PECULIARITIES OF SOUND.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
a glass tells me that I look ten yean BEN FRANKLIN’S PURCHASg
younger. Why ? Simply because I do An Old Electrical Maehlue Dating
Th- Kind nt Vote Best Salted For The Perils nf Living Tear the Me«-
not allow myself to fret or worry.
Hack to the Revolution.
l-ani llnnxe Slffaals.
lean Boundary Lina.
Wind and Temper.
Don’t tell me you cannot help it, for
Nearly every schoolboy of a genera
Signals u de by sounds of explosion
"Some p«'nllar condition» prevail at
There 1« a clos«*r <*ontn*ctlon between «**»»»*»*»*»*»»»»»*»»»»»»* you can. I used to tie a nervous wreck tion ago was familiar with the friction
are n«*t tl • i.ost reliable Their pene the twin cities of Nogales, Mexico,
wind and temper than at first sight ap
and I made up my mind one day that al electricity machine, never of very tration is obviously often uncertain, and Nogales, Aril.." said the Detroiter,
pear». A coldish wind iuts a bracing ef
much practical value, but of great in
Do you ever realize that fretting and there was no use in going through the terest to youthful tnlnds on account of while, their du> itioii being brief, they wtio recently returned from a visit to
fect and oil tlte whole la beneficial. In
may I k * m;.--.*<l by momentary inatten Mexico. “The International boundary
world
worrying
and
fretting
liecause
countries where hot winds occur peri worrying brings more wrinkles and
the spark that could be made to pass tion The reed horn was the more effi- line Is formed by a street that divide»
odically, on the other hand, these are care lines than age ? The troubled things could not tie exactly as 1 wanted from condenser to youthful Anger. cient instrument ns compared with
the two towns, and the boundary
regarded as a nuisance, if not a curse. heart leaves its impression on the face them. I knew 1 was getting old and Nowadays the size of the spark has In guncotton cartridges over London. The «takes are set out with a very nice
Every one almost gets cross, weary and as sure as the autumn paints the leave«!, ugly before my time and I called a halt, creased as the size of the machine has siren would probably have been .vet
regard for technicalities. There 1» a
done up and has a headache daily.
touching them in w arm glowing colors. bringing myself up with a round turn, diminished, but an example of the ear more efficient ns ulso doubtless a born »ulou:i there which has more than a
In Egypt the season when crimes are
The difference is that autumn repre and you can see for yourself that I lier typi* is still preserved at the Jeffer capable of producing two notes differ local reputation, mid the proprietor is
commonest Is when the hot khamaeen
practiced what I preached. It was a son physical laboratory at Harvard, ing, say. by the interval of a third or a certainly an enterprising Individual.
blows. Nearly always duriug a severe sents the cheerful heart, for there is gixxl change all around for the chil where an interesting collectlou of an fifth, a conclusion arrived at tnauy Ill» saloon lx located on the street di
nothing
disfiguring
in
its
touch;
on
the
■lrocco the Arabs In Algeria were rest
tlquateil pieces of apparatus gives the years ago by experiments which have viding th«* two counties and at a point
less. If they did not attempt an actual contrary, its is rather a glorification of dren and p«x>ple thrown in my com visitor to Cambridge an opportunity io been unhappily too much lost sight of. where the dividing Hue 1» not clearly
rising. The sol a no, which now and nature. We may exp«*ct as the autumn pany finally fouml a much sunnier and compare the earliest with the latest Professor Plazzl Smith found by trial defined. Tlie patron of this saloon
then rushes across the Mediterranean of life approaches that Father Time happier disposition and my Istys, who methods of studylug physics aud as tliat a high note was generally more buys bls drink in America, and. step-
In flery blasts from Africa, upsets ev will leave lines to mark his pathway, ux«l to want to leave home immedi tronomy.
penetrating as a signal, but advised ling across the ball, he buys his cigar
ery one in Spain and Is the worst wind and it depends on ourselves as to ately after supjier and go to the neigh
This special piece, moreover, is par tliat siii'li a note should not be used Iu Mexico, in this way the proprietor
In that country.
whether they are to leave the counte bors or play on the streets, said, ‘it was ticularly interesting in that it was orig alone, assigning ns one reason that In avoids the duty on imported cigars
And even in the “Pearl of the An
much jollier to stay at home, because inally purchased for the college by dividuals possess note deafness similar »nd can provide his customers with
tilles'’ the fierce hot wind is such a pest nance peaceful and happy or lie disfig mamma was always so smiling and Benjamin l-'rankllu when acting us to «»lor blindness, so that no one note the best make at lower prices than
ured
with
the
ugly
little
marks
that
that it is recorded of a family living In
happy and made a fellow feel like hav American commissioner to France dur «mid be trusted. Experiments went to most of his competitors.
