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Nou 1 speak French—that is, the French of the stranger hilt I could uo utore follow the conversation than 1 could follow the debate of an Indian council. The drinks were ordered, aud Charlie drank half a hand's width of absinth as If it were the lightest French wiue, and the older man meas ured glasses with him. 1 observed them as if they were characters iu a play. I even studied the reflection of the back of Verlaine's bead in the mir ror a great bead, broad and noble. At last 1 caught the substance of their talk. 1 am neither squeamish nor old fashioned, but 1 declare, upon my soul, i shuddered. I could stand It no longer. "Are we dining together?" I Inter rupted, pulling my friend by the elbow. "I’m beastly hungry.” 1 feared Cummings was about to make some rude remark, but he check ed himself. "Of course." he said. “Come.” Verlaine arose, lie bowed politely to Charlie, as If somehow the latter bad obtained command of his respect. 1 was forgotten In the parting, at wbfcb I much rejoiced. "You are very chummy,” 1 said to Charlie as we seated ourselves at a table. “Well.” he said In answer, "to me be touches Ids hat. although they call him 'master.' You see. 1 told him a story once.” I knew well if 1 showed my curiosity I would defeat myself, so I began to talk about old times. We drank cham pagne with our meals and afterward brandy, such brandy as you can get nowhere else except at this particular life. It was smooth as the purest olive 111, but it produced a fever that cashed ■»skin as might incipient p -on. I touched It sparingly, but if It bad been the last bottle on earth and Charlie tlie thirstiest man be could not have gone •bout It with more tierce delight. His tongue was gradually loosened, tnd before we had lit our cigars be was rambling slightly, jumping from one subject to another. Carefully 1 sought to bring him back to the last days iu New York, but without success. He parried all my attempts with skill, and I gave It up at last and pushed back from the table. Then Charlie looked up at me over his coffee cup. "Did you ever see a man guillotined?” be asked suddenly, apropos of nothing. “No, but I was a surgeon witness at an electrical killing at Dannemora." I returned. “I say, tell me about it,” Charlie put in eagerly. "Fve been to all the execu tions here." He called at least six off on his fingers. I bad seldom talked on this subject, but Charlie’s Interest appeared so ear neBt that I began. I described the process of placing the electrodes, strapping the arms and feet, testing the current, and so forth, and as 1 looked across the table I saw that Cummings bad assumed the position of the victim Iu the great wooden chair, his head thrown back, bis muscles stiff ened. tiie Jaw dropped and the eyes be neath the half lowered lids shifting from side to side. It was quite horrible. At last I stopped, leaned over and •hook him. "Enough of this grewsomeness! Come, talk of yourself,” I said. .He aroused and. leaning both elbow? on the table, spoke In a low voice, half inarticulate. “If you'll listen and afterward for get, I'll tell you a little tale. It may lie strange or new or old. It may amuse you. Think what you choose, you know. But one thing, don't Interrupt or make comment. Promise me?" I nodded. “You know, after I left college," Charlie went on. "I tried to settle down.” It might be fair to state I had not known this. Then followed a silence of a minute. Charlie rested his face In his bauds and placed the tips of his little fingers over bis sunken eyes. At last lie spoke again. I had to lean forward to catch what he was saying. "1 was very fond of my brother. We were much alike, save the speech—I mean In feature—and when I heard that lie had been murdered, damna bly murdered. I could not sleep. 1 drank for it. My arms from wrist to elbow were soared with the markings of the needle. I ran the gamut—co calne. laudanum, morphine. One day 1 awoke, so to speak. In a hospital. 1 was strapped down, much as the man you were telling me about Just now. I staid there for some time and slowly regained my strength. You see,” said Charlie parenthetically, and 1 was afraid be bad side tracked Ills Ideas, "my"will hns never left me. I could start tomorrow and sit with a fishing rod In my hands on the banka of tin Seine, a bottle of cold ten beside me for the rest of my life. Man. I could do it and never touch a thing but bread and cheese. I could live in a tub If I made up my mind to do It. Well, listen. I determined when I left the hospital to give up everything. The doctors told me I must If I wished to I lye— they know little about that." he sneered—“so I went to the Adiron dack». I rowed and paddled ami lived In the woods. I grew strong and keen on life. I built castles to no end. I Imagined returning and showing people what I could do. For six months 1 touched nothing In the way of stimu lants. I had put morphine away for ever. I wish now to God I had not.” “Well”—Charlie was speaking slow er now and breathing harder—“! re turned to town. It was late In the spring or, better, early summer. I went to my hotel, lou know the one I mean.” Indeed I remembered It and how often we bad sat there on our col lege vacations anil watched those won derful nymphs trying to draw the sun browned satyr down Into the water. “It was a beautiful day. and I went up in my room to dress. 