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BANDON RECORDER, roMOÖöoööoööoooÖBOt»iM»04MM ll WIT BUBBLES IN TOASTS. tome Homares» Saatlmeats Pithily ItiyrtMH al Baa«a»ts. A publisher once gave the following •'Woman, the fairest work In all creii tion. The edition la large, and no mail should tie witbout a copy.” Thbi la fairly seconded by a youth who, giving bls distant sweetheart, said, "Iielectable dear, so sweet that honey would blush In her presence aud treacle stuud appalled.” Further, in regard to the fair sex. we have: "Woman, she needs no eulogy; she speaks for herself.” "Woman, tlie bitter half of man.” In regard to matrimony some bach slur once gave, "Marriage, the gate through which the happy lover leaves bls enchanted ground and returns to earth.” At the marriage of a deaf and dumb couple some wit wished them "un speakable bliss.” At a supia-r given to a writer of com edles a wag said: “The writer’s very good health. May he live to be as old as Ills jokes.” From a law critic: "The bench and the bar. If it were not for the bar there would be little use for the bench.” A celebrated statesman, while dining with a duchess on her eightieth birth day, In proposing her health said: "May you live, my lady duchess, un til you liegin to grow ugly." "I thank you, sir,” she said, "and mny you long continue your taste for antiquities.*’—London Tit-Bits. Drlaklun au4 Smoking. P olly L arkin ; ■»•••»»«»•«•ötsnooööoööoisoos •*o«oa »••«•• <••■•••«•»«»•••••■••• a a •«••• ««asi i '•‘Well,” »aid a gentleman who was <<ue of a party of three, evidently old chums, for they talked of their boyhood days and told incidents that caused them to laugh until tears stood in their eyes, /.eked about this oue and where that oue had gone; was Mollie B------ married, aud did ipretty Hallie J------ marry for money aa she had aaid she would? aud a peal of laughter followed the anuounoemeutthat Hallie had mar ried a Methodist preacher with five small children to mother and earc for. “Well, as I was going to remark,” aaid the first speaker, “I have never gotten over my weakness for Ashing and bunt ing, especially the former. I used to play hookey from school wheu I knew that a sound chastisement wcuhl be meted out to me when I was found out, just for the love of fish lug for a few hours.” “How do you manage now, auy better?” asked oue of the trio. “Not much iu one way, for every year during the fislilug season I yield to temptation aa of yore aud desert uiy business for a time aud hie myself to where the speckled beauties dart iu aud out of feru-clad banks.” “Your ‘speck led beauties,’ as you call them, are get ting rather scarce, aren’t they? I’ve been told that the streams that used to teem with trout were being rapidly fished out, and iu fact some of them were either that or the ti-h were too shy to be caught with your wily false flies or other tempting bait. You must have a regular Eden or rather some favored spot uuknowu to other augleni.” “I have got a regular Eden, but the best part about it is that It uever gets fished out, and the streams, riven aud lakes are open to every oue who is foud of casting the line. It is on the line of the California Northwestern Railway, and as far as there being auy danger of the streams being fished out, you don’t have to worry about that. Just sit quietly by your glowing fireside and while the sparks are flying upward and the elements are howling without, smoke your pipe and dream of the fuu in store next spring. The California Northwestern Fish Hatchery at Ukiah and the spawniug station at Willits in Mendocino county, have not been idle, for while you toiled and worried, slept and dreamed the hours away, they have tieeu busy enough. the letter-box the other day from Daisy B------ . Bite says, and her uauie carries out the assertion, that she Is a great lover of flowers, aud is quite successful with everything exeept chrysanthe mums aud rose» That try aa she will she can never have anything except small chrysanthemums, aud while they bloom profusely aud the color 1» all right, the under size of the blossoms is unsatisfactory. Then, again, »be expe riences great trouble lu »lipplug roeee, her favorite flower. I'm afraid, “Daisy B------ ,” you are making the same mistake that a good many other Mower lovers do in regard to your chrysanthemums. You cher ish the old roots that seem so strong and healthy and which send up such fine results aa far as new »boots aud fine foliage are concerned. You feel almoat a sort of attachment tor them, for you have guarded them with a jeal ous eye, and yet you have seen them deteriorate from the fine showy flower which rewarded your find year’s effort, Into numeroU’small and insiguifleant flowers; they are not even as flue iu coloring, but appear dull In compari son with the first year’s bhswom. You will think it is almost a crime to dig up the roots and throw them away, and yet ii must be doue if you want perfect chrysanthemums. Yon should take slips and raise new plants every year. Then they will be strong aud vigorous aud give you the beet results. Yet If you want the exceedingly large chrys anthemums that you find in prize shows and the pride of the florists, you must sacrifice flowers for size and pinch off* buds galore, leaving only one or two on a stalk. "The prevalent Idea that drinking and smoking are companion vices is al together wrong,” suid a physician who has made a special study of dlpsomu- nla. “I find, on the contrary, that the In regard to your not beiug able to habitual drunkard is not abnormally slip roses—the easiest of all plants to addicted to the use of tobacco.’ He may slip so far as Polly’s experience is con use the weed as a lesser stimulant cerned—you will And no trouble if you when not strongly under the Influence follow the rules given by an old garden of alcohol, but when the drink gets firmly intrenched in bls system he cares er. November and February, he claims, nothing for tobacco, for then it has lost are the best months to slip roses, and he its force and its influence upon bls cuts the slip so as to put two buds under nerves. Of course I mean in extreme the ground and preferred the old growth cases. to the new. (live them plenty of wa "On the other hand, it is a rather ter. Try this plan and I think roses curious fact that in the case of the aud buds will crown your efforts with moderate drinker, who also smokes, the success. cutting off of ids supply of tobacco will increase his appetite for alcoholic bev erages, and while at first the liquor BRIEF REVIEW. will not affect him nearly so much as when lie is smoking, in the end it will Sure Way of Saving do 1dm up. Consequently It is safe to assume that the man who alwuys used An ingenious method of putting his liquor and tobacco In moderation will, savings tieyond bis own reach lias lieen if be gives up tobacco, take more adopted by a German writer, who fonnd strongly to liquor. In fact, this is no from dire experience that all his profits assumption; it has been demonstrated “Our very late spring this year re melted away as soon as earned Hav on numerous occasions.”—Philadelphia tarded the seasonal run of trout at their ing made £16,000 by a fortunate liter Record. spawning station about oue mouth later ary speculation, he placed the whole of than usual, and everybody was fearful the money, together with his will, in His Education Wasn’t Complete. No more courteous Judge ever pre that the catch would prove light. The the Imperial Deposit Bank at Berlin, sided at a trial than the venernble for generous rainfall that deluged the and on receiving the receipt from the mer justice of the New York court of country during the early part of March cashier deliberately tore it up. The common pleas, Charles P. Daly. The chauged the couditious and dispelled cashier thought be was mad, and told story is still told among our New York the fears of the auxious anglers. The him angrily that it would take fully lawyers how on one occasion a young attorney, while trying a case, indulged catch of eggs at the spawning station three years before lie could expect to in considerable vituperation of his op amounted to over a milliou. They are obtain a duplicate receipt. “That is ponent’s witnesses, Anally going so far of the“Raiubow” variety,better known just why I have toru up the original,” as to answer the court very sharply to our local anglers as “steel-heads,” calmly remarked the depositor, “and when requested to modify Ids Ian and they a'e not only the finest variety now the money is safe for that time.” guage. of trout on the Pacific Coast, but the Knowing that Judge Daly was some gamiest aud most palatable. They are To Teach Women Agriculture. what of a stickler for the dignity of indigenous to the waters of this section, the judiciary, lawyers and court r.t The Russian Ministry of Agriculture tendants gazed at the offending attor and being acclimated they grow rapid has just decided to found au Agricul ly and vigorously, leaving the intro tural high school for women, which ney in amazement. There was a long Interval of silence duced varieties far tiebind. In this fa will be the first institution of its kind Finally the Judge leaned over the bench vored locality they attain a growth of in Europe. The women who pass and said, with an Ironical smile: eight inches in twelve months, and then "My young friend, before you are ns comes the sport for the anglers the sea through thia institution will enjoy the same rights as successful male students. old as 1 am you will have learned that son following their planting. Thanks They will lie deemed eligible to fill it Is about as well to read Chesterfield to Colonel LaMotte, I have seen the as Blackstone.”