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BANDON RECORDER. | POLLY LARKIN. | DOESN’T TRUST HORSES. Part Maulav aud Part Idiot la What Our Man Calle Then.. I have spent much of a long life In the observation of horses. I have reared them, brokeu them, trained them, ridden them, driven them in ev ery form from the plow to four in- band. The result of these years of study is summed up in one sentence—I believe the horse to be part maniac and part idiot. Every horse at some time in his life develops into a homi cidal maniac, I believe any man who trusts himself or his family to the power of a horse stronger than himself to lie lacking In common sense and wholly devoid of ordinary prudence, writes u Kentuckian to Harper's Week ly. 1 have driven one commonplace horse every other day for six years over the same road ami then had him go crazy and try to kill himself and me because a leaf fluttered down In front of him. I have known score* of horses, apparently trustworthy, appar ently creatures of routine, go wild and Insane over equally regular and recur ring phenomena. No amount of ob servation can tell when the brute will break out. One mare took two gener ations of children to school over the same quiet road and then in her nine teenth year went crazy because a rooster crowed alongside the road. She killed two of the children. If any one can tell me of one go<si reason why man should trust n horse, I should be glad to know. The Value or Singing. From the medical standpoint singing Is a most important exercise both by virtue of Its influence on the emotions, on the respiratory movements and on the development of the lungs. Nothing better shows the beneficial effect of singing in developing the chest and warding off the lung diseases than the great pulmonary development and free dom from pulmonary disease among professional singers. Their general health, moreover. Is exceptionally good, and this is probably In a large meas ure attributable to the mere exercise of the calling. It is especially useful In defective chest development and In chronic heart disease. Provided the patient can sing with comfort there is no condition in which singing is con traindieated unless It be a tendency to tuberculosis or aueurismal lueinoptysi*. It is scarcely necessary to say that ttic singer .should be so clad as to allow absolute freedom of the chest move ments, there should be no constriction of the neck or waist, the collar should be low and ample and the stays, If worn, ample and hs.se. Prospects For h Strenuous Ute. A well dressed lad, the son of wealthy parents, thought It would be quite manly to earn a few coppers for himself by selling daily papers, says the Chicago Journal. He stopped a tattered newsboy in the street and said to him: "Do you think I should be able to earn money as you do if I bought some papers ami came to this corner to sell them?” “Why do you want to sell papers?” “I’m tired of being Idle.” “Well,” said the philosophic little newsboy, with a serious air, "d’yer think yer can hold thirty-six papers in one hand, lick three or four boys big- ger’fi yerself with the other hand, while yer keeps two more off with yer feet and yells ‘Evenin’ paper’ nil the time?” "No-o, I don’t,” replied the well dressed boy. "Then yer are no good In the news boy biz,” replied the tattered philoso pher. "Ye’d better git yer people to ’prentice yer to somethin’ light.” An Atmosphere of llaiiplness. Happiness is, we maintain, a good end. The oidy question Is, How much sacrifice Is it worth? Well, certainly not the sacrifice of sincerity and cer tainly not the sacrifice of others, but surely the sacrifice of tlie lmt.lt of men tai laziness, which Is only self sacri fice. If by a little trouble we can cre ate for ourselves a sweet atmosphere In which to live, we are surely doing nothing of which we need be ashamed. After all, no one breathes his own at mosphere alone; others breathe It with him. If happiness Is a despicable ob ject, let us face the fact sincerely and give up all the many things which we now do openly and exclusively to ob tain It. If It is not, why should we not pull ourselves together, give our at tention to the game and play up? - London Spectator. A Pernlnn Dinner, A traveler in Persia thus describes a dinner served In the household of a wealthy Persian: “The chief dish eon sista of a fowl boiled to rags, surround ed by a toothsome mass of rice, hard Is.iled eggs, fried onions, almonds and raisins. There la n Shiraz wine, clear, golden red liquid that has traveled over the mountain passes on milleback In a huge glass carboy. Among the dessert manna has a conspicuous place. This delicacy is somewhat akin to nougat; it Is studded with walnuts ami almonds and is Jaw sticking to the last degree. I4ke the mango, it Is best eaten In private, for it renders the mas ticator speechless. It Is made of gum that exudes from a tree and is said Io be engendered by a worm."