Abergavenny Chronicle

I BANANA VARIETIES. I There are over sixty known varieties of the banana, with as great, or greater, vaflar' tion in character as- the different kinds of apples. Hawaii is said to have something, over forty distinct varjaties of the fruit, most of which. have been introduced by the. whites. Some of ,the&c are extremely deli- cate and delicious in flavout, while other kinds are used, if At all, only when cooked- in various ways, fhere is scarcely a city-- nOUBe lot or roa-utry homestead which does' not have a cliimp or two of bananas, which: grow with practically no care, new plants or suckers shooting up to replace the ones wilich have fruited and been removed.

FROGS* AND THEIR EGGS. —— — In the manner of disposing of their egga many species of frog exhibit remarkable" peculiarities. One of the most curious, a tree frog, native of Paraguay, makes its' nest in a bush overhanging a pond. Th 4 lower ends of a number of leaves are drawn together and fisegf in that position by it number of empty egg-capsulefe. The eggs. i are also covered with a shield of emptv cap sules, to protect them from the sun. and air. When the eggs are hatched the plug at thf. bottom -,Al)pear,% to. fall out and the tadpo tumble into the water. — •' -.— — ?*

A woman named Matilda Thomas Has died at, Barry, iii 't h L- result of six stab woun^Sj: and her husband, Thomas Thomas, a ship- wright, waa brought up and reihanded. 1 Four merchant ships of an aggregate of nearly 30.000. tons haVe been launched witJi* in teu davs from two Port Glasgow St vard^v—Messr-s. Russell and Co. and Messra-i and, After' service 'orer forty years in the conabined ôfficesofclerk to the board and superintendent registrar of the CamberweU Guards na. MrJ C. S.-9t.evris has resigned. Mr. H. E. Mott, the first assistant clerk, is c?--omaieaded for he vaaut positions.

CLUB WINDOW. j CLUB WINDOW. 'I I I A good. story is told by Sir John $ealo. I Chief Secretary to the Ministry of- Food. ,Ifc.w does the breakfast suit you, Jack?" i inquired the young bride, anxiously. "It' just right, dearest," declared Jack. "I may be pWbiaH, but Em awfully fond of calves' liver for breakfast." "So am 1. dear," she responded, with enthusiasm, adding: "Oh, Jack, don't you think it would pay us to I keep a calf? Then we could have liver-every^ morning for breakfast." 0 The Bishop of Chelmsford telle of a etirate in his diocese who had instituted a special Sunday service at an aerodrome. One morn- ing the curate received this message ovei the telephone: "No good, coming to-day. Extra. largo supply of gaa just arrived." Sir William Treloar -tells a good story of his Cripples' Home at Alton. One day during lunch there was, an,, exceptionally heavy downpour of rain—-indeed, for several minutes the rain came down in bucketfals. Looking out of ,the;: window Sir William sftid to the little maid who was waiting at table: "Why, Lizzie, it is almqst like the Flood." h' The Flood,' Sir William?" said the maid. "Yee, the Flood. You know— Noah." The servant looked at him for a second' or so with puckered brows, and thefl she added apologetically: "I'm sorry, sir, but I never ave no time to look at the papers." — • The Au6t4au Emperor is known to all his subject* as "Little Karl." This nickname arises Irova.th-i fart'that,. iirben a small boY. he was photographed, in an 'Enj^ish s&ilot-t aiiit. The photograph took'Vienna by stormy and for weeks street-vendors did a roaring trade selling cheap copies; and sifted that time this. title has followed, him through, and hia moimetit., although he lias, grown up to be a tall man. Mr. Wilkle The inimitable comedian, Mr. WilkIo Bard, tRIIs a good' arn of two newly?-tch men, brothers, who had been asked to dine at the house of a famous finarfcier. At first, aaid the comedian, all went well, until the host thoughtlessly asked: "Do you like Omar Khayymi" For a rainute. all was ,,ii let, but at length" the elder brother te- [T'ifid: "Pretty well, but I prefer chianti." Xothi;ig more was said until the brothers on the way home, when the younger one remarked: "Say, Bill, what makes you butt in on something you don't know not bin' ;;bout? Omar Khayyam ain't a wine, yoil ,:illy asa—it's a cheese." Sir Joseph Maclay' can spin a good yarn.. JTe tells one of an American soldier WÃø, vns telling his host about the'size!