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BANDON KECOllhEK. POLLY LARKIN. Thunder Lore. The natives of the Hawaiian inland» considered thunder an being Mauna Loa's echo from the clouds. This cu rious notion lias crystallizisl a weather proverb which is now current among many of the white residents of the islands viz, "It will rain today; Mauna Loa shakes the clouds.” In this connection it may tie remarked that the early Scamlinavinn settlers In Iceland believed that there were some mysterious and suiH-rmiturnl connec tions between the roarings of llecla and the “angry mutterings of Jove." In England many of the ¡leasantry still plant the house leek "Jupiter's beard” on their house roofs as a preventive against thunder, lightning and evil spirits, a custom which reminds one of Charlemagne's edict, “Et liabeat quis que supra domum suaui Jovis bur bam.” Another widespread superstition, and one that has been noted among the tribes and nations from China to I'kng land and from Cape Hatteras to the Golden (late, tells us that If the “claps” or reports of thunder come in even numbers the storm will lie of short duration and very inll.l, but, on the other hand, if they come in uneven numbers, especially if the reports be a series of five, nine or thirteen dis tinct claps, much loss of life and prop erty will result. tlie warm hstking felt hats that look suitable only for winter wear. Now the disagreeable winds are over, the pretty dainty effects in summer millin ery could lie worn with some degree of comfort; but no, they are made 'baek- number*’ and the show-windows are tilled witli felt hats that give you al most a suffocating feeling. Some of them are stitched hats of a heavy hairy cloth, a gissl deal like a very heavy camel’s hair, and many are more gaudy than pretty. "It looks like our millin ers were trying to force the season,” said a young lady as she stood peering into the window, and Polly concurred. They are showing fall styles much ear lier this year than they have ever done before. « « « « In spite of all the denouncing the practice of killing birds for millinery pur|s>ses, ami the work of the Society for tlie Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals, birds and bird wings will lie used extensively in fall ami winter millinery, it seems a shame that such an act of cruelty should lie permitted, and yet the business of killing birds for such a purpose would never flourish if it were not sanctioned by women who move in the liest society down to the little girl who trudges to the factory every day with her lunch-basket hanging on iier arm. When the women of the land, old and young, refuse to wear birds or their plumage for millinery trimming, 4hen, and not until then, can this un necessary slaughter of tlie birds cease. I have noticed many women who proud ly wear the badge showing that they belong to the Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals and who lie- long to the new society for harboring and caring for deserted and sick cats, who have their hats weighed down witli birds or wings. How inconsistent it seems. Why shouldn’t the birds, in nocent little beauties, lie protected? “It is the easiest tiling in the world to get a divorce. Now, why don't you marry Archie, ami then if he doesn’t take good care of you, or gels so cranky you can’t live with him, just go down to your lawyer, have him draw up the papers, and presto, you are out of it, got Miss attached to your name, and you're free to do as you like.” That is the advice Polly heard a girl of alsiut eighteen summers giving to a com panion of alsiut the same age the other day, “You're a great big gisise if you don’t,” she continued. “Wish 1 had your chance. I wouldn’t wait a min ute. You don’t seem to realize that you are missing an opportunity that will make you as free as a bird. No one has a right after you are married to say don’t do this and don’t do that; don’t go here and don’t go there; who and what company you are keeping, f >r your home is your own, and you have a right to ask whom you please.” "But,” interrupted her friend, “I’m afraid I 'll not Is* happy, and that Archie will not make as g<s>d a husband as he has a lover. I tell you I am afraid to take the step, there are so many un happy marriages.” “Well, that is just The Gleaner*. The old custom of gleaning in the what I am telling you. If you are not harvest Hehls, which recalls the Bibli happy get a divorce and tie as free as cal story of Ruth and Naomi, is not the birds.” "Maybe the judge would obsolete in England, mid In Hertford tot think my lieing unhappy was suffi shire, Beilfordshire and the neighbor cient grounds for a divorce.” “Where Ing counties as soon as the wheat is there’s a will