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A Latter Day Sphinx By Z<J® ANDERSON NORIS »■»I right. |«W. *1 I»» nirmi .Santa CAN'T »«y that I wa« pr<*posHees«H! In Cornelia Hardman's favor front the tint In »pile of her excellent Introductions from luuie dear writer friend». There was In her na ture an inexplicable something dlffi cult to understand, a certain sphinx like calm, au impenetrability, the war! Hess of (be animal that covers up its tracks for fear of detection, that looks upou the world as its natural enemy, from which it must conceal all things possible of concealment. Cornelia wus from the far west She was said to have bad some little suc cess with her work of writing with a magazine or two. Evidently she wrote. Always upon her desk was a type writer, Into which some paper bad been coiled. There were often unflu Ished sentences upon this paper. However, ill contradictory evidence one saw nothing of her work in print— Unit is. next to nothing On the wall of her silling room a newspaper article elaborately illustrated with photo graphs taken by herself was displayed. The photographs were good, the article mediocre. This was the sole specimen of Corne lia's work ever exhibited to me. She lived tn a three room flat at the top of a great new building of flats in a miserable neighborhood. After our flrst Introduction there were mouths that I did not see Corne lia. Then she called upon me. After a little in her quiet way she spoke of a youug German whom sbe bad met. They were engaged, she said. Soon they were to be married. She was glad. She was very tired of the constant work for magazines and newspapers, of trying to follow up her work, of waiting for It to appear so that they would send her her money. The existence was a strain upon the nerves of any woman. She often won dered how I endured It. Except that I wrote with such exceeding rapidity when I did write—I passed over the implied Inference that this was seldom -she was sure that I would succumb. With that she urose and extended me an invitation to meet her fiance. As she stood in the light of the window I ob served the crowlike blackness of her hair without a curl, the straightness of her nose, a peculiar pallor that was not of New York in her complexion. Prompted more by curiosity than anything else. I accepted her invitation and lu due time made a visit to her flat. I climbed six breathless flights, part light, part dark, and entered. 1 was amazed at sight of the young German with whom sbe was Infatu ated. I compared the two, resting my eyes flrst on one and then on the other. Yesrs younger than Coruella, apparent ly he was also far her inferior In point of Intellect. I was astonished that she could for a moment consider him. It muy have been that his lack of knowl edge of the language accentuated his Intellectual .Inferiority, but before I bad made my adieus I found myself regret ting the fact that au American woman, particular!}' au American woman gift ed with the ability to write, could so descend. The difference lu Intellect was not my sole regret. The difference In their heights! Cornelia was exactly one foot taller. Strange to say, it seemed that at in tervals she felt the necessity of my 1 I was AMAZXD AT SIGHT OT THZ YOUNG UKHMAN. presence and the need of turning me Into a confidant of both sorrow and happiness. Verbally she cont!d«l the happiness; Instinctively I felt the sorrow in a telepathic way common to me. Some months afterward she made me k visit. She sat very still In a rocking chair, looking out my window with lacklus ter eyes. She folded her bands In her lap and began to talk to me. "He has gone home,” she told me. “His father sent fdt him. You know that Alfred belongs to a very aristo cratic family In Berlin.” "They all do, from their own ac count,” I Inserted. "Alfred does." she said firmly. "You can tell that from his mnnner, his bearing.” ' lint not from bls English '' "lie has had hardly time," remarked she, "to learn the English. He Im proved much before he went away. I taught him. I could not see him off. (hie grieves so to watch the boat leave the dock. "But I liel|Msl him get ready. I write to him every day. Soon I am going to him. 1 shall not expect a letter from bliu for a week or two. The l«»at may be delay«! tide time of year the storms, yoto know; th* win»* Hut that will not prevent my writing to him every «slay Swu I^m goist to him " she repeated. "He Vrauted me to marry him- before.be went away. but I refused to du that. I refused on account of his father, who to .very stern. W Alfred married without bls consent be would disinherit him. Ha would ntver forjive him