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BANDOX RECORDER. TACTS IN FEW LINES Forty men and three women to every 1,000 persons are color blind. Two or three meteors fall somewhere on earth every twenty-four hours. The common h ' sparrow flies at the rate of seventy-two miles an hour. There are l.SoO ehurehes in Moscow. They are the wealthiest ehurehes in the world. In Hoilaii'l persons under eighteen nre prohibited from entering a public house unless aeeompanied by an ailult. In tea planting in India did not exist, yet last year it prod need Ui per eent of the total consumption in Ber Mn. Of the total ineome of the Knited Kingdom, whieh is about t'l.SiHMhio. Um) per annum, about one-half is en Joyed by one tenth of the population. In a recent lecture in London it was remarked as curious that, though tin Tibetans had not renlfxed the princi ple of the wheel or aivh. they thor oughly understand that of the canti lever and used it in their bridges. 1-Veding the pigeons is a favorite pas time of the students on the Harvard cnmpr.s. The birds are .ptite tame, and It is not an uneoiiim.'ii sight to see some yomg student with birds perched on his head and shoulders, feeding them with peanuts. Hiram Cochran a California pioneer, wanting to make sure of a gon.l f.i neral, willed his estate, consisting of some town lots ami other property, t an undertaker to whom he had m.i lc known his funeral wishes and who had promised to carry them out. A remarkable reeord of thrift come from Morrisyille. Vt.. where a young man has purchased a farm fr.:u the savings of Jive years" labor in the tan neries. At no time did he receive over $RMj."i a week ami much of the time less, yet he laid by .) dear K'-idr. supporting his family. "Sleeping in the open air can only be practical with safety from arr-t by wealthy persons or those who ca-i show that they have plenty of means and are doing it for experiment, and then only so lone as no obstruction is caused." said the magistrate of a Lon don police court the other day. A Japanese recently applied for leave to attend the meetings of the San Kraneiseo Building Trades council, lie said he wanted to listen to its delib erations nud also wanted to ascertain how to proceed in order that his coun trymen might be admitted to unions atlillated witli the council. His request was refused. An Austrian meteorologist. .1. N. Nowak, who forecasts the weather by means of a plant called "alms pn-cato-rius." discovered by him in Mexico many years ago. will erect his tirst weather stations in Vienna and Lon don. Xowak maintains that his fore casts are obtainable from three to eight days ahead. For the first time within living mem ory, says the London Mail, a child has been born in the curfew tower of Willd-r east le Slui.'- ' 1 Mil filing, I ul Jeepcr eiiueiuve. lite lower constructed by Henry III. in the thir teen th century. Instruments of tor ture still remain there, but now the grim old prison is a nursery, in a list or unclaimed letters pul fished by the New York postotlice a few days ago wen missives addressed to 1 1. .rry Thaw, the young IMttsburger whose marriage caused a sensation re cently: IMder Haggard, the English novelist; Marconi, the wireless tele graph man. and Craig Wadsworth, sec retary of the American embassy in London. Scotch fishermen have introduced fishing boats driven by motors. Ex periments have demonstrated the great advantages of such boais oer sailing craft in calm weather or when the wind is unfavorable. The Scotch fishing Meet comprises fully In.ooo boats working at line and net fishing, in addition to a hundred or more steam trawlers. In her latest novel "Kita" drew a veiled portrait of the Countess of War wick. At the New Vagabonds din ner in London the other night the two were brought face to face. Some ex pected Lady Warwick to cut "Itita." but she did nothing of the sort. On the contrary, her ladyship was very gracious. "Kita" Is Mrs. Desmond Humphreys. Dowle has a rival or Imitator in Ha waii in the Rev. J. M. Kzera. for a numlMT of years pastor of the uattive Congregational church at Ewa and considered, next to the Hev. S. L. Desha, the most eloquent and intlu outhil native pastor In the islands. Kzeru Is now the lender of a new cult or sect, the members of which look upon him as a reincarnation of Kill ah An American who has ample oppor tunity to observe King Leopold of Bel giuui describes him as "a man of ex traordinary line physique, an accom plished linguist, widely rend and trav eled and holding advanced liberal views In all matters pertaining to statecraft and social science. He had the prescience to see In the Kongo sec tion of Africa an opportunity to found a colony for the surplus population of the small state over which he rules, Belgium being the most densely popu lated of European countries." Mine, Patti (Iiaroness Cedcrstromi