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BANDON RECORDER.
FACTS IN FEW LINES
St Petersburg occupies ix large nnd
many smnll islands at the mouth of the
Neva.
New South WbIps is overrun with
mice. In one store in the town of
Merrion the oilier day W.ow wen
caught.
The Motor union of Great Britain
anil Ireland, the largest m-gKnhntioit of
motorists in the work!, has 7,rW weia
bers.
Cape Town authorities are extending
the conveyance of mails by camels,
which has experimentally proved very
successful.
A league has been formed In Swu
zcrland to preserve pii-turesque spot
throughout the little republic trotn
coiniuerelal vandalism.
Berlin, the Ixmie of the automatic
restaurant, gives that institution a
creditable snpjNirt, and their nnui'oer
is constantly increasing.
A New York concern which proposes
to raise spruce trees for the lumber
has recently impr;cd from Germany
17,000 young trees.
Many of the lnitels of the country
towns of England are managed by
women, and it is claimed tlat they do
It far better than men hi tlie ame po
sitions. Berlin supports irnfesiaai bird
catcher, who keefs scientific iat!tu
tions supplied with bird, steals and
eggs. He is the only marr In the em
pire permitted to do so.
Every week the canal c;mmis:o:i
Imports no less than J tons of iuv-t
powler and 201 tons of sulphur bars
Into I'anama. These are used in ex
terminating the mosquitoes.
Army reform in I ml in lias caused the
disappearance of two historic regi
ments the Sixty-fourth Ga rustic Hg'a
Infantry, which was raised in 17."W,
and the Bombay ;uari:.e battalion,
dating from 1777.
"Happy. Though Marrle ". Two Inys."
was one of many labels attached by
practical Jokers to the luggafse of a
newly married eoupie who left an Eug
llsh railway station the othvr day on
their wav to Canada.
A new law which will gradually re
sult in the cut ire disapp earance of
slavery from Siain has eou;e into ef
fect, says the Baugkofc Times. No one
can now lc Ixjnt a slave, and no oi -
can be made a slave.
While the Chinese are held to 1 i:e
most economical people in tbe world it
has apparently never o.vurm! m then
to use the vast areas of then- vrl.mt
hill and mountain region as pastwragt
for cattle, sheep or hois-.
An art critic prophesies that the next
movement of European art. whVh he
thinks has exhausted the possibilities
of realism, may take tbe form of a
return to the principles eaaiu-iated by
the Chinese l.iwu years ae.
Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati has
organized a choir of priests, consisting
of local clergymen, for the purpo' (
rendering the Greaoriasi uiu.-ie of lie
mass at all the funeral f pri---;
whieli take place In his arelwlbx'ese.
Iceland posesst a large numiw of
' trees, although it Is" credited with hav
ing only one. The climate aud soil are
by no means unfavorable to tree grow
ing, and evidence exist to show thai
Iceland was once covered with tre.
ICadium ha; Ihhii found in whc.iteii
flour, sakl Profess J. J. Thompson, at
the I-ioyal institute. London. I low it
got there, he added, he could nt ex
plain. There was no doubt, boncer.
that such Hour woukl product radio ac
tive bread.
A strong protest Is U Ing made
against bringing t England the pyg
mies whom Colonel Harrison eapturej
lately in Stanley forest, Afriea. It i
held that no one ha? any riuht to cap
ture and enslave Oiem for exhibition
or any other inn-ses.
"With reference to the threatened in
vasion of the crinoline tin. Lon! ;i
Daily News calls attention to the fact
that since the crinoline was last in
fashion tbe flat lias leeome an Institu
tion. How coukl women wear erluo
lines and live in a flat?
Miss Kate E. McWIlliams of Brook
lyn has broken the record for sch tl
teaching. Hastening from hr work
recently, she has to her credit fifty
consecutive years of servi- hi t'..e
Brooklyn public s-lnote. forty-eight
being in one schMl as a principal.
Just before General de Sounar, an
Italian senator, died n-ently he h.el
himself dressed In his general's uni
form and all his medals and deeora
tlons. Then he called for a glu f
champagne and. with his relatives
gathered around his couch, drank to
"the k ng"f health and the prospe-rry
of Italy -
A Spanish eontenijMirary sajs that
In IIHH nearly 12,i00 bulk were killed
in bullfights ot the country. The bull
killed about Ifl.OuO horse. Tlie l.est
and most valuable In. lis for the arena
are raised on the vast estate of the
Duke of Wragua, in Andalusia. who
has made a fortune out of this busi
ness. The eminent German economist and
former -oadjutor of P.ismurek. Ado'p!.