if he married without bl* consent.” "But a bird in the band, you know," I argusd. "is worth a flock In ths at mosphere." She turned her quiet eyes on me. If there existed a spark of humor or rel ish of It In her nature I bad yet to dis cover it “I am quite sure of him,” sbe said “I have every confidence In him. In bis Integrity aud in bls lore for me.” Apparently this ended the argument. The light flashing on a face In her brooch attracted my attention. "Whose la it?" I asked, leaning for ward and touching It. “I have never seen you wear ft before." This partly to change the subject, which failed to trend toward happi ness. and partly to know. The face in terested me. "It is a picture of my mother," sbe said, taking the brooch off and hand ing It to me. WASHINGTON LETTER .1 rorrexpond# ♦ 1 tian of the h:u-e of rep office building U being The excavation Is pra* ete aud the outlining of tbg cellar pl in jt the big building iu brick aud mortar is iu progress. Over ■early the entire square which Is to be u. tplej by the building the brick work has beeu raised to a height of la'« era! feet. The railroad tunnel which cuts under the southeast curuer of tile square Is complete aud covered, so tliut progress of the office struc ture is uot hindered lu the least by anything hi that direction. The bricklayers, who are present hi force. are very busy, aud it Is plain to be ».» i that Hie authorities do uot intend to let the grass grow uuder Ih. lr feet hi tlie matter of puttlug up this m ig iltleeul building for the pop ular brum b of congress. "WHO IS IT?" I ASKED. [ 'I'll HE CONTINUED.] COOLING LITERATURE. lutrotlnelng fc'lanbert'» Cruel Joke In the Desert of Kosselr. Is there such a thing as cooling liter ature? We think there is, only it can be more properly called the literature of coolness. Horace, with bls Bundu- siiin fountain, has some claim to be the futher of it. though In the description Of co il water Spenser has probably ex ec"* 1 every other poet. Goetlie, who Used to bathe In tile Ilin by moonlight, told Eckerntaun that in his ballad of “The Fisherman" lie had employed the mermaid myth with no oilier aim than to express the charm of water in sum mer. The fisherman sat fishing, "and. Io, a dripplug mermaid fair sprang from the troubled main." The mermaid protested against the cruelty of an gling. If. she said, be only knew "how gladly dart the fish across the sea!” She then invited him to dart across the sen on Ids owu account, and he eon seuteil to the watery bliss. flue of the coolest stanzas in the lan guage is Matthew Arnold's; The silent courts, where night and day Into their stone carved basins cold Tile splashing Icy fountains play— Tlie humid corridors is-hold! But to know bow the literary mind can evoke ideas of coolness when the literary body craves for it one ueed only recall Flaubert's persecution of poor Maxime Ducamp in the desert of Iiosseir, near the Red sea. The camel carrying their whole supply of water had fallen and burst all the skius. What liap|>ened is told by Dlleamp. We quote Mr. Tarver's translation: "After suffering thirst for thirty six hours, while we were passing through a defile, a furnace formed of granite rock», of a rose color, covered with Inscriptions, Flauls*rt said to me. 'Do you remember the lemon lees that one eats at Tortoui's?' I made a sign in the affirmative. He resumed: 'Lemon ice is a superior article. Admit that you would not be annoyed at having swallowed a lemon Ice.' Curtly enough I replied, 'Yes.' After an interval of five minutes: 'Ah, the letuon ices! All around the glass there is a cloud whi h Is like a white Jelly.’ I said, Suppose we eliange the conversation?’ He re plied: 'That would be I letter, but lemon Ice Is worthy of being celebrated, line tills the apoou; It makes a little mound; one softly squeezes it between the tongue uud the piiluto: it mejts slowly, cisdly, deliciously; It bathe* the uvula, glides over the tonsils, descends into the guilt t, which Is only too happy, and it falls Into the stomach, which bursts with laughing, so delighted Is it. Between you and me there is a scarcity of lemon lees in the desert of Kos selr.' ” The maddeued Ducamp would n >t speak again for hours. Wheu at last they drank Flaubert took him In Ids arms and said: "I thank you for not having blown out my brains with your gun. In your place 1 should uot have resist«!." London Globe. Indinii Corn, SELECTING SLED CORN. Seme Uinta anil the Illinois Uro nt.s’ Score «feed. lorn Every o.ie who has grown coni knows how readily it "run» out" or degenerates. Plant breeders are agreed thut the most ¡aitent cause for this de generacy In