The Worst Part of It.
De Jones I hear your firm dis
charged yon.
Sraythe Yes; but I wouldn't mind
that so much if they hadn't added In
sult to injury.
De Jones How so?
- Smythe They advertiser! for a boy
to nil my place. Chicago News.
Tle Twentieth Century. -Tb
twentieth centurv becati January
lot, 1P01. ai.ii will end with 21100. People
did not heiiin to reckon time from A. I). 1,
hut waited until ahout the 6f0 year of the
Christian era. People a lio bejiin to take
the great health restorative, Hostetter's
fctomarh Kilters, immediately after the
. first outbreak of dyspensia, malaria, rheu
.matistn, eonsiinatioii, nervousness or kid
Miey trouble will date their cure immediate
ly from then.
Naturally. - -Faddy
Did you ever notice that
most of the black-faced artists are
Irishmen?
Duddy Naturally. An Irishman is
. right at home in Cork. Boston Trans
cript. Why Men Fall.
Duty very often lingers and permits
curiosity to get there ahead ot It.
Chicasd Daily N-
Spring
Cleaning
Yon are made aware of the neces
sity for cleansing- your blood in the
spring- by humors, eruptions and other
outward signs of impurity.
Or that dull headache, bilious, nau
seous, nervous condition and that tired
feeling are due to the same cause
weak, thin, impure, tired blood.
America's Greatest Spring Medi
cine is Hood's Sarsaparilla.
It makes the blood rich and pure,
cures scrofula and sait rheum, gives a
clear, healthy complexion, rood appe
tite, sweet sleep, sound health.
For cleansing the blood the best
medicine money can buy is
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
' i It is Peculiar to Itselft
American Commission at Paris.
The cost of the American commis
sion at the Paris exposition was nearly
J1,000,000.
All d'seesed conditions of the
Mm4 an-i 9fcin are benefitted bv
the writ known tvmedy, Garfield
Tee: u purines the blood and
clears the complex ion
Good Subject Makes Good Talker.
McCarthy Old Brown declares you
ar tite most tuMertaining talker in
the club. What do you usually talk
about in his company?
McCommick Old Brown. Harlem
Life.
Thai sigrnstare is oa every box of the (saoiM
Laxative Brorao-Ouinine Tablet.
tmm esj
It Wouldn't Do.
Br-n Munchausen had Just writ-
tT -etter to a friend
He closed with a flourish, "yours
1 - and signed his name.
T.iPi. with a melancholy smile, he
--. the word "truly."
-. would oily move him to derisive
t?i- - er." he said. Chicago Tribune.
ffel the Krti rise of Dsastrl
Rfd pi n r! v bloirhrs. bolls, sores are daniter
siltnais of t.-rp.d liTr. poisoned blood, tu.
cams fi;iT t sthenic niil seTe job. Ail
druggist iwr. 5c, juc.
Amending Shakespeare.
JTer Escort Ise awful fond ob
music' "specially dance mnsic.
Miss Snowflake So's I. Doan day
say dat music am de food ob lub?
"It am de very chicking an' watah
million of lub." Puck.
Pis's Cure fr Cn?nmption is an infal
libte meuicine f-r rivuens and eids. S.
"V .-a ml ki CKeau tirove. N. J , Feb. 17,
laoo. r -
Not Completed.
Mrs. Darting You told me before
we were married that you bad an In
come of Vi.000 a year. What has be
come of it?
Mr. Darling Can't tell you until I
get an itemized bill from your dress
maker. Denver Neva.
TOW HOW WHAT IOC ARC TAKIKS
When tmi take Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic,
because tee formula is plain! r printed on every
bottle snowinr that it is simnlr Iron and Quf
Bine in a tasteless farm. Ko Cure, So Pay. Sue
For Keeps.
Ascum So you've got a political
situation? Do you expect to keep
tt?
Rafferty Faith, I do. so, an' what's
more. I ixpict it to kape me. Phila-j
delphia Tress.
Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's 800th
Ine s-vruf tne be?t remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
Serum for Diphtheria.
During a recent epidemic of diph
theria ia a town on the Hudson, 205
among these there .were only two
deaths.
a"X Penmjtitly Curvl. Ifo fits or ! f muspesi i
file fcftr Hrwr -t.-- .i.-of 1 K!is' r.rmx Nrr ;
tlMbvr uil !.r Pst RKSLOOlrul iKllsnd treat. ;
aw. Xia.au kukt.Ud.-wi Arcbsc, Pouadslehia.Fa, :
The Meanina in a Soueili. !
