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FIRST PICTURE BOOK.
FACTS IN FEW LINES HUMOR OF THE HOUR CHOICE MISCELLANY
ap|>esh> to bis mother, who Iguores tlie ;' The Darlas tees Ft»*« CaaeetveA bp
One Esperlenee Enoaa».
Vienna is contemplating the munlcl
jehaaa C»mealaa.
seme Amulag Stat 1st lee.
decision of her busbaud and allows him
“My man.” said tbe paraou as be
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS
Three hundred years ago a German i I palliation of the buatness of uudertak
Probably very few |>eople who lies
to do what hs has positively forbidden
rame upon tbe tired looking farmer
savant had a wonderful vision. At tiiat t I er*.
and work outside the mouey markets
Their Lite Is aa Esrlilaa Oss ail
him to do. Itoommeucea in lbs child’s time children were taught to read by ’ I Oklahoma City Is the second city In lolling under a tree, "wby are you not
have ever paused to consider the tre
Carries Mass ■rsaaaatbllltlre.
iufaucy aud he goes through life that force of arrna. so to speak, through ' I size In tbe territory and has a popula- plowing today?”
mendous monetary force wielded by
I »id you ever hear of a wllddowerday
American visitors In Faris. Berlin or
“
Do
It
tomorrow,
”
was
the
reply.
way. Every time tbe mother goes hardships and with bitter toil on tbe ' I tion of over 10,000.
Vienna often wonder bow and where on a railroad traluT 1 don’t mean the
"But dou't you kuow that you should the Insurance companies of the I'nlted
counter to her busbaud's expressed part of teacher and of child. It aeems 1 I Striking an average of tbe whole
correspondents do their work. The panoramic wildflower view that you
curious that the first real step toward 1 I Orange River Colony, land values have not put off till tomorrow what you can State*. One may read that at present
truth is a large part of their work Is get from the ear window as the train wishes in the matter of discipline it lightening tbe labor of children as 1 I doubled since tbe war.
do toduy?”
the sixty-seven leading life insurance
done at these very social gatherings goes speeding along, but a day where weakens tbe boy's respect for bis father they climb tbe ladder of learning was
"I’ve heard so.”
companies of the United States bold
'
I
Since
the
recent
great
horseflesh
din
just that much. Finally he reaches a
where you bare met them. Important
“And don't you think It good ad- securities of all kinds that aggregate
the product of the imagination not of
the tbougbtfuluessof the company pro
poiut where be announces openly that some fond mother or gentlewoman ner in Berlin the business of tbe horns Vice?”
news la usually there obtainable only,
t-ore than *1,500,0110,000. Imagination
vides
every
passenger
with
a
fragrant
butchers has quadrupled.
statesmen and diplomats, generals and
"Nope.”
“tbe old man doesn't couut” wheu he teacher, but of a bewlgged and betl
fails to grasp such figures. It Is equiv
i
During the past year 861 person»
admirals, leaders of thought and action, bouquet of these little gems of nature. wants to do something, but that bis
"What makes you think so?"
tied university doctor.
I were cremated in Germany, an excess
alent to saying that there are 1,500
the foremost men of business aud the Not »Bunday passes that the California mother and he are "It.” He disobeys
“Ob. little expeerience I bad.”
It was Johann Comeniua. however, I of 200 ever the previous year.
banka In the country, each of which
indefatigable promoters of great new Northwestern Railway cars are not
“
What
kind
of
an
experienceY
’
his father's wishes at every turn and who first conceived the daring ldeu
has *1,000,000 which it must keep In
Within twenty years the south baa
venture»—all the men aud women, in crowded with sightseen and people
“
Bulldin'
a
aback.
”
that children could be taught by the I increased its railway mileage 163 pet
fact, who make the news and who are getting out of town for a day, many of goes to bis mother tor assistance in
vested.
"Did you keep putting It off until
I
aid of tbe memory and the Imagine
the fountain head of it—the corresftond- the isn-sengen who never get an oppor getting out of trouble due to his folly tion working together, “by means.” ns cent and Its exports 95 per cent.
Striking aa these figures are, they do
you finally failed to build It at all?"
•nt will meet there. It de|*ends on bls tunity of enjoyiug the tlowen except as and bis total lack of respect for bis
"Nope; built it too soon.”
not Include the holdings of the leaser
he quaintly expressed it. “of sensuous ! The Bible society has entered on its
I
hundredth
year
of
existence,
having
father.
