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BANDON RECORDER. A Disappointed Darkr. I stood one Saturday afternoon on the porch of a Luray (Va.) hotel and saw tile past a hundred or more dark les returning from work, each and ev ery one of them carrying a “watermfl- lion” under his arm. They had been paid off, and a convenient farm wagon loaded with melons happened to pass as they tiled along, and the darkles all bought. One young buck, after hugging that melon for several blocks, “Just couldn't stand It no longer" and without ado sat down upon the curb, and In the ab sence of a Jackknife he deftly tapped the melon against the edge of the curb until It broke asunder. Mansfield In transforming his Jekyll face into that of Hyde upon the stage never equaled the lightning change of countenance exhibited by that darky. One moment his eyes bulged, bls mouth distorted, teeth glistened, and his face fairly cd with pleasurable expectancy, in the twinkling of an eye when >arted halves of that unripe and e sc ded melon fell from his pal- han<.s his eyes contracted to mere s shov Ing an angry, snakellke red, face became of an ashen hue—call >ale If you will—and through his itly parted lips he hissed out lm- .>ca‘ n after imprecation upon the showing the fact clearly that the disappointed one was a past grand master In the art of profanity.—Forest and Stream. Where Men Kat to Live. The Trappist monks consider eat ing to be a necessary evil and curtail It to such a degree that one step fur ther would be suicide. Dinner, to which scarcely fifteen minutes are de voted, consists of a mess of vegetables boiled In water without butter or salt and served In a crude earthenware bowl, a slice or two of rye bread with out butter and a mug of milk or water as a beverage. Supper is the barest apology for a meal, being nothing more than bread and water. The guest master did not mention breakfast. If there be such a meal, It probably con sists merely of a glass of water. A slight relaxation of this dietary Is al lowed to Invalids, who may have two eggs a day, while on extraordinary oc casions, such as a funeral feast In honor of a departed friar, the monks revel In an egg apiece. They are strict vegetarians, and a Trappist must be In the very Jaws of death before ho will consent to ent meat.—Lippincott’s. Little Mother* lu Jnpnn. Atbougb the empire of Japan Is said to be a “paradise of children," where they are allowed to do very much as they please and where they seldom If ever cry, their life is not all play. The little boys ami girls have their work to do, but in many skillful ways they turn work into play. Take, for Instance, the little girls who have baby sisters or brothers to care for. They tuck the youngsters into their queer garments and go on with their games of ball. If the baby grows tired and begins to fret, the "little mother” jounces It up and down over her shoulder with a pe culiar humping motion of her back without stopping the game. All the time she slugs some pretty song. Gotham. Gotham, New York's alias, was orig inally applied to the Manhattan town In derision, doubtless because of some foolishness on the part of Its people. “The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham" was a collection of satirical tales written in the fifteenth century by one Andrew Borde, a Carthusian monk. Gotham was a village near Not tingham, and the fame of the “Wise Men of Gotham” soon traveled the world over. Doubtless Ilenry VIII. im agined that Borde was taking a sly fling at him. for he imprisoned the hap less writer tn the Tower, where only death released him. llnrdly an Kncore. A quartet was giving a concert before the patients of an Insane hospital and was singing a number to a rather mournful cadence nnd a subdued re frain. The audience, with the best of good humor, such as Invariably charac terizes the audiences at this particular hospital, heard it to the bitter end, and when Its last note had died away an old lady with a virtuous nnd dignified air of reconciliation on her face (topped suddenly up out of the audience and. turning toward the stage, said reverent ly, “O Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do!” Jmt What He [ POLLY LARKIN~^ needed. A man went with his wife to visit her physician. The doctor placed x thermometer in the woman’s mouth After two or three minutes. Just as the physician was about to remove the Instrument, the man, who was not used to such a prolonged spell of brilliant silence on the part of bls life's partner, said: "Doctor, what will you take for that thing?”