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It may be, ‘aa phynifciane and pre
fetto!* o f pbysicáí cuitara do not
Uva.
tail to toll ue, that wen o f forty arc
now old and decrepit because they
do not play enough, b tt most o f
LIQUID FIRE.
them look younger than did men o f
that age fifty or titty years ago.
N o one can ftx a n u n t& e portrait»
o f 180M O , knowing the i m o f the
subjects, .without seeing that they
depicted eery young men who look
ed Very old.
The fact is that until times
paratively recent young men si
ed the airs, dress end appearat
age, and perhaps profited t
They carried themeeiree with
p a rity and dignity, especial
tile presence o f youth. Beards were
more in togue than they are today,
and in other respects men o f forty
or fifty, whose likenesses,are pre
served to «S, wer# m ow venerable
figures than are their eons o f sixty
or seventy today.
It was a custom , too, half a cen
tury or more ago fo r men o f middle
age to speak o f themselves as old.
Awaham Lincoln died at the age
o f fifty-six, and yet a letter o f bis
written when he was in his forties
mentions A speech that brought
tears to hie «old eyes.” He was call-
ad «O ld A be« alien he was still
young Abe. Although General Grant
was only forty-three at Appom attox
no one regarded him as yonthfaL
The eld young men e f this era
are told that they must play, relax,
teat or die. The young old men o f
the fifties did not play. They were
very serious persona, and many o f
them were cu t off at an early age.
I f men of forty now are actually
old perhaps it is because they are
Mying to look like mtm o f twenty-
fire or thirty, to dress like them,
and in business and pleasure to bold
their own with them. T o look young
but be realty old at forty is net da*
arable, but it may be n o worse than
to look old and he old also at that
age.— New Y ork W orld.
Into
Kilauea’i
n ¡linn
of D
Doiiiny
LIKE A PIT OF
princes# falling into the strait dur
ing an aerial flight which she was
making and being drowned in it ;
hence HèUew-pontus.
T hé name
Dardanelles relates to an ancient
city celled D erdania,-situated near
the Hellespont. The aneiant fort'
o f this city, built by Dardanua, was
called o f the Dardanelles, and final
ly this name was applied to the en
tire stra it— Philadelphia Pram,
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p reaCttMMg Welsh.
While learned professors may d if
fer as to tha correct prononciation
o f English, it is a com forting re
flection that our language off e n no
obstacles equal to those which have
to be surmounted by students o f
Welsh. One o f Dr. Owen’s prede
cessors in the see o f S t David’s,
who set about learning Welsh as
soon as he was appointed, told his
chaplain that he feared he would
never succeed in mastering the gut
tural “ 11.” “ 1 will tell von how you
have to do it, my lord, was the re
ply. «P ut the tip o f your apostolic
tongue in the roof o f your episcopal
mouth, and then him like a gan
der.«— London Chronicle.
The common pimpernel, “ poor
man’s weather glass,” nas tha disad
vantage o f being a native plant and
has been almost com pletely expelled
from our flower gardens in fa vor o f
exotics which are rarer, but lack
orach e f being as pretty. The pim
pernel is a charm ing little flower
which opens about 8 in the m orn-
ing and closes late in the afternoon,
hot has tile remarkable peculiarity
e f indicating a com ing shower by
shutting up its petals.
AMI if Y m Cant I m I Yaw N
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' bar Dant -Knaatr Him. ¡
. tiare'» a little rula which
help you and haip your neigh
In speaking about anybody put
kood word l a j p Don't tay *N e
bor dom a is publie spirited, PU
«H ello, Qrimshaw!
member your old sid
I hi som ething o f « barrier,
a experience o f à jnagiati
itrol in the Gwoira range i
illustrates the difficulty in
erreras sim plicity o f the aa
ide o f mind toward reaaom
on the good trait rather than tha
bad one.
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Or, better still, when you hear
aomebody'e name mentioned and itV
on the tip o f your tongue to refer
to some blunder or failing you know
about, just try choking it down a
times. (earing
lea
few times,
it unsaid, and
see if you don’t feel better inridfe
Then next tim e g o a little further
and try speaking o f some good deed
be has done instead o f mentioning
the tim e he made i mistake (even
though you youreelf have never
made any m istakes), and see if you
don’t feel happier still.
I f the farm ers in any neighbor
hood will begin to boost one anotty-
«r*s w orth? deeds they will soon
find themselves living in a better
neighborhood than ever before—
Central Am erica, it is wonderful
how easily the residents becom e ac
customed to earthquake sboeka,
which do not com e, however, wholly
without warning: Y ou im sitting
on a piama on a hot afternoon chat
ting with your friends whan sudden
ly the sky seems to grow hasy and
the crows stop cawing. Thera is a
general rush, and, though yon naty
not know what is tha m atter, you
cannot help feelin g uneasy. The
nativas say,
a little shaki
O f all the strange modes o f salu
tation the most extraordinary is the
«daaoe o f ceremony** current in the
west A frican kingdom o f Dahomey.
