BANDON RKCORDER.
| POLLY LARKIN. |
The Eualieh Navy.
In the earliest times of the British
navy there was practically uo distinc
tion betweeu the merchantman and the
man-of-war. In the rare times of peace
men-of-war truded as merchantmen,
while merchantmen always went arm
ed. Thus in tll'ie of war the trader be
came the warship and vice versa.
From the time of the conquest and
probably earlier down to the days of
Elizabeth this was the ordinary prac
tice. Elizabeth hired out ships of the
navy for all sorts of purposes, from
piracy to slave trading, taking her
share of the protits when the venture
was successful and disclaiming all re
sponsibility when it wasn't.
Henry III., who may be described as
the originator of the navy as a special
lighting force, hired out the ships spe
cially built for the navy in times of
peace and even allowed them to l»e
taken away from their appointed sta
lions provided that the hirers deposited
due security for the return of tbe ships
with their tackle and all equipment in
a proper state of efficiency. The prac
tice ceased after the repulse of the
Spanish armada, when the lighting
ship, as such, became distinct from the
trader. I.ondon < ¡lobe.
Meanings ot the Word ••Stove.”
The word “stove,” as applied to a
heater for a room, seems to be of about
the same age as tbe article to which the
name is now applied, for while the
word as a name luid an existence in
early English It was used In a different
sense.
Both Lord Bacon and Woodward
usisl It as referring to a house or room
artificially warmed and particularly a
hothouse for plants. Bacon also used
the word as a verb In the way of keep
ing warm In a house or room, as “to
stove orange trees and myrtles,” to
quote from his writings. Pepys used
the verb in a nautical sense, as heating
for the purpose of making pliable, ns
“stove bolt ropes.”
But all these definitions arc obsolete
now, such disuse dating from the time
when Dr. Franklin made Ills discover
les and applications. The French word
"etuve,” It may be added, describes a
hothouse or bathing room, and hence Is
parallel In meaning with the early Eng
llsb word.
Isn't it a pity that company man
ners are so often forgotten in the home-
lite? Why is it that those nearest and
dearest to tis must see the ugly aud un
desirable side and hear the unkind re
marks and sarcastic wolds that cut
deeper than so many blows? Why do
we pave the way for regrets in the fu
ture when we would give anything to
recall them when it is too late? Hardly
ailay passes when we are not guilty of
some hasty action or unkiud word.
We plead guilty to the charge and iu
excuse say, “We were tired and worn
out,” or “we were vexed at some trivial
att'air and forgot ourselves for the mo
ment,” and yet we make that no ex
cuse for the little folks when they are
guilty of the same offense. We are in
consistent; we lay down tbe law for the
children and punish them for not ol*y-
mg it w hen they are but following in
our fisitsteps. We set them a bad ex
ample and then say, “Do as I say, not
as I do.” Polly hates the bickerings
and fault-tliiiling In the home-life and
the petty evils that could be so well
avoided and which are only conspicu
ous for their alisence when guests are
present 111 the household to take notes.
There should be such perfect harmony
that the company manners, which
seem so strained when put on for the
occasion, would lie so natural as to be a
part of the perfect, peaceful and happy
home.
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of child-life has not tieen entiiely
warped out of her childish nature and
whether she will have the strong will
as site grows older to assert herself and
grasp some of the traits that make the
sweetness of the home-life aud cultivate
a cheerful, happy disposition instead of
thefault-tindingand bickerings she baa
been accustomed to ever since she could
stand alone. How easy it is to make
or mar the dis|sMitiou of tlie little folks
aud how prone we are to forget tliat
they are walking in our steps.
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In South Australia there exists a
language test for intending immigrants
and unless a man can sjieak or write
the English language lie is not allowed
to laud. That is exactly the kind of law
we want in this country, and when
that method is adopted there will l>e
fewer paupers and criminals from for
eign countries swarming to our shores.
1 heard an Englishman say the other
day with a sarcastic laugh, "You
Americans make me tired, you are so
blind to your own interests. You throw
open your gates and say, ‘Collie in;
come one anil all. This is a free coun
try, the laud of liberty; come in and
welcome to a home in our midst. The
foreign countries, mine, for instance,
rather than till our jails with criminals
pardon them on condition that they
leave the country. We do more than
this, we pay their passage; and where
do they liie themselves to? To no
other place than the United States,‘the
home of tile brave and Hie land of the
free,’ as I have beard you all so proudly
quote. I tell you the United Slates is
tlie Mecca for foreign criminals. Your
political parties are so grasping anil so
anxious for votes tliat they are ready
with a cordial greeting, and the tirst
thing you know our criminals are vot
ing and ere long dictating to you what
you must do to hold their votes. I tell
you it is downright stupidity on the
part of tlie American people.” There
is more truth than poetry in tlie fore
going.
iihih
CHOICE MISCELLANY
Story ot aa Anar Mole.
