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I BAMNiX REt ORDER. $ P oll » L arkin ANIMALS WITH HANUb ▼»• t«» •» Ik. »•••• la < *■»»>!■» haiwl* 4 lu put It to I* 1 Mr fw kg« «FH *» • » to <•* hi n Mt llwf ttey *• !*» •f Hlf M l>|r»* a iMFg»? bin»« b of W »« iietHbh» provi'hiL’r i’ll DL»» • l»»l It In tbf'if I ihim I m I o »'»it. »*-W th» /$»< tug kAhtfMroo, l«N>k P’l»« i'Mf< h»*W OIH* »•f t|$* IM !*•»» »»■it whhh tho ohi <»!»•’ im I II»* pitlr ru«/ I m * M Pii »*<!< h H • m I m J Iwhl Ih th« lr hlbhllhg "oh«* Roor" Lfi h'Lt, * »1»*, *» U» Ml««.«* tl*e <rfl,«-r Ir» **All«1.* Iri Wonder land' II»' lizard I. niVnys making fades on n alni» ami 11»*» trying I» i*«il» II**»» out «igniti will* 1*1. fliig«'rs Maliy ltaar«ls' f«-**l are so Ilk» liamla timi It la rullici surprising II ih I liny nr«' only N inm I for rqnnlng nini «limbing. Hilt that la th*' malti purpose to which lizards »1*1*1/ them Tim alow, dellb- «•rat«' * lasping mol um-biaplng of « elmmelcon's fii't look Ilk«* th» IllOVe- metila wlihh tin* limnla of n sleep Walker might inali» w«r» l»> trying to creep «town III«' l»a»ilalar» Tn** el****,,«, 1«.oil's nr» alinont ili forriiiil limala, yet Hwy Itavi' a «•»•rtnlffi aitp«*rflclal renenr- lilmni' to flii- feet of tlii' parrots, which inori' Itimi other birds us» tin' foot for mmiy of III. purposes of a limai when feeding To »•••• many of th» amnllcr rodent» ground nqiilrri'la, prairie «toga mid mur inola bolli tlielr forni. usually In l»»tli pawn, In to learn a lenaou In the «lex- •/"■i/ua line of limidn without thumbs. Itili, aim .... . not. uh a rule, “clineh" what they hold, tint merely support It In their pawn, the move ment» tieliiK much lena human than they appear Nolblng more readily sug genia the nioiiirntary Impression Unit a pretty little monkey in remotely “a num and a brother” than when he stretches out hla neat little palm, tin gerà mid thumb, mid with all the move ments proper to tlie civilized mode of greeting inalata on shaking hands. But no one feels in the leant inclined to grasp the clawed digits of any of the rodents which use their paws to hold food. They are only "holders,” not bunds. London Spectator. M»* R’W'fUr llkwir HM SECRETS OF SUCCESS. I'usli, said the button. Never be led. said the pencil. Take pains, said the w indow. Always keep cool, said the ice. Be up to date, said tlie calendar. Ito business on tick, said tlie clock. Never lose your head, said the barrel. Never do anything offhand, said tlie glove. Doing n driving business, said tlie hummer. Be sharp In all your dealings, said the knife. Trust to your stars for success, said the night. Spend much time in reflection, said the mirror. Make much of small tilings, said the microscope. Strive to make a good impression, said the seal. Find a good thing anil stick to It, said the glue. Turn all things to your advantage, said the luthe. Make the most of your good points, said the compass. Pittsburg Dispatch. All That VV iin Liickin«, lie hud been away on a business trip for quite a long time and had brought his wife a handsome fan upon Ilia re turn. “You're Just perfectly lovely, Fred," she said. "It's the daintiest and most beautiful fan I ever saw.” “I'm glad you like It,” he returned, with evident gratification. "How could I help liking anything so pretty?" she asked, and then she milled with a sigh, "I only wish I could carry It some time.” “Why can’t you?” he demanded. "No gown to go with it,” she answer ed promptly. "There ought to lie a gown to match or at least one that wouldn’t look shabby beside it if" She got tlie gown, lie kicked him self for two days and ever therenftei bought fans to match w hat she already had.—New York Tillies. Rnnciinmi and Henley, It Is related that shortly after Ilunci man, the well known writer on senfar ers and smugglers and poachers, had bitterly fallen out with W. E. Ilenley he lay dying In Imndon. To Henley In Edinburgh, lame and III, came an In direct message that Ilunciman believed that if Henley could come and look on him he would get well. It was n d.v Ing man's whimsy, but Henley took the truln from Edinburgh and arrived In London to tlml Ills friend d“iid. A Modern Inatuncr. "In some circles of ancient miignlf, cence,” said the pedantic person, “It was customary to have a skeleton nt the feast.” "We follow that custom at our house," answered Mr. Meekton. "We have n turkey one meal and the skele ton f»t the «.til f-jur.’’- Exchange. Tipping thr Scnlea. "Confound It:" growled Closeman. "I dropped a dime In that weighing mil chine Instead of a penny.” “Ha, ha!” chuckled Ids buffoon friend. “I guors that’s when you tip ped tlie scale».”—Philadelphia liecord A Snltaffyln» Portrait. Mr. Bote -This portrait dis'sn’t look like my wife at all. Artist I know It doesn't, but it look« as she thinks she looks.