there’s a way. If you are gathered in the late days of August not happy nag at him night and day; there may be seen in the newly cleared Helds numbers of women and children < ry your eyes out, dress slovenly; don’t diligently picking up one by one tlie clean up the house, don’t have dinner scatter'd ears ami forming them Into ready, or, better still, don’t beat home neat little sheaves, which they carry a few times when he returns to dinner. In their h inds until large enough to be Get him so angry that he will forget bound up. When the daylight fails, himself and strike you. That’s all you all the booty is bound up in cloths and want. Kush pell-mell off to the lawyer carried home on the heads of the BRIEF REVIEW. and get your divorce on the ground of gleaners. At home they thrash it out by hand and sell the grain or use it cruelty. He'll Is? so disgusted with you Apples of the Northwest. for their chickens. The gathering of I hat he won't tight it, and maybe won’t An account of how the great North a half peek is usually a full day's work appear at all. It is as easy as slipping for a child, ami often a woman speuds off a log. And another thing in your west has been made to grow most of a whole day in gathering very little favor is that possibly you can make him the winter apples for tliis country is more. < ¡leaning, however, is looked pay you alimony. If you can do that valuable in connection with theincrease upon somewhat in the light of a picnic. then you are in luck—just like picking in plant values. The early farmers of Tlte mother ami children leave home iu money up oil' the street.” “1 don't the vast prairies could And no apple the morning, take with them food for tree hardy enough for theclimate. They the day. and stay out in the Helds until think I could ever do a thing like that. spent fortunes in nursery stock and in I mean I don't think I could ever carry nightfall. Detroit Eree Press. out your program, I would feel so like planting trees without success. In 1855 a hypocrite.” "Not even if you were Gideon M. Mitchell of Minnesota plant A Quick Wilted 1‘i.slor. In i!"finany a country preacher was unhappy?” “I am afraid 1 would make ed thirty varieties of apple trees ami a preaching a sermon when suddenly he a sorry show of myself even attempting bushel of seed. Ill nine years he plant lost the thread of his discourse, and, to do half you have advised, for if he ed, all told, IHMM) trees. At the end of do what he would, he could not flml it turned out to be very different after we the tenth year he had left, after the again. were married and I was unhappy, I winter’s cold, only one tree, a small The congregation was greatly embar couldn ’t doall you advise without losing seeding crab. From that, however, has rassed and was wondering what the my self-respect. ” "Self-respect fiddle come the tine apple known in tlie mar matter was when he startled It by ex claiming hurriedly, "Pardon me, my sticks,” said the advisor contemptu ket as tlie “Wealthy,” a fruit from brethren, for pausing In my sermon, ously. "You’d rather sutler, and make which the Northwest now annually but It seems to me that I smell lire another martyr to lie downed by the reaps millions of dollars. During those somewhere and and It might be well tyrant man. L<s>k pretty on your nine long years of planting and failure to see that it has not broken out In the tombstone, ‘She suffered in silence,' Mr. Mitchell’s friends told him that church or in any of the nearby houses.” nowhere in all that region would an Before the words were all uttered wouldn’t it? Show you’ve got some apple ever grow. His success was a tri the congregation was pouring out of grit about you. If it is all very pleas the church, each family being anxious ant let well enough alone; if it isn’t, umph in which lie must have experi to make sure that Its home was not on walk out. Head up on Anna B. Shaw, enced emotions similar to those of Co tire. It need hardly be said that the assert your independence and be free to lumbus when in 1492 he sighted the Are existed only in the pastor's imag do as you like." “Even if all you say island ot Guanahani. ination. is true and for the best, you must re- Deaths by Lightning. memlier that it costs something to get How lit* .Mittle Money. From 7(10 to 800 persons are killed an Conversation overheard on a train a divorce something like sixty or sev for Monte Carlo. Two travelers un enty dollars and I would like to know nually by lightning in tlie United known to each other chatting familiar how in the world I could ever get that States, according to estimates made by ly: sum together.” “There’s where you Alfred J. Henry of the United States “On your way to Monte Carlo, sir, are