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BANIK1N ItEiORDEIL I
my Imagination in the li-ar-t. I have
OMNIVOROUS MAN.
Uiw «Oit OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES CHOICE MISCELLANY
lieen making investigations and every
Helltile* Are Calea With Fsaerue**
4 Modern Fable.
where tfie truth is corroborated by the
Uncle Sum’s annual Income 1* $558.
Odd Fact* About Caaeer.
All Over «he World.
Ttig Jiiry having returned a verdict 8S7.14S.
assertion that the vice dore exist to
Mr. H. O. I’lUmuer quote* the re
Reptiles are eaten with eagerness all of guilty against a 11W11 on trial for
more or less extent and fortunately it over the world. Neither waut of beau
Florida'* orange und pineapple crop markable case of the town of Luckau,
TOLECO BLADfcS.
stealiug sheep. 111* lawyer area» and I* estimated at $2.5OU,(MM).
9
is confined to o*)y a few.
a place with 5.000 Inhabitants. 3.000
ty uor abumJeiK-e of veuwtu protect» said to the court:
V*SM Of «toiler« M«l.e No« < »»ipar«
The crystal palace tower at the 8t. being boused in the central part, or
them from ouinh'oreus man. Although
“May it ple»*e ynmr honor, 1 ask to
»ble VAIlh «lie Aar'lea* line*.
town proper, and l.Otio in each of the
“We have laws for pure food, pure they suggest t* us |>y torrn and motion quash ull priMredings on the ground of Loot* fair will lie 1,050 fret high.
Toledo blade a«» still made 111. the
I note wb«*e tlie Mayor of Oakland milk, etc. Why wouldn't laws for a all that is false and unfair, hideous defective Information. While my client
The laipulation of luitidon bus In two suburlis which flunk It east and
wovernmeut
tai'toiy. but those is taking step* t<»wur<?a very ms-i-snary
west. From 1S78 to 18U8 the deaths
pure language not weakemsi or empha and horrid, even God's curse of tlie ser admits stealing twelve lambs, lie has creased 11 per cent in fourteen years.
modern production do not compare
pent does not shield II and from the lieen charged with the theft of twelve
More poisonous snakes are found in from cancer numbered one out of 25.30
reform,
that
is
the
suppresHion
of
»wear
sized
by
oaths
or
slang
be
g<**i
as
well,
*ltb tlie ancient work. It srema to be
bumble frog of the ponl to the colossal
Arizona than In »uy other part of the for the entire town, one out of nine for
» lost art. The genuine Tolido blades, ing. Have you ever noticed how com and at the same time make a law to crocodile of Egypt they are all only so sheep. A lamb is not legally a sheep,
the eastern suburb, and in the western
United States.
made by the Moors, were so elastic and mon the habit of sw earing has become? prevent jieople from ex|>ectoratmg on much food for men. Old Mexicans your honor."
suburb there was not a single case. The
-Most
reptiles
are
notoriously
deaf,
ex
“
Y'our
point
is
wej^
taken,
”
replied
You
cannot
walk
down
the
street
be
the sidewalks of the streets? Physi
Sough that they could be curhd up like
bouses were similar In size and ar
loved the qieckled salamander and ate
• watch spring. You can see them in hind two men fora block without hear cians acknowledge that consumption is It with Spanish ¡s-pper. The Spaniards the Judge after reflection, "and 1 will cept cayman* and crocodiles. The boa rangements. The soli of the main town
aeems
absolutely
bo .
give
the
prisoner
the
benetlt
of
the
«tie armory at Madrid, but only ordi ing isiths rolling glibly from their contagious and are careful in every
and eastern suburb was moist and lay
learned the odd fasliioi. and the habit
British Columbia has produced $1N!>.
nary sword* and bayonet* for the mouths and for no rhyme or reason cam- that comes under their treatment lias not entirely died «ut. Vipers are technicality' 1 was Intending to sen-
low. That of the western suburb was,
terns', him to the penitentiary for two 728.53N worth of gold and $58,tW,572 eu the contrary, sandy, dry and elevat
army are made there today. The secret w hatever except the abominable habit to have tile expectorations of consump
a favorite dish with Ittllans. The liz years, but will change It to the »tute worth of coal and coke.
aeems to have been forgotten. The they have allowed themselves to culti
ed. There was a large ditch which en
tive patients burned, as therein lie the ards of this continent «re a most deli prison for the same term. While a
Of ull the larger ciUea of the country
steel came from England. It I* the
cate dish, and the Iguanas of the An lamb Is not a «beep, neither is a state Chicago has the lurgest pro|>ortion of circled the central town and the east
vate
until
it
has
liecdme
second
nature.
germs
of
disease.