Gus tie Smith Those new boots of'
yours squeak awfully; perhaps they
ain't paid for yet?
Johnny That's all nonsense. If
there is anything in that, why don't j
my coat, and vest, and my trousers, i
and my hat squeak, too? Exchange.;
TO CI KB A COLD IX OS DAT
' Take Laxative Broroo Quinine Tablet. All
Brueglsts refund the moncr if it fails to core.
K. W.taiove'ssignatQretson each box. 2.':.
Restoring a Medieval Caatle.
At Hohkonlnsburg, in Alsace, the
remains of an early medieval castle
Is to be restored by the kaiser after
the manner in which Pierrefonds was
rebuilt by the architect Viollet le Due
for the Empress Eugenie.
composition or sweetbreads.
Elsie (aged 2) Mamma, I want to
ask you a serious question. I
. . Mamma Well, what is it iim.i
Elsie Are the sweetbreads made of
loaf sugar?
The Vest Preeerfptlon for Malaria
Chills and Fever is a bottle of 'trove's Tasteless
Colli Tonic It Is simply iron and quinine in
a teateiess form. No Cure, tio Iay. Price bOc.
Little Alice's Description.
Little 3 year-old Alice stood watch
ing her mother baking pancakes. After
a few moments' silent observation she
said: "Put on back, turn over on
stomach, then eat." .-r
I .
SUMiER
is best tine lo cure Catarrh,
Krniichtt: slid Consumption.
Our remertv Is unarnnteed, $1.
X H7 3.
W. H. SMTH iJ0., Buffalo, N. Y
WW
LOHtS Wrttrit AlL fi.Sf f AILS.
t C-outfh by ru p. Tiutte tiuotl. U
in time. fj!J bv drtJKirietta.
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' The months of April and May usually
cover the time when the cyclone has Its
Inning In the central s valleys "of the
country. The records of recent -years
show that at about the first of May the
cyclone season is at Its height, although
some ot the rrightful storms have not
occurred until a month later.
Scientists have struggled with the cy
clone problem for . mmiy . years., but
much of the mystery surrounding Us
origin Is unexplained; also the reasons
of the prodigious power It exerts upon
objects in Its path. They agree, how
ever, on one to: us, and that Is the name.
Cyclone, they say, is a misnomer, the
correct designation be luff tornado, but
the people who have actually wrestled
A WESTERN CYCLONE AT WORK.
with the monster and have seen It toss
ing their residences about in midair call
It a cyclone, and cyclone it will be.
Scientifically the cyclone Is the storm
that sweeps over the South Atlantic
Ocean, with a diameter or from WO to
1.000 miles. -
The tornado travels in much smaller
form, but in its reduced dimensions It
has all the concentrated energy of the
ocean storm. The diameter of the tor
nado Is seldom more than KO yards and
frequently much less than that. It has
been known to travel straight along a
country road for more than a mile,
wrecking everything in its path, but
not injuring the fences on either side.
The diameter of this tornado could not
nave been more than SOorilO feel, but
its power was almost beyond belief.
But the curious freaks worked by the
cyclone or the Kansas variety command
more attention than its tremendous
force. On one occasion the roof of an
eight-room house was lifted bodily, car
ried 2uu yards, hair way into a grove,
where It seemed Impossible that It
could have passed between the trees,
and lert lying flat, but upside down. In
a vacant spot Just large enoujrh to re
ceive It. Occasionally the side 'of a
bouse is carried away and converted
Into kindling wood, while the rest or the
edifice is quiie uninjured.
In one instance, in Iowa, hair a double
bouse was shattered to bits, while the
other half and the hall were quite un
touched, even the carpet on the ball
floor remaining nnsoiled. and the paper
on the wall showed neither spot nor
scratch.
In another, the porch of a Kansas
house was cut away as neatly as though
with an ax. a queer contract being seen
In a third case, where trie bonse was
destroyed and the porch left standing
intact.
In Nebraska the seconii story of an
eight-room house wis taken off and
the first was left, so Utile shock being
given to the building by the violent re
moval of the npper half tbat the clocks
on the mantelpieces were not disturbed,
and continued to tick as usual.