—New York Times. A Snrr Slgrn. A physician driving past a place where stonemasons were nt work on some monuments called out: "Hard at work, I see. You finish your gravestones as far as Tn tnetn ory' and tbeu you wait. I suppose, to see who wants a monument next." “Why, yes,” was the answer, “unless somebody is ill and you are treating him, and then I know Just how to go on.” The W rong War. Among all the Easter novelties, and there are many this year, the daintiest and most unique were made out of egg shells. Score another mark for the old hen, for her product has entered into the art lieautiful. No matter, it seemed, how the egg was broken, the shells were used, beautifully decorated with the brush in the finest and most delicate designs and colorings and fin ished in gold bronze. A composition or sealing-wax, etc., had been used in decorating and making up the pretty Easter offerings. For instance, one of them, delicately tinted a pale green, had a bunch of grapes in gold, the tiny leaves, etc., making a lovely design. Each was mounted on tiny gold liases. The fragile, dainty little conceits were fit offerings for the Easter-tide and readily sold for twenty-five, thirty-five, andon up to sixty-five cents. “What good are they when you get them," asked a lady of a friend who was lay ing in a supply for her Easter gifts to friends. “Well, in the first place,” she replied,,“they are beautiful to look upon and an ornament that any lady who loves dainty, delicate bne-a-brac and tlie like would appreciate. In the second place, these deep ones are good for toothpick holders, and I am mrking myself a present of this one,” she said, as she picked one of the handsomest of the lot. No two seemed to be alike and it must have kept the artist busy making out her designs, let alone the rest of the work, which required the greatest skill and attention. A slight knock or a fall would have crushed the delicate shell, and it must have re quired a steady hand to get such quan tities out without coming to grief. The party who made the dainty conceits is a lady, and her brain is teeming with designs for novelties and the beautiful in art. That site made a success of them Polly hasn’t a doubt, and she surely deserved it. again, shecheerfully weaves the stitches and carries her thoughts and great faith that no matter what comes “it is well" into the exquisite and intricate patterns of the handsome curtains she is makiug for one of the most elegant homes on “Nob Hill.” When this member of the “four hundred" wanted curtains for his house he went to the leading furnishing houses and priced the delicate |>oinl lace tiiat hstks as dainty as a pretty spider-web. Then he went to the lady, who was really looking want in the face, and asked her to make them for him. He selected his designs, furnished her with the materials and agreed to pay her sixty- tlvs dollars a pair for them. Hhe has been working months on them and they are tine and handsome enough for a bridal veil. They will go down as heirlooms m the family, and they are well worth the sixty-five dollars. He could not have touched anything as beaut iful as these at one hundred dol lars a pair in the stores; but of course he furnished the materials, and tiiat alone is no small item. Others among the four hundred have seen her exqui site work, and from now on she will have all she can do, and she is teaching the art of lace-making to other mem bers of tlie family. She says she knew “the way would open up some time, for there never was a cloud so black for her but what she could find the sil ver lining if she waited patiently long enough.” »»»» There is an old saying that history and fashion repeat themselves, and to carry out the truth of this often quoted expression, the wheel of fashion has taken another whirl and brought out the jtearl bead craze again. Every thing in millinery is pearl beads and pearl-headed hat pins. It is a dainty and beautiful decoration or trimming. 1 saw a white tule hat the other day dotted with pearl beads and no other trimming except a black velvet bow under the side which was fastened by a pearl crescent. It reminded a lady of some similar ornaments she had had over twenty years ago, so she ransacked her trunks in the garret until she found »»»» them. They had not turned yellow, and Strange to say the above seemed to they were up-to-date in every respect. be the only local novelties, nearly if not all the rest which filled the stores and BRIEF REVIEW. show-windows to overflowing being made by foreign or Eastern houses. Telephone and Travel. That should not be, for we have enough It is an odd fact, but true, that some talent and inventive genius on the Pa cific slope to furnish our own novelties team railroads have complained of the and send some across the continent harm done to their best class of passen and into foreign lands instead of relying ger traillc by the long-distance tele on other sources for our Easter needs. phone, while hotels in Western cities People who have talent for such things have attributed a reduction of patron should bear this in mind and try their age to the same cause. Travel between hands at designing these novelties. St. Louis and Chicago for instance, is Some