1 had not had • black coat on my back for months. I observed in the glass that 1 was look ing very well, and suddenly It crossed my mind that my abstinence on drink — It was not a pledge, you know—was up this very day. 1 rang for a cocktail. It tingled me to the end of my fingers, and so I toe', number and another and n fourth D.-nny. when I stepped out on tlie sidewalk I ow ned the world ami would have given half of It for one kindred spirit who would understand my mood I went into Delmonico'a, hoping to find a familiar face. No one was there but some fools gabbling In the corner. I 1- nged for some place In the fresh air. but longed still more for some one to talk to. to rhapsodize at. for 1 was alive from pulse to brain. ‘The Claremont!' I thought, and I went outside. The driver of a hansom cab held up an interrogating finger.” I wondered If Charlie bad borrowed this from Walt Whitman, "lie had a nice horse and n nice trap. 1 called him across. •The Claremont, up the river.’ said I. “As we drove up Broadway 1 owned it all We passed under the elevated, and as I looked out 1 saw a figure standing at a corner”— Charlie had now begun to talk through his teeth and merely with a movement of his lips. He was breath ing hard. "It was a tall woman In sheeny gray silk. I leaned forward and looked out the corner of the window. She bowed, or 1 bowed first, I forget which. Well, you know, It was about time that 1 had got over boy’s foolish ness. But why not? I threw open the little trapdoor In the roof of the cab with my stick. 'Stop,’ said I. The driv er drew tip to the curb. Strange to say, as I came down the sidewalk, waiting to get my cue. you know, the woman stepped to meet me. ’Ab, Mr. Cum tilings.' she said, with a slightly for eign accent “ 'Pou my word. 1 was kuocked al most off my feet. There was nothing for it. however, but to pretend that I had known her. “It was the same old stereotyped way: •Haven't seen you for some time. Where have you been?’ ‘Will you ever forget the last time,’ etc.—noncommit tal phrases, word fencing and all that, you know—rank nonsense. "Well, the upshot of it was 1 asked her point blank to have dinner wftb me. She laughed, accepted, and in a minute we were up the avenue. Let me give you a hint of what she looked like, old chap. You may have read about it." 1 said nothing. "Her face was as clear as wax, without a bit of color. Her eyebrows were straight and narrow, and her hair rose from lier white forehead as even as a char coal line. Her eyes were so pale that the black dots of her pupils could be seen a dozen feet away, but her Ups were as red as blood. Blood!” be re peated. “She was the strangest and thai little crease across It beneath tlie chin Her head was on my shoulder or, better, ou my chest. What per fume It was in my nostrils I could not fathom. She was making a strange ebittering sound, attractive, but like the noise of some beast or. maybe, bird and yet like laugbiug. "We passed by an electric light. It flashed for an instant through the cab window, and 1 saw wbat made me al most die as I »at there. There was something gleaming at my chest. She held a narrow bit of steel grasped in her right band! "Have you ever seeu a me.hanlc tit a plunger in Its place? Slie was ad Justing the point above my heart with her fiugers! At once the murder of my brother came to my mind, the stub wound and the story of the woman, all the horrid scandal It was so hard to hush. I was strong. My months of paddling on the lakes had given me a grip, I moved softly and -lowly. ltais Ing both my hands. I caught her by the throat. She made a strike at me, ami something Jingled at my feet. I could feel my fingers sink under her flesh. It rose under my nails. They almost met. She struggled strongly, but not a sound did she utter, nor did I. I held her there until everything went black and I was so tired that my arms ached from thumb to shoulder, ami I flung her back, dead, dead! Do you hear me -dead!” Cummings was panting so bard I feared some sudden trouble with bis heart. But I remembered It now—the strange woman found murdered In a four wheeler, the half drunken driver the mysterious uinner party of two at the Claremont, the man who dlsap peared. the ten days’ mystery. But I remembered nothing of the finding of a knife. A man's silver watch chain was found on the floor of the cab, how ever, and a roll of bills. No motive had been assigned for ths* crime, ami the woman had been traced to a hotel frequented by foreigners