Wagner, used to insist that the older
professors ought Jo le penskuwd in o
der to give lite younger ones room t
expand. Now that he lias reaehei h!
seventieth birthday he se : s to h:
lost his interest in that d triu-. I
exuects to do a great d a n.o - w '
The question of tlppins the wat;s
has been formally settle! by Use seere
tary of the navy. A naval officer ma;
give a tip of 10 cent a meal to hi
waiter, f0 cents to the various erson .
who virtually dmand thni oil train
tips may amount to .".0 cents a day Pi
nn American hotel and 7." cents a da
in a foreign hotel, SI..) day on tin
Atlantic, $1 a day on the Pacific a :'
on the West India vo ag". Great li!
crality than this the United States wii!
not countenance.
I'layJntr Hop Otnlx.
Tommy May I stay up a little Ion
ger? Ethel- Wliat h you want to uf.r
up for? Tommy I want to pee y n
and Mr. (Jni'ti jdaylng cards. Mr.
Green lint we are not going to play
cards. Tommy Oh. ye, you are. for
1 heard maiituta saying Kth"l ' :
everything dienfled oil the Wiy in
which she platl her ean! t clglt
1 POLLY IMIIf
This new fad bridal showers I say
new because it has not been in exist
ence long enough to take the crispness
otl of the suggestion that thrills the
breasts of the young friends of I he bride-to-be
when it is whispered tlmtashower
would be the correct thing, aud as it
will ever continue to be a theme of the
greatest interest and surprises, it will
ever be new is one of the greatest in
terest to the interested parties. Some
times they area blessing, but occasion
ally the shower brings the great big
.pieiy after it what will they do with
the raft f the same articles their gener
ous friends have showered them with?
A linen shower, etc., is all right. The
deluge of tine and useful articles can
be folded away in sweet-scented laven
der in a cedar chest, which moths
corn la enter. Another generation,
po.-.-ibly a second generation will han
dle ome of the aiticles with loving
tiid almost sacred touch, as they tell
of "the shower that was given my
treat grandmother away hack in the
summer time of 1!05." A silver shower
never displeases a bride and if the col
lection is varied with a few articles of
the yellow metal they will not be
spurned. Some of the more practical
will not frown at a tin shower, partic
ularly if they are going to start out on
the voyage of life with a view to econ
omize and lay up the amount that
would be forthcoming to hired help by
doitig their own work. Most brides
will go into ecstacics over a cut-glass
shower, fragile and destructable though
it is, and even though every article in
the costly shower brings her on the
verge of nervous prostration when she
sees piece by piece going as the result
of reckless handling at. the hands of
careless and iuditlereiK parties. The
eup-and-saucer fad is the worst of all.
rhink of it, every particular friend,
every relative, every casual friend and
some would-be friends of both parties
contributing a cup and saucer to the
future bride. "My!" said a dainty little
friend of Tolly's, who had had a very
successful cup and saucer shower,' as
one of her friends expressed it, "I have
over LW beautiful cups aud saucers,
and .vhnt in the world I am going to
do with them all is a mvstery to me. I
have got one cabinet li..led, hanging as
dose together as they can, but there's
ail the rest. 1 can't till the house with
cabinets, o I'll have to pack them,
and that is liable to hurt some one'
feeling-, for every one who calls will
want to see my collection of cups and
saucers, and when they find their gift
is not among the number, the overly
sensitive will think their gift is not ap
prtciated." A china shower is all
right, too, in its way, where thearti
cles are varied. The shower of beau
tiful I laviland china is very acceptable.
I think the cup and saucer shower or
iginated with some society buds who
were invited by one of their number to
attend a tea in which it was whispered
that the announcement wsis to be
made of her marriage to one of the
catches of the season. Each one of
the invited guests decided that they
would take a dainty cup and saucer as
an engagement present, and from that
event has sprung the popular wedding
shower that is the preliminary to so
many weddings. Fortunate is the girl
wlio is popular, for some of them re
ceive several showers, each one ditler
ent. With the wedding that follows
the fair bud starts out with an abund
ance of the beautiful and useful things
which add to the completeness of their
home.
A group of young ladies were dis
cussing the ever interesting topic of
weddings, anniversaries, etc., and they
reached a unanimous verdict in regard
to the tin wedding, agreeing that it
would have been the proper thing for
that I come lir-t and furnish the
happy couple with enough tinware to
do them for years to come. After ten
years of married life the average house
keeper has her house pretty well sup
plied with kitchen utensils and the
tinware of every description that is
showered upon them when the tin
wedding mile-stone is reached is a
puzzle to her to know what to do with
it all. It is usually given in the spirit
of pleasantry rather than with theol
ject of giving something useful. One
of the gioup stated that she had pre
sented the couple who were the prom
inent figures in a recent tin wedding
anniversary with a couple of funnels.
