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Show M. Glrard. a farmer of the Tillage of Hugutlere. In the Vendee, on such an event occurring In his own family, determined deter-mined to celebrate it In style. On the day of the weddings Huguetlere gave Itself up to reJoicinK as did numerous guests from the surrounding countryside who had assembled to see the four couples and the Imposing procession which accompanied ac-companied them. At midday a banquet was held, at which more than 400 guests sat down. see The experiments with submerged coal, which commenced -at Portsmouth about eighteen months ago. have been resumed. In May. 1903. five crates of coal, each holding hold-ing two tons, were sunk In No. t basin, and a similar quantity was placed at the coaling point In small heaps', covered with tarpaulins. Six months ago some of the submerged coal was raised and burnt, in conjunction with a similar quantity of that which bad been kept on land, and the results showed that the submerged coal had greater calorific qualities. A similar sim-ilar test Is to be made on the present occasion. oc-casion. London Engineer. e e e There are about eighty ships In the British Brit-ish navy which are too weak to fight and too slow to run away. They ought, says Vanity Fair, to be called the Lamb, the Mouse, the Blue Ribbon, the Darby and Joan; not the Wasp, the Porcupine, the Pallaa. the Plncher, or the Plucky. The man responsible for the creation of the P class should be tried by a Jury of matrons, for no sensible housekeeper with a knowledge of the elements of naval warfare would have spent the national resources re-sources on ehlpai that would have to be laid up In war time. There are no fewer than WO men employed on the non-flght-lng ships. Winnipeg. Experts say that the Canadian tobacco Is hardly distinguishable from the Havana product. The Australian Government has organised organ-ised an expedition to explore the region between Lake Erie and the boundary of Queensland. This land Is said to be one of the worst deserts in the world. An eccentric old bachelor named Bron, who died recently at Porrentruy. left a legacy of 140 pounds to the bears of the weell-known bear pit at Berne. The municipality mu-nicipality has accepted the legacy "in the name of the bears." Not one girl In 10.000 has a dimple In her chin. Indeed, this kind of dimple seems to be more frequent in men than In women. It has another peculiarity namely, that it is permanent, whereas other dimples of the face come and go with changes of expression. e Missouri has more live stock farmers than any other State In the Union. Its live stock Is worth $200,000,000. While It has only 4V per cent of the live stock of the country, it has 6 per cent of the total value of live stock lo the United States, a striking commentary on the high quality of Missouri live etock. Kansas City Journal Jour-nal The Messrs. Nicola of Pittsburg have presented to the Carnegie museum a magnlflcenj: tusk of a mastodon found .on their property at 8haron. Pa. Director W. J. Holland of the museum says it is one of the most beautifully preserved and perfect pieces of fossil Ivory ever found In America, preserving Its whiteness and grain in a splendid manner. . .. Capt. Scott R. N.. and the ofneers of the Discovery Antarctic expedition were present at the opening of the Antarctic expedition of water colors, photographs snd other articles of Interest, used in the South Polar 1-eglona during their recent expedition, which took place at the Bru-.ton Bru-.ton Galleries. Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical society, soci-ety, opened the exhibition. The rails of the Mexican Gulf railroad are laid on mahogany sleepers and the bridges built of white marble. In West Mexico is a line with ebony sleepers and ballast of silver ore drawn from the mines beside the track. The engineers constructing these-railways had no other material on the route, and found It cheaper cheap-er to use these seeming extravagances than to import the ordinary material. It is stated In London that the steamer Veronlque, of SXi tons, purchased by Lord Fitzwllliam, bks sailed from Southampton Southamp-ton on an exploring expedition In the Pacific, Pa-cific, via the Straits of Magellan. Lord Fitzwllliam and party embarked In the steamer, which Is under the command of Capt. E. Morrison, with a crew of fifty-eight fifty-eight hands. It Is eaid that, the ship's destination is the Solomon Islands, where coal mines are reported to have been discovered. dis-covered. It Is not every father who can see four of his children married on the same day. 1 1 Odds and Ends. While the ratio of Insane persons to sane in England is 1 to 288, In Chicago it is 1 to 150. Moscow asylum authorities are experimenting experi-menting on a hypnotic cure for alcoholism. alcohol-ism. Turin, one of the largest cities in Italy, has not a single building with a first-class first-class elevator. In the southern part of California roof gardens are becoming features of all the new buildings. - Three condensed milk factories are now In operation in the United States, with an aggregate of $225,000 invested capital and a dally capacity of 206,500 pounds of milk. To manufacture tobacco grown in Canada Can-ada a factory about to be opened la |