corn is inbreeding. To avoid this It is best to select ears from different portions of the field, aud these ears are to be selected at as great a distance from each other as possible. We ar* constantly receiving Inquiries as to the points uud rules used In the How Coin Is CtaWled. The counting of the silver and gold lu the vaults of the treasury inaugu rated some time ago 1» rapidly near ing its end. Formerly that Is, about eight years ago the methods of counting the cur reucy were much more cumbersome and difficult thau at present, thunks to improvement» that have been made lu recent years. Tlie currency is uot. as many people Imagine, counted dol lar for dollar, after the fashion of a paying teller iu some country bauk. but is gauged entirely by weight. The gold is put up lu bags of $5,000 each, and the silver lu bags of tlie same material I. e., strong cotton sailcloth— of $l,uou each. The money contained hi these bags Is of all kinds and con ditions. Some of it is fresh from the mint, while the contents of other sacks have been much lu clrculatlou aud are ofteu budly worn. We I k lit of Silver Money. L ‘r A bag of 1,000 silver dollars fresh from the mint should weigh sixty pounds exactly, but some of the bags containing that sum of coin will not weigh that much, and In addition to the suck of new dollars which one of the members employs for a weight there are also lying near the scales several silver coins employed to ascer tain how milch has been lost by wear unit tear. In other words, when a suck falls to weigh the exact sixty pounds one or other of these coins Is tossed Into the scale to see what is lucking Tlie committee and the employees engaged in this work seldom work two days alike. Some days they com mence early and quit late, and the lur gest sum that has been thus far count ed in one day was $4,ooo,i»)lt (120 tons of currency*. Iu each of the treasury vaults there is usually oue compart meut thut Is empty, and iu counting the money is simply shifted from one compartment to another. The several compartments are divided oue from the other by massive steel grutlugs, but such is the weight of the silver awl gold which In settling tends to spread out on either side that W. Howard Gibson, custodian of the vaults, states that it is no uuusuul thing to find at times bolts forced out of place by the pressure of tlie coin within. As it Is the gratings ure all without exception sprung und bent to one side by the strain placed upou them by the money. Staeklns the Treasure. In counting tlie money the scales are placed near the entrance to the com partment to be tilled with a long wooll en trough leading from the scales to the compartment that Is being emptied. Down this trough bag after bug of gold or silver is sent sliding by those eu g.igisl In emptying the compartment, and as fast as It Is weighed it Is pass «1 In to workmen who stack It up In tiers reaching from floor to celling. Part of the money Is hi heavy yellow plue boxes, bolding two bags of $1,000 each, but the greater part Is without other covering than the cotton bags The bags containing $5,000 gold weigh eighteen pounds each. The men employed lu this work han die on an average sixty to eighty tons of gold and silver each day. Moving Pictorei. A picture of W illiam H Moody lu characteristic pose now adorns the wall of the office of the secretary of the navy. In going Into the large recep tion room the first thing one sees is this new picture of Mr. Moody, and It Is really so lifelike that oue almost thinks that the former secretary Is buck in bls old position. In a little while Moody’s picture will be pushed farther along, and Paul Morton's will take its place. Of course no one can tell bow long It will be liefore Morton gives way to Bonaparte. Shaw Eajoya *<Nirtooa». While some statesmen are very much annoyed about cartoons iu the public press, they do not In the least disturb Secretary Shaw. Iu fact, the secretary enjoys every one of them, whether they are good, bad or Indifferent. He takes a keeu delight lu gathering up these cartoons Sum» of uie best and which hit the secretary Just right have been framed und adorn the walls of the treasury department. Th* White Hoa.e, During the president's vacation the White House has been thoroughly cleaned, outside and In men have been at work scraping, cleaning, painting anil otherwise Improving the old struc ture, which Is now entirely occupied by the president and his family, while there has also been some work upon what the president has designated as "the little 'dobe shack that I am tem- Iiorarily occupying" and which 1» used for the White House offices. The most