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Two robbers, armed with a gaff at the end of a long bamboo cane, passed down a side street and picked off a cage with singing birds; they took the latter, and replaced the enge. They were ordered to sen. it the birds were infected THE with a disease" Arrested and brought to the police station, they protested that they were merely sanitary inspectors-and "bird docters." Contrelor :30, D'Aguilar Street, Lock which the younger members of the English On examining the deep pockats of their coats, and Coast Fort Buildings, Timber, Brick Colony had of the deceased Express Fredrick. lots of birds flew out. A young and dashing However, what they know was excellent. Their lady, attired as a smart cyclist, spied à masher ou Mechanics engaged, Estimator given seniors, of about the same age as the late Prin- bis tako; she displayed great interest in its con- cess Royal of Eugland, sincerely deplorad herstruction: the gentleman slowed and offered to CHEMISTS DRUGGISTS, &c.

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Francesco Crispi was regarded by the French as the incarnation of hatred against their The 15th of August is one of the biggest country. Was that feeling the offspring of fête dogs in France, and in a roligious one, an aggressive or defensive spirit? The French bean dedicated to the Virgin, and laical always looked, and still look, do napon Italians: Icause it is the anniversary of birthdays of their crime is the ambition to become a nation. every girl called Mario." Mary in Francois not and strong enough to support that role. The exclusively a woman's name, several mon acek- first steps to greatness of all powerful states ing its protection. Napoleon selected it as his have been wodest; all have had their go-cart | birthday. The exact day of your birth is not days. Now the history of Europe shows honoured. The fête is the occasion when to that France ever aimed to keep a grip on indulge in presents-flowers being ebiely the

ing event was that Francs quitted the Fouin- the departed. Maries are remembered, by placing sula as she did. Napoleon III at that wreaths on their graves.. But Franco has the time made war for an ities," and in exchange culte des morts, thus attesting that death is for helping to drive away the Austrians, took not ați "aturnul sleep.”. orer Nica and Savey, for & keep-sake,, while occupying tome, that the French Republic of 1849 wrested from the Garibaldi triumvirate. But in 1810, Italy seized her capital when the French had to go and fight the Germans. That incident is still grean in their memory: The Triple Alliance followed, Italy joining, in it in order to defend her unity and have a big brother at her back, just as France negociats i for the Russian alliance. That was a bäster again for Gallic pride, and rendered an nituex on Italy more than ever unlikely. Next, France seized Tunisia, which Italy had decided to grab next followed a Customs' war, in which France way. not victorions, as Italy attacked French pro- ducts in foreign countries, and extended her commercial relations to Central Europe and England. The campaign in Abyssina, ending in the disastrous treaty of Adona, terminated the public career of Crispi, Crispi sought refuge in France in 1848. In deciding upon what was best for Italy, Crispi was not bound-dunning-for-the-payment-of-the-fax,-10)-fr.-a to adopt what the French desired,

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A curious state of fooling ariats actually in Paris, and is openly expressal: traders and shopkeepers, notably, attribute the falling Fin their business to the folly indulged in about the Boers which has lost to the country its bost customers--the English. This amounts to coufossing that the French have been punished where they have sinned. The Britishi were noti spasmodic clientkle, but a ateady, perraansut stream, that well repaid tapping, The English now "do" their own country, Germany, Norway, and Italy; they have taken the habit of keeping away from France. As for the Americane, they only pay flying visits; they prefer doing the United Kingdom and Ireland; they are known not to spend money as freely as the English, but their own country can supply all their neods.

There is something wrong about the dog world: the number of wandering dogs at large is enormons. This is do ta a' more rigorous

year, and also to the fact that since bicycles and motor-cars absorb all the stray moments of their worshippers, there is a slamp in dogs. Pasteur urged the destruction of all wandering dogs as the best preventivo of hydrophobia. Despite that drastic decres, the cry in still they como.

The veterinary inspectors for Faris, and the suburbs report that the number of mad dogs and cats destroyed during last year (1000) was 807. being an increase of 25 per cent.; 1,604 persons were bitten by dogs in 1900 in the capital alone, and 9 of the cases, though treated at the Pasteur Institute, proved fatal. The bones of destroyed dogs and cats is made into charcoal and used to refine our sugar, while their skins ure converted into gloves.

The wine-harvest will be very abandant Already vine-growers are at their wits end as to where they can obtain the necessary empty barrels to fill with the out-pat of the wine- proses French wines do not find so ready`s. market as formerly, owing to increased com- petition.

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In the region round Paris, the market garden ers have about 1,200 holdings. The cost of cultivation all told is 22,825 franes per hectare there are 23 aeros in an hectare. The valge of the products is 29,150 fr., or a not produce of this difficult language absolutely requires ex amples to display the various applications and of 6,525 fr. per hectare, say £lu6 per screequivalents of different words which have one That is a good return, bat the working of the general meaning. Of these examples this work gardens constitates the worst of slavery. The cuntains more than five times as many as any women after telling all day gather in and load other Dictionary hitherto published..

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