—Chicago News. “I’ve got something to whisper to you, Polly,” said a little friend the other day. Her head was buried in the depths of a trunk, aud 1 wondered whether she was practicing veutrilo- qulsui, her voice seemed so far away, but as site emerged with a hammer in her hand and a mouthful of tacks, I Is»- gan to realize there was something of more importance to her at that mo ment than studying this art of the ventriloquist. “Fixing my trunk for nay vacation," she continued. “1 have just tacked in ta|>es so I can tie my clothes in and there will be no danger of their falling helter-skelter when the expressman tries to see how many revolution* to the minute he can give it and how many tiard knocks it can receive before it fall.- to piece*. The tapes fasten in my dresses smooth and nice, other clothing are tied in the same way ami my hats as well. With the tapes you don’t need to pack your trunk to overflowing to keep the con tents in their places and in their order. Look at that,” she said, tossing some thing into my lap, “while 1 go on with my packing, and we can talk at the same time.” It was “Vacation 1902,” issued as a help to summer visitors by the California Northwestern Itailway Company. “I saw what you said about this little Isstklet in one of your recent articles, so 1 got John to get me one, and 1 didn’t find much trouble in find ing a place to spend my vacation—our vacation, I mean, for John will join me every Saturday night and remain until Monday morning. You may think this is a queer time to lie starting oil' fora summer outing, just when other people are coming hack to town. Not so, however, for the fall of tile year is the most delightful time to go to the coun try. Going earlier in the season you may find wild flowers that you will not find now, ami the earlier fruits, but at that time you will find everything crowded as well, for the majority of people have to go during the vacation so as to get the wee folks back in time for the reopening of the schools. Ills a busy season, too, with the farmers, for the earlier fruits and berries and the grain must lie harvested. It is all hurly-burly and enough to give you nervous prostration instead of resting you. There is enough of this mad rush ing in the city without going into the country to find it. » » » > “Those who wish to may take the buttercup and June apple time if they wish, but as for me, I will take the time for the golden-rod and the gradual turning of the leaves into the ruby and gold ami russet tints of autumn. The roast ing ears are in their prime and you can see the tasseled cornfields on every side, to say nothing of the melons, late peache-, nectarines, apples, etc. 1 am going to hie myself north this time to enjoy the novel sight of the hoppickers at their work in the fields of beautiful Imps that are trellaced like huge arbors all over this part of tlie country. ‘Va cation for 1902’ has solved the problem of where to go for a good many of us this summer. Everybody, from the wealthy, who do not have to count their dimes and dollars, down to those with the exceedingly modest purse, can find a place for a pleasant outing in this pretty little booklet. You can find everything, from the popular and well-known springs, sparkling with health-giving waters down to camp life; how to get there and how much it will cost, in this little lss>k, and a good thing alsiut it is that every one of these places is convenient to the Cali fornia Northwestern Kailway and with in a few hours' ride of Han Francisco. I am not the only one who has discovered that the fall is the loveliest lime of the year for a rest and outing, for you will find the woods and the resorts as well as country Imuses pretty well tilled with the sojourners who have fallen into line and. will take the season when the golden-rod lights up hill and valley and roadside with its wealth of golden blossoms. It is the only time of tlie year, Polly, for an out and out gisid vacation,” » • » • Talk alsiut your Mutiny South, the land of flowers and sunshine, the glori ous climate and wildwood growth of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego on our own coast, and yet tlie denizen* of San Francisco, noted for its bleak winds and fogs, can ]s>int with pride in the latter part of August to its floral treasures. Heliotrope growing higher than your head and covered with lavender and purple blossoms where the liees hold high