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BANDON RECORDER. EATING FISH. It is not good form to ask for a sec ond helping of tisb. It is considered extremely bad form to use a knife in dissecting fish. A little modern fish knife, with an in genious fork arrangement on one side, Is now made. A bit of lemon is served with broiled and baked fish, and It Is In correct form to use the fingers In expressing the juice. Potatoes are considered a proi>er ac cessory to the fish course. Sliced cucumbers, with plain French dressing, are also served. With a boiled fish the potatoes are also usually boiled, cut Into bits or scooped out and garnished with a little melted butter and chopped parsley. Never use the fingers to separate the bones from the eatable portion of fish. The bones must be evaded with such dexterity as one can command without other aid than such as a bit of bread held in the left hand may furnish. A Slight Deficit. A weather stained, creaking wagon drew up In front of a photographer’s establishment in a Georgia town. Be neath its body a lean hound came to a standstill. A man clad In Jeans trou sers. homespun shirt and guiltless of eoat or vest emerged from the vehicle’s anterior extremity. Settling his soft slouch bat on the back ot Ills bead, bo adjusted his lone gallus and gave the lines to the wife nnd baby within. Be hind these, from the dome of canvas beyond, peered, big eyed and solemn, numerous editions of the lord and mas ter. Entering the shop, the stranger paused before a case of sample photographs •nd, pointing to one, said, “Mister, what d’yer charge for takln plcters like that?” “Three dollars a dozen,” replied the elerk. Thrusting Ills hands Into his pockets, he turned thoughtfully toward the wag onful of offspring. “Waal, I reckon 1'11 have ter wait a bit,” he said softly to himself. “I ain’t got but ’leven.”— Harper’s Magazine. Who has not heard of “Calamity Jane” and the valuable services she has rendered to Indiau fighters? Pos sibly to the younger generation of the day “Calamity Jane” is a stranger, but her name is a very familiar one to all the older residents of the States, and the friends whom she aided in other days have not forgotten her, now that she is in dire want. Poor “Calamity Jane” has been having a hard time of it the last few years, and although only about 50 years of age, the bardslii|isslie has endured In the past have left her a broken-down woman, not only as far as her physical health is concerned, but in spirit as well. “Calamity Jane” has been on the frontier since she waH a young girl, and rendered valuable serv ices to Custer, Reno, Egan and other Indian lighters. She seemed to know no such word as fear. She was in the Black Hills at the time of the killing of Wild Bill (William Hickok), and it is said it was she who captured his murderer. During the last few years site lias drifted about Montana from place to place, making a livelihood in any way she could and selling her pic tures to park tourists during the sum mer months. Her health failed her, and dmipg Um )«ast two years she has been ill most of the time mid very much discouraged. It was a cross to the energetic woman when ill health marked her for its victim. The news papers made many an interesting arti cle out of “Calamity Jane’s” trials and tribulations, and were the cause of General Egan and other friends learn ing of her sad plight and their taking steps to make the remainder of this noted woman’s career a happier and more comfortable one than site had ever dreamed of. They sent Mrs. Jo sephine Winfield Brake of Buffalo, N. ¥., author and Washingtoirt!orrea}>ond- ent for a New York newspaper, to Mon tana to search for “Calamity Jane,” mid she found her in the hut of a De gress at Horr, near Livingston. That old fiery mid undaunted spirit of hers was broken mid site was suffering with fever. Mrs. Brake informed her that she hud come to take her to her own home in B'lffulo, where she could spend the remainder of her life in comfort. Then this brave woman, whofhad stared danger mid death in the face and never ilinched, broke down and cried like a child. “Calamity Jane” was originally from New York, and Ijer maiden name was Canary. Tlie last man she mar ried was named Burke, and he was a drayman in Livingston. She was I let ter known by her old title of “Calamity Jane,” however, and when she dies no doubt all her good deeds will lie record ed on an imposing granite or marble tomlistone inscribed with the name of “Calamity Jane.” that,” and “Give a fellow a chance to I * VERY CURIOUS BIRD. eat before passing your plate back;” “Stop your laughing and attend to Th. One V iiuur Mark Twain Sprung I poia the Sciential». your eating;” “Eat what’s on your plate before passing it back for any Mark Twain's father was au ornithol He had several friends who thing else,”—when possibly the child ogist. were also enthusiasts on the subject of has been over-abundantly helped to birds. Whenever any oue of them