BANDON RECORDER.
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He Was Mo H ob .
“Well,” suld tbe doctor, fieeplng Into
the room where Wellington Fras h, tbe
great poker expert, was wailln ig for
the returns. "1 suppose ,v u wi 111 re
gard this as a mere formality, but I
must congratulate you neverthele >sa on
tbe fact that you have a Hue boy across
tbe ball."
"Hi!” said Mr. Frasb. “That's good!
Come In and take sometblug.”
"Excuse me for a moment,” the doc
tor replied. Presently he returned, put
his head Into Mr. Fresh's den and said
"Let me congratulate you again. You
have two fine boys across the hall."
Mr. Frasb opened his mouth as If to
respond, but before he could do so the
doctor was gone again. Presently In-
bounded In tbe new father's presence,
saying: "By George, you have tbrei
fine boys across tbe hall!"
He was starting back when Mr
Frasb hurried forward, grasped him
by the shoulder and In excited tones
cried:
"Say, doc. hold on. Three of a kind
are good enough for me. 1 staud pat."
—Chicago Herald.
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I twl
roZLŸnüiiïÎKÏN”®
J Ui I
would presently come tripping in. I
think we both gasped when she en
tered. “Merciful heavens, what a cari
cature!” whispered my friend, as a
short, sullen-looking woman came slow
ly toward us. “What if that should be
the French cook?" I said. “Nonsense,”
said myfriend, “It makes the cold shiv
ers run over my back to think of such
a thing.” But she proved to be the
French cook who had been so highly
recommended. “Can you cook?” gasped
the little lady, staring at the woman
whom nature had not gifted with an
attractive nor even a pleasant face.
“Yes, 1 can cook; but I don’t want to
do much of it, for it makes me tired.”
“Makes you tired, does it? Then I’m
sure you wouldn’t suit.” “You wouldn’t
suit me, either,” mumbled the French
woman, who showed plainly that she
had been drinking. “I will try one
more and then I’ll quit.” And forth
we sauntered. We sttssl waiting our
turn to speak with the proprietress and
let our wants be known, She was talk
ing to a girl who was seeking a situa
tion and had just given her the num
bers of one or two places where they
wanted help. “I don’t believe in these
so-called ‘light places,’” said the pro
prietress. “Strike them for twenty
dollurs and stick to it. You can make
them pay it just as well as not." “I’m
not so very good a cook,” said the girl.
“That's all right. You can make them
pay it if you stick to it. Trouble with
you girls is that you hi\en’t backbone
enough.” “That settles it,” said my
friend. “I don’t want a girl from this
place.” And we took our departure.
Every office was thronged with people
seeking work, but not one of the num
ber could be secured, although some
looked like they badly needed it.
NEW SHORT STORIES FACTS IN FEW LINES HUMOR OF THE HOUR CHOICE MISCELLAN
i
lie Earned Ills Fare.
Many have beard the story of tbe two
x’< rwegiau brothers. Gue of them was
ill the boat when she started out. She
a is tLI.ty feet from the dock when
the other brother came rushing down
bin few seconds too late. Tbe one
ibuurd leaned over the railing and
ihouted: "Yump, Olie, yump! You can
aiake it iu two yumps!”
This local instance is alike with a
j terence: One Michael MeNolati, a
le-.vvr contract ir In the pick depart-
ui< nt, was giving bls folks an outing
luring the general celebration nud
’hose the Tashtuo as the means of
aansportation. On the way to the boat
kilchnel dropped iu every little while
Io light bis pipe.
Tbe family were all comfortable on
the upper deck and watching for tbe
liege lord and paymaster when the ma
chinery began t« work and the boat to
move. It was five feet away when the
belated passenger »ppeared, his face
red and his pipe working like a smoke
stack. He stood on the edge of the
lock, steadying himself and swinging
bis arms to give Impetus to a jump
when the goodwife Issued an order:
"Git back. Moike, git back, and make
a good run for the jump. Yez can nev
er make It standin’.”
Mike obeyed. By tbe time he made
Ills run the boat was twenty feet off,
but he made a gallant effort, went out
of sight in Ills best store clothes for a
bathing suit and came up spitting out
water and other things for which a
later explanation would be required.
He scorned life preservers showered
upon him, dove down and brought up
bls pipe, swam to the side of the boat
nnd when safely aboard demanded a
reduction in fare.—Detroit Free Press.
