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BANDON RECORDER. not end it all for there was a big turkey w ilh a package of cranberries, a bag of sugar, sweet (aitatoesand Irish potatoes, nuts, candies and oranges, and dear me, Polly doesn’t know what else was in that heavily laden basket. This little crippled girl got something else besides toys, a warm red eider down wrapper, red crocheted shoes and little red shawl which made her look like a veritable “Bed Riding Hood.” All this only goes to prove that the world is full of good l>eople with kindly hearts and gives force in answer to the argument that “this world is not growing worse lint lietter.” ♦ »»» HAIR OF THE SLOTH. A CLEVER BIT OF STRATEGY IN AN ENGINEERING JOB THE FATE OF CORONETS Hronaham'« Heeania Child«' Frail Olah. It 1. Green la Color and For a Fe. cellar Heaoou. I.ord It is a very curious fact that certain plants grow and thrive on the balr of sloths. Apart from Its extremely coarse and brittle nature, the most striking peeullarity of tin* outer hair of the sloth is its more or less decidedly green tinge. Now. green Is a very rare color among mammals, and there ought, therefore, to be some special reason for Its development in the sloth, and. as a matter of fact, the means by which tins coloration is produced Is one of the most marvelous phenomena in the whole animal kingdom, so marvelous, indeed, that it is at first almost impos slide to believe that it Is true. The object of this peculiar type of coloration is. of course, to assimilate the animal to its leafy surroundings ami thus to render It as Inconspicuous as possible, and when hanging in its usual position from the underside of a bough its long, coarse and green tinged hair is stated to render the sloth almost indistinguishable from the bunches of gray green lichens among which it dwells. In the outer sheutli of the hairs of the al there are a num her of transverse cracks, ami in these crifcks-grows ii primitive type of plant namely, a one celled alga. And tor the benefit of nonbotaulcal readers it may be well nrtiientioii here that algie. among which seaweeds are included, form a group of flowerless plants related on tin* one hand to the fungi and on tlie other to the lichens. In the moist tropical forests forming the h me of the sloths the algae in the eracks of their hairs grow readily and thus communicate to the entire coat that general green tint which, ns al ready said, is re|M>rted to render them almost Imllsiingtiishable from the clus ters of lichen among which they bang suspended. — Knowledge. Peers aud their coronets are soon parted when tbe ceremonial use has been served. The fate of one coronet is told by a correspondent of M. A. P. He writes: “When I was staying some years ago In Philadelphia with G. W. Childs, the well known proprietor ot Tbe Ledger newspaper there, 1 noticed at dinner one evening a peculiarly shap ed gilt stand used as a support for a china Jisti containing grapes. My host, observing that I was scanning It rather closely, said: 'Oh, that is the corouet Lord Brougham wore at the queen's coronatlou. I have taken out the vel vet cap and turned It upside down. The golden balls form excellent feet, and It makes a most elegant dish stand.' Which it eertaluly did.” But what is the fate of corouets com pared with the fate of coronation robes? A large portion of George IV.’a wardrobe, including the coronation robes, was put at public auction in tbe summer of 1831. There were 120 lots disposed of. and some of tbe Items are luterestfug. A pair of line kid trousers, of ample dimensions and lined with white satin, was sold for 12 shillings. The sumptuous crimson velvet corona tion uiautle, with silver star, embroid ered with gold, which cost originally, according to the auctioneer. £500, was knocked down for 47 guineas; a richly embroidered silver tissue coronatlou waistcoat ami trunk hose, £13. The purple velvet coronation robe, embroid ered with gold, of which It was said to contain 200 ounces, brought only £55, although It cost bls late majesty £300. An elegant and costly green velvet mantle, lined with ermine of tbe finest quality, presented by tbe Emperor Alexander to George IV., which cost 1,000 guineas, was sold for £125. How a loans Aiuerlcsu Engineer Isn’t it a good thing to know I hat the Rrouabt His Spirit of lavrntluu io hearts of nearly everybody are open to Aid lu Solvlua a Wreck Problem lu the troubles and sorrows of others when Moatb America. the Christmas festivities roll around? "It is easy enough for an engineer to People wlio are apparently cold and in- show ability in New York or in other different to everything and everybody big toons