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.
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“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,”
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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.
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“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.
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“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*.