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r THE NfcWUEKÜ (JKAPHIC DUMAS’ TWENTY FRANCS. 1« Waa Pr**f, H* Said, That Ha Waa Nat a Spandthrift. The two Duma* were more like intimate friends than father and •on. In fact, the son, with his more peaceful and reserved tempera ment, often assumed the position of counselor to his father. It de volved upon him to disentangle the thoughtless knots tied time after time to the end of his life by that eat careless, joyous, overgrown y. This comes out in the “ Remi niscences of Maurice Dreyfus.” M. Dreyfus was well acquainted with both men and has all sorts of aston ishing and even pathetic things to relate. Dumas the younger used to say, “ My father is a big child in trusted to my care the moment I came into the world,” and Dumas the elder was fond of calling his son “ the best of my works.” He was just as roud of his son's successes as of ? h: i is own and was brimming over with delight when, on the first per formances of his son's plays, his name, according to the French cus tom, was proclaimed at the end of the evening from the stage, an an nouncement followed by loud clap ping- Father and son were both of her culean build and excelled in all manly exercises. The elder took reat liberties with his constitution, ut it seemed as if nothing could undermine or injure it. With all his gigantic industry he did not succeed in amassing wealth. The large sums brought in by his countless popular novels melted away like snow in the sun. One day in 1870, at the beginning o f the war with Prussia, he appear ed at Puys, near Dieppe, where his son was taking a summer holiday, and greeted him with the simple announcement, “My boy, I have come to lay my bones in your house.” A room was quickly made ready for him. He undressed and lay down, never to rise again. He hung his waistcoat over the back of the chair by his bedside, and as soon as he was alone with his son he said to him, “ Alexander, look and see how much money there is in my waistcoat.” “ Father,” said the son after fumbling in the pockets, “ there are only 20 francs left.” On which Dumas the elder quietly re marked : “ Look you, my boy, every body says I am a spendthrift, and you yourself have even written a play about my spending powers. Now you can see it wasn’t true. You have read in my memoirs that I came to Paris with only a twenty franc piece in my pockets. You see, it is still there.” When he died a short time aft^r it transpired that apart from this twenty franc piece he left behind him considerable debts, so that it cost his son no little trouble and difficulty to straighten out his af fairs.— Hamburger Nachrichten. f Tha Shrinking Glaeiar*. It appears that, save over a small area, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the mountains. The Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has been melting at a rapid rate for sev eral years. The glacier on Mount Sarmiento, in South America, which descended into the sea during the last century, is now separated from the shore by a vigorous growth of timber. The Jacobshaven glacier, in Greenland, has retreated four miles since the year 1860, and the East glacier, in Spitsbergen, is more than a mile away from its old ter minal moraine. In Scandinavia the snow line is farther up the moun tains, and the glaciers have with drawn 3,000 feet from the lowlands in a century. In the eastern Alps and one or two other small district« the glaciers are growing.— Harper’s Weekly. W h ir« Divoroa Is Easy. As to easy divorce neither Aus tralia nor America leads the way, if we admit uncivilized tribes into t h 4 ‘ competition. Among some Siberian tribes, for instance, a man need only uncover his wife’s head and walk away; and the Eskimo has only to leave his house and stop away in pretended anger for a day or two. In Nepal a woman can divorce her husband at any time by simply placing a betel nut under his pillow and taking her departure. And two chopsticks broken in the presence of a witness are sufficient to divorce a couple in Cochin China.