BANDON’ RECORDER. •
M. THIERS AT HOME
Th«
P«aallav Habits •» th«
l«rlaa*« Dally Lit«.
Hia-
The daily Ilfs of Thiers was very pe
culiar. He rose always at a very early
hour, about 5 o’clock in tbe morning,
seldom later. After a cup of coffee and
a light repast he would work steadily
for many hours. Then he usually took
a walk or would perhaps play a game
of tennis before breakfast which meal
was served at tbe usual French hour.
Then he would apeak to bls friends and
go out for a drive, sometimes pay visits
aud return a little after 4, when be
went regularly to bed aud slept till it
was time to get ready for dinner. For
some extraordinary reason his dinner
hour was IM, and be was very punc
tual. After dinner be always slept for
twenty minutes or half an hour and
then would remain up chatting and
talking to a late hour. Illa brightest
moment was always subsequent to bis
after dinner sleep. No one could be
more agreeable in conversation, more
easy or natural or more ready to Im
part information without being prolix.
He was a true I’rovencul to all bls
tastes and habits. He loved tbe bright
sun of bls native Provence. He thor
oughly appreciated the peculiar charm
of tbe coast near Marseilles, the beau
ty of tbe gray olive groves and the
smile of tbe Mediterranean. He pre
ferred the dishes of Provence to almost
any others. He used to mix oil liberal
ly with his food, and I remember at a
dinner at the Duchesse Galliera’s a
fair sized bottle of oil was specially
placed next bis plate, anti be consumed
it all.—Cornhill Magaziue.
Passled the Professors.
day. “Buch a boon to country people '
and those who live iu districts where
tiiey are deuled tbe privilege of reading
olly
good books. We bad one of these trav
..-.-a.a. I• !
eling libraries in tbe East where I
lived, and I enjoyed it more than any j
other pleasure we bad. Its visits were
Possibly the largest circulating library
always a treat."
in the world is kuown as the Book
lovers’ Library. It circulates in filty
Thia seasou’s millinery allows mors
American cities and fn>m the Atlantic fruit in tbe trimmiug of tbiadescrlptiou
to the Pacific ocean, and in the Cana than baa been shown iu many years,
dian cities and ixiudou. The Issiks, although tbe creations in hat wear
which are only tiie best, and include made entirely of latiiauas, |>eaclies, etc.,
the latest German ami French works that were shown in New York, accord
as well, can be found on all the leading ing to fashion report», have not reached
trains from the Atlantic to the Pacific, ua yet. What have been displayed iu
ou the American hue steamers aud on tbe fruit line are beautiful cherries,
the Pacific Steamship Company’s ves templiug enough to eat, the loveliest of
sels plying between Hau Francisco, Ja grapes, both green and the red and black
pan aud China. Members of this Book cues, currants, gooseberries from tbe
lovers’ Library anywhere are members green to tbe ripe ou the same bunch,
everywhere. A Hau Francisco member with frosted leaves which are shown iu
may carry his bo ks to Paris or Lou some, loug sprays of blackberries, from
don aud find exactly the same service the flower to the ripened fruit with
as at home. Tiie Bisiklovera circulate their pretty leaves, are beautiful crea
over 7,000,009 Issiks a year. Applicants tions of the flower-maker’s art. All
are admitted wholly upou invitation tbe hats are large, some of them too big
and upou the recommendation of other to lie either attractive or becoming. If
members, and iu some cities aud town» rumor is correct another season will
the membership has growu so large tiring the little bonnet with velvet or
that it is definitely closed, uew mem ibbou strings tied uuder tbe chin iu a
bers being admitted only when vacan pretty bowknot. Thesignsof tiietimes
cies occur. It is au expensive luxury, are alsiut rig hr for it, for fashion, like a
but for those who have time aud money great uiauy other things, is prone to
it is a delightful and profitable pas jump from one extreme to ths other.
time. It uever fails to give the mem This summer’s millinery shows the
bers the books ordered, and it delivers bats about as big and as flat as can lie
and exchanges issiks at the homes of worn, so possibly we may have the
members as well as permitting ex little bonnet perched on the head next
changes at all the library centers. This season.
