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Show Q' UAINT arj CUPJOUS Li.m-u-ui i mi . ... .1. .. I; Kentish. (English) farmer say that the heads of yoang hopbine are a u- perlor substitute for asparagus.. Ia the , country districts of Kent, hopheads are largely eaten, when 1a the early part of th ituon the superfluous boots are put away from the plants. t There are only three national holidays holi-days in Japan. January 1 Is one of them, an the birthday of the reigning Emperor, November 2, la another. But February 11 Is the greatest of tBe three dates, for It Is the anniversary of the coronation of the flrst Emperor, Jlm-mu. Jlm-mu. "Today the English lady is the worst housekeeper In the world. Two hundred hun-dred years ago aha was the best." This Is the essence of a striking- Indictment of modern women by Mrs. Huth Jackson Jack-son n an article on housekeeping- and national well-being In the nineteenth century. ! A traveler In the Panama country ; has this to say of one of bis boatmen: "The negro limped from a sore In his foot. He explained that bis toe had been attacked the previoua night by a vampire bat. which paid him frequent visits, though he waa never conscious of the blood-sucking process until he awoke." ' " " It is reported that the director of the French school at Athens has Just dls-' covered at Delos three large lead vases full of old coins. The largest contained con-tained mora than 800 4-drachma pieces, minted In Athena under the Archons. They are said to be in such perfect state that they appear never to have been put In circulation. John Gully, grandfather of the ex-Speaker ex-Speaker of the British House of Commons, Com-mons, had twenty-four children. A year or two ago a Northampton (England) (Eng-land) shoemaker entered as his plea in the Police court that he was the father of thirty-two children, of whom twenty-seven were living. Twenty years ago an English city boasted of a. couple cou-ple who were "the happy father and delighted mother of thirty-three children." chil-dren." ten of them being alive In 1890. i A visiting nuVse the other day took a dosen big oranges to a little sick patient pa-tient on New York's East Side. Three days later, in making her regular visit, she noticed that the oranges were still on the table, untouched. "Doesn't Jacob Ja-cob like oranges?" she asked the child's mother. "Yessum," was the reply. "Why doesn't he eat some of these, then?" "We don't like to get away mit dem, 'cause they look so wealthy on the table." was the explanation. a A Pennsylvania woman who was called on to write a paper at a suburban subur-ban current topics club on Victor Hugo went to the local Carnegie library and collated her facts from a number of encyclopaedias. When she had finished having a quarter Inch of space at the end of her paper, she thought she would add something original and wrote: "Whatever we and succeeding generations may think of Victor Hugo, we must sgree on one thing, that he wrote good English." This Is a description of a game of golf which was played In the Shetland islands one night this summer; "The first ball was driven from the tee at five minutes to 1J (midnight) and a full double round of elshteen holes was Eye.? LTne match terminated at J:30. The light was so good that the balls could easily be seen where they lav auer Having been driven well from the tee and there was never Any difficulty in finding them. Shortly after u o'clock the lark was heard in full song, and It was broad daylight by the time the match was finished. The experiment was such a success that it waa repeat-ed repeat-ed on several subsequent occasions." |