A still more curious freak was played
by the wind In a Kansas dwelling. A
donble bouse, with a ball in the middle,
stood facing the direction from which
the cyclone was approaching. When
the storm was seen the residents took'
refape In their care and listened to bear
the fall of their borne. A terrible crash
was heard, and they, of course, sup
posed that the bouse had gone. On
emerging they were surprised to see the
house standing as before, but were al
most paralyzed with astonishment to
find the northeast wall of the dining
room, which was on tha opposite side
of the house from the direction the
storm came, bad been blown out, the
furniture, tables, dishes and all other
contents had been carried off and crush
ed to atoms, and no other damage bad
resulted to any part of the building.
The cyclone which devastated Sher
man, Texas, stripped nearly all of the
dead of clothing, and from the feet of
every corpse the shoes had been
wrenched. This Is a common trick of
cyclones, bnt scientists cannot fathom
It- In many Instances the shoes disap
pear, being either torn to fragments so
as not to be recognizable as footwear
or carried off to considerable distances
and dropped In places where. If found
at all, tbey excited Utile comment. In
several Instances, however, the shoes
have been found close to the bodies of
the dead and In a couditton tbat Indi
cated very powerful electrical action.
Some years ago a shoe was taken
from the ruins caused by a Kansas cy
clone, and its condition caused no little
wonder.Jt bad been ripped from the
foot of a man who was killed. " The
strings were gone and the upper por
tions, from ankle to sole, were cut Into
tolerably regular strips from a quarter
of halt an tneb In width. The sole
seemed at first glance Intact, but a
closer examination showed thnt this
portion was pierced by a number of
small round holes. They were the
holes where the metaj nails or tacks
bad been; the latter had disappeared,
melted by the electricity.
Metal objects on the bodies of per
sons killed are frequently thus Sreated.
The corset steels of women become
drops of iron, the knives of men and
bunches of keys carried in the pockets
are fused into a solid mass. Watches
and watch chains are often similarly
treated; in two or three cases In
1 4-H
Unevnlninnhla Cnmo t
Queer Things Cyclones
Have Done:.
Southern Kansas the watch of a vic
tim was not sufficiently melted to lose
all its original form and could still be
recognized.,
Sometimes these remarkable effects
are produced without visible injury to
the body or to the clothing that re
mains on It, a circumstance quite un
explaiuable with our present knowl
edge. When the clothing Is removed
It is generally not found, being prob
able rent Into Indistinguishable rags,
but when It or portions of It are left
the -wind treats it in the most whim
sical manner. In Iowa, in 18S5. all the
clothing but the coat was torn from
the body of a man, this garment re
maining almost Intact; In Kansas a
body was stripped of all save a collar
and cravat.
Iu Its treatment of domestic animals
the cyclone often betrays a humorous
side. In Kansas the feathers of every
chicken on a farm were stripped as
clean as if an expert picker bad done
the Job. The unhappy fowls were
otherwise uninjured, although consid
erably bewildered ss to what had hap
pened to them.
Chickens are not the only sufferers,
however, for rabbits and cats caught
in the whirling wind are denuded of
their fur as completely as the fowls of
their feathers. They are not skinned,
but stripped, the agency being prob
aVily the auie aud the action identical
with that which rends the clothing
from the bodies or men.
Wherever a cyclone passes over a
spot the water in the wells and cisterns
is sucked our and disappears. The
same phenomenon occurs in the case
of springs, which are drained to such
an extent tbat they sometimes rail to
run for many minutes after the storm
has passed. The water of ponds Is
carried away, and the beds of creeks
and small streams become visible.
One of the most disagreeable features
of the cyclone is the amount of mud.
sand and small stones It carries, and
with snch force are these borne along
'. " 1 j . - uniru iuiu ius ueso,
where they form festering sores, very
stubborn and ditllcnlt to treat or cure.
In many Instances fragments of planks
or hoards have been driven, point first,
into or through the trunks of large
trees, and remain there as secure as
though mortised Into the wood, snch
Is the terrible strength of the wind.
Careful observers who have been In
a position to notice the action of a
cyclone from a distance say there Is a
sm-tion force in front, a rotary, grind
ing motion In the center and a pound
lug In the rear. In other words, when
a cyclone strikes an object It first sucks
It upward, then It Is twisted and torn
Into fragments and finally slammed
down on the ground with tremendous
force.
