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sailed away to a region that Is fraught with danger and death. And all this that eeftmee may benefit from their dreadful experience and at the ex pense of lllnera, cold, hunger and lone liness. Silence and scientists are, of course, duly grateful, and they have, without a question, been lmmensure- Don't shoot the Holstelns They are ably benefited from these arctic ex plorations, but once In a while some doing the best they can. one Is bold enough to say: "Is It worth The Macedonian life Insurance com while?” And Is it? panies must feel like a tried egg. A complete explanation of the out A Practical Good Roads Move. Perhaps we may have to dig the rages In Macedonia is not easy to PRACTICAL good roads movement has been canal first and ask permission of Co frame, because there are so many rea Inaugurated in Venango County, Pennsylvania. lombia afterward. sons for the conditions In European Judge Criswell called the attention of the con- Turkey. In the first place, it should I stables to the poor condition of the roads and We don’t need an elastic currency be noted that the district Is Inhabited Instructed them to return the road commis as much as one with a little glue on by hostile and jealous races. Turks, sioners If they did not comply with the law in each Bide of every dollar. Albanians, Servians, Bulgarians, regara io »eeplng them In repair. This Instruction did not Greeks, and a few others live side by fall upon deaf ears, and as a result the road commissioners The pension rolls have passed tbs side, each with peculiar customs, and of four townships were returned as negligent in their duty. great divide. It will be a gradual de each dissatisfied with the rule of tbs Following these returns Indictments have been prepared scent from now on to the end. Sultan. Then they have not the same against these township road commissioners. At the same religion. The Mohammedan looks time the district nttarney has prepared an indictment At the exact moment the proposal is down on the Christian and the Jew; ■ gainst the county commissioners for negligence In making .made a young man actually believes the Greek Christian cannot tolerate repairs upon a county road. that he Isn’t worthy of the girl. the Protestant, and the Catholic re Here Is an excellent precedent which can wtell be fol gards the Armenian as a heretic. The Live shells were fired at a French task of governing a population of hos lowed generally in other counties. It Is a practical good warship without any apparent effect tile races, with differing religions, all roads movement which Is sure to produce excellent results. upon it. However, Dewey’s men were within a comparatively narrow area, The township road commissioners or supervisors and the county commissioners áre charged with the duty of seeing not behind the guns. Is difficult at best. But Turkish gov that tbe roads are In good condition. They ar« liable to ernment Is bad. The administration A branch of Yale University In of justice Is so uncertain that the for punishment If they fall In their duty. When a number of China would at least determine to eign powers have Insisted that their them have felt the hand of the law because of their neglect what extent the pigtail can be taught citizens accused of crime shall be tried of duty, their fellows everywhere are likely to make haste to avoid a similar fate. The Importance of good roads can to handle the pigskin. In consular courts. But the Turkish not be over-estimated. Those who voluntarily assume the subject must submit to the judicial office of securing them and then fall to properly fulfill their When Charlie Schwab gets bls tai Imperfections of the native courts. loring trust In operation he should Consequently justice, as the American duties are entitled to no consideration. They are guilty of make a specialty of boiler plate vests understands It, Is unknown to the av an injury to the public of no light character, and their mal feasance richly deserves punishment.—Pittsburg Press. for kings and emperors. erage subject of the Sultan. Along with the corrupt and procrastinating The servant problem is a simple mat courts the people have to endure the Labor and Capital. ter, according to Mrs. Russell Huge. extortion of the tax-gatherers, who T goes without saying that neither capital nor Just do without any servants and you levy what taxes they choose without J labor can be turned to any practical or lasting will never have any trouble. I good unless there ls co-operation. One cannot Interference from any superior so long as the required sum Is sent to Con be successful without the help of the other, but Now the farmers want a trust. The stantinople. Out of the uncertainties labor has regarded Itself as "ground down" for best trust is trust In elbow grease. It of the financial administration have so many years that many workmen have been Is the man who works bls muscles developed the complications arising educated to the belief that the employer ls the arch enemy and not his politics who gets ahead In from an unpaid and dissatisfied army, of the laboring man. This belief ls due largely to the fact this country. to say nothing of unpaid officials In that capital