Both were lined with the white lace
paper that comes for bouquets, and a
beautiful white bouquet of orange
blossoms, carnations and feathery as
paragus placed in the inverted funnel,
making an attractive bouquet holder,
a bow of white satin ribbon adorning
the handle aud giving the finishing
touches. For the gift for the gentle
man the funnel was arranged in the
same way, except that the bouquet
was of red carnations and asparagus
ferns, and the bow of ribbon red.
These they carried the entire evening.
Another of their gifts wits a finely en
graved tin card containing the names
of a number of the guests present, and
enclosed in a tin envelope suitably in
scribed. The rest oi the gifts were
made up of the usual conglomeration
of tin pans, kettles, etc.
Some people are very superstitious in
regard to giving anything breakable to
a bride, believing that every article
that is broken simply foretells of some
bereavement in the family if not
death, then misfortune of some kind
possibly a failure in business. No mat
ter how trilling the article may be, if
it is a wedding present disaster is sure
to follow. 1 heard a lady remark the
other day, in commenting on the death
of her sou-in-lav, whom he was
very fond of, "My heart was troubled
with gloomy and dismal forebodings
when the wedding presents began to
arrive, mere was sn much cut-glass
and beautiful china. Why, the day of
their wedding I was silting in the
room with some friends after the bridal
couple had taken their departure, and
we were admiring and talking of the
beautiful gifts they had received and
which were displayed on a table in the
room. Suddenly there w:is a report
like a pistol. Every one in the room
was startled and looked fiom one to
the other in alarm. "I'm afraid It was
a piece of cut-glass," one of the guests
remarked, ami sure enough there lay a
magnificent cut-glass punch bowl in a
dozen fragments that had been pre
sented by tbe employes .f th(. place
where he worked. It was so badly
shattered that there was not oven the
forlorn hope of cementing and riviting
it together so it could he looked at,
evei though its days of usefulness
were over. My daughter had at least
a dozen pieces of cut-glass, and one
after the other broke until there was
not a single piece left. Strange to say,
every one of them broke, too, when
no one was near to handle them..
Tnere would be the sharp little report
and investigation always resulted in
finding nn exquisite piece of cut glass
broken into fragments. The day the
hist piece broke a messenger came hur
rying to the house bringing the sail
news of the death of my son-in-law
who had been found dead in his ollice,
having died from heart disease. Smue
way or other I was prepared for it, for
1 knew that disaster of some kind
would follow when that cut-glass was
going piece by piece. Another thing
which seemed to foretell death in the
household was the dying of a beautiful
palm, that seemed to droop and die by
inches. The day of the funeral of mv
son-in-law a kind neighbor carried it
out. You may think I am foolishly
superstitious, but I have never known
it to fail in my immediate family."
BRIEF REVIEW.
Waste of Food in New York
The food supply of New York is so
enormous that though therich and the
well-to-do gorged from morningtouight
they simply could not eat it all. There
would still remain air abundance for
everyone if some wav could be found of
distributing the fragments. .lu-i con
sider the figuies which 1 have on care
ful authority: New York recei every
week 10,000,000 pounds of dressed bed,
1:1,000,000 pounds of pork, ham and
pig's meat, 1,000,000 pounds of poultry,
1,000,000 pounds of sausages, 1,()00,(RK
pounds of mutton ami lamb, over -r
000,000 of liver, heart, tripe, etc., over
1,000,000 pounds of canned meat, o00,
000 pounds of game and 1,000,000
pounds of fish. The fragments of this
food, tons and tons of it, are collected
every day and carried oil" to fatten pigs
in Jersey or load the fertiii.er scows.
that ply down the bay. Every day of
the year from o00 to !KK) cart-loads of
food, much of it perfectly good, are
taken from the homes and hotels of
New York and simply thrown away
A million people could liveand live well
on this waste if the problem of collect
ing and distributing it could once be
solved. Anil I suppose any kind-heart
ed individual could solve it in a small
way himself with a wagon and a little
brains.
Village of Fishermen.
A village inhabited by from 100 to
150 individuals, all of one name, and all
following the calling of fishermen is
indeed unique. Such, however, is a
very pretty little place named Bucks,
situated about eight mihs from Bi de-
ford and three from Clovelly, on the
north coast of Devon. It nestles in a
beautiful fir wooded dale, the hills on
each side of the valley rising up about
200 feet. The name of the large family
which inhabits this village is Braund.
