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doin' nothin' an' live comfortablo,
"A chap generally enlists because 'e's very hard up, or the ain't no work to be rot. If you understand mo rightly, nohap's pathed inte the Army by the crowd of oat of works behind bim, an' by the time 'o'n got his breath, on is fall up with Army rotions, an' finds 'c'e got about the crowd outside, an when bis sagen plarty of elbow room, 'o begins to forget all
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Thou the colonel sends for 'im.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
PASSING OF THE SOIL-A B14 F18H-A SWEET PLANT - THE LONGEST LIFE --- METAL SCENEET - PRONGED
ANESTHESIA - TRAINS WITHOL. ENGINEERS-POIRUKOUA DYES REES IN THE HOME - GERMAN FUEL
The preservation of the soil itself as well as ite fertility seems to be a problem to which man must give early attention. Prof, N. 9. Staler, is calling attention to this, poiste out that stoms of the wild plants bound the soil to this under sivage life the undisturbed roots and
oenturies would not equal the inch that be carried to the sea from a modern plowed field by a single rain-storm. To this fatter day waste must be added cropping
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"Do you think that's wise suz the Catouel,
Ho, yes,' soz the plever chop, cockily. ***It's very 'ard in vivilian life just wow, the Colonel. What are you goin to do for a livin' '
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The most gigantio of the sharks, the largest of all fishes, is so little known that Dr. Theo. Gli reports difficulty in fading any information about it. The grouture is the great whale shark, or mahor (incodon typus), and is not unean- mon in the Indian Ocean, where it reaches a length of sixty foot, living lazily near the sur- facs and rarely approaching land. With a mouth sometimes four feat wide, it has very erall teotb, ita food being mostly minuto a got to sorgeants an' corporale to bully crustacions. It occasionally upset a boat by in, no odors to salute, un fatigues, in' ta | valibing against it, but is otherwise harmless to trills, an' when ' goes out in town 'e needn't man. lock efsan unless 'o feole inclined.
Egits up to London, goes 'ome to sea his people, as a
as a cimple of drinks, goes to a musicall, an' sponds a sovereign as free as you please. For 3 week 'e's as 'appy as a king Gits up what time 'o likes, an' don't slayeruless' wants to
After a weak of riotous livin, most of ́"in money bein' spent, o pops off to look for work in is loud check trousis with the beer stairs, on' is Trilby 'at a bit eat of shape,
Want job, do you see the chap where 'e gods to. What can you do?!
Anything, so the clever chap. **Oufalde,' sez this chip at the works. “Wọ "don't want “anything”-foktors here.”/
**What's your last job ? sex another follor applies to
Army,"
sex the closer np, producin' discharge.
What can you do faz foreman. The clever chap's learnt a lossom, so 'a's ā
bit cantions.
*** Mossongor,” ́e sez.
The new wagar plant from South America. which bus hoon named Equatorium rebandium, is pronounce1 by Bortoui, the German chemist, to be of great industrial value. It grows 8 or 10 inches high, and is found to contain from 20 to times as much saccharine matter, as sugar-cans or the best.
The distinction, of being the oldest living ething undoubtedly belongs to soms giant tice. Gud many attempts to locate it and determing its age have been made. A century ugn De Candolle found two Fows-on at Fortingal in Perthshire, and one at Hedsor, in Bucks--that were estimated to be respectively 2,500 and 3,240
is
ara old. Both are all flourishing, and the diler tree has a troak 27 fout in disaster. A
We've got boys for messengers, so the gigantic baubau of Central Americs, with & foreman.
Timekeeper, sz the clever chap. "We've got a olock for that," ***Caretaker, saz the clever chap. "We don't want no sleepin' partners, wez the foreman.
"Well, not the clever chap, desperats, hall porter.'
We ain't got a-hall,' soz the foreman. *What some of these clever Jossers wout," said Smithy: scorafally, is a job where there ein't any work to, to jobs you can lay down en watch; old mod's jobs, boys' jobs, jobs that don't blister a chap's "apis, on that's why eli the bloomin' Soldiers 'Elp Associations in the world won't do any good, because there ain't enough of thom jobs to go round,
The other day Spud Murphy, gave it out that as soon as his soven years was in ha was going to leave.
you
ffo was talkin' to me an Nobby about it.
No more bloomin' soldiorin' for me, thank 1° Spad.
Don't thank me,' soz Nobby.
I'm goin's to be a free man, sez Spal, like I was before I enlisted
Absez Nobby, lookin' up to the sky with a smile.
When you claps are bein' turned out of Bed at in the mornin' I shall be gettin' my eye down, nice an' song."
Ahses Nobby.
No more church parades, no more kit inspections, no more bloomin' guards, sez Spud. No,' sex Nobby getting up-wa was sittin' on the grass in the cricket field-No,' az Nobby, sadly, You'll be a free man, free to get your livin or starve. There won't be no kit inspec. tion, 'cos you'll 'ave no hit to show, nor no guards either. becos' nobody would trust you to guard a three-penny-bit Pora føller," sez- Nobby, shaking his 'end'an' lookin' at Spud,
pare old Spud.
Spud ain't goin' away," Smithy went on, to explain, because Nobby put it about in bar racks that 'o was only leavin' the army bonuse the doctor wouldn't pass him for an extension af service, an just to show Nobby was a liar End went an took on for another five years,
If you understand, said Smithy-earnestly, it ain't the chap's fault that he can't get a job when he leaves the service, it's the Army's A chap that as to loare civil life beenore he ain't got a trade in bis 'ands can't expect to go back- to civil lite an find job sittin' up on its 'ind legs an' boggin."