of the quaintest designs this said to have been cut down by the tele year were made out of cotton-batting, phone. Such a result would seem very and the pretty little white bunnies with difficult to trace tangibly, although one pink ears, and the downy chickens meets people daily who, to avoid weary with black bead eyes would have trips, have governed themselves on the pleased any child and could easily have injunction, “Don’t travel; telephone.” been made at home. Some of the pret But the telegraph and mail have also tiest designs were made in the shape of been deterrents, and if there is any va an egg and ranged in price from ten lidity to the alleged reason, the high cents to a dollar and a half. These last speed electric travel of the future may were lined with dainty colored silk restore the former conditions. It is, in and satin and would make a lovely deed, hard to conceive that with travel Jewel case after the confections had methods thus perfected the roads would disappeared. I saw one of the latter not enjoy to the utmost degree the pat entirely of silver and lined with pale ronage of a public which, after all, likes blue silk. A young man purchased it. to be in motion, and loves dearly to He had one side tilled with the differ taste and see everything, everywhere, ent flavored cordial drops and in the with its own physical senses. other he folded an exquisite point lace handkerchief that didn’t cost a cent less that ten dollars. Polly wasn’t eavesdropping, but I was sightseeing and couldn’t help but note the gift with a great deal of interest while waiting for a package. I was weaving a little romance about this Easter offering. Was it for his mother? Probably not. Was it for his sister? Hardly, at least not for his own sister, possibly some body elBe’s sister. Silver Easter eggs one dollar and a half; cordial drops (expensive confections), about a dollar’s worth; point lace handkerchief, ten dollars; bunch of violets and maiden hair to accompany the gift, twenty-live cents; messenger boy, twenty-five cents, and a tlfty-cent fee to surprise the na tives by hurrying him up. Total, thir teen dollars and fifty cents. Now 1 am sure it was not intended for his sister. Had it l«en the silver egg and the cordial contents would have been deemed suffi cient. There would not have been any delicately woven lace handkerchief fit to ensnare any one’s heart in its deli cate meshes. »»»» 1 had answered the question to my own satisfaction and thought that was the last of my dreaming, or rather con jecturing, but it was ordered otherwise. That was only the beginning. It was not for his mother, nor for his wife or sister; not for his sweetheart or dearest friend, or his cousin or his aunt. Let me whisper it: It was for his mother- in-law! What do you think she said on receiving thia Iteautiful tribute of “love and affection?" "My goodness, just look what this extravagant boy Dick, liasdone. Wonder what he wants now. In some scrape, I’ll warrant. He'd better have taken the money this thing coat and paid some of his honest debts. Here, Libbie, you take the handkerchief; it’s too tine for an old lady like me. Dick isalways doing the most unheard of things." But the old lady looked pleased in spite of her words and thought he wasn’t the very worst son-in-law in the land. Fathers and mothers who do not know bow and where their sons and especial ly their young daughters spend their evenings are guilty of a negligence tlia’ Is little short of criminal and that. too. often leads to sad consequences. The American habit of letting the young folks "have their own way” in choos »»»» Ing their associates and methods of re Here is the way a lady who will never creation Is responsible in every city for a good deal of evil that might be pre see sixty again and who has not left vented by parental firmness judiciously her bed for several years, is making her living and helping to support her wid exercised.—Philadelphia Bulletin. owed daughter and grand-children as rmonal Prejudice. well. Hhe had always Iteen fond of “Nature,” said Miss Miami Brown “doesn’ nebber make nuffin' in vain.” fancy work, and particularly lace-mak “Well,” answered Mr. Erastus Pink- ing, in her younger days, and she had ley, “it sometimes seems to me dat dnr leisure hours and means at hand to in Is a whole lot o’ animals walkin' dulge her tastes. It stands her in good around dat might Jes' as well uv been need now, for although she is sadly possums.”