dis something he didn’t like and could not covered a ram avis it was the custom possibly relish. If everything suits to have a consultation. Mark had been him, well enough, but even then he is a witness of several of these bird In too supremely selfish to even try to quests and luul noted the delight tbe make himself agreeable in his own old men took in discussing a new home; but he is the suave, perfectly found specimen. Oue day It occurred delightful gentleman on the outside to him to provide the Hannibal orni thologists with a real circus In tbe and addresses his wife as dear, sweet form of a bird. He killed a crow and heart, pet, etc., terms so foreign to his also a barnyard rooster. Plucklug out manner of «¡leaking in ills home life the tail feathers of both tbe crow and that his children smile and nudge tlie rooster, he substituted tlie rooster's each other, while his wife is disgusted. tall feathers for those of the crow, pro People say, “what a model lie must be ducing a unique effect. When he had in his own home and what a happy the specimen nicely prepared, lie went household it must be,” little realizing to bis father and, handing It to him, that he is sailing under false colors. said: Polly has never been used to it, and "Here, father, is a very curious bird I shot. I thought you would be inter never can like or appreciate the |s»l- ested lu it.” ished gentleman abroad and the ugly The old gentleman gazed upon the dispositioned, surly, cross and nagging specimen with astonishment. That man at home. I have no patience with evening the ornithologists of Hannibal them, and would like to know that a were assembled in Mr. Clemens’ par matrimonial school could lie estab lor. Tbe rare specimen was ¡>ut before lished to turn out model husbands—a them. The discussion was long and place where they could lie taught “man learned. The opinions expressed were various. One thought tbe bird was an ners at home,” and how to forget them offshoot of tlie bird of paradise fam selves a little more, for such men are ily; others had equally ridiculous no supremely selfish, and it is seif first, tions as to its ancestry. But there was last and all the time. There are plenty one who refused to be swerved by tbe of model husbands and fathers, but, peculiarity of the bird's tall from tbe then—there are others, and “these judgment that It was of tbe crow fam others” are the men Polly wants to ily. “Why, Just look here,” be said, lift send to a matrimonial college, and if at the end of the course they can’t pass ing tlie bird by Its tail feathers, lie got no further. The feathers came muster, then doom them to single out. There was a quick closing of a blessedness, for they are not deserving door. Mr. Clemens started to leave of a home, and there is no use in mak the room. ing a family wretched and unhappy by “Gentlemen," he said, “please excuse having to live witii the chronic growler. me a few moments. I will see Samuel first and explain later.” BRIEF REVIEW, Sweepin* Back the River» Some time ago two hulking hoboes who had Just dismounted from a Cen tral freight train asked a Yonkers man for a loan of 10 cents to secure some food. lie took them to a restaurant nnd promised to provide them with work as soon as they liad finished eat ing. When they reported for work, he said: "Boys, my cellar's full of water, and I want you to pump It out. I've fixed these hand pumps right here on the sidewalk. Never mind the people. When they come along and ask ques tions, Just you say nothing, but pump till the water's out of the cellar. Keep cool. Don't burry, but pump, and 1 wl|l pay you well." Now, a tributary to the Nepi>erhan river ran through this man’s store cel lar and out under the side« alk, and tlie pumps reached down into the river. The water pumped out by the lioboes rnti into the sewer and back Into the Nepperlian, but ns the sidewalk was tightly flagged the pumpers didn’t know tlie size of their Job. The street became jammed with spec tators. who roared with merriment as they watched the hoboes. All but the men ¡it the pumps knew what was up. When the sun went down, it descended on the wrath of two Weary Willies, armed with coupling pins. They hunt ed, all night for tlieir kind employer, but he was in New York telling bis friends. A Perfect Woman’s Dimensions. A woman five feet five inches in Height should weigh 128 pounds. Her arms extended should measure from tip to tip of the middle fingers just exactly her height—five feet five inches. The One I’assenaer Too Many. length of her hand should be one-tenth A good story Is going the rounds of that; her foot one-seventh; the diam the offices of the Metropolitan Street eter of her chest, one-fifth. From her Railway company concerning the won thighs to the ground she should meas derful presence of mind displayed re ure just the same as from her thighs to cently by a new conductor on one of the top of her head. The knees should the company’s trolley cars. This par ticular car was