where lie can get about all who are not in touch with their own the tools and conveniences ever devis family or immediate circle of friends ed. It is when an engineer finds him seem to lie possessed with u new spirit self in the wilds of a jungle or up In and nature that is foreign to them dur the mountains, inindreils of miles from civilization, that his own natural In ing the balance of the year, but the Now 1 have a query to answer this genuity and invention count." said a t ho time of selfish side of their life begins to thaw out with tile coming of the hollylier- week that may be of interest to many veteran engineer to a youngster who bad been admitted to the ranks of the the disturb- ries. 1’eople who never give to charity of our girls who have happy homes in Engineers’ club. between tile and never think of anyone but their some of our country towns, where they "Down in Surinam. Dutch Guiana, been floating own find themselves dropping a coin in are loved and respected, but who must where tlie arrival of a sailing schoouer acknowledge to themselves that they the lioxes of the Salvation Army lads causes a sensation, where a mall and lassies. They read in the daily have a faint longing that is growing all steamer enters the muddy harbor once papers that some little waif or afflicted the time to leave tills cosy and com In two weeks to tarry two hours to get child or some destitute person has fortable home retreat and find employ rid of Its mall and to take on a few made a request for some particular ar ment in Sun Francisco. They are tired passengers, there was once a young ticle, usually it is wearing apparel, then of their small town and want to see American engineer who showed that he had the proper spirit of inveution to they lH-gin to scheme. Their hearts something of the world. They have advance him to the front ranks of the once opened there Is no telling where ideas wrought in high colors of finding profession. Like all the best Inven they will stop. Attending to tlie wants work to do in some of our big depart tions, his was the simplest one. and It or requests of this particular individual ment stores where they will lie so atten was one that was widely talked about nas o|s-ned their eyes to the tact that tive to business and to the interests of among the profession to the credit of there are others depending on outsiders their employer that they will climb to tlie inventor. "To understand the story properly for assistance; they are experiencing a the top of the ladder, or in other words joy and luippiness that they have long be promoted to the highest position the you need a trifling insight into Suri lieen strangers to. Heretofore they store has to give. There is where they nam and its habits. Here Indians may be seen on the streets wearing only a have given their t'hristmas gifts to are mistaken. Many girls go into the breechclotb. The white population is those they knew would rememtier them stores with these ideas but few climb to so scarce that all are tlirowu together in return; now they weie giving with the heights their imagination carries ns If in one large family. Englishmen, /’says she has Americans, Germans, Dutchmen and the assurance that only gratitude ami them. "AnnetteJ appreciation would I»- their compensa a happy home, lives in a prosperous Frenchmen all combining together and tion, ami it was far sweeter and more town and lias scores of friends. She forming clubs and society to keep satisfying, thia manner of giving gifts, states as well that it is not necessary themselves from dying of sheer lone than anything they had ever exper for her to work, both her father and someness. “In this primitive town there was a One Hoy's Loyally. ienced before. They may go back to motlier being bitterly opposed to tile man who held the splendid monopoly A New York boy was at school In their old narrow selfish way of living idea; that they contend that girls who of owning a large scow. That, up Canada, and it was Ids first day In again, but the chances are that with the do not have to seek employment should there, seems a remarkably small thing class. Tlie geography lesson was call coming of the ruddy hollyberries their not I m - given tile places that should la- to he proud of. but the value of even a cd. ami it was Ids turn to answer. reserved for girls who actually need the hearts will thaw out again and they scow depends entirely upon where the "Which is the largest city in the will search the daily papers for the for work. She closes by asking what scow Is and what it will cost to replace world?" asked the teacher. saken and destitute, the sick and the wages they pay in the big