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ALASKAN GOLD. million years in the smelting rots Of the great earth’s furnace core. t bubbled and I boiled as the old gods toiled Before it was time to pour. THEY HEARD JENNY LIND. äfhnateur k million years io the giant molds H granite and mica-schist t cooled and lay in the self-same way That into their hearts it hissed. k million years, and the clouds of steam Were rivers and lakes and seas; knd the mastodon to his grave had gone lu the coal that once was trees. ¡Vhen th* Master Molder raised hand. He shattered the gray rock mold XuJ sprinkled its core from shore shore. And the dust that fell sis gold. -Youth's Companion z X In the Mirror z— - q HE soft lights of the quiet res- tauraut brought rest to Boyn- ton's tired nerves; he picked up ,he menu with a sigh of content. "This isn’t half bad." be mused, run ling bis eyes down tbe card, "though t savors uncommonly of poolroom tulletius; 'combination one; combina tion two’—"ell," with a smile at tbe conceit, "reckon I'll play combination ■even—'lamb chop, griddle cake, ly- >miais potatoes'—a hungry fellow can't lose much on that for sure. Hello!” >iis glance tailing suddenly on a large lapauese screen, partially hiding one (corner of the room, "there's an or- (liestra, too; hope they are on a par with the rest of the appointments. By Jove! they're girls.” lu the mirror by tbe end of tbe screen a face liad arisen, a laughing girlish face, and its owner, tucking a fat brown violin under her arm, and blissfully unconscious of Boynton's eager scrutiny, proceeded with much graceful posing and sundry deft and skillful Jabs of a long, blackheaded pin to adjust a lnme picture bat upou her small and shapely bead. Evidently she of the merry counte nance was trying it on. for she turned presently as if inviting an opinion from some unseen companion—aud at that moment she caught the reflection of Boyton's admiring eyes staring at her In the mirror. The smile vanished, giving place to surprise, annoyance and swiftly grow ing resentment; but tbe look of utter chagrin that flashed over Boynton's face as he realized that he bad beeu guilty of a rudeness was clearly too much for the young lady's sense of liumor, for after a brief struggle, the stern lines at the corner of ber lips melted into the suspicion of a smile; with a quick glance—half fun. halt defiance—she suddenly thrust out her tongue, and with a saucy courtesy at the reflection of the discomfited Boyn ton—she disappeared. “Well If she isn't a peach.” thought Mark, gazing ruefully at the empty (mirror, while n curious thrill tingled inlong his mrves. "What stunning hair ^he has. I wish I knew who she was; somehow she seems different from any igirl I ever----- ” He dropped his knife land fork in astonishment, doubting his 'ears. If poss b’.e use only Altered ra n water in making a solution ami you will be surprised at the much better results you will obtain. Try rubbing around the edge of the plate, say one-sixteenth of an Inch deep, with a pice of win candle to pre vent frilling. Those who find difficulty In using a brush for spotting pinholes in negatives or prints, should try an ordinary wood eu toothpick sharpened to a needle point. To dry plates In a hurry after tiling and washing, lay the plate In alcohol and let it remain two minutes. Rest plate on one corner when taking It out. It will dry in a few moments. Be sure, however, that It is thoroughly washed before putting in the alcohol. An English amateur, who stands among the recognized leaders, has this to say on hand camera pictures that Is interesting: " 'Under-exposed and over developed;’ this is the true verdict which should be pronounced on perhaps three out of every four hand camera negatives. The error of over-develop ment is to a large extent due to the widespread but very misleading notion, viz., that prolonged development will bring out the details. To put this fine, crusted, old delusion In other words, it is equivalent to saying that prolonged development comjieusates for, or is equivalent to, exposure. The hungry school boy is sometimes told that tin1 thickness of the bread compensates for the thinness of the butter, a maxim which sounds all right, but is uot easy to swallow.” All amateurs ought to do their own developing*. It is really the most inter esting feature of picture taking. Any one with Intelligence enough to go in when it rains can snap a shutter and then take the plates or Alm to a pro fessional to develop. That is not learn ing anything, and