There I* or was an army mule a pen
sioner of the United Statea--tradition
says that army mule* are mortal,
hence the doubt aa to tense. But this
mule. Mexlque, was ordered to be sold
at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama, in
1883. He had been at tbe post a long
time and had grown gray In tbe serv
ice, having an honorable record In
the Mexican war, and the officers at
Mount Vernon asked the quartermas
ter general to retain him till the end
of bls days. This application, signed
by William A. Kobbe, then an artil
lery lieutenant, and Indorsed by a
dozen proper military authorities. In
cluding General Hancock aud Gener
al Sherman. Is on record at Washing
ton. How the white mule's record
grew In honor with successive Indorse
ment may lie seen from the command
lug general's letter:
I have seen that mule, and. whether
true or false, the soldiers believe It was
left at the Big spring, where Mount Ver
non barracks now are, at the time Gen
eral Jackson * army camped there, about
1819-20. Tradition says It was once a «or-
rel, but now It la white from age.
The quartermaster’s department will be
chargeable with Ingratitude If that mule
Is sold or the care and maintenance of It
thrown on the charitable officers of the
post. I advise that it be kept In the de
partment, fed and maintained till death.
W. T. SHERMAN.
P. 8.—I think that mule was at Fort
Morgan, Mobile point, when I was there
In 18«.
W. T. 8.
The secretary of war finally direct
ed “that this mule be kept and well
cared for at public exiiense us long as
he lives. '
Largest St-orlag Board In the World.
This great scoreboard, the largest in
the world, is on the cricket grounds in
Sydney. Australia, which will hold
without elbow touching 49.000 specta
tors and upon which up to tbe present
time *730,000 has been expended.
When the grounds are packed with
visitors, anil they usually are, 38,000
being the average number that usually
gather when a good cricket game is
scheduled in Sydney, the figures on the
great board can be easily read by ev
ery spectator that skirts the huge circle
where tbe game is played.
Tlie board is something like 25 feet
in height anif over 70 in length.
Tlie numbers are huge. They are
painted on thick calico and worked on
rollers. The names are also on calico,
fitted on frames and let into openings
sized to hold them. It takes three men
to operate tills largest scoring hoard
in the world, but so perfect is its con
struction it takes but two minutes to
change its entire score.
E*p*n*lv* Coartsblp
Recently a young Frenchman of good
family, but very poor, fell tn love with
a banker’s daughter, and. obtaining a
letter of Introduction to her father,
called on him. He found him at home,
and a pleasant conversation followed.
As he tsJked, however, the young
man fumbled with a gold coin, the only
money be possessed, and when he rose
to take leuve he removed it from bis
waistcoat pocket aud put it, without
thinking, into liis trousers pocket. As
he was strolling home he looked for
the coin, but, alas, it was not to be
found, for there was a small hole in
his trouser* pocket, anil aH soon as he
had put it In it fell noiselessly on the
velvet carpet In Hie banker’s drawing
room.
As he sorely needed the money the
young man, though much against bis
will, resolved to go back and inquire
about it.
“Yes,” said the banker as he entered;
“1 found a gold coin on the carpet as
soon as you left the room, and I was
not surprised, for I lost a similar coin
In tliat very place two days ago. This,
therefore, is my money, anil we will
now look for yours.”
The banker smiled as he spoke, but
the penniless young man turned bls
back on him and abruptly left the
house.
The Gleaner*.
The old custom of gleaning In the
harvest fields, which recalls the Bib
lical story of Ruth and Naomi, is not
obsolete in England, and in Hertford
shire, Bedfordshire and tlie neighbor
ing counties, as soon as the wheat is
gathered in the late days of August,
there may be seen in the newly cleared
llelils numbers of women and children
diligently picking up one by one the
scattered ears and forming them into
neat little sheaves which they carry iu
their hands until large enough to be
bound up. When the daylight falls, all
the booty Is bound up in cloths and
carried home on tlie heads of the
gleaners. At home they thrash It out
by hand and sell the grain or use it for
their chickens. Tlie gathering of a
half peck is usually a full day’s work
for a child, and often a woman spends
a whole day In gathering very little
more. Gleaning, however, is looked
upon somewhat in the light of a picnic.
