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BANDON RECORDER ODDLY NAMED TOWNS QUEER TITLES THAT DOT THE MAPS OF UNCLE SAM the thousands, and while they eagerly |>eruse the daily Ml*rs for news, tfie ■ereuity of their te es M ueter di»- tMrlwd ; they <|rc still the <iF(e smiling and very |sdite denizens of tlie Mikado'» land they were before death swept ( the Flowed' Kingdom, sprea<Rng ilkv ialion ill his wake, and leaving a seelie of carnage that lieggifrs description. If they grieve, ami no doubt they do, for friend, brother or comrade, the world does not know of it. Their grief is too saer«l for outsiders, ami you cun never fathom their hearts by any putward signs. HUMOR Qf THE HOUR • - Her I'uOrrfui imaalaatiaa. WbVti Mr. Ferguson went IMue th« her evening be fol|Ud liix wife crouch lnft over the register hi t* back l«r lor with a shawl over her shoulders and shivering w-|tb an t^r might. The hause w as sis hot as an oven. "W bat a the matter, Laura?” he asked. • "The nnftter is," she replied, with chattering teeth, "that 1 can't keep warm I've got the furnace going nt Its full capacity too.” "I should say y,,u had. What do you want things so hot for? Have you got a chill?” “If you want to know, go out on the back porch aud look at the thermome ter.” He went and inspected it. Then he came buck. “All that ails the thermometer,” he said, “is that the bulb is broken and the mercury has run out.” "Are you sure of that?” “You may go and look at it yourself If you don't believe me.” "Isn’t there a cold wave?” “Cold nothing! When I left the of fice half an hour ago the thermometer slion'ed 30 degrees above zero, and It certainly hasn't grown any colder since.” “George." gasped Mrs. Ferguson, throwing off her shawl and wiping the perspiration from her face, “I thought the mercury had gone down into the bulb nnd frozen solid”’—Chicago Trib une. ANIMAL PECULIARITIES Fish and Irak, M'hal «'an Imitate Th<r 'wBaidl^H Many insects, birds, unlmals and even fish and crabs are wonderfully clever Imitatobfc They *111 take upon them selves the color, shai>e or ixwltloii of their surroundings so perfectly that neither friend nor enemy can discover their whereabouts. There is a fish to be seen In the kelp beds alsjut the island of Santa Catalina which has a clever way of making it self Invisible. The body Is slender, with a pointed head and proailneut eyes. Along the back is a continuous frill, which is the dorsal fin, while, opposite, the anal fin is equally ornamented. The fish vary lu color. Some are amis'r, oth era orauge or vivid green, while some have two hues combined, dark and light green or olive and yellow. These pecu liarities of form and color render the fish marvelously like the kelp leaves among which It seeks protection. - A number of these tlsh were placed in the tanks of the zoological gardens, where they might be observed. They showed great uneasiness, some of them even leaping from the tank. Another tank was prepared, where the natural surroundings of the fish were Imltat«! as nearly as possible. A branch of ma- crocystis, with leaves hanging In the water, was suspended over the tank. The most uneasy of the fish were plac«l in the new home, and their change of feeling was soon evident. One swam at owe to the kelp leaves and poised it self, head downward. Another, with head poised upward, became a remark able imitation of the hanging leaves lu shape and color. The fish made no further effort to escape. Another Inhabitant of the kelp lieds is an olive green crab, which clings to the under side of the kelp tangles. This crab also showed great uneasiness when it was placed in a tank. When the kelp was Introduced it crawled up on it and was at once almost invisible, so much did it resemble the kelp leaves. Another crab makes Itself look exactly like a rough stone. When It Is alarmed it draws up Its legs and appears a bit of Inanimate stone. Several deep sea spiders which had been found at a depth of 800 feet were kept In a tank for several weeks. When taken from the dredging net they were a dark brown, though presumably the spot where they came from was sodark that they could scarcely have been seen. Yet even this type of apparently slug gish life had sufficient intelligence to realize that in the light of the tank it was a conspicuous object, so ft began to add seaweed to its back. The sea weed was plucked, then passed to the mouth and finally attached not to the back, but to the point of the shell above tile mouth so that it fell over the back like a gorgeous plume, making the crab very conspicuous. But when it was startled the plume of seaweed would point upward and the crab would be come a rock with a tuft of seaweed growing upon it, well calculated to de ceive tlie most observing enemy.