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TILL TELLS TIME. NDIANA SUN uil to mmmmmm Af ih.- K ... 1 In tl.. lH.si.loPl Valley ow Uia IUM' arj rime of To-dajr GUM to Ue. Adopt"1' K Harmony, lud., Is probably the mn In tlM lIlMlgBlppl viilley tbut , .mi dliil town cioca. 11 ih proiiu- . .1... oldest nun mi"' rename une- u the country. It has been turii- . . ill,. m!iiiitr!t anil Hours ami days LI ivl w Ihoui over .aj cents ro- ii never runs aow a, never goes . .trikf UUll US lii! "If SUI1 docs it is rename. io-iav it 18 .i.init more than n 1 1 iiu-pu-ce it la curiosity. It Is ulstorlcul probably ...i ii Bun imii nil V'lll.'l llllll" i ... in mi ana iii in s mwcL new ti-.iu 11 ClllllllV Sl'tt I'llll'llt lll arm"".' ' ' . : : .mi. mi which 111 mill is placi d . i. ..Hi In- the colonists nml wan i i..- thriu as a barrarus. it was Ml, V ... ..! in INI 4. mere were no raii- i. (,. tn.se (lavs nil as evcrvuiiiig ,:iiis iu ... w - - ... i.l there WUS 110 Deeil of llhv- ..i. f mi l ie vvltulo u-i.i- it ii. s.nni' schedule then. lor .......i . ... tlie en lnii v intern oil ttv a i. .. r 1 1 ii il nU nml hour glasses. ... .i.i- i kii.i tinsutlsfuctorv anil nt st George EUpp, the leader, conceived he Idea of having a town clock. Haa nt It. Kind. He was probably the tot to endow I V lliumim ion.. ...... ....... .... .... PDCt He went to the forest and cut be solldest black waluut tree he could mm t I . .1 ....... , .. I m. t ingtbl ii ml made a facing (1x4 feet. A . . m...ta ..,lli.il m.rnjg thu l..i. (.. tlir.il,' at ik. mm If, ii., tliiill llllil 111., ,..,l,.ln acksuillli turn out a piece or steel BJ j - . 1 II K SUN DIAL TOWKR CLOCK. I't.c ploittfl ti ihown hy tlic nmrkliiK between win win iftken at 91W0 p. m j lire. The date of the construction n 1 ,1 , v iir iitt'il ii i Toss l ie titll Ill I'ttftw itf tin. In iiiln r wnrils. Imnirtl n iw u.-r,- !ikn tin' hunrtt At 1 he Imi mu in the center Is the tluro of the win u tiling of glory, with a man's itlt-.H. I II lilt' III III I III N 11 II lilt' . it i1 it fun i i nt 1 1 ii ir r. ii ini iir Ilil flii'M fnatiinliur illnu'llv linlnu tint tt.., K.mvc Mm iliuiii In IK., f'. . : I . . i i mm I .1 T O fl 111 PI Mf ii... ... jl ll.. I .l 11 1 I.. ... est side of the dial, running down the fast. It will be seeu that there were two sixes. It was the hi-glulng and ending of the day. Other markings until the sun went down could be reck fened on the wall very readily. Though the storms of seventy-eight yens have heat against the dial. It has tint begun to show the wear. The tlg- t,r. a bm illallnol oa r',..,i..1. Mi..t, Wen- placed there yesterday. The col ony pa Med, another one took Its place mm passed imu .New iiarinotiy became pii (iii;ii.iij tun u. i icui i iiuuiia uii. bassed and bablet have grown old and lie hours Just as reliably as It did In 1S21, wlicii It was put, Into place. The old bolldlng Is now occupied by a mer chant who has shown good business lodgment by utilizing the suroundlng IDI n tlie walls by signs setting forth his line of wares. Bondlall are curiosities now. Proba- b'y than one pera in under .15 years out of every I.ikki population ever saw one. Si, 11 It has been but a short time since the sun dial regulated affairs, and BOUgb watches were used they took their time from the dial. Dp to 1MB were was no uniform time. In that Bear Professor Charles V. Dowd tlrst IHIK Hi lii.iiianp.ia f..r MM 1 ,, t , t I 1 1 II tsndard time. He sought the rall- (.1(1 Hi',, in..., pa mm .1... ,...ra..,,a ....( iiiniiakria ai III, , o. m h..i,it- . . ' i OI'UUl D,:, U(J ir ii.,r..tii t-, .. ,, . I ., m. I j ..ll . . r i i.nn . . n - i in Diauuuiua U.I v. , , iu vu h. Blln 1 I - mmml HUUIB, Adnntlort nt RlatBff nril I I ill i- 'foui his work and energies evolved (1(11 IU ,i I ....! I . uun KUOWU IIS S1UUIIUII1 II11JC ""ii aiso nas uie sun nun it a us roiir meriiiiaus, eaen one uour m u .. i inn nine were cnosen hb miw in nuaus. mey nre uie eveuij- rth ..i.i-i. ...... i -. -u.iii passes neari niiaiieiiiiini, m DlOetleh, passing marNew Oilcans o of- I.oula;tbe onehuudredand rlfth. N :""l twentieth, near Vlrglula City. y 'he division thus adopted the apacS pween than readily became divided B'o nilnutes and they Into seconds, .ii ier an i iit worlil is tuus irans- "r:i" 'I into one urent sun dial of linae- ry Hues not ontv traclnir the mlu- t'-s. lint .ii-.... itA . i .. I . I . . " ' 1 U 111," !llllll I 1BI. IBII'U.,. -"tlcally It was Intended that each f'dlan should