*1 of <.om& cf tho farms in the West. "You' might not bvlieve it," he said, "but-a friend of mino has a farm so large that he starts out with his ploughing in the spring. All that> ho -an do is to plough and sow one straight < irrow before autumn. Then he turns round and harvests the crop on it on hia. way hock." "Oh, yes, I believe that," said' the host, "It is like my son- in-law's' farm out Two weeks after they were married r'lv daughter and her husband started for their pasture to milk the cows, and their two children brought in the milk." •. ■ Mr. Arthur Bourchier once had an amus- k in^ expedience with his dresser. It was 09. a first night, and whett^hg performiancfe^wa;? over the dresser was nowhere to bo itee-n. f :lr. Bourooier sent someone to look for him, • and he was discovered up in the gallery- booing! His.' explanation was- that he Was au old gallery fitet-nighter, and that w he would serve Mr. Bourchier faithfully: be- hind the scenea, he reserved the right to do as he-iiked in the audTtocium and'bWc' clap oofding" to Ms unbiased opinion, ijr. Bourchier did not dismiss the man, for he !■ considers a frank critic a valued friend. A good story is told of Mr. Israel Zang- "yill. The famous author, paid a visit to America in order to< lecture on the Zionist movement, taking his wife with him. While in New York they were entertained at a ■ banquet given in their honour by a number of prom* ujent c itizens, and --in- pjroposmg his health one of them remarked that I. those present were only sorry that, they !• could not claim their distinguished guest as n citizen of the United States. "Oh," said Mr. Zangwill with a smile, in returning thanks, "but"! do belong to one of the United Sfatesi throUgh "my by- Baar- riage." Everyone was muehf puzzled, for Mrs. Zangwill was certainly English; but it was she herself who explained the mys- tery. "It was a joke," she said sadly; "he does belong to the united state-the mar-, ried state. Do you see?" An amusing story is told of General .Mangin, the brilliant French soldier, by an artist from the Latin Quarter of Paris. The artist was commissioned to paint the Genexal^s portrait, and, as there was no other pla.qe^ available, he visited -the General in his diig-out for the first sittings After to had sketched in a rough, bold outline of Mangin's severe, square features, he "was naked by his sitter to hand over the sketch before proceeding. "Ah, that's perfect," said General Mangin, "perfect! Dou't touch it, again. If you do, you'll flatter ine!" General Allenby, the Commander-in-Chief of our Forces in Palestine, is fond of telling a sto^y .concerning the :guiltlessness of a; certain Indian soldier of his -army. Thera is, it appears., a good deal of counterfeit "il i ere, coin in circulation out there, atfd .jQ&s J day. the soldier in question tendered at his .can- teen a ten-piastre piece which, on examina- tion, was found, to be bad. The .canteen steward called' hia attention to the iact, and at his request heftided- coin back to him in order that he, might examine it. turned it ovei» ani oveaf, ecanttiug it)-cift-ely. Then he said, quite innocently: "You say this coin is counterfeit, sahib. 1; think you must be mistaken, for the date upon it,, you will observe, is 1900. If it were false, surely it would have been found out before this." v„; An abusing story is told about Lord oowdray. While eno-aom in experimental boring for oil some, time back, "his agent sent him in a bottle a sample of the first crude petroleum struck., Lord Cowtfcray was in a hurry to go out ^hen it. arriyea, and gave it to one of his men to deliver to the analyst with a note which he scrawled. Now the servant was also in a hurry, .He set out to visit his wife and tpok the "letter with him. Later ih the evening he saw. wliat he thought was the-bottle on. tk sid,eboard, and with a guilty conscience httrrtedly too it out to deliver it. Jttdge<-of;-Lord CQW:)I dray's amazement when in the morning he received the following telegram: ("'Yours is the first find of the century. You've struck paregoric." Brigadier-General MoCalmont .epeake an experience .he bad, at Kiel wJb«n, fils yacht the Margharita- beat the Kaiser's ► Meteor.. As > the. Margharita croold -hS winning liile --the} Germaii crmrds tlmained Silent, but when the Kaiser's boat arrived, with the Emperor on board, the bande played and -th<^ people cheered. At the prize distribution, the Emperor received the mas- sive gold cup>! which ^waa in reality the first prize, while Brigadier-General McCalrnont was awarded a eilvex fiiallldk bowl, which had been intended for the second prize.

