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BANDON RECORDER. 'I’urnlnK « Sharp Corner. On one occasion n great public din ner was given to Isaac Hull by the town of Boston, and he was asked to sit for his picture to Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated artist, who was a great braggart. When Hull visited his studio, Stuart took great delight in entertain ing him with anecdotes of bls English success, stories of the Marquis of This ami the Baroness of That which show ed how elegant was the society to which he had been accustomed. Unfortunately In the midst of this grandeur Mrs. Stuart, who did not know that there was a sitter, came in with lier apron on and her head tied up with handkerchief • om the kitch en and cried out, "Did you mean to have that leg of mutton lioiled or roast ed ?” To which Stuurt replied, with great presence of mind, "Ask your mistress." The Pearl Hunters’ Superstition. The pearl hunters of Borneo and tla adjacent islands have a peculiar super stitlon. When they open shells In search of pearls, they take every ninth And, whether It be large or small, and put It into a bottle which is kept cork ed with a dead man's Unger. The pearls in the vial are known as "seed pearls” or “breeding pearls,” and the native Borneóse firmly believes that they will reproduce their kind. For ev ery pearl put Into the vial two grains of rice are thrown In for the pearls to “feed upon.” Some whites in Borneo believe ns firmly in the superstition ns the na tives do, mid almost every hut along the coast has its "dead finger" bottle, with from nine to fifty seed pearls and twice Hint number of rice grains care fully and evenly stowed away among them. A Good Gneamer. An elderly woman with an impedi ment in lier speech had troubles of her own nt the corner of Twelfth and Walnut streels the other day. As each ear came out Walnut street she would stop it and say to the conductor. “Dud- dud dud-does th tliis kuk-kuk-car gug- gug go" At this Juncture, and some times before, the conductor would im patiently exclaim, "No; take the next car." Then he would pull the strap, und the car would go ahead, lenvlnj the womnn nt the crossing. There are live different lines passing out Walnut street tit this point, and if the woman could read the signs she dlsregariled them. Finally n conductot more considerate than the others help ed her aboard and allowed her to ex plain afterward. After three blocks hail been traversed he found Hint she wanted to go to Darby, and his was a Darby cur. When she learned this, she beamed her Joy. "Yuh-yuh young man," she said, "yuh-yuh you’re n gug gug- good gug-gug gug-guesser.” — Philadel phia Record. j I to cover a young girl’s coffin. The pall '<; was ordered by her schoolmates. It | must have been beautiful. I said thou- 5 ! sands of violets were used. I made a mistake. It must have been nearer a i ' million we sent, for they were used in numerous other designs for that same funeral. It seems it was her favorite When Polly was a little girl the ques flower. We send countless violets to tion, the United States “is” or “are?” the confectioners as well, to be con used to Isitiier me more than any other verted into candied violets. It seems query in grammar. The United States queer taste to me and about as unpar is, tiie United States are. The plural donable as dining off' humming birds’ was there all right, so “are” must be tongues, i 1 never believed that tale, correct. Then I would bear some however. This fl rm raises violets for learned person say, who ought to know the manufacturers of perfumery as well. what he was talking about, "the Unit We never have a day off" during the ed States ‘is,’ ” and again I was at sea. violet season, not even on Bundays or As I grew older I found that there were legal holidays, for those are the very others equally as dense as Polly when it days when blossoms are in demand. came to that subject. Now tiie House You might call Saturdays ami Sundays ('ommitteeon the Revision of the Laws the best all-round days for the sale of has finally settled the question, and violets, for Saturday is pay day aud from now on the United States “is” men, women aud even children feel will be considered the proper thing. that they can afford a dime for a bunch The committee was aided io arriving at of violets. 