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FUN AT ANNAPOLIS. (low the nval Cailf In Kftllrvo the Mount- onj- or Tlirlr KxNtrurp. Hops are given by the oflioors and cadets alternate!' every Saturday night, lint when a contagious disease lueaks out in the family of an olliect his quarters are quarantined and ho is not allowed to attend the hops. Tha measles broke out in the family of a very original Lieutenant, only one or H wo of his little ones being taken sick. Fearing that ho would he quarantined from the Imps for sonio time if ho allowed the disease to pursue its own course and take e fleet 0:1 Ids children one by one, he conceived the brilliant idea of putting the sick and well ones, together, so that all would be sick at once, and thus shorten the time of quarantine. Happily no serious results followed this device and the olllcerwas soon attending the hops again. When the cadets aro reported for any breach of discipline they have the priv ilege of making any excuse they may see lit, though it must be brief and to the point. One cadet was reported for unmilitary conduct in raising his hand in the ranks, lie submitted this ex cuse: "Hug in ear." The excuse was satisfactory, though he was warned not to repeat the oll'ense. There is a Lieutenant, attached to the academy as ollioer-in-chnrgo whose duty it is to inspect the cadets' rooms every morning. The Lieutenant is very alxent-minded, and on one occasion lie brought his absent-mindedness into requisition, much to the amusement of a cadet. While on his tour of inspection one morning he found an un authorized article hanging on the wall in one of the rooms. "What is that doing on the wall?" he ns.ed. "The wall has been there all the time, sir," re plied the cadet. Turning to the master-at-arms, he asked whether that wall .had been there before. The astonished man replied that, it had, and the Lieu tenant walked out satisfied with the in spection. Passing on to the next room there was a cadet visiting contrary to regulations. The cadet had time beforu the ofliccr entered to get behind the wardrobe door, but his feet were in sight beneath the door. After looking around the room the officer espied the shoes and reported the cadet who lived in the room for allowing his shoes to be out of the proper place, which was under the foot of his bed, and ho walked out, feeling that he had con scientiously performed his official duty. The cadets are required to keep t tin lloor of their rooms cleanly swept. One Sunday, morning thu commandant was making an inspection of the quarters. Entering one room he saw that the lloor was not. very cleanly swept, and spoke to the cadet about it. The cadet replied that, the lloor had been swept that morning. The commandant was dresxed in a clean white suit, and to show that it was really dusty sat down on the lloor, and getting up he turned 'around and asked the cadet: "What do you think now?" The cadet replied! "I think you are a confounded fool." The order was issued the next day foi the cadet's dismissal. Practical jokes are seldom played by the cadets on the officers, but last Jan uary some of them thought 1 1 1 03 would have a little fun at the expense of thu late Lieutenant Dniicuhowur, who was ollicer-in-charge on the occasion. Sev eral of them got together one night and rigged out a dummy cadet, putting on an old undress suit, shoes, cap and oor thing complete. They then lifted the dummy over the balustrade and dropped it. from the fourth lloor, at tiie same time raising a dreadful cry. At the foot of the stairs stands a marine, who acts as messenger to the ollicer-in-charge. The cadets never thought of the marine being under neath, and down went the dummy striking the poor man anil nearly scar ing him to death. Thu cry brought Lieutenant Danenhower to the scene, and, being nearly blind, he took thu dummy to be a dead cadet, or prutty nearly so. The dnzod marine was dis patched in great haste to the hospital for doctors. Soon four stalwart blue jackets came with a stretcher to carry the supposed dead or dying cadet to the hospital, and behind them hurried all the doctors in the yard. Thu -dummy was immediately put on thu stretcher and taken to the hospital, where the doctors found out the true state of aflairs. The doctors were tho only ones who did not enjoy the joke, though perhaps it might not have been o funny for the cadets had they been caught. Cor. Ituffato Courier. Judge "Of course, you have an excuse ready." Prisoner "1 have, your honor. I was full, but it was for medical purposes. Whiskj- is good for snake bites." Judge "Were you bit ten by a snake?" Prisoner "No; but, your honor, 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,'" Judge I see, 1 see. But you .should have confined yourself to fho ounce. I tine yon ten dollars for prescribing medi cine without a diploma." 