Yet
day
after
day
same as Is used for ordiuary purposes,
ern suburb, not touching the western
tilles were carried to Siuth Carolina In
mules In Its total |*>pulatlon.
ami. as In Ja¡iun, where the art reach There are a few exceptions, of course, this law ill health is ignored. Ladies great numbers, the rl® fields of that prison a penitentiary.”
suburb» and the cancer followed close
Moral.—It took the twelve lambs to
Farm machinery saved In the plant ly the course of this ditch. The cases
<d a...... .
degree of superiority, the but they are previous few. No matter trail the dirty streets w ith their skirts
state being well suited » them.
pay the lawyer's bill.—Cincinnati Trib Ing and gathering of last year's crop in In the main tiMjn occurnd chiefly In
difference in the product lay in the how fastidiously they nre drresisl or and men and children carry the germs
Snakes find a ready parket In many une.
the I'nited States $7uo.iMM),lMt<>
skill of tlie armorer and the process lie how refined they may apis'ar, their from tile sidewalks. Where does it go
those liousi-s whose gardens Isirdered
ensteru countries. The giant of Java,
The proportional Increase ill tlie pop on the ditch, and in the eastern suburb
used.
conversation is broken into and oaths but into our homes, into churches and which Infests tlie pefper plantations
Paresis! Salleltada.
In the secondhand shops of Toledo fall jarringly upon your ear. Ohl men, all places where people congregate.
ulatlon. of the cities was less duriug all the gardens were watered from the
and whose venom is fttal. Is a favor
Tim Mbtlier—Don’t you think the
and of the bric-a-brac dealers you can young men and mere l«>ys- -tallies you
' '1.. There were 127 bouses In this
ite. The huge Isia comarictor furnishes baby had better go to kindergarten. the last ten years than previously.
Not
a
pleasant
picture,
is
it?
and
yet
it
buy old swords for reasonable prices,
Seventy-seven ¡ mt rent of the women'
■ Jer. and fifty-six of these were ean-
an exceedingly fat meatand the negroes dear?
but genuine ones, made before the six might say—swear for everything. The Is an o’er true one. We need not lay
and but *12 per cent of the men taking
liouses. forty-three with one ease
of Its native country (refer It to the
jMilitician
|msses
by
and
leaves
a
string
Father
—
Isn
’
t
he
too
young?
the
blame
on
providence
for
cutting
us
teenth century, when the best were
the civil service examination are able •ucii. ten with two cases, two with
daintiest
food
of
the
white
man.
The
The
Mother
—
Yer
But
he
never
sees
of
oaths
echoing
after
him.
They
are
oil' in tile spring or summer time of life
pnsluced and the art began to decline,
three cases and one with four cases.
anaconda of Brazil su|plies the table either of us long enough to learn how to pass It.
are very rare and are promptly pick talking good naturedly enough and are w hen we fail to recognize the simplest
The British museum has an atlas The ditch contained stagnant water,
of
the
jioor.
though
the
Portuguese
use
to
talk.
.
Ami
don't
you
think
be
ought
ed up by connoisseurs whenever they really not conscious of the olfeiisive health laws. A young life falls a vic
seven fret high of'the flfteenth'c.'iitury. with which the people watered and
only the rich fat It produces. South to know how?—Town Topics.
are offered. The names of the old mak language they are using. Six o’dis-k tim to consumption, and it is not the
It 1* supposed to be the largest liook in washed their vegetables, many of
American natives eat almost every kind
ers are as well known as those of the and young men are (touring out of the old-fashioned kind that allows her to
which were eaten raw.—London News.
the world.
of snake, and the far vest has taught
Good Scbeaie.
painters of great pictures, and 11 sword stores on their homeward way. Listen drag out a miserable existence year in
In Servia there Is a soldier for every
ninny a fastidious palate from over the
Hicks
—
You
keep
duplicates
of
all
made by Nicholas or Dune or Don Islo to a group of them; there is the same
What'* In a Name—For a Hook f
twenty-two inhabitants. In the I’nited
Idea!
and year out with a racking cough sea to relish the fatal rattlesnake of your old love letters? What
or Correntios In tlie foiirtrentli and fif
The problem of christening children
Wicks—Yes. When I have done some States there is one soldier f< r every
teenth centuries is worth several times endless chain of profanity. School-boys that makes life wretched and devoid of our own country’- Snake eating is more
Is a very small one compared with the
■wear and the little news-boys swear all comfort, but the quick consumption common In the United States than one thing particularly foolish, I Just read 1.300 inhabitants.
