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.' "