ANCIENTS SURPASSED US.
i cmiaren’s fathers were idling away
Mexican fireflies (pyropKorus), for ex»
their time.
ample, are beetles. Some of them
| “If you were to dig that land,” he Many Secrets They Possessed Are
give sufficient light to read by. Water
Lost to Modern Times.
j told them, pointing down to the fer
ton sometimes used thm in his way
Many
secrets the ancients possessed
tile valley, “you would come across
to write up his diary when wander
are lost to modern times and many
.
buried
treasure,
and
be
rich
men.
You
ing in the South American forests.
could wear fine clothes then, like the things they did cannot be equaled to
In adult life the glowworm is a veg
men in other villages, and your wives day. Thousands of years ago the
The deserts of the earth cover 4,180,- etarian, feeding on tender leaves of
“Wind,” wrote a little boy in hfs
would have brave new gowns, instead Egyptians used to embalm the bodies
plants, but while a grub it is carnivor
of their dead kings and notnlity so composition at school, “is air when it
000 square miles.
of
rags.
”
ous, feeding on snails and slugs. The
Immigration seems to be on the de- light of the glowworm and fireflies
Then he flew away on his broom perfectly that the bodies are in won gets in a hurry.”
cline, at least temporarily.
“I never worry or hurry.” “What
stick to a belt of fir-trees, and waited derful preservation to-day, as may be
.has been called phosphorescent and at
seen at the British museum. Clever as department of the government service
to see what would happen next.
Plants grow faster between 4 and 6 tributed to phosphorous. One investi
How long would it take to di-
At first no one seemed inclined to we are in this age, we cannot do the are you in?”—Buffalo Express.
a. m. than at any other time during gator, Jousset de Bellesme, has stated
same. The valuable secret is lost, and
fide compietely a two-foot block of ice
the day.
Miss Prim—I want a husband who
his conviction that it is phospheretted by means of a piece of wire on which hunt .for the buried treasure; they modern science cannot recover the iost
were
accustomed,
you
see,
to
doing
will
be easily pleased. Miss Grouch—
At an elevation of ten feet the" hori hydrogen gas stored up in the cellulai a weight of five pounds hangs?
just nothing at all. But after a while knowledge. Bodies embalmed now
zon is slightly more than ten miles tissues and in communication' with
Solution:
A block of ice would the wife of one of them, who had over adays will not be preserved for more That’s the kind you’ll get.—Life.
away in perfectly level land or at sea. the nervous and respiratory systems never be divided completely by a loop
Mrs. Benham—You have torn my
than a few years at most; very many
M. Fabre, however, finds that phos of wire on which hangs a five-pound heard what the Brownie said, bor of the bodies of Egyptians- embalmed train! Benham—That’s all right; your
If all the oceans were suddenly
rowed
a
spade
and
began
to
dig
in
the
dried up, and the rivers could main phorus does not enter into the com weight. For as the wire works its valley, and, not to be outdone, they before the birth of Christ are still so your train is long enough to be in two
tain their present rate of flow, it would position of the luminous substance ol way through, the slit closes up by re all followed her example.
perfect that the lines of the faces are sections.—J udge.
the glowworm. Under the microscopi freezing, and the weight falls to the
Howard—Bridget, did my wife come
take 3,500 years'to refill the basin.
marked as clearly as when they were
They
dug
and
dug,
but
still
no
it is seen to be a sort of white plaster
in a few moments ago? Bridget—No,
The total number of patents issued covering the epidermis and full ol ground with the wire, leaving the ice treasure appeared; and one day the first embalmed. .