The men are a line set, of dark com
plexion, the result, it is supposed, of
their Spanish decent, a galleon, it be
ing thought, having been wrecked there
in the Armada period. An old man of
the of .James Braund, who was practi
cally the father of the tribe, recently
died at the age of SO.
A rubber film glove, according to the
Indianapolis News, has been de
vised for surgeons. The gloves are
"put on" by immersing the hands in
a weak solution of gutta percha in ben
zine or acetone. The purp'se of the
film is to seal the surfaces of the hands
with an insoluble, iniperviotisand priu
tically imperceptible pellicle, which
will not admit blood, pus or secretions.
Such a protective measure for surgeon?
is said to be preferable to working with
rubber gloves, inasmuch as the sense of
touch or pliability of the skin is not ini
paired in any way.
Million Deaths Result.
More than a million deaths from the
bubonic plague occurred in India bust
year, according to the marine hospital
and public health service. Every ellort
to stamp it out has failed and great
alarm has followed among the classes.
In Arabia the disease is dying out, but
outbreaks are reported in Japan, Siam
and Anioy. The disease has spread
most rapidly in India the past year.
White robbins, a large number of
which have been seen jn southern
Michigan during the past few weeks,
have attracted considerable attention.
The birds haveonly a small red spot on
the breast. With the exception or the
light feathers they resemble the native
species in every way.
Insurance Commissioner Host, of
Wisconsin, has served notice on all the
companies doing business in that slate
that they must comply with the new
law prohibiting deferred dividends for
a longer period than live years.
NAMES OF ANIMALS.
flic MvuiiiiiK of Some of Tlioxc Whone
Orlxln We Can Trace.
Some of the names of the common
est animals are lost In the dimness
of antiquity, such as fox, weasel,
sheei, horse, dog and baboon. Of the
origin of these the clew is forever lost.
With camel one cannot go further
back than the Latin word camelus, and
elephant is derived from the old Hin
doo word elph, which means an ox.
The old root of the word wolf meant
one who tears or rends.
Lynx is from the same Latin root
as the word lux (light) and probably
was given to these wildcats on ac
count of the llerce brightness of their
eyes. Lion Is, of course, from the
Latin leo, which word, In turn, Is lost
far back in tho Egyptian tongue,
where the word for the king of beasts
was la I in. The compound word
leopard Is tlrst found In the Persian
language, where pars stands for pan
ther. Seal, very appropriately, was
once a -tword meaning of the sea; close
to the Latin sal, the sea.
Puma, jaguar, tapir and peccary
(fr.)in paquires) are all namos from
South American Indian laugunges.
The coyote and ocelet were called
cootl and ocelote by the Mexicans
long before Cortes landed on their
shores.
Moose Is from the Indian word
mouswah, meaning wood eater;
skunk, from seganku, nn Algonquin
term; wapiti In the Creek language
means white deer, and was originally
applied to the Rocky mountain goat,
but the name is now restricted to the
American elk. Caribou Is also a na
tive Indian word; opossum Is from
possowne, and raccoon is from the In
dian arrathkune (by further aphere
sis soon).
Rhinoceros Is pure Greek, meaning
nose horned, but beaver has Indeed
had a rough time of It In Its travels
through various languages. It Is hard
ly recognizable as bebrus, babru and
bru. The latter Is the ultimate root
of the English word brown. The orig
inal application was doubtless on ac
count of tho color of the creature's
fur. Otter goes back to Sanskrit,
where it is udra. The significance of
this word is in Its close kinship to
udan. meaning water.
The little mouse hands its name
down through the years from the old,
old Sanskrit, the root meaning to steal.
Tite word rat may have been derived
from the root of the Latin word va
dcre. to scratch, or rodere, to gnaw.
Rodent Is derived from the latter term,
fat Is also in doubt, but Is first rec
ognized in catulus, a diminutive of
canis, a dog. It was applied to the
young of almost any nnlmnl, as the
English words pup, kitten, cub, etc.
Rear is the result of tongue twisting,
from the Latin fera, a wild beast.
Peer is of obscure origin, but may
have been an adjective, meaning wild,
llik Is derived from the same root as
.'land, and the history of the latter
word is an interesting one. It meant
a sufferer, and was applied by the
Teutons to the elk of the old world
on account of the awkward gait and
stiff movements of this ungainly ani
mal. Squirrel has a poetic origin In the
Greek language, Its original meaning
being shadow tall. Tiger Is far moro
intricate. The old Persian word tlr
meant arrow, while tighrn signified
sltarp. The application to this great
animal was in allusion to the swiftness
with which the tiger leaps upon Its
prey. I )etroit News-Tribune.
