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Show TKE CURIOSITY SHOP. Information About That Very CoinmoB-place CoinmoB-place Article Called Winter. Butter was unknown to the , ancient Greeks at least no reference is made to it by Homer or Aristotle and even to this day is a great rarity in Mexico and South America and in certain portions of China. Herodotus and Hippocrates described in the Fifth century, B. C, the butter which tho Scythians obtained from mare's milk by violent agitation, and Dioscoxides states that the best butter U made from sheep's and goat's milk. It was not in common use in England until nfter the Fourteenth century. It is less frequently eaten by barbarous than civilized nations. It is made from milk, chiefly from that of tho cow. That from the buffalo is employed in Egypt and India, and that from tho goat in other countries. Butter is the best known of nil non-nitrogenous non-nitrogenous animal foods (fats), but is consumed con-sumed in very different quantities, varying from' tho largja cupful, as drank before breakfast by the Bedouins near the Red sea and Persian gulf, to the thin layer, as eaten at most meals on the slice of bread by the inhabitants of this country. The Mannfaetm-e of Mouaio. The manufacture of mosaio may be traced to Indian origin, and it was known in Rome beforo the days of the republic The art was much improved under the empire, em-pire, not merely by the introduction of marble of several colors, but by the invention inven-tion of artificial stones called in Italian emetti, which may be made in every variety varie-ty of tint. When tho pictures were introduced intro-duced into churches they were made of mosaic, but the process was perfected during dur-ing the last and the present centuries. The minute and numerous pieces of colored squares aro placed upon a copper ground, with a cement of gum mastio and other materials; they are then ground to a perfect per-fect level and polished. The church of St. Lawrence, in Florence, contains tho family fami-ly tomb of the Medici, and is greatly admired ad-mired by artists on account of tho precious marbles, jaspers, agates, malachites, etc., with which the walls aro embellished as mosaics. Licensing Laws. Licensing laws are older than most people peo-ple are aware of. In 1495, so writes Dr. Cox in The Fortnightly (II Henry VII, c. 2) "forasmuch as the kynge's grace most entirely desyreth among nl erthly thyngea the prosperitye and restfulnesse of this his lande and his subjects of the same to live quietly and snerly to the pleasure of God andaccordingeto his lawes;" It was en-acted, en-acted, inter alia, that "yt be lawful to ij of the justices of the peace within tbeyr authority au-thority to reject and put away comon ale Jellying in townes and places where they shall thynk conveinent, and to take suerty of the kepers of tile houses, of thcyr good behaving by the discretion of the sayd jiis-tTccs'andinthe jiis-tTccs'andinthe same to be advised and agreed at any timeoftheyr sessiocs. The Babbit's Foot as a Talisman. The legends of "Br'er Babbit" among the negroes, his clever devices in out-witting out-witting his natural cnemies-the dog. fox ud wSf-and thwarting every scheme de-S de-S for his own punishment, are almas wtthout number. From these legends of The preternatural sagacity of the living abbit came the idea that the ,dd M bad certain magic Pwe TUe neng believe that to carry a rabbit's foot in the oocklt is not only a talisman for good fuck but is a specific for diseases. The KfThtad foot of the rabbit is believed to have the most efficacy, and if it be taken rom a rabbit that runs in a gv aveyard iu fnpeatural properties are believed to be quite irresistible, The Inventor of Spectacles. M ooou, in his "Researches Curieuesc d'tlSe " fixes the .late of the inven- antiquarians , say t he peno eCLrTuto wtoTedin 1319, and quote, S May Godjorfonhis sins-" rrom Greenland's Icy Moant.in. , -From Greenland a Icy The hymn l r0 V Reginald He- M0U3if m to the ber about 809. He it. gun gWy. ettry, as told by The ew f st iDgwith his ,tlem.npav ATwho-M W Preach a Missionary aer-entwbo aer-entwbo wasro p a good ?D TrthooX or: Heberwent aside hymn for the occior three "DiTo? the hyTn! which be at onco set rerse of t iym h TerMi and to music- Heantl" next day. Heber tto bymn including In- died In lS25u |