1 like to see men buying a its decision by a pamphlet written by bunch of violets, or any other flowers, John NV. Foster, formerly Secretary of for that mattar; it shows a certain re Slate, and entitled “Are” or "is?” in finement and also that that they are which he quotes from such able au thinking of somebody else beside them thorities as Hamilton, Webster, Ben selves. If they didn’t spend it in that ton, Motley, Charles Francis Adams, way it would go for a nickel in the Jefferson, Seward, Fish, Evarts, Fre- slot, maybe shaking dice for the cigars, linghuysen, Bayard, Blaine, Gresham or else for a package of cigarettes. You and Onley, who used it in the singular, are taking items, are you,” she said. in the early messages of tiie Presidents "Well, you can say I would rather Jackson only used the singular form, pick violets for a living than stand be followed by Lincoln and Grant, Cleve hind a counter all day, or cooking iu land, Harrison, and McKinley used it sonielxxly’s smoky kitchen, or sewing exclusively. in all of the treaties since for a living.” You have the violet 1890, the plural has given place to the picker’s story of her every-day work, singular, The question is once and for Now, would you like to be a violet all time settled, and now we know picker? «««« whereon we stand, although I beard someone say the other day that the Speaking of flowers reminds me of United States “is” doesn’t sound half the buds and blossoms in the new so formidable as tiie United States spring millinery. They are going to “are.” wear tiie loveliest flowers this season POLLY LARKIN »»»» THE JAPAN CURRENT. IloUKckcepern Muj Do It as Well u« a I’rofpuhloiiB 1 Butcher. Karo llwo Pile« Great Load« of Driftwood ou Alaska's >h«r««. Little though one may think, the process oi uiuklng a boneless bam Is quite h fine art and oue that requires no small degree of skill In the under taking. In fact, it Is not every one who can "bone” a ham successfully. In the event a housekeeper unfamiliar with the art of removing the bone from hams were to undertake the job the would be almost certain to begin operations by first of all splitting the ham open and endeavoring to carve out the bone by cutting around It. The re sult would be failure and vexation of the worst sort, to say nothing of a ruin ed ham. The proper way to remove the hone would never suggest Itself to the average housekeeper. The operator stands the ham on end against a supporting block and pro ceeds to carve around the bone from one end as deep as It is possible for him to run his hand and knife down Into the flesh and around the bone. Having reached the extreme limit (us far. in fact, as It Is possible to extend the knife), he reverses the ham and begins cutting around the bone from the other end, cutting downward until he reaches the point that he attained In cutting from the end on which he began, the entire operation being sci entifically correct and on the principle of skinning an animal. The bone then slips out clear and smooth, free from any adhering flesh. As soon as this is done stout twine is wrapped around the ham and drawn taut, completely closing the aperture left' by the removal of the bone. The twine Is thus made fast and the bam laid away for a day or two, at the end of which time the hole has closed so neatly that. In slicing the ham, it Is difficult to determine the exact spot from which the bone was removed. This Is the proper mode of making boneless ham, and with a little prac tice any housekeeper can learn to do the work as well as a professional butcher. They will observe that first of all the bone is surrounded by a tis sue, ami by starting the operation from the ends they will be surprised with what facility this tissue, dividing the bone from the flesh, peels loose from the former. In one sense the Karo Siwu, or Japan current, is the most lnte*sting In the world because many oceanographers believe It was the direct means of peo pling America. This much at least is certain; If a boat were to be set adrift ou parts of the Asiatic coast and sur vived all storms, the Japan current could be depended upon to carry it across the Pacific and deposit it on the American shore. Buch a thing has happened, lu 1832 nine Japanese fish eruien were left derelict and unable to find their way back to shore. They went with the current, and after a drift lasting during several months they were carried to Hawaii. Trees torn by storms from the banks of Asiatic rivers frequently float across the l’uciflc to the American coast. Be tween Kukatag and Kyak islands, about 1,200 miles northwest of Seattle, enormous piles of this driftwood cover the beaches. There can be no question of the Asiatic origin of the timber. They are the trunks of the camphor tree, the mango and the mahogany. Logs 150 feet long and eight feet in di ameter are frequently found. Many of them are seen floating shoreward, with fantastic roots standing high above the waves. In places the logs are piled twenty feet high. They are generally without bark, which has been peeled off by the waves, and most of them have become white and heavy from impregnation with salt water. As they pile up the sands drift over them, and gradually they sink out of sight, and new beaches are formed. Tbis’proces.i has been going on for ages, aud the sh ire