up-tc date circulating library has com
Kern county is iu line with the Arbor
plete catalogues, the latest book bulle
tins, and tiie necessary order cards are Day Improvement Associations. At
seut to new members immediately tbe last County Teachers’ Institute
upou receipt of their subscriptions. All held recently iu Bakersfield, at the sug
of this B<s>klovers’ ease oximes high. gestion of County Hchisil Superintend
The memliersliip fee can run from pi to ent R. L. Stockton it was resolved to
$25 l>er year. For the pi service you forma permanent Arbor Day Associa
are entitled to one Issik at a time, ex tion, consisting of tbe teachers of tbe
changed as often as you like, but you county, the object being to improve the
must make the exchange yourself at school premises by an intelligent and
the library. As the membership fee well-directed effort at tret-plan ting.
increases you are entitled to more books Committees were appointed for tbe
at a time, which are called for and de purpose of arranging details, and II is
livered at your home. The $25 service intended to observe Arbor Day in every
entitles you to five Issiks at a time ex district iu the couuty when tiie next
chang d fifty-two times in a year, ex tree-planting season rolls around.
changes t<i tie made immediately by
special messenger when ordered liy
BRIEF REVIEW
card or by telephone, and in tiie cen
tral districts exchanges will tie made as
Co-ed Marriage Statistics.
late as 10 o’clock at uigiit.
.Giving them ten years’ time after
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L arkin . $
STEADY ATMO8PHERE
A Prim« Magalalle For th« Stadr •*
Plaa«t Sartaeoe-
Astronomical mieuce la divided nat
urally into two parts, that pertaining
to tbe stellar universe and that pertain
ing to our own immediate family of
planets. Tbe latter ars the ouly bodies
in the heavens of which we are aware
that at all resemble our earth, aud they
are all, comparatively speaking, our
near neighbors aud have, therefore, a
much more personal and popular inter
est than tbe stellar universe at large.
The study of their relative motions
wus virtually completed during tbe last
century, so that at tbe present time tbe
astronomy of tbe planets is confined
chiefly to a study of their dimensions
sod surface conditions.
For this study there is one para
mount requisite, and that la a steady
atmosphere. With a good atmosphere
Important results may be obtained
even with a small telescope of only
five or six inches diameter; but with
out such an atmosphere the very lar
gest telescope will be of no avail. This
is not the case In other departments of
astronomy; for many kinds of observa
tions ou tbe stellar universe tbe qual
ity of tbe atmosphere is of little ac
count, provided only that it is cloud
less and transparent; but for the plane
tary and lunar astronomy a steady at
mosphere is the fundamental requisite.
To understand what Is meant by a
steady atmosphere we have only to
look at some object across a hot stove
or along the line of a railroad track
ui«on a summer day. There Is a shim
mer in the air, a wavering motion, with
which we are all more or less familiar.
This wavering Is always present to our
atmosphere, although we usually can
not see it; but when we magnify the
image of a planet in a telescope 1,000
times we magnify the atmospheric
tremors to tbe same proportion, and
they are then not only conspicuous,
but they Interfere very seriously with
our observations.
In some parts of the world the at
mosphere Is much more steady than to
others, and it Is evidently a matter of
the highest importance for the astron
omer Interested to planetary research
to find where these places are situated.
To illustrate the Importance of this
matter I may say that situated in one
of these favored spots I saw night aft
er night with a five Inch and even with
a four inch lens planetary markings
and details that I have never seen even
with the largest telescope in Cam
bridge.— W. II. Pickering to Century.
An amusing Joke was practiced upon
the examiners at Cambridge, says a
London paper. It had been said that
the examination to mathematics bud
been becoming far too difficult, aud
very real complaints bad arisen from
tutors. To the astonishment of the
university, all the elgtbeen or so so
lutions appeared on the day before the
examination to the Granta, "worked
out, we believe, by our office boy.”
How the miracle was performed re
mained a secret until it bad been suf
ficiently wondered at. The editor of
the Granta had secured the services of
a number of recent senior wranglers,
who to privacy had deliberately set to
work to master the problems which tbe
university dons had been concocting
for months past. Tbe task had to be
accomplished within twenty-four hours,
TIMIDITY AND TALENT.
and the printers were up all night set
A Lack ot Co erase la the Death •f
ting tbe solutions to type. Naturally
graduation, Jess than 50 per cent of the
a Groat Deal ot Ability.
the Granta sold by the thousand that
Fortunately the Booklovers’ Library women of the University of Michigan
A great deal of talent is lost to the
week.
is not the only place where ixxiklovers attain the marriage state, says an Ann
can find works of all kinds and revel m Arbor dispatch, if they do not marry world for tbe want of a little courage.
How He Got It.
Every day sends to their graves a num
A good story is told about a former the pages of magazines, pa|«*rs and in ten years they generally never do. ber of obscure meu who have only re
books
to
their
hearts
’
content.