carnival, drowsily humming as If they were in toxicated with tlie fragrance. Over the fences and up the sides of many Imuses clam tier I he dainty white jassamine and the old-fashioned honeysuckle as if vieing with each other to see which Fertile Cohn. can cast more beauty and fragrance In Cuba cabbages frequently weigh as much ns twenty pounds. All vege over the place where they are running tables do well. Radishes may be eaten riot. Trees laden with magnolias in from fourteen to eighteen days after bud and just opening their waxen |>etals sowing, lettuce in five weeks after to catch the sunshine and woo the liees sowing, while corn produces three and butterflies. San Francisco is tlie crops per year. Sweet potatoes arc home of the fu< hia, it growing to al perpetual. The natives dig up the most tree-like proportions and of all tubers, cut them off and plant the old varieties. Here pelagoniiims thrive lux vines, which produce a new crop In uriantly, and it is a rare thing to have three months. All sorts of fruit, horti cultural and greenhouse plants and them injured by frosts. All other flow ers do quite as well. In Golden Gate bulbous stock are also grown. Park you will find flowers from all over The Sunioun l.nnannar. Speaking of the flexibility of the Sa the world growing in favored nooks in moan language, Mrs. Isohel Strong the open air. Here you will find also »ays that the little word “ta” means: the wild (lowers of California growing I, we too, to beat with a stick, to play as luxuriantly as in their own mountain on a musical instrument, to reprove, or valley home. You hear scathing re to tattoo, to open a vein, to wash cloth marks alsiut the San Francisco climate, ing by beating and to turn a somer- but when you read of the scores dying Mult of heat and whole populations sutferlng fora breath of fresh air in the Eastern The world's coalfield* cover at least States, you can turn with grateful, ap-, 1.250,1)00 square mile*. prvciatlve hearts to the city lieside the Golden Gate, and even though the winds are a trifle rude and tempestuous at times, they are welcome visitors, tor to these same winds San Francisco owes much of her freedom from disease that might otherwise find a lodgment here. There is uo takiugof plants into the bouse and underground cellars for the winter, but they remain where they were planted from year to year. Another thing in its favor is that there is not a week in the year when you cannot procure fresh vegetables in tlie markets. « « « « “Women to the front," says Alina B. Hhaw, and on every side you find where they are surging aiiead and en tering new fields of business. Now comes Mrs. Mary Coggins of Han Fran cisco, and she fearlessly enters into the lumber business. Hhe has purchased tile large lumlier mills and several hun dred acres of tine timber at Cohassett, in Butte couuty, formerly owned by James Mann of Chico, despite the fact that several capitalists had been negoti ating for the mill and timber. The timber is among the liest in Northern California. Mrs. Coggins also pur- cbased the planing milland ls>x factory in Chico, which she will run in connec tion with the Cohassett mills also with the mills near Dunsmuir, in which she is the largest stockholder. Mrs. Cog gins is the widow of Samuel Coggins, who owned extensive lumber interests in Siskiyou county, and stie is the vioc- president of the Colstein Lumber Com pany of Dunsmuir. You can find few women as well |<osted on the lumlier interests of the Coast as Mrs. Coggins. Doubtless there will lie another cry go up that women are driving men out of business steadily but surely, but Mrs. Scroggins will move serenely on in the even tenor of her way estimating the value of her timlier lands, not by their lieauty, but by so many feet, cords, dollars and cents that they represent. » • » » “Bride-to-Be”: In answer to your query, will say that Dame Fashion de crees that a widow who is again alsiut to become a bride should not wear white and a wedding vail. Wear vio let, gray or any dainty shade you may choose, but not white. BRIEF REVIEW. Deepest Mining Shaft. It is claimed, and with reason, that the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hacla copper mine, in Northern Michigan, is the deepest in the world. It has taken nine years of day and night work to sink and has cost$2,500,- 000. This shaft is vertical, but all the other shafts of the Calumet and Heeia follow the dip of the lode. Work was started on it in 1885, immediately after the last of the three great underground fires in the older workings of the mine, which did damage of more than $1,000,- 000. Work has Isjeu continued upon it since that time and the shaft stands