‘ Come with me, Polly,” saida friend
the other day. ‘‘I am going to have a
diidres sing afternoon and 1 want coin
puny, I’m going to the intelligence
offices to try and secure a girl to assist
me ill light housework. 1 emphasize
the last words, ‘light housework,’ and
you will know the reason why by the
time we have made the rounds. You
see, I have been all through this before
and 1 know what is in store for me,
Give you something to write about,
Polly, on how to solve the servant girl
problem.” Every intelligence office
was lined with young girls, middle-
aged women, and a few who will never
write their names on this side of fifty
years again, in fact one or two of them
looked like they had passed the sixty-
year mile-isiet. Some of them looked
cheerful and like it would be a pleasure
for them to find something to do in
agreeable surroundings, and others
Whnt the Fye Tell«.
)<M>ked as though they had lost their
Eyes are very treacherous, and tbos< last friend. “I wouldn’t have a walk
who meddle In amorous matters should
ing tombstone like some of these dis
know all about them
When tbe upper lid covers half or consolate looking beings around me for
more of the pupil, tbe Indication is of anything,” said my friend. “Life is
cool deliberation. An eye the lipper too short to live in the shadow of trials
lid of which passes horizontally across and tribulations, past and future. I’m
tbe pupil Indicates mental ability’ I n sure 1 would grow despondent myself,
steady eyes, rapidly jerking from side and the first thing I knew I would be
to side, are frequently Indicative of an in a decline. Ko Polly, give me the
unsettled mind, it Is said that the
prevailing color of eyes among the pa cheerful, happy disposition every time.
tlents of lunatic asylums are brown 1 think I’m a pretty good Judge of hu
and black. Eyes of any color with man nature. Now, 1 would not trust
Roue Eytinice and Rrltfliani Y oiibk .
weak brows and long, concave lashes that woman over there with the restless
Rose Eytinge tells In the New York
are Indicative of a weak constitution black eyes. I would be afraid she was
Dramatic Mirror this storj’ of Brigham
Eyes that are wide apart are said to one of the Isirrowing without asking
Young, whom she met in Salt laike
Indicate great Intelligence and a tenu kind.” Then the manager of this par
BRIEF REVIEW.
City: "He took me one day on n visit
clous memory. Eyes of which tin- ticular employment office approached
of inspection of a house In course of
whole iris Is visible belong to erratic
A Trip Behind the American Falls.
erection. As we passed from room to
persons, even with a tendency toward and my friend stated what she wanted
room the subject of polygamy was
Insanity. Wide open, staring eyes in and was shown into a little private John R. Barlow, the famous guide to under discussion. By way of Illustrat
room.
the
Cave
of
the
Winds,
and
his
son,
J.
weak countenances Indicate Jealousy,
ing Ills argument he pointed out the
C. Barlow, 27 years of age, made a trip many
bigotry. Intolerance and pertinacity
spacious advantages of the house
without firmness.
One after another tripped in and recently behind the sheet of water of and said: ‘Now, suppose you were liv
tripped out in the most patronizing the American Falls. It carried him ing in this house, and saj’ you were
Strictly A|i|iropriiiti‘.
fashion. The first was astrong, healthy back to 1867, when, accompanied by sealed to me and I were to bring In
One of tbe pretty .Sunday school looking girl, who stated that she was Guide John Mumford and J. R. Lane, another wife and establish her In an
teachers has a class of little girls, mid just from Iceland. “You want work?” he first ventured behind that waterfall. other wing, why should you object?
It Is ber custom to tell them each Sim
What would you do?’ To which I re
day of some little Incident that Ims asked my friend, who was rather taken He pointed out the conditions to his plied: ‘Do? I would dance oi) her!’
son,
and
the
two
agreed
to
venture
a
with
the
girl
’
s
rugged
appearance.
