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BANDON RECORDER. Plural .Name« oí Falible Flub. ., A few days ago I was asked by a for' »Igner, "Why do you say ‘two herrings’ mid ‘two soles' and not 'two cods’ and ‘two salmons?* ” I do not tbluk my answer was very satisfactory, but tbe question suggested tbe thought that there are several cases in which it would be ditti.'iilt to say whether there is anything like a consensus of opinion as to whether a plural form of tbe Baine of a tisb is admissible. We all speak of soles, herrings, sprats, lam preys and anchovies, the singular form never, I believe, doing service for tbe plural. No one. I think, says macker els, cods, salmons, trouts, breams, shads, carps, plaices, basses, barbels. Sturgeon, perch, mullet, pike, turbot, tunny and skate have not unusually the plural form In "s." Fishermen and fishmongers are in clined to avoid the plural form In some Instances where it Is employed by the majority of educated people. In some eases there is considerable uncertainty. This I have ascertained by means of a fair number of tests. Among them are carps, shads, tenches. Compilers of English grammars, so far as my expe rience goes, In treating of plural forms of nouns make no note of tlie names of tlsh which do not vary in the plural.— Notes and Queries. f POLLY LARKliT^ sort of refining influence on him that does not countenance anything ques tionable or low. People respect the boy or girl who “aim high” and who does not attempt to deny it. Another thing in the favor of tlie one who pos sesses this trait is, that you never find them untidy or slouching around as if they didn’t have a friend on eartli and that they were ashamed of themselves for casting even their little shadow on the earth, lu spite of all argument to the contrary, “aim high" is a good motto to tsith preach and practice. «««« In answer to your question, “Little Gretchen,” that peers at me from the query-box in regard to making an al bum for your stamp pictures or photos which will lie the work of your owu hand, is to take gray or brown paper, uuglazed and of a heavy quality. Cut the leaves or pages the desired size, mark out tile places for pictures, and then with a brush and burnt umber paint water-colors preferred, put a grace ful little design around the place for each picture. For the cover take sheep skin, either iu gray or brown, and put a dainty design in scroll work or some little pattern like pine cones or ferns, and I think you will be satisfied with tlie result. To fasten the pages and binding together use a brass brad and you can also use a satin ribbon of tlie color of tlie decoration to finish it. The burnt umber will give much the effect of burnt leather and lie quite as pretty. TWO ODD FISHES. The ChmiKeiihle Pink Hind nnd the Rulnbetv Hued Parrot I’inti. The clear, limpid waters that sur round Bermuda uml the West Indies lie above eoral reefs covered with plants and animals, many of which are brilliant in color as a rainbow. They look like glimpses of fairyland, and as your eye wanders from one wonder to another you catch yourself striving to peek Just around some corner into a strange nook, half hoping to see a bevy of mermen and mermaids sport ing nnd playing within the crannies. Here is a patch of pale green sea let tuce. there a group of great purple sea fans, yonder some golden corals standing out like a shelf or branching like a tree, while among them all swim lovely fishes that take the place of the fairies that should dwell in this magic land and fascinate you by their gorgeous colors and their graceful, wavy motions. There is ;» great green “parrot fish,” as brilliant in color as bls namesake the bird, showing himself boldly and swimming along slowly, secure from any assault. His scales are green as the fresh grass of springtime, and each one is bordered by a pale blown line. His tins are pink, and the end of the tail Is banded with nearly every color of tlie raiubow. He is showy, but this showiness serves him a good purpose. His flesh is bitter and iiolsotious to man and probably so to other lishes as well, and they let him well alone, for they can recognize him afar off, thanks to his gaudy dress. Underneath the parrot, lying on the bottom, Is a “pink hind.” You notice him, and as tlie parrot passes over him he suddenly changes to ITight scarlet and as quickly resumes his former faint color. Had the parrot been look ing for his dinner and thought the hind would make a good first course this sudden change of color might have scared him off, just as the sudden bris tling of a cat makes a dog change his mind. When the hind is disturbed at night, he gives out flashes of light to startle the intruder and send