—Judge. So strong Is Bank of England not, paper that a single sheet will lift a weight of ltMJ pounds. HllBKlns' ■«■■■■■«•■r. "Bllggins is very unfortunate in his love affairs." "Yea.” said the girl with yellow hair "You s*s.. Mr. Bllggins makes the great mistake of trying to converse intelli gently when he ought to lie simply holding hands and l<s>klng ns if he were »tu|s’fl«"l with joy.” Exchange. with her. It had a uew value. A few weeks after she came into the store with a well-dressed gentleman to pur chase the books she had sold me, and introduced him to me as her liusbaud. Hhe laid her happiness and change m fortune to my accidentally stumbling across that marginal note. It seem» they had iieeu lovers for years, ever since their schisil days. Then a fisdish misunderstanding separated them and he had taken this manner of |iatcbiiig up the difficulty. Net hearing from her iu a day or mi he had left town, be lieving his case was ho|ieletw, am! left no address so that lie could becommun- ieated with and her note of thanks for the gift came back to her. Two years after he returned and launched into business for himself and was successful. They hail never met, however, until she sent him a note, asking him to call. Explanations followed. As ‘all's well that ends well,’ their little romance may tend to make them all the more appreciative of each other. I could al most imagine my books of romance on the shelves shaking with excitement over this romance iu real life. If there is any place ia the world I ssrk lovers can lose themselves and re alize the truth of the old adage, “pro- eraetlnat on 1» the thief of time,’’ it is hi a «e< *ind liAii<i Issikstore where both new and "Id Issiks line the shelves and »very »vailal' e place is utilised by these f«lei"is of our lonely hours. < *ld Issiks, »ew t«s»k*, musty ls»>ks and dusty Issiks; histories, ancient and modern, biography and travels, gissl fiction and ba«l fiction; yellow dime novels con taining I i |< hs I and thunder stories that would make your bliss! curdle and bring visions at night, horrible, diabol ical and absurd; tragedy, |ss*try and religious Issiks well, in fact, Issiks of all descriptions, and many of them so old that a fabulous value is added to them on account of their antiq jity. I spent a couple of hours in one of these old Issikstores recently hsiking at the Issiks, studying tlie people coming ami going and talking to the gray-haired “Another little incident with its proprietor, who was a Issikworm of the pathetic side is the coming to this place old Ht'lltMtl. tmn, a«v tndavof an old vagrant. He "I've grown up in the Issik business,” was once a man in oonitortabto circum he said, patting an old volume In his stances, but misfortune overtisik him, hand In a caressing way which had and he sold bis Issiks one by one as he grown to tie a habit with him. “I was fell lower and lower in the scale of life, apprenticed to an old bookmaker in until now he sleeps any place where he London when I wasamereboy. After can lay his head, and if he has a 10-cent two or three years I was placed in meal a day be considers himself fortu charge of his musty little store on a nate. He brought the last of his Issiks back street, dimly lighted, but it just here once Just before lie went on a pro suited me, for when there were no cus tracted spree. 1 would not sell one of tomers to see alsiut buying or disposing th<»«e issiks for double its value, for this of their small libraries, for none of the [ssir old-timer comes in «line times large libraries to tie sacrificed ever found twice every «lay and on an average their way to the place of my ‘bon»,’ it twice a week and iuvariably says, was not up-to-date enough and was too ‘You haven’tsold them yet, have you’.” far out of the way, then my time was He knows where they are kept and he my own and 1 would sit and read iu goes back and spends the only decent the dim light until my body was so and comfortable time of his existence lienuinlied that I could hardly move with his old friends—hisIssiks 'I will without an effort. It made me old be redeem them some time if you don’t fore my time, for I had only a last" for have to sell them,’ he says when he the tietter class of Issiks and made them leaves the store. I would give them my companions until the Isiys of my back to him, but be would pawn them own age seemed frivolous and common the first spree he went on. I will not place in tsith their conversation and In sell one until after he is gone.’’ the sports that serve to make a growing Isiy healthy and strong. I see my mis BRIEF REVIEW. take to-day. A little more healthful and outiliair exercise would have lieen End of Women’s Paper. better. As it was, the life I led isolated The Fronde, tlie» Baris women’s daily me from the other boys and has left me really alone in the world. 