*»»»»»»»»»»•»»»»»»•»•»»•»» ment Club are to given doll fete to raise
AN OVERWORKED PHRASE.
ONE MAN’S LUCK.
MEMORY’S PRANKS.
funds to beautify tUelr plaza, which 'DANGEROUS FISHES.
Steered into u Junior Partnership Why
Do
We Remember Certain The Expression “He Took Illa Life In
has, like the public plazas of many
Illa Hands.”
THEY ARE NOT ALL CONFINED TO
'I'llin um aud Forget Others f
by a Uhuwce Gust of Wind.
towns,
been
sadly
neglected.
Of
all
Electric Ll«ht Curbum.
“The expression ‘he took his life In
"Speaking
of
taking
In
partners,
”
THE
SEAS
THAT
ARE
SALTY.
The
vagaries
of
memory
are
some
of
One of the new Industries that have *♦»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»* others tiiis plaza should lie kept up, for
said a downtown business man, “our the must luterezt.-g of those connected his bands' always struck me as being
it is on historical ground. Here the old
followed in the train of the electric
The Alllsutor Gar I. One Fresh Wa junior was. you might say, blown In on with the liumau mtu«l and body. Wliy very foolish,” said a bright young gen
light Is that of carbon making. The
Bear Hag wax raised in tlie early days.
tleman, "and I have often wondered
I heard a group of ladies talking on
ter Specie. That I. Feared In the us, aud I tiftw him started in our di do we forget certain things and re
first electric lamps used carbon points
Sonoma is known to many an the val South—A Mysterious Monster That rection, though I liad no Idea of It at member others? Myriads of these ir why so many persons persist in using
the
cars
the
other
day,
and
the
honesty
sawed out of the dense, almost metallic
ley of the moon, and it is the most his
the time.
regularities are as yet unaccounted It when they want to speak of extraor
looking carbon deposit that slowly of one of the trio was refreshing. The torical of all the towns in the northern Inhabits a Mlehluan Lake.
“Going down town one summer morn for. Perhaps not even the cleverest dinary dangers. Now. extraordinary
formed on the Inside of the clay re subject was Grau’s Grand Opera season.
So far as any danger from the game ing on a Ninth avenue elevated train metaphysician will ever account for danger is one thing and the simple,
torts used In making coal gas. This Two of the ladies were going into eu part of this State. Many of the old is concerned, fresh water fishing has I saw sitting opposite to me a young
commonplace thing of taking one's own
them.
adobe
buildings
still
remain
in
this
material was scarce and soon became stacies over the opera from start to fin
life in one's hands Is an entirely differ
always
been
looked
upon
as
about
as
Professor
James
reminds
us
how
man
who
caught
my
fancy,
a
substan
expensive and, being both exceedingly ish. They had season tickets. They quaint little town, set down like a gem safe as any sport lu the world, and the tial, earnest, straightforward looking something which we have tried In vain ent thing.
hard and more brittle than glass, was praised Gadski’s charming voice, Mme. in the surrounding hills. Sonoma lost
“I work In a big building. There are
to recall will afterward, wheu we have
its most interesting citizen, who was fresh water fish lias gone on record as chap, whose looks I liked first rate. He
very difficult to work. It was there
was reading u paper, and presently he gl ven up the attempt, “saunter Into a steam engine aud a mammoth boiler
Iteuss-Balce,
Calve,
Emma
Eames,
etc.
harmless
and
nonreslstant.
But
there
fore found necessary to manufacture
well versed in the historical reminis
tore off from Ills paper an advertise the mind,” as Emerson says, as Inno in the basement. Whenever I enter
the curium points, and making these They declared Andreas Dippel the cences of auld lang syne, wheu the are Instances now aud then when the
cently as If it bad never been sum that building, if they are running the
has now become a considerable indus grandest tenor they had ever heard. genial General Vallejo passed to his re fish turns the tables. The Inhabitants ment leaf that be didn’t want and moned.
engine In the basement, I take my life
threw
it
out
of
a
window
or
tried
to,
try. New York city alone consumes Each member of the Grau Opera Com ward. He was an aristis’ratic and pol of Osceola county, Mich., who live In
Again, bygone experiences will revive in my hands. I get on the elevator on
for as a matter of fact It didn’t go out.
the
neighborhood
of
Lake
George,
au
several hundred thousand of them pany came in for his or her share of
ished gentleman, and when his sum- Inland water about three miles long, ?. gust of wind with Just the right after years of oblivion, often as the the fifth floor; I take my life In my
every week.
praise, but they went into ecstacies
monscame
the whole country mourned. ure almost su]s*rstltlously afraid of a twist to it came along at Just that mo result of some cerebral disease or acci bands. I go out of town; the car
They are made of a mixture of petro when it came to Sybil Sanderson’s
may tumble over a trestle somewhere.
certain fish that inhabits that lake. No ment and blew the paper back, to fall dent.
leum, coke and tar, which Is baked lieauty and charming voice. One of the
Such a case is the one quoted by I walk along the street; a sign may
on
a
vacant
seat
next
to
him.
knows
wliat
sort
of
fish
it
is,
and
one
for a long time at a high temperature. ladies, who had an air of prosperity,
BRIEF REVIEW.