department it. This particular scow bad been built "New York.” unhesitatingly came utHicted. "It is more blessed to give Imuses in San Erancisco, as she is de by American ship carpenters sent es the answer. "I mean the largest city in the than to receive.” Nearly everyone termined to be independent and see pecially from the United States at great expense. There was not another world." said the teacher. knows tiiisquotation by heart, lint they something of scow In the entire harbor, and about As promptly came the reply. "New ■ beats It. When never realize its full value until they boundari'-s of all of the heavy river work to be done York." to dive, he pulls have lieen called upon to practice it village. for the city and plantations and min "But." expostulated the teacher. "I desires it to rise. *»»» under the altove circumstances. ing companies was done by this one did not say the largest city In the Unit l’olly has only this advice to give vessel. Its loss, therefore, would have ed States. Imi tlie largest city In the » » » » There is naturally some amount of leakage through the pinhole, and to Before Christinas one of the most “Annette.” Listen to your parents. been not only a severe one for the own world You surely know which is the cover this the performer takes cate, afflicted children in tiiis big city w rote It is almost a crime for girls who have er. who had a monopoly of the busi largest city in the world." “New York." persisted the boy. when filling the pan. to accidentally (?) a letter afflicted because there is no comfortable homes and abundant ness In those days, but It would have been little short of a national calam "London Ims a larger population than spill a little water. The ground being means to apply ami take the places of cure for him, but he must, through no ity. New York." said the teacher. "If I do thus already wetted, the fact that it girls who must work for the very neces fault of his own, I m * confined in a small “One day. while the scow was an not have the correct answer this time. gets a little more Is not noticed.— enclosure for the rest of his life, never saries of life. There are a dozen girls chored in midstream, one of those I shall have to punish you. Come Chambers' Journal. to see the outside world, never to min for every place who actually need this smashing black squalls for which the now." conxitigly. "tell me the mime of Moon and Mirror. gle with boys of his own age, and yet work to keep poverty from the dtxir. tropics are famous broke over the riv die largest city in the world." Some night when the moon Is at Its he may live many years, He is the You ask what wages they pay in these er. and for twenty minutes you could "New York.” full and the air is free from haze go boy afflicted with leprosy in the leper big stores. The salary wouldn’t keep not see ten feet away or hear a man "Stay In during recess and write me shouting nt your elbow. When the fifty lines." outdoors with a baud mirror and bold colony of Nan Erancisco. There is only you in pin money, Annette, much less storm dually abated, the scow was not it so that (lie moon's Image will fall ou He wrote the fifty lines, ii'.ul every one mitigating thought in connection pay your board and clothe you. Until to be seen, and It was found she had It. Make the experiment, preferably, line feud: "The biggest city In the you thoroughly understood the busi gone down, deck load and all. To most world Is New York."—New York Trib when the moon is well up lu the lieav with this boy’s living sorrow and that is that lie does not suffer any pain. ness you would be paid from $2.50 to of us there seemed about as much une. etiN. $3.00 per week. The best and most ex- chance of raising the vessel as there Instead of seeing one Image, as you Slowly the dread disease is sapping his Tlie Thinu to Kin Awn* Wl* Slllnr. will ex|H*ct. you will see four. life away, ami yet, though he is sep perienced ot the sales girls do not get would be to raise an ocean steamer Wealth Is a relative term. One man One of these Images will be very arated from kindred ami friends he is over $30or $40 per month. (live up the sunk In the middle of the Atlantic. “It was about this time that the may be passing rich on £40 a year, and bright, but the other three will be dull, cheerful and happy, as are most of the idea of coming to the city to tirnl em young engineer took a band In the another may lie miserably poor on like unbiirnislied silver. other inmates of this dread place of ployment. Read good books and im problem He asked the dimensions of £400. This was beautifully Illustrated They will he in a straight line, one abode. This poor little leper boy found