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Show Odds and Ends, j Pers Chape t. who recently died at Liege. Belgium, mada a good living By coloring meerschaum pipes. HI ' secret was to smoke regularly, but very slowly, never to allow the pipe to get foul e to be subject to draughts' or sudden changes of . temperature, and never to. smoke out of doors. .. " , - f An ancient practice Is'foDowed In Put-ham Put-ham palace, ' the bishop of London's resi-- resi-- dence. The todgekeeper,- whose duty it Is 'to -arouss the- servants in the morning goes s round the quadrangle with a slender slen-der rod about fifteen feet long and taps with It on the windows of the servants' sleeping rooms. ... i The owner of Narodny List, a Servian newspaper which Is hostile to the Government, Govern-ment, appeals for a responsible editor. The eighth editor In threa weeks has Just been arresteor and the editor's, wife, obliged to support herself, tried In vsln to get permission to have. an egg-stall In the market place. Displayed at a sale of work at a Nonconformist Noncon-formist church in London recently was a gorgeous quilt bearing the autographs of over 400 persona mainly members of the congregation. The signatures, originally made in pencil on diamond-shaped pieces of blue and white drill, were feather-stitched feather-stitched in colored cotton by the women of the church who. on finishing the quilt presented It to their pastor. - A London hotelkeeper possesses a remarkable re-markable suite of furniture. For many years he had collected empty match boxes which were' finally made by a skilled cabinetmaker into articles of furniture. The outfit consists of a writing table with smoking apparatus, a fire-screen, a cabinet, a chair and smaller articles. In the construction of which many thousands of boxes were employed. - . ,- An Ohio man who waa recently elected to Congress went to Washington to look around and see what bis duties were. He was hospitably received and was wined and dined a great many times by his colleagues. col-leagues. Before he went home he said to his friends "By George. I. have had a good time. I have had dinners and breakfasts break-fasts and suppers galore given to me. In . fact I haven't had my knife out of my mouth since I struck the town." - -. . . The proprietors of ths Subway tavern, at Bleecker and Mulberry streets, et-e sending out a report to clergymen aid temperance workers of their work. The report tells principally of what has .been done to the old-time saloons in the neighborhood. neigh-borhood. Three of them, all within a radius ra-dius of block or two otMhe tavern, Jiave closed p. The report eays: "A recebt report from the Subway tavern throws a significant light upon a work that bee been amusingly and persistently misrepresented. misrep-resented. Two hundred yorklngmen are reported as lunching at noon at the 'Bub-way 'Bub-way daily, and.' while adjacent saloons ..have been closed, there Is no record of the closing of saloons by . denunciatory methods In the last quarter of a century I Hew Yorh letter. " ' |