noticeable Improvement made near the White House offices has been In the tennis court. The hard ground has been dug up and rerolled In order to give It the spongy texture which is so satisfactory to th* tennis player. CARL SCHOFIELD. Maize, or Indian corn, 1» a native of tropical America, from where the Span iards first brought It to Europe. How ever. It must have been known long tiefore In Asia, for In Pharaoh's dream he saw seven ears of corn growing on one stalk (Genests xil. 5i. By the ab origines It was gradually carried north Arrlirua, the (Hast Snm. and by the selection of the earliest ripe There are other suus In space that ears saved for seed acclimatized to are Infinitely larger thau the one which our harder New England conditions. It gives us heat, light and life. The stat ripens now as far north as Canada. Arcturus, which Is known to be a sun for a faraway system of planets, is Graphic. 11,500.000 times farther removed from The end of a novel, compressed by us than Is our solar luminary. His di the editor owing to lack of space "Ut anieter Is 71,000,000 and his clrcumfer tokar took a small brandy, then bis ence about 224,1100,000 miles. Our sun hat, his departure, ls>s!de» no notice of is but 800.000 miles In diameter, a fact his pursuers, meantime a revolver out which proies that Arcturus Is at least of his pocket, aud. lastly, bls own 551,000 times greater lu bulk than 1« life.” Deutsche Lesehalls. our "great orb of day.” WELL KILLED TIPS. scoring and Judging of corn. The fol lowing Is the score card adopted by (lie Illinois Corn Growers’ association: Perfect »core. Uniformity ....................................................... R Shape of ears ................................................ 5 < 'olor of ears ................................................. 11 Market condition ......................................... b Tips of ears ................................................... lu Butts of ears ................................................. 5 Uniformity of kernels ............................... 6 Shape or kernels ........... S Space ........................................................................... K Length ............................................................. lc Cin o inference .............................................. 6 Per cent of corn ........................................... 2C IM Uniformity of ears in a variety is the best indication that that variety has been carefully selected for a number of generations. The nearer the shape of an ear ap proaches that of it eylluder the greater will be the percentage of corn to cob. This cylindrical shape will permit the ear to carry straight parallel rows of keruels from butt to tip. Those varieties of corn that have re ceived the greatest care ill their se lection and Improvement are uniform In color. The white varieties have a white cob. and the yellow ami red va rieties have a red cob. No corn should be used for seed that shows the effect of cross |x>llenizatiou. The effect of pollen is shown the first year. By market conditions is meant the soundness of the ear and the conditions of the kernels. The ears should lie free from decay or fungous disease, mid the kernels should not be shriveled or chaffy, but show full maturity. The tips of the ears should be cover ed with regular, uniform keruels, so that no part of the cob can be seen. The butt of the ear should be well filled out with even rows of kernels and swelled out evenly beyond the end of the cob around the shank. The kernels should be uniform iu size, shape and color, mul should pos sess similar characteristics The shape of the kernel on the broad side should be as near that of a wedge as pos sible. This shape will per mit of the lar WELL KILLED BI TT. gest number of rows of keruels on the cob. There should be very little space be tween the rows of kernels. A wide space shows shallow Kernels of a bad shape. The per cent of corn on the ear Is de termined by weighing the ears, shelling the grain and reweighlng the cobs anil grain. A hundred pounds of ear com should never shell out less thau eighty ¡Hiunds of grain.—Kentucky Experi ment Stntlon. Th* Day of Small Thins». When Danny Griffin was a boy he had au eye to business and knew bow to Invest a dollar so it would increase. Once he trapped two skunks and sold tlielr skins. With the money he bought a pig. Danny was a good feeder, and the pig grew large and fat. Apples and corn mid milk were converted into pork. The hog went to the butcher, and the proceeds went for two sheep. They each had a lamb, and the ewes, with their Increase, brought enough to buy a good heifer calf. Wheu the calf grew to be a cow lie sold her to Frauk T. for $35. That was thirty-five years ago. uud Danny was then fifteen. Now Daniel Griffiu uwus a hundred acre farm be sides other property, and his crops and his credit are good. Moral.