“And as It fell something In It caught Coleridge of a young woman in Ger fall on me. 1 make my way across the
opinion locally Is divided as to whether
The coke is ground as tine as possible
his
eye, and be picked up that part many who could neither read nor write, thoroughfare; who knows but what
listened
attentively
to
all
the
other
two
It is a giant muskellunge or a stur
In especially designed mills and Is inti
which
lie Imd just been trying to throw but who was said to be possessed of a a street car or a vehicle of some sort
Excellent Chilean Railways.
mately mixed with the tar In mixing had to say and finally, in response to
geon.
away
and
began earnestly to read it devil because. In a fever, she was heard may not run me down? I cross tlie riv
Spearing parties had now and then
machines. A cake of the resulting tlie query, “Aren’t you going to attend
For its railways Chile purchases only
and
ended
up by folding it carefully raving in Latin, Greek and in an ob er; may I not suddenly And myself In
reported
seeing
a
very
large
fish
with
carbon dough Is placed lu a strong steel the opera this year, Mi’s. It-----?” said, the best and most expensive rolling
scure rabbinical dialect of Hebrew. the swirling stream and sinking for
null
putting
It In his pocket.
cylinder, having a hole of the proper “Oh, 1 suppose 1'11 have to. My hus stock, says the Bulletin of the South out being able to strike It, but no one
Whole pages of her talk were written the last time? If I walk along tlie
“
About
four
minutes
after
I
’
d
got
In
diameter at the bottom. A massive band says Mrs. So-and-so and every American Republics. The locomotives gave credence to the tales until one
down
aud were found to consist of street, may not a brick or a loosened
here
that
morning
this
same
young
steel plunger, worked by hydraulic body else that knows anything are go have tlie l>est crucible steel Ixrilers, with night several years ugo, when a party
sentences Intelligible In themselves, but cornice come crashing down upon me?
man
walks
in
and
applies
for
a
place
of
sportsmen
from
Chicago
went
on
the
(tower, descends upon the mass nml ing, and lie thinks it is my duty to go.
copper fittings, such as would be con lake spearing in charge of an old resi that we had been waiting for some not having the slightest connection There are a row and a shot or two on
forces out the dough In the shape of a
body to fill. Our advertisement for a with one another. To say that she was the corner; may not a stray bullet wing
If
I
do
attend,
however,
it
will
only
be
sidered too expensive for general use in dent named Armstrong.
rod. This Is cut into proper lengths,
me? And so on.
to
please
him,
and
not
because
I
shall
the United States. The car wheels are Armstrong was the only one that re man for It was In that paper which I possessed of a devil was the easiest
packed tightly In powdered coke In
"Pessimism? No. Logic. That's all.
way of accounting for the matter.
Iron boxes and baked nt a red beat for enjoy it a minute. He wants me to get of cast iron, with steel tires. The pas turned to toll the story. He said the bad seen this young man try to throw
At last the mystery was cleared up It Just shows the difference between
away,
and
which
a
gust
of
wind,
by
a
new
evening
costume
and
an
opera
party
was
spearing
In
shallow
w
’
ater
a week or more. Th? product, when
senger cars are the best that can be
by a physician, who traced back the taking one's own life in one's hand
cooled and smoothed on emery wheels, cape that I suppose I shall never have made and are handsomely finished in when they saw an enormous fish that one chance In a million or more, had girl’s history until he learned that at and the matter of confronting extraor
blown
back
upon
him
and
In
such
a
Is the carbon rod of the arc lamp.— on again. I don’t go any place to wear mahogany. The reason for this fact is resembled an overgrown pickerel. Two
the age of nine she was taken to live dinary danger. These risks are ordi
manner as to tlx his attention.
