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FACTS IN FEW LINES
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happy life, I make it my duty try to
throw just is, much happiness aa I ca«
into their forlorn little lives, ter $(ou
see I know what it MmyseY.’*
Poor mother! Never to hfcve had
One-third of the area of the United
(be joy of r<*tiiq| her babies to sleep,
States Is still public land.
while *iey listened to Mother Goose’s
The summer days are wanting into
The Cunard Steamship company Is
Rhymes, and the marvelous stories of
fitting Its entire fleet with the subrna- tlie fall of the year, when nature “ LittlA «liver Hair aud the Three
changes her garb, decorating herself
Hue signal bells.
Little Bears,’’ “Red Riding Hood,’*
Official figures show that only twenty with autumnal fruits and the warm,
persons In «treat Britain have Incomes ruddy, gold and brown leaves. It is aud so on down the line, each one call
exceeding $250,000 a year.
the time when the golden rod lights ing for just one more story until they
“A full mall," as carried by a big At up the highways and by-ways, wooing had reached the wonderful Shut-eye
lantic liner, averages 200AW‘ letters people who have put off their summer town, and the sand man had got the
and 3oo sacks of newspapers.
vacation until the mad rush was over eyes of the sleepy little baby that suc
In some of the cantons of Switzer
cumbs and gives up the struggle to
land all the «lead, rich as well as poor, and the early summer visitors had re keep awake when the voice fell into
turned
home.
They
are
wise,
for
now
are buritsl at the public expense.
thesoft cadences of ‘‘Hush-a-by-t>ai»y.”
Only (JO per cent of the Busslau peas is one of the in«Mt delightful times of Lower and lower the words come iu
the
year
to
go
to
the
country.
Every
ants who till the soil In the department
train that goes out on the California their jingling ryhme until the fringed
of Moscow are able to keep horses.
curtains fell, shutting out the light un
The Japanese nightingale, or Peking Northwestern Railway is crowded
robin. Is becoming naturalized iu the with travelers liound for all points til the dawning of a new day. All
parks of London, where some were re along the line from Willits and Hher- this, and more, this mother, overbur
leased recently.
wood Valley, and the branch lines dened with scruples, bad missed in her
The authorities of Nordhadsen, Sax leading oft’ into the beautiful Guerne journey through life. She had cast
ony, have forbidden the use of the ville valley, with its wealth of attrac away the sweet-sceuted flowers to
streets to any person wearing an arti tions, Camp Vacation, looking like a grasp the thorns of life. She bad put
cle of dress that sweeps the pavement.
little tented city, and the spirit of up a barrier between herself and her
One of the attractions at the Palace
children, and they could never go to
theater, London, Is a “dance" In which “hail fellow well met’’ prevailing ; the her with their troubles or confide in
carol
of
the
wild
birds
and
the
whirr
eight girls take part, lying flat on their
her. There was not the companion
bucks ami going through the motions of the quail, and the answering call of
its mate as they seek their retreat from ship of mother and daughters that
of a dance with their feet.
File men have left England for the curious and admiring eyes of those would enhance the pleasures of life by
South Africa to demonstrate whether who have invaded their native heath. their mutual interest, or help smooth
white men can do the work of Chinese Here they can go for a rest cure. The over the rough places aud temper the
In the mines. Their Journey Is the out same condition of affairs exists on the dark days until there was a rift in the
come of a controversy between two lines branching of!' at Iguacia. The clouds to let in the hope and bright
members of parliament.
cars are crowded with sight-seers and ness that were bidden from their view.
At a recent meeting of Orient lodge,
Knights of Honor, at Holyoke the late summer visitors, wending their
BRIEF REVIEW.
name of a woman was proposed for way to the historic town of old So
membership amid wild cheers from the noma, Glenn Ellen and Napa. There
members present This Is thought to is no lack of beautiful and attractive
A Story of Stonewall Jackaoa.
be the first case of Its kind In the his places all along the line, and if any one
It happened that the writer aud an
tory of the order.
thinks the good old summer days are other cadet occupied the same room
It Is said that the Importation of dia over and that the country is deserted with Major Jackson and another officer
monds Into this country has Increased since the exodus of the summer.visitors of the Institute. As we were retiring
50 per cent during the last ten years. began—the limit of their vacation hav the major said to the officer mentioned,
The customs official who InsitecU all ing been reached—they have only to “Captain, what do you do with your
the stones taken through the port of
watch and purse when spending the
New York says that the Increase is take a trip into the country to be con night In a hotel?"
vinced
of
their
mistake.
It
is
really
bound to continue.