Its weight in gold.
A steel-like grass from the volcanic question of the proper mime for a book.
over one of those letters. It Is quite
Each armorer of Toledo In ancient like troo(ters; the street ureliin is a good that cuts the victim down like a Hower would imagine.
encouraging to know that I'm not near slopes of Oran, Algeria, Is so elastic There are so ninny more matters to be
times, as In Japan, had his cipher, second. They have nothing to learn of tlie field in a few months’ time and
STUPIDITY
OF
SHEEP.
ly so much of a fool as I used to be.— that it can I m * used instead of springs taken into consideration, for at the time
which is to be found on liis blades, and in profanity, for they are proficient in sometimes only a few weeks. Then
of the child's appearance there Is no de
in the manufacture of furniture.
there was as much rivalry among them it from a to z. Every foreigner who everylssly wonders where sin* con The Way These Kzaiperatlnfly Boston Transcript.
The I'gnndu mission, in Central Afri veloped characteristic in evidence to
as there Is today among the opera sing touches our shore is soon a deal sight tracted the disease, for there is not a
Foolish Aslmals Coart Death.
ca. begun twenty years ago, lias now Indicate whether he is a Socrates or a
No Troable Aboa« That.
ers. Julian del Kel, tlie most famous more proficient in his knowledge of
A sheep beater gives some of bis ex
known case of consumption on either
“If you were offered three wishes. 1,070 iliureb bnildlugs, «eating 120,850 Romeo. The titles of some of our re
of the Moorish swordmakers, always
swearing than he ever gets to be in side of the family. Finally they end in perience In hindling sheep on the west George, dear, what would they be?”
persons, erected chi.'fly at the rest of cent novels have often undergone ex
cut the figure of a dog on the blades
ern ranges in tlie following:
traordinary evolutions in order to reach
clearness
of
idea
in
regard
to
our
Con
the ¡icople.
“
Money,
money,
money.
”
saying
and
believing
their
assertion
as
of his swords near the hilt, and Mor
We have ip watch them every mln
the final satisfactory stage. “Jude the
“
Why,
George,
I
thought
you
’
d
wish
Jlver;.
year
nearly
1,000,000
Russians
stitution.
When
you
take
the
great
well, that her time bail come; she was
rillo, who was also famous, used a
ute, and if tigilance is relaxed for an
become liable for military service, but Obscure” was first entitled "The Sim
wolf for his coat of arms. The sword sea of humanity that surges luu-k and far too good for this world and so wits instant the entire flock is likely to com to have me.”
“Oh. I’d get you fast enough if I had of these only 270.000 enter the active pletons," a name which gave place at
makers of Toledo had a guild for mu forth every day and realize that aliout called home in the springtime of her mit suicide. In handling most animals
army, the remaincer being passed di the very last moment to a later and
tual protection, but they worked sepa two-thirds of the men that pass are young life. They will not complain at pime degree of self help or intelligence the money.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
rect into the militia for twenty-two better title, for during its appearance
rately. Each had his own secrets for guilty of using profanity as an aid in the rulings of One whodoeth all things can lie relied on to aid the owner in
In serial form in Harper's Magazine It
Telephone Repartee.
year«.
refining and tempering steel, which lie explaining themselves, it is appalling. well and with sighs and tears the little saving their lives, but sheep seem to
was known as "Hearts Insurgent." Sir
“
Who
nre
you?"
Tlie German government will intro
concealed from his rivals, but trans They commence to use the objectiona
Gilbert Parker's “The Kight of Way"
set dellberak'ly to work to kill them
"Who are you?”
duce in the 1 ichstng a bill requiring was at first in tlie author's manuscript
mitted to bls children, who Inherited ble language when they are mere boys form is laid to rest in God’s acre and selves.
“I asked you first.”
they turn away trying to lie resigned to
saloon kei pars to sell nonintoxicatiug
the business.—Chicago Record Herald.
If caught In a storm on the plains,
"Well, I won't talk unless I know hot and cool drinks and cold foods. “Charlie Bell" and later “Charley
and seem to feel that it makes them fate’s decree. Nonsense. Had our
Steele," and "The I.ane That Hus No
they
will
drift
before
the
wind
and
die
who you are.”
more manly and they appear older streets, and particularly our sidewalks,
Credit w.ll be forbidden and the num Turning," by the same author, was
of
cold
and
exposure
rather
than
move
PICKINGS FROM FICTION.
“
All
right
—
neither
will
I.
Goodby.