New York Sun.
sucii fol-de-rol. I tell him to leave that explained by J. Sutomayer, representa of the Chicago men were standing In
"As a matter of fact I hadn’t liked at the house of au old pastor, a great nary. plain, old, everyday risks. The
the
bow,
and
at
first
supposed
the
fish
for the younger folks to enjoy, but he’s tive of the Chilean Government in Eu
Hebrew scholar, and that she remain fireman who dashes into a burning
How They Eat In the Vai <l’Or.
to be a log. Then one saw his mistake the young man’s act of throwing the ed there until the pastor’s death. It building to rescue u child, the fellow
so
set.
He
says
people
never
(get
old
paper
out
of
an
elevated
car
window.
rope,
with
headquarters
in
Brussels,
In the morning many eat gaudes, a
and struck with nil his might. The fish
who grabs the bridle of a runaway
porridge made of Indian corn tlour who keep their hearts young. He when he states that Chile is so far dis gave a dart that made the boat Jump A paper floating down and around as had been for years the old man's cus horse, the hero who will plunge into
tom
to
walk
up
and
down
a
passage
that
would
do
might
frighten
horses
mixed with milk, or a soupe malgre would like to see me—think of it, an tant from manufacturing countries and as though a steam engine were pulling
the river to save some person who is
with cream, then curds, or goat's old woman who will never see forty freight charges are soexcessive that only it. If the man had let go of the spear, and lead to no end of trouble and lots near the kitchen and read to himself about to drown—these are tlie persons
cheese, of a peculiar kind, homemade, eight again dress and act as frisky as those equipments which will endure all would have been well, but he hung of damage, but no one man thinks lu a loud voice.
His books were examined, and among who confront what I would call ex
called fromage fort, a well deserved an eigbteen-year-old girl. He says it is the greatest amount of wear and tear on, and the fish gave a mighty flop to nbout everything, aud he’d learn better
them
many of the passages taken down traordinary dangers, and the worn
about
this.
I
knew,
and
so
as
a
matter
name, for 1 have never seen a woman improving to go to the grand opera.
are the most economical for use in that right angles with the boat. The man of fact I took this young man on the at tlie young woman's bedside were platitude of saying of one of these ‘he
partake of It.
still
held
to
the
spear,
with
the
result
Maylie it is, only 1 never stay awake country.
Identified. The theory of demoniacal took liis life in his hands’ would not
It Is made of dried curds ami old
that the boat capsized, and the men spot on my first impressions of bint, possession was abandoned. — Youth's fit the case because there would be in
long
enough
to
be
improved.
I
don
’
t
lie
far
more
than
made
good
and
In
goat's cheese, kept In wood ashes for a
found themselves standing lu mud nnd
the act an element ot heroism which
due course of time he came Into his Companion.
Native Japanese Copper Mines.
year, the two grated and mixed to know what it is makes me so drowsy
water up to their waists.
would place it much above the com
junior
partnership,
literally
aud
truly
when
1
go
to
a
grand
opera,
for
I
nearly
gether, with salt, pepper, brandy and
The total numberof persons employed The light went out when the boat up
monplace.”—New Orleans Times-Dem-
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
sometimes garlic. These Ingredients always go to sleep while I am looking in various services at the Ashio mines set, nnd, the night being dark nnd blown into it.
ociat.
"Sort o’ queer, eh?”—New York Sun.
being put into an earthen pot, the through my opera glasses, and I’m glad and furnaces is about 10,006, and these cloudy, not one of the party had any
Mix stove blacking with a little am
goat's cheese acts as leaven, and fer when it is over. But I can sit through with their families make,up a small city idea of the direction to be pursued In
monia to prevent It burning off.
HOYT’S JOKE ON M’KEE.
A CORDIAL RECEPTION.
mentation begins. When it lias sub a whole evening at the Orpheum and
reaching shore. The shallow water oc
A teakettle should never be allowed
sided, the whole presents the appear never lose a joke or a thing that is going of 17,000. Of these, 75 per cent have cupies a large part of the lake, and
been born on the spot, as were their they could wander In nny direction The Book Auent Got One That to stand on the side of the Are with a Ilow the Playwright Had a Bit of
ance of yellowish, sticky, strong smell
Fun With Hit» Manager.
WiiNo’t Intended For Hint.
small quantity of water In It.
Ing, curdled cream, far from appetiz on, and I’m sorry when the perform fathers and grandfathers, and some of without being able to tell whether or
On one occasion Manager McKee
ance
is
over.