•happened In the week nud request tbe
The old man dropped on a pile of lum
children to quote n verse of Scripture “Yes, ma’m, and 1 want it bad. I'm passage which had not been accom ber that lay conveniently near and
to Illustrate the story In this way just from the old country a short time plished in thirty-four years. Leaving laughed till I thought be would do him
she hopes to Impress the usefulness and must find something to do." “Can the bridges and walks of the Cave of self an injury.”
of Biblical knowledge upon the little you cook?" queried my friend. “No, the Wind behind, the father and son
llrnhiua Wa« Tired.
ones. Last Sunday she told her class I don’t know much about cooking.” picked their way over the wet and slip
of a cruel boy who would catch eats “What can you do?” asked the em pery rocks toward the American Falls. When Brahms, the famous composer,
and cut their tails off.
a pupil of Schumann, the latter
At times they were in water up to their was
wrote to Liszt in Weimar that he
“Now, can any little girl tell me of ployer, kindly. “Oh, I can sweep and
an appropriate verse?" she asked. dust and do some little things like that." necks, and then again they were lost to would send him an exceptionally gifted
There was a pause for a few moments, Then she began to put the questions view in the spray clouds. Onward they pupil, a young "Hamburger,” Brahms
when one little girl arose and in a sol thick and fast. “How many have you went, however, and, after a hard climb, by name. Brahms, who walked most
emn voice said:
in family? Do you have much com they made a ledge, along which they of the way to Weimar, arrived there
"Whatsoever God has joined together pany? Do you have three hearty meals passed liehind the sheet of water. When
let no man put asunder.”—Carthage a day? Are there any children?” etc., they reached a point on the ledge the
Press.
until my friend was fairly bewildered, father signaled to the son, who under
but she thought as the girl was just stood that it was where the father
The Lemon.
Tbe lemon contains various acids. from the old country she had been stopped in 1867, and then far below this
citric ncld among them, with citrate of coached as to what to say, so she asked, point the two Barlows made their way,
potash, and these acids oxidize in tbe “What wages do you want?” "Twenty going fully 200 feet back of the water
blood Into carbonates of potash and dollars,” promptly replied the girl. that plunged over the precipice. They-
carbonic add. As scurvy Is believed to "But you say you can't cook and don’t bad been where no human being had
be due to a lack of potash-salts In the
blood, we see how substances like leln understand much about anything ex ever been liefore them. The trip was
ons, pot.‘itoi-s and fresh vegetables gen cept sweeping and dusting. For twen full of danger, but it was accomplished
erally act as preventives of the ail ty dollars one expects to get a good in safety. When Guide Barlow was
ment. Also In rheumatism. In which ciMik and one who knows how to man seen after he emerged from the falls he
It Is desirable to maintain tbe alkaline age about the place to some extent.” said he observed many changes in the
character of the blood, lemons arc of "Twenty dollars is my price; but what rocks as compared with the conditions
service. Beyond this I do not think would you give?” "I couldn't think he had found in 1867.
anybody can vaunt the properties of of giving you over twelve dollars until
the fruit. A healthy person lias no yon had learned a little more.” "Would
The Cheapest of Metals.
more need of lemons than of. say. tea.
Aluminum
is, at the present price,
not
come
for
less
than
fifteen
dollars.
for bls ordinary food will supply him
with all that Is necessary for the Don’t think your place would suitme,” the cheapest metal in the market, with
maintenance of a sound body. People and she switched out of the nxmi in the exception of iron, zinc and lead.
BHAIIMS WAS SOUND ASLEEP,
who talk about lemons as "good for the dignantly and was soon telling a com The metal is now extensively used in
liver.” and so forth, found their belief panion in misery how some people place of copper, brass, tin and in some hungry and tired; but, going directly
rather on faith than on knowledge.
wanted the earth and expected girls to eases even iron, especially when the re to Liszt’s house, he was admitted, and,
London Chronicle.
work for nothing. "I’ll fold my hands duction of dead weight is a question of handing two of Ills own sonatas to
Liszt, the latter played them from
the rest of my days first,” she said with great importance. Aluminum is also sight in a marvelous manner. Liszt,
Tile Slllleat II I rets.
Dodo Is tbe Portuguese name for an indignant shake of her head. “Score beginning to be used very largely as rather pleased with the compositions,
simpleton, and It Is given to tbe silliest number one as a failure,” said my electrical conductors, as it gives nearly turned to Brahms, who was seated In
biro that ever lived. Three hundred friend, smiling. "But hold on, here the same conductance as copper, weighs a big armchair, and said, “I shall play
years ago. when the Portuguese first comes another one.” She struck Polly only half as much and costs less. The B minor sonata for you.” This sonata
visited tbe Island of Mauritius, they as lieing a regular Amazon as she progress made in the use of aluminum lasts almost three-quarters of an hour,
found a large number of these birds. hustled into the little room, and she in the past few years justifies the most and when lie had finished he turned to
They wore about the size of n large was the one to start the ball rolling. sanguine exjiectations. Twenty years Brahms, but Brahms was sound asleep.
swan, blackish gray In color and hav
lllKhfnlntlii Reporting.
ing only a bunch of feathers In place "You want somebody to work, do you? ago the total output in the world did
of a tall and little, useless wings How many in family? Are there aMy not exceed four or five tons, and its A local musical critic of Hagerstown.