—New York Herald. “Talk alxiut iietMity doctors a)| yod want to, and put all of your spare change in cold creams and the much-advertised remedies warrant«! to batlie old Father Time and cover up and smooth out the The names ot some town« In the Unit wrinkles and little criss-cross lines that ed States probably cause tlielr Inhab march steadily on in spite of the strenu itants considerable vexatious when ous efforts to keep them lack,” said If we, as |>eople, were schooled to away from home, says the Chicago little Mrs. Busybody the other day, Chronicle. These names have certain "but I would not waste a second conceal our feelings as well as the peculiar meanings in everyday talk and thought on them if I had my health. Japanese, never give way to fits of as soon as they ure mentioned they are If you are well you can build up men anger, Itecome Isiisterous with joy, or apt to prompt troublesome questions cast down into the depths of dea|>ond- by funmakers. For example, the man tally and physically, and gissl whole ency, raving and crying out agaiust some work is all the tonic I need if it is from Alone, Ky., might have to ex fate, letting all those around us know plain to a stranger living In New York combined with sincerity, malice toward wherein we had failed, etc., we would bow he could do business If he were the none, generous impulses and a deter only inhabitant and how the excise mination to keep in the sunshine and have no use for beauty doctors. The laws were enforced if the barkeeper, endeavor to keep step with progressive cheerful, serene, hojiefu) nature that the toper, the policeman and the magis ideas, instead ot getting into a rut and never worries over trifles, ami who, trate were all one aud the same anti in never having any ideas above the small when adversity comes, sees hope in the case there were more than one jierson gossip wherein many times lurk the lit star of destiny just ahead, and smil in Alone if all were bachelors and old ingly says it might have been worse, maids. Citizens of Lonely, N. C., anti tle arrows of sarcasm and fault-finding ami wltii fresh courage close» the pages about |wople who are nothing to us, Lonesome, Ky., would encounter much of the past and endeavors to seal them the same sort of questions, and all, of not even by the bonds of friendship, not with the seal of regret, but with course, would finally be asked If they and whom we have no right to criti were once Jersey commuters. cise. Surely it is not elevating and if oblivion, are the ones who will grow If a man hailed from Affinity, N. C., we will listen to the still small voice of old gracefully and happily. lie would naturally be supposed to be conscience we would very soon cease to married anti his liome life an unpunc- find fault and if we could not burnish Be a dreamer if it make's you happy, tuated chapter of bliss. He would be ami build your castles in the air. Rear up our memories enough to find some expected to wear as wide a sudle as the them lieautiful in architecture, graceful He Got Them All. citizen of Joy or Happy, Tex., or Para thing pleasant to say about this one, The president of a certain athletic dise. Colo., with n temper as subdued that one and the other one, then to re- in design and ¡icrfect in finish, even as the Inhabitants of Purity, Minn. meinber that ‘silence is golden,’ and though they must col la; «e like a house club in Baltimore which has a fond- What would happen, however, if the that the less said alsiut the little gos built of cards. Watch for your ship to uess for amateur exhibitions of the man from Affinity should meet a man sipy aff airs that stir up the dregs of the come into the harlstr with snowy sails “manly art" tells of the trials of an from Peace, Ala., would, indetsl, tie past and cloud the affairs of the day, glittering in the sun, and laden with Irish boxer Imported from Philadel problematical. They might, after the the l»etter. All of these little [>etty the wherewithal to bring great joy to phia to meet a local artist. It appears that the Philadelphia man fashion of some westerners, boom the you and others, even though it will merits of their respective towns with things tend to help rub out the char prove to be a mirage ami disap|>ear as was getting the worst of the argument such ardor that at last these representa acter linesand the refinement and true you stretch out your hand to anchor it wheu one of his friends whispered in his ear: tives of Peace and Affinity would come womanliness that is reflected upon the "Brace up, old man, an' stop some of to blows. They might at last develop face and shines out of the eyes—the in the harbor of your lit-art. It is not ns much disrelish for each other as the windows of the soul—betraying the the dreamer that succeeds as a rule, but them blows.” "Stop ’em?” murmured the unfortu citizens of Cream, Wls., who should thoughts of the pure heart, that is filled the hard worker who toils for all he chance to take dinner with a citizen of with cheerful ami loving themes. gets. 1 heard a man say the other day, nate man. "Do yon see anny of tlilin Caviar, N. J. On the other hand, they Much a |>erson does not fret and worry; “ work, and the hardest kind of work gittln’ by?”