Sheffield turns out the finest, hard sir. That’s the parrot you hear a-hol-
in all countries which thus project branching tubes. These, according tc still in a single block.
least dull of them suggested that, as
their inventors from the earliest time M. Fabre, supply the plaster with oxy 2. Two men, standing on the bank the ground was now so well prepared, est and most perfect steel the world lerin’.—Harper’s Bazar.
of a broad stream, across which they it would do no harm to turn it into a produces, but Sheffield cannot produce
“Doctor, how do you account for the
to December 1, 1909, was 2,999,433.
gen and so render it luminous. Thus
a sword blade to compare with those existence of rheumatism?” “The mind,
Coal dealers’ books show that the the light is caused by the exidatior could not cast their fishing lines, garden.
A neighboring farmer, who had the Saracens made and used hundreds my dear, evolved the disease to fit the
consumption of coal for the winter in of something the nature of which th€ could not agree as to its width. A
New Ybrk City will amount to one great naturalist has not yet been able bet on the point was offered and ac often pitied their poverty, generously of years ago, and the Saracens never word.”—Chicago Tribune.
cepted, and the question was presently gave them potatoes and seeds, and possessed the machinery we have, nor
“Which is the harder to write, verse
ton for each inhabitant, or about 4,300,- to determine.
decided for them by an ingenious
had the advantage of knowing so
000 tons in all.
According to M. Fabre’s observatior friend who came along, without any soon there was a big market garden much about metals as we are supposed j or jokes?” “Verse comes easier,” re
A German scientist has Invented a the light is caused by the supply ol particular appliances for measure- where there had been only wild flow to know. A huge fortune awaits the plied the press humorist. “You have
ers and weeds. So fine were the crops
to have an idea for a joke.”
so-called duplex compass which by in oxygen which is under the control ol ment.
that grew there that when they were man who discovers the secret which
Shopman (to boy who has asked for
dicating the horizontal intensity of the the animal’s breathing apparatus
He stood on the edge of the bank, taken to market they fetched a good enabled the Saracens to make sword
a penn’orth of pills)—Do you want
earth’s magnetism gives the approxi- Thus the glowworm can start, in steadied his chin with one hand, and
blades so keen and £ard that they
mate longitude and latitude of any crease or extinguish the light at will with the other tilted his cap on his price, and though the mountain folk would cut in two most of the swords them in a box? Boy—Yuss, o’ course.
found
no
buried
treasure,
when
winter
Think I’m goin’ to roll ’em home?—-■
It has often indeed beefi observed tc head till its peak just cut the top of
place where it may be used.
came there was gold and silver in the used in our army to-day.
Punch.
diminish
or
extinguish
its
light
wher
the opposite bank.
Lord Granard was once visiting
There are a dozen different methods
old wives* stockings, and the children
“Were you eVer in love?” asked the
Then, turning round, he stood ex were warmly clad.
some of his tenants! One of the farms approached. Gilbert White has an in
making artificial diamonds, but
of
sweet
young thing. “No,” replied the
he visited contained a large assort teresting note on this point. Observ actly* where the peak cut the level
When the Brownie paid them an hone of the stones produced by these
ment of live stock in a more than us ing two which had been brought intc ground behind him, and by stepping other visit, they greeted him with a methods can compare with those made bachelor, “but you can’t mention any
fashionable disease that I have
ually healthy state, and halting before the garden he found that they put oul to that spot was able to measure a storm of howls.
of old French paste, the secret of other
not
had.
”
a sty he said to the owner: “Those their lamps between 11 and 12 and distance equal to the width of
“Where is the treasure you spoke which is lost. So perfect were paste
Teacher
—Jimmy, you look very pale
pigs of yours are in very fine condi shone no more for the rest of the stream.
diamonds
that
it
was
difficult
for
even
of?” they demanded, showing their
this
morning.
Are you Ill? Jimmy—
tion.” “Yes,” agreed the proud farm night. It would appear, then, that
a
person
with
expert
knowledge
of
fists; but the Brownie only chuckled.
The Mystery.
No. ma’am. Ma washed my face this
er, “if we were all as ready to die as whatever the nature of the luminous
diamonds
to
tell
that
they
were
arti
The
fruits
of
the
earth
were
the
treas
substance this is only active wher
them, «my lord, we’d do.”—Tit-Bits.
ure that he had thought of, and now ficially produced, whereas most of the inorning herself. — Woman’s Home
supplied with oxygen by the animal.