1 m m Baltimore Oirl (to young Mr. "Waldo, of Boston) "Aro you addicted to the habit of cigarette smoking, Mr. "Waldo?" Mr. Waldo (at a loss for something to say) "Well er really, iMiss Terrapin, I ah am ashamed to t.ay that I do occasionally, only occa sionally, you know, smoke tliem." Baltimore (Jirl "Well, I wish you would give me one. My case is quite empty. " The Epoch. The flexibility of tho English language is shown in tho roply of an irishman to a man who sought rcfugo in his shanty in a heavy shower and, finding it about as wot inside as out, said: "You have quito a pond on tha lloor." "Vis; shuro wo have n great lake in the roof." I CARL DUNDER'S TALE. The Old (Scntlrinnn Tells Thr Inttrnctlrn Story or n (irrinmi MUrr. Shildreu. maypo you haf noticed how many burdocks vhas growing in der gardens und all aroundt on der fields. Kafery pody chops him down und pulls him oop. but ho comes pack next year all der same, und he vhas sooch a nuis ance dot people get mailt und shwear. I shall now tell you der shtory of how dot burdock come aboudt. Vhell, once upon sometimes a man lif near Bremen, in Shermany. He vhas an oldt man und he vhas a miser. He goes hungry und in rags, und he shleep? on der lloor und doau' care how mooch his pones ache. Hcvhaswerry, worry rich. He can buy oudt our city hall und haf some money left. He lends money at twenty per cent, inter est, und ho turns poor peoples oudt door und vhas so hardt in his heart dot eafcry body hates und vhas in fear of him. Now, 1 toll you. shildreu, it vhas no good to spend all your monoy und pringoop in der poor-house vhen you vhas oldt und feeble; but nopody likes a man who vhas so stingy dot ho goes hungry und r igged. It vhas shnst ash wicked to be stingy as extravagant. Vhell, to go 011. dot rich oldt miser has a burdock grow in his garden. It vhas dor only one anypody eafer sees in Shermany, und der peoples belict dot dor leaves vhill uro all diseases. One day a poor wonians mit a sick shild comos to dot place, und bogs und pleads mit der old miser for 0110 leedle leaf to euro her shild. Does ho gif it to her? No! He vhants money, und if she can't pay, dot shild may die. Dei poor wonians cries und .sobs, but it vhas no goot, und so she falls on her knees by dor roadside und begins to pray. Pooty soon a leedle old mans comes oudt of der bushes und says: "How vhas dis? Who makes you weep und pu sorrowful?" "Dot old miser wont gif mo some burdock to safe my shild's life," she tells him. "Oh ah I see! Money vhas of more walue dan human life, vhas she? Und wo haf only one burdock, und she vhas in der hands of a miser! Wonians, wait a leedle bit." Und he goes py der gate und holds oudt his arm so. und says: "Hoky-pokey! presto change! Let all der nionev in dis house turn into bur docks!" And, shildreu, shnst as true as I vhas hero p 'fore you all, dot money come running oudtdoors. and vhas turned into big and lecdlo burdocks, und der poor wonians shteps on 'em as she vha'ks home. Dot oldt major gifs one big yell und falls dea.'lt, und dot vhas der last of him. So yon now see why burdocks vhas so plenty und money so scaice, und you may pelievo he vhas all right. Eafcry burdock conies from dot one, und dcy grow all aboudt us dot der lesson of charity may eafer po before our mine. Detroit Free Press. It Was All There. Tho joker who makes a bad joke de serves to havo it turned on him, as it very often is. A man who had dined at a restau rant was asked by tho waiter what lie would havo for dessert. "You may bring mu baked apples and cream." "Y.s. sir." "Only lot us have them without tho cream." "Yes. sir." "And without tho apples please." "All right. sir." The waiter disappeared, and soon returned witli a plate on his salver, on which lay a spoon, and a little pow dered sugar. The customer looked surprised. "It's your linked tipples and cream, sir, without the baked apples and with out the cream," said the waiter. The item figured on tho bill just the same, and the customer folt bound to pay it. Youth's Companion. She Did Not Decline. Mrs. Baseoni You wouldn't believe it, Mrs. Tibbitts, to look