—Harper’s Weekly. might become ns chummy ns the towns they keep the even tenor of their way, was my salvation, for no one, I believe, men of those three towns In the states was ever lorn with a greater desire to of Colorado, Oregon and West Virginia doing the liext they can and not »¡wild be a sinner in all its phases. From a ing the time in useless regret for things which ail bear the name of Crook. boy I hated to do good, but fairly Any one coming from Eye, N. C., that are past and cannot lie helped by could hardly expect to Join the New- dwelling on them. If they have made reveled in sin. However, it is past ami York police force and find tilings con mistakes they do not keep harping u|s>n I have comeout the victor. I acknowl genial. If he was a native of Lax. their failures, but endeavor to forget edge our environments havemuch to<lo Ala., or Blind Bay, La., on the con them, or at least profit by them to the with our success in life, and people who trnry, his duties as a metropolitan blue extent that they will not makea second fall far short of the mark would coat might prove congenial. If he said under more favorable circumstances la* he was from Sodom, O., he would most blunder, and they are not going to crowned with the laurels of approval. wear themselves out and others as well. likely be told that his own town must need Ids services more. If he replied It is the one who can rise aixtve these BRIEF REVIEW. that it didn't, he might be recommend petty annoyances who will defy Father ed to try to get a position In Pluto. Time. They don’t worry, hence they Miss. do not require the aid of beauty doc Breckinridge’s Mannerisms. Near the Greene river In Kentucky tors to rub out the ugly and disfiguring "The death in Kentucky the other and several miles south of Lewiston lines. All the massaging, cold creams day of that brilliant orator and lawyer, there Is a town by the name of Pig It has never been recorded in any his and beauty doctors’ efforts will avail Col. W. C. 1’. Breckinridge, reminded tory of the United States whether the nothing if the patient is of a worrying, me of one of his curious manner characteristics of the people of I’lg are fretful and dissatisfied nature, and un isms as a public s|s*aker,” said a man MUSIC AS A LURE. any different from those of the people til they cultivate a cheerful, hopeful from another state. “Nomatter what of Lamb, Ill., or Cblckles, Pa. This is and contented dis}s>sition, the money the role he played for the time, the one ■he Way the Deadly Cobra Is Cap certainly to be regretted. It would they so freely spend to mask their real little peculiarity I have in miml was al tured In India. certainly lie Interesting to know If the natures is thrown away. ” ways present. It was in the way he The death dealing cobra is passion worthy burghers of I’lg are any more "Nonsense! My husband and I get ately fond of music, and it is through stood while speaking. As a rule he happy anil contented than other human along all right, and I make him make this means that its capture is often ac beings, whether they have such ills as We could learn a lesson from the made but few gestures. His hands were all the concessions.” Insomnia, nervous prostration or mel Japanese on this coast. Seldom do you generally hanging locked in front of complished. Tlie men in India who ancholia; whether there is any sale In him. He had the habit of throwing can effect the capture of this deadly- find one whose face shows the care Commercially Speaking. I’lg for appetizers, and what the good one foot out to the fore and his body reptile must be possessed of remark lim>s, discontent, worry and disap|s>int- Mr. Blunderalong — Why, Miss An- people do on Fridays. back, so that his weight would seem to able skill or tlielr lives are the forfeit Should a woman from Big Foot. ment that makes so many compara rest on the heel of the hindmost foot. tike, this is a pleasure! I haven’t seen you for a long time. You must pardon When a cobra takes up Its abode in the Tex., or Antiquity, O., advertise for a tively young |>eople old liefore their neighborhood of a dwelling house It Is husband it Is safe to say she would not time. It is a part of tlie’r religion This waif precisely the thing that an me, but you look fifty— Miss Antike- Mr. Blunderalong! customary to send for the professional get us many answers as a woman from never to show fear or worry. Their noyed me when I first heard Colonel Mr. Blunderalong—Per cent better snake charmers. One of them strikes Beauty, W. Va. The man who Imil«**! faces may light up with pleasure but it Breckinridge. He would throw his from Jug, Ala., might have more dif is rare indeed for them to betray their laxly I lack at an angle which seemed to than you did the last time I met you.