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•• o • * • BANDON REt ORDER. FACTS m FKW UMS Denmark exports 2^».«O pound« of hunejr a year. The Jersey (Englund) potato crop thia year amount« to 52,849 ton«, valued at £233.280. The statistics show that the average number of |>ersoua to a family iu the United States Is 4.7. The Turkish minister of the nary la •aid to be worth »12,000,000. Hla sal ary is ».80,000 a year. One of a number of homing pigeons sent up from Nautes, France, boarded a ship 1,000 miles at sea. As to crime by aliens reports show that the Americans In England are five times as criminal as the Russians and Poles. “Camogaidlieact” la the name of the game, somewhat like hockey, Invented for the women of the Gaelic league In Ireland. Bayonet fighting is now a regular ex ercise In the army, and It is quite as good. If not better, physical exercise than the old bayonet exercise. The bishop of London has received a subscription of »25 from an undertak er, who described the gift as a thauk offering “because trade hns l>een so brisk of late.” At the sale of the estate of the late Whitaker Wright at Tokenlioiise yard the other day some one offered £90,000. “The wall arouud the estate cost £37,- 000,” said the auctioneer A barrel with a capacity of 43.800 gallons has Just been completed for a great wine firm at Schllteuhelm. on the Rhine A banquet was given In Its In terior to twenty four people. The most frequented lake in Europe Is the lake of Lucerne. Last year twen ty steamboats plied on it and carried 1,529.000 passeiigerR and over 1,000 tons of baggage and freight. The Australian detectives find foot ball useful. Criminals will hide six days In the week, but they have to come out on Saturday to see the foot ball game, and the police are on hand. One discovery made by an exploring party In Abyssinia recently is that the river Gelo skirts the southermost ex tremity of Lake Tata instead of flow ing into the lake, as was hitherto be lieved. The Australian government has or ganized an expedition to explore the region between Lake Eyre and the boundary of Queensland. This land is said to be one of the worst deserts In the world. An engine driver was attending to the machinery at Hays wharf, Tooley street, London, when the ends of Ids neck scarf were caught by the shafting, and lie was drawn up thirteen feet from the floor and strangled. The Insurance companies have quot ed 50 per cent additional for Insuring the life of Prince Obolenski, who has succeeded to the post of governor gen eral of Finland in the room of the late General Bobrikoff, killed by an assas ■In. An English thief was arrested the other day whose method was to Induce little boys to take off their shoes In or der to run a race and leave him in charge of the shoes. When they re turned, breathless, he and the shoes were gone. What Is described as the biggest sale yet completed under the new Irish land act Is reported from Mltchelstown. The Kingston estate, which was tlie theater of the lund agitation In the days of Mr. Gladstone’s "Remember Mltchelstown,” has been acquired by the tenants. A halibut estimated to be fifteen feet in length was seen In the Plscataqua river near Dover point recently by a number of Dover people. The fish was seen to Jump out of the water several times and on every occasion made a roaring noise which could be heard a considerable distance. The National Association of Car riage Dealers, which recently con vened in Boston, bad on exhibition at that place an ancient vehicle that was built in 1776 and which is still ns good as new. It was built for Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, the original "Brother Jonathan.” The cuckoo plays an Important part in German superstition. If an old woman wants to know how many years she has to live or a young girl when she is to be married all they have to do is to go Into the woods on May day nnd listen for the cuckoo. The number of times it yaps is the answer. Judge John Brindley of Lacrosse. Wls., recently established n new prec edent for Jurists by hearing a case in the evening and appearing upon the bench in evening clothes. The case was an emergency, and the judge left a re ception to convene court, going direct ly to the courtroom from a friend's house. An Insurance doctor at Leipsic hns collected facts which show thnt the changes In the human blood vessels («TteiloskivTose; brought about by iln use of alcohol, tobacco and other ex cesses, Including overwork, cause 22 per cent of all deaths, whereas the much dreaded tuberculosis is rcsponsl hie for only 7 per cent In that city. In 1900 the nmncksmen who collect lobsters along the const of Maine paid an average of 12.85 cents per pound to the fishermen. The price Increased to 13 12 cents In 1901, and In 1902 the price was 15.83 cents. Ijtst year’s price was 17.16 cents. During these four years the minimum price paid was 9 cents and the maximum 25 cents. It ts claimed for Mlle. Carmen Sylva, an elght-year-old singer who made her first appearance In London the other day. thnt her voice has one of the greatest ranges of any living singer ■ nd rises to the top G. Mme. rnttl's voice did not go beyond the top D, Nils« E Hen Ranch Yaw's goes to the top E and Miss Edith Uelenn can reach the tiff> F,__________ Light nnd Dark. Teas—Maud told me she was going to bleach her hair. Fred -How indiscreet! 