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left Irehind them bad Itecome a roaring furnace, with animals dying lie fore it only to finally lie caught in the dames which sped onward, sweeping out of Orltfln of the Jlnrlki.ha. existence Is-autiful and thrifty farms, Most travelers is Japan would sup leaving the owner, if he was fortunate pose that so general a Japanese infiti enough to eMuqie with his family, pen tutlon m the Jlurikisba was of native What a ‘‘bugliear” the Christmas niless and homeless. Tlie damage has origin, but not so. An old resilient ol holidays are to some |>eiiple. W hat hard Yokohama writes to the Kolte t'hroui amounted to millions, uot counting tlie ele: "For several years after the insti work they make of it and how much loss of life, all through the negligence tution of the Jinrlkisha it was general of the pleasure of the X-mastide is hmt of a few careless pleasure seekers. If ly uiKlerstiHsl among foreigners in Yo in the fretlmgand the worrying. They they esca|>ed, wtiat must their feelings kohama that Mr. Coble, ‘half cobbler, cannot afford to do all they would like, be when they note the deatli and tleso- Im if missionary,' was its inventor. Mr. but they do not stop to think that pre Goble, though a rough looking sort of cious few of us can. They want to give lation that have followed in their wake? ■min, was regarded by tile foreign resl costly gifts, and their very limited Far from enviable, you may rest assured, for if they have a conscience their sleep dents of the |s>rt as un honest. eon- purse forbids the gratifying of their will Is- tilled with hideous dreams and sistent missionary. I believe it was lie who built the first missionary chapel taste in that direction. In many cases their days troubled. Nothing they can in Yokohama, and ns long ns it lasted the modest little gift they can give with ever do will still the uneasy conscience It was known as ‘Goble’s church.' lie the love and hearty gissl-will is much they must henceforth carry with them. was In the habit of taking long ram- more appreciated than the more costly They cannot ¡nit the breath of life into ides In tin* country and doing a little one, for the latter would ¡dace them ¡««Idling business, and. if my memory under obligations that perchance they the charred Isxliesof men, women and serves me rightly, lie gave a eoininls could not meet, and in place of bring children who have met their death in sion to a blacksmith either in Kawasa ing happiness to the recipient thecortly the flames. The fleet-footed deer that s|ied before the wings of death, the vari ki (on the Tokaido, between Yokohama and Tokyo» or in Fujisawa to construct gift would lie the source of embarrass ous other animals that helped to feed tlie first Jlnrikishn. The vehicle took ment. Possibly they had already some the tire-fiend, the beauty of hill and nt once with the Japanese, but not so dainty, trivial gift for you, and it would valley and magniiicent forests, the loss among the foreigners, with whom It lie all they felt that they could afford, of valuable timber that can never lie was some time before it became a pop yet your handsome gilt made it ap)iear ular means of locomotion. Mr. Guide so insigniticaiit that they shrank from replaced, the desolate homes, all these must remain as silent witnesses of the was un AYnerlcan citizen." giving it to you. Such a state of affairs guilty man’s unpardonable negligence helps to turn the joyous < hristmas-tide or carelessness. There is a law for the ‘Taking Ulin si Ills Word. into one of hitterness. It ¡sail wrong, Joseph Jefferson In his biography punishment of a party guilty of such a relates what was probably the last Ji«t and we should wake U|> to the fact that crime. However, they are seldom this costlv gift-giving is the one thing of Artemus Ward. When the famous caught, and even if they were, and the wit lay dying in Southampton, lie was that makes the holiday season one to full penalty of the law visited upon attended by his devoted friend Tom lie dreaded. Before Christmas rolls Robertson, the author of "t’aste," who round you will hear men talking on the them, that is poor compensation for the boats of people who have ruin star was also a friend of Jefferson. cars and w ith their ¡ss-kets bulging out ‘•Just before Ward's death,” writes witli mysterious looking packages and ing them in the face, and it will not Mr. Jefferson, “Robertson ¡toured out prove a lesson for others, for next year some medicine in a glass and offered their arms full of bundles, the invaria it will lie the same as it has been in ble drift of their conversation is their it to ills friend. the ¡iast. dislike to the holiday season, the cus ‘‘Ward said: tom of gift-giving lieing all folderol, “ 'My dear Tom. I can’t take that BRIEF REVIEW. dreadful stuff.’ and how glad they will lie when it t.s a ••*<’onie, come,’ said Itobertson. urg thing of the past. Women are com Light to Fight Insects. ing him to swallow the nauseous drug. miserating with each other over the ‘There's a good fellow. Im. now. for task of getting ready for Christmas. For several years past the vineyards my sake. You know I would do any They never have enough money to go in tlie iiii|sirlat11 wine-growing district thing for yon.’ round, everything is so high, and it of Beaujolias have suffered greatly from ’Would .von?’ said Ward, feebly stretching out liis hand to grasp his takes such an endless time to get waited the attacks of numerous Hying insects, on in I lie stores and get the different the most important of which is known friend's, perhaps for the last time. “'I would indeed,’ said Itobertson. packages they have purchased for goisi as the pyralid. Last year a series of ex periments was carried out in one of the “ ‘Then you take it.' said Ward. Kris Kringle to pass on. large vineyards to see if the insects “The humorist passed away a few • » » • hours later.” could Is- caught by bright lights burn They could make it so much easier if ing at night. An apparatus was con Ou It« Owu Merita. they followed the plan of a certain little structed, consisting of an acetylene gen A young man who spent Ills summer friend of Polly’s. She commences about erator holding about six ounces of vacation on a Maine farm says that June to lay in lierstis-kof holiday gifts. calcium carbide. Over this was a cir new Instances of the thrift and shrewd Never a week goes by that she does not cular metal dish alsiut twenty inches in ness of Ids landlady are constantly thrusting themselves upon Ids atten add some trinket, Issik, handkerchief, diameter, and over this at a height of etc., to tlie store of gifts. She keeps an alsiut eight inches a single acetylene tion. One day a wagon load of unexpected eye on the advertisements that appear jet, giving a small, bright light at alsiut relatives descended on the farm, and from day today in tliedaily pa|iers and ten candle-power. This light the car tlie mistress was. us she afterward knows all the bargain sales. She makes bide was sufficient to keep burning for frankly said, ‘‘put to It” to provide it convenient to godown town on those six or eight hours. In a basin a layer enough food for dinner. She brought days and never comes home empty- of water was placed, and on top of this forward among other tilings an apple handed, although her purse mav lie a layer of kerosene or some other cheap ¡de which seemed to tlie boarder far Inferior Io the ¡ties she usually made. much lighter. The result is that when oil, of which alsiut two Huid ounces But when she served it slie spoke of Christinas rolls round and everybody is were required. These machines were rushing, pushing and nearly ready to set up alsiut 550 yards apart and were her replication as a pit-maker. "They do say at the sociables that faint with exhaustion, she is smiling set inaction at dusk, preferably on dark nobody's pies quite come up to mine," and composed as if it was the merry nights. On the first night one lamp she remarked, with a beaming smile, month of June, for she has all her gifts caught 4(HM> pyralids and 213 moths of "and apple ¡des are what you might purchased, sorted and marked ready for other kinds. During July the lamps cull my s|«*chilty. I've often been the Christmas tree or for mail or ex averaged .1200 insects per lamp a night. asked for the recipe, but 1 tell ’em It’s press, as the case may be. In fact, she The expense of the lamps is reported to knack and Judgment does It. not rule." The pie disappeared. and then, when is the only one of Polly’s friends who have Is-en 2 cents |s-r night each, or 2J her guests were not as hungry ns they does not wear an anxious look during cents per night per acre. It is said Hist had been, she brought fortli a second the mail rush ol the last few days lie- this method of catching noxious insects ¡ile. flaky of crust and luscious to the fore tlie dawn of Christmas eve. She is more efficacious than any metliisl tuste. buys a little here and a little there and which has Is-en tried Is-fore. “Why, Aunt Mary,” said file youn does not miss the money like she would gest of the party, a boy of twelve, "I if she had to take it all at once and in A Bird’s Bump of Locality. think this pie's ever so much better On shore the penguin is an awkward vest. Twenty dollars looks like a big than tin* oilier, and you haven’t said sum, but it goes no waysat all. Articles creature, says Professor <E. Borchgre- it word about