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•«»nit* fto.l«* I' mi - i «.
Were ate - mi»- facts about the Ohl
T’ 'lament that ti took one man three
urs’ thm* to figure out:
There are itti took*. 'JP cbapteis.
23.214 veme«, 5)1».43U w ni- und 2.728
pr.i letter*.
The middle book I» Proverbs.
The miihlle chapter Is Job XX1X.
The middle verse would be II Chron
icles xx. IN, If there were a verse more,
uud verse 17 If there wen* a Verse less.
Tlie w*ord “ami” occurs 3&M3 times,
The word “Jehovah“ occurs 4».N55
times.
The »bürtest Verse I» I Chronicles I.
25.
The twenty-first verse of Ezra vll
eontaiiiH ail tlx* letters of tlx* alplialiet.
Tlx- nlix teeiitli chapter of the Second
Book of Kings ami the thirty-seventh
chapter of Isaiah are practically the
same.
In the New Testament there ar<* 27
Isioks, 2««o cliaptera, 7.lk"»l> verws, 181.-
2.’»8 words ami 8.3x.3sn letters.
The middle book Is II Thessalonians.
Tlie middle chapter would lie Ro
mans xlil if there were a chapter more,
unit Bomans xlv if a chapter less.
Tin* middle verse Is Acts xvll, 17.
The shorti'st verse Is John xi. 35.
The middle chapter of Hie entire Bi
ble la >ils«> Hie short«*»! the one Hun
dred und Seventeenth Psalm.
The miihlle vein«* is tin* eighth of the
<lne llundreil ami Eighteenth Psalm.
POLLY LARIN, j
a buul«vard. I’hu» a ill add much to
His attraetiveiiHm ol the.plate. The
1 tiiprovviiiriit Club will work in har
mony willy Hie Boatil of i'ra<le, ami we
«■aiie<pt «'t ie»uli» that will fully . 'Mil
jieiisate them for the tiuwMvl lai.tr ex-
Iteixle*!. Graiiuall.V every town of any
size w ill fall into line ami will organize
I‘iiprovemeiit Clul* that will help to
convert tlie town» luto attractive ami
lieautiful places.
FORCING A FASHION.
H m I m Wrrr
SUU I II
luirudutfd (u
'MYHMf«.
Andriea i>r Villiers, a Boer, was ti»
1». rsou who find inln-duced huts among
the South African natives.* says the
llailcrs’ Gazette, and profit. Uot phi
lanthropy. was his motive. One morn
iug iuau.v years ago he chanced in Port
Elizabeth to eome across a consign
ment of damaged hats offered for a
in» i«4 song. He Itought the whole lot.
packed them away in his wagon an«I
started for Katlirlaud.
When he reached Tembuland. be un
loaded bis stock, opened his kegs of lh|
uor. without which no trade was made
in those »lays, ami began business. But
h»‘ found his venture likely to prove an
uuprofitabh' oue. The natives did not
want hats. They wanted blankets and
beads and l<s»king glasses and above
all liquor, hut they looked askance at
hats. Then a bright id»*a came to An
dries. He wanted to introduce those
hats, lie did lutrmiuce them. His siui
pie expedient was to refuse to sell any
thing to a Kaffir unle*« he bought a
hat too. Th»* Kaffirs wanted his goods,
sotbey bought the hats.
When a Kaffir buys anything, he
feels bound to make us«» of It. Th»» na
fives therefor«’ donned their head gear
ami returm*d to their kraals. Now ap
peared the brilliancy of the trailer’s
id**a. Fashion rules the world. It is as
strong In Africa as in America, ami
when those who had stayed at horn»»
saw th«» trav«»lers return in aril the glo
ry of this strange covering they felt
behindhand and old fashioned. Their
desire to poss»*ss the latest thing in
hats became intense. They pahl An
dries a visit, and his stock no longer
bung heavy u|s»n his hands, The hats
were soon sold.
This hapfH’ned ionie time ago, nini
now every trading store keeps a supply
of hats constantly on hand. They are
said to be manufactured expressly for
the natives, and no one who glances at
the show will doubt it.
CHOICE
MISCELLANY HUMOR OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES
V Hoiuriiloo* S bccs «»
Perhaps because an elepbuut sneezes
so seld»»m or because he sneezes so loud
oriental folk are very superstitious
ulsiiit the •M*ui iWice and believe that
to hear an elephant sneeze brings good
luck. Tbe Baltimore Heruld gives an
account of the effect produce«! by the
sneeze of J uid I m » II. at tin Maryland
Industrial exhibition:
Jumbo’s sueeze is like I lie burst I in;
of a Ixiller, and It created a fairly g«MMl
sized pani**. The elephant began to get
ready f»»r the sneeze half an hour b«*-
for«» it hap{M*m*d, and as the time for
the event drew near he was rolling
about in his **ug»‘, apparently ill great
agony. Sudtlenly he stopped, gave one
b«*lluvv and then sn«»ez«*d.
The look of ¡M*rf«*ct contentment on
bi* face after the great «»vent was in
startling contrast to th«* terror seen on
the faces of the fleeing people. Visitors
to the »*x | »os it ion were running in all
dir«»ctions, uot knowing wliat awful
thing it was from which they were
racing away.