— London Chronicle. Watoh and taa. A well known horseman describes a fact in natural history which may not be generally knows. It is that all four footed beasts in making the first movement in walking, run ning or any sort of forward motion always employ the left hind leg as a starter. Even a child if put down on all fours and bidden to advance in that position will make the first move with it« left leg, its hands at the time occupying the plaoe of an animal’s fore legs. « QUEER STRIPED MANX LAWS. bass . And a Jocular Reading of tba Cast a# Thay Are Quick as a Flash and Will Fight te thff Finish. Arms af tha Island. The Isle of Man presents many curious features, none of which are more curious than its laws. For instance, the legislature is called the house of keys and was in other times a judicial body charged with the duty of interpreting the laws. Any person so bold as to slander this house of keys was liable not only to a fine in the amount of £10, but to the loss of both his ears. Two deemsters were once appoint ed to execute the laws which before the year 1417 were uncodified, and these were known as breast laws, for the reason that they were im parted to the deemsters in secret, to be kept by them within the sec recy of their own breasts as long as they chose or during their whole service, though they were authoriz ed to impart and explain to the populace as much of these special laws as should at any time seem wise and expedient. Certain of the Manx laws, aa set down after the codification, are ex tremely quaint. Here are a couple of extracts from the Manx legal ruling: “ If a man steal a horse or an ox it is no felony, for the offender can not hide them, but if he steal a capon or a pig,he shall be hanged. “ In case of theft, if it amount to the value o f sixpence halfpenny, it shall be felony and death to the offender, and under that value to be whipped or set upon a wooden horse, which shall be provided for such offenders.” The arms of the Isle of Man, which, though it may sound like an Irish bull to say so, are legs— three legs bent at the knee and apparent ly kicking outward from a common ^nter in the midst of a shield— nave provoked a number of jocular descriptions, of which the best de clares that one leg spurns Ireland, one kicks at Scotland, and the third kneels to England. On July 5 of every year the laws of the Isle of Man are still read aloud to the assembled people from the top of Tynwald hill. This is said to be the most interesting and archaic legal ceremony observed to day in Europe.— Harper’s Weekly. Origin of Papor Confatti. Years ago a firm of printers in Paris executed an unusually large order for almanacs. Each sheet was unched with a small hole for eye- r. eting and an immense number of tiny circles of colored paper ac cumulated in the workrooms. One day a workman grabbed a handful o f these and in a spirit of fun threw, the bits of paper over a girl worker who was passing. She re taliated; others followed the ex ample of the two, and a miniature snowstorm was in progress when the head of the firm entered. Be ing a man of imagination, he saw “ something in i t ” Confetti was the result Instead of destroying the punched out circles of paper he or dered new and special forms of ma chinery for turning out the little papers that form so picturesque a role in many festivities throughout the world. It is said that this firm alone turns out more than sixty tons of confetti a week.— Harper’s. At the aquarium it will be notic ed that before feeding time the big striped bass swim lazily and indif ferently near the bottom, moving sluggishly, as one often sees big striped bass swim in the shallow wa ter just beyond the surf line. No body who does not know would imagine then that they are fish of incredible swiftness. The food, consisting of live kil- lies, is thrown in bv handfuls. Be fore the first handful gets a chance to sink an inch below the surface the water is a fizz with the bass, and the killies disappear so quickly that the eye cannot see them go. This is repeated again and «gain until the first hunger is satisfied. Then the bass ease off. Lying on the bottom, they watch for some particularly tempting kil- lie. When a bass sees one he is np and back again almost before one perceives that he has moved. And the killie is inside of him. After watching them for a few minutes the striped bass angler will realize more clearly than he could realize from weeks and months of fishing how carefully the bait must be watched and how swiftly a bass can strike if he feels like it. He will learn also that it is futile to expect to feel a nibble first, if strip ed bass are really hungry. The fish takes the food with a rush that would mean a smashed or lost rod if it were held by a careless angler. When the angler is rewarded by the sharp strike, quick as a flash of lightning, it is nip and tuck, a rush here and a rush there, and the man behind the rod is winding rapidly to prevent the line from fouling on the rocks which the striped bass is making for. Shy at first in taking the bait, he is no