it!" ills aunt looked at him without so always seem higher during the holiday vink, the Antarctic explorer, in Leslie’s season and they have Is-en picked over Monthly. Waterisitselement. When much as a twinkle in her eyes. "This one will go down without until there seems to Is- nothing that hunted on the ice ffoes the birds gener praising, I reckon," she said gravely. you want when you wait until the last ally try to run away in an upriglit po few days to make your purchases. This sition, but just as the hunter thinks he 'File N cecity of Mystery. little friend of Polly’s gets more for her has got one the bird lies down on its To lie content In utter darkness anil money than any one I ever knew. She white lielly and paddles along over the ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light picks up so many dainty little conceits snow very quickly, the hard, smooth ami find knowledge must lie always that are unique and make such accept quills »slipping over the snow crystals right. Yet (as In all matters before able gifts. She says she never ¡»uts almost without friction. A remarkable observed) wherever pride lias any herself out to make these numerous pur chaiacteristicof the penguin ishisbump share in tin1 work even knowledge and chases, but she keeps her eyes open for of lis-ality. Both on shore and in the light may la* ill pursued. Knowledge bargains and novelties. water lie never loses his way. To hu Is good and light is good, yet man man eyes one ice floe is precisely like • » » » perished in seeking knowledge and another, but under that risif of similar tlie mollis perisli in seeking light, and If everyone would follow the exam if we who are crushed before the ple of this friend the terrors of the ice floes I have seen a ¡teiiguin of the moth will not accept such mystery ns Christmas season would drift away like larger H,»ecies find its mate on a ffoa af ter diving ami swimming for a full is needful to us we shall perish in like manner. None but the proud will the mists of the morning. Nor would mile under water. mourn over tills, for we may always the men of the household hate the time know more if we choose by working of giving ami receiving, for they would Aluminum used for Paper. on, but tlie pleasure Is, I think, to not hear the doleful cry of “no money It is stated that experiments with humble people in knowing Hint the for < Tiristmas.’’ If this ¡dan were pur aluminum as a siilistitute for paper are Journey Is endless, the treasure inei sued nearly every woman would have now under way in France. It is now haustllde.—"laimps of Architecture,” her stock of gifts ready and would ¡sisHible to roll aluminum into sheets Ruskin. avoid the terrific jam and push that four-thousandths of an inch in thick occur every holiday season, and there ness, in which form it weighs less than < om r rNntloiia. would lie less fainting of over-worked pa|»er. By tlie adoption ofsuitable ma “What's the matter, dear?” sales girls who lose consciousuess from chinery these sheets can lie made even “Nothing.” "Yes, there is." shere exhaustion as they wait on the thinner and can Is- used for Issik and “No that Is, nothing to you.” impatient throng. Try it this year, writing pa|>er. 'Tlie metal will not oxi "Come; tell me.” even though it istwomonths later than dize, is practically lire and water prisif “I was thinking couldn't you eat this little friend Is-gins, ami see if it does and is indestructable by worms. your breakfast once without reading not work like a charm. the paper." 'The value of the coal mines in Japan « « « « “You know I have to hurry." Is almost equal to that of all other min " There was a time"— Y ear in and year out the ¡»a|iers have “Now, now.” chronicled the devastation caused by erals combined. It varies from the "I scarcely ever see your face.” forest fires on the Pacific Coast that hardest anthracite to |>eal, but theqlial- “But surely you don’t object"— have played sad havoc with farmers, ity is usually inferior to that of Ameri “Yes. I do. It's horrid of you.” can coal. Mislern machinery and the "But this is Monday morning, ami”— hnnlieriiien and stockmen, but this methisls have lieen intrisiuced in the "I’reeisely. It's Monday morning, year's tires have broken the record and and von know 1 like to look at the ad cut a wider swath, leaving death and operation of many mines. vertisements on Monday morning.”