mistaken. Look in any of the pa Weather Bureau. In 1000 the bureau that delightful and exclusive home for pers among the advertisements and received reports of 713 cases of fatal ull gamblers?” you will find that you can get a di- lightning strokes. In tlie same year, “That Is exactly where I am going.” according to the reports collected by the “And you will play Just a little, I ■otce fort welvedollars, and it’snofake, for 1 have a friend who got a divorce Weather Bureau, 073 persons were more suppose?” “1 do nothing else, sir. It Is my busi from her husband and it only cost her or less seriously injured by lightning. ness.” t welve dollars, and half of her friends The loss of life from lightning is great “Gracious! You don't mean to say didn’t know anything alsiut it until est in the Ohio valley and the Middle you make a business of It?” after it was all over.” They had been Atlantic states. If density of popula “Yes, sir; twice a day regularly, and so engrossed in their conversation that tion only be considered, it is the great I never by any chance lose.” they did not realize that every word est in the upper Missouri valley and in “In that case perhaps you will ex could be distinctly heard by those in the middle Rocky mountain region. plain your 'system' to me.” “Certainly, with pleasure. I play the the vicinity. They had seen little of Of the 713 fatal eases reported in 1900, the procession of the Knights of Pyth 201 persons were killed ill the open, 158 violin.” _________________ ias, but as the last of the Knights dis in houses, 57 under trees and 56 in Statesman mid Gambler. appeared they moved slowly down the barns. The circumstances attending Charles James Fox, the English tile death of tlie remaining 151 were not Statesman, was even more notorious in street chatting earnestly on the same reported. This seems to dispose of tlie the gaming world than he was famous interesting topic. old superstition that the safest place to In the world of politics. He had squan »»»» be in during a thunder-storm istlieopen dered $25 o ,< hmi before coming of age. Polly thought she would look in the country, and the most dangerous under He Itecame one of the most proHigate gamesters of the vicious days in which daily papers for the advertisement the a tree. __ __ lie lived. Some of Ills finest displays lu advisor had spoken of. Sure enough, Factory Profits. debate were sandwiched between ex it was there: citement sm'h as would unnerve most As a striking evidence of the profita ivorces costs, ti-.> Quick, quiet. Ad- dress Lawyer Blank No. —, Blank street. men who had no serious business on bleness of investing money in manufac hand. Walpole has given a glimpse of Do you wonder that the divorce mills turing plants in Burmingham, it may u typical passage In this extraordinary grind exceeding last and sure when be stated that recently President Ben man's life. Ho had to take part In thn you hear mere girls speaking so lightly Martin, of the Martin Cracker Com discussion on the thirty-nine articles in of the marriage vows? Hosts of mar pany, mailed to Ills stock holders checks parliament on a certain Thursday. He had sal up playing hazard from Tues riages take place from year to year, the for a semi-annual dividend amounting day evening until 5 o'clock on Wednes contracting parties making up their to 6 per cent, this being the second 6 day afternoon. An hour before he had minds before taking the vows “for bet per cent dividend declared this year, recovered ifiiki.iMM) that he had lost and ter for worse, for richer for pisirer,” making the investment pay 12 per cent by dinner time, which wns 5 o'clock, with the determination toget a divorce a year. ended losing $5.5,000. On Thursday he if they are not altogether happy. They spoke In the debate, went to dinner nt forget that the vows read “until death The old grist mill at Port Jefferson, past 11 nt night; thence to a club, us do part.” Don’t think foramoment L. I., which was built before the Revo where lie drank till 7 the next morn lution by Richard Mo t and is said to ing; theme to a gambling bouse, where that Polly is not in favor of divorces, l>e the oldest structure on the island, is for there are some cases where it is a lie won $.3O,(XM), and between 3 anil 4 lieing torn down because it is unsafe. In the afternoon he set out on a Jour disgrace to live with the man or woman whom you have promised to "love and Tile building was erected in 1771. ney to Newmarket. D Lengthening n Bee's Tongue, honor." When love, honor and respect take Highland there is not the slight est hope of their ever returning, then It is time fur each to go their own way. There are some things no true woman can condone ami no honorable man