bowling along up come just exactly midway between the Broadway recently when It was hailed thigh and the head. The distance and boarded by a company Inspector. from the elbow to the middle finger The official hurriedly counted the pas should lie tlie same as from the elbow sengers In the car ami found that there to the middle of the chest. From the were nine. Then he east Ills eye up to top of the head to the chin should lie the register and found that there had just the length of the foot and the same been only eight fares rung up. lie dis distance between the chin and the arm closed bls Identity to the new conduct pits. A woman of this height should or and called attention to the diserep ancy. measure twenty-four inches around the Slowly aud painfully the new hand waist, thirty-four about the bust, If counted over his passengers and then measured, under the arms, and forty- scanned his register. three inches if measured over them. “Begorra, an you’re roiglit, sir,” he Theupper arm should measure thirteen said and promptly stopped the ear. inches, and the wrist six inches. The “Say,” he demanded, addressing tlie calf of the leg should measure fourteen passengers In an authoritative man and one-half inches, the thigh twenty- ner, “wan o' youse fellows'll hov to And now there Is a movement on live Inches and the ankle eight inches. git off the car-r.”—New York Tinies. foot in England to find a way of turn Chocolate. ing out ideal wives. How the hearts In South America the retail price for of our sturdy English cousins will leap A Farm’at the Public Expense. Cave Dwellers In Dieppe. the better grades of chocolate averages for joy at this announcement, and some A few years hence one of the great People who only know the gayer side about $1 a pound, while in Italy, France, England and In the United of our own hardy Americans may silent sights at the national capital will be a of Dieppe would be surprised to hear States the better grades sell at a much ly wish that the good work may lie perfectly appointed farm of 400 acres, of tlie existence of tlie cave dwellers lower price. In America the ordinary wafted across the seas and taken up on with buildings, orchards, truck-gardens there. One is apt to connect such peo chocolate of trade sells for about one- our own shores. The idea is this: A and grain fields of every kind. All ple with the knawed bones nnd flint Implements of prehistoric times. But third of the price that is charged for It woman’s college of matrimony is to be fruits and vegetables of the United here are nt Dieppe within a stone's where It Is produced. The cause of established in Chelsea, England, where States and other countries which ex throw they of the casino, and they may be this, the producers say, is that the the duties of a wife will lieconie the periment shall prove to be capable of any day about the town selling original product Is adulterated greatly subject of a two-year»’ course of study. cultivation in this climate will lie seen seen the shellfish from the rocks outside before reaching Its final market, a there. Systems of drainage and irriga their habitations. They have certain cheaper article than the cocoa bean Tlie curriculum will embrace not only marked characteristics. one being a pe constituting the large proportion of IM) the usual branches of housewifery, such tion, model fencing and the most per culiar complexion of their own that methods of gathering and storing fect as cooking, sewing and luundry work, per cent of the chocolates of commerce. can be traced largely to a disinclina The cocoa bean from which chocolate but is intended to deal with physiology grain, fruits and vegetables will lie ex tion on the part of the eave dweller to Is manufactured is produced In Its fin and medicine as well, so that the stu hibited. There will be a home place of avail himself of the water that washes est form in Venezuela, though various dents will receive mental discipline in six acres, where beautiful lawns, pretty so close to Ills door. Their language other parts of Central and South Amer connection with manual training. This shrubbery in artistic designs and suita nlso Is peculiar, but whether It really ica grow and export large quantities. is all very well, and these model little ble shade trees will give a lesson in the belongs to tlie stone age no one seems Two crops of the bean are gathered housewives turned out by this admira beautifying of dwellings and their sur to have discovered. They have to hold each year, and the manufacture con a license from tlie municipality, though, roundings in the country. This model ble college will no doubt besought after slsts simply In grinding up the beans which savors of no age but the present. farm will be established and main far and near by would-be benedicts. If Into a meal and then adding sugar and —London Chronicle. arrowroot, with the necessary flavor, it is necessary these wives chosen from tained by the Department of Agrlcul- usually