1 shouldn't paper is no more After seven years’ say that, either, for my friends are le existence, lighting for the rights of gion. I.isik around you; on the shelves, “feminisin’’ it has ceased publication. on the tables, on the counters, the (rest, It has had an interesting career. When truest friends that man ever hail. You founded by Mme. Marguerite Durand, can differ with them, but they never who was formerly an actress at the answer back. You can argue your side Corned to Française, it was the butt of of the question pro and con, but they much ridicule on the boulevards and in journalistic circles, and was regarded as remain silent with their convictions in a joke; but it s < miu liecame clear that black and white. You are a privileged the paper had been started in real earn character. You can differ with them if you elionse, and they have nothing est. It was edited, composed and pub to say. I have I raveled over countries lished by women. Kven tlie ofttoe "boy” was a girl, and Hie printer’s I have never seen, and yet I believe I “devil” was of the gentler sex. The am more familiar with them and lietter only male person allowed in the estab versed in the habits of the people and lishment was a man who |s>lished the the characteristics of the country than office floor. Mme. Durand, in her last many persons who have lieen fortunate leader, claimed that the purpose for enough to visit them. 1 am acquainted which it was started had lieen served. with men of letters and the best and "Féminisme,” she says, “is now strong brightest people in the land. Many of enough to go along without further as the illustrious people who have gone sistance from the “Fronde.” Financial hence I have mourned sincerely and reasous, however, have probably some placed in my own mind a wealth of thing to do with the stoppage. The immortelles on their last resting place. editorial staff' has been taken over to by L’Action, the new anti clerical or "I have grown old and »toop-shoul- gan, and Mme. Durand becomes a co-di dered; my head is silvered and my eyes rector. are dim. 1 have few acquaintances outside of my lieloved Issiks,” he said Fuel in Switzerland. with a pathetic little wave of his All fuel used in Switzerland has to lie wrinkled hand. “I have lieen in this im|s>rted. This fact has induced the business in Kail Francisco for nearly Swiss Government to organize a bureau forty years. I have not grown wealthy of fuel testing, which will keep the peo you can rest assured, yet 1 have lived ple Informed on the thermal value of comfortably and liaveenough laid aside all fuel sold in the country. Coal will should anything hap|ien me to lay the lie graded in Switzerland hereafter by ‘old Issikworm’away. I have made all its heat-pnsluciiig value rather than by arrangements for that, even to the low weight. The testing station is to be at little slab of white marble witli an open tache«! to the Federal Poly technicuni. Issik resting on the top. Below the The little republic is, howevea, making inscription will appear, ‘Erastus B------ , considerable progress these days in tlie the Isiokworm.’ That is what they development of electric heat and jiower «•all me. Then, ’Dust thou art and to from its numerous Alpine water courses dust slialt thou return.’ That is just which w ill in time make an inroad, no what will hap|ien to Issiks and men doubt, on the coal im|sirts aliKc we shall return t<> dust. Ivory In Trade. "1 could tell you strange things in connection with this business that would interest you. For instance, a shabbily dressed little woman, but neat as a pin, came in here the other day to sell half a dozen Issiks One was a beautIful little Bible wrapped in tissue ;m|***r, ami it l*M>k«*«l like it had just come out of a store, it was so new look ing. It had the scent of lavender about it, too. She gave me the other Issiks-- |sietry, novels, and a volume or two ou iiavols ipd asked what I would give for them la-fore she handed out hsr lit tle Bible. The price evidently was not satisfactory, for she reluctantly t«iok tb<* white tissue paper from the sacred Issik and asked me if i would hold it a certain time and give her a chance to redeem it. I promised her to do this, and taking the Bible commence«! turn ing over the leaves, as I invariably do with any Issiks I purchase. On one of the n argins on a certain page was writ ten, ‘Issik on page so-and-so.’ She caught sight of the writing tlie same moment I did and took the Issik out of my hand ami turned it hastily to the page mentioned and found a note fas tened with a tiny pin to the page. It was a pro]H»al of marriage, and my fair customer noaooner rea«l it than she tainted dead away. 1 poured water on her head, held camphor under her nose and fanne«l her until she came out of the faulting fit, then she grasped the little note and read It over and over again. ‘Strange I never found this lie- fore,’ she said, as the tears ran down her cheeks. She took what was offered for the other liooks but carrie«! her Bible wrap|M*d in the tissue paper away The receipts of ivory at Loudon are slowly declining, while those oi Ant werp are rapidly increasing, although it is probable that the height of its trade will be reached before many years. Liver|ss>l cuts a small figure in com parison with its rivals, its receipts hav ing varied In the past nine years from thirty-two to sixty tons a year. The ivory reaching the British market comes from Zanziliar, Bombay, the largest sources of Its supply. Egypt, West Africa and Abyssinia, a very large amount also coming from Benguelaaml the t'at»e. About one-third of the Lon don ivory comes from the west coast of Africa ami Abyssinia, and the supply is decreasing. Paper Poles. Paper telegraph jsiles are one of the developments of the art of making pa per useful. The pa|>er polls«, now used to some extent in Belgium, are said to lie lighter and stronger than those of wood, and to lie unaffected by the sun, rain, dampness or any of the other causes which shorteu the life of a wood en pole. __________________ $ According to a recent census there are upward of «MM) Chinese in Johannesburg of whom IM) are in business. Al) are reported to do well. 'Hie United States lias 78,000 postof- aicea; Germany is next with 45,623, and Great Britain third, with 22,400. The soil of China is so rich that a s«|uare mile is said to tie ca[>able of sup porting a population of m*arly tout. AN OLD I 111 ill H BULL A ROYAL BOOK BUYER The IT CAME FROM • Ah' HANGS IN A NANTUCKEI CH* «CH. , Thr Slurp or Its >»r*k«o hr «'aptala «las hr aud its Traasaortailaa to Thia Coautrr—A terr Uood Clock aad a Verr Fiae Bril. •*■«<■•■•» •< DM»r»('a l.iarar» Catherlbe II. el llassia. Empress t'atberlue 11. of Russia was a great reader and a lover of books. One of her services to letters iu Russia was the purchase of the libraries ot Voltaire au«l Diderot She was a warm friend and admirer of these French philosophers, and their work interested her btH-aUS«* she was eager to leaim new theorlaxs o( polities ului goverinueut Voltaire's library of about 7.000 vol umes is now a part of the Russian Im perlal library lu the Hermitage palace, and iu the hall.devoted to it is Hou don’s statue of Voltaire. The story of Catherine's purchase ot Diderot’s library is interesting. It I* credit..ble to her tact aud her geiieros Ity. Diderot named £15,000 as th» prk-e of his library. Catherine II. of fered him £16,000 aud named as a con dltlon of the bargain that her purchase should remain with Diderot until hi» death. Thus Diderot, without leaving Paris, became Catherine’s llbruriau iu his own library. As her librarian he was given a yearly salary of £1.000. Due year this salary was ifltt paid Then Catherine wrote to her librarian that she could not have lilig or her 11 brary suffer through the negligence ot a treasurer's clerk and that she should send him the sum that she bad set aside for the care and lucreuse of liel library for fifty years. At the end ot that period she would luuke new nr rangements. A check for £25,000 nc «xnnpanied this letter. CURE TOR HICCOUGHS. Simple S«-I*-Hll»e Hemedr I hat Ulvee Immediate Helleff. Au attack of hiccoughs brings its vic tim less sympathy perhaps thau almost any other ailment, the main reusuu be ing that, except iu very rare cases. It is not attended with fatal results and that In moat cases It attacks otherwise healthy |>eraous. Still, it is one of the moat annoying aud mutt obstinate of difficulties. While the effort to cure It is being made it generally dlsap|»'i«rs. yet It resists tlie most vigorous effort of the wtll to control Its vagaries. A hiccough Is a quick. Involuntary, inspiratory movement of the dia pliragm. brought suddeuly to a stop by an iuvoluutury «liming of the glot tis. The muscles that coutrol these two |>ortlons of the human anatomy are Incessant workers. They wait on everybreath without being gulde«l by the ^d and even work while we sleep While they do their duty life passes, tranquil, calm and pacific, but If from any cauae a disturbing element enters into tlieir bailiwick they rebel, are be- yon«l tii«' control of the will and. hav ing no guide, as ft were, ruu away. ami. like any runaway, have no care for tlie damage done. The effort to remove the dlsturls-r Is the cause of Qfe hic cough. aud the following method of treatment arrests these muscles In tlielr wild esi-apade. brings them back to tbeir duties, and. like the patient serv ants they are. they resume their work ami life Is-eomes as placid as Is^fore: First, expel all the air from your lungs very, very quickly. The portton of the Issly they attend to Is, as It were, collapsed, and now commences the next and concluding part of the cure. Second, commence to fill your lungs with air, but do so very slowly, but steadily. Tucker your mouth, and If possible leave an o|>enlng of your lips no larger than n pin, mid through tills inhale the air. Fill your lungs, raise your arms and throw out your chest, and when you are full tha»e miistles resume their regular duties and the hiccoughs are gone.