Havana that they made it a rule in the show to the world disumtent, restless-
“They tell mi amusing story about an
ing a gisid time? That was the last ing the Revolutionary war. It is a cum pr ive Unit a sound varying between a
household to preserve absolute silence iiessami unhappiness, poxxibly elivious-
bersome affair that would require a high and a low note best arrested at American who Imbibed too much fight
straw
that
broke
my
rebellious
spirit
until the wind disappeared. It was the n«?ss Life is too short for that manner
horse and a small wagon or a whole tention at long range.
ing whisky at this saloon. When lie
only plan they could think of to avoid of living. What if fortune has not and made me long to conquer my irri automobile to move, but the principle
And the same result has been arrived «rriv«*d at a certain stage, he allowed
family quarrels.
smiltsl upon us. If we take the trouble table, fault-finding and nervous habit. on which It is based is the same as iu ut In another way. The peculiar cry of his prejudices to get the better of him.
to look back we may find that there is You see how well 1 have succ«ied«sd, Its modern successors. Aside from size the Alpine guide, which Is, In fact, of and. standing near the tioundary line
Webiiter'a Income.
for if it had not been for the exerting the most noticeable difference Is In the that nature which Professor Smith ad of Ills own country, he heaped auatiie.
The legal profession of the present much to be thankful for. Sickness lias all of my will power and determining use of a glass globe about a foot in di vocates. has doubtless beeu taught by ruas and liurl»*«l defiances at the people
not
visited
our
household,
ail
are
well,
day will be surprised to learn that .Mr.
to conquer I would not be here to-day ameter to produce the electricity by the exigencies of his situation, where across the Isirder. A couple of Mexl
Webster, the greatest American law the children are active happy little lads
giving
you my life history, which I do friction instead of the big circular glass ills voice lx require«! to curry across can officers stood across the street al
yer of his time, tuade but $15,000 a and lassies, rosy with heal Hi. Possibly
plate seen In later machines.
broad and deep ravines. Nature has most within reach of tlie pugnacious
year by his practice. But the lees of across the wav, where the fortune in not make a common practice of doing
Despite its size ami the big globe, taught the same lesson in the Austra American, hoping that In* would stroll
Iiy
any
manner
of
means,
but
1
can
s«je
counsel between 1*10 and 1850 were money was counted in many figures,
however which is supported oil posts lian wilds, where the characteristic across into Mexico. He did get over
not what they have been since.
the Deatli Angel has crossed the por in you a second self, and I will take resembling those of a colonial four “Cowl, cowl!" appears essential to pen there after awhile, although the trip
In 1848 1 accompanied a client to tals of that home, and when you saw your case and I am sure we will come poster lx*d the old machine never ex etrate the deep woods.
was wholly unpremeditated. During
Mr. Webster's office in Boston and ask
Nor indeed need we look farther for a liarmigu«* against Mexican Institu
the little white hearse rolling by and out victorious. ‘I owe everything to ceeded a spark two Inches long and
ed him to name a retaining fee in an
this Is-auty doctor who educated me up was even proud of that modest per an example of the same kind than our tion» in general and the police In par
Important patent case. He said he followed by the grief stricken family to the knowledge that it was common formance. How modest It really was own village lanes Tlie high pitched ticular lie happen«! to lurch too tar
aud
friends,
didn't
your
tieart
reproach
thought a couple of hundred dollars
may be seen by comparison with a voices of children are very farreachtng. over to xtarlsiiird and fell Into Mexico.
would do When the case was tried, you to tliink that you had ever envied place to fret and worry. One of her modern machine In the next ease, so Their shouting can he henni farther Tlie alert cops promptly grabb«*«! him.
favorite
quotations
was
from
Ella
bls fee was only $1.000. On another your neighbor? Didn’t you feel as you
much smaller than Franklin’s that It away In the sky than that of man. and and. though he dliln't get a chime«* to
occasion 1 paid him a retaining fee of tucked the wee folks into their little Wheeler Wilcox,
can be held In one hand, that produces In calling to their fellows they always take in the sights, he paid quite an ex
Laugh and ths world laughs with you;
$2,000 for tlm proprietors of flic Good white lieds that night and there was
a spark of electricity of nearly seven employ n trick of the voice taught tended visit to tlie country he ha«l so
Weep, and you weep aloue.
year India rubber patent.
Inches.
doubtless by experience. The child el«X|Uently maligned.”—Detroit Free
none missing that you had a great deal
His fee for arguing the great equity to lie thankful for? Grief and sorrow
*»»»
will summon her playmate from far Pr«*xa.
cause of Goodyear versus Day in the
away
«villi a «veil practiced “Sally.”
PICKINGS
FROM
FICTION.
