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Bloomsbury, from merely being Few ardent aquarists, I veng A Paris taxi-driver, has just; the name of a district, has come ture to think, would find pleasure | conducted an honesty. Lust (Ob- to describe a type of modern in- fishing with hook and line serves a "Daily News" writer:) tellectual, and already the word has crept into one or two of the says the Editor of "Amateur He left a packet of chocolate in newest novela (says a "Daily Aquarist.") Despite its popu-the taxi eleven times and noted Chronicle" writer.) Now, another larity, angling of this kind is a the result.. On nine occasions the house in Gordon Square has barbarous pastime born of ignor-fare tried to get away with the fallen into the hands of the ance and the primitive instinct to and, but was detained by the Bloomsbury highbrows, The
kill. So callous does the fisher-driver, who, after explaining the lower floors are inhabited by Vanessa Bell, the painter, while man become that, according to a test, recovered the chocolate. another painter, Douglas Davison, recent report, one club of sea-Twice the pucket, was handed to and "a young man who writes" anglers made a practice of re- the driver-by a girl messenger, have just_moved into the upper storeys. The house is furnished turning their catches to the water and by a soldier off to Morocco. in the true "Bloomsbury art" with the object of hooking them A curious result of the test was manner, with pseudo-Victorian over and over again! Aquarists that those who tried to claim the effect, and a lot of little frilly who have ever acquired a fish chocolate increased their tips to curtains. There are also, of course, soveral pictures by caught in this fashion will know the driver a case of conscience.
the terrible injuries which result working in a round-about way. from the tearing of the barbed
Duncan Grant..
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hook from the gullet of the The Trained Appetite. The typewriter has become so victim. Fish, thus mutilated, " necessary and familiar an
are commonly allowed to le gasp riccessory of commercial life ing upon a sun-baked bank whilst that few persons give any their captor seeks to gratify his thought to ita interesting insatiable lust for prey by adding ancestry. Indeed, It would
yet another to the purposeless. probably puzzle the average pile beside him. In "Nights with intervals without artificial itd. readers, says the "Youth's an Old Gunner," the author-Mr. The finest aperitif in outdoor Companion," to come within C. L. Cornish describing. A exercise. The Prince of Wales Afty years of numing the date Great Tench Catch," states:Insets an excellent example in per- when the first machine of the an hour there were four golden kind was patented. Would he piles of fish lying on the bank, one sonal hygiene. He finds time in dare to say 1829? Andrew Jack-by each rod, and the catch was an exceptionally busy life for
was then President. and going on as steadily as Martin Van Buren was Secretary After auch treatment it would not full meal a day. The great ever." daily exercise, and eats only one of State. The names of both ap-be surprising. if Mr. Cornish's pear on US Patent No. 269, assertion that tench are "not only majority of the hard-working, issued on July 28, 1829, to the shyest of all ishes, but have healthy, and long-lived men and) William Austin Burt, of what the longest memories," proved women have trained their ap-
Territory of correct! The most objection-. Michigan. for a writing machine able practice in connection with petites to moderate indulgence, in that he called the "typographer."fishing is the use of live minnows M. Gallichan in the "Daily Mail." nutritional pleasure, says Walter It was a cumbersome implement, as bait for the destruction of The ancient philosophers who built into a little table that form their larger relatives. If anglers lived simply experienced more ed a part of it;; the type register would take a little more interest ed rather inaccurately, since the in their live bait they would being, than their luxurious neigh "euphoria," or a sense of well- inventor had made the model assuredly find that a minnow is boure who sought pleasure by mostly by hand in the woods of much more interesting in an Michigan, where good machine aquarium than when impaled appetite is healthy, because it is excess at banquets. The holiday- tools were unavailable, but it upon a hoki
-induced by natural stimuli. worked satisfactorily. It spaced evenly, produced both upper and
Jacobite Songs. lower case letters, and printed all the necessary marks of punctua-
During the past year the
Considering that, from the very tion. The background of the volcane of
Kilausu, in the first, the cause of "the race that "typographer" is even more in- Hawaiian Islands, has been un-with tears must be named" stood teresting than the machine itself. usually active, and this fact has little chance of success, and that William Austin Burt was one of drawn attention to one of the during the whole of his brief those Yankee geniuses like Ell world's greatest curiosities. Ou career, when like a meteor he Whitney and Elins Howe and the slopes of the mountain there blazed across the Scottish sky, to S. F. B. Morse. Born in Peter-is a perfect forest of lava trees, be as suddenly extinguished, sham, Massachusetts, in 1792, which is believed to have been Prince Charlie's followers never! he was forced by necessity to go formed nearly a century ago. The numbered five thousand mer, this to work so early that in his whole trees which form this forest are devotion of the Muse to the life he had only a few weeks amazingly lifelike, even the grain Jacobite cause is rather surpris- schooling; but he was a natural of the bark being represented, yet ing, especially if one is of opinion student, and taught himself sur-they are nothing but sheils of that songs mirror the sentiments veying. navigation, something of lava.