Whenever any Dahoman chief or
official o f rank oomes to pay you a
visit he always opens the interview
by dancing around yon with vari
ous queer contortions <extrem ely
suggestive o f hie having ju st upset
a kettle o f boiling water over his
knees), which you are bound to im i
tate as closely as possible. It is
even reported that one o f the native
m inisters o f the terrible K ing Gera
owed bis rapid rise at the Dahoman
court wholly to his superior skill in
cutting these strange capers and
that be thus literally as well as fig
uratively jum ped to preferm en t
In O ctober, 1900, Pietro Giaeoni
and Marie Bonelli w e n tried at
Rome on a charge o f sextuple mur
der by poisoning com m itted thirty-
one years before. In England Eu
gene Aram was hanged fo r th e m ur
der o f Clarke fourteen veers after
the offense. A man named H orne
was executed for the m urder o f his
child in the eighteenth century no
lees than thirty-five yean after the
offense.
There is also the well
known case o f Governor Wall, who
was executed in 100« fo r a murder
com m itted in 178*. Sherward was
hanged at N onrieb for the murder
o f his «rife after a lapse o f twenty
veers.— Exchange.
*,**• s» ■
**It seems that the natives o f the
Gwoira range had in some way per
suaded themselves that they oould
swallow the white man’s ballets and
thus escape damage. The m afia-
happy chance be unable to ‘eat* ttys
bullet it would surely kill him.
« ‘ Now, open your mouth,* ha
continued, *und I will shoot tha bul
let down your throat* !• i.-r
«T h e native opened hie mouth—
all unconcerned. T o demonstrate
tha affect o f a discharge the magia-
trate shot the ballet through s l o g
and trium phantly indicated the dev
astation. The native examined the
aperture o f entrance and the aper
ture o f e x it Undoubtedly the mil
let bad gone clean through the log.
T he magistrate once m ore leeded
his rifle.
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«'N o w , open your mouth,” m id
he, And swallow tha ballet if you
dam .’ And the native opened hie
mouth.
i
«N aturally, the magistrate, ou t
raged and nonplused by this amas-
ing perversity and appalled by its
im plications, concludes his story
with the inquiry, 'W hat in the world
is one to make at each people—
what is one to do with them?* t v
Eyas That F#U#w Van.
You probably bava noticed that
the oyes in some portraits follow
you whither you go. I t i « « bit un
canny to move about a m om and
ham the eyes o f a picture always
’fifes
M did fa She first bow mudi la
at «30.000.000 will It beT
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be in the m iddle o f the
eye will seem to be loo
tid es are at onoe splashed with a
solution o f salt and nitrate o f am
monia aa incom bustible costin g is
form ed. T his is a preparation which
can be made at home at a trifling
cost and should be kept on hand.
D issolve twenty pounds o f common
salt and ten pounds o f nitrate o f
ammonia in seven gallons at water.
Pour this into quart bottles o f thin
glass, and fire grenades am at hand
ready fo r use. These bottles m ost
be tightly corked and sealed to pre-
rant evaporation, and in o n e o f Are
they must be thrown near the
flames so as to break and liberate
the gas contained. A t least two
doaon o f these bottles should be
ready fo r an emergahey.
Mere Witty Ttw
T he Maas in drei
te draw a picture
o f progress the teacher saw that
C hari«» bad drawn the picture e f
the borne only.
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The teacher asked, “ Why have
oot com pleted rour picture P*
which the boy gave the som e
what p en . h ot nevertheless witty
reply;
“ Oh, the h on e ean draw the wag-
Oae o f the shortest speeches re
corded in forensic annals is that o f
Taunton, afterward a judge. Charles
Phillips, an Irish orator, had made
a flowery speech in an assault case.
Taunton, who was fo r the defend
ant, reid in reply, «M y friend’ s elo
quent com plaint amounts, in plain
English, to this—that his client has
received a good, sound horsewhip
ping— and my defense is as short—
that he richly dmerved it."
Crede Leal«
It is told o f an East Indian law
student that he once threw his
examiner»* into confusion* b§, de
claring matrimony to be an fllagal
state. "H o w e o f How e o f« he was
asked by the perturbed exam inen,
many o f them married men. The
student smiled beatiflcally. «M ar
Away with daisy. It always tajuree
riage." quoth he, “ is a lottery, and
tore whn are prepared.-L oca s.
lotterie« are forbidden by lew ."
key Are Cannibals Vat Tbay Ara «a ■an FranMbYe Proa# That “Manar la
H ": - :#b»la re CbWrraa f..„,
ef a frali«# Natura.*
“ Papua, the Britiah New Quine« á After pabUablntf bla "Poor B le b ««’»
[ recent time» and unaarory maní- AJtuaaac"* for iwt-nty-fiv# yaan and
girla« thirty-two yaaro nata aa thrift
is still a cannibal <
laacbar o f bis coos try npaJawM frank-
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