—Washington Star. afflicted and never expects to walk Drew Money on Laundry Mark. The initials of his name inscribed on the inside of his collar served as identi fication for a traveling man at the Chi cago poetoffice recently, and enabled him to secure cash on a $50 money or der. He had received a letter from his house directing him to go to Grand Rapids, Mich., and inclosing the money order. He packed Ins grip and stopped at the postoffice an his way to the rail way station. He hail but a few min utes, and when the clerk demanded identification the man was unable to furnish it, and delay meant missing his train. After appealing and arguing with the clerk in vain he was taken be fore Assistant Post master Hubbard. At that official’s request the traveling man removed his collar. There were the initials corresponding with the name on the money order advice. It was considered sufficient identification, and the cash was turned over. Value of Birds. A French naturalist asserts that if the world should become birdlees man could not inhabit it after nine years’ time, in spite of all the sprays and poi sons that could tie manufactured for tlie destruction of insects. The Insects and slugs would simply eat all the orchards and crops in that time. On a peace footing the military pow er of Russia consists of 710,000 Infantry, 130,000 cavalry, 153,000 artillery, 42,000 engineers and 39,000 department troops. The reserves number 2,700,000. There is a statue in a village in Egypt which is said to be the oldest in the world, having Iteen in existence for over 6000 years. It is the representation of one of the chiefs of the domain wherein it was erected. The key to the Bastite is now hanging on the wall in the iiall of tlie old home of Washington at Mount Vernon. It was given to Washington by Lafayette. HEAT AND DISEASE. THE SUN’3 RAYS ARE FATAL TO MANY SPECIES OF GERMS. A* a Dlalnfectaat Suullahi la tl>. Grralrat Agent la Natnre—Tem perature* at Which Disease Germ* Are Destroyed. Sunlight is fatal to some of the lower forms of living things, including cer tain disease germs which are the cause of some of the most fatal infectious diseases that afflict the human race. In fact, the greatest disinfectant in na ture is light, or, to be more exact, the radiations of the sun, including heat rays, light rays and the Invisible rays at the violet end of the solar spectrum. An infectious disease Is one which may be contracted by the Introduction Into the living body of living disease germs, which may be contained in dif ferent kinds of Infectious material. Thus the disease germ (bacillus) which produces diphtheria is contained In the "exudate” or "false membrane” de posited in the throat or nasal passages of those suffering from this disease, and the material coughed up by a pa tient with diphtheria Is infectious ma terial. in cholera and In typhoid fever the discharges from the bowels con tain the germ and are consequently in fectious material. Now, the object of disinfection Is to prevent the extension of infectious dis eases by destroying the specific Infec tious agents—germs—which give rise to them; and this Is accomplished by the use of disinfectants. Having, as I hope, made this clear. Any chemical agent which destroys or masks bad odors is commonly spoken of as a disinfectant, and there are a large number of so called "disinfectants” In the market which are simply deodor- unts and which are entirely untrust worthy for the destruction of Infectious material—that Is, material containing living disease germs. These disease germs belong to the class of low vegetable organisms-mi croscopic plants—known as bacteria, which as a rule thrive better in the darkness than when exposed to day light, and some of them are quickly destroyed by exposure to direct sun light. In experiments made by me In 1893 It was demonstrated that the chol era bacillus is infallibly killed by ex posure to direct Bunlight for an hour or two, and the distinguished German bacteriologist. Dr. Robert Koch, has shown that the bacillus of consumption —tubercle bacillus—is destroyed by similar exposure In a time varying from a few mluutes to several hours, depending upon the thickness of the layer of material in which It is Im bedded. As a result of this it is evident that the material coughed up by patients with consumption and containing tu bercle bacilli in vast numbers is far less dangerous to the community In regions where the patient can live out of doors and where the sun shines nearly every day In the year. Some disease germs which are not killed outright by exposure to the sun's rays are greatly restrained in their de velopment. This is true of the bacillus of typhoid fever. Although It has been shown by carefully conducted experi ments that certain disease germs are promptly destroyed by the luminous ra diations from the sun, and especially by those at the violet end of the solar spectrum, It is also true that the heat rays play an important part in the de struction of harmful bacteria. This is partly due to the fact that certain disease germs are quickly de stroyed by being deprived of all mois ture—by desiccation. Thus the germs of cholera and of pneumonia quickly perish when completely dried. Other germs, however, as those of typhoid fever, of diphtheria and of consumption, mny retain their