The mother and children leave home In
the morning, take with them food for
the day and stay out iu tlie fields until
nightfall.
Theolher day a little boy, who rushed
into the back door of hie home on his
return fromshcool, tiptoed out again and
said, “You fellows had better keep
quiet. There's company in tlie house,
I guess, for pa’s got on his I test company
manners; lie’s talking so easy and
pleasant you’d Hunk he was made of
honey. He can't stand it long after
the company goes, and eomebody’ill
BRIEF REVIEW.
get their heads nearly taken oil', you’ll
see. He’ll talk loud enough then to be
Piano With a History.
heard dow n to tlie corner. Wish there
A
presentation
of more than ordinary
was company iiere all the time, for lie
interest was made in New Orleans re
makes
a
fellow
nervous
and
his
head
Pick pocket« and Plnm.
Artful as the ways of the “Heathen ache, too, lie’s so cross and snappish. cently, and thereby hangs astory. Just
Heforni* anil Human Nature.
Chinee" are tbe dodges of the expert You’d never know pa was the same after the fall of Vicksburg, when Gen
Occasionally events crystallize so
picker of pockets. The other night a man when company was’round, would eral Sherman’s army was marching on
that the reformer can come Into power
young lady who had been to the then you?” “No,” said his brother, “but if Jackson, General Joseph E. Johnson
through an extraordinary revulsion of
ter was getting on to a tram car, and, pa only knows it, Jim Jones’ father made a determined stand iu thesuburlis
tlie people against their masters, but
knowing the possibilities opened up to
this revulsion has to be produced by
of Jackson, Miss. The famous Wash
the light fingered gentry by a crowd, could teach him manners all ’round. ington Artillery of New Orleans con
events rather than words. says the
she kept her hand In her pocket and He’d make pa feel as slim as a hairpin stituted a portion of his forces, and they
Political Science Quarterly, A few
Will Solve a Problem.
grusped her purse firmly. Suddenly first round. He don’t yell, ‘sit up to
men of the dominant party sent to
A
company
lias
been
organized
In
she felt a sharp prick as from a pin on the table there,’ if a fellow happens to were stationed at what was known as London which Is expected to solve once prison will do more to cause a revul-
her hand and, acting on the Impulse, sit back a little, and lie doesn’t screech, the ('isiper residence, two miles west of and for all the eating problem as it sion of feeling than all tlie arguments
let go her hold of the purse and 'how much more do you want?’ if you town. It was known that every tiling faces the bachelor and the servantless or newspaper exposes in the world.
snatched her hand out. almost ns quick happen to pass your plate back, or, ‘eat in the Cooper house would be ruined if household. This company guarantees The reformer may then get his innings,
ly returning it, but she was too late. all on your plate before you ask for not burned, therefore the piano, a to send a hot meal anywhere, at any and If he makes some effort to under
Iu the few seconds that had elapsed
handsome instrument for those days, time, at a moderate cost, the dinner to stand the human nature that pervades
another band had been there, and the more of anything else.’ Goodness, the was picked up by the soldiers ami car be as good as can be got In any of the the greatest part of the city population
way
pa
acts
just
takes
a
fellow
’
s
appe
purse was gone.
ried within their breastworks. One of first class restaurants. Not only is the he may remain longer than a brief sea
tite. If I wanted it before I don’t want
dinner sent, but with It goes a complete son, but tbe odds are against it for a
anything after lie gets through talk the members of tbe artillery company, table service- silver, glass and mipery. long time still to come, for the reformer
Mollifying.
in a spirit of reckless fun, sat dowu to
“I am afraid, Bobby,” said his moth ing. Guess he wouldn’t eat much,
The idea in Itself Is not particularly is as yet constitutionally unable to fol
er, “that when I tell your father what either, if every time lie wanted any tlie piano and played a lively air while new, but the price for which it is done low up the detail necessary for political
a naughty boy you've been he will pun thing somebody yelled at him like they the shot and shells were whizzing all is surprisingly small. A dinner for popularity ami success. He relies on
ish you severely.”