Cardinal Rampolla, in answer to a
that through him the idlers had learnt modern artificial diamonds can be de Companion.
However produced, it is said that
Farmer (at the grindstone)—Well*
letter of inquiry as to the Charle the light of firefly and glowworm is
to be industrious, he was well 'content. tected easily, and their durability is
nothing like so great as the old paste why don’t yer turn? City Nephew—
magne manuscript which was Recent the most economical known. Econ
—Chicago News.
Nix! Ye don’t fool me ag’in. When
diamond.
ly discovered by him in the Vatican, omical, that is, in the sense that the
Birthdays in China.
Probably not one out of every ten ever I turn, yè go and bear down with
says: “There can be no doubt as to its greater part of the energy expended
In China all the boys born during thousand buildings standing in all the ax!—Life.
genuineness. It is well known also in producing it really appears as light.
the year have their birthday cele parts of the world and built by modern
“How shall I break the news to my
that he had often expressed himself In the very best artificial system o!
brated on the same day, no matter masons will be standing 500 years, parents that I have failed in my ex
in poetry, and a good example of his lighting yet invented only a small per
what date the real birthday is. It is hence. We do not know how to put ams?” “Merely telegraph them: ’Ex
composition and style is the epitaph centage of the energy expended on its
a great occasion, for the Chinese ban stones and bricks together as the an amination over. Nothing new!’”—
on Pope Stephen. The discovered doc production is turned into light, ths
ners are hung out and processions cients did, and consequently the build Fliegende Blaetter.
ument is an elegy on the death of nis rest appearing as heat and other in
take place. How would you like it if ing we raise nowadays will be in ruins
Bori, written in Latin, and when found visible vibrations.
“There’s a masked man at the back:
all children in this country had their
was in two pieces, the joining of
Elizabeth and Mary are the most pe birthdays in the same way, and had when the ancient buildings in Greece door.” “Horrors! Is he after my dia
and Italy, which ^ere built thousands monds?” “No, madam. He only wants,
which was a laborious task.”
culiar girls!
INSPIRED A PEOPLE'S PALACE.
Elizabeth has braided hair and Mary one great big birthday party instead of years ago, are in as good condition to borrow a can of gasoline.”—Louis
One of the New Jersey representa
of many little ones?
as they are now. The secret is not in ville Courier Journal.
bobbing curls;
tives in Congress, very much addicted It Is the People's Practical Anti
the bricks or stone, but in the cement
to apparel of the variety known as Saloon Expression in Jersey City. But that’s the only difference between
“Why don’t you get an automobile?’“
the happy pair,
and mortar, neither of which essen “I don’t know whether I could manage»
COULD NOT GET RID OF BOXES.
The People’s Palace of Jersey City
*‘loud,” was on his way to the capltol
And when you see the swinging braid
tials can we make as the ancients one or not.” “A poor argument. You
one day when he encountered Senator shows the method of the up-to-date
you know the curls are there.
made
them.
church,
by
a
generous
It
was
built
They
Were
So
Large
No
One
Would
took the same chance, didn’t you, when
Depew. “If you’re going to the capl
They live across the roadway and they
Chemistry, one might imagine, ie you acquired a wife?”