”
among their comrades. The folly of been kept cleanly and had the parents
her of barmaids btni.ed.
until the time of its going to press call
100 yards t< windward to obtain shel —Detroit Free Press.
A slain inspector told the Glasgow ed "The Golden Spoon.” Onoto Wutan-
A woman knows a woman, no matter such an idea, and yet I believe it is re- attendisl hi the cold which was not ter In thell corral. To drive sheep
luttnliipal
commission
on
the
housing
»ponsible
for
the
greater
part
of
the
considered of enough im]>ortanee to against the wind is absolutely impos
na’s “Heart of Hyacinth” was original
how different they've been raised.—
Between Girl*.
of ti e 1 001 that on some occasions he
profanity you hear on all sides to-day. worry about, the young life may not sible. I once lost over 1,000 head be
"The Substitute.”
Miss Muddie—Do you know of any li:: 1 found families sleeping in tiers, ly "Evening Mist.” It is now known
I hold there Is but one Irremediable
have had to pay the penalty for all this cause I coiid not drive them to a cor thing really good to preserve the com tl. ' par.a.s on the floor, then a mat to many that "Lady Rose's Daughter”
was In manuscript "A Woman of Tal
evil in life, that of growing tired of
plexion?
Even young ladies whom you would negligence. I saw a < 'hinaman in tlie rul 200 feet away.
t.'.'.-s and n layer of children on the top. ent.”—Harper’s Weekly.
In the corral they are still more fool
oneself.—“The Carlssima.”
Miss
Pepprey
—
Why,
are
you
interest
last
stages
of
consumption
expectorate
expect at least purity of language from
The m.u s of the Black Hills district.
Juge the future bl the past, but when
on the sidewalk of one of our principal ish. If a storm comes up, they all tai in some one who lias a complexion? So;
I kota, tor the year just closed
“How to Kat Fudve.”
you liav a past you ain’t got much fu are given to mixing just a little pro streets the other day, and along came a move “down wind” until stopped by —Philadelphia Press.
¡trounc'd
$8,303,392, which is nearly
fanity
in
with
their
slang.
A
friend
the
fence.
Then
commences
the
pro
ture.—“Little Henry's Slate.”
You first grasp the pan or dish con
richly dressed lady trailing her skirts ceeding so much dreaded by sheepmen,
$1,000,Out) increase over the previous taining the poison with your left hand,
Eteriml KcKretN.
Perhaps it is from overwork among said to me the other day, “Polly, 1 saw
year. The average value of the ore
while with your right you hold your
the poor that death has been reduced and heard something to-day that fairly on the sidew alk and sweeping the street known as "piling.” The sheep will
handled in the district per ton was shovel or any large article suitable for
makes me shudder when I think w hat clean. I had to look away and gaze in climb over one another’s backs until
to a shadow.—“The Gray Wig.”
$4.44.
they are heaped up ten feet high. Of
conveying the poison to the large cavity
I ain't what they call a pessimist, our girls are coming to. You know some other direction.
A small boy in East St. Louis, 111., re called the mouth. You then very care
course all those on the bottom nre
but I thinks poorly of most things, It's what a relined and sweet little lady
cently went to the authorities of the
smothered. Not one has sense enough
fully put some of tlie poison in your
safer.—"The Adventures of Harry Ke MissC----- has always apfieared to lie?
BRIEF REVIEW
town and claimed that be liad been kid mouth and proceed to work your Jaws
to seek shelter under the lee of the
vel.”
Well, she was one of a group at a little
nailed
by
a
negro
who
wished
to
make
fence, ns a horse or dog would do.
up and down. Work as If your life de
Good breeding sums up In its in luncheon. She was as demure and
a monkey ot him. The boy's skin liad pended upon it. Slow at first, but after
Trees as Prophets of Rain,
Agnin, if a sheep gets into quick
stinctlve attitude all the efforts a man modest as a sweet little white violet un
been
stained,
and
he
said
that
be
had
you get used to the taste work faster.
It is true that people often say that sand its fate teaches nothing to those
has made toward perfection; aye. and
been In a cage of monkeys In a circus
til we got to the table, then the wine
that come Immediately after, but the
After you have worked nine hours
all that bls ancestors have made be
the turning up of leaves is a sign of
for a week.
whole flock will follow the leader to
went to her bead. First she liecame
swallow the stuff, elean out the pan, go
fore him.—“John Percy field.”
rain. I have heard the remark many destruction. No more exa spent tingly
The rays of radium are of three kinds. to bed, and then send for the doctor. A
It Is no use to pretend that hard luck silly and sort of rattled; then she told times, says a writer in the Monthly atupid animal than a sheep walks.
