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A SiigKeHtiiin for u Next DIhIi.
Only the silly prejudice of people litis
kept them from appreciating tlie
amount of excellent nourishment to bo
obtained from grasshopper soup. John
the Baptist seems to have preferred
them with honey, probably because he
could get his honey also wild out of tha
crevices and small caves in the rocks
of the wilderness to which he resorted.
Professor Riley, with a band of teach
ers, in 187.1 thoroughly tested the quali
ties of these creatures during their in
vasion of Missouri. The report was al
together favorable.
An oyster is fully as objectionable as
a grasshopper or a locust, but wo havo
overcome our qualms against the eater
of seaweed . why not against the eater
of land vegetation I I do not know
that we can make a toothsome morsel
of May bugs, and so thin down the ras
cals, but I wish we might. I look at
the ragged leaves of my pet trees with
anxiety. Mary K. Spencer in St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
PreuuliliiiT In tlie Minrg.
The gold fever of 1840, which it is
difllcult for the present generation to
appreciate, is well suggested by this in
cident told by Dr. Charles B. Gillespie
in The Century
Piissing up the street I caiue to a
large unfinished frame house, the Bash
les windows and doorway crowded
with a motley crow apparently intent
upon something solemn happening
witlu'n. ' After a little crowding and
pushing I looked over the numberless
heads in front and saw could I believe
my eyes? a preacher, as ragged and as
hairy as myself, holding forth to an at
tentive audience. Though the careless
and noisy crowd was surging immedi
ately without all was quiet within.
He spoke well and to the purpose,
and warmed every one with his fine
and impassioned delivery. lie closed
with a benediction, but prefaced it by
saying, "There will be divine service in
this house next Sabbath if in the mean
time I hear of no new diggin'sl"
A Stuce !;.
When Mrs. Keeley played in "Gene
vieve" she introduced a gag which has
gone all around tho world of the stage,
and will continue in its course. Mrs.
Keeley was playing a boy's iart, and
wore trousers. Taken before the judge
in the play and examined, the official
asks in sternest language, "Now, then,
where are your accomplices?" To which
Mrs. Keeley answered, "I don't wear
any. They keep up without." Mrs.
Keeley used to say, "Those lines made
a wonderful hit, and after a few nights
it was superfluous for me to answer tho
question. The audience did it for me."
San Francisco Argonaut
Too Hie for the Dour.
Every man has a hobby and Judge
Pratt has his. Strango to say, ho
Imagines that ho Is something of a car
penter and would sooner saw wood
not in tho metaphorical sense, however
than grapple with tho mysteries of.
tho law. Once upon a timo ho under
took to build a boat It was a good
boat, stanch and trim. Hut there was
one trouble with it It could not bo
launched without pulling down tho
house in which it was built. Brooklyn
Eagle.
After the Iroal.
"Beforo I go," ho said, in broken
tones, "I havo one last request to mako
of ju."
"Yes, Mr. Sampson," said she,
When you return my presents,
pleaso prepay tho express charges. 1
cannot an'ord to juiy any ir.oro ou
your account" Harper's Bazar.
A Direful IWIulllljr.
Hhe I cannot, I intuit not content at
once, But you will wuit, diar. will you
not, until mullet urv inoio fuvorublo to
i-ur union?
Ho -Wullr nuvurl flhull Itlxmldof
tun that )ou munii'd a ulU-' J'IIU
Vurif Jlulk'ilu,
LUCK.
Nt'w VnrUN WlioleNiile Hump.
It may be that in the fullness of time
the man who owns and runs his own
private house may be regarded as quito
as luxuriant and extravagant a person as
he who now owns and uses a private car
or a private steamship Certainly in this
city the tendency is very marked toward
a modified and rational type of socialism
in dwellings To that extent Bellamy is
justified by the practical common sense
of the age I am prompted to these spec
ulations by the fact that the announce
ment is made that another $1,000,000 ho
tel is immediately to le ereOed on the
I west side of the park.
j The new hotel is to be ICS feet high, or
fourteen stories, is to be a full block
I front, to contain fiOO rooms, and to bo
I provided with every modem improve
j inent and elegance. This makes the
, fourth, and I am not sure but the fifth,
$1,000,000 hotel that is now going up in
j this city Where the movement will
I stop no one can tell, but there seems to be
I no end to the erection of these monster
j wholesale homes, and they seem to bo
( successful in the ratio, of their magnifi
j cence and expense. Now VTork Cor.