— ilesolation on the most fertile farms and In Russia factories are usually near New York lieraid. reducing to ashes and charred trunks forests, wissl ts-ing still the chief fuel. some of the grandest monarchs of the Ninety per cent oftlie 12H,0(M>,(MM) people Needed, Ton. Apparently, forest and the finest timlier land in this of the Russian empire are farmers. Teacher Now. what do you under section of country. Not only this, but stand by brain work? Vladivostock ¡Hissesses the only crema- Boy When a mini works with his many lives have Is-en lost in the awful toriam that has Is-en erected in the conflagrations that have swept this whole Russian empire. head. Teacher Correct. And what Is man coast. It is doubtful whether It will ual labor? ever Is- known just how many lives All the new trains on the Central Boy When a man works with his have Is-en lost. It is a terrible picture London Railway are to Is- of IIreproof blinds. of desolation tlint meets you on every Teacher That's right. To which of side in the burned districts, and the construction, steel and asliestos Is-ing largely used. Other precautions for tlie these classes do I belong w lien I teach you? Wlint do I use most in teaching feeling of indignation is very strong safety of passengers are living taken. toward those who have lieen the cause you ? of this terrible calamity. Carelessness, To our parents, says anex|s*rt, weare Boy—A strap. ¡Hire and simple, of cam|iers or hunters, indebted for half our mental traits; to I.lttle Clarence Pa, what is experi has Is-en the cause in nearly every in our grandparents, one-fourth; to our ence? stance. Thought they hail put out great grandparents, one-eighth, anil so Mr. Callipers-Experience, my son. Is their cani|effres, but instead of seeing forth. the headaches you acquire from butt that even thesmallest spark hail <lisa|e lug agalust the world.—Puck. |>eare<l, they left it to smoulder only to Green wissl contains fully 45 per cent In settlement of the claims for In be fanned into new life by the next of water, although seasoning usually demnity made by those Italian sub breeze, or they drop|>ed a match in the ex|iels but 35 ¡lercent of this fluid. jects who were expelled from the gra«s that is as dry as tinder at this sea Transvaal the British government has son of the year and rodeon to their des Italy makes eight millions a year out paid down £12.<MM>. which will be di tination. Meanwhile the country they of foreign visitors. vided among 120 Individuals. BAN no X KECOKBER. i POLLY LARKIN?"] DUMAS ON SNAKES. * *’b«r«eterlatle story «1 Ik* !■»»- «■■ h I uhb Freaek Aalkor. YY lien M. de YTIIeuiessaut was found ing l.e Grand Journal, he wrote to Du mas, asking for bla assistance. Dumas at once prepared a romance lu six vol tunes. In ||,e meantime the editor asked him for some article« or cause- tie«, which were to be published imme diately. “I have the very thing!” cried 1‘uiiiio. "I was Just alsiut to «tart on a whole aeries about snakes.” “On snake«?” "Yes. 1 have the entire sub ject at my Angers' ends. 1 «¡ieut half my life studying them. There’s uot a soul who knows anything aiiout the dear. Interesting little creators«. You w ill Hud It will be a great success - this article." The editor, half con- vlnced, agreed to accept this article "on snakes,” saying to himself, "After III. Dumas Is very likely to bit on something effective.” "If you want a little cash in advance, you can draw on me.” "I have plenty," said Dumas. “for the first time in my life, 1 confess; but, still, 1 really have enough.” They parted, and the editor returned to Ids office. On arriving there be found Alexander's secretary waiting for him with the following paper, ready signed: Received the sum of 50 napoleons on account of my story. A hearty squeeze Of tile hand A. D. Tlie next day the secretary arrived with tlie first feullleton and a letter, which ran: NEW SHORT STORIES THEY DRINK SEA WATER. Gambling Talk “Cat Oat.” Cockatoos aad Wild Plgeoae Do Met Seem to Mlad It. Sluce Secretary Shaw inaugurated that personally conducted autigam bliug crusade the treasury department clerks who feel that they require their Jobs have become exceedingly careful lu their manner of eipressing them selves. “Ho hum.” yawned one of them as he gazed out of one of the otflee windows shortly after 3 o'clock the other after noon. “It's 2 to 1 that it'll he raining like the dickens before 4 o’clock.” "Sh sh!” hissed one of hia fellow clerks. •■Why, what's the matter?" Inquired tlie yawner. “You said something about 2 to 1,“ was the explanation. "Oh!" And the clerk who had made tlie dangerous crack, which clearly showed him to be an inveterate and tio|M*lesK gamliler, flushed and glanced furtively about. A clerk who got back from his sea shore vacation was telling his fellow clerks alsiut it on the day he got back to the office. “You can gamble I had a corking time," lie said enthusiastically. "Hush!" exclaimed the vacationist's fellow clerks in unison. "Don't Involve iis in your ruin. The word 'gamble' dassen't be used around these