—Despise not the day of small things.—Farm Journal Fiultohinic Grain Harvpiit. Late huwii grain will be harvested this month. The work should proceed without de^v and tlie grain uot allow ed to stainl until overripe. The late sown oats will make good hay If cut while yet green, aud this is a very satisfactory use to which to devote them. Good crops of barley are some times grown when for various reasons It Is found necessary to sow late, and It makes an excellent substitute for this purpose. This is an easy crop to cure late in the season. Where buck wheat is raised It should be lu condi tion to harvest by the last of the month and receive proper attention Amer ican Cultivator. Its Charm». GIANTS ON WHEELS. STAGE TRICKS. Odd Cat Tom Thai Honrlahes la Som« Ear*t>ean C««te>. Haw »•»«•> of the »rrnalngly DIMrull Feat» Are Perggroted. Among the most interesting ceretuo ule» iii Europe ar» th* giant»' pro»*ss siouthey are ter.ued. *1. *-h ar* held anuually in virions el tie- They ar» especially popmar lu the Flemish provinces of France aud Belgium, where every community of imi*ortmice has some personage of huge proper tioiis Intended to represeut a hero or other notable of the past. Although of euoruious size, the giants are carri«l alsiut th»- streets with little difficulty owing to the material of which they are composed. The skeletou Is usually form«l of light wood, with possibly one or two iron rods extending from th«- head to the feet to give strength to the structure. Over tli»* skeleton is fasteu«l a stiff fabric, such as canvas, and the proper proportions are obtain ♦si by padding with cotton, hay or some other suiiabh* material. Upon this groundwork Is placed the papier much»* which usually forms the exterior. This substance is so Itght and is appli«l with such skill thut the resemblance to the human feature» nud figure Is really remarkable. Oc easionally the face is formed by a mask showing tin* flesh tints, but the majorl ty of th»* giants muy lie termed emir mous dolls, since their mode of eon struetloii Is so simllur to that of this toy and so much of th»* same material enters Into tlielr composition. At least once a year the giants are pla<'«l u | h > u vehicles ami drawn ulmut the streets in a procession, iu which regulur and vol unteer soldiers take part, tlielr escorts sometimes numbering 1,000 people. One well knowu group of giants is known as the Gayon family, th»* mem liers of which are among the largest In Europe. The father of the family Is no less than twenty feet In height, from the top of the plumes lu his helmet to bls feet, while his spear is over twen ty feet in leugtb aud the shield larger lu circumference thau the wheel of an ordinary wagon. Mme. Gayon Is eight een feet In height. They are suppose»! to have thr»»e children, the largest of whom Is eleven feet In height, the next Is ten ttoct aud the "baby” taller than an ordinary man. Wbsa you see a m it come out oil t stage a ui shut the a lies off a cig ir which Is' beiug amok«l by an assistant dou't believe all you see. A batplu Is run through the > igar, the point Ju«! reaching the ash. Vie ass.-taut jus. push«*» the knob at the other end. aud down falls the ash to greot applause Of course ouly blauk cartridges are used. Breaking two glass balls with two pistols is almost as simple. Oue of the pistols only is loaded aiul with shot. The other has a blauk eartrklge. The loaded pistol Is aline 1 betweeu the two balls, aud the shot scatter, breaking them both. That's the trick. Extinguishing several num tiered can dies by number ou request of the au dlence is seldom more than a hollow joke. Behind es»*h candie Is a bole In the target. Au assistant hidden behind It simply blows out the candle, taking care to blow the right candle at the right tlme— thut Is, when the pistol cracks. Blindfold shooting simply means that the performer glauces down his nose to a mirror fixed at an angle behind the back sight and alms as straight this way as If the bandage were uot there. l’ainting a complete picture In a Jiffy iu presence of the audience Is also arti fice. What looks to you like an Immac ulate and untouched canvas Is lu real Ity a finished picture covered with whitewash. All the "artist" do«« 1» to simulate painting with his brush. The result Is a picture that would require If It were hon»*stly done at least a day's work. Those awfully heavy looklug dumb bells of the