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TRICKY ELEPHANTS.
Tht Cunning Thay Dtaplayad In Pr
curing Stolen Maal.
Blnjrular aa It mny acctn, clephnnta
which hnvo associated with men enter
tain the notion thnt, under special clr
cutnstnncea, they aro not reanoualblo It
they utlllio another to commit nn tile
Bal net. Tho following Is nn Inst&nca
of this elephantine morality.
A mnn In Rangoon bought threo
young elephants to aend to England.
They were, tame and playful, but cun
til n jr. Knowing thnt It was wrong to
tenl paddy (unhusked rice) tho Idea
hnd doubtleas been Impressed upon
them by punishment for stealing they
would not touch It themselves, hut If
n boy went to sec them ho would bo
Belted by one. the little trunk would
be colled n round his nnu, and he would
bo led to where the paddy was kept In
bags.
The elephant would make a cat's paw
of the boy's hnnd to take up a handful
of paddy. Then, letting go. ho would
turn up the end of his trunk, open It
mul conxlngly Invite the boy to drop in
the paddy.
Should the hoy, however, put It back
In the bag his arm would apiln bo
netted by the trunk, and his hnnd
would bo ngaln Inserted Into the paddy
bag.
The boy, anxious to be relented,
would usually drop the paddy Into the
.trunk, and tho elephant would blow
tho rice Into his mouth. After repeat'
Ing the operation several times the
elephant would scamper otT, feeling
that ho had got tho paddy without
stealing 1L Harper's.
the day of ruin rcTCated tho causo of
all thoio mysterious absences. lie
worked tho Idea Into n play which ho
called "Hearts Are Trumps," tho most
successful of all his seventy dramas.
On tho first night It wna produced,
glancing Into the pit, he saw seated
among tho audience the very man
whose career had suggested the plot.
A Contrast In Monarch.
Emperor Napoleon has often been
seen detaching hU own cr of the
l.eglon of Honor to pluco It hlme'.f on
tho breast of a hero. Lout. XIV.
would tint have asked tf the bravo
man was a noble. Napoleon asked It
the noblo was brave. A sergeant who
In battle had performed prodigies of
vnlor was brought before binlt XIV.
"I grant you n peuslou of 1.200 litres,"
said tho king.
"Sltv. I should prefer the cross of
St. Louis."
"1 should think so, but you will not
get It."
Napoleon would have embraced the
sergeant. Louts XIV. turned his baek
on him. It Is the decided distinction
which separates tho two eiochs.
From "Itecollectlons of nu Olllcer of
Napoleon's Army.-
GAMBLED IN SECRET.
Moct
Tht Romance of Mark Ltmon'a
Succauful Drama,
There la a singular story connected
with the play "Hearts Are Tramps,"
which Mark Imon, tho famous Punch
editor, wrote, many years ago. When
Mark Lemon was rUttlng a friend's
boose one day he found there an elder
ly gentleman with long whlto hair
and a worn, sad face. He waa very
secdlly clad, and there was something
in his appearance which excited Lem
on's curiosity. When the visitor had
cone Mark Inquired who be was.
"A rich man once" replied his
friend. "Lost everything at tho gam
ing table.- Hut tho strangest part of
tho story Is that no one. not even tho
members of his own family, suspected
1dm of gambling until the crash camo.
Tic bad kept It a secret from all who
knew him. He Is now llttlo better
than n beggar. He comes to mc some
time and I give him a good meal for
the sake of auld tang syne."
The tale haunted Mark, says Thor
manby In "The Spice of Life." Ho
Imagined n daughter waiting nt homo
night after night for the gambling fa
ther, Ignorant of bis secret rice until
MEN OF WEIGHT.
Only 7hr of This Notabl EUvtn
War Undar 200 Pound.
. On Aug. 10, 177S. Uencral Washing,
ton and ten other officers of tho Revo
lutionary army were weighed at West
Point, N. Y and the result Is pre
served In an Item from tho English
magaxlno Notes and Queries. Only
three of the eleven weighed less than
200 pounds. The heaviest was Colonel
Swift, whose 310 pounds mndo htm
load the next. General Knox, at 2S0,
by thirty-nine pounds, but Knox was
only twenty-eight years old.
