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Show Odds and Ends, j London Vanity Fair refers to the Crar as "the man who is afraid to face the moujlk." ; When Senator Fo raker Is making a speech his face grows very white, but his - ears get as red aa tomatoes. All the blood ; seems to settle there. . In Germany policemen on duty can stop i eh I Id re n In the street in school hours and aak them why they are not at school. It ' Is suggested in England that that be made the law there. . , . An Irishman, returning to hla village , from a first visit to Dublin, where the I else trio lights much impressed him. re. marked: "It do beat me how they make ' " a hairpin burn lna bottle." The'effort to raise a fund of $150,000 to I istiblsih a chair of political science in Western Reserve university, as a memorial memo-rial to the late Senator M. A. Hanna, is meeting with gratifying success. The most costly mitre in toe nited States, which represents fcO.OW worth of Jewels and precious atones. Is worn by Bhop atmann of the Cleveland dlo-t dlo-t ot the Roman Catholio church. I 1 r,,ur lir not qnlto easy out bis personal safety. When he visited the German Ger-man Automobile club tn Berlin, February 4. 600 uniformed policemen and many others oth-ers In plain clothes guarded the building. . . At a banquet In "London recently the Lord Mayor mentioned that hla wife, hla three daughters, his eldest son and hla daughter-in-law, his chaplain, hla butler and his steward were all total abstainers. A Wall street banker, who Is said to be the head of one of the largest financial institutions in-stitutions of Xew York, is credited with the statement that the fortune of John D. Rockefeller will in a few years amount to $1,000,000,000. Arrested for shoplifting in Paris, a woman wo-man was found to have a clever accomplice accom-plice In a King Charles spaniel, which she carried under her arm, and had trained to snatch up pieces ot lace from shop counters. coun-ters. London Mail. . . Marcello, the lale of Man pedestrian, who, for a wager of 16000, undertook to walk 6000 miles in 900 days, was in Grimsby Grims-by Yorkshire, on February 10, having covered cov-ered S533 miles since September. A collie dog is his sole companion. Curdled milk, of a peculiar kind, after a Bulgarian recipe and called "yaghurt" is now a Parisian fad and is believed to be a remedy agalnat growing old. A London correspondent who haa tried it says he would prefer to die young. A summons has been brought agalnat a Dublin nrm of wine and spirit merchants to restrain them from applying the name "port" to red wines shipped otherwise than from Oporto. Portugal The firm haa been selling a Spanish wine as "port" . For using on envelopes two stamps which' had already been through the post an Irish schoolmaster haa just been fined 100. Some of woman's little dally economies econ-omies often prove In the end expensive. London Globe. Babu matrimonial ' advertisement: "Wanted A match for an Independent, beautiful young widower of 86 years, of respectable and very rich family. Possesses Pos-sesses handaome amount of thousands and numerous golden ornaments of his previous previ-ous wife." Lahore Tribune. Dr. Cowen, -conductor of the London Philharmonic society, is 63. He is a native na-tive of Jamaica, haa traveled all over the world. speaks four or five languages i fluently. He was a composer at 6. and a piano virtuoso at 10. His "Song of Thanksgiving" Thanks-giving" he wrote for the Melbourne exhibition ex-hibition of 1888. for conducting the orchestra orches-tra at which he received the record aum of $26,000. ... During the rainy season at Victoria falls In the Zaralteet river In Africa the smallest small-est quantity of water Of the year la passing. pass-ing. And when the falls are In flood the-country the-country around them Is dry as a bone. This phenomenon m caused by the great length of the Zambesi river. By the time the flood waters of the upper river get down to the falls the rainy season has snded In the latter region. |