•Among the MohamnitMians of th«» ori
ental ami Cingalese villages Jumlvo's
sihm ’Z«» cause«! wlhi excitement. They
ruslnsl to th«» cage ami. bowing ivefore
his elephantine highness, l»«*gan pray
ing at a rapid rate. When they fin
ished. they explained that an »*ie-
phant’s sneezes ar«* of th«* rarest occur
rence. and the event was one of great
sigiiith'arice to them. Elephants are
susceptible to cold ami catch cold eas
ily, but it is very, very rarely that they
sneeze.
"You rememis*r tiigt •rticlsyou wrote
recently, ‘He Whistled on the Way,'
Folly ? Well, lli«t lilt 1» jingle m«<ieaii
iuipreHsion on me. i thought h »w
much more cheerful and bgppy every
« « « «
one would be if they could only make
Of all the delightful times for goiug
up their minds to whistle o" the way.
into I he i - ouii try it is «hiring our Indian
I tried to remember a single instance
summer. Our uiiurods have diseov-
where the whistler was a morose and
vred this fact, ami many of them have
sorrowful fieing, iu other worth, a walk-
arrangeil their outing for themselves
ng tombstone, throwing a dam|>er on
and nieiiils-rs of their family who can
everything be came in contact with,
leave the city to spend a greater part of
but 1 failed to think of one. I remem
the months of Octolier ami Novemls-r
ber, too, how I hail chided our Jack for
m the country. Then they are licensed
whistling aismt the liou-e, ami Imw I
to bring «town the tleel-fisited «leer If
had even sent him out into tlie street
they can. ami slusit the shy mountain
lieeause he was noisy. I had made him
«piall liiat ever proves a temp'ation to
feel like lie was disgraced time and
the hunter ami the epicure a« well. I
again. He felt it keenly, loo, some
took atrip over the California North
times, for I bail s|H>keii sharply to him
western Railway the other day, and it
before company more than once, think
l«H,ke«l as if all the hunters in San Fran
ing that it would teach him a lesson
cisco and arouml the bay weie aboaKl.
tliai would not soon ie forgotten; bill
Al every station the tram let off passen
you might just as well liav* tried to
gers loa«le«l <low ii with guns amt bunt
still the whistling of the wind- around
ing paraphernalia, lunches amt medi
tin* bouse as to silence Jack. He jilsi
couldn't help whistling. After 1 read cine, presumably for snake bites. Some
were going for weeks accompanied by
that article, ‘He Whistled on the Way,’
their w ives and children, others for a
I turned over a new leaf ami in fact en
few «lays or |Hissibly a day's outing
couraged him in his cheerful ainii-e-
ment. Where liefore 1 saw only noise "Never went up oil this road yet that
and «lie PI» i Io mo |»li«* r.
I did not come back happy ami w ith a
ami
confusion I began now to see that
A certain philosopher was in the
gisid bag to show for my day's limit,"
habit of saying whenever be h«*ard that there was teal music in Jack's whin-
an old friend had passe«! away: “Ab. fling, for he can imitate the songs or said one enthusiastic niinriMl, and hia
II, nil«» Allowed In llir Trr««ur>.
w**il. d«»atb comes to us all. It is no new notes of tlie wild birds to perfection, sentiment was echoed by several other
A «lay or two after S«*eretary Shaw
thing. It 1« wliat we must
i
expect. amt whistle ‘Annie Laurie' until it voices saying, “The same lure, old
disciplined several clerks of the treas
1‘ass m«* the butter, my dear. Yes,
mail."
ury department for playing poker ami
brings tears to your eyes. 1 see that
deuth comes to all, and my friend's
indulging in other practices not con
they
are
paying
a
big
price
to
a
young
ym«’ had c< me.”
BRIEF REVIEW.
sistent with his views of the proper
man
in
New
York
to
whistle
in
tlie
Now, Death overheard these pliilo-
conduct of public officials he entered
sophieal remarks at different tiinea. choir at one ol the big churches. I
his ottic«* at an unusually early hour,
Double Stars.
and om* day he slmwed himself to the know our Jack could whistle all around
even for him. Richard l’age. of Afri
The
discovery
has
recently
I
h
*
cii
re
philosopher.
the New York whistler, for when he
can descent ami of great dignity ac
“I am Death,” said he simply.
gets started o.i religious tunes you can ported of over loo pairs ot double star».
quired through his long connection
Build ok Kinder Than < tail«!.
“Go away.” raid the man. in a panic. almost see the pearly gates, it brings These double star» ap|>ear to the naked
An incident related by George Eliot with the depart incut as a messenger,
“1 am not ready for you.”
you so near. There wouldn’t be much eye u- single stars, but through the tel- proves that kindness und devotion are was singing an old fashioned church
“Yes, but it is one of your favorite
clianee for a sinner to stay out of the es«‘<>|>e their binary character is seen. characteristic of the bulldog breed. hymn, not thinking of course that
truisms that Death comes to all. and I
fold if they got Jack to whistle in It is kuown that ill most eases tlieve The distinguished author was on a vis tlx* sviretary was within the sound
am but proving your words.”
church.