LOVE VAULTS FROM
A CIRCUS MAX'S HOME.
Peter Sells Is not the only circus man
who has seen Cupid in his act of turn
ing somersaults. Walter 1. Main has
sned his wife for divorce. - He Is one
of Ohio's best-known showmen and
lives In a magnificent home at Geneva,
but Mrs. Main refuses to share It with
dim. and Is In California. She was
Florence Dtinmn, a young school teach-
w. I., maim ami ins win.
er of Trumbull, Ohio, which was also
Main's home. At the time of their
marriage. In 1887, Main was a poor
country lad, whose natural bent was
the training of animals, ponies - and
dogs. The year before he had been on
the rnnri crivlnfr nftrfitrnmnfpB it, a '
small, round-top tent,' and had met
with enough success to encourage liltu
to launch out again In a similar enter
prise. Ills wife made and was In
charge of the wardrobes, and - took
tickets at the tent entrance. Main
made half a million In the business In
fifteen years... Up (o Mrs. .Main
traveled with her husband, .who can
not understand her present actions. :
In all weathers: "Why are English
men wearing their trousers turned up
more than ever?" "Because they are
afraid of De Wet!" Washington Correspondent.
son's k
Sho toll nil sat faring
ourod of Ovarian
- - . '.12 ' !S!Jr
" Dkb SfRS. Pivkbam : When I wrote to you a few months
ajro I had been suffering from inflammation of the ovaries and
- womb- for over- ei-titeea-mootltu. - X had a continual pain and
soreness in ay back and aide. . -J believe my troubles were caused
by overwork and lifting some years ago. Life was a drag to ma
and I felt lilco riving up-. I had several doctors, but they did me
little good. I began to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound four' months ago and am in better health to-day than I
. Lava been for years. ..Ail my pains are gone. Your Vegetable
Compound has made me well. I recommend it to all suffering'
women.'' Hits. 8. J. Watson, Hampton, Va.
When there la one remedy tbat fa sure, and
hundreds of thousands of women know from ex
perience Is reliable, fs It wise to experiment with
untried and comparatively unknown medicines?
i
4
'1 he- Key to the Situation.
First Detective How did you man-,
aire to discover the scandal In their
family closet? 1
Second Detective Well, you see, I
had a skeleton key. Smart Set.
WAS TORTURED
i
An Indianapolis Woman's Sworn State
ment of the Way in Which She
Was Saved From Death.
From the Indianapolis News.
Mrs. Mary K. Burns, of 505 HIa-1
wat ha street, Indianapolis, Ind-. Is liv-,
Ing evidence of the wonderful powers
cf Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People, the remedy that cures where
all others fail. For years she en-,
dured all the tortures of Indigestion.'
nervousness and female weakness, a
complication of troubles that five phy-;
stcians confessed their inability to
cure. Her story is well worth the at-'
tendon or every woman. She says:
"My illness commenced after my
first child was born. I was so weak '
and nervous that it seemed I would
never get strong. For twelve years
I doctored for female trouble, com
plicated with nervousness and Indiges
tion. My stomach was so weak that
for days at a time I could eat nothing
but bread aqd milk. I was also troub
led with palpitation of the heart and
was often so miserable that 1 could not
lie down. Five doctors prescribed for
me. and I took many kinds of medi
cine without being ' benefited. One
day I saw Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
advertised In the papers and I de-'
cided to give them a trial. I did so :
and had not finished taking the first
box when I knew that I was getting
better.
"You can Imagine the relief I felt
when I found that after years of suf
fering I was being cured. I continued
taking the pills, and the female trouble
entirely disappeared. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People did more
for me than It was claimed they would
do. Since I first took the pills I have
not needed a doctor nor any otbe
medicine: they have restored m.
health, strength and happiness.
"MRS MAR l K. BURNS."
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this lfth day of October, 19O0. '
GEORGK H. SWAM".
(Seal) . Notary Public.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pair
People are sold by all dealers, or will
be sent postpaid on receipt of price
50 cents a box, or six boxes for J2.50
(they are never sold in bulk or by the
hundred), by addressing Dr. Williams
Medicine Company. Schenectady. N. Y.
A Forehanded Lover.
' Shan't we elope. George?" .
"Yea, If you think it will please your
father. Financially I'm not prepared
to get him down on me."
arre thm Oomph mntt
MTW-ata Off IA CoJri.