prove your mind while you have the tlie scow and was told that It was 12 to me the other day. when, driving past of the dull images on one side of the opportunity. Make yourself helpful to bright Image and two on the other side himself growing rather scant of shirts, others. Kee the world in Ixsiks of travel bv GO feet, and then he announced that n popular Ayrshire "place of drinks.” I If the owner would provide him with was hailed from the roadside by a man of it. Turn the mirror slowly around, so he wrote a note to one of the daily until you can see your way clear to four men lie would raise the scow for who claimed friendship on the strength and the images will appear to revolve papers asking the gift of some shirts for around ou a common center. a Christmas present. Was his request travel with your parents’ consent with a certain sum of money. The bargain of "living next door when we were He was getting married, lit The explanation of this queer little answered? you ask. Why, he was lit friends. You are all together, an un was made, though the contractor re boys." phenomenon may be found in the fact erally buried in shirts, white shirts, broken family circle. Enjoy it while fused to say how be would go about said, and on tbnt. I supjiose. was feel ing unusually happy. that there are two surfaces In a mirror, blue and pink shirts, striped shirts and you can, for there will come a time the Job. "Now, you must know that aside "Man. come on in and let me stuun one In front ami the other in the buck, when Death, tlie reaper, will break the polka dot shirts; more than this, suitsof and flood tide, which al- you something." he said. “Don’t think where the quicksilver Is. ranks, or you will go out one by one from the ebb warm underclothing through and ternate every six hours, there Is also I’ve mte money. There's a pound note. The brightest of the Images Is until only the “old folks” are left to through, more than one nice suit of what is known ns a spring tide. This Would you believe It. no' a week sin' the moon itself. Tlie others are clothes, socks ami shoes, toys and luniks dream of the happy past before the conies with the full of the moon, and It 1 had hale £3: but. what wl’ buying are known ns secondary image birds of the home nest had taken their has the effect of making a higher flood furniture and things. I’ve s|M*nt the galore, and lietter than all to the boy fleeted from the front to the ba flight. Rest assured, Annette, the sep tide than any during the month. The Ither twn. Aye. and afore the wad- the mirror and thence to the eye. who was deprived of home ami friends, A similar experiment may be made a beautiful dog, all his very own to aration will come all too soon without opposite to tlie spring tide Is the neap den's ower I believe that pound'll lie tide, and that happens at the dark of melted tae. By gore, gettin' married’s with the planets Venus, Jupiter and shower his love upon He went into hastening it. the moon, with the effect that at no the thing to rin awa’ wl’ alllar. But Mars or with any of the first magni eustacies of delight over his new pet other tide during tlie month Is the ebb come on In and hue a drink.”—Glasgow tude stars, such as Sirius, Capella, BRIEF REVIEW and fondled, loved and ronqied with tide so low as It Is at that time. The Times. Arcturus. Vega and Antares. difference In tlie height of water be The planets and tlie stars, however, him by turns. The dog seemed quite His Three Good Deeds. How We Acquire European Soil. tween the ebb at neap tide and the make only three linages the number of as delighted at being adopted by the A certain business man noted for his The United States is steadily acquir flood at spring tide Is considerable. Images depending on the breadth of the boy and recognized his new master "The engineer wnlted until neap tide. grasping methods came Into Ids office object. A perfectly clear night is es somewhat like Bob Burdette’s dog that ing land from the European powers. one day aud told his partner that he sential. New York Herald. would greet him on his return home The territory annexed is not gained by On that day he towed a number of logs was very happy because he had done down the river. These lie anchored with "forty thousand laughs to the conquest or purchase. It comes to the over the scow and sent men below to three good deeds that morning. “In The Dear Olii Frauds. minute in his vibrant tail.” Tlie leper United States of America In the form of fasten chains to one side of the scow, the first place.” he said. "I met a poor Those ohi. pleasant, innocent frauds of the circus are not practiced now — boy has something to love that will