has received from I 'resident Loiibct the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in recognition of her charitable work in Paris. In signing the decree conferring the decoration President Loubet Is said to have uttered a remark so undiplo matic as to make every other French man blush. "1 do this." he Is reported to have said, "with as much pleasure as I experienced long ago, when I had no gray hairs and when I heard Mine. Adelina l'atti sing in 'Lucia and m La Somnaiiibula.' " A Primer Lcunoii. See the woman. Why Is she so cross? Oh, she's having a lot of dresses made. See the other woman. Why is she so cross? Because she isn't having a lot of dresses made. "Women are queer creatures, an; they not? Louisville Courier-Journal. If Dame Rumor's reports are true the next turn of the wheel of fashion will cause the fair sex to don lumps. They won't he the immense ones that made women look like a huge balloon in the time of our great grand-mothers, however they will be big enough to make it uncomfortable for those who don't wear the objectionable hoops, particularly if they are in the vicinity where several at e banded together who have adopted the fad. .Methinks I hear the gnashing of teeth already, and comments Unit are not Mattering to the luHi-ckid sex. Think of our street cars that are crowded to stand ing room, and many times more wo men than men, for the latter have a knack of running half a block to meet the cars, when the throngs of men, women and children are pouring from factories, stores ami oMices at the close of day, and by the time the cars stop the scats are frequently comfortably Mlled with a contented lot of men and boys, while every available space is filled with standing women ami .chil dren, which the conductor must elbow his way through many times to collect the Tan's. It is bad enough now, but what do you think it will be .vhen the hoops come into fashion? Hard on the wearers, you say? Yes, and un pleasant for everybody in their vicin ity. 1 question in my own mind whether women will be slaves enough to fashion to adopt a fad that will cause so much 1 rouble and annoyance. There should be enough sensible wo men to frown down a style like this and refuse to join the hoop brigade. Hut if it should be universally adopted the street car companies will have to be looking up a plan to enlarge the stauding-rtHimaireomniodationsof their cars without having to widen the tracks. There is one comfort about this hoop fad, it cannot hist for any great length of time, for another whirl of the wheel of fashion will doubtless bring the other extreme, as it has had a bad way of doing for ages past. Speaking of fashions reminds- me that the societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, birds, etc., have gained a great victory in the State of .Missouri. It is a serious blow to mil liners, particularly if they have laid in a supply of the plumage of birds to be used ill their sUr-U of millinery finery. A law has been passed by the Legisla ture for the protection of birds, and any woman found wearing wings or feathers of any description, unless they are ostrich or peacock feathers the birds' lives not Staving to be sacrificed to obtain these, is guilty of an offense punishable by heavy line and possibly imprisonment or both. A woman de- V -.T '- - ' i - viiUl A-J ;- tirr-r-ii fortahle if a jHm'ceiiian or someollicer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Birds should step up to her on the strett, and ex hibiting his star standing for justice and mercy, arrest the culprit and pos sibly retain the hat or bonnet to be used in the trial as "Exhibit No. 1," etc. If these little feathered songsters could know of this law in their favor, how the welkin would ring with their songs of thanksgiving. It is to be hoped that other States will follow Missouri's example in protecting the feathered denizens of her woods and fields. It is generally understood that os triches do not stiller in giving up their graceful plumage to satisfy the vanity of tiie fair sex and the Knight Temp lars, who must (dead guilty as well as the former to a weakness for ostrich plumes, and the more beautiful and costly the better for these Sir Knights. I asked a gentleman who claims to Ik. an authority on the suuject of os trich raising in all of its Iphases, whether the bird sullered any pain when the plumes were removed, and in reply he said: "Well, Polly, I can assure you u is no picnic mr me os trich. You can obtain some faint idea of the pain the bird endures at such a time by having one of your linger nails jerked oil'." Now, what do Jyou think of that, you knights and ladies who imagine it is an act of mercy to help the ostriches get rid of their feathers so they ( an grow some more? "It is hard on the geese tojgive up their feathers, to-.), Polly," says a lover of beautiful ostrich feathers, "but you must acknowledge that we must have our feather pillows, and even feather beds in the State where the thermom eter registers below zero in the winter time." 