Those of one class are but feebly pene horse doctor is better than a regular
a
few
coarse
jokes
and
swear
—
well,
does not take the manhood out of u
trating. Another class are negatively M. D.
Weather Review, but as far as my ob
man. When he lias an Inferior part In you ought to have heard her, it would servations go the sign does not seem to
charged electrons moving at a high ve
Fudge can be used for many other
life to play, lie begins to look the part, have made you sick. All the guests
locity. like those discovered In a Crookes purposes besides eating. If ground up
WHISTLING JUGS.
be
a
very
sure
one.
There
are
many
and he looks tlie superior part w hen he who were not so badly rattled as her
tube. A third class are not deflected by and sprinkled around the sink it will
kinds of trees, like the silver leaf pop Curious Relle* ot ■ Very Anclen
has that to play.—“Letters Home.”
self laughed immoderately at her ac
a magnet and are highly penetrating, be sure death to water bugs, flies,
Drinkiii« C’natoui.
lars—ill fact, all (xiplars, the maple,
like those of Iloentgeu.
tions uiid a gooii many remarks were
roaches and other Insects. If ruldied on
anil
some
of
the
oaks,
which
turn
their
Whistling Jugs are curious relics 01
Saved HI* Friend.
The value of the endowment of Insti a dog it Is sure death to fleas. Watch
passed I lack and forth at her expense.
Tills little story Is told of two ScotcL It was a long luncheon hour to me, for leaves up whenever there is a fairly a very ancient drinking custom. Al
tutions of higher education In the sin the dog carefully. If he dies, you put
laddies who, while fishing in strictly
strong steady wind, but they do it as the northern nations set great stresr
gle state of New York exceeds tlie total too much on. Try again.
preserved water, for which only one I didn’t enjoy it one bit. When the much in clear weather as in rainy. It upon 11 man’s power to take off hit
amount of benefaction for similar pur
The word fudge Is from the Lutin
was provided with a permit, were sud guests repaired to the drawing-room has lieen suggested to me that possibly liquor without putting down the glast
poses raised during thirty years in the word “fudglts,” meaning death.—Bos
cigarettes
were
passed
around,
and
I
Brown
She
seems
to
have
got
or
beaker,
and
In
Saxon
graves
old
all
denly confronted by the bailiff. One
whole
of
the
United
Kingdom.
The
the liellef may have arisen from the fact
ton Globe.
buckets have lieen found made without over the death of her first husband.
of them quickly collected Ills tackle and thought, well, she will let that abom
same is nearly true in the states of
Mr. llrown—Yes, but her second bus Massachusetts and California.
ran Ills might across tlie field, the bail ination pass, but not a bit of it. She that winds capableof turning the leaves foot or stand, so that the drinker couli
Tlie Retort Courteous.
Iff in quick pursuit. After covering a took one up daintily in her fingers, lit over very often precede or follow rain not rest them upon the board untl band hasn't.
The government of Honduras contem
A Baltimore girl who lias been living
large tract of country the angler sat it and putted away in evident enjoy storms, and ils (teople are usually on the they were emptied.
plates a departure from former meth in California for several years and who
Wile Baby.
But even after that was accomplish
down completely exhausted and await- ment. Her stock of questionable jokes alert when the general atmospheric
ods of its consular service owing to a bus recently returned home has
Fielding
It
’
s
wonderful
how
quickly
ed the panting and enraged pursuer,
desire to increase its commerce and in brought with her a number of stories
was immense, and as she sent wreaths conditions favor rain, looking for signs ed the liard.v drinker was cxpecteC my wife can sing baby to sleep!
“Do you know that you should not
still to have breath to spare, and the
of
pearly smoke circling the air she to confirm the general feeling they have whistling Jugs, a comparatively mod
Meadows—You don’t suppose the dustries as well as to Improve the in of the ways of the “heathen Chinee” as
fish in tliat water without permission?"
gave one after another. A young lady that it is going to rain, it might bethat ern invention, were Intended to liull baby Is shamming, do you? I've beard terior conditions of the republic by aug he appears to the dwellers on the Pa
asked the Irate man.
the turning up of the leaves woul Id lie
menting the number of inhabitants and cific coast. Thinking that her laundry
"Yes,” said the lad, “but I have per sitting lieside me who had refrained espL-cially 11011x1 at such times.
cate this. Many of them were made your wife sing, you know.—Boston landholders from foreign countries.
man could understand pigeon English
Transcript.
from smoking, giving as a reason for
mission. I’ve got an order.”
by German silversmiths—though they
During April last the ¡Mipulatlon of only, the girl from the effete east ad
"What made you run then, you young not indulging to thechorusof ‘Oh, take
arc
also
to
be
seen
In
earthenware
—
New Agricultural Motor.