Hnplil Fire Jntlce.
Yankee dispatch characterizes the
court rulings of a Toronto magistrate,
of whom John Poster Fraser tells In
hi book. "Canada as It Is." The mag
istrate, who Is reported to have got
through with forty cases In forty min
utes. wa? once asked how he managed
it. "You must have some system," was
the suggestion.
I never allow a point of law to be
raised." was the magistrate's prompt
reply. "This Is a court of Justice, not
a court of law.
"Not so very long ago a j'oung at
torney wanted to quote law against
my sending his man down for six
months. lie wanted to quote Mathews,
I think.
" 'Well. said L 'Mathews may be a
groat authority on law, but I guess he
hasn't as much authority as I have
in this court. Your man goes down
for six months.' "
A NATURAL DIKE.
The Yolcaiiie Kornmlloii Atonic the
Coiir.No of I'u 11 Illver.
Nature is full of strange freaks, and
her agents rains, storms, winds and
ex I'll dust produce results that might
o'n'ii be mistaken for the works of
!n;in.:ii hands, though frequently on a
colossal scale.
Volcanic activities are mighty fac
tors, and through them some wonder
ful phenomena are wrought. One of
th -se may be seen along the course of
i"nll river, in northern California. This
stream is of considerable size, and the
work of nature's gigantic forces may
be seen between the upper and lower
e.t - -;;des of the river.
It is what might properly be called
a "volcanic dike." This dike extends
for some distance along Fall river,
near its banks and nearly parallel to
1 1 1 course. It bears close resemblance
to a roughly constructed wall. Tho
top of tills dike Is very ragged and
the height of varying altitudes. In
some places it Is twenty feet high and
several feet hi thickness, and again
may be easily clambered over. The rock
of which this wall of nature Is com
posed is of a very porous character,
bearing some resemblance to pumice
stone, though much more solid nnd of
greater specific gravity.
That entire region is of volcanic ori
gin and evidently was once the scene
of great eruptive activity. Scoria and
lava abound, though tho face of the
country is now thickly clnd with timber
and brush. The dike begins nnd ends
abruptly.
The wall of the dike Is evidently tho
result of volcanic forces, nnd has no
doubt stood for many centuries. It
stands clear from clinging rocks, has
a narrow foundation, with vertical
walls, and is very straight. The mys
tery is what forces of nature could
have piled up or left standing this
rock formation so uniform. This dike
has puzzled not a few geologists who
have visited and examined It. Ameri
can Inventor.
SOME METHODS
OF TESTING BUTTER
How the Genuine Article May
Be Distinguished From
Oleomargarine.
The Use ol Preservatives with Fresh
Meat How to Detect Boric Acid
in Meat Products.
it is a matter of common informa
tion that oleomargarine Is sometimes
substituted for butter and that rancid
and badly made butter is frequently
melted, washed with soda and churned
with milk for the preparation of reno
vated or process butter.
Methods are available which, with a
little practice, may be employed to dis
tinguish between fresh butter, renovat
ed or process butter aud oleomarga
rine. The "spoon" test has been suggested
as a household test aud Is commonly
used by analytical chemists for distin
guishing fresh butter from renovated
butter or oleomargarine. A lump of
butter two or three times the size of a
pea Is placed In a large spoon and
It Is then heated over an alcohol burn
er. If more convenient, the spoon may
be held above the chimney of an ordi
nary kerosene lamp, or it may even be
held over an ordinary Illuminating gas
burner. If the sample In question be
fresh butter It will boll quietly with
the evolution of a large number of
small bubbles throughout the mass
which produce a large amount of foam.
Oleomargarine and process butter, on
the other hand, sputter and crackle,
making a noise similar to that heard
when a green stick Is placed In a lire.
Another point of distinction Is noted If
a small portion of the sample Is placed
In a small bottle nnd set in a vessel of
water suliieiently warm to melt the
sample. The sample Is kept melted
from half an hour to an hour, when It
Is examined. If renovated butter or
oleomargarine, the fat will be turbid,
while if genuine, fresh butter the fat
will almost certainly be entirely clear.
To manipulate what Is known ns the
Waterhouse, or milk, test about two
ounces of sweet milk Is placed In a
wide mouthed bottle, which Is set In
a vessel of boiling water. When the
milk Is thoroughly heated a teaspoou
ful of butter Is added and the mix
ture stirred with a splinter of wood
until tho fnt Is melted. The bottle Is
then placed In a dish of Ice water and
the stirring continued until the fat
solidifies. Now, If the sample be but
ter, either fresh or renovated, It will
be solidified In a granular condition
and distributed through the milk In
small particles. If, on tbe other hand,
the sample consists of oleomargarine
It solidities practically In one piece nnd
may be lifted by the stirrer from the
milk.