81» really ought to ke«p It dark.—Illus trated Hit* The •*•<■«, Ml< Bench—I don't think he really car« for Miss Dollartk Mr Trotter-1 XJiint li« has a platonic affection for b«k but be1» vlolentjj In love with her ftRW« money.—Fuck. • • 7»------------------------------------ ---------- - our own State Kuighta who had had the fruit ship)>ed here at great expense- ,1'hey were quite willing that both lo cal and foreign visitors should enjoy the display and sample it a* W»'W, but they drew the line when it came to carrying it home by the liasketful. Now Mr. Luther BurbaRk, known the world over as the “Wizard of Hor ticulture,’’ has again wielded his mag ic wand, and Is-hold u red poppy un folds its satin petals at his bidding and makes its initial bow to an admiring public. This wizard of tlowerdom, who loves every tree, plant and shrub in the realm of nature, found a poppy in the meadow that stissl out like a freak among its surrounding kin, for its little golden satin skirt was streaked with red. That was enough for Mr. Burbank, and little Miss Poppy found herself transplanted to Jiis home near .Santa Rosa, that is teeming with tlow- eas. fruits, etc., in th” various stages of experiments. For eight long years the experiment with this variegated little freak of the escholtzia family went on. Year after year the seed from this branch of the family was planted, ami eagerly watched as they sent fortli their buds and blossoms. If they showed the slightest tendency to return to the gold tint that- rivaled the rays of the sun, off' came the flower and the red was |adted and coaxed, watched and tenderly cared for, and now the reward has come, the transformation is com plete. Mr. Burbank has a bed of sev eral hundred of the poppie« with the blossoms varying from pink to red or a bright scarlet. The secret is out and the surprise has been hailed with de light by all flower lovers. It is a won derful feat in nature. Hundreds would have passed this variegated poppy, sim ply wondering whether it caught the last blush of the sunset clouds as they sank to rest, or was it the kiss of a vel vety gold and brown bee, who, intoxi cated with tlie beauty of the rose, had lingered long in its crimson petals ami while whispering the story of its new conquest to tlie poppy had shaken tlie pollen from its gauzy wings that it had brought from the heart of the rose. They would have passed on ami possi bly never have given it a thought. Not so witli Mr. Burbank. Tlie moim nt he caught sight of the flower the possi bilities of a new poppy unfolded before him, and he made it a denizen of tlie plant life in his home, where he could tenderly watch the outcome. Tlie tex ture of the flower is unchanged. It is just as rich and satiny and has just its many petals, but no more than it did in its own native heath. Tlie only change is in its color. Before the scar let poppy rewarded Mr. Burbank’s efforts we liuil had several colors added to the California poppy or escholtzia. They ranged from the brilliant shades of orange to lemon, then to cream and fli^ally a pure white. They are all beautiful, yet if we were called u|s>n tomakeaselection,knowing that the rest of the poppy family would lie destroyed, it would not be the red, the white, the cream or lemon poppies we would choose, but our old favorite, the pure gold or orange, California's State flower, which is typical of the perpetual sunshine of our own fair land. This scarlet California ¡sippy lias already been listed, accepted and registered in the tloricultural kingdom of America, and next season it will lie ready to be gin its journeys abroad and mingle with other floral treasures of the same family, that have been so eagerly adopt ed by flower-lovers all over tlie land. How ¡ssiple can be guilty of such an offense is a mystery to Polly, ami what they are thinking about to place them selves in such an unenviable light is the query that arose iu many minds as they saw the wholesale helping of them selves to the choicest fruits California had to otter. They