has been wise, while labor has been lguorant all other departments. Then, to cap Capital has grasped opportunities and strengthened Its post We presume that the women persist the pyramid of folly, the Sultan at tlon, while labor, through poor advice and narrow-minded in wearing high-heeled shoes for some tempts to look after all the details of antipathy, has spent Its best efforts In glorifying a martyr such reason as the men persist In administration, a task beyond the dom which is mostly of Its own making. wearing those bob-tailed coats and cir physical power of any man. Impor Capltnl 1» stronger to-day than It has been for some time, cus tent trousers. tant matters are delayed, and the Im because It has combined Its strength, and worked toward patient people take things Into their a common end. Labor has combined and has worked at Poultney Bigelow declares that there own hands. On this fertile field of cross purposes with Its own best Interests. An evidence of are several millions of Americans who discontent the political agitator sows this ls the silly, expensive and disastrous sympathetic strike would like to see this country annexed his seed of insurrection. It waB the system. If labor has profited In a small way through this to Canada. Poultney evidently makes Macedonian revolutionary committee system, It has lost In a large way by it, because the prln the mistake of believing himself to be which held Miss Stone, the mission clple which denies one man the right to earn a living be several millions of Americans. ary, for a ransom, that It might get cause another man thinks he has a grievance, ls utterly money to carry on Its work. The pa wrong. Eupatorlum Itebandlum Is the name triots ou occasion pose as brigands, Money Is a very Important factor In the world, and the of the new plant that Is to supersede and brigands, when It serves their possession of great wealth Is what gives the employer class sugar cane and the sugar beet, being purpose, call themselves patriots. In Its lulluence, but labor does not seem to realize that it twenty or thirty times as sweet as the hope of bettering matters, Austria possesses a capital which is quite as Important as money. either. When used In connection with and Russia prepared a plan last win The capital of labor Is skill In tbe trades which make the tabloid coffee and condensed milk It ter for Improving the financial, judi Industries of the country. But the strength of this capital ought to be a great thing for picnics. cial and civil administration of the has been scattered, through Improper organization.—Brook lyu Times. Cheap funerals are the fashion In district, and the Sultan accepted It. England Just now Lord Salisbury's So far as the plan was applied it fail ed to pacify the discontented, and seri Common Sense in the Ministry. having cost only $70. This will cause ous insurrection began In August. a large mortality among impecunious I1SH0P ISAAC JOYCE said to tbe Methodist What the outcome will be Is useless noblemen, It being a well known fact conference at South Bend., Ind.: “I do not to prophesy. We know only that trou that many of them have been keeping wish to be put down as against the theological ble will continue until the district Is alive through family pride because schools, but I do wish those schools would in governed by a strong man who does they didn’t have enough for a decent troduce a new chair aud call It the chair of justly and loves mercy. burial. common sense. It is neded In the training of young men for the mtnlstry.” An insolvent woman has applied for BEING RAISED TO TOP Standing alone, this seems harsh. But Bishop Joyce relief from her debts In one of the OE HILL 150 FEET HIGH went on to explain that something more than a theological United Slates courts. Her appeal, so education was needed to make a good preacher. He con unusual as to excite general comment, Foot by foot the old Brown home tended that In a good many cases too much book learning speaks well for the fair sex and Its stead. for many years a landmark on eliminated the traits of character that made the old-fash keen understanding of tlnanelal obli the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at loued preaehers of the Methodist Church strong In the gations. As a rule in insolvency pro Brown Station. Pa., Is being raised to pulpit and a power outside. ceedings woman Is generally the cause the top of a bluff, a distance of 150 He urged that there be a cultivation of the spirit that of man's predicament, but Is kept dis feet. The lot on which the house stood would make the preacher In fact the shepherd of his creetly In the background. TOPICS OP TUB TIMES. FAVORITES ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦F» 1 I » ►♦♦♦■>■» OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The weird rumors which the Eskimo have repeatedly published about tlie existence of strangti men and beasts, which walk abroad only during the ■unless days in the hyperborean re gions, may after all be founded upon truth. However, until positive proof Is furnished, Professor Frazzle's state ment about the live mammoth must be taken as a traveler’s highly colored tale. A study of newspapers east and west, north and south, may possibly