Show gcr V1JfJ D O A Kings Privilege A FYenela court IM decided that since the Shall of 1oisln Is n potrrulBti ho lied not him > the enormous Uolitu contracted I I h by mm In farts I rime Slmli lie lx I u 1 lucky man And 10 It I any Kins Who Oomtrt hate to pay his bills Oil ttlmt n Messed tlilns i or hi any legally commnnd CollectoiH to tlu > woods And sign 0 K Ills Mnjesty rlcase semi mound the Roods The Czar ho It I ii lucky mini Though no one thinks of that it costs n million rmnca u day To keep Ojnma fat And theta N I alto it sinking fund On battle ah1s they sat But Nicholas tits nil serene Ha dovtnt liuxo to pay Americans 1110 lucky men since And licie proof uecurding the brlnj myth Iiicli citizens n King And shoo ll monarch need not feed m Ino debt collector mill Hurrah hullh next Saturday III Jump m > laundry bill I Wnllc Irwin III New York Globo Indias Odd Ways A famous traveling correspondent says that tho people In the southern provinces of India do everything on tho ground They never use chairs or benches hut alas squat upon tho floor and all their work Is done upon the ground Carpenters have no benches and it they plane a hoard they placo It on the earth before them and hold It fast with their feet The blacksmith has his anvil on tho floor the goldsmith tho tailor anil oven the printer use the floor for benches nnd it Is the desk of the letterwriter and tho bookkeeper I book-keeper It looks queer to see a printer squatting before a case of typo and even queerer to sec n person writing i letters with a block of paper spread out before him on the ground But that Is tho Hindu custom You find It everywhere throughout India just as you will find everybody men women and children carrying loads no matter how light or how heavy upon their brads If an errand boy Is sent with a parcel he never touches it with his hands but Invariably Invar-iably carries it on the top of his turban tur-ban The other morning I counted seven joung chaps with shining morning faces on their way to school every ono of them with his books and slate upon his head Masons helpers who are mostly women carry bricks and mortar upon their heads instead of In hods on their shoulders and it Is remarkable what heavy loads their spines will support sup-port At the railway stations all the luggage lug-gage and freight Is carried the same way The necks and backs of the natives na-tives are developed at a very early ageIf If a porter can get assistance to hoist It to the top of his head ho will stagger along under any burden all right I have seen eight men under a grand piano and two men under a big American roller top desk and in Calcutta Cal-cutta where one of tho street railway companies was extending its tracks the workmen carried tho rails upon their heads Rips Record Beaten Leonora Romaldo the wlfo of a farmhand farm-hand at Vllacienso near Burgos Spain has awakened from a trance which has lasted thirtyone years The case has been under the close observation of medical exports during tho whole of that time and by their Instruction liquid food was regularly administered by n tube placed In the mouth of the sleeping woman At times it was believed that the woman was waking and various means wero employed to restore her to consciousness but they failed She has how regained her senses but cannot be persuaded that sho has slept for years A curious feature of the case Is that she remembers the Incidents In-cidents of her girlhood up to the time that she fell into the trance Her body Is fairly well nourished but her hair lias turned white un being shown a mirror the woman shrieked with horror and declared that the imago It reflected was not her own Philadelphia North American The CrescentShaped Roll Tho little horseshoeshaped rolls to be seen In every bakers shop in tho world have an Interesting history In 1SG7 Vienna was besieged by tho Turks They were about to enter tho town by an underground passage that they had dug when the bakers who work all night In order to deliver hot bread in the morning gave the alarm Time authorities were so grateful they allowed them to manufacture manu-facture a breakfast roll In the shape of a crescent moon which is a device of the Turkish banner Bridge Built on Wool At tho little town of Waldebrldge Cornwall England there is a bridge of a unlnno character Owing to the strength of tho current ordinary stone foundations would not hold and numerous nu-merous devices were tried without success Eventually bags of wool were sunk In the stream and tho piles driven driv-en In and this strange foundation has proved wonderfully firm and satlsfac tory Desert Air for Rheumatism A German physician has discovered that the air of tho Egyptian desert IP I about as free from bacterial life as the Polar regions or the high seas Tubercle bacilli are killed vhen exposed ex-posed six hours In tho sunlight Ho considers tho desert especially suitable suit-able for rheumatics mid patients suf ring from kidney diseases and tuber culosls |