Not
long
since
an
attractive
little
circuit court of tile United States for leave tlieir traces on the face, t<s>, but
the first syllable, high pitch«! ami pro
LONG RANGE BAPTISM.
woman,
but
all
nerves,
stood
before
her
they
are
different
from
the
lilies
left
by
the district of New Jersey, by which
If silence is golden, a discreet silence long«!. giving place to I ho second syl
ksiking-glass,
rubbing
cold
cream
well
he established the validity of the Good an envious and embittered spirit. The
Is away above rubles.—“Life on the lable uttered abruptly in a yet higher ('hrl«(eniiift In trot In nd W«» Can«*
ducted Ihdrr Difllcaltlea.
year patent, was $5,000. This was in former many times have a softening into the face and gently massaging Stage."
note. And this mode of calling is uni
the spring of 1852, and was the last effect, the latter leave wretchedly hard the little creases back an«l forth with
In wide and sparsely populated high
Most men are Inventive enough In versal.—Nineteenth Century.
case he ever argued.
land districts of Scotian«! it not infre
many a sigh escaping her lips at the th«* matter of |x*rsonal justification.—
aud unsympathetic lines.
quently happens tliat a parent i* oblig-
» *» »
apparently hopeless task. Turning to "Papa Bouchard.”
THE TURQUOISE.
Foolhardy.
«1 to walk a distance of five or six
I like the fail of to-day, for many her friend who was watching her she
The man in a man can only be recog
The question was once put to Gen reasons, where people, mostly in society
miles with an infant for baptism.
nized by the woman In a woman.—"By
said
impatiently,
*
How
is
it,
Marie,
The turquoise, the birthstone for De
eral Wheeler
It la relat«i of a minister of the
circles, but should be cultivated by old that yon are much older than I am, yet the Higher Law."
cember. signifies prosperity.
"General, what was the most fool
north
that lie agreed to accommodate
It Is human nature to »brink from
Tlie turquoise was a familiar and fa a parishioner tints sltuntfd by meet
hardy thing you ever saw on the Held and young in every station of life, en you have no wrinkles and always look
confessing
oneself
wroug
In
one
’
s
an
deavor
never
to
let
their
faces
betray
vorite gem among the ancient Mexi Ing him at a stream midway between
so sweet, happy and youthful as well.
of battle?"
ticipations.—"Lassie.”
cans and Indians of tlie west.
“I didn't see it ou the field of battle,” their inmost thoughts. I heartily con There are no tell-tale lines in your face.
tin* parents’ house and the manse nnd
A
girl
is
never
too
young
to
form
Tlie turquoise fades when its owner there baptizing the child at the run
replied General Wheeler. “I saw It one cur in it when it comes to keeping fam Tell me the secret. What is this elixir
day when a young woman tried to cu ily skeletons buried from the ever ready of life that gives perjietual youth that opinions of her own sex--or to express is 11). nnd dies when tlie wearer is at ning water.
tacked by mi Incurable malady—so they
ter a revolving door leading a dog by “Paul Pry” whois anxious to invade you are using? “ Your query sur- them.—"The Destiny of Doris."
It so hu|>|M*ned that by the time the
The world may doom you to plain say.
a very long string. She passed through the sacredness of the home circle in
parties cam«* to opposite sides of the
prises me’ but it is easily answered. I living, but only you can deny yourself
in safety, but not so the dog. The rush season and out of season. If every thing
Tlie Geriii.nrs claim that by its vary bourn heavy rains had swollen It Into
never allow myself to worry. 1 look ou plain thinking.—"Deafuess aud Cheer
ing public came along, and the dog
ing
shades I lie turquoise turns telltale a rapid torrent, xo that neither party
is not moving along as serenely and the bright side, my faith in a higher fulness.”
was ground both ways and chopped up
on the caprices anil moods of its «>ul«l approach the other.
happily
as
they
should
do
in
all
“
well
Women
love
good
men.
but
are
Inter
power never wanes, whereas you worry
as though he were- in a sausage ma
Unwilling to turn back with the
wea rer.
chine. Each time he escaped his mis regulated families,” it does not help over trifles and allow yourself to Ixicome ested In men whose goodness is more
Shakespeare gives these words to "balm" nnbaptized. the farmer pro-
tress tugged madly on the string and matters to let some outsider, who can nervous and fretful. Keep on throwing or less impaired.—"The Man From Shylock: "He would uot have lost his |M>s«l tliat the minister should splash
pulled him into It again. She got him not possibly be interested in your home a pebble into the clearest br<xik and Glengarry.”
turquoise ling for a whole wilderness water across. Accordingly the minister
The power that prepared the high of monkey s.”
through nt last, being a very deter atiairs except to make the chasm of you will disturb the placid little stream
stepped down to the stream aud en
mined girl. Tlie Janitor of the building dissension wider, |rea<l your unenvi and make its waters muddy. You are ways of life seems to have arranged
The turquoise derives its name from deavored to throw handfuls of water
that the fingerposts along the primrose
wrapped him up in a newspaper for able secret. These Paul Prys are ever
mi the farmer's baby.
worrying yourself sick over the paths shall rarely point to the prom a word meaning Turkish mid is so
her, so that she could carry him home.