vanilla or cinnamon. The mass the rank and file of this matrimonial ture. The preliminary work toward RnKl.iul'a Old Common Field System. is moistened until it Is In a semifluid college can lie very frugal acting in the laying it out has already begun, With- A “common field" Is quite distinct state, after which It is run into molds capacity of their own cook and seam in five to seven years the farm will be from n “common.” It is n field be of the proper shape. stress as well as doing their own laun complete. longing to numerous owners. The land consists of long narrow strips, perhaps dering and dispensing with the doc The Captain of an Ocran Liner. A Historic Punch Bowl. not more than ten yards wide and run Nowadays the captain Is the host of tors and their exjiensive visits, for they Quite possibly the most revered piece ning parallel with one another. Wliat the sliIp. He Is no longer the gruff, can minister to the ailments of their rough seadog In a pea Jacket of years own little Hock. Measles, whooping- of silver plate in the United States are the exact rules of cultivation that gone by. He must observe some of tho cough, croup, chicken-i>ox, hives and Navy is the massive eighteen-pound obtain In Kent today we do not know, social amenities; lie must talk to the mumps will have no terrors for them, silver punch bowl of the battle-ship In but of old It was usual to have a regu passengers now and then when the for they will know how to treat all diana, which bears the honorable scarq$ lar rotation, such ns wheat one yenr, weather Is fine; he must take his scat these childish diseases, and to ward oil of an historic battle. During that fa barley or oats tlie second and fallow the third. When the crops were har at table when be may; he must bo a kind of diplomat also nnd possess wit pneumonia and like ills when their mous blockade and naval battle before vested, each member of the community and tact nnd a patience sublime; he liege lord is threatened with diseases Sant iago de Cuba the rich piece of table getting his or her share, all could put ware was struck by a fragment of a in their cattle, which roamed over the must see that no jenlousles develop and dire aches and pains. mortar shell fired from theSocapa bat whole field, feeding on the stubble, etc. among the passengers. I have been And this was termed the “right of told of the very obliging captain who, As Polly said before, this is ail very tery, which burst in the wardroom pas-' sack.” The "common field” system whb to please "the lady who asked to be well and may result in happier homes sage of the battleship. A five-pound gradually done away with by statutes shown the equator while the ship was bit of the shell struck the bowl on one In southern seas, pasted a hnlr across and fewer divorces, but in the same of the stoutest parts of the body, just in the reigns of George III and Wll- the large end of a spyglass and told the breath I would like to suggest a college where the seal of the State of Indiana Ham IV.—London Express. lady to look. And the lady through the where ideal husbands could be turned Train of Culture. glass declared she could see the equa out. Men, who would leant the art of forms the central part of a beautiful The chemist Liebig proposed to meas tor "as plainly as A B C.” One other being pleasant in their own homes and decoration. The seal is still there, but polite captain I have heard of—one who being courteous, and endeavor to make not as the artist designed it, for it uow ure the standard of civilization by ’.lie directed an officer on the bridge to "do as good an impression in their own forms a part of a large, irregular inden consumption of soap, a creation which as the lady wishes,” when the lady re little home-circles as they do on the tation, which, in the estimation of the would put the inhabitants of north quested that the captain steer tho ship outside. Polly knowsof some men who officers and men of the battleship, en Holland at the head of all civilized na tions. As n more reliable test Edmund over to the horizon so she could seo hances the value of the bowl a thousand About suggested the sale of steel pens, what the horizon was like.—Captain should have been doomed to walk times. the socialist Beiiel the frequency of re through life in single blessedness. They Jameson tn Collier's. form meetings, Dr. Bernard the use of are hardly civil in their own homes Soapsuds Dessert. and go sulking and ¡touting about an One of tlie longest and direst senten undergarments, a luxury unknown to The tribes on the coast of British Co swering every question of their wives ces ever pronounced upon a criminal is the semicivilized trilies of Asia anil lumbia hold a festival In the autumn, in a short and surly manner as if to say, probably contained in the decision of a South America; Professor Ebers the the crowning Item of which Is the par “How dare you ask a question? Wom Judge in Naples, who inllicted recently sale of postage stamps. The mileage of railroads per hundred square miles taking of a few spoonfuls of a bowl of en should lie seen and not heard.” ujK>n an Italian adventurer who plead of territory might do In comparing ■oapsuds. ed guilty to and was convicted of sixty- They gather in the dingy huts, which They never show any appreciation of four separate forgeries. The Judge countries of equal density of popula tion.