Move Them.
tol,” said the Senator, “we might as business man, Joseph Milbank, and
wave a fond “good-night,”
well walk together.” “I’m not going planned and managed by the Rev. And they call across “good-morning,”
Once there was a man who came the science which has made the great
The Poet—Poetry’ should be written,
Scudder,
pastor
of
the
First
John
L.
at
the
very
earliest
light.
there just yet,” said the representa
into possession of some boxes. Noth est strides in the last five or six de* on one side of the paper, shouldn’t it?
tive. “I must first stop to see my tai Congregational Church, says the De They do their work together and they ing funny in that? Of course not. cades. Yet modern chemists cannot The Editor—That depends on the:
study and they play,
lor about a new overcoat.” “The tai lineator. Years ago Mr. Scudder read
Anybody who had a chance to get compound such dyes as were common’
have to see each other at some nice packing boxes would have ly used when the great nations of to poetry; lots of it shouldn’t be written,
lor!” exclaimed Mr. Depew, in mock Sir Walter Besant’s novel, “All Sorts And ,they
least twenty times a day!
day were still unborn. Now. and on either side.—Philadelphia Record.
astonishment. “Why, Jim, it has al and Conditions of Men,” in which the
been as glad as he was.
“A man ought to be a good mechan
again
it happens that searchers after
idea
of
a
people
’
s
palace
was
elucidat
ways been my understanding that you
“They’re big ones,” said the friend
They
talk
and
laugh
and
chatter
till
ic
in order to get satisfactory Jesuits
antiquities
come
across
fragments
of
were clothed by a costumer.”—Cleve ed. Mr. Scudder determined to build
you’d think that they had said . ¿who gave ¿them to him, and the re fabrics which .were dyed thousands ol from an automobile.” “Yes,” answered.
such
a
palace.
Mr.
Scudder
not
only
Every single thing that could be fdtmd cipient laughed happily.
land Leader.
Mr. Chuggins, “but it’s still better to»
makes the People’s Palace self-support
within a small girl’s head.
“The bigger the better,” he said, years ago, and they are astonished by be a good financier.”—Washington.
Work on the New York State barge ing, but he makes it earn money to
the
wonderful
richness
of
the
colors
they sleep together after merrily. “I’ll send down to the place
canal goes on in a satisfactory man expand. The first $75,000 the gener But when
of the cloths, which, despite their age, Star.
talking all the day
ner, and it seems likely, says the Sci ous millionaire gave he frankly de They have to wake each other up— and get ’em this afternoon.”
Poet’s Wife—My husband read this
That afternoon he approached a are brighter and purer than anything poem at a public celebration before'
entific American, that the great under clared he expected to lose outright.
they have so much to say!
we can produce.
move
wagon
man
and
told
him
he
had
taking will be completed only within Six months after the place was buiit You’ll scarce believe this story, but in
Modern artists buy their colors thousands of people. Alas! it was the»
fourteen packing cases to be moved,
all the tongues ,we speak,
the contract time, but within the con Mr. Scudder informed him that the
ready
and spend large sums of last poem he ever wrote. Publisher—
Whether French or German, English, and asked what he would charge. The money made
tract price ($101,000,000) as well. treasury was ahead $4,000.
on pigments with which to Did they lynch him or shoot him?—
move
wagon
man
took
a
stub
of
pen
Latin,
Portuguese
or
Greek,
Work reaching $16,000,000 has already
color their canvasses. The pictures of Leslie’s Weekly.
The People’s Palace is essentially an
been done, and the work under con anti-saloon expression. Most pool and Sufficient words are lacking, and a lan cil and made a calculation based upon modern artists will be colorless when
“Ever been locked up?” demanded^
guage
all
their
own
tract now aggregates $54,1^8,329. The billiard rooms have bar attachments; Has this clever pair invented for their usual charges of 25 cents a box. and many of the works of ancient masters counsel. “I have been,” admited the
finally
agreed
to
move
them
for
$2.50
estimate for this work made in 1903 hence the People’s Palace has the larg
use when all alone!
as a whole. The box owner then went are as bright as they are to-day. Just witness. “Aha! And what had you.
was over $2,500,000 in excess of the est pool and billiard rooms, with the
as the secret of dyeing has been lost, been doing to get yourself locked up?’“
above figure. These contracts cover best equipment, in Jersey City, and They let me hear it one day, and my home and waited for his boxes. At so has the secret of preserving the col “I had been doing jury duty.”—Louis
last
he
called
up
the
place
where
the
314 miles of canal (the total length of the players are charged less than the
brain it simply whirled
ors of artists’ paints. Yet the secret ville Courier-Journal.
which will be 442 miles). Fifteen of saloon rate. Bowling alleys are there To hear them glibly saying each un boxes had been stored. The owne/ of was known to every ancient artist, for
Miss Elder—The idea of his pretend
the
storeroom
was
angry.