(HIS CHILDREN'S CORftEfL j < TtBED ROME. I aI shall look out of the window all the time. I do like being in the train," said Basie. "I shan't be a bit tired; I think I could be- in. a train for ever and ever with- f out getting tiped at ail!" Unclø Herbert smiled and lifted Rosie up on to the seat next to tho window, and took .^oft jhejr hat so that sB«v should Jse ;qu;il, eoizi. fortabJe, and then the train started. JE^osie waa quite hapny for, a Ijrog time, looking out of the window, and counting tlie" telegraph posts, and the cows, and the trees, -rid the windntills. Uncle Herbert road hii papot," and presently he looked up and saw a small figure opposite him sitting very still, —dtseyea were closed and. it was fast asleep' When the train camo to a stop in t-h-el atiatioiii Uncle, Horbert had to give Rosie a shake and say, Now then, Rosio, I thoughl you weren't going to be t.ired t" But Rosie just. opened her eyes for a minute, and let Uncle Herbert tie on hex hat and.'pick her up in .his arms; then. shf ner head rest on his shoulder, and sh< went off .to sleep agiin THE PUPPIES. I We Ve got three little puppies;: j There's one belongs to me, ( And Robin has another, And one's for both, you see. Théy are such little darlingi- Their mother's name is Flo; She's very fond of them, of course, But sO are we, you know. She lets us, play iyith thetn; she kntf/r* They are quite, safe with us. And when we go and fetch them She ney.or makes a fus. It is such fun to see them Their piantikrs ar-e not good; • They put their nose's in the milk, And upset all the food. But then they're very little yet. They soon will better grow; And I don't want them to get big, I like them little so.  E M M I DREAM. I It was hot and-Emmie was sleepy, and the j sum wouldn't come right. So she just closed her E-yes for a minute to think; and lill at once something Very funny happened. The figures on her slate began to jump up a u,4 down and behave in tfe queerest way. -umber 1 danced a polka with Number i), I siid NymJjer 6 and Number 3 had a wrest- ling match. Then a great many funny little men caree running up this .school-room. Emmie wondered why Miss Smith didnt, te-il ili-am to'go aYMY and then, she j'sr.W that Miss-Smith wasn't there, nor were any of the other children-—she was all alone with the tunny little men and the dancing figures en 'her' slate- She began to feel a little bit afraid, but she knew, somehow or other, that once her sum was done the figures would not be able to dance about in that confusing way, and the funny. little man would have to run away. So she tried and tried to do the sain, but a3 fast as she put down a figure on her slate it jumped up and danced .ibout^ and the little man kept cpining hearer and -oarer, and laughing at her, and pointing with their ifngers. i Emmie was very cross and was almost raint* to cry, but she made a grea,t effort, nad at last did tho sum, &nd the figures all f hid Ito s in their proper placyw.Y little men ran aiviI 3 Emmic woke up But the funny part of it was that t?? s?um was done! ? | L < t WHAT THE SEAGULL DID. I I'm' a seagull and a very fine seagull, too. I I want to tell ?ou"a?out aom?hin?- that" happened the other day. We WETI? out. fist- ing in the sea (we are very good fishers, we gulls, you know), and I was catching quite a lot of fls'h, when all at once we were dis- turbed by one of thoee great big things with flapping white wings (I think you. c-,tll them "boats;')} it camo rushing ajong' right into the midst of us, and made me quite cross. • There were two people in it, a boy-person nd, -a girl-person, and I don't think they qjiito kuew how to manage it. • At iuay. ratie, nil at once the "boat thing upset, and the :i l k at on w boy-person and the girl-person tumbled 'out into the water. I didn't want them to come to harm, so I flew oft to an old fisher- man on the beach and screamed in his ear, rjvnd then, he saw them and got out his own "00åt" thing; and went after them and picked them up 1 Hiev were very wet, but thev were not hurt; it served them right for disturbing ua l vdtHa we were fishing But if you'll believe ? m; mo one ever thought of saying "Thank you'' to me. for what-I did People are very U-ncc,-rateful. r TIME TO GET UP IN THE MORNING. I How warm and cosy seems your bed! How soft the pillow to your head! Aiid how tho rat-tat-tat you dread, When it's time to get up in the morning! At night one doesn't want to go l(At least, X always find it so). But bed seems different, you know, When it's, time to get up in the morning. Wo stretch and yawn and Tub our eyes, We hear Nurse -knock with pained surprise, And each to be the last one tries, When it's time to get up in-the morning. But