line Is being steadily extended. Excavations along the beach show that texture of the burled timber gets hard er and harder the farther In you go. until in some instances petrifaction has taken place. Other excavations show logs that have turned to coal. The presence of Siberian driftwood on 'lie shores of Greenland convinced Nansen that Ills idea of drifting across I he Polar sea in til«’ Fra in was logical. Great quantities of Hie wood are an nually cast on the coasts of Spitz bergen and Nova Zambia. and there are tribes of Greenland Eskimos who depend for sledge runners and other woollen Implements on the drift from Siberian forests. For years they de pended for iron implements ou the hoops of casks which came to them over seas.—Theodore Waters in Alns lee's. Some of the India 1 tribes ver which we rule give us a great deal of trouble, notably the Mahsuds. The Mahsuds, however, are not by any means the worst of the Indian robber tribes, the unenviable distinction probably falling to the Bhlls, who are the cleverest scoundrels in the world, both in their methods of acquiring other people’s property anil In evading pursuit. They are very proud of their skill in pilfering and openly boast of it. One of them once told a British officer that he could steal the blanket from under him and was promptly challenged to show his ability. That night when the officer was fast asleep the Bhil robber cut a hole in his tent, crept noiselessly in and gently tickled the hands and feet of the sleeping man. The officer stirred uneasily and turned over. In this way the Bhil was able to pull the blanket out a little way. By repeating bls performance he finally succeeded In "coaxing” the blanket completely from under the sleeper. When engaged in his nefarious little games, the Bhil wears hardly any clothing, and his lithe body Is rubbed with oil to facilitate escape from any would be captors. When hotly pursued by the British troops, the robbers make use of a very clever device. They con ceal their scant clothing under their small round shields and scatter them about to resemble stones or bowlders; then, picking up a few twigs—if there nre any to be had—they assume all sorts of grotesque attitudes, their al most fleslilcsH limbs silhouetted against the dark night sky closely resembling the charred limbs of a tree. Absolute ly motionless, they hold their positions till the enemy has passed them. In this way a British subaltern in charge of a party sent to capture some Bhlls was considerably startled one evening. Tiie pursuit had completely lost sight of the robbers, and finally the party drew rein by a clump of gnarled and bent tree trunks, tired and hot from their hard exertions. The of ficer in charge took off bis hat and placed It on the end of a broken limb, when instantly there was a wild scream of laughter, and the tree trunks sud denly came to life and vanished in the darkness.—London Express. The Wllllna Worker. There is a feeling of timidity tiiat oftentimes overcomes a writer when beginning an article. As in writing a letter, it is getting started that puzzles. It is the custom to begin with slow moving piston and work gradually into full speed until the flow of words is free, and then tiie difficulty with some of us is to find the brake valve. Again, a writer sometimes discovers that bis beginning is a more fitting ending, and vice versa. The newspaper style is to throw general conclusions up strong under the headlines, while the sermon- izer reserves them until Ills tinnl cli max. Thackeray remarked once that he could never tell exactly what he was going to say until bis pen was In hand and under motion and then did not fully realize Just what he was saying until it was written. There is a subconscious ness that shapes writing as It docs speaking. This. I know, distuibs some well known theories of speaking and writing—as to weighing everything and then measuring it out as a druggist compounds a prescription—but my ob servations are that the preparation is more in getting full of a subject and then letting the mind work free under the impulse of the dominating idea. There are as many ways and meth ods in writing and speaking as there are individuals, and yet the fundamen tal law in the transmission of thought and speech runs largely In the same groove, whether It be the Jargon of lhe Hottentot or the polished periods of tiie scholar. Human nature has its own primitive impulses that defy «11 rules of rhetoric and the power of ex pression—that Is, the power, mind yon —4s deeper seated than any artificial formula of stylists. — National Maga zine. that have ever decked a milliner’s win dow. 1 saw a hat, one of the newest styles, for a sweet sixteen miss the other day, and it was one of the daint iest and most summery bits of millinery you could imagine. It was of