him away In a fright. Professor I.. Bristol in St. Nicholas. t CHOICE MISCELLANY HUMOR OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES Heudy It, Heatly Money. The University of Pennsylvania has not a large endowment, uml that it finds the means to pay its current ex penses and put up new buildings Is due in great measure to its provost, Charles C. Harrison. His little black subscrip tion book is well known In many a downtown office — too well known, a prominent broker told him not long ago. Mr. Harrison was pleading per sistently with him for a subscription, but in vain. Finally the broker said: “See here, Mr. Harrison; I will give you something on one condition.” "Very well, Mr. T.,” said the provost. "Name it.” “The condition Is that you promise never to come Into my office again un til 1 ask you to do so.” “Certainly, Mr. T.; I agree to that,” said the provost promptly and walked out smiling with a check for $1,000. A month or so later the broker heard a knock at bis door. “Come in!" he culled, and In walked Mr. Harrison. He had the black book under bis arm. “Good morning, Mr. T.,” he said. "I want you to help me with a little uni versity matter I am”— “Look here, Mr. Harrison,” the bro ker continued, “when I gave that last thousand dollars wasn't it oti the ex press condition that you shouldn't come into my office again until 1 in vited you?” "Why, yes,” returned the provost, "I believe that was the understanding. But didn't you say ‘Come in!' Just now when I knocked?” They say the cheek this time was for $5,000. Drusleaa Core. "John, dear.” feebly called tin- in valid wife, who was supposed to be nearing tbe end of her earthly career. "Yes, darling.” answered the sorrow ing busband. “What 1 b It?” "When I nut gone," said Bhe, “1 feel that for tbe sake of the motherleis lit tle ones you should marry again.” "Do you really think It would be best, darling?” asked the faithful John “Yes, John, I really do.” replied the invalid. "After a reasonable length of time you should seek the companion ship of some good woman.” “Do you know, my dear,” said tbe husband, “that you have lifted a great burden from my mind? Now, there is that charming Widow Simpkins »cross the way. She lias acted rather friend ly toward me ever since you were tak oil ill. Of course, dear, she could never fill your place, but she Is young, plump and pretty, and I’m sure she would do her best to lessen my grief.” "Joint Henry Jenkins,” exclaimed the female whose days were supposed to be numbered as she partly raised herself up on the pillow, “if you ever dare in stall that redheaded, freckled faced, squint eyed hussy in my shoes, Fil l'll— And then she fainted. But the next day Mrs. Jenkins was able to sit up. and two days later she was downstairs.—Chicago News. The exports of India exceed its iui ports. lu Welsh piugpong la known as ping- pongyddlaeth aud tbe devotees as ping pungwr. The Geological society estimates that Belgium has coal deposits worth £8, 500,000,000. Trolley ears and motor buses are driving the familiar London omnibus utt the streets. The national forests reserved in the United Slates aggregate iu area uearly 47,000.000 acres. The ratio in Great Britain of children per marriage bus fallen from 4.36 iu 1884 to 3.63 in 1900. Most of the abestus used In the United States comes from the mines »ear Quebec, Caituda. The elephant beetle of Venezuela is the largest insect known. One has been found to weigh seven ounces. During the decade ending in 1900 the lumber products of Michigan fell from $83,000,000 per annum to $54,000,000. Hard times In Germany are said to have caused a large diminution In tbe consumption of wine and spirituous liquors. By order of tbe czar, the Popoff sys tem of wireless telegraphy is to be in troduced Into the whole Russian army and navy. Vesuvius has taken to emitting vapor saturated with hydrochloric acid, which, falling as "rain,” has done grave damage to vegetation. The largest parliament in point of numbers is the Hungarian house of magnates, which has 751 members. England comes second with 670. Selling elevated railroad tickets for 50 cents apiece is the latest ruse adopt ed by swindlers who prey upon newly landed Immigrants at the Battery in New York. Chinamen are the merchant seamen of the future, says a consular report from Shanghai. Over 1,500 British vessels entered the port last year man ned by Chinese crews. Dickens’ Great White Horse inn at Ipswich, whose winding corridors led to Mr. Pickwick’s embarrassing ad venture with the middle aged lady in yellow curl papers, has been sold at auction for $75,000. Etikabo Ekyokusaba Kwabantu Bona is the way the title of the book of com mon prayer reads iu the language of Uganda. The