BANDON RECORDER
TEACHING POLLY TO THINK
Pruut of Ike A»»ut-lati«a ut Idea* la
a Blrd’a Mtad.
M. Pierre Ilucbet Souplet, writing In
a French contemporary on the intelli
gence of birds and animals, relates a
remarkable accomplishment on the
part of a parrot, says Golden Penny.
He admits that the bird was an excep
tionally clever tqieclmeu, and be con
siders Its achievement Indicates the
high water mark of possibilities iu
this direction »0 far a* parrot* are
concerned.
He bad taught Polly to use the
word* "cuplsiard” and "ladder.” and
as he climbed tlie ladder be bad sue-
eroded in Inducing the bird to articu
late the word “climb." Every day
when tlio bird was brought Into the
laboratory a small cupboard was
opened, and Polly helped herself to
hempseed. One day. however, instead
of the cuulsaird being placed where
she could rencli it. it was hauled up
near the celling, and the ladder was
placed among several other articles in
tlie corner of tlie room. The question
to be decided was whether the bird,
seeing thnt the clipboard was out of
M. SoupM's reach, would have suffi
cient Intelligence to use words it knew
tn their proper sequence. The first
day’s experiment was a failure. The
bird screeched “Cupboard, cupboard!"
beating its wings and biting the bars
of Its cage in anger, but it got no fur
ther. That day the bird received millet,
which It did not care for. tlie bemp-
seed, which it was fond of, being
locked up in the ctiplioard.
Next day Polly was in a greater tem
per than ever, and after a desperate
effort to break through the bars of her
cage she finally caught sight of the
cuplioard near thé celling. Instnntly
came the words “Ladder—climb—cup-
board,” anil. Polly having learned her
lesson, the cuplxiard was brought
down, and she was rewarded with
some hempseed. M. Hacbet Souplet
looked msin this Incident as a proof of
the association of ideas in the bird's
mind, as no one hail ever' tauglit the
parrot the phrase site created.
P olly L arkin
i e**a*'**B**4MÌ*~B***""‘*"
Henor Astorga, a former officer in the
Agentine Navy, has proved by experi
ence that it is possible to live ou live
cents a day, but his bill of fare would
not come up to the expectation or re
quirements of the pslrotiH of French
dinners, etc , for it consists of the sim
ple diet of oranges and bread and with
uotbiug more stimulating than water
to drink. He states that ou Ibis tive-
eent diet be did not lose his strength or
impair bit health. Ou the coutrary,
to prove that his modest diet of oranges
and bread had agreed with him, he
rode two hundred and teu miles on
horseback without rest and suffered
no inconvenience from his hard trip.
What a world this would lie if all man
kind look kindly to this diet of bread
and oranges. How easy it would be for
the housekeepers and now economical.
How the families could add to their
bank accounts who now live up to every
cent of the husband’s hard-earned
wages. Should such a slate of affairs
exist there would be no more grum
bling because dinner was not ready,
and tnere would be no use for cooks.
But the lime for this wholesale revolu
tion in eating has not arrived, and our
grocerymen, butchers and confection
ers need uot feel alarmed at the discov
ery of Honor Astorga. While man
kind’s taste for good things iu the edi
ble line predominates as it does to-day
iu many instances, for it is a common
thing to hear a man say, “I wouldn’t
give a cent for life if eating was cut, it
is half of our existence,” there need lie
no fear of the bread and orange diet
tieeoniiug fiopular.
same
cou-cleuce” foixls and
thought of wbat a slaughter the de-
vourerv of theae viauds wi re guilty of,
only they didn't see the havoc they
wrought. I did not remind her of thia
tact, although I was strongly tempted
to do so, for I thought why disturb her
peace of mind, for where “ignorauce ts
bliss ’ll» folly to be wise.” The mem
ory of that good old adage saved her
from tiaviug her eujoyment of tigs aud
cheere destroyed forever. To all those
who are particularly fond of theae
"clear couscieuce” viauds sad who
have scruples toward eatiug anythiug
that haa beeu sacrificed for food for
guilty man, I say, dou't study them
through a microscope, for your peace of
miud will be goue. Your days will be
filled with regrets aud your dreams
will be troubled.
OU) MOTHER EARTH NEW SHORT STORIES
HARDLY ANY TWO SCIENTISTS AGREE
Origin *t "Dr»»*»«."
AS TO ITS AGE.