He
more
utterable word!
the fifty-four locks are practically fin- for similar reasons. Lodges and
hey
all
mixed
their
own
colors.
ing
that my hair was gray! Miss Pep
than
intimated
that
the
boxes
were
in
STet they tell me Mary cannot learn a
Ished.
trades unions, too. often hold their
pery — Ridiculous!
Miss Elder—
the way and suggested that the owner
single
Latin
noun
—
The question of a canal from the meetings over. saloons.
And Elizabeth in German has been come' down and take them away. The COUNSELS SON BY WIRELESS. Wasn’t it, though? Miss Peppery-
Atlantic ocean to the Mediterranean
A most beautiful lodgeroom, perfect
Yes, just as ,if you’d buy .gray hair!—
seven times sent down!
move wagon man had come, seen and
sea is up again, or was recently, in in its equipment, it attached to the When I ask them if they’ll kindly departed, shaking his head.
Marconi Connection Between Father Catholic Standard and Times.
the French chamber of deputies. The institution. The rent is lower than
and Boy at College.
clear the matter up for me
The owner then went down to
The Doctor—Mrs. Murphy, you must
naval as well as commercial value of is commonly paid for much poorer They simply stand and giggle, and straighten out the matter. He found
“10:20 p. .m.—Joe, what are you be at your husband’s side continuous
then say, “Why, don’t you see?” that the boxes were indeed large. One studying now? Don’t forget your ly, as you will need to hand him some
such a canal to France is obvious. One quarters. Every one knows the de
of the deputies, M. Senac, declared structive and vicious influences sur I know they think me stupid, though was a little fellow eight feet square, French. Good night.
DAD.”
thing every litte while. Mrs. Murphy
they’re always most polite,
that it would be worth at least a full rounding the dance halls of great
This message, or one somewhat like —Niver, doctor! Fur be it from me
sometimes come and tell me while the others could have held a
squadron of battleships to the navy. cities. In most places a social club And they
couple of square pianos apiece. They it, the Philadelphia Bulletin asserts, to hit a man whin he’s down!—-Puck..
when they’ve had a little fight.
Its estimated cost is $150,000,000, with can get a hall rent free, the proprie
were foreign-built boxes, dovetailed, is likely to be roaming about the at
“I thought I ordered quail!” “Dat’a
a width of 160 feet and a depth of tor only standing out for the bar privi I see them walking slowly with their and firm, and .built with screws and mosphere by wireless any evening. At
quail, suh.” “Quail nothing! That’s;
thirty-five. These dimensions would lege. The People’s Palace has tw’o
heads an inch apart—
cleats and plainly intended to remain present it is likely to be transmitted chicken!” “It was chicken, suh, but
make the canal a rather close fit for large dancing halls with smooth and I find them in the orchard cutting up boxes.
only by Dr. Walter Webb of Sharon it seed me a-comin’. * “What has that z «
an apple tart;
the “compromiseless” naval vessel (to polished floors, music played by elec
“This ain’t no lumber yard,” sug Hill to his son, Joseph S. Webb, a to do with it?” “De sight of a cullucfc
ward which the world seems steadily tricity and side rooms for ice cream I see them making bonfires or a very gested the man who had the store freshman at Swarthmore College.
pussol always makes a chicken quail*
shaky
swing,
moving) of forty thousand tons or and light refreshments. It has one
room. “You’ll have to get ’em out
The finer details of this minute-by- suh!"