without a parallel in mining. It 1*4,- 900 teet in depth, or 300 feet less than a mile. It contains six compartments, each equal in size to an ordinary min ing shaft, four of which are used for the hoisting of rock and lowering timber. One shaft is utilized for the ladder ways, and the sixth compartment car ries the wires and pijies for telephones, light, jsiwer, water and compressed air. Oil on Roads. Oil in various forms ha* been tried of late in several countries to produce firm dust-free roads, and is re|sirted ii|s>n with curiously favorable unanimity. In America heavy unrefined |*etroleum heated to 80 degrees Centigrade pro duced an excellent surface, with little dust in summer and no mud in winter The petroleum was durable and fouud to be cheaper than watering, in Al giers olive oil and naptha have l>een In use since 188(1. A test of a cannon that throws a shell designed to scatter oil on the boisterous waves was recently made in England. The shell is of wood and conical in its shape. It contains two gallons of oil. At one end of the projectile is a vent. This is covered with pa|>er, which is blown oil’ as the shell leaves the pieee allowing the oil to escape. In China probably more wood is used for coffin* than for any other pur|>ose. Tne coffins are made of lumber from four to nineteen inches thick. It is not a high estimate to say that from 8,000,000,- 000 to 10,000,000'000 feet of lumlier are annually thus utilized. The Emperor of Japan is one of the few |s*ets who are content to write any verses for their own pleasure rather than for the admiration of the public. It is said that he often coni|M>ses 20,000 lines a year, but reserves most of them for his own private reading. At the time of the Roman occupation of Britain five distinct species of dogs were there, most of which can with cer tainty lie identified with those of tiie present day. There were the housedog, tlie greyhound, the bulldog, theterrrier and tlie slowliound. < 'ato learned Greek at 80, but nobody has ever claimed that it prolonged his life. A Pennsylvania man stopped the use of toacco, and he celebrated his one hundred and first birthday recently. In one year twenty-five cubic yards of the granite pavement of London Bridge is reduced to powder by the enormous traffic; 20,000 vehicles cross daily and 200,000 foot passengers. What was probably the first public library in the United States was started In Charleston, N, C., in 1749. The cost of producing and planting young salmon is under *1 per 1000. WASHINGTON LETTER CHOICE MISCELLANY HUMOR OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES (Spec lai Correspondence. ] Forty million packages of seeds will be seut out by the agricultural depart ment during the cuwlug year to farm ers on list* furnished by senators and representatives. The number of seeds that will be contained In these packages will run up Into the billions and they will weigh about 1,000 tons. This will be the most extensive seed distribution in the history of the de partment of agriculture, and Secre tary Wilson is making every effort to make It the most useful to the ag ricultural communities. Heretofore there has been much complaint about the quality of the seeds sent out. Many of them have failed to grow. This year all contractors have been done away with, aud the department has made its purchases in the seed mar kets through Its own experts. Each senator, representative and del egate in congress will have to his cred it 12,000 miscellaneous packages, each containing smaller packages of five kinds of seeds. In addition each will have 500 packages of novelties—that is, new or little kuowu varieties of peculiar merit—aud each will have 500 packages of flower seeds. Will Fiuht New Licenaie Law. The various clubs of this city have combined to tight the new law fixing $800 as the annual license fee for the bar privilege. Hitherto the clubs have paid but half this sum, and now that the license fee for all dispensaries of liquors has been raised to $800 they thiuk a distinction should be made be cause their patronage, being exclusive, is necessarily limited and unprofitable except under very favorable condi tions. Notwithstanding tlie great notoriety given to the vote in the house of rep resentatives to prohibit the sale of in toxicants in the cupitol it is still possi ble to queueb any brand of thirst there. Some representatives received much newspaper credit for their advo cacy of the reform, but they all felt sure It would end In defeat. It does every year. The prohibition "rider” dies an unnoticed death, but the mem bers who have wrestled oratorically for it are welcomed home as conquer ing heroes. That is one of the humors of congress as witnessed from the out side. Prosreaihe American«. She turner.