Harry B. Smith, author of "The
Blonde In Black.” was making time
fly with a group of theatrical friends
around the Knickerbocker theater lob
by the other night, and some one hap
pened to ask wbat was the origin of
the term “deadhead."
“Weil.” said Smith, "they say it
started in Detroit atiout fifty years
ago. One street of the city led to a
tollgate at the entrance of a road
leading Into Elwood cemetery. Funeral
procession» only were allowed to trav
erse the road free of charge. One day
a well known physician. Dr. Pierce,
stopped to pay his toll, but while band
ing over the money be remarked:
“ 'We doctors belong to a benevolent
profession, and I think we should pass
free.’
” 'No, no, doc,’ responded the gate
keeper. ‘You send enough deadheads
through here without going free your
self.’
“And so,” continued Mr. Smith, “the
word got into the dictionary used by
summer show managers.”—New York
Press.
SpeeclatlcB Ahaet th* Tiap
Atom la th* Bsasglx— V«lv*rs*
lt«l Which We Dwclh—Theortee
Ahuet the latrriar at Oar Glahc.
letter writing
It. Devils, a. as Art t saved bj
Moders New.*s*er.
The wonderful development of
newspaper may be looked upou as a
very potent factor tn the decllue of let
ter writing as an art. The letter no
longer can be regarded as primarily
the carrier of news. The expression of
ane's opinion about great contemporary
events is indeed still left to the letter,
but bow much of tn incentive to
frleudly correspondem*e is lost by the
fact that every part of the world
knows of important happenings almost
simultaneously Is not to be lightly es
lima ted. says Gunton’» Magazine. Tlie
stimulus to writing that comes from
having "news” to Impart Is done away
with, aud It ts uot always that even
the gifted letter writer can afford to
lose that Incltant. It 1» only tlie corre-
iqiondeut par excellence who knows
how to attain the perfection of bls art
by writing delightfully of nothing. If
indeed that uisy be called nothing
which affords blin a means for the em
ployment of bls delicate perceptions,
l-'or the saving quality of the genuine
letter is In the ability of its author to
put himself luto It. If be writes ubout
trivial things he does It with a grace
of Interest that disguises the triviality.
He must not make bis little fishes talk
like whales. but be should, as Gold
smith himself knew bow to do, make
bis letters of perpetual Interest be
cause of the aptness of their style to
the simplicity of tbelr thought
CHOICE
MISCELLANY
Farmer Buy’« lx»t Naw Li*tetar.
Did you ever drop corn sll day by
band I11 a furrow "laid out" by a bone
driven by a single line attached to a
single shovel plow end keep it up fur
two or three weeks? Most old people
who have lived on a farm have hud
this experience or have followed the
boy who was dropplug the corn day In
and day out. covering it with a lioe.
Forty years ago a boy who could drop
for two coverers could earn his M
cents a day, while the ordinary boy
could earu from 20 to 36 cents a day.
As a matter of fact a boy could get
over more ground and plant a touch
bigger acreage than a man. but then
as now there was sn unwritten law
that he should not receive men’s
wages. Before the days of labor sav
ing machinery farm work, for the buy
especially, was a constant round of
drudgery, and It was little wouder they
pined for a life In the city. Now It Is
different, and life ou a farm is prefer
able to most other pursuits in life.—
Kingman (Kan.) Leader.
«
_______
Hardly any two scientists agree as to
the age of the earth—that is, as to the
length of time which has elapsed since
the earth's crust became solid. Consid
ering the very alow rate at which rocks
are deposited by water and the im
mense thickness of the beds of these
“stratified” rocks, aa they are called,
it seems that at least 1.000,000,000
years have passed since the globe evolv
ed in its present shape out of the whirl
ing mass of Incandescent matter which
Speaking of tilings we should aud ft must once have been.
But Lord Kelvin, arguing from the
should not eat reminds me of a place iu
the North that was at one time very known rate of loss of beat, declared
that not more than 100,000,000 years is
popular with the wealthy class, who
the limit of time which baa passed by
drove nut in parties in the early morn
since firm rocks appeared and life be
ing wh. n the dew was on the grass and gan upon the earth. More recently Pro
the flowers and the world were just fessor Tait declared that a tenth of
A Flood Provoattag Wl.«,
waking up to the activities of a uew Ixird Kelvin's estimate migbt be nearer
The Cliinook is a warm westerly
day, to this famous resort in one of the the truth. All geologists, however, de
wind, blowlug from the country of the
At Long Range.