works any more.” Couldn't Duplicate It« London papers teem with articles on My Dear Friend—Be kind enough to pingpong, the new parlor game. One writer even declares Londoners make a hand the bearer the sum of S napoleons. A. D. boast of the destruction they cause The very same evening came a dis with the little celluloid balls. It 1« a common thing the day after a plug patch from Havre: On receipt of this please send 20 napo leons to my lodgings at Frascati. A thousand thanks. A. D. An hour later catue another: My Dear Boy—I should have said 13, not 20. naps You are my best friend. Tlie feullleton is on the road. A. DUMAS. Tlie finale of this capital story is no less characteristic.. The feullleton ar rived by ¡lost on the following day and was found to contain exactly four lines of Dumas' composition, two at the beginning and two at the end of the paper. Thus it ran: "I copy from luy good friend, Dr. Revoil. the follow ing particulars about snakes.” Then came a long essay on that subject, all copied out In his own neat handwriting and closed by this original remark, “lu my next 1 will deal with the boa con strictor, the most curious of all the snakes."— Black and YVlute. BIRD DOGS. Some of the Almost Human Work These Clever Canines Ferfortu. Itoading denotes that a dog is follow ing a trail toward the birds by their foot scent, as a man In an analogous manner might follow a flock of sheep by watching their tracks. Drawing denotes that a dog Is ap proaching birds by a scent in the air. us a man might follow a flock of sheep by tlie long line of dust hovering over and around the trail. Drawing is con sidered a much superior manner to •oadlng It Is commonly marked by greater accuracy, quickness of execu tion and dash of manner. Pointing is the stop which the dog makes when he has definitely located the birds or when lie thinks lie lias done so. It is tin- preliminary pause to accurately determine the whereabouts of tlie bidden birds before lie springs to capture. If he misjudges and springs In the wrong direction, all Ills pains and labor come to nothing. In bis training be is encouraged to ¡mint, but is prohibited springing, so that after a time he makes his ¡silnt and holds It stancbly. If by any act, willful or otherwise, he alarms the birds and they take w-lng, it Is culled a flush. If the dog when going up wind on game flushes the birds, lie commits an error. If un der certain circumstances be flushes when going down the wind, the error may l>e excused on the ground that be ing up wind of them It was impossible to scent them and therefore Impossible to know of their presence.—Outing. A II iiiiih n Pa rad ox. One often hears an amusing para dox-such as a brass tin whistle going around a square, a home whitewashed terra cotta, and "ail awfully nice” thing. Blit it Is not a common occur rence to come across a “black white man,” and yet this phenomenon is to lie seen almost any day in New York. The gentleman Is said to be a colored minister in the city, and although in the distance lie bears the outward re semblance of a white man—more espe cially on account of bls pallid features and gray white hair—be is unmistak ably of the colored race, and what is not the least remarkable la that in cousouauce with Ills paradoxical ap pearance be Is wont to relish “hot Ice cream puffs!”—New York Times. Unking ■ Mirror. Here is the method used in the manu facture of a mirror: After the glass has been carefully polished ou both sides It is laid ou a firm table (usually of stone), with upturned edges, and one or more sheets of tin foil are laid upon the plate. Quicksilver Is then spread over it aud at once forms an amalgam with the tin, making a re flecting surface. A Calaeldeaee. “So that young uiau wants to marry you?” said Mabel's fattier. "Yes,” was the reply. “Do you know how much bls salary is?” "No; but it’s an awfully strange coin cidence.” "What do you mean?” “Herbert asked the very same ques tion about you.” The Baky aad Ike Pastor. "I BKO A THOl'SANII PAHDOSS!” pong match to hear one society lady say to another: "YVhat an excellent game we bad last night at Lady X.’s! Three precious ornaments were bro- keu.” But occasionally hostesses have been known to make complaints. One evening, says this writer, a young lieu tenant who was playing very wildly knocked down a Chinese vase and shattered It to atoms. The mistress of the house, who is the wife of a diplo matist. could not suppress a look of an noyance. “1 beg a thousand pardons!” exclaimed the young officer, blushing crimson. “But I will get you ope ex actly like it.” "Impossible!” replied the lady. “Tliat vase is part of the loot of Peking.” Chicago News. "I ii 18S1. while resident on Gazelle peninsula, the