Nurse won't let us longer wait, She never lets tis go down late, We have to breakfast quite by eight, And it's time to -get np: in the morning. A^d once-youfairly out of bed, And sleep has flown out of your head, It's not so bad as I have said, The time to get up in the morning. I A GREAT SUCCESS. I It was breaking-up day; everyone was taking some part or other in the perform- ance. Elsie was to play à. piece on the • piano, and Norman was Napoleon ia the ¡ French play,« «,nd Clive was Robin. Hood, and Batbara was Friar Tuck, and Allan said a piece of poetry all by himself. -But nobody knew what Harold !Hugh was going to, do except Miss Catherine and Harold Hugh himself. The time came for the performance, and -Everything went off splendidly. Robin Hood aijd j'riar Tuck did their parts in a most life-like way; Elsie never made a mistake in her piece, and though Allan forgot, his he goon Remembered them, and was loudly clapped when he had finished. I Everyone thought it waa all ov^r, and people were beginning to get up to go away, when air at Wee the bell rang and Miss Kathesine's Voice was heard outside the door saying, "Come in, come in 1" The door opened and in marched the funniest little figure you ever saw. It was Harold Hugh, dressed up like' Great-great-grandfather. He had a big that and spectacles, and a huge htmbrella: and. funny long trousers, and he looked SQ strange that everyone began to laugh. J Harold Hugh did not mtr'd.& bit-he just I looked round and Raid. "Im Great-gTeat- j grandpa"! Aren't I clr i'?'* • And that made p<■•pie laugh all the more. a,ad then Harold 1 Hufk laughed; and his spectacles fell off, ana Uncle Frank picked him up sftid tossed him up' to the ceiling, and the top-hat fell off. „ < But .fflferold" Hugh did, net mind a bit he just smiled and said, "Area'J I clever?''

FUN ANB FANCY. 0 lIe: "B1,lt why .don't: you come with m." Md chojMe the ring?" She: "I'm afraid wa can't afford to do that." Private Foggs: "I wonder what makes my eyes so weak?" Doctor Boggai "I don't know, unless they're in a weak place." "I always call a spade ajapade," said the emphatic man. "That's right," reptic-d Broncho Bob. "A chap once lost his life in Crimson Gulch by calling a spade a club." Irate Lady "This clothes-line as I bought [ last night you said was a. all-British line." Shopkeepey ".Yeo, madaih," Irate Lady :-k rt Well, it's broke twice and let me washing iown, A 'Indcnburg line I calls it." "Did you find any hard problems in your 1 esson, Tommy?" "No, ma'arcx," answered Tommy. "I didn't look for any." "I sent my daughter to a coolting school to fit her for marriage." W as the expert-, ment a success?" "No; the man Bhtf "8 engaged to found it out I" P-ati-onco: "She's not satisfied with her I new photographs at all." Mona: "I don't itnow why not. They make her look younger ,than she really is." "I know that but she j 'expected to have them look even, youngef than she «aya -she is." 'I "No, Marjorie, there is a difference be- 'I tween a taxiderinist and a taxi-cambist. A taxidermist skins animals, and a taxi-cabbist Isn't so pavticular—;he'll skin anybody." "I trust, Miss Tappitt," said the kindly employer to his stenographer, "that you havea jsoj^et^S & reserve for, a rajjiy .day "té.s, air," answered the yoiing woman, "J am going to marry a man named Mackin* toeh." Rich CM Aunt! Robert, I am going tc inake my will. I think I ehall leave you (paiise)., Nephew <eagerly): Yes. Aunt: Before long." "Which side of the house do you think the baby reaembles Tncet?' I proudly wt-.edyoung i'loj)joy. answered' Smith, smiling weakly and trying hard to say the 'tight thing. VI can't see that he looks so very much like the side of a house. J Wife! "John, there's a draught coming in the window." Debt-harassed Husband: "Who from?" t One morning Mr. Smith was heard talk- ing to himself. while making his morning toilet in a mannérthat denoted much per- t-urbation. "I wonder," said Mrs. Smith, "what's provoked father "'e "P?.4? nothing much, mother,' <wered hAli.ttle !nuch, motlier,? 