But
John
always
was
A
rose
potpourri
Is
made
by
packing
There
Is
a
farmer
living
just
north
them
have
never
seen
beyond
the
red
ing, In my opinion, which Is not, how
not they were nearing shore. Arm
was watching a performance from a
ever, that of a great many Burgun queer.
hills which close in the village and the strong said afterward that nothing of Evanston and a book agent some fresh rose petals in salt, a layer of the box, where lie was seated with some
»»»*■
petals,
then
n
layer
of
salt,
and
keep
where
in
tlie
cosmopolitan
desert
of
dians.
mines. They are cared for by the pro could equal the awfulness of the expe
friends.
“When there is no grand opera here prietor, fed, and sent to seh<s>l until 12 rience that followed. They made their Chicago each of whom feels that he Is ing them covered for six months.
White wine Is the general beverage
During the first act an usher came
a
victim
of
a
cruel
circumstance.
A
convenient
substitute
for
a
cork
at breakfast For the midday dinner John wants to go to the Tivoli, where years of age. The village has a well- way in one direction after another and
to him with the information tliat a
Last
week
tlie
farmer
had
a
note
screw
when
the
latter
is
not
at
hand
there Is often salt pork, cured at home, he can hear the music. He’s clean equipped hospital, at which the opera wandered round ami round, going half
gentleman was waiting at tlie door to
boiled with different kinds of veg daft when it comes to music, and thinks
way to their knees in mud at every from a nephew to say that the boy may be found In the use of a common see him on most important business.
would vis^t the farm on Thursday. screw with an attached string to pull
etables—cabbages, potatoes, turnips, everybony else ought to like music, too. tives and their families are tended with step.
“Tell him I can’t come out—I’m very
out charge. Only men are employed
beans, carrots or pens—the broth being
To make matters worse a cold, Uncle and mqiliew had not met for fif the cork.
busy,” was the answer.
If
I
can
’
t
go
to
the
Orpheum
once
a
teen
years,
and
the
old
man
drove
to
below
ground
to
dig
the
ore,
working
For
Ink
stains
on
furniture
add
six
utilized for soup In the evenings.
steady, drizzling rain began to fall.
The usher returned in a moment to
As a change, the wives prepare occa week I feel like I have lost something. in shifts of eight hours each, while They were soon numb to the marrow. the sial ion In Ills most uncomfortable drops of niter to a teaspoonful of water say that the man insisted on seeing
sionally a ragout de mutton, sometimes They give you something to laugh at, those employed at lighter labor work Then one of the sportsmen dropped coat that he might welcome his sister's and apply it to the stain with a feath Mr. McKee, who again sent out word
a pot an feu for Sunday dinner, ami, an laughing keeps you young, I tell shiftsof twelve hours. Women are em without a word, and no one went to his child. But the young man failed to er. If the stain does not yield to the that It was Impossible to see him.
the people thereabout being extreme John. 1 would much rather, if I can’t ployed at the light tasks, such as sort help. Little by little the three that re arrive. After waiting till the last pas first application, make It stronger and
The man outside then sent in the
ly sociable, they Invite each other fre go to the Orpheum, put on a pair of ing and washing ore by hand, most of maim'd were separated. Armstrong senger had disappeared the old man repeat the process.
message that be was an author aud
drove
away,
disappointed.
quently and do not mind sacrificing fleece-lined easy slippers and an old
Stains on silverware require prompt
says he himself became unconscious
The book agent entered into the dra attention, otherwise It will take a long had a play that he wished McKee to
ducks, fowls, geese, pigeons or rab wrapper and sit down at the tire with them being the wives of the miners. after a time and remembers noth
The average pay per day for those en ing that happened until he was roused matis persona- early tlie next morning. time to remove them. Sulphuric acid read immediately.
bits In honor of their guests.—Black
This incensed the manager, who Bald
some
apples
and
one
of
Mrs.
Holmes
’
Looking over tlie top rail of the barn will remove the stain left by medicine.
gaged
in manual labor is 13 cents in sil
wood.
to the usher:
novels. I’ve read ‘Lena Bivers’ at ver money and a stated quantity of rice by feeling solid ground beneath his yard gate, lie called. "Hello, uncle!”
Dip the spoon In the acid, repeating
feet and finding that the water was
“Tell that fool out there that this Is
Ills First Business Venture,
least live times. I’ve got it almost by and fuel, while the miners are paid by more shallow than It had been. He
Tlie book agent never got such a re the process until tlie stain has disap
no time to bring a play to be read.
An American capitalist who has heart, still I want to read it again. the quantity of ore extracted. The fur kept on and fell upon the shore. Then ception before in all ids life. Tlie farm peared; then wash in very hot water.