moreover it is ex|>en sive. Do your own work. Get intimate the auburn hair?” she said presently, "that’s Edith Sinclair; haven't you met her yet? She’s a Conservatory pupil.” "My brother. Mark.” said Miss Boyn ton. "Miss Sinclair.” A tide of red surged over Miss Sin clalr's perfect face as her eye met Mark's. - You!" she exclaimed, with a horrified little grasp, “the man who—" “Exactly.” responded Mark, "the man who-thought lie had hired yon to play here to-ldght ami hadn't evidently.” Miss Sinclair laughed. “You took me for Barbara Sturm, didn't you?” she said. “I guessed as much when Sill* told me a gentleman had engaged her that evening. Miss Sturm had an engagement and couldn’t find a sub- stitute. so for a lark 1 got leave from the 'Con' and took her place but aren t you going to play whist?" drop ping her eyes from Mark s intent gaze. -I don't know." said Mark. In mock despair. “I haven't any partner—I nev er had a 'Lady of my own.’ you know.” audaciously. The red Hashed back luto Miss Sin clair's cheek, but she looked straight into Mark's earnest eyes. "Wouldn't I do." she answered, saucily, "for a partner?"—Indianapolis Sun. From behind the screen came tlie rollicking notes of a familiar rag-time air, "Why don’t you get a lady of your own?” remarked the violin, sarcastic ally. Mark grinned in spite of him self. "I’ll get even for that, young Indy.” be remarked, “or my name Isn't Murk Boynton—I am going to find out who you are." During the remainder of his lunch Mark racked bls brain to little pur- l>ose. but as he stepped up to pay liis check an inspiration came to him "Eureka! he ejaculated. "Beg pardon sir," said the cashier. politely. "Why. certainly." she said FRENCH FADS presently, iu answer to Boynton's in quiry. “the violin player's name is Rea- Miss Sturm—of course you can engage One Seem* Altogether Without soni Another I* Reverse, her; she will lie much pleased; a whist The women of Paris are Just now en party at your sister's you say please gaged in rivalry in regard to who shall write her address. 1 assure you Miss owu tlie prettiest fox cub. Every so Sturm will lie on hand.” ciety woman has one. w ith tlie result Mark departed, chuckling. "Wonder that the little creatures are valued at what she'll say to-morrow night.” he from J20 to $25. When they become too thought, "I'll ask her to play 'Why large to handle they are sent to the don't you get a lady,” ■ a I'm a bin country and are there set free on the Iler.” great estates of the rich, l-'ox cubs are "Awfully obliged for the orchestra. very clever and very playful, but they Mark." said Miss Boynton to her broth never ate quite tame, anil lienee are er the following evening. “I never only temporarily safe bouse compan dreamed of having anything so swell ions. as that for my whist; don't yon think When Invited to spend the night at It a nice idea putting them belli nd tbe the home of a friend. It Is now Imper rubber plants?” ative to add to the nightrobe and the "Great, Sis.” replied Mark, "believe toilet auxiliaries a set of clean sheets. I'll go and ask them to play something Really fastidious people do so. When for me. "Here's where I take a trick.” the Czar and Czarina were Invited to he muttered, threading his way care be tlie guests of Paris, their couches fully between the little tables were fitted by France with linen from "Will you kindly play. 'Why don't—’ the stock of royal tiapery accumulated I though Miss Sturm was to lie here?” during the emperorship of Napoleon wound up Mark, leauiug agaiust tbe III. The Imperial guests calmly and piano in surprise. quietly directed tlielr attendants to re "But I vhas Miss Sturm.” replied the move the French linen and substitute stolid looking, round-face violinist, for it the pieces wrought with the gazing at dumfounded Mark in mild arms of the Romanoffs. Tills It was wonder explained to their perplexed entertain "But I thought—that Is—where Is the era. was tbe Czar and Czarina's invaria young lady w ho plays at the restaur ble custom, and It seemed to tlu-m to lie ant?” stammered Mark. ns lm|H'ratlve a piece of refinement as "I vhas her,” said the German girl, the owning of individual toothbrushes. impassively, "the cashier, she half gif’ Now all the smart set pretends to have me the Herr Boynton's card, and I haf l»een ever scrupulous in regards to indF come to—” but Mark, with an incoher vidual bed linen, and drapers are hap ent apology, retreated. py because It Increases the qusntlty "Trumped.” he thought miserably. and enhances tlie