can endure. But when it comes to making light of the solemn obligations like it was some new game to lie tried and discarded, then it is time to draw the line. Take up the papers from day to day and you will tlnd that the list of divorces is invariably in excess of the marriage announcement!!. “(MT with the old and on with the new.” Home of the divorced couples only wait for the decision of the law in their favor when they cross the line Into Beno, Nev., to marry some one else of their choice. «««« Man is often blamed for driving to extinction many sorts of beautiful creatures, but the account Is fur more than ba In need by the amount of good lie has done for those animals which proved useful and could be tamed. Take the case of the bee. The l«'e lives by its tongue, with which organ it is able to extract the honey from flowers. Now, a bee's tongue Is natu rally alsiut a twenty fifth of an inch long. Clever beekeepers, by keeping only those bees with naturally long tongues, have succeeded In lengthening the tongues of a number of bee colonies to the extent of another hundredth of an inch. It iloes not sound much, but it enables those Insects to do a quar ter ns much work again In the same time. Man has done more than this for lines. lie has given them ready made It seems strange to residents of Sail homes, where they are safe from wasps and other enemies; frames for milking Francisco that our milliners should, in their combs without using large quan tile very liegiiining of our pleasant tities of wax for outside walls, and weather, for the fall is always the most food during flowerless weather. delightfui season of the year, bring out A celebrated physician asserts that the additional height and weight of Britons and Americans in the last half century are chiefly due to the Increased consumption of sugar. Potatoes form the world’s greatest single crop, 4,060,000,000 bushels being produced annually, equal in bulk to the entire wheat and corn crop. Montgomery, Ala., claims to Is* the most American city. All its inhabit ants except 2 per cent were Isirn in this country. The rotation ot a waterspout at the surface of the sea has lieen estimated at ¡154 miles an hour or nearly six miles a minute. Alien immigrants to tlie nunibvr of 6379 landed in the United Kingdom in April last. The amount of French capital inves ted in <'liina exeeisls 1100,000,000. CHOICE MISCELLANY Belief From I'alu. A Paris doctor of the highest repu tation, whose methods are not in the leu st irregular because be has submit ted all the details to the Academy of Medicine, declares that lie lias found a sure relief for bolls und carbuncles. He has used it on many patients and says confidently that by the injection of a certain solution, the composition of which he lias laid before the fellow members of his profession, keeping nothing back, he can stop the pain of the worst boils and carbuncles in a few hours and can bring about a com plete cure within a reasonable time. What a benefactor to suffering hu manity this doctor will be provided his discovery is found to be effective in a wide range of tests and among the t verage of tlie afflicted in many lands and nations! This announcement seems to be almost too good to be true. It was hard luck for Job that this Paris doctor was not practicing in the land of Uz in the time of Eliphaz the Te- nuinite.—New York Tribune. Tlie Law'* Delay*. Have patience, and the law will see you righted even though you may have lain for a < entury dead.” An amused correspondent, according to the Lon don Chronicle, found the other morn ing In Ills letter box a notice from the bankruptcy court inviting application for n "third and final dividend of 2%d. in the pound.” The bankruptcy oc curred In the reign of William IV., and (he debt was owing to our correspond ent's father, who has been dead for sixty years. How many of the other creditors can be traced today, we won der? But think of the bulldog tenaci ty. heritage of our unrivaled race, that followed up that twopence farthing for live und sixty years and got it at last! Jaimiirat* V\ ivci. The Japanese woman does not black en her teeth under any mlstukeu Idea that it makes her attractive; she does It to make herself unattractive. Her busband is supposed to know her val ue. If he doesn't, he divorcee her. He makes no provision for her, and she has no dowry from her family. But a divorced woman iu Japan nearly al ways marries again. She brings noth ing but a gentle and obedleut slave and tukes nothing away with tier but the same valuable commodity. The reason why lower class women receive more consideration from their husbands than their upper cluss sis ters Is that they are capable of earning their own livings, which