I
fear
And
I
sometimes
hear
them
thereabouts.
of the finest gymnasiums in the world,
minute parental guidance were com- \Fath'er—Bobby, I’m surprised to sea
when they’re madly quarreling! this afternoon. I need the room.”
In his report on the cavalry opera a most complete theater, rifle and pis
Then the owner worked the tele pleted recently when a. receiving t sta you crying because a bee stung you-
tions of last year on Salisbury Plain, tol ranges, a library, indoor and out But what I really want to know and phone frantically in search of a pur tion was installed in young Webb’s
Brace up and act like a man. Bobby*
never can find out
issued by the British war office, Lieu door tennis and provision for all
chaser. By 4 o’clock three people had room in Wharton Hall, the boy’s dor
-Y-yes;
an’ then y-you’d gimme a.
Is
what
on
earth
that
couple
has
to
tenant General Sir Douglas Haig at forms of legitimate recreation. Mem
called, looked at the boxe§ and taken mitory at Swarthmore College. He
lickin’. Y-you told me w-what you’d
talk so much about!
tributes “great importance to young bership fees are so low that almost
fright.
They
were
very
large
boxes.
and his father have had a station at
officers being encouraged to hunt and anybody can belong. The Palate is —George Phillips.
By 5 o’clock the owner was trying to their home for some time and they do to me if you e-ever heard ma
play polo, and would urge that they open to everybody, men, women and
give the boxes away. One man agreed have installed one at college so that u-usin’ that kind of 1-language.
Buried Treasure.
“How can I tell,” asked the cus
should be helped to do so in every way children alike.
And “everybody”
to take them, and he was happy until the son will not grow rusty in han
Once upon a time there was a clus the man called up and, remarking that
tomer, “whether I am getting tender
possible.” “These pursuits,” the gen- comes. Across the street is the
dling
the
key.
eral adds, “have a very real value as church, but no one is expected to at ter of cottages on a mountain side, he didn’t - bargain to remove houses,
The beauty of the scheme is seen meat or not?” “There’s only one sure
training for war, and it is particular tend its services because he belongs and the people who lived there were threw up the job. At 6 o’clock he near after a little thought. Suppose the way, ma’am,” said the butcher, “an*
ly desirable that officers with private to the Palace. “Play here,” says Mr. so very poor that often they had noth ly had a fight with the owner of the young man writes home that, owing that’s by eatin’ of it.” “But I have ta
means should be encouraged to spend Scudder, “or pray there, just as you ing at all to eat. In the summer the storeroom, and it ended in the box to the press of studies, he will not be buy it before I can do that.” “Yés’m;
their money in this way rather than choose, but, anyhow, keep away from children stayed their hunger on the owner hiring a negro at 50 cents an able to visit the old folks over Sun that’s the beauty of thé prescription.’“
wild strawberries they found in the hour to make lumber of the boxes, and
Guardian—You say you are going ta
in buying expensive motor cars and the saloon and the gambling den.”
valleys. The land was so fertile that hiring a move wagon at $2 a trip to day. Then on Monday his father marry a man in order to reform him»
similar luxuries, which have an oppo
clicks
out
a
message
inquiring
wheth
blackberries grew almost as big as haul the lumber away. When he came
Appreciative,
site tendency.”
er Joe had received one which was That is very noble of you. May I ask
A housekeeper who has been em- plums, and the little people were as to analyze the situation he found he sent the previous day. What excuse who it is? Ward—It’s Mr. Oolbyrd»
GLOWWORM A BEETLE.
Guardian—Indeed? I wasn’t aware
ploying a colored washerwoman for busy as the squirrels when autumn had bought $3 worth of second-hand, could be offered?
several
months, was surprised to see came in, storing up nuts for winter nail-studded lumber *of odd sizes, and
Of course, this is not likely in this that he had any bad habits. Ward—
Insect Feeds on Snails—The Source
use.
