THE LIONS OF VENICE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 24 November 1904, Page 3

THE LIONS OF VENICE.

Ij. •■ w jc. -vv .. - v : »•««« ** tw* '*** ammrnmm flpsa toohoa r ’ “ <V,* . A Batoeh to&ali t Sim at laflfl m» eeedadtodeciphsriog the ayotortono ; iwscriptio* l®w»dj«o»fe one mS the i ,JTKS^i 11 !^ Tienw oooreapondent ef «hj» BoltiThe feiaeripMon encircle* j P*vw *h* shoutfe** *ed fltnkit ©f ; Witter* rentadiaf citttiW cuaeloeotwy & &, Wg carried Ur«B th* ‘ Plraeue to. y*altorta,Franooaee MoroS' rial after Mb riototy over the Turk* i !is in Nonaan script. It reads: “Ha- ; icon, with AM, Aoamnd, «nd Am, has ' euptured this port. At the command of Haroidthe Long, they levied '» contribution upon the Greeks as ; 0 ! penalty for thoir : 'tobellte&?" Dalk was Absent in distant lands; XgU and i Ragnor wuro'on sm expedition In I Moesia and Armenia.. Aaomnd on* ; graved those nma, 1 with the oasis t- : once of Asgir, Thorleif, Thor, and Joar, upon thd order ef Harold the Long and despm the vigorous protestation* of th* dreefe#." V History roomHs that Harold the Long, in 1040, Anring an expedition in the MedHerrawan see, woe called to aid the Byxaoan* esnpesror, Michael ; IV., in order to Rehash the rebellioue Athenians, whom ha reduced to j obeßenee. Two yearn later he appeared before Constantinople, df- . posed the omperorfe miwcaosor, and installed the dual regency of Thee- ■ dora and Zoc, with the former of ' whom, jn 1056, the Macedonian dynar* ■ty of the Byeantfako empire ended, j Twenty years later the mighty viking i fell at Stamford bridge in a light | with hie English namesakenly * i few weeks before the bafthTof Ha«i tinga, which osta&ifalmd Hoonan rale in England. ~ ! mjfUS WYES PSR9UKSR7. I j Stw «C m» MMs Bed- Ben Men « if ' tr j-(. ■ ,' mm 7r*zr 1; - Thaw* ia a drag t rieife near - the CoUKisa who. hao- not'yet recovered from, on oxporlenea he underwent when the sporfcomenlo show was run-’ ning in the building. One afternoon .two Indian# who dwelt in their tepees’ on the edge of the miniature tank and lent an air of pactureequencee to “Heap smell,” and one of the red r men fe» guttural tones, pointing to ! the' dhow c*oo«'Where the toilet ar- ; ' The drug eierk' looked puzaled and his visitors regarded him with stoical anticipation. ease and drew out. a eahe of scented toilet soap. Tho Indian sniffed, it disdainfully, first tearing off ,lbs highlycolored wrapper. it on • t he floor and placed hie moccasin-cov- . ered foot upon it m disgnsi. “Heap smell! Hea^-' siheU!” he said, impatiently. The clerk’s face j suddenly brightened. Reaching into I a collection of ; bottle* ornamented { with pictures of violets and roses and I other botanical specimen®, he drew ! one out. The Indian sniffed it eej statically and then drew from the pocket of hie buckskin garments a large American dollar. Without Waiting for his, change he drew out the cork and poured the content* of tlm bottle 011 hie person. Hie companion j smiled approval and the two WQB .1 softly out, cloriog the door pentlg hw • : hind them. P “And they say the Indian isn’t a«w | ilized,” said the drug clerk, | TOO BIG 90S THE TURRIT. ! An Awnrtwg OnnoOiWe hililit hr ! Beane', Aftmst | a New Gunner. { Bear Admiral BoUsp D. (“Pfghtang j Bob”) Xvans wae one of the speakers at a banquet g£ven in Boston the other night, and in concluding hia speech told the following anecdote to illustrate a point he made, says the ‘Chicago Chronicle. ' “We were lying at CSsinfuagor when I received a draft of 3® men. I had 800, but thought that possibly com* of them might got killed and then >hey would have to give me eosne more. Among that draft there woo one very fine, largo fellow from Detroit. Before we got a ehaam to drill them we got the men on board. Kt two o'clock in the afternoon we .rationed them, did what wa call givufr them the bIHot. That sama ovenug before we got a ehaam to drill hem wo got the alarm: T«plo> boats coming mM* . ? ‘ "When 1 pafflßfi to get on &e . bridge 1 feH a tog ad tag iMowa. Jl •* ■vas the; Mg '»• .-iectric WM WMM na> ... ' ‘"Well, my man,*' fetid, brihf a ;! tie in a hurry, B wh»t is ivt . “Weil,’ said ho, 1 tame dawn tors 0 fight, and I want to fight, but X it bjh’t 'know where to go.* w ‘"Where are you statseraedF I , jAsked. , i" “Be pulled his biMot out of his pocket, and, after reading, it, said: T am stationed lit the port of that Mgbt-ineh turret.’. ~ said: ‘Here it io, right hora.* ‘"WeIV he replied, 'how to the lazes do you got into itf** . - fits the Terisaentav. “Pa,” Mid' Miss#Slangay, “you** ‘ ; ii,.ue to be thinking of digging yp hi>.me loaf sugar'for me.’’ i'lpLoaf. sugar?” exclaimed pa. **What j bii cart b !o you mean by—” ~ /‘Vncatijn money,-?pa.”—PhiUdeL phia Press.