— up a tune near the place where the ficulty In being elected to the White me to threaten his balance. For a Judge. •mike la supposed to l>e located. No - - • Itlbbon society than his contemporary grief, fears and disappointments to while I could not get away from the matter what the creature may be do others. Even though they are in pain HevernliiR the I'anal Order. from Dry Town, Cal. The native of idea that he was in constant danger of Baity Moore I notice that a colored ing, it is at once attracted, by tlie sound Magic, Ain,, would no doubt be wel you would never surmise it front their sprawling on the floor on his back. He pugilist is planning to start a prize of music. It emerges slowly from its comed by certain Wall street officers expression or their actions. I saw an was apparently out of plumb, if you fight at 3 o’clock and get married at 5. hiding place Mid strikes an attitude lu where a citizen from Fairplay. Wls., interesting Incident of this not long Calvert, Jr.—This is certainly tile age front of tlie performer. There it is would find the door shut. Should the since in (iolden < late Park. Two young will allow me to put it technically. Of woman from Alamode, Ga., or Fash Japanese boys, yet in their teens, and course, this fear soon wore away as I of revolutionizing old customs and get kept engaged with the music while the ion. Ga., meet a woman from Jays- accompanied by Japanese girls of altout liecame interested in what the speaker ting things reversed.—Baltimore Ameri other man creeps up behind with a handful of dust. At a convenient mo vtlle, O., the two might get into such a was saying, and finally I would not can. ment, when the cobra is standing mo controversy that at the end they would the same age came along hand in hand. notice it all. ” tionless, tills man suddenly throws the Preferred the Dark. both lie believed to be natives of Loon They sat down near Btowe Lake, eat "See here, young man,” said her fa dust over the head and eyes of tlie eyville, N. Y. The citizen of Fossil. ing popcorn balls and peanuts and "Little” Japan Not so Small. ther, "I always turn the lights out In snake. Immediately tlie cobra falls its Orc., unlike the citizen of Quick. Neb., fed the swans that craned their grace length upon the ground and remains Most of our maps of Asia are drawn this house by 10 o’clock. would no doubt feel very much nt ful necks to receive the tempting mor “Oh, we’ll have the parlor light out there for one short second, but the sec home in Philadelphia, nnd for much sels that they fed them. Finally the to a small scale, and, on such majm, the the same reasons the representative of boys went off to secure boats for a row Japanese archipelago fills little space. before that,” replied Mr. Nervey cool ond is enough. With a movement like lightning the man seizes the body of Fact. Kan., would find a congenial at- on the lake; the next instant one of But she is larger than England and ly.—Philadelphia Press. the prostrate serpent Just below the m<»sphere in Boston. Vegetarians girls had off one of the patent leather more populous. She has 6,000,000 head. In great anger the cobra winds Hlichly Sntl.faetory, should go to Grass, 8. D. shoes which showed that it was a full more people than France. She sent Askum—Is your patient with the Itself round and round the arm of its Any one might think that Ice. Ga., would become a more popular summer size too small for her. She held the six armies over sea within six months, grip progressing as rapidly ns you ex captor, but to no purpose, for it cannot turn its bead and bite. If the fangs are resort than. Hell Hole, Colo. A Jury- aching foot for a moment, but the next every one of which was as big as either pected ? Dr. Fatfee (Jubilantly)—Yea, thank to be extracted at once the captor made up of men half of whom were instant that shoe was on again and she army that met at Waterloo. She has born In Japan, Mo., nnd the other half walked off'as though there was no such sent to Manchuria twice as many sol you. He has already developed pneu presses his thumb on tlie throat of the cobra and thus compels It to open Its In Russia, N. Y, would bo pretty sure a thing as a lame foot encased in patent diers in six months as England sent to monia.