Japanese la dles are not. So thoroughly is this rec ognized that a lower class woman di vorces her husband if she is not satis fied. a thing which never happens in the more select circles unless the worn an Is an heiress, when the husband Is of as little consideration as a lady. It is only when she lias no brothers that a Japanese woman may expect money from her parents. If they have only a daughter to leave their money to, the son-in-law has to take her name—and the consequences. HUMOR OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES The O1<1 Mail’« Dilemma. “Ef you please, sub,” said the old Georgia darky to the rural Justice, "i wants you ter gimiue a 'vorce turn tny fumbly.” “A divorce from your family?” “Y'es, suh; fum de head er It—fum de ol' ’ooiuan.” “Why,” said the Justice, “that’s out of my Jurisdiction. 1 have no power to grant divorces.” "Didn't you marry me, suh?” “Yes; I think I did.” “Well, suh, after you get me inter de trouble, it 'pears reasonable ilat you orter stir yo’se'f ter git me outen it, don't it?” “But—wbat’s the trouble?” "Dey ain't no trouble 'tall, suh, 'cep' des dis: Sence I had u call ter preach an* a spell er de unj’lnted rheumatism I hez been partlcier fond er takln' my rase, en 'pears lak de ol’ 'oonian don t want ter rise en make n livin' fer me. en It come ter me dat ef I wuz 'vorced by law de Jedge would make her gimme a year’s support en pay me hal-' lelula money right erlong!"—Atlanta Constitution. Soon to Be Shorn. The Sall In the llcran. The late Dr. Tulmage once called on his lawyer and found two of his pa rishioners there on legal business of a private nature. “Ah, doctor!" called the lawyer In greeting. “Good morning! Here are two of your flock. May 1 ask without Impertinence if you regard them as black sheep or white?” “I don't know as yet.” replied Tai mage dryly, “whether they’re black or white, but I’m certain that If they re main here long they’ll be fleeced.”— Philadelphia Times. The ocean was once merely brackish and not suit, ns it is now. Tills was when the earth was in its first youth and before there was any land show ing at all or any animal life in the wa ter. At this time the water was grad ually cooling from its original state of steam, and the salts were slowly un dergoing the change from gases Into solids. Then came the appearance of land und, later on, rivers, which grad ually washed down more and more salts, while at the bottom of tlie ocean Itself qjiemical action was constantly adding more brine to tlie waters. At present it is estimated there are in tlie world's oceans 7,000,000 cubic miles of The Sphinx Decaying. D. G. Longworth of the Cairo Sphinx salt, ami tlie most astonishing thing leelares that tlie famous Egyptian about It is that if all the salt could be qiliinx Is rapidly decaying. This Is taken out in a moment the level of the ■wild to lie the result of the altering cli water would not drop one single inch. mate of Egypt due to the irrigation of Limited Hie Edition. ■ocent years. Heretofore an hour’s The late king of Prussia once sent to downfall of rain once a year was a novelty in Egypt Tlie natives regard an aid-de-camp, Colonel Malachowsky, ■d it as s one dire message of reproach Who was brave, but poor, n small port ‘rom the gods. The irrigation and the folio, bound like a book, in which were '.imiiy trees about the delta, however, deposited 50(> crowns. Some time after have ( hanged this. Fifteen to eighteen ward he met the officer and said to days' heavy rain falls now every year him: “Ah! Well, how did you like the new on the head of the sphinx. The severe 'khainseen" sandstorm follows and work which I sent to you?” "Excessively, sire,” replied the colo cuts into the soddened limestone of the ancient monument, whittling It nel. “I read it with such interest that I expect tlie second volume with impa away ull over the surface. tience.” The king smiled, and when the offi Au t’nuMiiiil Coincidence. W. F. Adams of Seattle, Wash., re cer’s birthday arrived lie presented him ceived two telegrams the other day with another ¡sirtfolio, similar in every while at Meridan which mark an un respect to tlie first, but witli these usual coincidence. One telegram was words engraved upon it: “Tills book is complete in two vol from his daughter, Mrs. M. S. Water man. in Seattle, announcing that she umes.” bad just become the mother of twins, Hitucock'n Presence of Mind. a boy and a girl. The other dispatch, A reminiscence of tlie buttle of Get Professor—Now, that young man has which arrived within an hour of the preceding one, was sent by his daugh tysburg illustrates the strict attention taken my course in memory culture ter, Mrs. M. E. Atwater, In Baltimore, to business of