The way in which this of a nation. astronomy, and more or less of strange forest was formed is Scottish Jacobite, and the lack of The prevalence of geology. His surveying work led interesting.
The original trees Hanoverian songs forces one to him in 1836 to invent the solar were of a kind known locally as the conclusion that, although the compass, instrument that oliin, a species abundant in the whole of Scotland did not rise in determines the compensation to Hawaiian Islands. During a terri- favour of Prince Charlie, yet the be made for variations of the fic outburst on the part of the heart of Scotland was on his side, magnetic needle owing to local volcano, when the lava poured out and was only prevented from Causes. The United States Gov-in a vast cataract, 40 or 50 feet openly favouring him by religious ernment still uses it. As a mem-deep, the whole of a thickly-wood- and material considerations. ber of the Michigan Territorialed region was overwhelmed. The Council Burt studied the problem fluid point of lava is at 2.000 degs. of navigation on the Great Lakes, F., but it instantly solidifies at a the people in general, have left KING EDWARD HOTEL and was one of the first persons to point a few degrees below high behind them a vast heritage of see the immense advantage of Agure. When the trees were tragically beautiful songs about building a navigable waterway buried in the stream of liquid fire, the Chevalier, while the best they round St. Mary's Falls His for-the lava which came into touch could do for the Hanoverians was ward-looking mind envisioned the with the trunks and branches a song like "The Wee, Wee Ger- present Sault Ste. Marie Canal. immediately solidified, owing to man Lairdie."
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He was also a millwright and the contact with the cold bark. built sawmilla. and grist-mills in The main flow of the molten the new country, where they were greatly needed, and he has the credit of having been the Arst man to discover the immense iron deposits
of Michigan.
The "typographer," Burt's most not able invention, was not a financial success and was never put on the market. It failed, not because of any real fault, but merely because it was half a century ahead of its time. The world was not ready for it.
HER BLOOD WAS SO THIN SHE FELT COLD ALL THE TIME. Until Weight and Strength Were Restored By Tonic Treatment
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For well over Are and thirty years. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, have been a trusted household zomody for anamin," or bloodlessness, and the disorders, krislus, therefrom Here In ovidence of "thei zuniones àffency/kThe "cently" given by Mrs. H. Le Small, of 505
Perry Street, Bétálo, US BHáẩy blood was so thin
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extremely
giving voice to the sentiments of The song writers, therefore, in'
"Who the dell hae we gotten for a
King,
But a wee, wee German Lairdie; When we went tae fetch him hame He wis delvin' in his kall-
yairdie..
stream swept on, leaving each tree with only a thin coating. This was sufficient to set the wood burning, and, in course of time, all the branches and the trunk of the tree were consumed, leaving nothing but the lava mould. The He wis sheughin' kail an' laying lava trees have stood the test of. Jeeks, nearly 100 years, and seem likely Woot the hose an' but the breeks, to exist indefinitely. Now and An up his beggar duds he clocks, again some seeds of shia will
This wee, wee German Lairdie." germinate and take root in the upper branches of a lava tree, Then the upper part of the lava trunk is adorned with a tuft of follage, which gives a lifelike appearance to what is really only a make-believe trunk Boys' Own Paper."
Even the National Anthem, God Save the King," which was adopted by the reigning house after Culloden, was a Jacobite song before that fateful battle- Olive M. Squair in The Scots Musical Magazine.
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