longer shy, but a fighter. He is in the fight to win if he can. Out into the channel or the tideway, into the deeper water, be cause he does not like to fight in a corner, he will dodge around the rocks, prepared for a long run, and with terrific dashes and splashes he makes the struggle for freedom from the hook. Now he stops short — he is sulking. The dash is still in him, but he stops short with a determination that seems to ask, “ Well, what are you going to do about it ?” The striped bass is an uncertain fellow, but in general the fish are hungriest at late dusk. The largest fish resort to the rocky shores of bays and inlets, the smaller ones to the tideways, and the smallest ones to the shallow waters.— New York Times. _______________ Origin o f Mountains. When«the Lord was about to fash ion the face of the earth he ordered the devil to dive into the watery depths and bring thence a handful of the soil he found at the bottom. The devil obeyed, but when he fill ed his hand he filled his mouth also. The Lord took the soil, sprin kled it around, and the earth ap peared, all perfectly flat. The devil, whose mouth was quite full, looked on for some time in silence. At last he tried to speak, but was chok ed and fled in terror. After him followed the thunder and the light- j ning. and so he rushed over the face of the earth, hills springing up If th# Heart 8tops Beating. where he coughed and sky cleaving When the heart stops the circula mountains where he leaped.— Ral tion ceases, the capillaries of the lungs become gorged with stagnant ston in “ Russian Folk Tales.” blood, while the blood in the brain Evolution o f Broad. no longer carries away the waste Unleavened bread was common in products and brings the oxygenated the days of Abraham. In early Eng fluid to restore the tissues. As the blood takes about half a minute to land people had no other method of circulate through the whole system, { making bread than by roasting corn it may be taken that at the end of and beating it in mortars, then wet this period after the stoppage of ting it into a kind of coarse cake. the heart the arteries would be fill In 1596 rye bread and oatmeal ed by the last effort of the left ven formed a considerable part of the tricle, while the veins would be diet of the middle classes. During pouring their contents into the the reign of Charles I. barley bread right auricle. In a few seconds more was used. White wheat bread did the nervous centers would cease to not become popular until recent act, and probably by the end of the years, when bread baking at home minute the subject would be prac ceased to become common and bak tically dead from suffocation, al eries began to thrive. though reflex muscular action would W hy Do Plant* Grow Eroct? probably keep up the appearance of Exactly why trees and other life for some seconds longer. plants grow erect has never as yet Evolution o f th* Noodle. been definitely determined. Some Sewing needles of bone, stone, of the scientists have given it as glass and bronze antedate all his their opinion that the phenomenon toric records, but those of iron, of erect growth was and is in some brass and steel are comparatively manner related to the action of modern. Bone and glass needles light. That this hypothesis is un have been found in Egyptian tombs tenable was proved by Dr. Maxwell that are known to be over 4,000 S. Masters of England, who found years old, and similar domestic in that sprouts on green posts thou struments Jof bronze and copper sands of feet underground in the have been found in the mounds and mines always assume the erect atti burial cave» of Europe and America tude. _______________ which are believed to be much older Th*ir First Falling Out. than those found with the Nile The speeding trains came to mummies. The needle first appear ed in its present form in European gether with a dull, sickening thud. countries in the year 1410, but the A moment later the happy pair sat art of making there was kept a se facing each other in tne cornfield cret for upward of 150 years after far nwav. “ Well, whnt are you crying for?” the date last given. In the year 1680 they were first made in the asked the man. The ladv wept American colonies, bnt at whet anew. * lt— it is our first falling point is a mooted question among out,” she sohhed.—Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. the historians. N TURNER’S AMBITION. rhs Great Paintar Achieved I« by Yeare of Self Sacrifice. Turner could not bear to sell a favorite painting. He was always melancholy after such a transaction. “ 1 lost one of my children this week/’ he would sadly exclaim. At a meeting at Somerset House it was decided to purchase his two great pictures, the “ Rise” and the “ Fall of Carthage,” for the National gal lery. A Mr. Griffiths was commis sioned to offer $5,000 for them. “ A noble offer,” said the painter, “ a noble offer— but, no, I cannot part with them. Impossible.” Mr. Griffiths, greatly disappointed, took his leave. Turner ran after him. “ Tell those gentlemen,” he said, “ that the nation will most likely have the pictures after all.” Long before this Turner had ma tured a purpose which continued to be his dominant idea while life lasted. This was to bequeath to his country a Turner gallery of pic tures and to amass £100,000 to build and endow an asylum for decayed artists. It was for this great object that he denied himself all pleasures that cost money— all luxuries. His resolve, once made, could not be shaken. On one occasion he was offered £100,000 for the art treas ures locked up in the “ den.” “ Give me the key of the house, Mr. Tur ner,” said a Liverpool merchant, “ and here is the money.” “ No, thank you,” replied Turner. “ I have refused a better offer.” And that was true. By his will he bequeathed £140,- 000 to found an asylum for poor artists born in England and a mag nificent art collection to his coun try. This'latter bequest was, how- n l with i r z the .condition Z ever, I coupled 1 r GRAPHITE AND ITS USES. Dr. O. A. Eldriedge ; ; DENTIST Maxico Suppliaa tha Flnaat Brand sf This Tranafornjad Coal. In the centriil part of the Mexi can state of Sonora, twenty miles from the mining town of La Colo rado, is one of the most desolate spots on earth. A few rude shacks give sign of human occupancy, and there are other evidences to show that mining operations are going on. Here and there are huge neaps of some intensely black stul ! One soon discovers, however, that the black stuff is graphite— not only that, but it is from this source that the world gets most of the material for its best pencils, i The stuff, oddly enough, is obtain ed from coal beds which in places have turned into graphite. In fact, the same Reds are actually being mined in other spots for coal. Ge ologists say that the metamorphosis was brought about by a plutonic agency— granite “ dikes” pushing their way up from molten hot strata down below and changing the coal into graphite, which today is soft and friable enough to be dug out with pickax and shovel. On being brought to the surface it is spread out in the hot sun to dry, and then thrown into piles to await shipment. Mules not much larger than St. Bernard dogs haul it to La Colorada, whence it is for warded by rail to Michigan for treat ment. Water is so scarce in the graphite producing locality that it is doled put in kerosene cans, ten gallons a day to each family. There is not enough of it for reckless washing, bo that the miners look like negroes. The famous Siberian graphite is hard to get out, transportation fa- cilities ------ in that part of the world v that’ his “ Rise” and “ Fall of Car- t*1“ « P°°r> and even the J**4 thlge” ihooM b /h u n g in th . ta . ■ to be « c t e d i tio„«l gallery between Cl.nde'i “ ,e’ " ® g* “ Seaport" and “ Mill.” - London i o>nety t,me, in order to nd it « t it . impurity. But the graphite from ™ *_______________ ¡Sonora demands no such elaborate Got a choap Dinner. ¡treatment: Velvety soft and smooth Verily the duchy of Baden pos- ¡to the touch, lumps of it are easily sesses a Solomon in the person of crushed in the hand. After being I one of its magistrates. He is the ground it is “ air floated” — that is to burgomaster of a village in a street say, exposed to a gentle blast of air. whereof a cyclist ran over and kill The heavy particles (grit) settle first ed a goose. The owner of the bird and are thus separated out. Wh%t demanded 3 markq damages. The 1 remains are parities almost infinite cyclist thought 2 ample. The case ly small, like soot. The graphite thus refined is mix came before the chief magistrate, who gave his judgment as follows: ed with clay in certain proportions “ The plaintiff declares that if paid for making pencils. A good deal of 3 marks he will make no claim for clay is used for hard pencil leads, the dead goose. The defendant, who less of it for s o ft The more day is willing to pay 2 marks, also makes the harder the pencil. The pencil no claim for the body of the goose. with a big lead, extremely s o ft such Defendant, hand me 2 marks, and as carpenters use. has only enough you, plaintiff, hand