Take* No stock In Trant*.
Berlin proper decreased by 2,tXXl per dressed him on out* occasion thus: “Me
scoundrel?”
during the sixteenth and seventeenth
one; don’t besilly,’ from the other girls,
“I don’t take any stock in these trusts sons. who moved their homes to what no likee my wasliee blought home Fli-
In telling of a new agricultural mo centuries, and tlielr form was suet
"Oh, Just to let the other lad away- that she ‘would like to join them, but it
anyway.”
Is hoped will some day be parts of day. Me likee wasliee Thursday. Why
he hadn't got one.”
made her deathly sick.’ She then tor that liasIxi'ti operated with success, that when the contents of the Jug had
“Don’t believe there are such things?" Greater Berlin. Twenty years ago the you no bllngee wasliee Thursday?”
been
Imbibed
a
whistle
was
uncov
the
laindon
Chronicle
says
that
it
is
turned tomeand said, ‘Isn’t Miss ('-----
“Oh. yes, but I haven’t the money to consolidation might have I h M'U effected
And the Chinaman, to her complete
A Horae Apiece.
construeteil to draw mowers, rea|M*rs ered through which tlie drinker might buy the stock."—New Orleans Titnes- at a cost of $20,000.000. Today the discomfiture, replied, "Madam, It was
delightful
aompany.
She
’
s
as
demure
First Comedian -1 know something
blow if he were able.
and
the
like,
Almost
any
agricultural
Democrat.
government Is opposed to the plan, ao not convenient."
as a church mouse at first, but she al
awfully funny. Second Comedian
The most advanced type of all had
machine can be attached to it in a few
that there Is little chance of its being
After that frost, so the teller of the
What is it? First Comedian—Why, 1 ways manages to jolly, up before the minutes.
a
little
windmill
besides
the
whistle
A
Heller
Scheme.
Apart from working in the
adopted.
story snys. nothing but the most Irre
was held up by a highwayman last evening is over and puts everybody
which worked a dial showing the pow
“If our combination is Illegal,” said
The report that Henri Rochefort is in proachably correct English of the uni
night. But the Joke was on him. 1 else in goisl humor, too.’ I wanted to fields, the machine’s capabilities for er of the blow. Sometimes nil ordiuary the capitalist, “I suppose we will have
a very poor state of health Is an exag versity type was spoken out to that Ce
told him there was no use searching say ‘It doesn’t me. I’m disgusted and home work are invaluable, for, among whistle was laid on the table and won to change It.”
geration. Judging from the following lestial.—Baltimore Sun.
me as my wife had been through my she has fallen fathoms in my estima other things, it can be utilized for cut by the last tosspot who could get a
"Wouldn't it be easier to change the paragraph In a rerent letter from Far
pockets just five minutes before. Sec tion,’ but I had to hold my (Hiice. I ting cluift', (lulling roots, grinding corn, sound from It.—Pearson’s.
law?" asked his associate.—Chicago is: “The blue green eyes.are still bright,
Ice In Jernnalcnu
ond Comedian But I don't see that the
Post.
was a guest and must keep my un eli'. Tlie petrol motor is eight horse
the white tuft of liair is still magnifi
Jerusi^em,
the "city of pence” and
Joke was on him. It was on you. First
power, and it is estimated that an acre
A QULSTION OF COLOR.
cently upright, and the step is still "stronghold of Zion," Is at least 3.SIX)
Comedian—No, you're wrong. It wasn't pleasant thoughts to myself. I suppose of grass or corn can lie cut in three-
la the “Foar Has«**».*'
on either of us. It was on my wife. had I given vent to my feelings they quarters of an hour at a cost of about The Uniter of Height Dlda't See** fa
“I want a million in my own rlgat, alert and steady. As for the dally years olfl, yet only three years ago did
leading article In the Intransigeant, it tlie natives of that part of Palestine lie-
Ftgare la the Scbem*.
There wasn't any money in my pockets would have voted me a back number
papa." remarked Miss Croesus.
has lost none of Its malice and venom.” gln to use. Ice. Many of them had nev
and have told me that I luid tatter stay, 7d or Sd.
to begin with!—Detroit Free Press.
The young man considers himself a
“Why?” be asked.