at 1110 now; but when 1 was a girl about nineteen years old, I lot my appetite, and grew so pale and thin that everybody said 1 was going to fade away and die. Mrs. Tibbitts Indewl! and what was t'j" matter with you. Mrs. Baseoni Love. Mrs. Tibbitts Do tell! how did you c ver recover? Mrs. Baseoni Oh, it came around kind of natural like. You s(.e, Joshua nailed to see 1110 one night, looking awful blue; and says ho: "Mildred, folks say you're goin' into a decline." "No, 1 ain't, Joshua." savs I, "not. if you'll have me."Tid-lliU. A Gentle Texas Pony. A greenhorn from New York went to Alf Heaver's livery stable in San An tonio to hire a pony. When tho ani mal was brought out tho greenhorn objected. "I don't liko that horse," ho said. "What's tho matter, with him?" "He is the same one I had before. He is not gentle enough. He lifts up one end and then the other. He rocks up and down." Texas Sitings. ' A Sensitive Nature. Mr. Waldo (coming from tho min strels) Are you fond of nogro mill stroby Miss Bree.y? Mis Breezy Well, n-no, Mr. Waldo, I can hardly say 1 am, such perfor mances, 1 think, possess a certain lack of refinement that is rather trying to the finer sensibilities of one's nature; and, asido from that, many of the joke tlii evening had gray whiskers. on tlicin. A'. l'Hun. THE DANISH HORN. A Itrmnrkabtp Kcllr Snlil to Una GrHnlnt Trumpet or Ion. In the royal museum of Copenhagen there is, and has been for mote than two bundled and seventy-live years, a golden trumpet, known throughout Denmark as the "Danish Horn." with engraved emblems, comprising the sym bol of purity, the triple lily. Its weight is one hundred and two ounces and it measures two feet nine inches in length. Tills horn Is said to be a gen-J tune trumpet of Ziou. The surround ing circumstances strongly sustain the position, anil up to the present time there has not been the slightest scien tific doubt as to the genuineness oMhe relic The lily, as a symbol of purity, was generally carried in the right hand by the vestal Virgins of tho tem ple; it also forms the emblem on the 'shekel," the Jewish coin. There are also disccrnablo the much ell'accd re mains of what has the appearance of pomegranates, anil traces of an inscrip tti n which, as far as it can be made out, is engraved in that kind of Hebrew characters known as the Samarian text. The emblems and inscription may be easily accounted for and accept ed for the mean ng of the word "Jeho vah." Tho trumpet was dlscovoio l by a farmer's daughter, partly concealed in the ground, in 10:10. in the diocese of Hypeny, Jutland. As to how it found its wey front Palestine to Denmark can only be conjectured at. It is accepted as a fact that the relic at one time was one of the instruments anciently u.ed in Solomon's temple. Certain or naments, and especially the beautiful uugraving near the pening of the large end of the instrument, forming a turrtted border around its edge, are the most convincing proofs for this posi tion. When Titus Vespasianus, the youthful Homan Oeneral. subjugated ludn?a and destroyed its temple, ho took the renowned tables, the sevon branoli candlestick, the "Sacred Bookt." and tho trumpets to Koine, where they were, with other trophies ot victory, carried in procession through the city in honor of tho conqueror. Upon the arch of Titus these things won sculptured and may bo seen in Rome in a fair state of preservation to day. The "Sacred Books" the vic tor presented to Josephus Flavin', the .Jewish historian. Afterward, whei: Titus became emperor of Home, the in Btrumen sand "tables of sehew bread," by decree of the Senate and council of Home, were placed in the great temple of Jupiter. Between the fourth and sixth centuries Home was overrun by hordes of northern barbarians. The city was taken, religion for the time dethroned, and temples, regardless of the sanctity, sacred or historical, were sacrilegiously plundered. After their retreat from Home the Vandals carried oil' with them the spoils they had seized in the temples. This trumpet of gold which corre sponds in every particular with tho trumpets sculptured upon tho "Arch of Titus," was doubtless carried to the north with the other plunder and in turn lost by the conquerors of Homo, who had taken it from the conquerors of tho Jews. Another illustration of tho old adage, that "History repeats itself." Earth. NAPOLEON'S WEALTH. .tluoll.tc IlNiipp'iraiir- of Onn or thu tii'':tti4t I'ertoiiiil KorttinrH. Olio of the most