—Judge. mouth. The fangs are then drawn to disagree. At any rnte. they would leather shoes. Not for one moment did South Africa in two years. A Choice of Term«. with a pair of pinchers. If. however, he not call in a man from Jingo, Tenn., for "Have you congratulated our hostess wishes to keep tlie snake Intact for the a peacemaker. Should the girl from her face show the agony she must have The Primrose League. on her birthday?” present the musician comes to help Leapyenr, Tenn., become dissatisfied lieen enduring. I met them again an "No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “I him and forcibly unwinds the colls and The Primrose League, founded by with things at home there Is little dan hour later and the two couple were sit ger of her settling In Bachelor, Mich. ting on a grassy hillside, all chatting English Tories in honor of Lord Bea have condoled with her.”—Washington places tlie Issiy In a basket, all but tlie head, which Is firmly held by the other Neither would the man from Langor. and laughing, but it was a tableau I consfield, is 21 years old, having risen Star. man. He presses down the lid to pre Minn., think of moving to Jump, O. could not soon forget. The girl with from an original membership of 857 to Moderation. vent the cobra from escaping, and sud A man may travel from Dan to Bwr the lame foot had taken off her shoe 1,666,387. It is peculiar as being the Weary Walters—I don't believe In denly the captor thrusts the head In sheba nowadays and think It a very and bangs tlie lid. short Journey. There Is a Dun In Ken and stocking and the Ja|>anese boy she first great political organization to in doin' two t'ings at once. Sunny South—Two t'ings! Gee! I A very expert performer can capture tuck.v nnd a Beersheba over the line In was with was picking a corn out of her vite the participation of women in its don ’ t believe in doin ’ one t'ing at once. the snake single handed, though It is Tennessee. Neither Is the trip from toe with his pocket knife. They were memltership and to some extent in its -Puck. highly dangerous. While playing with Ixindon to Pekin a long one In the not in the least emliarrassed by the management. Avowedly carried on one hand he throws the dust sideways United Htntes. Ohio contains both a people passing to and fro, who natur to support conservative leaders, of Age. with the other and captures the snake Pekin nnd n I.ondon, and it Is not a ally smiled at this bit of surgery being course, it rarely discusses and never “Man has seven ages,” she said. long Journey from Whisky Buttes. performed in so public a place. What criticises their action. witli the same hand Tlie whole action __ "Tea," he replied. ' Woimur has only must be like a flash ot lightning, for a Montn Seven Devils, Ida. that girl must have endured during two, her real age and the one she tells half second’s delay or tlie merest bun that hot afternoon was nothing short Same Old Problems Still. her friends."—Chicago Record-Herald. gllng In throwing the dust or catching Cricket« In Japan. Rev. Dr. Erl ward Everett Hale is There is a Inrge green cricket in Ja of torture; yet never for an instant tlie snake would prove fatal to tlie Her criticism.. pan of which th« children of that coun did she lietray the fact in her smiling ■low an LI" P, of WJIIivr» zml’/'ge, operator. "Tile Inen are all crazy to know her ” try are loud. Ik is sold'in cunning lit fa<e as she Lobbied oeside her oriental from which his father graduated just “I think they must be.”—New York Inlminlny ftlepbanta. tle bamboo cages In booths on the lover. I thought then how few of our 1D0 years ago. The doctor read an ex Weekly. The elephants of Burma, in India, streets and Is loved for Its cheery chirp. American girls could have lss>n as tract from his parent's graduation ad are used for a variety of purposes. Several varieties of tree crickets are heroic under like circumstances. They The Mathematician. Throughout the day they work steadily pure white, coming nt different times would have las'll shown very quickly dress, which dealt with the question, He figured on the distance as laliorers in carrying the great tim of the year. Some have a note so loud that every step was one of the greatest " Has there been a progressive improve Of the stars up In the sky; ment in society in the last fifty years?" bers from place to place, a single ele He figured on our planet's age nnd Insistent that to have two or three And when this earth will die; pliant doing tlie work. It is estimated, playing their fiddles In a gnrden at pain, and the tell-tale lines of suffering Dr. Hale jocosely remarked that a cen He figured on the railways of a score of men. Their great diver once makes n noise almost deafening, would have been written on their faces. tury ago the boys