—Success. various poets under the Ministry of Ag work from beginning to end. At the riculture and will be further entitled to spawnlug station iu Willits they trap Moslem Women’s Freedom, bold the position of administrators of There has been a vast amount of the wild fish on the way to their the crown domains and of teachers in pity wasted upon the Moslem woman. spawning beds, secure the eggs, return It may surprise even the woman suf the fish to the water and then put the the intermediate agricultural sebooh. Three hundred and twenty youDg wo fraglst to learn that the laws of Mo eggs through the eyeing process. Then men who have had an intermediate hammed confer upon women a greater degree of legal protection than any they are carefully packed and com education have announced their inten code of laws since the middle Roman mence their journey to the hatchery at tion to contiuue the course. law. Only the more recent liberties Ukiah, and by the way, it Is located in and protection granted to married wo one of the most beautiful spots in the Sight of Amphibia. men by the laws of divorce and the ex universe. There their incubation is In tbe water fishes see only at very elusive property rights now In force In finished, and it is a positive wonder to the United States can be properly com the uninitiated to see the great troughs close range;about halftbeirown length. pared to those in Turkey. Under the literally alive with the baby trout dart- Thia will seem, perhaps, unlikely to Moslem laws the provision for secur mg through the clear mountain water anglers, although some of them can cite Ing to the wife the free and uncon that fills the troughs. Here the little instances showing that fish cannot see trolled possession of her property Is far. Snakes seem to have a very me minutely stipulated in the marriage fish are safe but for one pest—the can diocre sense of sight. Tbe boa, for in contract. A suitable sum Is also ar nibals in their own family—which de ranged for her maintenance in accord vour the smaller fish. The superin stance, does not see at more than a quar ance with her husband’s rank Ceu tendent is constantly on the watch, ter or a third of its own length. Dif tury. however, and the minute one is sight ferent species are limited to one-fifth or ed out he goes to die an ignominious one-eighth of their length. Frogs are Varloas Soarces of Silk. better off; they see at fifteen to twenty Silkworms are not the sole source of death ou the floor instead of waiting to times their length. be caught with a silken line and beau the production of silk. It Is also ob tained from several vegetable sub tiful fly. The little fish remain in the Whites in British Colonies. stances, but of an inferior nnd less hatchery until they are large enough to Tbe figures representing the white durable description. Excellent colored transfer to the streams, then the distri silk is obtained from the prepared and bution commences and they go out by population of Great Britain’s colonies finer fibers of the bamboo, which is the thousands. The work of distribu will surprise many persons. The im much In demand for clothing In trop tion has been so thoroughly accom portant ones are: Canada, 6,525,000; ical countries from Its lightness ami plished this season that the streams Australia, 2,860 000; South Africa, 875,- porosity. Another form of silk Is ob (XX); New Zealand, 816,000; which tained from the pods of the silk cotton have all lieen thoroughly stocked, and makes a total of 11,675,000 persons. tree, of which there are several varie you can just watch out for the biggest There are, however, 20,000 white per ties In existence, the material obtained kind of sport next spring.” “You are from them being known as vegetable as great an enthusiast as you were In sons now going to the colonies to settle silk. the davs of vour childhood,” said his each month, as a result of hard times friend, breaking Into the descriptive iu England. Predicant? Life tn Aneleat r.»»r stcry, “but I say it is selfish for you to The reckless prodigality with which Rare Birds in Museum. in ancient Egypt the upper classes enjoy it all by yourself. Hup|siee you The Michigan University Museum is •onanlered swav the labor and Ilves include us in your next season's sport, of the people Is perfectly startling. In and for the sake of sold long syne, we u'ow'in ptWbeMfoo cf a von.pteU exiriUt’ this respect, as the monuments yet re three, no more, mind you, drop business of Kirtland warblers -male, female, ■nalning Abundantly prove, they stand and forget we have reached the meridi nest and egg—the only oomplete col alone and wltlwut a rival. We may an of life and live over the days of our lection in the Upited Htates. This rare form aome idea of the almost incred youth while we catch the trout -the bird was discovered in 1841. ible waste when we hear that 2.000 men were occupied for three yeara In daintiest, gamiest fish that swims— The mineral resources of Manchuria, carrying a single stone from Elepban- along I be hue of the California North tlne to Sala, that the canal of the Red western Railway.” When the trio sep as shown by tbe surface scratching that sea