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Show MISSING LINKS. A man who has access to six head of horses hor-ses thej" standing idle in a stable, walked two miles out in the country on a little matter mat-ter of business a day or two ago, while another man who had no horses and very little money hired a team to go the same distance. dis-tance. Ga!frani reports that a rather curious ceremony has taken place near Poitiers. The electric light has just been laid on in the paris i of St. Philomen, and the bishop of the diocese solemnly blessed the dynamos. dyna-mos. A tpecial ritual bad been composed for the ceremony. The new Bombay water works which have been in course of construction seven years, cost 15,000,01)0 rupees (about $5,250,000). The water is drau from Tansa lake, an artificial body formed by a dam in the valley and having a superficial area of eight or nine square miles. According to the theosophlsts we have still some CHJOOO years left before we arrive at the end of our present age. The Kali Yuga is known as the black aire, the age of spiritual darkness, and during its existence the human race pays up for us misdeeds in the previous ones. Tbe latest novelty in the wa" of collect;'. its is reported from Philadelphia, It is a el-lection el-lection of door mats. In the same town is also a man who collects tin lags, and wh j owns them by the thousand. A Bost n devutes his surplus energies to gathering penknives, and one in Albany goe-. in lor railroad timetables. A Buffalo woman is forming a collection of morcorlc,s5 worn-out worn-out gloves. Lafayette Knight of Camns Prairi has sent the East Oregon iau a remarkable cwri, ity a sheet of paper made from nature's loom. It was found in an open senm in c tamarack tree. It is as soft and velvety as a baby's skin and resembles wood pulp in appearance. ap-pearance. The sheet is fully a foot wide and two feet long. Of all the forty-six American stamps-issuing countries, Chile is the only one up to this year, excepting one short lived 15-cent, that has properly honored Columbus. lie appears conspicuous on all their stamps, in UN the United States issued a 15-cent stamp showing a picture of Lis lauding. Several, of this Issue were printed in two colors, and it so happened that in this 15-cent the medallion medal-lion containing the picture got into circulation circula-tion upside down, which was discovered, and is now known as the "inverted medallion." One was sold recently for $fi5. "Mr. Paderwski," asked a Boston pianoforte piano-forte teacheT, "I see that you phrase the forty-second measure of the Beethoven sonata son-ata tum-ti-tum (illustrating at the piano). Rubinstein played it tum-tittk-tum. i)' Albert's Al-bert's way is tumi-tum-tum. The standard I editions have it tum-tum-tittle-tum. Now if I a pupil asks me which is correct, what shall I say?" And as the master irave his answer in pure Polish, the Boston Traicxeript, which tells the story, fails to report it. |