govern the belt seven B,J half degrees on each side of It; - mere nas been a slight variation u this. The W)il time nf thos THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE AT A 0 LANCE. QRiEF STRiCKfN ANIMALS- LOST ON THE OCEAN. at the edge of the belt will differ "( ainiiiiaru in ne iti nun an nnur '" detaBa of the syvteiu were worked P W. V. Allen, secretary of the rail- r , . . . . . ... -u- nine convention, it was noi until Sv' that the railways took bold In ftlest. In that vear 110 m-r cent of adopted standard time, and now KEY to MP bbmbbj tLono ('''"'.' Liftt. SS. ' i ii. CirBian. Fiuiu 1S8' ShbukbibI na ir it. Cu.illJl, mm 1 1&f i ' ftnB.n, i9t. &AKBBR OB1 I 1?0. u mmm J M 01 luBn 'l LTllf. . 3Kuir, io, i i o...o.oo Lomu Ckmv.u1, fS8. ,1LONO AaSHCtlSM '8VT ' The controversy over the bonndarji bt tween Veneiueln and Hritish liuinnalhas baen waged for years, it brought Lbs United Siutes and UrcHt Britain to the verge of war in 18JI5, when President Cleveland sent his famous Message in Congress declaring that this country would not permit (Jreut Itritnin to deter mine the boundary line by using violence against Venezuela. Venezuela never recognized the differ ent boundary lines proposed by Ureal Britain, even as demarcations of disputed territory. A brief description of the most Impor tant of the boundary lines follows. The map shows all the several boundaries and is mi Inraiuable guide to the proceedings of the tribunal: 1SH The Hritish acquired Jli.iHKi aqnare miles in Qulana from the Dutch, 1886 The Itrilish resident niiiuster in Caracas notified the Venezuelan Govern ment of the urgency of e recti nc light houses and placing buoys iu ltariina Point and Hoca (J ramie of the Orinoco, show lug these places were aeknowleilged to be in Venezuelan territory. In I!) Hnrima PolM was claimed by the British. 1WO--A man accused of murder wn. tnkeii to trial iu Denrara. The lawyer in chart;? of the defease proved that the crime had ban committed in CaM hlO" rUCO, and the accused was aispiittisl by the court under the plea that the murder hud beea perpetrated in Tsaaanelaa terri tory. In ISial Ureal Hritsiu claimed t'nuo sforacOa 1SJ- On nccotint of the luiundary rststi planted by Mr. Scliouibiiruk and winch bore the llritUh flag, the Veiiesuelan (internment sent instructions to Mr. Tor tiipie, its plenipotentiary minister in Ba rope, to ileMuiid from the Hi :.- QoT eminent the rOCOgnltioa of the Integrity of the territory of Venezuela. 1881- Lord Qranvllls peopoaad a limit line to Dr. llojus, minister of Venezuela ut London. ISM Mr. Kortlipic proposed to Lord Aberdeen a line to he accepted by both government! as a tiual settlement of the dispute. Other hues were proposed sub seipieiitly by the Venezuelan Govern incut thr.Mik-h lr. Juhuu Viso and Dr. Jose Maria ltojus. 1 Dot Lord Koiebcry proposed a BOW Ixiiindnry to the Veiiesueluu miuister. iQuamao Blanco, 1800 Lord Salisbury propoeid " bound ary which has been culled a "cupricious line for arbilrntion." 1880 The Royal ideographical society 'of Iiudon issued a inop iii which the po sition of Si'liouihiirgklt line was changed from its position on the maps of 1M-I0 snd later dates. The extreme of the claim of the Hritish is defined in n memorandum sent by Lord Salisbury in 1880 to Minister L'rhaueja. New York Journal. the United States and the commercial world operates on that plan. The time of the seventy-fifth meridian is called eastern time, that of the ninetieth culled central and that of the one hun dred nud tlfth mountalu nml the one hundred and twentieth Pacific, The adoption of standard time made' New York's time four minutes slower than previously. At the conference of the International Geodetic aaaoclation held In Home In 1888 the question of cosmo politan time was tlrst discussed. PORTRAITS AT HOME. Fuairetjtlona for Handllnii thu T.ltiht Two Hmple t"'creen. Although all kinds of Interior work are much more dllllcult than outdoor work for amateur photographers, ow ing to the illftlculty of managing the light, nearly every one who has a cam era tries the former sooner or later. It, Is not at all uncommon lo Itcgln on por-J X , . ll.-'l, mmmmm. 