The
member of the Missouri legislature.
Such is tbe revelation shown by data mained obscure because their timidity
Before his election he was chronically Mercantile Library of Han Francisco is Just brought together by the general has prevented them from making a first
“broke.” When be returned from Jef splendidly equipped for Issrklovers, and catalogue and tiie alumni assmdation effort aud who, if they could have been
ferson City, he exhibited $500 In good, they show their appreciation of it by
and the university. Taking all the co- induced to begin, would in all proba
crisp greenbacks. Some of his friends a constantly increasing uiemlterslilp.
bility have gone great lengtim in the
ei graduates, including those within
“jollied’’ him about bls prosperity.
Then there is the public library will) the past ten years, (lie figures are much career of fame. The fact is that to do
“You didn’t have a cent when you
branches scatter)d all over the city. smaller. During the entire time that anything in this world worth doing we
went to tbe legislature, did you.
must not stand shivering on the brink
The
reference room attached to the co-education has tieen iu vogue at tiie
Jones?” said one of them.
and thinking of the cold and danger,
main library is wonderfully attractive Htate university a total numlterof 1835 but Jump in and scramble through as
“Not a blamed cent," said Jones.
“Aa a matter of fact I lent you half to those who love to study human na women have graduated. Of these only well as we can. It will not do to be
ture. Tiie b<s>ks are not allowed to tie 533 have married since graduating. perpetually calculating risks and ad
your railroad fare, didn’t 1 ?”
“I believe you did."
removed from the main library or this This is less than 30 per cent. Hixty-six justing nice chances. It did very well
“Well, you were down in Jefferson department, and here you will find the
others of the total were married prior to before tbe flood, when a man could
City about forty days. You got $5 a gray-headed sage, newspajier reporters,
consult his friends upon an intended
graduating,
raising the )>ercentage of
day. Now, what tbe gang wants to
the inventive genius, doctors, lawyen', married women alumnae to alsiut 34 scheme for a hundred and fifty years
know la bow you managed to save $500
and then live to see its success for six
merchantsand mechanics, school teach |a*r cent.
out of a total Income of $200.”
or seven centuries afterward. But at
ers,
stenographers,
students
from
col
“Come closer,” whispered Jones, “and
present a man waits and doubts and
I’ll tell you bow I did it. I had my leges and high schools down to little
Siphon Ditiiculties.
hesitates and consults his brother and
washing done at home.”—Kansas City school children with pencils and pa
Itoliert H. Hale, s;>eaking liefore 11.« his uncle and bls first cousins and par
Journal.
per in hand sitting at the loug tallies Boston Hociety of Civil Engineers, de- ticular friends till one fine day he finds
under the electric lights (touring over scrilted a method of overcoming a diffi that he Is slxty-flve years of age; that
Remarkable Lack.
the subject they are interested in the culty which very commonly arises in lie has lost so much time to consulting
In Gold Hill, Nev., in 1877, one of
first cousins and particular friends that
tbe mining bosses- Tole by name—bad different reference books which have the use of tbe siphon. As is well be lias no time left to follow their ad
been
brought
them
by
the
librarian
or
trouble with some of tbe laborers to
known, the collection of air at the apex vice.— Syduey Huiltb on "Courage In
his mine. One night three of them at her various assistants. It is as pleasing of the siphon is the cause of considerable the Use of Talent”
tacked him in a barroom. Two of them aud interesting a picture as you could trouble aud annoyance, and in the case
pinned him down, while a third stood wish to see that you will find at any described by Mr. Hale numerous de
In the Antarctic Circle.
over him with a revolver. The muzzle hour during the day and up to I) o’clock
The traveler who attempts to pene
vices were tried to make the siphon con
almost touched his stomach. Once, at night.
trate inland in tbe antarctic circle mnst
tinuous in its action, such as the use of
twice, thrice, a fourth and a fifth time
needs depend on tbe provisions wblcb
a
bend
on
the
delivery
side
to
prevent
the weapon snapped. Tole closed his
Nearly every town of any size In the
he hauls with blm. and owing to the
eyes. Each moment be expected to be Htate has its public libraries, and many air from backing up to the top of tbe nature of tbe land, the elevation and
his last. Tbe disgusted ruffian threw of them have had added during the siphon, tapping the joints of the pipe the many gales which blow, be must
his disappointing weapon ou tiie floor,
last few months the valuable addition with electric tape and tarring tbe joints. take nearly double as much food with
with an oath, and, joined by bls aids,
None of these was effective, and as a blm to co n given distance as would
left the place. Tole wljted the cold of a Carnegie gift. In many towns not last resort a lead pipe was tried in place lie the case in the far north.
large
enough
to
support
a
public
library
sweat from his brow, mechanically
We. w ho were tiie first men to live
of the ordinary water pipe used pre
picked up the discarded weapon, went progressive citizens who believe ill tbe
for a wear on tbe anarctic continent,
viously.