More, stupid nnd foolish birds could children? Don’t like to work where price was $30,000 per ton; ten yeam ago M<1., wrote thus of n performance of
not be Imagined. They ran abcut mak there are children, they’re always un its price was reduced to $10,000 per ton, “Iolanthe,” which was recently pro
ing a silly, hissing noise like a goose, der your feet. Do you have much and the output increased to about thirty duced there: "Melodic curves of di
end tbe sailors easily knocked them company? Do you have a full course tons per annum; now the price is $650 vine Intensity vaulted aloft, mirroring
over with their paddles. They couldn't dinner every night? A dinner like to $700 per ton, and the output during the perturbations of music’s soul nnd
fly. they couldn’t swim, they couldn't that makes lots of work for a jssir girl. the last twelve months Is reckoned at painting the struggle for subliminal ex
pression upon the airy fabric of voice
run at any great speed, and. ns for 1 always get oil' a Sunday or so every 5000 tons.
dreams. Ecstatically, yet orderly, the
fighting, they were the greatest cow
chorus rang its accompaniment, dash
ards In the world. They were much month. What wages do you pay?”
Strict Regulations.
Ing the serene waves of Its cloud cap
too stupid to build a nest, and so they Then my friend, who had been rather
dropped an egg nnd went off to let it awed by this volley of questions, recov Cupid will have a hard time soon ped vision right to the ultimate bars of
ered her breath and asked, “What with Russian army officers, if one is to human reach. Tbe audience was sym
batch ns best It could.
wages do you want?” “Thirty dollars Judge from a recent regulation fixing pathetic and enrapt, hanging with drn
Th. Chance« In Policy.
and not a eent less,” responded the the conditions under which Russian of matic fervor to tbe meticulous Inspira
The retired "poke" shopkeeper was Amazon. “There is no need to discuss ficers will lie permitted to marry. In tion of tbe passionate verve of the
explaining to bls Interested he arers the matter, for I’m sure you wouldn't the first place the lady must have good sinuous, Irresistibly direct and co
some of the mysteries of his former suit.” And out went the Amazon with manners and be well brought up; her ordinate harmonies which passed oft
the Ivory gates and scored their tri
business.
“The chances of wlnulng at the pol n look that was anything but compli social position will also be taken into umphs In the very heart of music’s
icy game." he said, "are about like tills: mentary. "I squelched her right In account. Then with regard to the otll- capital."
You take a bushel basket and fill It the lieginning,” she said to a compan cer, he must be at least 23 years of age,
The Dandy and Kitchener.
with small white benns. Then you ion who was waiting for her. “Hcore his pay and mess allowance must
Jean
Carrere of tbe I’arls Matin, who
put one small black bean Into the bas failure for number two,” said my friend. amount to at least $600, and he must
returned recently from Soutlf Africa,
ket and shake the lot up. After that “Suppose we try some place else.”
have either real estate bringing $150 or relates an encounter of Lord Kitchener
go to some ‘skyscraper1 building, say
more per annum or a capital of $2500 or with a dandy officer who bad an unfor
one about 29 stories blgh. and place a
more. If the capital does not exceed tunate effeminate taste in trifles. The
penny on the sidewalk In front of It.
The next employment office was just
man came to him one day bring
This done, shoulder your bushel of as crowded with girls and women as $2500 no more than $150, including the young
a dainty silk handkerchief, upon
beans nnd take the elevator to the roof the first, all seemingly anxious to work, interest, must be drawn in any one ing
which, In accordance with a prevailing
year.
of the building. Then lean over the
fashionable fad, be desired him to In
edge of the roof and, aiming nt tbe nearly all of them demanding twenty
scribe
bls autograph. Lord Kitchener
dollars,
but
some
of
them
didn
’
t
look
The curious sight may be seen in took the
cent on the sidewalk below, dump out
handkerchief and remarked.
as
though
their
services
would
lie
worth
tbe beans In the basket all together.