Lord Salisbury's “passion for retire-
Chinook Indians, that Is often felt on
■uburlat of the city. They made a fa clare that the latter estimate Is too
ment.” as somebody once described It.
the eastern slope of the Rocky moun
mous dish that was a wonder in its con low.
We know with the utmost exactitude w-as well known. Primrose league hab
tain». The weather bureau people have
glomeration of good things and which
how heavy our little world Is. If you itations were frequently given the use
reason to believe that the effect of
defied the most fastidious epicure to tell
put down the figure 0 and follow it by of the grounds at Hatfield for their
this wind is to prevent disastrous
just what It contained. Ou airival at twenty-one naughts, you have It within outings, and knights and dames would
floods. It seems that the wind melts
the resort the horses were taken care of a very few million tons.
Roughly set forth with high hopes of a close
the snow on the higher peaks, But
Ths Dellshta at N*4lty.
aud the guests were soon making them speaking, this Implies that the earth view of the prime minister. But If
does not descend to the gulches. When
I cling to that perhaps fanciful theo the water from the melting snow on
selves comfortable on the wide piazzas is five and one-half times as heavy as Lord Salisbury hurried on to a distant
balcony, bowed and as quickly with ry that no primitive Instinct of man is the peaks, therefore, runs down to the
or before a huge Hre cracking iu the a glebe of water of the same size.
But, in spite of this accurate knowl drew bis visitors were lucky. Once a altogether lost. It Is modified, ampli gulches it is frozen again. where as Ice
old-fashioned fireplace. "Choose your
fied. relined; that is all. With all our
edge
of the earth’s weight, we have no
it remains until the coining of spring
terrapin, gentlemen,” req nested the
culture we are barbarians still. Man
roil idea of wbat Is the condition of
gradually uielta it. A remarkable dif
host, and from a pond they would fish
Is
a
clothed
savage.
And
now
and
things inside our planet. Thousands of
ference of temperature within a radius
out the fat terrapin, whiieotbers caught experiments made in all parts of the
again he delights in doffing the cloth
ing and returning heartily to savagery. of a few miles is noticed when a Chi
enough fish from a tieautlful pond to world show that the temperature rises
How delightful the feel of the briny nook is blowing. When the thermome
add to the bill of fare. When breakfast on an average about a degree for every
breeze
and the boisterous wave on the ter at Helena. Mont., marked 30 de
was served a huge dish of this conglom sixty feet below the surface. If this
bare pelt! Mr. Edward Carpenter grees l>elow zero, at Unionville, only
eration of good things was the center of rate of increase continues regularly
rails at the, I think, eleven layers of six miles away, but a few hundred
attraction, and it contained terrapin, toward the center, that part of the
clothing that Intervene between our feet greater In elevation, it marked a
A lady, who is a vegetarian, said the
globe
must
be
at
a
heat
so
appalling
fish, chicken, birds, bits of lean pork,
skins and the airs of heaven. Walt few degi-ees above zero.
other day, "Polly, I ant surprised that
aud goodness knows wliat; in fact, no that Imagination is unable to grasp It.
Whitman reveled In hla nude sun bath.
you should uot have joined our ranks
When this fact of increase of tempera
Backward Haaala.
mortal man could tell, except the chef
What a treat, too, sometimes to get
long ago and dropped meat from your
ture with depth first became ascer
Mr. Wirt Gerrare iu bls book on
away from the multicoursed diuuer
who prided himself on this mystery in tained geologists got the Idea that we
bill of fare. What is the need of taking
and to bite downright audibly into “Greater Russia" tells sonic amusing
the culinary art.
were living upon a furious furnace, of
life when there are varieties of nuts, lus
simple food in the fresh air and to lap stories of Russiun slowness to appreci
which volcanoes were the escape pipes.
cious fruit of all kinds, rnelous, berries
A DISAPPOINTED MAN.
water noisily from the brook! Well, ate modern improvement. For instance.
Now we know better than that. We
BRIEF REVIEW
and vegetables to satisfy your hunger.
walking perhaps Is the primal in St. Petersburg and Moscow have each
have found, among other things, that
He took life too seriously.
stinct. ancient as Eden, where the Lord but one man selling stamps at the chief
Oh, Polly, this is a wicked old world.
an earthquake in Japan is able to reg
He did not choose upward.
Gori walked in the garden in the cool post office. He closes his drawer at 2
Teeth and The Army.
