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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8027, 13 January 1906, Page 4

On Battle-swept Inksrma,i. More than fifty years ago British troops *cre grappling with Kussia in the Crimea. To-day the hard fought fields of that war are visited by numbers of peaceful tourists, to Whom one of the chief points of interest is the Bock of Inkerman. The Bock is one of we most revered spots in the whole Uussian Empire. Expelled from Borne in a.d. 102, St, Clement journeyed to this very valley, and, high up in the eliff, hewed himself out a hermitage and chapel. This was the first christian settlement in this part of Europe. . i e ty o! the rook a monastery now wands, and a beautiful churoh is fast approaching completion. The contrast between the peacefulncsß of the churoh and the asenes of bloodshed whioh were onoe enacted bare, and in the valley of Balaclava ft few

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miles away, is very marked. The whole cliff la honeycombed with ancient cave dwellings, which look at the distance like a vast collection of martins' nests. It is believed that it was one of these that St. Clement adopted for his own use, or that the dwellings were tarved out by his followers and converts. A number of monks, quaintly attired and very sober of mien, are in charge of the hermitage, and readily escort visitors through the galleries into the ancient chambers where once Bt. Clement lived and worked, now so hung with rich hangings and gorgeous icons as to leave visible but little of the rocky and fungus coated roof and sides. At one corner in the roofis pointed out an iron cross, said to to be the original cross fixed there by the Mint himself some eighteen centuries ago. i Christmas in War Time. One remarkable feature of the siege of Paris, in 1870, was that everyone's appetite increased enormously. Bo says the author of "France in the Nineteenth Century," who was a witness of the scenes she describes. Christmas Day of that sad year, 3he says, came at last, and New Year's Day, the great and joyful fete day in all French families. A few confectioners kept their stores open, and a few boxes of bon-bons were sold; but presents of potatoes or small packages of coffee were by this time more acceptable gifts. Nothing was plentiful in Paris but champagne and Colman's mustard. The rows upon rows of the last-named article in the otherwise empty windows of the grocers reminded one of Grumio's cruel offer to Katherina of the mustard without the beef, since she could not hare the beef with the mustard. Here is the bill of fare of a dinner given at a French restaurant upon that Christmas Day:—Soup from horse meat; mince of cat; shoulder of dog with tomato Bauce; jngged cat with mushrooms; roast donkey and potatoes: rats, peas and celery ; mice on toast; plum pudding. Teetotal Empire. Emperor Menelik, the dusky ruler of Abyssinnia, has issued an edict prohibiting the importation of alcoholic drinks into his empire. French wines and German beer have, he says, found their way to his Court. He has watched their effects, and has come to the conclusion that if he does not put a stop to the drinking that is going on his empire will soon fall a prey to other nations. The Emperor has no objection to European art and sciences; but he sets his face against European poison, and declares that he will punish importers of alcoholic liquors by forcing the stuff down their throats until they die. In the preamble to his edict he says that drunkenness is pernicious, enfeebles a race, and destroys the body and mind. Be desires his people to remain strong, healthy, Jtnd independent, and, as a means to this Hid, prohibits alcoholic drinks in every pari of big domains. There's Hair. Not only ii "emotional " hair well known to medical specialists, bnt every hairdresser .if experience recognises it frequently in wnnection with his own customers. With jome peculiarly constituted people the hair '.! affected by every passing emotion, and lot only does itjreach the extremes of crispfless or limpness within a very few hours, ,iut it varies in oolor vastly. This latter peluliarity is so well recognised by every hairilressertbat some member! of the calling tre prepared to say definitely of a given re,rular customer, "Blank is not well, or ha lias some great trouble on his mind, just tow." Another strange fact is that there ii u comparatively limited number of people whose hair will never take any dye, no mat■tor what it may be, suooesfully and thoroughly. Bottle after bottle of brAr-Vi •nay bo expended upon it, bat It will nerS W» any pjgssnt properly. • . a -- < < -■

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