the finest and laciest yellow straw, almost as fine as a cobweb, long and oval, the weight A CURE AND A FEE. of its wealth of pale pink baby-roses drooping it over the face and over the Peculiar Experience of a Doctor With a Business Man. back of tiie head, a bow of black vel In conversation one day about the vet ribbon and streamers completed it. peculiar views that commercial men sometimes entertain about professional services Dr. S. Weir Mitchell told tue BRIEF REVIEW. following story: "A very wealthy man from the west Balzac and Coffee. came to consult me about an attack of When not working Balzac was ex vertigo. He said that he had just re ceedingly fond of the pleasure of the ta turned from a trip to Isiirope. where ble. His capacity was Gargantuan, as he had consulted eminent specialists, may be judged by this menu of a dinner but that they had failed to afford him any permanent relief. ‘A physician In he once ordered at Very’s for himself London,’ he said, ‘asked me why I did alone. One hundred Ostend oysters, not make an attempt to be cured near twelve mutton cutlets, a duck, a pair of er home. 1 thought on my way out roast partridges, a sole a la Normandie, west 1 would stop over to see you.’ Do You Dallrve In GI iom I h I without counting the hors d’oeuvre, “ ‘Has any physician you have visit On the subject of ghosts the village side dishes and fruits, among which ed looked into your ears?' I asked. is divided. Some people beg tt •• ques “ ‘No,’ was his reply. were some Doyenne jiears, which lie tion by a bold assertion th t “tiler’ “I made an examination of his ears, ben’t slch things, an' them ns sez they swallowed by the dozen, and line wines, sees 'urn on'y thinks ’uni does.” oth coffee and liquors. Balzac himself at removed some wax and a substance ers, more cautious, are of opinion that tributes his ability to accomplish his that appeared to be hardened remnants of cotton wool. I sent him away then “ther' med be gliosles or ther' niedn’t;” herculian labors with so much loss of and told him to come again in a day they had never beheld any themselves, sleep by the immoderate use of coffee. or two. He did so. but they knew folks who had. The author of “ The Human Comedy” “'Well,' he exclaimed, ‘I am cured. The dictum of one hardy skeptic 1« was, in fact, a victim to strong cof How much do I owe you?’ of worth quoting as an example fee and wrote his liest when under its “ ‘About $50,’ I replied. shrewd reasoning: “I dwuu’t believe In “As he drew a check be asked, ‘Did influence. In one of his books Balzac ghostes an' slch,” said he "Why should I, seeln’ I’ve niver sin nothink wusser thus describes the effect of coffee: “The you know when you first examined my nor meself all me life long? I looks at coffee,” he writes, “falls into your ears that you could cure me?' “When I told him that I had a very it this way, ltik'ee, ’If sa be as they be stomach. Immediately everything fair conviction that I could, he said: gone to the right place 'tls snrtln sure starts into action; your ideas begin to ‘Well, you are a blanked fool. You as they wun’t keer to come back year move like Grand Army battalions on should have said to me: "I think 1 can agen. If sa be as they be gone to t'oth the battlefield, and the battle o|>ens. cure you, and I will do so for $10,000 er, they wun't let ’uni come, lll«‘HS Memories arrive at a run, standards fly No cure, no pay.” You would bar ‘ee.’ "—London Spectator. ing; the light cavalry of comparison got your nsiney without a murmur.* “ 'Oh,' I said, ‘if you feel that v breaks into a magnificent gallop; the Moshroomi Are Filling. artillery of logic dashes up and utilim- about it there are several little cli. One virtue of the mushroom that of tentimes is not realized by its cham bers; thoughts come running up as ties in which 1 am Interested, and’- “ ‘No, no,’ he interrupted, 'that is i pions even is its nutritive qualities, for sharpshooters; characters spring up on It is often considered tit only for a • »»» all sides; the pajier becomes covered business. I have my cure, and y< have the price you asked. The fraiin sauce or a side dish. Recently I ate "It sounds lovely to say, ‘I’m pick witli ink, for the struggle has begun action is closed.’ ” dinner with n friend who is a bon vl vant and gifted with an abnormally ing violets for a living,’ ” said one of and ends in torrents of black water like Urge appetite. To my surprise, he or the pickers, “but it is a very long way the battle in black powder.” lira» In F.n«l«nd In Chaucer’« Time. dered nothing but mushrooms, bread from being as nice as it sounds. No A metal resembling brass, but said London’s Undermined Houses. and butter and. of c urse, drinkables. matter how foggy and how windy’ and to have been superior in quality, was We had mushroom« raw stewed, fried Underground London is, no doubt, a known in England as “maslin” as early disagreeable it is, the violets must and broiled on toast It was my first very convenient, picturesque, and, as the time of Chaucer, and in the lie picked. I wear rubber toots and experience, but I found them excel when properly confined in tulies, safe reign of Henry VIII. an act of parlia lent. I certainly thought they would dress as warmly as I can, but I’m enough place, but too much of it be ment was passed prohibiting the ex not "stay by me;” but. to my surprise, nearly frozen half the time. Theground port of brass out of England. Whether comes awkward. An underground city for many hours afterward I had as is damp all the time, and you must the earlier monumental brasses still to might prove too much even for the complete a sense of fullness as rare bend over these beds the whole day be found In our churches were made roast beef . r Juicy steak ever Impart long. It is pick, pick, pick, and it al Lord Mayor and tiie Court of Alder originally in England is not absolutely ed.—New V« rk Telegram ways reminds me of Hood’s ‘Hong of men. And yet a strong disposition ap certain, the probability, according to pears to have seized certain parts of the some antiquaries, being that they were the Shirt:’ “square mile” to get down below, pro of French or Belgian workmanship.— Stitch, stitch, stitch, bably to escape the cold, and they are Chambers’ JournaL Seam and gusset and band, Band and gusset and seam. consequently cracking in an ominous Catarrh. In fact, It is worse, for this everlasting way. Uneasiness prevails among prop People who are subject to catarrhal picking frequently leaves you with a erty owners on both sides of Finsbury ailments have special need to be partic stitch in your side that is a near rela pavement, owing to gaping Assures ular in regard to their feet covering. tive to pleurisy. To be sure, we are not which have appeared in many large They should see to it that their feet cooped up in some small cheerless room, business premises. Ground floors, up are comfortably clad, their shoes but we have the pure, fresh air. In per floors ami basements have alike should have substantial soles and should come well up the ankles and that we may lie better off; but still, suffered, and in several instances the qot be laced or buttoned tight. Light picking violets is a hard task. We cracks are said to tie most serious. Many merino stockings or half hose may be come in with aching backs and feet. of the properties have lieen recently sufficient for warmth, but whenever by Some of us sutler terribly with chil surveyed, and reports are being drawn reason of much exercise the feet have A rgo blains as well, and what a torture it is up in regard thereto. It is supjiosed become damp, and especially If the to keep going when there is never a tiiat new excavations are responsible leather has absorbed wet, it 1» wise for a change to be made in both stockings minute of rest from the agony. If you for this disquieting instability. and shoes. ever had chilblains you know there is There me between 1,500.000 mid no fun in it. Our hands have to suffer After Pickett’s charge had failed at It All Depend«. 2,000.000 brand.i of cigars sold in this A student long ago asked the presi from chilblains, too, and much of the Gettysburg General Lee used these country, and your average smoker words which showed tiie nobility of his dent of Oberlin college if he could not thinks that every brand means a differ time they are cracked and bleeding and nature: "It was all my fault; get to be permitted to take a shorter course are always rough and chapped. We ent kind of tobacco As a matter of gether and let us do the best we can to of study. fact 150 Is an outside estimate of the are not lieauties when we come in from “Oh, yes.” replied the president, “but different kinds of tobacco that can be the violet field on these raw, foggy ward saving what is left of us.” There that depends upon what you want to was no putting the blame on someone procured from all sources, mid even ex days, with red noses, fairly shivering make of yourself. When God wants to perts can't tell some of these apart. with the cold and all your joints stiff' else in these now historic words. make an oak, he takes a hundred years, but when he wants to make a and aching. Of course, we have our All Over Attain. Help a struggling loy when you can, squash he takes six month«.” —In "Here nre half n dozer, prescriptions good days, too. These are the warm, and moreso aid a girl who is trying to structor. I would like to have you till ns soon ns balmy spring days, when all nature is crying for you to get out and enjoy the make her way in life. This is practical you can." wheezed Rivers. Luft the House. “I can see they nre all for the cure pure air. Then