Indicate a growing sentiment that, while tilts republic holds out hands of welcome to every useful and valu able element among Immigrants, it may be compelled In self-defense at some time In the future to consider soberly whether It will be helped or hurt by the tremendous Inrush of un skilled laborers who have no Intention of taking out naturalization papers and becoming American citizens at any time. One consideration that is making our people Impatient of hard work Is the example of riches quickly made through the semi gambling activities. Men whose fathers would have died rather than live on bread they had not earned find themselves willing to be taken care of, by the government perhaps, or by "the party,” or by their more fortunate or industrious relatives. Buch drones know nothing of tho satisfaction of him who "scorns delights and lives laborious days,” who can hold his head high and say he has earned his right to live, and whose death Is thus not a debt paid to nature, for be owes her nothing. Robert E. Peary Is about to make another dash for the pole. During the last twelve years Commodore Perry bus made six voyages to the frozen north. It ts a life of hustle the mlnuts the far north Is reached. There Is no time, nor Is It safe to sit down and think of the work that Iles beyond. These men, like the “Wandering Jew,” must keep going on and on. because rest means danger from the apathy en gendered by the awful cold. In this land of Ice and snow and desolation, there Is another element, almost sp palling and this ts the Intensity of ths fearsome silence, which seems Ilka some gruesome specter phantom, whits and ghostly, which hovers over ths vast expanse of lifeless, colorless sur roundings. A trip to the north pole Is an outing that takes a man of abso lute nene and freedom from fSar to contemplate. He who ventures Into this dangerous country takes his life in bls hands And yet men have for gotten all trials, have put aside every human attachment, and, leaving the laud of oomfort and pleasura have WANTED TO SELL HIS CROWN. King of Hawaiian Island« Wai Tired of Being a Rovereign. OLD BROWN HOMESTEAD. was recently purchased by the Balti more and Ohio Railrond from Samuel Brown. To preserve this home of three generations Mr. Brown had this gigan tic ta.sk started, which Is considered one of the most remarkable engineer lug feats ever undertaken by local contractors. The amount of money and labor luvolved In raising the struc ture would build two modern Imuses. Pittsburg Dispatch. He Detested a Cann bill. A fat man walked into the rest.au rant and. after knocking dowu n few lists while hanging up Ills own, sat as much of himself down as the only vacant seat In the room would hold. He grabbed a piece of the bread that had come with hla right-hand neigh bor's order and began to munch on It Then he looked for the bill of fare. The mln|gterlal-looking man on his left was reading It. The fat man lcane^ over on him and began to read It too. "How’s them pork chops and apple sauce?" he mumbled between mouth fuls of bread. The ministerial-looking man said nothing and edged bls chair a little farther away. Just then the waiter appeared with a bowl of bean soup for a patrou on the other side of the table. “Hey, waiter," bawled the fat man, "bring me one o' them soups and hurry up about It. will yer?" The ministerial looking man heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness, str!" he said, turn ing to the fat man. "I was so afraid you were going to order pork. 1 de test a cannibal.”—New York Bun. The Worm Tnrns. "You’re forever trying to give the Impression that you're a martyr." J snapped Mrs. Henpeck *T suppose you want everybody to think that you suffer In silence." "No." replied Mr. Henpeek, "I suffer In the perpetual absence of silence. A little silence would be a positive pleas uro to me.”—Philadelphia Press. Wise Is tho man who can recall a previous engagement wheu re receives a disagreeable Invitation. • Sllvor Threads Among tho Gold. Darling, I am growing old— Silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow to-day—• Life la fading fast away; But, my darling, you will bo " Always young and fair to mo! flock; that would enable him to appreciate that those who come to hear him have heartaches and are looking for con solation, for comfort In affilctlou, for something to strength en them In well-doing, as well as for a correct theological presentation of church doctrines. CHORUS. Tbere Is force in this. Certainly the preacher should Darling, I am growing old— have common sense, sympathy, aud power to console as Silver threade among the gold well as to convince. The old-fashioned preachers were not Shine upon my brow to-dsy— given to much tenderness in the treatment of transgres Life ls fading fast away. sions, but they understood human nature, and they preached the gospel In a way to be effective. . Wheu your hair la silver white Their experience In life enabled them to take a common Aud your cheeks no longer bright sense view of conditions on the frontier. They were With tho roses of tho May preachers not always because of their educational equip I will kiss your llpo, and sayt ment, but because of their fitness for their work and their Ob! my darling, mine alone, zeal in it. Education makes tbe preacher only in furnish You have never older grown. ing a better equipment to reach the hearts of men. Love can never more grow old; Tho old preachers were at a disadvantage through lack Locke may lose their brown and gold, of training. The preachers of the later day have what Cheek« may fade ami hollow grow, was denied to the pioneer preachers, but they must have But the hearts that love will know also those traits of character and that zeal and common Never winter's frost and chill; sense that made the pioneer pulpit a power.