certainly forgot that they were invited guests of the order and that it was anything but complimentary to those who had pre sented them with the tickets. Noone could enter who did not |><>Hsessa ticket or a badge, hence the (turtle* guilty of this helping themselves to fruit from the different tallies to carry away with them certainly humiliated those who hail complimented them by presenting them with tickets or badge«. These grown women reminded Polly of a lot of children who have not hail the last of raising and who will attend a party and watch their opportunity to slip in to the dining room after refreshments have been served and fill their pockets witli the remaining candy and nuts on the table. No well-bred child will do it, find no |s-rson of refinement who is old enough to know better will slip stealthily around as these1 people did at the Knights Templar Conclave load ing their baskets with things that did not belong to them. ‘Tis well that the majority of people attending were not judged by tlie few who made their un enviable presence felt. “Esther”—Let your traveling cos tume lie a golden brown with hat and gloves to match. To lighten it up use a touch of the “burnt orange” in velvet, feathers or leaves combining these rich beautiful colors. This com bination is one of tlie popular fads in fall millinery and costumes as well. BRIEF REVIEW. Not Afraid of Thirteen. A good story on the so-called unlucky 13 is going the rounds which would send “Superstitious Smith” to cover for good, says the Baltimore Sun. It is told in regard to the attractive Balti more and Ohio Railroad advertisement which recently appeared iu the Sun. The first insertion was on Friday, May 13, and an ever watchful newspaper man noted the fact, and also discovered that there were 13 trains, running on 13 diff'eaent hours, and on 13 tracks; that “hourly service” had 13 letters, and “Camden Station” had 13 letters, and also that “hour on the road” had 13 letters. The newspaper man in great stress of mind rushed to the telephone and called up William E. Lowes, the passenger advertising agent of the Bal timore and Ohio, to tell him of tlie aw ful fact. After a few minutes figuring Mr. Lowes replied: “Nevermind, old Ixiy; you have 13 letters in your name, and I have 13 in mine, and I was born on April 13, on Friday; besides, the president of the railroad is the thir teenth, and his room is No. 13, Cam den Station. I guess it will have to go.” The advertisement ap|K*ar<sl on page 13 of the Sun. He Knew Nothing Of It. There lias just occurred at Madrid a c use that is extremely rare, if not aliso lutetly unique, in criminal annals—that of a man imprisoned on the charge of murder, and being sentenced to death and afterward reprieved without his knowing it. The man, named Jose Espero Cuellar, iiad, in circumstances of great provocation, murdered a faith less sweetheart, ami, although lie was in jail, trial for the crime had lieen con ducted without his being produced or even knowing that tlie case had come on. Even when sentence of death was pronounced, nobody deemed it his im mediate duty to inform the person most concerned. One day, some time after, reading a newspaper that had been al lowed him, Cuellar there read the an nouncement of his reprieve, and, peti tioning to see tlie governor of the prison learned for the first time all that had happened. Speaking of Mr. Luther Burbank re minds me of a display made during the recent Knights Templar conclave in San Francisco, when he made such an interesting exhibit in the headquar ters of tlie Santa Rosa Commandery at the Mechanics’ Pavilion. One of tlie greatest objects of interest was the Shasta daisies. There wasa line display of these lieautiful flowers, ami again it showed what cultivation and a thor ough understanding of plant-life would do. Many visitors both at home ami abroad lingered over tlie lovely white flowers with the golden heads. Tlie display in everything else, both in fruit, nuts and flowers, made a creditable showing for this part of tlie country, Sonoma county, where they were grown and gave tlie Eastern ami Southern visitors, as well as those from abroad, a Her Parents. very lasting and pleasing impression of The mother of a young girl recently the varied resources of this district. Hundreds of little l>ags of walnuts ami secured a divorce from her husband fruits were given away as souvenirs and married another man, tlie terms of tlie decree providing that the daughter from this and other booths. spend half her time with her father This souvenir question makes tn (w ho had also remarried) and half with think of tlie unenviable light a numtier her mother. Meeting a friend of her c* wouteti, young