it is really pleasant religion of the Godliest kind. “Leave the house,” cried little Binks. of n cold." remarked the druggist, look picking violets if it wasn't for the tire- making n brave bluff of strength to the Hcheming mother« often regret the Ing them over some and lowly position you must au «ale they made of their daughter«, for burglar. “It’s this way." explained Rivers sunie and keep if you propose to make "I intend to. my small friend," re wealth is a fleeting relative. “When I had the other cold. I tried all plied the burglar courteously. "I am anything picking violets, You don ’t these. One of ’em cured me. but I merely after the contents. When I Home men growl ho much that their take houses. I do It through the regu can't remember now, confound it. have to hunt for the blossoms, either, for on these warm, balmy days they mouthHgrow into a growly shape. Hee lar real estate channels.” which one it was!”—Chicago Tribune. are peeping at you from all sides and on if you don’t know one or two. Iler Bpchlon. long stems as if inviting you to pick Hooked. “Whatever my «laughter decides them. Where do they all go to? you Editor» are men, not machine«. They Mrs. Newly wed—The night you pro upon, sir. I will abide by.” ask. Why, most of them to the florists, need bread and raiment and some rent. posed yon acted like a fish out of wa “Good! She has decided that »he for weddings, funerals and parties. We ter. will marry me If you will supply the Success often bring« un enemies as sent thousands the other day to a florist Mr. Newlywed—I was and very means.”-Detroit Free Press. cleverly landeil too!—Puck. to lie use<l in a pall which was intended well as dollar« and fame. How would you like to pick violets for a living? It sounds like it would be the most congenial way of earning a livelihood that a lover of the fragrant modest little flower could wish. The violets that are grown for the floral trade are not in keeping with that old and popular poem that nearly every little girl has some time in her life com mitted to memory, "Down in a green and shady dell a 'modest violet grew,” etc. Far from it. The dell doesn’t fig ure at all, but whole fields are devoted to the culture of these popular little floral treasures. They are not growu in the shade either, but in rows, right out in the sun, just like a strawberry patch It is a perfect delight to pass these vio let fields, for they are one mass of royal purple and green and blue and green or white and green, as the case may be. They are never planted together, for the competent florist knows how quick ly one variety can run another out. If they do not know it does not take them long to learn from experience, and often to their sorrow. As the cars whirl you by these violet fields you catch the de licious fragrance of the countless blos soms and you watch the dozen« of pickers with a great deal of interest possibly mingled with a degree of envy as they cull the long-stemmed violets that you crave right from the garden, and you long to pick them yourself. They are so plentiful that it carries you back to the days when you roamed over the hillside picking their first cousins, the little wild johnny-jump- ups, golden as the sun, with their black or seal-brown hearts. The pickers never glance in your direction. They are picking for the money and not for the glory or pleasure of gathering the violets, and every minute count. If they would earn their dollar or dollar and a half a day, as the case may be, they must make their fingers fly. CHOICE MISCELLANY MAKING BONELESS HAMS. "Why Is It.” asked a modest young breadwinner, "that when I stay at the office after hours to voluntarily do an extra amount of work somebody who 1« in charge pounces upon me as his Justifiable victim and gives me still more to do? "That has happened to me time after time in my business, und at each repe tition I have taken a vow that If I am ever in charge of an office I shall give any one of uiy subordinate who sits down and does work which isn’t specif ically required of him credit for what he does do and let It go at that, with out adding insult to injury, as it were, by giving him something further to do. "Of course it's an old saying that the man who docs the inoat work is the man usually worked;’ but It's discour aging. don't you think? Strangely enough, though, lie goes ahead and lets himself lie ’worked.' with only a weak objection to case Ills feelings.”