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Next Door to Postoffice
m HoartHa and Window#.
the most carious of the
English taxes which have from time
to time been imposed are those
chimneys ana upo windows,
former ta;
enforced
in IM 2 and was at the rate of t
shillings upon every hearth or chim
ney. This was an obnoxious tax,
and William ill. immediqtelj on
hia accession to the throne obtained
some popularity by sending a mes
sage to parliament desiring that ths
imposition should be taken off
(March 1, 1689), and his majesty’s
faithful commons complied with its
sovereign’s request. The window
tax, of which our fathers and grand
fathers still talk. wa* Hot repealed
unti) .1891.—CornhUl
n
wealthy
wes celebrated for having a mag
nificently decorated dining room,
while his viands were very few. A
celebrated wit was invited to dine
on-a certain occasion, and the boat
asked him if he didn’t think the
room elegant,
$ $ •‘fegaE
"Yes,” was the reply, “but it is
not quite to my taste.”
"And what change would you
make?” asked the host.
"Well,” answered the wit, “if this
were my house, you know, I would
have”—looking at the ceiling—“less
gilding and”—here he glanced fur
tively at the dining table—"more
oamng.** ,
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Its KffooL
The lecture bad been long, prosy
and unrelieved by humor, but a t its
close s sad faced, earnest looking
man strode emphatically to the
stage and grasped the speaker by
the hand.
"Mr. Neverend.” h rsaid heartily,
"1 want to assure you your message
tonight will have a marked effect
on the life of every nervous, fretful,
impatient man who heard you.”
"Indeed!” cried the delighted lec
turer. “You really believe it will
affect their whole lives?”
‘'Undoubtedly,” declared the sad
faced man. ‘ft will shorten them.”
—Judge.
*v., £.??•>.-/V, •'.''.o
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P ractical.
Elderly Gentlemen (putting his
head in at the door)—Mrs. Wilkins,
will you be my wife? I have £3,000
and a good home. I’ll give you
three minute* to m akf up your
mind:51 ;v . j
Mrs. Wilkin* (promptly) — I ’ve
£3,000 and a better house than
yours, and 1*11 give you three min
utes to get oot of this. — London
lH .W t r a ls P f iR '
A Cold and a Cool
"Did you ever have a cold,” in
quired the plain citizen, “that yon
couldn’t get rid of?” .
“No,” answered the purist. " If I
had h«l a cold I couldn’t get rid of
I would have it now.”
Thus the coolness arose.—Wash
ington Herald.
Didn't 8 tart la Raaaatti.
Among author» there am so«* who
tak# but the slights«! Internet In sodai
or political questions. flo far as pub
lie Quest tons am concerned they am
informed than Dante
..__ .tt During the french
one of bis friends hurst Into
udto with the incredtbls
i Philippe has landed In
M r said Hoeeatd
at has he come fo rf
Baby,
I here are
ssential to the
'transit”
ly,
the
moou.'l iich then causes ao
eitdly
tliun
a
Aidl
from
tbe
In Warfare. '
and the pianeta
naval gun, for the
y ariti» «*$lipse o f llig .
IjFcieury and
whose path»
which it glides through the
lie within ths
THE GERMAN MILITARY SOCK. to its prey i« almost uncanny.
Usually Jit
Venus peas
The gyroscope keep* the rudders
’
the
hun
a
lit
_
I
or a little
It la In the Perm of a Large Napkin, exactly as they are set before this
too
low,
and
so
avoid
making
a traaf-
torpedo
is
tired,
and
onljM
Is the Result ef Yaara of Study and
fit.