girls and children family after returning from a visit to who evidently had their orders from one of her remarried parents, the little headquarters at home, caused them one was asked “how she spent her selves to lie seen. Every commandery time nowadays.” “Well,” she replied, will. headquarters at the Mechanics’ “I epend a month vkithig my father Pavilion had made an effort to have nnd my mother; then the next month plenty of fruits, nuts, etc., to bestow I go on a visit to my mother and my ______ upon the Eastern visitors. It was In father.” tended, not only as a compliment to Big Collection of Teapots. the visiting guests, but as an advertise A Washington woman has a collec ment for each section of the country tion of teapots large enough to fill a which was presided over by the Knights whole room. There are in this collec ami ladies. Not content with taking a bunch of grapes, a |>ear, peach or a|* tion over 300 pots of chinit, copper and earthenware. Some of them are in the pie, as the ease might lie, these peop'e forms of dolls, monkeys, elephants and brought empty baskets from home ai d tigers, < »tilersare in the form of houses went from table to table filling them templesand flowers. Others still are 111 with choice fruits. They simply sw ept everything from the tables in some the form of fans, walking sticks, bract lets, bird* ami flowers. tiooths. Talking and exis«tulating against the injustice did no good, for A caterpillar in a month will devour they simply waited f<w an opportuni'y 6000 times its own weight. It will take to go on with their depredations. Some an average man three month liefore he of them ap|>eared to lie atiove . • who would lie guilty of such an injus vats a quantity of food equal to his own weight ____________ ___ tice. They were well dressed and did not look so poverty.stricken that they A w ell-know n oculist states that forty would have to get their fruit by appro men and three women to every, 1000 priating it from the tables of the dif ]>ersons are color blind. ferent Issiths, not only depriving the In England ninety-nine towns own State in a measure ot the advertisement to visitors it would have been by the their own gas works, the average net display ami the gift of the fruits, lot to income being »1,947,125 per annum. 8 SOC IETY IN ENGLAND POWER OF CASTE AND INFLUENCE OF THE LANDOWNING CLASS. The Nauiber uf Things Thai a “G«a- tlemaa” Canaut Do WIOtuiat Social Prestige la Tao UVRR1 hr Far to Catalogs«. An interesting book might be writ ten ou the Influence of the English landowning class. Even In these days of ubiquitous manufactures, when to look at a map of England la to wondei how it Is possible for a landowning class oven to exist, the social and po lit leal Influence of that class is some thing more thau maintained. The ambition of every successful Englishman is to have "a place In the country,” to get a foothold on the as piring territorial ladder, and the ranks of the landed gentry are continually being re-enforced, more so perhaps to day than ever before, by recruits from the industrial army. The Immense util ity of the English country gentleman will not be questioned by any one who really knows England. But at tlie same time It is equally in disputable that the sort of life be af fects the endless indulgence in sport, the salmon stream, the grouse moor, the hunting box. the pheasant preserve and so on— Is on the whole one of more or less harmless and often irresponsi ble Idleness and that the neighborhood in which be Ilves Is rarely apt to re gard him as an apostle of strenuous tiess. The "country” everywhere stands for leisure, and so long as the '’country” continues to represent the supreme ob Ject of an Englishman’s ambition and his social ideal so long will England be leisurely. Again, in an old and stable land, with social standards as fixed as the social foundations and governed by a mon archy, the conventions play an enor mous part, and the conventions in Eng land are all against hard work. It Is the leisure class that rules, that makes up society, that holds all the positions men naturally covet. A sort of “Four Hundred” atmos phere permeates England. In America one gets a whiff of It on Fifth avenue and at Newport, but In England one is never away from it. The number of things, for Instance, that a “gentleman" cannot do without losing social caste Is, in England, so prodigious as to form almost a schedule of forbidden In dustries. There are some trades and professions that are "respectable,” and those that are not. (Inly an Englishman knows which is which, why a doctor ranks socially above a dentist, why a man who sells should be Irretrievably below the man who manufactures, and he. the Eng lishman, knows it by an instinct which Is born In him and which he never examines und so cannot define. Any one who can tell why the merchant should consider himself and be con sldered by others the social superior of the biggest storekeeper In the king dom will be well ou the way toward understanding England. The daughter of a wealthy manufac turer of kettles marries the owner of tlie largest dry goods store in London. Why should she be thought and spo ken of as having married a little, though only a little, beneath her? Per sonally. 