* Ulin. There is a charming blond yout g woman well known to Philadelphia i* well as Baltimore aud New York who laughs when you call her "señora.” A woman friend gave the story away, says the Philadelphia Presa, and as site takes it good naturedly there is no use keeping the joke away from the public. You see, young a* she is. she elected to marry a man who was a grandfather, or, rather, he became one *<*m after his marriage to her. She has that deceptive, innocent type of beauty that gives the owner the ap pearance of being altout eighteen. She was looking at the Cuban curios and souvenirs for sale at a bazaar with a woman friend, aud the old woman be hind the wares called her “señorita.” "No, no,” said the friend, "she Is seño ra.” The old woman shook her head and declined to believe. "No, señori ta,” she said. "She is a girl,* she con tinued In brokeu English. “She too young and pretty.” “Yes, she Is a señora," said Mrs. G---- , wishing to tense the young woman, and, remem bering the birth of the grandchild, she added, "She’s not only married, but she Is a grandmother!” "Dios, but these Americans are so progressive!” said the old Cuban. The q'lery editor was troubled, not to *ay angry. “Hang it all!” he exclaimed as he read the letter addressed to his depart meut. "My wife has been asking me that question for the last week, aud I refused to be bothered"— He looked at the letter again and jumped out of his chair. "Thunder and guns!" he cried. "It’s her handwriting too. Now that she has learned the trick she’ll make me settle every social, household and historical question that come* up. and I’ll Ire right on hand to take the blame If I make a mistake.” • For a long time he remained buried in thought. Then be resigned.—Brook lyn Eagle. A Bonelean Bi« Flwh. A York fisherman relates an experi ence he had the other day in capturing a curious specimen of the finny tribe which is puzzling everybody to deter mine exactly what sort of a sea mon ster it is. He was about two miles from Boon Island when he felt a tug on his six pound line. He commenced to pull In, but found that he had tackled a hard job. He finally got the monster Into the boat and brought it in. The fish is of a muddy color, over six feet long and with a head that is fully three-quarters of a yard wide nt the widest part. It has a mouth resembling Uint of a shark and small teeth. The teeth are not hard, as would naturally be expected In a fish of this size. Its eyes are about as big ns an old fashioned copper cent. The fish weighs 200 pounds. One of the strangest things about the fish is the apparent absence of bones.—Ken nebec Journal. Hr Followed Dlreetlone, Murphy being sick and alone in his cabin, Hogan volunteered to take care of him. The patient had been getting very little sleep, so the doctor left some powders and told Hogan to give Murphy one about bedtime. About 7 o’clock in the evening Hogan went out for a few minutes, und when he returned Murphy was fast asleep. He slept soundly until 10 o’clock, when Hogan went to tlie bedside, shook tlie sleeping man vigorously and shouted: "Wa-ake up here, Moorphy, till Ol give ye* these powdhers t’ nut-ake ye sleep!"—Colorado Springs Gazette. Charts. King John of England was having another tight with the barons. "Any how,” lie argued, "the king can do no wrong!" "No.” snickered the court jester; "he can't do much write either.” The wrathful monarch ordered the fool beheaded for this remark and then signed tlie Magna Charta to dis prove It. New York Times. Just the Thlnir. “I don't know what to use to raise my bread,” said the young wife petu lantly. “I’ve tried everything.” "Judging by tlie samples 1 have seen,” suggested her Inhuman hus band. “I should think a couple of Jack screws or a derrick ought to do It.” Aud lie wondered why he got a cold supper that night. — Portland Orego nian. Why General Butler tinted Pepper. Minn N ubhb Q u «)’, “Did you ever hear the story of Gen eral B. F. Butler’s hatred of pepper? No? Well, here it is.” So spoke a well known lawyer. "Year* ago, when the general was at the height of his career, he was coun sel in a big case that involved thou sands of dollars’ worth of hides. These hides were from South America and were in an awful evil smelling state. In order to keep them together It had been necessary to cover them with black pepper, vast quantities of which had been used. "When the general told me this, he used to say that he had a suspicion that tills pepper was afterward gath ered together and sold, and so great Bld. For n New Bnltle.hlp. was his horror that he might run Not less than five blds will probably against some of the article that noth be received for the construction of the ing could Induce him to use pepper.”