BANDOS RECORDER.
FAINTING THE WORLD.
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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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
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