“Ha’e ye got ony o’ that?” he cried
called
because
the
first
turquoises
were
ready, like the palmist, to read the lint*», wrinkles in your face. Forget them and ised land.—“Captalu Blultt.”
The way she clung to that string was
at each successive splash.
found
in
Turkey.
Think not, as many say, there Is but
the most foolhardy thing I ever saw.” but they are the tell-tale lin«» of the remember that the loving faithful heart
"De'il a spairge." was the reply.
If your birthday comes in December
face and not the network of lines in has no wrinkles. It all lays with the one springtide of life, tliat It is but a
At last a few of the »plushes were
nnd you wear a turquoise, you need
i'h«* llab>’*s Name.
your rosy palm.
green aud sappy youth which rushes to never lie afraid of falling off a high communicated to tlie infant’s face,
lieart, my friend.”
“Name tills child,” said the clergy
a brief summer and all else of life is place. One of tlie powers of the azure anil tlie ceremony was then concluded
» » » »
man.
but n winter, loug ami drear and gray liueil gem is to preserve its wearer in tlie usual form.
A society woman said to me the other
BRIEF
REVIEW.
“Superfluous,” replied young Mrs. day, "Polly, I think it is positively
ami lonely. Through all our life our from this catastrophe.
Before retiring to their respective
Verdigris, tlie mother of the cherub.
springtide
1»
renewed. — “Mistress
homes the farmer produced a bottle of
common and vulgar to worry an«l let
It
Is
also
said
that
tt
has
the
power
“What?”
Flays the London Tailor.
Brent.”
•
of protecting its wearer against con whisky, crying across. “As I cauna
the lines of your face show your unrest.
•’Superfluous."
Poultney
Bigelow,
writing
in
the
In-
tagion. A turquoise would certainly offer ye a glass owre the held o’ this,
Why He Hesitated.
“My dear madam,” said the preacher People of today who pretend to be
here’s the liott le-kepp!” And lie threw
«lepenpent,
says:
“
Do
you
want
some
anything
don
’
t
allow
their
inmost
The Brooklyn Citizen prints an expe be an ornamental substitute for vacci It across the stream.
in a whisper, "flint will never do. I
nation.
its
efficiency
would
probably
clothes
made
in
London?
You
go
to
a
rience of a man who travel«! all over
can’t give the baby such a name us thoughts to be read by a curious and
The bottle was caught, it is related,
depend upon tlie "faith” of the wearer.
that. What suggested it to you?"
inquisitive tlirongofpeople. Theirfaees first-rate tailor and are elaborately Europe and d«*lares that he did not
with a precision that betokened on the
“My husband's brother.”
part of his reverence. If uot considera
are not mirrors of the soul, unless it be measured and cross measured. The meet but one person who hesitated
RnlibilR ut Play.
"Is he a married man?"
ble practice, at least considerable dex
apparently a peaceful, happy and con cloth is excellent, the price noderate, as over the acceptance of a fee:
Rabbits play in this way: Two of terity.-Stray Stories.
I was wandering through au old
“No, sir. He's an old bachelor.”
tented expression—.in other words, a compared with New York. You are re
them
—
1
have
not
seen
it
played
with
graveyard in an English towu mid bad
"As I suspected. Madam, we will
composed manner and placid face. quested to call and try them on in three stopped before a stone which bad not more—run quickly toward each other,
call this baby ‘Blessing.' ”
Canal»« a Tartar.
days.
You
come
to
be
trie«!
on
and
find
b«*n long in pluee. A man who must and when on tlie point of contact each
“I've no objection, sir, but 1 like the People have got to school themselves
Like so many of his learned brethren
that
the
clothes
are
basted
togetherand
leaps
into
the
air,
but
one
higher
than
into
hiding
their
real
feelings,
and
have been following me stepped up and
sound of the other better." -Chicago
in tin* Church of England, the late
tlie other, clearing him completely.
there is where our beauty doctor’s work that the fit is merely a preliminary one: said:
Tribune.
Canon Carter was the terror of com
They
come
down
with
their
tails
to
“Ah, sir, but she who Iles here will
coiiieH in as a great assistance in edu the basting is all ripped open ami you
positors. His wax perhaps, after Denn
wn r«l each other, but instantly, with
CuNtr In Indin.