The
last
transit
of
Venus,
ton
swift,
unexpected
- May Re folded About the Poet Thlr-
•
tuple,
wa*
in
1883,
and
there
will
at
which
a
torpedc
ty Different Wayo ta Relieve Pain.
t be another till 8004, an interval
Tbe vertical
The famous Hold marshal. Von pedo, the horizontal ones keep it a t of 132 years; but In 3012 there will
Moltke. ouce said that the Angto-Sax
m another, only eight years later,
oua am a warlike poople. hut that the its correct depth under water. itijh A* there was ui*o another in 1874,
The torpedoes used in the B
Oemutna are a military people. The
Auato-Hiuiiu light« to the death when navy are of three diameter »—l o a r- ool' eight vegf* before the last,
Mercury, oa tbe other band,
war come*, caneleae of tiU previous teen, eighteen and tw e u tv -o o e
pmtwruttoo After the war la over be inches, and they vary in length make* about thirteen transits in a
drupe bla nr ms. dismisses all thoughts from sixteen to eighteen feet.
otury, at intervals of from three
of war from his mind and returns to
d a half to thirteen years. Many
A torpedo i* driven by compressed
Ida dell pursuit* The German, on the sir, which first pas gag through the
of these, like eclipse», are visible
other hand, feels In time of pimps as
only from parts of the globe.
heater,
acting
through
the
engines
keen so Interest In war as be does In
Mercury is an interesting planet.
the midst of a conflict. He taken note on twin propellers fitted to tbe tail
U is known as the baby of the son’s
of. his errors to one war gad whan of the weapon.
family, the little brother of the
The propellers revolve in 01
Iteuce comes devotes him self to reme
rth. Against the earth’s diameter
dying these error*.
site directions, thus coun
8,000 miles i» Mercury’s of only
A German officer who waa visiting any tendency to turn right or
America spoke of the way In which his on the torpedo’s part. The small 3,000, which‘ makes it one-fourth
people addressed them salves to war
propeller “unscrews” the safety smaller than Mars and less than
problems In time of peace.
catch
of the striker while the tor half a* large again as our moon.
"Here ta so excellent Illustration,” be
Yet when condition* are favorable
pedo
is
in the water.
■■Id. and. ilftlng his foot be took off
One of the deadliest types of the Mercury i* one of tbe brightest
hi» ab««e. From about his foot h* then
took, not the ordinary sock that man British torpedo weighs 1,600 pounds luminaries in tbe sky.
It sometimes even excels Sirius
wear elsewhere, but a sort of napkin and is charged with 350 pounds of
bmidkercbtef.- which waa carefully guncotton, which explodes on fan- *n brilliancy, brightest of the fixed
folded about I*.'’
pact by mean* of an appliance fitted »tor*, and among tbe eight planets
•Till«.' he said. -I* the German mill in tbe none of tbe torpedo, and httached to our sun, five of which
tary suck it la the result of yearn of
may be seen in the skv, Mercury
study nod. experiment by the beet which ia sufficient to blow a hole
ks tbind, beipg excelled only by
■dude, uot utdy tn the German army large aa a haystack in the side of
nus
and Jupiter, and thus out
but I d German .science and medicine battleship. It has an effective
ing both Mara and Saturn.
During the Frauen Prussian war ot of about four mile».
Mercury always keeps near the
1870, wheu our armies were
The guncotton ia kept wet to
forced ninn-hes around Met* and on keep it from exploding until actual sup, as fittle children keep near
to Sedan. our Infantry waa much tm ly struck.
their father, and thus be is usually
iwded by sore feet When It earn* to
lost
in the sun’s glory.. The reason
As soon as a torpedo hits ita mark
baring a dertnlo number of men at a
for
this
is that he travels tbé inner
certain point at a certain Dm# tor a it explodes automatically, and there
most
of
all the eight concentric
only two methods of defense
decisive stroke we were osnally
10 to 80 per cent abort becau
against i t One is to locate and pat lis which the planets follow
many meu had fallen oot of the
shell the attacking torpedo boat or round about the sun.—New York
from sore feet
submarine, the other to drop steel World
“We got through the war all right wire nets ail around your ship.
Franklin's Trtak.
for our enemies ware as badly o f 1» These net* are by no means an in
Benjamin Franklin once wrote
that respect as we were, bat M soon
the war waa over the government fallible protection, however.