Laxative Hnunn-vulnlne Tablet cure a cold la
sue day. No cure. No i'ay. Price 36 cents.
Force of Habit.
Wotild-Be Suitor I desire to pay my
addresses to your youngest daughter,
sir. Have you any objections?
Druggist My youngest daughter Is
already engaged, young man. but 1
have another daughter Just as good.
Somerville Journal.
. Passing Fare.
Street, car conductors are never
beautiful. In fact, tbey are not even
passing fare. Philadelphia Record.
' Yonrlluldeann Guard lathe fkmoui Oregon Blood
PurlArr, le.ed awl tre t'ssitnoe. -
Would Still Be a Puller. .
"Charlie," said a visitor to a bright
little 5-yenr-old, "are you going to
be a dentist like your father and pull
people's teeth when you grow up?"
"No, Blr," replied Charlie. "I'm go
ing to be a lawyer like Uncle George
and pull people's legs."
Aluminum Bridges for Cavalry.
The Austro-Hungary war office has
recently tried with success bridges of
aluminum for cavalry. They are the
Invention of Captains de Vsux and de
Vail, and are easily carried on wagons.
rrH0KH0H
5000
1 1 Beware of Them
5 Thtt-a ars Own ifHUUna-W.-.ta O L
S Prhap. Rive the moat pai J
iff .O J " V ' 8 ' S
fVIUtlVU - x
5 and X
I Lumbago
j Both disable and cripple, " c ' ; 5
I St. Jacobs Oil J
K is their beat cure. ' fi
women how mho warn
Inflammation by
nrUilnit We have deposited srita
KrVlAKLl " Netionsi City Bink,
IS. It "IIS ot !,,, J5.000. which
will be peld to any per.
Son who can find that the above testimonial
letter la not genuine, or was published before
obuunins; the writer's special pcrmusnoo.
Lvot4 B. PiNSisiaM MsDiciNe Co.
Woes of a Wife.
"Oh. tbat I should have married a
funny man!" she walled.
"What is the matter, lovely dear?"
asked her most Intimate friend.
"He came home and told me he had
a sure way to keep Jelly from getting
moldy at the top, and when I asked
him how he said turn it upside down."
Boston Traveler.
Garfield Tea la an excellent
medicine lo take in the spring:
it produces a healthy action
of the llrer: It cleanses the
system and purines the blood.
To Play "Shopping."
The leader says: "I went shop
ping this morning, and everything I
bought began with A. From the gro
cer I bought (points to a player and
waits for response), from the drag
gist (points to another), from the
dry goods store, from the baker."
etc. The responses must be given
quickly. The penalty is to take the
place of the leader and start another
letter.
Poison Oah
Poison ivy
are among the best known
of the many dangerous
wild plants and shrubs.
To touch or handle them
quickly produces swelling
and inflammation with in
tense itching; and burning
of the skin. The eruption
soon disappears, the suf
ferer hopes forever: but
almost as soon as the little blisters and
pustules appeared the poison bad reached
the blood, and will break out at regular
intervals and each time in a more aggra
vated form. This poison will loiter in the
system for years, and every atom of it
must be forced out of the blood before yon
Emu expect a penect, permanent cure.
N.iBrc's A in dote
FOR
Nit arcs Pols'is.
is the only en re for Poison Oak. Poison
Ivy, and all noxious plants. It is com-
poseo exclusively of roots and herbs. Isow
is the time to get the poison out of your
system, as delay makes your condition
worse, . Don't experiment longer with
sal ves, washes and soaps they never cure.
Mr. S. M. Marshall, bookkeeper of the Atlanta
(Ha ) Gal Light Co., was poisoned with Poison
Oak. He took Sulphur, Arsenic and various
easier aregs, end epplted externally numerous
lotions and salves with no benefit. At times the
swelling snd inflammation wasso severe he was
almost blind, t-or eight vears the poison would
break out every season, Il:s condition was much
improve.! sfler taking one bottle f S- S. S., and
a few botttescleared nis blood of the poison, and
all evidences of the disease disappeared.
People are often pojsonej without
knowing when or how. Explain your case
fully to our physicians, and they will
cheerfully give such information and ad
vice as you require, without charge, and
we will send at the same time an interest
ing book on Blood and Skin Diseases.