alone coat the lives of 120.000 arated they had all the plans made for has been done, are simply stupendous. Egyptians and that to build one of the the coming spring vacation; what they As a wealth giver It may send more to pyramids required the labor of SOO.isiO would take, even to the sportsman’s BL Petersburg for the next half century men for twenty yeara. unfailing remedy for imaginary snake than India will to L indon. bites. A whole demijohn, they de A Remarkable River la Simla. In a fortnight’s fishing on Oulton There Is in Spain a river calk’d tin clared, was needed. Howl ye winds, Tinto, which has very extraordinary come down In copious showers ye Broad, Butfolk, England, a lady and qualities. Its waters, which are n< rains, filling the streams with your her husband landed 25.3» roach between yellow as a topaz, harden the sand and crystal waters, for they will dream of them. _ _________ petrify It in a most surprising manner It is natural for a woman to love fin what is to be until your tempestuous If a stone falls Into the river and res,« ery. To display this love is unnatural, upon another they both liecotne per mood is past and the willow buds and fectly united nnd conglntlnnted In a sweet May flowers herald the time for and spoils tbe effect of both tbe woman year. It withers all the plants on It- thereallxstion of the fisherman's dream. and tbe finery banks as well as the roots of tree A designing woman mutilates Na Some of Polly’s correspondents have which It dyes of the same hue as Its long lieen silent, but a letter came to ture’s liest design. .waters No fish live tn Its stream. ANCIENT FISH CURES MEDICINAL VIRTUES THAT USED TO DECK THE FINNY TRIBE. Fersb Was Valae4 la Germany For Ita Cora«*»» Hroerrtlrs. aa4 Carn Was Hsl4 I* High Eoteom la 014 Eaalaa4—The I’hyolelaa at Flake». Fishing literature prior to the days end writings of Ixsak Walton opens up points of interest which are unique. Not tbe least Interesting are tbe con stant refenmees of the early writers to the medicinal virtues of fish. Of course many of the salt and fresh water fish es mentioned by tbe old writers are not recognized in the waters of today, but tbe fresh water perch, carp, tench and eel are yet recognised, and It is in connection with these fish that aome of tbe quaintest Ideas aa to their me dicinal virtues have prevailed. The Germans have a comparative proverb which says, “More wholesome than a perch of the Rhine,” and It la certain that front the earliest times this famllliir fish has been esteemed as one of the best gastronomic produc tions of fresh water. It baa also been ascribed medicinal virtues. Gesner says that physicians value tbe perch so much that they recommend It to be freely eaten by wounded men. women In childbed and those suffering from dangerous fevers. Aldrovandus praises it and mentions that tbe two otooliths ("round bonea”) found in the bead of tla» perch are marvelously good for stone In tbe bladder. That tbe carp waa esteemed In olden times In England la certain. Dame Berners, writing in her quaint “Trea- tysee of Eyssbyuge Wyth an Angle,” published in 1496. says, “Tbe carpe be a deyntous flsb. but there ben few In Englonge.” Being “deyntoua”—1. e., “dainty”—It must have been a good fish nt that time to eat. It baa certainly lost Its character since then. In the art of beallng the carp plays a respectable part. One old writer speaks of the fat of tbe carp as being of mi raculous power for the alleviation of "hot rheumatism.” The manner, of its application was by frequent rubbing on the painful part, and the effect was said to be eminently mollifying and salutary. Ths triangular bones In the throat of the carp on being ground to powder and applied to a wound or bleeding nose were said to act as styp tic. The gall was also said to have been used for sore eyes, and "above the eyes.” says an old iKsculaplus, "two little boues exist, semicircular In shape, which are diligently preserved by noble females against the lunatical disease.” In the “Haven of Health” carp are also comprised In "the ten sortes of flsche which are reckoned as principal In the preservation of health,” and, adds the quaint old writer, "this fish is of great wholesomeness and great value, and Its tongue Is very pleasant to carping ladles.” A kind of first cousin of the carp is what Is known as the barbel. Such ancients as Juvenal, Albertus and oth ers of that Ilk evidence that it was known and esteemed by the Roman gourmet.' I’lutarcb mentions a curious fact tn Its natural history. Dr. Bad- ham In bls "Prose Haleutics” trans lates this passage as follows: “The roe of the barbel Is very poisonous. Anto nio Gazlus took two boluses and thus describes his sensations: ‘At first I felt no Inconvenience, but some hours hav ing elapsed I began to be disagreeably affected, and as my stomach swelled and could not be brought down by anise and carminatives I was soon in a state of great depression and distress.’ ’’ It appears that his countenance was pallid, like a man in a swoon. Deadly coldness ensued, and violent cholera and vomiting came on. Tbe barbel (Barbus vulgaris* of today has survived such poisonous qualities. Its flesh has tbe taste of stewed white blotting pa per, and its roe is as Innocuous as bread pills. All the same, good Julyana Berners shared the bad opinion of the earlier writers. She says: “The barbyll is a swete fish, but it Is quasliy mete and perylous for mannys bodye. For comynly be ynyth an introduction to ye febris (fever), and if ye be eten rawe he may cause of mannys detlie whych hath often beene seene.” The tench which lias been Introduced Into aome parts of this country Is an olive greenish carp which has been for long time termed in England tbe “phy sician of fishes.” According to a score or more of authorities, ancient and modern, tbe thick slime with which it is covered exerts beallng effect on all wounds or diseases in which It can come in contact on or in other fishes. Whence this belief originated Is not known, but one instance of exact ob servation is well worthy of credence. Mr. Wright in bis book on "Fishes and Fishing” tells bow a minnow acciden tally hooked in tbe water of an aqua rium In which It was swimming, on breaking loose. Immediately descended three parts of the way down the wa ter and swiftly approached Its nose to the side of the tench which was its companion in the aquarium. It rub bed its nose for a few seconds against the tench and then again swam about ns lively as before. To this testimo ny Mr. Wright adds: “We (my friend and I who Were watching tbe perform ance) were both of tbe opinion that It Is really no fable as to the tench being tus-Aise-jtlap-!«" Ashes»-for b«w was an example before our eyes of a fish being wounded and Immediately In stinct directing it to seek a remedy.” One piscatorial truth Is known to all who fish for pike or pickerel. Tbe pike (esoxluclus) will ravenously seize as his prey the fry of almost every fish. Including his own species, and all the bait minnows are also caviare to him, but he will not touch tbe tench.- Brooklyn Eagle. Rs Nee4e4 Eneewrasement. "Do you try to be contented with poverty, injr man?” asked the rich donor. "I'm afraid not.” answered the hard up delinquent, “but Just try me with riches and see how contented I'd be.”— Chicago Record-Herald. Dowa a»4 Ost. Upton—8ay. Isn’t that richly dressed woman across the street your cook? Suburb—No. We did make our home with her for awhile, but she discharged us last week -Buffalo News. A FAMILY QUARREL. HISTORY OF THE ANCHOR. tirlua» lassroveaseate That Mavs Bora MaSo la Its Sha»e. The ships' anchors In general used up to tbe beginning of the last century consisted of a lung, round irou »hank, having two comparatively abort, straight anna or flukes. Inclined to tbe shank at an angle of about 30 degree» and meeting it in a soiuew hat sharp point at tbe-crown. In large anchors the bulky woodeu stock was built up of several pieces, hooped together, tbe whole tapering outward to tbe ends, especially ou the aft oA*cable side. About tbe beginning of the last cen tury a clerk in tbe Plymouth naval yard, Bering by name, suggested cer tain improvements, tbe most important of which was making tbe arms curved instead of straight. At first sight this simple change may seem of Little value, but consideration will show that thia is uot the case. Tbe bolding power of an anchor depends on two principal con ditions—namely, the extent of useful holding surface and tbe amount of vertical penetration. Tbe latter qual ity Is necessary on account of tbe ua- ture of ordinary sea bottoms, the sur face layers of which are generally less tenacious and resisting than is the ground a short distance below. In the year 1831 chain cables began to supersede the hempen ones, with the result that the long shanked an chors hitherto in vogue were no longer necessary, and anchors with shorter shanks and with heavier and stronger crowns gradually came Into use. in consequence of these changes a com mission was appointed in tbe year 18.38 to inquire Into the holding power of an chors, and a principal result of its la bors was the adoption of tbe so called admiralty pattern anchor, which con tinued to be used in tbe navy up to the year 1860. The Invention of tbe steam hammer in 1842 made tbe welding of heavy masses of iron a comparatively easy and reliable process, so that from this time onward the strength of an chors fully kept pace with that of the chain cables which had come into gen eral use. A number of patents for anchors were taken out prior to tbe great ex hibition of 1851, and. public attention having been called to the models there shown, in the following year a commit tee was appointed by the admiralty to report on the qualifications of anchors of the various kinds. Practical trials were then Instituted, and as a result Trotman’s anchor took the highest place, Rodger’s anchor being »wild ou the list. Some of tbe tests to which the anchors were submitted were of doubtful value, such, for instance, as "facility for sweeping.” Nowadays, however, at all events for deep ships In shallow harbors. It is considered an advantage for an auclior to offer us lit tle obstruction as possible above tbe ground.