were mad as lilaz s because lie asked for alsiut him. When the enemy came one, comprising soup, entree, roast and ideas, not on men. He does not realize
"Have you got to tell him?” nsked it. Jim Jones’ father treats them like close he grablied up his gun and got in sweet, is sent out for 2 shillings. Break that the majority of citizens still live
Bobby earnestly.
the tiring line, where lie remained until fast costs n shilling anil lunch a shil in a world of personalities, not of prin
“Oh, yes; I shall tell him immediate they were company, and they are lots the Federal« were repulsed, leaving sev ling anil sixpence. The company un ciples.
better behaved than we are. Do you
ly after'dinner.”
eral hundred dead oil tlie field, when dertakes to supply all the meals of a
Bed. Blue and Orange Hailstone*.
The look of concern on Bobby's face know, tlie way pa acts makes you feel
household at a guinea per week for
Humboldt, an authority on atmos
mean and ugly toward everybody. the daring young Louisianian resumed each one. It has a central kitchen,
deepened.
the music. It is that battle-scarred old where the food is prepared, and spe pheric phenomena never disputed, told
"Well, mother,” said he, "give him a Sometimes I hate him.”
pinao that was presented to the Wash cially constructed baskets, so arranged of a heavy hailstorm which passed
better dinner than usual. You might
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ington Artillery. At- the time of the that the hot dishes will stay hot anil over Tuscany on March 14. 1813, every
do that much for me.”—Pittsburg Dis
Not an enviable pen picture of that battle it was the property of Miss Coop the cold dishes cold.
ice globule of tlie entire fall being of
patch.
a beautiful orange color. Five years
father, yet every word was true. He er, who afterward,as Mrs W. W. Scott,
A Short Cut to Sleep.
prior to this extraordinary event Car-
doesn’t know liow to treat his children. became the mother of Mrs. A. Q. May,
Where Newspaper* Are Scarce.
“Doctor,” said lie, “I'm a victim of He seems to forget that they are human
In Paraguay there I h a little com niola, Germany, was treated to a fall
the
donor.
The
presentation
s|>eech
Insomnia. I can't sleep if there's the beings, and speaks to and orders them
of five feet of blood red snow, fol
was made by A. Q. May, her husliand, munistic colony known as the Cosmo lowed by a slight fall of blue hall,
least noise, such as a cat on the gar
colony,
which
was
founded
several
around
as
if
they
were
a
lot
of
dumb
who is one of the Mississippi Railroad
den wall, for Instance.”
years ago by an enthusiastic band of which is said to have given “the whole
“This powder will be effective,” re animals that obeyed through fear. Jim Commissioners.
Australian socialists.
After many face of the earth an exceedingly cu
Jones
’
father
treated
his
children
like
plied the physician, after componnd
hardships and privations tlie colony is rious aspect.” Red hailstones fell at
they were company. In other words
South African Gold Deposits.
ing a prescription.
now in sucli a flourishing condition Amsterdam in 1726. at London in 1663
lie considered his boys gentlemen and
"When do I take it, doctor?”
It is estimated tliat for every mile in as to boast a newspaper of Its own (during the time of the great plague),
“You don't take it. (Jive it to the his daughters little ladies. They ft ere length along the course of the reefs, called the Cosmo Monthly. The man aud at divers places in Ireland and
cat In a little milk.”—Family Doctor. brought up urn er letining Intluences down to a vertical depth of KMJO feet for ner in which news is dispensed to the France in the early part of tlie past
and tanglit that the loud and boister the dip of these reefs, gold to the value colonists is interesting. A horn is century.
Fnttina Him Off.
ous way of speaking was coarse anil un
blown, generally twice, with half au
Stndlo Secret.
He proposed on his way home from refined and not to lie tolerated ill their of £10,000,000 will be extracted. This is hour’s gathering time between. Tbe
a
conservative
estimate
at
least
as
ap
"Sometimes," sighed the weary papa
church one Sunday evening. She was
home circle. Consequently they could plied to the central section of the Hand. colonists assemble and the reader for as lie tried In vain to quiet Hie tur
too young to marry and did not want
lie
excused for their want of tact when If we assume these conditions to attain the occasion gives out bis news, which bulent infant, “I wish I was a pho
him, but she said “Yes,” with the stip
they
commiserated with their less for to a depth of 6000 feet vertically, we consists of Interesting Items selected tographer.”
ulation that lie should get her father's
from the latest weekly papers and dis
"And why?” nonchalantly asked
consent. Tlie young man was happy tunate little neighbors in having so ob have the enormous sum of £60,000,000 patches from the Asuucion dally pa
until he discovered the next day that jectionable and unlovable a father. Tlie for each mile in length. It is not un per, which tbe colonists receive twice mamma, as she turned to another chap
ter.
his adored one's father had been dead toys did not resent the uncomplimen reasonable to suppose that these con a week.
