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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.