"Well,” said the captain, “I have no
Mr. Wilson, the junior surgeon on the one of the most delightful times of the fixed rule, but ordinarily I put my
Discovery «luring Captain Scott's ant year to go to the country, and from waistcoat In which I carry them under
arctic expedition, states that the taste now on through the glorious California my pillow.”
"I can tell you a much better way
for alcoholic drinks dropped suddenly fall and until the rains drive them
when he and his colleagues entered the home—the country will be tilled with than that,” said the major. "I always
Ice region and that the disinclination the late visitors who have bided their place my watch In one sock and my
purse In the other and lay them on the
increased as time went on.
time to take their vacation.
floor as If they bad been thrown there
A Savoyard shepherd named Vachat
carelessly. No one would think of look
entered a barn near Vaucluse ami
In all plant life, I mean the com- ing into a pair of soiled socks for valu
found a cow In the act of chewing up
bls savings, which, consisting of $350 mon, every-day plants that grow with ables.”
We were up betimes next morning
In bank notes, had been hidden in a so little trouble, there is none that re
corner of the barn. Only two notes pays one so well as a bed of nasturtl- before daybreak, if I recollect aright,
ons or of sweet peas. There is no and, having breakfasted, started for
for $15 remained uneaten.
Thirty years ago hawkweed first ap doubt of flowers from the time your the wharf to take the boat. We had
peared In Strong, Me. It had a bright nasturtions commence to bloom, and marched possibly a couple of squares
pretty flower and was much cherished unless a heavy frost plays havoc with when we were surprised to bear tho
for that reason. It has a downy seed, the plants, they will keep on blossom major's voice giving, with his peculiar
which Is scattered by the wind, aud ing, well repayingyou for your trouble. Intonation, the command: "Detach
ment. halt. Place rest.” Turning to
now the flowering plant of thirty years
How they do brighten up your room, see what was the matter, we perceived
ago is a noxious weed for forty miles
too, with their beautiful velvety flow the major trotting briskly toward the
around
There are about 25,000 persons em- ers and bright green leaves. They can hotel. He soon returm*d and marched
ployed In the watch factories of Swit be used in the corner of the room with us to the boat.
Suspecting the cause of the stoppage,
zerland, not Including several thou their long tendrils and buds and blos
sand engaged In the "house industry.” soms very effectively, or massed to I approached him as soon as the boat
There are 027 factories, 218 of which gether in a great cluster in some pretty had Btarted and said:
“Major, I was much struck with
manufacture complete watches, 209 jardineil or low vase. You don’t need
ciises and the rest dials, crystals, any other floral decoration when you your method of concealing your watch
and puree last night, and I think I
hands, springs, jewels, etc.
have an abundance of Iteautiful nastur shall adopt it hereafter.”
While Maine Is said to be the easiest tions.
A broad smile crept over his face as
state In New England In which to ob
he replied:
tain a divorce, things are different
I heard a young girl remark the
“Well, Mr. ---- , if you do follow the
across the line In New Brunswick. The
ties which bound two couples were sev other day with tremulous voice and plan don't put on clean socks the next
ered at the last term of court at Fred her eyes full of tears, “My mother morning and forget the soiled ones, as
ericton after the cases had been under never kissed me in her life. All I have done today.” — Thomas M
through the days of my childhood I Senimes In Century.
judicial consideration for six years.
Three brothers were wedded to three longed for affection, and was envious
The Eccentric Depositor.
sisters and a sister of the brothers to of other girls whose parents lavished
H.
A.
Fuller, toastmaster at the an
a brother of the three sisters at Dur- kisses and endearing words that
nual banquet of the Pennsylvania
ren, near Thoune, III., recently. Bride showed how much they loved them.
in Wllkesbarre
and bridegroom In each case were of My mother, boasted that even in our bankers' convention In
last month. Introduced with this story
the same age, varying from nineteen
years to twenty-eight. They stood In a babyhood she made it a rule never to the hanker who responded to the toast,
row at the altar and answered the caress or kiss us, never to sympathize “Our Depositors.”
"A depositor In a neighboring trust
with us when we met with an acci
questions together.
The sawmills at Machias, Me., and dent or cried with an aching ear or company Is an eccentric farmer of
those up the river at Whltneyvllle have tooth. Hhe believed in ‘sparing the middle age. This farmer, though he is
been In operation something like 140 roti and spoiling the child,’ and she wealthy, overdrew his account one day
years. Iu that time there have been never failed to use the rod energetic to the tune of $500.
"Notification of the overdraft was
■awed, according to «conservative esti ally whenever she thought It necessary.
mates, 3,032,000,000 feet of lumber, I am ashamed to say it, but I never at once sent to him.