Many persons believe that the great
mass of the fresh meat sold on tho
market Is preserved chemically. This
Impression is entirely unfounded. The
cold storage facilities of the present
day make the use of preservatives
with fresh meat unnecessary, and the
larger packing houses do not employ
them. It sometimes happens that local
butchers sprinkle preservatives over
a cut of meat In order that they may
keep it exposed on the block or hang
lug In a show window as an adver
tisement. The use of chemical pre
servatives with fresh meat Is confined
to tills practice alone.
Preservatives are very commonly
used with chopped meats and sausages,
especially fresh sausage. They are al
ways employed with canned Vienna
and Frankfurter sausages Inclosed In
casings with the ends tied. Where the
ends nre cut preservatives may bo ab
sent. Tbe reason for this Is that the
temperature required for tho complete
sterilization of sausages will either
hurst or distort the skins when tho
ends are tied, whereas sausages with
cut ends afford an opportunity for the
escapo of the water and steam.
With many varieties of sausages,
both fresh and smoked, and with chop
ped meats of all descriptions, coloring
matter Is sometimes employed. This Is
done partly for tho purposo of satisfy
ing an uuuntural demand for a high
colored article aud partly sometimes to
conceal the graylBh color characteristic
of old meat, which should not bo used
at all.
Tho preservatives employed with
meat products aro boric acid, borax
and sulphites. To detect boric acid
about a tablespoonful of tho chopped
meat Is thoroughly macerated with a
little water, pressed through a bag and
two or tlireo tablespoonfuls of the
liquid placed In a sauce dish with fif
teen or twenty drops of strong hydro
chloric acid for each tablespoonful. The
liquid Is then filtered through filter pa
per and a piece of tumeric paper dip
ped into It nnd dried near a lamp or
stove. If boric acid or borax were used
for preserving tho sample the tumeric
paper should bo changed to a bright
cherry red color. If too much hydro
chloric add has been employed a dirty
brownish red color is obtained, which
Interferes with tho color duo to the
presence of boric ncld. Now, If a drop
of household ammonia be added to the
colored tumeric paper aud It turns a
dark green, almost black color, then
boric ncld Is present If the reddish
color, however, was caused by the use
of too much hydrochloric acid, this
green color does not form.
The corrosive nature of hydrochloric
acid must not bo lost sight of. It must
not he allowed to touch the flesh,
clothes or any metal. New York Trib
une. lie Wanted to Knovr.
Scotchmen nre fond of nn argument,
and delight to find flaws In an oppo
nent's logic. Two blacksmiths were
once conversing as to which was the
first trade In the world. Ono insisted
that it must have been gardening, and
quoted from Qenesls: "Adam was put
into tho garden of Eden to dress It
and keep It" "Aye, John," retorted tho
other, who had stood np for his own
trade, "but wha made the spades?"
The Hair Restorers.
Dollle Ho promised to send back
ray lock of hair, hut ho hasn't done It
yet Mollle That's the way with
these hair restorers all promise and
no oerformance.
HEAT AND TANNED SKINS.
The Miracle That Nature Performs
When Sunburn Occur.
There are certain arctic animals,
dark coated In the short summer, that
In winter turn pure white, thus match
ing the snow covered landscape and
escaping notice and harm.
This change of color, this protection,
effected no one knows how, Is wonder
ful, as wonderful as a miracle, and
yet a kindred change of color, a kin
dred protection, happens among man
kind every summer, and nobody ever
notices It
When the pale city people go out in
the summer sun at the seashore or the
mountains the light attacks them
flereelj-, first reddening their skin,
then swelling, blistering and scorching
It. If they kept In the sun enough,
and If no miracle occurred, the light
would kill them finally, burning off
the skin first and afterward attacking
the raw flesh.
But a miracle does occur. The skin
changes from a pale color to a tan nnd
on this tan the sun has no effect Tbo
sun may beat on tan colored skin for
days and weeks, but such skin remains
always sound, unblistered, whole.
Thus nature works a miracle. The
white skin Is suffering, and nature,
aware, somehow, that a tan skin Is
sun proof, changes to tan the white.
How does she do this? Where did she
learn that It was wise to do this? No
one knows. Only the fact of the
miracle remains.