-this letter to a man to whom he
Every torpedo fired in action
ordered every mao In the service to
was lending some money:
tun. bla attention to contriving a form resents an expenditure of from £600
“ 1 «end you herewith a bill
of footwear that would bo more serv to £800.—^I^ondon Standard.
louis d or*. I do not pretend to
iceable to the man of peace when and
such a sum ; 1 only lend it
dauly called to war. It was years be
Athletu> Nawaiaa 1n Old Orasse-
you.
VVheu you shall retuya
fore the present sock was adopted
Imagine American boys
to your country you cannot fail of
Thousands of dollar» were spent In bling in relay teams to deliver
expert men rtnjc Thousand» of soldiers
. “ ’ xI’ E S S S T f o o S i
~ enable
kiDd" you “ to pay
marched In all kinds of footgear, test i J h X
in time
i e aw 4 L
m n th n d
t h a t
K I in * f AF
ed every itosslble kind of nock and this is the method that obtains for «II your debts. In that ease vheu
stocking After year* of trial this form delivering morning newspapers. The you meet with another honest man
waa chosen Herr are some of the main square in Kalamata, where ip similar distress you must pay me
ways In which It can ho wora.*V|f _ ^ the newspapers tre sold, is a full
reuiwn the officer took the nap half mile from the railway station. by lending this sum to him, enjoin
kin. which waa about eighteen or Keen rivalry exists between the car ing him to discharge the debt by a
twenty Inches square, made of cotton riers of the various papers, and from like operation when he shall be able
ind *nall meet with another oppor
and linen and folded it about his fort
with the deftness of a Turk. winding the moment tbe train arrives there tunity.
I hope it may then go
kin turban about his bead. Then, no is a great contest to be the first to through many hand* before it meets
wrapping tt. he folded It about bts place the papers on the stands at with a knave To stop its progress.
Toot In a different manner and than the sQuare. Relay teams of newsies This i* a trick of mine for doing
In still a third way,
have been organized, and these ac
"There are about thirty different complish tbe delivery of papers in a a deal of good with little money.”
ways of fokllug tide sock about the little more than two minute*, each
How Khaki ta Dyad.
font.” be said. **aud during bio three member racing with a bundle of pa . S ’
Khaki i* an invention of the Hin
rears in the army the soldier Is taught
to Itecouie exiiert In ititHj? them all. per* a short distance and then pass dus, The word means ‘earth col
Kadi jammer of folding it baa n differ ing hia burden into the hands of the or.” it wa* at first produced hy
ut puri>uae. One will relieve a sore next runner. The race is the sub immersing the cloth in a hath of
ness of tbe beet; another s weariness ject of much interest among the manure. Other dyes used in India
of tbe instep: a third will protect an townspeople, who like the spirit of have been burnt chicory, catechu
Irritated corn, and a fourth will re the boys.—Exchange.
and diamine*. The modern khaki
Here tbe Inflamed ball of the foot At b S'l,.
------- «
•a produced by dyeing in a mixture
the same time that tbe aoldler |e
Uaa Ail tha Tnath.
of oxide of iron and oxide of chro
taught these different methods ot
Paradoxical aa it may aeeta, the mium. It can be obtained by dip
wra|tptng the sock be also learns tbe
teeth
employed for chewing present ping the stuff into a hath of fer
anatomy of the foot, and Just why tbe
quite
a clean appearance, while the rous sulphate and spreading out to
different wraitdog» relieve tbe differ
unemployed ones are unclean, usual dry In the air. In practice the proc
ent foot ailments.