—Chicago inter Bummer warmth le in them still— Ocean. I Love ls always young and fair, What to us la silver hair. Faded cbeska or steps grown slow, Longevity la Increasing. To the heart that beats below? 0TUARIE8, men who make a study of sta Since I kissed you, mine alone. tistics relating to life and death, say that man's You have never older grown. years are gradually growing longer. ! —Eben E. Rexford. These actuaries of great insurance compan The Star. ies should certainly know what they are talk twinkle, little star, ing about. They are not accustomed to deal in Twinkle, How I wonder what you are! generalizations. When they say a thing It has all the cer Up above the world so high, tainty that figures can give IL and figures, according to Like a diamond in the sky. the proverb, don't lie. Emory McClintock and others of these statisticians declare that a person now living may rea When tho biasing sun Is gone. sonably expect to have a longer period of life than those When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, of even a decade ago. Better hygiene, more thorough knowledge of self-care, | Twinkle, twinkle, all tbe night. purer water, more thorough drainage, less drinking of liquor Then the traveler In tho dark —all these things and many others have combined to make Thanks you for your tiny spark the twentieth century man a finer physical product than He could not sm which way to go, existed a generation ago. The American people are be If you did not twinkle so. coming more temperate and more intelligent. It Is no longer the fad for our women and girls to be puny and In the dark blue sky you keep, delicate. Short skirts, wheeling, riding, golfing, walking, And often through my curtains peep, swimming, fencing, even boxing, have contributed to make For you never shut your eye the coming mothers of the race fit to bear strong sons Till the sun is In the sky. and daughters. Physical culture Is now a part of our As your bright and tiny spark public school system and a part of the daily life of most Lights the traveler In the dark, men and women of Europe and America. ; Though I know not what you are, Hence, we are gradually beginning to live longer. Wa Twinkle, twinkle, little star. may do even better, if we will.—New York Dally News. —Jane Taylor. LIFE IN ENGLISH VILLAGES. Teach the Girls to Cook. 0 the average woman a practical knowledge of the art of cooking will be worth a dozen “olo- glea." Such an accomplishment will make her the unquestioned mistress of her own house hold, Instead of the helpless servant of incom petent servants, as many women are nowadays. 9 true that mothers should teach their daughters the mysteries of the culinary art as well as how to per form other household duties, It Is unfortunately quite as true that many mothers cannot do this because they do not themselves know how to cook, while others do not from motives of false pride. While In the Interest of the better physical development of the girls in the public schools, fewer rather than more studies should be required, the study of cooking Ls of so practical a nature and Its acquirement so necessary to their own welfare and that of their future households, that it deserves attention. No other land under the sun Is so bountifully provided with the necessaries of good living as the United States, yet It ls probable that In no other country Is there so much waste as among ourselves; while bad cookery Is responsi ble for the existence of a host of dyspeptics. Good cooking should mean not only a marked decrease In the expendi ture of multitudes of homes, but an equally marked Im provement In the health and comfort of their Inhabitants.— Philadelphia Bulletin. flclent to recompense the young princes and other members of the royal fami lies for their loss of titles, enabling them, however, to travel and obtain educations abroad and to place them beyond want. The king became so Im portunate that he wanted Dr. Judd to charter a certain schooner and go to Panama and thus across to Wash- lngton as soon as possible, to com- mence bartering the islands. Mrs. Judd remarks that It was not strange that the young prince, heir apparent to the throne, was opposed to the meas ure. The document needed the signa ture of the young princes. Ills majes ty was determined upon obtaining their signatures, when he suddenly became 111 and died soon after. At the request of hfs euccesaor, Kamehatneha IV., the document held by Dr. Judd was nulli fied. and reciprocity negotiations were entered Into In 1865. which, however, did not materialize until about twenty- two years later. Half a century ago the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Islands