northern portion of the maguifleeut island uf New Britain. In the south Pad tie. 1 bad many oppor tunities uf witnessing both cockatoo« aud wild piteous drinking salt water. I was stationed at a place called Ka- baira, the then farthest out' trading station on the whole island, and a« I had but little work to do I found plenty of time to study bird life In the vicinity. Parrots of several varieties, all of lieautlful plumage, were plenti ful, and great flocks of whits cocka toos frequented the rolling, grassy downs which lay between my home and the German head station in Blanche bay.'twenty mile« distant, while the heavy frost of the littoral was the haunt of thousands of pigeons. These pigeons, though not so large as the Samoan or eastern Polynesian bird, formed all agreeable change of diet for us white traders, ami by walking about fifty yards from one's door half a dozen or more could be shot in as many minutes. "My nearest neighbor was a Germnn, and one day when we were walking along the beach toward bls station I noticed some hundreds of pigeons fly down from the forest, settle on the margin of the water and drink with apparent enjoyment. The harbor at this spot lieing almost landlocked and the water as smooth as glass and with out the faintest ripple, the birds were enabled to drink without wetting their plumage. My nelghlior, who I ihi I lived many years In New Britain, told me tliat tills drinking of sea water was common to Ixitli cockatoos and pigeons alike, and that on some occasions the benches would be lined with them, tlie cockaliMis not only drinking, but bath ing. and apparently enjoying them selves greatly. During the next six mouths, especially when the weather was calm and rainy, 1 frequently no ticed pigeons ami cockatoos come to tlie suit water to drink. "At first I thought that as fresh water In many places bubbled up through the amid at low tide the.birds were not really drinking the sea water, hut by watching closely I distinctly saw them walk across these tiny run nels without milking any attempt to drink. Then, too, the whole of the Gazelle ¡teninsula is cut up by count ies« stream« of water, and rain falls throughout the year as a rule. YVhat causes thl« unusual habit of drinking sea water? Another peculiarity of the New Britain and New Ireland pigeon is Its foiKfliess for the chili pepper berry. During three months of tlie year, wheu these berries are ripe, the birds' crops are full of them, and oft u their flesh is so pungent and smells so strongly of the chill as to be quite un eatable.”—Chambers' Journal. Bird« In Indian LeKendN. CHOICE MISCELLANY The ••koUMB* Gniue.’’ The “lounge game” baa been played at least once lu Brooklyn and twice in New York; perhaps oftener. but these ¿re the only eases tlie police have beard of. The mode of operation is like tills: A wagon drives up to a house, ami one of the two men in charge rings the doorbell and says. “YVe have a sofa here bought by Ylr. A., who ordered it sent up." "Bill Mr. A. has ordered no sofa," the lady of the house responds. “There is some mistake.” "Not a bit of It. He liought it aud ¡laid for It, and all we can do is to leave it.” The lady is not convinced, but she 1« asked to pay nothing, can make no reasonable de uiur. so in comes the lounge, that is usually taken to a second floor. In a couple of hours back come the meu. All a mistake; was meant for auother ntan of the same name at the other end of the town. The furniture Is placed again In the wagon and canled away. Some lime later the lady of the house misses her Jewelry and other small valuables. She cannot imagine where they have gone to. The men witli tlie wagon know. There was a hollow place in the lounge large enough to hold a small man and store away a lot of clothing, kniekknaeks and Jewelry. The goods had gone away with the lounge. Dueling In Sv»ItserlHiid. The duel, though prohibited by law, still exists in Switzerland, but the practice is contined to the students 111 the Swiss German universities. Even these tire eaters are beginning to real ize the absurdity of the ¡»ractice. for a meeting was held at Zurich lately, at which student delegates from all parts were present, to discuss the duel and courts of honor. A proposition bv the president to abolish the duel alto gether was rejected by a large major ity. ’The consequence was that a large number of duels which were previous ly arranged mid whose principals were awaiting tlie result of tlie vote took place at Bremgarten. near Bern. Many students received severe rapier cuts, i liietly in the face, but noliody was seriously wounded. The police, though they know tlie practice exists and are often aware of the "affair." seldom interfere, for they look