“He replied:
and now the same ground from which
loved my mother, for I had the great
“ ‘You tell me I have overdrawn my
this timber has been cut Is worth more
per acre as timber land than It ever est fear of her. Bhe believed in hu account $500. Well, I know It. So
miliating us to break our stubborn what is the necessity of bothering me
was.
Chicago enjoys the distinction of be pride, as she termed it. We all idol about it? Why not trust me as I do
Ing the only city In the world In which ized our father, for he was the very op- you? Do I go to you when I have
over 1,200 tire alarm boxes are to b«* poaite of my mother. He never dared money tn your institution and shout,
found in an area covering one square show his affection for us much itefore “You h«va $500 of mine?” Such state
mile. This Is the case in the stockyard her, for she considered that he was un ments are superfluous either way.’
Buffalo Enquirer.
district, where a bnndnsl watchmen
are employed, Tbe boxes are so close doing all her g«xxl work, besides break
Cow Poor Ak»4 of Pllvrtms.
ing
the
rules
of
the
household
that
she
together that a watchman is never
The cow pony is of distinguished
mor<* than a hundred feet from one had laid down, but just let us get alone
His ancestral home was
with father and we would have just an lineage.
while on duty.
among the Moors of Barbary, and his
The famous throne of Delhi Is to be old-fashioned loving bee, and he would
pedigree reads back to the "Godolphln
restored, for Lord Curzon has written try to atone in every way and make Arabian." Innocently associated with
to the British ambassador at Rome to us forget our loveless life. How over the Spanish Invasion of Mexico his
send him the best man who can work joyed we were when mother went on a race was already established on the
In bard stones. He hns succeeded In visit and remained away for a few
plains of the southwest when the May
securing one of th«« greatest Florentine days, and what a wet blanket was flower landed. In the centuries that
artists, and the work begun by Ital
ians three ceuturles ago will now be thrown over us when her letter would followed he conformed bls nature to
contlnueil In accordance with the de arrive saying that she was coming the requirements of the plains until
home, Every one of us, from father he fitted them as the camel fits the
sign originally planned.
down,
sbxxl in awe of mother. I desert, and became so perfectly
The fr<«c7.1ng system Is to be adopte«!
adapted to the ~rork of the cattle range
In the construction of the new-tube never .»aw her .«hed tears but twice,
as to make It doubtful whether the
railroad for I'arls at the point where and that was after father died, and needs of the cowboy evolved the cow
the track will pass beneath the Orleans she excused her tears then by saying pony or the capacities of the
Trunk railroad. For various reasons she was so weak from sitting up at produi-ed the cowboy.—Country pony
Life
the ordinary shield process will not be nights. Again she broke down when In America
Suitable. The earth is to De frozen to she saw him lieing borne from the
a temperature of 80 degrees below
Diplomatic.
zero, so thnt the excavators may be house that hud sheltered them since
A British nobleman who was sued
able to cut the tunnel without Incur the day she entered it a bride. Not for breach of promise declared to the
ring any danger of ««ollapse before the one of us knew how to console mother. jury that It was impossible for him to
metal lining has been placed In post We couldn’t go up and put our arms contradict a lady and that therefore
tlon.
around her and tell her we would love he would not deny that he had made
The fnmous Carnavalet museum of and take care of her while we mingled the promise, but he Insisted that the
Paris- hns just received a notable ac- our tears with hers, for she w ould have lady had exaggerated the value of bls
qulsltion -the keys of the Bastille and retailed in a moment and informed us affections and that that value was a
a pair of manacles—which will have a she was abundantly able to take care f»ir question for a jury The lady re
mournful Interest for Englishmen.
covered 1 per oent or so of her original
After the destruction of the fortress of herself. It made such a difference claim, and the mulcted nobleman de
in
our
lives,
the
stern,
set
way
in
prison the keys wore presented as a
dared that the cross examination of
memento tb Santerre. brewer, soldier which we were brought up, but mother her by his counsel was amply worth
and revolutionary leader. In whose thought she was doing her duty and the money.
family they have remained to this day. bringing us up strictly in accordance
Varsaswaakle.
His grent-gran«ldaughter. Mme VII with Bible teachings. She would
First 8h«e Store Clerk—Women are
lain, has now presented them to tlie quote, ‘Thou shalt hnve no other gods
museum, together with the manacles before Me,'and she tried to foliowit so unreasonable.
Second WHO— That's right. A woman
out to the letter by making us all toe can*« Is yesterday and said she wanted
A Chnnirr.