vitality In a dried condition for several months. But the germs of all these diseases are destroyed by a comparatively low tem perature. In experiments which I made several years ago I ascertained that the germs of pneumonia and of cholera were killed by exposure for a few minutes to a temperature of 120 degrees F. A still lower temperature is effective If the time of exposure Is prolonged. It Is therefore evident that prolonged exposure to the direct rays of the sun would destroy these germs Independ ently of the disinfecting power or germicidal action of the luminous rays or the fatal results of desiccation. Other disease germs require a high er temperature for their destruction. The typhoid bacillus and the bacillus of diphtheria are killed by exposure to a temperature of 140 degrees F. for ten minutes. In general. It may be stated that this temperature is fatal to all the most important disease germs. The facts stated furnish a scientific baslB for practical disinfection, and It Is evident that when sunshine Is avail able no chemical agents are essential for the destruction of disease germs. Any article of food or drink which has been heated for i> few minutes to some thing near the boiling point of water Is absolutely safe, so far as any dan ger from disease germs is concerned, and any article of clothing which has been put through the ordinary opera tions of the laundry Is as safe as If it had been placed for an hour in an ex pensive steam disinfector or immersed In a strong disinfecting solution. It will be seen that scientific lnvestl- gallons fully Justify the practice of good housewives, who at frequent In tervals expose their blankets and arti cles of woolen clothing, which caimot be placed in boiling water without In jury. to a prolonged sun bath, who scald oat milk pans nnd kitchen uten sils and place them in the sun to dry and who open up their sleeping apart ments for the admission of sunlight and fresh air.—Surgeon Genera) Stern berg In Youth's Companion. No matter how much money you Rhenmatlsm. may have, if you are poor In character If you suffer from rheumatism, buy n little (lowers of sulphur and sprinkle that means poverty forever. it well into the feet of a pair of stock Every man liarked at by a dog is not ings, which you must wear at night. a thief. Every man talked about by a The sulphur Is quickly absorbed Into the system through the feet, and, as gossip is not guilty. every one knows, sulphur Is the reme The Apaches have three different dy for rheumatism. kinds of violins, each having but one R<> much destitution prevails among string and player! with a small Itow. the Moscow university students that Stained subjects delight to jianuhTn half their numlter have petitioned to be excused paying their university feea. white coats. RISKS FIREMEN TAK£. TRAINING A RIDING HCRSE. The K<*MHon Enifineer Brown Slack to 111 m Dangerous Post. The Master Made Good HI* Asser tion ft* to What He Could Do. The risks that firemen in big cities take are an everlasting wonder, and the story of Bill Brown, as told by Cleveland Moffett in “Careers of Dar ing and Danger,” shows that the en gineer's bravery Is sometimes put to tests as severe as those which the hose man or the ladder man even has to endure. What happened was this: Engine 29, pumping her prettiest, stood at the cor ner so near the drughouse that the driver thought It wasn't safe for the horses and led them away. That left Brown nlone, against the cheek of the fire, watching his boiler and keeping his steam gauge at seventy-five. As the fire gained chunks of redhot landstone began to smash down on the engine. Brown ran his pressure up to eighty and watched the door anxiously where the four firemen from his squad bad gone into the furnace. Then an explosion of chemicals In the building sent a flame wide as a house curling across the street, enwrap ping engine and man and setting Are to the elevated railway station over bend. Bill Brown stood by his engine with a sheet of fire above him. He heard footsteps on the pavement and voices that grew fainter crying, “Run for your lives!” He was alone, and the skin on bls hands, face and neck was blistered. Brown knew why every one was run ning. There would be another explo sion. It was tolerably certain that he must die if he stayed. But his four chums were in the fire and needed the water. If he quit bls engine, the water would fail. lie stoked in coal and ran the gauge tip another notch, easing the running parts with the oiler. He was offering his life for his friends. In a few minutes the four firemen came out of the building. Then Bill Brown ran for his life with his com rades. A second or two later engine 29 was crushed by the falling walls. ’ “Yea." said the riding mas;er, “I have to be a horse trainer as well as a riding master. In fact, I couldi't very well be the second without bdng the first. I always have