remarkable historical incidents of this century was the disap pearance of Napoleon I.'s enormous fortune. In 1810 he was far and away the richest individual in the world. Ho came out of the Italian campaign end ing hi 1800 with $1,000,000, according to hit) ovn account. This he main tained was Ids private property. Tak ing thu statements lie made to his friends mid others at St. Helena ho must have hidden away when ho left France tho lat time tho enormous sum of $10,000,000, or '.'OO.OOO.OOO francs. This would make him very much the wealthiest man in the world, for that sum then was equal in influence to .S-'OO.OOO.OOO now. No sovereign of his time could begin to approach him in personal fortune. Marshal Soult, tho last of tho Imperial Marshals (who died in November, 18.11, just about a year hofor- h.s great antagonist, tho duke of Wellington), told a venerable French general officer, who repeated it to tho witor. that when the Emperor wont to Elba he had B0. 000, 000 francs covered up in Paris alone. Of the $1 a, 000.000 hard cash paid over at one time by the United States to Na poleon as First Consul in 1803 it was common rumor not very general, you ma bo sure, however that 7..100.000 francs of the sum was never accounted for in vouchers. This might easily have been. Napoleon was then First Consul for life. Ho could do just what he chose and nobody dared call him to account. It is not very difficult to hide money in largo sums, too, so it can not be found, bo the search ever so careful. Feidinaud Ward has some millions thus covered up, and 110 human being has over yet found a clew to the stolen treasure. It. was said and believed by many people, too, that Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia, had a large sum in his hands belonging to NaKileou 1., which he would have handed over to him had he succeeded in getting away to tho United States after Waterloo, as ho tried to do. Louis XVIII., through his Minister of Finance, did all in his power to discover this hidden treasure, but those who knew would never tell. They probably took luthemselvcs when tho Kmpcror died In 18LM. But it is a very interesting ami roinantio story, the disnpponranco absolutely of tho greatest fortune in tho worhPs history up to that time, leaving not a truco behind. Wathinglun Herald. WOOD PULP PAIls. now Srrvlrenhln (lomls Are Mmle or In. ilurntrd Fiber. Durable, serviceable and economical pails aro among tl.e numerous useful articles now manufactured from wood pulp. The pulp pail is in one pieco and has 110 hoops. It is light and never leaks or falls to pieces. It is made as follows: The wood, preferably spruce, although any soft, librotis wood will answer, is first cleared of Its bark anil cut to a length uniform with the grind stone to be used, generally sixteen to twenty-four inches. It is then placed ng.ilnst the face of a rapidly revolving grindstone, the grain of the wood being in a line with or parallel with tho axis of the stone, and a hydraulic or worm screw piston keopJfg the wood con stantly pressed against the stone. The result, which is washed oil' the stone by a shower of water, after being screened of slivers and sawdust, is a milky white liquid. With the water sufficiently ex tracted this is the wood pulp used in the manufacture of paper and indurated fiber ware. The process of manufacture of the ware fror.' the pulp is exceeding ly simple and is similar in all tho lines made. In making a pail tho machine for first molding the pail from the pulp is provided with a hollow perforated form of cast iron, shaped liko the inside of a pail, and covered first witli perfor ated brass and then witli line wire cloth. This form, worked by a hydraulic piston, ispuxhed up into a large cast iron "hat," which fits over it cry tightly. Within this hat is placed a flexible rubber bag, and between this and the inner form first mentioned is admitted the pulp, still in a liquid state. 