She was known to the police for various rea sons. pocket picking among them, and the reporters had described her as be- Ing beautiful. That was all I recol lected. Charlie had poured himself out a co pious drink of the smooth brandy. "The rest is easy.” lie said, as If re lieved at getting over that part of the recital and yet speaking Intensely. "I opened tlie door of the old rattletrap softly and got out on the run. The next day 1 sailed for Europe. There you have it." “What do you think?” said I. "Think!” repeated ho. “I don't wish to think. You see”—he lowered his voice- ”1 love her yet. Curse it. man, she rises between me and all other wo men! Verlaine thinks me an Immor tal.” I looked at hint again. He had taken the position in tlie chair which he had held when I had told him my own grewsome story. Somehow 1 was feel ing s<> uncomfortable that I could not stand it longer. 1 began to gather up my hat and cloak. Charlie watched me without a movement or sound, and without speaking to him again 1 walk ed sway. The pretty cashier as 1 passed the desk looked at me curiously and then back at the silent figure at the table. "Is he a poet, your friend?” she ask ed. I glanced back into the room. "Yes. maijame," 1 answered. "He dreams." Auclcat Chinese Bridges. Ilf ¡lined together at a little table in the corner. most beautiful thing alive. God! Ye», she was. "Well, do my best, I could not find out how she knew my name. I grew serious, but she laughed that off. Then I grew interested. 1 could have sworn that 1 bad never met her, you see. Suddenly she turned to me and spoke In French, and. although there were a few conversational hitches, we talked on In that language*. She was clever, she was bright, she was uucommon- plnce. and Insensibly she made me keep my distance. At last we stopped at the frame house on the hill overlooking the Hudson. There were a number of cabs and carriages waiting. The ver anda was filled with well dressed peo ple. Wine was being opened. Silks and satins ami bad English—you know that set. "We dined together at a little table In the corner. If ever a man made love. 1 diil. I didn't know myself. I was swept away. Den. I believe I scintillated. 1 could see nothing but gray eyes looking at me across the cloth. I could heat nothing but the low purring laugh and the caressing tones of her answers. My heart beat so rast 1 almost smothered. 1 was wild—crazy, If you like. Sudden ly I noticed she had gone light on the wine 1 had ordered. The bottom of my own glass bad seemed to go farther and farther away. The bubbles would rise at me and seethe as if they played a little tunc of pleasure. Never had I felt so In my life. I was the hero of a fairy tale. Life was great and grand and given to enjoy. A river steamboat swept up against the dark shadow of the Palisades. It gleamed like a great opal. I felt that 1 could have waved my hand and stopped It; that she and I could have gone on board and sailed away to some country wnere t name paused—“where there never was a hell.” he added. “Now follow. We came to go. and 1 had paid my bill. She had laughed at all my attempts to find out who she was. I was In despair, and yet I had the sensation that there were only two persons on earth, that woman and my self, and what should we care for the rest? It was late. I had dismissed the hansom, and nothing but a solitary four wheeler stood In the driveway near the shed. I called the man to me, and we got Inside, and there I told her how 1 loved her; there I asked this creature that four hours before 1 bad never seen, whom I did not know—this sphinx-this” he stopped -"tills God. I know not what—to marry me. as If she'd been a princess whom I'd served. 1 asked It. Her only answer was a sound I could not distinctly understand, hut she allowed me to put my arm about her shoulders; she allowed me to kiss her upon tlie lips! 1 was crazy mad. wild, and yet. I thought, victorious. Ob. bow I lived In that one moment! "I had noticed what a lovely throat and neck she had. round and full, with Suspension bridges which were built In the time of the Han dynasty (202 B. C. to 220 A. I>.) are still standing, strik ing examples of oriental engineering skill. According to historical and geo graphical writers of China, it was Sitting Lietig. Kaen T sii ' s chief of com mand. who undertook to construct the first public roads In the flowery em pire. At Hint time it wits almost Im possible for the province of Shense to communicate with tlie capital. Lleng took tin army of 10,000 workmen and cut great gorges through the moun tains. tilling up the canyons and val leys with the debris from his excava lions. At places where deep gorges wire traversed by large and rapidly flowing streams he actually carried out his plan of throwing suspension bridges, stretching from one slope to the other. These crossings, appropriately styled “flying bridges" by early Chinese writ ers. are high and dangerous looking In