Get him out of the placer-1 won’t see
made a fortune running far Into the Guess I'll lie dreaming about ‘Lena
er flung tlie gate wide open, seized the
him. I won’t read Ids play.”
millions likes to tell a story of his first Rivers' all the time I’m at the opera.’’ nace and shaft men receive from 11 to on hands and knees he crawled to agent’s hand and pressed a whiskered
Diluting Tea.
30 cents per day, and the women are camp and gave (he alarm. Search was kiss on the ironclad cheek.
A few minutes later the usher came
business venture and how he saddened
at once made for his companions, and
Few housekeepers remember, as they
the local grocer. At this time he was She rattled on, and the other two, who paid 7 cents.
“Say, this must be heaven,” mur should, that when it is necessary to back nnd informed McKee that the
their
bodies
were
recovered.
Since
that
man utterly refused to go without see
fond of frequenting a public salesroom had been going into ecstacies over the
time the big fish with a scar on his mured tlie agent, following the farmer dilute strong tea It should be done witli ing him, and that he must be granted
near Ills home where all sorts of bar grand opera, looked shocked, and by
Into
tlie
house
and
explaining
that
ev
Fur Animals Getting Scarce.
water at the boiling point. Tlie poor an interview, also that he was quite
back has twice or thrice been seen by
the time she finished giving her views
gains were offered:
erybody at home was as well as could
The salesof Hudson’s Bay Company's spearing parties, but they have passed be expected. Not till the agent was flavor of tea. made strong at first and sure tliat the manager would not only
One day I noticed several boxes of on the opera they appeared disgusted,
then reduced, such ns Is too often serv
soap of a certain brand which 1 had but the old lady didn’t seem to care a furs have realized at this year’s sales in It by.
full of a boiled dinner and attempted ed at receptions and “at homes,” Is read his play, but he would also pro
There
Is
one
species
of
fish
In
the
duce It, and added that he would bet
London
only
$1,150,
(XX),
or
nearly
$400,-
often been sent to buy nt the corner little bit what their opinion was, she
to sell a book did the farmer begin to
grocery. 1 thought to myself, "That had given her own honest convictions 000 less than in 1900, on account of low south that is feared only little less see a dim light. Charged with Imper usually caused by the addition of hot, $1,060 that Hoyt & McKee would be
than Its salt water contemporary the
not boiling, water to the first Infusion.
will go cheap,” so I ran to the grocery
prices and decreased quantity—silver shark. This Is the alligator gar. It sonating tlie missing nephew, the A lesson in this matter may be bad only too glad to get the play.
At that McKee became furiously
and received a promise from the man in regard to the opera. She didn’t like fox having fallen 60 percent, blue foxes grows to enormous size and has a bill agent explained that he greeted all from the Russians, who serve the most
angry, and, excusing himself to bis
In charge to buy as much of the soap it and she was not going to make it ap 53, red foxes 40, cross and white foxes hard and bony and much broader than elderly strangers as “uncle;” that he
delicious tea In tlie world, and who pre party, left the box with the intention
nt a certain figure ns I could furnish. pear that she did.
35, and so on. The company’s furs are the bill of the common gar of northern even hail a few almost real ones In pare it first very strong, making it al of personally inviting the persistent
»»»»
Of course he never suspected that I
South
Clark
street
In
Chicago.
most an essence of tea. This is diluted author to begone.
all exported from Victoria, Vancouver, waters. One who goes out upon the
could furnish any of It.
When last seen by the farmer, the
The Ladies’ Improvement Club of
lakes of Louisiana and Arkansas will
“Where’s that idiot who Insists on
I returned to the salesroom, and Petaluma, who organized several years Hudson’s bay, Winnipeg—the principal see them Jumping and splashing like agent was still running, and when the to the strength wished, with water
when the sonp was put up I bld it in, ago to try and convert the plazas of that distributing and collecting center—and enormous trout. Their usual food con real nephew' does come lie may find an kept boiling lu the samovar. This seeing me?” be asked of the treasurer
water is not allowed to boll and relioll, at tlie box office. Then the treasurer
Montreal to London.
and it was knocked down to me. My
sists of fish, and they not only make electric current in the latchstring.— but is renewed as needed. Freshly pointed to a man standing in the shad
name was demanded, mid when I gave prosperous town into beautiful parks
Chicago
Tribune.
endless trouble for those who go 11 sir
boiled water is Insisted upon by all ow with a roll of manuscript under
it In n shrill voice everybody laughed, that had hitherto been sadly neglected,
The production of butter in (Siberia ing with minnows, but have been
connoisseurs
In teamaking.
succeeded
beyond
their
most
sanguine
his arm.
