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BANDOS RECORDER. FAINTING THE WORLD. laSlaa Lego«« of the War Caw. Into Kslatcaee. Once, long before there were men In the world, all the earth win covered with auow and lee. White and froaen lay the rivers and the seas; white and frozen lay the plains. The mountains stood tall and dead, like ghosts in white gowna. There waa no color except white in all the world except in the sky. and It wan almost black. At ulght the stars look ed through it like angry eyes. Then God sent the spring down into the world—the spring with red lips and curling yellow hair. In his arms be bore sprays of apple blossoms and the first flowers—crocus, anemones and violets, red, pink, blue, purple, violet and yellow. The first animal to greet the spring was the white rabbit. The spring dropped a red crocus on his bead, and ever since then all white rabbits have red eyes. Then the spring dropped a blue vio let on a white bird, the first bird to greet the spring, and that is the way the bluebird was made. Ever since then it is the first bird to arrive when the spring comes down from heaven. So the spring went through the world. Wherever he tossed the leaves from bls fragrant burden the earth became green. He tossed the blosHoms on the frozen seas, and tiie Ice iflelted, and the fish became painted with all the tint of his flowers. Tiiut is the way the trout and the minnows and the salmon became gaudy. Only the high mountains would not bow to the apripg. So their summits remain white and dead, for they would let the spring paint only the sides. The snow owls and the white geese and the polar I «ears fled from the spring, so they, too, remain white to this day. INSPIRED BY ASKELETON. Che Story of How Chopin Composed His Funeral March. Late one summer's afternoon, said Ziern, Chopin and I sat talking in my Studio. In one corner of the room stood a piano and in auother the complete skeleton of a man ‘w ith a large white cloth thrown, ghostlike, about it. 1 noticed that now and again Chopin’s gaze would wunder, and from my knowledge of the man I knew that his thoughts were fur away from me und his surroundings. More than that, I knew that he was composing. Presently he rose from hie seat with out a word, walked over to the skele ton and removed the cloth. He then carried It to the piano and, seating himself,, took the hideous object upon Ills knees—a strungoplcture of life and death. Then, drawing the white cloth round himself and the skeleton, he Iui3 the latter's fingers over his own and be gan to play. There was no hesitation In the slow, measured flow of sound which he and the skeleton conjured up. As the music swelled In a louder strain I closed my eyes, for there was something weird in that picture of man and skeleton seated at the piano, with the shadows of evening deepening around them and the ever swelling and ever softening music filling the, air with mystery. And I knew I was lis tening to t) composition which would live forever. The music ceased, and when I iftoked up the piano chair was empty, and on the floor lay Chopin's unconscious form, and beside him, smashed all to pieces, was the skeleton I prized so inacB. The great composer had swoon ed. but bls march was found.—New- York World. • The Origin of the Diamond. The diamond is still one of the mys teries of geology. When the South Af rican fields were discovered there was much astonishment to find the gem in a series of minerals quite different from those in which It had been hither to found In India and Bruzil. Instead of lying beside tourmaline, anatase and brookite it was mingled with a breccia of magnesian rocks which had evident ly been pushed up from below, and a great variety of minerals, such as diop side, mica, zircon and corundum, were lmbeddetb along with it. Some have supposed that the dia mond was origtnally formed where it Is now picked up, and the presence of carbureted gas and otrboniferous rocks is In favor of the idea, but, on the other hand, the broken condition of some of the stones and other facte make It far more probable that the diamond has been ejected from a deep er source. reels nng Doga. Poets have always loved dogs. In this poets and Itoys resemble each oth er. Walter Savage Landor was de- voted to his dog Giallo, and Byron's epitaph upon his dog Boatswain we all rone tuber: To mark a friend's remains these stones arise; I never had but one, and there he lies. I’o.wper was very fond of his dog. and we know how Charles Lamb, who was a prose poet, loved bls Dash and how Mrs. Browning appreciated the little Flush to whom she indited a pwiii. The Earl of ¡ih.’tfteshnrv kept bls noble collie in his library with him at all times, and Samuel Kogers al ways walked out with his dog. Scott declined an Invitation to dinner when his dog died, saying that be could not accept on account of the "loss of an vid friend.