You ask wliat were the animals put
ister Itself in England. This actually
of the day. And if my theory ts cor in the day and cannot reckon without
He starved from mental poverty.
here for but to use? That is the ques
The importance of deutal health to happened in the case of the disaster in
rect walking will persist till in recov a counting board.
He saved bls money, but starved big tion all non-vegetarians ask as if to ex the community is shown by News
north Japan some years ago, when 30,-
There are a half dozen or so branch
ered paradise man walks with bis
mind.
onerate themselves and ease their guil holme, who gives figures showing the 000 people lost their lives. A tremor of
Maker again. No mechanical contriv offices, but at these stamps are scarce.
His social faculties atrophied from
ty consciences. And In answer to your Inertased number of rejected recruits iu this kind could not pass unless the
ance for locomotion will extirpate the At one branch post office in Moscow,
disuse.
second query as to what would become England on account of defective teeth. earth liad a rigidity approaching that
tribe of tourists, of those who walk writes Mr. Gerrare, the letter box was
He thought lie could not be happy
of steel, and observations of tides and
tlllml to overflowing, a dozen letters
from love of walking.—Arnold Haul
of
the
vast
herds
of
cattle
and
animals
The
most
important
preventive
mea»-
without wealth.
the attractions exercised upon us by
projecting from the slit. I took my let
tain in Atlantic.
He did not develop tils manhood of all descriptions if they were not used uresare: First—The teaching of hygiene sun and moon have made it pretty cer
ters Inside, where the clerk in charge
as food; that they would increase to should be compulsory iu the senior tain that our world is just about as
along with his business.
declined to accept them. I explained
Such Birds Col ie Hl*h.
such
an
extent
that
they
would
destroy
clasebs
of
all
elementary
schi
ols
and
He murdered his capacity for liappl-
hard and solid as so much steel.
There used to be In a store on N'lnth the matter.
vegetatiou and die of starvation—a slow the hygiene of the mouth be an im
ness in getting ready for it.
This does away with the liquid inte
“Find a letter box which is not full,
avenue. New York, a very valuable ca-
He sacrificed the friends of Ills youth and agonizing death—whereas men ex- portant part of the subject. Second— rior theory and makes it fairly certain
nary whose owner and teacher, the said lie.
HOW
PREMIKR
SALISBURY
SAW
THE
PAS
that
the
earth
is
solid
all
through,
and hnd no time to make new ones.
|>erienced iu the business of killing The enforcement of daily cleansing of
“That will be difficult," said I.
wife of the German proprietor, re-
TORAL PLAT.
He never learned the art of extract quickly and with little suffering, where tbe teeth should be organized in all with perhaps occasional accumulations
“Then wait until one Is emptied to
fused an offer of $500 for It. Sometimes
ing enjoyment from common tilings.
it is properly done, cuts short their ex residential schools. Third—Tbe medi of fluid rock here and there in parts pastoral play formed the chief attrac 11s one entered the place there came morrow.” lie returned.
He tad developed a colossal power istence and prepares the meat as an edi cal profession can stimulate dental re where for some reason or other the tion of the programme. The principal from a corner in the rear a liquid peul
America* Ateslath.
for receiving, but hail never learned to ble for the human family? I say, and form by examining the teeth of all chil pressure is not so great as it is in oth actor was a relative of a man who of music so sweet and high and clear
had once been in a cabinet with Lord
ers.
"Absinth.
'the green
terror
give.
that
It
sounded
like
a
piccolo
without
am only repeating the belief of all vege dren attended by them and inculcate
It also upsets the old theory of volca Salisbury. The prime minister said he the metallic shrillness of that instru France,”' said a botanist of tbe agri
He was a victim of habit anil rou tarians, the Lord will take care of that.
the Importance of regular cleansing noes, and the modern idea with regard would like to see the performance. His
ment. In a small wicker cage a black cultural department, "is now being pro
tine; he never could rise above tils vo
When the human family stops eating and early attention to caries. Fourth— to these mountains of death and de wish was made known to the ]>erform- and yellow canary waltzed round and duced in considerable quantities ill this
cation.
ers;
but.
although
they
delayed
the
meat as food and there is no further Every industrial and other school au struction is that water from the sur
round, never quiet, and as it danced It country and Is being used to an alarm
His only enjoyment was In repenting
face finds its way through a few miles commencement of the piece for some sang the air of “Lauterbach" from be ing extent. In some sections of Wiscon
wliat he had 111*011 doing all his busi demand for it, the great docks and thority should employ a dentist to
sin wormwood is being cultivated, and
herds, etc., will gradually die out and treat the teeth of children aud organize below the surface, and then, being sud time, no Ixird Salisbury appeared. Tlie ginning to end without a false quan
ness life.
denly turned into steam, causes an ex mystery was solved toward the end of tity. without missing or changing a it is from this plant that oil Is distilled
liecome
almost
as
extinct
as
the
mas
methods
of
dental
hygiene.