1 do not kuow. I merely ob serve, without attempting an explana tlon. that the man in the wholesale business is more looked up to than the man in the retail business, that while the former is not averse to talking about his affairs, the latter Is only too anxious to "sink the shop,” and that social position in England Is regulated by a host of perfectly factitious and conventional considerations more read ily felt than expressed. Such graduations exist of course to some extent everywhere, but nowhere are they so stereotyped, nowhere do they strike so deeply, as In England. 1 have never yet been able to discover an Englishman who had not the social privilege of despising some other Eng lishman. and the lower one penetrates In the social scale the more complex and mysterious and the more rigidly defined do these lines of demarcation become. The point is that throughout England the sense of the nobility of work for Its own sake, if not actually lost, has become so confused by the intrusion of quite alien factors that the sphere of action open to a young man of what ever rank Is sensibly circumscribed. The country, while democratic in form, Is not democratic in spirit. It has not accepted and does not subscribe to that gospel of work which lies at the root of American strength, American success, American democracy. Any one who lias looked Into English trad« unionism must have realized how largely It Is mixed up with class spirit. The workingman who knows that his employer drives down to the office at half past 10. takes a couple of hours for lunch. Is home again shortly after 5 nnd thinks himself somewhat of a “hustler” If he is content with three months’ holiday In a year Is not likely to have a keen appreciation of the dig nlty of labor. Ills Ideal Insensibly be comes that of doing as little as he can. of striving to reproduce on his own plane his employer's mode of life and of regarding work as an unpnlatable Interruption of the real business of ex istence. Hence the "ca’canny” policy of English trade unionism.—Sydney Brooks In Harper’s Weekly. Sig«« «f Ge«!««. "I reckon John must hav« been ent out fur one o’ these here geniuses that writes for the magazine«," said the old man. "What makes you think so?” “Can't make money enough to git bis hair cut an' would rather watch a star than dig a well!”—Washington Star. Thr««gh <«• Taleam*«. L’pgardson-You were in a railway car once when It was telescoped. What was the sensation? Atom—It made me see stars.—Exchange. Of Co««*. Tommy—Pop, what make« th« foun tain play? Tomtqy’« Pop—TTi« Wat»- works, my ton.—Philadelphia RacdH. Tatlenc«—I« bar lu«b««* M fratta? Patrice-No; h« VM «ol® out by th« NEW SHORT STORIES THE ALBATROSS. He Scored Og Whistler. It« Wonderful Flights aud Some Odd Belief« About the Bled. Due of the kee|H>rs at Windsor on one «cession scored neatly off the late Janie« MacNeill Whistler, who was tusking a study of a picturesque clump of oaks. Mr. Whistler could not endure to R«ie any one watch him while he waa painting. He turned sharply to the intruder with the fixed and angry »tare peculiar to him. “You oaf!” he exclaimed. "You loutish clodhopper! Don't you know better thau to stand there annoying tue? What possible Interest can you take In what 1 am doing?" "Bless me,” cried the man. “don't get excited, sir! 1 meaat no harm, but I never in all my life, sir, saw an art ist painting two pictures at ence!” "Two pictures!” exclaimed Whistler, bewildered. “So I said, sir,” replied the keeper quietly. "And I'm blessed, sir, If 1 don’t like the one you’ve got your thumb through the best of the two!” And he pointed to the great palette, smeared with every conceivable tint, that Mr. Whistler held In his left hand. Jack Vas Beagoaalble. When Jay Hambldge, the artist, was painting th« portrait of ex-I'reaident Cleveland he spent some time as a visitor at the family mansion in I'rlnceton, N. J. "The ex-president gave me many sit tings, but one In particular,” said lie, "made the picture. Mr. Cleveland sut gravely In a big armchair talking. Lt was early in the afternoon; his face was unusually grave and lacked the expression I wanted. A tap came at the door, and In sidled bls son Jack, the apple of hla eye. " ’Now I wants my lesson In flshln', father,’ said the lad. “ ’But. my son, here is Mr. Ham- bldge. the artist. We are busy.’ “ 'Oh, let him stay,’ said I. “‘Very well,’ replied Mr. Cleveland, and the boy Jumped between his fn- Of all the strange creatures seen by travelers uot the least Interesting Is the wauderiug albatross. This great. feulhered wanderer, sometimes mens urmg seventeen feet from tip to tip ot Its wiugs, will follow a ship for days at a time. Some travelers aud sailor« declare that they have seen a partlcu lar bird fly for weeks at a time with out ever being seeu to «light upon the waves. It uot merely follows the ship, but wheels In great circles around It and above It, high iu the air, as if to show that it is not tired. Sometimes the bird will be seeu to baug in the air with its wiugs apparently motionless, and the sailors say that tbeu It is asleep. Not ouly in pleasant weather will ths albatross follow a ship for days aud weeks, but through the most terrific storms it will continue Its untiring flights. In fact, to find an albatross otherwise than on the wlug is like finding a weasel asleep. Once a year the female albatross files away a few thousand miles to the great, lonely Island rock of Tristan d'Acunha, w hich lifts its desolate head far In the south Atlantic, or to some equally remote place, and there lays one egg In the hollow of a fock. The albutross has always been a bird of mystery, and In ancient times the people believed that these unwearying sea birds were the companions of the Greek warrior Diomede«, who were «aid to have been changed into birds at the death of their chief. When America was discovered and ships began' to sail abroad to the Pa cific ocean, to double the Cape of Good Hope and to explore tlie “seven seas" generally, the old belief about the alba tross had been forgotten by the sailors nnd explorers, but In their long and lon<*soine voyages over waters which were cut by no keel but their own and upon whose vast expanse they saw no other sail but theirs the presence of the albatross following the ship day after dny became a great source of comfort and companionship. So It came to be a belief that 111 luck would follow any one who killed one of these birds, and thnt belief Is common among seafar ing men of this very (lay. Coleridge's famous "Rhyme of the Ancient Mari ner” Is based upon this belief. Though the superstition about the killing of nn albatross bringing bad luck is only a foolish one. It has served a useful purpose for many years In preventing the slaughter of these beau tiful and gallant birds—the sailors’ friends and the landsmen’s wonder. I p in dreary Kamchatka, that outly ing part of Siberia which cuts Into the north Pacific, the natives, never having beard of the suiierstltlon about the al batross. catch him and eat him. But his flesh makes such poor food that, after all, the legend may be said to bold good, for one is Indeed in bad luck who has to make a meal of him.— Washington Post. “Old "IT'S UP AGAINST TH« BCX’KH." tlier’s legs and proceeded to unreel a fishing line from a spool. He threw It across the room and out Into the ball. " ’It’s against the rocks, father!' lit shouted. “'So it is, son,’ was the reply; ’jerk It this way carefully, gently now; don't disturb your fish. There you are. You must have a bite now. Druw It In this way, quickly, not too ex citedly. And the ex-presldent looked Into the boy's face with all the warmth of a true fisherman ns Jack pulled In some toy calk'd by him a trout that he had bidden before th« make believe fishing began. "It was during this lesson that 1 got my Inspiration. I painted In the glow of Interest and of expression that won the praise of Mr. Cleveland’s Intimates. But, as I told the family afterward, Jack really did It. 1 didn’t."—Philadelphia Ledger. Home” Thoughts. Don’t let your heart be troubled by the man who comes back and tells what wouderful success he has had as a result of leaving his home town. It Is well enough for the sake of polite ness to listen to his stories of Immense business deals or fabulous salaries or wonderful offers which he was com pelled to refuse because he was offered still more by some one else, but don't swallow the tales. The men who go away and succeed do not need to tell of tbelr success. Y'ou hear of their suc cess. It speaks for Itself. You are do ing better than the cheap monkeys that have to megaphone tbelr success. Attempt to follow their example, and you will meet with disaster.