Stanley'», the very worst baud writing
cating ourselves up to the point of are pinned up again. The tailor ex be missed for years to come! She was
The barbers of India rank with the
presses no surprise that his work is bad for half a lifetime the president of the an. us it were. “Excuse my tail!” both of the last century.
turn and run and leap again, and tills
washerwomen. The son of a barber keeping little vexatious things to our- ly done; he does not know that it is a charity board."
About 1880 tlie then bishop of l.Ich
must be a barber all his life, and bls selvea that come into everyone’s life at
In an absentminded way 1 handed they will do from two or three to half field. Dr. Maclagun. surprised one of
wretched
job.
You
call
after
a
long
in
times
no
matter,
how
flowery
their
a
dozen
times,
always
leaping
up
at
wife must be a barber's daughter. The
him a sixpence, said the traveler. He
his secretaries by saying: ”1 have
Hindoo shaver travels about in search pathway through life may lie. You terval and try them on again. The received It, turned it over in his banil the exact moment when they would hardly ever received an anonymous
of customers, and the barberlng Is done know how hard it is yourself to look as sleeves are an inch too long, the collar In a hesitating way and Anally stain otherwise come into «xiliision and one letter, but 1 gut one thl» morning. It Is
always taking the higher leap—some
in the street. There are no stools, both serene and smiling as a May morning fits as though made for a hone, the niered:
H
very badly written, and 1 can hardly
barber aud customer squutting ou their when everything is going wrong in the .acket is tight across the chest and ob
“As she was my own wife, sir, ami times an astonishingly high one—right make it out. but from the signature it
heels while the operation is performed. kitchen—when you hear the crashing viously intended for fat man around the as I was here to plant flowers on her over Ills companion. They never meet is sure to be abusive. The man has
The Hindoo barber is n manicure aud
belt. You ask if he really did take any grave, perhaps it would not be exactly in the air, nor enn I see how this can »Igned himself ‘A Tartar.’ See If you
be avoided except by a plan or figure
a chiropodist as well, and bls pay Is of glass and chinaware, and you know
can make it out.”
measurements
in the fir»t instance. proper to aceept a fee.”
being mutually followed by them, ns
wretchedly small. They often act as by the unearthly silence following it in
I
replied
that
but
for
him
1
might
The secretary, who' knew the hand
The
tailor
complacently
rips
up
all
his
the
kitehen
that
it
is
some
of
your
best
with
ourselves
in
a
game
or
dance.
I
surgeons, aud they make a specialty of
never have known about her being
writing, rather startled his lordship by
seams
again
and
«nice
more
proceeds
to
plereiug the ears of young girls for ear and most treasured articles in that line.
president of the board, and he swal believe that each clears the other al rejoining: “It’s nothing alarming. It’»
rings, while barbers' wives are almost Oh, there are a thousand and one make chalk marks all over you and in lowed his scruples aud pocketed the ternately, but I have not yet convlnc«!
only ii note from Canon Carter of
always hairdressers.
things, Polly, to make you go nearly sert a number of pins. You are in sixpence with one motion and with evi myself of this.- Saturday Review.
Clewer!”—London Tit-Bit».
distracted, and if I did not bring all my clined to use profane language, but cu dent eatisfa<?tion.
I.ikr Shoot I im Ghost*.
Belonged Elsewhere.
riosity masters your other feelings and
Lonilon Street Tames.
The impression when limiting paddy will power to bear and say ‘ I wont' in you wonder how any establishment can
That it is possible to have too good
I’eerless street. In Txindon, is a cor
O®« and Man.
melons, a species of kangaroo found in great big letters of emphasis, I would
an appetite seems to lie one of the
Once upon a time a postmaster who morals of u story told by a friend to ruption of Perilous pool. Golden
Australia, is of shooting at ghosts, he a nervous wreck and my face would succeed when so much time can be
lived In a Kansas town was sente«! In the Washington correspondent of the square was originally Gelding square,
what with tlie dim. mysterious light of soon lie a map of Asia. I commenced wasted over one suit of clothes.
nnd the name was changed at 'lie wish
tils office reading postal cards when u Cleveland Plain Dealer.
the “bush" mid the strange appearance going to a beauty doctor to smooth out
nntive cyclone suddenly came Ills way.
aud swift movement of the garni* Pad- the little, fine, unsightly wrinkles that
"I nm very fond of roasted ears of of the Inhabitants. Fetter lam* has
Long Life and Smoking.