This
solved
the
problem
en
to the door and fired off every charge, old adage, “where there’B a will there’s
found these gales blowing over forty
remarking that it was Just his luck.
a way,’’ have a little circulating library tirely and did away with tbe trouble miles an hour on more than 20 per cent
of tbe days, nnd our exact anemome
of their own. I have one in mind some accumulation ot air.
ters registered some gales that were
Biased Her Way.
where the membership consists of twen
Insanity Among Women.
blowing over a hundred miles an hour.
There la a story about Alaska and its ty-five ladies. They commenced by
Under these latter conditions It was
people to which la mentioned a man each one buying a book, and these
A German professor has been investi
not only difficult to move, but difficult
who cboae a bride from among some of
were exchanged until all had gone tbe gating tbe causes of insanity among
to exist During our sledge Journeys
the Indian tribes up toward the C-hil
rounds and had been read. Then an women, and baa come to the conclusion these gales often compelled us to lie
coot pass. He took her to a large city.
that
if
women
are
admitted
into
com
idle under a enow covering while the
Montreal, perhaps, aud left her In a other twenty-five issiks were purchas
petition with men tbe Inevitable result food continued to be used up.—Profess
splendid hotel while he went out to see ed, each memlier making her own
will
be
a
tremendous
increase
of
in
or Borchgrevink In Independent
some one about a dog. Hbe mland him selection of her book, lie it fiction, his
sadly. She sat at tbe window looking tory, travel, etc. Now they pay a sanity amoug the womeu. He finds)
Baida««« Mot Dae to Moders Floor.
out on the street four atorles lielow. memliersliip fee of ten cents Per week that the percentage oi women teachers
The human race was afflicted with
Solitude became intolerable. She de which goes toward purchasing the lat who become insane is almost double
baldness and toothlessness centuries
cided to find her husband. There was
that
of
the
men
teachere.
est books, which are read and discussed
before white flour was known. It is
an elevator, but she didn’t care for it.
by all book lovers. Every few weeks
possible that both these afflictions are
Softly as moccasins could carry her she
Home of the Parisian theaters give less prevalent now than to the olden
Isauexl forth. When she had gone out. they meet aud discuss the merits of the
gratuitous performances three or four times. All tbe olden time pictures and
a bellboy saw queer marks on the bal books and read press criticisms over
usters and doorcasings. The Indian theirsandwichesand coffee. It Is their times a year. They are intended for statues of the dead races showed up a
bride had biased her way with a tonta Intention at some future time to donate poor people, and those who are first in good percentage of bald heads, and
hawk so that she could find her way their stock of liooks to the town as a. line are usually at the doors several tooth pulling and filling and even arti
ficial tootnmaklng were practiced away
back. The Indian bride was merely nucleus fora public library. The ladles hours before the house is opened.
back in history. Out of the ruins of
living up to her education, for It Is very are kept posted on all the new books of
rompeli nnd Herculaneum are taken
necessary to know how to blaze a trail
Although the author of a book < n
the day by one of the managers of a big
whole sets of false teeth along with
in Alaska.
the
finances
of
Turkey
has
been
deco
bookstore and he sells them the books
loaves of bran bread. _.
. ... .. .
Th« Ideal and the Real.
at the same discount he makes to pule rated by the sultan for ills work, the
Thrift.
Uncle Joe—This is a queer world.
he libraries. Home one asked one of Turkish press censor has prohibited the
Every man who saves money Is call
City Man—What makes you think so? the men titers the other day how she sale of the volume In Turkey.
ed mean and stingy by the loafers on
Uncle Joe—Well, a painter feller came managerl to find time to read with all
the street corners and pointed out with
down to my place last summer and
Heattie
’
s
exports
to
Japan
are
now
her household cares. “1 make it,” was
while be was loafing about painted n
about $5,000,(88) per annum, which is reproach by the men who idle away
plcter of my dog. I heard afterward the reply. “I read every night after eleven times what they were six years | their time. In order to get ahead a
man must save, must speud less than
that be sold it for $50, so I brought up the rest of lhe family iiave retired, un
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he makes, and, above all things, be
tbe dog, thinking I could get at least less It is something all the family would ago.
must work. Don’t be ashamed of hav
a cool $100 for him; but, by Jlugo, I enjoy, then one member reads it aloud
Porto Rico is to have a revenue cutter
can’t aven give him away I
to the rest while we keep our fingers to coast around the is’and ami care for ing any one say that you are “close.”
busily employed. My children will do her harbors, as is done in this country. I Attend to your own business, and you
Tfeers Ave B«ee»«lsws.