—Brooklyn Eagle. FACTS IN FEW LINES Farm hands in Norway re<-eive >lo to $8ti a year. Kansas City alone lias $30.000.600 In vest«*d tn Mexico. Tattooing Is now done with a ne«*dle driven by el«*«tricity. In New York city schools l.Otai chil dren have trachoma. The ty|>ewr!ter Is more largely used in Mexico than In FrOnce. More thau one-tbird of the luhablt ants of St. laiuls ate of Germau btood. The United Slates iini>orts of tropical and semltroplcal fruits $1,000.000 a day. In Sweden bricks are laid In zero weather by heating tlie sand for the mortar. Th«* denalty or relative population of Cuba Is nearly the same as that of the United States. Thirty seven per relit of the Ameri can |M*«>ple now live In cities of mor«* than 4.000 inhabitants. Panama ranks fifth In imputation and seventh In area among the states of the Colombian republic. The longest telephone wire span iti the world is 8.200 feet from pole t«J pole, spanning the Susquehanna at Lancaster, Pa. A child of live should weigh forty one |s>unds, b«* forty one and one half Inches iu height and have a chest girth of twenty three and one lullf indies. A small fraction of an ouuee of radl uui, pro|>«*rly employed, would provide a gissl light sutfii'ient for several nsims and would not require renewal «luring the present century. The baslii-bazouks are guerrillas from Asia Minor, are transported by the Turkish government to »«lies of trou ble and are then expected to make tliell own living from loot. The German state gives to oue uni verslty more than the British govern luent allows to all the universities and university colleges in England. Ireland and Scotland together. In the absence of horses both a plow and a mower were ustsl, tl«*<! behind his automobile, by Mr. Baser, an Ohio farmer. Th«* machine was gear«*«l too fast to give the best results. White farm labor is producing an in crbaslng proportion of cotton, and Hi" dictum that the negro is absolutely in dispensable for cotton culture is fast becoming a wornout tradition. Maximite, the composition of which is a government secret, is alsiut thre«* times as powerful as ordinary gun powder ami Is a powdery substance, melted by heat and pourisl into a shell While one rismi tenements in London have «leereastsl from 172.502 to Hit,524, or 14 per cent, three room and four room tenements have increased 16 per cent, 18 j>er cent aud 21 per cent re spectively. Some flowers appear to change their scents at different times. Tin* common Jasmine (towers, when tl^et o|«ened. have a delicate fresh perfume which after a time becomes grosser ami at tracts bluebottle flies. Advance reports Indicate that tin- re turns of tlie recent census of the Phil lpplnes, when tabulated, will show a population of 7,000,0«Bl, exclusive of tne wild tribes of the mountains, wltieii are «*stlmat«sl at less than n million. The coal handling machinery nt a Boston wharf recently lowered th«* World’s r******r«l l»y rnlntog VO11I fll.o* u steamer ninety feet to storage pockets at th«* rate of 320 tons an hour. The capacity of tlie shovel was two tons. The thin coat of black oxide left oil iron after rolling Is th«* most permanent form of Iron oxide, and a slight amount of rust do<*8 uot prevent paint from ad hering to trou. Therefore the theory that Iron must is* cleaned to a whit«' tturfare by sand blast or otherwise be fore painting seems untenable. The Prussian war department finds that in every 1.000 young men arriving at the nge of military duty sevent«*en nre suffering from heart disease. Strick ler, who baa been studying th«' subject, declares that the cause of the great prevalence 1s the Increasing degenera«')’ and nervousness of th«* youth of the land. Th«* Herman empr«*ss has expressed the desire thnt for th«' future till pieces lutendtsl for representation at tho court theater shall be submltttsl to her first, so thnt nothing may be playisl of doubtful morality or likely to shock the audience. Her majesty reserves the right of vetoing any play she may cbooae. The most wonderful bird flight not«s! Is the migratory achievement of the Virginia plover, which leaves Its north ern Iniunts In North America ami. tilk Ing a course down the Atlantic, usual ly from 460 to 500 miles east of the Bermudas, reaches the «srnst of Brazil In one unbroken flight of fifteen hours, covering a distance of 3,200 miles at the rate of four miles a minute. The great stute universities make tlie acquiring of an «slucatlon possible to any boy or girl who Ims suttleleiit nmlii tlon to apply It. Excluding the charges for trehnlcnl and professional depart tnents. Imtiaim and Kansas universi ties require no f«s*s. In Missouri there is an "entramv, laboratory and inci dental f«*e of $5.” Michigan. Iiesldi's matriculation and diploma fis-s. im poses an in«-ldental fee of $.'lo a year; Wisconsin, an incidental f«a* of $20; Illinois. $24. and Iowa, $25. Th«* new statistti-s show that w<* sold to «'anada In the naeai year $I2S.5«K>. 