The wind carried hlin through an east corn." said he. “and I <*at it whenever I nothing to do with fetters, but only
dymelons, like nil the kangaroo tribe, were coming, not in troops, but in regi
Habitual smokers, who are fre«iuently window and in the direction of ii chest
are useless for food, except so far ns ments. Tlie first thing she said was,
can get it. Some time ago. while I was with fewtors (Idle fellows», who on«*
told that they are slowly poisoning nut grove three miles distant.
their tails are concerned, which, being
In a restnurant In Texas, th« waltei loafed in the neighbor hood. Gutter
In a tew seconds he wax safely seat put a plateful on the table, and I just lane. In the city, is really Guthi-ron's
largely of glutinous texture, furnish 1 You have a nervous face, and unless themselves by the habit, will be com
lane. Duck's F*»ot lnu<*. near Cannon
material for capital soup, very like ox- you do your part no lieauty doctor in forted by the knowledge that Abraham ed In the top of a high tree busy pick
helped myself.
tall. but with a peculiar and agreeable the land could help you. In the first Elmer, who has die«! in the United Ing chestnut burs out of his hair nnd
“When I had consumed the third, I street, should lie Duke's Foot Inin*, be
place, you must learn to contain your States at the age of 119, smoked for up clothing when lie saw the building noticed tliat a man across the table ing so named after the Dukes of Suf
gamy flavor.
self; don’t let little things worry you. ward of 100 years. This is by no means that be had no suddenly left coming was eying me most curiously. I looked folk. Cannon street had nothing to do
D’rt ii.nl Voice.
iirectly toward him.
nt him and told him that I considered with guns, but everything with can
A musical writer suites that tine vo Wait until something really worth fret a solitary ease of centenarian smokers.
“I declare,” he exclaimed, "there roasted corn one of the most nutritions dles. which were made In It when it
ting
alsiut
comes
to
feed
on
your
energy
enlists are rare In countries where tlsi;
An instance is record«! in the Darling comes the old shanty looking for me!"
and palatable things a man conld eat. |ia»s<*d as Candlewick street.
and meat diets prevail and that th« that you are throwing away on trilies. ton and Htockton Times of December,
Moral.—Sometimes the office seeks Then I helped myself to a fourth ear
Homebody
talks
loud
and
you
proceed
voice depreciates as families grow rid
1856, which records the death of Jane the mnn.— New York Herald
nnd devoured it with relish.
The Uaddle's U>-e»lffl«<.
aud increase the amount of meat con to get nervous over it; somebody drops < larbutt in her one humlred and tenth
"When I reached my hand Into the
"Good eyeaight 1» a<s-es»ary for n
sumed. Naples mid Genoa, where mild a pair of scissors and you nearly jump year, anil to the last she enjoyed her
She t'nderstood.
dish for th«* fifth, the fellow across the caddie. Isn't it?" ax»e«l the hoy of no
fish is eaten, give few of Italy's sing out of your chair, and you frown and
“Ignorance,” remark«*d young Borom, table couldn't stand it any longer.
experience.
pipe.
When
asketi
some
time
before
ers, and the sweet voices of Ireland wrinkle up your face. Unfortunately
"they say Is bliss.”
"
'Say.
pard,
’
said
lie.
‘
don
’
t
you
think
“Oh. I don't knuT.” answer«! tIn
her
death
how
long
she
had
been
a
are found In the country, but uot iu the it is not the exception but the rule; you
“Oh, that probably accounts for it.” you could save about a dollar and a
experienced Ind "There’s some con
smoker she replied: “Very nigh a hun rejoined Miss Cutting.
towns. In Norway too much fish If
quarter a day if you was to board at a pies in this ch:!» that'll pay you more
eaten for the prisJuctiou of singers, but frown so many times a day that you dred years.” So that, like Elmer, she
“Accounts for what?" queried the livery stable?’ ”
for looking th«* other way an' not seein
would
tie
astonished
lieyond
measure
if
Sweden is a land of grain and song
must have commenced smoking young. youth.
anything than they will for flndln' the
The carnivorous birds croak; grain «Kit they should tie marked down and
"The contented and happy look you
Fortifying a I.lghthonar.
balls. You’ve got to learn when to
shown you in the evening. Every time
ing birds sing.
Marconi cannot atlord to lecture, even usually wear," she replied.—Chicago
A llghtlioiise at the south cape of have the eyesight nn' when not to have
you frown deepens the lines just that at the handsome rate of $1000 a night News.
Cormosa was built In a part of the It.”—Chicago I’oxt
The Mni<i Blushed.
much; every time you allow that nerv as his wireless telegraphy, if made prac
Island Inhabited solely by savages and
When Mr. David Dear, winner of the ous twitching that is so ready to come
A b offset.
tical, will yield him more money than
A Maffei Ch I Iff.
queen'» prize at Bisley, was a law stu at all times, you are helping to lay the
A asks B to lend him 50 cents. B bad. in consequence, to lie fortified.
any other inventor has made, with the has but 25 cents and give» that to A. The lantern was protect«! by steel re
Dlekl«*— Pa. werv you a gomlcr Ixiy'n
dent, he once attended an “at home.”
