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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1907)
A BKiuGE CURIOSITY. Odd Structure la Mexico Batlt ef Solid Mnbosrany. As mahogany is among tlie most cost ly vroo;!s in the world, it may well be inferred that this tropical material is r.oi very extensively employed in the construction of buildings, etc. A bridge constructed of solid mahogany . is cer tainly a rarity, a curiosity. There is one. claimed to be the only one in the world, built of that material. This structure ii located in tha department of Pal;'uque, state of Chiapas, republic of Mexico. T'ii'.- district lies in the es-tn-ino southwestern part of Mexico, near the bo:r.:d:iry line of Guatemala. This muLrgnny bridge is constructed entirely of that valuable wood except so:ue iron rapports, braces and .pails .th.-it are nei-oswry. The bridge spans t!i: Rio Mich si. a::d its total length. In-' cltit!Ir.;r .-'.pproar-bes. exceeds 150 feet, while the width is fifteen foot. " It is used by both lesms :in:l pedestrians, nul, aitfaoug'j somewhat - rude and primitive in construction, it is very substantial. None of the timbers of the flooring were sawe-.I. f:r in taut region there are no r.:J-.vn:ii;s, but were hewn and split. In that section of cTi Mexico there are several very large rubber planta tions, and i::ahcg:i!:y trees are quite common, la clear ug away the tropical forests for setting o.-.t the young rub ber tree:! the mahogany growths are also cut down and removed. As this wood is quite abundant, some of it was used in building the bridge. American Inventor. MEANINGS CF CALIBER. Either 1h.e Di::.:otor f a Gno or Its l.e:i;viEs Dividetl hy LUzxnieier. There is surely no word in the no me:ic!af.:re of ;:uus. biir and little, which has cattsrd v.atl is earning so rouc:i co:iriT!!ioi! in the lay mind as the word caliber. The confusion arises chiei'y from the use ci' i':e term in an adjectival sense to In.IU.T.te len.'vtii. as when we say a GO caliber si:: inch gr.n. Tie word caliber as applied to artil lery si.'.TUi2es essentially and at all times the diameter of the bot? of a gun. A Kim. then, of six inch caliber is a gun whose bore is just six inches. For convenience and beearse the power of a ;r;r.i when once its bore has been decided upon depends so greatly upon its length, artillerists are in the bal.it of dctining the length of he gun in terms of the caliber. The six inch rapid lire gun, as mount ed on the ships of the navy, is a trifle 'under twenty-five feet in length and is therefore known as a CO caliber gun. In the case of small arms the caliber Is expressed in hundredths of an inch, as when we say a 22 caliber or 32 cali ber pistol, meaning that the bore is .22 or .32 of an inch in diameter. Sci entific American. Badly Tangled. The Census Taker Y'our name, mum? "1 don't know." "Beg pardon, mum." "I've been divorced. At present my name is Mrs. Jones in this state. In several states it is Miss Smith, my maiden name, and in three states it is Mrs. Brown, my first husband's name." "This your residence, mum?" "I eat and sleep here, but I have a trunk in a neighboring state, where I am getting a divorce from my present husband." "Then you're married at present?" "I'm married in Texas. New York and Massachusetts, divorced in South Dakota. Missouri, Alaska. Oklahoma and California, a bigamist in three other states and a single woman in eight others." Chicago Tribune. The Last Word. "Having the last word," said a naval officer, "reminds me of a story I heard not long ago. A certain man died, and a clergyman was engaged to offer a eulogy. This worthy minister prepared a sermon of exceeding length and strength, but just before he entered the parlor to deliver it he thought that it might be advisable to learn what the dead man's last words had been. So he turned to one of the weeping young er sous and asked: " 'My boy. can you tell me your fa ther's last words? ' 'He didn't have none, the boy re plied. 'Ma was with him to the end.' " Absentminded. La Fontaine, the famous fable poet, was a most absent minded man. Meet ing one day in a saloon a young man, he was so favorably impressed by his conversation that he expressed his ad miration for him in the most flattering terms. "But he Is your own son!" ex claimed a guest in astonishment "Is it so?" replied the poet "Then I am the more delighted to make his ac quaintance." A Remedy. "For some time past I've been buy ing a dozen eggs every week at this store, and I invariably find two bad ones In every dozen. Something's got to be done about It," said an irate housekeeper. "Well," said the new clerk naively and with a quiet smile, "mebbe if you only bought half a dozen you'd only get one bad one." Grocer's Literary Gazette. It Last. ' When a man writes a proposal of marriage to a woman be has written eomething that will last forever. A woman never destroys a letter that contains an offer of marriage. Atchi