quality of tlielr sales "What In the world can it mean? That since their patrons consider that only Dutch girl la as utterly unlike her as or exquisitely fine, monograinmed darkness from light.” It came over Ingeniously band created sheets, Mark all at once, in a great wave of stitched, are go<*l enough for use when disappointment, bow much be had going a-v¡siting. lieen looking forward to seeing the merry face that had haunted him all CASIMIR S CHEF D OEUVRE flay- “I will find out who she is.” be told himself, with vehement determl- The Great Inventor of "I’otage Ger- minx” 1* to Retire. nation. “If I have to search all over Some tear* are reported to have Boat—Great Scott! am I awake?” At a table In tbe far corner, unoccu been shed by the gourmets of the pied. save for ber dainty r self, her Paris boulevard« on account of the In hands toying Idly with the ■ score cani, tended retirement of a tmslcrn Aatel. was sitting the girl of the mirror. It who for nearly half a century ha* pre seemed g0 hour to Mark I>ef ore be sided over tbe cullinnry department v i ■ reached bls sister's side. “Maud." he »aid eagerly, “who Is that girl over cook, familiarly known a. Casimir, ha* t-een so d»-V"te<l to hi* l>il»iues« that there? I —I’d like to meet her?" Mi»« Boyn«on swept the room with he ha* never «•-♦■n Eiffel'« tower < a«i- • deliberate glance. "That girt with rnir lament» tbe decadence of dialog lu SUPPOSE WE SMILE. HISTORY OF GOLD 6UPPLY. She Sang Three Time* for the Boy* of a St. Louis School. It la years since Jeuuy Lind died, and HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM V1 many more years since her voice was ■ THE COMIC PAPERS. heard In America. Yet «<> gnat was her gift ami so sunny and lovable her character that every memory of her is Flrasaut Incidrnts Ovcurring Ilo- World Over Kayiugvthat Ari-fluir- pleasant, even today. C. 11. Wyman fui lo Old or ìoiniu Futili} selve- recalls an Incident which is Interest ing in itself, and also characteristic of flou* tliat Everybody XV >11 Eujoy. the great Swedish singer. lu 1849 my father. Prof. Edward Wy "John,” she aaid. “do you think you man, had erected lu St. Louis a build can afford a new gown for me?” lug Intended mainly to aeeommodice He looked at her sharply his “English and Classical High "Have you ordered It?' lie asked School." The enrollment of the s .io.q "Yes." numbered upward of four hundred. 1 .• "Then.” he salii, with a sigh of resig with "the wa> to do It all yourself " fourth floor was devoted to cla-s nation. "I can afford t " Chicago P- st A better a<a|Uallltanee will come with rooms, the third floor being the udlto X mbigtiouM. rlurn or assembly room for the whole the camera, and there will be a deeper why did you refuse him school, where each boy had h * desk Interest in Its caiuibilltles where oue does the developing ami attends to the and chair. lu the arrangement of the building details. Often it is said: "Oh. I haven't patience!" That's nonsense. I'racth e the second floor had been fltti-d up a* |>atlence You have no idea of what can a public hall, which my father "let" for respectable entertainments it w is be done with very limited conveni ences. and well done. too. If you are for some years tlie most desirable, t not the only, hall for such purposes really Interested and try The bottom In the city. Between the school an shelf in a pantry, or one put In the end of a chest, a pall of water, a couple of dltorlum above and the public hall be pans, small red light, developer and low. that is. through the floor of the former and In the celling of the latter, hypo, and there you are a large opening or ventilator had been opening was prop There is a wide field from which the constructed. This ven- amateur anxious to do something can erly screened from below, hut the two choose Portraiture, perhaps. Is at the tihitor was put lu use by raising the large trap doors lu the floor of top of the list; but undoubtedly most school room above. Of course it w a s difficult of all. Genre, hardly 1« ss exact dur ing and more generally interesting as ordinarily used only at night and Ing the progress of entertalutueuts iu active human nature always is: land scape with figures and figures with the public hall below. When Jenny Lind came to St. Louis landscape, each different from the oth my father's hall was eugagisl for her er. and both requiring much careful elsewhere, the prices for study and thought, especially as to the concert. As hear her were high, ami suitability and placing of tlie figures