strong man are sometimes somewhat hollow at the core. Y’ou will notice they are always put In the same place, preferably ou a special platform, when the mao from the audience Is In vited to lift them. Under the platform are powerful magnets holding the weights down. Suddenly roll the bar off the platform, and you can probably lift It In one band, as that operation releases It from magnetic control. CHINESE CARVINGS, ' Artistic Ornament» Cat Out of lull and Tiny Fruit Stone». The most curious objects which art made subjects of the carver's art iu t’liina are the various nuts and fruit stones. Among the hitter class may be named the stones of the olive, plum peach, cherry, and of the former the most common are mail* upon tin* shell- of walnuts uml cocoauuts. These sets!*» and nuts are collected with great cart ami carefully cleaned and dri«l before being taken to the carver, who has an Invariable standard of size, proportion weight, jiardness, etc. When every de tall has been carried out to the satis faction of the artist a nut or seed to selected by the designer, who roughly traces upon Its surface an outline ol the future picture. This Is banded ovet to apprentices, who block out the de sign by cutting through the Lgeuous tissue along the lines drawn. The »•rude carving is again passe.i to th« designer, who sketches a second ami more intricate series of outlines, wheu it again g >es forward to the s.ibordl mites, who cut out the lndicat»*»! chan nets. After tills th«* designer gives th» object Its finishing touches, aud the as ¡stunts prepare It for market by pol ishing. oiling and waxing tlie carvings These nut and fruit stone carvings ar» shown In the shape of buttons, watch »'harms, sleeve links, earrings an»! broodies. Collections of them strung on silver, copper or gold wire are also used as bracelets, anklets, necklaces, rosaries and official ornaments. The carvings represented upon these seed and nut ornaments are frequently of a very high order of conception anil display much of th«* carver's clever ness and dexterity. The writer has seen single cherry seeds upon which were plainly aud artistically outlln«! a dragon, two crickets, s cornflower an»! a bunch of grapes. On the larger se«*ds and nuts are represent«! entire trees and their fruits and leaves, vines with leaves, flowers and vegetables attach ed as well as buildings, bridges, tow ers, temples and fences. Among th« second group, which are usually com pos«l principally of animal figures, th« horse, lion, tiger, elephant, camel and bull are most generally represented.— Exchange. A maor T LEGEND. The Story of How Te Kepe Discov ered New Zealaad. The Maoris are uot the aborigines of New Zeeland. This Is the story of their coming as told by a legend band ed down from chief to chief from gen eratlou to generation: Te Kupe, a priest, lived ou an island called Kawaikl, suppoa»sl to be Ha waii. He Incurred the displeasure of tils chief and was compelled to flee for his life. He secured a canoe and. stocking It with provisions, paddled out to sea, leaving his home and bls friends, as be thought, forever. He wus mourned as dead, but about a year later ha returued with a glowing story of a wonderful country he hud dis covered. He gave graphic accounts of Its mighty forests, Its burning moun tains, steaming lakes and huge birds. The story cuustsl the wildest exclte- tneut among his people, who hailed Te Kupe as a god, and preparations were at once made to explore this magic country. Seven large canoes were built and stocked with provisions and water, and a party of Islanders, dl- rected by Te Kupe, set forth on their adventurous Journey. In time they reached the place he had described, and T» Kupe's canoe, the Aotea, was the flrst to touch the »bore; hence the Maori name "Aotearoa” was given to New Zealand. Just wheu this took place Is one of the points In the history of these peo pie that are lost In the shadowy mem orles of the past, but It Is supposed to have been about 800 years ago. The Maoris of today always refer to Ha waii as the fatherland, and there Is a native proverb, "I kune mal 1 Ilawalkl te kune kal te tangata" ("The seed of our coming Is from Hawalkl”). POINTED PARAGRAPHS. When you are In a hurry for a thing bow slow It travels. An excuse never sccouipllsbes all It Is expect«*»! to accomplish. If you want people to like you don’t know anything "on” them. Ever notl»*e this? If one thing goes right with you something else goes wrong. Every one owes something to himself except the father. He owes It all to his family. Wheu you see two people who dislike you whispering together, doesn't it glvs The Hear«» of the Hapabarga. you a funny feeling? In the imperial burial vault in the About the easiest thing In the world Church of the Capuchins In Vienna is that we know anything about Is to And a row of more than 150 crystal vases the bright side for somebody else. mounted In gold and topped by a They speak of it as "life’s fitful fe crown. Each of these vases contains ver,” but most of us have such hair the heart of a dead Hapsburg. a mem- raising experiences that it Is more like tier of the Imperial family. In the chills.