1 rOHTR A IT PlIOTOOII ATIIV. traits, which require a good deal of ex perience and technical knowledge. In the gallery of an artist one Oaually tlnds that the studio Is provided with a skylight. The auiuleur Is rarely able to command one. However, In a recent Issue "The Mechanic Arts Magazine" made some excellent suggestions on this point. It was recommended that an ordi nary side window be shaded up to a height of about five feet from the Moor by means of bookbinders' board. This can lie cut to lit the window casing. In front of the binders' Istard should be hung cambric, of whatever hue. gray or black Is preferred for n background. Some subjects require a light one and smile a dark one. Hence the material should be hung In such a way that It can be changed readily. Iu order to get a good supply of light from above n reflecting screeu Is provided. It should consist of white cloth a sheet, for Instance. Beginning nt a distance of eighteen Inches from the side wall, one edge of the sheet should tie fast ened to the celling. The lower edge of the cloth should be stiffened with a strip of wood, like a sail. Then the screen OUgbl to It- Inclined away from the window- at an angle uf about degrees. Another screen, hung from the celling or mounted on feet at one side of the sitter, out of range of the Camera, w ill assist In lighting one side of the face more than the other In a full face picture and In Illuminating the face for a profile view. The mag azine here referred lo goes on to say: "Where the photograph Is to be a full length figure or a three-quarter full length, care must be exercised that the upper part of the subject Is not more strongly lighted than the draperies nearer the Hour. It Is well, on this ac count, to spread on the Moor a white sheet or a number of newspapers, so that the light may lie reflected upward against the lower part of the figure. "Where a person has light curly or iii iffy hair It Is beet to Illuminate the hair brilliantly by setting the top creen abont as shown In the Illustra tion and then arrange the side screen to reflect light on the face In au up ward direction, so that as far as poaal ble Its stronger shadows may be soft ened and too much contrast prevented." A woman nlwnys likes the hat that isome other woman wears better than she likes her own, and blames the mill iner for It. Many a man who claims to lie dis creet Is but a coward. THE "KISSINQ BUG" UNDER THE MI.R05C0PE. Hp you meet a dark-cyd stranger wh.tc features resemble a pair nf McyeJa lamps on an ice pick, feeling his solitary way by means of a lihK.lc covered with dog's hair, you will be safe in assuming that he is BM iBBolsStM pidpse, alias ki-slug hog, Iu order to recognize him after this fashion, however, it will Is- necessary to use s microscope. The illustration was obtained by this means ut the Smithsonian Institution. This hideous Insect is called niclanol.-i-tcs plclies by the scientific men ami is a predatory insect. Until recently it was never known to feed on man Its favorite pasture bus been the cuhiciilar bug that inhabits Is-diling, and Its most acceptable fit-ding time Just after that hug has hud a meal of blood from a human lieing In this way ntelauo, etc.. gets a taste of human blood. It has now gone into the business for itself, and taps its food sappiy without the sld of a vicarious dlSTbe1kissing bug is black, has a fat tody, snd doc sll Its hunting by night llli the wolves in "The Jungle Hook." It Is about iin inch long, has s narrow, n. inted bead and a beak as sharp as that of a mosquito. When it sucks Its i tim who is always asleep, feels uo tsin. hut the stung porta swell to ten tl 'normal size In from two to four days. Collodion is used In the treatment, nnr I al le i ause of the prevalence of tue nielamdt-ste this year is Uie great .bund.mv of kneed life to ! found everywhere. Nature has provided this v. to rt-iT Una laterpillars and other Insect pent, and with the disappear Bpaosa 777, , , ,,,, , wiU disappear also. Again, nature has provided 25 mm of itarasites w hich iu turn feed BBSS this insect and destroy Its eggs. A rub the ".In--1 I " ii- makes his borne under the bark of rotten Tu jn-t, mns with gr-t swiftness aud is hard to rstch on thst account. h'hTJ.. mostlv at night. In the larvse stste these creatures resemble somewhat It flies mostly wn sua M u h(, SutM1 f California snd Teiss and In sll the 8outhwt'ern .