Tlie most hardened of them double «tars, says the Baltimore Sun, it to the house of a friend where a of Ids voice. When Hu* messenger
“Go » away.
away! ’ You are
ar<* dreadful!'*
dreadful!”
turm*d ami discover«*«! that tlx* s«*cre-
would
get
re|>eiitnnt right oft', for if the are not simply two stars that lie ill the bulldog and a child, each of the age of tar.v lm«l beard him siughig, he was
“.No > more dreadful than I always
six. were among the household posses
same
direction
and
appear
to
the
eye
to
mu. I But why have you changed so? first tune didn’t convert him the sec
sions. During dessert after dinner, sort* afraid and begged tliat liis viola
You have never fear»*»l th** death that ond would. He just couldu't stand it. lie dose together while in reality lieing while all were absorbed in conversa tion of tlx* rules of the department,
has come to your friends. 1 never Well, since I have turned over the new far apart, but they are actually aswwi-
tion. they were starthsl by a loud how l which prohibit tin* making of unusual
li«*ar«i you sigh when I carried off your leaf and repented toward Jack and bis ate«l together and revolve round each of pain from the dog. evidently pro noises, should not result in his ininae-
old roinpaiiioiis. You have always said, natural failing w histling—I have tried other. In some eases four or five stars ceeding from under the table. An in d at«* iliscliarge. ' Never mind, Rich
‘It is the way of all ffesh.’ Shall I
are so gr<>ii|>e<l r«mn<l a single center of vestigation immediately made discov ard. never mind,” consolingly said the
m.ike an exception in favor of your a little bit of the reconstruction aet on
gravity. The periods of revolution of ered that the child. equipped with a sei retary. “I see nothing in tlx* rilles
myself
and
endeavored
to
learn
I
he
th’sli ?”
of this department which prohibits the
art of‘whistling on flic way.’ It does many of the double stars have liven pair of scissors, was under tin* table
“Yes, for I am not ready.”
also and trying to cut the dog’s curs singing of church hymns. If more of
“But I am. Your time has come. Do not come easy to a prosy old fellow like noted. The periods run generally from
with i them. From one ear of the bull that kind of music were remlered here,
not repim*. Your friends will go ou myself, who basinet with tlie upland twenty-live to a huiulred years, and the
the blood was running, and yet the we would all get along better. You
buttering their toast. 'I’hey r will take downs and many disappointments that relative posit ion of t lie t wo stars <*hanges dog was making not the slightest of- can sing hymns. Richard, in this build
it as philosophically as you have
I
taken flock after a man of my age. I admit so slowly that observations covering fort to escape <ir defend himself. The ing as luueli as you want to. but
every other dentil.”
I've lie n grumpy ami impatient, both many years, ami sometimes many life host ami father, outraged by the evl- member. Richard, that 1 want you
And tlu* philosopher and Death de-
times, have to lx* made liefore full data dence of such cruelty on tlie part of sing only hymns when you sing
parted on a long journey together.— at home and abroad, and instead of
can lie hail For a long time it had tlie child, determined ou immediate all "
(’buries Buttell Loomis in Brmidur 1 whistling on the way’ I have l>een car
rying a dirge in my heart that it put been known that the Giant star or sun punishment. But when lie undertook
Magazine.
A Aetv Sport For Women.
to carry tlie punishment into effect tlie
into words might have lead, ‘so many Sirius periodically moved aside a little,
“Hammering” Is an unpleasant pro«*-
dog
interfered,
pushing
himself
be
An I' iiu II m I i S m not mi ry.
sorrows here below,’ or some other just as if lie were swinging aside asmall
ess on th»’ Stock Exchange, but in Aus
Beverley minster, ISO miles north of strain quite as dismal. I don't find it companion in the celestial «lance. The tween the master mid tlie child and tralia th*» word has recently acquired a
licking
the
face
of
tin*
latter.
London, is the shrine of St. John of tlie easiest thing ill tlie world now to Washington t wenty six-inch telescope
new and mor*’ agreeable signiticanc*’.
Beverley, who died in the year 721.
At antipodean bazaars “hammering” is
was pointed at Sirius and it was plainly
‘
whistle
on
the
way,
’
but
I'm
making
Wlisi
h
«'onvlrt
Does
In
Prison.