“Because a photographer seems to
several years.
tary remarks either, but acknowledged ditions will tie maintained along most
be the only man in tbe world who can
the truth and sighed deeply to think of the central section, say for a distance
A Rush to Soath Africa.
make a baby look pleasant when it
Bryonil III« Limit.
A rush of emigrants from Australia doesn't wish to.”—Photographic Times.
their father was not as kind and as of ten miles, in which case we would
Husband (examining railway ticket)
to
South
Africa
has
set
In
and
Is
wor
—Why, according to the announcement thoughtful in his home-life as he might have ati auriferous area, within practi rying tbe authorities of the common
Stupidity- and the None.
on this excursion ticket It's only guild lie. “’Tisn’t ’cause he don’t know cable mining depths, containing up wealth of the southern seas. The Mel
how,” said one of the little sons, “for ward of £600,000,000 value in gold.
Children with accidental affections
for ten days.
bourne papers strongly deprecate tlie
of the uostrlls which grow chronic be
Wife -Well, why complain of that. you just ought to see him when we’ve
exodus, declaring tliat the emigrants
come stupid. An 111 working mucous
It’s a good deal more of a guarantee got company. He’s a regular dude
British Kings and the Beard.
are largely those whom Australia can
In that line than you can give. Rich then, and no one can act lietter or lie
On lookingat the (sirtraitsof tlie Eng least afford to lose laborers, artisans, membrane Is enough to make a child
mond Dispatch.
more [lerlite than pa. Trouble is lie lish Kings from William the Conqueror farm bands, etc. Applicants for per n dunce. It may be that snuff be
came the rage in Europe toward tlie
can’t stand it long at a time though, to Edward VI1 one is struck by the fact mits to emigrate have to prove them end of
the seventeenth century be
Economical.
selves possessed of a minimum of *100. cause it
and
lie
takes
it
out
on
the
rtst
of
us
for
that
no
monarch
since
Charles
I
has
stimulated this member In tlie
Whyte—Browne is very economical.
The
requirement,
together
with
the
having to la* so proper. It don’t agree worn a beard until now. In the more
noses of august and illustrious persons.
Isn’t he?
homely and solid presentment of King expense of the voyage, Is an obstacle
Black—Browne? Well. I'll tell you. with him.”
to the poor In purse, but adventurous in
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Edward there is not to lie found that spirit, who usually flock to gold coun
A Stupid Fellow.
Browne is the aort of man who when
he wants an awl and hasn't any in
Flaherty—He’s not smart at all, at
Children are great mimics, anil they mingling of knightly romance and the tries. The result Is that ships from
stead of buying one will go to work are apt to copy faithfully the actions of plaintive melancholy which kindles the Australia are suffering from a plague all, Is he?
to make one by straightening out a those whom they are thrown in con passionate devotion of some and the of stowaways. New York Tribune.
Flanigan—Smart? Faith, he’s that
dumb ye could talk belmlnd Ills back
corkscrew.
tact with in every day life. Watch a compassion of all, as seen in Vandyck’s
roight before his face, an' he'd not
little girl with her doll and note her liktiess of the ill-fated Stuart; but
Novel Life Saving Apparatus.
The TIoNlon Boy.
know it.—Philadelphia Record.
If all that is claimed for the new life
“Lookin’ fer a bird's nest, sonny?” actions carefully. Possibly she will neither is there that indeterm n ite look
asked the good natured westerner of a sing a little lullaby or she will talk or theteni|sirizer, tliat lnntof the final saving apparatus constructed by a (Il
Part* of Speech.
seven-year-old boy whom lie met In soothingly to it as she binds up some insincerity which made Htattbrd cry out lieva citizen be true, we may expect
Teacher—Thomas, what are the parts
that
in
the
near
future
no
wrecks,
Boston Common.
imaginary wound or nurses it through at his betrayal. "Put not your trust in
however disastrous, will have a fata of speech?
“No, sir,” replied the intellectual a severe spell of sickness. Perchance princes.”