admission to disappointed. In school many were Street scenes as pictures of everyday father electrified Ills pit life; marine subjects, with the ocean one day my pils by asking them if they would like or the lake in all their moods, and the to hear Jenny Lind. Of course they happy combination« of tlie always in "Is your family prominent In tlie teresting fisher folks, and the. to some would. "Well." he Informed them, "then 1 neighborhood ?" at least, equally Interesting yachts and "Well. I guess! M) fathers in Jail, yacht racing. Architecture also offers shall expect you to he on your best be me little sister broke her arm, an' 1 got havior. She will sing for you In a very- great opportunities, although In this de mumps ' country not so great as in some others; few minutes, and perfect quiet must be (living Him tils Turn-Down. and last, although perhaps not least. maintained until you get further or He Now, don't bother to help me on Howers ami flora generally, although ders." In the meantime Jenny I.Ind all un with my coat. generally classed as the lowest phase She It's no bother. It s a pleasure of art. have brought fame to some and conscious of the school had reached may do so again to those who really the buildlug and entered the publie Town Topics. love and know how to arrange and pho hall below, either for a rehearsal or to Two Hurry Call«. Little Freddie Please, Mr. Druggl«t. tograph them. Whatever phase may be try the acoustic properties of the room selected it should be stuck to. and stud previous to the concert In the evening. papa wants n liotlle of liniment, and ied in all Its bearings. Especially should My father quietly raised the trap doors mamma wants a bottle of china ce the artist make himself acquainted in the floor of the school room, nml in ment. right a through Druggist .< with all that he possibly can of what a few moments from below up notes of the ventilator came the sweet lias been done before in that line; exam Freddie M ining and analyzing the work that that wonderful voice. •ugar with <!<•- pleases in our picture galleries and in 1 The boys drank in the music tlie higher class magazines, not with a light and In perfect silence. When they ceased, upon signal from view to copy it. but to become so sat- I urated with it as to form a style of his my father, thunders of applause from own by which ills work shall be recog the boys went down through the ven tllator. This was immediately follow- nized as unmistakably his. ed by a glorious school song, ending with a whistling chorus. Drew the Line at the Hole. Paris of recent years. Formerly, ns When the echoes of this had passed They were admiring the rattlesmiki ancient Casimir points out, the crea away, up through the ventilator came In tli«» zoo, mid laid been informed that tion of a new soup or sauce or the faint clapping of a pair of hands it was much in need of live rats. was an event of equal Importance which we knew to be Jenny Lind's, "Will he swallow n rat whole?" ques the production of a new play. and then came another sweet aria, er tloned one. Tlie grandest day in Casimir's life. some song that took the boys by storm. "No," growled the keeper, "we linv« says the New York Commercial Ad They gave her another chorus, and to take ’em out of the boles first." vertlser, was that on which he Invent again she returned the compliment. Stray Stories. ed or discovered potage germiny. a Ami so, after "three times three.” the soup made with the yolk of two eggs, trap doors were closed. Distinction Defined. May Do you think one should marry cream and sorrel. The polage was for love or for money ? PLAYING FOR HIS LIFE. prepared for a dinner given by the Chaperon My dear, love is an excuse Marquis de St. George, author of the OU for marriage, but money is a Justifica Mousq'tetnlres de la Heine. Casimir Fiddler Tried the Effect of Music Two Big Snake*. tion. Stray Stories. was as nervous over the reception of There have been many tales In which his soup as a dramatic author or a the charming of snakes by music Is the composer on a first night. He bad his leading Incident, and every one who reward when tlie marquis sent for has visited a circus has seen a snake him. and before the assembled guests charmer at work. But the circus snake pressed him to Ills bosom ami ex lias been deprived of Its fangs. “Gabe" claimed: “Casimir. It is not a soup; Crandall, a fiddler of Deep Hollow. it Is a great work, a masterpiece.” Pa., was recently obliged to try Ids art A Cripple Creek Incident. He was Just in from the