Show m ral min x wo aida 1 0 74 01 tit 4 1 1 jg STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE E EARTH ARTH FE Ln glands earliest Ewar liest monument A J to american eyes Ay aylesford leaford a quid quiet kentish village lying under the chalk hills near malmstone Mald Maid stone atone Is venerable enough the church with its it square em battled lover tomer the gabled houses more particularly fie gray atone stone bridge nar row of arch and low of parapet all taso are clo eloquent quent of the day days when hen the pilgrims from front bouthern southern england crossed the medway here on their journey to ili ekens shrine beyond the river a mile nearer canterbury stands a memorial of times more remote mote by a thousand ears than the last of the pilgrimages maes three upright slabs of 0 sandstone capped by a fourth which measures twelve feet in length a space of some eight feet square the country people call it kits coty house it Is an empty tomb of ancient date all the celtic peoples interred their chiefs in such chambers of alone stone over which they heaped huge mound of earth in modern times these nil hit locks corned with grass and marking p chaps the site of forgotten battle fields came to be called I 1 barrows I 1 after having remal remained ned undisturbed for centuries some of these barrows were opened in this inquiring age in the interests teresta In of science the stone chamber within the grave which antiquarians I 1 call all a dolmen was aa found to contain human remains along with the orua orna ments ind and weapons of a thief chief the dolmen in a perfect condition Is to a closed chamber kite kits coty house Is to a dolmen which hai haq been partly dilapidated the sepulcher liaa has been opened ahin or by whom nobody knows knos and find its con tents have disappeared there Is no inscription on any of the stones hut but high authority nut hority supports the established tradition that here was burled buried cati call gern the british chief who fell fighting against li englat the invader at tit the battle of aylesford in A 1 I the names of iloria Il englat a kinsman and fellow leader who ho was A as killed in the fight sur gurvies vies in Il horstead where perhaps he vas burled buried the while white hoist hoi s which was as Heng lieng letH loto totem Is 1 now the heraldic emblem of iho the fug alrh county of 0 kent Nhat monuments of the battle battlo of aylesford Ay leeford once existed all have now disappeared but kit kits a coty house so the british prince s tomb has become the eole bole memorial of the first triumph of the II 11 Is the cartiest car liest of english monuments HONORED AS POTATO PIONEER i kt 11 t 77 th tint thit it sir francis drake first man to poll all around tho the world intrepid bea u fighter and bold explorer should be Ip noreil esit dally as the man who introduced potato potatoes into mas the idia of tho the people of off ri burs burg germany in lit that town tonn elands stands a fin fint of drake ills 1118 left LI ll bow rusts on an anchor an ani in hie tits left hand lie holds a well grown lo 10 into plant roti tres tees and all there la its a globo nt at ills his right foot and a vessel bail bI Il 1 him and tit 11 his tits right hand band he lie carries a map lung of south america PRISON CELL ROMANCE an interesting stor atoo has come to light of the ay in which a man tin der going a sentence in Pent pentonville onville prison tamed and made a companion of n pigeon one bitterly bitt irly rold cold mort ing just before christmas christinas whilst tho the prisoners were mere at exercise a pigeon half dead with ith the cold fell into thy the yard ard A convict picked it up hid bid it in lit als ills breast and took it back to his tits cell where here in lit the evening he shared his food rood with the bird ashing N tn to deep keep the bird for company ho he hid the bird 1 in hie his breast very time th tin warder came conic round quickly the ageon digeon becee tame and a fast friendship abote u which helped to pass tho the weary hours of prison life at laet last however his secret became known knon to fellow convicts and one min to inform the officials flie man told his story to a salva lion tion army officer who visited the prison and tho the latter him to appeal to the gobernor gocr goer nor who inter ested in tho the man a kind action gae pa him permit elon to kepp keep the bird the min has now been rl released eased and was helped nto into work ork by tome some kindly li carted people who got to know the little etory story of the pigeon SARACEN TREASURES FOUND some interesting discoveries are re in france recently in ex cavat ions at the abbey ot of Fontey boine some tombs were ere brought to light shirb are considered to date from front the Plantage nets hut but at senona we gt it a glimpse of periods more remote tor for there discoveries have been made of jewels medals and arms these are believed to have belonged to the sara cens who were defeated b charles martel in TRIAL BY TELEPHONE the tho fact that contagious disease i cannot bo be transmitted over ho the telo tele phone vires mires enabled judge F I 1 how ilow ser xer of barsaw Var arsaw saw ind to try a case at home while quarantined because his children hart had scarlet fever the judge heard 1 ard the evident by telephone and imposed a flue fine and a 60 day sentence upon a young man fir stealing ealing ft ELEPHANTS BATHING TANK 8 me ago the m mag went of the lie national Milloni il lark in lit NN dwidell tl tit lut it tin in tit captivity needed i bath till tub and or dred doted a huge tank matte after con el drable ruble planning mid and figuring the work of or eNe tra mation atlon mitts a beatin for this monser mon str re rese senoir loir loii aft after or ton of dirt mas ne stooped out unil thre clr re to 10 suited stilted it splendid bath tub 40 feet wide eloping sloping gently down don to a it dipti of inore than IG 15 feet around this mai constructed a concrete vail mall solid enough to tho the kicks ant an 1 of the strongest elephant elo strong wooden barrier encloses tha bathtub and prevents the fiani rambling oft off through ahw tit after have had their dilly dip it la Is pry ry interesting to match the bir big animals onlin ala as thy tin splash aro nil in the lie cool coot water or etani stan I 1 idl still and blink their little dark eyes in perfect content they seem to be in their perfect clement element when depp deep in the aters the bottom of the bathing tank Is I 1 with rock so placid as tu to kaep the big pachy dermis from slipping as they barely would mould do if it tried to maintain maint aln their lin lance on ft a smooth concrete floor co urcil with ooze the ma manage ringe ment of the park have felt amply re to paid for the expense 0 involved in the construction of the enormous bath tub lub for it vastly improves the health and temper of the clumsy beaste beasts iu in their charse charge ANT HEAP IN BELGIAN CONGO 11 AP in the belgian congo are to he be found thousands of enormous chain bored nests or heaps constructed bj by the a ants of that land A great variety of choice ferns and begonia plants grow on oil these ant heaps and in many cases they are covered with bamboo 30 feet high the heap bbown in the accompanying Il lustra lion tion is 77 yards in circumference an ant 1 tho the trees on the tup top are ovir 20 feet high its great slie size will be apparent on comparing it with the man stand ing at the bottom feats of Rheto rhetoric Rhe torL rit I 1 you used to my say that boy of youra yours t amount to anything because he was a p pet jet I 1 was na mistaken lie ile mikes a fine living getting up names for fancy drinks at soda il quaint reward of constancy 1 13 in the quaint little church at MIn minsterley sterley in england are preserved seven maiden garlands 1 which are relics of an interesting Inter eiting custom of the eighteenth century the tradition concerning them Is that when a maiden whose betrothed had died was herself carried still unwed to the grac grae on ne of these crowns of garlands was borne before her coffin by the village girls the date of the earliest earl leit specimen in Min minsterley sterley church Is 1726 and the latest 1794 when the funeral djs is over the wreath was hung up in the church over the place the maiden had been wont want to occupy to commemorate her eon con stancy the framework of the wreath wreaths shown in the accompanying photo graph Is la adorned with frills of what vas once white paper and in ln the center is a representation of a pair of gloves cloves also in paper |