came near be ing disposed of to the highest bidder among the powers of the world, his majesty, KHmeliameha III., having set his heart on getting rid of a crown which, to him, was one of thorns, and to give the Islands Into the bargain, •ays the Honolulu Commercial Adver User. This interesting statement was made at the annual meeting of the Hawaiian Historical Society, when Prof. W. D. Alexander read a hitherto unpublished portion of the dairy of Mrs. Laura Fish Judd, wife of tbe late Dr. Judd and grandmother of Albert F. Judd. The matter read by Prof. Alexander was clearly within the Intimate knowl edge of the writer and was to have been published In her book, printed In tbe '80s. but for some reason was HOW EAGLES FIGHT. withheld from Its pages at tbe last mo ment. A Farmer Describe« a Furious 'crap Prof. Alexander read directly from He Sow In Virginia. tbe manuscript of Mrs. Judd, about as On a recent evening a small party follows: of gentlemen, most all of whom had "Kamehameba HI. set his heart on tinges of «porting proclivities In their disposing of the Islands. He wanted blood, were discussing the subject of to sell his crown to tbe highest bid chicken fighting and generally regret der In tbe world, no matter who of ting Its decadence as a bright feature fered. When he sent his commission In the realm of sport. An old farmer to France he furnished Dr. Judd with from Rappahannock County, Virginia. power to make the beet bargain pos broke Into the conversation. sible for the disposal of the group. She "Gentlemen," said lie, "In my time saw with her own eyes the documents I have seen some bang-up chicken which the king bad drawn up and she fights, some be-yu-tl-ful ones, but the felt that the strongest proof of the greatest fight I ever saw between king's trust In Dr. Judd was In this birds lu all my born days was a con strange proceeding. Mrs. Judd says test between a bald eagle and a gray that she was very glad Dr. Judd had eagle near my plaee In Rappahannock no occasion to make use of the docu "This fight took place on the bank of ments in tbe manner Intended. She tbe river. I couldn't forget It If I lived added that under tbe administration to be as old as Methusalch. I was the of President Pierce the Hawaiian only spectator, and saw the struggle kingdom was looked upon with favor from »tart to finlsb. The bald eagle and the road to Washington was very had caught a muskrat and was about short.” to eat It for breakfast, when the gray The following were his majesty's eagle soared down and attempted to reasons for selling the Islands: First rob the other one of Its prey. Then His subjects were decreasing In num commenced the combat, and, Lord, bers. Second The superior civiliza how the feathers flew! They fought tion was bringing In foreigners who with wings, beaks and talons, and I would so n displace the native«. Third, could hear tbe talons crack when they he did not destre ■ repetition of such struck and tore each other. Tbe sounds treatment a« he received from Lord made by thetr wings as they buffeted George Paulet Queen Pomare, hav one another wers Ilk« explosions ot ing lost her possessions to a world musketry, while their screams and power, the king felt that he would yells sounded demoniacal. The battle meet tbe same fate, and that lie es lasted fully fifteen minutes and wound caped sueb a fate was only through up with a victory for old baldy, who tbe g >od offices of the United States drove tbe gray eagle away and then Fourth, tlie foreign element was In resumed his Interrupted breakfast. creasing and became more difficult to “Ob. ye«, there are a great many control, an.l the government would eagle« up In my part of the State," said eventually be controlled by foreigner«. the old agrleulturtcL in reply to a quea Tlie king expected liberal terms at tlon. ‘There are plenty of high rocks h's auction vale, and the monetary r«- and lofty trees wherwon they build UklauMmaut expected wa< It b« suf- I tbaLr nests We farmers do not give them any latitude, however. When ever one of these big birds Is seen soar ing about the poultry yard, or, In fact, anywhere on the farm, It's ‘Johnnie get your gun,' because It not Infre quently happens that good-sized chick ens, young lambs or little pigs are car ried away by them, so they're very un welcome visitors. I know a gentleman whose little eon, a boy about 6 years of age, was attacked by an eagle, and but for the promptness of some of the farm hands In coming to bis rescue the child would have beeu carried away lieyond a doubt.