—Science Siftings. AN IMAL LANGUAGE. Soo»*» Both Shrill o»4 L ow We Cannot Hear. That Most people suppose a mole to be dumb, but it is not. A mole can give a sound so shrill that it hasn't any effect on tbe human ear at all and an other sound so low and soft that no human being can hear It Yet a wea sel can hear both these sounds as plain ly as you can the report of a gun. and a sound registering machine—tbe pho- nautograpb—will show them both, with scores of other sounds you aremeaf to. Tbe usual note of the mole Is a low pur, which it uses a good deal while at work underground, and It can also shout at the top of its voice if hurt or alarmed; but, though It shouted and purred in your ear, you wouldn’t hear it. The sound register, however, with Its delicate pencil that marks the vol ume of sound on a paper, gives tbe quality of both sounds. A weasel, too, which is one of the mole's enemies, can hear these sounds through a couple of inches of earth and often catches the mole when he throws up bis hillocks of earth. Tbe common field mouse, too, has a pur that is altogether beyond yon, though you can hear him squeak plainly enough If be Is hurt. A death's bead moth, too, can squeak, but that is done by rubbing his wings together and is not a voice at al). But the champion of all creatures for good bearing and one that can bear a sound that is over 100 degrees beyond your own limit Is the common thrush, and you may often amuse yourself by watching him at it. He can bear a lobworm moving underground, locate him by tbe noise and haul him out. Often you may see a thrush stand perfectly still on your lawn, cock bis ear and listen Intently, then make a couple of steps and haul out a fat lob worm. Even the starling, which la about tbe size of a thrush, cannot do this, but he knows tbe thrush can. and. being a disreputable person, with no common honesty, be follows the young thrushes about on their worm hunts and steals the worms from them as soon as they are caught—London An swers. Caws* For Rejoleina. Its Droll Ko4la* After the Shelley Ha4 InterSoreA. CHOICE Tor* In bls "Rossetti Papers" William Roeaettl says that when Shelley was staying In the villa of the Gisborne» a moat droll incident occurred. It ap peers that his servants, Giuseppe aud Annunziata, who were man and wife, quarreled, and Shelley, bearing Giu seppe abusing bls wife very savagely and also 111 using her, rushed upon him With a pistol, shouting: "I'll shoot you! I’ll shoot youf Tbe startled fellow ran for his very life, Shelley after him, till tbe servant, coming to a shrub bery of laurels, managed to slip under them, Shelley, In his eagerness, dartLig past him. Tbe servant in a few mlu- utes found It possible to dodge back Into tbe bouse unperceived. Shelley, seeing him no more, at last went back to the bouse, where, to bls unutterable surprise, be found Giuseppe and Au- uunzlata sitting together in the meat amicable manner, addressing each oth er as “caro” and “cariealma.” "Bui were you not quarreling even now?" exclaimed the perplexed poet “Quar reling?'' gasped Giuseppe in amaze ment. "No. alguor, we never quarrel ed.” "But I have been running after you In order to shoot you.” "No, si gnor. you never ran after me, for I have been sitting here for the last hour or more. You must have fancied all thia." And Giuseppe and Annunziata, who had both been considerably frightened, continuing to assure him that they luid had no quarrel, aud Mary Shelley, whom they had let into tbe secret, say ing the same, Shelley was at last utter ly mystified and inclined himself to be lieve that he must have fancied it. Excessive Energy. Energy is a fine thing, but, like steam, It needs a little restraint and careful guiding. If the safety valve doesn’t work there's likely to be a breakdown or a blow up now and then The nervousy, fidgety womau is a dreadful bore. She ruffles up the at mospbere and makes everybody wish she would take a vacation and rest up like sixty. Some of those people who fly around tbe fastest do the least work, and tbe proper thing to acquire Is balance. Work as hard as you want to, but let up wheu tbe moment for letting up arrives. There is a limit to human endurance, and when you go beyond tbe limit you never get back into the valve of strong endurance and fine vitality. It is the man or tbe wo man who knows bow to work and how to rest who gets things done all fine and shipshape aud without tearing the roof off its feet. These remarks may be blunt, like a chisel, but they're as true as the fact that tbe Lord made lit tle apples.—Chicago Record-Herald. 