ballast and for the most part in Ameri and these be fastened to the logs on woman who was weeping bitterly be the imposing, live barrisi gates that, respond to his caresses, ami Polly be can ships. One thousand tons off the the surface. Then be waited patiently. cause she had lost the $4 with which as the horse approached them, were lieves that there was no happier Imy in Scotch ships a short time ago. It came As the spring tide approached he tow she had Intended to pay for the bap sloped info Insignificant Watties and the Kan Erancisco than this afflicted child. oil’tlie Allan Stateline steamer Lauren- ed other logs down the river until lie tism of her baby. I gave Iter a ten dollar l>lll. telling her to have the child rings through which tlie signorina pur tian. Scarcely a week passes without bad enough to make quite a raft, and »»»» on the day of the highest tide all the baptized and give me the change as 1 ported to leap, but which in reality a similar importation I>y the boats of A little girl who, in spite of trying to logs were tied together and fastened. came from my club. Charity was one were instmi.ited over her by compliant this or some other line. It is estimated The tide rose steadily, aud the more it good deed. Havlug the chilli’s soul was attendants. And then there was that be very good, had some very strange that millions of tons of European soil rose the more the raft went down un the second.” venerable jockey performance, the cul misgivings as to whether Kaida Claus "And what was the third?” asked mination of which was a leap from the would reiuemlier that she lived in------ has been imported and dumped about der the strain of the pull on the chains. ring to a standing position, albeit nt alley or not, wrote a letter to him stat New York. Much of this is used for At last. Just as It seemed that the raft the partner. “Oh, tlie third was that I got six good nil angle of :ui degrees, on the horse's ing that she was a cripple ami couldn't "making land” alsiut the harbor. The was unequal to the occasion, It was seen to bob up violently, and a moment dollars for my green goods ten." back. In the old circuses it was the soil as well as the people of New York go out, ami how hard she had tried to later there was a commotion In the custom of tlie horseman to miss the I m - patient ami not complain when the may lie said to be growing more cosmo water, and the scow appeared. What Tnrner'i Toast. crowning jump two or three times In politan every year. Turner, the painter, was a ready wit had happened, of course, was tills: The order that a fiercer flame of Interest other children jostled and hurt her and Ouce at a dinner of artists and literary might be kindled in tlx- audience. Aft went out and left her all alone, and There is a popular notion to the ef chains pulling upward on one side of men a minor |M)et. by way of being fa er two failures the band would stop that if lie had any dollies to spare she fect that rough diauiomisare not bright the scow tilted It more and more until tlie deck load began to slide off. and cetlous. proposed ns a toast "the health (always tin- presage of a moment of would like so much to have one for her but this is a mistake. Even in that finally, when all the stones had slid In of the painters and glaziers of Great strain supreme), the horse's head very own; she would like one that con hl would be loosed, lie would be urged to open and shut its eyes so it could go to condition they are very bright, with a to the river, the scow came up under Britain.” Tbe toast was drunk, and Turner, a greater pace, and the feat would sleep when she did. Nile made all sorts peculiar "adamantine luster,” as it is Its own buoyancy. The remainder was called, which no other substance pos simple. The vessel was towed to the after returning thanks for It. proposed gloriously succeed. Then what a crash of promises for the future if she could sesses. However, the crude diamond shore, where It was hauled up on the “the health of the British paper stain of brass and outburst of delight In the only have that doll. The letter fell era." building, involving even the staff and crystal is not transparent; one cannot sand, and when the water receded Tbe laugh was turned against the holes bored Into the bull caused the ringmaster in tlie expression of ec into the hands of one of Kanta Claus’ see through it. scow to empty. Later the boles were poet stasy. Those obi. simple days! - Corn messengers, and when Christmas rolled I.Ill round there was a doll almost as big as Morphine is used extensively in the plugged up again, aud the old ship was I'naallant. Grow 11 n n <1 ■«» in r. herself iM-autifully dressed w ith natural town of Juan Diaz, Puerto Rico. It is as line as silk." New York Times. A Marysville schoolma'am was teach Would you like to be truly beaut) curly hair and its eyes opened and shut. estimated by the Insular Hoard of Ing ber class the mysteries of gram ful’ Tbort-iiu says: “We are all sculp 11 wasjust llkea little girl of herown age Praylnu snd Prinking. mar. Health that out of the 2-500 inhabitants tors and painters, and our material Is to play with. There was a baby doll, Sam Jones the revivalist, was once "Now. Johnny,” said she. "In what 1000 are victims of this terrible habit. our own flesh and blood and bones taking women to task for spending tense do I s|>eak when I say. 