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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1633, 27 December 1912, Page 5

The Bantu tribe in South Africa, an English writer •'. affirms, • 'were' formerly much healthier than now. One of tho reasons given for the change is a curious one.-;In old times the Bantu smeared his body.', liberally with grease,' arid wore almost no clothing. .The rain made no impression on his oil-protected skin. Now the. l'intive wears cheap-European clothing, and'when this 'gets wet the wearer is soaked through, catches'cold,, and Is liable to contract pulmonary disease. •:'

, Now .York ;'City has. 750 hotels—not counting the so-called Haines Law hotels —and they are said to be able to accommodate 350,000 persons. Aii exchange, in recording this fact, remarks' that ' these hotels/ coulcl .quarter./the entire standing army.-of Great Britain., .

"Would you save- tho picture or the baby?" is a question that has been discussat English dinner tables j recently, and. even in the London "Times." The question refers to Raphael's Dresden Madonna, and,to the ordinary garden variety of baby: Which would you try to save in a distinguished ijentleman asserts that he would save tho'picture, for "there is only one Dresden Madonna," wrhile "one.can.get another baby any day, by adoption if not by grace." To offset this, a well-known novelist says he would save even.' a live kitten rather than a dead pictured, ,'

Giiardalajara, Mexico, which occupies the second place among the cities of that republic, ;hns been devastated by earthquakes " during the' past few months. A newspaper report makes, the curious statement, in referring to these disturbances, that;parrots are the best prophets of seismic troubles,"■'• and that they . have frequently given warning to Guadalajara's residents, by thoi'r peculiar cries, when an earthquake was impending.'