* I are ail right Tbe men who criticise
their school work Immediately on com
"Do you mean to say,” she Inquired
! the thrifty really pay them a big com
ing
home
and
resist
their
desire
to
play
Yarmouth ( England ) cor|>oration has pliment It ia the tribute sloth pays
Indignantly, “that there never was a
for Hie sake of listening to the book ordered 10,000 pictorial posters to be industry.—Nortonville News.
woman who could keep a secret?”
“Oh, not at all,” he protested earnest that is to be read aloud from sup|ier un used in advertising the town.
ly. "To the contrary, there was Ixit’s til lied time. Never a child grows
Aa Baar Oaa.
«rife. who never up to the present day drowsy, and they are always sorry
"What supports the sun in tbe bear-
At Fretimog, north Wales, the guard
haa revealed what she saw when she when the book is closed for tbe evening ians have subscribed to provide a piano ensT" asked the country schoolteacher,
stopped to take a farewell glance at and giMsi-night must be said. Rather for their workhouse.
I “wh’' ltB beams, of course.” replied
tbe town she was leaving.’’- Syracuse
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j • precocious youngster.—Kansas City
than miss our enjoyable and profitable
A pearl fisher of Western Australia lndePeod*ut-
Herald.
evening we all, down to the youngest
„ _
member of the family, would rather has found a pearl whose value Is estl-
With«») Retarafla« It.
mated at $75,000.
I N®
th*n thlrty
She—I think May has lost her heart. get up an hour sooner In the morning."
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i spoken in tbe Caucasus. Tbe Inhabit-
He—Well, tbe man who baa found It
i ants are Rusaiaua. Armenians. Tartare.
‘•Three libraries on wheels are a great
will receive a handsome reward. —
Ninety thousand pound, of snail. Georgl.n. .nd diver. Mohammedan
Town aud Country..
thing, Polly," aaid a friend the other resell Paris daily.
tribe«.
FACTS IN FEW LINES NEW SHORT STORIES CHOICE MISCELLANY
H« Comprahaadad.
The q«l«k Laar» ia Leadaa.
St. Petersburg's authorities now dis
At a jolly dinner at tbe Arlington, in
Proposals have recently appeared in
infect »mall coins.
Washington, which was attended by a tbe daily pre«« Iu favor of the inaugu
Tbe coffee chewing habit ia spread
number of prominent men, including ration of a system of quick lunches by
Ing in New York.
Senator Hanna, a sprightly lady from which tbe busy uiau uiay have a sub
Tbs average family in tbe Lulled
Oregon told this story of a French stautial midday meal served expedi
flutes baa 4.T persona.
man's struggle with English:
tiously, tbe partakiug of wblcb shall
Tbe uumber of cattie in Argentina ia
“After tbe Rocbambeau statue bad occupy but a few miuutee. We do not
estimated at 25,000,000.
been duly dedicated aud tbe French hesitate to ask that all our readers will
Tbe great Canadian Soo electric pow visitors were ready to depart several
Impress u|>oii their patients that the
er plaul Is owned by New Yorkers.
of them called at tbe state department adoption of thia proposal would be a
Of the 12JX*>,000 Inhabitants of Mex to thank Secretary Hay for tbe court« wicked physiological step. The repair
ico 10.000,000 are of pure ludlau type.
ales that had been showered upou them. of the body is not a process to be trifled
There is $300,000,000 worth of Eng Secretary Hay was not iu aud tbe vis with iu this way. Eatlug should not be
llah money invested in submarine ca itors called oa tbe assistant secretary. doue in a hurry. Tbe demands of bual-
bles.
Dr. Hili. Tbe spokesman of tbe party, tn-ss may be pressing, but tbe demands
It is anticipated that the world's sup struggling with bls English in a man of the body are iu reality more serious.
ply of gold will be doubled in tbe next ful fashion, told bow grateful they Just as by stoking a steam engine to
were, bow much they bad enjoyed cramming |>oint tbe fuel burns badly
ten years.