th» extreme. At the present day a bridge may still be seen In the Shense which is -too feet long and is stretched over a chasm more than 1,000 feet deep. How those early engineers erect ed such a structure with the tools and appliances at their command is a mys tery which will probably never be ex plained. Humor nt St. Peter's. You would not look In St. Teter's for a practical Joke, but one was perpetrat ed by the unknown artist that carved the tomb of Pope Innocent XII., who reigned from 1091 to 1700. His family name was Pigmatella. which is the Italian for a small Jug, aud the artist has introduced tiny Jugs at every op portunity among the embelishments. Tlie toe of the famous bronze statue of St. Peter has been worn away by the kisses of the faithful, which prac tice has given rise to the absurd but widely believed idea that pilgrims kiss tlie actual toe of the living pope. It is tlie ugliest tiling in St. Peter's. The figure is of rude workmanship, and one is ready to believe the story that it was never intended for St. Peter at all. but is an old statue of Jupiter Capitolinas unearthed in excavations of the six teenth century. The church authorities admit tluit it was cast from tlie bronze of it pagan statue, but claim that it was always Intended for St. Peter.-Rome Letter in Chicago Record-Herald. A Lunatic's ISvIcr. Mr. Lionel Brough once played a game of billiards in an asylum with one of the patients. He conceded Ills adversary twenty-five points, with the result that lie was hopelessly beaten. Then the patient took hint quietly on one side and said: “Look here! If you go on giving ]>oints so recklessly as that you'll •■e in this nsvliun instead of me’” The London t'liroulcle quotes a naval officer as saying that during the war of 1812 the British admiralty sent out to Kingston. Canada, where the British fleet was then stationed, a large num ber of water casks in the belief that Lake Ontario was a salt water lake. BREAD AND BRIDES. ¡HEALTH VERSUS STRENGTH A Gaod siomaeh 1» Worth More t han Mast-alar Powar. THE VAGARIES OF THE TIDES. Cnrlnn« < nrrenta In lh« Ocean mid II« Oifalmota. BLAKt, MOFFin & TOWNt importers aud Dealers in Book, N«w«, Writing and Wrapping... OARD STOCK PARTS VIANDS PLAY IN MAR There are as many vagaries In the Tile strong man was doing some of RIAGE CEREMONIES. STRAW AND HINDERS’ BOARD his most sensational "stunt*.” Evi waters as in Hie winds. Why. for in 33-07-39-61 Fl mt St. dently his performance was free from stance. should three great ocean cur Tat. main !••. 15 SAN FRANGIMO» Swrelloarl Cakes ot H Hatch llaiu- trick-ry. The muscles spoke for that, rents send Hielr warm waters across sel — t-:<>-|,t la ii Hrldcsrooma Mast and there were case and enjoyment in the wide Pacific, Atlantic and around the Cape of Good llo|ie? The1"# have Work For Their Supper— Wine la all his movements. Chinn—Vlnrrleil by Canity. hat a splendid fellow!" exclaimed been many theories advanced to solie Hie problem of their origin, hut all The important part which different a college student In u front row to tils have proved fallacious. Other and viands play Iu marriage ceremonies older companion. "I'd give all I ex equally mysieriolis currents exist ill pect ever to know of the classic» In ex makes rather an interesting story. change for Hint physique. Just think well nigh all parts of the world. The For example, tlie Swedish bride fills what It means unlimited endurance lides are so erratic in different parts of her [locket witli bread, which she dis and strength. With that and a fair lha world Hint one hesitates to accept Intervlow With Edward Short penses to every one she meets on her share of brains, there Isn't anything a tin- tlieori that Hie moon controls them of the Han Francisco Call. in all cases. way to church, every piece she gives mail couldn't accomplish.” It is on record that the sea has run away averting, as she believes, a mis The older man smiled nt the young for weeks out of the Java sea through ster's enthusiasm. fortune. Mr Edward Short, euunecteil with the bust “You're doing very veil as It is." he the str;i i of Sumía and thence back On tlie threshold of her new home a lignin i* t . like period without any |>er- cess department of the Sun Francisco Cult said. "The battle may generally be to bride iu Senia Is presented with a ceptilile rise or fall during those times. interviewed: plate of bonbons, one of w hich she and the strong and skillful, but it isn't Just Then then, is the equatorial current Q —You are reported to have been cured oi muscular strength that counts To tell diabetes! the bridegroom share between them, that flows into tlie Caribbean sen. tlie A —That I m right the divided bonbon signifying that no you the truth, you've Inherited some ever flowing current to the eastward Q — Ara you sure it was d la bo tea! bitterness »hall divide them. A sieve thing that is worth more to you than around < ape Horn, tlie cold stream A.