-unt'ry where' con.i.ler.bie snnoy.uc .ndcmig sre c.usl b, Its denrcdstlous. a la c. uiJy kevma as the Ore.t Big Bedbu. ll. , Manifest Ursst AfTnlluu for Other, of I In li kind. Lovers of sport, whose guns have brought dotvu muuy a swift wluged btrd or fleet footed onlmitl. may per haps lie able to mutch the following stories by memoirs of their OWB, The first is extracted from James Forbear' "Oriental Memories." A BMtnbOt of a shooting party killed a female monkey, and cnrr.nl it to his teUt. The tent was soon surrounded by forty or fifty monkeys, who mude a great BOlaa, snd seemed disposed to aliack the aggrfssanr. They retreated when be presented his fowling piece, the terrible effect of which they had witnessed and appear ed quite to understand, but the head of the troop stood his ground, chatter ing furiously. The sportsman, who perhaps felt some POtttponctiOB fur having killed one of the family, did not like to fire at the creature, and nothing short of tiring would sutthv to drive hi in off. At length the monkey came to the door of the tent, and flndlni: threats of no avail began a BMBB0 table meaning, and by the must Impressive gestures teemed to beg that the slaughtered animal might be given buck The dead body was accordingly given him. He took it sorrowfully In his arms, ami bore It away to bis waiting companions. Those who witnessed the extraordin ary scene resolved never ngalu to fire at one of the monkey race. A case equally pathetic occurred at Chalk Farm, near Hampton, In Kng laud. A man set to watch a field of liens, which hud been much preyed upon by pigeons, shut an old male pig eon that had long been an Inhabitant of the farm. Its mate Immediately set tled Dpon the ground by Ita side, and showed her grief Iu the most expres sive manner! The laborer took up the dead bird and tied It to a short Make, thinking the sight of It would drive nway other depredators. The b, reaved bird, bow ever, did not forsake her mate, but con tinued day after day walking slowly round llu stick. The kind hearted wife of the bailiff nf the farm at last heard of the circum stance, and Immediately went to afford what relief she could lo the poor bird. on arriving at the sstt she found the hen bird much exhausted. It had made a circular beaten track around the dead pigeon, giving now and then a little spring toward him. Ou the re moval of the dead bird the lien return ed to the dove-cot. SEA DISASTERS THAT ARE SEEM INGLY INEXPLICABLE. ABSEN T-MINDtD MAN'S FEAST. Ordered mid gjaj bosmI ve lllah and Then Would Not Kut It, The celebrated Uretich composer, Mellhac, who died lately, was one of tin- abeent-m laded geniuses, lie was also a man of simple tunics In the mat- I tor of food. It Is related of him that, on uu occasion w hen one of bis operas . was being presented, ho entered, in ' evening dress, a fashionable restau- j rant and threw himself down at d table, thinking euruestly about the musical event of tliu evening and i ulsmt nothing else. A waiter brought him a bill of fare, mid Hons, Mellhac quite abstractedly Indicated wllh his linger Hie first dish on the bill that Ills eye had struck, it happened to he (he most elaborate and costly dish ou Hie bill, ami when the waiter went to the kitchen with the order there was commotion there. The proprietor himself arrived, and he ami the chief cook devoted them selves lo the preparation of Hie famous dish. One man was sent fur this choice Ingredient, and another for an other. Meanwhile Mons. Mellhac wult ed. absorbed. At last the dish wns brought with a great lloiirish, ami the proprietor stood not far away to observe the result. When It was deposited on the table Mellhac looked at It with an expressloU uf melancholy intereat. "I ld 1 order that'" be asked. "Certainly, monsieur!" "Ho you like It?" "Hut but yes, monsieur!" "Then ph ase lake It away and eat It yourself," ordered Mellhac, "and tiring ne two fried eggs!" The order was carried out. and the proprietor wondered If he had a mad man lo deal with.-Youth's Company Ion. Instances Where iSreat Mix Have III. w iieMred, home of Them In 1 Mini, itriwiu t Bather ami on UatresMed WatOrBf l.e.vlna No I ruce. It BeeCBe passing strange, consider lug the enormous amount of is can trulllc carried on nowadays, that It should In- poentbtg for it vessel to put out to sen ill fit condition, only to van ish from the face of the waters and leave uo Indication of Its fate. True, there are hundreds of unidentified derelicts filiating about the seas nml some of them may le the vessels which have so mysteriously vanished. It Is appalling to think of sacb mysteries lis the fates uf these vessels, which. setting nail with hundreds of passen gers to whom the voyage perhaps promises happiness, wealth nnd all the Joys of life, never reach their destina tion and are never again heard of. Take the case