000 worth, buying from It but $55,<»»i, 000 worth. In the six years since «’an ada gave Great Britain tariff rates otie-thlnl less than that charged other countries Its lm|s«rts from the ( ninst States have almost doubled. Three- fifth» of the gotsls bought by Canada nre dutiable, and the average rate is 27 per cent. Therefore the charge against $100 worth of gotsls from the United States would be $27 und from Eugland $18. Beneath the outlook iu a Nantucket Church is the belfry, Iu which swings tlie old Spanish bell ” Knowing that this is now a Unitarian church, the vis itor will be surprised to 8«* a Catholic cross on th«* bell. If be could read Por tuguese and bud not previously ac quainted biu«»elf with the history of the bell be would be still more sur prised at the Inscription ou it. The translation of this Inscription la as fol lows: "To the G< mm 1 Jesus of the Moun tain the devotees of Lisbon direct tlielr prayers, offering Him one complete set of six bells, to call the people to adore bliu In Ills sanctuary. Jose Domingos Dacosta Ims made it In Lisbon lu the year 1810.” Of course the bell must have an Interesting history to account for this inscription. That history Is briefly as follows: A plague was riglng in Lisbon and certain people in fiat elty prayed to the Virgin Mary fo: the «x-saatlon of til«' plague .a nd t'i T»lace a set of ■la lu tlie «'«■¿tvb of the Goisl Jesus of tho Mountain if their prayers' were heaial. "The Mountain" Is the name of a certain district in the city of Lisbon in which there is a very ven erable church called as above. Shortly The Llterarr < hap la Flaaaee. after this the plague ceased, and, ac “I know a literary chap, good writer cepting this as the answer to their prayers, these devotees of Lisbon pro and all that, but with absolutely no business sense, who suddenly decided ceeded to fulfill their vows. The work the thing for hint to do was to sturt a of casting these six bells was intrusted bank account,” said the secretary of n to Jose Doming«» Dacosta, the best financial institution. “He came in to bell founder in Lisbon. The six bells had been cast, the mas see me about it. I nsked him liow ter’s labors bud been crown«?d with much he had. and lie said be had saved success, when Captain Clasby of the $59. I told him we rarely started •«•- Nantucket whaling tteet chanced to counts on such small deposits, but would make an exception In Ills case visit Lisbon. He bad long wished to to encourage thrift and school him in buy a bell for use In his native town. In company with Captain Cary be business. "He went through the preliminaries visited tlie bell foundry of Jose Do mingos Dacosta Captain Cary, it nervously, signed the signature curd, MAN AS SEEN BY NOVELISTS seems, was a coinoisseur in bells. Da put his money in and got a nice new costa applied the lever to one bell after bank liook. By that time he was all Su<-eess serves to sweeten the average another as he struck each to ascertain flustereii. They gave him a check book, man; unsuccess Is th«' heroical test of and he decided he would have to have Its peculiar tone or tone quality, but hens'S.—Eden i’liilpotts. each time Captain Cary said, "That some money for present use. Tlie re He who d'M'S gissl on the spur of the ceiving teller introduced him to the will not do." moment usually sows a seed of dissen paying teller, and he inquired tlie At last Dacosta raised and struck sion in the trench of time. Seton Mer the bell whose history we are describ procedure of checking out money. Tlie riman. paying teller explained at length. Then ing. Captain Cary was delighted with A woman without illusions is the the result. “Ah. Clasby,” he said, my literary friend went over to the dreariest and most difficult tiling to “you nix'd look no further. That's the desk and wrote a check for Ills entire manage possible. — Author of "Eliza bell you want. She is a beauty. She $59, got the money and went.out." beth and Her German Garden. sounds ou B." Have something to say; say it: atop Conipsratlv» A sm off Aulmsls. "Well, sir,” remarked Dacosta, "we Q. —What is the age of a field mouse? talking; give fools the first and women consider that t) be the finest bell that A.—A year. And the age of a hedge the last word; the meat’s always In the we have In our foundry.” middle of the sandwich.—G. H. Lori At first Dacosta demurred and could hog is three times that of a mouse, mer. and the life of a dog is three times not see his vay clear to selling the Happiness falls to our share in sep bell, since it belonged to the Bet of that of a hedgehog, and the life of a chimes designed for the Church of the horse is three times that of a dog, and arate detached bits, and those of ns Gissl Jesus of the Mountain and was the life of a man is three times that of who are wise content ourselves with appropriately Inscribed and all, but a horse, and the life of a gisise is three these broken fragments.