Dover of a young tree growing out of a "This Is doubtless your sister's hand
Then burry down on the elevntor nnd ten dollars. Gue tall, good-lisiking girl, high mill chimney in a public thorough kerchief?” "No.” replied tbe dandy,
rush out to the sldewnlk. If you find arranged to come and try it for a month fare. Notwithstanding its extraordi smiling amiably: "It is mine." Lord
that tbe black bean has fallen upon tbe without the preliminary questions. The nary position, the tree has grown two Kitchener handed It back without writ
penny, you win.”—New York Times.
wage- were to Is- fifteen dollars a month, or three feet high. It is believed to ing on It, only Inquiring ns he did so,
every Thursday night off-, and one Sun have its root in an old nest.
with an air of serious Interest. "And
Tbe Editor Won.
what size balrplus do you wear?"
day in the month she was to have for
A London paper described a dill herself. “Of course you know some A stingleas bee lias been discovered
.float »«llatylng.
dren’s excursion as a “long, white
in Montserrat, in the West Indies. It
scream of joy,” and was called to ac thing alsnit cooking,” said my friend. gathers honey, the quality of which They were speakiug of the billion
Hire's insufferable pretensions.
count by a correspondent, who sold "Not the first thing,” she replied, as
that a scream could be long, but not ' she arose from the chair. “I suppoeed cannot be improved by modern hives. "Upon what meat does this our
white, whereupon tbe editor justified ’ you wanted a second girl. Of course, If It will tie introduced into this country. Caesar feed that be has grown so
himself by urging that “a hue Is often you want a cook, that settles the ques New Zealand, with a death rate of great?” exclaimed Mordaunt bitterly.
"Mint’s meat, possibly!” observed
associated with a cry.” *
tion,” and out she went. “Isn’t this
leas than 12 )>er 1000 a year is the most Meltravers, trying to be cheaply witty
while yet preserving tbe easy grace of
Politeness Is like an nlr cushion - a pretty state of affairs," sighed my healthy of all the British colonies.
a man of tin world.—Detroit Five
there may tie nothing In It, but It eases friend. The proprietress entered and
suggested that we resume our seats and
________ _____
many a hard jolt.—Chicago News
Venice has a cafe which has lieen Press.
she would send a nice little French lady opened day and night for fifty years.
The total number of timber rafts on
Mind Is that whl^h precelves, feels, to talk with us who was a number one
all tbe rivers of European Itussla Is
rememliers , is and Is conscious of cook. Our hearts lieat with pleasant
Gallon was originally a pitcher or jar, said to be more than BOJjOO yearly,
continued existence. .
anticipation of the French cook who no matter of what size.
with a total of some 25,0j^^^Joza_
■I he World’« Large«! Ink Pot.
The Trouble« of Br’er William«.
It is estimated that 26,000 horses are
“De ways er Providence,” said Broth The most unusual curiosity in this
killed annually In London.
The first sugar mauufactured in this er Dickey, “Is past findlu’ out. Take strange, uncanny land by the Colorado
countrj’ was made in New Orleans In Br’er Williams, fer instunce. Fer six river Is what the naturalists in Cali
days en dat number er nights be con fornia call a lake of ink. The scientific
1796.
More than $50,000,000 worth of tim stant prayed fer rain, en w’eu de ralu journals of Los Angeles aud San Diego
ber was destroyed by forest tires last come hit ilrownded de only mule be bad have discussed time and time again
en washed his house sideways! Den what the lake of Ink really Is. It Is a
year.
Three thousand troops were recently he lit In fer ter pray fer dry, en de sun great pool of a black fluid that resem
Bent to help tbe Inhabitants subdue a shine so hot dat his eo'nfiel’ wuz burnt bles black writing Ink more than any
ter a frazzle, en de new mule what he thing else. It Is about an acre in area.
forest fire In Sweden.
buyed on a credit wuz sunstroked, en Tlie surface of tlie lake is coated with
In tbe south of China silkworms what wuz iff’ er bls bouse ketclied fire, ashes
from the volcanoes to the thick
have been reared and silk manufactur en sence de well done dried up he
ness
of
about half a foot, and the ex
ed for over 3,000 years.
didn't have no water ter put it out! plorer In these parts who is not looking
During the last ten years 545 miles of Den he got so mad he gone off in a cor out tor tills freak of nature would be
Irrigation ditches have been opened In ner ter swear In private, en de preach very apt to walk into it.