Society For tbe Promo tion of Christian Knowledge has just printed the translation. It is said that the Georgia peach growers consider the full of tlie mooli in April the date on which the fate of the season's crop has been decided. If there has been no bud killing frost by that time they feel safe. The attendance at the larger univer sities of tlie United States is: Harvard 5,576, Columbia 4,422, Michigan 3,812, Chicago, 3,727, California 3,540, Mlune- 1,536, Cornell 3,216, Wisconsin Yale 2,680, Pennsylvania 2,520. arithmetic man calculates tbe newspaper and periodical output of tbe United States at 2,865.466,000 dailies, l,2t»8.190.000 weeklies and 263,452,000 monthlies; total, 4,337,108,000 copies, an amount of printed mutter equal to 2,000,000,notl average novels. Germany and the Netherlands con template providing a Joint subsidy for cables to the Dutch islands in the East Indies to connect with the pro jected Amerlcun-Philipplne cable. This will make a connection between Eu rope and Asia by way of America. Ulverston, England, has a "Two Glasses a Night club,” with about 200 members, each of which is pledged to drink no more than a couple ol' glasses of beer during any evening. No limit is placed, however, on the quantity of noniutoxlcauts which may be con sumed. The sheriff at Bridgeton. N. J., re cently sold the whole village of Hal- berton for $1,000. It was started iu 1893 as a colony for Russian Hebrews from New York, but proved a failure. Tlie property consisted of nearly 5,000 acres of land, 200 bouses and a large factory building. A New Yorker who carried matches which ignite “only when struck on tlie box” added some chlorate of potash lozenges to liis match pocket contents. The tire resulting from the union of tbe chlorate with the phosphorus on the box ruined his clothing and emp- tied the street car in which be was rid- Ing. French has been made the official language of tbe Quebec legislature, city council and board of trade, Eng- lish speaking members will be allowed to use their own languuge, of course, but all tbe records are to be kept in French. The change is due to lile growth of tbe French element In tbe three bodies named. American ribbon looms are being Im ported by Swiss manufacturers. These looms are much more expensive than those made in Switzerland, even leav ing freight and duties out of account, but tbe manufacturers find it profita ble to use them because of their great solidity of construction and tbe much larger amount of work they do. Pencils are very skillfully construct ed. When the column of graphite has been prepared for use lu the peucll. It Is laid in a slit cut for it, covered witli another piece of wood, which is glued on; then, by menus of ingenious ma chinery tbe wooden covers are reduced to the proper size for pencils and paiut- ed or varnished aud set aside to dry. “Corot," said a Philadelphia artist, “is known to have painted 8,000 pic tures, but there are 28,000 Corots in ex istence, for this man wus very widely counterfeited after bls death, There was, you know, a French painter of a really exquisite talent who got ti ve years in jail for counterfeiting bim, and tbe dealers who Bold tbe fake Corots got ten years.” “Aim high lad, aitu high,’* 1 heart! an old gray-haired grandfather say to his little grandson who was practicing shooting at a target. Again and again he had aimed too low to get within the charmed circle. Taking his grand father's advice he “drew a tiead” on thedark spot in the center of the target and the next minute sent a bullet crashing th rough the center of the bull’s- eye. “Good!” cried the delighted old man. “The princeof nimrodscould not have made a better shot than that. That’s the way, my boy, through life. Aim high, even though you have to fall a bit. The trouble with most men and hoys is that tiiey are content to aim low and never try to get any higher. They reach a certain point and then just simply ru»tout their lives. Others merely crawl along through life's jour ney, making no progress toward a higher life but content to eke out a miserable existence. I’ve no patience witli them, lad, they are only a blot in this fair world, where all things are possible to the courageous man who is willing to work, not only with his Thackeray an a Showman. hands and feet but his brain. He must In Thackeray's case the Justification learn to think as well as act. If he is a of artificial names, if it be right to Ill« Conclusion. coward at heart and hesitates to act be speak of Justiticatlou, lies lu this, that “I understand that you have made a cause lie is afraid of failure or that his with all tlie solid reality of the life por life study of volcanoes,” said the in trayed we are