** An Reception. Faeldfng—1 thought you didn't object to a man who talked shop? Qulggler— But that fellow la an un dertaker.—Brooklyn Life C •••••••••••••••••••••• sseteMsstatetatstssnsstsiasatatssatatsts - tSSSSSSSSSSSft P olly L arkin . I There has been a great deal of talk within the past few months of remov ing Chinatown from its present loca tion, which coven blocks of one of the must valuable business sections in Hau Francisco, purifying the locality and throwing it open for business purposes. It would be a good thing for the oily, and yet it would remove the Mecca of all tourists who throng into the city of the Golden Gate. All of the places of iutereat to sightseers are second in importance when compared with Chi natown, which is thronged night and day by these denizeus of the flowery kingdom. It is as thickly populated uuder the ground as it io in the over crowded buildings above. They are packed iu like saidinee in a box, disre gardlng the ssuitary laws that are laid down for them and which would be puuinbed to the full extent uf the law if it was broken in any other section than Chinatown. The Chinese mer chants take in hundreds of dollars from tourists, who pay the most extrava gant prices for many articles, in fact, almost double the amount they are worth, end yet never question or at tempt to Jew the wily Chinese mer chant down. This same Chinatown, with its Oriental restaurauts and opium dene, has been the downfall of many young men, mere boys when they vis ited the place and "hit the pipe” for the fli.it time Just to experience the sensation. The boys were not the only ones who allowed their curiosity to get the best of them. For years past it baa been an acknowledged tact that girls, some of them belonging Io some of the best and most respected families of the city, have fallen victims to the pipe that brings them oblivion. They on'y tried smoking the opium in a spirit of fun, but it was their downfall. “I have a little story to tell you, Polly,” said a friend the other day, "and it is aad enough to wring tears from your eyes. I went through Chi natown the other night with a friend. We were accompanied by a guide who wmh well feed aud 'consequently ex erted himself to show us all the sights, and we certainly saw the lights aud shadows of Chinatown. We saw things to admire, wonder al and make a study of. We saw also things that would make you shudder and question why such things should occur in a big cuy a*>d iu a portion of the town patrolled by numerous policemen. ‘Come aud I a.11 show you a white slave,’ said the guide. 'Not the kind of slave you may picture to yourself, but a slave to opium.’ Threading bis way through alley way after alleway aud through dark, ill-smelling passageways, he at last ascended a pair of rickety steps, we following closely behind him, fear ing every minute we would make some misstep in the dark or run into a high binder or batchet-mau. The guide Nuglied at our fears in regard to the ..vo deadly factious, who hate each o‘ier so keenly that they are ever ready to plunge a knife into the back or send a pistol ball through the heart of their rivals, or enemies as they term them. ’Now step this way,’ aud he crossed hastily through a ball dimlj lighted into a small restaurant hand somely fitted up In black et >ny furni ture. He ordered tea for three, and presently a Chinanlan appeared bring ing trays with a variety of Biuall cakes, is me preserved ginger, nlits and other Chinese delicacies. The tea waa placed Tn the cups and boiling water poured over the fragrant leavee, a little cover which Just fitted over the top of the enclosed it for a few minutes, and Wc beet cup of tea I -ever tasted was ready. Again and again they filled up the pups with the'boiling water, pour ing it over the same leaves, and yet the last was every bit as good aa the firs.. It was a higher grade of tea than we ever get in the stores. Having finished he paid the bill and placed an extra coin in the hand of the wily Mongolian. ‘A tip goes a long way with a China man,’ said the guide as he led the way into another apartment. Here four Chinamen were sitting around an ebony carved table gambling, all showing the effects of an opium smoke. They glanced up as we came in, but went on with their playing seemingly oblivious of our presence. Turning to a sort of al cove in the room the guide pulled aside the richly embroidered silken draperiet, Rr dining on a sort of couch of ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl in fanciful design reclined two Chinamen aud a beautiful white girl with a mass of gulden heir <hie <.'hli>*inan ano the girl, who was about 23 years of age, had succumbed to the drug and were doubt lees dreaming of the poppy-fields. The girl was smiling In her sleep. The other Chinaman was in the act of re filling his pipe with the opium which stood ou a little taLourette at his side. It did not take many whiffs to place him in the drunken stupor of bis com panions. We watched him as the diug was taking effect. The look of stupid indlffeience ou bis face changed to a crafty expression, the almond shaped eyes narrowed more and more, a smile of perfect contentment, and the man was also roaming iu the poppy-fields. Striking resemblance has been point ‘“Behold the white slave,’ said our ed out between the remarkable nncient ruins at Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia, and guide. ‘You wouldn’t believe it, but antiquities in Cornwall, England. she tielonga to one of the beet and m<a>t respected families. ‘This is dreadful. A Css What are her parents and ■ rlends think Mrs. nattereon — Do you think It ing about to allow such a thing to con proper to bow to a man in a club win tinue,’ I said, shuddering at the sicken dow? Mrs. Cattereon—That depends. It's ing sight. ‘They dou’t know It yet,’ the only chance I have to recognize my replied the guide. ‘She is comparatively a new beginner. She came in here husband.—Harper's Bazar. with a party of friends one night who Mercy turns her back to tbs unmer were taking in thealgbta of Chinatown ciful. Quarlea. ,,.w and In a spirit of fun all concluded that they, to use a CUiueneexpreesioii, would hit the pips.' There is wbeie a whole lot of confirmed opium smokers make tbelr flrat blunder. They want to ex perience the delightful sensation that is said will accompany the smoker and place him in the realm of delight for the time being. It is only once, they think, but it is the begiuuiug of the end. Down, down they go likes rocket into the depths of misery and degrada tion. This girl came the second time, the third stealing quietly iu; now she is more bold about it, aud comes day or night, whenever she can slip away. After she baa slept the etiecis of the diugott she will go to some restaurant, call for a cup of strong coffee and then return to her home, making some plausible excuse for her absence if any thing is said about it, or excusing her appearance if they refer to it ou the ground of a racking headache. This cannot last much longer. She is bound to be fouud out, and then you will read iu the papers that Miss B------ is taking the rest cure or that she has goue ou an ex leaded trip. The truth of the matter will be that she is confined iu her own home, a prisoner you might say, and strenuous efforts will be made to cure her of this dreadful habit. No doubt she feels her disgrace keenly when the effects of the drug wears away, but the appetite that has burned itself into her very existence overpow ers her remorse and her i«solve to do letter, and she has given into it until she is a confirmed opium fiend. There is going to be a terrible day of reckon ing when her parents find it out, which must be soon.’ ‘Why dou’t you or someone else tell her parents?’ I asked. ‘Her jieople should have been told at first. 1 only fouud this out recently, aud 1 knew that the evil day was no. far oft' until they would know the whole pitiful story. If others knew I suppose they shrank from telling her people about it or considered that it was none of their affair. I could tell you story after story of this opium traffic,’ said the guide, leading the way down the rickety stairs.” BRIEF REVIEW. Use of The Elevator. "The way things are going now,” said an architect who stood watching a gang of masons and miscellaneous workmen employed ou a big building of his owu design to a New York Times reporter. “1 shall not beat all surprised if the time comes when the elevators in skyscrapers will be set ruuuiug up and down through the air by some ingen ious device, aud the building put up around the elevator. No sooner is the skeleton of a new buiidiug iu place nowadays than the elevator liecoiues an important part of the structure, aud many buildings-with dismally yawning door and windows aud apparently inse cure walls display prominently the sign, ‘Elevator Now Kunuiug.’ That doesn’t mean a freight elevator, either, but a lift for the accommodation of pas sengers who have an eye on the build ing as a possible future location and wish to pick out desirable quarters iu good time and have them partitioned off to order.” Mother of Pearl Industry. The center of the mother-of-pearl in dustry is Singapore. The shell oyster is six to ten Inches long, the larger ones weighing as much as leu pounds. It is found on bard-bottom channels be tween islands where the current is very strong. In gathering it a diver takes with him a bag of coil rope one-fourth of an inch in diameter, made in large meshes, which, while suited for hold ing the shell, does not impede bis trav eling along the bottom. The apparatus for diving has not been introduced in the Philippines, although Manila shell brings the high price of one dollar a pound. Remarkable Longevity. Amos Martin of Princeton, Pa., has Just passed his 106th birthday. He was a Highland piper al the battle of Wa terloo. When he married his first wife, who was a spinster and owned a farm, he drove to her place with a blind i use, fouud her in a shed milking a C jw , held an umbrella over her head while he proposed iu a manner most unconventional—for it was raining— and wedded her next day. She died when she was 96 yean old. Five yean ago be wedded a widow who was sixty years of age. Welding Aluminum. A process has been recently success fully developed in Germany for welding aluminum. The metal is raised to a temperature Just below incandescence, where the metal softens sufficiently to make a sou no welding. If il ia nearly to the melting point the metal becomes brittle and rotten. A welding produced by the new process cannot be detected ty the eye, aud is said tn he equal in strength to any part of the bar. CHOICE MISCELLANY A Tyeissl Baaataa Prtoon. END OF THE HACKNEY. Hew He Io Were Ont la the Sorties 0« Beeletr. An interesting description has been | Tbe prancing, high stepping hack published In a Vienna newspaper of a neys that draw tbe shiny carriages of monastery at Sousdai. in the Russian ' the rich are often driven tbe pace that province of Vladimir, which is used as ' kills. In "Horses Nine” Rewell Ford a prison for priests aud laymen who I tells the story of such a horse and hla are guilty of religious offenses. Pris ' mate aud bow they were worn out, oners are only sent to Bousdal by spe | Tbe author says: Seeing them come cial decree of the rear, who. however, ' down the street, heads tossing, pole accepts the advice of M. I’obledonoe- 1 chains Jingling, the crest and mono- zeff. tbs procurator of the holy synod 1 gram of the house of Jerry glistening of tbe Orthodox Greek church. At •u quarter doth aud rosette, their pol- present there are about 210 prisoners Flicd hoofs seemlug barely to touch the there, and they Include 2 princes, 1 tsphalt, you might have thought their count, 2 barons, 1 general, 4 bishops, 18 lot oue to be envied. But Bonfire common soldiers, 52 officers. 124 priests kuew better. and 1 shoemaker. They are treated with He curved hie neck and threw bls «•verity and undergo solitary conflue- hoofs high, whether hla muscles ached meiit In gloomy cells. Many prisoners or no; in winter he stamped to keep become iHKune after a brief period, warm, In summer to dislodge the fllee; wlille the weaker ones soon die from he did bls work faithfully, early or want of light, air sod proper nourish late. In cold and in heat, and all thia ment. The prisoners most recently sen because be was a son of Sir Bardolph tenced is a priest named Cvletkoff, and and for the reason that it was hie na the offenses for which he was sent ture to. Had It been put upon him he there are typical. Cvletkoff disputed would have worked in harness until the holy synod's right to rule absolute he dropped, prancing hla best to tbe ly over the church as a whole and ad last. vocated tile formation of a council of No supreme test, however, was ever clergy to advise and to a certain extent brought to the endurance and willing control the synod. Thia sufficed to ness of Bonfire. They Just kept him bring about hla sentence to life Impris on tbe pole, nerves tense, muscles onment at Sousdal.—London Express. strained, until he began to lose form. His action no longer bad that grace Fasting or the Osage Hedge. and abandon which so pleased Mrs. The oaage hedges which border thou Jerry when she first saw him. Long sands of Illinois farms are gradually standing lu tbe cold numbs the mus disappearing. This hedge, Introduced cles. It robs tbe legs of tbelr spring. a half century ago by Professor J. B. Rudden starts, such as are made when Turner of Jacksonville, became very you are called from line after an hour's popular and for many years was a fa waiting, finish the business. Try as he vorite fence not only with farmers, but might Bonfire could not step so high, with lot owners in the smaller towns could not