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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.
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'•‘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.
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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