'Tis ever thus, audi its long as this merry old world wags on people will dill'er in their opinions; some will willingly sacrifice their personal van ity and forego thepIeasureof wearing feathers to save needless pain. Others will turn a deaf ear to the. whisper ings oi conscience and only the firm hand of the law will put a stop to their finery at the expense of bird life. Kverylnxly who has admired the beautiful peacock in (Solden ('ate Park its he proudly paraded over tho.velvety lawn, will Ik; glad to know that the chall'cur was found guilty who nt the bidding of a man who should have known better, ordered him to seize the peacock and pull the beautiful feathers to gratify the wish of a heartless wo man who had expressed a desire to have them. Her word was law, and the challeur did as he was bid, but while lie wtis committing the act lie Wius arrested and sown found out what the law had in store for him a heavy line of $JU0. The man and the wo man who instigated this outrage should have had this to pay. I cannot im agine a woman who takes a pride and an interest in one of the chief attrac tions of our State the Golden Gate Park desiring any one to do some thing that would set an example for others to follow aud which, if not dealt with in the beginning, would soon play havoc with this little Eden of San Francisco. You would think a woman would be the last one to coun tenance such a thing, much less be the instigator of a foolish caprice that stirred the wrath of every man, wo man and child, and waked up a hor nets' nest for the guilty parties. Again are our Native Daughters be ing heard from in their work of beau tifying the State or at the least the sec tion of it where they reside. Redwood City is to profit by their progressive spirit. A beautiful park is now being laid out under the supervision of ex pert landscape gardeners under the direction of Bonita Parlor. Already the place is one of the beautiful and at tractive spots of Redwood City, but they will not present it to the city un til it comes up to their expectations as one of the ideal parks of the State. They are standing all the expenses and are enthusiastic over their undertaking- Two of the most beautiful parks in the State are in the prosperous town of Petalunia, and is the work of the Ladies' Improvement Club of that place. Only a few years ago they were the receptacles for old tin cans and the general rubbish of the town in lact, the dumping places for all kinds of re fuse. Now they are covered with beau tiful velvety lawns, shade trees and Mowers, with plenty of rustic seats to accomodate the many people who take advantage of the beautiful parks to rest and enjoy themselves in the open air. Their work is still going on and many an improvement have they in mind to aid in making attractive their home city. BRIEF REVIEW. "When Coldatmllh Wrote. An old volume which an Atlanta booklover prizes was found In an old bookshop recently. It Is "The History of Rome," by Oliver Goldsmith. Gold smith's name takes one back to the lit erary fellows of that day. the hack work they did to keep life In them, for when Goldsmith was at work writing that history he was doing twenty dif ferent things besides, little odds and ends that brought money for his dally bread, with a scolding landlady laying down the law to him, for It was the time when the great Dr. Johnson "thought himself lucky when he could dine In a cellar on sixpence worth of tripe and a pennyworth of bread and wipe his fingers on the back of a New foundland dog after his greasy meal!" And to think of the growling that la done by the little authors of the pres ent day! Atlanta Constitution. "Home, Sweet Home." "t,.:o, ywoot Home." Pyues song, was originally a number In the opera "Clari. the Maid of Milan." a produr tlon , brought out In 1S23. The opern was a failure, and nothing Is now known of It save the one song, which became Instantly popular. Over 100, (KMl copies were sold In the first year of its publication, and the sale In one form or another has been constant ever since the first appearance of this beau tif ul theme. The melody is a Sicilian folk song ami was adapted to tho words bv Payne himself. Knii.v Way. "I want to do something that will draw out die conversational abilities of my friends." said the hostess. "Unit's very easy." answered Miss Cayenne. "Give a musical." Wash ington Star. o Kxetixe. She - Is there any insanity in the Snobbs family? He No. It's too bad there isn't. It would give them a legit imate excuse for some of their actions. - Detroit Free Press. r-.u hcii hy trie complaint that hun dreds of geniuses are unable to get a ennuce on the stage, the manager of the Empire theater. Hackney, London has offered to give anybody a show for five minutes on a set day. He has re ceiveil hundreds of applications. Tin tiio-i interesting Is from a man. who v riles. I wish you would let me try my great -nrhiiic add gas expert lie ut upon i he audience." iiei-i.ci? i:n..iks ranks well up to wr! the dc.