Arizona, at a cost of $1,508,469.
er, cornin’ dat way, beam ’Im swearin’ Surveyors have found that the lake Is
It Is said that Nova Scotia will have eu bad 'Im up befo’ a spesliul commit some 300 yards deep in some places,
as many apples as last year and that tee eu turned 'Im out de church! En but no bottom can be found in others.
they will be of a very superior quality. de las’ time 1 seen ’Im lie wuz seftln’ There is nothing but theory as to tlie
As luteARs 1770 the journey from in de place whar his house use ter be rource of the supply of tbe lake, but
Liverpool^! London was dangerous on a-readln' er de book er Job!”—Atlanta |:o one seems to know the component
account i^pthe bad condition of the Constitution.
parts of the acre of black fluid. The
roads.
Indians say It Is composed of the blood
It 1« Beeoiuins Indefinite.
Out of KXKOOO.OOO passengers by sea
of bad Indians who are suffering In
"1
heard
you
call
that
man
‘
profess
all over tlie world thirty lose their
their bell amid the volcanoes. Samples
lives and out of tbe same number by or.’ ”
of the fluid have been brought to Yuma
"Yes.
”
rail forty-seven.
"Well, there Is something indefinite and Los Angeles for tests and exami
Germans have fully $60,000,000 in about that title, and I am naturally nation. It is good for common mark
vested In Central American enter curious. Is he a pugilist, a dog trainer, ing purposes. Cotton goods that have
prises. and German plantations occupy an Instructor In athletics, a patent med been soaked with the strange black
740,000,000 acres.
icine lecturer, a sleight of hand man or fluid keep their color for months, even
A method has been invented to sink a scientist of some sort?”—Chicago when exposed to the sun, and the goods
have n stiffness that Is somewhat like
shafts in the salt islands of Louisiana, Post.
weak starch. A gallon of the lake fluid
and they may become an important
was sent to the Smithsonian institution
The Mystery Solved.
salt mining center.
the other day for analysis.—Indian
Mr. Wayback—Be yew the waiter?
Englund spends £8,400,000 a year on
apolis News.
Waiter Yes, sail.
her paupers; Scotland. £900,000; Ire
Mr. Wayback—Dew yew know. I've
land, £1,400,000, while France spends
“Fake" Photograph«.
been a wonderin' all along why they
less than £1,500,000.
Two years ago a series of alleged
called
these
places
ehophouses.
I
know
Denmark is an agricultural country.
photographs of extraordinary feats of
About three-fourths of the population now. Will y< w please bring me an skill on horseback attracted wide atten
are engaged in the cultivation of the ax? 1 want tew cut this steak. —Les tion when published. Later it was
soli. Copenhagen Is the only city of lie’s Weekly.
shown that these photographs were
any size.
clever fakes. In each case the horse
Chip Off the Old Block.
In Gettysburg park there are about
Mrs. Howells Your baby resembles when photographed was standing In a
500 monuments. In addition to this his father very much, don’t you think? normal position on the ground, and the
patriotic ornamentation there are 225
Mrs. Growells—Yes, In both looks result was obtained bj- hoisting the pic
mounted cannon and over 200 monu and actions. Why, he even makes a ture around and faking the sky line.
mental tablets.
A similar photographic fake is work
specialty of crying for tlie moon In the
The term "royal yacht,” hitherto ap daytime instead of at night just for ing successfully at manj’ of the seaside
plied to vessels belonging to King Ed the sake of being contrary.—Chicago resorts thiB summer, and tlie patrons of
ward VII., will be abandoned hence News.
It are young men and women who want
forth, and the appellation will be "bls
swimming reputations to which they
majesty’s yacht.”
are not entitled. For Instance, a girl
Comic Definition«.