Knowing
his
treatment
of
his
individual exertions ami on bls tact
“Too soon?"
Impressions conveyed to tbe eye, so
insurance companies, and they pay uo
they pass them tied up in tight, metier
and gift of persuasion what use he
ever indulgent father, friends who that visual objects may be made the I been founded in I-oudou ou March 7.
“Yep. I wanted to wait till the next heed to the money controlled by the
little
bunches
in
the
flower-vendor»
’
makes of his opportunities.
Being
kuow bint intimately have not any medium of expressing moral lessons to lfltH.
day. an' my wife wanted it built right little multitude of large and small fire
treated as a social equal, it devolves of baskets on the street coruen. One patience with the boy; aud yet be is the young mind and of impressing I The use of electricity in everyday af- away."
Insurance companies.
course on the correspondent to recipro Bunday receutly the passengers on the
"And your wife bad ber way?"
not wholly to blame, for his mother those lessons upon tbe memory.” In I fairs is developing enormously In Great
Of course the bulk of the mouey held
cate favors shown, not in quantity per California Northwestern Railway train
I
Britain.
The
usual
price
is
3A.
cents
"Yep;
started
to
build
It
tbe
very
other
words,
the
gissl
Herr
Doctor
bad
from his boyhood up, without intend
by an Insurance company baa to be in
haps, but at least in quality. The lead were given a treat they will not soou
day
we
struck
tbe
country
in
the
klv-
I
per
unit.
tbe
bright
Idea
that
picture
books
could
vested—that la to say, every dollar uot
ing correspondents must buve homes of forget. At the different stations chil ing it, taught him to disregard his lie useful to children. Comeniua made
Tbe population of New Mexico ex ered wagon an' bad It done by dark.”
needed for running expenses und for
comfort and must throw them o|>en to dren boarded the train laden with beau father’s wishes. A youug daughter in his first picture t>ook and called it the
“And then?"
ceeds that of Arizona by about 73,000,
the prompt payment of claims. It la
the official and unofficial world at stat tiful bouquets of wildflowers, each the same household says, "Papa doesn't “Orbls Pictus.” it contains rude wood
“Oli, in Jist aliout a half hour after it
ed intervals, say three or four times
couut for much; it’s always just as cut» representing objects lu the nat being 195,310. Of that number 166,94C was finished a cyclone come along an' like a fairy tale of finance when one
bearing a card reading, “Compliments
are whites.
reads what use is made of the millions
per season. Their private fortunes or
mama says.” Doesn’t count, yet he ural world, as trees and animals, with
blowed it off the face of tbe earth. If
" telr Incomes must be large enough to of the California Northwestern Rail works night aud day to support them, little lessons about the pictures. It is : The American Telegraph and Tele I'd a-waited till the next day. it ’ud on millions paid to Insurance compa
admit that. Their annual expenditures way, the picturesque route of Califor aud people oonsider him clever enough a quaint volume and one that would I phone company earned last year about been standlu' yet an' I'd been IÎ5 nies.
*10,000,000. The outstanding stock 1»
During the year 1901, for example,
cannot be less than *5,000 and may ex nia,” and presented them to the pas
worth of lumber an’ tlie nails ahead.
to go to for advice on many matters. cause ths average modern child not a *109,000,000.
the total of the incomes of the sixty
ceed *15,000. The Ixtndon Times, for sengers, who showed their appreciation
8’long."—Indianapolis Sun.
little astonishment were it placed be
Tbe
only
thing
to.
Polly
’
s
mind
that
! In Sweden the riksdag has proposed
seven leading life Insurance companies
instance, pays its correspondents on a by exclamations of pleasure aud admi
fore him.
a special tax on “punch,” the nation*.
was something like *376,000,000. Of
liberal scale, salaries of *5,000 to *10,- ration which were heard from all parts be has showu lack of judgment aud
As truly, however, as that term may
The
Meal
this money aliout *175,000,000 was
000 being the rule. Yet the majority of the cars. It is these little graceful good common sense in is aliowiug his be applied to any other book that has I beverage. It will increase tbe retail
“
How
many
children
have
you,
Mrs.
paid to i>olley holders or to their heirs.
of them find It necessary to make up -tributes which make life worth the family to iguore him completely. He since been written, the “Orbls Pictus” I price by 25 per cent.
Scaddsleigh ?" he asked.