Then follow Colonel Michael Jack
son. 252: Colonel Ilcnry Jackson. 233;
General Lincoln, then forty-Ore years
old, 224: Lieutenant Colonel Hum
phreys, 221; Lieutenant Colonel Hun
tington. 212.
General Washington, forty-sir years
old. weighed 200 pounds and was fol
lowed at qulto an Interval by Lieuten
ant Colonel Cobb and General Hun
tington, who weighed 1S2 pounds each.
It Is amusing to note that the henv.
est man's name was Swift and thnt of
tho lightest General Oreaton. who U
credited with ICC pounds. 1 03 less than
Swift's record.
The total weight of the eleven. 2.-IS3
pounds gives 220 pounds as the aver
ago, but Swift being omitted the other
ten averaged only 217 pounds.
They were certainly men of weight
and sulntnnco and a heavy team -If
we may compare them with a tuodcrn
BULLETS IN BATTLE.
Daath Wounds and Flash Wounds and
th Faallno Whan Struck.
In "Serving the Republic" General
Nelson A. Miles saya thnt, llko ovcry
other soldier who has scon much nctlvo
scrvleo, ho Is often naked how It feels
to bo wounded. Ho himself waa
wounded four times and twice almost
fatally, so he la able to speak from
experience. He says:
"One Is often asked how It seems to
ho wounded In bnttle. The (light of
bullet la quicker than thought and has
passed through a llesh wound before
one realizes that he tins been struck.
I hnvo seen bodies of men dead on tho
field of bnttle when' the brain hnd
been pierced and death had been In
stantaneous. They would remain In
every position of the 'manual of arms,'
with an amicus look, a frown or a
smile on their cold and rigid faces.
"My wounds melted at Tnlr Oaks,
Fredericksburg and Petersburg were
flesh wounds and disabled me but n
short time. White riding down the
lino nt ChiinrcllomvllU' one of the ene
my's bullets struck my metallic bell
plate with great force. This enticed a
slight deviation as It entered the body
The result was an Instant deathly sick
enlng sensation. My sword dropped
from my right hand; my senhbard nnd
belt dropped to the left. I was com
pletely paralyzed below the waist. My
horse, seemed to realize whnt hnd oc
curred. He stopped, turned nnd walked
slowly back. I holding to the pommel
of the saddle with my hand. Wo
soon reached a group of soldiers, who
took mo off and. placing me In a blan
ket, carried me to the Chnncellorstlllo
House and pulled a dead man off a
couch to mako room for mo."
TOOK HIS TIME.
Bill (Java tha Old Man a Long Walt
For th Backlog.
BklPDcr Norwood was born In a llt
tlo Nova Scotia town. During tho long
winter evenings young HM used to llo
out In front of tho big open fireplace,
and Just about tho tlmo he had got
warm and comfortablo and a trifle
drowsy Norwood senior would mako
up his mind tho flro was netting low
and scud bU son out Into the snow to
bring In a backlog from tho wood pile.
Eventually theao nocturnal pilgrim
ages got on young HIH'a nerve, nnd
one night when his father sent him
out after the backlog the son contin
ued on past tho wood pile and across
country to the nearest seaport, where J
be shipped on a whaler.
Nine years later itlll came back. It
was a bitter winter n'glit. and th snow
was falling. Hill sneaked tip to the
wont to the wood plfe, solectcd n big
backlog, carried It Into tho houoo and
stood for n moment by tho flro with
tho log on hi shoulder.
"Father," said Hill, "Pro brought In
that backlog you sunt mo after."
Tho old man never budged nn Inch.
Instend he spnt luto tho tiro and ro
torted testllyt
"Set It on tho fire. You've been n
long whllo glttlu' Itr'-Hnturday Even
ing Past
Tha Drug Clsrk'a Catlar.