the professioual soldier and has gone away and forgotten to who announced that she had Just be under the most distracting circum pay me, and I've forgotten what his name is. come the mother of twins, a boy and stances. When General Hancock was wound a girl. The newcomers on the Atlantic Hl* Opinion. coast and youthful cousins 3,000 miles ed, he was carried to the rear, where “What do you know about this man's to the westward came into tlie world the surgeons cut away Ills clothing mid reputation for truth and veracity?” on the same day and almost at the found mid extracted the missile. The usked the lawyer of the witness on the general became much Interested on same hour. seeing it and insisted upon sending for stand. "Well,” replied the witness slowly, An Evanlve An*„er. an aid-de-camp, in spite of the medlcul Dean Wright of Yah s academic de admonitions against exciting himself. with the air of a man who hesitates partment, before whom offending stu When the aid appeared, the general about speaking ill of a neighbor, “if this party you refer to should ever tell dents stand trial, tells the following called out to him: story as containing the highest devel “Go straight to General Meade and me I was looking well, I would send opment of the evasive answer. The tell him the enemy is running short of for a hospital ambulance immediately.” pointer of the sundial that adorns the ammunition. I have been wounded —Syracuse Herald. campus hud beeu stolen as a .trophy, with a tenpenny nail!” Newspaper Vacation*. and the dean was questioning a stu Wlidt'a In h Nnmef Editor—So the physician lias advised dent believed to have had a share in Her name is Margaret, but all her (inlet and rest for you, lias he? Well, its removal. friends call her Daisy. It is a pet you may go and report that deaf mute "Mr. ---- suid the dean, "who stole name she has been known by since funeral service this afternoon. That’ll the pointer from the sundial?” "Procrastination is the thief of time, she was a child. There is a pretty, give you tlie quiet all right. Reporter—But what about the rest? sir,” wus the Immediate and noncom bright, charming freshness about her which the flower suggests. But not Editor—1'11 tell you the rest when mittal reply.—New York Times. withstanding tlie appropriateness of you get that done.—Los Angeles Her the nickname the girl, who lias recent ald. The New America. Lord Kitchener has bit on a liappy ly attained the dignity of an engage A Cure For a Feint. phrase, prophetic of South Africa’s fu ment ring, Ims discarded it once and We rely on the good faith of a con ture. At the presentation of a sword for all, and no one is a friend of hers given to him by the corporation of who does not call her Margaret. It is temporary for the truth of this story. Cape Town, though tlie formality took all on account of the new name she is “If your opponent feinted,” said the place in London, in liis speech of to take. She will eventually be Mrs. fencing Instructor, “what would you do?” thanks the general said, “You have Field. “And it is a very nice name, too,” “Bedad,” answered the recruit, “I'd the makings of nothing less than a ucw America in tlie southern hemisphere.” says the girl, “but I do not intend to Just tickle him with the ;>oliit to see if The English papers seize upon the be a ‘daisy field.’ ’’—New York Times. he was shamming.”—London Globe. phrase, “the new America” for their What Carlyle Wrote ot Tennyson. Not Likely. (leadlines. Tennyson in liis prime was thus de Mrs. Closefist—No, 1 will not give you scribed by Thomas Carlyle to Ralph anything. You are Intoxicated now. Pygniy Camel*. Trump—I won't dispute your word, The western part of Persia Is inhab Waldo Emerson on Aug. 5, 1844: “One ited by a species of camel which Is the of tlie finest looking men in the world. lady, but does you reely t’luk dat a pygmy of Its kind. These camels are A great shock of rough, dusty dark slice o' breud an’ a cup o’ coffee’d make snow white and are on that account hair; bright, laughing, hazel eyes; mas me any drunker?—New York Journal. almost worshiped by tlie people. Tlie sive aquiline face—most massive, .yet A Difference. shall presented the municipality of most delicate, of sallow brown com "Put not your trust in riches,” said Berlin with two of these little won plexion, almost Indian looking; clothes ders. Tlie larger is twenty-seven inches cynically loose, free and easy; smokes the clerical looking man in the rusty lilgh and weighs sixty-one pounds. The infinite tobacco. His voice is musically coat. “I don’t,” replied the prosperous look other is four inches less, but the metallic, lit for loud la lighter and pierc ing wail and all that may lie between; ing individual, “I put my riches in weight is not given. speech and speculation free and plen trusts.”