A" BOOKWORM.'
Jfyltnvd is books. loved almost as myself ;
M boras, I pat them on the op par shelf :
4t friends. I dally as a lover dallies
With his heart's choice in the sweet garden
alleys,
wjm the rich vines to tangled riot ran,
. And luscious peaches blush against the son.
Steadfast I And them here from day to day,
Brawn op like soldiers in their stanch array:
I open one; behold the trace uf toars
hed by some heart it touched in vanished
years;
Some are new comers, and smile cheerfully;
Auw are worn old and sod by constancy;
( low them all. the beaming face or sad.
Those that have made me weep, or made me
glad, . ,
AH bat the dull ones on the apper shelf,
Tbam I would fain exchange for needed pelf.
Sometimes I leave them, and eo calmlv ont
T where hearts faster beat, where children
, shout,
Twfael the impulse of the eager crowd,
And hear traffic's babel, harsh and loud;
. 1 test tbem as a man might test his wife.
To teach her she is not the whole of life:
A schoolboy's trick it is, for soon I find
! toft my better self, my heart, behind.- -
Tsm hundred souls whom I go forth to meet
Are strangers to me in the greedy street:
The world seems nearest when my lamp is lit.
sm Dy its midnight glow 1 oulct siu
Tolumea with welcome greeting then look
down...
-A ad night shots out the noisy, restless town
y nia is my haven, this my marriage bower,
Wedded to my books and haDDv everv hour.
Mrs. Napoleon B. : Morange in Arkansaw
Traveler.
The Insect World.
ISntomologlHts generally concede that
upward of 100.000 species of insects have
seen recognised ana cxa seined; some au
thors even place the number as high as
150,000, while it is not at all improbable
that this vast number may not represent
wore than one-tenth of the number ac
tually inhabiting the globe. Not less
than one-half of the whole number be
long to the order coleopatera, or beetles,
"which order is by far the most nnmer
asly represented of alL The lepidop
tera, or butterflies, havethns far yielded
ome 15,000 species, or about one-thirteenth
of the total number (200,000), esti
mated by Speyer for the world at large,
and an equal number may perhaps be
credited to the hvmenontera fhws.
tc), the ' hemiptera (bugs) and diptera
The orthoptera or straight winged in
sects,' which include the loctists, grass
hoppers, etc, are considerably less nu
vterons. The species with netted wings
fneoroptera) probably number some place
"between 2,000 and 8,000. Insects are, of
worse, most ' numerously developed in
She tropica, but they are not rare by any
steans in the coldest regions which have
yet been visited by man. St. Louis Ee
poblic' Peculiar Taste in Dress.'' "
Sir Humphrey Davy, it is said, "rarely
washed himself; and on the plea of sav
ing time he used to put on his clean linen
--over his dirty, so that he has been known
- to wear at the same time five shirts and
five pairs of stockings." Here is a rare
' xample of the indifference of the man
of genius to the mere husk, or series of
bosks, which keep that royal part of
trim, his mind, in working order. Yet
-was not Sir Hmnphrey a mere sloven,
content at all times with the first article
-t clothing upon which he might lay his
band. - - Though he was so reckless in the
matter of shirts upon common occasions,
when he used to go fishing "he Would
wear green," to resemble vegetable life
much as possible, so that the tront
'might have some difficulty in ; distin-'
pushing the biped from the mere roots of
the field; and when shooting he wore a
carlet cap, "toBhield himself from acci-
' -dent from other guns." All the Tear
- Hound.
in every town of good size in Mexico
there are public schools. These are well
attended, though most of the rich Mexi
cans send their children to the schools of
the City of Mexico or to foreign coon
tries, or have private teachers for them;
nd to finish . theirT education : they' are
ften sent to Europe or the United
States. The great majority are left at
korne, however, and the schools are well
fined.
In a very judicious dietetio outline for
educing obesity, from ten to twenty
drops of liquor potasete are given in a
Class of water three times a day, and the
food is largely' composed of uncooked
local fruits, lemons, oranges, "succulent
alad vegetables, acid wines, lean meat,
white blooded fish, game, ' and poultry,
lemonade, buttermilk, and tea and toast.
Art is always its own best reward, and
the poet's dearest object in life must
always be to give to the world "the
message that in him burns." Still, he
needs friends, requires leisure, wants
bread. Thackeray once wrote to a
friend, "Our twopenny reputations get
us at least twopence-halfpenny."