—Atchison Globe. Statare «ad lllnrs«. According to a paper read by Dr. Shrubsail before tlie British associa tion, sufferers from tonsilitis, rheuma tism and heart disease are of a higher stature, and sufferers from tuberculo sis, nervous and malignant diseases of a lower stature than healthy individ uals. It appears that blond sufferers from pulmonary tuberculosis respond to treatment better than brunettes, while In diseases of the heart the positions are reversed. It Is believed that In successive generations of city life stat Wkit He Hesembl««. ure shows a progressive diminution and Some years ago William T. Smedley that there Is an increase in brunette boarded in the same bouse with a trails with each generation passing young man who prided himself on his from rural to urban life. With in likeness to the artist, though, truth to creasing length of residence there is tell, he was very plain, while Mr. an increase of morbidity among the Smedley was quite handsome, says different classes of lamdoners. the New York Times. One morning at brenkfast he turned to Mr. Smedley Changed Hl« Mind. and said: A man of notoriously bad character, “Do you know. I am thought very residing In a village, wished to emi like you?” grate. To obtain assistance from the “Indeed,” was the answer, "1 cannot emigration commissioners one must see nny resemblance.” have a character, and the man accord "Well, give me a good look now and ingly asked one from his neighbors. tell me who I am like.” Everybody was anxious he should go, The artist looked at him steadily for any everybody therefore testified to a few moments and then replied: his excellent reputation. No one was "Yon Jo«k only like the boarding mere astonished at this rc-ult than house martyr at the steak.” the man himself, and after looking at his certificate, with Its long list of Ne C*««e For Worry1. signatures, “Well,” said be. "I had "Ijibor saving Inventions never do no Idea 1 was so much esteemed In any real harm to laboring men and the neighborhood. 1 thmx 1 shall women.” said Professor 8. P. Langley, stay.”— London Tit-Bits. the scientist and aeronaut. "They who bemoan the appearance of lal>or Agalaat Trceedeat. saving device« are unwise.” "De Riter Is building a cottage for Professor Langley smiled. himself in the mountains, I bear.” "Such unphllosophlcal persons.” lie "Yes, and for a poet he’s displaying resumed, "should learn a lesson from an atrocious disregard of the fitness of the stable cat Have you heard of the things. He's building right on the stable cat? It sat on the horse's back.’’ top of a bill.” “ ’Dear, dear,’ the horse waked. "Wall?" 'Now that automobiles ore coming Into “Well, by «11 the canons of ¡>oetry a such fnvor I fear I shan't be wanted.’ cottage fn the hills ought to 'nestle.*" •• ‘Nonsense,’ anld the stable cat —Philadelphia Press. ’Don’t carry on so, brother. The mouse trap didn't do away with- me, Yoanger Ge«er«tlon. did it 7”* ’_______________ Judge-Gan you prove an alibi, Ca Th« Exact Amoaat. sey? Casey—No, your honor, I can’t, “Yes,” said the man who bad been but me boy Patsy can do It for ye. generous with his friends. "I've lost He's all trough bls arithmetic and way up In algebray.—Cincinnati Com faltb In humankind to some extent” "To what extent?” mercial -Tribune. "Well, to the extent of about »1.000 Worn««’« Wag. in block« of »5 and »10 at a time.”— "Jack sent me a handsome mirror for Philadelphia ledger. a birthday present.” "That accounts for the funny ques ••r«. “Harfitippy tells m« h« never d«- tion he asked me last night” "What did he ask youZ’ •taoy« « «raeipted bill.” "If a woman ev«r got too old to be “No. h«'a more Ukely to have Uem frame« «nd hung * tn his parlor as pleased with a looking glass.”—Pitta burg Gazette cvrMItl*”—London Jbdy. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Anerle«« Oatrleh. The encyclopedias describe the u«r tricb as polygamous. In California, however, be adopts American lustltv tious and chooses but one wife A shallow bole scooped out In the ground serve» us a nest, where every alter nate day an egg is laid. Such an egg! Half a yard around the longest way and tipping the scale« at three aud a bulf pounds! A single egg would be a breakfast for a large family, though by no means an economical one. From twelve to eighteen eggs are laid Then the forty day sitting begins. In Which the male assists. Taking ills shifts at night, visitors seldom see him engaged in this feminine occupation. Having uiuny enemies in their wild estate, na ture. with unerring foresight, has de creed that the hen brooding by day should mutch tlie sand, while tlie part ner, who takes her place when the alludes of evening ure drawn, is the color of the night When a week old the chicks are worth »25 apiece and a pair of four-year-old ostriches »50(1. Thia Is no wonder, for the hen. for