| Show one he noticed the boot on the tip of her nose as homeward they turned that day and lust for a moment he thought he would tell but suddenly looked away A thought had occurred to him and he began to man ta k of the play far seeing young while she as innocent as a child re viewed the gioie mattace he noticed the soot on the tip of her nose and when they had reached her home he closed the door as she s in the and nail and afelt of her big shell comb not he prayed that she would disturb that leri important spot while taking her scarf off carelessly the one she had bought in rome he noticed the soot the tip ot her X think nose and sm ling at last he said nose there s a of soot on your quickly sl e raised he head but when she had pursed i how er lips to blow could the dear girl really know the bold bad plan he had made or see the trap 1 to which sl e was led he noticed the soot i the tip of her nose and felt his heart A give a leap verv suspicious sound was heard the blush in her cheek grew deep but when she had quickly pushed him away shaking t er pretty head the soot on the tip of her nose reposed on the side of his face instead cine annati mes star newest Fashionable Pet strange are the pets that london fashion compels its followers to keep and various as they are strange A new cuban poodle was the rage a few months back A special canary follows now 1 is a fish again and the strangest of fish at that the gold fish will have to look to its laurels otherwise it will most certainly be superseded in popularity by the devil fish a most quaint looking reptile for which a leading dealer states there have been innumerable demands of late the real home of this fish s dexl and owing to its being somewhat rare the cost of a devilfish is consider ably higher than that of the goldfish which can be bought tor a few pence while the price 01 its rival varies from 1 25 to 9 oo 00 A curious characteristic of the devil fish is that it almost invariably re mains at the bottom 0 the boil or tank and it is most unusual to see it swimming about unlike its golden scaled relation it does not demand a frequent change ot water in its home but will live quite well in the same water for weeks together while its taste in the matter of food is not hard to please far a devilfish ill es nothing better than a very small worm london mall dog saves a whole fam ly A fox terr ei named beauty is cred cited oy george a barber wh lives with his wife and three in brooklyn N Y with having saved them all from atlon ahen the family retired the gas was left burning in tie hilchen lil chen the jet turned ery low D ring the night the pressure pies sure having been reduced the 1 went out A little later the gas was passing through the pipes again and filling the flat from the open cock in the etchen i beauty who was awal e and prowl s ing about the place had his suspicions aroused by the increasing odor he i ran to his master s bedside and awak ered him the matter was speedily rectified and the family then real laed the hidden danger that had been upon it trees wonderful vital ty A curious incident occurred during the adle at hansworth a short time ago sas a scotch paper A large tree was blown down across the road way number of men were told off to remove the obstruction which they commenced to do by lopping off some of the larger branches after about bait a ton had been thus removed the tree began to lift itself from the round and as soon as a little more w eight was taken off it sprang into a ye position which it retained de tho subsequent rough weather it was found that the roots had been stretched but not broken and were sufficiently lastic to pull the trunk after it had been relieved of some of its weight tons of diamonds it is estimated that the total world production of diamonds up to date approximate 85 carats As we 9 not in the habit 0 weighing our diamonds by the ton we are in some doubt concerning the proper system of computation whether troy or aloir long ton or short ton accord ing to the system used by those who do weigh their diamonds in ton quan titles the result would be in the neighborhood of twenty or twenty five tons of spart lers now appearing as factors in the joy and the fiseris mi seris of a world which has substituted dia monds for the beads and the wampum of its ancestors men who bu id nests in the bushmen of australia we find perhaps the lowest order of men that Is 1 they are primitive bat they do not 1 now enough to build even the simplest forms of huts for shelter the nearest they can ap to it is to gather a lot of twigs and grass and taking them into a thicket or jungle build a nest tor a home the nest is usually built large enough lor the family and it the lat ter be very numerous then the nests are of a very large sometimes the foliage above will form a natural covering but there is never any at tempt at constructing a protection from the rain and storms the people of korea the people of korea are neither japanese nor chinese they are mon golianis have a polysyllabic lan guage with a phonetic alphabet they have a recorded history of disputed authenticity which claims for them a continuous existence as a korean peo pie of about 5 years the earlier part of which of course Is shrouded in mists of traditions and fable |