In !KJN Athelstan, king of England,
If 1 had little work to do in prison, now nil established institution. Ladies
gave several privilege« to tlie inonas- a desperate effort to learn. Don’t think seen that he did indee«! have a mate,
who enter for the competition go on a
tery, one being tlie privilege of sanc I’d want any better epitaph on my which, however, is so much smaller tnan how did I spend the time? At Auburn, platform with hammers in their ha mis.
where I lived the greater part of my
tuary. This was not merely for man tomlHtone than ‘He Whistled oil tile himself as to I h * rather a satellite.
tirst term, the routine of my life was Each is supplied with a piece of the
slaying; it was open to all wrongdoers Way." It would lisik as though I
as
follow s: After rising in the morning hard Australian timber largely used
The
Oldest
Locomotive.
except tiiose who had been guilty of ha<l tried to throwsome brightness into
1
would
sweep out iny cell, turn up my for the paving of London streets. Each
treason. For ordinary offenses, such some other person's life. ‘Whistle on
The oldest locoiinitive in »iteration Is
bed
and
blankets ami elemi up. Then lady Is also presented with three nails,
as horse stealing, cattle stealing, being tlie Way’ is a giHxl motto to live up to, SIH in to is- withdrawn from service mid
to breakfast; then, if there was no and at a given signal they start to
backward in accounts or being iti re
placed in tile Durham College of Nci work to do. I would go back to my cell work. The lady who Is the first to
Polly.”
ceipt of suspected goods, a man came
« « « «
ence at New cast le-on-Ty lie. This lo«-o- I and eat a small portion of opium. Then drive her three nails home to the heail
into sanctuary about a mile from the
motive was built by George Stephenson I I would exercise with dumbliells mid wins the prize. Says one descriptive
“
I
never
felt
so
flat
or
so
mean
in
iny
monastery or church. There used to be
reporter: “Steel spark« and splinters
for
tlie Hettoii colliery, near Durham, I take a sponge lint It with cold water. fiew around. The nails would go any
four crosses on the main roads leading life," said a sixteen-year-old girl to a
to Beverley marking the limit of the friend of her <>wn age in Folly’s hear and placed in service on November 18, Next would come a nap till dinner where but through th»? wood, The
area. In cast's of manslaughter and ing the other «lay. "Why?” queried 1822, nearly three years liefore tlie first time. After dinner 1 would read ami hammers would go anywhere but I on
murder it was not sufficient to be with the friend. "Well, you see three of us pulilic railway in (lie world was opened think in my cell until 3 o'clock, when th»» nail heads.**—London Chronicle.
in one of these crosses. Before the girls hail a grudge against Hint new —the Stockton and Darlington road. I would go to the bucket ground or ex
ereise in tlie yard in tin- lock step with
fugitive could claim sanctuary lie must
The Ocean Trip.
11 was designed to draw a train of sixty- the others for half an hour; then
enter the church and seat himself in a girl who has just started into rc I kni I.
Half
an
hour or so appears to be an
four
tons
at
a
s|>eed
of
four
miles
an
hour
Slie
lias
just
simply
l«M>ke«l
shocked
at
back to the cell, taking with me bread
ston*» chair known as tlie "frid stool’’
important saving Iti time in the ocean
or "freed chair.’’ To this place many some of the tilings we girls did only in on sleep grades, and has Isen continu and a cup of coffee made out of burned voyage. Columbus and Cabot and
tied for refuge from all parts of the tun, and she doesn’t use slang or any ously operated at the Helton colliery bread crust for my supper. The count
Drake would not have thought much
country.
of the up-to-date sayings of the day, until quite recently,or for nearly eighty was made at 6 o'clock to see that nil of it. but in these days of ship speeding
was
right
for
the
night.
After
that
I
like ‘Doesn’t that jar you,'and other years. On a level track the locomotive
l.ookl uu I |>.
read in my cell as long as the oil lust every captain of a liner is ambitious to
The lecturer pleaded with the crowd similar expressions. Blie is just too could haul 120 tons at a sjieeii of ten ed—“Autobiography of a Thief” in maintain his record and to beat it if
possible. Again, there are people even
to “look up.” In liii|iiiHsloue*l tones bs goody-gtKKl for tills world. We made miles an hour. During Hie course of Leslie's Monthly.
in this age of hurry and bust!«* to
cried:
G im I nlwnys helps the mull up our minds we were going to tiring its service the engine has l>een almost
whom the ocean trip is in Itself an
that looks up! Never I« h »K tluwn, iny tier «iown a peg or two. We were going entirely rebuilt several times, but there
The Penalty of I'rogr.««
agreeable incident. The society is gen
friends, Il ml «lo not waste too inueli to get her off some place, mimic Iler still remain some of theoriginal parts.
Is it anybody's business to keep count
time looking sideways. Look up, unii and do every tiling to get her mad, un
of tin* number of iiersons who are erally pleasant, there are interesting
keep oil looking up! I never knew n
A
New
Tunnel.
killtxl by accidents from day to day in Rights on the deep, the fare Is ns good
til she not only said sometliing spiteful,
as that of a first class hotel, seasick
maii'to full if he looked up. Is there
Another tunnel under the Thames at this country? The number must lie Hess has Iweome unfashionable, there
a man in this audience who can say tint was rea«ly to tight, ami then I was
enormous,
and
most
of
th«*
victims
die
Loudon
lias
just
been
completed
after
the one selected to give her a g<Mxi slap
that be always looks up?
of modern improvements of on«* kind Is plenty of reading matter and no dis
A si*edy stranger arose in the back in tlie face, and if she lilt back we were three years' work, says the Baltimore and another, says Life. Fatal trolley position to look at it. and tlie trip is In
row to say: "I can say that I always all going into tlie tray aiol there would Sun. It is for workmen who cross lie- «■ar accidents nr«* more common and short a restful loaf till the ship is with
look up
I liave steadily looked up not be much left of Miss G<MMiy-Good’s tween Millwall and Greenwich, and is comprehensive this year Ilian ever be tn range of the wireless telegraph and
for thirty years, and am no better off painful ladylike wavs when we got 1217 het long anil eleven feet ill diame fore; railroads kill and maim about as th.« meddling world resumes Its chat-
for It. l.isiking up Is my biisiin*»«.”
through with her. We carried out tlie ter It is sixty feet lielow the high-wa usual, automobiles <lo their share, and ter. Brooklyn Eagle.