'I am too, dressed in long white clothes and Any nobleness begins nt once to refine more time in prinking than In praying, beautiful?' ” Kansas farmers are feeding wheat to a man's features ami any meanness or dainty white cap and a little trunk con If there's a woman here.” he seream- Tbe little fellow answered quick as sensuality to imbrute them." So there, taining two or three changes in baby their cattle. It is said that in the ab nil finally, "who prays more than she a wink. “The past.”—Kansas City Jour dresses, skirts, ami little night dresses, sence of profitalde fields for investment prinks, let lo r Maud up.” now. you sour visaged. plain faced nal. people, go along about your business all with but ton hides ami buttons so she for grain-sale money they are holding One poor old faded specimen of fem HU Girt. and grow handsome. National Maga could dress and undress it as often as their grain for lietter prices. ininity in the sorriest, shabbiest of Mrs. Wyles—Did your husband give «Inc she liked, There was another rosy- clothes arose. The Trans-Silierian Railway gives the "You spend more time praying than you anything for a birthday present? cheeked doll with brown eyes and Mrs. Styles—Indeed he did. asked the preacher, taking prinking?" chea|»est rates in the world. It is pos A lawyer was passing along the golden curly hair. Didn’t look like “Did It have your name on It?" her all In. sible to buy an emigrant's ticket, cov she had ever lM*en sick a minute, She street carrying under Ills arm a law "Yea, and my husband's mime too." The poor old creature said she did— book when he was accosted by a self had a whole trunk full of elegant ering rtOOO miles, nearly three weeks' prayed all tin* time, prinked none at “That's Just like selfish men. Ho righteous Individual: “Ila, Mr. Blank! clothes including party dresses of tar- journey, for alsiut $3. must share tbe gift with you " all. And where are you going to preach to letan and silks, <qa*ra capes, traveling “But he didn't.” “You go straight home," nd monished Just as you are pleased at finding day ?” "YVhat was Ids name doing on It suits and home dresses tine enough for Jones, "and put a little time on your replied the most aristocratic doll In the land, faults you are displeased at finding per- prinking.” then ?” “I don't the 'nwyer “It wouldn't have been any good and there w as a lievy of little dolls, in I I feet ion. ------ .I.«l without It. It was a check." Hon It Resembled Mother's. cluding one rag baby with a painted The bows of the North American In "No, ” said Mr Meddergrass to the A largo number Air cuttlefish linvt face dressed in common every-day ging Teacher one Io dians were usually made from a s|>ecies restaurant man: "no. I'll oot say that recently been caught off the north the class to of vice ham with a sun-bonnet. There were of usage orange your pie Is Jest like mother used to coast of Germany. As they have never versa toy books of all descriptions, toys of make, but I'll say this—It's purt' nigh T----------- —I—~ before been mot with In these waters Bright Boy It s sleeping with your various kinds as well as liaskets full of i A hypocrite is like the letter p- the as crusty as she used to git.”—Balli It Is difficult to account for their pres feet toward the head of the bed. gifts for the other children. This did first in pity and the last In help. more American. ence. G. NAPOLEONS ORDER. W. “For Way« Tb«< Ar. Dark,” Ktc. “Some years ago,” says the advertis ing agcut of a tobacco firm quoted by tlie Philadelphia Record, “I wished to Introduce among the Cliluese a two for five cigar that my people were heavily Interested in. ami I decided to draw up a little card extolling this cigar In Chi nese character». “1 sought out Lo Hen Wong In San Francisco, a very intelligent fellow, and got him to write me a few sen tences In praise of my article. I had v.