On the servant asking his name, be re foundation for a new set of wrinkles. single exception of Edison. Next to a A accepts It, remarking that he will volving screens, ant! on the gallery of me when you w«»e ax little as me?
Father-Ye« i.idceil. Dickie. ! was
Now, unless you can promise to help successful flying machine, Marconi’s trust B for the balance. B later asks the tower, which was of cast iron, it
plied, "David Dear."
ilwnyx
a very good boy. but somehow
machine
gun
was
mounted
on
rncers.
me
by
liearlng
in
mind
that
you
must
invention promises the greatest advance A to settle with him, whereupon A
The girl blushed and said, "Yes, yes;
Round tin* liase of the tower was or other I had a great many serious
cultivate a composed, restful and happy In communication of any of the recent claims that nx B owes him 25 cents
but what is your other name, sir?”
He assured her be had no other countenance, it would be useless for rue discoveries.
one debt offsets the other. What Is the built a wrought Iron refuge, or fort, nnd pnitiful misunderstandings with
communicating by bullet proof pas my parents. —Detroit Free ITess.
name, but It was of no use. The serv to try and help you, All the cold
inswer?—Baltimore American
sages witli nil tlie rooms in tlie keepers-
ant knew better and announ«?ed him as creams and face tonics, all the massag
It is stated that during the last year
dwelling lionses.
The Ro> Who WI bs the Day.
“Mr. David.”
The
Rest
Lifter.
ing I could bring to liear would only 420 tonsof eigarett«*» wereexported from
When two boys start out In life, one
Both fort mid tower were fitted with
Hiram—That boy of yours what went suitable accommodation for the staff with a copy of "Winning His Way" In
afford temporary relief; you would undo Algeria, ami there promises to lie a large
Klevatlnff.
to college could do some powerful lift In a case <>f siege, had water tanks in hl» pocket nnd the other with a piece
Northern Colored Man—But you all the work aud the gixxl I wax trying increasing trade.
ing with the clubs and dumbbells
ought to be a lawyer or doctor or some to accomplish for you by the moment
the basement mid were supplied with of natural elementary huatle in his
Silas Yes, but I always thought more a stock of provisions.
thing high. Isn't there some way in you were out of my sight, indulging in
bend, the latter uaually comes in first
After a man readies fifty a year seems of the other one's lifting powers.
which you can rise above the cornfield? the old and disagreeable habit.'
Tlie station was further protected by at the post —Washington Times.
to be about three week».
Hiram—Did lie lift dumbbells nnd the a loopholt* wall ami a dry ditch, flunk
Southern Colored Man—Yas, sail
» » » »
like?
dah's many ways. Dab might be a hur
e«l by two small tower», or caponuleres.
Persons who really wish to become
Silas—No; be lifted the mortgage.- armed with ilgliteen pounder cannon.
“lam »ure 1 am ten year» older than
The price paid for a cradle 1» bush
ricane, or dis mule might Ilf* me wtd
»ngel» should make a »tart In that dl
Philadelphia
Record
bis heels —Philadelphia Record
’ you are, to »ay the leaat, and yet my money.
Eiigtuesrluu
tectlon while they are rat mortals
BANDON RECORDER.
♦
: Polly Larkin ;
akB Raaff the IlffaaL
There 1» a romantic story about Lott
Kelvin’s s«*cond marriage. In the ear
ly seventies he, then Sir William Thom
»on. was In Welt Indian water», ot
board his schooner yacht, the Lallt
Bookh. As a recreation he took up th«
question of simplifying the method <M
signals at sea. He bad been talkin«
of It at the dinner table of a friend it
Madeira, and the only apprehensloi
that seemed able to grasp it was tbai
of his host’s daughter, a lady he great
ly but silently admired.
“I quite understand It. Sir William.'
she »aid.
“Are you sure?” he questioned, ball
doubtfully.
"If 1 seut you a signa
from uiy yacht, do you think you «will
read It and could answer me?”
"Well. I would try,” she responded
“1 believe 1 should succeed In tnaklni
It out.”
The signal was sent, and »be did »m-
ceed In milking It out and In transmit
ting the reply. The question was
"Will you marry me?" and the auawei
was. "Yes.”
A Homely Ureetlng.
According to Aliixl«*e's Magazine
when tlie governor of Newfoundland
Sir Henry McCallum. K. C. M. G.. weir
ashore at a small harbor of the east
coast lie was met ut the landing plan
by u grizzhxi old fisherman, wh«
sought to make the stranger welcome
whoever be might be.