"A man enmo In yesterday nnd want,
ed something we didn't havo. He hnd
been looking Into tho window, and he
must havo thought this wan a book
store just becnuso wo were advertising
some novels nnd stationery and dic
tionaries and a lot of thnt left over
Junk. Well, anyhow, he came to me
and he says, says he, 'I want IJncoln'a
Gettysburg mldre.'
" I,ook for It yourself, sir,' snys I
politely, llko wo'ro taught to do
There's n directory over there In the
corner. Hut 1 don't think you'll find
It. These directories only have the
subscribers' city addresses.'
"Well, say, that fellow was an mad
he wouldn't wait. Culled me Ignorant
nnd all kinds of things. Hut that just
shows you what us drug clerks have
got to put up with." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Coal Din Maaauramanta.
A solid cubic foot of anthracite coal
weighs ninety-three younds. When bro
ken for use It weighs about llfty-four
pounds. Hltumlnoua coal when broken
up for use weighs about fifty pound.
Tho consequent rule for tho approxi
mate measurement of con I In n bin or
box Is to multiply the leugth In feet by
tho height In feet nnd ngalu by the
breadth In feet and this mult by fifty
four for anthraclta coal or by fifty for
bituminous conk The result will equal
tho number of pound, and to And tho
number of tons dtrldo by 2,000. Popu
lar Mechanics.
Th Obliging Frland.
"You know that Griggs and I lth
lore you. Can't you umku a cholco to
day?" "A choice, indeodl When 1 do make
a choice you can rest ouuml that It
jvlll ut Interest youl"
Thauksl I'll tell Ortega.' Ex
change. Oood Llttlo Doy.
Mrs. SVant Will you lwv another
slice of rnkc. Hobble Itnbble-.S'n,
thank yasi: mother nald I mut re
fuse a xtvoiid piece. 'calte you
mightn't have It to spare Judg.
A JAPANESE LEGEND.
It Talis a Prtlty Story of tha Origin f
th Chryaanlhamum.
The Jnpnueso hnvo an Interesting
legend In connection with the origin
of tlm chrysanthemum. In a gnrdon
bathed In the soft moonlight n young
girl plucked a flower and commenced
to strip the petals to seo If her llauca
loved her truly. Of a sudden a llttlo
god apenred before her nnd nssured
her thnt hor flnnco loved her pnsslon
Holy. "Your husband will live," ho
added, "as many years ns the flower
which I will let you choose has petals."
With these word ho dlsnpnnred.
Tho young girl hnstoned to senreh the
gnrdon for a (tower which should hnvn
an nbundnuce of petals, but each one
nppcarod to proinlao but a brief fa
lure for her beloved.
At length she picked a IVrslnit rnr
nntlnn. nnd. with tho aid of a gold
ptu taken from her hnlr, she separated
eneh one of the petal of tho Honor
aonsto Increase the number offollules
anil of the number of years accorded
by the god to her fiance, tfoon under
her deft lingers ix. 200. W petals,
thin, pliant and beautifully curved,
had been evolved, and the jnuug girl
cried for Joy tn think of the happy
future which her ruse had assured hor
fiance. So, runs the legend, wa tho
rrysanthemutn created one moonlight
night In a Japanese garden, where sil
very brooks murmured softly as they
ran benenth the llttlo bmntwo bridge.
Ixindon Globe.
CRY OF THE GIRAFFE.
It la a Paeutlar Sound Semathlng LIU
a 8hp'a Dlaat.
Thoso who rend th account of tha
giraffe In the textbooks and the de
scriptions given by traveler may
have noticed that no mention I made
of Ita voice. Sportsmen, In fact, al
lude to Ita apparent tolcelesanes.