getting the «eusous In a land of per petual sunshine, lays all the year round instead of twice a year, as lu Africa. Each bird produces every nine months a crop of feathers worth about »30. while the tourists who pay to see them- and carry off their expensive plumage as souvenirs form the largest crop of all. -Sunset Magazine. Problem ot Medic«! Etiquette. It Is an ancient custom in Hungary that when a medical candidate has paaaed his examination with distinc tion and the doctor’s degree Is con ferred sub ausplctls regia he should receive from the emperor of Austria (king of Hungary) a ring bearing th« Initials “F. J.” set In brllllunts. After a certain time he Is admitted to present his thanks In person to the sovereign. In connection with this custom a curi ous problem recently exercised the mind of a young doctor who was serv ing his time In the army ns a “on« yeur volunteer." Being Invited to pre sent hhnself before the emperor, he was greatly puzzled how to do so. for on the one hand as a private soldier be ought to wear his shako, while ou the other as a doctor of medicine be should carry his hat under Ida arm. In bls perplexity be sought counsel of hla colonel, who after careful considera tion delivered himself of the following opinion: "If the emperor speaks to you In German, which Is the language of the army, you must regard yourself as a plain one yenr volunteer, and you will therefore keep your shako ou your head. But should his Imperial majesty address you in Hungarian this means that he sees In you a doctor of medi cine rather than a soldier, and you must therefore uncover your head."— T.ondon Globe. A« Kscltln« Kite Eiparluaeat. Two military kites attached by steel wire to a winch were sent up at au exhibition In England, and. the wind being strong, a man named Baker de cided to go up on a third and lurger kite, made of light canvas, with bam boo and hickory wood framework. To this was attached a cane seat. In which the man snt. The large kite went up easily along the wire, but at au alti tude of 200 feet was blown to pieces. Baker nnd the wreck were left dan gling on the wire. Deprived of the sus pending power of the large kite and with the weight of the man depending on them, the two smaller kites and ths whole apparatus began rapidly to fall The men at the winch worked In th« wire ns fast as possible, but the "scout’' and the kites came down at an alarm ing rote, nnd at one time Baker turned u somersault. He alighted on the root of a villa and escaped without Injury. Carefally Gnard Their Deed«. The care with which the Creek Indi* ans guard their allotment certificates, patents to lands and other papers of value has been the source of much amusement. These papers are never carried in • coat pocket, as a white man would protect them, but are carefully wrapped lu tissue and placed Inside some large receptncle, generally a satchel, but of ten a gunny sack. Indians recently appeared together at the Indian agen cy lu Muskogee to make arrangements for the sale of tbelr lands by the gov ernment. Each carried carefully strapped over a shoulder ■ large meal sack, apparently one third full of some thing. However, when the wrappings were removed only a single deed ap peared In each of the bags. Kansas City Journal. A Coat nt M««y Shape«. A Cape Town tailor has Invented a Coat that can be turned at will Into a frock, morning or evening dress coat. The change Is effected by the use of detachable and Interchangeable skirts, which are fastened to the body of the coat by an Ingenious system of lacing. It Is claimed that In two minutes a man can change a truck coal into a morning cout or a dress coat by whip ping off one pair of skirts nnd lacing on another, and It In Impossible to dis ffngiilsb the Joining from an ordinary seam.—St. James' Gazette. Mystery of « Battle««*. At the battle of Jena the standard of th« First regiment of Prussian hus sars was captured by the French, and the trophy han recently been discov ered by a collector at I’otsdam In an old curiosity shop. The purchaser made a present of the standard to Em peror William, who has Instituted a« inquiry as to how It la thnt this stand ard, which was captured on Oct. 14. 1806, by the troops of Marshal Lanno«, came to 1>e discovered fn a Prussian bric-a-brac shop ninety-eight years after It was lost. Tk« i>ia««itr. The Wife I fully realize that I ought to economize. Jack, but— Th« Husband—But what? Don't you kno* where to begin? The Wife—Oh. y««; but I can't deride on the tin:« - X«WB Topics. Del«« Well Wit»««« 1«. “Have you had brain fag yett" y«u( FurMsh asked the rising auttme. “No.” replied the letter. “J««t «< priMent I don't need tM advertl»!«*” —Cleveland Plain Deale«