"Wliat do you do for a living, my program l>eaul‘fully. We al I said mean, ter level, ami its crown is thirteen feet mines, factories, tires, drowning ai'ci-
go«sI mail?"
In Ingenltins Swindle.
tantalizing things and we iihm ke<1 her below the river tsittom. It was driven dents, gas accidents, explosions and tlx*
A novel kind of swindle was prue
■‘I'm a ceiling deeorator."
like
«*ontribute
with
extraordinary
The uproarious applause that greeted nice way of s|wakmg, miniicke«! her under air pressure by a shield started steadiuess to our mortuary statistics. tlce»l In a German town th«» other »lav.
this sally broke up the meeting. New walk, and just as wr got to tlie pitch from the north side. The entrance at In the industrial world especially tlie A man struggling along under a heavy
where any of the rest of Us »oilId have either end is a shaft Ihirty-Hve feet in sacrifice of human life s«*eius prodi burden suddenly stumbled and crashed
York Press.
flown into a rage that would have diameter, with stairways and an elec gious. Human lift* Is cheap, but. cheap through n plate glass store window.
1‘rluul Donlin H«««l ll.'r V olee.
ended in a pitched battle, ami I sitqq>eil tric elevator. The cuet was $51)0,(M HI.
as it is, American civilization seems The proprietor of th»» store demamb'd
payment. The porter said Im had m>
Onee upon a time there was a fa up ready to do my part, she said, ‘Ex
unduly lavish in expending it
money. Passersby advised that ho be
mous prlinn «loinui who made n con cuse me, I thought you were little la
A distinctly t'liinese cure for cholera
searched. A thousand mark not«» was
tract with ii note«! Impresario to sinx dies,' and walked ot!'. 1 never felt so was practiced at t'hinaufu a few weeks
An Attentive II hiik liier.
In concerts tor him at a price which
He (after marriage) I «lou t see why found on him. which. In» said. h»*longed
ago, w here the disease was raging. The
The storek<»pper,
made «acli of tier notes of about the little and mean in my life. She simply cholera, as everyone knows, i- a hot- you are not as considerate of my com- to Ids employer.
ll«H>re«i uh a'l ami walkeil away like a
however, deducted 1«s> marks for the
value of $1
fort
as
you
us«
‘
<l
to
be
of
your
father's.
weather epidemic In winter it ceases.
value of his window and hamled ! mni
All went well until the priina dounn queen. I can't l*ear to l«n>k in her face
She— Why, iny dear. I am.
found a dressing room assigned to her and tlie rest of tlie girls teel the same So the < 'hilieae went through all the re
He How do you mak«‘ that out? marks change to the port«T. who went
that ilhl not meet with her approval way. We all are ashamed of ourselves ligious ceremonies of New Y ear’s day, When 1 come into the house. I have away sw»»aring and protesting. A lit
1 lien she coinpliiined that she was en aiol would give a gissi deal if it hail not thinking thereby to f«»»l heaven into be to hunt arouml for my slippers and ev tie later th«* storeke«’p«‘r discovered the
tlrely t«H> hoarse to slug, and tlx* Im happened. She has taught iis a lesson lieving it was mid-winter, when it erything else I happen to want, but thousand mark note was spurious.
presario had to make p«>lite remarks to we won’t s<H«ii forg«*t."
would stay the pestilence.
when I used to court you and your fa
Ills audience ami dismiss It alter re
Ontrlcl.es.
ther would come in from town you
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funding tlie money paid for admission.
At the ostrlcli farm at Coronado it
Only alsiut forty of the 736 American would rush about gathering up his
The remarks tliat lie made out of the
A lamella is to have an Improvement vessel» in the whaling industry ill 1616 things, wheel his easy chair up to th«* takes a bale of alfalfa hay cut tip and
hearing of the audience were not so Club, the object of which is to improve remain in active pursuit of the animal fire, warm Ills slippers and get him a sack of bttrley to f«ssl fifty Hir«-e
polite.
birds. The chicks are as Inquisitive as
their already lieautiful town. One of to-day. 1‘ractieally all the lug fleet both a head r«»st ami a foot rest, so a monkey and will snap a button off
Moral Impresarios wish that they
that
all
he
had
to
do
was
to
«lrop
right
your coat if an opportunity offers. The
might hav<* hoarsi'less prlma donnas.— the organizers state*! that they had sailed from Mew Bedford.
down and be « »»mfortable.
the same trouble in enthusiug the real-
New York Herald.