-hat he wrote lithographed and dis tributed the cards by thousands In all tlie Chinatowns of the United States. They were Inscribed with a picture of the cigar, and below were the words: 'Smoke this cigar. It is the best on the market, and two for five is Its price.’ "That, at least, Is what I thought was the meaning of tlie Chinese char acters. I found out, some six months Inter, my mistake. The words Lo Heu Wong had written and which I had had lithographed were: ‘Don’t smoke this cigar. It Is not good. But the Gong company’« cigarettes, for sale In every Chinatown at 3 cents a package, are excellent.’ “Lo Hen Wong had got $10 from me for his work, and I don't know bow much lie got from the Gong company. We distributed many thousands of the cards before we got on to the trick that had been played ou us.” Old Masse« In London. If London street names are not al ways what they seem, the names of the great parishes usually are. Take Lam beth. for Instance. That vast district has retained Its uame practically unal tered since the days of Edward the Coufessor, who granted a charter In which It Is styled Lambehlth. Some Illiterate scribe, who helped In tbe mak ing of "Domesday," did, indeed, make an effort to obliterate its real name by calling It Ionchei, but his effort« were, fortiffmtely. In vain. William Rufus In another charter named It Lambeth, since when It has kept Its title unsul lied. In the old days Lambehlth (from bftlie. a haven) was the great river port whence agricultural produce was fer ried across the Thames to the more populous country opposite. There are still many “hlthes” left us, such as Queenhlthe aud Rotberblthe, and, al though their original functions have gone, there still remains a shadow to remind us of their departed glory.— Ixmdon Chronicle. A city of Padlock«. Irkutsk, Siberia. Is a city of padlocks. There are more padlocks on tbe shut ters and doors of an Irkutsk shop than can be found lu an English city of 200.000. There are as many as three padlocks on some shop doors, and ev ery lower story shutter bears from one to five. The padlocks weigh from one to fifteen pounds. The popular size Is five pounds and two and one-half Inch es thick Imprr.alv. Coademnatlon. Speaking with a farmer about one of bls neighbors, I said, "So-aml-so Is a good man.” He looked at me steadily without making any reply. “So-and-so Is a good man.” I repeated lu a louder tone, fancying he must he deaf. Then tbe farmer answered, "I heard what you said.’’—New York Herald. Terrible Effect of Eloqaence.' An unfortunate man has obtained ac cess to rich Baron Kaplnenu. He de picts bls misfortunes, bls misery. In so moving a manner that the baron, with tears In his eyes and his voice choked with sobs, calls to bls servant: “Jean, put this poor fellow out In the street! He Is breaking my heart!” Exchange. Yowroclf. Depend on yourself. A knowledge of how to swim Is better tbsn to expect somebody will lie at hand to throw you a life preserver In case of accident. National Magazin« Ao Sqaeallrvg. Some English travelers were recently In a restaurant In a German town when a woinau who was serving Im parted the Interesting Information that a pig was being killed round tbe cor ner. One of them remarked that It was curious that tbe pig did not squeal Tbe woman looked at them In surprise “Aber,” said she, "es 1st pollxelllcb ver boten”—It's forbidden by tbe police. 'tbe faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of tbe sun and moon He has bls faults, and all meu see them; be changes again, and all men look up to him.—Confucius. THE LEGION OF HONOR AND HOW IT WAS FOUNDED. Deapit«* tbe Kidiculr tbe Project at First Invited It« I naan oration Prutrd That \upuleou French Human Nature» Knew France owes the Legion of Honor to Napoleon. All orders ot chivalry had beeu abolished by the revolution uud bad left a gap which it was not easy lo fill. "They are mere geegaws." said Monge, the chemist, who had taught the revolutionists how to make gun powder out of plaster of parts. "Gee gaws, If you will,” the first consul an swered. "but people like them. Let us approach the question frankly. All men are enamored ot decorations - the French more than any. They posi tively hunger for them, uml they have always done so." This was at Malmalson In 1802. In May the eonsell d’etat was invited to consider the project of the Institution of the Legion of Honor. It was ridi culed by many, notably by Moreau, who as victor of Hohenlinilen was bit terly Jealous of the victor of Marengo. .At a dinner party lie sent for Ills cook ami said to him in the presence of Ills guests: "Michel, I am pleased with your dinner. You have Indeed distin guished yourself. 