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cipal source of revenue, and although the farmers have not yet been 

 afifected Hke the opium dealers in Selangor, they are distinctly appre- 

 hensive as to the effect the spread of the anti-opium movement and the 

 introduction of the specific in the colony will have upon their sales. A 

 month will show whether they really have anything to fear, for the 

 movement may die out as rapidly as it has sprung up, or it may result 

 in the ruin of the opium farmers and the consequent embarrassment 

 of the colonial government. — Consular Reports. 



LONGS AND SHORTS. 



Thackeray was 6 feet 4 inches. So was Fielding. Scott, Walt Whit- 

 man and Tennyson were six-footers. Goethe, the elder Dumas, Robert 

 Burns and Longfellow were 5 feet 10 inches. J. M. Barrie is only 5 

 feet 5 inches, and Kipling only 5 feet 6 inches. Edwin Abbey has the 

 same height as Barrie, so has Alma-Tadema. Lord Curzon is 6 feet 

 I inch. George Westinghouse is over 6 feet 2 inches, Andrew Car- 

 negie is 5 feet 4>< inches. President Roosevelt is 5 feet 9 inches. Mr. 

 Gladstone was 5 feet 9 inches. Sir Henry Irving was an inch taller. 

 Edmund Burke and Oliver Cromwell were 5 feet 10^ inches, which, 

 by the way, is the height of the present Prime Minister of England, 

 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Wellington was half an inch taller 

 than Napoleon. That trio of great admirals. Nelson, Blake and Sydney 

 Smith, were a little under 5 feet 6 inches. Bismarck was a tall man, 

 but not so tall as George Washington, who was 6 feet 3 inches. Sar- 

 gent, the great painter, is 6 feet ; Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Ruskin 

 were six-footers. — Halifax N'cics. 



It was not long ago discovered that by means of a simple chemi- 

 cal treatment ordinary gelatin can be solidified. In this form it re- 

 sembles celluloid, but it is not inflammable, and is, therefore, not 

 dangerous to handle, as celluloid is. It can be colored, spotted, or 

 streaked, as desired, so as to imitate lortoise shell, coral, mother-of- 

 pearl and other natural products. 



Identified. — "This." remarked Mr. Softe, "is my photograph with 

 my two French poodles. You recognize me, eh?" 



"I think so," said Miss Caine. "You are the one with the hat on, 

 are you not?" — Cassefs Journal. 