upon the duel as practiced by the students as a sporting and harmless mutter. It is certain that nobody lias ever been seriously hurt in these affairs of honor. A Spider's Well. A small spider that dropped Itself from an oriel window in the rotunda over the north entrance to the city hall courtyard gave an interesting illustra tlon of the length to which these lu- sects can spin out a single thread. The window from which the spider de scended Is fully fifty feet above the pavement, and the insect was in line with the eyes of pedestrians when it was first noticed. Several people stopped to watch its movements. The poiut from which the spider had dropped was easily located, as the long silky threads could be (raced upward in the bright sunlight to the window. A gentle puff of wind floated tlie In sect upward out of the strniglit line of descent, and It rapidly lengthened Its thread, allowing Itself to float before tlie breeze. The thread must have been nearly a hundred feet long when the air became still, and the spider slowly swung backward like a pendulum un til it landed on the ground more than half way across the courtyard.— Plilla delpliln Record. AU primitive people regard the bird as specially wise and favored. Living In the air, be Is regarded as exercising control over atmospheric phenomena, and. knowing so well bls own migra tory seasons, the Indians observe his flights as foreboding 111 or good to themselves. The Hurons believe that the dove carries the souls of the departed hence. The Dakotas sa.v the storm bird dwells so high as to be out of liumau vision and carries a fresh water lake on his back, so that when be plumes himself It rains, when he winks bis bright eyes it lightens, when he flaps his wings And ibr Outsider Won. Long before Lord Rosebery had won thunder rolls. The Alaskans bold much a name or place for himself he was for the «Huie Idea about the "thunder some time tn New York, where he be bird." Among them all the eagle Is mighty, came the Intimate friend and ardent Ciiiisrraiiliinal Library Clock. admirer of the late Sam Ward. He al brave, aspiring, the symbol of their The clock In the reading room of the ways put the greatest faith In the ad warriors for apparent reasons. The library of congress has been complet vice of the man whom be invariably kingfisher Is anxious to serve bls broth- ed and unveiled. The timepiece Itself called "Uncle 8am" except once, and er man. has been in ¡dace for several years, but that time co«t him money. The story the allegorical figures surrounding It Hoyalty and Profanity. Is told by John Gilmer Speed, one of William the Conqueror did not intro have Just been added. the few New Yorkers who remember The dial structure Is a varicolored the great English statesman as he was duce swearing into England, but lie brought with him a very forcible oath. marble Incrusted witli semiprecious in those days. stones, while the dial is a sunburst of "Rosebery had gone back to Lon YVilllam was accustomed to swear "by gilt bronze. Figures of students tn the splendor of God, ” and on such oc don,” says Mr. Speed, “and YVard was bronze typifying the "Reader” and the in Italy, where he bad somehow goue casions he combined with it the "ter “YVrlter” are seated on eltliei* side, of in for clairvoyance. One day be ca rible aspect.of the eyes.” which always the dial, while "Time” attended by bled to his English friend to back a took the place of swearing in the case “Day” and “Night” surmounts the certain horse for the Derby, which was of Sir Joseph I’orter, K. C. B. After structure. YVilliam's time the rulers of England, to be run a day or so later. But Forming an oval frame in color YVard's choice was regarded as a hope with possibly here and there an excep around this group are the signs of the less outsider, and Rosebery took no tion, swore with great frequency aud stock In clairvoyance anyhow, so the vigor. It is related that even Queeu zodiac, tlie work being completed by cable was thrown into the waste bas Bess, whose auburn locks did not belie the high relief In bronze of the “Swift Runners" on the parapet beneath the ket. The point of the story Is that that a tlery temper, would break into a dial. same rank outsider actually did win string of expletives that would rattle The sculpture was done by John the royal windows and frighten tlie the race.” household and royal attendants from Flanagun of Newark, N. J. He studied UooSwIs Hubs It In. all sense of diplomatic recourse.