-n ,.f N-w England coin uier. travelers, having entered upon 'lie fortieth year of continuous service ' :l H't During this time he has been i :u loycd by but two different con panies. the first engagement hav ing I istetl for over thirty years. Mr. I'n.oi;- proposes to retire at the end of I In- current year. William Wilson of Green town-hip. Kan., is still owner of forty acres of land which he purchased from the gov ernment for $."!. The purchase money was made bv selling coon skins. He still holds jje patent, and the land has never been transferred. It could scarce ly Im- pureha -e I today for fifty times the price he paid Extensive plans for the improvement of the Sin canal are now well under way. The waterway Is to be widened so that the largest ships can pass each other at almost any point between Port Said and Suez, aud by constant dredg ing the depth of the canal Is kept at about twenty-eight feet. A I.u-ian writer says that Yokou ka. the fort of Yokohama. Is more strongly fortified than Gibraltar. The fortifications were built under the su pervision of German military engi neers, while American and English experts built the signal and submarlno mine systems. According to a Sp:uiil, exchange, the republic of Colcnbia. In South Amer iea. smce the Mmics ,o ti eoiiijuerors has produced ?::o.(MMi.ufiv worth of gold. It IS bettor tO hold hnrlr triiMi ilia.. to speak It ungraciously-De Sales. JU-'-T TEA LEAVES. The :ectnele They Present Under it Powerful MteroHCOiie. "Have a look," said the histologlst. And he ro-e from the beautiful, deli cate microscope, and his companion took his place. There was a little fiddling and ad justing of tiny screws. Then the tyro said: Tgh! Ghastly! What have we here a railroad wreck?" "You are looking," answered the his tologlst, "at a part of the remains of a ( 'ey lonese caterpillar." He withdrew that slide and put an other in its place. "Another tragedy V" the tyro asked. "The remnants of a beetle." the his tologist replied. A third slide was placed beneath the ';e:i "This," said the tyro, "should be a battlefield." "It is only," returned the scientist, "a commingling of the desiccated frag ments of'a tly. a centlped. a moth and a slug." The tyro yawned. "Histology Is interesting." he said In a bored voice. "Where did you get these specimens':" "Out of a packet of tea." "A packet of tea? What kind of tea?" "Ordinary tea." "Heavens! I am a tea drinker. Ex plain yourself." The histologlst, smiling, said: "Tea grows on bushes. The leaves are plucked by hand. Imagine your self stripping rosebush after rosebush, miles on miles, of their leaves. Well, that Is what tea picking Is like. "The native pickers work fast. They pick as many as twenty-five pounds of leaves a day a bundle bigger than a man. "Now. the tea plant is the prey of a hundred insects, and the picker in his haste doesn't pause to brush off each leaf or to wash it, for he works, as we say, by piece work. "The picked leaves are dried on char coal fires. They shrivel under the heat and the Insect, larvae and chrysalids among them ihango to dust. This dust looks to the ordinary eye like leaf frag ments, but under the microscope it looks, as you remarked, like an insect railroad wreck or a pygmy battlefield. It tastes like--hut you know as well as 1 do what It tastes like." "Tomorrow." said the other. "I am going to bring some of my wife's tea here to examine with you." New York Herald. An Amended Quotation. Miss Ida Tarbell's first journalistic experience was as editor of the Chau tau pia. lbr predecessor on the Jour nal, once editor of the Oil City Derrick, had established the custom of heading with a quotation the column in which he made brief mention of the news of the day. Miss Tarbell followed his habit and bent her mind to the task of supplying suitable quotations. Once upon a time she set down, as plain as pen could set It: "The meek eyed morn appears, moth er ef dews." Then she went home, pardonably proud of knowing her Thomson so well, and at the head of the column next day she rend: "The weak eyed worm appears." Washington Post. A I.nek of Klrmnrn. A very matter of fact Scotchman called to see a neighbor, an old Irish woman, who had been ailing for some time, when the following conversation took place at the door: "And how do you find yourself today. Hridget?" "Sure, your honor. I'm mighty bad. This shocking weather'11 be the end of me. I'll be a dead woman before long." "Hoots, toots, woman! Ye've been saying that for the last twenty years! I'll tell ye what It Is ye want firm- ness o' mind. Kin' a day for yer dee- , lug and stick tae it!" 