of the Hurvle Castle as a striking example. She vanished j not In mid ocean, but between the itorts of luutidoii and Plymouth. Into the latter pott she should have put ou her way to Australia. But she. never rvuchiit fly mouth nml not a living soul knows how or where she van ished. It Is most extiaordlnary that she should have beM lost so near to land without so much as n spur Itcltig washed Babon to tell of tier fearful fate. Equally mysterious, is the case of the Atalaiitu. This tamous training ves sel nils stationed off Bermuda with more than l!."sl souls ulioartl. Curly Iu Ivnii she set sail for a short CTUIm and from that day to tills she has ucver been beard of. A very cotisideiable percentage of the vessels which disappeared forever In this mysterious milliner were run ning between Knglaml ami America ut the time. It might 0C thought that the terrific sens of the vast Atlantic were resHisllile. Put It has 0000 proved that many vessels were lost when the menu was almost ut dead calm. A birge sailing ship left New Or tt'iins 10 me years ago for Loudon Thrice sin- win- sKiken ami reported all well, nud she was facing exquisite I weather and n smooth sea nt Hie third time. Yet, It Is known, she was lost with all hands within twenty font hours, and to this day uo truce of tier bus been discovered. In lbs early part of 1889 n five must ed bark, the Maria, a newly construct ed vessel, ami at that time the third largest In the mercantile marine, set sail, Iu benntlfn wealher. From one of the biggest ports In Cm bin China for Uamourg, with every promlae of a fair Voyage. Hut she never reached tier many, She vanished shortly nfter le llig spoken Off the west const of Africa. nml nothing has been found since lo Indicate the fate that befell her. Another vessel running between Bug land and America w bleb met uu end nf a kind none but those who shared It ever knew, vv us the first-class steam ship President She tailed from New Yolk for Journey to Liverpool. Ill Hit siiiliig of s. having on hoard a full crew of experienced hands and of fleers mid n distinguished company of passengers. She left New York In fine weather, tn splendid condition, and with no lea sou for fearing anything she was likely to meet. Hut she wns never sHtke and never heard of again, mid, although fifty-seven years have passed, no one yet knows to what dire Calamity her end w us due. London Mall. rntnract shot a third boy Into the office of our friend. Hon Gaol tan, Inside the door, i u a wooden settee, were sitting some of the family ser vants holding their Infants, aud the same stream on who Ii the boy traveled through the door washed the whole party, seltee and all. across the hall way Into u heap ut the foot of the stairs. The crowd Itampoded, and then, be fore further mischief was doue. wo managed to shut off steam. Ancient (.old Mines in Attica. Many Interesting evidences of an cient mining are being discovered Iu the South African gold fields TbOSg ancient miners used metal tools for working soft grounds: ami the remains have I n found of small rumaCH for sharpening their toola. They also un derst I the ue of lire for disintegrat ing the gold bearing rock, but their knowledge of milling was extremely limited, especially when contrasted with the scleullllc methods of the pree cut day. Just What She I v peeled. A middle aged Proman called at an tnsnruuee office of ii provincial town u day or two ago to announce thai she wanted lo Insure her house. "For how much.'' asked the agent. "Oh. alioiit t'J'Sl." "Very well. I will come up and In vestigate It." "I don't know much about in siirnnce," she said. "It's very plain, ma'uin." "If I'm Insured for 1800 and the house Is burm d don n. I get the uioucy, do i r "i 'erttilnly." "And they don't ask who set It afire?" Oh. but lin y d". We shall waut to know all about It." "Then you needn't come up," she said, us she rose to go. "I heard there was some Mich niton It somewhere, and now i see bora it is." Tid-Bits. One objection to pinyer Is Hint a great many east their burdens on the liord, and shake off further responsi bility, leaving some one less given to pinyliig to hluzc a ) out of the dlf Uculty. Itefreshmeuts are not served at par ties because guests are hungry, but because people drop tln-lr reserve when eating begins, and commence to get acquainted. A woman who argtu-a real well li bsitr a fav write In society. A FIRE-ENGINE IN MANILA. Powerful Machine Mude a Decided Hen .iilliui About the