—1 was rejected for insurance, and later of wheat corn is also given to the bride. all the mere muscle you could |>ut on In tie.-,ng friiiii Hie Icy region* of the failing rapidly, our physician told me I had diabetes and to put my affairs in shape Of this she takes? three handfuls, a lifetime. I mean your stomach." q — iiai - nun .’ than one pttynfeinn! "Yes, of course; that’s important, north i- -t Newfoundland and Nova throws It over her head, emptying the A — Yes I had another contlrm it. He, too. > ■ ,i , nd along the American coast but ” said I could not live long I bad dropped from sieve ii|sin the ground. The scattered lo ihe exit -me end of Florida, the con 211) to 13.’» pounds ant! was very wm. A neigh "It's everything, my boy. Now. sup corn denotes that tlie bride firings Joy bor toll! me of the Fulton Compound tinual einient running witli a velocity Q How long did you have to take it! and prosperity Into her new home. The pose I should tell you that that big fel of Ironi lour to tile knots an hour A — About a year before I was perfectly well bride is still outside tlie door, nor can low up there is In greater danger of col through the strait of Gibraltar into Q —Did y<»ur ph.\ sieians then test for sucar? lapse than you are likely to be if you A Both dkl. Both reported normal They she enter until she Inis placed two the Me. terrain-ini sea. the swift cur were very greatly surprised at my recovery, for Ionics of bread beneath her arms and take fair care of yourself and exercise lout running across tlie rocks and they had told me diabetes was incurable Q —Know of any other cures? taken a bottle of wine Into her hands. In moderation." shoals nil' the end of Billiton island, A —Several 1 told my friend, William Mar “How is that possible? He is the pic With these emblems she at length tin, an S 1’. conductor of Stockton, .»bout it. which apparently starts from nowhere He hail diabetes, and was about to give up his crosses the threshold of her future ture of health and strength.” and ends somewhere in the vicinity of position when I told him. He gut tliesamere "And what do you say to this fel home. At tlie first meal of the newly well when Killed a year or the same place, and the current which, stills I did. aud married pair bread and wine must lie low?” asked the physician, drawing a starting half way it|> the China sea, no Q. later. —Any others? taken by both to denote that theme photograph from his pocket. It was runs from two to three knots an hour A.—I told William Hawkins of the Custom and Captain Hubbard of the barkent intt forward all they have shall lie equally the likeness of an athlete not much the to the northeast and finally ends ab House 8 N. Castle, upon hearing they hud diabetes divided between them and that their physical inferior of the strong man. Both of them were cured. I also told u neigh ruptly off the north eml of Luzon. bor who had dropsy. In a month it wus elim "This chap,” continued the medical married life sluil! be passed in unity Then we have those tidal vagaries inated 1 can’t recollect all I’ve told expert, “came to me for treatment re and fidelity. Q —bid it fail in any case! known the world over as bores. Resi A.—Not one Ji is a positive cure lu Bright’s A Russian wooing culminates in the cently. He needed It. The flesh was dents on Severn side are familiar with Disease and Diabetes Hoover amt see Hup literally falling off him. He was losing kins and ho will tell vou the same thing betrothal feast, at w hich the bride elect them, and those that run up the Hu In return for a long tress of hair which a pound a day. You see, he had sud gh and Irnwaddy rivers from side Medical works agree that Bright’s Disease she has given to the bridegroom re denly collapsed.” to side in a zigzag shape till they reach and Diabetes are Incurable, but M7 percent, am “What was the trouble?" ceives bread and salt ami an almond positive I v recover ng under the Fulton Com their limit, often tearing ships from pounds (Common forms of kidney complaint “Stomach. I'm not telling you any ca kc. their anchorage, originate nobody offer but short resistance.) Price, il for the In Holland if n young man is in love thing new, but It's astonishing how knows where or why. The rush of wa Bright’s bisenHe and fl .»