More than *77,000,000 was disbursed
Striking resemblance has Iteen point
regular deficiencies in their exchequer
now sees wherein be blunder«d, but it was an epoch making book. It is tlie
“One,” she replied. “I must tell you
living as we journey along here below.
out of their own private funds.
Is too late to remedy tbe evil. The precursor of all children’s picture I cd out between the remarkable ancient what a cunning thing one of my dear for operating expenses. Still more than
They brighten up many a dark day,
*120,000,000 was left.—Success.
I ruins at Zimbabwe, In Rhodesia, and
The life of the American correspond
children are too near grown, and their books, and modern childhood has great
little doggies did yesterday. I had her
ent on the continent of Europe Is a life make glad many a sad heart that keeps mother, even if she realizes the deplora cause to bless the name of Comeniua.— I antiquities In Cornwall.
out
for
an
airing
in
the
carriage
and
”
—
Interesting and fascinating enough in its trials and rorrows pent up so that
I The new nine story hotel being bull!
Waste la Telegraph Poles.
“The baby?”
ble blunder she has made, would never Household.
I In Johannesburg will be tbe biggest es
Its way, and it broadens the mental the outside world may never catch a
A clever calculator estimates that
“The baby? Mercy, no! My doggie.
acknowledge
it
even
to
herself,
and
cer
I tablishuient ot its kind in South Afrl
horizon as perhaps no other occupa glimpse of their troubles. This little
THE ESKIMO DOG.
I hope you don’t suppose I am my own there are In use by telegraph, telephone
I ea. It is to be called the Carlton.
tion does. But it is a nerve destroying courtesy to the passengers was a very tainly would not attempt to revolu
aud trolley companies in thia country
nurse!”—Chicago Record-Herald.
life, a life in which there is scarcely a happy thought. The country along tionize the household and correct the Alive, He Works For Mia Master, and ! Twenty-three ounces, more that;
15'.000,0tM) poles.
Dead.
He
Feeds
Him.
disagreeable
habits
that
have
now
be
minute he can call bls very own. Ev the road from Tiburon to Willits is
I twice the normal, was tbe weight ol
The poles, most of which are cedar
A Fiend’s Heart.
ery day In the year It spurs its slave on
Of tbe Eskimo dog I could write a I the heart of a porter on whose body ac
lined with beautiful wildflowers and of come fixed. Tire day will come when
Guy—Yes. she’s beautiful. She has of one sort or another, are long enough
to utmost exertion. It barely pays ex
they will repent, but it will not be dur book. In all probability descended I inquest was held recently at Westmln- the face of an angel—and the heart of to reach three times around the world.
penses, and It necessitates constant endless variety. The hills in the dis ing tbe life of their patient and indul from the wolf, he Is the Eskimo’s one I ster.
It would require 250,000 flat cars to
a fiend.
outlays In time and money which can tance are of many colors. Some of
douiestic animal, but Is of as much |
Belfast has since 1897 made total
gent father.
Don—Oh, come, now. You can’t haul them by railway, and the trains,
not be put down In the expense ac them take on a purple hue, another
,value to him as all the domesticated I profits of £158,140 from Its gas, electric
mean that. She hasn't a fiend's heart. with their engines, would cover 1,750
count and which are a drain on health hill will be as golden as the sun with
animals of more favored races put to- light, murkets aud trauiwuys, and ot
miles of track.
Why do you say such a thing?
Marjorie
8
-----
:
Thecostumeof
light
and purse alike. Even under the most California'! State flower, the poppy, or
getiier. He drags him and his family this sum £52,511 has been contributed
Arboriculture estimates that It would
Guy—Why, I know the chap. It's
gray
with
white
lace
medallion
trim
favorable circumstances the game is buttercups and tiny primroses; another
and their chattels from place to place, I toward the relief of rates.
take 37,000 acres of forest land to grow
Ben
Puffer,
the
worst
cigarette
fiend
hardly worth the candle. To go to b<>d will be as blue as the sky with blue- mings, with bat of silver gray straw hauls to his door the meat of seal or
poles enough for one renewal. If the
Within fifteen years the wealth ol in our club.—Kansas City Journal.
at 2 or 3, fagged out with never end l>elle, or what the cbildreu term baby and pink crush roses, would be beauti Walrus, leads him with unerring scent I Basel has Increased *60,000,000 and th«
seed were already sown and started in
ing excitement and toil; to be waked
to growth, It would be A. D. 2060 be
blue eyes, dainty and graceful on tbelr ful for a visiting costume, but it is hard to the tiny orifice in the snow which population has almost doubled, which
out of a sound sleep an hour later by
ly suitable tor traveling. It is conspicu Indicates the breathing hole of a seal, Is a most remarkable showing for a
fore the slow growing trees would be
slender
little
stems.