never allowed to lose efforts might be ridiculed by others, terviewer. BRIEF REVIEW. sight of the author and his art in por then his case is hopeless. I have the “I have,” answered the scientist. traiture. He is ever at hand to under greatest respect for the one who aims “What do you regard as the most im The Longest Beard. line the snobbery or laugh off the pa high. I'm not afraid that lie’ll give up portant conclusion to be deduced from Americans “Sold.” thos. There is a strong strain of the the tight, even though success does not Jean Coulou needs a shave more badly your researches?” Two American women residing in tbe sutirist in him, and satire Is akin to al crown his efforts at first, but he will than any other living man. If his "Simply this. It you live near a City of Mexico afforded considerable crater that starts to smoke, take steam legory. There Is even a strain of the keep up his courage and aim a little strength lay in the length of his hair, amusement to the patrons of the Rena- ship passage for somewhere else.”— caricaturist ready to emerge In the higher next time. I tell you, lad, that this Frenchman would be a very Her cimiento theater the other day by be Washington Star. midst of Ills noblest art. coming credulous victims to a comic He Is especially fond of putting on there is no such word as fail for one of cules. His beard measures ten feet ten ruse of two of the performers. One of the airs and graces of the showman. these progressive natures. Just pin and a half inches in length, while Ills Went the Limit. tlie artists, who was singing on the Ilis preface to "Vanity Fair” is headed that motto, ‘aim high,’ in your hat, my mustache is over a yard and a lialf long. "And so you were victimized by the stage, was to all appearances abruptly sharpers while you were in the city?” ‘‘Before the Curtain,” and this great boy, where you will see it the first Of course he has taken his time to cul interrupted by a member of the audi asked the pastor of tbe traveled mem novel of real life concludes with “Come, thing in the morning. Keep it in mind tivate these amazing adornments, as ence and told in Spanish that he sang ber of his flock. children, let us shut up tlie box and the livelong day and try and live up you may gather from the fact that he is like a canary. The singer apparently the puppets, for our play is played to it.” “Victimized?” said the member. 76 years of age. He is very proud of THE HOLY CITY. took the matter very much to heart “Why, parson. I was skinned so good ent.” And we accept Thackeray's »»»» them, and this is perhaps one reason and there and then demanded satisfac and clean that what was left on me showman's humor.- Blackwood's Mag This was good, sound advice the sil among many why lie does not permit JeroNnlein Still lleNemble« n («rent tion from tbe intruder, inviting him would discourage a chiropodist.”—Bal azine. Fort rente of Middle Age«. ver-haired grandfather who had passed the vulgar to gaze on his grandeur every into the street to settle the matter. The timore American. his three score years and ten gave to day of the week. The inhabitants of Jerusalem is literally “bililded upon challenge being accepted, the two start Curio urn Style« of Letter i i > k >. its own heap." Below the houses, A Lucky Animal. Any one in the habit of perusing old his grandson, who showed that he had, Moutlucon, in the Departmentof Allier, courts and paved streets of the pres ed for the street, tbe majority- of the I'tters Is struck with the tone of great even in his childhood, a good deal of where Coulon resides, are very proud of ent unkempt city are the distinguisha people in the audience being “wise” to humility and deference which per the grandfather’s sterling character him, and by way of acknowledging ble remains of eight older cities—those the circumstances. The American wo vades the correspondence of our ances and good common sense. Would that their appreciation, the man with the of Solomon, Nehemiali, Herod, Hadri men, however, imagined they were wit nessing a real tragedy and, grabbing tors. every boy and girl would “aim high.” unlimited beard exhibits his luxurious an, Constantine, Omar, Godfrey. Sala A few specimens of the style of be 11 is a good deal the way we start in growth to all and sundry who care to din, Suleman writes Walter Williams their rich silk skirts in both hands, started screaming down tlie aisles to ginning am! endiDg letters may prove life whethei we will succeed or not. If come and see him any Sunday. In from tlie Holy City to his paper in Co the stage, not discovering their error interesting ns in striking contrast to lumbia, Mo. until in full view of tbe entire audi the laconic “yours obediently,” "faith