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.
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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