One peculiarity of the principal dances
of savage nations is that in nearly every
instance they imitate the movements of
animals. ' This is evidenced in the buf
falo and bear dances of the North Amer
ican Indians, the bear dance of the
Kamtcnatkaos and the kangaroo dance
of the aboriginal Australian.
Bells are mostly cast from a composi
tion of copper and tin, though other in
gredients are often used. When the
right proportions of these two isetals are
osmlanedand reduced by intense heat
to liquid form the mass is poured into a
"Ciay moid oi trie dewed shape and
It is wicked to be wasteful; is it not as
wicked to be penurious? Both habits en
tail misery on others; but as a personal"
matter it is more agreeable to have to do
with a spendthrift than, a miser, and
- therefore the world loves the one and
hates the other.
. . '
Judge Holmes, son of the "Autocrat,?
im said to be the1, only justice on the IVtas-"
sachusetts supreme court bench wV en
joys writing out an opinion. His asso
ciates prefer oral utterances.
The Duke of Edinburgh has one of the
largest collections of postage stamps5 in
England. There is one private collec
tion in the kingdom that is valued at
250,000.
THE ENGLISH CLUB.
It Is Radically IMffnriit fro in the. Social
Organisations of America.
The Eugli.su club is a place to live in. In
one of these clubs a member lives for five
hundred pounds a year alxmt as well as he
could live for five thousand a year in his,'
own house. He of course wishes to make
the club bis own ' house as far as may be.
This fact explains the solitariness of these
institutions. The member wishes to find
in them the independence, the privacy,
and in a sense the solitude of his own
house. The great clubs are therefore de
signedly unsocial.'
Many of the features of the club accord
with this intention. This is perhaps the
reason of the plain decoration and the ab
sence of pictures from the walls. It is
thought tiiat a club should be prevented
from looking like a drawing room; the no
tion is that rather than look like a drawing
room it should look like an hotel the sug
gestion being, perhaps, that the members
are strangers to one another, as people who
meet in an hotel are. But of course it
should look like neither.
There is no treating, the feeling of 'the
member, perhaps, being that bis liberty
would be interfered with by beiug expected
to drink; or even by being asked to drink.
Those pleasant weekly or monthly suppers
usual in American clubs are unknown.
Comfortable solitude rather than society
being the object of these great Ixrodon
clubs, it is obvious that society is hot to be
sought for in them. Social enjoyment and
social position are to be sought elsewhere.
Men do not acquire position by belonging
to clubs. The intention, of course, is that
only men of a certain positiou shall be let
into these clubs. If, as sometimes hap
pens, a mail of a different position gets in
the advantage he receives is slight.
It is also true that the fact of belonging
to a good club is of little advantage in gen
eral society. Membership of a good club
whatever may have been formerly the
case nowadays confers no social position.
E. S. Narl.il in Scribner's.
A Palace Car for Hens.
1 . fvtuu.j U C UOW
wrinkle in transportation business. The
first one of these cars that has come to In
dlanAnnKR wh Injuul tli. Tl i.
t - - v . . v jm.uk? itnguu
depot, and is intended exclusively for the
wooden coops and placed in an ordinary
. .Hi .
siAjcK. cm-, i ue new car, in a general wav.
reriresents an nrriinjiinr frt rrYt f .a . Tt-
sides, -however, are fitted with wire screens
vi c iwuid juHbuueeuougDto preventtne
chickens and geese, seen inside, from
t.hmint-.inor t.hoit. nanVft fhmnl. . . U n . . ' -
-T- uvuu? vtutruu lu bUOV JJOIU'
f ul way they have, and mistakenly choking
The car in nt.jit.1 v HivirUwl ints. ton
maneut coops or cages about ten inches
l. : u uu i ...
u',u, wiui wuuueu uoors ana wire doors.
Each coop has a galvanized iron water and
feed trough. An aisle runs through the
leniTth nf t-.hn At u 1 ;,, t-Ua. .... . . l.
" . - . m tuc
doom iM Hri linArtmimk fn. tli. ,1 .
i .... .. t ...... . w cuuaub.
Above this compartment is a water tank
i i .i - i i ., .
iiumiuK Huout tau gallons, to be tilled at
va.iiuim nioiious, ana oeiow the noor is a
place to stow away feed. The chief claims
for the cftr turei t.hnt. twM. ia lac. Kt.iikMj
of suffocation, and that with the improved
system of feeding there is less shrinkage in
weight and the advantage of holding the
poultry for the market. The cars, it is
said, will contain 5.04O r-Mr-kana Indian
apolis Journal. ''.
A Natural Incubator In a Farm Yard.