He had never learned to enjoy ns lie
plosion, or series of explosions, like the performance when the premier note. When the solo was finlsbiNl the for making absinth. There are sev
went along, blit found that postponed todon of former ages whose great skele
was observed to be watching it from bird whisked up to its perch, trilled an eral wormwood farms in that state.
boiler burstings on a gigantic scale.
happiness was n delusion.—Success.
tons are occasionally fouud by our
Average Length of Life.
Every schoolboy knows that the a high turret window through a tele Improvisation and then began the mel
“Tlie Wisconsin growers of worm
naturalists and explorers.”
scope!
ody again, breaking off in the middle, wood and distillers of the oil at first
We are rapidly gaining in the average shape of the earth is an oblate spheroid
An Artfnl BearKar.
warbling a little in self willed fashion sliipiied nearly all their output to Eli
length of human life. Better san It a- —that is to say, that it is flattejwd a lit
An old Parisian mendicant was re-
Not So Dost as He Appears.
and then finishing the air. It was a rope, but now they find a good market
Even if my vegetarian friend was tiou, the enforcement of precautions tle like an orange at the two poles. The
cently noticed to manifest apparent ca-
The presence In Washington of Gen
polar diameter of the earth is actually
beautiful and unique performance.— for It in this country and at almost
price in selecting the objects for lils right, would it tie a good thing for the against contagious and infectious dis twenty-seven miles less than its diam eral John H. Ketcham of New York,
fabulous prices. Of course the drug
Philadelphia Ledger.
importunity. lie would allow a num various phases of animal life to pass out eases and the advancement of surgery eter at the equator. But it is as yet not who is getting in readiness for bls six
bouses of America furnish a ready
ber of persons to pass unh<*eded and of existence? For years the wild rab and medicine are causing an even more absolutely ascertained whether the flat teenth term of service in the house,
home market. The oil is employed In
Smokln* la Basks.
then attach himself to others and take bits have had no market value. Many rapid reduction of the death rate than tening is similar at both poles. Some has served to revive a good story. He
In every bank In New York there is many ways, but its chief uses are In
no denial. A bribe of half a franc from lieople were prejudiced and would not
the layman might guess, The census arctic explorers appear to be of the is very deaf, but If this story Is true, a rule against smoking, and it Is doubt the making of absinth and liniments.”
a curious spectator Induced him to give touch the meat of a rabbit if they knew
not so deaf ns he appears. In fact, ful If any depositor or visitor ever saw —Washington Star.
bulletin of deaths that occurred In 271 opinion that the flattening is greater at
his reason. “I have a code of rules it. Possibly a few would be shipped to
when some one not long ago expressed a coll of tobacco smoke sifting through
the north than at the south pole.
citi
s
of
5000
population
or
more
shows
which I Invariably follow." said he.
lewapaper Notoriety.
Another rather startling fact Is that sympathy for his infirmity he replied the atmosphere in the big counting
the markets of San Francisco, but only that 18 6 persons died in 1900 out of
“Thus I never ask alms of one who has
This is wliat the aspiring statesman
the equator is not a perfect circle. If that lie heard enough as it was. Ac houses—that Is, no visitor who Is ex
to
be
sold
to
Chinamen
and
the
poorer
every 1000, whereas in 1890 the num
dined, as rosblf renders a man selflsli.
you could drop a plumb line from Ire cording to the story, a constituent vis cluded from the building promptly wrote to the bureau of press clippings:
nor of stout men, as it Imres them to classes as a rule, although some few ber who died In the same cities was 21
land through to New Zealand it would ited him one day, asking for a loan of when the bank closes. But If the curl
Please send me whatever you And about
people
recognized
the
edible
qualities
of
stop, nor of any one putting on their
out of every 1000. The average age at be somewhat longer than another $10. “Ifow much did you say you Ous could squeeze their way through me In the newspapers for the next three
gloves, nor of a lady alone, but always a nice plump rabbit that had lived off death In 1890 was 31.1 years, in 19C0 it
months.
wanted?