— sister ship of the battleship Connecti Philadelphia Telegraph. cut, which Is to be built by contract, while the Connecticut is to be built in Think It Over, the Brooklyn navy yard to test the "One of the wisest men we ever question of the relative cost of con knew,” says Congressmen Scott, “said tract construction and navy yard con once that the surest way to get the struction. The first which it Is be good will of a man was to get him lieved will certainly submit proposals to do you a favor, and the surest way are the Cramps of Philadelphia, the to get the ill will of a man was to let Union Iron works of San Francisco, him do you an Injury. Take note of the Bath Iron works, the Fall River that saying and see how many times it company and the Newport News com comes true. How many of your ene pany. As It Is to the Interests of the mies are so not because you have private shipbuilders to make a favora done them a wrong, but because they ble showing In competition with the have done you one? And incidentally, Brooklyn navy yard, It Is expected by if you feel unfriendly to a man, you the department that some of the bids might inquire whether it 1* because may be quite low. he lias wronged you or you have May Accept Gifts. wronged lilm. Human nature is a No question will be raised to prevent curious thing.”—Kansas City Star. the acceptance by the officers of the army and navy of mementos bestowed Spnnked Prince«. by Prince Henry in appreciation of Moritz Busch relates in a recent pub courtesies received by him during his lication that he once saw Bismarck American tour. The souvenirs which spank his sons Herbert and Bill be be gave are not looked upon as gifts cause they had stolen hazelnuts and bestowed by a foreign ruler within the run away from the forester. “It was Inhibition of the constitution, but as merely tokens of personal esteem and not so much on account of the nuts that I punished them,” lie afterward appreciation. As a matter of fact, the explained, "but because they compelled gifts mentioned in the dispatches from Berlin designed for distinguished the old man to follow them through Americans who participated In Prince the dense brush. He seemed to be Henry's reception in most cases were much astonished to see me whipping presented personally by the prince be them.” Busch thereupon asked if gov ernesses or other educators of Euro fore his departure from this country. pean princes were usually allowed to Mr. Babcock Bay. a House. Representative Babcock has just punish them, aud Bismarck said they bought the house in which John J. In were, instancing a case where the galls lived here while senator. It Is present emperor was spanked. situated at the corner of North Cap Cheap a ltd Barnlike. itol and B streets, close to the capitol The new office building constructed building, and the price named is $15,- 000. Babcock began life as a lumber in Washington for the use of the exec Jack. He was advanced to have charge utive at a cost of $40,000 seems to of a gang of a dozen jacks, then made have been generally accepted In offi foreman in a mill, then promoted to cial quarters as a permanent solution superintendent, then given a working of the problem of crowding In the interest, and so on up. Everything he White House. It is not handsome nor bandied seemed to make money, and Imposing nor fireproof, yet It will lerve. The building of this cheap, now he is rated as a millionaire. barnlike structure marks In effect the Will “Hike” tlie Henle. Washington has a landlords’ trust. transformation of the time honored The agents and proprietors of all the executive mansion from an official and new apartment buildings — which, by business beadquarters to its original the way, are very popular affairs—are status as a private residence for the said to have agreed, under the guise of chief magistrate.