James Rankin, who
a few miles from Carlstadt, N. J., has a
big heap of manure outside of bis barn
door. The heat that
very grateful to the' hens, and they per-
siawukiy gatnernrouna its Oase. Kecently
the extreme cold tamntial th ksh,
closer proximity than ever, and when Mrs.
T T I . r 1 . . . ..
cvauB.iu ineu h scatter tnem some of them
positively refused to go. Mrs. Rankin, as
tonished at what seemed to be an incipient
rebellion in' the , poultry, yard, stood and
watched her hens, and she soon saw that
their interest in the manure heap was
awakened ..by something more- absorbing
than its beat.
Groin If Ciora t hA ariflA ark am .....
an conirretratea sne neud a Fh m nnimi
that plainly came from the interior of the
mass. With a pitchfork she removed a
little of the manure, and liberated five lit
tle chickens with pieces -of eggshells still
Sticking to them'' ThrW wm imnnn)
in a hole about six inches below the sor-
lace, ana all around them were unbroken
eggs. Some winter laying-hen had- de
posited the eggs in the manure, and the
combustion of the decaying substance bad
hatched ' them: out. v Two' of the chickens
died as soon m tlm (nhnlixl K
teTnal air.. The other three are thriving by
Mie ukwd nre. xvew x or it baa.
When Salmon' Were Thlk. "
A huee salmon shinrwl tn .Unot xffb.ki
ell from Oregon some days ago by CoL
James B. Montgomery, of Portland, formed
the piece de resistance at a lunch in the
senate restaurant. Among Senator Mitch
ell's guests were the vice president. Speaker
Reed, nearly the entire senate officials and
a number of correspondents. The salmon
had preserved its delicious flavor, despite
its long journey overland.
Of course it was a great occasion for fish
stories. , Many wild and weird tales of bat
tles with criant salmon wan ralnuv) tu
great enjoyment of those whose credulity
was equal to the task of believing every
thing that was said. When, however, Rep
resentative Hermann, nt Ctm
that when he went to the state, thirty
jrcara ago, ue iouna me salmon so thick in
the smaller streams that his horse had to
carefullv nick his. wv tmm . -v.
lest he step upon tbem, his listeners thought
ma Docuing was lext to be said. Mr. Her
mann acknowledged "that his statement
was hard to believe, but added that he had
the.evidence of -his own eyas tor the fact.
Cor. Chicago Post. - . - v -
Boys the Same mm lOO Years A.
SneakilUr Of snow anrl nnarrlHnM VA
Boston street bov hi nnt Ukn ii v v i,
rival. Perhaps this is because Ronton 1.
not so old in VOunff thinm Tfc i.
as man's life Is worth to walk through
the common in' Boston after the first good
taQ of snow. PcJiowrnen there mmMw
common snowball the policemen on the
common, for t2A r-u r- AmM .
these njoUnsoatatddof the common. Jnst
so toe Doya who- -are on- the commoi fire
volley after volley of molded snow and ice
at the blue coated policemen of the regular
woo oyuwi cnase vhear persecutors
into or through 'the common.
' When tha Wymlar tiAllAi'.
their dose their brothers of the common
grui at tnem .satirically and ...vice versa.
Boston people; by the way. are a little bit
nroud of their vontAfnl .i v i
merry with the police of both departments,
by turns. " .They profess to see in this the
same spirit that made the youngsters in
Gacre's time soowhoJl tha dfamtfit Tuiui.
soldier on exactly the came spot. New
HLGS OF THE ANCIENTS,
STYLES WORN BY THE EGYPTIANS,
. ROMANS AND HEBREWS.
Bimrs Are Regarded OUTarently Now
Than Formerly Worn Not So Much for
Ornament ax for Thrlr Iatrlnsie Valae.
Some Famous Kknirit in History.
Looking at the exhibition of modern
finger rings, the old timer is forcibly
struck by the fact that, whereas in the
good old days the decorative art and de
sign were almost wholly expended on
the gold band itself, modern jewelers
confined themselves almost exclusively
to combinations of valuable stones. It
is a very ungrateful task to spoil a ro
mance, but cold truth compels the ad
mission tha t this is a practical age, which
looks largely to the matter of converti
bility in rings, watches and valuable
presents '
Actors and actresses on their travels
are seldom seen without a diamond pin,
brooch, necklace or solitaire ring, be
cause these articles represent a condensa
tion of money in small bulk and unde
preciable form:' The finest workman
ship on the gold itself goes for nothing.
It is simply "old gohTV-sold by weight.