”
whispered
Mr.
Ketcham
in
which cut the earth at right angles to
those closed portals in the afternoon
of any one manifestly going to dinner, the best the vineyardist bad to offer. was 35.2 yean. If these statistics are
This Is what the aspiring statesman
It The difference has not yet been as his characteristic way.
they would be treated to a very differ
of people walking together, as their How they did increase. What depre
“I asked you to let me have $20!” ent sight.
wrote to the same bureau at the end of
accurate the saving of human life that certained with absolute accuracy.
•
amour propre makes them generous; of dations they committed for the farmer.
The rules against smoking in all the two weeks;
We are accustomed to talk of sea shouted the constituent, his courage
officers In grand uniforms and of peo They were in dispair, for it seemed as has been achieved in p decade is enor
Please discontinue sending newspaper
level as an invariable quantity. It is mounting upward on the good natured big banks of the city apply only dur
mous.
ple apparently seeking favor from the
positively startling to find how very way in which hia first request was ing banking hours. After the doors are clippings.
if they would take the whole country
government, as they think that a gift
Response by the bureau:
Justice by Points Scored.
closed and locked one can transform
far from level the sea is; not, of course, taken.
will bring them luck.”—Golden Penny. and leave no pay to the farmer for his la
"A minute ago you said you wanted himself into a human volcano with
Shall keep on sending them. Cuntract
There is a Justice of the Peace in Bal merely from the passing influence of
bor. They were practically left to
only $10,” remarked Mr. Ketcham. perfect freedom—and he does, And was tor three months.
themselves, yet they did not die oft, as timore who is said to decide the cases tides and winds, but there are great
Pride of Illa Performance*
And his constituent is still wondering “be” is legion.—New York Times.
And this la what the aspiring states-
and permanent elevations in the sea
tried
before
him
on
the
plan
pursued
in
In a downtown church, as the story my vegetarian friend predicted they
man wrote at the end of another two
positive mountains, in fact. It is cal how he found out.—Washington Star.
goes, there was introduced n new would. Meetings were held by tbe a baseball match. The side that scores
weeks:
culated that in the bay of Bcngnl the
Whlatler'a White Leek.
hymn, and after the dismissal of the farmers to find a way of exterminating the most points gets the decision, it is
A Storp Not For Fooltrxmeo.
water lies at a level exceeding that of
What will you take to quit «ending me
As long as the name of James Mc-
services the organ blower found Ills the pest, aud it resulted iu the great said. According to some lawyers who
A suburban Philadelphia banker tells Neill Whistler lives among those wbo those internal newspaper clippings?
the Indian ocean by fully 300 feet and
way to the player's bench and asked in rabbit drives which seemed the person have tried cases before the Justice in
—Chicago Tribune.
that of the Pacific ocean along the thia story to illustrate bis hens' prow saw him it will recall the famous white
a meek voice. "How did the music for
ification of cruelty aud in which thou question, that functionary keepsascore. coast of South America may be heaped ess in egg laying: “Some time ago an lock which stood out so conspicuously
that new hymn go this evening?”
Th* Star*.
up as much as 2,000 feet higher than egg was left for a nest egg in the from the mass of bis black hair. It
"Oh, very well; very well. Indeed.” sands and thou lands of the little ani Each point made iu the case Is noted.
There are about 200.000 stars be
the. water in the opposite Atlantic. place where my hens lay. This nest was, as lie used to say himself, “well
mals
with
the
soft
and
velvety
brown
When
the
lawyer
for
the
plaintiff
replied the organist. “But why do you
egg the other day batched, and I have placed.” and was always treated from tween the first and ninth magnitude,
eyes were driven before the hunters and 1 makes a point he receives* mark. The These water mountains depend upon
ask?”
the attraction of great mountain mass now one lonely little chick, which sev the harmonious point of view, to devel the number at each lesser magnitude
“Well,” said the blower, “I'll tell you farmers into the trap that awaited lawyer for the defendant gets a mark
es, the bay of Bengal upon the Himala eral dozen mothers care for. Here is op its greatest effect in bia appearance. being about three times that of tlie
the truth. I was a bit nervous and a them and theu clubbed to death. It also for each point made by him. At
yas and the south Pacific upon the ths explanation of this miracle: My Oue day when Dorothy Meupes, daugb next higher. Now. If this rate of In
bit worried aliout it, for, you see.’' ho seemed cruel enough, yet it was their the end of the case, it is said, the marks
bens are such steady layers that one ter of the well known English artist. crease were continued down to the sev
American Andes.