—Exchange. anything their wives may do, never a are hung with the staple food—dried ■almon. For light they stick Into the word of encouragement, never otrer to figured up the ¡H-nalties and officially The C'hlnnmnn*s PrcM. ground, head downward, a silvery fish assist witii the children when they are sentenced the prisoner to 1088 years of Those who understand the subject solitary confinement. about five Inches long, set fire to the ill, but selfishly turn over and^ id^*mber ~ have to admit that when It comes to tall, and they have a torch, for the fish blissfully away while she ma; ly^WSsibly . In New Hampshire the State Gov the question of rational dress the Chi burns steadily. be up and down every hour in the night ernment pays a bounty on dead grass naman has very much the best of It. After eating of various unsavory American clothes are not made for the foods there comes the great treat. This to minister to the wants of the little hoppers at the rate of $1 a bushel. performance of much stooping or do Is a bowl of a frothy, soapy mixture, sufferers. The meal time, in place of obtained by crushing In a not overclean lieingone of the happiest hours of the The in tense dryness of the Sauth Afri mestic gym nasties, but the Chinaman, manner the sapollti, or soap berries, day, is so turbulent with the ugliness can air m very destructive of leather. In Ills loose, easy fitting clothes. Is ns free to stoop. Jump, run or turn hand ■ nd squeezing out the juice. This Is as on his part ttiat one and all are glad springs ns a small boy In bathing. In much like soapsuds as ft Is possible to to hurry through with it and get away Hence boots soon wear out. a Chinese suit of clothes you can lie conceive. The* natives sip it from from the table. There is no lingering spoons of black wood, neatly carved, for a last pleasant word, for it is nag, The animal that first suceur»’’« to down and sleep with the name amount of comfort that you can stand up and of which they think a great deal. nag, nag at the children,—“Don’t do extreme beat is the horse. walk. SIGNALING TO MARS. ODD EFFECTS OF THE FIRST SIGHT OF A LOCOMOTIVE. tome ot the People of the South Hid Behind Trees In 1*113, When the Iron Horse Went By—The Conatry'a Earliest llnllroud. America cannot lay claim to the first (ocomotive or the first railroad. That ,'rcat honor lies with England. Yet Yankee genius was not very far behind her, for, when George Stephenson launched his first real locomotive, the Rocket, on the Liverpool and Manches ter road in 1829, the first spike had been driven on the Baltimore and Ohio rall- rond. July 4. 1828, by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer Of tlie Declaration of Independence. This was the first road started In the United States, and in 1830 It had reach ed Ellicott Mills, 13 miles from Balti more. But the south can claim the honor of completing the longest railroad in the world at that date, being the old Charleston and Hamburg road, now a part of the South Carolina and Georgia system, which was begun In 1830, and by October, 1833, It had 137 miles of track In operation. In n letter from Mr. Samuel C. Clarke of Georgia, a kinsman of the writer, who attained the extreme age of 91 years and who had seen the beglnuiilg aud the comple tion of this road, he thus gives his ex perience upon first sight of a locomo tive: “One day while going down to Charleston with a party of gentlemen to utt end the races as we approached the city we saw in the distance the new railroad, finished some 10 or 12 miles out of Charleston. It was built upon piles, longer or short, according to the nature of tlie ground. Sometimes In crossing a ravine the rails were 20 feet from the surface. Our track ran near tills elevated road, nnd soon a horrid shriek us from 20 panthers was beard in the woods. By this time we were nervous. Elephants and lions we had heard of, and some of us had seen them, but wliat monster was this whose screams we heard? Presently It camo in sight, flying aloft through tlie air and breathing fire and smoke, and our frightened steeds became un manageable, and in fact I think that some of our party were as badly fright ened ns their horses. If any of my readers are old enough to remember the Introduction of locomotives and how they felt at first sight of them, they will perhaps understand our sen sation« that day In the pine woods. “A mile or two farther on we came to a broken wagon by tlie side of the road, and near it sat a Georgia cracker smoking his pipe. On being asked what was bls trouble he replied, ‘Well, stranger, I’ve often beam tell of nulli fication, nnd now I reckon I’ve saw It for true.’ ” It Is somewhat amusing now to read of the superstitious dread with which tlie inhabitants looked upon the build ing of these first railroads. Some thought the smoke of the continual passing trains would cause a pestilence or destroy nil the crops along the road. Others were afraid to ride on tlie cars for fear of having their breath taken away, and the people In the cities ob jected to the railroad being built be cause they fenred the smoke from the engines would soil the clothes which were liung out to dry. Many are yet living who looked upon the terrible, screeching iron monster with awe and trepidation. Mr. Nat Mc Gee of Ivy, Albemarle, tells a Joke upon himself that when he heard the train coming lie jumped from Ills horse and got behind a tree, where he viewed ft i'or fear of being run over. Mr. W. T. Prout, who was taking a wagon load of produce to Richmond, when he reached Gordonvillc heard tlie whistle and ter rible noise of the npproachlng train, and he and his companions were so scared that they sprang out, leaped the fence and ran across the field to n safe distance, leaving the wagon and team to Its fate, but when the train appeared it was only an engine and one coach. Tlie first roadbeds were formed, as has been stated, by driving piles In the ground, upon the top of which were placed wooden stringers, In which were cut a groove for the wheels to run. These were called “wooden railroads” and at a distance appeared like the ele vated railroads In the cities of the pres ent day. The honor of this invention was contested between John Hartman of Scottsville, Ya., and John Williams, an engineer of Ohid, but It did not prove a bonanza to either, for the wheels were constantly bouncing out of the groove, and the piles soon after gave place to solid dirt embankments, and strap Iron rails were substituted for the wooden groove. But the grad ing was very Imperfect and uneven, which made riding on one of these primitive railroads like going over a corduroy road In a springless wagon, with the cars bouncing over these rough rails to the jingling music of the windows.—Richmond Dispatch. The Difficulty of DolUB So by Menns ot l.laht. The very largest city that this earth has ever known would be altogether too small to be visible to a living dwelling on the planet Mars, even If that being were eudeavoring to sec it with a telescope as powerful as the greatest and most perfect Instrument In any observatory on this globe. If the whole extent of Lake Superior was covered with petroleum aud if that petroleum wns set on fire, then, I think, we may admit that an Inhabitant of Mars who was furnished with a tele scope as good as that which rerclval I.owell uses at Flagstaff might be able to see that something had happened. But we must not suppose that the mighty conflagration would appear to the Martian as a very conspicuous ob ject. It would, rather, be a very small feature, but still I think it would not be lieyond the reach of a practiced ob server In that planet. Ou the other hand, if an area the size of Lake Sufierior on Mars was to lie flooded with [>etroleum and that petro leum was to be kindled, we should ex pect to witness the event from here not as a great and striking conflagration, but as a tiny little point of Just dis cernible light. The disk of Mars Is not a large object, and the conflagra tion would not extend over the three hundredth part of that disk. It Is sufficient to state these facts to show that the possibility of signaling to Mars is entirely beyond the power of human resources.—Sir Robert S. Ball tn Independent. BLUNDERS IN FICTION. Tlie Queer Mistakes That Are Some times Made by Authors. We smile as we read and pass swiftly by the stories of maidens that wander in "lonel/ woods” at unearthly hours of night, always clad In "a soft, white clinging gown.” Now, every girl knows that the average maiden Is too much afraid of tramps and snakes to wander In "lonely woods.” The weather, too, appeal's to perplex our novelists, for not Infrequently they begin a chap ter at dawn, there are a few mo ments' conversation, and then the “sun sets in lurid bunks behind the distant empurpled mountains.” 1 am reminded at the outset of an English story written by an author of repute where the heroine In one scene was made on one page to stoop down and tie her shoestring, while three pages farther on, directly following. It was said of tlie same girl that she had remained barefooted the entire day. In another story a blind woman is made to view tlie hero through spectacles be fore the tale is ended. In a French novel—and we generally consider French such literary masters —a heroine is clearly made to go direct from her bed to the breakfast table, out shopping, to an afternoon tea and to dinner in her robe de nuit! Cousins suddenly transformed Into brothers without a moment's warning are nu- merous in this detective's library. Thus one Is amused to And the most mar velous mistakes In books which we think we have carefully read.