Washington Star
Anil Still He Is Hungry.
The biggest eater in the United States
lives at Bridgeport, near Martiu's Ferry.
His name is Eb Lyle. Ho attended the
Foresters supper and social, and said he
could eat more than any man in the hall.
Harry Eberly accepted the challenge.
but soon threw up the sponge. Lyle
continued toeat fortwo hours and fifteen
minutes. Ho ate all the chicken, cake;
pickles and everything else that was ou
tho table, and drank a coffee pot of cof
fee and called for more.
Lyle says that he had eaten a peck of
apples before he began and did not ex
pect to eat anything when he entered tho
. hall. He says he will eat against any
inau living, and will wager that he can
eat more than any man in the world.
Usually he is not an uncommon eater,
but these spells come on him every few
months. He has been known to eat a
largo ham just before retiring, live quarts
of oysters at night and so on. Lylo is u
teamster and enjoys good health. Cleve
land Plain Dealer,
A Oliver Itlrd.
James Funk a few days ago showed us
the skull of a bird which he found in
the Santiago creek after tho freshet. He
believed it was washed down from the
mountains. The skull measured seven
inches from side to side, and fourteen
inches from its base to the end of the
beak. The cavity of the skull was largo
enough to hold a quart The upper
mandible was formed like that of a
goose, but of course was much longer,
and had been provided with a row of
teeth on each side, but all of these were
missing. The lower mandible was also
missing. The eye and ear cavities were
very large. Mr. Funk took tho skull to
Los Angeles to submit it to somo of tho
naturalists there to see if they could
classify the bird to which it belonged.
Tho specimen was in a good stato of
preservation. Orange (Cal.) News.
Tracks of u llle lllrd.
More ancient bird tracks havo been
found in a stone quarry about a mile and
a half north of Holyoke. They are each
11 inches in length, three claws to each
foot The tracks are 4 feet 10 inches
apart. There are eleven tracks in con
secutive order, lending up hill. Each
track is imbedded in the stono ten inches.
They are very perfect: even tho too nails
are distinct. Several Easthumpton men
havo tried to buy them. The owner has
offered to get them out in good sbapo
and deliver them for f 1,000. Other
tracks were found near by, but they aro
not ns perfect us these eleven, Green
field (Muss.) Gazette.
A lliiielr C't. t
Father What's tho matter now? .
Small Son Boo, hoot Smikey Groo
gun licked pie.
Father See here, thit U the third time
yon'vo been licked within a week. How
do you expect to exurcloo tho inherent
prerogative of every friu bom American
cttiten when you grow up win I vote m
tho dloUU of your conscience ami imtn-
li64 bf your let jllJgll)tnt HIKgfwt, if
you ettii'l litflit bvtttr lhii lliutf
POWER OF SHORT WORDS.
(Tbe author lie'--? nsked if one could writ M
forcibly In monos I Mcs ns In words of leiiKtb, at
onco wrot tho fo. ing linra:
Think not thst bi-.ngth lies In the big, round
woril.
Or that the brio' ..ml plnln nntt need be wenk;
To nhom can tlili be true who once has heard
The cry of help the w ords that nil men speak
When want, or woe. or fenr is in the throat.
So that eacli word is jrasivd out like a shriek
Pressed from the heart, or as a (.trance, wild
note.
8udp by some fay or fiend' Then Is a strength.
hioh dies if stretched too far, or spun too flue,
nlcli has more lieiKht than breadth, more
depth thau length.
It but this force of thought and speech be mine,
And he that will may take the sleek, fat
phrase.
Which fclows ami bums not, though it gleam nnd
shines;
Uirht but not heat, a flash w itliout a blaze.
.Nor Is it naught but strength the short word
lioasts;
ltseres far more than wind or storm can tell.
Or roar of w nes that dash on rock bound coasts
Tho crash of tall trees when the wild windj
swell;
The roar of guns; the groans of men that die
Ou blood staiued fields. It has a voice as well
For them that far off on their sick beds lie;
Korthein that weep, for them that mourn ths
dead;
For them that dance, and laugh, and clap tho
hoot)
To Joys quick step, as well as Oners sao
tread;
The sweet, plain words we learn at first keep
time,
And though tho theme lie sad, or gay, or grand,
WiUi each, with nil, these may be made to chime.
In thought, or speech, or song, or prose, or
rhyme.
Dr. AddLson Alexander.