'Hie puip belli; pumped in under pressure, the water immediately begins to drain oil' through the wire cloth and perfora tions, and the rubber bag swells until it filb the hat. The supply of pulp is then shut oil', and water under high pressure is admitted within the hat and outside the rubber bag, thus squeezing uuch of tlio water from the pulp. After standing some eight to ten min utes tne pressure is shut oil", the inner form lowered, and the pulp-pail re moved. At this stage the pail is still nearly fifty per cent, water, but is sufficiently strong to allow handling. This irater is first all dried out in dry kilns, and then the pail is urned oil" on tho outside with a gang of saws. After sandpapering inside and out the pail is ready for the treatment house, where it is charged with a water-prooliug cmpotind, which permeates thorough ly tlio material of which tho pail is undo. Baking in ovens at a high tem perature succeeds each dip or treat ment. The polish which the goods present is described as being the rcdiilt of tho final treatment. After this tho handles are riveted on the goods, which aro then ready for the market. Mcehtnic. FACTS ABOUT LICORICE. Wlu-rn thn Itoot I Olttnlnril mill How It Ih I'rcpHri'd lor Murlu-t. "It; is almost an impossibility," said a well-known pharmacist recently, "to tell how much licorice is really con sumed by people in tho city of New York. The amount is almost incredi ble, und probably reaches thousands bf ponnnls annually." "How is" tho drug obtained," was asked. "A specios of licorico is found on the short 11 of Lake Erie, though a good deal conies from further West. The plant from which it is obtained is called glyoyrrhiza. It jm-ows very erect, to the height of about .our or five feet, aird has few branches. It bears a llower form 3d like that of a pea. but of a vin lot w purple color. Tlio root in its raw mate is well known as the "licorice root" of commerce. It attains a length of several feet and is often an inch in diameter. When the root has attained tho ago of three years it is taken up and from this, before it becomes dried, is made the extract of licorice, some times known as Spanish licorice. This juice is prepared by boiling tlio root with water; the decoction is thou de canted oil' and evaporated to proper consistence for forming the substance into titicks live or six inches long and an inch in diameter tiieso aro the Spanish licorico of commerce." "Is not the article adulterated?" "Yes, it i often nothing else than a mixture of the jutco witli the worst kind of gum arabie. Metallic copper scrapod oil the evaporating pans is very frequently present, and starch and Hour sometimes constitute nearly one half of the substance." N. l Mail and Express. Jones Paid the Money. In Providence are two men who look very much aliko.and who may bo called Jones and Johnson. Jones is a rather influential member of a congregation presided over by a new pastor, who, soon after his installation, started out with a subscription paper in a worthy cause. Ho met Johnson on the street, "Oh, my dear Mr. Jones," said he. "I havo been told that you arc interested in this cause. 1 hope that you will givo freely." Certainly," said John son, vho was qii.rk-wilted. "Put me down for one hundred dollars." Days passe-d and .lone- didn't send the money; so the parson called at his office, and said that he'd be glad to havo tho money. "What money?" asked Jones. "Why the one hundred doliais that you subscribed." Jones couldn't remember any such subscrip tion, hut he did remember that about tlutt time ho was 011 a quiet and very private spree. Could he have mot the pastor then and subscribed? Possibly, and 00, rather than confess his weak ness to his pastor, ho paid tho one hun dred dollars. Johnson soon told of Ids shr.ro In tho joke, but he refuses to ac cept Jones's suggestion mid pay hliu fifty dollars.- JJ. J' Hun. ETIQUETTE OF KISSING. Conitlllom Tnilrr Which Modern Society lVrmltn Osculntlon. Kissing Is out of style. Nobody W it now but sweethearts, young chll l rcii and teachers. The first blow was struck by tho medical profession about tlio time of the decease M Princess Alice. Ever since the practice has been denounced, and in families where proper respect Is paid to hygiene child ren are .strongly cautioned against promlfciinus kissing. In society a woman is not kissed twice in a season. When an old friend is greeted and she advances with her lips the victim turns her face and the caress falls askance. Possibly the very woman who is opposed to tho practice takes the initiative, but her lips never meet lip. She may kiss within a frac tion of your in nitii kiss your chin, your cheek or your forehead; kiss your "eyelid into repose," or kiss your iiair but if she had any training socially she will never kiss your mouth. The repugnance to kissing is due largely Jo academic training. In near!, all the famous colleges for wo men there is a special teacher or doc tress in physiology, and in the so called oral recitations tlio pernicious ell'ects of osculation are considered at great length. By way of tolerating what seems to bo a necessary evil vari ous theories aro advanced and various provisions advocated. The girl who conies from Smith College, Northamp ton, kisses on the oblique lines that fall from the left corner of your mouth, but when kissed is so adroit in tho way she jerks her head that the point of salutation may be found on a radius from the right of her demure little mouth. The Vasar graduate kisses more than her Smith College friend, but the chin is her choice, as you will observe in an attempt to salute her. The r.