Two neighbors worv conversing the the mark and walk in the straight and a shoe nat wn« both comfortable and
narrow path she had laid out for us, stylish. - Philadelphia Record.
nthfr
to
other:
"By the way, how Is Mrs. Hogg. the and by never showing us any affection.
There were 944,703 births and 549.393
Invalid, going on?"
I made up my mind that no child I deaths registered in England and
“Oh." replied the other, “they do not ever had anything to do with should Wales Is IUD*, and the natural increase
call her Mrs. Hogg now."
carry the aching void in their hearts of population by excess of births over
"Why. what do they call her?"
that had l>een my portion through life, death. 395.310, was In excess of the
“Oh. they call her Mrs. Bacon now
and
whenever I meet a child that ap average annual ipcreaae In the prertSd
She's enred."
pears to Is* leading a loveless and tin- Ing Are yeare-namely, 380.554.
THE CORK THEE
THE TOWER OF BABEL,
A HISTORIC VOLUME
•go««*, Strlppiu«
>*r«g*rali»n
•* ««• tetris.
■iarorr Leave« Me Data ter Which «•
Estimate Its Height.
Tlx» methods In vogue In baafciu(| aud
harvesting Uie cork in Spain and Por
tugal are pret||- much the i*me. The
barklug operation U affected lhen the
tree hag acquired «efficient itMnftb to
wltbstaud the rough handling it re-
celvea during thia operation, which
take« place when It baa attained the
fifteenth year of Ita growth. After the
first stripping the tree Is left In thia
juvenescent state to regenerate, sub
sequent strippings being effected st in
terval« of not less than three years,
and under this process the tree will
continue to thrive and bear for upward
of 150 years. If the bark la not re
moved artificially, it will on maturity
split aud dismantle Itself. This Is
caused by the fresh growth of bark
formiug underneath.
The cork of the first barking Is
termed corcho bornlo—Itornlzo, or vir
gin cork. The cork of the second strip
ping Is called pelas, or secondary cork.
The work of removing the bark from
the tree Is performed in summer by
men, wbo are paid at the rats of
2s. Od. a day. The instruments used
for the work are an ax, a lever and a
bandsaw for the cutting of transversal
Incisions. The first process through
which the bark passes after stripping
Is that of boiling. This Is sometimes
done In the woods, but more frequent
ly in the cork factory. In large, special
ly constructed caldrons. In which the
bark is left to boll for upward of an
hour. This seething process Increases
the thickness and elasticity of the cork
and at the same time the tannin and
other feculent substances generally ex
isting In the bark are desiccated—Lon
don Queen
_
The exact date of the building of
“Nimrod's Folly," as the Chaldeans
say Iu alluding to the Scriptural tower
of Babel (the Armenians speak of it as
the Tower of the «'oufuxlou of Tongues«,
or the height to which It penetrattsl
the rarefltsl atmosphere of the oriental
plains will perhaps never be known.
The date of the laying of the founds
tlou of the famous structure Is usually
set at 2.247 years before Christ, or in
the year of the flood, 101.
The expression of the sacred blstorlau
that its top was to "reach unto heav
en" Is now generally set dowu as a
strung Hebrew phrase denoting a very
lofty tower, but not n«*ceasarily mean
ing one that would reach to the abldlug
place of the laird aud his hosts. Proof
that this Is probable may be found tn
several places In holy writ. The walls
of the cities of Canaan are described
by Moses In similar phraseology. The
spies sent out by him returned and re-
ported that the cities of that country
were great aud were "walled up to
heaven.” See Deuteronomy t, 28; lx, 1.
There Is a Jewish legend In the Tal
mud which tells us that God did not
put a stop to the building of the tow
er until after It bad reached a height
of 10,(MM) fathoms, which Is equal to
nearly twelte English miles.
Th« sacretl historians have not Iu a
single instance left data upon which
we can base a calculation of ita exact
height and general dimensions, ami It
Is tiecause of this omission that the
imaginative orientals ami other an
cient writers have given stich fabulous
and extravagant traditions concerning
It; Even St. Jerome alleges from the
testimony of eyewitnesses who claim
to have seen and examined the ruins
of the skyscraping shaft that In bls
day (born 845 A. D.) It was over four
miles high. While considering these
untenable notions It may not be ont of
place to mention that other fanciful
writers make Its height range all the
way from a single furlong to 5.000
miles In height. See Lawson's Bible
Cyclopedia, volume 1, page 259.
The Bible L«e4 toy the lulled State«
Supreme Cegrt.
THE “DIVINE STORM."
Fearful ’typhoon That Saved Japan
Fro* a Chinese lavaalon.