son Globe. ' To lire long It Is necessary to lire lowly .Cicero. i THE" SHORT LIVED DOG. UJs Kannal Lensrtli of Life tout Ola ' seventh TUat of Kan. Surely it is by an unfortunate dis pensation of iatufe that the dog, be yond all question the chief friend of man among the other animals, should have a normal length of life which is no more, on a fair computation, than one-seventh of his own. There is no other figure which expresses the rela tive ages of man and his dog so well. The puppy of one year is about at the same canine age as the child of seven. At two years he is probably a littta more advanced than a fourteen-year-oid boy, but the canine age of three is Very nearly equivalent to the human twenty-one. And so It continues through all the ;years of canine and of , human prune respectively, the ratio fairly well preserved. It has to be ad mitted that the old age of the dog, thus computed, outlasts the old age of the man. One hears stories which seem -to be fairly authentic of dogs living up to eighteen, and if we do hear stories of human beings living similarly up to 120, at least we do not believe them. But such an age for a dog is quite the extreme limit. The dog of ten years approaches the equivalent of the three score and ten which had been named as the fair end of the human crea ture's tether, and on the whole the multiplication of canine years by seven all through 'the stages of life gives the corresponding age of man better than any other figure gives it. Westminster j Gazette. I OLD LEATHER. Uses to Which Discarded Boots and Shoes Are Pnt. Old boots and shoes of leather are cut up into small pieces and then are put for two days into chloride of sul phur, the effect of ' which is to make the leather very hard and brittle. When this is fully effected the mate rial Is withdrawn from the action of the chloride of sulphur, washed with water, dried and ground to powder. It is then mixed with some substance th:it will' cause it to adhere together, such as shellac or other resinous mate rial or even good glue, and a thick' solution of strong gum. It is afterward pressed into molds to form combs, buttons and a variety of other useful objects. Prussiate of potash is also made out of old leather. It is heated with pearl ash and old iron hoops in a large pot The nitrogen and carbon form cyano gen and then unite with the iron and potassium. The soluble portions are dissolved out and the resulting salt. added to one of each, produces the well known Prussian blue, either for dyeing purposes or as a pigment. London Boot and Shoe Trades Jour nal. A Doubtful Compliment, ' Although Mr. Hobbs was taken at his face value by his son and heir, there were times when the youthful l William's admiring tributes embar- , rassed his parent in the family group. "I had quite an encounter as I came hoar.! t.v;i!it." the valorous Mr. Hobbs annoiivtfcd at the tea table. "Two men, j slightly intoxicated, were having a quarrel on the corner. As usual, there i was no policeman in sight, and they ! were in a fair way to knock each oth er's brains out when I stepped between and separated them." "Weren't you afraid, father?'' asked Mrs. Hobbs in a quavering voice. "No, indeed! Why should I be?" in quired Mr. Hobbs, inflating his chest. "I guess there isn't anybody could knock any brains out of my father!" said Willy proudly. Youth's Compan ion. ' . . Cock Crotvers An Extinct Trade. "Cock crowers in the past got good pay," said an antiquary, "but theirs is an extinct business now. Cock crow ers were employed by the rich in their town houses to crow the hour. They ' crowed only the rising hour for the !most part, but during Lent they crow jed everything even the halves and quarters all night long. It was a kind I of penance. These men were, trained from childhood to crow. Sometimes in their childhood an operation was per formed on then- throats to give them a more ooeklike delivery. An ancestor of mine on the maternal side was a famous .cock crower in his day." Lon don Graphic. Inflneaoe. No human being can come into the world without increasing or diminish ing the sum total of human happiness, not only of the present but of every subsequent age of humanity. No one can detach himself from this connec tion. There is no sequestered spot in the universe, no dark niche along the disk of nonexistence to which he can retreat from his relations to others, where he can withdraw the influence of his existence upon the moral desti ny of the world. Everywhere be will have companions -vb will be better or worse for bis influence. Tne I'snal Way. When a mother forbade her daugh ter social gayety on the ground that she "had seen the folly of such things," the daughter very reasonably answer ed that she wanted to see the folly of them too. That is the attitude of youth toward the warnings of age. London Lady. She Did. Mr. Misfit (savagely) Before I mar ried you was there any doddering Idiot gone on