—Modern Culture. Golf In the Old Days. Centuries back golf was a pastime of the royal family, though then usually played lu Scotland. The Stuart family was very fond of the game, and the first English club was established at Blackheath In 1008 by James I. Ills eldest son, Henry, frequently played and on one occasion nearly struck by accident Ills tutor with a club, where upon he coolly remarked, “Had I done so I had but paid my debts.” Charles I wns playing golf when he received the news of the Irish rebellion, James, duke of York, afterward James II, was another ardent player. Golf is fre- quently mentioncd in ancient Scottish records and In the fifteenth century was prohibited because It interfered with the practice of archery. Strutt considered it the most ancient game at ball requiring a bat.—London Chron icle. The Sqnlrrel Hnnter’s Weapon. The cream of squirrel hunting is en joyed by the man who uses a light rifle of small caliber and medium power. The “.22 long" ns uow turned out by our leading makers Is an excellent weapon—in fact, the best In the world for the purpose. Though not of suffi cient range to lie dangerous to people or stock at a distance. It throws lead with surprising accuracy to the tops of the tallest trees. Good rifle shots al ways alm for the squirrel's head both to add to the difficulty of the sport and to avoid sjioilliig meat. And be It known that n squirrel's bead at a range of 40 or 50 yards is no easy mark. If a reader doqbts this, let him go to the woods for a day, keep all empty shells, and at the end of the day let him try to make the dead squirrels and the empty shells tally. —E. W. Sandys In Outing. Knrly Rlrds. Do Carpets Shorten Life! Just think what a horrible receptacle of unclean things the carpet is in the rich English or French bouse! Where there are carpets, people should on en tering be given slippers, as In the Neth erlands or the footbath, as at a Turk ish mosque. Making servants sweep carpets Is another proof that evil Is wrought for want of thought. Flou- rens attributed the prevalence of lung and throat diseases in England to car peted rooms. London Truth. comet, of the Pa.t Centwry. The green finch Is the enrllest riser. It pipes as early ns hnlf past 1 In the morning. The blnckcap begins nt half past 2. It is nearly 4 o'clock before the blackbird appears. It Is heard half an hour before the thrush, and the chirp of the robin begins about the same length of time before that of the wren. The house sparrow and the tom tit take the last stage of the list. Advantages of Port Cities. The revenue New York derives from the rental of piers to the Cunard, the White Star, the American, the Atlantic Transport, the Freuch, the Leyland, the National and other lines Is nearly 111,000.000 annually. The White Star line pays the largest rental, $217,000; the Cunard line Is next with $120,000 and the American line third with $88. 400.—Alnslee's. During the nineteenth century 235 new comets were discovered as against C2 In the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century also beheld a great er number of large and brilliant com ets than did Its predecessor. The finest of these were the comets of 1811, 1843, 1858, 1881 and 1882. In the year 1800 Twice ■■ Black. only one periodical comet was known, Sam Cole—Miss Yallerby done treat Halley’s. Now many are known, of me scan'lous. She done tole me yes- which at least 17 have been seen at tld’y dat I was black as de ace of more than one return to perihelion. spades. Jim Crow—Dat’s on’y hnlf as bad as No Difficulty. what she sez ’bout me. She tole me I Phillips Brooks once gave a new ver was black as de deuce.—Catholic sion of the Jonah story to a wondering Standard and Times. skeptic, who said he doubted whether a whale's throat was large enough to The penal code of the Chinese em swallow Jonah. "There was no diffi pire Is at least 2,000 years old, and un culty.” said the bishop; "Jonah was one der Its provisions about 12,000 persons of the minor prophets.” ■re annually executed. CHOICE MISCELLANY Wise Men nevereed. The independence Star recount« that, a man down there was nearly stung byj a scorpion live Inches long and says the uian was very lucky to escape. ‘ as the, sting of a scorpion is certain death.'8 Aud we note the item as another in stance of the reversal of a university professor. Kansas seems to sit up nights watching for chances to reverse her university professors. Geologist Hayward said there was no gold In the western shales, and Colonel Fred Close reversed him by showing there would be lots of gold there after it had been discovered. Naturalist Dyche said the Belgian hare and the jack rabbit wouldn’t cross, and a state senator re versed him by offering an appropria tion bill to pay for the crossing of the two animals. Chancellor Snow said that the scor pion's deadly sting was mostly a myth and that even in the tropical coun tries It did little harm, aud now the chancellor Is reversed by the Independ ence paper. Aud this reminds us of an account written by a Kansas editor about the Gila monster, an ugly species of lizard found only along the Gila river. The editor had been down there, and the natives had tilled him full of stories about the deadly nature of con tact with this creature. "The mon ster." he said, “differs from every oth er known animal iu the world, because It does not need to bite or sting, but gives instant death with a breath from Its mouth.” Yet Chancellor Snow got one of these monsters and kept it alive around the university for a year or more, and the scholars used to pat it on the head and call It “Mike.”