"
The army don't tonele him nothin," con- tinued Smithy, serionely, except to turn about by numbers, an not to talk back to his super. iors, ou that's not much for civil life.
When his time's up he goes out au asks Civil Life to and him work.
What can you do? saz Civil Life. Stand erect, with me feet at an angle of forty-five degrees, end up, shoulders back, an" me ands ung loosely by me side, thumbs in rear of the seams of me trousis, sea the Army.
**Very sorry
saz Civil Life, but wo "pren't got a job like that. Can you do anything else." Yes, sex the. Atmy, I can challenge all persons approachin' my post between tattoo au reveille, turn out the guard to generals an' all armed parties, en' take charge of all Govern-
Army. ment property in view of me post, ger the
Can you By a 'lectric ball soz Cir" Life. No sex the Artay.
Can you drive a fraction engine? sez Civil Life.
*No, sez tlie Army.
Can you make a box, or sat a line of type, er draw a plan, or make out a sucification, or do anything that the crowd round the dock rates can't do ?*~
No, sex the Army.
**Well, soz Civil Life regretful, 'you'₫ better join the mob at the docks-an' you'll find the Salvation Army shelter down the second turnin' on the right ?
“Sevon yours!” said Brithy, reflectively, "an' about two years of that spars time. A chap could learn anything in soven years if there was anybody to touch in.
Touch me a trade, so the Army. Good gracious! sez the Country, orrified. I couldn't think of such a thing-don't I cloths you, an feed you, an' Pay you
Yex sex the Arary; but teach me some thing--if it's only makin' mata, like you do in prizon. or carpentering, like you do in' work- 'ouses an' reformatʼry schools
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Bat, saz the Country, vany agitated, teach you this you'll be competin' with the tax payer.
"That's all right." sex the Army. I want to bea taxpover myself," EDGAR WALLACE in the Daily Mail.
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trunk 29 fent through, was thought by Hum holdt to be not less than 5,150 years old. Meri. can botanists believe they have now discovered alife span ven greater than this, and from the canaal ringa a cypress of Chapultepec, whose trunk is 118 feet in circumfereien, is assigned an age of about 0,200 years,
The re-proof scenery of M. Moissan, which is being tested in several Paris theatres. consists of a framework of iron tubing upon which wire gauze is stretched for the designs. Besides incombustibility, this scenery has the advantages of great solidity and ingreased ease of handling?" and its weight is not only no greater than-wood and canvas bat Eh-rt pieces are even lighter. The fiat cost in a little more than that of the old style scanary. Unpainted portions of the ganze remain invisible, and frees, Bowers, etc., are given a very realistic effect
Stovaine, the new Bussthetic of Dr. Foar neau, is injected into the spinal fluid, and within five minutes gives complete insensibility below the point of injection, while the patient does not loss conseforsness. The effects last for an hour and a half. No unfavourable results have beau reported in the numerons tests that have been made in France, but fears of lack of control and danger of blood poisoning have been expressed.
Salt from the mines at Stassfart is carried on trains of thirty half-ton trucks, each train having a 24 horas power electric locomotive. No engineer rides on the train, which is stopped and started instantly by an attendant at each of the five stations along the line.
Experiments with-fifty-of-the-coal-tar dves have shown that fifteen are positively poisonous, and twenty others caused harmful disturbances of digestive cremas, kidneys, or general health of animals. Only two colours proved harmful to the skin. The most poisonous colours are not among the greens, though the noxious. character of the arsenical greens has given that impression, but among the coal-tar dyes the most seriously poisonous are yellow and orsure eclous, such us aurantia, mandarin, metanil orange, and butter yellow. Next in order of nambor are the blues, browns and blacks, very few mong the violat and green colours having proven at all harmful,
Aplaries are the novel addition to the drawing room proposed by Miss Bedes-Bowell, sister of the hero of Mafoking. The bees are not found objectionable in any room of the house, d the one hive in the home Miss Baden-Powell at Prince's Gate, London, last year yielded. sixty pounds of honey. A specially contrived hive is used. The boos readily find their way through a little in the house-wall, and
espertare they require no attention in summer, food being given them in winter.
The world's peat ventrò is not in Ireland- which, however, has more than 3,000 square miles of bog-bat in the north of Germany and the adjacent paris of Denmark and Holland. A square mile of bog ten feet deep is estimated to have à hesting power equal to more than 300,000 tons of cool Single bogs in Friesland are found to cover 1,500 square miles, and
•Germany has more fuel in peat thun in coal
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DF KAJOR GENERAL VILLIERS HATTON, CE Commanding the Troops in South Chinn.
HEAD QUARTERS, Hongkong, oth July, 1905. Gazette, India.—No. 148. The following extract from the Gazette of India is published A for information :- Military Department Simla, 9th June 1905. The following direct appoint mants are male, with effect from the into of joining Heth Infantry (The Mooliau Regiment). Sarfaraz Ali Khan to be Jemader, en probation, to fill an existing vacancy.
Medical Board No. 150. A. Medical Board will assemble at an ourly date at the Military Hospital Kowloon, to report apon Asistin Troops proposed for invaliding. The P. M. O will arrange the details.
Leave cancelled-No. 151 With roleronca, to Garrison Order No. 1. of 22nd March 1905,
Major A. A. Chichester, D.8.0., Chief Staff- Officer having returned from leave of absences the nnerpired portion vix-4-5th July 1905 is hereby cancelled.
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