we are content to go along in the same deed, it may be said that for him, the Jerusalem has been besieged twenty fully” or "truly" of tbe present day. sing-song way, taking no pride in ad Sabbath is scarcely a day of rest, for seven times, a record of vicissitude un ence, which by this time had set up a It would certainly be difficult to match vancing, our case is not only sad, but a when not in view he is carefully dress paralleled in the history of file world's good round of applause, in which the ing his amazing ap|>endage and mus elites. It lias been burned, sacked, theatrical people took a prominent part. the following subscription of a letter hopeless one. »»»» from the Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir tache. During the week he rolls his razed to the ground, its inhabitants of The Black Death. Tilomas Ha muer, dated September. Children many times have a fancy beard in a sort of bag, so that he may every faith put to the sword, all the It is recorded that tbe “black death,” 1713: "I desire that you will believe be able to go about his occupation the Woes uttered by its own prophets and they set their hearts on doing some which devastated many countries in that, wherever I am. I shall always en more conveniently. against it have come to pass, yet Jeru the middle of tlie fourteenth century, deavor to deserve ami very milch value one thing that is anything but the high salem still resembles a great fortress Wits preceded by “stinking mists,” and your friendship, being, with u sincere calling their parents have marked out Estimate of the World’s Age. of the middle ages. Seen from the earthquakes were frequent just before esteem, sir. your most faithful and obe for them. For instance, one little lad, One of the ways of reckoning the age Mount of Olives, its massive gray the outbreak, and volcanoes assumed a friend of Polly’s in bygone days, used dient servant. Shrewsbury.” of the world is that adopted by Profes-1 walls, its flat roofed houses, its unwonted activity. Tlie air over the Frequently one meets with bellicose to drive his parents nearly wild by Weary—Dey say a camel kin go nine mosques and churches with their con subscriptions, as in tlie case of the playing “hooky” from school to ride on sor Joly of computing how long a time spicuous towers and minarets, present sea was infected as well as that over days without eatin'. tbe land. It was'a putrid typhus, Earls of lXuntly and Errol, who, in an express wagon. It was the height must have elapsed for the sea, which a marvelous picture, beautiful, sub Muddy—Chee, but dat’s a fortunate 1594. threatened "awful consequences” of his ambition to own an express wag was at first fresh, to become charged lime, unfading, from the picture gal styled “bluck death” because the bod creatur’l Jest think o’ bein’ relieved o’ ies turned black with rapid putrefac de exertion o’ chewin’ yer vittals fer to the magistrates of Aberdeen unless , on and a good horse and drive from with the salt it now contains. Guided lery of the mind. tion. In 1348-49 at least half tbe popu nine hull days! they released certain gentlemen im The city itself has narrow, dirty by the amount of chloride of sodium— lation of England died, or 2,500,000 prisoned in their city and inscribed, morning until night fora grocery store. otherwise commen salt—wliicli, accord streets. The water supply for its 70,- out of 5,000,000. Between 1347 and Precedence. "Yours as ye will, either present peace He vowed and declared his intention 000 people comes in a four inch pipe. almost from babyhood. To-day he is ing to Hir John Murray, tlie tea con The open courts are few and small, 1350 one-fourth of all the population or weir.” Edmonia—Mrs. Topnotch Is what 1 the manager of one of the biggest pa tains, Professor Joly concluded that and the houses are bunched together of the world was carried off by this call impertinent. \ Hr id p«room. Eudocia—lu what way? pers in the Northwest, a leader in soci the earth was 80,000,600 to 00,000,000 with no regard for room or cleanliness. pestilence. Not less than 25,000.000 perished in Europe alone. The deaths A young couple were married in Fen- ety’s realm anil an authority in busi years old. Dr. Dubois has reported on Edmonia—Why, she is not a Colonia) Some houses are underground and oth In Venice were 100,000, ill Florence 60,- elon Falls, and a number of their Dame, but when she came to the Colo this matter to the Academy of Sciences ers on top of tlie high inclosing walls. ness circles. Another boy wanted to tie 000, in Paris 50.000, in London 100,000, friends and relatives assembled at Hie at Amsterdam, and he is led to dispute The people are fanatical, ignorant, in Avignon a “number wholly beyond uial reception she had on a more ele railway stutloli to see them off on their a dairyman and do nothing but herd gant frock than any one of the Dames. Sir John Murray's estimate of the selfish. There is much to detract from calculation.” This form of pestilence honeymoon, old slippers and rice were the cows, driving them up at milking the ideal city, lint despite all this and has not occurred a second time. It —Detroit Free Press. amount of sodium carried to the sea L»y time from tlie flower-strewn hills with showered on the haippy pair as they more Jerusalem from the Mount of may be that its second time is come boarded (lie train. Wlien they got com all their “bells Bringing,” and assisting rivers, the outcome of his examination Tbe t'nrelem. Thing. Olives Is the same in its essential de with the belching of nauseous gases fortaldy seated in the ear, tlie groom in the milking. His mood or bis fancy being to reduce the age of tlie oceans of Dr. Adjutant Bird—So you have ta tails, the same in the framework of its by the volcanoes of the tropics.—New noticed a I loot In the aisle, and, think changed, and to-day he is one of our the world to about 24,000,000 years. ken tbe whole bottle, eh? Well, it's setting, the game in fascinating sug York Press. Ing it was one that had been thrown Supreme Judges and a terror to evil This agrees fairly well with Professor very strange that you don’t feel any gestion, as the Jerusalem of which Da into the car by some of his Jovial doers. The romance of country life has Hollas’ calculation that the de|H>sition better. vid sang and over which Jesus wept. Two Glimpses of Flinenle. friends, threw the boot out of the win The Ostrich—Do you know, doctor, of the geological strata, which began as fled forever. A pale, delicate little boy, I can still hear the strains of “Par- dow us th«* train was moving. It hap it has just struck me that I forgot to soon as there was sea and land, has Point« About a Good Horne. taut Pour la Syrie,” which the bands pened that the boot belonged to a well who devoured all the hunting stories taken some 26,000,000 years—a million There are some points which are val played in honor as she embarked iu the remove tbe cork?—I’uck. known Toronto commercial traveler and books of travel he could get, want who had removed his boots to ease his ed to tie an explorer and search for new or two more or less does not matter. uable in liorses of every description. imperial yacht Aigle on leaving tlie The bead should lie proportionately ball at Cairo, and the salutes by which weary feet, on the arrival of the train countries and kill big game; none of Professor George Darwin will not ac First Fan —That right fielder Is at Lindsay the bridegroom was com your little jack-rabbits, birds and wild cept less than 66,000,000 since the earth large and well set on. Tbe lower jaw her departure was proclaimed. The mighty light on his feet, Look how polled to purchase a new pair of boots ducks, but elephants, tigers, lions, etc., threw oft' the moon as a needless incum bones should be sufficiently fur apart ball took place in November, 1869. 1 he went into the air for that fly. to enable tbe head to form an angle did not see tbe empress again till a few for the drummer.—Toronto Globe. Second Fan—Well, he ought to be. something that would make the wil brance, and she had iiegun revolving with tbe neck, wliicb gives it free mo months after. It so chanced that one He’s jumped eight contracts so far derness howl when he got in his deadly on her axis long before. tion and a graceful carriage and pre hot. dull afternoon in London, in tbe A Pointed Sniigestton. vents it bearing too heavily on the mid-September of 1870, I was waiting this season. — Cincinnati Commercial A young married lady is often criti shot. To-day he is a well-known phy Is the United States " She ” or " It.” hand. The eye should lie large, a little for some friends nt the Charing Cross Tribune. cised by her friends because of the sician and surgeon. He is an explorer, prominent, and the eyelids fine ami railway station, when 1 saw a one We have now decided that the United not of new countries, but of diseases, freedom with which she accepts little Itemlnlncent. a tentions from friends of tlie other and white lie does not make tlie wilder States "is” and not “are.” We have thin. The ear should be small and horse fly, driven by a coachman whose "now time does drag!” wearily tick erect and quick in motion. The lop shabby oiled bat and dirty white Ber ed the pendulum of tbe clock. Bex. ness howl, he makes his patients fre determined the number and we now At a recent gathering which slip at quently gothrough that unpleasant ex want to know the sex. Is the United ear indicates dullness and stubborn lin gloves proclaimed him as belonging “Oh, I don't know.” said the mercury tended she drew from her pocket her perience. A schoolmate of this boy States “she” or "it”? A number of in ness. When too far back, there is a to some second rate livery stable, stop in the thermometer, rising to respond. at tlie station. Its sole occupant was a “It seeuis only a short time since I luce handkerchief, in which a knot had used to make his school friends stand ternational writers who involve us in disposition to mischief. lady attired in very dusty black, look was in the ‘thirties.’ ’’—Chicago Trlh- been tied in older to call to her mind around him in any way be chose. He international politics regard us as fem Kill Her Love. ing weary and travel worn, and al) uue. some trivial duty. inine. Of England wesay "she.” The Charles Dickens, though be uujrried alone. Tlie lady was the Empress Eu “Dear me," said the |s>pular young simply commanded them to do this sex of France has never been in doubt, Catherine, one of George Hogarth's genie.—“The Story of tlie Khedive.” A Different Matter. married lady to several gallnuts about and do that and they obeyed. He un- The Beauty—B-but you told papa her. "why is that knot In my handker blushingly told them that some time and nations, like ships, are by general three daughters, in 1836, was later de Ruined by Hnts. you could k-keep me in tbe style I was chief? I tied it there to remind me of he would tie "Governor of the State acceptance feminine. "The United votedly attached to her sister Mary. Mr. Stedman, a merchant of Essex, accustomed to. something. Wliat could it lie?” and maybe President of the United States, she is a great nation,” would lie Why lie did not marry Mary In tbe Tbe Beast—So I could, dear. It is the “My child1,” said an old lady who States, and when that time came he an appropriate modern head for a copy first place is not certainly known un England, became bankrupt tlie other overheard her and who Is noted for the intended to hang about half of them.” book for the school children. Thus less it be that Mary, a young woman day, and when the court asked for an frequent changing of the styles that acrid wittliiess of her repartee, “it was To-day he is a barkeeper in one of the might a grammatical fact 1« impressed of great loveliness of character, had explanation he surprised it by saying breaks me.—Life. successfully concealed her own affec that rats were tbe cause of lus ruin. probably tied in order to remind you lowest saloons, and he doesn’t hesitate U| h > ii the plastic mind. tion for Catherine’s betrothed in order All his money, he said, had been In Talked Alione Him. that you are married.” to ask his old schoolboy friends for a to save her sister from disappointment. vested in large storehouses containing Wiggles—Hicks is an old friend of Pensions in Various States. Percy Fitzgerald, a friend of Dickens, provisions, and during tbe last couple yours, isn't he? dime when he sees them. Another Suliullol Vanin. Waggles—Yes. Why? The State in which there is the least expressed this idea in an article in of years rats had got in and destroyed "Ah,” exclaimed Mrs. Oklcastle as txiy was going to be a soldier true. He Wiggles—Oh, I heard him talking she took a book from the table in the was fairly going to mow down regi number of Government pensioners is Harper's Magazine entitled “Dickens the food. When asked if lie had tried to exter about you tills morning.—Somerville miignilieetit library of the new neigh ment after regiment of the enemy as Nevada, in which they number only Iu His Books.” minate them, he replied that he had Journal. hors, “hand laid paper, isn't It?” the rushed up the hill to take the fort 275. There are 800 in Wyoming and The Exceptional Case. used enough poison to kill millions of “Is it?” her hostess asked, looking at he was helping to protect. Just when 850 in Utah. Ohio and Pennsylvania No Lack at All. "You say you are thankful you have rats, but that it bad not produced any It doubtfully. “I told Josiah when I the danger was greatest and the battle together have 210,000—only 10,000 less “Unfortunate in love, you say?” appreciable effect. bought them books that that's one of a cold?” "Well, rather. I always seem to se “Yes,” answered tbe optimist. “A the set of that he was payin’ a whole thickest he was going to rush out and than the total number of persons en lect a girl who admires physical lot too much. I'm glad It wasn't me. wave "old glory” in their faces. For gaged In the Federal service of the cold is one of tbe few ailments that a Important Iu WlreleH. Telegraphy. prowess, and then 1 find 1 have a rival doctor will undertake to cure nowa If I'd of went a nd give such a price for this he would lie rewarded by one of United States at home and abroad. Tbe coherer of Branly, upon which days without a surgical operation.”