Show at a school examination h ald id not long ago in one of the city schools of baltimore the following answers were given to questions asked students to the question was the father of Zeb edees children the answer given was mr zebedee to who wai ai saved in the ark hie rhe answer was it all of us were adams ale U a invented in the garden ol of eden and as the lump on a mans neck the word conscription was defined that which Is ii written on the tombstone one pupil said the sublime Su bline porte was good wine but another said it was heaven the pupil that said bald alaska is to the southwest of the north pole must have been as far advanced as the others the most curious book in the world is that which belonga to the family of the prince de ligne and is now in france it i is s neither written nor printed all of the letters of the text are cut out of each leaf upon the finest vellum and being interlaced with blue paper it is read as easily ay all the best print the labor and patience t bestowed upon it must have been excessive ces sive especially when the precision and minuteness of the letters are considered si ithe the general execution is admirable in every respect and the vellum is of the most delicate and costly kind in 1640 rodolphus II 11 of germany err nany offered for it eleven thousand ducats dubats which was probably equal 1 I to fifty thousand at this day the he most remarkable circumstance connected with this literary treasure is that it bears the royal arms of england but it cannot be shown that it was ever in that country the book is a work on theT life oi Christ t A ina jd fa I 1 on one ne a occasion cial the ilves lives af of thousands of the irish protestants were saved by a clever device of bf a woman atthe at the latter end of queen marys reign a commission sion was signed for the purpose of punishing the heretics in that kingdom and dr di cole dean of st pauls was honored with the appointment to execute which he set off with great alacrity on his arri arrival 1 y 1 at Che chester he sent for or the mayor to sup with him and I 1 in the course of conversation re his business going to his cloak bag he took out the box containing the commission and having shown it with great joy jay exclaimed exclaim edt this will lash the heretics of 61 ireland mrs edmonds the landlady overheard this discourse and having several relations in ireland who were protestant as delras herself resolved to play a trick upon the doctor and while he went to attend the magistrate to the door took the commission out of the box and in its room placed a pack of cards with the knave of clubs uppermost the zealous doctor suspecting inspecting nothing of 0 the matter put aphis up his box took shipping ship and arriving safe in dublin went immediately to the viceroy A council was called and after a speech the doctor delivered his box which being opened by the secretary the first thing thine that presented itself was the knave of clubs the sight surprised the viceroy and the council but much more the doctor who alured them that he had received a commission from the queen but what had become of it he could not tell well well replied the viceroy you roust must go back for another ard and we will shuffle the cards in the meantime the doctor hastened haat ened across the channel but at holyhead Holy hed head he received the intelligence of the queens death and the accession of elizabeth who settled on mrs edmonds a pension of forty pounds a year for saving her protestant subjects 1 I in ll 11 ireland lf 11 an oil is obtained from tomato seeds from which soap is made af of course it may be very natural to suppose that the custom of using ung a cross as a religious emblem originated with christianity but this is not the case the cross was employed d aa a re religious symbol ganv hundreds r cf t years before the time ol of christ in the records of neatly nearly every ancient nation are found representations of oh the cross in one form or another when the spaniards came to america they were astonished to find that the natives of mexico used the cross as one of their religious symbols As the spaniards were the first christians to visit america they were naturally much puzzled to account for the presence of the cross among these strange people and hence arose the legend that st thomas came to america before his death and spread the word of christ in the new world on the egyptian obel obelisks fiks and temple pillars are depicted numerous ims images of the cross and early phoenician colus coins bear the impress of this figure as do also assyrian and babylonian inscriptions antedating the christian era by many centuries just what the cross stood for or among these early nations is not definitely known but according to all evidence it was designed its as a re legious symbol for its representation is always found associated with religious subjects aud and rites when and where the use of the cross originated is not known as its origin is too remote to be traced but we know that as jhc afie symbol of christianity it was adopted during the firs century after christ and ever since has been pointed to as the sacred emblem of bace and good even in the timis limes ol of wax war and people cople in iii lands who read read traders and explorers explore rt in africa in t the he matter of getting adequate labor for house housa building and transport are apt to mavel maivel why these savages will not work the tru truthie this nature ls is so kind to them their houses