—Atchison Globe. thirteenth century the Duke Francis died In Switzerland and directed that TO_ WIN POPULARITY. hit heart slioiild li* remctyed and sect to Vienna Ever since thia custom hsa Hava a good time, but never let fun lieen observed In the Hapsburg family. On the dentil of a member the heart Is degenerate into license. Rejoice as genuinely tn another's removed and preserve»! In a crystal vase. In the vault there are now 152 success as in your own. Learn to control yourself under the such vases and 113 Imperial coffins. Tin* surplus of thirty nine vases con most trying circumstances. Have a kind word and a ch«*ery, en tain tin* hearts of Hapsburgs whose boilles are burled elsewhere. The so.e couraging smile for every one. Meet trouble like a man, and cheer exception to this Hapsburg custom was that of the late Archduke Ludw. f, fully endure what you can’t cure. Believe In the brotherhood of man whose will forbade the removal of bis and recognize no class distinctions heart. Do not be self opln!onat»*d, but listen with deference to tlie opinions of oth Surveying luiud. The art of land surveying owes Its er«. Never utter witticisms at the risk of origin to tlie fact that the Egyptians were unable to ktiep permanent monu giving pain or hurting some one's feel meats on laud which was overflowed ings. every year by the Nile. Under such clr Be ambitious aud energetic, but nev cumstances It became necessary to er benefit yourself at the expense of have some means of reidentifying the another various pl«*es of land. The Instru Be ns courteods and agreeable to ments and mathematical methods uf your Inferiors as you are to your astronomy, with suitable modifications, equals and superiors. - Ruc<*eas. were used by the Egyptians for laud surveying. Fair Visitor So you have really de cided not to sell your bouse? Fair Host—Yes. You see, we placed the FanalH*» share «ferriage». matter In the bands of a real estate A curious custom exists In Genoa. agent. After »ending Ills lovely adver tisement of our property neither John Many of the well to do people us well nor tnyself <amld think of parting with ■s those lu moderate circumstances de uot own either horses or carriages such ft wonderful and perfect home. They own only an Interest tn them Four or five or half a dozen great fam! in the countries devot«! to ancestor 11»*» club together and buy a carriage worship th* Individual of the present and hors««; then they arrange among does not count. He does not even ex themselves the days the different fatal 1st until after he Is dead Iles will use It. The Lloa's Share. It is really not the male lion, with bls FACTS IN FEW LINES House boat life on the Thames Is on it» decadence. The cost of cremaTiag a body tn Frame 1» only «¡0 »-cuts. A serum for bay fever is mexft by physicians in the Island of HcU'diud. A Kentucky woman, only thirty* three years old, has Just acquired her ninth husliKU»!. Government authorities estimate the egg and poultry Income lu tlie I nitial States last year at $280.000.000. • Bometssly Inquired at a Columbus (O.i bookstore the other day for "That p>s*m of Kipling's, 'ikm't You For get it.'" The celebrated emerald mines of Muzo, Col »lubia, ar«* owu»*d by the gov ernment and are amoug its most val uable assets. The British First East Yorkshire reg lment, which has l>eeu tweuty years ou foreign service in the far east, has just Iss'ii ordered home from Burma. A <*orre»|«indent of Nature says be bad bls portrait palatial by two well known artists ami calculated that in each case about "D.ixm strokes of tin* brush were made. An Intellig mt elephant Is attracting attention'iu New York. Tin* animal uot only bowls, lint with a plwe of chalk k«*ps reeoial of tin* umnlier of plus it kmx ks down. While listing in u quarry h >le near Portlnnd, «'mill., .!