you? Mrs. Misfit There was one. Mr. Misfit I wish to good ness you'd married him! Mrs. Misfit I did. Los Angeles News. The vj ef life la never folly realised, until the leasing ef freely giving and freely wrtttsg MM THE COUNTRY HOUSE. A Boon Apart That Should Be Known aa tne "OOlce." The most privately conducted home must communicate with increasing fre quency with the world outside. The coal man. the Ice man. the automobile repair shop must be upbraided or ca joled. Reports must be reviewed, ac counts kept bills examined and the senders occasionally treated with a check. From a room removed from the rest of the house one must speak with the railway Btation. settle with the expressman or deliberate with the chauffeur or coachman, for none of these tilings should disturb the tran quillity of the home or the equanamity of guests. . If the house Is to minister to all the activities .of a home it Is high time that space be devoted to this mechanism of living.... For . want of a better term a room devoted to such a purpose may be called the "office" of the house. Here the telephone stands on a table that bears also the mis cellaneous utensils and printed matter that are always wanted in a house when" they cannot be found. Here are cookbooks, gardening books, diction aries, time tables, while a few old plates, a cast or two, bits of Dresden, water colors and a few cherished pho-i tographs relieve an otherwise humdrum-collection of necessities. Here arriving parcels are placed and the daily mail opened. Mysterious cup boards there are and , drawers with locks that work. Indoors and Out A CONTRAST. French and Engrlish Women as They Cross a Mnddy Street. See a Parisienne cross a muddy street She advances tiptoe to the edge of the pavement, poises like a bird ready for a flight, deftly raises her dress more than enough to show her embroidered skirt, the dainty hose and elegant bottines, and without more delay she trips across, toe and heel barely touching and the mud refusing to cling to the fairy feet that hardly leave an impression on it. Landed on the other side, she givrs her fine feath ers a little shake into place and passes on with shoes that look as if just put on at that moment. Watch an Englishwoman immediate ly afterward. She roaches the curb stone, comes to a dead standstill and stolidly contemplates the muddy road. Finally she selects a route. Then. very cautiously, she lifts her dress, making sure that tne tops of her shoes are under cover; then, slowly advancing, she puts ber right foot out. Plump it goes, the water oozing oer it, and then splash, splash, splash, un til the other side is reached, when, with soiled skirts and soaked -shoes; she proceeds on her wet and muddy way. ' Nothing could be more characteristic of - their respective nationalities, and nothing could be more amusing thai) their mutual contempt for each oth er's ways. Translated From- the French For St Louis Republic. Hen's Hilts and Women's Veils. "I see here that a woman writer wonders why a man always looks. In his hat before he puts It on," said the reflective man as he looked up from his paper. "Here lw what she says: 'When a man puts on his hat he most always looks inside ft first What he expects to see remains a mystery, but he looks for it all the same.' Thaf s easy. He looks in his hat to see if the knot holding the inside band together will be at the back of his head when he puts it on. Now, if she'll tell me why a woman always pulls down her veil and purses up her mouth before she steps out of doors we'll call it square." New York Press. Ride Whiskers. In her last novel, "The 'Dream and' the Business," Mrs. Oraigie, I regret to note, used the expression "side whisk ers." The redundant "side" is to be found also in Meredith, Dickens, the greater Richardson,, Bronte, Caine, Corelli, Sims and Shorter. As a matter of fact unless otherwise stated, the least' Intelligent reader would take it for granted that the whiskers were worn en the side of the face, as indeed is the usual practice. The terms "lip whisker" (mustache) and "chin whisk er" (beardette) are Americanisms. Pall Mali Gazette. Jnst Like Him. The Rev. Walter Col ton, author of "Ship and Shore" and other books, gave a most forcible Illustration of the character ef an ctScer oj board the ship te waich he was attached as cbap laia. Tne officer was always meddling with ether people's buataeaa aa4 was seldom In his owa plaee. Consequently he was most unpopular wits, the sail ors. One of them, goaded to unusual irritation, said one day, ! do believe that . at the general resurrection the lieutenant will be found gettiax vat of somebody else's grave." The Sett "Johnny," said the stern parent "my father used to whip, me .when I be haved at the table as badly as you are doing." "Well," " rejoined the precocious youngster, "I hope I'll never have to make a confession like that to my little boys." Chicago News. Effect of Hlsrh UTiag. Goodman Gonrong Wake up, parSl. Wot ye groanin' about? Tuffold Knutit (rubbing his eyes) Gaso but Tve had a horrible dream 1 "I ' tftortafti Td got a job o' work an' inn doiir" -the' mani curin' fur a octopus.