carry a perfect crest. His and with the railroad companies. neck bad lost its roundness. In bls The high price of fence posts and rump a crease had appeared. lumber made the oaage hedges an eco At last tbe inevitable happened. Two nomical fence also, and In spite of its young hackneys, plump of neck, round faults It gradually became extensively of quarter, springy of knee and bock, used, it held its own until wire fenc were brought to the stable. Bonfire ing appeared. Then it became evident and his mate were led out of their old that the oeage was doomed. Wire fenc stalls to return no more. They bad ing was more effective, was cheaper, been worn out In tbe service and cast took up less room apd required less aside like a pair of old gloves. care. The railroads began grubbing up their hedges and substituting wire. POSTAL ODDITIES. The farmers followed tbelr lead, and where there used to be miles of hedge With one exception there baa been a there are only rods of It now. deficit In postal revenues every year The usage is still used for wind since 1835. breaks, but owing to the fact it Is inju Thousands of letters are mailed ev rious to vegetation near It Is becoming ery day without the vestige of an ad a fixed idea it will probably soon be dress to indicate for whom they are in- abandoned entirely. — Chicago Inter tended. Ocean. Mall matter of any kind addressed In a vague and Indefinite way, such as Canada’s lew Railroad. Tiie Canadian Pacific railroad, which to "the most prominent physician,” seemed a quarter of a century ago an etc., is not deliverable. Benjamin Franklin, first postmaster extravagant folly, has been outgrown. Now Canada Is figuring on two or three general, boasted that under his admin more transcontinental lines, tbe most istration all the cities of the country promising of which, tbe Transcanada, had been provided with a weekly mall. One may mall a letter destined for Is described by Mr. E. T. D. Chambers foreign parts without prepayment of in the Review of Reviews. The new road will run from Quebec, postage. It will go forward to destina Chicoutimi and Montreal through the tion, and the recipient will be required liorthern wheat and timber belts to to pay double rates for the privilege of Port Rimpson, B. C. It will be the reading it if be values it sufficiently. At the Chicago post office a record is shortest route across the continent, only 2,830 miles from Atlantic to Pa kept of tbe different ways of spelling cific tide water, and will save over 2,000 tbe name of that city on mail address miles between Liverpool and Yoko es. At last accounts 280 varieties had hama as compared with the route via been tabulated. Among tiie less intri New York and Ran Francisco. It will cate of these are Zlzazo, Jagjago, Hlpa- tap the James bay and Hudson bay I10, Jajijo and Cbachlcho. trade and the mineral country of north Work Done While Asleep. ern Ontario. Although It runs so far Cabanls tells us that Franklin on north, the climate all along the line la said to be comparatively mild—for several occasions mentioned to him that he had been assisted by dreams Canada. in tbe conduct of affairs in which be was engaged. •‘The Price” Still Stagger» J. R. Condillac states that while writing Tbe weariness tliat always follows a great war is stealing over England. his "Course of Studies” he waa fre The burden of empire Is making Itself quently obliged to leave a chapter in felt. A profound distrust of tbe ca complete and retire to bed, and on pacity of their rulers agitates the awaking be found it, on more than one masses. Consols, which a few years occasion, finished in his head. Tbe most remarkable testimony of ago stood at 115, are now at 91 and In all probability will fall still lower this kind is perhaps that of Sir Thomas ltefore long. One-sixteenth of every Browne, who declared that. If it Were man's income is claimed by the income possible, he would prefer to carry on tax. And all tbe time this appalling his studies in his dreams, so much increase of expenditure continues tbe more efficient were hia faculties of strain grows yearly greater and the de mind when bis body was asleep. mands on the exchequer multiply with Hysteria la D ors . each fresh session of parliament. Nerves are the disease of tbe present Where will it all end? The country asks the question with feverish anx day among human beings, but 1 did iety, hut without receiving any very not know till recently that hysteria is satisfactory response. It is haunted also a malady of dogs. A friend of mine by specters—of an immensely widened owued a dog which suddenly one day basis of taxation, of sheer inability to was seized with an attack of nerves. stand the pace, of socialism and much Since then it has been very ill, wander ing incessantly round and round the else.