UiiuT. In "Yesterdaya In thu l'hlllpplnes" Mr. Stevens gives an account of the testing of a new tire engine which had been inrported from tba Dotted states for a Wealthy resident of Manila. HI Ctpltan wns delighted with thesppear- ance of the machine, glistening with brass and nickel, and Invited all the prominent people of the city to witness Its trial. The Important day came and a crowd assembled, curious nud expec tant, to sec what the great American lire engine could do. The engine hsd beta placed out on the quay: all around stood groups of open mouthed natives. My associate and I felt fairly Im portant as we griitlly bade the police clear the ground for action, and blew the xvblstle to scare the crowd. The huge suction hose was run Into the river and ten natives were station ed at the nozzle of the four Inch hose, which was pointed up the small plaza running back from Ike ipiay. Thu hell rang and I team was turned ou. It worked well, and the Itlg stream went su fur as to soak down a lot of baled bllWOeO lying OB a street corner nt the next block, suposislly beyond reach. The owner of the tobacco came to the door to see what had happened, and us the engine begun lo work better the stream of water knocked him over ami played around tint entrance to his storehouse. To avoid complications of this sort we shut off st cum long enough to shift the hose over for a more unobstructed spurt along the river. A few minutes later an open throttle einis( .1 a huge torrent to belch from the long nozzle with such force us to make Ihe tell hoseinetl feel nervous, and 111 their excitement they turned the stream toward a lighter which was being poled down the I'aslg by two Malays. The foremost of theae was washed backward Into the lighter, snd the hindmost swept off Into the river. A Cblnamag who MM paddling a load of vegetables In a hollow tree trunk suffered a slmlar fate. Then suddenly, as we opened the throttle to Its lost notch, the excited bosemen tried to turn the torrent; but with Its force of fifteen hundred gal Ions to the minute It wns too quick for them, ami with one mighty kercliug It broke away and sent the Uoxxle Dying round like a windmill. Before they knew what had struck them the leu men holding the notxle tavrc Mteked prostrate, aud two small hoys were whisked off Into the river like so much dust. A dozen lightning wriggles of thu hose, aud the frenzied A PORTO RICAN FOREST. white Dandy," by Valuta Caldwell Meiviiie, is u companion story to Block Beauty, it conclndea with n old liui-so s Appeal" In Ktetry. Mrs Vovtilch has dramatised her novel, The Gaddy. and It will be per formed In this country next fall Henry Holt Co. have Issue I the seventeenth Impression of the novel. Some one has said that "a woman of genius is a won wiiii wings, ami paws ou the ground, pillions In Ihe air a shudder and ll struggle leiween the two kinds of locomotion: a tearing apart of body and spirit; a general un rest." Sidney Leo. the editor of the "Hlc- tionary of National Biography, nnd author of Ihe "Life of Shakspeare. ' ap peals to Englishmen owning copies of the tlrst folios of Shakspeare to keep a firm grip upon them, ns thai country Is ticlug rapidly drained of these trcus- urcs by the Lulled Slates. 'i he title of .lames Lane Allen's forth coming novel Is The Mettle of the Pasture." Shakspeare lovers will re member the stirring lines Iu ' Henry V." Iu which Ihe phrase occurs. It la to be another novel of Kentucky life; the largest and the most important Work be has yet Written, Mr. Allen expc.ts to bare the work ready for publication In the autumn The Nineteen llumlntl. gfl illustrated 1'uris France periodical, now appears regularly In both the Lugllsh nml French languages. Bdltor Frederic Mayer has made a great success of the Journal, which trims of the coming Par la expos Hon from n literary ami pictorial standpoint. The directors and leading archllecls of the BXpoai- t Ion and several literary men mid wom en of Hurls are contributors to the Nineteen Hundred, which is a most successful example of American Intel llgencs ami euterprlea aero as the ocean. Ilslt-Deail. A child like faith In the arithmetic confounds nil the logic of Ihe schools. This was ihe experience of Pittsburg life Insurance agent who, says the News, wrote II pulley oil Ihe life of II Chinaman the first ever written fur a man of that nice In I'lttshurg. How the tnsnrsnce man did it be alone knows. The Chtiiumau hud no very clear Idea, lie only