After «erring hie two years In the ly very dirty, writes Dr. John Philip ess i* more «rompiex. solution* of
army " continued tbe officer, “the sol Erwin in Oral Hygiene. People ex
(Her goes back to civil life and be press surprise when informed they ferrous sulphate, pyrolignite of iron,
comes, let ns say. a clerk at a desk are running on one dental cylinder acetate of chromium and alum be
ing employed in combination. The
For ten years he doesn't walk a mils
using only the right or left side tissue takes up a large quantity of
day. - At the end of that tlma war
the month.
the metallic precipitate.
break* out and De la called to the OOl
When a father spied his boy us
or« Be guee to the depot of bis regl
mem and there And* among fala other ing only the upper third of the saw
F o r th« Landlord.
accoutrements two pain of these mill on tbe log he said: “Son, the entire
The neighborhood of Toielh
tary sock».
saw belongs to me. To do good Park, Liverpool, lias decided draw
■ “Next morning ho »tarts to march work use it all.”
backs, from the point of view at
with bte regiment At tbe ood of an
The Creator never would have least of some of the landlords of
hour, when be has tramped two or given man thirty-two teeth If it
the cheaper property. It i* said
three miles over a country road, ha ta
were
poaaible
to
operate
this
in
that
an agent on making the usual
allowed ten minute» for rdat Now.
the chancaa are that that soldier has tricate human machine successfully Monday morning call for rent at
■figlr of very eore feet. He »1« down, with a smaller number.
out house wa* offered 1* 6d. The
take* off bte shoe, diagnose» hta eore
rent was already in arrears. He
Dumas' Dramatio Intuition.
and. recalling bte early train
showed his discontent. “I»ok ’erf,
i pg. fold* hta sock back on hta foot ao
story is told of the elder Du- mister, you ought to be jolly- thank- |
m to give Immediate relief. When, a
wbich illustrates his remark ful you’ve got this». -If my old wvu
- minute* later, be fMte Into One. able dramatic intuition. An emi
be baa virtually a new pair of fast nent Parisian critic who m t beside hadn’t aold the back door you’d
have got nothing.”
And this be doea just as often as now
him a t a first performance noticed
toot troubles appear
-togM ;
Battled.
• The tremendous advantage that SB that ha seemed abstracted.
“ Yon are triste, my master,” ob
An old woman, on being examin
army thus equipped has over on* that
^
tbe old fashioned aock la obvl served the critic. _-
ed before a magistrate as to her
If ‘getting there with the most
"N 6,” replied Dumas, “I ’m not place of legal settlement, wa* asked
flrst' ta the science of war tbe bored, but I’m somewhere else than what reason she had for supposing
army with tbt German sock la at least here, so to spesk. 1 am unable to her husband had a legal settlement
one-third more effective than the otb follow any play to the end. 1 listen
in that tewn.
"—Youth'» Companion.
closely to the first act. and then my i The old lady said:
mind carries me off into thoughts
“He was born and married there,
Submar in* Ridqoa.
of the play I would make of i t ”
and they buried him there, am* if
Tha Norwegian aaa ia
that isn't settling there what is?” —
from tbe north Atlantic by what may
The Peeoeek Thro no.
be regarded as a continuous ridge ran
Philadelphia Inqnirpr.
*
ntng from Greenland to tbe British
Of all the Persian crown-jewel*
lads plateau, of which Iceland and the peacock throne i* the most mag
; r Ms Was a Kiekar.
tbe Veto* talnnda are emerged por nificent. It i* entirely of silver, a
“Is dal a kickin’ mule?” asked
tlons. The Mediterranean to ent off great camp bed structure, but mod Ertstu* Pinkley.
from tbe north Atlantic by a ridge at eled in lovely derign*. tt is incrost-
“Doe* you want to buy him?” in
tbe strait of Gibraltar, over which tbe
quired
Unele Rasbnrv cantionsly.
ed
from
nod
to
end
and
from
top
to
•teet depth to only 178
"No.”
bottom
with
diamond*.
At
the
back
wttb steep dope» on either
“ ?>en what’* de use o’ cornin’
is a star of brilliants that make« von
blink. The rug on which the shah arnun’ here axin’ useless questions
Thereto no work eo tirin' as
»boot an stsrln* an* not rightly
sits is edged with precious stona*, sp’ temptin’ me to spoil my repu-
tioii fob truth an’ mendacity?"—
in what ruoto» goto* to do
and the pillow on wi
vhich he radine*
a la
’a-hington Star.
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