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@elite of the army—was beyond praise, The physique of the personnel of the feld and horse batteries is superior to that of the and the average effi- ciency of the officers is higher. The steel gun that it isarmed with is a most effective weapon—-the fieldpiece ad 9%) mm., weighing 10.438 hundrea- weight, and firing a 17.98 pound com- mon shell, 18.5 pound shrapnel; the borse artillery gun weighing 8.36 hun- dredweight, with a 13.15 pound com- mon shell and a 13.84 shrapnel.

The large number of batteries at- tached to an army corps—more than four guns to 1,000 infantry and cay- alry—is not the only indication that the French place great reliance upon

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ble appearance. ‘The old maxim of “spit and polish’’ was not as mi- nutely carried out as is the case with the batteries of the United States regu- lar army. The steel hames and collar chains were in some instances not as bright as they might have been, nor were the leather harnesses absolutely immaculate, but the horses are beyond criticism, and everything pertaining to each piece and each caisson is thorough- ly serviceable and businesslike. —New York Tribune.

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Hothouse grapes are the costliest of fruits. They are never less than 73 cents @ pound, and when they are most costly, in February and March, they sell for $9 a pound, sometimes going as high as $10 a pound. At prices ranging upto $2.4 pound there isa ready sale for them. At the higher prices they are sold almost exclusively for the use of in- There is a sale for all that are Produced, but the production is great, and the vines may die from exhaustion after a single season of forcing.

The next most costly fruit is the hot- house peach. Hothouse peaches sell in February at $2.50 each. They ure used Mainly by invalids, but such peaches are also often sold for gifts. They are oe as flowers or as bonbons would

Three or four peaches are packed in sotton and set off with a few peach leaves in a handsome box. Hothouse peaches run down to about 60 cents each fa April and May, when we begin to get the first of the peaches from the south.—New Yerk Sun.

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fe Mulifornta, where great redwoods grew, Yhe tall clintonia stands—a stately sight, Shedding in ferny ways its scarlet light— A lily in red robes, as if to show A life more royal than pale lilies know. The breoding firs through winter’s fog and gieoimn Dream of the time when these brtgnt torches bloom. This flower of cheer was loved by great Tho rean Through Mair~ 3 dark pines and I:*:csids greenery— By our beloved Thorean, ordained to be A priest to lead us to Ged’s temples grand, Whereon the wonders of his skill are speag f irest of these, the ta!l clintonias stand, ue altar cancles of a continent. --Lillian H. Shuey in Overland Monthly

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Ciirty of Them Made In a Pair eof Breeches of the Year 1611.

Perhaps the best proof of the advance of the Japanese in civilization is to be found in their use of pockets. The pee ple of that country have usually six or eight pockets cunningly inserted in the cuffs of their wide sleeves. These pock- ets are always filled with a curious mia cellany. Ascommon as the twine in the pockets of young Americaus is the pray- er amulet written on sheets of rice pa- per and composed by the bonzes. In ao- cordance with their faith, these amn- lets are swallowed like a pill in cases of mental or physical distress. Another essential seldom missing is a number of small squares of silzy paper. These are put to unexpected uses, such as to hold the stem of a lily or lotus, to dry a tea- cup or to wipe away a tear. Among the Chinese and other nations a pouch is used instead of a pocket. This was also the case in western Europe in the mid- dle ages and for some time afterward. The pouch was attached to the girdle, along with a dagger and rosary. It wav called an zulmoniere or gipciere. It was often ornamented with curious patterns, gold and silk threads, coats of arms and religious sentences. A dramatist of the time of Henry VIII wrote:

From my girdle he plucked my pouch;

By your leave he left me never a penny.

Breeches, however, had pockets at an early date. In an old play written about 1611 it is mentioned that a man had his breeches plaited as if they had 30 pook- ets. But pockets did not attain their proper position until the adoption of the modern style of men’s garmenta With waistcoats a grea} opportunity for pockets presented itself. Later they were made very broad and deep and were covered with embroidery and buttona In the reign of George III waistcoat pockets reached such size in England that they became objects of ridicule, se that they mon began to resume more moderate proprrtions.—New Work Post

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Some of the Remarkabie Ceremonials of Southern Alaska Indians,

One of the most remarkable of the fes- tivals celebrated by the Alaska Indians is a carnival of ghosts which is held each winter. It seems to be derived from a tra- dition that tells of a journey made by an adventurous individual toaregion beneath the earth inhabited by phantoms. The celebration itself is a mimical representa- tion of the visit to hades aforesaid, and the performer who represents the submun- dane traveler wears a necklace and head- dreas set round with skulls.

This festival requires elaborate prepara- tions. Speaking tubes of dried giant kelp are laid under the foot of the lodgehouse §0 as to terminate in the fireplace. Whep the ceremonial is in progress, the performer disappears into a ditch previously dug be- hind the fireplace, and then many voicea are heard coming out of the flames—really the voices of persons hidden in adjoining rooms, who speak through the tubes. Later on an image representing a ghost is seen to rise out of the ground, carrying the per- former.

Cannibalism is very conspicuous in the myths current among these people, who have themselves been eaters of human flesh up to a recent period. Indeed, though the whites are supposed to have put a stop to such practices, it would seem that secret indulgence in them has not been wholly done away with.

Quite a number of strange demons are worshiped as guardian spirits, ameng them a cannibal demon that lives on the mountains and always is engaged in the pursuit of human beings for his table. The smoke of his chimney is the color of blocd, and he has a female slave who gets food for him by catching men and collect- ing corpses. In his house is a fabulous bird w‘th an immensely tong beak, which lives on the brains of persons whose skulls it fractures with its bill. Anybody who is so unfortunate as to encounter the cane nibal spirit may be transformed into a grizzly bear. On the other hand, if he can please the demon, he may obtain power to handle fire without being burned.

Another guardian spirit is a fearsome warrior, who lives in the far north. He travels constantly and never leaves his canoe. By obtaining his protection a man may become invulnerable, or he may acquire power to catch the invisible disease demon. This demon is at al! times flying about in the air in the form of a worm. The fortunat. protege of the warrior spirit catching the worm can throw it into the

body of an enemy, wiv will die at once.

These Indians wear wooden masks in their ceremoaials. Some of them are of enermous size and astonishingly grotesque. ‘The mask wern by a performer who rep- resents the cannibal spirit, for example, is a huge crocodilelike head. Another, rep- resenting the bird servant of this spirit, is like the head of a bird, with a bill tour icet long. by means of strings, pulled Ly the wearer, the great beak is made to open and shut rapidly, producing a loud c...p- ping.--St. Louis Kepublic.

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