Tommy Tucker (after an exhaustive
Issue. The novel apparatus Is con
prodigy ns lie continued to gaze up she will gently chide it for being a
structed after the manner of a diving mental effort)—It's the way a man
Into the tree. “I am merely endeavor
The Nile mud, which renders Egypt suit, of which the legs are weighted. talks when he stutters.—Exchange.
naughty child and grieve over its diso-
ing to correctly classify this tree as a
a habitable country, is said to Isar a It Is rendered so buoyant with air
ohedlence.
She
is
but
Imitating
her
botanical product.” — Columbus State
KclipNed.
mother and the way she has chosen in striking resemblance to that which is chambers that half the body remains
Journal.
Hewitt—What became of the girl
bringing her wee daughter up. In brought down every season by tlie Mis aliove water, and outside pockets are
provided to bold a lamp, matches, food, that you used to say was the light of
Where Iler Hopes Centered.
s riking contrast will lie another little souri.
n trumpet and a weapon to ward off your life?
“I have a surprise in store for you, child, who shows her displeasure by
Jewett—Another fellow came be-
One thousand and forty million gal the attacks of large flab. -Pall Mall
dear,” be said, seating himself at the nearly shaking her doll to pieces, box
tween me and the light.
lons of lieer brewed in the United King Gazette.
supper table.
ing its ears and scolding it unmerci
For Ollier* to Enjoy.
“Well, darling. I hope it's n millinery
dom equals the total amount brewed by
fully. It is merely another type of the
store,” she responded quickly.—Chica
Brown—You should do something to
The Flag at Hair Mast.
America, France and Austria.
mother, anil the little one isonly carry
go News.
The custom of showing the flag at contribute to other people's enjoyment.
ing out her idea of mother-life as she
Jones—I do. I'm always making a
The natives of Guam are intensely half mast originated from the way •i t
knows it. “You naughty child,” says musical. Scarcely a house is without sea of showing the pre-eminence one . . .1 of rayself.—New York Press.
Very Polite.
“Here's an account of a man," said the little girl, “I’ve a good mind to some musical instrument, the well-to-do ship had over the other In time of war
Mrs. Gadsby, "who hasn't spoken a whip the life out of you. You’re such having pianos.
fare. The vanquished always bad to
Turnip seeds have been known to be
word to ills wife In three years.”
lower Its flag, while the victor's would dormant for seven years through lie-
an awful care and wear the soul out of
"That's rather n rigid adherence to me. I wish I had never seen you.”
There are in this country alsiut 200,- be raised as high as |*ossible In exul Ing planted too deep and after that
one of the roles of politeness," said Is she making it up? Hardly. It is
tation. To lower n flag Is an act of time to sprout.
mio miles of railway, or alsiut 40 per submission or betokens refqiect to a su
Gadsby.
only the repetition of her own home cent of the world's mileage.
"Bules of politeness!” said Mrs.
And They Are Obeyed.
perior or la a signal of distress. The
life. You know that she is only Imi
Gadsby in a scornful ton».
hoisting of a flag half mast high came
"What are unwritten laws, pa?”
England's Imports of meat for 1902 to to be used, therefore, as a sign of
“Yes; never interrupt a lady when tating her mother’s treatment towaid
“Your mother's, my son; she always
herself, and you wonder if all the sweet- date have decreased 6 per cent.
she is talking.”
mourning and respect.
speaks them.”—New York Press.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR I FACTS IN FEW LINES
Daudelioua purify tbe blood and tone
up tbe system.
Magazine rifles will be issued shortly
to tbe Moorish army.
French submarines will iu future be
manned by volunteers only.
The wife of the governor of New
Borneo bus a baby rhinoceros for a pet.
There are but nine subscribers to tbe
postoffice telephone ill Swansea. Wales.
The Russian consul at Salonika has
suddenly resigned his appointment to
enter a monastery.
Beetles iu tbe East aud West Indies
are so brilliant lu coloring that they
are beautiful us gems.
The volume of the world's commerce
is two and a half or three times as
great as it was thirty years ago.
Antwerp town council lias opehPiL a
labor exchange to assist workmen an<K_
servants of both sexes to obtain em
ploymeut.