TACKLIXG A BUHGLAH.
Twns jest about the time we was a
weepin' an' a-wailin' an' nashin' of our
teeth, to speak paragorieallv, over the
disap'intmeut of our hopes, that Mir-a
Petilish popH?d down on us "like a wolf
on the fold," as Jonathon said. (She.
boxed his years fur it though, and then
he pulled off her artificial bang, an' they
tussled, an' tit, an' skrimmaged round,
an' I'm afeared lamed the eat fur life bv
troniping on her left hind laig, aforo I
had time to ask her to lav olf her hat
Miss Petilishes hat, not the cat's.)
lint at last, after they galloped round
the room fur ten minutes or so, like a
couple of colls with the blind staggers
Miss Petilishes breath give out, an' sho
began to wheeze: an' so finally sho lopped
down into the big wooden rocker, an' I
got a chance to say howdy.
"Wal, I've been tollable myself," says
she,, "but Aaron hain't been none too
well. His eoiistituenev wan't never
none of the strongest, you know, an' I'm
afeared he's a-goin' to git somethiu'
ser'ous. He's so powerful narvy, you
know. Why, when he's a-coJyin' somo
papers, or a-readin' in his law books, ho
can't abide the leastcst mito of noise, an'
1 hev to go into the next room to prac
tize on my eatarrii. An mebbo you
wouldn't b'lieve it, Belindy." says she,
"but if a little eonip'ny drops in tin' wo
happen to cut round a little, jest for fun,
like me and Mr. Bluegrass here, he ack'
shilly gits in a temper, an' rares an
pitches, an' sometimes he cusses a blue
streak, if we run ag'in his elbow, or jog'
gle him. Oh, he's got a powerful ten
per, Aaron has! I often feel sorry Quia
tilly has married sich a temperate man,
but it's too late to onilo tho mischief
now."
After we had. eat supper, Jonathon
savs:
"Seein' vou've got comp'nv, Belindv,
I reckon I niout as well go over an' tend
tho Farmers' Lyance."
An' says I:
"Go, if you're a mind ter; but don't
set down on a log an' go to sleep comiu'
home, like you done tho last time you
went.
"No danger," says he. "I'll ride olo
Beeswax this time, an' if I do go to sleep
ho II fetch me home safe an sound.
So ho went an' saddled his nag an' rid
away.
Dave had went away that evening to
see Eli Tucker, over on Ager hill, an'
wan't a-comin' homo till tho nex' day,
an' so we put Miss Petilish to sleep with
Liza Ann.
We didn't none of us set up very late,
and I hadn't more'u snoozed olf when I
beared a quare noise in the kitchen.
1 knowed 't wan't tho cat, fur I had put
her out last thing aforo I laid down, an'
thinkses I, "It's a burglar, sure shot."
While I was a-studying about it Liza
Ann an' Miss Petilish come a-hustling in,
as white as two sheets.
"Oh, maw," says Liza Ann, "ther's
somebuddy in the kitchen? I kin hear
'em a steppin' round an' u-steulin' soine
thin' out of the cupboard."
An' witli that I j'umped up.
"Jonathon's wallet is on the top shelf,"
says I, "an' it'sgot a silver dollar an' two
bits in change into it."
An' I grabbed tho lamp In ono hand
an' Jonathon's walkin' stick in the tother,
an started towards the kitchen.
"Come on!" said I. "Both of vou
ketch up a wecpoti of some kind, an'
help mo tackle him. He'll bo skeered of
so many wimmln."
An' Liza Ann jerked the bootjack from
under the bed, un'Svas a-follerin' mo,
tremblin' like a leaf, but detarmiued to
save her paw's wallet or parish in thont
temp'. But Miss Petiflsh ketcht a-holt of us
both, an' hung on fur dear life.
"Oh," says she, "be you'goin' to tackle
a strango. burglar with only your night
gownds on? Mebbo he's a bachelder an
onmarried," says she, "an' I wo'uldn't
like to make his acquaintance without
my dress on."
'But ho'll git away," says I, 'If wo
stop to dresri."
But sho wouldn t hour to nothln', 60 wo
give in, an' slipped ou our dresses an'
started ag'in.
But Miss Petiflsh wasn't ready yet.
'I ain't got my shoes on," says the,
"an 1 wouldn't go barefooted fur no
money."
1 wan jowei fill ouuuny, but I waited,
"Now, ooiuo on," uy I.