'When HntM Were Unknown. Ill ancient days hats were unknown, men having hoods attached to their outer garments, which they wore or discarded at pleasure. Stow, the old historian, says Unit nobody wore any thing else except the lord mayor of London, who sometimes donned a hat on state occasions. In the reig of King Henry VII.. he says, the citizens began to wear "fiat caps knit of wool en yarn, black, but so light that they were obliged to tie them under their chins, for else the wind would be mas ter over them." I.ove'n Queer Vuyn. Mine. Myriam Harry, the Parisian novelist, who traveled about the world a good deal, described what evidences of affection are prized by men and women in different countries. In .le rusalem she once met a young Arab woman who had not a tooth left in her head. Mine. Harry's native servant I said: "Lucky woman! Her husband knocked all her teeth out. He does love her!" In Cochin China Mine. Har ry was told that there a husband was not believed to love his wife properly until he had made a present to her of j a cotiin. In Galicia. among the sect of Masochisls. a man values his wife's af- j fectlon bv the degree of sunVring which j she causes him to endure. Mine. Harry : there once heard a betrothed youth say to his affianced bride, "If you really ' loved me vou would consent to bind , ,e ami flop me with this whip." At i Stockholm a woman sued her husband . .1 lli.it lii. did not love her soulfully. Dent!, ! Lottery. j Among other comollcatloiis of Chi- nesc law and Its execution Is a unique and rather racv method of dealing with prisoners by lottery. Once a year the .ermlllon pencil of Imperial authority In waved ovpp chart on whldl the names of convicted criminals are writ- i ten, and those which It Includes In a : haphazard sweep are executed forth- , with. The rest are either reprieved al-1 together or their executions are post-1 poned for another year. ; : (ieiirros. "Some men say." remarked the beau- tlful heiress, "that I have no heart." "Oh, that doesn't matter," replied the " To the honest mind the best perqul oor but willing to be honest youth; sites of a place are the advantages It Til give you mlue." -Chicago News. gives for doing good. Addison. THE APPOINTING POWER. A Stor-r of Preuldent Grant and aa ObMtlnnte Subordinate. General Grant's generosity to his foes, his many private and official kind nesses to the widows and orphans of Confederate soldiers, Is an old tale, but it bears repetition In the form of an Incident which Helen D. Longstreet gives in "Lee and Longstreet at High Tide." The widow of a Confederate officer applied to the postotlice department to be appointed postmistress In a small southern town. As she heard nothing of her application, she went to Wash ington to press It. She was unable to move the authorities at the postotlice department and was about to go home in despair when a friend suggested that It might be worth while for her to see the president. With much effort she summoned courage and appeared at the "White House. The president received her In a most friendly manner and after hear ing her story took her application and wrote a strong but brief Indorsement on the back of it. She hurried In tri umph to the postotlice department. The otllcial to whom she presented the application frowned and pondered over It for some time and then wrote .mder the president's Indorsement, "This being a fourth class office, the president does not have the appointing power." The application was handed back to her, and she went away in deep dis tress and was again preparing to re turn home when another friend told her by all means to tako the paper back to the president, so that he might see how his Indorsement had been re ceived. When the president rend it he wrote under the Inst indorsement, "While the president docs not have tho appointing power in this office, he has the appointment of the postmaster gen eral." and. summoning his secretary, President Grant directed him to ac company the lady to the department nud In yerson deliver her application to the postmaster general. She received the commission before she left the ofiice. THE HORSE CHESTNUT. I. Tlit-nrj- or Ttvo n to the Orlgrin of lis Name. The horse chestnut tree is well known, and the nuts are dear to boys and sufferers from rheumatism. Hut the statement was made lately, and it is even found ill .