—Retail Grocers’ Advocate. teous. I do not meet in these late dec Dynasties of Englund. Fairly Healthy. The dynasties of England since tlie ades such company over a pipe.” Eastern Mun (in the Rockies)—This conquest are Norman, four kings; A Co*tly Precedent. is a good, healthy country, isn’t it? Augevlne, eight kings; house of Lan One of Philadelphia's rich young Western Man — Ya-as, it's healthy caster, three kings; house of York, three kings; Tudor, three kings and bachelors returned from n trip to the enough if yeh don’t put on too many two queens; Stuart, four sovereigns; Pacific coast with a Chinaman as valet, nlrs.—New York Weekly. house of Orange, William 111. and his having been induced to engage him A* to Advice. wife Mary, conjointly; house of Han by San Francisco friends, who said “Advice, bredderen,” said Uncle over, six sovereigns, from George 1. to that orientals make admirable serv Victoria; house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotlui. ants. One morning the Chinaman found Eph, "am er good deal lalk trubble: a half dollar on the tlisir and was told de less yo' want de mob yo’ git, an’ de the present king. by his employer to keep it for liis hon moli yo’ git de less yo’ want.”—Colora esty. Some days later the bachelor do Springs Gazette. Edlnnnlan Cheapne**. Edison had said that the invention missed a scarfpin ami inquired of the Wearisome Occupation. of bis new storage battery would valet as to Its whereabouts. “Me flound It on le floor, an’ me kept it for my Sue—Oh, I feel so tired. place automobiles within tlie reach of honesty," was the explanation. Phila Emily—Been playing pingpong? |Mior people, and now he says an auto delphia Times. Sue—No; watching other people play mobile so equipped will be sold for$lt- —Philadelphia Record. 000. Poor people will doubtless buy Tlie ('nreful Grocer. one apiece for each of the boys. Edi “ John, ” sold a butter dealer, "always A nard Luck Story. son's lilen of the resources of the poor "Do you believe In luck?” man Is one of his most startling Inven put In a couple of sheets of paper when “If ‘seeing Is believing,’ I've no faith tions. It nliollshes poverty. — Water you weigh, Customers will think you neat nnd cleanly in your business. They In it.”—New York World. town Times. don't like to have their butter slopped on to n scale that, for all they know, Obedience to the Letter. French Maid. Policeman—Come along now quietly Mrs. Houselcigh—Your name. I un Ims never been washed. And, besides, derstand. Is Bridget McShane. You there's a good profit in buying paper or it will be worse for you. nt a halfpenny per pound and selling O’Toole—Ol’ll not. Tlie magistrate are Irish. I suppose? It for 18 pence.”—London Standard. told me last time niver to be brought Applicant—No. niem;Oi'm Frlnch. befoor him again, an’ begorra Ol'm Mrs. Houselelgh French? Were you goln’ to obey his Instructions.”—Boys Not No Disinterested ns Appeared. not born In Ireland? Biggs I had no idea old Grasplt was of the Empire. Applicant—YIs, mem; but* Ol took Frlnch I'ave from it.—Boston Tran a philanthropist until I saw him cir Would Prefer It Otherwise. script. culating a |>etition yesterday for the Lady—Ain’t you nshauied to be beg pttriMise of raising money to enable a ging on the street? "You seem to manage remarkably poor widow to pay her rent. Beggar Well, yes. I'd sooner do It well on jour housekeeping money.” Diggs (III. Grasplt's all right. He “Y'es. The tradespeople haven’t rent owns tlie house the poor widow Ilves In de pulpit or at a church fair, but fate Is ug'iii me.—Judge. their bills lu yet.”—New York Hera.d. |u. < 'lileago News. Ferns from the woods are best for the garden. Every year salmon becomes scarcer In Scotch rivers. An epidemic of scarlet fever lias been traced to tame pigeons iu Cincin nati. Gray has been decided on by the kaiser us the color of the German ar my war uniform. The Detroit river is the outlet of the greatest bodies of fresh water in the world, aggregating 82,(MM) square miles of lake surface, Ajaccio, in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, lias a new telephone serv ice. At present its subscribers are three In number. The population of the entire Austra lian commonwealth is but a few tbou- Hind greater than that of New York city—viz, 3,775,128, The electrical police ambulance aft er a severe test has been placed In reg ular service by the police commission ers of Hartford, Conn. During a recent cyclone at Karachi, British India, trains were stopped by tlie force of tlie wind, which blew at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Singapore possesses a curiosity