It was very .different in "the days of
old," though there were plenty of pre-;
cions stones available if they had been
needed. The Pharaohs and their states
men, the princesses of Egypt and their fa
vored attendants, undoubtedly wore
rings, for quite a number of mummies
have been found with a dozen finger
rings liberally distributed on the eight
fingers, besides the indispensable thumb
rings. For it is a singular fact that for
hundreds of years after the Christian
era the custom still prevailed of wearing
the wedding ring and the masculine
token of wealth and power on the thumb.
EGYPTIAN SIKGS.
The ring is so frequently alluded to in
the. Old Testament as to make it plain
that the greatest importance attached to
it, eveu in the pastoral age. In Gen.
xii, 42, it is stated that "Pharaoh took
off his ring from his hand and put it
on Joseph's hand," as a signal mark of
favor. In Esth. iii, 10, mention is made
of Bang Ahasuerus taking his ring from
his hand and. giving it. to Hainan, and
the context shows that certain written
documents were "sealed with the king's
ring."
The old time rings, were made of all
sorts of material. Pliny mentions that
iron rings were commonly worn by be
trothed persous. It seems tolerably cer
tain that rings of gold and silver were
worn only by kings, princes and nobles,
while les3 expensive circlets of brass,
ivory, iron and porcelain . or glass were
worn by the average citizen.
The oldest gold Egyptian finger ring
actually preserved belonged to. Amu
noph III, who.reigned over Egypt four
teen centuries before Christ was born.
Rings of the date of Osirtasen and Thoth
mes . Ill, who. . were contemporaries of
Joseph and Moses, have been found, but
they are, of common matesial and doubt
ful authenticity. The scarabaeus, a beetle
which formed the Egyptian token of im
mortality (from being a sexual) is a com
mon emblem in Egyptian: finger rings,
and one of Poe's most extravagant "tales
of mystery, imagination, and humor" has
a well established foundation, so far as
the' scarabaeus ring , is concerned. . . It
seems to be tolerably certain that Egyp
tian women wore as many rings as they
could crowd on their fingers. ,
ANTIQUITY OF RINGS. " '
The Egyptians and Romans undoubt
edly preferred the left hand for ring pur
poses, while Caesar, Livy An4 Tacitus all
seem to insist that the Gauls and Britons
wore their rings on the right hand. ' In
any case, it seems to bare been tacitly
agreed that the third finger was the place
of honor.
The Hebrew rings worn in those good
old days were very ornate and beautiful.
Quite a number of them have been pre
served, and. they put the ar of the mod
ern jeweler entirely to the blush.' The
most beautiful ' were the pledges of be
throthal or wedding gifts. . The ceremo
nies in connection with these rings seem
to be foreshadowed in the redemption
process specified in 'Ruth iv, 7. The
workman&hip'of these Hebrew bethrothal
rings grew still more elaborate in the
Middle Ages, when towers and minarets
of gold were most exquisitely built up
on the hoop. The Jewish bride' of this
era wore the wedding ring on the first
finger, but in later days shifted it for
convenience to the third.
' The old style gemmel" or "gemmon"
ring (evidently associated with the French
jumeau jumelle, uncommon, meaning
"twin") is not at all an object in col
lections of antique rings. "
The 'meaning of the indivisible links ia
self evident. Usually at the marriage of
the parties the links were severed, each
party wearing one 'of the rings." George
IV gave a gemmel ring to Mrs. Fitz
herbert. The toadstone ring was another
quaint medheval conception.' ' It was an
outcome ' of superstition and died when
superstition died.1 The idea of the toad
stone ring was to prevent mothers and
small children from the evil infmenpes of
the fairies.' The . smallest wedding ring;
ever fashioned was that used at the mar
riage of Mary, the infant daughter of
ffenry Vin of England, to the Dauphin
of France, son of Francis X'The marriage
was performed by Cardinals Wdtoey and'
Campeggio, the bridegroom being, 8
months., old . and the bride 1 year and 10
months cid. Boston Globe.
! XfealtrfeV'of'xt.! '
When aooae one bragged that only one
public, execution, -had . taken, plape ' in
Turkey in five eara, an,Engnsbxnan in
vestigated and fliacvered that nq duiprit
who could raise $1(X) to bcibe officials had
suffered death during the last twenty
years. There is always a good reason for
anything that happens in Turkey. De
treat Free Press. .
: New York, is ahead of an the other
cities if individual riches running up
into seven or more figrires are meant. . It
is said that New York has over 1,000
millionaires, while London hits BOO, Paris
600,' Berlin 200 and Vienna 100.
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