But iuatiil of toiiiiiiK on the llov over
to the bureuii an' bog'") to uniooth her
huir an' II hr bang, an' event inuk a
fctaroh bug out uf MA)kt tin' begun
to iHiwdor her fueo.
An' thuro vwmi inu on' Mru Ann on pin
ami iiuwIIub fur tour Ilia I'littf far would
Kit uwnv, un Iiyi a jtoMuiwjj ait' juiiik.
in' liko sho whs goin' to a play party, or
was gittin' ready fur a full dress descp
tion. Jest think of itl
An' come to look at her, sho hadn't put
on tho dress sho wore down, but had
slipped on her new pink tea gown sho
had brung along in case the' was any
thing going ou.
I swan I was mad.
"You kin go or stay," says I, at last,
"hut I ain't a-goin' to stand hero an' bo
robbed no longer."
An' I started ag'in.
"I'm a-comin'," says she, "but I 'can't
find a 6tick of no kind."
"Take the poker," says I.
"Oh, no," says she, ""'twouldn't be per
lite to hit him with a ioker. I'll jest
takethis feather duster, nn' I kin jab him
with the end of it."
"Now roller ine," says It "an' keep
close."
An' we crope along, still as mice, to
the door, an' I opened it as easy as I
eou'd; an',' la! there stow! tho burglar,
shore an' sartin, right by tho cupboard.
I was powerful skeered, but tho
thought of Jonathon's wallet give mo
strength, an' I rushed at hsm an' hit him
on tho laigs with the walkin' stick.
"Git out o' here," says I, in stertorous
tones, "or I'll will the "men folks!"
An' at that moment Liza Annthrowed
the loot jack and hit mo in tho small of
tho back.
It hurt like sixty an' took my breath
away fur a minute or two, an' aforo I
got il back ag'in Miss Petiflsh rushed up
an' thro wed herself into tho burglars
arms.
"Oh, oh!" says she, "I'm so skeered!"
An' then what do you think the
burglar says: "Drat it all lemine go!
Do you want to squash a feller?" An',
bless you, if it wan't Jonathon hisselft
' swan to Peter," bays he, "if you
wiinuien folks hain't a passol of loony
tieks, a-whaekin' a man an' tuniblin'
onto him that away! A buddy niout as
well be killed outright as skeered to
death!" says he, as crabbid as Sam Hill.
Wo all felt mighty sueakin', but 1
wan't ii-goin' to let on.
"What did you como homo so soon
iur.' says i. "An now uitl you git in
the kitchen when the door was locked."
An' then it was his turn to look sheep
ish. "It wan't the night fur the meeting,
after all," says he, "an' I jest rid over to
Seth Soperses an' back, an' I snuck in
through the sillier, so's to not wake you
up, an' got tne a bite to eat, an' had jest
took a mouthful of pie, when you
thumped me on tho laig an' Miss Petilish
tumbled into my arms an' tried to hug
me."
"Sho tuck ym fur a burglar," says I,
"an' you ort to be thankful you got oil
as well as you did."
Miss Petilish sot down on tho wood
box an' laughed till sho cried; but I
sorter suspicion sho was a lectio grain
disap'inted to think it wan't a burglar,
after all.
But no more at present Belindy
Bluegrass in Sal unlay night.
I'l Inters' Old Shoes.
No class of men is so fond of old shoes
as printers. It isn't that the' wear old
shoes, for they don't, except when stand
ing at their case. I hen they either in
case their feet in shoes of tho most dis
reputable character or havo ono or more
pairs of shoes that a ragman would shilT
nt stuck under their frames in such a
position as to attract instantly the atten
tion of all who enter a composing room
and who aro not of it.
Everything about the new composing
room of The Times is in tho most admi
rable condition, except tho shoes. Tho
same old shoes that disfigured the old
frames in tho old composing room orna
ment tho new composing room. When
tho printers marched upstairs, cases in
hand, they marched down aguin und re
turned, shoes in hand. They liked tho
new room, with its white walls, its lofty
ceiling, its abundance of light and air.
Ihero was absolutely nothing in com
mon between it and old snoes, yet tho
printers took great euro that not a single
old shoe should ho deserted, and tho now
composing room of Tho Times contains
just as many old shoes as did tho old
composing room in its palmiest days.
Tho printer likes comfort during tho
hours of toil. Old shoes mean comfort
to him in tho fullest sense. Printers'
Ink.