About !00 years ago Japan was
threatened with an Invasion from con
tinental Asia, much as England was
threatened with invasion by the Span
lards. Tb«* beaten Spanish armada
was dispersed by a storm, and Japan
was delivered in much the same way.
but witholt an engagement. A Jap
anese writer, Okakura Yoshlsabura.
says: "Tlx« might)' Kublai, grandson
of the grtat Genghis Khan, haughty
with his rrHlstless army, whose devas
tilting intrepidity taught even Europe
to tremble at the mention of his uame,
dispatched an embassy to the Japanese
court to demand the subjection of the
country. The message was indignant
ly dismlss<*d. Enragtxl at this, Kublai
equipped a large number of vessels
with tbs choicest soldiers China could
furnish. The invading force was suc
cessful at first and committed massa
ores in Ikl and Tsushima, Islands lying
between Korea and Japan. The posi
tion was menacing. Even the steel
nerves of the trained samurai felt that
strange thrill a patriot knows. Shinto
priests anil Buddhist monks were busy
at their prayers.
“A tremendous Chinese fleet gath
er«^ In the boisterous bay of Genkal
In the summer of 1281. At last the
evening came with the ominous glow
on the horizon that foretells an ap
proaching storm. It was the plan of
the conquering army victoriously to
land the next morning on the holy soil
of Kyushu. But «luring this critical
night a fearful typhoon, known to this
day as the ‘divine storm,' arose, break
ing the jet black sky with Its tremen
dous roar of thunder and bathing th««
glittering armor of our soldiers guard
ing the coast line In white flashes of
dazzling light. The very heaven and
earth shook before ths mighty anger
of nature.
“Dawn of the next morning saw the
whole fleet of the proud Yuan that bad
darkened the water for miles swept
completely away Into the bottomless
sea of Genkal, to the great relief of the
horror stricken populace and to the
unspeakable disappointment of our d«*-
termined soldiers. Out of the 100,000
warriors who manned the Invading
ships only three are recorded to have
survived the destruction to tell the
dismal tale to their crestfallen great
khan.”
_______________
A Mutual Arrangement.
A certain poet made a good deal of
money, but, being extravagant, he was
always in debt. Then he wooed, won
and we«lded a young woman of great
wealth. Thereafter times were better
With him. At breakfast during his
honeymoon the bride said to the poet
tenderly, "Does the fact that I have
money, dearest, make any difference to
you?"
“To be sure it does, my love," the
poet answered.
She drooped a little, perplexed,
alarmed.
"What difference?" she asked.
“Why,” said he, “It Is such a com
fort to know that If I should die you'd
be provided for.”
“And If I should die?" said the bride.
“Then," he returned. “I'd be pro
vided for.”
Honey In MadA«a«<*ar.
Among the observances of the fan
droana. or New Year’s festival. In Mad
agascar Is the eating of mlngl««d rice
and honey by the queen and her guests.
In the same country honey Is plactxl In
the sacred water of sprinkling used at
the blessing of small children. Ancient
religious ceremonies of the heathen
frequently employed honey, but It was
forbidden as a sacrifice In the Jewish
ritual. With milk or water it was pre
sented by the Greeks as a libation to
the dead. A honey cake was the
monthly food of the fabled serpent
guardian of the acropolis of Athens.
Peruvian aborigines offered honey to
the sun.
THE MALE BASS.
How He Looks After the
the Little Fry.
aid
"The female fish has no maternal In
stincts whatever,” said the superin
tendent of the state flsb hatcheries.
“In fact, the fish is the most unhuman
cr««ature in existence—that is, of the
animals which have any degree of in
telligence at all.
“Perhaps It Is well that It Is co, for If
the purent fish took careof their young
as other creatures do the waters of the
earth would be fllled with them In a
very short time. Under nutural condi
tions not one egg In a Billion ever be-
comes a tlsii a year oil. As an ex
ample, I have seen femile brook trout
go up luto the spawning places aud
spawn tbelr eggs and then turn
around and deliberately eat them.
"For the past few years I hate been
much Interested In experimenting with
bass and studying tbelr ways. Here
the male parent has some maternal In
stincts apparently. He builds the
'nest' for the female, some little pocket
with a gravel bottom proteet«*d from
the strong current, but with plenty of
fresh water, and then bugs or push«*«
the female Into it. The eggs are
spawned by the female, wbo swims
away and leaves them to their fate.
The malt* fertilizes the eggs nnd then
for a few days watches over them,
•fanning' them occasionally to Insure
a circulation of fresh water and keep
ing off other fish who woiiki devour
the eggs. The male fish have been
known to follow the little fry for sev
eral days, protecting them until they
were able to care for themselves.