horses in my school stables here that are seit to me to train for my pupils. One ctme this morning, and If you have the time to spare I will show you how I give the first lesson In obedience.” The master then ordered one of his men to bring the horse out Into the "school,” a great oblong space, cov ered with sawdust and* Inclosed and roofed. The horse was a fine, spirited animal, with an Intelligent and kindly eye, and the master said at once that he would be a tractable and testable subject, explaining that he had not yet had a chance to "make his ac quaintance.” “Now,” said he, “you must remem- ber.that this horse ltaB never seen me before and that 1 am, therefore, a per fect stranger to him, and yet I think I can establish between him and myself so good a feeling that in five minutes' time he wMl follow me all about the school at a word of command—perhaps without a command. Let us see.” He then approached the horse, and the man stepped away. Speaking a few words gently, he patted the anl mill’s neck and rubbed bls hand over his head. Telling the man to give him a small riding whip, long and straight, with a keen lash, be placed himself with his right shoulder close to the horse’s head, holding the bridle rein near the bit with bls right band and in hfs left hand the whip extended back horizontally so that the lash was oppo site to the horse’s flank. “Now,” said he, “for our lesson.” And he began leading the horse around the school, keeping his shoulder close to tlie animal's head. Presently he took Ills hand off the bridle, and the horse at once began to move away from his shoulder, but a sharp turn of the muster’s wrist brought the lash of the whip against his flank Just hard enough to make a little sting, and at the same time the master caught hold of the bridle and gently pulled the re fractory head close to his shoulder again. This was repeated half a dozen times, and then the horse evidently reasoned out the situation somewhat in this way: “As long as I keep my head close to this man's shoulder it's all right, but the minute I take it away something back there Jumps up and sticks me. Therefore I'll not take It away any more.” Tiiat must have been the way he reasoned, for witliin the five minutes’ time allotted by the riding master the horse was following him all around the school like a big dog, nor did the mas ter have to touch the bridle once.— Atlanta Constitution. AN UNFAMILIAR TEXT. Bat It Wa« a Forcible Illustration of n Great Truth. EQUINE INTELLIGENCE. 4 Writer Who Believe* That Horaaa Are Capable at Thlakln«. There are people who deny that ths horse is able to plot, to conceive or reason. Some horses are duller than others, aud some apparently are better equipped for thought than the men In charge of them. You teach a horse to start or stop at a word, and acts of kindness or cruelty are seldom forgot ten by lilm. At a farm that we visit a little girl who has given sweetmeats to spirited aulmals can take the great est liberties with them. The stranger bas to keep a safe distance from their heels, while she may crawl between their legs. They remember her acts of kindness and carefully avoid doing any thing to harm her. We have in mind a stallion who was harshly punished. He treasured up the act of injustice, and the author of hla humiliation was compelled to keep aloof from him. Ills manner plainly Indicated that the man would get hurt if he ventured within striking distance. This stallion trusts those who have shown him consideration and in ths main is not a bad tempered horse. He appears vicious only to those who have treated him viciously. His knowledge of right and wrong suggests thought It shows capacity to reason from cause to effect. Teach a horse as you would a child what to fear and what to do, and the lesson will never be forgotten. Some horses cunningly open their stable doors by removing pegs with their teeth and thus put plan into oper ation. Their imagination is fired by beautiful scenery. Fut one in a pad dock where he can look out upon the bills and hear the birds Bing and you will quiet bls nervous system. In mo ments of contemplation be has the dreamy look of a poet About the only time that a horse forgets to think Is when he surrepti tiously finds hts way to the well filled oat bin. He then does not eat In ■ rational way, but gorges himself to the danger point. This is an unmis takable evidence of weakness. And yet there nre men endowed with in tellect who have little or no control over their appetites. Absence of re straint at the feast marks the develop ment of the human as well as of the equine race. In our Judgment, the horse sometimes thinks.—Turf, Field and Farm. Several years ago there labored In one of the western villages of Minne sota a preacher who was always tn the APHORISMS. habit of selecting his texts from the Old Testament and particularly some Observe your enemies, for they first portion of the history of Noah. No find out your faults.