-Harper'a Weekly. room, refusing food, but still recogniz ing its owner. Another little dog suf A Clever Robbery. fered from hysteria in consequence of A daring Jewel robbery baa been per fright from railway traveling, and It petrated in 8t. Petersburg. A carriage really seems as though civilization. In bearing the arms of a member of tbe rendering dogs more delicate and Imperial family drew up before the more susceptible, had done them a shop of a leading Jeweler, and a foot distinct physical Injury. — London man wearing a court livery entered the Graphic. shop and said that the Grand Duchess Xenia desired to see a collection of Work Planned Oat. Jewels from which ahe could choose “That was a pleasant gentleman you what pleased her best. Tbe Jeweler introduced to me.” packed up Jewels to tbe value of about “Yes; he has some excellent qualities. £25,000 and handed them over to tbe I am going to make something of him domestic to be taken to the grand duch if b£ will let me.” ess. Hours passed without any reply “You make something of him? Why. coming from the palace, and when the he looks old enough to be your father." anxious Jeweler ventured to send to “He is old enough. That's wbat I'm ask what bad become of his Jewels he going to make of blm—a father-in- learned that tbe grand duchess knew law.”—Kansas City Journal. act&ief-sf-the whole ♦r>tn«ajrtlon. No Floaty or Taoto. traces of tbe thieves have been found. "Well," »aid Nuritch, who bad been showing Kandor through his new Great Change la Tanning. The new processes used In tanning house, "wbat do you think of tbe fur- - - ■ ■ are most surprising. Leather used to uisLhi’s?" •They-er—show a great deal of tie tanned by soaking It for seven days In s weak solution of hemlock or oak taste.” replied Kandor. “Think so!" bark to give it color, theu in pita of “Yes; but It’s all very bad." stronger solution for six weeks, mov Two old masts have bsen found em bedded In the silt of the boat pond at Portsmouth dock yard. They are sup ing the hides every day or so; then in Ka Cnnse For Complaint. posed to have been placed there in the “lay away” pita atill stronger for an “So you resent these bints of <1lo- seventeenth century. other six weeks, by filling them with honesty in the government Y' new bark for another six weeks* soak “Moot emphatic.’' answered Farmer General Joubert's silver fitted Jaunt and repeating this last operation three Corntoeael. "I’ve been buyin' postage ing car, which was captured In Houtb or four times. All thia made good leath stamps from the government fur years er, but It took from six to eight months. Africa, Is now at Woolwich arsenal. and never got cheated yet.”—Washing- Today even tbe thickest hides can ba tou Star.________________ tanned by chemicals la three hours. The Women’s Butchers' union at the Chicago stockyards has WM) nienilwrs. Ht. Ixxiis has a similar union. The boa and python have the largest number of rib< of any animals, the number being 320 pairs. One In four of the 150,000 immigrants who arrived last year could not read or write. _____ __________ So Frank. His Hood Hearted Gao»». “Jlmsley thinks his wife is an an gel.” •That so? Why, I didn't know Jlms ley was married.'* "He la a widower.”—Kansas City Journal. Cordial ■hake« iri CUora. "When yon have money," says the Manayunk philosopher, “there are men who will shake you effusively by tbe The average lake trout lays «1)0 eggs hand, and when It's gone they will each season aud the wliltefleh a greater shake you altogether."- Philadelphia numtier. Record. HUMOR OF THE HOUR Sara Car» Far Heart Dlsaaaa. CHURCHES OF MEXCO. th»» Are Groot Cartositios rrom aa Arohltootaral etaadpstat. One of tbe moot remarkable cases of mistaken Identity ever brought to the attention of tbe aational government is reveuled In a letter which baa come to the Interior department. Tbe letter Is addressed to a former assistant sec retary of the Interior, although tbe lat ter official baa been out of office ever since tbe Cleveland administration. The writer confounded this official with a local poet of the same name In central Pennsylvania; hence the re quest sent to Washington Tbe letter follows: • From an architectural ata »«point tbe rhurcbeo of Mexico are tbo uoot won derful ebun-bes lu the worfl. Archi tect» from all over th« vorid have been aatoulshod aud puzded by tbo miracle» lu stone. Then are great arches and domes competed entirely of »mall pieces of stone cemented to gether. According to a) tbe rules of ronstruction. these arcbes and domes rould not have been billt tn tbo first place, and In tbe secom. would not bold together for a inlnuU, yet they are there and are as »oils aa though built Dear friend and statesman: I rits you of steel. the earliest dalt to be so clnd as to do a It remained for an aasayer from grata fafor. I hat trlde all clnda of paten inedentn for hart decease an no aval». 