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Show (Coprrlrht. 1J. Kort'h American . Newspaper 4lllane ) Sacred Flaune Deacribefl As Centuries Old About a theueaaa years ago eae at Ike Florentine cmeaders waa a noble aamed Paxil. He waa among the flret of the warrlora te enter a breach in the welle of Jeruaalem when that city waa stormed and taken by the Christiana. Haul directed di-rected his ateps to the Holy Bepul-cher, Bepul-cher, where the.Sacred nre bumed oa the altar. Here he lit a torch from the flame, sprang on hla hers and atarted on the retara journey to dletant Florence. Paul did not stop until he arrived ar-rived before the door at a duoms or cathedral. wbeVe he aepoetted the elUl burning torch on the high Iter. And here, eay the prteata. of the duome. It haa burned ever since. ' In honor of thla fighter, the city roimcll decided a few hundred years later, that thereafter hla family er.euld have the privilege of sup- E lying a large three-decked cart to e filled with exploelvre and drawn Into the Ptabbe del Uuomo by a team of white eaen. Thia ceremony la atlll acrupuleuely performed everxJiart'jjB riorence. Ital question 'Tt'hy are me- . torrycllete alwaya In euch a hurry, md what do they do with all the time they barer .Nashville Teaaeasecan, Mme. Tietjens . Liked Her Wine It waa said of the late Mm. Tlet-Jeha. Tlet-Jeha. for many years the leading prima doana St Her Xajraty'a the. pter In London, and who later, though net la her prime, came t thla country aad scored 4 succeej. that after the great act In "The Huguaoota," aha could drala a large allver cup la which there waa 4 quart of champagne. On the other hand aome of the greatest artlata known have been particularly abetemtoua eepeclally on the day they had to give a performance. per-formance. Of Ihle a distinguished Instance wea Adeline Paul, who t.ever drank more than half a gleeeful of wine aad aometlmea added water to that. Another very abetemloua person with regard to Intoslrante waa the late Enrico Carueo. He might take a little wine, but never before a performance It wae alwaya afterward after-ward when the work waa done and he was enjoying the beat meal of the day hla cupper with friends aad boon eemper.lone. Tonlo Bcottl la another abetemloua alnger. Bantvna Originated In India Known to only a handful of people peo-ple on the Atlantic eeaboard 4 generatloa and a half age. and considered con-sidered by them a tropical curiosity the banaia he become none the fruit f the American masses. The banana la auppoeed to have originated In India near the baas of the Himalaya mountains: but a legend le-gend among eaetern Chrlatlaaa ae-eerta ae-eerta that It had a prominent place In the Oarden of Eden, and that It waa a banana, hot an apple, that Fve ate In her eeercb. for kaowl- aSo ana knewa how the popular American fruit came te the New World, but It eeeme not to have been here when Columbua arrived. One esplanatloa la that It was taken from (pain to Banto Domingo Domin-go eerly 1 the aliteeath century end from there epread repldly to the other Weet Indian lalaad aad te th aaalnlaad. One of Salvation Army Pioneers in America Commandant Bmma Weetbroek, of Albany, K. Y, la the only eurvlv-Ing eurvlv-Ing member ef the original oantln-sent oantln-sent of "lassies' wha planted the fief ef the ejalvatloa Army la the United Btatea la lilt. Although rearly eighty yeara old. ehe le aa alert mentally aad physically ae the average pereen ef M. when th original party of oas man and seven laaslea cam from England aa ploaera at the beheet of ueneral William Booth, comma i-dant i-dant Weetbroek waa the oldeet member. The th eevea hava lived their span, but the commandant Toee vlaorouely on. Commandant Veetbrook has been aa active -warrior" tn the Salvation Army for forty-five years. Of thla service serv-ice forty-three years hav eea apent li the tinned Btatea. She kaew Commander Kvangellne Booth aa a bright-eyed T-year-old child In the home ef her father, OeneraJ n ..... w 'Amsrlrss currency heard-ed heard-ed la Europe." That's mere than we caa de with It here. Washington Pest. Predicted Day of Judgment for 1866 The Idea ef the mlllen.-iluss meaning a thousand yeara time-la time-la as Id te have orlglaated. In tne Jewish expectatloa of a Weaalah. Throughout the middle egea. aad even later, the millennium waa at different tlmee confidently predicted predict-ed 'and einecled. At one time It waa to algaallss the second coming of Chrlet.at othere the end t the world the Day of Judgment. The meet modern mlllenaarlaa waa Dr. John Cummlags of England whe predicted the coming of .the Day of Judgmeat la It4. Swallow's Neat Valued by Chine BwmlloWs seet Is highly prised by the Chinese for lte auppoeed medicinal value, since Chinese eoe- lore rflHa we w wm.j - of restoring a patient s lost vigor. It Is said to be efflcacleve In curing cur-ing lung dleeaaee and amall-aox. The srtlcle le sloe eoneUered to be a table delicacy, aad a aumptuloue Chines dinner la net' compute unless un-less there la a dieh ef thle. to the Chlneee taste, palatable food. gwallow'a aeet le produce chiefly chief-ly In the vicinity of the Malay Archipelago, auch as Borneo. u-w.atra, u-w.atra, Java and the Philippine Islands Is-lands The aeet la rich la aibuml-aoua aibuml-aoua matter. Wayside Inn, Recently ' Bought by Henry Ford Of ell the Nee England colonial museums net even eicsptlag the famous fa-mous Whipple House at rpewloh. which ftyleseter Baxter declared to be aa fine la lte eray aa the Cluay museum mu-seum In Paris none bea auch aa extraordinary ex-traordinary cell act Ion of early A merles merl-es n furniture alone as has th Wsy-slde Wsy-slde Inn, at South SiKlbury Msaa.. recent le purchased by Henry Ford. Architecturally th Wsyss Inn Is a fins exempts of Its time. On the lee side ef lte eld sign one cen etlll meke out the figure en horseback painted there, more than a century as la every way architecturally, for Its furniture and -llterarly associations asso-ciations M la eald the Werslde Inn will be the finest early America ma- eeuss la ta ouatry. . |