- Beatrice liar- Captain Clasby would have no other. times that of a man, and tlie life of a raden. Noisy fellows are always w«*dded to Finally Dacosta decided, since the bell swan is three times that of a goose, hud not yet been conseerati'd and since and the life of a swallow is threii their own opinions, weak fellows to he could east another to take Its place, times tliat of a swan, and the life of the opinions of others. The perfect an eagle is three times that of a swal muff, conscious of ills intellectual tlnl- that it would be all right to sell. So <'«.|.t**0 «'lasbx >»<*iiaht the bell, low. and tlie life of a m-ris'iit is three tude. Is content with aspirations.—liar- and It was brought to Nantucket by ♦ 4Hiea tllHl of an Vngric, ni’tl tlxo life «*f old With men you must take your choice Captain Cary, whose vessel was going a raven Is three’times that of a ser home first. In Lisbon, Just before he pent. and the life of a hart Is three —liberty for your mind and a prison set sail, Captain Cary heard of the dec times that of a raven, and an oak for your body, liberty for your Issly laration of war with Great Britain, groweth 560 years and fadeth 500 and a prison for your mind. Nearly all for it was now the year 1812. On the years.—Philadelphia North American, people choose the latter. We know what becomes of the few who «to not. way over they were spoken by a Brit Sept. 13, 1803. —James Lane Allen. ish sloop of war. Fortunately the Brit D<>( anil Cat. isher had been at sea for some time The Tailor Blrg. Tlie effect of a dog on a cat’s tall is and had not yet heard of the declara The brilliantly plumed birds of the tion of war. "The commander asked well worth study. When a cat encoun tropical forests are exi*osed to many Cai»tiiin Cary the news, but Captain ters a strange dog the tall immediately dangers, and If they were not gifted Cary says he took especial pains not assumes an upright position, the back witli peculiar yet useful instincts they to tell nil he knew. If he had told, our becomes highly arched, ami the fur would fall ready victims to their ene precious bell would probably never stands out straight all over the body. mies. ('haltering monkeys and big have seen Nantucket. It might now be This sudden change dismays tlie dog. snakes steal and eat their eggs, while either at the bottom of the sea or it who brings himself to a halt, and the their offspring are preyed upon by might be swinging In the tower of two regard each other steadfastly. But if the dog should turn Ills gaze foes on every side. Hut it takes a sly some English church. monkey or snake to get ahead of tlie The bell was landed In Nantucket away for a fractior of a second there is tailor bird, a small East Indian sing and placed in the store cell*r of Sam a swish and a bound, and tlie ent lias ing bird. She hides her nest so skill uel Cary, where It remained until 1815. disappeared over a fence or up a tree. fully that her enemies cannot find It, when It was purchased and placed in Stimulated by the presence of a dog. no matter how hard they try. This the tower where It now hangs. About eats have been known to climb to such she <1«H'S by using her tong, slender heights that they were unable to de $500 was given for the bell the society bill as a needle. With the tough fiber paid about $350 and the rest was ralse«l scend the way they went up. of a parasite plant abundant In the by subscription. Even some Friends tro|«lcs as a thread she sews a dead TrannpRrent Salt. or Quakers subscribed. Some remarkable salt formations leaf taken from the ground to a liv After th«' bell had been in use a little ing one near th«* end of a Blender and while th«' agents of the historic Old are found extending for thirty miles banging branch, and between these along the Virginia river in Nevada. South church In Boston heard of It, and The salt forms mountains of crystal I leaves she builds her nest, where nei they sent u letter to the agents of the ther monkey nor snake can approach, South church in Nantucket, saying that and is so pure and clear that fine print | because the branch will not bear tbeir they had a very gissl clock in their can be read through n foot of It. This ; weight. tower, but no bell; that they hail heard region was evidently once occupied by that the South church In Nantucket a great salt lake, as close by arc some <>r«««v«k off (be Human Hear«. had a very fin» bell, and they would wonderful wells, one of which, seven A sclentlti«- analysis of the growth of ty five feet In diameter, contains wa like to know for how much the b«-ll the human heart demonstrates the fact ter so Intensely saline that n person could be bought. that the increase is greatest and most bathing there will float like a cork. The