The
blue
lupine
a ring at the telephone or by inoppor
big enough for use.
ous and marks you as a bride, a look, drags him for miles in pursuit of tbe I town that Is 1,500 years old.
takes
{Hjeseesion
-of
valley
and
bill
and
tune cable Inquiries from the home of
bear and finally brings tbe huge brute
Cedar is the best material, but Its
you
say,
you
wish
to
avoid.
In
the
The
surrounding
walls
of
the
West
fice; to dress hurriedly, take a cab to gives you another shade of blue, and in
to bay, rounds up the musk oxen till
growing scarcity and the difficulty of
the nearest telegraph office and there some other locality the blue larkspurs second place it is too light and de|Jcate his master can come up for the kill, I India, docks, Ixmdon. often inclos«
getting trunks big enough for the giant
wire a hasty reply; then to return and will mingle with the gold of the poppies for such a trip you have in view. If and then perchance In the darkness ot 200,<XJ0 casks and bags of sugar, 30,(MX
poles now often used near cities have
seek a few hours of fitful sleep and to and tlie green of the fields and hills you must have gray, however, get a some long winter night, when the hand casks of rum aud nearly 40.000 tons ot
caused a considerable use of pine.
hard
wood,
such
as
teak
or
mahogany.
rise morning after morning unre until it looks like nature had been try- diflerent shade and material from the of hunger grips the settlement relent
Hence Arboriculture recommends the
The honor of possessing the largest
freshed, with never repose for body
lessly, be yields up his life to feed his ;
raising of catalpa trees for poles as an
lug to give us a beautiful design in. sample you sent.
I
memliership
of
any
automobile
club
in
knd soul—all this is neither conducive
master and his family and his coat to
Investment. The Catalpa speclosa can
mosaic. Every variety of flower aud
I tbe world rests with the Automobil«
to longevity nor to a quiet and con
keep them warm.
be grown to a size suitable for a tele
color make bright the picture that you
Cluli
of
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
tented mind.—World’s Work.
BRIEF REVIEW
Though mixed now with other strains,
graph pole in from sixteen to twenty
I which has now no less than 2,180 mem
get from the train, for Marin, Sonoma
so that black and reddish and spotted
years.
and Mendocino are famous for their
Some Visual Measwrements.
dogs are to be seen as well as the pure hers,
Taking Snapshots Under the Ocean.
“When I watch a new building going beautiful wildflowers. The wildflower
j
Tbe oldest man in California baa
MoBumrnta.
Submarine photography is not likely blooded grays and whites, this animal I added
np day by day from foundation to season is at its height for weeks to
two years to his century. He
still retains to • large degree the
Patriots
have
often complained of the
flagstaff,” said the city salesman, “I come, and people will have an oppoi- to become a popular pastime. But It strength, endurance and tierce lust for has been a smoker for eighty-five aud a
delay In raising monuments and stat
get so muddled by the time it is com tuulty of enjoying the sight of hills and is leading us into unknown regions and blood when in pursuit of game that moderate drinker for seventy-five
ues to tbe memory of heroes, but on
pleted that I cannot tell for the life of valleys carpeted with these treasure Louis Boutan, who began by investi characterized its wild ancestors. Com I years, but never touched modern
the whole the country has gained by
me whether it is fifty feet wide or 500
“Have you ever been baptised, little not being precipitate. It took a long
gating the animal life of the waters, bined with these traits are an intelli I breakfast foods.
troves of nature. A noted botanist who
feet. So far as mere visual measure
has become an enthusiastic sea-bottom gence and faithfulness that make many i The San Francisco Dry Dock com girl?’
time to complete the Washington mon
spent
a
few
days
along
the
road
stated
ments go, the size varies bo much In
“No, sir.
I've been vaccinated, ument at the national capital and
earner 1st.