Nearly one-third of our immigrants their visit to I ji Belle America, aud so and the intensity of tbe fire is lowered,
so by bolting bls food tbe vital procesa-
are now from southern Italy, tbe worst forth, and wound up by saying:
” 'But. Mr. Secretaire, we shall no cs within a man's body are hiudered
class in Europe.
Owing to the drought 1,500 sheep longer cockroaeb upon your most val rather than hel|>ed. Necessarily food
eaten rapidly twa|>es in a great meas
were sold lately at a penny each at uable time.’
“They were ou tbe point of leaving ure the preparatory procesaes of diges
Orange, N. 8. W.
About 40,000 Chinese emigrate to when Dr. Hill, seeing what a horrible tion, and sooner or later a breakdown
Vladivostok every spring and return verbal blunder had been committed, in the maltreated human machine au-
gently explained. ’Messleur,’ be said, pervenes. In a word, hurrying over
to Chefu in tbe autumn.
eating is fatal to the healthy suste
Tbe fllaby-Areo (German) wireless 'in America, if you will pardon uie, we
nance of the laxly.—Lancet.
telegraph system can be used ouly over say "encroach,” and not "cockroach.”’
“ ‘Ah, Je comprend; Je comprend!’ re
distances comparatively abort.
Qaeer Thin«, th« Lsn«a«h.
By 15)5 votes to 81 tbe Italian cham plied the Frenchman, with animation.
‘Ccx-kroach Is ze masculine and ben-
Proto[>eruH annectena, the lungfish,
ber has passed tbe bill for tbe munici
croach is ze feminine! Ab, yes!’”
Is dead and buried in a grave of alco
palization of tbe public services.
hol. The renntlna can he seen In the
Eight thousand nine hundred women
zoological lata>ratory of Columbia uni
In Ixtndon have been convicted of
Ten senators called on tbe president versity, where, with tweezers and seal
drunkenness more than ten times.
the other di<y to tHlk earnestly about ix>l, the students have laid bare the In
Brazil aud Venezuela are tbe only
a matter of )«■ less Importance than un ner secrets of Ills anatomy. Until tbe
floutb American countries tn which ne office. They* approached the subject lungfish died a few days ago after suf
groes are found in large uumitera.
with great seriousness and were very fering only a few hours from acute
Formaldehyde gas, the fashionable niuch surprised to find Mr. Roosevelt pneiiuionla It was the only living speci
disinfectant, is generated during the unable to concentrate his thoughts ou men of Its kind in this part of tbe
Imperfect combustion of wood alcohol. anything but Bill Sewall, bls old Maine world. Its ancestors belonged to tbe
A minister for the administration of guide.
faroff Devonian age, and this flsli baa
navigation and commercial ports bus
After various unsuccessful attempts been thought by some to be a peculiar
been added by the Russian govern to interest the president in the weighty class of vertebrates standing midway
ment
matter of the office, one of the senators lietween fishes and batrachians, but it
The standing timber of Canada said, "Mr. President, you seem very is really not amphibious, although it
has both bronchial and pulmonary res
equals that of tbe continent of Europe much interested in this guide.”
aud is nearly double that of tbe United
“Yes, senator, I am. Bill is an in piration. It comes from the warm wa
States.
teresting man and a real friend. He Is ters of tiie Nile and other rivers of that
Dr. I«oeb says electricity is the un the only mail in the United States who region. Some of its native streams go
derlying cause of vital action, but be on writing to the president about au dry in summer; hence nature has pro
has not as yet made a fair demonstra office or anything else addresses him as vided the lungfish, or, as they are
technically known, dipnoi, with a dou
‘Friend Theodore.’ ”
tion of it
ble breathing apparatus suitable for
Forty pounds has been offered as a
water ami the dry ground. In tbe latter
prize by a Vienna confectionery com
A MUlioaalre Oat «f Place.
pany for the best translation of tbe
Senator Clark of Montana went to ease tbe swim bladder serves them for
English word “cake.”
New York the other night, says a lungs.-New York Press.
The Inspector general shows that in Washington correspondent He bad a
Ape a C««e«rt Sln««r.
I Bindon the losses from unsuccessful drawing room. The train started at
In the zoological garden at Berlin
companies during tbe last ten years midnight. Two minutes past mid
night, when the copper king had his may be seen a curious looking ape. It
have exceeded $2,090,000,000.