Canada Is disappointed in its census.
will stand on a post not two feet above
The total Is 5.300,000, an increase of
tlie water line, posed as for a dive.
only 9.7 per cent In ten years. The
Tlie photographer produces a picture
rate of growth Is less than half that of
in which tlie post Is so high that It
tbe United Slates.
makes one dizzy to look at it. This is
No. 1 of the set. In the second picture
Chicago alone will handle about 40,-
tlie girl Is represented In the act of
000,000 pounds of beet sugar this year.
diving from this isist into water thirty
Most of It will come from Michigan,
or folly feet below. As a matter of
where tbe development of the industry
fact she makes au ordinary dive from
lias been most rapid.
the low post, and the photographer
The Spanish wine trade, which has
adds the distance. The two pictures
long been a feeder of the French, has
are proof enough of skill iu high div
suffered considerably from the very
ing, for It is generally believed that the
prolific yield of tbe last French vint
camera does not He. The photogra
age. which lias cheeked Importation.
phers who devised the scheme are reap
A seel ring, it is said, lias been found
ing a rich harvest, but the pictures do
In Crete representing the minotaur that
not pass for their face value at the
was kept in the middle of the Laby
swimming beaches.—New York Sun.
rinth of Da’dalus. It shows an animal
with the head and hoofs of a bull and
Zambeala Negroes on Bicycles.
the legs of a man seated oil a throne.
It does seem ridiculous, but on the
A full length marble statue of Dr.
authority of a correspondent to a Salis-
William Gilbert, the father of elec
bury paper the natives from Zembezla
trical science and author of "De Mag
waj- are returning to their distant and
nete,” is Io be erected at the instance
savage homes on bicycles! To appre
of members of the medical profession
ciate the full significance of this state
nt Colchester. England, his old home.
ment one must realize the thin shank
The latest census shows that there
ed. Hat footed, bundle carrying, nude
are 420,271 horses In Denmark, 188
native pedaling across the wild veldt,
for every 100 acres under cultivation
with ids pump and other necessary
and 195 per 1,000 Inhabitants. The
accessories
to cycle traveling fastened
sheep number 1,058.656, which Is 281
around
him.
witli a bundle of mealy
per 100 acres and 45G per 1,000 In
colis flying from Ills side, with a cala
habitants.
bash of water over Ills back, a digger's
Considerable quantities of opal are
belt around Ills waist and sundry ox
found In Queensland and New South
tail ornaments flying from his legs.
Wales. In the latter state the com
A single rider would be funny enough,
moner kinds are found in many locali
but a batch of them would present the
ties. especially in the neighborhood of
strangest feature Imaginable. They ap
Orange, but they possess little or no
pear to obtain these bicycles cheap too.
commercial value.
Their mode is first to learn to ride,
English magazine writers are raising
surreptitiously or otherwise, tl-b^
a cry more like a bowl against British
when about to return they watch theliW
railway managers for clinging to little
opportunity and obtain one while Its
engines, little ears and small loads as
owner is absent. In a few days they
against American Immense engines,
are well toward the Zambezi, where
ears and loads. In consequence of
the policeman ceases to trouble and
“TAKING STEPS FOB HIS 11ESCÜB.’’
which freights are four times higher
the native is at rest. No wonder the
than here.
lions are seared from the main route!
Au F.qiiiil Divtalon.
Eight hundred residents In South
-Rhodesia.
"So they were divorced, eb?”
London have joined a tenants’ protec “Yes. for incompatibility of temper.”
Electric Disinfection of Car«.
tion league, started a few days ago, "to
“now did It come about?”
Nothing sweetens or freshens stale
enable weekly tenants to combine for
“Well, you see, be bad the Incompat
self protection ngalnst tbe extortionate ibility, and she bad the temper.”—Les air better than ozone, and now that
most of the railway companies have
mid Illegal demands of landlords and lie’s Weekly.
successfully adopted a system by which
rate collectors and for provision of the
each carriage on Its journey develops
Xot Specific.
necessary legal assistance.”
Visitor—I’m shocked to find you here. by means of a dynamo attached to the
Hoopeston, Ill., demands respectful
attention. Its mayor serves for 50 Once you told me you were honest ns axletrees its own current of electricity
for lighting purposes there Is no reason
cents a year and Its councilmen for the day Is long.
Burglar Bill—Yes'tn, but I didn't say why the same current should not be
half as much. There has never been a
saloon In the place, though It has now nutliln’ about de nights.—Chicago utilized at the same time to ozonize tbe
air of the compartment. The quantity
a population of 4.000. and Its pave News.
of ozone required Is small. The result
ments. fire department, water supply
Prevented a Suicide.
would certainly be good, since the
and public works generally are all
Cbolly—I saved a girl's life last night ozone has a remarkably destructive ac
right.