He has lately published of these animals the peer of any of pany has completed at Hunter’s Point
the course of construction that confu that within a distance or ten miles he some of his remarkable photographs of tlielr more favored brothers In more I one of the finest dry docks in the though.”
three-quarters of a century to place a
sion is unavoidable. When the ex found lliirty-six varieties of wildflow
I world. It is large enough for two bat
marble shaft on the spot where Herki
submarine scenery. He used a hand genial climates.—Leslie’s Monthly.
The
Other
Wag
Aroaag.
ers
he
bad
never
seen
before.
cavation for the foundation is in order,
I tie ships at one time and can lie pump
mer, propped against a tree as bis life
camera,
which
Is
enclosed
in
a
tight
“
Do
you
think
that
cigarette
smok-
the bole In the ground seems so enor
ed out in two hours.
blood fled, continued to direct the fight
Clever Rensonte*.
copper
box
having
a
plate
glass
win
ing
causes
a
deterioration
of
mentall-
mous that I could take oath it covers a
ing of his men. Still there was not a
Rather an original lesson in political I A French insurance company has of ty?”
Parties in Mendociuo county make it dow, and Is mounted on a cast-iron tri
ten acre lot« After the steel frame
economy was that once taught by the I fered to issue policies to aeronauts, a
“I am not clear on that point.” said trace of doubt that Washington and
work goes up the building shrinks a point to gather the seeds and bulbs in pod. Suitable mechanism is provided
I
premium
of
16
shillings
securing
a
pay
Herkimer deserved to be remembered
Japanese nobleman, Awoto, and thus
tbe man who makes a specialty of pro
amazingly, and I say to myself: ’Well, that section every year and ship them to expose and change the plates. The
translated by Sir Edwin Arnold In I ment of £260 in case of death and 4 found Opinions. “The Impression to when the monument* were dedicated,
that Isn’t going to be such a big affair to the East and ail parts of Europe. pressure of the water, inconveniently "Seas and Lands:”
I shillings a day until recovery lu the
The same is true of Baron and Pulas-
that effect may be due to the fact that
after all. How could my eyes have de One party I know of who Is interested great, even at twenty or thirty feet,
kl, whose statues have been provided
One evening as he was going to the I event ot disablement.
avoid
people with brains naturally
ceived me so when looking at the ex in this business ' makes a good living
was an early difficulty, but this was palace to take his turn in keeping the
for
by congress. One, sent by Frederick
At
last
the
tomato
can
may
find
an
them.”—Washington Star.
cavation? flut when the walls are
aud devotes his entire time to it beside counteracted by means of a rubber ball, night watch he let ten cash drop out honorable grave. Efforts, heretofore
the Great, was of incalculable service
finished and the windows In and the
to the amateur soldiers of the Revolu
hiring the Indians to assist in gather holding about a gallon, from which air of his tinder case into the stream and nugatory, to remove aud reuse the tin
The Revolntlnn.
decorations all stuck in place the whole
then bought fifty cash worth of torches on scrap have been successfully mads
“Well,” said the president of the tion in placing the organization on the
building swells out again prodigious ing the seeds and bulbs. It is fascinat was forced through a tube into '.he box
ing, pleasant work, and he has made It as the pressure increased. Light fades to search for the lost coin. His friends by an Englishman, who puts it in a South American republic, “has the rev footing of a veteran army. The other,
ly."- New York Times.
laughed at him for spending so much galvanic as one of tbe elements.
tbe spirited Pole, was a romantic figure
such a study that he knows just where rapidly in staking below the surface,
olution been suppressed ?”
In order to recover so little, and he re
In China tbe down of the thistle ia
“Yesterday’s has,” replied the secre whose dash added a striking element
to look for certain varieties of plant life. daylight expoeerB being impracticable plied, with a frown:
Some Foreign Coins.
gathered and mixed with raw silk sc tary of war, "but the 9 o'clock revolu to our prosaic forces. — Philadelphia
The franc was formerly called livre < lathering of seeds and bulbs for East at a depth of 25 feet. Magnesium pow
“Sira, you are foolish and ignorant of Ingeniously that even experts are de
Record.
tion of this morning is still on. We've
(pound), though the connection with ern and foreign markets is not the only der is burned in oxygen in a suitable economics. Had I not sought for these
ceived when the fabric is woven. It la captured one of the revolutionists, but
any special weight Is not evident. The way to turn the wildflower to account.
