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!