the; NE of the slowest of literal y workers, thrilling stories lie tell of hia odven-- . J. M. Barrie, who writes but I wo ture he commands plenty of free advrr-- . hour- - a day. He compose slowly and tiring spare In (he purer In the various towns lie visits. luliKt.ikinglv, and cnee his two hours' are compb-i- It la srldutn that his interest j in his tale h ads him to continue. The conmierei.'il treaty ex-- i Quite in contrast was the last Guy .pires August 51. ly?. IT 111 not renewed Bocthl-v- . HERE are no Nml who was in Ihe habit of dictating sni mliil;. p.icr mile a f ; tr mile. At first the wate'n 'n,f'rcen alarm ciork rhonp and. motion Into a phonograph and who turned out in ruiiinng ii:;ir ri-VI ty ;jl:.OIR win 'hnllr tu liark produrt t!ie may the f.itlgulng 0f leading occupant which trjv.-.from five to six thousand word- - o day. mood when Money to Loan. Japanese 'DIRTY million dollars Is yearly spent in Great Britain by football enthusi- Yilll c - a. ; 1: 1 J j . - - ernes sssse s "f gin.! rra, t J ht unllifor ighty-erve- nrl.-e'tbn- n'ln-.b-- 4ss4sses4s4eessssssssss or-pi- r - 1M; rriirc-,sentati- 0.,-n- i j i s . : q . : s j l flwis-S;ian- j i'i 'ix I Wt JJ'vlvinn W- HE largest balloon in ths world was, In tide monster of th compicvcd recently for the purpose of- .'balloon has been christeneo Whs crossing the English ChanitcL The Buckoall! In Indio thrhlnir i 1us;rat,on shows Mrss-- s. grim w And Pponrer About to tho trwdlnf loiUorfca 4. rap prr- 'nr hy lno P&ratory :o making their first trial 130111 the winnowing alo lfl onf "J 11- tp |