went on explaining. "I never blowed only salvation. Ix»k at tbe vast herds are added up, and the side which has
The height of our highest mountains would no sooner get off the nest egg. Mortimer Menpes, was a baby and win enteenth magnitude there would tie
for that hymn before.”—Philadelphia of wild horses that took possession a the higher number gets the decision.
has been measured to within an Inch having deposited a fresh egg beside It. asleep on her pillow. Whistler went to abcat 1.400.000,000 visible In the lM>«t
Press.
er two, and we have accurate informa tbsn another would slip on and in her see her. A white feather had by chance modern tele*co|M»*. telesi-opie observa
few years ago of certain portions of Or
tion on the subject of the great depths turn lay. Thus by doaeus ol dittervni settled on her head and lay in 11 s|s»t tion alMi plioiugraptiie eb*n* wiio*
egon and VVaiiuiigton. They wefe a
Unhurt By a Long Fall.
Too Mtron*.
of the sea, but we do not yet know mothers the solitary egg was hntched exactly corresponding with the while nntliing approaching this number. The
"My boy tells me you discharged menace to the farmers and stoekraiaers
Fred Worrell was ;>ainting the belfry
with
any certainty how deep Is the at Though no one hen 'sat' on It. never lock on his own head. "That child is latest estimate does not exceed 100.-
him," said the late ofiice boy's mother. of that part of the country by destroy ot 8t Luke’s Church at Chester, Vt.,
mospheric
envelope of the earth. At tbeless It was kept always warm, and going to develop into something great.” 000,000. As the Instruments reach far
ing
the
vegetation
and
there
was
no
I
recently,
and
slipped
and
fell
sixty
feet
’
"You advertised for a strong boy, and
one
tftn»
twenty
-seven jnOev wss.jr’jre»» tn due time there stepped forth from hr rrcl'tln-ed, “-for,
begins wqji ther and farther into space they find a
I certainty tbpnubt he wn.» «trou-; pasturage
iei, tot
domestic
stock. ' No t»nes were broken and bls skin was as the limit. This was increased to It a lonely but vigorous little chick.
continuous diminution in tbe nnmber
j
.... the .•
.
a feather, just like me!”
enough.”
of stars, thus Indicating an approach
How did they solve the problem? Only not even scratched. He was taken to forty, and soon even this estimate was Philadelphia Press.
"Madam.” replied the merchant, “he
to the outer limits of the ste.lar uni
by establishing slaughter houses and his home, and a slight lameness for a extended to 100.
was too strong. He broke all the rules
verse.
rat at His Baa*.
canneries
and
shipping
mot
of
the
His
Favorite
Phrase.
Our
only
means
of
measurement
Is
few
days
was
tlieonly
bad
result
of
the
of the office and some of the furniture
Few men could tell a more amusing
Once,
when
they
were
talking
litera
by
the
meteors,
which
spring
into
an
meat
to
foreign
ports.
Very
little
of
it
In the two (lays he was with ns.”
tall.
EUlsas's Oa* Speech.
than Max O'Rell. Explaining ture, Mrs. Isobcl Strong said to Robert
Incandescent blaze through friction anecdote
1
was used In this country owing to the
Edison has made but one speech In
his timidity when he first took up Louis Stevenson. “At least you have n«
Turkish women do not come into con when they strike our atmosphere As once
1
strong prejudice most people have to
Hord Leek.
lecturing, he told how everything mannerisms.” Whereupon Stevenson bls life. It was not a brilliant one
Did yer git anything?" whispered eating horse meat. The horses were trol or their private fortunes until after man cannot Hre at a much greater went well till he reached n certain
He had agreed to lecture on electricity
took a copy of his own “Merry .Men.”
the burglar on guard ns his mate killed by the thousands. It was the marriage. After that they can dispose height than five miles, it may be that
before a girls' seminary and had en
in Scotland.
which she was reading, out of lier
we shall never learn exactly bow thick town
1
emerged from the window.
only way of exterminating them, and of on»-thirdof it without tbe husliaud’s Is the atmospheric ocean at the bottom
"There at the close of my lecture I hands and read. “It was a wonderful gaged a friend named Adams to work
“No. The chap wot Ilves here I« n it was getting to be a scrioas proposi consent.
the apparatus while be tslked. But
of which we crawl.—8t Loul» Globe- 1 made my usual apology for 'murder clear night of stars.” "Oh." be saief when the inventor arose to address Ills
lawyer,” replied the other In disgust.
ing
the
queen's
English.'