“The American Nile.”
glass globe, and by this powerful illum ten cash they would have been lost also used to stuff cushions as a substi the other is still at large.”—Philadel
name of th#German coin, mark, mean A little lady for a long time has helped
This name, Mr. R. H. Forbes of the
ination instantaneous exposures are forever—sunk In the bottom of the tute for eider dtqvn, and a very good phia Press.
ing a weight of eight ounces, was for
Namertgawa. The fifty cash which I substitute It makes.
to eke out her slender income by prere made with interesting results.
agricultural experiment station at Tuc
merly in general use in Europe. The
have expended on torches will remain
son, Artz., says, is applicable to tbe
Appropriately Named.
That a theory accords with the facta
name of the Italian coin that corre tag the wildflowers in summer and
in the hands of tbe tradesmen. Wheth does not necessarily prove It true. Ac
Fumer—Gee whiz! What sort of a river Colorado because of its possibili
Preservative Eflecto of Ice.
sponds with the franc (lira) also means making them into pretty little souve
er he has them or I is no matter, but
ties as a source of irrigation for tbe
pound. Tbe coins in present use in nirs for holiday gifts that are appreci
It is well known, says a writer in not a single one of the sigty has been cording to Polncore, the eminent cigar is this?
alluvial bottom lands that surround it.
Glvver
—
Oh,
I
bought
it
for
a
nickel'
French
mathematician,
an
infinite
Spain have their names from other ated by our Eastern friends. She is Pearson’s, bow indefinitely objects in lost, and that is a clear gain to the
number of theories, only one of which I don’t just recall the brand, but I Between 400,001) and 500,000 acres of
sources.
artistic, bandy with her brush, and it cased in snow will keep fresh. The country.”
is actually true, may be devised to ac think it was named after some bum these lands have been surveyed. The
The five peseta piece, which corre conies into play in embellishing the two extraordinary instances on MoDt
Colorado resembles the Nile lu being
actor.
count for any given state of facts.
sponds with tbe American dollar, is title-page and giving finishing touches
The Oriole and the Bee.
subject to an annual summer rise suffi
Blanc, when members of parties over
Fumer
—
Ah,
no
wonder
it
won
’
t
The
British
weather
service
is
col
called escudo (shield). "Peseta," the to different pages. Her work, how
Birds, their heads being small, are
cient to overflow the extensive areas of
whelmed by avalanches-bave been re
lecting reports from the north Atlantic draw!—Brooklyn Eagle.
name of tbe small coin representing
Its border and delta lands. Its silts also
ever, does not end with the floral sou turned to the pitiful gaze of men who usually regarded as stupid, but an and Mediterranean of tlie tempera
the monetary standard, means simply
amateur naturalist pointed out the oth
possess great fertilizing properties, so
He Feoled ’Em.
“little piece.” “Ruble” is from the venirs, for she makes trips to the sea had known them half a century earlier, er day a proof that the Baltimore oriole tures observed by shipping masters.
"Well, sub,” said Brother Dickey, that lands irrigated with the Colora
word meaning "to cut,” and was so shore where the beautiful sea mosses must be familiar to many. The bodies at least la very Intelligent. “Take the Tbe data thus • collected are to be
do's muddy waters require no addition
called because originally the coin was abound aud spends hours in floating had traveled some 9000 feet incased in oriole's habitat In tbe summer.’’ he worked up Into charts. This will show, “Brier Williams sho did fool de bailiffs
al fertilization. Mr. Forbes avers that
made with an ornamental edge.
the lacy specimens which she makes tbe ice of the Glacier dee Boissons, aud said, “and all around it you will find among other things, tbe extent of the one time in bls life.”
when the Colorado Is fully utilized It
“How come?"
gulf
stream.
into dainty souvenirs. She has built when discovered, what remained was the decapitated bodies of bees.# The
“W'y, dey come ter levy on him eu will become “the mother of an occi
A new type of railroad carriage was
Highest Cross Is the World.
up quite a little trade for her unique as if lost but the day before. A leg of oriole is fond of honey, and he has dis
fffiin' dat all he had in .de rouu’ worl' dental Egypt.”
The highest cross in the world is said work, and ifcw devotes all of her time mutton was perfectly fresh, and the covered somehow that tbe bee carries inspected in Newcastle, England, the
wuz de rheumatism en one wife.”—At
to be that which caps the loftiest peak and attention to them. Someone asked
honey in a sac. Accordingly he rushes other day. The dusty, cushioned, pad lanta Constitution.