—Philadelphia Rec a semisocial protective association, to ord. raise rents. Ordinary six room apart If« nd I cupped by Environment, ments, furnished in poplar, are now let A Celt who. after pulling every polit for $75 a month. This fall a general ical wire in the ward in which he lived Increase is to be attempted. and voted, had been given a position The guests who once waited Impa ns a diver in the government service tiently at the great portico on the north resigned at the end of his first experi front of the White House will have ence under water. Ills chief, who had much less difficulty in reaching the been told to take good care of the new presence of the president and Mrs. man because of the Influence that ob Roosevelt next season. The new col tained the position, was surprised and onnaded walk, which Is to carry out asked the reason. the original scheme of Thomas Jeffer “I gulss yez nil mane well enough,” son, will add much to the actual con was the reply, "but Oi’ll shtick to no venience ol the White House for en job where Oi can’t sphit on me han'*!” tertaining. CARL SCHOFIELD. —Philadelphia Time*. A Valoron« Dodicr. Miss Susan Quay, who has been chosen to christen the warship Penn sylvania, Is the only daughter of Senator and Mrs. Matthew S. Quay. Miss Quay resembles her illustrious sire too closely to lay many claims to beauty, but she Is nevertheless a most attractive girl, bright, vivacious and extremely popular in the younger sen atorial circle. The Washington home of the Quays. In fashionable K street. Is the center of gayety for young peo ple at the capital who hall from the great state of Pennsylvania. Just now the family Is at Lake Placid, in the Adirondack*, where they have a cot tage. Breaklnic It to Him Gently. The National Game. Carrie—When that fnt Mrs. Soper "I hold n full hand.” murmured the came In, there was a tall hat In one of swain as he squeezed the Illy white the chairs, and she sat right down up fingers of!tbe fair maid. on It Here a'royal flush mounted to her Harry—By George, but that was a brow. good onel If I’d been there. I believe A royaltflnsh beats n full band every time. (See Hoyle.) I should have split with laughter. She wont-Baltimore American. Carrie—I don’t think It, Harry. You see. It was your bat.—Exchange. It Is not a waste to buy somebody An old bachelor, when he feels blue « bunch of flowers, a box of candy or and discouraged, always regrets that n new book when it Is going to bring a be has no wife to whine to.—Atchison «mile to her face and happiness to her Globe. heart.—Exchange. Holloran—Av ye say two more woords, Oi’ll come down an’ bre’k yer face! Hoolalian—Ye dasn't! Holloran (closing the window»—Ye coward; Oi’ll not bear another woord out av ye! Recognised the Sound. It was her first ride In an automo bile, and she was deeply Interested in the boru that was used to notify peo pie to clear the way. "Papa,” she said. "Well?” be returned. "Make ft snore some more!”—Chica go Post, A Twofold Peril. "Don’t you know that you drink too much Ice water?” said the physician. "The fear has occurred to me.” "The habit is likely to ruin your health." "I wasn’t thinking of that. My ice Dili merely suggested the possibility of Its wrecking my bauk account.”—Puck. Bit pt. "He was delighted with tlie service at your church last Sunday, lie told me that at certain portions of It he felt actually transported, absolutely oblivi ous to bls surroundings." "Yes. 1 noticed his obliviousness when the plate was being passed.”—Phila delphia Press. No Ly»i Eye. May—Our links are tlie best In the country. Bell-Why? May—They are so rough that a chap vron simply can't follow one around. ►-Town Topics. In Darkest Africa. “Some people may think us Ignorant of the fine arts, yet”—tlie cannibal chief pointed to a pile of bones — "there's the poet Laurie ate!”—New York Press. The End. “How did De Reiter's novel come sut? Was the end happy?” “It went even a step beyond that, 1 believe. Its end wns peaceful.”-In dianapolis News. Another Rrate. Wife—The doctor says I need a change of climate. Husband—Well, the sky looks as If we’d have It In a few hours. New York Weekly. Water power in the Philippines I* suid to be plentiful. Five balls, says a baseball fan, will usually last out a game. Thirty thousand Filipinos have been vaccinated by the Americans. American brewers have already In vested $4,UUU.lMA* in aud about Havana. Baltimore epicureans declare the sev enteen year locust to be a great deli cacy. • About 70 per cent of the population of the Klondike Is from the United States. Plans have been Reparad fur a four million dollar union depot to be erected in Kansas City. It ily expects to have a surplus of over $2.600.000 at the end of tlie pre* ent financial year. Track brakes on street cars are tn general use in England in addition to the usual wheel brakes. Neuralgic ache in the ear, catarrh, bronchitis aud inflamed eyes are some of tlie atflictlons of chauffeurs. Miss Margaret Donnelly of New Yolk lias tlie unique disiiuctiou of be ing the only elevator girl iu the world. Eleven experts have worked for five months on a wilton carpet Intended for tlie drawing room of a Loudon club. Parisian pro-Boers have petitioned tlie municipal council to chauge the name of the Avenue Victoria to Ave nue Kruger. Efforts are being made to establish a university at Jerusalem for the Jew ish