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Show ' (CopjrrUht, itt, North AB)A"le All Placet East or Weat'of Greenwich : All maps hr fn maniac nortk tt4 south from pol to poi. Thy r ount4 from Urenwich. ThM tin tr mrld1an of lonrltud. in4 If thx covtd cut trmlht through th axth any on of ihm would split tha earth In half. Aar pot oa tha aarth BniarM o rsnaio-rd rsnaio-rd aa balna; on ft mrlUaa ar irraat efrcia, and aast and west msasursmsate of tha aarth eon id bog. a from thsrs. but to ma ha ! pd-asuramsnta maa anything a prtroa marldlaa, or a first meridian meri-dian af Urswich ta adapted; and all other places aa tha earth axe an id ta he aast or wset of Oreen-wlch, Oreen-wlch, up tf 19 dsrraaa. Greenwich ta shout five ntlea aoathaast of London, Knaland, and la tha seat of tha royaJ obaervatorr, from which tha correct or aalhorUaUva Uana ta (iTen out. . t. Ureeawlch fa pronOttacel aa If spelled "Qrna'lca.1 . Amendlna; a constitution iaaie in esmnarlam - with - amendlna; tha people ta (It It. Hall Street Journal. Indians Take Gold . Learet aa Medicine Curloaa and Intereatlna- facta re-Cardinal re-Cardinal India n passion for cold and the strnnca uses to which rho natives na-tives put the procloua metal, have been rathered. Instead of util- I Isinc her "wealth to promote trade India harries hers, or moot of It At present. It eerns, much of the. Cold! due frees the earth la South1 Africa Is, by a fresh dlcclnc operation, opera-tion, deposited stain beaeatb the aotl In the aouth of Asia, India haa other queer sees fori Cold. The natives of some parts! of India take sold leaves aa medl-, cine, while others piously inclined, a I id the domes of their temples with It, Thousands of dollars' worth of cold co Into the maklnc of wrnoowe and other trimmings in the palaces of tha princes of the conn try. The man who falla off tha water wa-ter wafon does not expect to land on a soft drink. Canton Kswa, , . Shrine Marks Hiatoric Site in Vermont . ' V A manorial monumsnl now marks tha alts of tha first msst.ns; nouss In ths Hampshfra Or ants, now tbs stata of Virmont, which waa In-1 timatsly naaociatad with tha bat t las of Tlcondsroaa and Banntnrton. In tha Revolutionary war and with tha aarly history of tha atats. j In tha csntar of a maltasa eroos forty-two fast In dtamstsr, rormaO by ombaddlna 1110 marbts slabs In I ho turf, rlsaa a shrlns of Vermont ! Bray marbla, twalva foot hlfh and six foot wide. On this aro two tablets, tab-lets, ono btarlnn an In script loa telling tho history of the slta and low relief f tho mast In bona and tha other harlna a reproduction of tho rrt soaJ of tha stata. , - Loaflnr ta a hard joW .' It ' taaea ao lonar ta t onough of ' U dona.aaOJaaaaoo Oasatto, . Megalithic.Worka ! In Brittany w Carnao On Brfttafcy) wss probably prob-ably to tho western continent of Europe what Stonehenge waa to tha Brttiah Isles, soya tho National Oeo-grrepbW Oeo-grrepbW aJagaslna. ThoYa la at that place. In fact, a focus aao concentration concen-tration of tha msgaJIthlo works left by tha Celtlm forerunnara la their rtrohletorle migration which, staring stari-ng In Asia, moved serosa tforthorn Africa, over Mediterranean w a tern, Inta Hpaln. and along tha shores ot th Atlantic, conataatly atrlving westward to find tho resting placs of their god, ths sun, hut svsr baffled baf-fled by ths Impassable ocoan, and so forced northward, until tho, af-fort af-fort died out in Kcandtnavla. Their long Journov .near tasso shores, covered at leaet 100 yaara. Ths weapona and Implements placed In the sepulrhers lose thslr rough but serviceable char act err, and ap- , pear 'ia polished but msrsly votivs forma, oftsa la wo ft or valuable , Mono. - Artutlc Btik ' Of JevrandM Ths two most striking In dust rise of Java are the making of batik and the making of tha krla TCvery true Javanese that caa afford It wear batik head-and-body-kaln and carries a krls ta weapon wits a blade about a foot long) In ha belt. DJoka la tha eeaier of the batik Industry, and the majority ot Its women are adepta la the production pro-duction of this artistic fabric. Batik ta cotton cloth on which designs nave been printed la n special way. Melted white wax la allowed to trickle from the small and ol a fan-r.el fan-r.el upon those portion of ths fabric that It la not desired to eolor. the bperatlen aelng exactly duplicated oa the two aidea Thla done, the cloth la dipped In the dye vat. with, drawa and hung up to dry. and the wax removed later with the uaa of boiling water. This series of operations opera-tions Ts repeated la the appllcaiioa of each color, till the eaur no-sign no-sign is transferred. - Certain looigns may be wans only by royal tv, othera by priests, and so en. The designs are of every conceivable description, from conventions! con-ventions! flowers and geometrical figurea to Jungle scenes aad quaint repreaentationa of wild beaeta |