ap)s*ared to lie And the trust with patient skill— slon In hours of rest Is bathing, and while a species that comes late In the The Japanese are schooled from their wrestling with the same problems as But he never found the errors In his monthly grocery bill. they take their baths in a curious way fall has an exquisite note like the quick infancy to keep grief, sorrow, pain, are now discussed. —Washington Star. The kee;>er takes hie place on tlie back ringing of a small bell. etc., ¡lent up in their own hearts, the of an elephant and thus placed makes Few Bad Father« Among Birds. world must not know of their trials and When a man ha« his picture taken Shopplnir Troubles. Bad fathers are rare among birds. a tour of a great lake or river, tlie "Tomorrow Is my wife's birthday, tribulations, their fears or their worries. with his family he shows on his photo Usually the male rivals his mate In huge animal swimming under him at a and I want to buy a present that will The world must not know of their graphic face that he was forced into it. love for their children. The carrier surprising rate, while he Is kept high heartaches or their afflictions; their tickle her." pigeon—In fact, so do nearly all birds— and dry above water. "We have a nice line of feather griefs are too sacred to be aired to an If a man has any sense at all in his feeds bis mate while she is on the nest. An Aatograph Hint. bona." unsympathizing world, ami further love affairs, he loses it when he scent« More than that, the crow, the most "Will you oblige me with your auto "No, no. I mean something that more they do not lielieve in burdening dismal of all birds, often sits on the graph?” asked a bore of a busy public a rival. would make a hit with her.” eggs in the nest in order that Mrs. man. anybody else with their troubles. The “Anything In hammers?" People who advertise their troubles Crow may have an hour or so of relax result is that you seldom see a wrinkled, “Certainly,” replied the public man. "You mlsnnderstnnd. 1 want some atlon nnd go-sip among the other Ml* "Just make out a cheek for 10 guinea* care-worn face among them. Their never clear off their stock. thing striking that"— Crows of her acquaintance. The blue payable to my order. I will Indorse ft faces are smooth, no wrinkles or <*risa- “Ab. you wish a clock.• marten, tin» black coated gull, the orosses. Their countrymen are falling Wandering afar is not essential to the great blue heron nnd the black vulture cheerfully, and in due time, you may "That’s all.”—Cleveland Plain Deal be sure. It will come back to you safe on the altar of the war with Russia by welcome of home. • • * er. all do the same.—Louisville Post. ly through your bank." Thia Xomanclatlva Perallarlly la Not t’ooAoed to Any Oar Part ot the t'oeatry, hat l.rata Itself Impar tially to All Seetloae. THE BURMESE WOMAN. With All Her Faille««. She la Haig la High Haleem. FACTS IN FEW LINES The pauperism of Eugland and Wales costa the whole population |2 38 a bead "Burma, as lu many other thiugs,” yearly. writes V. C. Scott lu bls book “The There a* four times as many words Bilkeu East," "is lu advauce of more in the English Jiinguage ax In tlie reputedly civilized cutiutriee 11» the French. status It. accords to Its woiueu. The The longest article tn the new sec Infaut marriage and shutting up lu tion of the Oxford Dictionary la ou the wall«l bouses, the polygamy, the ba verb "pass." It takes up sixteen col- terns, the social punishment of widows, num«. The following advertisement Is taken tlie deulal of spiritual rights which pre vail In India are uukuowu lu Burma. from an English paper: “Smart lad Here woiueu marry wheu they are of wuuted for butchering. Apply 6 Spot Jami road.” age and after they have seen some It is stated that not one bride was What of the world. They marry, for over tweuty-two years of age lu the the most part, whomsoever they will aud from love. They are not handl'd 84(>,5lk) marriages which took place lu over as chattels to a man whom they Japan last year. According to the St. Jamea’ Gazette, know not, but are courted and won The married women's property uct has it is now “smart” to be superstitious; lu effect beeu established for centuries heme English noclety would regret to In Burma. In this country, where the see an English princess married to an women earu so much, the woman’s Alfouxo XIII. All Moslem nu-es despise and bate earnings are her owu. Divorce Is eas ily obtained, but seldom asked for. The the sound of bells, which, they say, lightness of the marriage laws, the causes the evil spirits to assemble to readiuess of the Burmese women to en gether. In conaequenee Isdls are never ter Into an easy alliance, shock the vlr Used on Moliummedan mosques. Thieves have carri«l