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.