-r-Chicago .Tribune. Supplicant I'm faint from lack of food. Rich Lady (genexoosiy) How dreastfia! Bere, smell my -vinaigrette. A LOST RIDING HABIT."" It Lost Eto the SnjKu Enseals the: French Empire. Even Emile de Girardin, whom Eu genie welcomed ws "the gravedigger of dynasties" ' because he had gone to Louis Philippe on the eve of his flight . In 1848 to warn him as be came to warn her now. said to her very serious- ly that night: . - anouia your uisijrasiy appear urave- " J , . . . . , , ,. i ly on horseback in the midst of the i people your majesty can still count on people your majesty their enthusiasm and devotion." '; Eugenie resolved to show herself on horseback. She ordered that the rid ing habit ye chosen. . It- must be all black, of the severest simplicity. And she would just pin the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor on her left breast. Often the slightest causes bring about the gravest results. The tragedy of the empire's last chance.-therefore, must be sought along with the black riding skirt nnd corsage. - By Incredible ill luck they could not find It There had been one. but it ba.d disappeared, "doubtless stolen." Oth ers were at Compiegne and Foutaine bleau. . They found. a ridiug habit of dark green with heavy gold braid, the costume of the imperial stag hunts. "It will not do," Eugenie sobbed; "it will not do!" And so for lack of a black skirt and corsage the empress of the French was forced to flee her capital and lost an empire. Sterling Heilig in Metropol itan Magazine. A FLY IN A WEB. The Way a Tiny, SpifJer Imprisoned His Bis Victim. "One morning when busy in my workshop." says a naturalist, "a large fly. double the size of a bluebottle, was caught in a spider's web in the win dow close to where I was at work. It was held by two of its legs only, and for some time the spider, which was about the size of the fly's bead, pro ceeded to strengthen its hold by at taching numerous extra linos to the two captive limbs, carefully keeping out of reach of the others, which were letting out in all directions in frantic efforts to escape. "During a short respite in the cap tive's struggles the spider cautiously approached and with its bind legs got several turns of its tiny rope round one of the limbs that were free. These tactics were carried on till all the legs were firmly bound. It then injected poison into one of the legs. This soon showed itself, for its deadening effects reduced the victim's struggles in a marked degree. The poison paralyzes, but does not kill. ,, ."Shortly after a second bite resist ance ceased, and the . victor settled down to suck the juices of its falien prey.- , The struggles lasted quite an hour. Next morning the fly was alive, and the spider Was still sucking out its llfeblood." Chicago News. The Missl 115 Xote. One of the leading tenors in Moscow was Called upon to sing an opera in which one note was much too high for him, but he got a man in the orchestra to come in just at the right time and supply the note. In exchange the tenor was to take him to supper. The plan answered well, the applause was loud, but the tenor forgot all about the supper. Next time he sang the opera he went to the front of the stage, put his hand on his heart and opened his mouth as wide as he could. His dis comfiture was great when the expect ant hush was broken by a voice from the orchestra saying, "Where's my sup per?" From Iskra. Chinese Similes. Some of the ordinary expressions of the Chinese are pointedly sarcastic enough. A blustering, harmless fellow they call "a paper tiger." When a man values himself overmuch they compare him to "a rat falling into a scale and weighing itself." Overdoing a thing they call "a hunchback making a bow." A spendthrift they compare to "a rocket" which goes off at once. These who expend their charity on re mote objects, but neglect their fam ilies, are said to "hang a lantern on a pole, which is seen afar, but gives no light Betow." Vollowed Bis Pipe. An old Hungarian countryman had smoked the same pipe for more than j nity years ana as a natural conse ) quence had grows to love It as a j companion. One day, however, his ln ; fant grandson smashed the pipe be : yond all hope of repair. The old man was so broken hearted at his loss that be hanged himself on a peg. In his pocket was found a scrap of paper on which was scribbled, "My pipe is done for, and I must go too." Presence of Mind. ; After the railway accident: "Did yer (et compensation. Bill?" "Yes; 5 me and 5 the missus." - "Why, I didn't know she wor 'urt" "She wasn't but I had the presence Of mind to fetch 'er one on the 'cad with me boot" London Tatler. ' $ - - ' In the Typewriter Shop, i ! Polite Salesman We have here our I new. model. No.. 23. You will notice it ; is equipped with the most approved billing device and Pair Stenographer .Have you any model that also has a cooing device.? New York World. Ber- Sad Fate. tf"-1 Vmi m-wA thti nnlv crii-1 T hnva ever loved. Geraldine-Must I suffer alone? New York Press. i . Some people are so cantiooa that they erea look before tbey creep. AUgdea Keeak. FIRE INSURANCE.