—Washington Evening Star. Sugar as an Article of Diet, As there Is always a peculiar satis faction in tbe consciousness that duty agrees with Inclination, and that tbe action which ts pleasurable Is at the same time advantageous, people with a sweet tooth will be glad to learn of the high rank in respect of Its food value which the modern physiologist accords to sugar. For many years the Idea prevailed that sugar was a lux ury, serving no other purpoee than to please the palate, not supplying any substantial nourishment to the body, and more likely to Impair than to pro mote the health. Experiment and ob servation have demonstrated the un soundness of these opinions, and scien tific physiology now teaches that su gar Is a substance whose nutritive qualities are Incomparable, and that It Is an indispensable aid to manual la- bor and one of the best agents for maintaining the body In health and vigor which a bountiful nature has provided. This Is the conclusion to which the scientific Investigator lias been led by much patient research, supplemented by experimentation on men and ad- male—Philadelphia Inquirer. It la Not the Idyllic Form that Po ets Bing A boat. ! “I know a village where there are no fewer than thirty cottages with but one bedroom apiece, and in each of these single bedrooms six, seven and more people are sleeping,” says A. Mouteflore-Bruce, writing In the Lon don Mall about life In the average English village. "In one of them, father, mother and eight children hud dled together. In another, father, mother and six children—three of whom are grown up—-are sleeping. In these cottages there is one living room downstairs and no sanitary arrange ment of any kind. At the back of the cottages runs an open ditch. It Is also an open sewer. “Here, In the very heart of the coun- try, I expect to find abundance of pure water, abundance of sweet air. Too often I find neither about the cottages. Hundreds of villages have no water supply, though a compara tively small expenditure could provide It. I know a village—It Is typical of hundreds—where the cottagers have to go half a mile to get water. A foul ditch furnishes another village with the whole of Its water supply. Offens ive refuse heaps lie piled round tbe crumbling walls of the cottages. The wooden floors without are rotten with sewage. “Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex contain many such villages, and other coun- ties—such as Bedford, Cambrldge- shire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Bomerset— easily vie with them, I could write of lonely cottages far across ths fields, with no water within a mile, whence tbe children morning after morning walk two miles to school, and drag their tired limbs that distance back again at night—and this whatever tbe weather; where the postal service comes but once a week; where the men and boys walk dally five or six miles to and from work; where of drainage there Is none; where of the simplest sanitation tbere is none; where the medical officer of health comes not, and where the Inspector of nuisances Is unknown." GLOVES MADE OF RAT SKIN. Hide of Rodents Too Email for Even tho Child’s Mao. A report comes from Copenhagen that a great rat hunt has been organ ized there and that the skins of many thousands of tbe victims are to be used in making gloves. If ths rat hunters In the Danish capital cherish any sueb hopes they are doomed to disappointment, says the Pall Mall Ga zette. Rat skins cannot be made Into gloves fit for commerce. Tbe belief that a valuable raw material Is being neglected here survives only tn tbs minds of tbe Inexpert The glove maker knows much better. A Norwe gian merchant once camo to England and Informed a well-known glove maker that be bad collected over 100,- 000 rat skins and was prepared to re ceive offers for them. Ho was fully Engagement Bracelet. Designers have been busy wlti, love convinced that the skins were suitable affairs and their symbols, The en- for glovemaktng. But ths manufact gsgement ring will probably never lose urer found that the largest skin was Its favor, but there are now several only some six Inches long and he held novelties in tbe way of engagement UP a kid ’kin for the smallest size gifts that vie with the ring for popu-1 of glove, a child's, which was eight larlty. A pretty Idea Is tho curb Inches long, and asked how be was to bracelet with the heart clasp In which ’ cut such a glove out of rat skin. | Then be took up tbe smallest kid reposes the portrait of the giver. skin for a lady's glove, eleven inch«« 111 Infbroied. I ng. and when be asked bow that was Mr. Upjohn—I wish you would tell to lx cut out of a rst skin tbe Norwe Kathleen that she cooks her steaks gian merchant laughed st the idea and too much. i went away disappointed. Tbe best Mrs. Upjohn-You are three girls ffer be got for those skin«, which he late. John. The name of the present . bad collected with so much care, was one is Mollie. 15 shilling« s hundredweight from ■ What has become of tbs old fashion 1 man who was willing to boil them ed woman who retened to her enemy down for glue A famous gloremaklng firm has ■ as "an old gump?" c llectlon of curiosit las relating to tbe I When a mother lays down ■ rule. Its trade, and one of them is the largest effect is about as lasting as the curfew pair of glove« ever made out of a uwv | rat skis. Tbe belief that such skins could be made Into giovss was laid before the managers so confidentially that they resolved to put it to th« trial, aud they ordered a number of the skins of the largest rats which could be found In Grimsby. But th« rat Is a fighting animal, and bears tbe marks of many battles on his body, and It was found that tbe skins were so scarred and torn that It was with the utmost difficulty that perfect pieces large enough for the purpose could be obtained. In the end, after ten skins bad been used, a pair of gloves was cut and made, aud they are