She—Oh. that was only so he'd go to old malt's are lighters and can split
Australia, twenty-six times larger sleep sooner.
dents that other places where they
fence boards with a kick. But when
they get real mild they lie down nn«t
now have successful and progressive than tlie whole of the British isles, has
Lanulti India.
twist their necks nn«1 flap their wings
Twenty eight languages are spoken Improvement Clulis had in the liegin- a population smaller than that of lam-
Yoath’a Inreitralni.
In India and none of the«»» is sj>oken ningof their careers as reformers for tlie don.
“Don’t you sometimes long for your like a skirt «lancer. Young chicks a
by fewer than JUOjjuo persons, while public gissi. They had to prove to the
cbildbood’« happy day«?** said the seu few weeks old are worth In the market
823 each. _____ ___ _
('tijtlsl weights and measures to the timoDtal person.
th«» most general is tin* mother tongue community that Alameda was capable
of No.500,(MM). B«»sidt*s these there are
numlu*r of 63,(MA were seized in lamdoti
“Ye«,” answered Miss(’ayennc. “there
Women»
of fostering an entertainment and en
in the remotest parj^s of the country
• re times when I would enjoy hanging
during I he past twelve months.
“If you want to get on with women,”
dialei ts «¡token by no more than OOU gineering it to a tiiiaix-ial aucceaa. It
on the fence and making faces at |>eo- •ays Max O'Keil, “never criticise them
I mtsous , which none other than tliem- is not treading on a pathway of roses to
History will show that the worst of ple I dou’t like instead of having to ami never offer them advice.” And
organize
an
Improvement
Club
and
selves can interpret. India has nine
quarrels are lietwin former friends and •ay: *How do you do, dear? So glad never forget that this is n rule that
great rr»t*d«. numbering their followers start the l«all to rolling, for you will find former lovers.
to see you!’ “—Washington Star
work« only one way.
Irom the •JO.N.iMMGMio Hindoos down to many‘‘mosslwii ks'' to ini|>ede the prog
thr li.2o0.000 Animistic« and the in ress by sending the ball tiaek to the
Alm to Rise.
What a struggle a sick man makes
Coal was for the first time used as
numerable sect« Included In the 43 ihhi starting |>oint. The progressive Ala-
Every man ought to aim nt eminence for life considering that there Is little
fuel
in
this
country
’
at
Wilkesliarre
on
“ot tiers.**
not by pulling others down, but l>y In It but whippings!—Atchison (¡lube.
medians, however, have now fallen Into February II, 1882.
raising himself, and enjoy the pleas
line
ami
will
give
a
-cries
of
entertain-
Takr no chance« on the nuni who
A «leere«.- recently promulgated by
In Turkey red hair is counted a great lire of bls own superiority, whether
wants to lend \ ou a dollar, He’ll prob mants to raise the nei-eaaary money to
Imaginary or real, without Interrupt til - ^uvernnii nt of Costa Ri a estab
ably ci'tne bacK later for t«U Balti put the nmlvay in tl mt-«lass condi- la*auty, and the women dye their hair
ing others in the same felk-ttx
lishes « heuih al laboratories In the rus
more Xvwi
ion and transform the <«nal front Into that tint.
tom houses of the republic.
Ibr <«rMllia«l» ul the I trip rd.
Iler iiusbaud's brother had through
bls ow n efforts become very rich.
Xow
!■« s.i d. I w ill «I» souu tbing
for her and the children. I am mid« r
no obligation to them, but tliej .ue
|ssir mid I í*> I tli it It will lx* no mots
tinnì right for me to help them.”
Tllt+efwi lie Isillglll a ■*.infoi table
home for them mid gave her the deed.
Then he took her to Hie furniture stores,
ami tlx*,i s.-hs-ied <-.iip.-ts, I h ‘«I r . chairs
mid other things that were necessary
t » mak«» them <Minfortuhie. and lie paid
i them, after which be went alsnit
* own affairs rvjoieiug.
Mic sal in her new bom»*, with her
»!* r|as|»cd in her lap and a s?a«l
•co'x «»II her face.
“What is th«» trouble?” her neighbor
r sk«*d.
“I was thinking of the * I’isliness
• nd meanness of soim* people.* In- sor
row fully rcplietl. “Think of nil tile
money be has, yet be.is t*»*» stingy, too
narrow minded, to even give us a l>i
an»»!” Chicago R«*cord Herald.
America bus 1.8UU wouieu preacher*
There are 7 h *. iaa > cuateruiong«*ra lu
L mdoii
There are LiHH> shoe factories In the
I'llited State«.
A petroleum «>iltlel«l h«is I h * vu «liseov
cred in Triuidad.
I
Camidiim trade with Great Britain
h:«» in« 11 iiseil Ol «< six IUIlllolis tlie past
year.
In tlx* Fottxl States uiore Ilian 8<h).-
txio.iHio is inv**st«*d lu tfie making of
fertilizer.
In the eleven Mates Interested In the
Imhistiy 2ffn.iHHi acres are sown In
sugar lieets.