Nantucketers replied that they rapid «luring the first and second years had a very tine bell In their tower, but of life, its bulk at the end of the sec A Thrilling Slorr. no clock; that they had heard that the ond year being exactly double what It A gissl story is told of a stuttering originally was. Between the secoml Old South church had a very fine tower plebe at Annapolis who was ai-eosteil clock, ami that they would like to and seventh years it is again doubbsl by an upper « lass man and orderetl to ■ kuow the price of the clock. In size. A slower rate of growth then The agents offered to pay $1 a pound tell him a story and to “tell it quick." | sets In and continues during the («erlisl for the l>ell. Since the bell weighs The plebe started in as rapidly as Ills i of nviturtty of other portions of th«* 1,575 pounds, this would have made exclt«xl state of mind would permit body. After the fifteenth year up to the pri<?e $1.575, making a net profit of about as follows: “I-I-I-I—was w-w- the fiftieth the annual growth of the $1,075 above the price paid for the Iwll walklng down the road a n a l-l-little heart Is about .061 of a cubic Inch, and $1,225 above the amount contrib while ago—n-n-n-n I met-met met n-up- the Increase ceasing about the fifth-.li uted by the society. It seems that the per class man, n-n-n-n; he w-w-wns year. old Nantucketers must have had soiih - dandy f-fellow, n-n-n-n he slaptssl me The lilrda off Paradise. sentiment after all and were not purely on the b-b-back an' said, ‘Hello, old Probably no famous bird lias a small man!’ n-n-n I w as s-s so excitisl an’ mercantile In their spirit. er habitat than th«.* bird of paradise, If the Nantucketers had agreed to happy I-I-I-I fell «lend.” whose Is-autlful feathers are so highly sell, us tli. y might bare di»ne. our bell ^tatrlHn.lonl.rd. prized In the millinery trade. No on«- would probably be hanging In the his Some officers of a British ship were kmoXS Why lhe varLtlos of tills heati“- toric tower of Old South church In Boston today. That might have been dining with a mandarin at Canton | ful biril are confined to tin* Island of One of the guests wlshe«l for a si-cond New Guinea and the neighboring «-oasts ■ great honor for the bell, but It woiihl helping of a savory stew, which la- of Australia. There ar«* many other have bren n great deprivation for Nan thought was some kind of duck and ' Islands not far away where th«' <-on«ll- tucket. Moreover, It would now lie not knowing the word in Chinese, held tlons would m-i'm to be equally fa«or* •pending Its time In elegant leisure In his plate to his host, saying, with smil able to their existence, but they an* not stead of being a very useful bell where ing approval: found among them. It lk. The history of this bell is Ilk«1 a “Quack, quack, quack!" veritable parable of human life. The Ills countenance fell when Ills host, «■It» as •■tlaff.etorr. possibilities which occur In the history pointing to the dish, responded: “I want to ask you something. of the bell remind us of the posslbllltl«'« “Bow, bow. bow!”—New York News. Oracle," said the beautiful heiress. which a brand In every life.— Cor. “What is IL Duckie?” the «Ink«* In Springfield Republican. Verr Pathetic. quired. ... -w , “What can be more pathetic,” said “Would you object If I should request MotBiia* Do«e. In>p«a«teMt Waa«-altne Ass«niptt«in. "You know, they say money talks.” the sentimental woman, "than n man the minister to omit the word ‘ol»ey’ Mr. Ferguson Whose character Were from the service when we are mar you and Mrs. Tarrup discussing when suggested the woman with the sub who has loved and )<»t?” “ Well, ” replied the man of ex|«e- rtedt ’ scription paper, cheerfully. I came In? "Well, I never was any hand for ex riencc. "a fellow w ho has bet on a j “Certainly not. He can Just make It Mrs. Ferguson—What made you sure thing and l«»t cuts quite a figure i 'love, honor and auppig.’ ” — Chicago think we were discussing anylssly's travagant speeches,” replied the close In the pathetic line. ” — Chicago Itei-ord Record Herald. fisted mllllonalre.- gyracuse Herald. character? Herald. Mr. lergtffson—I notice«! you were •ebootbor De»nlfl«,na. I.a<-hrra>al Aaseliaratloa. And He Weeded It. Th«w are two sclioollioy definitions busily talking that’s all.—Exchange. "Toor thing! Did she take her hus a- - * Van Quizz - As for me, I would never lllustrattsl by sentencau: band's death much to heart?” As l«u«l. "Frantic mean» wild; I picked some “Why, she's prostrated with grlej! marry a brainy woman. "How much do you exper-t to spend Fitz Bile—Why not? There ought to frantic flowers.” She can’t' see a soul except the dress for your wife’s birthday present?" 6 be one set of bralna tn every family.— “Athletic, strong: the vinegar was maker.''—Town Topics. "Alsjut half as much as I shall.” New Orleans Times Ttemocrat. too athletic to use ” -Little Chronicle. Judge.