A review of the climate and agricul er seen IL in fact. A diminutive French
man
of
resources,
clthough
he
Is
not
as
"So
that
I'll
feel
I
can
afford
a
bus
away with my prudish old-fashioned
Formosa Camphor.
ture of last year, which ranks ns one plant lias been turning out about 700
sure about It now as he was a few band.”—Brooklyn Eagle,
What Did He Wantt
ideas. I would have liked to have
Some time ago a new camphor-grow days ago. He has been very nt »ntlvo
of great agricultural produce, reveals pounds a day. Jerusalem water Is the
A certain professor is n very absent drunk to the toast, ‘God bless our old-
«pint* curious facts. Canada re^iped finest In the world, being collected from
Th* rhetosra****'* G**4 W*»h.
minded mnn. lie was busily engaged fashioned girlsand may their shadows ing district was discovered in the south to a certain young lady, and he was
“Maud's latest photograph is Just the greatest wheat crop ever grown In the housetops and stored In cisterns.
In solving some scientific problem. The never grow less.’ I’m afraid, Polly, of the island of Formosa. I't comprises culling on her nt the time that be par
the Dominion. Australia, on the other The Ice. therefore. Is like crystal, melt
an urea of SO,OtM) acres, and contains tially lost confidence in his resourceful lovely.”
servant hastily opened the door of Ills
that at the rapid gait some of our so
hand, had to endure the worst of nil ing slowly and without a particle of
“Is it?”
studio and announced a great family
more than 120,000 camphor I reesof from mind.
the
disastrous droughts It bus kilo . 1. sediment. The demand fir ice In the
ciety girls are going and carry ingot hers
"Yes.
I
had
to
ask
who
it
was.
”
unnecessary
to
narrate
what
event.
It is
j eight to ten fret in circumference. It
and the grain harvest was nearly ruin sacfed city was started by a modern
along in the mini whirl of an unenvi-1
"A little stranger has arrived.”
1 is estimateli that these treeswill yield passed between them upon the occn- Cleveland plain Denier.
ed,-and many millions of slieep, with hospital. Hotels soon afterward began
able fashion, it won’t la1 loqg untH the I ' ss'zi tons of eainphor, valued at 1,720 - slon In question, but at the time the
“Eh?”
thousands of cattle, perished.
Its use, and now nearly all of the for
.>.a*ti*H Versa* Slaag.
old-fashioned girl w ill have passed out.
“It is a little boy.”
lady's
slater
entered
the
room
young
A broad general classification of tlie eign residents and many of tlie wealthy
Grammar Teacher—James, give me a
“Little boy! Well, ask him wliat he •Ilo you think the society girl of to-day I 000 yen. This discovery isof the high* he wns In the act of folding the young
est imjMirtanee to the camphor indus lady to his manly bosom.
sentence containing the word "de graduates of the Military academy up native families nre consumers. No nat
Wants.”—London Standard.
would enjoy the graceful, dignified '
try, which is a .la|>miese niono|H«ly.
to date shows that West Point has given ural lee Is brought Into Syria.
Of course be dqslsted at once, ns spair.”
minuet of our grandmother's tiifie?
Karnlns and Getflaa.
James—Me goil give me <?is pear.— 1 president and 2 candiflates for presi
young
men
generally
'
do
under
such
WUlt Hllurlty tn Greenland.
Mountain of Salt.
detit, 8 presidential-elector»! and-! tueni--
"It waj oply five years ago that I Wv H, h.ir.Hy. They wouidimtitq Lave
circumstances, but be was not *m- Pittsburg Dispatch.
Even Greenland's Icy mountains have
bers of the cabinet, 29 diplomatic rep
started In with our firm nt $5 n week," Hje gay waltz that goes with a whirl
Probably one of the gn-abwt natural fiarrassed—not a bit.
resentatives, 24 member« of rengress, thetr plutocrats. One Kor-ko ya of
laid Bragg, “and now I earn $00 a and a dash.
Tin- Rrljrlit «*kol*».
The young lady's sister said, "Excuse
curiosities in tlie world, whose exist
week without any trouble.”
"WJiat is the end of man'/" asked the 122 other fisleral officers, 18 governors East Bafflnsland literally stupefies his
me.” and started to leave tfie room,
ence
is
but
little
known,
is
the
great
“1 may lie old-fashioned, Polly, but
and lieutenant governors, 85 members fellow tribesmen with his luxury. He
“That's so. It's easy to earn that."
when tils resourceful mind began to Sunday school teaciter impressively.
remarked Newltt. “but how much do 1 admit that I don't like the idea of our mountain of salt l<s-iit<s| at Cardona, work. He felt that he ought to say • “Hi» feet,” replied the new scholar of state legislatures. 124 civil and 178 Ilves in a woodbn house, owns a table
military officers of states. 64 city oltl and a paraffin lamp, and recently, to
you get?”—Philadelphia Press.
girls using slang, profanity even if it is Spain, in the foothills of lhe Pyrenees. something and say It right away.
promptly.—Houston Post.
cials. 2.10 educators, .236 railroad off! celebrate the fortieth anniversary of
only a mild form of what the strong This°nuirvel stands in a dreary and in
0
"Don’t go." he said; “we’ve just been"
clals, 233 civil engineers, 214 Judges the foundation of bis business, he stissl
Hl* Fame.