students expelled from European universities. Penny X ray Instruments, by the aid of which tlie curious muy see their own finger bones, are being sold in the streets of London. Twenty-eight Isle of Mau vicars have stipends of but $750 a year. What tlie curates get is not meutioued by tlie authority quoted. Working tailors are so scarce in Dur ban. Australia, that merchants, it Is said, find great difficulty In coping witli the work on band. Should the pope live till 1903 he will celebrate ills diamond jubilee as a bishop. Ills golden jubilee as a cardinal and his silver jubilee as a pope. The dairy schools of Russia have brought that country to the front as one of the foremost producers of but ter, cheese aud milk in the world. The London court of appeals is all upset over a trial In which a mummy, supposed to lie tlie remains of a prin cess of Peru, plays the principal role. "If you buy on Sunday, you commit a crime against 40.000 shop assistants. Support Sunday rest.” This placard lias been posted on all tlie blank walls in Vienna. The extraordinary development of tlie German mania for picture post cards Is attested by the total number of cards which passed through the post in 1900, no fewer than 736,000,000. As many as 7,287 luen have been elected to tlie national bouse since the American congress began. The number does uot include those who have occu pied seats and beeu thrown out on con test*. An act to provide for a commission to Investigate tlie nature and value of vaccination, antitoxin, seropathy and other alleged prophylactics will be in troduced into the next session of the New York legislature. A New Yorl: denier ripens pineap ples for tlie market by artificial proc ess. He puts them In a room heated to 110 degrees, and ordinarily three and n half or four days are required to thoroughly ripen tlie fruit. All the employees of the 3arnum & Bailey circus, now traveling in Europe, nre total abstainers, to which fact Is at tributed tlie mllltarylike precision with which the great organization is han dled and the small percentage of acci dents. Tlie old stone chimney which stands on tlie lands of the Niagara Falls Pow er company Is to be removed. It was built by the French In 1750 and wa* the first stone structure erected in the Niagara locality. Some eighty Frencli soldiers are al leged to have deserted to the Chinese during the recent campulgn iu the far east. Some were made officers in the Chinese army, but returned later to their regiments and were let off with nominal punishments. At the time of the Roman occupation of Britain five distinct species of dogs were there, most of which can with certainty be identified with those of tlie present day. There were tiie bouse dog, the greyhound, the bulldog, the terrier and 1lie slowhouud. In 1901 there were completed in Tokyo, Japan, buildings costing $50,- 000 to be used as a university exclu sively for women. This university now has 550 pupils and forty-six professors and Instructors. Departments of Jap anese and English literature mid do mestic science are Included In tiie cur riculum. With the completion of work on the western division tlie Chicago. Burling ton and Quincy Railway company will have practically a new double track main line through Iowa. For several years an enormous work tiqs beeu go ing on. and millions of dollars have been expended In reducing grades, tak ing out curves, building double tracks and putting in new steel bridges. By the accession of the new Earl of Chichester six British secular peerages are now held by clergymen. They are the Marquis of Normandy, the Earls of Chichester. Devon and Strafford, Baron Ponaonby, who I* also Irish Earl of Bessborotigh. and Baron Scars dale, the father of Lord Curzon, vice roy of India. Another Irish peer. Vis count Moleaworth. Is also a clergyman. The Earl of Devon, ninety-one years of age. Is the second oldest peer In Eng land Not to Be Expected. Very dose. “Pshaw!” exclaimed tlie professor to the student who was rehearsing his Latin oration, “you are too solemn. There's no life In your speaking nt nil.’’ "Of course not.” responded tlie stu dent lively enough. "You don’t expect It in a dead language, do you?” "I was surprised to bear you speak ing against Flyntskyn. You told me some time ago be was your nearest friend." rhnt s so. He couldn't be any nearer than he is, the stingy old beggar!” Not Modest. First Yacht -Nancy’s not at all mod Mr. Newlywed—How did you know est. you know. 1 really loved you? Second Yacht—How’s that? First Yacht She was seen bugging Mrs. Newlywed—Oh. you acted so- so sort of foolishly!—Philadelphia Rec the Jersey coast as she passed In.— New York Time*. ord. HI* Symptom*.