Efforts are being made to establish
Why She Detested It.
a university at Jerusalem for the Jew
“Again." complains the devoted wife, ish students ex|>elled from European
“I am told that you have been flirting universities.
with that odious Miss Mashem on tbe
After thrashing a cor|«»ral who had
piazza.”
ill treated them eight German cavalry
“Bah!” retorts the gay husband,
men have deserted to France and en
thinking to rlducule the suspicions of
listed in the foreign legion.
bis wife. “Bab!” he repeats.
Its neck broken by a passing train,
“It Isn't bo bad,” asserts the wife,
“for a man to be guilty, but what I de a tine dog otter weighing twenty-one
test is when he acts so sheepish alsiut pounds was picked up recently at Gal-
gate, near Leicester, England.
it.”—Baltimore American.
Within the last fifty years 164.589
persons have emigrated from County
t'nnece**arlly Creel.
“And did you have your maid Incar Mayo, Ireland—nearly as many as in
cerated for stealing your Jewels?" habit the county at the present time.
asked Mrs. Oldeastle.
W. J. ltyan, a blind man in Milwau-
“Oh. my, no! Josiah was reading to kee, bus Invented a writing frame
me the other night about the way a with wire Hues to enable blind per-
man's body was incarcerated at one of sons to write with evenness aud sym
them crematory places because he metry.
made them promise to do It before be
Of ninety-three emperors who gov
died, but I'd never think of treating a erned the whole or a large part of the
person that way for just stealing.”— Roman empire sixty-two were mur
Chicago Record Herald.
dered or died under susplctous circuía
stances.
Thouabtful of the Children.
Orders for some 10.000 tons of ar-
"I suppose,” said Mr. Olds, “if I were
fo start smoking again it would set tlie mor plate for the new war vessels King
Edward V1L, Commonwealth and Do
children a bad example.”
“It would, Indeed.” replied his wife. minion have been shared by three Shef
"It’s thoughtful and unselfish of you field firms.
Finding a nine leaved shamrock, a
to consider that.”
"Yes; so I've decided to send the chil farm laborer at Groningen, Holland,
dren right off to boarding school, where sent It to Queen Wilhelmina, who ac
they won't see me.” — Philadelphia cepted tlie gift and rewarded the donor
with £2 is. 8d.
Press.
President Roosevelt has appointed a
Fashion Note.
man to look after the remnant of buf
faloes now remaining in this country
and to prevent that animal from be-
coming extinct.
Pineapples grow so plentifully in
Natal at certain seasons that It is not
worth while carting them to murket,
and they are often given to the p!gs
In consequence.
Inspectors of the Bristol (Englund)
factory district have figured out that
more than 5,000 miles of mudline made
cigarettes are turned out weekly from
the districts aforesaid.
Probably the smallest village In the
United Kingdom is Bagley Wood, about
three aud a half miles from Abingdon.
The latest thing In stripes.
It was formerly the abode of a hermit
and has only four Inhabitants now.
Thl* I* an Old One.
Mufklns—Supposing a fellow
Jonathan Hutchinson's allegation
going to choose a wife, colonel,
years ago that the prolonged use of
would you advise him to go about it? arsenic gave rise to callosities on the
The Colonel—I should advise him to palms and soles which in certain cases
select a little one.”
turned to cancer are said to have been
Mufklns—What for?
confirmed.
The Colonel—Because when it Is a
Betting on tbe results of the recent
question of a choice of evils It is best municipal elections at Rome was per
to choose the leaBt.—Philadelphia Bui mitted by the government. The wager
let In.
ing was conducted on the parimutuel
system, and tbe profits were devoted
B ub * Claaslfled.
“And to what insect family," said to charitable purposes.
The authorities in Cape Colony Lave
Phunny I’bool, tbe student, “would
you assign tbe ticks that Infest clocks, made an enactment forbidding the
practice of medicine to all foreign phy
professor?”
“Young man,” sternly replied the sicians in whose home countries a sim
veteran, “on page 24, third paragraph, ilar privilege Is not accorded to resi
under ‘Idiotic and Otherwise,’ you will dent practitioners in Cape Colony.
Within the last two years two new
tind clock ticks mentioned as a branch
of tlie tempos fuglt.”—Baltimore News. words, with many others, have been
introduced into the English language—
"commandeering,” a |>ollte word for
Not to Be Bluffed.
"1 will have to have three more days theft, and "uiorganeering.” the legal
out a week and receive my company acquisition of tbe property of others.
While demolishing an ancient church
In the parlor,” said the cook lady
at Lallnde, near Perigueux. France,
firmly.