“I have seen a school of, say, 1.500
bnss fry devoured In five minutes by
a few sun bass or perch minnows.
Under the case of the fish hatcheries
from 60 to 95 per cent of the eggs be
come fish fry. How many of the fry
live to be a year old or so after they
are planted In the streams It Is very
hard to determine. It depends so
greatly upon conditions that no relia
ble estimates can be made.”—Milwau
kee Wisconsin.
A Busts««« Talk.
“Miss de Simpson,” said the young
secretary of legation. “I have opened
negotiations with your father upon the
subject of—er-coming to sue you
oftener with a view ultimately to
forming an alliance, and he has re
sponded favorably. May I ask If you
will ratify the arrangement as a mo
dus vlvendl?”
"Mr. von Harris," answered the
daughter of the eminent diplomat,
"don’t you think It would have been a
more graceful recognition of my ad
ministrative entity If you had asked
me first?”—Chicago Tribune.
Malay Hou«««.
Malay houses are Invariably built on
posts, so as to raise the floor from four
to six feet above the ground. The floor
is composed of bamboo, with Inter
stices between slats, the earth beneath
becoming the receptacle of the drain
age of the establishment. The uni
versal plan of the well to do natives
is to build the bouse In two divisions,
the front one for receiving visitors and
lounging generally, while the rear por
tlon Is reserved for the women and
children.
1« I.lie Worth Living t
Those people who say that life Is
not worth living find It so because
they <lo not go to work to make It
worth living. Why does sadness over
power them? Is It so much harder for
them than for others to see sin aDd
suffering? What right have they to
add their weight to the world's bur
Mutheumllrnl Pru«i«leu.
dens? Is It a sign of Intellect to be
It Is related that Jededlali Buxton, cowardly? And do these people not
the English mathematical prodigy, was dream that the spiritual power which
the son of a schoolmaster, but remain makes such an Intellectual condition
ed throughout life a farm laborer, be Impossible Is vastly superior to sny
cause of Incapacity to acquire an edu power that the Intellect alone can at
cation. Ills mind being occupied by an tain.—Elizabeth Tea body
absorbing passion for mental caletfla
tlona. Being asked "How many cu
Very C«aaM«rate.
bical eighths of an Inch there are In a
“One way for you to Improve your
body wire«* three sides are 23.145.78fl self. young man. la to constantly asso
yards. 1.642.732 yards and 54.965 ciate with your superiors "
yards?" he replied correctly without
“I know It 1«. sir, but I am so cfen-
setting down a figure. Zorah Colburn actentlous I cannot bring myself to do
was an American prodigy When ask ft.”
ed the square root of 106,929 awl the
“And why conscientious?“
cube root
2tW.33fl.125. he answered
“I bate to think what my superiors
correctly before the audience set the would 1* Buttering all that time."—
figures down.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Kept itecurely uuder l«x-k and key In
the supreme court room at Washlngtou
there Is a small Oxford Bible aruuud
which cluster many uutable aud bls
toric Incidents. It was printed at Ox
ford In 1799. first came into the court's
service in 1808 aud la believed to be
one of the 20.000 Imported by congress
a few years before During Its court
career this niluine has been called into
service every day on which the august
tribunal has held sessiqu.
The great constitutional lawyers of
the formative period of our govern
meut as a prerequisite of their adiuls
slon to practice before this learned
body klss«*d Its material face.
B ch 1<1«- h these great legal lights every
associate am! <-hlef Justice, with the
exception of Chief Justice Chase, wbo
had a Bible of his own, and every law
yer ex«*ept Daniel Webster, sworn to
practice before the supreme court bur
has taken ills oath of allegiance on
this little book. It Is a tradition of the
court that alien Daniel Webster came
before this high tribunal In his first
argument In the defense of the char
tered rights of Ills alma mater, Dart
mouth college, against the legislatlv«*
attacks of New Hampshire, by some
strange inadvertence th«« oath was not
administered The tradition goes fur
ther. Intimating that the Judges were
so Impressed by the elotpience of his
appeal. which stands out today as a
classic in legal lore, that they either
forgot or dared not mention his dere
liction.
It Is no wonder that this little Bible
Is so carefully preserved, endeared as
It is with the memories of America's
greatest stati*snien and jurists. When
a president is to lie sworn the clerk of
the court usually purchases a new
Bible, and after the certificate has
lieeu affix««] he presents It to th«« first
lady of th«* land.—Leslie's Weekly.
EARLY ANATOMISTS.
Disax-n«,«
Ha« Pr«ctlf»4 1«
In 3UU B. C.