East, and the pattern of Ills trousers were such that even the dogs regarded him with suspicion He was walking ahead of a fair girl. Ills Cripple Creek cousin, and as they climbed the hill he caught Ills breath and held It with an effort. The beautiful girl behind him was the first to speak. She had been debating whether to tall him down for walking in front of her or heave n bowlder against his shoulder blade. Finally she took another course nml got him. fl "This light air don't agree with you, she observed, sweetly.” "Perfectly." he gasped, using nil the atmosphere he had on Ids person. "Is that so?” she gurgled, sarensti rally. "Why. your pants are so loud I can hear them clear down here.” The man started slightly, intending to freeze her with a glance, until It oc- curred to him that such a course might require air. and. so thinking, hedragged his leaden limbs sky ward.—Denver Times. Gelling Even with Joe Jefferson. On one occasion. Just previous to ojiening hi one of the large Eastern cit ies. Joseph Jefferson discharged his property man. Bagley, for humiliating lilm before a number of friends by fa miliarly addressing him as "Joey." Bagley got drunk right away am) that night paid his way to the gallery to see Mr. Jefferson present “Rip Van Win kle.” The angry frau had Just driven p,s>r. destitute Rip from tlie cottage when Rip turned ami. with a world of pathos, asked: "Den baf I no Interest In dis house?" Tlie house was deathly still, the audience half in tears, when Bagley's cracked voice responded: ••Only 80 per cent. Joey—only 80 ï*r cent" A .fudge. Mrs Noobrlde—Mr \\ biteoak had some of my pie at the church fair last I ■light and lie said It was very good. Mr. Noobrlde—Well. now. that opln ion. coming from tiim. is worth some tiling; ex|s-rt testimony. In fact, lie's lu tlie leather business, you know."— Philadelphia Press. \«»t Enol Kh < Oust <Ines. Why do ««me peapie think It’s wicked to go to the theater?” “Well. I suppose It's liecause people who make a practice of going so often go to the bad " Pliiladelphla Bulletin In I he wife who Talk, the least iuta the last control over ber busband. upon two rattlers,In tlie natural stale, and according to a Pennsylvania pa per, he performed his part so well that he escaped without Injury, although not entirely by the power of music. He was walking along a narrow road on the mountainside, on bls way to a nelghliorlng town where he was eti gaged to furnish music for a dance, When he reached a point In the road where It wound round a sharp spur, lie heard the warning noise of a rattle snake, and looking up, saw n big one directly In bls path. He started to run, but lie hail gone only a few step« when another rattler rose up from the woods on the si le of the highway. There was not room to pa«« the snake safely, and the terrlfi<«l tiddler backed up agnlnst tlie ledge to think. It oc curred to him tlint lie had read some whereof persona charming snakes wit i music. Drawing Ills violin from Its box. he began to play. At tlie low notes of the violin the big snakes gradually uncoiled, ns If they were s<x»tlied by the music, and stretching themselves out. glided to ward the fiddler. This was more than lie had counted on. but he sawed away more violently than before. Closer and closer cauie the snakes and faster went the bow. When within two feet of the musi cian. the snakes halted, ami colling themselves up. raised tlielr heads clone toget tier. Then the musician's nerve gave way. Seizing bls fiddle by the neck, he brought It down with all Ills force on the heads of tbe snakes. The blow «tunnel them, and the musician Boon dispatche I them with stones. I ucom pctefit. Two Period* in tlie Past Co 111 pared to the l're»eiit One. Kind Lady - girl? I.ittle Girl My name is Maine — M ii-v-m-e. Kind Lady dog? I.ittle Girl dong h! Columbus Journal. How did you manage It? \\ lieu 1 called 1 told the maid It was a so< lety rejsirter who to see her Philadelphia Press Iler Guy Swift I'leu. What is your Idea of a X man who doesn’t need Puck. There are only two periods In the his tory of the money metals that can 1-e couq>are<l to the present, and to which we may look for any " experimental light upon the subject. Oue of these was the period following the discovery of America and the exploitation of ths treasures of Mexico nml Peru, and the other the period following the discov eries In California and Australia. lu the period of 150 years following the discovery of America the deprecia tion of the metals was about two-thirds of their