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Show TZ r.rr-'l has olTcr-'l Jioo.rmd for a steer.. bail 'I his Is mu. h like the t i"' i T.'ui iirtYrx fur a b.dl wee. yll ov, ruinator. It !s Id that the Oar of Tinsstn thinks rf silting nsMo the Salic law, nml n ',;tg i, ,,- d -tighter the Icgltltan'e li. ir to the throne. limn you .."i7.i in cash In your pncki"? Well, timt Is your share of the "i lr, Minting ntc.lliiiu" of the conn-try, conn-try, nn,l It is a bigger nllownnce per bend than It ever nun before. Observes the Church F.conoinlst: One of the s'ngiiltir fcatllrca of Hip "flush tlmca" was the relatively alight Increase In-crease In (llstln, 'lively Christian giving. giv-ing. The chin, lies and tho othvinl pauses had a very mini II share In "the boom." One of the most Interesting chnrap-terlstics chnrap-terlstics ,,f Caiuidliin life Just now Is a budding national spirit, manifested on all tides, notes the New York Sun. The dctrrniliintiou to d -velop Canada'! resources; the cniMide III favor Of the use of ns 1,111, li as possible of goods "made In Canada;" nnd the spltlt to bo found everything Hint Canada Is becoming more than a colony, aro all signs of the times. A proposal has been niado to Invest the Vice I'rcsiii, nt wllh morn Important Impor-tant functions than those allotted to hlui by the Coiistltiiiii.il, which are confined, li will he recalled, to succeed, lug to the Presidency nlicti that olllce becomes vacant, nnd, meaim blip, to presiding over the Senate, and to voting vot-ing In that body on a bill or resolution when the Seunlora are evenly divided. It la Biig'cHied Hint, by nn amendment to tho Constitution, the Vice ('resident should bo uiado nn lireuiovahle uicui-bcr uicui-bcr of the Cabinet, From a recent report on agriculture In c,om,.iiiy It appi'iir that of tho total agylctikiir.il nroa or FJ.'.nsi.tssJ ncrcs In (iennany three fourths iirn actually under tho plow or in cultivation an niciidnns. pastures and hop gnrdeus, nnd less lliati J.u si.ii hi acres are cultivated culti-vated for market Burden ami vineyard produce. The area Is divided Into 0,50d.iH"J holdings, and Is principally In the linn, is of small peasants and farmers. These peasant holdings of from two and a half to live acres forui tho backbone of (icrmaii agriculture, A New Yolk architect tho other dny waiTv'ntcli!ni; lomn Italian laborers excavating for the piers of a now building when a lieiny slone slipped Into one of the holes and crushed the toof the work, una therein. Tho arch-ll,ct arch-ll,ct leaped Into Uie hole and rendered Orit nld to tho Injured member. Whilo he wna cutting nwny Hie boot be sought to engage Hie patients' mind by mains of conversation, so, having put alsmt nil the questions hp cinild think of, ho at last ask,, I his name. "Angela." "An-gela." was the Italian answer. "Ah! Angelo, eh? Any relation to Mldinc!?" "No," aald Hie poor man, writhing lii pain, "Mike's in dp ucxtii hole." New Zealand la bothered by Iho theatre the-atre hat (iiesllou. Miss MoDcrniott tried to scl He It rcenlly In a practical uiuimcr. She was seined In a theatre In the town of Caiunni, nod In front of ber was Mrs. Ilraily, wearing a voluminous vo-luminous headgear. As Mrs. Hrady ro-fused ro-fused to remove Hie obstructive bnl Miss MelJcriuult borrowed a gentleman's gentle-man's walking slick and tilled It out of ber line of vision. Hut Mrs. Ilrudy was not prepared to wear her bnt nt a rakish angle u the evening, and so she put It straight again, livery lime sho did so Miss McDeruiolt repeated Uie performance wllh the walking slick. The magistrates decided Hint Miss SIcDcrmolt hnd committed "a scries of minor but aggravating ns-mulls" ns-mulls" and Unci Her Bl'.oO, plus 111 costs. Ibe money was promptly subscribed sub-scribed by the clti.cns us a protest against huge bats In theatres. There Is piobulily no subject on which Hie general public is more Ignorant Ig-norant Hum Hie marvelous develop-menu develop-menu made In spoiling limit within tho past fuw years, avers the liullalo Courier. Ii fact, a l' od percentage of tiunuii, su called, themselves, have really 110 exact appreciation mid understanding un-derstanding of the extreme, rungo, lint tnijcetory and ustuiiudlng penetration of tlio small boro cartridges, louded with dense nitru powder, which when discharged develops a pressure and velocity ve-locity tremendously greater than tuat produced by black powder and wbut Is kuoivu as low -pressure smokeless powder. pow-der. A rifle of this character, with a killing range of two miles, la truly a dangerous affair In the bands of au In-experienced In-experienced man who goes prowling through tho woods ready to lire at any-tli any-tli in that linivcn before be distinguishes distin-guishes whether It bears any resoui-i resoui-i bianco to a human Icing or a Utur. v |