—New York Mail mid Express. Fly Flshlnir. There is no doubt that certain flies nre liest adapted to different seasons, times of day and conditions of weath er. but a dozen flies of different names will fully answer ull of these require ments. An angler's flies resemble noth ing when «-list upon the water. They are simply a something which attracts the trout, Chlor has more allurement than form, and as there 41 re not so many color- there is no use for many flies. The general rule Is for light flies on dark «lays and dark or darkish flies on ligiit days. Sizes are more to be eonsldired Hinn form and mixture In makeup A large trout wants some thing wortl. his making an effort to se em e. It is doubtless true that an ar bitrary cm: of Illes cannot be made up which will la- adapted to all waters. A Common Dilemma. “How do yoil like y nr i:ew cook?" “Exer so much, but I'm afraid to let her 1.1»,. w it.” "Why?” "She'd want more wages." "Then why don't you appear dissatis fied?” “Because then she'd leave."—Cleve land Plain Denier. v nnwerea, "If a ship." bi gmi Hie comedian with the rose timed heal'd, "is IUO feel long and -lu feel wide aud its It « are 100 feet high and Hie I o'suil is owlegged, what does the csipsimi weigh?" "It weighs lhe anchor!" hoarsely shouted lhe audience ns it grubbed the benches I k prevent itself rising en masse and doing violence to the thes pians.-r Baltimore American. Oriental H«»r»enhoe«. The iy|«’ of horsesl-oe eomtnon lit the orient is .a plate fitted so as to cover the entire bottom of the hoof, with a perforation in the center. The weight of the average horseshoe Is three- fourths of a pound. Th«’ native smiths usually cut these plates from sheets of wrought Iron and rudely shape them for the purpose in view. Tai Tai. "The word ’reviver' spells the same backward or forward." It was the frivolous man who spoke. “Can you think of a not her?" The serious man scowled up from his newspaper. "Tut tut!" he cried contemptuously. And they rode on in silence. Auallril. A HUMAN FOREST. Hon Indian Trltiomrn Sncceed Escaping lhe Police. la HARD TO GET STARTED. Thing* Which Overcome a Writer Wh en Ueglimlng an .Article. Wasps In War. Richard Harding Davis relates this Incident, which happened while he was acting as correspondent during the English-Boer war: A regiment of Scottish highlanders noted for their bravery in action dur ing tiie heat of one battle were sudden ly seen to break ranks aud run in all directions. The officers as well shared in the Btampede and apparently made <10 attempts to urge the men under them Into line. Their behavior was a surprise to everybody on the field, and after the battle was over the colonel of the regiment was summoned before General Roberts. "What tiie devil was the matter with your regiment?" asked “Bobs.” “Well,” replied the colonel, "there is not a man in the regiment afraid of a Dutchman's bullet, but we were steer ed Into a field literally infested with wasps’ nests, und. you know, general, we were all in kilts and with bare legs.”—New York Times. An Iced Klver In May. It was the Sth of May last year be fore the ice Jam In the great lakes was broken and marine traffic was resumed. At the lower end of Lake Huron it Is estimated that the Ice was fifteen tulles across and extended uubrokett to the foot of the lake. It was a strange scene tbut greeted the dwellers along tiie St. Clair rivet during thia Ice Jam, and every day the electric line of cars running be tween Detroit and Port Huron took out loads of excursionists to see the sight. The banks of the river were green with grass, and tiie foliage made the landscape charming. Yet the rivet itself was one great mass of crystal hummocks and resembled a glucicr. Meanwhile the women, In summei dresses and with sunshades, gazed anil gossiped on the silent crafts In mid stream that were held by the ice. Al night when the boats were Illuminated it was a fairy scene on the ice.— World's Work. Attained Their Object. An English literary man who bud taken a run through our western cities told an American friend after coming back to Cambridge that a social expe rience he had in Chicago staggered him a bit. He was invited to make one of a large party at an evening function. Not exactly understanding the peculiar nature of the occasion, he made bold to ask a gentleman of his acquaintance whom he met In the dressing room the object of the dinner. "The object of the dinner.” return««! the gentleman addressed, "is to get drunk and to get drunk quick.” “And I think It is only fair and proper.” explained the Eng lishman In telling the story, “to say Hint this specific object was must sat isfactory and expeditiously attained." What He Failed to Make. The original John Jacob Astor was asked one day what was the largest amount of money be bail ever made la one transaction. This he declined to Cheap at the Price. answer, but said he would tell the lar A certain pompous and officious Judge gest sum that he failed to make. Then in a western town had Just fined a lie went on to relate bow he. De Witt young lawyer $10 for contempt of Clinton and Gouverneur Morris had court. After it had been paid a grave pin lined to buy Louisiana from France old