*A School For Don.
oork of a wine bottle retained its odor.
of the Han mountains. The cross is in
down on the insect, snips off its bead, ded seats have been replaced by light
It seems probable that before long
her not Jong since how she found time
cane
armchairs,
comfortably
cushioned,
reality a tower, and it commands a
removes Its viscera and then swallows
the dogs as well aa the daughters of
Cettlna Rte ot Hie*.
to spend on such work. “It is more
An Interesting Map.
magnificent view of the country
the honey that is now laid bare. This four each side, easily removable aud
rich
and fashionable folk will be sent
“
I
am
fixing
up
a
surprise
for
John,
profitable
to
me
than
housework.
It
around. The height of the tower Is 120
A map of Oklahoma and Indian Ter shows Intelligence on tbe oriole’s part, permitting of speedy and thorough but I am afraid that if he stays around to Paris to finish their education. A
feet, and it stands on a mountain 1,731 pays our expenses and keeps things ritory, showing all tbe political divi but I have not yet described the filing cleaning of the compartments. The
school for dogs has Iteen established
tbe house he will discover me.”
feet above the sea level. A stair of 200 going and It pays me to get someone sions and principal watercourses, made which shows the bird's reasoning pow carriage will be put Into three tralus
“That's all right. You Just tie a there. Many society women already
between
Newcastle
and
Carlisle.
steps leads to the top of the cross, but else to do the drudgery, which 1 heart
employ a maI<1 or a man as a dog at
entirely in marquetry of forty-three er most strongly. It is only the sting
Professor Kretacbmar of the Germau towel around your head and ask him II
there Is an elevator, of which the peo ily dislike,” was the reply.
less male, white headed bees that the
tendant, whose duty it la to train and
he
can't
stay
at
home
today
and
help
kinds of the various woods indigenous
ple avail themselves who for any rea
oriole slays. Tbe stinging bees be navy completely rejects tbe traditional
to the two territories, is a standing at leaves alone wisely.” — Philadelphia type of ship patterned on tlie form ol you take up the carpets.”—Baltimore to accompany their pampered pets. But
son wish to avoid the long climb.
it 1« now possible to m .- m ! them to a
Polly visited a home not long since traction on the floor of the lower house
fishes and substitutes that of aquatic News.
W«.,.rd
school where tlie y can l»e taught to
where everything moved like clock of the Oklahoma Legislature. It is tbe
birds. Dy minimizing the wave resist
<:■■*» and EFret.
bark properly, to bow In greeting and
Was Man Made War Mlerebeet
A Hearty Eater.
work. Ereryhndy wu cheerful Abd
•nee the new fo<-m augments the pro
Quoth be, “Your lips look red to farewell, to pick up a fan dropped by
Some contend that the earth was
In a book on gastronomy appears happy, and there was not a discordant handiwork of S. O. Moreland, of Shaw
pelling
capacity
of
the
screws
of
»
nee, a stonemason with no technical made for ants rather than man. since
Bight”
the mistress and present It gracefully
tb's anecdote of tbe gastronomic prow
ship of the present type 50 per cent
note. The children, big and little, knowledge of cabinet work, and in the
She said: “Well, yes p^rita??; bet. ltd to wall with proud and prancing
ass of a Swiss guard In the employ
the former are so much more numer
thus producing a corresponding aooet
showed
such
respect
and
love
for
their
pupa, darling, that's all right. It's Steps.
ment of tbe Marecbal de Villars: “One
making occupied the spare time of the ous. Others, still, reading ahwf how
eration of speed without any Increase
dry tbe guard wag j»en* for by the parents, such tenderness and kJndnew past three months, lit size it is about many million bacteria inhabit every
only from tbe chaps.”—Princeton Ti
of
power.
ger.
marecbal, who had heard of his enor I to each other that showed plainly it three by four feet.
cubic Inch of air and water, are In
An amusing feature of the present
mous appetite. 'How many sirloins of I was uot put on for the occasion but was
clined to assert that the world—aud
There are many historic trees in tbe
The Kvolet.
beef can you eat?* he tentatively ask tbe homelife they lived from day to
man, too—was made for them, Each controversy concerning the metric sys
country, and it is believed by tbe de
Before
it
could
be
killed,
an
escaped
tem,
in
which
one
party
holds
to
l>ie
“
Bliggins
thinks
be
has
the
smartest
ed. ‘Ah, monsetgneur, for me I don't day. In speaking of the perfect har
variety of living creature probably
partment of agriculture that interest In
require many five or six at the moat’ mony in their lovely home, the mother, ferret destroyed eighteen chickens, thinks everything made for It.—Balti- yard and pound aa consecrated Anglo- baby in the world.”
tree planting can be stimulated by dis
Saxon standards. Is that the Unhed
eleven ducks, two pigeons and a valu more Sun.