—Antlsthenes. matter what the occasion was, he Envy always implies conscious Infe would always find some parallel inci riority wherever It resides.—Pliny. dent from the history of this great The less heart a man puts into a character that would readily serve as task the more labor It requires.—Amiel. a text or Illustration. Evasion Is unworthy of us and is al At one time he was called upon to ways the Intimate of equivocation.— unite the daughter of the village may or and a prominent attorney tn the Balzac. holy bonds of matrimony. Two little The same people who can deny oth boys, knowing bis determination to ers everything are famous for refusing give them a portion of the sacred his themselves nothing.—Leigh Hunt. tory touching Noah’s marriage, hit If there is any person to whom you upon the novel Idea of pasting together feel dislike, that is the person of whom Mot a Practical Phllanthropl*t. two leaves In the family Bible so as to One day last winter when it was you ought never to speak.—R. Cecil. connect, \ylthout any npparent break, very cold a richly dressed woman Tlie chief pang of most trials is not the marriage of Noah and the descrip stopped and gazed sternly at an ice so much the actual suffering itself a* tion of the ark of the covenant. wagon that was drawn up beside tlie our own spirit of resistance to It— When the noted guests were all as curb on Walnut street, near Fifteenth. Jean Grou. sembled and the contracting parties Site stood there for ten minutes. Then There is no beautifler of complexion with attendants tn their respective sta the iceman came out of a certain or form or behavior like the wish to tions, the preacher began the ceremo house, and she said to him, "Driver, sentter Joy, and not pain, around us.— nies by reading the following text: why don't you blanket your horses?” Emerson. "And when Noah was one hundred and "Because, lady, the kump'ny don’t Success is sweet, the sweeter if long forty years old he took unto himself furnish me no blankets,” said the man. delayed nnd attained through mani a wife,” then, turning the page, he “Then.” exclaimed the woman, “you fold struggles and defeats.—A. Bron continued. "300 cubits In length, 50 should cover them with your coat.” son Alcott. cubits In width nnd 30 cubits In depth “All right, ma'am.” said the driver, True popularity takes deep root and and within nnd without besmeared smiling. "You gimme your coat for with pitch.” The story seemed a little the near boss, an I'll put mine ou the spreads Itself wide, but the false falls away like blossoms, for nothing that strong, but he could not doubt the Bi off one.” Is false can be lasting.—Cicero. ble, and, after reading It once more The woman, whose coat was of seal and reflecting a moment, he turned to skin, could not think of a good retort Blunder* of Painter*. the startled assemblage with these re to this, and she walked away In b I- A picture representing the four ele marks, “My beloved brethren, this is lence.—Philadelphia Record. ments was essayed by an Italian art the first time In the history of my life ist. and lie selected fish to Indicate the that my attention has been called to Twain and the Printer. sea. moles the earth and a salamander this important pnssage of the Scrip Mary Twain once had a trying ex tures, but it seems to me that it is one perience witli a compositor, one of fire. The chameleon was Intended as of the most forcible Illustrations of those conscientious compositors who the allegorical representative of the that grand eternal truth that the na not only know, but know that they air, but the painter, having no model ture of woman Is exceedingly difficult know. According to a writer in Har of this animal and knowing nothing about Its shape, contented himself by to comprehend.—Starlight Messenger. per’s Weekly, Mr. Clemens had receiv introducing a camel. He probably ed from his publishers the proofs of a thought in bls ignorance that from a Value of Time. story which ite considered as funny as similarity of sounds they were one and Tlie value of odd minutes is illus anything he had ever written, but on trated by n story told In a curious lit reading the proofs he dismally discov the same animal. Another painter In a picture of the tle volume of advice printed In Eng ered that the fun had been carefully land. A large firm required a manager eliminated. Mr. Clemens returned the crucifixion represented a father con for one of its departments and ap proofs, congratulating the compositor fessor holding out a crucifix to the re pointed 12 o’clock for arrangement of upon having consumed “only one week pentant thief who was promised ■ terms with the selected applicant. He in making sense of a story which he place in paradise by the Saviour. arrived at five minutes past 12, to find himself required two weeks to make A