Level
Dr. William Williams K«teu tells
sum«* luterestiug facta regarding tbs
early history of dissection. The first
bumau auatuuiists were In Alexandria
three centuries b«*for* Christ, aud they
and tbelr successors for 2.000 years
were commonly reported to have In
dulged In antemortem dlaseetiuu. Says
Dr Keen: "Vesalius was shipwrecked
and died while deelug for bls life on
such a charge The Edinburgh act of
1506, giving the surgeous the laxly of
one criminal annually to make an
auatomle of,* was guarded by th« pro
vlso 'after he be deld.' Even poetry
bus lent Its aid to perpetuate the leg
end of the 'invisible girl,' whose ghost
was believed to haunt Sir Charltte
Bell's anatomical rooms, where she bad
been dissected alive ou the ulgbt pre
ceding that appointed for her mar
riage.”
For a long time Alexandria was the
ouly medical center of the world, aud
the piiyslclau Galen (born about 130
A. I>.) bad to Journey from Rome to
the African city even to see a skeleton.
He seut bis students to tLe German
battlefields to dissect the bodies of the
tuitloual enemies, while he himself
UM*d apt*« as ni«wt resembling human
beings. Human dissection was revived
in Bologna in the fourteenth century,
where Madonna Manzoiina later was
profmsor of anatomy, undoubtedly one
of tb<* first women doctors. If not the
very first. Is«ouardo da Vinci, painter
of "Tlie Ijist Supper," was a great
anatomist, but dissection bad fallen
Into disuse when Vesalius finally re
vived It about th«* middle of the six
teenth century.
Evon in comparatively modern times
anatomists have tieen the objects of at
tacks by the populace. In 1765 Dr.
John Shippen of Philadelphia was
mobbed as a grave robber. Doctors'
riots in New York occurred twenty-
thr«*e years later and were due to the
WHISTLER’S MONOGRAM. ~ belief that the m«*<llcal students robbed
graves continually. It was the lack
Other Artists Have Adopted Queer of opixirtunlty that led to the practl«?e
of grave robbing and originated what
De« flee« For Slgnatarea.
The mystic emblem or device of a Dr. Keen calls "a set of the lowest
sort of Whist lerlztsl butterfly wns possible villains- the resurrectionists.’'
adopted in the sixties by the eccentric
genius. James Abbott Whistler, who.
THE CITY OF VENICE.
without any known reason, «-banged
his name later to James MacNelll Its Peculiar Site and How It Canto
to Be Selected.
Whistler.
The city of Venice is spproacbed
Close study will reveal that this pe
culiar scroll Is really a monogram of from behind by a rsllroaj coustmeted
J. W. The earliest of the etchings to over a stretch of swamp. Out beyoud
bear the butterfly is “Chelsea Wharf’ this swamp was another swamp which
(1803i. but many paintings aud et«*h was a little higher. It bad been out of
Ings after that date are signed “Whist the water longer and bad caught
enough seaw«*«>d. sand, shells and sedi
ler."
Artists have sometimes slgncl their ment to be tit for birds to nest on.
pictures In some distinct form in There waa one Island called the Ri
stead of their names. It generally was alto, which was really quite secure,
done when the name might suggest and around thia one there were said
to be about seventy-five or eighty
soma emblem or symbol.
Thus Hieronymus Cock demarked other Islands, which today are occu
two lighting cocks on his panels; pied by the city of Venice. Some of
Mariotto Albertiuelll signed a cross these were originally not islands at
with two Interlaced rings, referring to all. Th«*y were mere high places In a
the sacerdotal duties to which at one great bog. which, by the cutting of
time of his life he «levoted himself; ebaunels aud by artificial means, were
Martin Rota, a wheel; I’leter de Ryng, converted Into more or lees fit places
a ring with a diamond; Giovanni Dos- for the enaction of buildings.
sl, a bone; Del Mazo Martinez, a bain-
Without consulting history, one
mer; l.ionello Spnda. a sword.
could almost guess that such an un
Sometimes caprice dictated the selec favorable spot as this was not se-
tion, ns when Jacopo de Barber! used lected as the site for a city out of
the eadueeua. or Mercury rod; Hendrik free choice, and Indeed It waa not
<le Bins, an owl; Lucas Cranach, a Venice was start<*d during the fifth
crowned serpent; Cornelius Engel- and sixth centuries. The Inhabitants
brechtseu, a pecullsr device resem of Padua aud a few more north Ro
bling a weather vane, and Hans Hol man cities, chased out by the Huns,
beln. a sktill. Collector and Art Critic. the Goths and other tribes of bar
barians. took refuge here in an Adri
Seastckuess.