-.ir.e encyclopedias, that the name is given on account of it- coarseness: "Like a horse, or like that of a horse; hence, coarse and un refined." The rellection on the horse Is an unworthy one. but let that pass. Is n it the explanation given In Gerarde's Herbal il.V.tli a more reasonable one? "i-'alled In English horse chestnut, for that the people of the east countries do with the fruit thereof cure their horses -if the cough aud such like diseases." There is a long I,st of plants that irive animal prelixe. horse, dog. cat, bear. cow. pig. wolf, mouse, rat, toad, frog, dragon, snake, etc. In some In stances "the name of an animal pre fixed has a totally different significa tion, denoting size, coarseness and fre quently worthlessness or spurious-ne-s." but names have also originated from the paitieiilar uses to which cer tain plants have been put, and the horse chestnut Is an example. The Turks. Arabians, Persians, all believ ed that these nuts cured horses of cocghs. shortness of wind and such other ailments. In England a prepara tion of the nut was once used for bleaching yarn. Yet there may be something in the statement of an Englishman, Al fred A. Mill ward: "The tree possesses a feature which I have often found to be not generally known. It Is a very distinctly marked horseshoe, with sev en dots corresponding to the nails of the horseshoe, and this appears at the knuckle of the branches, large and small, but more clearly on the latter." -P.oston Herald. AN EVARTS FEE. Slinwlnvr IIimv It May Sometimes Pax to He u Pour Writer. Not many lawyers write legibly, and the late William M. Evarts wrote such an execrable hand that it was very of ten diilicult to read it. This caused a mi-take at oi.e time which resulted in the enuicnt lawyer receiving x retain er for ten limes the amount he request ed. The hue William Allen Hutler, an eminent member of the New York bnr, was counsel for one of the legatees In the .celebrated Stokes will case years agqf in which the late Dr. Henry P. StVarns was one of the expert wit nesses. Something like $ir..O00.(0O was involved, and Mr. Hutler told his cli ent that he would like an associate In the conduct of the case. He was asked wl i he would suggest, and he said he thought Mr. Evarts would be the best man owing to his superior knowl edge of the law and his great reputa- ' advocate. The client agreed. ami Mr. Hutler was Instructed to see if Mr Evarts would come into the case. Accordingly Mr. Hutler wrote to Mr. Evarls and invited him to be associat ed in the case a'ld name his retaining fee. In due t In received a reply. "men ne saw ai a giame was in me .'Uliriuatlv e and. without stopping to read it further, slipped It Into another envelope and mailed it to his client, Inn day or two he received a call from Mr. Kvaris. who inquired what sort of ! hrothcr lawyer's client was. "1 you hear from him after I .vor letter to bun; queried Mr. Hutler. "Yes," replied Mr. Evarts. "but he sent me a check f n- $''o.()0. and I only " W1,s PI:ivnt that Mr. Evarts' chirography misled the client. This Is ''' t"'T told 'y lawyer who was familiar with the facts, but It is not -" niiv.m-. .....n.....-.,,m-....i- dinorence oi .-...ou or wneiuer no worked it out. Hartford Courant. Somcthins: a ronn. "Hear Top." wrote the boy from the art school, "don't send me any more money. I have saved half that which you sent me last moum. mine home," wired the old man; "you'll nev- er make an artist." Puck. WHAT TOTEMISM IS. Lljjtit on an Interesting and Mtlle Understood Sulijeet. ft is iuteresting to note that totemism Is found not only In Alaska, but among the North American ludiaus, the abo rigines of Australia, the Hottentots of Africa and even the hill tribes of In dia. Totems nre also common 4imong the Samoaus. Broadly the totem is the badge of a clan or tribe, but it signifies a great ileal more than mere political or social nlllance. It is not only a tribal em blem, but also a family sign; not mere ly a symbol of natlouallt'. but also an expression of religion; not simply a bond of union among primitive peo ples, but also a regulator of the mar riage laws and of other social institu tions. A totem has been defined as "a class of material objects which a sav uge regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and special relation." Among the Ojibway Indians there are no fewer than twenty-three differ ent, totems. Nine of these are quadru peds, marking out the wolf, the bear, the beaver and other chins, eight are birds, five are fishes and one is the snake. S um extraordinary superstitions re garding totems prevail In Samoa. Tims It is believed that if a turtle man eats of a turtle he will grow very 111. and the voice of the turtle will be heard In his inside sayit "He ate me. I am killing him." If a banana man uses a banana leaf for a cap he becomes bald. If a butterfly man catches a butterfly it strikes him dead. If a fowl man ents a fowl delirium aud death results, and so on. all going to show that the totem has something of the quality of a fetich as well as the significance of a family emblem. Regarding totemism. It Is to be noted that the relation of mutual help and protection Includes also the totem lt self that Is to say. If a man takes care of his totem he expects the to tem to return the compliment. If the