attorney walked up to the bench and to soil it to the United States gov and laid down a ten dollar goldplece. ernment, retaining the public domain “What is that for?" asked the Judge. and charging 2H per cent commission. "For contempt, your honor.” was the They changed their minds, and Mr. As reply. tor said that lie lost $30,000,000 by full "But I didn't fine you for contempt." ing to go Into the ileal. answered the Judge. "There must be some mistake.” Bird« Witboat Brain«. “Oh, no, there isn’t,” replied the old It is a very common idea that if the man. “1 have cherished a secret con brain of an animui is completely de tempt for this court for a long time, ■troyed it will die or if It lives it re and I’m willing to pay for it"—Chica mains in a "comatose” condition. An Ingenious German lias cut out some go News. pigeons' brains with care, given tiie Weepin* Tree«. wound time to hen I and shown that tiie The literature of "weeping treys” Is birds can run al’Sut, fly, measure a dis enormous, much of It being plainly tance. ent, go to sleep in the dark, mythical, but there is a large basis of wake up with the light and in fine dj fact upon which most of these mar most of the tilings 11 healthy normal velous stories rest. Many travelers pigeon can do. Only memory und the nave described the famous “rain tree” mating Impulses are quite goue. of Padradoca, Isle of Ferro. John Harper's Weekly. Cockburn in 1739 described a tree at Vera Pas, Central America, from New York Hotel«. which pure water continually dripped An idea of the abundance of bo >-l from every leaf and branch. accommodations in New York may lie had front tile statement of the presi Grief and Thrift. dent of the New York Hotel Men’s as- Thomas Bailey Aldrich once received sociatlon thnt New York has become a pathetic letter in a feminine hand an tiie greatest hotel center In the work! nouncing the death of a little daughter It has more hotels than London, Paris and asking if he would not send In his and Berlin combined. There are twice own handwriting a verse or two from as many hotels in New York today as "Bable Bell” to assuage the grief of there were a year ago, and they are the household. being put up by the dozen, by tiie Aldrich sent the whole poem and not score, by the hundreds, and they are long after saw it displayed in the shop reckoned the bent investment there is of an autograph dealer, with a good, going. round price attached thereto. Quite Proper. “I’m thinking of sending my little girl to the conservatory,” said the wo man next door. “All those lunes you hear her playing she picked up by ear.” "Then she ought to be,” replied Mrs. Kostique. "Ought to be sent, you mean?” Rrasawred. "No; picked up by the ear.” He—I’ve tried my bost not to make love lo you. Isaac 8. Taylor of 8t. Louie proposes She—Well, you know what Browning to make midair observations In a bal says- that the only true success Is con loon of the conetruction work on the stant failure. Lxeliang«. world’s fair eite in that city. First Neighbor- I am afraid my chil dren bother yon. Second N«iglil>«>r What nonsense! Why. they are not over to my bouse more than eighteen hours out of the twenty-four! The Extent of Our Rnllronds. From a little wooden track line along the Laekawuxen creek, where the first locomotive in the country had its trial In 1829. the railroad systems of the United States have grown in seventy- three years to a network of rails which, straightened out. would make a single track extending eight times around the world. Visualize this eightfold girdle Beside it a new track is progressing twelve miles a day on the ninth circuit. On every five mile stretch is a locomo tive with a train of eight cars. There are live men at work for every mile and 240 new men coming to work ev ery day. The road carries more ton nage than all the ships on all the seas together with the railroads of the busiest half of Europe. From the lines that make up the imaginary manifold belt one wage earner out of every tif teen in the country, directly or Indi rectly, secures a living for himself and his dependents, if not a« a fireman or a conductor or a superintendent, then as a locomotive builder or a steel worker or even one of the lumbermen engaged in hewing down the 3,000 square miles of timber employed every year for ties. —World's Work. Considerate. A tender hearted youth was once present at an Oxford supper, where the fathers of those assembled were being roundly abused for their parsi mony in supplying the demands of their sons. At last, after having long kept offence, he lifted up his voice in mild protest. "After all, gentlemen.” he said, "let us remember that they ur« our fellow creatures.” Many a man goes around looking for trouble, and the minute be meets It he has a burry call in anothor direction.— Chicago Naw a. J