1 Denver who had wttled in northern red yure little Pome on hart drcea»« Com- Mexico to solve the mystery. He culti meneense. • vated tbe friendsalp of a priest and “The hart wlch »ad tumultus beets, persuaded blm to aid in hia tuvestlga with throbs of keenest pain, tlous. Together :hey weut through the wll oft recover Its defeats musty records stored In tbe church Thro' nature sweat retrans." I hat never trlde a InJun dokter but haf vaults, which run back for two er took all conda of er be I now sat you to three centuries and there they found sen by return male I boltlee of you med- wbat appear« to be a truthful and eain—nature sweat retrans. Ben to Alex very plausible explanation of tbe won K . C Poet office, Penn. derful feats of architecture. N. B. -I «11 sen Prise by return male. It was rworded that when one tier —New York Tribune. of atone wis laid about the base of tbo building earth was carried and heaped Feel laarlea. Ermengarde— If you were going to up to the level of tbe highest atones; propose to a girl, Mr. Blacque, wbat another tier was then added and more earth piled up on each aide of it. Thia would you say? process was repeated until tbe dome Mr. Blacque—I should aay: "You are tiie one woman tn tbe world for me. I aud arches were reached. Then the love you with a consuming madness. earth was rounded off to the desired shape and the atone cemented together Be miner' ou tbe surface of tbe ground. When Ertnengarde— How beautiful! Mr. Blacque--And if a nan proposed sufficient time had elapsed for the mor to you like that, Mlaa Ermengarde. tar to set and become as bard aa tbe stone itself, tbe workmen dug out tbo what would you aay? Ermengarde—I should say: "Take dirt from the church, and it waa ready for the finishing touches. me. beloved. 1 am all yours!” Ijilajr must have been cheap and Then these two crafty beluga drifted away from impersonalities and got plentiful in those days to perform aueb a stupendous task, and there la ample down to business.—New Yorker. reason to believe that It waa cheap and plentiful.—Washington Star. Wot For Hla Rending. “Do you choose for yourself the books you read, my boy?” “Sure.** “But how do you know wbat to avoid?" “Ob, I've got all tbelr names here." “Their names?” ‘Tou bet. It’s in thia list of 100 beet Itook» for boys to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hla Statua. “Willie, I suppose you've been a good little boy." “No. I haven’t." "Why. I hope you haven't been very bad." “Oh, no; Just cuintortab'e." HURRIED THE WORK. feewltar Kxperieace •< a Literary Maa. Tarklab Once upon a time a certain Turkish literary man living lu Constantinople arranged to translate for a daily news paper a novel, then popular lu Eng land. Each day be rendered a suffi cient part of it into the Turkish lan guage to fill the space reserved tor it One day bls peaceful home was enter ed by the police, who peremptorily ar rested tbe man of letters and dragged him off to priaon. No explanation was given for hla arrest the novel reflected in no way against the politics of th« atate, aud be had broken no laws. He was not eveu given time to bld fare well to hla family, but he was com manded to bring the work under trans lation with him. Arrived at tbe priaon. he waa given pleasant quarters, good food and drink and sternly command ed to complete bis task. So for sev eral days the frightened translator worked arduously, aays Town and Country. When the work was done, be was, to bls astonishment. Instantly liberated aud presented with a large sum of money. Upon further Inquiry aa to bls treatment it waa explained that the sultan bad become Interested In the story as it appeared from day to day and was too impatient to wait for the end. He wanted to read all the rest of It at once! Truly, there are certain advantages In being a sultan. Had Good Reason. Dolly—Gracious! Why does Mrs. De Styles always refer to Mr. De Styles as her “late busband" wbeu every one knows her husband is alive? Polly—Tbe reason abe calls him her late busband is because of tbe late hours he wanders home in tbe morn ing.—Baltimore Herald. Foeless Informatisa. Mr. Tytephist (at the club)—By tbe way, doc, what is good for indiges tion? Doctor (fellow clubman)—Well, a Welsh rabbit la sometimes good for about three days of it.