THt SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, SA.
Another Victim.
"My father," said the sweet young
thing. "Is a gold bug. Are you?"
"No." replied the young man. "I be
long In the melanoeste plcipes class."
' "Uood gracious!" she exclaimed,
"What's that?"
. "That," be hastened to explain, with
the aid of a practical Illustration, "is
the scientific name of the kissing bug."
The Truth Forced Home.
"I'm afraid," Bhe sighed, "that I'm
getting old."
, "Why?" he asked,
j "When I go to the grocery now the
clerks don't nearly break their necks
trying to beat one another in getting
my orders. Chicago Times-Herald
Knew the Sort.
Eleanor's Mother You do Eleanor
great Injustice, my dear. She is not
idle, only delicate. She has no power
of endurance.-
.. Eleanor's Father Humph! I know
all about her power of endurance. It's
the kind that'll let her dance all night
In shoes two Bizes too Bmall for her.
and make her too tired the next day
to dust the parlor. New York World.
ilidusness
1 ta-vB QtMA yomr valuable CASTA
tKTS and Ond them perfect. Couldn't do
vithuuc them. I hare used them for soma time
orindiKaatLon and biliounnesa and mm now com
wletvA-ir cured.. Keoomtnend them, to every one.
knee tried, you will never be without them In
he family. ,r Ejjw. A. Marx, Albany, N. Y.
Candy
jJF VATHA KTI G jjA
CATHARTIC
Pleaaant. Palatable, potent. Taste Good. Do
Gooo. .Saver Stoatm. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. &c, 0a.
... CURS CONSTIPATION. ...
Hwt m? mmmmj, ImumI. Tort. 91
Mfl-TO-RAf n- sTitarantrpetl bv all druc
sj w awe-. w mia tt a, j KaTi
1 Tooaooo Habit,
Springtime Resolutions .
Hccicy Cure
. Sure relief from liquor, opium and tobaooo
tiabits. Semi for particular! to
Keeley Institute, 3(4 Sixth St., Portland, Or.
A FORTUNATE KICK.
Cnceremonloualx Ousted from Train
It Made Thia Man Wealthy.
During a recent conclave of railroad
magnates In New Orleans something
reminded a well-known general man
ager of a whimsical story, says the
Times-Democrat of that city. "I am
afraid there Is no particular moral to
this yarn," he said, "but It happens to
be true, and I'll give It to you for what
the newspaper boys call 'human Inter
est.' Not long ago the millionaire pres
ident of a big manufacturing concern up
In Ohio made a speech at a banquet,
and to Illustrate bow seeming misfor
tunes may prove blessings In disguise,
he said that he got bis start In life
through being kicked off of an accom
modation train In the dead of winter.
It was during the bard times of the
'SO'S, be went on to relate, and al
though a skilled mechanic and some
thing of an engineer, he found It Im
possible to procure work of any kind,
even manual labor. Things went from
bad to worse, and at last he found him
self stranded somewhere In Southern
Ohio. Be was stone broke and desper
ate, and wanted to get to Dayton,
where be had beard vaguely there was
something doing In his trade. So one
bitter cold evening he slipped on board
an accommodation train, boplng to be
able to talk the conductor into carrying
blm, but he failed lgnominlously.
He begged snd pleaded, and told bis
story with all the eloquence of despair,
but the ticket puncher refused to melt
On the contrary, he pulled the bell rope
when they came to the next station,
grabbed the nnhappy young mechanic
and propelled him off the car with a
series of swift kicks. He landed in a
snowbank and slept In a freight shed,
but next day his chance came. A span
suddenly gave way In a new Iron
bridge over a big creek at the edge of
the town.- and the whole structure
threatened to go down before experts
could arrive from the builders', foun
dry. At tbat critical Juncture the
stranger Jumped into the breach, built
a temporary supporting trestle out of
logs and cross ties, and saved something
like $20,000 worth of work. Of course,
the bridge people were delighted, and
when tbey saw what a really scientific
Job be had done tbey offered the shabby
engineer a handsome position In their
establishment. From that on his rise
was rapid, and. In concluding the little
tale, he laid especial stress on the ap
parent hopelessness of his position the
night he was ejected from the train
and made the point tbat one should
never give way to despair. "If that
conductor had carried me on Instead of
kicking me off," be said, "I wonld have
missed the great chance of my life.
and might be working now at the
bench. I am really Indebted to him for
my start In the world, and I have often
wished that I could meet him and tell
blm about It."