Tlx* total cnpltal Invested lu rail
ways ami canals In the lmmlulon of
I'anada Is «I.I imi . ihhi ihmi
There nr<* but XU i . ihhi donkeys In the
British isle« Spain and Fortugal have
between them over 2.5<x>.ixx>.
in spite <«f bard times tlx* value of
farm ii'iiimils In Germany is Increasing
at Hie rale of four millions a year.
Tlx* Moorish government has granted
to Fran«'«* a contract for Hie «-olning of
Science.
$3 ihhi , ihhi worth of Mi«>rl»li moxe.i
“Wasn’t it a terrifying experience.”
An annual «yclopialia for Its'l places
ask«’*l his friend, “when you lost your
Hl«* total gifts ami lHM|U«*sta hl tlx*
foothold and went sliding down th«*
I niicd States last year at $1> i 7.3« mi ihhi
mountains?”
Il is seventy three years sima* tlie
“It was exciting, but extremely in
tei'i’stiug.“ said the coileg»’ pr»»fessor. hrst omnibHs startial running In Lon
>»i i hr «»riiciiuii whh'lvM re
“I could m»t help noticing all the way *i«»i».
down with what absolut«» accuracy 1 main.
O ih * *»f tlie imw bridge«« t«» I m » thrown
was following along th»* line of least
ov«-r th«* S«’l!i»* is to I m * built in two Ht*»
resistance
Chicago Tribune.
rien. with on«* n«*t of :ir«*h«»M noting on
anothiT.
Men Moke tlie l.aw».
One r«»Mult *»f tin’ Anglo Japaneae al
**Tii«*re’s no law against a ¡»erson
making a fool of himself,” growled Hance will be tin* prevention of prohl
bith’ii *»f .I;.pane*»* in Australia, «»nee
old man Bohrer.
“The men make all of the laws, d«» suggest,■*!.
“Snuff” Is tin* lo**a. imine ,»f a myste
they not?” mildly asked Mrs. Bohrer.
rlous malad.i wlii**h has already caused
“Of cours«».“
*1 sec.” she mused. “Men never Ilk«’ th«* deaths of many sh«,c|> in Cardigan
to hamper th«»ms«»lvea.”—Indianapolis shire. W ales.
News.
Ktissia in founding an Independent
bishopric in China, and th«* tdahop
Tlie Rejection.
«■1< < t of Charbin and Peking will I m * at
the head of it.
A silver cup. or argyl “Bobert Burns
from Mary.' hall mark. !7N4 brought
£lo 10s. at St*’\«‘n's auction risiiiis in
London ivcvntly.
The biggest iiioteorlt«’ ever seen has
I mm ii found at Pont«* Alegre, in Brazil.
It is an immense rock mass N5 f«*et
long ami 55 fe**t thick.
I’hc British Llf«*boat association is
coiiMi<l(»rlng th,* establish men t of a
I wiichss service around the coast, in
! eluding tin» lightlioUNea.
I. ndoii is Introducing water troughs
for thirsty horses, nt whhli the water
can he run off by touching a push but
ton and fresh water run In
The territorial hoard of licami of
Hawaii is to begin a series of ex perl
m< lit' to determine the value of X
rays in th«* treatment of leprosy.
For giving a Sunday perfoi-inan«*«» al
Kaig*M>rli«* of a play entithsl “Barab
has" a tbeatricul manager lias been
fin«*d $500 by the supreme c«»urt of
Western Australia.
I’ll«* lower « lass of the JapaiH’Se em
ploy hardly any otln*r m.iterial than
pa|M»r for their clothing. When* wages
ar«’ ex«f«’dingly low cloth is an impos
aible extra vagaiM’p.
Gc«»rgla Is tlr** ¡»each state of th«?
you
owing
to
I cannot
'Ireiimstiinces <
wliieli I lune no Puh n. having T.ffiio.ooo peach bearing
trc< s. Next is Maryland, with 4.015,
control.
<MMi; then N«’W Jersey, with 2.7UO.OOO.
lie tiratelyi What clrcuiustames?
and Dehiwar«’. with 2,400.000.
Sin- Your circumstances.
Th»* JapaiM’Ht* eat more fish than any
other p«»ople in th«* world. With them
ill« Tnluckx < li«>i<*<*.
meat eating is a foreign innovation,
“Miss Ginx.” Iiegnn young Gaylmy
confined to tin* rich or, rather, to tlmse
"or may 1 «-nil you Glnevrn"-
ri«‘li people who prefer it to thr Il!lt i'lll
"t'lill in«.* wiiut you Ilk«*.” six* sai l
al diet.
with a bright smile.
If all the laird planted in corn in the
"\Y'«*II I like Gin,” In* whisperetl.
Anil then lie r<*aliz«*d as six* tiirix*«! Unit«’<l Stall’s this year wer«» massed.
her phiz from him tlmt lx* had liliin tin* area would i exceeil the British
isles. Holland and I Belgium coinbined
der«*d. t'liiengo Tribune.
or tour fifths of the area of Franc«» or
Germany.
Dutiable.