Honeymoon Financier. a dozen directors waiting, the chair nonsense of!” Judge Edwards of Lee county, who man watch In hand. The chairman bas married over a hundred couples announced that they could not engage Samoan* and Beauty. since he has been ordinary, performed a subordinate who bad wasted an hour The love for beauty of a Samoan wo of his employers’ time, and on the ap man sometimes degenerates into cruel the ceremony recently for a runaway plicant deprecating such exaggeration ty. Tlie very word for short stature is couple seated in a buggy l’J the public the chairman explained that each di contemptuous, pu’u pu’u, and the un road. The ceremony over, the bridegroom rector had wasted five minutes and dersized num must perforce become a fumbled in bls pocket and fished up that made an hour in all. professional Jester or lose all hold on 36 cents. society. A young man who had lost his "Jetlge,” be said, “this here’s all tbe Dicken* Said She Wa* a Woman. ■rm tn battle was heartlessly jeered by It is said of George Eliot’s literary a group of laughing girls. I interfered money I got tn tbe roun’ worl’. Ef you’re a mind to take it, you kin. but style that its most marked character In his behalf. I’ll sny straightfor’ards that I’d done istic Is sympathy. And long before “He would not be like that,” I said, sot it aside fer the honeymoon ex her identity had become known Charles “If it were not for Ills bravery.” penses!”—Atlanta Constitution. Dickens, a singularly acute critic of “Oh, yes.” they said, “but he looks so his own art, detected her sex by this funny.” A Good Derea*e. undercurrent of womanly sympathy. “He fought In tour defense, you un There was once a club formed of lazy He had been reading “Scenes of Cler grateful creatures!” I cried. men. Fines were inflicted on those who ical Life,” which had been sent to him "True enough,” they replied, “but a by the publisher, and on putting the man without beauty Is contemptible." ever forgot themselves so far as to do anything in haste One day several book aside he said, “Wei!, this writer —Century Magazine. members saw an old doctor who was possesses great ability, but I should renowned for hls laziness drive past say. despite the name, that George The Listener at the Door. the door of the club at a furious rate, Eliot Is a woman.” "Did she say. ’This is so sudden?”’ and loudly they chuckled at the "No; her mother was listening at the thought ef fining him. But on applying Heathenlnlnfc It. “My friend,” said the missionary who keyhole, and she didn’t dare to throw to him on the ground of his having been in such a burry the doctor slowly was trying to convert the wealthy man on any frills.” "How do you know her mother was replied, “No, I wasn’t In a hurry, but darin, "do you not know that it is my mare wanted to go fast, and 1 was easier for the camel to get through the there?” “Because stooping over shuts off her too lazy to stop her.” eye of the needle than”— “Than It is for me,” the mandarin in wind, and you could hear her gasping Grand Game In Alaska. terrupted, "to get through the need of all over the room.” “Well, what did Minnie say?” Alaska contains tbe grandest hunt an Idol, eh? Very true.”—Philadelphia “She whispered: ‘Cut it short. Jack. ing grounds in North America. They Record. Ma Is apoplectic.’ ” — Clevelaud Plain are Inhabited by tbe giant moose, the largest antlered animal on the earth; A word and a note of song are ofteD Dealer. the Kadiak brown bear, largest of all trystallized tears set to music. Heroic. flesh eating Itind animals, and tlie Gladys—Why did she ever marry for Him to Pag. mountain caribou, largest and finest “Do you suppose women will ever be him? of its genus. The snow white moun Ethel—Oh, he said he couldn’t live tain sheep Is there, the mountain goat, sent to the legislature, Wilkins?" without her! "Wouldn’t be surprised. My wife’s black and yellow bears galore, and tbe Gladys—Well, she ought to get a rare, new glacier bear, as yet never Inclined that way now.” medal for life saving.—Puck. “Your wife? Pshaw!” seen In captivity and in only one "Fact. Why, it’s no new thing for her museum.—Recreation. An old convict ship from Australia Is to Introduce a bill in the bouse.”—Ph'I on exhibition at the Waterloo pier, adelphia Bulletin. The revolver with which President Idjndon. It Is the Success, owned by a McKinley was shot was a .32 caliber, Hanover, Germany, now has six foot Melbourne firm and kept solely for ex ball teams that play the Rugby game. blbitlon purposes, nnd It remains prac and since that time dealers have no They are trying to carry out the kal- tlcally with 'he same fittings It bad ticed an Increase In the number of calls ser’fl order not to use English sporting when it was used for transporting con for weapons of that caliber and, it Is said, of the particular make used by terms. victs from England to Botauy Bay. the aa«AAA<n