atic lagtxin. The savages of Asia bad
A Freuch naval surgeon. Dr. Le no bouts, so that the settlement was
grand, says that of all the means of re very safe, and, leading an Independent
lieving seasickness only one Is really life, prospered here by Itself during
effective. “It la to maintain the abdo the middle ages at a surprising rate.
men absolutely rigid from the moment
It was a monstrous work to make
of setting foot on the vessel, ’to do the city secure from the sea. Ship
this a belt of ordinary tightness Is In loads of “tone were brought from other
sufficient. Hie abdomen must be band coasts. Dams and canals were built
aged with a layer of wadding and
at gr«*at cost, aud the residents finally
wide bands of flannel—In a word, ab got enough of dry land about them to
solute compression must be attained,
care being taken to do the bandaging feel moderately safe.
?rom below upward toward the chest.”
WORK.
Dr. Legrand adds, "The Important
thing Is not to i>e afraid to make the
The work which presents no difficul
bands too tight; otherwise the complete ties to be overcome loon grows unin
suppression of the symptoms cannot be teresting
obtained.”
There are some workers so anxious
to catch time by the forelock that they
Railwars la 1940.
A writer to the New York Mirror of almost tear the forel«x?k off.
If It Is true that gotxl work implies
1840, in the course of a rhapsod.v on the
railway, says: "Dueling and changing that the workman knows himself It la
horses and separate rooms are at an equally true that the best work shows
end, our light literature must now be that he hus forgotten himself.
come woven with steam, our Incidents
There Is only one right way to work,
must arise from blowups and love be and It is neither in doing things before
made over broken legs, while here the they are start«*d nor in doing them all
novelist will have to re«x>rd the falling >ver again after they are finished.
In of a tunnel, the only chance left for
Tin* world I h altogether too restricted
a touch of the sublime." Trains then
■ lis use of the word "art” Work of
pr«x?eeded under wonderfully good con n.v kind done superlatively well is art
dition <x*caslonally at the awe Inspiring -«lusting pictures as well as painting
speed of thirty-five miles an hour as a I hem.
maximum.
A good worker Is pretty much like a
hors«*, after all. When It’s uphill going
EleeXrieltx In Plant«.
Electric currents In plants are due, dou't worry him; when It's downhill
don’t burry him, and be sure to
■ays Kunckel. to the moveineuta of going
water In the tissu«*«. and not to differ take go*si care of him once lie's In th«
ences of potential, existing Independ barn.- Success.
ently. It was consldere<l probable thnt
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
vegetable el«*ctrlc!ty was due to biolog
leal process«*«, especially respiration
Cheap rings always look particularly
and the consequent chemical changes cheap on toll worn hands.
In experimenting with leaves nnd flow
An old quarrel Is like an old wound--
ers dicotyledons and on a large mush
liable
to break out at any time.
room In an atmosphere of hydrogen It
There Is this difference: Lovers make
wns found thnt the electric current was
diminished, but never quite suppress«*«!, up a quarrel because they enjoy It »nd
owing probably to Intramolecular res married people because they have to.
If you are satisfied with yourself
plration. The electric current revives
you are con«?eited. and If you are not
on air being readmitted.
satisfied you are ungrateful. What is
When Es>> Were Esa«.
a man to be?
Paddy Doolan went Into a shop one
It Is strange bow a man's duty ap
to buy eggs.
pears so plain to you and bow be looks
"What are eggs today?"
right at It and has such poor eyesight
"Eggs are eggs today, Paddy.” re he can't see It
plied the shopman, looking quite tri
How well dressed, neat people are
umphantly at two or three young la«ly admired! Do you pay as much atten
«tustomers who happened to be In the tion to your personal appearan«-e as
shop.
you should? Care in this particular
"Faith. I'm glad to h«?ar you say no," pays gtxxl dividends —Atchison Globe
replied Paddy, "for the last ones I got
here were chicken«."
Elephant ««uraeitr.
A remarkable Instance of the sagac
A Mis««.
Magistrate—If I let you off thl« time ity of a female elephant which had lost
will yon promise me to take the her young one In a pit trap has re-
pledge? Delighted Prisoner (excitedly* eently been related. The mother made
—O1 will, yer honor, so* drink yer strenuous attempts to rescue her off
spring by throwing quantltl* of earth
healtW_______________
fend branch«*« of trees Into the pit but
It cannot be *po often repeated that all her efforts were In vain, as the
It is not helps but obstacles, not fa liuntere arrived before the pit was suf
cilities but difficulties, that make mee ficiently fllled to sitow the young one
to clamber out.
i—Matthews.
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