“Yes. Bliggins always was a linn tie trlbutlng a limited number of these
'And how many legs of mutton?* 'legs
who was uaturally proud of her little
States fundamental legal standards ot fls’er In heredity.”- Washington Star. trees under proper direction. The seed
able tame prise rabbit at Maiton, York
of mutton? Not many -seven or eight’
length and mass are the meter ami tbe
'And fat pullets?* Oh, as to pullets, flock, said, “There Isone thing we have shire, England.
Twa •• a Kind.
lings when grown will be sent tn
”1 took great pains with that pud- kilogram respectively and not the yard
only a few—a dozen.' 'And of pi always made a practice of in our home.
Whr «he EAiter Skip peg.
schools In various parts of the country,
and
pound.
The
yard
Is
legally
ex
If
my
children
asked
their
father
if
geons?* 'As to pigeons, monseigneur,
An editor of a small American paper •nd there will accompany each tree a
A full-sized cigar eou tains as much as ding we bad for dinner,” remarked the
pressed aa tbe three thousand six hun recently stated that be had been kissed
not many—forty, perhaps fifty.’ 'And they could go here or there, or for some two grains of nicotine, a pipeful of to young wife.
concise statement setting forth the his
larks?"
'Larka, monseigneur?
Al favor and he said ‘no’ to their request, bacco noi more, as a rule, than two-
"And so did I. my desr,” rejoined dred three thousand nine hundred amt by one of the most beautiful married toric events connected with tbe tree
ways.’ ”
the busband as be poured out a double thirty-seventh part of a meter.
women In the town. He promised to Itself and the growing of the seedling.
that settled it They knew It was of no thirds of a grain.
dose of cholera mixture.—Chicago
tell her name in the first issue of bls
use to come to me, for even if I could
Hew Mandie Gets Kaperleneed.
Family Rotations.
News.
paper next month. In two weeks the
Plate Talk.
see a reason why their request al.ould
“Who la that man you were Just circulation of bls newspaper doubled.
Irene—Is Maud really going to marry
Copper In certain druggists’ supplies
Tbs Miserly Traveler—Be careful
he granted, after their father bad set has lieen traced to oopper rivets used in
talking with?”
that sappy youth?
with that trunk, you vagabond! I
But wben be gave the name of his wife
“That's my brother-in-law.”
Enid—Mercy, no! She Is only en
tled the question I would not Interfere. the driving belts of the manufacturing
be bad to leave town.—Fourth Batata
Wouldn't have it fall for 10 shillings.
gaged to him. You see. poor, dear
“He looks enough like you to be your
Tbe Porter—I doubt not. but a ahil It was tbe stuite way with their father. machinery.
Maud has never been engaged before,
own brother.”
If I had thought beat to deny them
Tlie Only Owe.
ling in time might save nine.
“He Is my own brother. We are
An American tourist who called on and she thinks she ought to practice a
some request, they never thought of
Clusters
of
filberts
containing
twen
twins.”
,-i
•
1 .
Robert Burns' widow, Jean Armour, a little before entering into it seriously.
A cruel etory runs on wheels, •nd appealing to him, for it would have ty-nine separate nuta have been plucked
"Twine? Then why did you say be few years after bis death bad tbe au -New Yorker.
•very band oils the wheels aa they ran. done no good. Consequently we have at Templecombe, Homereet England.
was your brotber-ln-lsw?”
dacity to ask her. “Can you show me
Hasty Jedwaseat.
-Mot.
never had any trouble.”
"Because he la I have three broth any relics of tbe poet?” "Hlr.” an
Jones Women ar* not good listeners
There are about 15,000 convicts in the
er» one In law, one in medicine and swered tbe old lady, with majestic dig
Johnson-Evidently you’ve never bad
are
one in the army.”- Minneapolis Trib nity, “I am the only relict of Robert
prisons of England, wboae maintenance
'ra for servante. - Kansas City Ind»
une.
coats about *3,000,000 a year
Buntal”
pendent
I
if-