totem is a dangerous animal It must not hurt bis clansmen. The scorpion men of Senegambln declare that the most deadly scorpions will run over their bodies without hurting them. There Is a snake chin In Australia which holds to a similar belief. Among the crocodile elan of the Bechuanas If a man Is bitten by a crocodile or even has water splashed on him by one he Is oxpelh-d from the clan as one esteemed unworthy by the totem. -Housekeeper. THE KALLIMA BUTTERFLY. An IiiHcct That Perfeetly Imitnte n Dcud Tree Leaf. A moth usually rests with his fore wings outspread over the prominent pattern of his hind wings, says Walde mar H. ICaempffert In the Hooklovers Magazine. In any other posture he would Inevitably meet a swift death. A butterfly, on the contrary, rests usu ally with his wings uplifted and pn- se.l together. Otherwise, the gaudy upper surface would be as conspicu ous as the black Ink on this white paper a signal for attack by relent less and voracious foes. In order to hide himself the butterfly has, there fore, lavished all the resources of his imitative art on the under surface of his wings. Hy far the most astonish ing instance of this kind is afforded by the East Indian Kalllina butterfly, the blue upper surface of which Is riclilv and ostentatiously adorned with a stripe of orange, but the under sur face of which bears a truly staggerln likeness to a leaf, when the wings are drawn together. Here we have an insect that apes not merely the ap proximate shape and color of a dead leaf, but aNo the midrib with the deli cate veining. the sharp point, and the short stem common to many tropical leaves. It might be supposed that this imita tion of an ordinary object Is sufficiently minute to protect the Kallima from iLs enemies. Self , preservation apparently demands not merely a dead leaf siin ulated, but in touches even more ex quisite, for the resemblance has been so craftily carried out that the light er colored varieties, a dead, shriveled leaf flecked with parasitic growths. stained and spotted to give the appear ance of holes eaten by caterpillars. Antliiult)- of Chentlns:. Kalse weights were found in the ruins of the oldest city that has yet been exhumed. And false weights will probably be consumed when the earth drops intoihe sun and the heavens are rolled together like a scroll. Ancient records and ancient statute books are full of evidence thnt every modern practical device down to adulterations and crooked scales was familiar to our ancestors of the plateau of Iran before the migrations. Vice Is the old In habitant; virtue Is the newcomer, the Immigrant, received with reluctance and compelled to fight for every Inch of ground he gains. Iteader Magazlnn The Kxtremen. Somebody has said that the vices of the very rich and of the very poor nre Identical. It Is a matter of specula tion whether their appetites are also similar, for the vary poor woman finds great solace In her cup of tea aud drinks quantities of it; so also does the rich woman. Alcoholic stimulants are also favored by the one who finds life monotonous from poverty ami she who finds it equally monotonous from wealth. One can have nothing she wants; the other has everything she wants: result with both, an almost un bearable discontent. -Philadelphia Tel egraph. Eat Slovvlr. The propriety of eating slowly ought ulways to be remembered. Mr. Glad stone's thirty-two bites are historical. Napoleon was a terribly fast eater and this habit Is supposed to have par : lyzcd him on two of the most eritiea: occasions of his life, the battles of Leipslc and Borodino, which he might have converted into decisive and Influ ential victories by pushing his advan tages as he was wont. On each of these occasions he was known to have been suffering from indigestion. Lon don Standard. Strenuoua Hint. Husband Let me see, how long has It been since Uncle John was here? Wife Oh, It must be several years. He was here the week after I gut my last new bonnet. Detroit Tribune. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Convict Doctor Secret. After ten years' imprisonment In the great peuitentiary here, following a conviction for poisoning. Dr. Urbine de Kreitas, one of the most distiu guished of European physicians, has had his sentence of twenty-five years commuted by King Carlos to slniplo banishment from Portugal. Throughout his long confinement the doctor is said to have jealously guard ed a secret he had discovered an as sured cure for leprosy. Accompanied by his devoted wife, he is now on his way to Berlin, where his arrival is eagerly awaited by all German stu dents of the higher branches of medi cine. When the doctor was first arrested j.i-lou society received a shock. The -. barge against him was of poisoning the five little brothers and the. sisters of ids wife, who stood between him .in.' a large fortune. I Miring holy week