—Chicago Trib une. Undone by Tbelr L»w. “Why did the people turn against that divine healer who had such a fol lowing down here a year or two ago?" “It was a case of bard luck with him. He had a tittle accident with some kerosene and lost bis long white whiskers.”—Chicago Record-Herald. The Tallest Foogle. In a comparative table of stature, ar ranged according to nationalltlea, the United States Indian stands higher than any other race of the world, though the Patagonian runs him very close. The white citizen comes next. Tiie United States negro ranks four teenth in tbe scale, and of all tbe coun tries of the world considered the Portu guese are found to be the shortest It has always been proverbial among anatomists that blond nations are greater than their darker neighbors. Tills is due to the geological positions of the blond races. They are charac teristic of the north and on account of the lower degree of temperature are Induced to take more exercise, which throws them more in tbe open air. At the top of tbe list of countries, ar ranged In order of stature, the first seven after the United States white men are Norway, Scotland, British American, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark and Holland, all northern nations.— Detroit Tribune. Proper Hooding. “What kind of a heading aball I put over this account of tbe electrocution?" asked tbe assistant. "I should think ‘Current News,* would be about right,” the new editor answered —Brooklyn Eagle. Momlng a Taeht. • The naming of a book io no holiday task, and authors particularly proud of a title are tolerably sure to discover that it has been already used. But the naming of a yacht io almost a greater perplexity. Plagiarism may In this case Aeeoonted For. result in practical confusion carrying Mrs. Younghusband—Did you know tbe most awkward consequences, and that I might have married Tom Good not all titles to which, in search of va acre? riety. rei'ourse has already been bad Mr. Youngbusband — En-no; but I are satisfactory from all polnta of have noticed be looka thankful every view. Not long ago, for instance, a time be sees me.—Judge. very grave British cabinet minister, perhaps wishing for once to be spright ■aby Drnkensnn. ly, called hia yacht Flirt. He had not Mrs. Z.—Listen. George—the baby la consulted bls family, who were, howev saying, "Ooo-goo-Ja-bo-oo-go!” What er, quite sure, be thought, to delight in does it remind yo3 ei? hit cutburst of gtyety. II<jv’»’-»r, hie Mr. Z. — H'm! Reminds me of a daughters naturally remarked bow brakeman calling out stations.—Phila very disagreeable It would be to ge delphia Record. ashore with that label around tbelr hats. Lndioo Ftrot. Magistrate—Nett case. Wbo’ve we got now? Constable—Dick Buggins, alias “Bull." Magistrate—Ladies first. Let Allee Bull take tbe stand. — Pblladelpola Press. “Is this tbe cracked wheat. JaeeF’ "1 dun kuow. mum. I ain't looked at It or tecbed It, an’ If It's cracked It wuz cracked afore I come here.”—New York Oboorvrr.______________ _ la a Ratsboll. She—Albert, I have come to tbe con “flucceea” la spelled with seven let cluaton that I love George better than tera. Of tbe seven only oue la found I love you. and— He—What about the engagement tn “fame and one in "mouey,” but three are found in “happiness.“-New ring I gave you to wear? Turk World. She—Oh, that'» all right Georg« aays he won't object If I wear It Conner Coote FrAm < mvo»> The word copper Is generally admit ted to be deprived from Cyprua, aa it was from that island that the ancient Romans first procured their supplleg. In those remote days Cyprus and Rhodes were tbe great copper districts, and «ven in uur own day new discov eries of copper ore, especially the beau tiful blue and green ores, from which tbe metal la so much more easily ob tslned than from tbe cupper pyrites and other sulpbureted ores of Corn wall. are made nearly every year In the islands of the Mediterranean — Chambers' Journal. Root ■ojormoat. "I suppose,” said Mrs. Oldcastle, “that you have arranged to attend tbe grand opera?* Advertising. “Oh, yse.” replied her hostess "Jo- Editor—Does It pay to advertise In •tab aays there’s nothin' like grand Hia Injartos. my paper? Well. I should say It does. They were talking of the man who fx»k at Smith, the grocer, for Instance. opera to show real culture, so he’s bought a box for every night, and was thrown from the street car. He advertised for a boy last week, and "How badly was he hurt?** | tbe very next day Mrs. Smith bad we’re goln’ to take Daisy'« German teacher with ua to explain what they're “He doesn’t know yet. Tbe Jury to' twine--both boye. ■nyin’.“ Chicago Record Herald. Ida suit Cor damages Is still out.” 7 e
