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Tha Sailor's Hands.
A visitor who prides himself on bis
imutlcal affairs
Outrages or th Tslsphona.
That the lelephoue bus blessed many
a man, saved many Uvea and helped
IrnnwInHfrA 1 1 r
cbatlng with a friend outside the Flat- P'" ul '"' u"1 "l""1
lroD building. "See that man coul. cursed some wonu-n. ru m-d more lives
lnr he asked. "Can you tell what!" l"'s"?1";1 do,e!"1C '"f"u"T
! 1 .,..... . It has. Has it not become the favorite
ue is uy lue
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the New Yorker v""" -
,to do? It has. Docs It not accelerate
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of some sort. "
it uoes. oeit iu-
by
"Why. no." replied
who was with him.
iiUa uiill.irin.in
i i m i ...I..,.... rr ward constantly?
walked that way. A sailor always dulgent women waste their husbands-
.,. ,,, ,..,i, r hi. i,iu money by ordering food over the too
turned behind him and the backs handy telephone Uher than bother to
turned forward, the way he Is walk
ing. Look at that landsman over there.
llo swings his arms with the palms
dress for the street, thereby losing
both tbelr wholesome morning exer
cise aud their chance thriftily to se
cure the best there la for the price at
market or at stores from which the
of the bauds turned toward his body
oetV.aomu who to accustomed to tile KmU, larder is supplied The time
sea that way."
"What's the explanation?" luqulred
tbo other.
"Why. there lsu't any that I know.
It may be because the sailor gets the
babit of balancing himself tu rough
weather by the use of his arms, but I
don't believe that's the reason. It's
Just one of those things you can't
account (or. New York Press.
Tha Spinning Machine of a Spider.
The spuming machine Is situated un
der the binder part of the spider's
body. It takes the form of a slight de
pression, which a close inspection
shows to consist of six small bodies re
sembling tubes. Four of these contain
an Immense number of minute open
ings, as many as a thousand can be
counted in each, and from every one
of these openings a viscous Quid Is
sues, which hardens on exposure to
the atmosphere. The whole 4.000
threads are united Into one line, which
is sometimes so fine that 4.000.000
twisted together would not have a
combined diameter greater tbaa that
ef an ordinary hair-from the iuman
lead. It Is impossible to conceive the
excessive slenderness of one of the
4,000 threads which compose such a
line. The bare statement that each
one has a thickness only one sixteen
thousand millionth of that of a human
hair does not In any way convey the
impression of its wonderful fineness.
The mind can no more grasp the
meaning of such figures than it can
anderstand the Immense distance' of
which astronomers talk so glibly.
Kelvin as Damocles.
A characteristic always of Lord Eel
Tin was bis absolute faith in figures,
and this ruling passion once led' to bis
experiment as a Damocles. When be
once solved a problem in mathematics,
be was willing to stake upon its cor
rectness not only his reputation, but if
necessary, bis life. Taking an im
mense heavy cannon ball, be calculat
ed with the utmost accuracy the size
of the smallest wire which would bear
the weight of tbe load of iron. He
tben procured a length of wire of just
tbe requisite strength and to prove tbe
truth of bis figuring bad tbe cannon
ball suspended over bis lecturing plat
form at the very spot where it would
be most likely to strike aud crush biin
should tbe wire give way, and it re
mained there for weeks.
wasted by women in foolish phoning
can never be offset by time gained by
forehanded men in business, for what
shall it protlt a man If he gain the
wbole world If his "world" Is lost
through folly?
Telephoning, from a bablt, finally be
comes a vice and a menace to tbe cour
tesies. It bus destroyed the fine art
of social . correspondence. It has
crowned Haste with Courtesy's laurel.
Minna Thomas Antrim In Llppln
cott'a. Old Names For Guns.
As the use of urtillery became more
common and tbe advantages of port
ability and a greater rapidity of fire
were recognized guns, except amoug
the orientals, became smaller, but of
better workmanship and construction.
Inventors began to try their hauds at
all' sorts of improvements or attempts
nt Improvement, and in tbe course of
a hundred years or so tbe number of
different pieces of cannon, large and
small, muzzle or breechloading, was
simply legion. There were cannon.
cannon royal and demi-cannon, three or
four classes of culverins, bombards,
mortars, perriers, serpentines, car-
tboans, curtails, passevolants or zebra-
tanas, basilisks, orgues, sakers, min
ions, nojanes, falcons and falconets,
roblnets. fowlers, bases, slings, port-
pieces, murderers, drakes, aspics, dou
ble dogs and lagtors, to say nothing of
ribadoquins. flying dragons and par
tridge mortars. Gentleman's Maga
tine,
v
A Cutting Retort.
Before dinner, at the bouse of a rich
banker in Florence. Colonel (afterward
tbe Earl ofi Dundas had said some
sharp things about the crudities of
Americans. Notwithstanding this
rudeness it fell to his lot to take Mme.
Bonaparte (Betsy Patterson! in to ta
ble. Be Impertinently asked Mme.
Bonaparte if she had read Basil Hall's
book, on America, In which he pro
nounced all Americans vulgarians.
"Yes. Colonel Dundas." she an
swered, "but it did uot surprise me in
the least. If my compatriots were de
scended from the Italians or Spanish,
any display of low breeding might as
tonish me: but. being the direct de
scendants of Englishmen, it Is natnral
enough that they should be vulgarians."
"The Last Ditch."
A dignified origiu can be given to
the expression "To die in the last
ditch." On the death or De Witt the
Prince of Orange was made head of
tbe Dutch republic. Despite bis youth
he displayed the courage and tenacity
of bis race. "Do you not see your
eouutrv is lost?" asked the Duke ofi
Buckingham, who had been sent to ne
gotiate at The Hague. "There is a
, sure way npver to see It lost." replied
William, "and that is to die in tbe
last ditch."
Ho Got Married.
Our cook, slid the family man. bad
a beau who called on ber often, but
finally his visit ceased. 1 asked ber
one day what hud become of her for
mer attentive !)-: u. and she said be
had got married.
"Since he j;nt married." said she,
"he don't nme around any more."
Married:" said 1. Furprleed. "Why.
I thought lie would iarry you!"
"Ho tie diil." mi id the cook. Brown
ing' MuL-azi'ie.
Cursory.
"Eddie," said the teacher, "can you'
give a definition of cursory? Tbe word
is generally used in connection with
public speaking-. For example, we
often read that somebody 'made a few
cursory remarks." Please write a sen
tence containing the word cursory."
After a brief struggle Eddie evolved
this masterpiece:
"Yesterday my pa helped my ma to
bang pictures, and wbeo tbe ladder
fell after pa had climbed to the top
of it he bumped -his bead against tbe
corner of the dining room table and
then made a few cursory remarks."
Chicago Ilecord-Herald.
On Their Minds.
"I've got something on my mind tbat
I've got to get rid of," said tbe autbor.
bursting In and seizing a pad and
peocil.
"And when you have got rid of It
and have received a check for It there
is something down in. tbe milliner's
window that I want to v get on my
mind." said the author's wife, picking
op bis bat, coat and umbrella. Ex
change. J
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