in the shape of a Chinese dwarf who is barely forty inches in height and is en dowed with a fine gray beard. Enough coal was produced in the United States last year to give three and a half tons to every one of the 76,000,000 men, women and children in tlie country. Tlie great fleet of sailing vessels which for more than a century has been going out from Gloucester, Mass., is destined to give place to steam propelled fishing boats. A. L. Botch, who lias been studying the German scientific methods of ob servations in the upper air. says that everywhere lie found tlie Blue liill kite had been adopted by the German ob servers. One of the most important industries attaching to tlie cheap power now pro duced by Niagara is tlie electrical tear ing apart of tlie molecule of common salt, resulting in the formation of caustic soda and bleaching powder. On the Pacific coast are found nu merous little shells of sea snails of a species called the “ollvella" because of their resemblance to olives, out of which the Indians used to cut disks that were extensively used for coins. Of the silks used in tlie United States $26,000,000 worth are imported and $107,000,000 worth homemade. The do mestic silk industry employs 24,000 men, 36,000 women and 6.000 children In 483 mills, with $81,00(1,000 capital. Many steampipe explosions are due to water hammer action. A plug of water only six inches long propelled only two feet under a pressure of fif teen pounds can exert a pressure of (’>,400 pounds on being suddenly stop ped. Colorado is a great honey producing state. One Colorado apiarist keeps his bees busy collecting honey all tlie year round by turning them loose in bis alfalfa fields in the summer and in winter shipping them to 11 plantation in Florida. A peasant woman at Salcine-des-Sus, Roumaniu, lias Just died at tlie age of 131 years, the figures being fully sub stantiated by documents in the pos session of her family. For tlie past ten years she had lived entirely on milk, being toothless. The leading swine raising states are, in their order, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri. Nebraska, Indiana und Kansas. Iowa, with 9,723,71)1, has 15.7 tier cent of all the hogs tu the United States, and they constitute nearly one-fifth of the wealth of the state. Garrick's villa, at Hamilton, is to be demolished to make way for a tram way extension. The granite pouts nt the entrance to the house, where Da vid Garrick, tlie actor, resided for years, were originally part of the foun dations of old London bridge. A Kansas City woman who made some shirts for her busband a few days ugo made a discovery that was curi ous to her. In a woman’s waist the right half of the front buttons over tlie left half. In a man's shirt, open in front, tlie left half buttons over the right half. A petition of Berliu land and bouse owners against the new elevated elec tric railway on the ground that its clatter depreciated their property by driving away tenants has found no fa vor with the president of police. He says that Berliners will get accus tomed to the innovation. The flag that was first raised over Fort Donelson, Tenn., after its surren der to General Grant on Feb. 16, 18(12, bus been presented to the state of Col orado us un addition to the collection of war relics in tlie capitol. It is made of bunting, 8 by 10 feet In size, and slmws tlie effects of much use. Belgian cities are liable for nil dam age done to private property by riot ers, and Brussels has accordingly been ordered by the court to pay $4,000 for windows smashed during tlie riots of 1899. The rioting last spring wns much more serious nnd a larger liill will have to be met by the city. A New York firm recently sent a man to Manila to build a furnltu: factory ta employ about 400 bunds. The agent became disgusted with the Filipino workmen nnd tins gone to Hongkong to establish tlie- factory, where a more satisfactory class of labor can be hud amotjg the Chinese. It hns been discovered that the cor porations controlled by J Pierpont Morgan and Ills associates pay In cor poration taxes the entire running ex penses of the state of New Jersey. The total sum is $150,738. of which the United States Steel company con trlbuted $54,669. The remainder Is made up by seven other companies or gnnlzed under the laws of New Jersey Wronged, Lucille—But lie Ims no imagination. Hortense—He hasn't? That's where you wrong him. Why, he thinks there are fully a dozen girls in this town who have hearts that he broke all to pieces.—Chicago Record-Herald. Every man should know something of law. If he knows enough to keep out of It he is a pretty good lawyer. A fast man is very slow when it comes to paying his debts. Philadel phia Record.