understood thai If he p., d the premiums promptly he would be entitled to five thousnud dollars some time. He began bothering the agent for the money after u couple of weeks had passed, and the agetil tried to explain to him t till t he would have to die before any one could gel It. Then the Chinaman fell down a cellar way on Grant street mid was badly hurt. Ills friends tried to attend to bin Wltbonl calling In a doctor. When they did call In I , two days later, the doctor was angry, "Why didn't you call me sooner?" he asked. "This man Is half -dead uow." Next day the Injured mini's brother was at the Insurance olllce with a claim for twenty live hundred dollars. "You're not entitled to anything on this," said the Insurance mull, "until the man la dead." HDO0t0t say him half dead," answer ed the brother. "Why he no get half V" ft Abounded with i Hlrda, Nats) Hnd Fruits. A war ittriespoiideiit's adventures are set forth by Ldwlu Kmerson, Jr., la tie Century. Ill an urtlcle entitled Alone In Porto Itlco." Mr. Kmerson say s : By nightfall, nfter 1 had ridden up and down some of the most unprepos sessing hills, and got tangled In no end of clinparral. cactus, ami other thorny undergrowth, which changed n new I kui gee coat I had Istiight In Sun Juan lulu an old rug. I found myself on a high range of sierra, from n Jlluiro negroes i learned that i was half-way Is-iween the towns of Qucmadoa nml Juguus. and that I would Hint n U-tter trull for my horse below. So I rode dow u o lovely green ralley, where plantations of coffee and tobacco lay side by aide. As It grew darker, bats fiew nil about me. and I hoard thu evening cites of birds which sounded like our w hip, kno w Ills and mocking birds. At Inst I struck the trail Hint the Woman bud mentioned. I rode on n little way, nud took the horse Into a clearing, where there was n spring well hidden from view, nud then I hobbled bis fii t to the halter rope, Hung my self on the ground, ami went fast asleep. The lust thing I lienrd was Ihe Imiiittful song of the soltliilrc sing ing Iu a copse above me. 1 was aw likened early the next morn ing by the screeching of green par rots, quarreling with other birds in tho top of .1 cocoa nut palm. 1 was drenched with dew. but forgot all IIS I thought of my horse. To my givnt relief. I found bin Standing behind a bit of oleander hush red with flowon, crunching the Juicy stalk of u prickly pear. 1 Watched him with Interest as he took the stalk and with his teeth ripped off the sklu with nil Its thorns. He whinnied as If we were old friends. After bridling and watering him, I found the null, and rode off southward, Ou the way I ate everything 1 could iimi. from green chorrlea and guava plums to Juicy mangoes, which Stained the front of my coat, and bell apples, the meat of which suggested mildew. There were alao custard apples, a largu green fruit not unlike cream puffs In side. I he most astonishing and the Itest of nil WU ( fruit called puIlM In oui language, sour sap. It Is about as large as a quart how l, and so nourishing and full that n single fruit was enough for a good meal, although that did not de ter my none from entliig four. Later 1 found that they are also relished by dogs, of springs ami streams there were so many that I had no four of dying of thirst. If water wns not band, I COUld always climb a cocoa nut trs, aud throw down the green nuts, which were filled with au abund ance of watery milk, more than 1 could drink nt one time. Other nuts there were In plenty; but ninny were mors COliOUa than edible, even to my wllb lug appetite. One hud a delicious odor. I tasted a little, and thought It Ideal for flavoring enndy. But It soon dissolved Iii my BOUth In n fine dust, absorbing all the moisture, so that I bud to blow tt out like Hour. Nothing ever mude me so thirsty in my uie, unit even nfter rinsing out my mouth I felt for n long time ns If 1 sragcj chewing punk or cotton. The fruit of the tamarind only added to my tor ments by setting nil my teeth on edge. When we reached the next spring. I fell off my horse for fear he would get all the water. Only nfter I hud satis fied my thirst would I let bin drink. Battle Tunes. One of the pluckiest of war corre spondents is Janes I reel man, who was wounded at Kl Cnney In the Inst charge. He gives n curious account In Ihe Cosmopolitan Magazine of how cer tain tunes haunted him III each buttle. He says: In every bnltle that I go through I somehow get a melody In my bend, and hum It lo the end nf the action. 