• ot et All Alite.
sex give us as they pass in the every accessible region off the highway of measuring trf see which one Is the
“I understand he was an author even day walks of life. Neither do 1 like travel, mid is only reached by a drive of taller.”
She—How absurd! Compurfng a wo and lawyers, 22 clergymen and 50 cod liver oil all round to Ills employees.
members of'other professions. 263 busi Such a scene of unrestrained revelry
Before graduation from college.”
She panned In the doorway and look Dinn to a phvnograpb!
the idea of this social habit of drinkii g twenty-five miles in a mule cart.
“Yes. indeed. Why, be was the au
11c—Quite ridiculous! One can «lint ness men, 230 farmer« and planters UU<1 had never been witnessed In the - oiiii -
ed
at
them
intently.
172 authors.
thor of a new college yell.”—Chicago among themselves as well as at social
try before.________________
"You're both about the same height.’' a phonograph off.—Life.
It is estimated that nearly all of the
functions, or tin* disgusting habit o'
Post.
The Matinee Girl.
Dallr Gnlge.
Hl* C. O. D. Delivery.
cigarette smoking. To be sure theie pine timber now growing in Minnesota she said quietly, “but sister Is much
The
matinee
girl existed ns early a»
the rodder.”
(alsiut
fit),OKI,(MSI
feet
)
w
ill
be
cut
and
When
a
man
asks
you
how
old
you
"You delivered Your speech In a mnn
Conceit Is a small capital with which are mislest, sweet girls galore who art-
Tlitai she wogt out. and lie was cm
think he la. guess at least fifteen years the eighteenth century. In Japan girl»
tB begin business - Schoolmaster.
averse to everything which would tend marketisl within the next fifteen years. barrnssod—Just a little.—New York nor that was most timely and effective."
“Yes.” answered the poll:Inal orator: younger than you are absolutely posi In those days used to throw their fans
to lower themselves in their own as
Wot u Compliment,
Women, it is reported, are alsuit to Times.
“I had to be particular almut the de tive he can’t help being, and you have and purses at the feet of the "leading
"R- hasn't a very high opinion of well as other’s estimation. To say !*• admitted to graduate at Dublin Uni
livery of that speech. It was a C. O. I) gained a friend for life. — Baltimore man" as he minced along “the flower
Likely to Do So.
walk” to the stage. Picture» of these
these vices <|o not exist among society versity.
Jfltir Intelligence.”
American.
transaction
Washington Star
“We had known each other slightly."
“heroes” were an early product of Jap
e--------
“Bow do you know?”
girls would lie tolling an untruth. They
Only Ba*.
a nose wood engraving, aBd these por
**•« Bothered Him.
"I heard him refer to you once ns on do, and ‘pity 'tis 'tis true.’ Not alone ; Nearly 74no women are employed ut •nil! Miss Evvy Waite, “but neve- to
"What am I ever going to do with
Physician—Don’t be downcast. You're trait» were secret treasure« of many
NMI ju»or.”—Exchange.
is it confined to our large cities, but the the vafltius < Inventaient departments ■peak to until one day while out skat
Ing I fell down quite near hia, and"
zuch a bad. bad boy?” sighed the fond ■ot dead yet. Patient—That's what maidens.
wretched custom has been taken up by at Washington.
9
)?• grow old by thinking them-
"Ah. yes." <*1*1 Miss Pepprey mother.
bothers me. If 1 were dead. I shouldn't
If you be poor do not seem poor If
“Oh, you leave me alone.” replli^ the Wave to trouble myself alsiut your bill
"that brtke the ice, of coursi !" Pbilu
i *olfl. As surely aa they think some of the fairtst daughters in our
There
nre
now
over
700
widen
uni-
you would avoid insult aa well as suf-
large
towns.
Don
’
t
lisik
so
surprised,
delplda Press.
young boptful. “I am not half as b:4 —*4Ron Transcript.
k *111 dime true. foF thought Is
ferine Goldsmith.
for it is a fact. I am not drawing on versity graduates in Irelamí»
* I cau I m >.”— Brooklyn life.
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