"Bridget,” replied tbe mistress of some workmen found an egg apparent
tbe house, “I warn you not to push me ly in a perfect state of preservation
too far. You seem to forget that I be Imbedded in the mortar of a wall that
long to the Housewives’ union No. 17!” bad been standing for fully 800 years.
The smallest state In Brazil is Ser
—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
gipe, with an area of 15.135 square
Desiree of Love.
miles and a population of 400,00(), most
Silllcus — That fellow's head over ly a mixture of Portuguese, uegroes
heels In love with bis girl. I wonder aud Indians. It is purely au agri
they’ve not tieen married months ago. cultural state, yet there Is au almost
CynlcuB— Probably be hasn’t reached entire lack of agricultural implements.
tbe stage where he Buds himself more
There are 257,006 names In the new
miserable without bls loved one than city directory of Boston, an Increase
he could be with her. — Philadelphia of 4,722 over the number last year.
Record.
Surprisingly, tbe John Sullivans this
year outnumber the John Smiths
Foiled at Last.
three to one, but there are no Indica
“I tell yew what, them bunko men
tions that the Smiths are In danger
tlidn’t git none o’ my money this trip!"
of extinction.
boasted Uncle Silas.
Five of the twenty fellowships re
“They didn't, bey?"
“No. slrree! I lost my pocketbook on cently awarded In the department of
the way to town, an' they wasn't noth philosophy, Unlvere'ty of Pennsyl-
vauia, were given to women, Most of
in’ fer ’em ter git!”—Judge.
these fellowships carry witli them an
income durlug the academic year of
An Unfortunate Blunder.
"Mr. Whistter says he Is much au- *500 and free tuition, with an addi
noyed over the false report of bls tional *100 for particular research
work.
death.”
During a recent performance nt tlie
“How foolish of him to feel annoy
ance over aueb an unfortunate blun Wllna (Russia) theater revolutionary
proclamations were thrown from tlie
der!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
gallery to the stalls. The governor,
General Wahl, ordered the whole of
On the Blllvllle Border.
the occupants of the gallery to be ar
“You were boru in Georgia?"
"Yes, sub. 1 Dat what dey tells me.” rested and flogged. Among them was
a man who shot at the geueral later
“And raised there?"
“Well, sub. dey tried ter raise me by way ot revenge.
Milwaukee brewers are having trou
once, but de ) rope broke!”—Atlanta
ble with their employees over the quail
Constitution.
tlty of beer each man may be allowed
A Slim Oatlook.
to drink. The brewers are willing that
“I think your papa, dear Rosa, has each man should have two quarts at
been making some inquiries about me." uoon and two more at quitting time,
"What has he told you?”
but tbe men declare that they do not
“Nothing; but he offered me a cigar, see bow any man can get along with
and It was simply frightful!"
but four quarts of beer a day.
The Kind He Wauled.
“I want to look at some dining loom
tables,” said the customer.
“Yes, sir.” said tbe clerk. “We have
some very fine ones. Now. here is an
unusually pretty table, very cheap
too.”
“Can you play pingpong on it?"
"Well, why. to tell you tbe truth, sir,
this table is not suitable for pingpong."
"1 didn't ask you whether it was suit
able or not. I asked you whether or
not you could pluy plngpong on it.”
"Well, no, sir; you can't.”
"No way to stick in an extra board
or to put patent fixings to the round
corners or anything like that?"
"No, sir; it would lie impossible to
arrange this particular table so that
the game of pingpong could tie played
on It, but”—
"That's all right. 1’11 take this table.
Send it right up. You see, 1 wuuted to
make sure.”—Chicago Tribune.
Dlaplay.
If there were no such thing as dis
Coanter Irritant.
“Still bothered by that amateur cor
play In tlie world, my private opinion
Is. and I hope you agree with me. that net player next door?”
“No, I bought a dog.”
we might get on a great deal better
"What bad that to do with It?”
than we do and might be Infinitely
“Well, this was one of those dogs
more agreeable company than we are.
that howl frightfully every time they
—Charles Dickens
hear any sort of music.”—Exchange
Her Reason.
"But why did you encourage hnn If
Downward Career.
you didn’t want him to propose?”
First Fish—What’s the matter with
“Because Just at that time there Finback ? He looks seedy.
wasu't any one else to encourage.”—
Second Fish—Yes; he’s drinking like
Chicago Post.
a human being.- Puck.