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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.