the king signed the . on. inula tion of his sentence, and the doctor Is now free to pursue his life woik. A man is now living at Coim bra. in Portugal, who declared that Hr. de Kreitas shortly la-fore his arrest curwd him of leprosy. Lisbon Dispatch to Loudon Mail. .V Modem Dcmlciunim. The London papers are printing the story of an English girl. Clara Casey, who married a Moorish acrobat, Mo hammed Hen Bulkhassan. and who now in faroff Tangier sighs for her Albion home as follows: "1 wish I were in England again. I am quite miserable and lonely here, and it makes me feel it more when I see how Mr. Abdullah treats hfs wife and the way Mohammed treats me. "There Is a great difference. He is always hitting me, and he laughs at me now he has got me here and tells me I will never see you again, that 1 shall live and die here. "Hear mother, I hope aud trust to God 1 will soon be able to return to England again. What a fool I have been to give myself to this man!" So far the intervention of the British vice consul has htl to nothing, for Miss Casey had previously become a convert to Islam, and she stated that she had the approval of her parents. Koyal Tip.. Some of the European monarchs give very large tips whenever they travel, and others, on the coutrary. are quite niggardly. Emperor Nicholas of Rus sia is the most liberal in this respect. During his brief visit to Krance three years ago he spent $H;.imm) on tips to servants and almost as much on pres ents to officials ami others. King Ed ward of England is not quite so gener ous, but as he travels a good ileal, both within his own realm ami abroad, he is obliged to lay aside each year $:5'. nro as an allowance for tips. Emperor William of Germany is more generous in a foreign country thai tit home, and during his recent visit to Cowes. Eng land, he spent not less than $10,000 on tips. Of the remaining rulers some spend reasonable sums and others very little, but probably quite as much thev an afford. Kansas Cltv Journal. To Calm "Wave hy nomtiardment. Shells filled with oil. intended to calm a stormy sea when fired into it. have been invented in Krance. The ef fect of a film of oil in reducing the size of waves is well known, but in the case of a moving vessel It Is dillicult to reach those in front, among which the ship's progress will soon bring it. At first ordinary explosive shells con taining dttovcre tried, but these, be sides being ilrrngerou.s, did not distrib ute the oil evenly. At present wooden shells are used, which break when they strike the water, allowing the oil to run evenly over the surface. Kor night use the shells have an illuminating at tachment. The results are said to be sa t isfactory. Success. II Im A' I civ of Hernlinrdt. Of all the stories told of the extremo sleuderuoss of Mine. Sarah Bernhardt the following probably caps the clfmax: Two Boston men were talking about the famous actress during her last visit to this country when one of them asked the other if he would like to see her. "Yes." was his friend's delighted reply. "Well, walk past that cupe aud look hi and you'll see her." The other did as directed and then en me back looking disappointed. "Didn't you see her':" inquired his friend. "I looked in and saw nothing." "Well, that's she!" Boston Christian liegis ter. Who Could Illnme Themf A Paris newspaper relates an amaz ing story which most people will prob ably regard rather as an example of the ben trovato than of strict fact. According to the story, an automobile proceeding from Nantes t I'osny met a herd of fifty horses being led to a neighboring fair and stopped so as not to cause a stampede. But the horses seemed to have instinctivelv reeogni.ed the rival of their species and without more ado set on the machine In a bod v. kicking it to pieces. The chauffeur was witli difficulty got out of the melee uninjured. London Globe. The Ac of Imitation.. Imitation cotton from pine wood Is. according to the Scientific American, the latest Industrial innovation, and it is said to be a very good Imitation of COttOn too. Whfskv frmn -iv.-.lnst silks from cobwebs, butter from co- coanuts, bread flour from dried bana nas and beefsteak from the tenderloin of porpoise but isn't this twentieth century civilization ringing In some pretty curious specialties? Baltimore American. Ilai on and the FUher. In "Aubrey's Lives" this quaint story Is told of Lord Bacon: "His lordship, being in the garden looking on fishers as they were throwing their uetts.asked them what they would take for their catch. They answered so nuuh. His lordship would offer them uot more, but so much. They drew up their nett. and In It were only two or three little fishes. He then told them it had beiai better for them to have taken his offer. They replied they hoped for a bettor draft, but. said his lordship, 'Hope is a good breakfast, but an ill supper.' "