me the goose.” clay to bold the partides of graphite When both had obeyed his com together. Thi be largest use of graphite, how mands he produced 1 mark out of his pocket and handed all three to ever, is for a lubricant. It is also the plaintiff. The goose he kept employed extensively in the mixing of paints to give “ body.” The fa for himself. miliar shiny Took of gunpowder is Hi* Modesty Won. given by graphite, which furnishes a A tourist in Japan went to the coating for the individual grains Grand hotel in Yokohama and sign and prevents them from sticking ed his name upon the register, al together. Other uses o f graphite though he was told that there were are in electrotyping and manufac no rooms to be had. He registered ture of Btove polish. “ John Smith, Brooklyn.” A man For high temperature crucibles standing behind him looked over his the onlv Suitable graphite is that shoulder and observed what he had obtained from Ceylon, which has an written. “ So you’re from Brook unusual structure, being fibrous. lyn, are you?” he said. “ Yes,” ad- I Mixed with clay for a binder, its mitted the young man. “ And yet ¡gbers interlock, and with expansion when you re away from home yoUjan(j contraction they work in and don’t register New 1 ork ? ’ “ No, ■ out, so that the crucible does not replied the toqrist firmly. ‘ Here, break when heated or cooled. Such said the stranger, turning to the crucibles are made from an inch clerk; “ give this man the best room high to sizes big enough to hold gal- in the house. I’m the proprietor lon8.—St. Louis Republic, o f this hotel,” he explained, “ and I ---------------------- Byron’* Dr*ad of Growing Fat. come from Brooklyn myself.” — Ex change. Byron was a striking exception to Sir Francis Galton’s theory that Th* O*tr*oi*m. notabilities are great eaters, for The ostracism was a way the Byron, like many less clever people, ‘7 Greeks had of getting rid of “ un had a morbid dread of growing fat desirable citizens” of note. The and was wont to mortify the flesh people wrote the names of those accordingly. While at Athens he they most suspected upon small drank large quantities of vinegar shells. These were put in an urn and water and seldom ate more or a box and presented to the sen than a little rice, and at another ate. Upon a scrutiny of them he time he restricted himself to six bis whose name was oftenest found was cuits a day. Again in 1816 he lived sentenced by the senate to banish- on a thin slice of bread for break- ment Six thousand votes were re- f||9t Rnd # table dinner> k j quired to make the ostracism law- down hig h^ n£r(,r ;n nptw„pnK down his hunger in Between by ful. Sometimes the system worked chewing tobacco. And he achieved to the detriment of the state, as his end, for the last time he was now and then a good man was ban weighed he went ten stone nine ished by the spite of his enemies, pounds.— London Chronicle. but generally the ostracism was a good thing and saved the state much T h * T runkfiah. trouble and danger. — New York The trunkfiah is one of the pe American. culiar inhabitants of the ocean. It is called the trunkfiah because its Lev*. back is completely covered witfi Love is a great healer, The bony plates of a regular shape, worst characteristic trait of a man forming a complete coat of muil. and of a woman has been known to It is protected so completely that it be cured by it. It is Cupid who in can move only its tail, mouth and a troduces you to Hymen, and a pity Small part of its gills, which pass it is. How much better it would be through the armor. It is quite a if it were Hymen who introduced . , . , , , . ., ,o „ lo Cupid und in riM the little ,m * " fi*h, m the fellow to Vermin your *ue.t! lo " r" „ ’ *,er* the *°” ‘ h<irn tr0’ ‘" the tender relations between men Hnd women novelty is a wonderful Two *f • Kind. attraction and habit a powerful I Peckham— My wife talks, talks, bond, but between the two there is talks all the time. a bottomless precipice into which Underthum— You’re wrong. She love often falls, never to be heard must listen part of the time or my. of afterward. Happy those who wife wouldn’t be with her so much. know how to bridge over the chasm! — Exchange. -M a x O’ llell. Office over First National Bank Phone White 3-1 ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦»♦♦♦s» DR. A . M. DAVIS I % D E N T I S T i J O fflo * ovar F « .g u * o n '* D rug S t ö r « £ £ PH O N $ B LA C K 3 7 £ Dr. John S. Rankin PHYSICIANS mmi SURGEONS Office over U. S. 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