-niors from Wellesley press their kisses high up on the face, almost un der the sweep of the eyelash, and the Lake Forest and Harvard Annex uiaidrus kiss at a point equally distant from .he nose and ear. Nothing is more dainty than the kiss of a well-bred chaperon, who, mind ful of the time and trouble spent oyer the powdor-box. gently presses her lips on ytnr hair just north of your ear. The minister's wife is another sweet soul who knows where a kiss will do the least harm, and her favorito method Is an air kiss, with the gentle pressure of her cheek to your cheek. Tho wo man of fashion, who patronizes you and lets you visit her while she is at her siesta, kisses you any where about the triangle between the oye, car and hair line. Sho learned long ago about the incompatibility of hv-sto anil grace, anil ns she advances you see her lips twin in, and simultaneously with tho kiss If- a thick. viscous noise that sounds liko the tearing of a middle-aged uiarsb-mallow drop. Epoch. A Young Girl's Mania. In fine of the vicinity towns there is a yotuig girl, about twelve years of age, atlllelod with a strange mania. She U largo for her ago, of flue phy sique, possessed of good feature, and more than ordinarily prepossessing She is rolyist in health and shows groat activity, and is unusually smart and intelligent with tlio exception of this ta.inia. Every night about eight o'clock she will go to a neighbor's house to burrow a la itorn. Kaeli time sho v.ll make a new excuse for doing so. If she succeeds in getting tho 1'iiiteni she then take' long walks. She dn snot conllne herself to the public liighwav, but wanders about the fields and frequently to thu woods. She docs not seem to know what fear is, either of man or beast She frcquoutly perciies herself upon a fence and sits there a long time, dangling lier lan tern. About, ten o'clock sho returns homo and goes to bed contented. Her friends, of course, object to these lan tern strolls, and she has to steal away. Those of her neighbors who know about them refuse'her a lantern. She lias a number ot times greatly fright ened persons, which seems to please her amazingly. She is in no respect wayward, but sonis possessed of 11 strange and f iscinating mania for a lantern. Danbury (Conn.) News. Origin of Some Words. Mercy and commerce are from the same root. Attach and attack are etyinologically identical. Valet usod to l;o written vaslet, from vassel, vas sallet. Pontifex probably meant orig inally a pathiuaker. Skeptic original ly implied merely an observer, thence an enquirer, doubter, unbeliever. Idea, that which is t-eeu, idol, a little image, a little statue, a little "that which is seen." Wiseacre, Old Dutch wiscseggcr, soothsayer, (lerinnn wisosager, wise sayer, weissngon, wizagon. Pabulum is from the Aryan root pa, through tho latin, and food is from tho same roof through thu Teutonic language. Pas ture and fodder are from tho same roof through the two channels. Uoston Journal of Education. Story of the Dahlia. No flower of tho garden blooms more I'.-ofimdy and beautifully this fall than tho dahlia. Tho plant was fouiiu originally in Mexico, and was similar to tho single-petnjcd specimens now papular. A plant was sent to Madrid in 1788, whom It was seen 111 ble8oin by ths Abbe Cavanilles, who named i utter hU friend. Prof. D.ihl, of Stock holm, In 1801 Humboldt went to Mex ico, and sent to Europe seeds of the wild dahlia, and from his seeds tha plants now grown iinivoroally descend ed. By degrees It doubled and sprouted till it became the perfect flower wo now !ii joy. Svringjleld Union, PERSONAL1 AND " IMPERSONAL. One cf the brightest looking little school-boys in Washington is n son ot a secretary of tlio Chinese legation. The young mandarin wears a magnifi cent costume, Oriental in character, and with his school-books under his arm forms a striking and interesting picture. He has understood English only a year, hut is making rapid pro gress iu his education. On the farm of Harrison Loring in Duxbury, Mass., there was recently found a curious medal. It is appar ently of pewter, about an eighth of on inch greater in diameter than a silver dollar, and around the rim in Homan letters a quarter of a,n inch high is tho inscription "(Jloria in Kxcelsia. 