grow of their own accord in the shape of reeds and rushes the ants provide morter matter out of the earth from their glant giant hills a trap set in an hour for an antelope will provide meat for a week while such fruit and vegetables as may be needed grow wild in reckless profusion fore most among thern them being the plantain As to their clothing in uganda at any rate this grows upon trees the bark cloth tree of east central africa his has from time Imme immemorial moAl provi provided bcd these people with garments of toft soft flexible flex able natural cloth sewn together tog ethar by the women it is extremely licht porous and durable nearly white in color and readily st stripped tipped front from the tree like cork unfortunately since the construction of the uganda railway one of the chains of lines that penetrate the african continents continent from cape town almost to the Pyramids the women and girls of uganda ore ere beginning to ask for or white and colored cottons of nf civilized civil zed make for the people are last fast air amassing tassin wealth through the opening up of the country the you young n g king of uganda however still keeps the bark cloth tor for his regal robes the most extraordinary of all alli British lighthouses ts Is to be found on arnish rock stornoway Stor noway bay a rock which 1 it separated from the island of lewis by a channel over feet wide on this rock a conical beacon is is erected and on its summit a lint lantern ern is fixed from which night after night wines shines a light which is seen by the fishermen far and wide the way in which this lighthouse is illuminated is this on the island of lewis li ii a lighthouse and from a in the tower a stream ot of light is projected onto a mir mif marroin fortin roin the lan lant ernon the of Arni britain Bli Brita tain inin in 1914 9 bought bushels of beans from burma new zealanda Zea lands 1916 government reven revenue kii Is estimated it t OS A tingle single net nest of the australian bush turkey h has as been found toli toi weigh five tons I 1 canada conrd a lust lost year raised bushels bushel of oats on acres 6 of I 1 land when the water spider wishes to dle dite he makes maces use ot of an apparatus similar to the diving bell an electric electr tf procesa iro cesa for drying lumber in piles oi of un barked logs log has been perfected in france li Is an excellent market for or saws in russia as that great country does not manufacture them B one man eating leopard of india vas a known know to have killed more thin than 20 men before it was dispatched the largest butte butterflies tilles are found in british guiana some of which have a wing measure measurement ment of 11 inches A mammoth oil driven harvester that is being tried on Austi australian allan wheat fields strips about 60 abresi acres a da day detroit is the first american city to adopt electric evec taxicabs having 27 in use and 20 more under construction coke automatically led fed under the boiler is used for fuel in a new england steam driven tractor of great power parachutes to bring an aeroplane safely to land after ishad it had triet met with a mishap M ashap in flight are arc a fren french ch invention 1 by photography with a vibrating scientist his timed a r lightening g fla flash shat Tal me ot a second the roan man who discovered pikes pike 5 peak said that it would never be climbed led today the utmost point Is accessible ces sible to automobiles sounds produced by an electric siren invented in germany are arc hastened battened on their way by a fan built into the machine the area of lake superior Is square miles lake michigan lake huron lake Erle 6 lake ontario according to lo the pennsylvania ml mining 1 I laws law a mule must have cubic feet of air ar a minute while a miner mine gets only cubic feet acet the rhe tribe of monkeys on the rock of gibraltar are arc carefully prot protected acted they have ave a chief which is known to the garrison as the major there is an unquestionable record of hearing bearing the firing at pres at a distance of miles and a somewhat doubtful one of miles the graphite deposits of bavaria Bivar li the only ones in the world outside of ceylon which yield graphite suitable for making re factory tory crucibles cruci bles are to be developed in mexico and parts of colorado there grows a soap plant the toy roars s of which on being placed in water form suds and are arc Aul bitable ui table for washing in A lighthouse constructed of bamboo which is in use in is said to have great power of resisting salt water and does not rot like lije ordinary wood f 1 A 9 french officer who Is lk prisoner in germany perma Per many oy has on oil OVO woi occasions managed to communicate with his family by attaching a letter to a toy baloon under the pressure of necessity owing to the scarcity because of the war platinum is belitz being reD replaced laced in many electrical appliances it is estimated that worth of gold Is destroyed annually hy by a chinese custom of burning small pieces piece of gold leaf on certain anniversaries one of the latest architectural curl asides of new york city is sn an apartment hotel 16 stories in height which has been built ou on a plot of ground 12 feet afeei wide at one end and 50 at the other and feet in in length starfish taif lith can grow new arms lobster new claws and lizards new tails falls A new lizard will not indeed spring from a tall or a new lobster from a discarded claw but a new starfish will grow from a detached arm |