value; that is. in ltifio a given umouut of gold or silver bought only about one-third as much as in 15«X). The result naturally, was extreme confu sion Iu affairs, great suffering among wage-earners, and embarrassment to all whose Incomes were lived In terms of money. Tlie "poor laws” of Queen Elizabeth's time have been attributed to the dis tress caused by the rise of food without equivalent compensation to the wage earning class. I'he quarrel of Charles I. Wi aggravated by the necessity for new taxes to overcome the declining value of the revenue«; and some historians hold that it was the deadly money question, the tiiine of politicians iu all | ages, that cost him his beati. Gold was discovered In C iliforma In 1848. and In Australia in l.<d; and by - 1852 these new fields were producing together over $ I «Ml.«« «).«>» a year. The first sign of the Influx of the new gold I Into Europe was seen In the holdings | of the Batik of England. They went up | from about SlO.ooo.msl In 1S47 to $1 lo.- I ibo.ion In June. 1x53. To get this idle money Into use tlie bank reduced its regular rule of discount to 2 p< r cent; and the market rate, for a considerable time, was reported at l1* per cent. Hie belief that the now supplies of gold would effect n permanent reduction of the rate of Interest was so general that Mr. Gladstone, then chancellor of the exchequer, proposed in parliament a scheme to refund the consols below 3 |s-r cent and fixed the rate on ex chequer bills at 1^ per cent.—North American Review. Vary \ ppropriate. “What did he get $3«»l back pension for?” "Oh. ho was shot In the back.”—Tlie Smart Set. The Superfluous Baby. Hobby mainimi ? Mother Bobby make too I »Hi he Yes, Bobby. What's tlie matter: much noise up there? Thc Usual Procedure, “What Is the usual procedure In mar rying an heiress?" "Tell the Indy how much you love her nml tell her father how much you owe?” Refreshing Modesty. An unsuccessful candidate for a party nomination being met by a friend the morning following ills disappointment, the following conversation ensued: Erlend Well, how do you like the nominations? Reject«*«! < 'andidate Excuse me. hut I take no Interest whatever In tills elec- >n. Erlend No more do I, except to wish that tlie beat man may win. Rejected Candidate Well, lie won't. Erlend And why not, pray? Rejected Candidate Because he was not iiomimibsl. Boston Courier. All Hur|»ri*e«l. Bessie—I was surprised when Mr. Daslilelgh asked me to marry him. 'l'essle Every lusty else was! Ohio State Journal. She tat tlie railroad the bureau of information? < Ilerk Yes, miss. She Well, can you tell me where I can buy pink corded silk cut on the bias? Clerk I cannot. She Well, do you know where Marie Smith lives? I I've lost her address, I think her father is In the pickle butd- Hess. Clerk I don't know. She Well, what do you know? have you report«*«! to the preside! the ron«l this very 'lay, so there! Well, I rather fancy 1 am. a num down at the crossing Well? I don’t see the |«>lnt. Don't you? If 1 hadn't been rider I should ba ve lost my Stray Stories. Kindred X h e* The llev. Justus Forward, settled In Belchertown. Mass., a hundred years ago. once reproved a workman for swearing while he was plow ing a new field. “Swear!" said the man. “I guess you'd swear!" Mr. Forward took the plow and hur- vled after It. Indignantly denying the charge. Then, as the field became more Impassable, lie began panting "I never did see tlie like! I never did see the like!” When he had gone on e round the field he stopped, breathless, and said: “There, you see I didn't fin I It neces sary to swear” "No." drawled the other man. "blit you've told more'n fifty Iles You said you never did see the like, and you saw It all the time I was plowin'." trouble have to Hidlcialoii*. I'holly She called me a crank Mias I’epprey The Idea! That's diculous. A crank I* usually a per a 1th one Idea I'liilndelphla ITess. Life Not One Grand Sweet Hong. Parson in g there? John It Parson » hy don't John Oman, she do |aw so! I One Opinion. "What ii sour Individual! What's lie growling nlsmt, anyway?” "O! lie complains that lie hasn't got what lie deserved III this world.” "1 should think liv'd have cause to rejoice on tliut account.' Philadelphia Press. Ins Vary Biot Way. ”1 have been kept In the house for three days.” said Feltt, "with a felon on one of my fingers." “I know a man with fourteen hun dred felons on Ills hands, and they do not bother him much,” said Hatt “Fourteen hundred felons on bls hands? Who is he?” "The warden