•' for the biubetic ’oiii|M>und. John .1 Fulton Co., I’Jd Montgoui with a girl and wishes to ask her hand much an elemental truth Is overlooked. ters In the hay of Fuudy Is nothing < cry street, San Francisco, sole com|)oundcrs In marriage he buys a small sweet A man is no stronger than his stom but a huge bore »weeping till before It Free tests made for patieuts Deacrlptive pamphlet mailed free. cake and. wrapping it up iu soft paper, ach. up to the head of the bay till the waters "If your stomach Isn't far better than have risen to Hie height of fifty or six proceeds to the house of bis inamorata, lie Is ushered into the midst of Hie that of most Americans, look out! Tills ty feet, off Southampton we have the family circle. Without a word lie patient of mine had changed his food, double tides, while at Singapore It hns ’’LD IDEAS ABOUT GEMS. walks up to tlie young lady and lays and it came near costing him his life. been observed for days at a time that tlie cake on the table before Iter. The So don't be too quick to euvy the strong tin i nas been Imt tlie one rise and Pen r Is Were 'I’ll <> iim lit to Be Dew drop* ( Rughf the Shell. rest of tlie family affect not to notice man, and go ahead with your classics, fall in Hie twenty four hours. The tides The IndlatiH called rock crystal an anything unusual and continue their not forgetting twenty minutes or so a may be and very often appear as work or their reading. Tlie youug man day of well directed exercise.’’—New though liny were “moonstruck,” but "unripe diamond,” mid until tlie begin turns aside and talks to the fattier or York Herald. they certainly are not controlled with ning of the eighteenth century India mot tier on some very < rdinary subject, hnrd ami fust rules by that or any oth wan thought to be the only land which produced Hint precloua stone. It waa keeping Ids eyes eagerly fixed on tlie er lasly London Shipping World. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. not. therefore, until the discovery of girl while lie is conversing, if she ac India that the diamond was known to cepts Ids offer, she takes up tlie cake Onions may be readily transplanted I'rlvHlt* <iH nt bl i lift Iu Ruasla, and eats it. If site is a coquettish if growing too thick. There is a good deal of gambling in us. Yet an far back as 5O0 B C. a “didactic history" of precloua «tones damsel, she tortures the young man by Weeds should not be allowed to grow society in England, but It Is nothing to turning it over and playing with it be- or crusts to form around young fruit what goes on in Russia, says the lam- was written, and in l'liny’s time the aupply must have been plentiful, as he fore she decides to taste it ami then en t rees. don Candid Friend. Yint, preference wrote, “We drink out of a mass of raptures 1dm by eating it to tlie Inst Do not buy any kind of fruit trees and roulette are the principal games. gem», and our drinking vessels are crumb. If, on the other band, she or plants simply because they are The second is tlie most popular iu army formed o' emerald»." We are also told wishes to have nothing more to do cheap. circles, while many ladies of the high that Ner<> aided his weak sight by witli tier admirer, site puts it back on With all transplanting it is important est rank keep roulette tables and have spectacle» made of emeralds. tlie table. Tlie youug man takes up to see that tlie soil is well filled In regular "evenings,” on which play goes But I m very difficult to determine the cake and. witli a "Vaarvoal byza around the roots. on for very high stakes. As is usually whence nil Hie gems came, as discov men,” leaves the house. Tlie matter is the ease at roulette, the bank mostly 1'ritne spurs to one developed bud, erers look care to leave no record. The then kept a profound secret by both wins, and the hostess takes good cure for the nearer the old wood the higher nations who traded in them were families, and tlie outer world never flavored the fruit. to keep the bank. hears of It. In place of a wedding cake One of the 'most notorious of these afraid of their whereabouts being A weak solution of poultry droppings known, aud even the most ancient mer in Holland wedding candies are given private dens is run by two ladles of is a wonderful stimulant of plant chants would not disclose any definite —“brtlld zuikers" they are called. the highest rank and connections. Only growth, it may be used weekly with locale. All sorts of myths have ac- They are passed around by children the tine fleur of the society of St. Pe good effect. cordlngly sprung up concerning the tersburg are admitted, and the entree and are served in flower trimmed lias Only well rotted manure should be origin of gems. “Diamond” was the kets. is eagerly sought. The stakes are high, applied around the grapevines. Fresh the plunging often desperate, and men nanie given to a youth who was turned Bride pudding in tlie name of the manure excites tlie growth, but does into the hardest and most brilliant of have been known to leave these salons piece de resistance served nt a Norse substmiees to [»reserve him from “the not hi a tu re it. in a financial condition which ap peasant wedding. This is not brought Quince trees should be mulched as a proaches ruin. The princesses, howev Ills that flesh is heir to.” Amethyst on the talde until the last day of the was a beautiful nymph beloved by festivities, three or five days being protection against extreme beat and er, make a handsome Income out of the Ba< , bus. hut saved from him by Di cold, as tne roots are small and usually bunk, and no one thinks the worse of given up to feasting