044 Street Manses. In Clerkenwell, England, there is a street called l’lckled Egg walk. It takes its name from Pickled Egg tav ern, which formerly stood there and made a specialty of serving pickled eggs. An interesting London thorough fare is Hanging Sword alley, which is mentioned in Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities.” London has also Pickleber- ring street In Leicester is a street called the Holy Bones and another called Gallows Tree Gste. Hull has a street with tbe extraordinary name, the Land of Green Ginger. Corydon has a street named Pump Pail, and there some years ago lived Peter Pottle, a dealer in furniture. The most daring of farce writers might well have heal fated to invent a combination of name and address so improbable as that which really belonged to Peter Pottle •if Pump Pall. MISCELLANY Janna's Smart Set. The smart set in Japan does not know ita own mind. Tbe Japanese are urn* gant enough to prefer their own lusti tutious to those ot other countries At tbe same time they wish to Jolu the great powers, and to do this they mu accept tbe fashlous of tbe Luted wet. for in tbelr hearts tbe Japanese do hat<- tne west, tliough they are sharp euou_ to see that uo nation which does u>- wear trousers can be a great pow. .- So lu Japan there are two smart se the breeched and tbe uubreecbed. an . as there are many Japanese who pra tier several religions so are there man., who live two lives. The official smart set. tbe set wb: embraces ambassador» and eal>i' ministers and iHiliticlana and c. servants generally, wear trousers :: public. But follow home the irninai i 1st“ field marshal or |s>inpous cour' aud within five minutes you will him minus breeches or kn«e bree. and comfortably enveloped In u I;, no, probably squatting on the tl The Japanese who wear European d do not like to wear it. On tbe contra v they are anxious to lie rid of It us i fat woman of her stays. Those who know tbe court <m would Imagine Japan to be far in. forelgnlsed than it really Is. Tbe gi politicians and a few other great ■> > blemen live in foreign bouses, iue f elgn furniture, give dinner parties the foreign style, eat with knives i forks, sit on chairs nnd dress 1 Christians In Sunday attire. Then. I have said, the emperor requires ti European dn-ss be worn at his gar.' parties, of which be has at least lx every year, a cherry.blossom party a*. ‘ a chrysanthemum party. -Smart Set S|»aalsh WUar4rg. Madrid society is Just now enchanted with the details of a ease of nui^ic. The practitioner Is a woman whose specialty was “removing” by incanta tion porsoiiH in whose disappearance her clients were Interested. High dames of the aristocracy resorted to her in the dead of night for blood curdling rites, such as "black masses'' conjuring up the devil, who appeared as a black billy goat with flamboyant horns, and In a general way the witi h played old Harry at stiff rates. Dur ing her incantations a wax figure was used to represent •the ohuoxlous per son. Some of her dupes at last com plained of tbe high fees paid for mag- leally small results, and a detective’s wife was sent to have her husband conjured away. All went amazingly well, but just at the awful moment, when tlie enchantress was busy with a Hecate's brew of bacon fat and other ingredients, with a shirt of the doomed man stetqted in them, the police burst in. Next day "the devil” was found quietly browsing in the gurden. and it has since l»een ascertained that tl e "flamboyant horns” were the result of phosphorous treatment.—Ixmdon Globe. Antlqnltr of "Looplna the Loop." There is nothing new under the sun. That apparently up to date method of Illustrating centrifugal force known as “looping the loop” was practiced, it seems, as long ago as tbe first liajf o( the last century. A French Journal ascribes its Invention to M. Claviere of Havre. At first tbe car that did the "looping” bore nothing but bags of sand, but soon a passenger made tlie venture, nnd in ltLKt tlie sport was a prominent feature of tlie performance at the Paris hippodrome. Apparently, however, It was reserved for this coun try to throw tbe sport open to the pub lic, as wus done at Coney Island, and later to produce a performer daring Tl»e Labor of a Wateh. The little balance wheel of a watch enough to make the trip on a hh-yi-le. ribrates five times per second, lmng In spite of this long record the feasi Ine that this wheel. Instead of swing bility of tbe loop trip with a ear run ing back and forth like a pendulum, nlng on rails was denied Severn) years should roll on continuously over a given ago In a technical Journal on the surface. Its circumference in a gent I ■ ground that the necessary initial speed man's watch of ordinary size Is two could not be obtained.