- F-bU Amonnt Hay Not Be Paid Even When Loss Is Complete. In a fire insurance policy the sum In sured merely marks the maximum lia- bllity accepted by the insurance com- pany and determines the premium to fce paid. It is not in anv wav admitted by tne insurance office as a measure , - ... . of the value of the property Insured, , . ... If 1 haTe a Ufe ohc7 for W 1,000, says a writer in the Nineteenth Cen tury, my heirs can, on proof of my death and their title, receive at least 3,000, possibly more if there are bo nuses. If I have a ship and I insure her with marine insurance companies for 5,000, I can recover the full 5,000 at once sljould my ship be totally lost. But -if I insure my house against fire for 5,000 I cannot, recover 5,000 unless I can prove the house to be worth "fully that sum. ' All that I am entitled to demand is the actual value of my house immediately before it was burned, and I must give every assist ance to the insurance company in or der that the actual value may be justly determined. By statute the Insurance company has the power to reinstate that house, as far as the sum insured will go, in stead of paying me anything. In prac tice, compensation is usually agreed and paid in cash without recourse on either side to the right of reinstate ment, but tx no case am I entitled to more that- the actual . value of my house as it' oxisted just before the fire. PATENTS ON INVENTIONS. ftust Be I ;i 1 Names of the Actual Tho law proviCes for the granting of patants only to the actual inventor of the patented invention, and a patent granted in the name of any one else is invalid. For this reason it is essen tial that the application for patent be made in the name of the one whom th3 law regards as the iriventor. In some factories it is the custom to pat ent every invention in the name of the president of the company This frequently happens because the com pany has been built up on inventions made by the president or other officer, an.l as a matter of pride the president wishes to ecs all patents- issued in his name. This is a dangerous thing to do in the case of inventions which were con scived by the employee independently of the officer,' such as inventions wholly worked out by employee without sug gestion or assistance from the officer, for if in a suit brought under such patent it were shown that while the patent was granted in the name of the officer the invention was actually made by an employee the patent would be declared invalid, and usually a suit would not have reached such a stage until it was too late to go back and patent the invention in the name of the real inventor. Edwin J. Prindle in Engineering Magazine. Tlie Huguenots, Here are two essays on the Hugue nots by Chicago public school pupils: "The Hugonots are people in France that are followers of Victor Hugo. Their leader is a man named Jean Val jean that was a thief, but got con verted and turned out well. The Hugo nots are very good people. A lady named Evangeline wrote a long poem about thera, but It don't rhyme." "The Huguenots is the name of a big thing like a steam roller that the mo gul used in India to run over people. It squoshed them to death and wr.s very Terrible. It had eyes painted on it ii! a -dragon and snorted steam when it was running. They are no tii:gucnots enny more." John lir : A': t end Lord Manners. In one of his speeches in the house of commons John Bright quoted in a spirit of banter and ridicule the well known lines written by Lord John Manners in his callow youth: Let wealth and commerce, laws and Iearn- ' Ing die, . But leave us still our old nobility. Lord John, who was present, imme diately got up and pulverized the great tribune by retorting, "I would rather be the foolish young man who wrote these lines than the malignant old man who quoted them." Komrt. Muaart lived thirty-seven years. His first mass was composed when he was less than ten years of age, and the enormous quantity of his compositions was the work of the succeeding twenty-seven years. Mozart wrote forty one symphonies, fifteen masses, over thirty operas and dramatic composi tions, forty-one sonatas, together with an immense number of vocal and con certed pieces in almost every line of the art Dnbions. Stippler Did Miss KOtts admire your paintings? Dobber I don't know. Stippler What did she - say about them? Dobber That she could feel that I put a great deal of myself Into my work. Stippler Well, that's praise. Dobber Is it? The picture I showed her was "Calves In a Meadow." - Real Reform. Dibbles There goes Rhymer and his rich wif e. She married him nearly a year ago to reform him. Scribbles" Did she succeed? - Dibbles Sure. He. hasn't written a poem since they faced t' parS0D tSher.