German Discipline In l'eiinl Iimtltutloni.
The lash lias never been abolished as a
means of discipline in penul institutions
of Germany. Generally they use a
thong twenty inches long, fastened to a
handle a vard'long. The lash is thick
est at tho end. The thickness varies ac
cording to tho provinces. But tho small
est lashes are two inches thick. Only in
Saxony aro tho dimensions llxed by law,
tho handle there being thirty-nine inches
long and tho lash thirty-six inches.
the maximum number of blows is left
to tho judgment of the prison directors,
but it must not exceed twenty-iivo in
Mecklenburg and Oldenburg, thirty in
Saxony and sixty in Prussia.
The German penitentiary regime pro
vides still another menus of repression,
namely, confinement in cells, tho walls
and floors of which are covered with
sharp points. In these they put prison
ers dressed in woolen, with nothing but
socks on their feet. Tho cell contains
no chair, lench or bed, and after u cer-
tain time tho prisoner can neither stuud
up nor lie down. His body and feet
bleed everywhere, and for a month after '
ho is let out ho cannot walk, Such con
Uneiuent was resorted to in Prussia fifty
nix times during 1888, and of tho butler
ere fifteen were women.
A XitrMrulun (.'lirUtmu Custom,
There is a very turiouu old Norwegian
ctiHtom, which, 1 think, bus died out,
excepting, poi'lmpa, uiiioiig the country
jMJoplu. City folU Iom( old customs flrt,
and now (uuloin. obtain hut of ullumong
tho country pwiple. The custom I bpctI
of N for soi 1 1 ii pei'Miii to Ik kuluotod, wl. j
U tilad in kin in the uiliUt of a throng,
with a jxjlntod Uutdlu of tiuw In hU
mouth, vvliilu Ihti uthwi duiuui uiound
hlni. Thw na tliUmg nut by hi uon
vun mipjMMMnl in ivpiMum Ihu hrltlw
of u Ixwr, awl hulyi'illud thy Wvllnj of
SOMH A NCI KM I'LZLKS.
THEY SEEM TO BE INVESTED WITH
A VIGOROUS IMMORTALITY.
ItevUiiig n CoiiiiiiiIiiiiii Which Win Sutln
fnrtnrlly sohril forty Years Ago Trlrks
That Are fluxed ltli Numerals Inter
esting rnihlrms III Arithmetic.
There are certain problems, chiefly
arithmetical, endued with a vigotous
immortality. No matter how often the
solution is printed, or how widely an ex
haustive answer is published, the ques
tion comes up again, beforo tho ink is
fairly dried, to tho lips of hundreds who
have not seen the reply, or who either
cannot understand it or will not accept
it. There are several of these which wo
havo printed so often, but which still
kupt coming, that to save further timo
wo struck off a hundred proofs of each,
and mailed one to tho inquirers in sue
cession without comment. These proofs
aro exhausted, and wo havo accumulated
from a score or more of correspondents
the Kitne olil questions, with urgent re
quests for a fresh solution. Wo notice
that The Brooklyn Kaglo has been strug
gling with one of these. The editor who
has charge of that department is very
clever, and wo think hois playing a little
with his inquisitor.
The original question sent to us forty
years ago and involving tho same point
submitted to I he Kagle was, how to find
tho product of 11) IDs. lid. Uf. mult!
plied by itself. Of course if tho parts of
tho jKHinds were stated as fractions, and
the pounds as whole numbers, then
10 0,-i9-0(50ths could lo multiplied by
itseir. But money of account has not
two dimensions. If n table is 4 feet wide
and 1 feet long, then 4.41G feet,
nnii we nave tne unmoor oi square
feet on tho surface. Five times live
ounds are 2!i, but five pounds times
five pounds is unmeaning, as money
does not measure itself in that fashion.
Twice two children are four children,
but twice children two children has no
meaning. So "nineteen pounds, nineteen
shillings, eleven ponce, threo farthings
times nineteen pounds, nineteen shill
ings, eleven pence, threo farthings." is
utter nonsense.
Titoriii.r.so.Mi: mills.
The next puzzle on tho list, nnd ono
which wines tho oftenest to our desk, in
some form of a problem which proposes
to divide a whole sum into fractions that
together did not make the dividend.