Wotter— How?
tion on aerial Impurities and unpleas
A statute making it unlawful to add
Cbolly
Why. when I proposed to her ant smells nnd gives the air a degree of
water or nnj' other substance to milk she said — she
’d rather die than marry freshness similar to that of tbe sea
that Is Intended for sale Is held by an me, so I excused
her.—Baltimore World. breeze.—Lancet.
Iowa court to be a constitutional exer
cise of the police power, even If the
Benny*« Hedge.
Privacy at n Discount.
substances added are not Injurious or
"Benny
Bloombumper.
how do we
The Londoner of todaj’ certainly lias
used with intent to defraud, but are know that tbe moon Is 240,000
miles a passion for company, says The
merely for the purpose of preserving
distant from tbe earth?”
Queen, and tbe modern Englishman's
the milk.
Benny (alarmed at the teacher's man Carlton Is his castle. We drink our tea
Dr. William Calvert of Washington ner)—Y-y-you said so yourself, sir. •
at Claridge’s In the jnidst of a chatter
claims to have eclipsed all other heat
ing mob. Having lunched nt Prince's
producers by his "pau-heliomotor” fur
Sure Sinn.
with everybody we ever heard of, we
naces, which are said to develop 24,000
“That new author must be a great dine perhaps at the Savoy. We sup in
degrees of beat In comparison with the genius.”
the pnradlse that lies beyond tlie palm
6,000 developed by the electric arc. This
"Why so?"
court. Only our breakfast Is devoured
heat is said to be absorbed by an amal-
"He lias such an unpronounceable In privacy, and next season, I doubt
am of metals, which, curiously name."—Atlanta Constitution.
not, there will be some smart place Iu
enough, Is not fused by this enormous
which we shall be able to eat boiled
amount of heat.
The Hoy of the Family.
eggs to the accompaniment of a purple
Fiber pipes nnd conduits made from
Visitor (as Tommy, enters)—This Is Hungarian band.
wood pulp aud treated with a preserva your young hopeful, I suppose.
tive are now being put In use. After
Mrs. Tucker Well, just at present
Food and Gunpowder.
the usual grinding the pulp Is wash he's tny young bauds-full. — Chicago
So long us the other nations of the
eil, screened, passed through a beating Tribune.
earth keep more men behind the gun
engine and then screened again. Thes
and a less number behind the plow
She Win Wilting.
operations completed, a thin sheet <
than does Uncle Sam, just so long will
He
(virtuously)
—
I've
never
dreamed
the pulp Is wound on a core until th
the United States have a surplus of
desired thickness Is secured. Afti- of kissing a girl against her will. I
She—How forunate! Dreams go by food to sell to the hungry peoples who
drying the tube Is aerated with i
preservative. Its ends are then tlnisbe. contraries, you know. — Philadelphia still go on trying to delude themselves
into thinking that they can keep fat ou
Press.
In a lathe to any desired form
gunpowder. Boston Herald.
Tnatea Differ.
Caller—The minister's son Is follow
Dealer Hi re, madam. Is a horse I
Ing In tbe footsteps of that spendthrift can recommend sound, kind—
Above Suspicion.
young Jinks.
On being Informed that a member of
Old Lady Oli. I don't want that sort
Miss Prim—Isn't that scandalous?
his race bad been sentenced to the pen
of a horse He holds bls bead high
Caller—Hardly ns bail as that. You
itentiary for forgery. Brother Dickey
1 haler— Eh?
see. he’s a tailor nnd Is just trying to
Old Lady I like a horse Hint holds exclaimed: “Dot's what comes er dis
collect bls bill.- Chelsea Gazette.
Lis nose close to the ground, so he can yer eddlcatlon Thank de good Lewd
see
where lie's going.—New York I never could read or write, en what s
'I he most mnuentiai newspaper In
mo,’ 1 never will!”-Atlanta Constitu
Weekly
Rcotlnnd Is the Edinburgh Statesman,
tion.
nnd the oldest Is the Dundee Adver England Imported last year nearly a
tiser. They are edited respectively by million pounds of calcium carbide,
In Abyssinia the coffee plant grows
Sir John I-eng and Charles Cooper, about two-lhirds of which came from wild in great profuslou nnd derives its
both of whom are Englishmen and na France nnd about one-fifth from the name from Kaffa, a district of that
tives of Hull, Yorkshire.
country.
United States.