'werl.41 iiitl. painta in place of his tul >th-paste. Magistrate: "You cei committed this burglary in a ren f ingenious way; in fact, with quitt pbonal cun- ?. rr" Prisoner: "Now, honour, no 1, z. Prisoner: tteiry, it. you pleaee if one thing I ates, it's flattery." Mrs. Gild'er: "My husb, ught such aJ beautiful Rembrandt for st time he  3yo  kia'* nds Va,s on the C0ntinent- 3rooklands; "Really, .deor, how perfect ?t of.hifi- But I thought that was jwed now. What horse-power is it?" Private Simpkins had returned from the Front to find that his giti-hbd been walking 1 outf with another oun man, and, naturally, asked her to explaati her frequent promenaded- ifl the city with the gentleman. "Well, dear," she replied, "it was only kindness on his pait. Ho just took. me down every day 1 to the library to see if you were killed." I in a ,rou-? who wre craa- An actor was in a (, were crack- ing conundrums, when he asked: "Now, you fellows seem very clever at such things, so tell me what ia the difference between a moequito and an elephant?" They all gave it up. when the actor, walking away, said, "Their shape" "Listen to this, Maria," sgid Mr. Stubb, I. as he unfolded "his scientiitc paper. "This article states that in some of thS old Roman pnsons that have been unearth.'th, found the petrified remains of the prMonera." "Gracious, J?hn?' exclaimed ,MEr&. Stubb, '"i-iii,-n's what they can j .With 8mlle, expect' hardencd-cnmmals, I erpect*" Minister: "Do you promise to Jove, honour, and obey?" Young Bridp: "^Well, you know well. enough I don't love him as j well as that poor man I couldn't afford to j marry, and that if I honoured a man I 1 would think too much of him to marry hin-, but slip on; 'tho Jring, for I certainly will obey—every impulse of my own." "How's your husband .to-day, Mrs. Gin- nerty?" "Sometimes he's better an' some- times he's worse; but from the way be yells and takes on whin he's better I think he's better when he's worse." 1 At an aeroplane accident, an Irishman was asked to fetch an ambulance, .but returned with a hearse "What have you brought that thing for," asked the policeman. "Oh, Begorra! j th'chøwould be dead by when I got back," replied Pat., v j when I got back "Father," said the sharp small boy, "I saw a deaf and dumb beggar in the street this morning, and he had an impediment in his speech." If A doaf and dumb man with an impediment in his speech!" exclaimed father. "Don't talk nonsense, Lancelot." "But he had, father," insisted the boy; "one of his middle fingers was missing." j Irish Landlady (to commercial, booked for the 3 a.m. train) "And here's the alarm- clock, sorr. And if it doesn't wake yez, just poke the little hammer wid yer finger, and she'll go off!" American (sitting in the corner of a rail- way carriage to man opposite) Gee! the trains are slow iji this country. Why, over in America they travel about eighty miles an hour." Other Man: "Well, that's noth- ing. Why, one day my wife and I booked third-class to Brighton, and travelled there in a second "I never saw such a chronic grumbler as Stoneybroke is." "What is his latest griev- ance? "tIle found a fiver this morning. 'and ia grumbling, because a man to whom he owes £ 1 saw him pick it up." Bobby: "Sister will be down in a few minutes, Mr. Softly, she's upSfeirs rehears- ing." Mr. Softly: "What is she rehearsing, Bobby?" Bobby: "I don't know, but she's standing in front of the m irl%r and blush- ing, and saying, Oh, Augustus, this is so sudden !U

w NOTES ON NEWS. Germany has replied to President Wit Bon'S questions With a proniptitude whicis Tm1 I GERMAN REPLY. is a proof that the making of peace is to her a very urgent matter. She accepts the famous fourteen points as a basis or negotiations, and asks for discussions 10 v order to come to agreement upon the practical details of the principles laid down. There was, however, a fifteenth point, stated By the President a few weeks ago. Mr. Wilson said very definitely that no agreement could be come to between the Allies and the German Government which up to that time had been resjpon- Bible for the war. They were, he said, men without honour, whose word could not • be trusted. Therefore in his Note- lie asked if the German request for an armls- 9 tice was made in the name of the German people, plainly implying that if it were not [ the Allies" \vould'ftefuse to listen t,it. To '? i this question the German Government has r L, plied that it does speak in the name 7 of the German ^.people, and thaS the Goveria- inent whICh has taken the responsibility for this step towards peace- has been E fornroa by conferences and in agreeraqnt I with the great majority of the Reichstag. | The question is whether this may he I held to bo evidence of the change of heart I I" A" I OONVEESION.' in Germany upon whiCa "President- "Wilson bag more than once insisted as an essential to #19 I making of a satisfactory peace. Tli¡it soipe changes have been made in G or mart Mima- I ters is comjnon knowledge. They have i-been made with aome suddenness, even, one may say, with proci It. wfill not be disputed that the great milit4ry successes of the Allies East and West hávè brought them about. If they really aniotiftt to cdnversion, the' proce^ ha^'been a violent one. When the Devil was sick, tho Devil a saint would be; when the Devil got w-ell, the devil saint* was he! In this