Another step In tbe commercial an coat and shoes off and was preparing is a member of the species known as
"guereaa.” Herr Schilling, an African
nexation of Canada Is tbe taking by
traveler, shot it near Killmandscharo,
New Yorkers of 5,000 shares, at $250
in German East Africa, but the animal
each. In the Royal bank of the Do
was not badly wounded and be soon
minion.
succeeded in restoring it to health.
Egypt has two humorous periodicals.
Tills is the first adult "guereza”
Of the total number of 120 periodicals
which has ever been S)-en in captivity
appearing In that country eighty-seven
in Europe. Three young apes of a
are printed in Arabic, the others in
somewhat similar type, whose home is
English and French.
in Abyssinia, were captured some time
An infallible cure for seasickness is
ago. but they dlisl very soon after they
said to be found in examining one’s
were photographed.
features attentively in a mirror. Tbe
An interesting fact about the "gue-
Idea is that by this means the eye rests
rezas” is that they hold a regular con
on an unchanging surface, and the
cert in their native woods every night,
sense of motion gradually becomes less.
which, while not very musicid, since it
Speaking of tbe epidemic of arsenic
consists merely of a succession of
al poisoning which occurred in Eng
growls, produces a startling effect on
land tn 1901, Professor Deleptne said
those who hear it for the first time.
in a recent lecture that with Reined)’»
test it is now possible to detect less
Coamopollta« Chleaao.
than one part of arsenious acid In 10.-
Professor Buck of tiie philology de
000,000 parts of beer.
partment of the University of Chicago
In an entire year only one person was
has been looking Into the linguistic
killed on tbe railways of Great Britain.
conditions of that city, with results
In three months 845 persons have i>een
that are somewhat astonishing. Of all
killed and 11,102 injured on American
tiie cities of tbe world he awards to
lines. The reason for this is plain*. It
Chicago the front rank for cosmopoli
Is a much more serious matter to kill a
tanism, there being no less than four
Iterson on an English railroad than it is
teen languages, besides English, spo
In America.
ken there by colonies of at least 10,000
Four great coal regions are about to
liersons each. Newapapers appear reg
be exploited in South Africa. Tbe most THB MILLIONAIBB BCHAMBLSD INTO HIS ularly in ten languages, anil church
CLOTH
KH.
southerly field lies between Ladysmith
services may be heard in about twenty
and the northern boundary of Natal. to shuck himself out of his shirt two languages. Chicago is the aecond lar
These regions will in the near future burly citizens came down tbe center gest Bohemian city in the world, tiie
supply a large part of the world’s de of the car.
third Swedish, tbe third Norwegian,
One of them had a ticket to tbe tbe fourth Polish, the fifth German. In
mand for coal. Natal exported 204,000
drawing room. He handed it to the all there are some forty foreign lan
tons In 1901.
The agricultural department is now porter. The porter knew Senator guages spoken by numbers ranging
developing in tbe south a system of Clark.
from half a dozen to half a million and
“That’s Senator Clark in there,” he aggregating over a million.
“one man farms.” These are small
areas of land In the pine woods, upon said. “He's got a ticket for that draw
which a system of farming Is being de ing room.”
Pa»«Z Keep« th« Clock Woand.
“Forget it” answered the man with
veloped of such a nature as to appeal
W. G. Sanderson, a Salem (8. D.)
tbe
ticket
“
I
bought
that
ticket
this
directly to tbe class of farmers who
business man, has in bls store a cat
morning.
”
must necessarily ba'ndle such land.
which is remarkably intelligent. The
“That’s the rich Clark,” said the por animal ap|x*ara to think that Its es
A resident at Guelma, in Algeria, has
taken out a patent for tbe manufacture ter. “He’s tbe big copper miner.”
pecial duty is to wind a large clock
“He’s got our drawing room,” an which occupies a conspicuous |s>sltloii
of casks out of cork.
An interior
swered
the
man
with
tbe
ticket
coating isolates the contents from con
In tbe store. The timepiece is of tiie
Then there was an investigation, and kind that has weights susiiended by a
tact with the cork. A barrel of eleven
it
was
found
that
Senator
Clark
was
gallons weighed thirty pounds instead
chain. The remarkable Intelligence of
of eighty pounds, which is tbe weight in the wrong car. The burly citizens the cat Is displayed wlien it discovers
of a wooden cask of tbe same capacity. stood by wln.e the millionaire scram tliat the weights an* getting cloae to
bled into his clothes. Then they went the floor and winds them back by pull
A cormorant’s nest, compom-d of sea
in and took itossesslon of their room.