Nor so far as the record go has It
ever been heard In captivity. Up to
tho present It appear that no on
could say whether tha cry of a gtraffo
was a groan, a Mlow, a bleat or a
neigh: hence tho record of the recent
An neesntrlo Vloar, i
One wonders what London thought
of Robert Stephen Hawker, the vicar
of Mnrwenstmv, when he vlslled l,on.
don (for the second time In his life) In
IHUI. Lord Ihmoiith, Invited to lunch
with him nt thu Great Western hotel,'
Pnddliigton, found him dressed pre
cisely as ho used to dress In his Cor
nUli village-- lUherman's knitted jer.
sey, long purplo coat and wading boots,
Lord Kxumiitli. bubbling tvllh Inugli-,
tor, said, "I am not surprised tho wait
er should sny there waa no clergy mnn
hero," To which llntvker replied! "No,
doubt you would rather seo tun dressed
like a waller, with a black emit mul
while choker! I've felt obliged to any
'Sir' to him tttleo already."-I,oiii1uii
Express.
Dyaka Fond of Monkay Maat.
Tho Dynks of southwestern Horneo
hunt nearly all the gntne In the vlclnl
ty of their settlements tvllh spear ex
cept In the case of the oning oulnng.
which Is hunted with guns. It aeenia
thnt these wild people am very fond
of tho meat of the orang nulling ami
cotixeqlientlr those nuluint lire very'
senrco tn tho neighborhood of Dyak
cnuipii. i
Not Aoquatntad.
"Are you at all familiar with Plato",
aaked Mr. Oldcastle. '
"No: that's one thing Joslah nlwnys
lilnini's me for- He say I never uinkiM
ronl friends with anybody."
Waleoma. '
"I a'pose I look like a tramp, Cath
erine Ana. but I'm your cousin. C'y,
Harker, back from the Klondike with
140,000 In gold. Gee, don't smother
tuor-Cblcago Tribune.
A Qutar Menu ant.
A monument erected In tho Fir
llenn cemetery hsa a very curious
history. It Is that of nn old woman of
Genoa, who made a living by soiling
string of nut In the atrects. lly.
frugality and Industry ado aucceedad
In amaaalng a small fortune In this
way and then commU-loned a well'
known sculptor of Genoa, I.ulgl Oren
.. IiisLh m tlf.a -Ivihl ti4 Pal 1 1 tt lltf
experience of a naturalist In east Afri- ,',,,, Ju,t ,,, ,,H.rtr,M nt ,rr'
Hitch In tho street. Hits stntun sue
window nnd looked Into the old sitting
football eleven-that might well chil-' Tho I1,""" I,1,I,B l" iln?Ui I
lenge comparison also with our mod- ""I"""'. " ""'
em military men. wr ,n fronl "' , ,,u M,lf "
'that the fire was n trifle low So he
Dstttr Daya.
Ethel (of her tlaneei-Poor Fred has
seen better daya Kitty- Yes; he nssl
to Ik engaged to mo. Huston Transcript.
ca, who has actually heard Ita voice,
la of special Interest.
Hlnney Penlvnl, the naturalist In
munition, spent the day In concealment
over a watcrholo tvhero the wild ani
mals mine to drink. He had at time
seen giraffe and sehra drinking with
in thirty feet of him. Whllo thus
watching he had the good fortune to
hear the giraffe.
It was innklug n bleating noise, but
Mr Pertival say It Is ipilte ImihmI
bin tn dcscrlN' the sound In writing
'The nearest I can get to It," he says.
"Is 'ttnr're' rather drawn out. not Jtmt
a 'ban,' like a sheep, but tuvrv pro
longed, nnd the softening at tho end
more noticeable Umdoii Field.
ordered to ho placed In tha famous,
Straglleiio cemetery, pnilwthly tho lur
gest III tho ttorhl-Wlda World Magn
tine. '
Qwaat snd Hard. ,
The Royal hetxl was plalng for Hi
k I ii4. IhiM XIV . tlm "Mlsri-tv of I ui
ly " The king ttas on his kui and
was the ttltol rourt Ills mnjt-slt
kept the NHknarit attlluilo until t it-v
end of the liyiuu After iUIiik, tht'
king turned to the Count ite drain
iiiiuit Mini askisl how Ih- found thu tx'i
ah ' Very sttevt to the ear, aire, buti
tery hard on tho hue.," ,J
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