Then
up
got
tion this question of finding food for
Democrat.
1
"how
many,
many
times
I
have
writ
What is the difference tietween an un
"That’s hard luck,” replied the first.
a brawny Boot, who In al) but Incom ten 'a wonderful clear night of stars.* ” audience he felt so dazed that he sim
stock. Ho long as there was room and appropriated blessing, a retired belle, a
"Did yer lose anything?”
ply said, “Ladles. Mr. Adams will now
prehensible dlalrct declared that I
W m I Gather!**.
plenty of food for both the wild bones itachelor girl and a good old-fashioned
address you on electricity, and I will
spoke It aa *we»l as he did blmscl*.’
Willie
—
Pa.
when
you
say
a
man's
Witkoat
Daakl.
were not moles'ed, but the time came old maid? Giris, One at a time, please.
Short «nd Merry.
demonstrate what he haa to any with
"wool gathering” it means he’s lazy, After that, as you may suppose. 1 was
wonder
If
I
had
too
much
Inst
“
I
I have saved up enough for u> when tlie question had to be settled.
the apparatus.
more at ease.”
lon’t it?
night."
to live at the rate of $10.000 a year.
An old residentof Washington in speak
A m er lea u telegraph instruments click
Ta—Not necessarily. He may be
"You did.”
Bbe- For how long?
ing of It, said, “The time came when it in Siberia and in Italy, while our tele fathering the 1 ool off the lambs tn
"Papa,” said little Tommy Taddells.
A PerMwai Bill of Pare.
“How do you know? You weren't
Oh. one year.—Life.
was either tlie wild horses or us, and phone» arc "helloed” through by the Wall street.—Philadelphia Ledger.
"wbat Is tbs game of authors?"
A squire of Andover once hired it with me.”
I
tlie latter had to win.’’
Chine*», East Indiamen aud Egyptians.
brother of Patrick, who was In bis etn
”1 know that when a man is In doubt I "Tbe game of authors, Toni my.” re
Sheep used as beasts of burden In ploy. The terms were* made with Pat on that subject there is no room for plied Mr. Taddells. "Is to sell their
books.”—Smart Set.
Hahit is something that grows. You aorth India carry twenty pounds before his brother’s arrival, and the doubt”—Chicago Post
Jack—My darling. I want to tell y >u
Sahl this good little vegetarian friend
following conversation ensued:
something. I have deceived you. I
cannot see the roots, but you can some- weight a»Jece.
of Polly’s, “Eat cheese, figs and all
-
Hl* WU1 r*w*r.
8quire—I'll pay your brother one fifty
am not rich, but utterly penniless.
tlmaa feel tiwtB burrowin pretty deep.
Ckaased Taate.
' "Henpeck has given up smoking, eh?
kinds of cereals, for this you can do
Wataral Hlateev.
a day. Patrick.
Will It make any difference tn you?
Mrs. Kenway—Yon used to say that 1 didn’t think be bad ao much will
with a clear conscience.” I didn’t coin
Pupil—Bees live tn a hive, but they
Patrick (bowing and smiling)—Tin.
Many peo*fe are victims of misplaced
Ethel—Not the slightest, .luck.
»•wer.*
call It a cellar, for It la full of cell* sor; yls, sor; and will be ate himself or I was the apple of your eye.
"I am so glad, dearest. Are You quite cide with this opinion of ben, for I confidano*—in themselves.
Kenwsy—Well, what of It?
■ “He hasn’t but bls wife has.”
Bees also make honey. They make It will ye ate him. sor?
sure It will make no difference to you?*' have seen more than one cbeeie and
Mrs. Kenway—Nothing, except that
The squire thought that Dennis bad
"Quite aure; 1 can marry old Mr. figs under a microscope. I have seen
What is everybody’s business Is no fine by combing It with a fine honey-
you don’t
*m to care so much for
comb.—New York Times.
better eat himself.—Lippincott's.
Moneybags.”—London Standard.
the wiggling mass of life in these self- body’s business.
'rult as you onoa did.