— wireless telegraphy depends. Is a tube who is bigger than I am.”—Chicago something that was hand laid, I'd nev the highest positions in the army, and Post Be careful in business matters. This Washington Star. er bear tlie last of It from him. Hut liis name and picture would appear in of metallic filings whose resistance io he wouldn't believe it when I told him every history as a great hero. To-day thing of slack business transactions an electrio current is varied by the Her Sway. Adam’n Mistake. he was cheated, because I seen the he is fighting his satanic majesty as a causes half the hard feelings and more transmitted waves. A new and more She—You don’t love me as you once than half the lawsuits. Freddie — Popper, what does It mean same set with nearly three times more sensitive nnd durable coherer of the did. Before we were married you con- preacher in a little country town, and gilt on tbe bindin's for a lower price. by Adam's one fatal slip? same Inventor consists of a tripod of sidered me absolutely perfect. while not satisfied, he is glad to enter Freddie’s Popper—Not hanging on to lion or other metnl with rusted feet Josiah's awful headstrong In some Have faitii enough in yourself to He—Exactly, and now you're per in his yearly report the names of the read the creeds of ail men; to lie nar that rib, I guess.—New York Times. ways.”—Chicago Record-Hera Id. resting upon a polished stf>el plate. fectly absolute.—Philadelphia Press. few recruits who have deserted from row Is to wrong yourself. Ma«le Hull VVul.lnir Up. the ranks of the evil one and joined Rome's Aqueducts. Mania, of Author.. The Bridal Wreath. Mr. Spinks Well, Willie, has your Little Bertie had been taught not to The eight aqueducts of ancient his little army who are ready to fight Trials and defeats will season a man sister made up her mind to go to the ask for anything nt meals, tine day In a recent article on the “Mania of The bridal wreath is usually formed Rome brought 40,000,000 gallons of or labor for the cause. if he has the proper material in him to concert with me? poor Bertie had been forgotten, when Authors" In the Revue I'nlverselle of of myrtle branches in Germany. It is water a day into the city. Had the «««« stand seasoning. be pathetically inquired, “Do little boys Paris we are told that Darwin always made of orange blossoms In France as Willie — Yes. She's made up her mind, Romans been aware that water al The above are mere instances I have get to heaven when they nre starved practiced on liis old fiddle before writ well as in the United States. In Italy and she's making up her face now. ways rises to its own level these huge The road to heaven should be a ladder ing; Chateaubriand while dictating to and the French cantous of Switzer to death ?"—London Tit-Bits. erections on arches seventy feet high known of aiming high, or low, as the whose every step should lie a kind and She'll be down in a minute. his secretary was in tbe habit of walk land it Is of white roses. In Spain the case might be. However, I believe like need never have been built. Her Aolile tli-pil. The gravedigger rises to remark that ing in bis Imre feet; Schiller and Goethe flowers of which it is composed are red the old gray-haired father in “aiming honorable deed to man and beast. "No wonder he loves her! Didn’t she Sure Test. every man finds himself in a hole soon could not write unless their feet were rosea and pinks. In tbe islands of high” and living up to it. It makes a on ice; Lord Derby always tilled bis Greece vine leaves serve tbe purpose, Hide your gloom from the world; it eave his life?" She—They held a mirror over her er or later.—Philadelphia Record. "Mercy! How?" mouth with brandy cherries; Feniinore and In Bohemia rosemary 1 b employed. face to see If she was alive. I don’t boy or a girl, in fact, anylsxly, better has enough of its own. "Why. he said if she didn't accept for adopting it. The one who "aims Cooper used to ehew gumdrops; Byron In German Switzerland a crowu of understand that. The next hardest thing to getting up The greatest of all pleasures Is to give him he'd go and kill himself, and she In the world is to keep from gettiug filled his pockets with truffles; Thé artificial flowers takes the place of tlie He—Why, you see, If she was alive high” does not, as a rule, resort to any took him.”— Philadelphia Bulletin. wreath. thing low or contemptible. It lias »¡pleasure tonne we love. ■he’d open her eyes and look in it. down. | ophile Gautier burned incense