and merrymaking. ana. who changed Amethyst into a them. The appearance of the bride pudding near the surface. gem. w hereupon Bacchus turned the In selecting trees to grow as a wind is the signal of dismissal, and at th'* gem into wine color and endowed tha How llluh Cao a Balloon Hlset close of the feast the guests say fare break it is quite an item to have them The altitude that may be attained wearer with the gift of preservation well. presenting at the same time (heir of a close growing habit and of as near ly perpetual foliage as possible, riant by a balloon depends, first, upon its from intoxication. gifts, which consist of cash. This llm The pearl was thought to be a dew size; secondly, upon the tilling of gas, bride receives, the bridegroom present a double row. and, thirdly, upon the weight being drop tlie shell had opened to receive. ing each donor witli a glass of wine. carried. A balloon of ordinary size, Amber was said to be honey melted by Turkish Delight. Partaking of two tiny glasses of wine 43,000 cubic feet, currying the smallest the sun, <lro|»ped Into the sen and con The oriental sweet called “ Turkish is all the ceremony necessary to make gealed. According to Hie Talmud, Noah a marriage In some Chinese provinces, delight" that travelers in the east are weight-that Is, one person when tilled had no light in the ark Imt that which provided a quantity of fireworks are sure to taste Is not difficult to make. with illuminating gas may reach 20,000 eaiue from precious stones.- Gentle feet, but when tilled with hydrogen Have ready an ounce of gelatin, pref •et off. These are to wake the "great man's Magazine. joss” from Ids sleep that lie may wit- ' erably the clear Imported sheet varie 27.000 feet. In order to ascend higher we first of all need a bigger balloon. ty, which has been soaked for two ness the ceremony. The Way of the World. One may say It was ii happy chance At a Hebrew wedding man and wife hours In a very little cold water. Bring Funny world we live in. A man who •Ip from one cup of wine, symbolizing I to a boil iu a porcelain pot a pound of tluit the Royal Meteorological institute has six horses standing idle in a stable participation tn the Joys and pain of granulated sugar and half a cupful of of Berlin was provided with a balloon walked two miles out in the country earthly life. The emptied goblet is cold water, adding the gelatin, and boll of the unusual dimensions of 300.000 on a little matter of business a day or placed on the floor and crushed Into a till tlie mixture dropped in cohl water cubic feet. The German emperor fur two ago. while another man who had thousand pieces by tlie bridegroom, can be belli in the finger. After it lias nislied £500 for making experiments no horses and very little money hired a who thus siiows that lie will put Ids boiled steadily for fifteen minutes add with It, and the Meteorological insti team to go the same distance. This foot on all evils that may enter the the Juice of one lemon and a table- tute decided to make use of this op was an actual occurrence and shows spoonful of brandy. Four to cool in a portunity for studying the highest re family circle. the perversity of human nature. He At an Egyptian wedding feast meat clean tin which has been wet in cold gions of atniosphere. Harper's Mngn- who has the facilities for driving pre la not eaten because of the belief that water, cutting the mixture as it stiffens zine. fers to walk, while he who could much It would lead to future bickerings be into squares like caramels. Each piece better prefer to walk and has no team A Had Way to Feed Hirds, is dusted with powdered sugar or roll tween them. Eggs, fruits and sweets It Is quite a common practice for per goes and hires one. Men are crazy to • re served. The first meal in tlie new ed in waxed paper.—New York Post. sons owning pet birds to teacli them to own a team, and It soon becomes a house cannot be touched until, nfter take bits of sugar or other food liked bore to give the horse necessary exer Xo Proof Necesaary. every device known to the bridegroom, by the bird from the lips. It lias been cise. It has always been thus and. we Colonel C. L. Colquecn of Louisiana the bride has been at last induced to discovered that the trainers of young presume, always will be. •peak. Once she utters a word, he claps was halted on the street one day by a birds In Europe frequently contract in his hands, and supper is brought to gentleman who evidently did not know this way a peculiar parasitic growth on Fffecl of <• ra v 11 at Io a. him. them. If a man weighing twelve stone were the throat and lungs that Is frequently Married by candy Is the [dan in Bur ' “Can you tell me,” asked the un fatal, and a warning has been issued to be transferred to the tnoon, tlie ma. Of all marriage rites this takes known, "who is the best lawyer .: by French physicians which may well «eight of his body, measured at least the palm for conciseness