1 sup pose It Is the result of nervous excite ment. All through the battle and tuns- acre of Port Arthur, in the Jape noes war. I hummed an air from Meudels Ohn'a "Springtime," ami during the shell fire I fouud myself actually shrieking It. Win n I started In the charge on Fort Oaney i begun to hum "Rock of Ages." ami I couldn't get rid of the tune, even when I was lying among the dying of Chaffee'l brigade In the huspliul camp. I remember that when Henei-al Chaffee bent over me, after I had been shut, mid asked me BOW 1 was, I couldn't answer unlll I hnd finished. In my mind, one phrase of "Itoik of Ages." hiindiijr ln (- '" Holland. Ill Holland the Sunday delivery Is op posed by the religious classes to some extent, mid those who do not wish that n letter Ih- delivered ou Sunday leave the small notice attached to the stump, ami the letter NBSMlttS over till Mon day in the poetoffice, Those who do ti,,t i nre if the letter is delivered on Sunday, or, rather, who wish It deliv ered on that day If it arrives at Its destination, simply tear off tho small restriction clause. Therefore, the mat ter simply Is the delivery of thu letter on arrival, ami bus nothing to do with Its travels ou Sunday. Old Names In Kansas, An (dd deed unearthed at the Hock Is land offices Iu Topeka discloses the fact that at one time the Kansas river was known us the "Camp" river ami the bluffs at Kansas City as the "foothills of the Rocky mouulalus of Missouri." When there Is a wedding In the uclghlH.rhood, work Is ITBBnended all day vv idle the women keep count of bow often the express wagon stops at the bouse. "Started'' Ms zars Suspension llrl gti There lately died at Lincoln, Neb., a man named 11. J. Walsh, who had an Important part In Ihe construction of Ihe first suspension bridge at Niagara Kails. Mr. Walsh was born In Ireland Iu I s.l I, but was brought to this coun try when he was a baby, bis pnreuis going to live at Niagara Kails, N. Y. When he wua still a Isty the first eteps for the construction of the sua pension bridge were tnkeu. The first thing of till wus to stretch a single wlro across the chasm. The englueer In charge hud thought of a way- to get 11 across. "What boy Is the best kite flyer In town?" he asked a rvaldent. Thu Walsh boy was named, and ths engineer asked that he be brought. He was nut it t- to nnderetaad that he must fly ,H kite across the Niagara Itlver. lie fiew It across, and allowisl to coma down on the other side. Men wers there to seise It. Then thu engineer attached a wire to the string on bis side, and the meu on the other aide detached the kite, aud by menus of tba siring drew Ihe wire across. By this, Iu turn, a cable was drawn across, aud the bridge was well begun. Mr. Walsh afterward moved to Ne braska, and beogns a prominent cltls zeti of Lincoln. Most things taste as If Ihe cook had put then ou the lire, ami had gouu off aud bad forgotten them. Suspltilously Hnolhlng. The Very Itcv. A. K. II. Ituyd, recent 1 deceased, In Ills book. "Last Years nt si Andrea a," tolls Ihe follow ing inne log little stories. Referring to a letter from an exile 111 this country, telling how Its writer went to bis room each Sunday morning ami read aloud one of Iir. Boyd's sermons, ihe reverend gen tleman Mid, ns OM greatly needing help, in- was thankful if it helped him, but he recalled what a dear obi suffer er In his gjdlnbffiDgh congregation tub him. wllh the kindest Intention: Vl I can't sleep ul night," said she. "I sny to my hUSband, 'Ob, read p ne of my (b ar minister s sermons!' And he has not read live minutes when I mil sound asleep!" The "dear minister" said, of course, that he was delighted to hear It, al though It wus not wholly for thai pur pose tl ruiotis were published. Ir. Lludsay Alexander, of Edinburgh, bad a similar compliment paid him, nr. Boyd goes oa to relate. Be wsayj to visit a re-iless sufferer, ii good ivuiiian, nud her friends asked him to rend s , aai ti r of the Bible to her. This be ! led io do. Iu a few minutes she w as sound asleep. "Ah." subl one of her friends, "see Hie SOOlhlng power of the Word!" Tree Twenty Centuries Old. The old' -t tree oa earth with an au thentle history Is the great Bhoo tree of Burmab. or twenty centuries it is been held sacred lit Buddha, and no person is allowed to touch the trunk. W hen the leaves full they are carried away as relics by pllgrlina. Home women always look its thougf their bull Is aUul It) lull down. ,