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Show Severe winter weather Vc&ln la E;herla early in October. Jce of tea rerr.i.lns in the rivers until Ju!y. Canadian women are eald , to eat too much sweetmeats. Their complexions are almost invariaily bad, an authority ays. Aluminum, once hailed as the coming metal, 1 not so much heard of now. No 6at:sfirtory procees of welding It ever ha been ciscuvered. Four Chtr.ese attempted tr-get over the" North Z:i(,f boundary irne recently by Imperond' Jfranese. Their ruse failed and tney t.e Orported. y The renop pnon of "sun doirs" (a peculiar pecu-liar re::acii' t of llsht ciused by fog, etc), a ee.lom reported by mariners last spring and summer. The tnl"als. "M. C. B.." Mn on rnanv fre' aRt cars, stand for "Master Car Builders." 'ani refer to standard measurement meas-urement cf the car and standard appliances, appli-ances, uch a coupler, etc. The DucheFS of Jfnchester, formerly Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati, 1 spending spend-ing larfte um on her pet dogs, and now ha taken up the fad of having her pets manicured several time a day. l Manuel Garcia, the singer. 1 still livln In London, and on March 17 next he will i be-100 years old. r He is th enly singer now living who toek cart In th oret season sea-son of Italian opera In New York to 1825, sinking the role of Fljraro In '"11 Barbier" on the evening of November 29. This lament I from the Allahabad Pioneer: Pio-neer: A painful Impression Is raising ground that Simla Is not what It waa. Visitor are continually being heard to ask. Where are the flirtatious, the frlsVy grass widows, the steady bachelors, the racy scandalswhere, in short, is the Jo of life that once made this spot the most delectable In the East? In those cay days bright eyes earned more appointments than long service, a bon mot was even a surer pass to distinction than a relative In the India office. We. who remember how the verb to frivol was specially invented in-vented for Simla, sigh as w recall those I salad days. "Kleptomania" la becoming a source of great annoyance at the social functions of the women's clubs In New York City, For the last two winters women who frequent fre-quent these gatherings hav suffered losses and now .scarcely an entertainment of such a character takes place that some article of value Is not missing. Jeweled hatpins, purses and the chatelaine bas have been purloined. At the recent breakfast break-fast of the Women's Republican a nidation nida-tion at Delmonlco's a sable muff was lost, and at the federation meeting at the Ho'el As tor an expensive feather bea was taken. The women are thinking of having a detective de-tective to protect them. How ancient is the servant problem? A correspondent quotes from a letter dated North Yarmouth. Me.. March 28. 1785. rs follows: "I have been without any but Betsy about a fortnight, and am determined deter-mined to continue so rather than endeavor endea-vor to hire one ef thla country. The pride of Independence Is prevalent here that the people had rather slave at home than live In my kitchen in plenty. Were I to take them to-my table they would have no objection ob-jection to oblige me. The want of good domestics is generalf therefore 1 have less reason to complain, but I wish a method could be found to render us less dependent upon them." In Birmingham, England, resides one "Tommy" Tank, who has spent his life In alternate attempts to live up to a'nd to escape the hoodoo of his name. He has signed the pledge forty times. Last week he made his one hundred and aev- |