case, fortunately, there 4eems re- I marliably, small. prospect of the Devil get- ting wen: lruttherG will have to be "very I definite and adequate giiarantees thai; the conversion ia a genuine one all the same. Thero is a new. Chancellor, who, hoivever, will in the ordinary course of events be- come a ruling monarch. Is ho responsible to the Reichstag and to tho German people ? Or was he appointed by. the Kaiser, and is he responsible to him alone, ?' Aii d ot' h ex as his predecessors were.? And f-i-c- other Ministers, tooP. They may be men of very different calibre from those they have -suc- ceeded, but it is systems tli-.it militt- in these things, net men. And if the men can be changed at the will of the Kaiser and thbse who helped him to bring on the workl war, the Allies will have de- ceived: and will find after 'fc time that they are- still something short, of victory. It is clear that Grmany must give nipfe con- vincing proof of conversion than she has yet given. By their fruits ye shall know them. and there was not much c hang e of heart shown "BRUTES THEY REMAIN." in the sinking ot two passenger ships off1 the Irish coast, and the drowning of hundreds of men, women and chil- dren. These de?lish oil'-?aces bco it noted, were committed ftIr the despatch of the Note of the German Govtrrmwjitr. to President Wilson proposing the dU'cu85wn [I of terms of peace. One would havfe *lk>ughfc that the Germans wbuld have at loas ). re- frained from horrible crimes of this nature L W-hi^o their cry for peace was ttiidbr con- P sideration! But the mentality of "the Ger- maus, is past all understanding. :{.rlmy"pro- bably thought, ..arguing after their manner, that such a display of frightfulness would j strengthen the desire for. police.-In this country, and made the Allies more in- clined to return a favourable answer to "thèir request, Never were they mqre, mii- I' taken, for the jnurder of the innocent pas- sengers on the Leinster has only hardened tho determination of tho people here to exact a full penalty for all Germany's sub- marine crimes, of which this was-only next worst to the Lusitania horror. It may be, of course, that- the fault lies wit!i1Jthe sub- marine commander, and thjrt ho, i being German, and seeing a ckanco to inurder hundreds of "'omen and chikiroo. cou?d not resist it. Perhaps he said to himself .H?t tho war"; was ending, ■ and that he Itnight • never i get anpth?r such jgipvious diance. B?'utea they wepe and brutes they 1 remain, as Mr. Balfour says, and. ?n* &in?- ing of thtJ Leinfiier will certainly not. in- I, cline the Allies to be easy in theiv terms. j I We have already had trouble over the t question of paying women equal wages I v "WOMEN AND WAGES. with men when they are doing ijien's work, and may very,, likely have more. It is, indeed, one of the most delicate and difficult of indus- trial problems, and as women will certainly ( rematn in many industries after the war, I it will be one of the mast difficult pro- i hlcm. of reconstruction. Where \vomc>n»do I the same; work as- men, and do a6, inuch I and of as goed quality, the claim that they should be paid on 'the same scale would ) seem to be unanswerable. It has already ] "been recognised in certain cases, and the | men, no less than the women, may be ex- { pec-ted to demand its recognition in, others, Otherwise employers would employ women hecause they Vveve cheaper, and men would í be out of work. It is Uhen -the demand is (made a general one for all ki4ds of work that the question becomes complicated and. j most dimwit. For there are some kinds of work in which .women are not cqu?l to men. They are unable to turn out as il Imch or of such good quality. Mr. Kella- j way, speech a few days ago, went so i. i far as io say fhat in most classes of work j "five women are worth roughly three men," It is dear that if women, remain in these classes of work employers cannot j be ex.ected to pay them men?s wages. If that is  Insisted upoa,. in thesa i that is neYcrthelCS3 insisted upoa,. in theso it means that the, employment of women Industries will come to am end when the # m('n.ar mQre availa9]e pq

j II GERMS DESTROY GERMS. ■ Some microscopic one-cell creatures dev- top a poison which, killa other micro-organ- isms that devour them. Such is the nature of the formation of germ-destroying toxina in i the blood. of men and' animals. i + ■■

} Eer. Henry E. Oliver, M.A., vicar of St. James's, Croydon, ha^ Keen nouunat^d by I tha Archbishop of Canterbury to all honor- j ary canonry in the cathedral. Pespite- the fact that the crcp of flax in Ireland was not up to expectations, a ivef)-.d price of 3&. per stone, or £ 304 ¡>èr ton, waa paid In Duncaiutt>n Market.