-Chicago New-. Saase Old Veeline;. - Gladys I feel sure be has never lored Defer. Penelope Ob, I felt the sasae way. eea 'w&eojte need to make toce to Ho Has Returned. A few days ago there was con siderable comment in the Eugene papers about the prolonged ab sence in the East of Coach Be- dtk and it was even rumored in athletic . circles there that the young man did not intend to re turn. Saturday's Guard, how ever, says Coach Hugo Bezdek arrived in Eugene from his trip to Chicago on this morning's early train and is ready . to take up his duties Hgain at the university as physi cal director. He sayshehada very good time back East and woulo have, come back sooner nut lor unavoidable delays. Bezdek began work this alter noon again with the, basketball team. He thinks that ' there is K'ood material that . will develop very 'rapidly in the time at his disposal. While East he also made arrangements so that he an get all of his sporting goods r the university, that cannot be obtained here, quickly and easily irom San Francisco. Bezdek will also coach the baseball team this spring. Arrangements are being made by the order of Elks of this city to have a big j ification. in which Albany Elks from 150 to 200, strong, will participate a guests of honor. The time is to be the 25th. although eomething might possibly arise to make a change of date necessary It. is understood the affair will be quite elaborate and great preparations are on foot for the event. A. C Tunnison lias come to the front with the biggest wood etory of the season. Mr. Tnnison cut a tree on hie place a few days ago, ttat made I7 1-2 cords of wood which, at the present rate of 35 per cord means quite an item. The tree ws'a red fir and erev on the farm f ormerlj i-wn ed by Mrs. Agnes Thompson t f 'this city Miss Florence Junkina of Poitland, formerly of this city, is a guest at the Hansell home. THE MEXICAN OCELOT. A Great Jumper Is This Strange L.1 tle Spotted Jungle Cntj One of the most Interesting animals of the new world and yet one of which little seems to be written, even by sportsmen who bare spent much time in Mexico and the Central American states, Is the ocelot, the strange little spotted cat of the dense jungles of tropical parts of the two Americas. They are not nearly so heavy as the average lynx of the eastern woods and are infinitely lighter on their feet They run with the greatest agility up and down the almost perpendicular trunks of trees and follow a crippled birdout ou limbs too slender, it would seem, to bear the weight of the par rot, let alone the cat. Parrots are the ocelot's principal f--iI ':":d their hunt- Ling is done alni-.;:.i -ether by day. though, like a!J ius- cat tribe, they are thoroughly at Uome in the blackest night. The parrots which they hunt fre quent the thickest of forests, coming to the ground only in the rare open spacis and along the banks of the u-Uiiy small streams where they drink. 5u order to follow them it is necessary that the ocelots be great jumpers, and so they are. When I was following the hounds through the southern Cali fornia hills after wildcats and an oc casional mountain lion I was wont to say that the latter was the greatest jumper on earth. The ocelot has any mountain lion that ever walked 1 eaten a block, length for length and weight for weight Forest and Stream. LUNCHEON VAS EXPENSIVE. Instead of 15 Francs It Really Cost 4O.0OO Francs. One day three friends in Paris were taking a walk together "I should like' to have an exquisite lunch," said one of the three. "I should be satisfied with a lunch," said the second, "which is a little short of being exquisite." "And I," remarked the third one, "should be content with any kind of lunch." Unfortunately none of them was pos sessed of the necessary money. Pres ently one of the trio was struct: by ah idea. He led his friends to a music publisher and made him an offer: "Buy from us a song. This gentle man wrote the text; that one set it to music, and I shall sing It as I am the only one of us with a good voice." "Well, sing It for a trial," replied the publisher. The young man complied, and the publisher seemed to be satisfied. lie paid 15 francs for the song, and the friends hastened Joyfully to a restau rant The author of the text was Alfred de Musset the musician was.Monpur and the singer Dupre. The song, which was bought . and paid for , with 15 francs, "The Andalusian Girl." yield ed the publisher 40,000 francs. Har per's Weekly. -. Tlie TVIse o?a. "This popular fiction is all rot In real life the girl's, father seldom ob jects to the man of her choice." "You're wrong there. He often ob jects, bnt bo's usually too wise to say any thing." Louisville Courier-Journal. Any time la tne yaosec time for say ing what k pmh iWs etemrit. i