To prove this miracle to prove that
It Is not the hardening of the skin,
but the change In Its color which pro
tects It from sunburn Is an easy mat
ter. Let a pale person, unused to the sun,
Btaln one side of his face yellow, and,
leaving the other side untouched, go
out In the bright summer sun for a
couple of hours. The one side of his
face Is no tougher, no more hardened
than the other, yet the unstained side
will be Inflamed, blistered, while the
tan colored one will be quite cool and
unhurt.
Sunburn Is a miracle, a protection
to mankind as Inexplicable and as
wonderful ns the miracle of the arctic
animals' change In the winter from
dark coats to snow white ones. New
York Herald.
MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN.
A Little Storj- That Shown the Value
of Acquaintance.
How professional men make ac
quaintances can be Illustrated by the
story of two men whom I know. One
of them, a dentist, had a practical fa
ther, who taught him how good an In
vestment good clothes and many
friends might be. This doctor lived for
many years at leading hotels and at
evening mingled socially with the
guests. There was never a pleasanter
man than he at these leisure times, nor
a man of better appearance, although
during the early years he was con
stantly In debt to his father, and In all
this social life he never mentioned his
profession or his work unless such per
sonal talk came naturally into the conversation-
Each year he went to Eu
rope and dined at the captain's table,
always in immaculate evening clothes.
Sometimes he went and returned by the
same ship, for there was little to gain
by staying abroad. Everybody liked
him, and today he has an Immense
practice, a considerable proportion of
which he admits frankly can be traced
to his steamship acquaintance. One
day a year ago ho met a lawyer of
about his own age and degree of suc
cess at their club.
"I'm going abroad Saturday," said
the lawyer. "Como along," he added,
half In Jest. Tho doctor hesitated for a
moment In thought. "All right," he
said. "What boat?" The lawyer told
him and then asked with some surprise
how he could manage to be away on
such short notice, and if he had Intend
ed to take his vacation at that time.
"I've been over eighteen times," said
the doctor, with n genial smile, "and
for the same reason thnt you have gone
and are going. We'll work the boat to
gether, you and I." Arthur Goodrich
In Leslie's Monthly Magazine.
THE GIFT OF GAB.
U'hy Stenhennon Thought There
Wan Xo Power Equal to It.
When (Jeorge Stephenson was visit
ing the seat of Sir Robert Peel at
Drayton on one occasion, says the writ
er of "Famous British Engineers,"
there happened to be present Dr. Puck
land, the scientist, and Sir William
Follett. the famous advocate.
Stephenson discussed with Dr. Huck
Innd one of his favorite theories as to
the formation of coal and. though un
doubtedly In the right, was ultimately
vanquished by the arguments and or
atory of the doctor, who was a better
innstcr of tongue fence than himself.
Next morning while pondering over his
defeat in the solitude of the garden he
was accosted by Sir William Follett
and confided to that gentleman the sto
ry of his failure.
Sir William, acquainted with the de
tails of tbe matter in dispute, agreed to
take up the case and soon afterward
attacked Dr. Hucklnnd on the subject.
A long discussion ensued, In which the
man of lnw completely silenced the
man of science, who was at last com
pelled to own himself vanquished. Sir
Robert Peel, highly amused at this
example of "tit for tat" then turned
to the inventor and Inquired, with a
laugh:
"And what do you say on this mat
ter, Mr. Stephenson?"
"Why," he replied, "I will only say
this that of all the powers above and
under the enrth there seems to me no
power equal to the gift of the gab."
Invaluable.
"In what way could you be of any
use to an employment bureau?" said
the proprietor.
"Simplest thing In the world," re
plied the shiftless looking applicant.
"You aro always In need of men to
fill positions, nnd I'm always out of a
Job." Detroit Free Press.
A. Step Too Far.
Author It's a wise man who knows
when he's well off.
Friend Yes?
"C. told me that everybody was
talking nbout my new book."
"And what then?"
"I was foolish enough to ask what
they said."
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
According: to John Adnitm, It Should
De July 2.
On the 3d of Jul3 1770, John Adams,
then one of the representatives of Mas
sachusetts in the Continental congress,
wrote to his wife Abigail:
"Yesterday the greatest question was
decided which was ever debated In
America, and a greater perhaps never
was nor will be decided among men."
In a second letter, written the same
day, he said:
"But the day Is past. The 2d of July
will be the most memorable epocha in
the history of America. I am apt to be
lieve that It will be celebrated by suc
ceeding generations as the great anni
versary festival. It ought to be com
memorated as the day of deliverance
by solemn acts of devotion to God Al
mighty. It ought to be solemnized
with pomp and parade, with shows,
games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and
Illuminations from one end of this con
tinent to the other from this time for
ward, forevermore."