The
Bent
Man.
for 1 was then only eleven years of
has increased during the past few years known to round up and tear to pieces
It was Iloyt, with bis newly finished
For tlie origin of "the best man at a
expectations. The lieauty of the parks
age.
to a very marked degree. In the vi bass which the sportsman has hooked. wedding” we must go back many cen
Ceilings and Ventilation.
play, which be banded to McKee, who
Amused as they wore at the sale, the or plazas are commented upon by every
Bathing In the lakes is considered dan turies. to days when It was tlie amia Rooms with low ceilings or with ceil said to those present:
cinity
of
Banaul,
for
instance,
there
are
bystanders were amazed when I bld In visitor. With the aid of the city trus
gerous.
ble practice of the budding bridegroom ings even with the window tops are
“It's on me—what’ll you have, boys?”
the whole lot of twenty-two boxes. I tees they have, by giving entertain at present 300 creameries, against two
A negro was sitting in the stern of a to dispense with the consent either of susceptible of mere perfect ventilation —New York Clipper.
in
¡896.
Tlie
demand
for
milk
vessels
had them carried over to the grocery ments, etc., obtained the funds to make
has consequently assumed large propor- boat on a lake near Helena, Ark., let tlie indy or her father. He simply than those with high ceilings. In such
and received the price agreed upon.
ting liis feet hang over the stern, when
The grocer wore a weary look when lie the Hill plaza and Walnut park, as they tions. A factory for the production of a gar grabbed him by one leg. The waited for a suitable opportunity to rooms the leakage at the windows,
Odor. That Permeate Foodstuffs.
beard how I had obtained the soap. are termed, spots of living green, dotted these articles has lately lieen established man hung to the boat until rescued, capture her and make a lx>lt with his which Is constantly going on. keeps the
A
fish deuler in one of the most styl
air In motion throughout the room,
with palms and other trees, shrubs and
He said:
at Kurgan, but, as it cannot even ap but his leg was horribly gashed. The bride. In this enterprise he found it whereas if the celling Is higher only tlie ish parts of New York was deeply hurt
“Well. I guess I could have done that flowers. They t<x>k a new departure for proximately supply the demand, the flsh have been known to attack in like helpful to have the services of a friend
aud badly worried one day by the com
myself.”
Thanksgiving to increase their funds, greater (»art has to be procured from manner negroes who went swimming who would n.slst him in the capture lower part of the air Is moved, and an plaint of one of his big customers that
Inverted
lake
of
foul
and
hot
air
Is
left
and keep the pursuers at bay until he
I replied that I guessed he could, too, the management of the Argus, one of
in the Mississippi below New Orleans. bad got a sufficiently long start. This floating in the space above the window a line salmon which he had sent to the
Moscow.
but be hadn't.—Youth's Companion.
the local papers, turning it over to them
One spring the writer was visiting a friend was the prototype of the “best tops. This lake, under the law of dif bouse for a big dinner had proved to
for that day, tlie ladies doing all the
rice plantation on the “lower coast” of man” of our own unrotnantic day, fusion of gases, keeps actively at work, be entirely uneatable when served ow
What
Is
probably
the
biggest
tree
in
Man Who Nnmrd America,
writing, the soliciting for advertise the world has been discovered to belong the Mississippi when an old negress when his duties are limited to seeing fouling the fresh currents circulating ing to a most penetrating taste of creo
Few Americans nre aware of the fact
sote tliat pervaded It. Tlie fish dealer
came walling to the house and said her
beneath It
that tin* name of tlielr continent Is due ments and subscriptions for tile Thanks to the cypress family, and was found in five-year-old boy was dead. He had that the bridegroom doesn't leave the
realized, although the charge was not
giving
edition.
The
paper
was
well
ring
behind
him
or
leave
the
church
Mexico. Its circumference six feet from
to a Herman scholar. In 1507 Martin
made directly, that he was more than
Longevity nt Irish Peasant*.
been playing at the edge of a bayou without taking Ms hat with him. How
illustrated,
containing
cuts
of
tlie
plazas
Waldscemuller, also known as Ilyin
the ground is 154 feet and two inches, and was lying on the bank extending
It is curious to notice the great num suspected of having sold a stale flsh
comylus, of St. Die, In the Vosges, and prominent citizens, etc. They met and to see the top of it one must stand his arms Into the water when a gar times do change!