The original of this in our columns was
an answer to an actual case where a
man in his will had devised one-third,
one-fourth, one-fifth and one-sixth of
his property respectively to his four
children, supposing that ho had thus de
vised the whole of his estate. Tho frac
tions mentioned only made nineteen
twentieths of a wholo number. This is
easily seen if they aro reduced to a com
mon denominator. One-third is twenty
sixtieths, one-fourth is fifteen-sixtieths,
one-llfth Is twelve-sixtieths, nnd one
sixth is ten-sixtieths, which together
mako but fifty-seven sixtieths, leaving
three-sixtieths (or l-20th) to tnnko up
tho whole number.
This puzzle reappears in somo form
every few days tho year round. It is
answered on tho same principle involved
in the interpretation of tho Arab's will.
Ho had fifteen horses and four bons. Ho
devised his estate, giving one son a half,
another a quarter, another an eighth
and tho last a sixteenth. They found it
impossible to agree ou a division. Tho
eldest son insisted that as seven horses
would not ho half of fifteen ho should
havo eight; hut tho other sous objected,
and us neither one-half, one-fourth, one
eighth nor one-sixteenth would give
either son un even lot they had a ilcrco
dispute over the division. A venerable
sheik rode up just as the quarrel was nt its
height, and to compose their differences
dismounted and generously offered to
add his inaro to the fifteen belonging to
tho estate, agreeing that each should
taku his allotted share from tho wholo
sixteen, only stipulating that his should
bo tho last selected. The addition made
an easy solution of the difliculty. Tho
first then took eight as his "half of
tho sixteen, tho next took four for his
quarter, the third took two for his
eighth, and tho fourth took one for his
sixteenth. As this ipade but fifteen tho
sheik mounted his maro and rode away.
The Arab loys regarded It as n miracle,
and exclaimed that Allah had given n
horso to the sheik for his generous inter
ference. Jn spite of this oft told tale the
problem still survives und annually puz
zles hundreds of our countrymen.
JUOOLIM) WITH FRACTION'S. '
A more recent problem which wo have
already answered beveral times, but
which is repeated every week from sorno
quarter, is the division of ono fraction
by another. The original question which
wo answered several years ago was:
"What is the quotient of two-thirds di
vided by pne-hulf?" Tho unthinking per
son would say that as the half of two
thirds is one-third, this must bo the solu
tion of the problem, hut Daboll will easi
ly refute It. Tho quotient of 3-0 divided
by J is 1 1-3; that is, j will go in 2-3 one
ami one-third times. The lust form of
tho problem, received as wo write this,
is to find the quotient of 1 divided by ,
two partners in a leading bunking houso,
having disputed, as they say, all ono duy
over the result, the senior maintaining
that 1 divided i is j. and defying any
to rt.r,llo it, '0 answer that when
lis divided by J the quotient is 2; that
is, will bo found two times in 1, If (1
bo divided by ) the answer is 12; that is,
thero aro twelvo halves in six. Wo
should beg pardon of our readers for ro
Icatiug these demonstrations if it wero
not for tho character and magnitude of
tho disputes which occur orery day con
cerning Ilium.
Wo havu rwi vud for Ihu hut of tho
puzzles the century qiioktloii, which will
novor bo luitl in itt, wo IhiIIuvu, us long
lot thu vsoild kiuuiU. Wu printed W
nroofri of a fiiiumr aiuvvur, und (hoy
imvo all helm ilifetriiiiiied to pa i tic who
havo qiiuriidmi mT It. A writer wliow
Initial um li. I', il ink n in a hlbir
jut In hand nlnlhw Ihu Ttvvhllulll
lummy !'! i.- mill Jan I. llW. r Jun
1, 1UJ1, and declares that of nil whom ho
addressed for an answer about half took;
ono date and half the other. Them
should bo no question about it. Thi
century ends with tho last moment
the year 1000. and tho next begins will
Jan. 1, 1 00 1.
The muddle grows out of tho fixed!
idea which some people have that tho
reckoning of time begins with a cipher,,
and that one is counted when the hour,
day, month or year has closed: whereas
all tho counting of time begins with one,
and at the end of tho first period two
begins to count. Thus, when a child is
born, he enters on his first day of the
first month of tho first year of his life.