1 will award you n saucepan of honor.” Mme. de Stael was also satirical upon the subject. "Ah. one of the decorated?” she used to ask each guest who was shown Into her salon. But Napoleon hud gauged human na ture correctly. His Legion of Honor did meet a felt want, and it was defi nitely Inaugurated on July 14, 1804. Among tin- eminent men of science ami men of letters on whom It was then bestowed were Included Lapbice, the mathematician; Lalande. tlie as tronomer: Cuvier, tbe naturalist, uud Legouve. tbe poet. Tbe most notable mime omitted was that of Bernardin de St. Pierre, just then In disgrace for championing Mme. de Stael, whom Na poleon had banished, but lie got tbe decoration Inter on the entreaty of Queen Hortense. After Jena Goethe was decorated. A little later high promotion in the order was given to General Lamarque. to whom Sir Hudson Lowe had surrender ed at Capri. "What did you do with him?" asked Napoleon. “Tbe king of Naples linil him exchanged for a Nea politan gcneriil who was a prisoner In Sicily." "Very well; there is no harm in letting tills Eugllsh colonel go. He is not dangerous." It seems not un likely that Sir Hmlsou Lowe remem bered this sarcasm when lie was Na poleon's Jailer a few years afterward. After Napoleon’s downfall the ques tion of suppressing the Legion of Hon or arose. Chateaubriand, whom Napo leon had not decorated, strongly urged Its abolition. So did Puzzo di Borgo. Marshals Victor. Marmont and Mac donald opposed. After debate It was decided to recognize and retain the or der. not on auy high moral or patriotic grounds, but because Louis XVIII. could not afford to make himself more unpopular than be was already by stripping people of their decorations. Chateaubriand and Lamartine consent ed to accept the red ribbon, but it was also conferred upon a great number of worthless persouages and so brought Into contempt. There have beeu uiauy Legion of Honor scandals since those days, but one of them surpasses all the others In magnitude. This Is. of course, the Wil son scandal, the history of which, though intricate. Is worth recalling. The trouble may be said to have be gun on the day on which Mlle. Allee Grevy fell in love with an opera singer who need not be mentioned here. He wanted to marry ber. and she wanted to marry him. and the papers were be ginning to couple the two names in a manner most embarrassing to the pres ident of the republic. The president, however, sent the opera singer about his business and found bis daughter another husband, not a very good hus band. but the best husband be could procure on the spur of the moment. His choice fell upon M. Daniel Wilson, who bad long been one of M. Grevy’» political supporters and was a financier of some murk. No sooner was M. Wilson established at the Elysee than be proceeded to eu- rlcb himself by various means Among other things, lie founded a paper called Le Monlteur de 1’Exposltlon Univer selie. which really covered a truffle In deeorntions. The whole story came out in a state trial toward tlie end of 1887 It was proved that Wilson had made a regular practice of selling tbe Legion of Honor, or, rather, of Invit ing people who wanted It to bribe him to use his Influence to obtain It for them His overtures were presented through Ills jackals. Generals d’Aud- lan and Cafferel and Mmes. Limousin and Itatazzl. and the whole party bad to stand In the dock together. Wilson was sentenced to two years' Imprisonment, a fine of 3.000 francs and five years’ deprivation of civil rights. He apitealed, and the court of cassation annulled tbe Judgment. Tlie accused, said the Judges, was obvious ly guilty of everything that he was charged with, but as his offenses were not anticipated by any punitive law he could not be punished. So lie retired to Hie country and tried to live down his bad name. As he ultimately got himself elected conselller general, one must suppose that he succeeded In this object.—rail Mall Gazette. Tbe Black Marls. Tlie following is given as tbe origin of lhe term "Black Maria:” When New England was filled with emigrant« from the mother country, a negress named Marla Lee kept a sailors' board Ing house lu Boston. She was a worn an of great strength aud bellied the au thorities to keep tbe peace. Frequently tbe police invoked ber Hid. and tlie saying. "Semi Tor Black Marin." . ....... to mean. "Take him to Jail." Brltiih seamen were often taken to the lockup by this amazon, aud tbe stories they spread of ber achievements led to the name of Black Marla belug given to the English prison van. A Melabhor'a Grief. Mr. Stutaon-Tbey tell me Neighbor Harris' cat Is dead Mrs. Stutson Ob. I’m so sorry! It used lo take up Fldo's time so plena- antly barking at her. - Boston Trau- •crlpt.