ber of centenarians whose deaths are that had been washed or brushed with
(silted n book called "Cosmograplilie with encouragement on every side and many yards away. It is near the fa came with a rush and, grabbing the
recorded m the official returns of Irish an antiseptic preparation to bide its
Introduction’ In which he gave a trans they worked like Trojans to make it a mous ruins of Mitla, in the Stateof Oax- youngster by tlie arm, pulled him into low the People nt Snniclr Keep Time. rural districts. As an instance of tlie condition. He knew tliat the salmon
The
people
of
Sunglr.
an
Island
of
the
lation of Amerigo Vespucci’s descrip success. With the funds netted by
ata. It is called the "big tree of Yule.” the water. A young negro with a shot Malay archipelago, keep time by the longevity of the Irish peasant It may had been perfectly fresh when be sold
tion of his voyages.
their newspaper venture they will erect and its age is variously estimated at gun was standing near watching for aid of an hourglass formed by arrang be pointed out tliat the ileatli of per It. and for days he puzzled in vain over
That was Just the time when Ameri a fountain on the Hill plaza, and to
ricebirds. He ran to the bank. The ing two bottles neck to neck. The sand sons upward of sixty years of age reg the problem. But suddenly he remem
from 500 to 1000 years.
go's fame tilled the world, while Colum
fish found it bad undertaken a bigger runs out in half nil hour, when the bot istered in Connaught last year amouut bered that on the day the fish was sent
bus’ disgrace overshadowed Ills merit, carry on the improvements Walnut
task than it could well manage, and a tles are reversed. Close by them a line ed to over 50 per cent of the entire out a tank wagon full of creosote had
All
modern
writerson
the
art
and
sci
park
was
presented
with
a
very
pretty
and evidently his name had never
Stopped before liis place and that ills
deaths of the province.
wild struggle was In progress between
reached the quiet village In the Vosges fountain in the shape of a grotto by the ence of war declare that no civilized na the gar and tlie dying child. The negro Is stretched, on which linng twelve
cart, into which the flsh was being
sticks marked with notches from one
tion should employ barbarian troops in
when Amerigo trumpeted forth his own president, Mrs. H. H. Atwater.
placed, wns directly alongside of the
He Knew Wall Street.
warfare. This prohibition has, how shot the flsh. but the child died before to twelve, with a hooked stick, which
glory. So Ilylacoinyliis proposed that,
»»»»
Upson Downes—There’s a man over powerful stuff. That appears to have
It could be taken from the water.—New is placed between the hour last struck
since the new continent was, after all,
been enough to permeate the delicate
The next step of the Ladies’ Improve ever, been frequently violated—by the York Times.
and the next one. One of these glasses there who owes all his wealth to his flesh of the fish.—New York Press.
not a part of the Indies, no name would ment Club will lie their effort to beau English in India and in Africa; by the
deep
knowledge
of
the
ways
of
Wall
keeps the time for each village, for
suit it better than that of his famous
The Right of Defense.
tify the town by ¡planting shade trees Russians in Asia Minor; by the French
which purpose the hours are sounded street.
explorer, Amerigo.
Wooes Morpheus With Plctnre,
Wlnan Luce—Went In and won Ills
In
the
course
of
a
trial
an
English
n
Algeria;
and
by
the
Turkish
Gov
on
every
street
in
the
city.
This
will
on
a gong by a keeper.
The book was read far and wide, nnd
“I have found a cure,” said a physi
pile, eh?
Judge is reported to have said: “The
ernment
when
it
turned
loose
the
Baslii-
so quickly was the proposition accepted lie hailed with delight, for the many
Upson Downes—No; stayed out and cian, “for a person who Isn't chronical
laws of God and man both give the
Mostly Fortissimo.
that, when later on the true discoverer beautiful shade trees that once graced Bazouks, a ferocious soldiery, on the de party an opportunity to make tils de
ly alillcted with Insomnia, but who
kept
what he had.—New York Times.
Hunt
—
It
seems
strnnge
to
me
to
hear
was known, the name was already the streets of l’etaluma have been cut fenseless inhabitants of Bulgaria.
temporarily cannot sleep. It is a curi
fense, If he has any. I remember to you criticise your wife's reflections as
rooted too deeply In general use to down one by one until there are now
Pineapples come into bearing In Ha ous thing that the picture of a person
Japan’s progress may l»e measured by have heard it observed by a very learn harangues, in view of the fact that lu
be abolished, nnd was even extended but few remaining. They realize that
ed man upon such an occasion that tlie earlier days of your married life wall when the plnnts are four months yawuing will almost invariably induce
to the north part of the continent, while nothing adds to a town more than the development of her mercantile ma even God himself did not pass sen you spoke of your wife's voice as the old and bear In abundance for years. sleep.
rine. In 1872 she had ninety-six mer
Ilylacomylus hail only meant It for
“Try it yourself some time If you
tence upon Adam before be was called very soul of music.