and sweet town ?” be heeded by any one feeding birds by the attraction which the moon "I am, sir,” replied the colonel with simplicity. Here the dusky lady takes would exercise upon it, would be re from mouth to beak. out hesitation. the initiative. Seeing a youth who duced to about two stone. If his mus The man looked surprised. pleases her, she offers him a sweet. If cles and his frame remained the same, A t-sycholoateat Deduction. “Excuse me,” lie said; "1 should like be accepts her proposal, be promptly "My dear,” said tlie wife of the emi It would seem as if he would be able eats the token of affection, and they to have you prove It.” nent professor, "the hens have scratch to jump over a wall twelve feet high "Don’t have to prove it, sir,” thun ed up all that eggplant seed you sow on the small globe without any greater are thereby made man and wife. In the act of eating alone tills most prim dered the colonel; "1 admit it.”—New exertion than would be required to ed.” itive rite consists. If the youth be not York rimes. “Ah, Jealousy,” mused the professor. dear a wall two feet high on the earth. favorably disposed, he remarks with And he sut down and wrote a twenty all gallantry that Hint particular candy Deceived. An Anticipated I'leasare. page article on "The Development of is not to bis taste, and the matter is She—I'd never have married you If Envy In the Minds of the Ixiwer Grade A congressman of Mississippi, after ended. In Mandalay three weeks after you had not deceived me about your- making a speech in opposition to the of Bipeds."—Baltimore American. a marriage kinsmen bring the bride •elf. expensive funerals of congressmen, groom a bowl of rice, a vessel of wine lie-Rather you never would have says he received a letter front a con Fmolloa Wasted. and a fowl, much of which collation is married me had I not deceived myself “It was terrible even to see the vil stituent saying: "When you die, John, sacrificed to the spirits of ancestors. kliout yon.- Boston Transcript. lain die," said the emotional girl at the we won’t ask congress to pay the ex A Bagoda bride—in the Philippines— pense of your funeral. You’ve got melodrama. If she be good looking and the daughter It is well enough to make liny while “Oil. w ell." consoled the old lady, "he enough friends down here, John, to of a warrior, is Bold by her father for .he sun shines, but If there were no would have died anyway. Did you no give you a lespectable burial, and we ■bout $30, which sum Is not given In •alny weather there would be no liny tice how many cigarettes be smoked?" would take pleasure in doing it.” money, but in vegetables and chickens — Exelmilue .o make.-Saturday Evening Post. One way of estimating such things is Whnt Was Scarce. at the price of a brass gong. Such v Once a distinguished Russian grand t he p : - they have in the mint are Every man barked at by a dog is not gong Is worth thirty silver dollars, and miiey making schemes.— duke found himself charged 20 francs it is a valuable maiden indeed who will x tlilef. Every mull talked about by a nearly apiece for hothouse peaches at the old I'll I lad IptiufeBulletin. jossip Is not guilty.—Atchison Globe. bring two brass gongs.—What to Eat. Cafe de I'aris. in the French metropo Diabetes and Bright’s Disease. A Mallcloim Eiponurf. Ont ninnru verrd. Emellne How I should love to over The Lady—Did any one call while I hear the conversation of several highly was out? Intellectual men! The Maid - No. ma'am. Edgar Pooh! I’ve been with them. The Lady—That's very strange. 1 ! They always begin on books, but soon wonder wbat people think I have a ' get to talking about something good to day “at home” for anyway. Indian j eaL—Detroit Free Press. ■polls News. ■ - -------- 3 lllgli«, Janie«! Since the establishment of the gam Ing tables land on tlie Riviera fifty miles from Monaco which was former ly only worth $25 an acre has been •old for tllHKHI nil Scry Teacher James, you must tell where | the Declaration of independence was . signed. ' James—Please, ma'am, at the bottom. -Indianapolis News. So num mho llani. Farmer Jones was awakened by a suspicious noise In bis barnyard, and, going out with a club and lantern, in an angle between the chicken coop and barn he saw a colored neighbor stand lng liolt upright, with his eyes closed. After receiving a sharp blow on his bead the intruder opened Ills eyes. “Where is I?” he asked. "Is dat you, Farmer Jones? I spcct I'ze been walk ing in my sleep again. 1 often does walk in my sleep and Ju»' stand round and dou’t know where I 1»."—New York Herald. Ils. "Are hot house peaches »o scarce, then, even In midwinter?” he asked. “No," replied the maltre d'hote), “but grand dukes are." The Worm. She—Yes, I am sorry I married you; »o there! He Oh! You were glad to get any body, I guess. You were no youug bird when 1 married you. She—No? But, considering woat 1 got, you must admit I was an early bird.— Philsdelohin Pre«»
