tump is thus nearer to the north side. All
these things are the effects of the sun.

Stones are bare on the south side, and if they have moss at
all, it will be on the north. At best, on the sunny side
only a thin covering of harsh, half-dry moss will be found.

On the south side of a hill the ground is more noisy
underfoot. On the north side ferns, mosses, and late flowers
grow.

If you are on a marsh, small bushes will give you the
lesson; then leaves and limbs show the same differences.
Almost all wild flowers turn their faces to the south. There
are many other signs that will aid the lost person, but you
will find these enough.

ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Great Fortunes of To-day Compared With the Wealth of France
Under the Bourbons--The Dangers of Dust, and the
Eccentricities of Electricity--The World's Babel of
Languages--Amusing Anachronisms Perpetrated By Authors and
Artists--A Pin Scratch That Helped Nelson--With Other
Interesting Items Gathered From Various Sources.

FRENCH MILLIONAIRES OF OTHER CENTURIES.

GREATER EXTRAVAGANCE TO-DAY.

Prior to the Seventeenth Century No
Frenchman Had an Income That
Touched the Seven-Figure Mark.

Tales of the magnificent extravagances of France under the Bourbons have
led a wondering later age to think that never since has gold been lavished
upon luxury with so free a hand. But a French writer, the Vicomte Georges
d'Avenel, has taken the trouble to make comparisons, and he has found that
the incomes of to-day are relatively much larger than they were one, two,
and three hundred years ago. The New York _World_ has summarized from the
_Revue des Deux Mondes_ M. d'Avenel's discoveries:

For purposes of exact comparison M. d'Avenel estimates all
fortunes and incomes of bygone times in terms of their
equivalent value to-day, not as mere nominal sums. Up to the
end of the sixteenth century, he shows, no one had an income
of $1,000,000.

Louis IX in the exceptional year of the crusade of 1251
spent $775,000. After the Hundred Years' War, in 1450,
Charles VII's budget was $212,000. In 1516 Francis I, who
was noted for his taste for luxury, had only $259,000 for
his person and his court.

Napoleon III's civil list amounted to $5,000,000, but Louis
XIV had less than $4,000,000 for all expenses of an
extravagant court.

Richelieu