Lettuce can be planted at any time,
the present South America.—National plenty of shade trees. The ladies are chant ships, with an aggregate ton upon to make his defense. ‘Adam.’
and It develops quickly. The same Is come across such a photograph. For
Blunt
—
That
’
s
all
right,
too,
but
you
untiring
in
their
work
and
constantly
age of 25,(XX). Last year the lieet was
Geographic Magazine.
the life of you you can’t help yawning,
springing some new scheme to get the numliered at 346 vessels, with an aggre says God, ‘where art thou? Hast thou see she’s drifted from the Italian to true of celery.
after a moment, and persistent gnzing
eaten of the tree whereof I command the Wagnerian school.—Richmond Dis
money to carry on the improvements.
gate tonnage of 528,000.
ed thee that thou shouldest not eat?’ patch.
Tlie fellow who never has anything at the sleepy bead will almost Inevita
A I’ rc For the Hyphen.
»»»»
And the same question was put to Eve
of importance to say always manages bly send you to the couch for a nap.”—
A teacher had Just given a lesson on
The Only One Rllwlble.
Rew York Times.
The very large yields of wine in re also.”
to say It.—Philadelphia Record.
They set the pace and the story of
the hyphen, and thinking that his class
---------------------------------
,
Pnpn—So. Bobby, you’re the pres!
understood It now, he wrote the word their good work lias gone out both at cent years In French vineyards are at
A Xlwht Light.
Pacing a Natural Galt.
dent ot your bicycle club. Thut's very
Work »'or It.
“birds-nest” on the blackboard. “Now. home and abroad and they are con tributed largely to the importation of
Rome people make It a point never to
The pacing habit Is common among
Nothing that is of real worth can be nice. How did they happen to choose
boys, why do we have a hyphen lie stantly receiving requests from towns vigorous American vines to replace those
retire without a light burning In tlie
animals,
says
a
writer
In
Scribner's
you?
tween bltds and nest?” asked the in California as well as all over the killed by phylloxera. The quality, achieved without courageous working.
Bobby—Well, you see, papa. I'm the Magazine. Many animals pace—cattle, house. A bit of Information worth
Man owes his growth chiefly to that
teacher.
United States for instructions and by however, is said to lie inferior to that of active striving of the will, that en only boy that's got a bicycle.—Tit-Bits. for lustance; and, among dogs, setters. knowing Is that a smnll even light may
Several hands went up, aud the
the wine made from the old vine»
I believe pacing to be a rather more be obtained from n small piece of can
counter with difficulty, which we call
teacher pointed to a small boy who laws as to the manner of going about
natural
gait than trotting. Trotting, dle all night If fine powdered salt is
the
work
of
beautifying
the
town.
In
A
statistical
Item
of
interest
to
wo
effort;
and
It
is
astonishing
to
find
how
teemed very anxious to nnswer. “For
What scientists consider the safest
as
It
exists
In our fast horses, Is scarce piled around the candle until the black
men
Is
that
today
women
are
two
the birds to roost on,” was the reply. their own county Healdsburg followed cure for snake bites is a saturated solu often results apparently Impracticable
Inches taller on an average than they ly a natural gait, but Is rather the re part of the wick is reached.
are thus made possible.
first, then Sonoma. Napa, a neighbor
—London Tit-Bits.
tion of permanganate of potash soaked
suit of breeding nnd education.
were twenty-live years ago.
A Hard Problem.
ingcity, was also heard from. All re
freely into the wound.
First Scientist—This is a puzzling
A small Iron pot Jioldlng about a
Coffee merchants figure qut a worliT»
port good work, and have met with en
Lampblack mixed with turpentine to
case Indeed.
quart, width Is still preserved, was
Under the mogul emperors extensive couragement from the citizens.
The one redeeming feature about air cast at the Lynn foundry in 1645. It n consistency that will flow readl'v supply of coffee this year of 24,000,000
Second Scientist—I should say so.
systems of roads were constructed n
bags, with a demand for only 15,000,-
»»»»
castles is that you don’t have to pay was the first iron article made from from the brush makes a goon ziarkl. g 000 bags, and they do not know what Why, this would puzzle an amateur
India connecting all leading points In
the peninsula.
native ore tn America
ink.
■dentist. -Baltimore American.
The ladies of the Honoma Improve rent on them.
tA&>
BANDON RECORDER.
* Polly Larkin :