off from the tue of the strenuous foreigner, hilt within her Ideals she Is a i>erfeetly church of Sauvetat, in the French de pro[M‘r, modest ami well mannered wo partment of 1’uy de Dome, a massive and artistic copper statue of the Virgin man. “She has fallings. Who has not? Her which lx said to date from 131U. practice of chewing betel is inelegant Ijist year Spain lmport«l one half ot ami destructive to her teeth; her voice its coal from England. It lx now pro la apt under the pressure of adversity postal to form a union of tlie Spanish to tie shrill; her keen business faculties coal mines aud by organizing the lulu detract a trifle from the romance in Ing luduxtry to cut off tlie English sup which, as in a halo, all women are en ply. veloped; in old age she Is very ugly, A Danish engineer rets'ntly built a and even In youth her nose is stumpy, vessel after the lines of Noah's ark as her lips a little thick, her cheek bones laid down lu tlie Bible. It made a craft high und heavy—but these are Cau of 306 tons. It made a trial trip near casian objections. Copenhagen anti proved a good sea "In tlie eyes of the young men of the boat. land the Burmese girl is a peerless Copper mining once flourish«! in Ire creature, and her influence over their hearts and tlielr passions is Immense. land, and between 1840 and 1843 the Ballymurtagh mine in Wicklow coun What Is more, few men in Burma ever ty produced (1,000 tons of copper pyrites undertake anything of magnitude with a year. There Is some prospecting still out first seeking the able counsel of being done In Ireland. their wives.” According to tlie annual report of the Volunteers of America, of whom Ball ASTROLOGY. ington Booth is the leader, the congre One of the Moat Ancient Forma ot gations at the 25,000 servlei'S during the past year within tlie volunteer halls Superatfttlou. Astrology means the “science of the and buildings reached l.Otki'.loTi per stars.” Tke encyclopedia calls nstrol- sons. It is stated by the Peking Tinies that ogy “one of the most ancient forms of superstition.” Chaldeans, Egyptians, among the gifts present«! to tlie em Hindoos and Chinese were given to it. press of China on her birthday was a The Jews became addicted to it after “beautiful diamond" from a high offi the captivity. It spread into the west cer. It was examined by tlie empress’ and into Rome at about the beginning experts and turned out to be a piece of of the Christian era. Astrologers play cut glass. ed an lmi*ortant part at Home, where Anglomauia is still increasing in Par they were called Chaldeans and “inathe is. Formerly one used to bear of hi maticians." Although they were often belle, le Jeu de paume, la raquette. le banished by the senate aud the enijier- ballon, etc. Today ever.vlxxly says ors on pain of death and were other "nous faisous du sport, du rowing, du wise persecuted, they continued to hold yachting, du football, du tenuis, du tlielr ground. Even Ptolemy the as golf," etc. tronomer did not escape the Infection, A Parisian lady claiming <10,000 which in his time bad been universal. damages from her landlord because the Mohammedanism was well adapt«l noise of the horses next door kept her to astrology, and the Arabs cultivated awake produced as evidence a dress the "science” with great ardor from maker's certificate showing that owing tlie seventh to the thirteenth century. to want of rest her waist had liecome Some of the early Christ lull fathers ar two inches smaller. gued against astrology in Its earlier Recently a Batli (Me.) secret order form and others received it modified lnltlat«l a candidate ag«l eighty to some extent. There Is a hint of as years. He joint'd for tlie social fea trology. some critics think, in the story tures and took Ills degrees with sev of the visit of tlie three wise men from eral other candidates. He says that the east to Bethlehem at the time of he is going to try to get what fun there the Nativity. Is going while he lives. Probably the palmiest days of astrol In tlie Bayonne (N. J.) court a hen ogy were the fourteenth and fifteenth was commltt«! and this entry made up centuries. At two of the oldest univer on the records: "Nume, a Leghorn; sities in Europe chairs were founded age, doubful; nativity, Centerville; oc for its teaching—at Bologna and nt Pa cupation. layer; offense, clucking; dis dua. No prince’s court was complete position, eventually to be fricasseed; without Its astrologer. After the renais found on person, feathers.” sance the study of astrology was vig Under a new law In Virginia which orously opposed, though for centuries allows representatives of a person kill many men continued to believe in It, ed to sue Ida slayer for damages the among whom, at least to a certain ex administrator of Hoge