retained in the collection to this day. But they are so small that they would fit only th« smallest of small boys. Thus It was shown that however cheaply rat skins might be obtained they would offer no advantages to the glovemaker. The rabbit skin Is equally useless for thia purpose, and humane people may also dismiss from their mind« tbe fear that the skins of pet dogs are made into gloves. Tbe dogskin glove of which we used to bear Is made out of tbe skin of tbe Cape goat. WIT BUBBLE8 IN TOASTS. Borne Humorous Sentiment» Pithily Kxpree»ed st Banquets. A publisher once gave the following: "Woman, the fairest work In all crea tion. The edition Is large and no man should be without a copy.” This ls fairly seconded by a youth who, giving hls distant sweetheart, said: “Delectable dear, so sweet that honey would blush In her presence and treacle stand appalled.” Further, in regard to the fair sex, we have: "Woman, she needs no eu logy; she speaks for herself." "Wo man, tbe bitter half of man.” In regard to matrimony some bache lor once gave: "Marriage, the gate through which the happy lover leaves hls enchanted ground and returna to earth." At the marriage of a deaf and dumb couple some wit wished them "un speakable bliss." At a supper given to a writer of comedies a wag said: “The writer's very good health. May he live to be as old as bls jokes." ’ From a law critic: “The bench and the bar. If It were not for the bar there would be little use for the bench.” A celebrated statesman, while din ing with a duchess on her eightieth birthday, In proposing her health, said: “May you live, my lady duchess, un til you begin to grow ugly.” “I thank you, sir,” she said, “and may you long continue your taste fur antiquities.”—I-ondon Tit Bits. A Triple Tragedy. An Indian from tbe Flambeau reser vation In northern Wisconsin recently came Into tbe fishing resort of Bquaw Lake with a curiosity In the way ot deer horns he wished to sell. Falling to make a sale, he took the horns back to the reservation. Tbe Montreal Wit ness describes his treasure as three sets of antlers Inextricably Interlocked. Two sets of antlers so locked are rare, but not unknown. It Is believed that the Flambeau Chippewa has the only set of three-locked antlers In the world. The accident could have happened only In one way. Two bucks of equal strength were fighting tn the forest and became locked. Then, while they were still struggling, a third buck ap peared and charged them both, prob ably repeatedly, until hls own horns became fastened. The Indian says he found the horns north of Flambeau Lake, about a mile from the water. They were lying on the side of a hill, and there were no bones near them. The condition of the horns proved that the fight occurred not more than two years ago. The antleTS were all of full-grown bucks, showing eight and ten points each. The third pair had bren driven Into the others just above where they were joined, and the branches of them were about equally 1 eked with the branches of the others. They were not broken or chipped In any way. which seems to Indicate that when the third buck had made hls last charge he was fastened so firmly that there was no room for any one of hls points to play In the forks of the oth ers. Indeed, all the horns were so stoutly joined that they could not be moved at all. They are as rigid as If molded In that fashion from steel. Roman Bricks. The rebuild ng of the campanile In Venice has begun. It is expected that the structure will be finished by 190«. Although the fall of the tower was a deplorable loss, some good attended It In the opportunity It gave acheolo- glsts to examine tbe bricks. It was found that the bricks had ben used in arches, fortifications, the tops of walls and in other ways before they were built Into the campanile, and that they are not Venetian but Roman bricks. The ancient bricks were made In slice«, for in many the layers could be seen undlstui bed. It is said that bricks made this way can bear a greater weight than modern bricks. Tbe bricks examined were of th« first century. One of them bor« the imprint of a horseshoe, which may prove that tbe Romans used a horse shoe like ours, although It Is gener ally believed that their horseshoes were strapped on, not nailed. The Art of Listening. There ls a grace of kind listening as well as a grace of kind speaking. Since men listen with an abstracted sir which shows that their thoughts ■re elsewhere, or they seem to listen, but by wide answers and Irrelevant questions show that they have beeu occupied with their own thoughts as being more Interesting, at least In tbelr own estimation, than what you have been saying. Som« Interrupt and will not hear you to tbe end. Some hear you to th« end. and forthwith be gin to talk to you about a similar ex perience which has befallen them selves. making your case only an 111ns- trstlon of their own. Borne, mean ing to b« kind, listen with such ■ de termined. lively, violent atention, that you are st once made uncomfortable ■nd th« charm of conversation is at an end. Many persons whose manners will stand th« test of speaking break down under tbe trial of listening. It will ruin any man to be hen pecked. We never knew such a man to amount to anything.