—Success. and a quarter Inches, and it makes a Rever»e4. sweep in each direction of about three- A wealthy golf enthusiast obtained fourths of its circumference. In other words, it would traverse in one second permission from a farmer to use a a distance measuring about eight and meadow for bls hobby. There he laid a half Inches. According to this com out links, and Hmong the players were putation, tbe balance wheel of a watch some ladles. A servant on the farm would travel in a year over a distance scandalized by the sight of tall, athlet- of 3,677 miles in round numbers, and lc girls In scarlet coats, armed with it would take tbe little wheel Just six iron hoofed clubs, striding over the years eight months to circumvolve the fields, one day reported to Ills master: globe by way of tbe equator. "Thein girls In the meadow scare our cows.” Breaking a Wishbone. The farmer shook his head sadly The dlvioing rod Is a feature In all while he uttered this profound remark: early mythology, especially so among "Ah, Thomas,” said he, “times Is tbe Hindoos. As the forked branch or changed since we were young! Used a tree It Indicated In various parts of to be the cows which scared the gals!” Europe, Asia and ACsica where trees —Ix»ndon Tlt-BIts. ures were hidden or where water might be readily found. From tbe forked Newspapers In Esrpt, branch of a tree It was but a step to In no country has the spread of Jour the forked clavicle of a bird, and this nalism during the last half century bone was soon invested with the power been more marked than in Egypt. One of securing the gratification of tbe hundred and twenty periodicals are wishes of those who in breaking It re now published there, of which eighty- tained the forked part, for it was the seven are printed In Arabic, numng the fork that was possessed of mysti< latter being thirty political Journals, power. seventeen story papers, ten religious magazines, seven legal Journals, five Economical In Theory. medical Journals, two agricultural pa Hill—I supt*ose my wife is the urnsl pers, two women’s papers, one Journal economical woman that ever stepped. devoted to Freemasonry and two coni Dale-So? ic Journals. Many of these Journals are Hill- Yes; she never spends money very well printed and have a large clr for anything that she does not say site culatlon. win neve I? In something else. Dale—And does she? Srssboltsm In E*vs. Hill—Well, you see, we never have Among the euriosltles recently ac got so fsr as that yet. But it Is the , quired by the department of Egyptian , principle I was talking about-Boston and Assyrian anM'jultlw, In the. Rritl«li Traiisc.ipt ' museum Is an -ostrich egg pierced for suspension and covered with traces of She Gaoase4 Right. "Did the spiritualistic medium tell a painted design, probably of n pre you anything that was true?” asked dynastic period. According to tbe ex perts of the department, this egg 1« the willing believer eagerly. i certainly nearly 6,000 years old. as tlie “ Oh, yes." replied the hard beaded In 1 design will made not later than 4.000 dividual. B. C. The egg of tbe ostrich Is said ••> "And that wa«”— “That 1 spent my money foolishly, have possessed some religious signifi which was right. You see, 1 had p»l<l es nee even tn tbe predynastlc period — to hear her tell me that.”—Cincinnati Ix>ndon Globe. Times-Star. Judge Shaw, in his latter days was reverenced by the people of Massa chusetts as if he were a demigod, but In his native county of Barnstable lie was reverenced as a god. One winter when the supreme court Lc-id a special session at Barnstable for the trial of a capital case Judge Merrick, who was one of tbe Judges, came out of the courthouse Just at nightfall, when the whole surface of the earth was cover ed with ice and slush, sllpiwd and (ell heavily, breaking three of bls rilis. He was taken up and carried to bls room at the hotel and lay on a sofa waiting for the doctor to cotne. While tbe judge lay groaning and In agony the old janitor of the courthouse, who had helped pick him up. wiped off the wet from bls clothes and said to lilm. "Judge Merrick, bow thankful yon must be it was not the chief Justice?' Poor Merrick could not help laughing, though bis broken ribs were laceraing Dollghtfal ProoFOee. his flesh.-George F. Hoar tn S< rib "Do yon.” said tbe learned couus‘1 neris. _________ “swear that you will tell tbe troth the whole truth and"— I* De>oa4s. “Oh, how lovely!” the fair wltm» Floorwalker—Vases? Yes. ma'am. Right up thia aisle. Bargains from 25 interrupted. "Shall I really be sHowi* to talk all tbe afternoon if I want to'-' cents up. Next Shopper—You have a display of -Tit Bits. ▼awses today? Oood money is faithless. It leaves .i. 8a me Floorwalker-Vs wees? Yes. madam. Down tbe next aisle, please. almost as soon as we get It. Bad mon ay, however, sticks by us to tbe bltt<-’ Bargains from $25 up.—Exchange. «ML—Baitlawra American. Wen* Her Oas Better. “1 never saw you In such a becoming bat, my dear. Did you get It ready Made?” •I was just thinking how unusually Iretty yours looks. Did you make ft yourself?"—Brooklyn Life. ■aw I* Was Done. "I thought Mias Fumplelgh figured •n marrying Jack.” "8o she did, but another girl with ■ors money outflgured her.”-Smart •st