All moths produce some form of silk.
Seventy years ago there were no pub
lic libraries In America.
More than 90 per cent of the Japa
nese public travels third-class.
Total number of patents granted In
the Isst sixty-two years 1.073,950.
The River Jordan has Its origin In
one of the largest springs In the world.
The Eskimos of Alaska make water
proof boots and shirts of the skin of
the "mon.
To carry a ton of wheat from Buffa
lo to New York In 1800 cost $100; to
day It costs XI. 50.
The first strictly scientific college In
the United States was the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, founded at Troy,
N. Y, In 1824.
A trocha Is a narrow path crossing
the main highway. Used as a war
term It signifies a line of defense
stretching across certain portions of
the country, crossing all highways and
of course cutting off all travel.
Were It not for matter floating In sus
pension In sea water, minute living or
ganisms and air bubbles due to the
breaking of the waves, all of which
reflect light, the ocean would look as
black as Ink. for In that case none of
the sun's rays, having once penetrated
it. would be reflected to Its surface.
In India, China, Japan and adjacent
countries are about four hundred mil
lion people who rarely est meat; yet
tbey are strong, active and long lived.
Darwin Is authority for the statement
that the Andean natives perform twice
the work of ordinary laborers, and sub
sist almost entirely on a diet of ba
nanas.
As far back as Feb. 20, 173S, an "urn
berella" was Imported In the good ship
Coustantlne, as shown by the Invoice,
"for the proper account and risque" of
Edwin Shlppen, who for aught we
know, might have worn that nine-
shilling "umbrella" completely out
years before Jonas Hanway excited the
ire of the London cabman.
An Enkluio baby is born fair, except
for a dark round spot on the small of
the back, varying In size from a three
penny bit to a shilling. Prom this cen
ter bead of color the dark tint gradu
ally spreads till the toddling Eskimo
is as beautifully and as completely and
as highly colored as a well-smoked
meerschaum pipe. The same thing
happens among the Japanese.
An Interesting relic in the shape of a
piece of a granite boulder, containing
what appears to be two human foot
prints, has been loaned to the museum
at St. Johnsbury, Vt, by William A.
Chase, of M orris vllle. The rock from
which the piece was quarried has been
a curiosity in Granby for a century.
It ts a graulte boulder weighing sev
eral tons, situated one and one-half
miles from Uallup's mills.
Fennles do not consist of copper
alone, there being In them 2 per cent
of tin and 3 per cent of zinc to 05 of
copper. Tbey cost the government
about 42 cents a pound exclusive of
stamping, and there are 1,418 In a
pound, so that the government makes
a fair profit on every pound minted,
since while they are redeemable In
gold, but few are presented. At pres
ent they are all coined in Philadelphia
by law, because there was formerly no
demand at all for them In the South
went and In the far West.
The Other Rye.
James Albery, the dramatist, was
one day descending In a great hurry
the steps fronting the Savage Club,
London, when a strauger. In a state of
mind which defied punctuation, ad
dressed blm thus:
"1 beg your pardon, bnt Is there a
gentleman In this club wltb one eye
by the name of X.?"
Albery answered the question eager
ly with another: "Stop a moment.
What's the name of his other eye?"
So mauy people, when you hear
about them, sound well. . .
The Fiances.
She What did papa say when yon
asked him, Bertie?
Bertie He said: "This Is so sud
den!" Puck.
A -Delicate Matter.
"No," said Misa Cayenne, "I don't
think I should care to vote. Public
affairs are too difficult for me."
"You used to say they were very
simple."
"I have changed my mind. It seems
to be almost as hard to determine
whom you should snub In politics as
It Is In society." Washington Star.
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ANCHOR FENCE looks to nice and
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If you kefp poultry send 10c. for s mos.
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Not a Confiding Nature.
Mr. Johnstng I don't like dat Farm
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Mr. Jackson What's he done now?
Mr. Johnsing He's done gone an'
put a six-foot bahb-wire fence aroun'
his melon patch. New York Journal.
How It Happened.
Miss Klttish Major, is it true that
once during the war one of the enemy
died to save your life? . , -
Major Bluntly Yes. - -
. "How noble! How did It happen?"
a niiivy uiui. ii a vv ui ue
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