"Be you coinin' ashore, sir?” be ssk
ed.
"Yes,'' said the governor.
"Be you here almut the tie (seal oil)?'
the tlsliei iiiun pursued.
"No.” suid the governor.
"Be you one o' ‘Sam’ Lewis' met
from lte«l bay. sir, come about th«
timber?"
“1 am the governor of Newfound
land." Sir Henry announced, wftl
some show of dignity.
"Be you. now?" said the fisherman
vitli a friendly offer of tils hand
Well, "tls n mighty go«xl Job—If yoi
van liolil it. An' I hopes you will
Would you like a cup o' tea. sir?"
**A Lot of ’air."
The inhabitants of the little towi
of Soniersby. in England, where Ten
nyxon was born, are frank in givln«
their opinion of tlieir distinguished fel
low townsman. One old woman thui
related her Impressions of the poet to «
visitor:
" 'E was a very quolet man. 'E seem
ed as If ’e was ’alf asleep, with ’Is oyet
'»If shut sn’ peepin’, an’ "e used t«
|>oke at ye. loike I’ fun, wl’ ’Is stick
’E 'ad such a lot of 'air an" a loan
beard, an'.” sinking her voice eoufl
«lentlally. “ ’e never looked very clean
uo, 'e didn't.”
Aud this somewhat startling testlmu
uy was promptly confirmed by her bus
band, who add«):
“If you'd met 'Im goolu' along thl>
dusty rooad, you’d 'a' takken 'Im for «
tramp gooln' to Brigg for u night’)
lodgin’.”
It Reminded Him.
One sharp November day, says tin
Philadelphia Record, a boy entered c
car. leaving the door open, much to th«
discomfort of au old gentleman win
sat next. As the wind chilled bls mar
row his temper rose. Leaning aero»«
bls seat and taking the kid by bls ear
be said: "Were you brought up iu a
barn? Why don’t you shut the door?’
The boy said nothing, but closed tin
door, coming back to his seat In tears
This sight moved the old man to relent
lug pity. "There, there,” he said, "III
tie man; 1 didn't really mean you wer<
brought up in a barn."
“That's just It.” retort«l the kid. ”1
was brought up In a barn, and every
time 1 see a jackass It makes me think
of it.”
Aa Intereatlnff Coin.
An Interesting coin has Just beeu sold
In Germany, it Is one of the few coin.*
In the history of the world which cat;
tie accused of having a humorous sld«
to it. In 1H79 the Danes <l«*s«igpded ot
the port of Hamburg, but tbtfl^M^i
on the famous llniise town
successful
The liiliabitaiit^ti^ifAy’
town strm k u medal Io
the occasion
I he legend
was as toll<jws ' I in- king
has been to Hamburg. If
know vvliat h<* achieved. louk^^B.'*i";
other side." It Is needless to add^Hj
"the other side" Is a blank.
Hia .Man Waa Appointed.
As an Instance of the acuteness of A1
Daggett, the former Republican leadei
of Kings county, N. Y., the story Is tub
that when Seth Low was elected ma.voi
of Brooklyn some years ago he wrot«
to Mr. Daggt*tt. offering to appoint a*
commissioner of elections one of an.«
three men lie might name. Al wrot«
three lines to the mayor, as follow
“Charles Henry Cotton, C. H. Cotton
C. Henry Cotton." Neislless to say Mr
Cotton was appointed.
Her Pet »'ad.
Mr». Jones-Mrs. Robinson Is tb<
greatest woman to stick to n fad I evei
saw.
Mr». Brown—Why, I never liean
anytxxly mention that before.
Mrs. Jone»—Can't help that, it’s ■<>
all the same. Just see how she ha:
gone on admiring tliat husband of her-
these twenty years and more.—Bostoi
Transcript.
Taken Serloaaly Row.
Bunker—1 used to get conslderabb
amusement out of golf.
Aacum—Ah. then you don’t play auj
more?
Bunker—Yes, ludeed. I was referrln«
to the time before I began to play.
Philadelphia Press.
Lies ot the White Kind.
The whole fabric of social Inter
course 1» Interwoven with wbat would
be lie« according to a strict code. Some
are pleasant fictions that deceive no-
body. Most of them bnve tlieir genesis
In a kindly, cheerful desire to avoid
giving pain. These polite untruths are
the lubricant of society. They wear
away the rough edges, take away the
»ting ont of uncomfortable facts. They
tre the flower of courtesy, “the pine
apple perftnn« of politeness.’’- Wash
Ington Time».
_ ___
Hla Aaablttea.
Young Jones—I mean to so live that
when I die nil the great cltlea of tba
earth ahall quarrel over the question
of tuy birthplace.
Young Brown—Yes; each one will lay
the blame on some other.