—Kansas City Journal. Noises of the Street. “Wards for nervous diseases In the city hospitals are far more crowded in summer than in winter,” said an emi nent specialist, “and there is no deny ing the fact that apparently unavoida ble street noises are responsible for it. With open windows and doors and ev erybody In a more or less Irritable and debilitated condition from tlie heat the ordinary street noises prevent sleep nnd wreck the nerves. I refer now to such simple things as tlie shouting of children at play, Irrepressible peddlers and hand organs. An Englsli writer has said tlint the organ grinders of London have done more in the last 20 years to detract from the quality and quantity of the higher mental work of tlie nation than any two or three col leges have effected to Increase it. I believe the same tiling Is true of Phila delphia. The nearness of large fac tories or machine simps, to the Institu tions of learning costs thousands of dollars yearly In wasted and Impeded effort.”—Philadelphia Times. Development of tlie Roof Garden. The roof garden owes Its existence to American Ingenuity. There Is nothing quite like it in Europe, nnd neither London nor Paris Is abreast of New York in this most delightful of ninuse- ment places, I inproved Iron and steel construction ns known in this country has not been Introduced abroad, and until it Is the danger of fire In the great cities with the old fashioned buildings will forbid the construction of roof gardens. Tlie roof garden has thrived and developed In New York, modifying its character to suit the va riable conditions which have sprung up of climate and of patronage. It has at last become a feature of metropoli tan life almost indispensable to those who stay in town during the heated term. It is doing much, moreover, to reconcile many persons with life In the city In summer, although hitherto they have found the seashore or the moun tains a necessity.—Leslie's Weekly. Three Extra Clean Cities. No loose paper In the future is to be thrown on the streets of Moline. Ills., for Chief of Police Klttllsen lias de clared war against all offenders. Be sides this, store sweepings are not to be swept on to tlie sidewalk nor ice washed on the streets nor water from the scrubbing of saloons or stores to be swept across the sidewalk nor garbage or offensive matter to be placed on the streets nor kitchen refuse to be placed elsewhere than In galvanized Iron cans holding between three and ten gallons under a penalty of from $3 to $100. Mayor Barr of Joliet, Ills., has Insti tuted a similar campaign In his city. President Grove of the Cleaner Dallas league of Dallas lias warned tho inhab itants of bis town that the ordinances covering the same Items as mentioned above will be strictly enforced.—Mu nicipal Journal and Enquirer. Tlie Circus In Vermont. Some people who have come down from a former generation during the circus-tour are recalling the day of Arcadian simplicity when Vermont's law forbade the circus to come within the state limits, and It was only some twoscore years ago the prohibition was withdrawn Circuses skirted all the borders, to which Vermonters came down and crossed over luto New York, New Hampshire aud Massachusetts to see the feats of ground aud lofty tum bling. nnd finally the virtue und wis dom relented and admitted the show to the tour of the state.—Montpelier (Vt.) Journal. A Liberal Minded Tribute. “There is oue thing that I admire about germs.” said the professor, win has no patience with people who doub scientific discoveries. “I didn't know they had any praise worthy traits whatever.” "They have at least oue. They are Industrious and take things ns they find them. They settle down to their business of making trouble and don't waste time In debates concerning any human being theory.” — Washington Star. Well Concealed. “What was the matter with Proud- foot that he made such a fool of him self last night?” "Oh. somebody had offended him un wittingly, and he was standing on his dignity." "Oh, was he? 1 wondered what bad become ot It’*-___________ The emblem of the New York City History dub Is the Industrious little heaver, typical of the sturdy ancestors, ■urrounded by a circle. This beaver was part of the ancient seal of New Amsterdam.