1G33." A circle incloses a draped, winged figure, whose right hand holds a sword, the left a torch or mace. The rovers is plain. Editor Twitehell, of Oorham.'N. II., owns a spinning wheel with a hit: of history. Eighty-live years ago Mr. Twitchell's grandfather went to Frye burg. Me., on horseback to try to find a wife, and led behind him a second horso on which to bring her homo should he bo so fortunate as to find 11 bride. Mr. Twitchell's grandmother rode back on the horse, with the spin ning wheel tied on the beast's back be hind her. A man well known in St. Iouis has, the doctors say, a heart forced to the right side and greatly displaced, and the liver to the left. The lungs aro compressed and the stomach badly crowded, but. the ribs and sternum be ing firmly set, the position is perma nent. He has been so since boyhood, and, with the exception 'if his irregu lar form, is a perfectly healthy man. Consumption or pneumonia would 1 sure death, they say. A Maine sailor played a mean trick on a shark one day not long ago. Thn tiger of the sea had been following the boat for several days and existing on tho garbage thrown overboard, and the sailor decided to have sonic fun with, him. Ho took a largo piece of lime and throw it at the lish, which greedily gulped it down. Tlio lime at once be gan Yo slake, and the shark after thrashing about in terriblo agony for fov minutes, turned over anil died. lir. Blaine's wonderful memory for names as well as faces is well known, and ho declares that ho cultivated the habit in early life by always indexing alphabetically all names, so that when ho mcetn a. face ho recognizes tlio Initial always comes up iu his mind and aids him to recall the patronymic. Sometimes he can not recall the names, and then ho contents himself with addressing tho gentleman by his initial until he secures M10 name by some casual re mark. Pope Leo XIII. derives his revonui from three sources. One is tlio interest of tho vast, sum left by Pius IX. in the Pontifical treasury, invested chiefly la English consols. This interest amounts, to about $(i&r,000 a year. Another source is the Peter's ponco contribu tion, which, iu spite of tho vejy great reduction in late years, averages aloub $116,000 annually. Tho third source is tlio Apostolic Chancery, the rocoiptu of which include sums received for titles and decorations, privileges of the altar, private chapels, etc., and aggre gate nhout $.V.0,000 a year. Tho on tiro annual income of Loo XIII., there fore, is about Sl.nGO.OOO. Without adversity ii man hardly knows whether ho is honest or not. Field ng. It matters not how much intoUt gonco one may claim, if ho does not show it he will pass for a nobody. Unless the diamond possessors tho necessary number of karats tho young; woman uow-a-days is apt to turnip her nose. (live your growing boy a yeast cake when ho goes to bed at night if you want him torisooarly. SomtrviiXa Journal. Oratitudo is tho virtue most defied and deserted. It is the ornamont of rhetoric and tho libel of practical life. J. H'. For ne 1. DYSPEPSIA Up to a fow weeks uro I- considered myeolf tho champion Dyspeptic of America. Durlnif tlio years that I havo boon nMloted I have trJod almost evorythliiK claimed to bo a speolllo for Dyspepsia In tlio hopo of llnUlmt Bomothliip; that would afford permanent relief. 1 had about made up my mind to abandon all medi cines when I noticed an endorsement, of BiminoiiH Liver Itrjrulator by a prominent Oeoi-tftnii, a jurist -whom. 1 know, and concluded to try Its directs In my case. I havo used but two bottles, and am satlstled that t have struck tho right thlntr at last 1 folt lta bonollolal effects almost Im mediately. Uullko all othor prepara tions of a similar kind, no special instructions aro required as to what one shall or shall not eat. This face alone ought to commend It to all troubled with Dyspepsia. J. N. 1IOLUBS, Vtneland, N.J. CONSTIPATION To Kcur a Ht-gular Habit of Body without cliuiixliiK ta Diet or DU orffunliliiK tha Hyitem, tako 3IM0NSLIVERREGUUT0R 4NI.T aCNUINE MAXUrACTVlUk T J. II. ZEIUH & CO.. Philatobkh