at Qi«« State prison." Brother Dickey'* Philosophy. It lias been observed that, as a rule, single women live longer than single men. Tlie Czar of Russia, with ninety mill ion acres, is the biggest land owner In the world. Recent observations seem to Indicate that the Incubation perils] of malaria Is nlaiut eighteen days. An ounce of gold was worth fifteen ounces of sliver In the year 1880. It would buy twenty-one ounces In 1900. The city of Portland. Me., has In Its streets thirty thousand shade trees, some of which were planted more than half a century ago. The big gray kangaroo of Australia measures alaiut («even feet from the tip of its nose to tlie end of Its tall. It can run faster than a horse and clear thirty feet at a Jump. A writer in the Cologne Gazette de clares that servants In the United States do only half as much work, de mand twice as much free time and four times as much wages as servants in Germany. Tlie danger of living In n house that harbors consumptives is illustrated by the fact that <>.273 patients officially ex amined by the German Imperial board of health. 2.177. or 34.7 i>er cent, be longed to families that included other victims of tuberculosis. A traveler writes: "A lady to whom I was sitting next at dinner the other day told me she had a remedy for sea sickness. She bad been a very bad sailor, and even now if she does not practice her remedy she Is sick; where as when she does, she can negotiate comfortably a storm of four or five hours on the high sens. It Is simple enough. As the vessel dips she draws In her breath; as it rises she expels It Tlie remedy seems to me worth know ing." Many of the greatest men have had phenomenal memories, says a writer lit Harper's. Caesar knew the names of thousands of soldiers In his legions. A modern man of science often has a prodigious memory for special termin ology. Prof. Asa Gray could at once recall the nnnx*s of something like twenty five thousand plants. Prof. Theodore Gill can do the same for fishes. Our memory for mere words Is itself much more extensive than is gen erally admitted. The average well-to- do child of two years of age has a vo cabulary of some five hundred words, and its father may have the command of twenty thousand more. An Artistic Achievement. Ethel Why, Aunt Emily, thia Is a lovely photograph of you! What were you thinking of to get such a charming expression? Aunt Emily Well, when the photog rapher got me properly potted, he for got himself and said: “Now. look stu pid. please." In ilia day vn time nolsaly Is In favor A Matter of Effcit. er gwiue ter heaven In a cberryoot er Pauline llow would you differenti fire, but wane er dem 'll go de yutiicr ate w It and humor? way hollerin' fer a refrigerator. Emetine Humor makes us laugh; wit Adam wnzn't so fond er apples. De trouble wuz bis experience In de fruit makes us feel as if we were expected to laugh. business wuz IlmltisL When de devil calls on some folks yrgroM anil W httrn. dry feels In iluty ls>un’ ter put on dey The census of 19UU shows that there bos’ cloze en return tie visit. are 13.1147 negroes to every liaussy Ef you'd only tiptoe sometimes you whites, compared with 13.573 In 181« I. could reai li heaven en write ,vo title« P1ne-Ne«Mll«- Factory. clear will a quill |wn f'urn a angel's The Oregon pi lie nee« lie factory Is wing. Ef dejr w uz ter leave hell out de Bible salil to t«e the ouly oue outside of Ger what In <lc wort* would some er de many. go,«l folks do fer consolation? Atlan Weight anil Height. ta Constitution. A man sli<>ul«l weigh twenty six pounds for every foot of his height. < ildesi Trail«- Pro« «••««■•. The two oldeut secret trade processes Ever remark the number of men who now lu existence are cousi«ler«*l to I** have time to tell you they are worked th«« manufacture of <'hln«*sc red. or to death, and haven't a moment to vcriuUloD, and that method of Inlaying spare? They usually «all It “burning the liard«-«t steel with gol«l anil silver, the candle at both ends.” which eeetna to have Is-en practice«! Every woman Is a Missourian when at Dnniasi us ages ago. and is known ,,nij to tbo s<i"in aaalUm and flbelr some other woman boasts als>ut her ability a* s cook. pupils even to this «lay. His Task W ell bone, “That missionary.” remarked the king of the Cannon Ball Islands as be ■ ■ y “ing ladina polished off the last rib. “lo wl.at I • Being da ugh Getting fat Is bad enough, lu ordinary I ara of coline partial lo twilight would call a flulsbed scholar." Ufe, but It's worse on <h<- stage. o . *