His ten years are finished, not when ho
enters in his tenth year, but nt its close;,
nnd his hundred years are completed,,
not when the hundredth year is begun,
but ended. When wo writo 1900 we
have lx.gun tho last year of tho century,
not ended it. Tho centuries do not
begin with 0, 100, 200, but with 1, 101,
201, and thus tho Twentieth century
begins with 1901 at tho first moment of
that year. Tho quotud dato comes with
the beginning, not the close of the twelvo
months; and therefore, while wo quote
tho year 1900 as wo do every other year
at its lginuing, wo must wait till it
ends to close the century. Journal ot
Commerce.
righting I'Hrii
During tho Kightccnth century Pres
byterian ministers settled among tho peo
ple of northern Scotland needed to b
men of great strength, piety and zeal.
The Hev. linens Sage, whoso story is told
in "Parish Life in tho North of Scot
land," belonged to the order of muscu
lar Christians, being more than six feel
in height and stout in proortiou.
A year or two after ho had become
minister of Louheareau, ho announced
ono Sunday his intention of holding "n,
diet catechising" at tho house of a dis
solute man, a desperate character of
great physical strength.
Tho minister's friends remonstrated
with him, but he went to tho man's
house, and was ordered to go away.
"Easier said than done," answered tha
minister; "but you may turn mo out i(
you can."
They were both powerful men, and
neither of them hesitated to put upon
the other his ponderous strength. After
a short but fierce struggle, the minister
became the victor, and tho landlord,
prostrated upon his own floor, was with
a ropo coiled round his arms and feet
bound over to keep the peace.
The people of tho district wero then
called in, and the minister proceeded,
seriously to discharge the duty of cate
chising them. When that was finished,
ho set himself to deal with tho delin
quent present. Tho man was solemnly
rebuked, and tho minister so moved his
conscience that ho afterwards became a
decided Christian. Youth's Companion.,
Unrly of Sou p.
Mon. than 2,000 years ago tho Gauls
wero combining the ashes of tho beech
tree with goat's fat and making soup.
When Marius Claudius Marcellus was
hastening southward over tho Flaminian
way, laden with spoils wrested from tho
hands of Viridouiar, the Gallic king lying
dead by the hanks of tho Po, his follow-
ers were bringing with them a knowl
edge of the method of making soap.
Tho awful rain of burning ashes which
fell uion Pompon in 79 buried (with
palaces and statues) tho humble shop of
a soapmaker, and in several other cities
of Italy tho business had even then u
footing. In tho Eighth century thero
wero many soap manufactories in Italy
nnd Spain, and fifty years later tho
Phoenicians carried tho business into.
France, and established tho first factories
in Marseilles. Prior to tho invention of
soap, fullers' earth was largely used for
cleansing purMses, and tho juice of cer
tain plants served a similar purpose. Tho
earth was spread upon cloth, stamped in.
with tho feet, und subsequently removed
by scouring. It was also used in baths,
and as late even ns tho Eighteenth cen
tury was employed by tho Romans in
thut way. Exchange.
Krlcwton'it Home Life.
Wealth was unknown to tho Ericsson,
family, and Swedish country living at
that time was plainness itself; but lovo
altouiidcd, and tho mother's cheerful
temper, with tho father's good humor
nnd generous disposition, assured tho
blessings of a hariyonious nnd happy
home. Caroline was a child of unusual
ieauty, Nils was spirited and engaging,
and tho baby, John, a wonder to nil. As
a child John was busy tho day long,
drawing, boring and cutting. Providing;
himself with pencil and paper, he would.
In tho early morning, run to the mines,
and sit there until dark, watching with
deep, earnest eyes the motions of tho
heavy engines, copying their forniH and
studying into the secret of their motion.
"John Ericsson, tho Engineer," by Col.
W. C. Church in Scrihncr.
Tim I'ropar Form.
I am often asked what is the best style
of dress to bo worn at a morning wed
ding by the groom. I can only say that
according to "form" in New York if
tho wedding occurs lxforo noon, a double
breasted Prince Albert coat, silk hut and
light trousers. If after the noon hour, it
is more sttictly tho vogue to wear a
fciuglo breasted black cutaway coat und
vest, dark striped trousers, and carry a
black derby hat. Standing collars must
bo worn with either costume, a four-in-hand
scurf of rich und quiet colors,
gloves in harmony with the ensemble,
and a hunch of white (lowers as a bou
touniere. Tho ushers und best man must
ho fiiuillurly attired, with tho exception
of a dlbtlnutlvo Mirlatlou us to gloves
ami lou loonier. -Society Man in Uloby.
Democrat.
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ktruok with the fuet thut ihu ojwrMtlOM
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on tho hj thuii hIich tho arm wu tM
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