—Lon under St. Gaudens and at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Upon one occasion Nat Goodwin In don Taller. vited a prominent English artist to Hlrdw* Meat« Built by Cities. visit him at his country bouse in the The First Qaarrel. suburbs of Ixtudon, where he was to Years ago it was discovered in a dis After the explosion the following paint a portrait of Mrs. Goodwin, bet were found to he injured: trlct of France that the agricultural ter known as the beautiful Maxine El The Groom. — Slightly scratched prospects had lieen damaged by the liott. about the face, force of character and slaughter of small birds, and steps The artist arrived at night and cam« self esteem somewhat shattered; will were at once taken to protect the down to breakfast rather late next hereafter show timidity under like cir birds. In Antwerp the authorities morning, the rest of the company be cumstances. have gone a step further. They have ing already seated at the table. YVltb The Bride.—Dignity hurt, but not caused, so It Is reported, artitleial an attempt to be witty, the artist ex brokeu: showed unexpected courage; birds' nests to be placed on the tlr claimed: trees with a view to favoring the mul will recover slowly. "Why. do Americans sit down wheu Cupid.—Badly shocked; will recover. tiplication of Insectivorous birds. It Is they eat?” -Life. an Ingenious attempt, but It Is hard to “Certainly.” replied Nat quickly, “but Imagine that the birds of that country tstsoes. they rarely use chairs. YVe generally are so continually lazy that they will An old sea captain, uuder the Im sit on the floor, where we can get a pression that he was saying a good either abandon their natural Instincts better grip on our food.” thing, asked a lady passenger why to build their own nests or flock to one men never kiss one another, while la district because there the trouble Is He Had Strack Paregoric. dles waste a world of kisses on femi saved them. Representative Olmstead of Penn nine faces. sylvania tells this story: "A client of The Skins of Fruit. "Because.” the lady replied, “the mine the necessities of whose large I be skins of fruit of all kinds should men have something better to kiss and family, recently augmented by twins, never be eaten, but before removing the women haven’t.” made him poor came to me Joyfully the skin the fruit should lie carefully one day aud said be bad found oil washed, to avoid the transference of The Isevllahle. flowing from a spring on bls land. "Do as 1 tell you,” Tommy's mamma bacteria from skin to pulp. Expert "The bottle containing the sample cried. "It's about time you realized meats have shown that a stomach which be brought me bad evidently the futility of struggling against the whose contents contained no microbes seeu family use. but I forwarded it to Inevitable. Do you know what that after a breakfast of sterilized food, an expert for analysis. The reply means?" ending with grapes of which the skins dashed to the earth the hopes of my "Yes'm.” replied Tommy. "It means were eaten, contained .Kiu.tMM) microbe« client aud myself. The expert said: there's no use o' your wasliiu' m.v to each fluid ounce. These microbe* " 'Find no trace of oil. Think your hands an' face 'cause they'll only get cause the fruit to decay before it can friend lias struck paregoric.' " be digested.—Farm and Ranch. dirty again.” Father of the Pastor (after the ser mon)—llow Horace has changed since he was a baby! Opportune. 'The Mother— YVhat an Idea! of Mis« I.lly (after the proposal)—I course he has changed. don't think you'd better see papa to Father--What I meau Is that when day, Tom. My dressmaker has Just be was a baby be used to keep me lieen here with her bill. a wake.—Boston Trauscript. Tom Featherhead—This 1« Just the time. He will be glad to get rid of Quite aa Innovation. you. “For a new actress she adopted an original way of drawing attention to The l»4«M«»il. herself." The Sister-I have become engaged Attempted suicide? Diamonds b ( u to Fred. b n? Breach of promise case?" The Brother-Whatever Induced you Nothing uf the kind. She alaiiily to do that? learned how to act, end acted.” The Bister Why, Fred, of course! Hla Taste. *n ■ Close Place. The landlady was speaking. "Mr Barnstorme. liow do you like your eggs?" The tragedian's fuce relaxed Into an expression of Joy. "Hard boiled!" be cried. Until that moment people had willfully mistaken his taste. -Baltimore Herald. “How do you manage to live within your income, Briggs? Don’t you feel cramped?” “(’ramped, did you say? Why. I have got to go out and borrow SIU ev ery time 1 want to stretch myself”— Smart Set.________________ Matarally, One Girl-Jack tried to kiss me last People laugh when they are amused, night when they think people expect them Another—What In the world did yon to be amused aud when they don’t do? want to be rude and don't know wliut "Oh, I was up In arms In a minute.” else to do Los Angeles Herald. —Smart Set ______
