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Show feytheWay Ceprrlskt, Nerth Amtricw Newe- seeer Alliance. How Mississippi Bubble Wu Inflated John Law, who inflated tha famous Mlaataalppi Bubble, unaj la hla crrr of crime by selns- sentenced la aaacn ror a murdar commlttad during a dual fought In England. He escaped to Holland, where ha drifted Into em. ployment In the Bank of Amatardam, a connection from which he collected eufflciant capital to finance a campaign cam-paign of gambling which netted' him the enormoua sum of lfrO.OOS pounds. Law suggested te the Iuae of Orleans, Or-leans, regent for the young King Louis XV. tha plan for a formation of a stats bank with power to Issue notes sad accept deposfta Jt was from the succaas of thla that there aroee tha i Idea, for the Jflaataalppl company, an ! organisation daalgnad to exploit the . enure territory of Ixwlalana. Shares In tha company, originally purchased t for UN, reaa to lls.eM. Bui before , many montha had peaeed people began be-gan to unload, and aoon the movement Became a panic. With financial ruin I etartng Franca In tha face. Law was i forced to resign and to retire to Brus- aeia. I Ten years after tha bursting of the moat gigantic financial bubbla In the ntstory or tha world, tw died In com-' paratlve poverty la Venice. In her new grown, the modern J1rl has nothing up her sleeve to ecelva you. -1'saaalo Herald. How Cossacks Chose Their Hetman The word Hetman Is a litis given te the conimander-tn.chlef of the Coa. ' eacka. annually chosen from among their number. The process of selection selec-tion offers a con treat to the American Ameri-can euetom of figuratively throwing one'e hat In tha ring aa a algn of wllllngneea to eceept tha nomination to office. Among the Coaaacks It waa tha cuatom while In aaeambty to throw , their fur cape at tha candtdataa for j whom they voted, and the one reoejv- j in tn grMteat numtmtr wrn a-Kiar-M clet4. Tli offle of httman, or fcttaman, wma abOf.lshd, xcpl aa an hr4ltary tirl in th impriml family, by Em-pror Em-pror Nicholas I, u tb ataatMntli c-totury. ETrythlnf may hav tU plalte, but It uaually iak moil)- to find 1L jUhavllla Time. Last Words of ' Robert C Ingertoll Rob-art O. Inrwraoll. tha arnotle. dlad auddenty and did not talk about , rli-icm and lha aftar-llf Juat before hta dth. aa popularly auppoaed. On tha day ha died ha auffared an acuta attach of Indlraailon and lay down 10 raat. About aa hour latar ha aro-ao and aat up In a chair to put. on hla I ahoaa. Noticing that ha looked pal. hla wlfa offered to have hla dinner brought lo him. Hut ho rafueed, aay inc. "Oh, no; I don't want to trouble you." Then Mrs. Inffaraotl offered to Viva him eame medicine, but train ha refuted arlth a amlle, aaylna. "1 m better bet-ter new." Thoaa ware hla taat woe da. Ua aank down la hta chair dead. Tha only difficulty la. rrada rroaatn-f ta la Ua faaalaaa. floo-toa floo-toa TrawidT. Owl Supposed to Accompany Goddess Tha owl. of courao. tm a night bird. almost sightless In ths strong Itght of dsy, glvs It aa air of sxtreme wlds-awsasncss; wlds-awsasncss; snd their slae, emphasised by ths curious disc of feathers around them. Is further magnified by their singular steadiness. The odd "chuckle" emitted adda to ths gnral affect af solemnity. Theae characterlatlce have from the very earliest tlmea given the owl a half-ssrcastlo reputation for wisdom, and over two thousand yeara ago ths ancient Greeks Invariably pictured Athene, their Ooddeea of Wisdom, as accompanied by aa owl, TRvery time we hear sf sn oil station agent being held up we wonder whether somebody lo seeking seek-ing revenge. Ds ytoo .News. Bearer's Danger Signal Warns Its Associates Although sometimes found In palra basvera are essentially gracaiioas animals, ani-mals, snd. Ilka many tnofenelve creatures crea-tures of that habit, they have a danger dan-ger aignsl understood by sll ths members mem-bers of the colony and a peculiar odor for keeping tbera la touch with each other. A suddenly startled beaver promptly dives, snd ss It goes under It sfves lha water a raeoundtna alap with Its till which wsrns other beavers within with-in earshot thst danger is sfoot. The odor which keepa tha eomma-nlty eomma-nlty I os ether cameo from a roupta of large glands beneath the root of tha tall The aubstsjioe, known to ths Qraeke aa "eaatonum." waa at One time In demand aa a perfume for man's delight and as a panacea for hla elhoenta. Te this day hunters use It for bait, knowing that a beaver will fearleaaly eater any trap that aaaella of It. The old fashioned man who llkaa eHngtag-vtne women hsa a sow who prefers ths ellagtag-akirt kind. Blnghamtoa Sua. Let Evil Spirits Out of Body Through Cuts The pigmy natives of the Andamaa Wands, In the Hay of Bengal, believe that evsrv child Is barn with evil oplrlta wllhla him. go tha mother, every two or three montha. lata tha aptrtta aeeapa through euta which ahs Inflicts on tbs body of ths child. Aa a result, sll ths men and women of the lalanda have their snllre body covered with scars. - The women of the Islands wear the ska. Is of their drsd hue beads ss lov- . Inr souvenirs. When a maa dies the little people Wow on his face to eay I goodbye, bury him, and then desert j the camp In which they are living. I After ssveral months they come back. dig up the bones and wash them in the aea. Finally they bold a dance In . honor of tha deed maa'a akulL paint It with red ochre and white clay, and give It and the Jawbones ts the rhlef , mourners, who wear them abort their , necka en fiber strlega. ilka hug atones i a a neeklaoe. Powdered "Pharaoh" Once Remedy Powdered "pkaroah" waa one of I the sovereign remedies of . medieval , times. It cured . wounds. It waa j swallowed ss s physic It formed the' saela of all the Mack arta I Othello'e handkerchief owed Its msg-ic msg-ic power te dyes mads from munvml-fled munvml-fled maidens' hearts. Ths -witches In "Macbeth" gave potency lo thetr ch armed brew by sddlag powdered mummy. To such sa extent was tomb-robbing tomb-robbing carried on even in ancient times that mummies of the great klr.ee wars taken from their ows tombs snd hidden away In eerr.t placee while proales were left la their sued. e - - |