When
these
were
exhausted
and
hei appear last week in a hat trimmed the keen north winds blew in from had paid $4!50 for it.
particular case, because Webb , is a Yes. His friends say that he is be
and Nature of Its Light.
diligent student and does what he coming quite miserly.—-London Sketch»
M. J. H. Fabre, the famous French heavily with crape.
the sea, they huddled together in the
When the Trouble Began.
“Why, Julia,” she asked, “is any of fireless hovels they called their homes,
“Little boy,” asks the well-meaning
says he intends to do. But when the
entomologist, has recently been study
reformer,
“is that your mamma over
“
A
couple,
”
said
Mrs.
Simpkins,
practice
of
having
wireless
stations
at
ing the glowworm. M. Fabre, accord your family dead?”
and cried so bitterly with the cold
“No, no,” was the reply, “but one of that the sound of their weeping,reach “got married a few days ago after a all homes and all schools is common yonder with the beautiful set of furs?’“
ing to the London Globe, that both
‘Yes, sir,” answers the bright lad»
courtship which had lasted fifty what will the average boy do?
male and female are luminous, al my best customers gave me this hat, ed a wise old Brownie.
At present Joseph Webb, at school, “Well, do you know what poor animal
though in the former the light is and I didn’t want her to think I don’t
Now, the Brownie loved little chil years.”
much feebler, Even the eggs and the ’predate nothin’.”
dren better than all the rest of the , “I suppose,” replied .Mr. Simpkins, has only a receiving station. Dr.’ Webb it-is that had to suffer in order that
laarvae are faintly 'luminous, The
world, and he did his best to help “the poor old man had become too can counsel and admonish him to his your mamma might have the furs with,
Acquaintances.
feeble to hold out any longer.”—Illus heart’s content and there will be no which she adorns herself so proudly?’“
light is produced on the last three
“Do you see that old gentleman, them by whispering into their frost trated Bits.
“Yes, sir—my papa.”—B. C. Saturday
“back talk.”
segments of the abdomen.
bitten ears what fun it would be to
And so it may go on. Inventive Sunset.
It may perhaps be worth while mamma? He often speaks to me.”
run
races
in
the
snow.
When
they
did
“Does he, darling? What does he
Sad Work.
“When I was once in danger from a
fathers may devise a thousand and
pointing out that the glowworm is not
this they were quite warm, but the
lion,
” said an old African explorer, “I
one
ways
of
keeping
the
son
at
college
a worm, but an insect belonging to say?” ,
“
I
see
where
a
man
who
never
smil
little things were too weak to
“Oh, he says, “Don’t you throw poor
up to scratch. When such home and tried sitting down and staring at him,
ed is dead.”
the great order of beetles, the coleóp
run
about
for
long,
and
soon
were
as
school connection becomes general it i as I had no weapons.” “How did it
tera. The mistaken name no doubt stones at my dog.”—Throne and Coun cold again as ever.
“What business was he in?”
is hard to say how unbearable a col work?” asked his companion. “Per
arises from the fact that the female try.
“He wrote ragtime music.”
When the frost-bound earth began
fectly. The lion didn’t even offer to
is grublike in form, without either
“Ah! That explains a great deal? lege boy’s life will become.
Women often say of a man who is to soften, the wise old Brownie made
touch
me.” “Strange! How do you
wings or elytra, and so singularly un perfectly sober:
“That man is up his mind that next winter they —Birmingham Age-Herald.
Take a good watch to a pawnbroker
like a typical beetle. The male, how drunk!’
should be better off. So he dressed
and see how quickly the time passes. account for it?” “Well, sometimes I’ve
ever, possesses both and flies swiftly.
thought it was because I sat down on.
himself up as a gray-haired witch,
It’s difficult to arouse a man’s en
Some actresses seem to think vari- and, mounting upon a broomstick, thusiasm by showing him a photo
Ministers and divorce judges are a branch of a very tall tree."
Luminosity among insects indeed is
chiefly found in the beetle order. The ety is the spice of matrimony.
rode off to the sunny alone where the graph of himselt when a baby.
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