When the resolution was taken up on
the 2d, all the states, except New York,
voted to accept It Thus, on the 2d
day of July, 1770, the Independence
of the thirteen united colonies from
the throne of Great Britain was defi
nitely decided upon. The 2d, and not
the 4th, may be called the true date of
the separation. We could with propri
ety celebrate the Fourth two days ear
lier. That the participants In the work
considered the 2d as the true date Is
shown by the letters written by John
Adams, quoted at the beginning of the
article. The popular fancy, however,
seized upon the 4th, the date of accept
ance of Jefferson's more dramatic dec
laration of the reasons for the sepa
ration, as the proper day to celebrate.
The debate upon the document was
continued until the afternoon of the
4th. and, says Jefferson, might have
run on Interminably nt any other sea
son of the year. But the weather was
oppressively warm, and the hall In
which the deputies sat was close to a
stable, "whence the hungry flies
swarmed thick and fierce, alighting on
the legs of the delegates and biting
hard through their thin silk stockings.
Treason was preferable to discomfort"
and at last the delegates were brought
to such a state of mind as to agree to
the Declaration without further amend
ment It Is a mistake to suppose that the
document was signed by the delegates
on that day. It Is improbable that any
signing was done save by John Han
cock, the president of the congress, and
Charles Thomson, the secretary. Paul
Leland Haworth In Harper's Maga
zine. A FIERCE MERMAN.
Drnnd of Murine Monster Virginia
Sported In 107U.
B. H. Blackwell of Oxford has pub
lished a careful reprint of "An Account
of Virginia; Its Situation, Tempera
ture, Productions, Inhabitants and
Their Manner of Planting and Order
ing Tobacco." It is. In brief, a pam
phlet communicated to the Itoyal so
ciety In 1070 by one Thoma3 Glover,
"an Ingenious Chlrurgiou," who had
lived for some years In the province.
Mr. Glover would seem to have reckon-
ed tbe sea serpent among tho inhabit-1 "
ants of the colony to judge from the
minute accuracy of the following de
scription: "A most prodigious Creature, much
resembling a man, only somewhat lar
ger, standing right up In the water
with his head, neck, shoulders, breast
and wast, to the cubits of his arms,
above water; his skin was tawny, much
like that of an Indian; the figure of
his head was pyramidal, and slick,
without hair, his eyes large and black,
and so wero his eyebrows; his mouth
very wide, with a broad, black streak
on the upper Hp, which turned upward
at each end like moustachoes; his coun
tenance was grim and terrible; his
neck, shoulders, arms, breast and wast .
were like unto the neck, arms, shoul
ders, breast and wast of a man; his
hands, If he had any, were under wa
ter. He seemed to stand with his eyes
fixed on me for some time, and after
ward dived down, and a little after ris
eth at somewhnt a farther distance and
turned his hend toward me again, and
then Immediately falleth a little under
water and swimmeth away so near tho
top of tho water that I could discern
him throw out his arms and gather
them In as a man doth when he swim
meth. At last he shoots with his head
downward, by which means he cast
tayl above the water, which exactlj- re
sembled the tayl of a fish, with a broad
fane at the end of It."
THE GREAT ICE AGE.
How It I'nNNiitK Left It Record In
Cravel.i aud HocUm.
Some 10,000 or more years ago the
conditions which had brought about
the great Ice age where beginning to
change. The elevated land began to
sink, and a higher temperature sl.wly
followed. The long winter was gradu
ally drawing to a close, and the great
springtime of the world was beginning
to hasten its influence upon an Ice cov
ered land. Tons, rather mountains, of
ice began to melt, and the water filled
the river valleys to overflowing. Grav
el, sand and mud were borne along by
these raging waters and deposited
wherever the conditions were favora
ble. Ice rafts covered the surface of
the flood, bearing rocks and bowlders
from more northern lands.
All rivers which had glacial sources
were greatly Influenced by the final
melting. As the southern part of the
Ice sheet rested over northern Penn
sylvania, the Delaware and the Sus
quehanna were typical rivers of the
age. The rocks and gravels which line
their banks show how well they have
kept the record. In the Delaware val
ley brick clay ami gravel are laid out
In beautiful terraces, especially at
Stroudsburg and the Water Gap. Here
the waters rose some 200 feet, and an
artificial dam Is supposed to have
formed the river Into a broad, lake.
The Indians, It Is said, have a curious
legend about this flood. They tell us
thnt the "MInsIes" were the tlrst race
which dwelt here, and the region round
about they call "Mlnlslnk," meaning
that the "waters are gone" a vague
remembrance perhaps of the postgla
cial floods.
To manage men one ought to have a
sharp mind In a velvet sheath. George
Eliot