ing on tbe other end of tbe chain. It
weed roughly bound by some wire rig
“Hated to do it” said the man who attends to this regularly, never per
ging and containing five eggs, was
hadn’t spoken before, “but these multi mitting the clock to run down.
found some time ago on tbe foremast
millionaires must be taught their
of tbe British man-of-war Sybille,
place.”
which was wrecked ou tbe southwest
Wealth of th« Northweat.
coast of Africa. The nest has been
In mining the arid northwest occu
Lacked th« Thirteenth.
presented to the Royal United Service
When Judge Edgar L. Fursman was pies a place of first importance. Mon
Institution In London.
holding court In Cataklll, a young and tana is today tbe thirtl state in the Un
A tame wolf wblcb has just been Inexperienced attorney had as hia op ion in mineral wealth and the greatest
killed by Its owner at Susquehanna, l’a- posing counsel an old and tried law copper producing center of tbe world.
had a remarkably Ingenious plan for yer. The young man represented tbe The value of Its output of cop|M»r, gold,
catching fowls. Trained up as a do plaintiff. Ills case was poorly pre »liver and coal is nearly $70,000,000 a
mestic pet, it would go outside the sented, but Judge Fursman thought year.
house, scatter the food that was given that the facts were so plain that the
Idaho Is the eleventh state in the Un
It near the poultry run and then lie jury could do nothing else than give ion in mineral wealth, with an nnnuul
down aud feign sleep. The UnaUtfpect- judgment for the plaintiff. Greatly product ot iiaaily $10.IH*>.0<X). Wyo
Ing hens swarmed to peck up the food, to his surprise, the jury returned a ming has Important coal deposits, worth
and whenever one came within reach verdict for the defendant. The Judge’s nearly $(I.OUO.OOO a year. Ray fltan-
of the wolfs paw It was grabbed and eyes flashed Are, and, turning squarely nan! Baker In Century.
devoured.
!n b!v sent, •»» rM;.
Lyddite, free from all technical de
Preserve Old Naa»««.
"The court reverses that Judgment
ecriptlon. Is merely a form of picric and Anda for the plaintiff.
In this country old names, many of
And I
acid melted down and allowed to solid want It distinctly understood that It them of aboriginal origin, are being re
ify. It was discovered In 1771 and for takes thirteen men tn this court to de placed by names not nearly so at
a century and a quarter served a peace prive a man of his property and bis tractive, not nearly so distinctive, not
ful but very useful purpose as n dye rights.”
nearly so American. The nomencla
for silk and woolen materials without
ture of a country Is one of Its [xstses-
Dlaloaaea •< th« Day.
Its explosive powers being dreamed of.
sions that should tie guarded with tbe
Germany—I have achieved peace utmost vigilance. It Is something that
A few years ago a warehouse fire oc
curred In Manchester, and the flames with $340,000. What have you got out comes down to it. an ancient heritage,
from Its earliest settlers. Respect for
spread to a shed In which picric acid •f it?
England—That I have got "out of it" tbe pioneers, if nothing else, should
wan stored. There was a terrible ex
plosion, and an investigation took place, at all la enough for me.—New York prompt a retention of tbe early names
Post.
_____ __________
—Utica Observer.
with tbe result that lyddite was born.
Cloth««
th« M m .
“What a mistake It is to Judge men
by tbeir clothes.”
“I know It There is a self mnde
millionaire In thia town who dresses
just as well and with as much taste at
any of tbe clerks in bis establishment.’
—Chicago Record-Herald.
The Cook — Would ye mind giving
me a recommendation, ma'am?
Tha Mlatreea- Why, you have ouly
just come.
“But ye may not want to give ox
wan when I do be leaving.”—Life.
Btreaeees Seeletr Lit«.
The Burlesque Queen- Send for tbe
Dorothy 81 x luncheons In one week! police! I’ve been robbed!
Did your gowns bold out?
Her Manager-Diamonds gone again?
Isabel -Yes. Indeed.
But 1 badu’t
Tbe Queen-No, no! Thia Is serious.
any conversation for tbe last two days. Some one has stolen all my press no-
—Puck.
Tbe day after be asks ber to marry
him tbe goes around the bouse and
takes inventory of tbe glmcracks wblcb
are hets aud wblcb «be can take with
ber.—Atchison Globe.
lease Center«.
Bigg—Yea. sir. 8ed case. Man who
built thia bouse of mine just got It fin
Isbed when be died.
WlggW’ell. it might have been
worse. He might have bad to live In
It—Town and Country.
Pr«vM««t.