**a**t*ti Kincaid caught a fish which Is puzzling the ex p»-rts. It has a body something like an «4 and a heatl Ilk»* a bullhead. Ireland lias a prodigy. Three and a half years old, a Kiunegad boy reads the newspapers, sings about fifty comic songs anil dances a sailor's hornpipe In a regulation Jack tar suit. Everything iu tills world has Its com pensations, ami a writer In a late med leal Journal conveys tlie comforting in formation that bahlheadeil people art* Immune from pulmonary tuberculosis. A tramp struck Whitneyville, Me., recently on»* morning aud ate breakfast lu nine different places. In one lions»*, where the people seemed to be particu larly easy, lie asked what time they bad dinner. One distillery company In Kentucky turns out every seven days 1,20»' barrels of sw«q*t mush whisky. The output for a year would be 62,400 barrels. The cost of all this to tin* manufacturers may be fairly estlmateil ut $374.000. Somebody congratulat»*l ltussell Rage the other day on bls hearty appear ance just after he had pass«*»l his eighty-ninth birthday. Mr. Sage re plied quaintly aud characteristically that he ext>eete»l to see the age of 100. Then* Is a tame squirrel at Belfast, Me., which has learueil not only to find a bug of peanuts bidden in the house which be tmppeiis to invade, but to take the cover off a tin box in which one goisl housewife keeps her plump squash seeds. In tlie ofllee of Stevens & Stevens, at Millinocket, Me., Is a peculiar tl ermoni eter, or, rather, heat rec.mler. It con sista of a growing palm. Mr. Stevens marks on It the growth for each week ami finds that the warmest weeks show much more progress than the cooler Intervals. George Stratton of Bennington, Vt., has a Plymouth Rock rooster which has brought up a litter of chickens this summer. The lien abandoned them when they were Hire»* weeks old. and the rooster took charge of th»* family. He called them together, scratched for them and cared for them In a most motherly fashion. Since the first visit to the lee cup of the south |»ok* was made, some fifty years ago, there has been a steady re cession of tlie belt of some thirty miles, ami it Is argued that lu the course of time It will be possible to make approach to the pole itself and tliat the land In that vicinity may even become inhabit«!. A gentleman from the Unit«l States who vlslt«l one of Belgium's famous seaside resorts was greatly pleas«l to find the American flag on sal»> In the shops ther»* ami that boys engag«l In mimic battles displayed It on their lit tle forts. The visitor at first siqqiosed the youngsters were Americans, but soon learned that they were Belgians. A Kbirgesi* giant who had been on exhibition In Hamburg was found on the streets of that city on Aug. 10 In a starving condition. Some people took him to a restaurant, where he ate thri*e platra of beef soup, four pounds of b«*efsteak. thr«> portions of ham and cabbage mid fourteen appk* tarts, the whole washed down with six pints of beer. Tlie process by which India paper Is made Is a secret known to but three living persons. When on»* »lies another is let Into the mystery. In this way It has been preserved ever since It was lnveut«l by an officer In the English army. Other thin papers are made, but India paper Is peculiar In that lu spite of Its extreme thinness print on one side il'S's not show through on tlie other. Ralph Leo Ray of I.ancaster, WIs., has Just begun his duties as tutor in tlie American Inngunge uml customs to King Alfonso of Spain In the royal pal ace of Madrid. Ills letters home de clare that the process of Introducing tlie youthful king to the Idiom of Unde Ram's language Is progressing happily for both teacher and royal pupil. He will remain abroad ns tutor for two years. What should be almost a reeoril ca nary Is In West Kensington, England. Its owner has had It Just two month« over twenty four years. The only sign of age about the bird Is that Its wings ■ nd tall have dropp«l nn»l the bird Is therefore unable to fly up to Its perch. This long lived bird still resides In the cage in which It was hatched and leaves It only periodically wh« u ft has to be clean«! and whitewashed. A Wood Mine. One of the most curious mines that are worked Is In Tonquin, China, where in a sand formation at n ileptli of from fourteen to twenty feet then* Is n de posit of the stems of trees The Chi nes»> work this mine for th»* tlmtier. which la found In good condition ami la us«l In making troughs and for carving and other punioses. terrific roar and formidable appear ance, that the explorer fears, but his mste. The male lion Is a good looking poser, but when It comes to business it Is bls wife who counts, a la the African native. Game la pulled down by the female lion, and then the male beats Those to whom everybody allows tbs her off until be has feooted to repletion, when she may have what Is left; hence second place have sn undoubt«! title ;o the first Rwlft "the lion’s share.”