Tin* <»l»i grist mill at Port Jefferson,
“Hi. there!” shout** I th«’ customs offi
cer suspiciously. “Why are you hold N. \ .. which was built befor«» th,’ Bev
olution by II V i «-hard Mott and is said to
ing your handkerchief to your face?”
“There’s a b!t of » inder in my «»ye.” be the oldest structure on th,’ island, is
being torn down because it Is unsafe
unsweretl th«’ returning tourist.
“Ah. foreign substun*«’ in tin* «‘.ve! The building was erect«*«! in 1771
Si<lm’y Smith *l*’scrii>e,l the drill
You’ll hav«* to pay duty on it
1‘hila
t liorli.A ik 'I iiis paradoxus as a quadru
d»*lphia Becord
ped as large as a cat. witli the eyes,
color and skin of a inoh* and tin* bill
Tl«e Wlse li.-lale.
“As long. George, as we h.iven't any ami feet of a duck, an «»«’centric kind
coni to <*«H«k witli tliere Is one tliing I of bird bitten witli the ambition of be
ing a quadrup«*«!.
must speak to thè ti.-li «leali r al. ohi "
There were 1.071 strikes during V.Mil
“And wliat is that. iny <lear'. '
“I must nsk bini to l>e sur«' to lay in in Germany, involving 141.220 persons,
a large stipply of raw oysters.'' ¡'leve as against l. l<‘»2 strikes <»f 2!> n . n 1',) per
sons in r.Mwi In 2 ihi cases in P.ml th«*
I iiix J I’Iain Ih'iiler
strikes wer*» succ’ssful. in 2.N5 cases
they w«*re partially successful, and in
Lovely A>omnr».
Miss Hoamk’y I don’t know whether 571 cases tln,y failed.
The numerous islands of th«» Pata
or not to wear a veil with this liat H.i
gonia archipelago are cover«*«l with <*v
you think it would improve it?
Miss Spcitz That <1<’p«*nds. <l«*ar. Do ergre**n forests capable of supplying
you mean to wear th«» veil over your ' Immense quantities of valuable tini
face or up (»11 your hat? i’hiladelpl ia : l»er. while tli«* mountain ranges, being
of the sain** geological formation ns
Press.
those of t'liil»’ and Peru, ar»* probably
ricli in mineral resources.
FtbeJ What I* more agirravatlng
TJ jp exporting of American shoes Is
than n man who tells
11 of Ids lo\e of comparatively recent growth. In
ami never mentions matrimony?
1N!K> tliis country «»X|M»rt«*d onli $1.
Edith Oh. a man wlm tells yt»n >f (MwijMMi worth of lioots and shoes, but
Ids money and never mention* matrl for tin* fiscal y<»ar I'.wii ¡t sent abroad
inony. Judge.
$.■».."», hijhmi worth of boots ami *I i * m * m .
and England ami her colonies took
In tlie Stndlo.
pHi.iMM» worth of this total.
Bilker's Wife I should like to i-'O-*
An effort is being math* In Sweden to
mi little la>y put into tin* picture too.
use eh’ctrlcity in agriculture. A seed
Artist—Then It w II cost $20 more
fi«’hl is cov«‘r«**l by a network of wire,
Baker's Wife But I II take liltu in
and a strong <»l«»etrlc curn-nt is turned
uiv Inp. — Lippincott's.
on (luring nights and chilly days, but
, ut off during sunny and warm weath
Thr Limit.
er. Tin* system was inveliteli In Pro
Mrs Lpptoii W hy. I thought your f»*ss»»r Lemstrom of llelsiimfors. I'ln
little dog was white!
land.
Mrs he Style So he was; but I had
Some time ago the customs a ut hurl
him dyed br<iwn to match this dr»**s
ties s«»iz«*d a ls>x of skittle» that ar
(’Ideago Daily News
rived in Constantinople on the plea
tliat the balls were hard and heavy
The l.n*t llrwurf.
and might I m * used as cannon balN.
“Herc's soniething atout mi nutlior which would be exceedingly danger
coniinltting suicide "
oils. It was not till one of the embus
"Y’«**«: lie had to ndvertlw* hls looks sles had taken a lot of trouble that the
In some wny."—Atlanta Constitution
balls were given up.
\\ hnt n Man 11» in kt.
“When a man of twenty considers a
woman, he thinks of her beuuty. I»nt
nt thirty he thinks of her loquacity ”
“Wliat does he think at forty?”
•*Oh, he think* only of himself bv
that time.**—Imlianaisdis News
A Clerical < onundram.
Archbishop \\ lijih’ly once :isk«»d the
question: “Why can a man un er
starve in th«* (treat desert?” mid
answered It himself as follows • Bi
cans«* ho can eat the saml which is
thor«». But what brought th»* sand
wlcli«’s there? \\ hy. Noali sent Ham.
Grief.
Grief never sleeps. It watches con ami his «i«*H*’«*iHiaiitM mustered and
tinually. like a jealous husband
All br«*d.”
the work! groans under Ita -n.n. ami
Sometimes the man w !io besitutes Is
It fears tbut by sleeping Its dutch will
just tlie fellow who doesn't pet lust
lieeouie looseued and its prey then
Mluneupuils limes
cape.
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