Crockett of tent, was Napoleon. The merciless Richmond has secured <3,000 from the ridicule of Swift had much to do with estate of T. L. Sayers. Sayers killed its discredit in England. Crockett and then disappeared. During a recent telegraphic break AN ODD VERDICT. down messages from New York to Chi cago were sent round by London, Gi Why an Indian'« Horse Was Declar braltar, Alexandria, Aden, Bombay, ed Winner of n Race. Madras, Hongkong. Guam nnd San A man who has traveled extensively Francisco. Answers were received in in tlie west among other anecdotes told New York in less than an hour. this one; There are a numlier of men and boys “I was present at a horse race In at Seekonk, R. I., who make considera New Mexico one day, where a horse ble money by trapplug. They report belonging to an Indian had l>een aulmnls plenty and prices good. Skunk matched against a swift footed pony skins bring on tlie average <1.50 each, which was the property of a cowboy. mink $3 to <8 and muskrats aliout 20 The pony was known by tlie white cents each. One mau caught fifty-four men to lie a tietter racer than the other skunks In a single month. animal, and tlie race had been ar The longest telephone line In Ger ranged for the pur|s>se of fleecing the redskins. An impromptu course of a many Is 742 miles In length and runs mile had been arranged, and the race between Berlin and Paris. Then follow was to lie four times over tlie course. Berlin nnd Budapest, 612 miles; Berlin The cowboys gave tlielr rider Instruc anil Memel, 5D3 miles; Berlin and Ba sel, 377 miles. The line between Berlin tions to hold the pony back until the finish, so that they could induce the In and Frankfort is the most used, 485 communications being transmitted dal dians to make big bets. “The Indian's horse t«ik the lend at iy- Si lence now transforms radishes into the start and retained It. The cowboys offer«l more money ax tlie race pro potatoes. Showing a prm-exs of Pas gress«l, and the Indians, seeing their teur, M. Moillard cultivates a young liorae In tlie lead, took the wagers. So radish In a glass retort In concentrated It went until three and a half miles glucose. The radish develops much bad been covered and the Indians had starch and swells out, losing Its pep- bet all their possessions against tlie perinoss and acquiring tlie taste, con money of tlie cowboys. Then the cow sistency and nutritive properties of tlie ls>y rider put tlie spurs to the |s>ny potato. A case of deliberate canine suicide lie passed the horse In tlie last quarter and crossed the line five lengths ahead is rejiorted from Westbrook, Me. The "There were three judges. Two of dog was etandfng on the track as s them were Indians, and the other was train was approaching, and u young a cowboy. 'We win!’ cried the cow man who saw him did bls utmost by boys and started to coll«-t the !>ets. calling and whistling to attract bis at teutlon, but the dog persisted In stand when the Indian Judges Interposed. “’Uhi uh,' they grunted. "Indian's ing X11T1, lacing uie coming train Wild ■truck by the engine and killed. horse win!’ Twenty-one years ago a peasant In ’’'How’s that?’ shouted tlie cowboys. the village of Jaennersdorf, near Ost 'Didn't the pony cotne in first?’ “ 'But Indian's horse was In front prlegnltz, placed his son in a small most of the way. Indians win,’ came building and after walling him In kept tlie final decision of the two Indian him there. Food was handed In judges, nnd there was no apiieal.”— through a small opening not many inches In diameter, which wax the only Ixiuisvllle Courier Journal. channel for light and a!r within. The peasant is now aged ninety, his wife A Good Praeedeot. "My dear," said Mrs. Mildly as she eighty-six and the »on forty-six. dusted Mr. Mildly's table, “this would Mr. Flnnr«an’a “Filoaophr." be a great deal cleaner world If there Wanst they wuz a man na-amed Dor- were not any men in It.” gan—or was ut Clancy?—lived dost lie “If there were not,” retorted Mr. a frl’nd av molne an' had a fur-r-nace Mildly, “the women would do exactly thot wudden't git fairly shtarted lnny as the Lord did—hunt around for da-ay until along toords nolght Juxht enough dirt to make a man out of."— | whin ut wuz tolme t' bank ut up fer Collier's. the nolght Hlnce thin Ol've seen a lot Her Pate. o’ people thot remotnded me av thot Mrs. I»e Work—I have trained my fur-r-nace. They ahplnt most av their eldest daughter Into a thorough house lolves doin' nawthln' lxcipt to dimnn keeper There Is nothing she does not sthrate bow big a fool a mon cud tie. know. Miss De Flight—What a nice, An' nbout the tolme they seemed to handy maiden aunt she will make for have larrned enough to live they doled, t* hlvlna!—Baltimore American. your other daughters' children!
